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Options Traders Aren't Buying Bed Bath & Beyond's Bull Gap
Telsey Advisory upgraded BBBY to "outperform"
BBBY
The retailer's new leader was most recently an executive at Target
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY) stock is booming today, up 17.4% to trade at $11.67. This comes in reaction to news the home furnishings retailer tapped Target's (TGT) Chief Merchandising Officer Mark Tritton as its new CEO. An upgrade to "outperform" from "market perform" and price-target hike to $16 from $14 at Telsey Advisory -- representing expected upside of 60% to last night's close -- is only stoking the bullish flames, with the brokerage firm saying this announcement removes an "overhang" for BBBY.
Most analysts remain skeptical of the retail stock, with 12 of 15 calling it a "hold" or "strong sell" prior to today. Meanwhile, the average 12-month price target of $13.17 is an 11% premium to BBBY's current perch. This leaves the door open for more bull notes to come down the pike, should the security continue to race up the charts.
Short sellers are likely being caught off guard during today's surge, too, and a round of covering could strengthen buying power for Bed Bath & Beyond stock. The 65.2 million shares controlled by shorts represent more than half of BBBY's available float, or nearly 10 times the average daily pace of trading.
Early options traders today appear to be bracing for a quick pullback, though. The 34,000 options traded so far has already surpassed BBBY's average daily volume of 26,000 contracts, and the weekly 10/11 12-strike put is most active. It looks like new positions are being purchased here for a volume-weighted average price of $0.21. In this case, breakeven for the put buyers at the close tomorrow, Oct. 11, is $11.79 (strike less premium paid).
Looking closer at the charts, BBBY stock is up almost 60% from its nearly 22-year low of $7.31 from Aug. 15. The shares are now pacing toward their biggest one-day percentage gain since March 26, when they surged 22%, and their first close above their 120-day moving average since mid-May.

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Reality Ends Here is a pervasive game developed and run by students and faculty at the USC School of Cinematic Arts incorporating elements of environmental games, card games, and alternate reality games. Taking place over the course of the fall semester, it aims to foster creativity and collaboration amongst incoming students to the School of Cinematic Arts.

Overview

Reality Ends Here incorporates elements of alternate reality games for use in an educational context and uses game mechanics to foster collaboration within first-semester Freshmen at the School of Cinematic Arts.

Players are drawn in during the pre-semester welcome week by a series of mysterious communications from the Reality Committee, a Committee made up of various students, faculty, and notable alumni. After solving a series of environmental puzzles, players discover a secret office where they are initiated by swearing an oath of DIY-media making and receive a pack of collectible game cards.

By combining sets of cards, players generate creative prompts for media-making projects known as Deals. Players must then create a film, game, image-set, live-event, or any other piece of artwork that satisfies the cards used in the Deal, submit it to the Reality Committee and justify it for points, which are tallied up on an online leaderboard. Weekly leaders are invited to spontaneous mentorship adventures with industry leaders and other notable alumni. Additional cards can be acquired through scavenger-hunt like puzzles or reaching specific points milestones.

Development
Unofficial versions of the game have been played since the school's inception, taking various forms throughout the years. Reality Ends Here was originally developed as  Jeff Watson's Ph.D dissertation project, and was designed by Watson, Simon Wiscombe, and Tracy Fullerton. The project was commissioned by a committee led by professor Holly Willis at the behest of USC School of Cinematic Arts Dean Elizabeth Daley.

Reality Ends Here was run and operated by a committee of students working with Watson named the "Game Runners". 2011 was run by Anna Lotko, and 2012's Game Runners included Will Cherry, Michael Effenberger, and Sam Sandweiss. The game's 2013 run was operated by Simon Wiscombe, Kevin Wong, and Esteban Fajardo. After the game's cancellation and alleged re-emergence in 2014, it was taken over by Jesse Vigil along with anonymous students selected from the previous year's season and ran at least until 2017. It is unknown if the game is still running.

History

The first formal season of the game began in 2011. Before this, students played with rules passed down from previous years that were frequently changed or discarded. Season 1 of Reality Ends Here included 150 participants who submitted a total of 120 projects.  Though there were instances of "severe competitiveness", the game was ultimately deemed a success, leading to a second season being run the following year. The game's second season, run in 2012, generated over 190 projects created by over 170 participants. The third season broke previous records with a final count of 251 projects created by 191 players, though unlike other years, 2013 was marked by a lack of teams and instead by a core group of highly prolific creators who periodically collaborated as a large group on projects like the UNI School of Bollywood Arts, a crowdfunded transmedia franchise that is "likely the largest and most complex project to have emerged from the game."

The winners of the first season were Will Merrick, Will Cherry, Margaret Admire and Dylan Visvikis. The winners of the second season were Amy Suto, Ilan Benjamin, Alex Tranquada, Ryan Lee and Austin Kilgore. There have been eight confirmed seasons.

Reception
Reality Ends Here was the recipient of the 2012 IndieCade Impact Award.

Cancellation
Reality Ends Here was cancelled in fall of 2014 amid concerns over the notoriety of the game itself. After knowledge of the game's existence became widely distributed, Jeff Watson and Simon Wiscombe departed the project. Without administration or faculty support, Reality End Here was officially shut down; however, on August 20th, a group of former Reality players going by "uncncld" (an abbreviation of "un-cancelled") started a new version of the game, heavily modified from Jeff Watson's dissertation project and the game's initial rules in a return to the pre-Watson era.

References

External links
  Reality Ends Here

Alternate reality games
USC Interactive Media & Games Division

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After spending a weekend exploring the neighborhoods of Paris (Le Marais & St-Germain) we headed for what you kinda have to do when visiting such a city: sightseeing!
We started off our morning enjoying some breakfast at the Eiffel Tower. Yep, you heard that right! We were so worried about having to wait in a long line that we hurried to la Tour Eiffel without eating! Lol - but guess what?? There was absolutely no wait to get in! So, with the extra time on our hands (+ the good breakfast deal the cafe has) we ate our first meal of the day there!!
After breakfast, we walked around taking photos, made it to the top and back and finally decided it was time to leave the tower.
Conveniently located right in front of the Eiffel Tower, next came Trocadéro! It was still kind of early and it was surprisingly empty, so we snagged a couple of photos and moved on to our next adventure. This was one of the few times we actually rode the metro to get to the Champs-Élysée faster!
Once we made it to the famous Champs-Élysées, we walked around, checked out the stores and headed over to Dynamo! (French version of SoulCycle) so I could try the studio and cycle all my calories away! Lol. To read my review and experience at the studio check out this post. After sweating it out for 45mins and taking a shower :) we headed for lunch. Now, I'm not gonna lie to you guys, we had initially said we would find something quick, easy and healthy….but the moment we saw the modern & sleek McDonald's, we couldn't resist! We went in and ordered some delicious fried chicken sandwich combos from the automated screen with a side of Heineken beer for drinks all for 5€/each! Lol - so yeah. That happened. Moving on.
After eating European McDonald's, we made our way to the Arc De Triomphe.
That's right, we went to a mall, but not just any mall- a luxurious Parisian mall. (Man the French really know how to do it!) This place was filled with high-end brands and mostly things we couldn't afford, but it was totally worth making it out there and seeing the building.
After daydreaming of all the wonderful and expensive items at Galeries Lafayette, we walked down to the Palais Royal, strolled to the Jardin du Palais Royal, snapped a photo and moved on to our end destination - dinner at Daroco. It was everything.
Finally, to end the crazy day of sightseeing and walking, we walked all the way back to Le Marais (to my aunt's place) along the Seine, showered and got ready for the night's festivities: Crazy Horse!
This is by far one of the best purchases and experiences we had on our Paris trip, and I highly recommend splurging for it! Crazy Horse is a French Cabaret. It is truly remarkable to see all the effort and planning that goes into this show! The dances, music, lighting and overall performances were elegant, sensual and outstanding.


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60% of People With Type 2 Diabetes Will Suffer Complications
Its no secret that the risk of complications is high with a chronic disease like diabetes, but the risk can usually be reduced with careful management. Some studies have suggested that in spite of far fewer patients living with the condition, complications for type 1 are as costly as they are for type 2, attributed to the fact that average age of diagnosis for patients with type 1 diabetes is 14 years, whereas the average age of diagnosis for patients with type 2 diabetes is 46 years. This means that while an average 60 year old with type 1 diabetes has lived with their condition for an average of 46 years, an average 60 year old with type 2 diabetes has lived with their condition for an average of only 14 years.
News from a study whose results were presented at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) meeting in Seattle reported in Saturday's Los Angeles Times featured a very disturbing story. In spite of living with type 2 diabetes for a statistically significant shorter period of time than the average patient with type 1 diabetes, the incidence of complications among patients with type 2 diabetes is simply staggering. Notably, 3 out of every 5 patients with type 2 diabetes suffer from at least 1 significant complication of the disease. One out of every 10 has 2 complications, 1 out of 15 has 3 complications, and 1 out of 13 has 4+ complications. These sobering statistics were derived from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) report between 1999 and 2004 and combined with economic data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). The economic data came from the government's Medical Expenditure Panel Survey conducted during the same period. I should note, however, that the "complications" may be symptomatic of other co-morbidities associated with type 2 diabetes, not necessarily the condition itself. Still, the incidence suggest major issues for policymakers, especially at Medicare.
"We are using the tools [to control diabetes] too late, and spending too much money on complications," said Dr. Daniel Einhorn of the Sharp Diabetes Treatment and Research Center in San Diego in a teleconference releasing the findings.
"We knew that these complications were out there, but the sheer magnitude was a surprise," he said.
Aside from the human suffering exemplified by these statistics, the real danger is that type 2 diabetes is growing at an alarming (some say epidemic) rate and presents a unique challenge because unlike type 1 diabetes, the disease can be present for years without a diagnosis whereas the symptoms for type 1 develop very rapidly and are virtually impossible to ignore. Also, the challenges for patients to adjust to a new lifestyle required often make the adjustment much more difficult for many newly diagnosed type 2 patients. Even more troubling is the fact that the U.S. healthcare system is a model based primarily on treatment of acute illnesses, not chronic illnesses. This results in many patients struggling to obtain coverage for sufficient testing supplies, while complications such as dialysis resulting from nephropathy are automatically covered under Medicare.
As I noted in my posting earlier this week (see here), Pennsylvania recently took steps to address this issue, but we still have a long way to go before we are adequately prepared for the rapid growth in chronic diseases like diabetes.
Among other findings in the report:
Congestive heart failure occurs in 7.9% of diabetics, compared with 1.1% of people without the disease. It costs an average of $7,932 per year per patient.
Heart attacks occur in 9.8% of diabetics, compared with 1.8% of others. They cost patients $14,150 per year.
Coronary heart disease occurs in 9.1% of diabetics, compared with 2.1% of others. It costs patients $6,062 per year.
Strokes occur in 6.8% of diabetics, compared with 1.8% of others. They cost patients $7,806 per year.
Chronic kidney disease occurs in 27.8% of diabetics, compared with 6.1% of others. It costs patients $9,002 per year.
Foot problems, such as amputations and numbness, occur in 22.8% of diabetics, compared with 10% of others. They cost patients $4,687 per year.
Eye damage occurs in 18.9% of diabetics. Comparable figures are not available for nondiabetics. It costs patients $1,785 per year.
at Sunday, April 15, 2007
Thank you for posting this! So much of the time I think of diabetes as a silent killer because people don't realize that these kinds of complications happen, at the alarming rate that they do. And research in the last couple of years has also shown that there is the beginnings of microvascular complications (eye, kidney,nerve disease,etc) even in people with prediabetes- so I'm not too surprised at these numbers. Just saddened that our healthcare system has so many roadblocks to change them. Like not covering people with prediabetes getting nutrition teaching. It annoys me to no end.
Scott said...
Thanks for your comment! You're right about the research on prediabetes, and the troubles people have getting coverage for nutrition training and the like. I hope Pennsylvania Governor Rendell is successful in changing coverage for chronic conditions like diabetes, that could change the situation dramatically!


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Education researchers have established the value of dialogic, whole-class discussions across content areas. However, such discussions have been defined primarily in terms of questions that enable or constrain interactions among multiple students. Research remains to be done on whether and how the subject matter with which teacher and students interact during whole-class discussions can also enable or constrain the dialogic quality of their talk. In this article, I begin to explore the possibility that whole-class discussions may manifest in particular ways within a discipline. Based on sociolinguistic discourse analysis of three transcripts from a suburban, ninth-grade history classroom, I suggest that "imaginative-entry activities," which invite students to imagine themselves into hypothetical scenarios based on historical events, can promote or discourage whole-class discussions. Specifically, I demonstrate how the narratives co-told by a teacher and his students during these imaginative-entry activities discursively construct students' relationships to past events in ways that affect their participation in present classroom interactions. I call for further research into dialogic, whole-class discussions whose content and form differ from those in other disciplines.
Sherry, Michael, "Bringing Disciplinarity to Dialogic Discussions: Imaginative Entry and Dialogic Discourse in a Ninth-Grade History Classroom" (2016). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 80.


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Incorporate JQuery Minicolors into your ActiveAdmin apps.

![Screenshot](https://raw.github.com/kholdrex/activeadmin-minicolors/master/screenshot.png)

See http://labs.abeautifulsite.net/jquery-minicolors/

## Installation

Add `activeadmin`, `jquery-rails` and `jquery-minicolors-rails` to your Gemfile:

```ruby
   gem 'activeadmin'
   gem 'jquery-rails'
   gem 'jquery-minicolors-rails'
```

And add `activeadmin-minicolors` to your Gemfile:

```ruby
   gem 'activeadmin-minicolors', github: 'kholdrex/activeadmin-minicolors'
```

Add the activeadmin-minicolors calls to the active_admin stylesheets and javascripts with:

```active_admin.css.scss
   @import "active_admin/minicolors/base";
```

```active_admin.js.coffee
   #= require active_admin/minicolors
```

## Usage

### Minicolors

To use a Minicolors style input simply change from :string to :minicolors_picker

```ruby
   ActiveAdmin.register Labels do

     form do |f|
       f.input :color, as: :minicolors_picker, input_html: { data: { minicolors: { position: :right } }
     end

     form do |f|
       f.inputs "Task" do
         f.has_many :labels, allow_destroy: true, new_record: "Add Label" do |e|
           e.input :color, as: :minicolors_picker
         end
       end
     end

   end
```

## Contributing

1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/activeadmin-minicolors/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (`git checkout -b my-new-feature`)
3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some feature'`)
4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-feature`)
5. Create a new Pull Request

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A chemical screen for medulloblastoma identifies quercetin as a putative radiosensitizer
Lagerweij, Tonny
Hiddingh, Lotte
Biesmans, Dennis
Crommentuijn, Matheus H.W.
Cloos, Jacqueline
Li, Xiao-Nan
Kogiso, Mari
Tannous, Bakhos A.
Vandertop, W. Peter
Noske, David P.
Kaspers, Gertjan J.L.
Würdinger, Tom
Hulleman, Esther
https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.7980
Lagerweij, T., L. Hiddingh, D. Biesmans, M. H. Crommentuijn, J. Cloos, X. Li, M. Kogiso, et al. 2016. "A chemical screen for medulloblastoma identifies quercetin as a putative radiosensitizer." Oncotarget 7 (24): 35776-35788. doi:10.18632/oncotarget.7980. http://dx.doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.7980.
Treatment of medulloblastoma in children fails in approximately 30% of patients, and is often accompanied by severe late sequelae. Therefore, more effective drugs are needed that spare normal tissue and diminish long-term side effects. Since radiotherapy plays a pivotal role in the treatment of medulloblastoma, we set out to identify novel drugs that could potentiate the effect of ionizing radiation. Thereto, a small molecule library, consisting of 960 chemical compounds, was screened for its ability to sensitize towards irradiation. This small molecule screen identified the flavonoid quercetin as a novel radiosensitizer for the medulloblastoma cell lines DAOY, D283-med, and, to a lesser extent, D458-med at low micromolar concentrations and irradiation doses used in fractionated radiation schemes. Quercetin did not affect the proliferation of neural precursor cells or normal human fibroblasts. Importantly, in vivo experiments confirmed the radiosensitizing properties of quercetin. Administration of this flavonoid at the time of irradiation significantly prolonged survival in orthotopically xenografted mice. Together, these findings indicate that quercetin is a potent radiosensitizer for medulloblastoma cells that may be a promising lead for the treatment of medulloblastoma in patients.


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Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 43F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%..
Considerable cloudiness. Occasional rain showers after midnight. Low 43F. Winds SSE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
The Q Center, located on the third floor of the Hub, provides a safe space for students of all sexual orientations to hang out and learn about the resources available to them in UW's LGBTQIA+ community.
Victoria Peskin
Q Center town hall focuses on healing divide between students and the UWPD
Victoria Naylor
Mar 3, 2017 Updated Mar 4, 2017
While many people may feel safer in the presence of police, this is not always true for historically marginalized communities both across the nation and here on our own campus.
On Wednesday, the Q Center hosted an open discussion entitled "Health & Wellness on Campus and in the Community," the second town hall in the three-part series. The non-student guests included two UW Police Department (UWPD) officials and a representative from the Intramural Activities Building (IMA).
The discussion began with the police officials citing their relationship to the queer community and their stake in protecting queer individuals. Commander Craig Wilson spoke of his son, an openly gay man from Snohomish County, and Deputy Chief Les Liggins spoke of his time at the Seattle Police Department and his efforts to connect with the Seattle queer community.
After these brief introductions, several students immediately brought up their concerns that the UWPD was "not on their side," citing instances of police brutality at the Jan. 20 protest of the Milo Yiannopoulos event. One student who attended the protest cited the use of bikes to push students down the stairs, causing several students to fall down and get hurt. At one point, the group of protestors was chanting for a medic, but no police action was taken.
Wilson explained the use of bikes to move protesters as a means to "keep order."
"The anarchist group had an agenda to break things up and the police had a responsibility to control that scene," Wilson said. "It wasn't done in a way to assault individuals, but to open up that area."
A UW student then responded that the queer and trans community did not feel protected because the police presence on Jan. 20 was to protect the event and not the protesters, despite Yiannopoulos attacking a transgender student a month prior and allegations that he planned on revealing undocumented students for doxxing purposes at the University of California, Berkeley talk.
"When we say our lives [are] in danger, the cops aren't here to protect us," the student said. "What's more important, keeping this event going and keeping order, or protecting the marginalized people in [queer] communities?"
The students continued to deconstruct the police presence on the night of Jan. 20, some even stating that a large crowd of anarchists made them feel safer than the police did. Both Liggins and Wilson explained their perspectives, but it was clear that the relationship between the police and the queer community would not be healed in one conversation.
This was evident from the fact that the police officers misgendered two students even after a Q Center employee noted the correct pronouns for the students. The police officers apologized after they had been called out, and one of the misgendered students stressed the responsibility of the UWPD.
"I'm very happy to be this voice and to speak, but I shouldn't have to be correcting you," the student said. "You should have this knowledge and you should be continually acting to get this knowledge."
The police officials thanked the students for being honest and acknowledged that they were interested in getting more trainings for UWPD officers.
After UWPD spoke, Adam Serafin, associate director of communications & development at the IMA, briefly spoke on how the IMA was reaching out to the queer community. Serafin stated that the IMA was working on adding queer instructors and more queer-centered events, such as the recently added queer swim hour. Serafin also acknowledged that the gender-neutral bathrooms are in need of improving, and that the census statistics should depend on preferred gender rather than legal or perceived gender.
Both Serafin and the UWPD officers are still open to student input.
The next Q Center town hall will be March 8 in HUB 315 and will focus on the relationship of homelessness and LGBTQIA+ communities.
Reach contributing writer Victoria Naylor at development@dailyuw.com. Twitter: @victoriaGnaylor


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50 Surprising Tank Facts That Will Shock You!
50 Tanks Facts that you didn't know! A list of little known facts about tanks!
For all war and history geeks… Are kits with tank models on your Santa's wish list? Which one?
Actually, Abrams have been destroyed by insurgent activity in Iraq.
and again with the battle of the Golan heights, the reason why Israel won (the clues in the name). Israel had the high ground an using tanks like the british Centurion on high ground that had better gun depression than Syria's soviet built tanks that couldn't elevate their guns to fire effectively on Israeli positions.
battle of Dubno in 1941 is the largest recorded tank battle in history not Kursk of which the battle around Prokhorovka is what gives Kursk notoriety as one the largest tank battles. get it right guys..
Whenever they have the P. 1000 Ratte instead of the P. 1500 Monster. Ah the people who can't even effectively research the stuff they're making a video on. Amazing work guys!
9:27 its a tank, but the techincal difficulty you called a BUG. As if the tank was a computer on wheels.
"M1A2 is the best in the world"
anyone notice that when the tank fired there was a skull?
You guys don't know how wrong you are.
Thats how it looks when you try to make an interesting/informative video about stuff you don't know… at least 1/3 of the facts are wrong or twisted.
4:25 What About The Su-152?
So no one knows the Battle of Dubnov huh.
P 1500 " Landkreuzer Ratte "
I hate this channel of how much miss information they give.


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Q: Shell substitution/replace not working as expected with Perl and SED I have a number of strings in the format:
Sys!CTP_Live83000_@DRS_named_error_out_1
EServerJTP!CTP_Live56000_@input_error_queue_205

I'm trying to remove the "_number" i.e. "_1" and "_205" from the end but I'm having some trouble.
So far I've come up with 2 solutions, neither of which work quite as I'd like
1) Using Perl, this replaces the underscore and the number at the end of the String with whitespace but it also replaces all occurrences of _ within the string too.
...|/usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/[_][0-9]*/ /g'

2) Using SED, this keeps the underscores in the string intact, but only deletes(replaces with whitespace) the underscore and first number from the end of the string, in the case of 2 and 3 digit numbers some digits remain:
...|sed 's/[_][0-9]/ /'

This is on a Solaris 5.10 server.
What am I doing wrong? Thanks!

A: The problem is that [0-9]* allows for zero or more digits thereby allowing your regex to match a bare underscore _.
To make sure there is at least one digit you can use + instead of *.
Als the /g option is inappropriate here because you only want to substitute one occurrence of the pattern, and the -i perl option is irrelevant if you are always piping to this command, so that gives
perl -pe 's/_[0-9]+/ /'

A: Assuming that your input is in file:
sed -e 's/_[[:digit:]]\{1,\}$//' file

Will remove an underscore, following by one or more digits from the end of each line. Note that the _ doesn't require its own character class [_]. This is POSIX compliant, so should work regardless of your version of sed. It should also work equally well if the input is piped into sed.
The problem with using [0-9]* in your question is that is means zero or more, so any underscore will match the full expression and be removed.

It looks like your version of sed is pretty old! Rather than using the POSIX character class [:digit:], you may have more success with [0-9]:
sed -e 's/_[0-9]\{1,\}//'

I have also removed the anchor to the end of the line $, in case that was causing any problems.

A: sed 's/_[0-9][0-9]*$//' should do the trick
The output is:
    Sys!CTP_Live83000_@DRS_named_error_out
    EServerJTP!CTP_Live56000_@input_error_queue

The trick is using the dollar sign to force it to find the end of line.

A: You can have:
sed 's/_[0-9]\+$//'

Which would match an underscore _ and a number (one or more (+) digits [0-9]) at the end of the line or pattern ($).
Of course you can also use a character list:
sed 's/_[[:digit:]]\+$//'

With -r enabled, + is not needed to be quoted:
sed -r 's/_[0-9]+$//'
sed -r 's/_[[:digit:]]+$//'

You can also optionally add an extra pattern that would catch extra trailing spaces:
sed -r 's/_[0-9]+[ \t\r]*$//'

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Bob Merrill | "Mira (Can You Imagine That?)" (from Carnival!) My Favorite Musical Theater Songs by Douglas Messerli
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Bob Merrill, Carnival!, 1961
Performer: Anna Maria Alberghetti, 1961
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Performer: Joni James, 1961
One of my very favorite joys in the early 1960s was listening to the score of Carnival!, a gentle musical based on the 1953 film Lili with Leslie Caron in the lead role. The 1961 Broadway musical, with book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill (previously of "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window" [a Patti Page song] and "Mambo Italiano" [sung by Rosemary Clooney]-fame). The musical was filled with notable singers and performers, including Kaye Ballard, Jerry Orbach, Pierre Olaf, James Mitchell, and Henry Lascoe. But it was its star, young opera singer Anna Maria Alberghetti, who made it so special for me.
Her lovely lyrical voice, particularly in the song in which introduces herself and her background, "Mira," was such a delight that I even learned its lyrics and probably could sing along even today. But it's the song's utterly guileless simplicity that makes it so very special as a plea for knowing the world in which you live, with the hope, particularly, that everyone will know your name. Even chairs become something that might come to know you. It seemed to harken to another time and a peasant culture that was surely already impossible in 1961.
I come from the town of Mira
Beyond the bridges of St. Claire
I guess you've never heard of Mira
It's very small but still it's there
They have the very greenest trees
And skies as bright as flame
But what I liked the best in Mira
Is everybody knew my name
Can you imagine that
Everybody knew my name
The musical, which also included memorable tunes such as "Yes, My Heart" and "Love Makes the World Go Around," was one of producer David Merrick's many hits, running for 719 performances, with several revivals in the years since.
I could hardly believe my luck when a traveling company decided to visit Cedar Rapids, near where I lived, to present the musical at Coe College. It was perhaps my very first professional musical viewing—although by that time I knew theater drama and musical theater better than anyone else in town. After all I had lived it through my imagination. Being somewhat a sentimentalist, I'm sure while watching it, I bawled my eyes out.
Years later, I met Anna Maria Alberghetti at an art opening, and couldn't resist a blushing thank you for the joys she'd given me as a young man.
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Recently I've been thinking a lot about my dentist. Like most dentists I've been to, it's a small operation — basically just one dentist and a couple of assistants. They're not necessarily interested in marketing or growing their business. No Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter account. They're not interested in reaching a new audience or being relevant. They're just serving their local community, and many of their patients have been with them for a long time.
When the dentist first discovered that I work on WordPress.com, she was ecstatic. She didn't have a website, but has wanted one for a long time. She just hasn't had the time or technical knowledge to get started. Even basic things like signing up for an account is too big of a hurdle. Her business is already listed on Google, so what's the rush?
I thought this would be an easy win. Get her set up with a free plan on WordPress.com, pick a business theme, fill out some basic info, and we're done! Eventually we could even evolve the site to include testimonials and useful information for potential patients. But a year after we first talked about it, we still haven't made the site. Why? She's just too busy and can't even find the time to sign up for an account. Even if I took care of the site setup and design, it's still a hurdle for her. Not to mention the ongoing "maintenance" of her site after the initial setup (blogging, SEO, marketing, etc.).
Based on some recent research we've conducted at Automattic, this is more common than I realized. Small business owners are starved for time, and it's hard to squeeze anything into their schedule. We need to make it as easy as possible to make a site. Even the small tasks may take up too much time for our customers.
Like most of the findings in the research, this wasn't surprising, but it's helpful to intentionally consider who we are designing for and the challenges they face.
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Without some solid evidence to show the benefit she would get, she just had a vague aspiration. I wonder what I would do to show her the benefit? Maybe show her a one-page site that has all the salient information. Tell her how easy it is for people to read – much easier than relying on Google local business, or an enhancement to Google – either way it's a win.
So maybe WP can have an alternative quick setup wizard where the person gets shown a mockup. Yes, I'd like it to look like this' 'No, show me another choice'


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Methodology: level testing in EFL
By Jim Scrivener
Advice on evaluating the level of new students.
What is the best way to test new students to evaluate their level? Most of the schools I know use a simple multiple-choice grammar test (for speed and convenience) which I find very unprofessional and frustrating for the teacher who then has to deal with groups consisting of people of wildly varying levels. Do you know of any good tests available for testing oral & written comprehension & expression, grammar & vocabulary? Or better still, for testing communicative skills in English?
E. Montoya
A language school placement test needs to provide an accurate method of selecting class levels for students who join a course. It needs to be accurate and to give a wide range of marks - e.g. from 0 to 100 - with marks at all scores between - and for these marks to easily be interpreted (e.g. via a table) into class levels. Obviously the longer and more thorough a test is, the more areas it deals with, the more accurate it is likely to be - but it typically has to be done in a very short period of time (20 - 50 mins) and in far from ideal conditions (e.g. perched in a corner of Reception, or with a girlfriend whispering the answers.)
If the test is faulty and the results are unreliable, it fundamentally undermines the entire school system. Your classes are even more mixed level than you intended; teachers and students are unhappy and the basic engine of the school stutters.
In addition to this need to be accurate, the test has a major role in characterising a school to its clients. For many people the test will be the first contact with the educational side of a school - and certain messages will be given by the test. Some of these are to do with "face" - i.e. how it looks - whether it seems to be a professional product - does it give out clear messages that it comes from an organisation that knows what it's doing. (What impression does a badly photocopied set of grammar questions make?)
Beyond this, the content of the test should (at least to some degree) reflect the educational beliefs and distinctive flavour of the institution - and I agree with the question writer that there is a potential problem with setting a purely grammar multiple choice test - it suggests to the client that traditional multiple choice questioning is at the heart of our language teaching, that declarative knowledge and grammatical accuracy is more valued than communicative ability etc.
The traditional notion that a student has "a level" is not really true. Learners have a range of "levels" - perhaps being very knowledgeable about grammar, weak at listening, having a limited knowledge of collocational patterns, writing very well etc. We need to find out as much as we can about as many of these as we can.
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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert issued a statement Thursday evening reiterating comments made to reporters Wednesday asserting that Pompeo had not heard or read a transcript of the recording minutes after ABC News reported a senior Turkish official claimed that Pompeo had done so.
"Secretary Pompeo has neither heard a tape nor has he seen a transcript related to Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance," Nauert said following the publication of ABC's report.
Her denial follows a refusal to comment on the existence of such a recording from Pompeo himself on Wednesday when asked by reporters if he had seen evidence linking Saudi Arabia to Khashoggi's disappearance and rumored murder.
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Trump appeared to take a stronger stance against Saudi Arabia on Thursday over Khashoggi's disappearance after previously suggesting that Saudi Arabia was possibly the victim of false allegations.
"It certainly looks that way to me. It's very sad," Trump said Thursday of the likelihood that Khashoggi was murdered inside the consulate.
"Unless the miracle of all miracles happens, I would acknowledge that he's dead," Trump added in an interview with The New York Times. "That's based on everything — intelligence coming from every side."


As I noted on my earlier post, I'm suspecting that all these issues reported with SSD revolve around SATA-III 6Gb interface. Specifically, when you plug a drive that can sustain data throughput beyond Sata II 3gb specs, the device drivers are not optimized for that kind of throughput or there's something wrong with the SATA controller on W520. In either case there are some posters having problem with Crucial C300, OCZ vertex 3, and Intel 510, all of which are SATA III 6Gbps drive.
I am speculating that if Intel 320 (SataII 3Gbps) drive is used, we would not experience this problem. But, I don't want to settle for SATA II, after all my revious SSD from 2 years ago was SATA II. What kind of upgrade would that be if I'm pushing the same amount of data? Besides I don't want to move to 25nm fab design just yet for reliability and wear endurance concerns.
Someone poke the ENGINEERING with a stick and wake them up. We need an official statement as to what W520 is capable and which SATA III drive works with W520, really.
Hmmm ... the fact that the speaker grilles are located left and right of the keyboard does not neccessarily imply that there is room for a JBL soundsystem. For those who dare a look inside the Thinkpad will confirm that. And honestly, opening up a MBP and a W520 makes the differences painfully clear. I find the Thinkpad's innards a lot more professional and reliable looking.
As for SSD's, what goes for the entire industry also goes for SSD technology. It's the mainstream models that are mature. 1st generation SSD's had many flaws and shortcomings, of which the lack of TRIM was the most important ones. The 2nd generation SSD (notably the Intel Postvilles and the Samsung 470 type drives are uber performant and uber reliable (and here it comes) at their technology level. They are mature and very performant drives.
If you forget the generation 3 aspect and consider that Sata3 actually is a new interface (building on Sata2 but new nevertheless) it is clear that some new issues pop up. Sata3 speed dropping to Sata2 speed is such an example.
An issue such as the OCZ *still* not being compatible with the Lenovo BIOS password mechanism is inexcusable however. In that area you absolutely have a point, yet that's not Lenovo's fault. OCZ knew of the issue back when the Vertex 2 was introduced, they still haven;t ironed it out.
Intel however currnently has run into its first real issue ever since the lack of TRIM episode a few years ago. In that Intel again proves to be a very reliable option (in my opinion).
In short, stating that SSD is not a mature technology yet or is disappointingly immature is strechting it a little too far. Yes there are issues with the 510 series, but the 310/320 series are excellent products and worthy successors to the Postville generation.
Thanks JameZ, I appreciate it, hopefully we will see a fix soon, this is really annoying.
I have now had two W520 and attempted to use both an Intel 510 120GB and an Intel 510 250GB drive in each so I doubt that it is a bad drive (I confirmed this using the drives with an Asus desktop MB which worked flawlessly).
On my first W520 I ordered it with a single HDD which I replaced with the Intel 510 SSD. The W520 I currently have, I ordered with the RAID option since a number of online reviews didn't have the warm reboot issues I had and had the version of the W520 with the RAID MB FRU (there are numerous different MB's, as some have discovered, only the ones with RAID enabled at the factory have the components to utilize RAID, or so it appears in the BIOS). The first W520 was RMA'd, at the time I thought it was a bad SATA controller or other bad component causing the issue. However, I can now confirm that I have the same issue with the newer machine as well.
Now that I can replicate the warm reboot issue with another W520 (using a drive I know to be good), I think it is a BIOS issue. Furthermore, I believe that ibmford is on to something with the delay and "spin-up" wait period setting that used to be in older BIOS. Something that fixed the problem for me was to move the SDD down the boot list, I assume that just enough time is expended looking for the other boot devices that it allows the system time to find the SATA III Intel SSD. To confirm this, I removed all other devices from the boot list except the SSD and it wouldn't reboot at all. So I have a fix but it is pretty lame, at least the system will reboot but it takes about 25x longer than a cold start.
Thanks!!!! Please help us out, I have a feeling that this will become a much more common complaint since the W520 is a performance oriented machine and a lot of people will likely push it further with SATA III SSD's.
grantallenbrown; thank you very much for your comprehensive feedback. I completely agree with you about W is being touted as a work station laptop and there for many people will want to use high performance upgrades such as SATA-III SSDs. I for one was one of those people looking to get an OCZ vertex 3, or Intel 510 SSD. I'm leaning more towrds intel 510 as OCZ is using on the fly copmression to achieve the advertised throughput and Intel looks more reliable overall.
Are you experiencing problems with Intel 510 other then warm reboot issue? Some people are reporting system hangs lasting from several seconds to complete freeze that require cold shutdown. When you create duplicate copy of a file that is at least several hundred megabytes, what type of throughput do you observe?(Is the throughput sustainable over SATA-2 limit) Can you perform check sum on the resulting file and verify that it matches the original bit by bit? Are you observing any error messages using Intel 510 SSD with W520?
I used to run Windows on MacBook Pro, and I was getting the "rouge commander" treatment from APPLE folks everytime had a bootcamp issue. I was expecting things to work smoother moving back to a PC with a recognized brand such as THINKPAD. Alas, this SATA 3 issue is hounting us. Funny, though looking at Mac forums, things don't look better on Aplle side either (looking worse on Mac OSX then running Windows on MAC). People are having similar problems with new MacBook PROs (intel MOBOs with SATA3 controllers) and SATA3 SSD drives.
At this point SATA implementation, or at least intel's implementation of SATA III instruction set on its motherboards does not seem stable (as reported by many MacBook PRO and PC laptop owners). Whether the problem is at hardware, or a device driver instructions remains to be seen.
I'm trying to decide if I should go for Intel 510, or newever but slower Intel 320, or older but proven Samsung 470 SSD. I really don't like the 25nano meter fab process on newer flash drives such as the one on Intel 320.
And if you look back through this forum, you'll see he an I have both been reporting this issue for weeks now. In my case I only have a single W520, but I have two Intel Series 510 120GB drives.
What I would like to know is what is Lenovo and Intel doing about it?
Escalated another separate case about the slow warm reboot issue.
Could you include the fact that the user password is not accepted at warm boot, only at cold boot?
Bootup password or COLD boot is an inconvenience but is anyone concerned about data integrity?
It's not clear data integrity is sound using SATA III inteface on W520. I think engineering should validate SATA III throughput on W520 and confirm that SSD's will work fine. At least verify a major brand/model like Intel 510 so we go that direction. I keep hearing about people complaining that their system hangs for a few seconds indicating a disk timeout when using SATA III solid state drives.
As far as i heard the hang issue is for OCZ only and not the Intel 510 and some registry changes will fix this problem. You heard that the Intel 510 have the same hang issue? I been using both the Intel 510 and OCZ Vertex 3 with a W520 and had no hang issues using the Intel 510.


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HomeQ&A: How Primary Care Can Stop HIV – and How Health Centers Can Receive Free Assistance
Q&A: How Primary Care Can Stop HIV – and How Health Centers Can Receive Free Assistance
| By Judy Lipshutz
Categories: Capacity Building
| Tags: HIP in Health Care, HIV, PrEP, Testing
Integrating HIV screening into primary care has never been more critical. Advances in HIV diagnosis, treatment, and prevention promise to dramatically alter the course of HIV for individuals and communities — with HIV testing the gateway to these services.
"For the first time since the onset of the epidemic, we can see an end to HIV in the next decade," says PCDC's Sarah Blust [pictured]. "It will require an aggressive approach to testing, particularly in high-risk communities and populations. PCDC is here to help provide free, evidence-based technical assistance to improve testing rates and provide effective prevention."
Blust, who serves as Program Director of the High-Impact Prevention (HIP) in Health Care program — a national CDC-funded program that provides free HIV prevention training and technical assistance to health care organizations — talked on National HIV Testing Day about the current state of testing, the pivotal role of primary care in stopping the virus, and how providers can access free training and assistance.
Q: What are the concerns about HIV testing rates?
In 2006 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) recommended that voluntary HIV screening become a routine part of medical care for persons aged 13-64, with more frequent testing for people at higher risk. Early identification of HIV helps to facilitate treatment that can greatly improve the health of people living with HIV, and reduce the risk of transmission to partners. The CDC recommendations were designed to increase access to effective treatment and prevention in two ways: streamlining the testing process by not requiring counseling and consent, and removing the stigma of HIV testing by making testing part of standard care.
Despite these recommendations, more than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV, including 166,000 people who were unaware of their HIV status. In 2015, nearly 40,000 people were diagnosed with HIV. It is estimated that 30 percent of new HIV infections are transmitted by people with HIV who are unaware of their status.
Q: Why are the rates so low?
Despite CDC recommendations, rates of testing remain far below the ideal, which may be attributable to a variety of health care provider and patient issues including:
Lack of perception of risk (providers and patients)
Lack of awareness of advances in treatment and prevention (providers and patients)
Fear of stigma of having an HIV diagnosis (patients)
Confidentiality concerns (patients)
Concern about how to manage a positive diagnosis (providers)
Challenges to health center patient flow (providers)
Lack of information about reimbursement mechanisms for HIV screening (providers)
Need for clinical training (providers)
Q: What makes primary care such a powerful defense against HIV specifically?
Primary care providers can be at the forefront of offering routine HIV screening as the first step in initiating anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for people who are HIV positive. ART suppresses the viral load of people with HIV, helping them to remain healthy for many years. It also reduces the risk of transmission to their partners, adding value as "treatment as prevention." Recent studies have demonstrated that early treatment with ART improves health outcomes for HIV-infected individuals.
HIV testing is also the first step in providing comprehensive HIV prevention services for people with negative results who are at risk. HIV prevention includes risk reduction counseling, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), and non-occupational post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP).
PrEP, a daily pill recommended for people with substantial HIV risk, can reduce the risk of transmission up to 90% if taken consistently. CDC PrEP guidelines include the importance of HIV testing prior to initiating the medication and at three-month intervals thereafter.
nPEP is a three-drug, 28-day anti-viral drug regimen that can be taken within 72 hours following HIV exposure. Prior to the initiation of therapy, rapid HIV testing is recommended in order to assure a negative test.
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Primary care providers can help to change the course of HIV by learning more about treatment and prevention, and making important practice changes. PCDC's HIP in Health Care program provides free training and technical assistance to health care organizations with the goal of expanding and improving the delivery of HIV prevention services within clinical settings.
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Turtle Island Quartet With Tierney Sutton
Tom Meek February 14, 2013
Tonight, the double–Grammy-winning, San Francisco–based Turtle Island Quartet makes a stop at the downtown Colburn School of Music's Zipper Hall. Turtle Island's 2007 interpretation of John Coltrane's seminal A Love Supreme won their latest Grammy Award for Best Crossover Album. For more than two decades, Turtle Island have reworked music from Bach to Hendrix to Clapton, taking on musical collaborators along the way. Vocalist Tierney Sutton, as evocative as any singer in contemporary jazz, has garnered four Grammy nominations, the latest for her 2012 album, American Road. Zipper Hall is one of the area's finest venues of less than 500 seats and should provide an apt setting for this Jazz Bakery–sponsored event.
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Den grå lemur (Hapalemur griseus), eller grå halvlemur, er en halvabe i familien af ægte lemurer. Den er som andre lemurer udbredt på øen Madagaskar. Kroppen måler omkring 40 cm i længden. Det samme gør halen. Den grå lemur er ensfarvet grå og snuden er stump. Det er den eneste primat, der er tilpasset et liv i rørbevoksninger omkring søer og sumpe. Den svømmer godt, men springer normalt fra planteø til planteø, for at æde de friske skud. Den findes desuden i bambusskove. Den grå lemur færdes i grupper på oftest 3-5 individer ledet af en enkelt han.

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Dhonielle Clayton is a New York Times bestselling author of The Marvellerverse series, The Belles series, Shattered Midnight, co-author of Blackout, Whiteout, The Rumor Game, and of the Tiny Pretty Things duology, a Netflix original series. She hails from the Washington, D.C. suburbs on the Maryland side. She taught secondary school for
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MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Wednesday appointed a committee to visit Priyadarshini Park and check if the BMC's act of stationing a fire engine in the premises is obstructing or has caused damage the jogging and walking tracks.
A division bench of chief justice Manjula Chellur and Justice Nitin Jamdar is hearing a public interest litigation filed by the Malabar Hill Citizen's Forum challenging the BMC's plans to set up a fire station on a 5,000 square feet portion of park that is spread over 65,000 square feet. The forum has also sought the removal of a fire engine and temporary structure that the corporation placed in the park in June 2017. The bench asked the forum to also focus on other issues in the area like the illegal double parking in Malabar Hill.
The park occupies about 40,000 sq mt and includes a children's park, walkway and jogging areas. The remaining area houses sports facilities. Senior advocate Joaquim Reis, counsel for the BMC, said that the fire station was important for the high profile area.
In an affidavit the BMC said that Malabar Hill and Nepean Sea Road had a large number of high rises and if there was an emergency a fire engine from the fore stations at Gowalia Tank, Byculla, Fort, or Nariman Point takes around 30-50 minutes to reach the site. Since June 2017, the temporary fire station at Priyadarshini Park had received around 29 calls. The affidavit further pointed out that Priyadarshini Park would be a major link for the proposed 29.2 kilometre Mumbai Coastal Road project that will connect Princess Street Flyover to Kandivli. A fire station at Priyadarshini Park would be able to respond to not only fire calls but also road accidents and rescue of victims. The court added the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority as a party to the PIL and directed them to file an affidavit regarding the Coastal Regulation Note for the plot.


The rivals of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), sunk to their worst-ever showing in an opinion poll published Wednesday.
Two months after an election drubbing, the SPD scored 19 percent in the survey conducted by the Forsa institute - the lowest mark since the organisation began polling.
In Germany's September 27 election that propelled Merkel to a second four-year term, the SPD captured 23 percent of the vote, its worst result in modern history.
The party has since installed a new leader, Sigmar Gabriel, and pledged a new beginning in opposition after 11 years in power.
Profiting from the SPD's agony are the environmentalist Green party, which gained a percentage point to 13 percent, and Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats, which also rose by one point to 37 percent.
The pro-business Free Democrats, Merkel's new coalition partners, however, lost a percentage point, slipping to 12 percent.
Forsa interviewed around 2,500 people for the poll, published by the RTL television channel and Stern magazine.


David Hogg's Ingraham Bashing Backfires, As Ratings SKYROCKET!
David Hogg's Ingraham Bashing Backfires, As Ratings SKYROCKET!
There is something to be said for Americans and their uncanny ability to see directly through a good portion of the barnyard excrement being thrown their way.
We've been stubborn and righteous for centuries, never being afraid of having to call someone out on their shenanigans. This is one of the many reasons why Donald Trump has struck such a nerve with patriotic Americans everywhere, having bucked the Washington establishment and the status quo from the onset of his political career.
It's also this incredible ability to detect the manure levels within our political system that keeps Americans just a bit angry, but I mean that in the most cordial of ways. That tiny chip on our shoulder is what keeps us on our toes and in the zone.
And it is this beautiful, angsty characteristic that has us laughing off the petulant "anger" of David Hogg, and ignoring his calls to boycott Laura Ingraham's television program.
In fact, Hogg's attention may have had a wonderful little windfall for Ms. Ingraham.
Fox News' Laura Ingraham was recently the victim of a leftist boycott campaign. Which was spearheaded by our favorite chinless anti-gun crusader, Lil' Davey Hogg. The Hoggster managed to make Ingraham bleed sponsors in the hope of unpersoning her from the airwaves.
Ingraham's viewers apparently feel the same way. Since Ingraham returned from vacation on April 9, total viewership of her program has averaged about 2.7 million (Monday through Thursday; Friday's numbers are not available).
Hogg has been an increasing prevalent character in the left's cabal of anti-gun shamans, who have been working to conjure political motion from bleeding heart emotion.
Most notably, Hogg has been a divisive figure on the left after appearing to hold some Fascist beliefs, particularly when it came time to give a speech at the "March For Our Lives" event he helped to create.
Parkland school shooting survivor David Hogg is being compared to Hitler after various videos emerged online with the Nazi leader's voice dubbed over footage of the teenager speaking at the March for our Lives rally.
The videos, which have been posted on YouTube and played by Infowars, Breitbart and other far-right media sites, used footage of the 17-year-old speaking to the crowds of protesters in Washington on Saturday.
Hitler's voice from one of his 1930s rally speeches has been edited into the videos and also features crowds of Nazi supporters cheering.
As it turns out, Americans began to see through Hogg before he could do any real damage. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some Laura Ingraham on the DVR to catch up with.


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The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito)
A mad scientist loses his wife in a automobile fire and seeks solace in recreating her appearance on an unwilling victim. Avant-garde cinema or cheesy B-movie plot from the '50s and '60s? Well, why not both, as we see here with Al-muh-DOH-var's—I assume that's how you pronounce Almodóvar—The Skin I Live In. I'm old enough to remember when he still used his first name (Pedro) but this would be the first of his movies that I've seen. Like Tarantino, Spike Lee and a few others, I've always found the trailers to Pedro's films sufficiently off-putting that I never felt the need to see his movies. (A reaction I've overcome in the last few years with Tarantino, to my everlasting ennui.)
Although it's not the best fit, I kept thinking about The Brain That Wouldn't Die, the '62 potboiler about the scientist who saves his girlfriend's head after a car crash, then spends the rest of the movie scouting strippers for a new body while she hectors him from a lasagna pan about his lack of ambition and nags him to take out the garbage. (Or something, it's been a while since I've seen it.)
It's amusing (at least to me) the extent of this movie's overlap with that older one (and other similar old flicks I'm not remembering at the moment). This is a sleazy film filled with unlikable characters, creepy situations and sexual violence. There are also moments of what today might almost be considered high camp.
When the movie opens, Plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is presenting on a new kind of transplantable skin mutated from human and pig cells he developed in honor of his broiled wife, after which some of his shocked peers warn him of the consequences should SCIENCE discover his lapse in ethics. (Mutating human and animal stuff is apparently a no-no.) This scene is reprised later on, when one of his formers business partners threatens to blackmail him by outing him to the scientific community.
Interestingly enough, the whole pig-human thing doesn't really go anywhere. His victim in all this, Vera (the ridiculously beautiful Elena Anaya of Point Blank) doesn't develop super-powers or get bulletproof skin or anything like that. I thought there was going to be a twist where the science went wrong but the movie plays out straight revenge tragedy, basically.
Not that there isn't a twist, mind you. Oh, yes, there's a twist, though I didn't see it coming until about 10 minutes before it popped.
There are other sorta '60s things about this movie, too. The color doesn't used the washed out blue-gray feel that's so popular (hacky!) today, but a more vibrant one. Not exactly Technicolor but Kodachrome(ish). Antonio Banderas has his hair slicked back and walks around in a tuxedo at one point, evoking a Sean-Connery-as-James-Bond figure that's amplified when he holds a gun.
In fact, if you listen to the semi-techno song used in the trailer (and also in the movie's one chase scene), the electric guitar sound is very mid-to-late '60s. I'm not hitting bulls-eyes today but the '60s surfin' classic "Wipeout" comes to mind.
There are no cell phones, computers or modern devices, except for large-screen viewers, which were pretty commonly faked in '60s movies.
So, what's not '60s about it? Well, there's a lot of nudity and it's pretty pornographic which wasn't common in a mainstream, high-budget '60s flick. It's not gratuitous, but it is gross. (The nudity isn't. Did I mention that Elena Anaya is gorgeous?) The sex is done covered or far-away, but it's still very explicit (and often violent) in terms of the imagery Pedro creates in the viewers' mind.
I see this movie being fetish-fuel for a small but intense niche.
Overall? We liked it all right. It could've been shorter. The Boy found it disturbing but it's a fool's errand to try to create much of an impact on the younger generation through shock or transgression. As for myself, I was expecting something bizarre! titillating! shocking! along the typical lines that certain directors endear themselves to certain critics, and I was only put off-guard by the naivete of the genre.
I mean, really: Who makes mad scientist movies any more? In my lifetime, there haven't been that many. The (speaking of pornographic) Re-animator series, that Peter O'Toole/Mariel Hemmingway oddity from '85, Creator, sorta—but really, the modern science-gone-awry is more likely to feature a noble, avuncular scientist rather than a mad one. The science goes awry (these days) because of the evil businessman or a tangential individual's greed.
This movie's sort of like taking Humanoids from the Deep (where mutated fish-men emerge from polluted water to rape women) or Creature from the Black Lagoon and exploring seriously the potential for relationship between the fish-men and the women they kidnap.
So...odd. Well, done, for the most part. Good acting. The music's a little heavy-handed. The graphicness is going to be off-putting for some, to say nothing of the indecency. Vera is the closest thing to a hero the movie has, and for reasons that can't be explained with spoilage, she's hardly pure.
The Boy said he would have a hard time recommending it, and I tend to agree.
Trooper York November 23, 2011 at 9:49 PM
Just rent Swamp Thing so the Boy can get a proper appreciationo of Adrienne Barbeau.
That is my kind of monster movie!
blake November 24, 2011 at 7:34 AM
European cut where she actually is topless, I think...
Jason (the commenter) December 4, 2011 at 1:10 PM
I found all the characters likable. As to the pig skin, Almadovar seems to like messing with the audience, throwing in lots of red herrings. But it keeps you from knowing what will happen. He uses Chehkov's gun against us. In real life there are lots of interesting things which never get used. So with his films.
And I like "inspired by" so much better than a remake. Don't you?
blake December 4, 2011 at 6:00 PM
The characters are all oddly likable. I think it's what makes the movie work. Normally, this sort of movie is populated by unpleasant people.
This is my first AlmuDOHvar movie.
As for "inspired by" being better than a remake—yeah, probably, except that in the horror field that's damning with faint praise, since "inspired by" is just an excuse for the commercials to say "The REALLY REAL STORY of THE REAL SPOOKY STUFF THAT REALLY HAPPENED!"
Jason (the commenter) December 17, 2011 at 1:47 PM
blake: This is my first AlmuDOHvar movie.
Welcome to the weird world of Almodovar. I recommend All About My Mother and Talk to Her for more oddly likable characters.
Spy Kids 4: Waste of Time
Into The Abyss with Werner Herzog
J Edgar Whozits
In Time (and Out Of Luck)
Captain America. F--- Yeah!
The Way of All Estevezes


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Mom Found 58 Videos Of Missing Girl On Porn Sites, Man Arrested
A 15-year-old girl went missing, seen on various online porn movies, and then reunited with her family after over a year.
Johnny Depp Called Leo DiCaprio 'Pumpkin Head', Accusing Every Amber Heard's Co-Star Of Affairs
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Filmmaker Claims "Bala" Is His Life Story, Approaches Court For Stay
In Florida, the case of a missing girl who disappeared and got sexually harassed created a buzz around the neighborhood. The girl was just 15 years old when she left her Sunrise home without anyone noticing, with a phone somebody had given her.
She stopped arriving at school, did not call her friends and family, and managed to be under the radar for months. She was once seen with two men at a 7-Eleven store but then vanished again.
For the unversed, the girl's saga started one day after Christmas. Why she chose to leave or where she headed to was unclear and no one from her school or home heard from her or saw her, said police.
A teenager disappeared and then was spotted on porno websites by her mother
Toward the start of the year, the police made public a missing youngster alert to the police jurisdictions across the nation as well as share it on the Internet. Her name was not published due to her age and this incident's nature.
On the day after, her sister contacted police to report that at around 1 a.m, the teen had been spotted at 7-Eleven at 8630 W. State Road 84. As per a report from police, the girl was beside two men and all of them left in a black Dodge Challenger.
Police checked on the surveillance footage of the store and went around the surrounding area to search, but nothing came up.
Until May, the police put the information on display again, but this time it included photos of the men that she was spotted with.
The missing girl was seen in multiple sexual videos on adult sites
It was later, on September 3, that her mother discovered the sexually explicit footages of her daughter on Pornhub, Periscope, Snapchat, and Modelhub. The mother then headed to Sunrise police and reported that she found 58 videos of her girl posted on various sites online.
The videos showed her engaged in sexual acts with two black male adults.
Photos of what was uploaded on Snapchat and Periscope was sent to police and they confirmed that the male in the vid matched the depiction of the one the girl was seen with at the store.
On October 14, police got a tip and came to the same 7-Eleven as the black car has been spotted there the previous day. This time, they got the number if the Challenger.
They found out that the black Challenger car was registered to a man named Christopher Johnson, living in Davie. After a few days of watching, they saw the young girl and Johnson leaving the house side by side.
Christopher Johnson made the young girl pregnant and took her to get an abortion
The missing girl said she had sex with him and the vid was uploaded to Pornhub. Johnson, however, denied making her engage in sexual battery.
A search through his apartment unveiled some paperwork from an abortion clinic. A detective wrote that the victim said she got pregnant from the defendant and she was taken by him to the a clinic for an abortion.
So, through surveillance video, subpoenas, and old fashioned investigative work, police had managed to find her after more than a year.
Christopher Johnson, 30 at that time, was arrested and got charged with lascivious battery and lewd on an underage child.
Christopher Johnson missing girl case
#Sexual harassment#sexual abuse#Court Case


As Washington state begins retails sales of cannabis, The Local sat down with Denmark's very own cannabis crusader, Khodr 'Cutter' Mehri, to get his thoughts on when Denmark will follow suit.
Copenhagen city officials have tried three times to legalize cannabis within the city. All three times, the answer from the national government has been a resounding no.
Led by Mayor Frank Jensen, the city council earlier this year tried again to receive an exemption from the nation's drug laws in order to carry out a three-year trial to sell cannabis legally. Officials argue that the move would deal a crippling blow to the criminal forces behind the estimated one billion kroner generated annually through the illicit sales of the drug in the 'freetown' of Christiania.
Although the government once again shot down the proposal, with Justice Minister Karen Hækkerup saying in May it would "increase cannabis dependency on hash", a prominent marijuana activist says it is only a matter of time until cannabis is legalized not only in the capital, but throughout all of Denmark.
"By 2020, you're going to [be able to] come by my coffee shop and buy a pound of weed," Khodr 'Cutter' Mehri told The Local.
Mehri is the chairman of the pro-marijuana association Foreningen Propaganja, which currently boasts over 400 members. Although the vast majority are Danes, the association also has members in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and even a member from Australia.
The 33-year-old has fought long, and very publicly, for a change in the nation's marijuana laws. For nine months, he operated Copenhagen's first Amsterdam-style coffee shop, Smokenhagen, before it was forced to close in early 2013 due to pressure from the building's owner. Since then, Mehri has advocated for cannabis both in the streets and online, where he often posts photos of himself showing off his wares and smoking in public. He even once famously posted a video himself lighting up a joint in the Danish parliament building, Christiansborg.
"If you think, 'Oh man, he's got balls lighting a joint in parliament' or 'Oh man, he's an idiot lighting a joint in the parliament,' I just think I'm a cool dude doing what I stand up for and standing up for what I believe in," Mehri told The Local from Foreningen Propaganja's headquarters in Amager.
But Mehri's openness about smoking and selling weed has had a tendency to land him in hot water. He was arrested in March 2013 on two charges of selling marijuana. He served one month of his six-month sentence and is waiting to hear if he will be required to serve the remaining time or be let off on house arrest.
As Washington prepares to become the second US state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, The Local sat down with Mehri to talk about his activism, the current status of the legalization in Denmark and why he doesn't like to go to Christiania any more.


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We loved his books – each and every one!!
We're celebrating at Cat Scouts and Tabby Cat Club today and I'm sure there will be a LOT of blog posts about Dr. Seuss. One of my favorite stories is the Cat In the Hat but I also loved Green Eggs and Ham AND especially loved Thing One and Thing Two as characters……………my good friends Raz and Gracie and I decided we would be THREE Things today in honor of Dr. Seuss!
AND, this is what I'll be wearing at the Cat Scouts "come as your favorite character" party tonight!
AND the other badges for FIRST RIGHT GUESSER, RIGHT GUESSER BUT NOT FIRST, and UHOH I DUNNO are also available!
See you tomorrow and HAPPY DR. SEUSS DAY!


The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has welcomed the discussion paper, 'The case for a better functioning securitisation market in the European Union', published today by the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB).
"The paper summarises concisely what went wrong during the financial crisis, and helpfully acknowledges the steps already taken in Europe to address those shortcomings, as well as the strong performance of high‐quality securitisation in Europe," commented Simon Lewis, Chief Executive, AFME.
sustainable market for high‐quality securitisation in Europe, as well as the analysis currently being undertaken by the European Banking Authority.
He added: "AFME and the industry are keen to continue our constructive engagement with the Bank, the ECB, the Commission and other policymakers to continue to develop this concept. Much work remains to be done, and there remain difficult challenges to resolve – for example, how to avoid cliff effects; how to address the different motives behind any single definition of 'high quality'; and how to strike the right balance between meeting the needs of the real economy, while maintaining high quality.


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Q: Django ORM - How to left join on two conditions with many to many field I have two models:
class Subscription(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=100, unique=True)

class Email(models.Model):
    email = models.EmailField(unique=True)
    subscriptions = models.ManyToManyField(Subscription)
    is_confirmed = models.BooleanField(default=False)

I need to simulate sql query through django orm
select * from newsletter_subscription ss
left join newsletter_mail_subscriptions ms
    on ss.id = ms.subscription_id and ms.mail_id = <mail_id>;

so I can see if the mail is subscribed to each subscription by getting the entire list of available subscriptions
i need something like FilteredRelated:
q = Subscription.objects.annotate(
    is_subscribe=FilteredRelation(
        'mail_subscriptions', condition=Q(mail_subscriptions__mail_id=10)
    )
)

But FilteredRelation doesn't support conditions that span relational fields

A: No need at all to do this with a FilteredRelation, you can write this like:
Subscription.objects.filter(
    email__id=mail_id
)
with mail_id the id of the Email object you wish to filter on.
Django will construct a query that looks like:
SELECT subscription.id, subscription.name
FROM subscription
INNER JOIN email_subscriptions
    ON subscription.id = email_subscriptions.subscription_id
WHERE email_subscriptions.email_id = email_id
There is no need to use a LEFT OUTER JOIN anyway, since you check if the mail_id is a specific id, hence an INNER JOIN will result in the same set.
Note that you use a ManyToManyField, and that Django creates a table in between the two entities, but that you can not access that table, not unless you specify a model with a through [Django-doc] parameter.
You can also annotate the Subscriptions with an is_subscribed, like:
from django.db.models import Exists, OuterRef

Subscription.objects.annotate(
    is_subscribed=Exists(
        Email.subscriptions.through.objects.filter(
            subscription_id=OuterRef('id'),
            mail_id=email_id
        )
    )
)
This then results in a query like:
SELECT subscription.*,
    EXISTS(
        SELECT U0.id, U0.email_id, U0.subscription_id
        FROM email_subscriptions U0
        WHERE U0.subscription_id = subscription.id AND U0.mail_id = email_id
    ) AS is_subscribed
FROM subscription


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This is the new generation Hyundai i30 in its first official images. Hyundai did not reveal much but said that it is a "car for everybody", which is entirely designed, developed and tested in Europe. A bug innovation in the design is the new Cascading front grille.