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Not on my own: women's experience of herbal practice as participants in a randomised controlled trial
Green, J., Hawkey, S., Ingram, J. and Denham, A. 2007. Not on my own: women's experience of herbal practice as participants in a randomised controlled trial. Power and Autonomy in Alternative and Complementary Medicine: The Alternative and Complementary Health Research Network (ACHRN) 4th international academic & experiential conference for researchers & practitioners. Nottingham University 04 - 06 Jul 2007
Green, J., Hawkey, S., Ingram, J. and Denham, A.
Power and Autonomy in Alternative and Complementary Medicine: The Alternative and Complementary Health Research Network (ACHRN) 4th international academic & experiential conference for researchers & practitioners
Plants with antimalarial properties: a systematic review of the current clinical evidence
Aracil, A. and Green, J. 2019. Plants with antimalarial properties: a systematic review of the current clinical evidence. European Journal of Integrative Medicine. 28, pp. 76-85. doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2019.04.005
Experience of Western Herbal Medicine practitioners in supporting brain health in mid-life and older patients: a qualitative research study
Hundal, S. and Green, J. 2018. Experience of Western Herbal Medicine practitioners in supporting brain health in mid-life and older patients: a qualitative research study. UCL Spices and Medicine Symposium. UCL School of Pharmacy, Brunswick Square, London 10 Oct 2018
Practice Based Evidence
Green, J. 2017. Practice Based Evidence. National Institute of Medical Herbalists 153rd Annual Conference. Stratford-upon-Avon 13 - 14 Oct 2017
Changing with Herbs: a pilot randomised controlled trial of Western herbal practice for the menopause
Green, J. 2017. Changing with Herbs: a pilot randomised controlled trial of Western herbal practice for the menopause. Treating Women's Health With Herbal Medicine. Chelsea Physic Garden, London 22 May 2017
Are sage, rosemary and lemon balm effective interventions in dementia? A narrative review of the clinical evidence
Shinjyo, N. and Green, J. 2017. Are sage, rosemary and lemon balm effective interventions in dementia? A narrative review of the clinical evidence. European Journal of Integrative Medicine. 15, pp. 83-96. doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2017.08.013
An investigation into the approaches used by western medical herbalists for the therapeutic management of osteoarthritis
Westlake, R. and Green, J. 2016. An investigation into the approaches used by western medical herbalists for the therapeutic management of osteoarthritis. National Institute of Medical Herbalists 152nd Annual Conference. Crewe 14 - 15 Oct 2016
Does historical documentation support the proposed traditional use of Chelidonium majus L. by the European Medicines Agency?
Martyna, A., Lawrence, N. and Green, J. 2015. Does historical documentation support the proposed traditional use of Chelidonium majus L. by the European Medicines Agency? Herbal History Research Network Conference: Trade, Discovery and Influences in the History of Herbal Medicine. . Wellcome Trust, London, UK 14 Oct 2015
The development of Eucalyptus as a medicine
Walker, K. and Green, J. 2014. The development of Eucalyptus as a medicine. National Institute of Medical Herbalists 150th Annual Conference. Nottingham 09 - 13 Oct 2014
'I just went with hope, because I thought I'm doing something': Women's Experiences of Western Herbal Practice for Distress
Yates, A., Whitehouse, J., Ridge, Damien T. and Green, J. 2014. 'I just went with hope, because I thought I'm doing something': Women's Experiences of Western Herbal Practice for Distress. College of Medicine Multi-Disciplinary Student Summer School. King's College School of Nursing and Midwifery 05 Sep 2014
How women experience distress, and western herbal practice for the treatment of distress: implications for health care and self-management approaches
Yates, A., Whitehouse, J., Ridge, Damien T. and Green, J. 2014. How women experience distress, and western herbal practice for the treatment of distress: implications for health care and self-management approaches. University of Westminster Post-Graduate Fair. Univeristy of Westminster 29 Apr 2014
"It felt like someone holding you up and lifting the pain away": Women's experiences of western herbal practice for the treatment of distress
Yates, A.J., Green, J., Whitehouse, J. and Ridge, Damien T. 2014. "It felt like someone holding you up and lifting the pain away": Women's experiences of western herbal practice for the treatment of distress. CAMSTRAND 2014. The Christie NHS Foundation Trust 18 Jun 2014 European Journal of Integrative Medicine.
Milk thistle (Silybum marianum)
Green, J. and Kalisch, A. 2013. Milk thistle (Silybum marianum). Concerted Action for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Assessment in the Cancer Field (CAM-Cancer).
Exploring therapeutic approaches of Western Medical Herbalists to Acne vulgaris using qualitative interviews
Aracil-Pujalte, A. and Green, J. 2013. Exploring therapeutic approaches of Western Medical Herbalists to Acne vulgaris using qualitative interviews. National Institute of Medical Herbalists 149th Annual Conference. Crewe 01 - 02 Nov 2013
Exploring the therapeutic approaches for the treatment of atopic eczema by western medical herbalists: a qualitative study
Maraki, Z. and Green, J. 2013. Exploring the therapeutic approaches for the treatment of atopic eczema by western medical herbalists: a qualitative study. National Institute of Medical Herbalists 149th Annual Conference. Crewe, UK 01 - 02 Nov 2013
How women use and experience western herbal practice for distress: implications for health care and self-management approaches.
Yates, A., Green, J., Whitehouse, J. and Ridge, Damien T. 2013. How women use and experience western herbal practice for distress: implications for health care and self-management approaches. CAMSTRAND 2013. University of Westminster 02 Jul 2013 Elsevier. doi:doi:10.1016/j.eujim.2013.08.019
What's in the bottle? Prescriptions formulated by medical herbalists in a clinical trial of treatment during the menopause
Denham, A., Green, J. and Hawkey, S. 2011. What's in the bottle? Prescriptions formulated by medical herbalists in a clinical trial of treatment during the menopause. Journal of Herbal Medicine. 1 (3-4), pp. 95-101. doi:10.1016/j.hermed.2011.07.002
The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC)
Bishop, J.L., Northstone, K., Green, J. and Thompson, E.A. 2011. The use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnancy: data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 19 (6), pp. 303-310. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2011.08.005
Herbal treatment in the menopause: reflecting on tools, strategies and outcomes
Green, J., Denham, A., Greenwood, R. and Hawkey, S. 2010. Herbal treatment in the menopause: reflecting on tools, strategies and outcomes. Complementary and Alternative Strategies and New Developments (CAMSTRAND) Annual Conference 2010. University of Bristol 21 - 22 April 2010
Trials and tribulations: is herbal practice effective in treating menopausal symptoms?
Green, J. 2009. Trials and tribulations: is herbal practice effective in treating menopausal symptoms? College of Practitioners of Phytotherapy Conference. London 2009
Changing with herbs: treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners: a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Green, J. 2008. Changing with herbs: treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners: a prospective, randomized controlled trial. 144th Conference of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. Chester 2008
Treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners: a prospective, randomized controlled trial
Green, J., Denham, A., Ingram, J., Hawkey, S. and Greenwood, R. 2007. Treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners: a prospective, randomized controlled trial. Family Practice. 24 (5), pp. 468-474. doi:10.1093/fampra/cmm048
"Not on my own": women's experience of herbal practice as participants in a randomised controlled trial
Green, J., Hawkey, S., Ingram, J. and Denham, A. 2007. "Not on my own": women's experience of herbal practice as participants in a randomised controlled trial. International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research. Munich 11 - 13 May 2007
"Not on my own": women's experience of herbal practice as particiapnts in a randomised controlled trial
Green, J., Hawkey, S., Ingram, J. and Denham, A. 2007. "Not on my own": women's experience of herbal practice as particiapnts in a randomised controlled trial. Celebrating Primary Care Research Conference. Avon Primary Care Research Collaborative, Bristol 15 Mar 2007
Changing with herbs: treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners
Green, J., Denham, A., Ingram, J., Hawkey, S. and Greenwood, R. 2007. Changing with herbs: treatment of menopausal symptoms by qualified herbal practitioners. International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research. Munich 11 - 13 May 2007
Investigating complex systems in herbal medicine: reflections on the black box (Abstract from the Developing Research Strategies Conference 28 April 2005)
Green, J. 2005. Investigating complex systems in herbal medicine: reflections on the black box (Abstract from the Developing Research Strategies Conference 28 April 2005). Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 13 (3), pp. 217-225. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2005.06.006
Kaurenoids and Gibberellins, including the newly characterized Gibberellin A88, in developing apple seeds
Hedden, P., Hoad, G.V., Gaskin, P., Lewis, M.J., Green, J., Furber, M. and Mander, L.N. 1993. Kaurenoids and Gibberellins, including the newly characterized Gibberellin A88, in developing apple seeds. Phytochemistry. 32 (2), pp. 231-237. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(00)94973-2
The control of biennial bearing in cider apples
Green, J. 1988. The control of biennial bearing in cider apples. PhD thesis University of Bristol Department of Agricultural Sciences, Long Ashton Research Station
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Mars Being Disarmed by Venus is the last painting produced by the French artist Jacques-Louis David. He began it in 1822 (aged 73) during his exile in Brussels and completed it three years later, before dying in an accident in 1825. He sent it to an exhibition in Paris from his exile, knowing that by then Romanticism was ascendant in the Salon. In 2007 it was displayed in the main hall of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium in Brussels, close to the entrance.
At over 3 m (10 ft) high it is an imposing work. Set before a temple floating in the clouds, Venus the goddess of love and her followers, the three Graces and Cupid, are shown taking away the weapons, helmet, shield and armour of Mars the god of war. He allows himself to be disarmed and gives in to Venus's charms. Most of David's models for it were figures involved in the Théâtre de la Monnaie: Venus was modelled by the actress Marie Lesueur, Cupid by Lucien Petipa, Mars by a subscriber or 'abonné', and one of the Graces by the Prince of Orange's mistress.


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"We've found you a donor…"
Posted on January 28, 2021 by eggedonblog
(I have a horrible feeling I published this post out of order, so I've reordered it — apologies if you already read an earlier iteration and felt you'd missed a bit, you had.)
When the call came, the number wasn't in my phone, and a donor was the furthest thought from my mind. We'd had generic email updates from the agency keeping us posted about the impact that the pandemic had had on the recruitment of donors and the possibility of treatment delays, but for me, the whole things was sort of mentally parked. There was comfort in knowing that what happened next was in someone else's hands. There was nothing we could do about it, it was just something that was happening elsewhere that we had no power or control over, all we could do was just get on with our lives. And so we did. Well, as much as anyone could in the middle of a global pandemic.
So when I picked up the phone on a Friday afternoon in the summer, and didn't entirely hear the caller say where she was calling from, I assumed it was a sales call, or a call from a work acquaintance, and I did that thing you do where you just let them talk until you figure out who they are and what they want. And then I realised. And suddenly it was the most important call in the world and she had all of my attention, because the person on the other end of the phone was telling me that she thought she'd found us someone who could help us have the child that we so desperately wanted. And as she told me more about this woman, despite myself, I was cautiously excited: visually she sounded like me, it sounded like we had shared interests, and she had admirable reasons for wanting to be a donor.
The next step was for them to send over a profile — a combination of basic information about the donor, her answers to questions that would give us something of an insight into her, her life, her personality, her motivation for becoming a donor, and a couple of pictures of her as a child. I waited impatiently for the email to arrive in my inbox, and took a deep breath before opening the attachments.
It was like getting my A-level results all over again. I was crying before I'd even read the first line. But as I wiped away my tears, I couldn't help but smile. I LOVED this woman. She sounded smart, sensible, like she had her shit together and shared a similar world view to me. And she sounded like she looked like me but better — she was taller for a start and she'd even done some modelling for fuck's sake, she was basically an upgraded version of me. I genuinely couldn't believe they'd managed to find such a perfect match for us. Every single one of my boxes was ticked, I couldn't find fault with her — OK she admitted to hating maths and being crap at it, but so what? It was like a Hollywood film star having a wonky tooth, you're hardly going to kick them out of bed for it, are you?
On the phone I'd told the agency that we'd think about it over the weekend and let them know before the end of Monday but there didn't seem any point in waiting. What was going to change over the weekend? Why would we play it cool? I didn't think there was anything more we could have hoped for, so I emailed them that evening, saying she was everything we were looking for, and we were excited to move forward with the process, let us know what we needed to do next.
For the first time, I was genuinely excited — rather than simply accepting — about the prospect of trying to conceive with a donor. The thought of trying to conceive with this donor, this me-but-better woman, this amazingly altruistic person whose generosity was going to effectively swipe decades off my age, multiplying our chances of success by a factor of ten or more, actually thrilled me. I know, I know, (how could I not) that there were a lot of hoops to be jumped through before we got to the point of an embryo transfer, but we were a step closer than we had been the day before, and that felt like a good thing.
(Incidentally, I am really aware that it sounds like I'm entirely airbrushing the other half of the equation out of the picture here. That it probably looks like there hasn't been consultation or discussion, with my other half, my partner, my boyfriend — who I also realised I haven't even given the courtesy of giving an initial to, let's call him B — that it might look like his views and opinions are secondary. They're not. I'm not making unilateral decisions, but I am wary of putting words in his mouth, and betraying his trust.
Years ago, pre-B, I made the choice that I was going to share my story in this way, and I'd like to continue to be able to do that. But when I met him, it stopped being just my story and became our story. And I struggled with whether I should even continue to write this blog. But for all the reasons I outlined here, I'd like to be able to.
The thing is that although I'm technically anonymous, there are a handful of people who know me IRL, just because when I was in the midst of all the IVF stuff and something really shit had happened, while I wanted to share it with well-meaning, concerned friends, sometimes, for all that I wanted them to know what had happened, I just couldn't face reliving every heart-wrenching, devastating moment again, and it was just easier to send them a link to this blog instead. As a result there are also people who know him too, people who aren't necessarily his close friends, people who he might not choose to tell some of the stuff that I'm telling. And so continuing to tell this as mostly my story, rather than relating every single conversation that he and I have had, or pretending that I know what he is thinking, and assuming that he is prepared to share it with an audience of (mostly but not exclusively) strangers, feels like the best way to do it. So this is my version of it, but it's definitely our story.)
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There Will Always Be A Reason
"It's the kind of accountability journalism," The Washington Post screams, "that makes readers raise an eyebrow, if it doesn't raise their blood pressure first."
Such is the summary judgment the Post passes on its competitor. The article blasts NBC news for its failure to mention that GE, NBC's parent company, "paid exactly zero dollars in federal taxes" despite earning $14.2 billion in profits.
Yep, there's nothing worse than missing stories.
Speaking of which ...
On March 16, the Post published an article on the popularity in the GOP base of various Republican political figures. I wrote to the Post, pointing out that the opinion poll's methodology was outdated and "fatally flawed."
In the spirit of the "accountability journalism" The Washington Post so deeply cares about, it refused to print my piece.
Was the Post right? Here's what I wrote. You be the judge.
At the moment, the only thing with bigger ground problems than Sarah Palin is The Washington Post's March 16 article, "Palin loses ground among GOP base."
The article is groundless because its opinion poll used outdated polling techniques; baseless -- literally -- because the poll failed to identify adequately the GOP base, the focus group of the article.
The poll was conducted nationwide of people who have conventional and cellular phones. Of course, not every voter has a telephone -- notably Indians on reservations. Also, bored teenagers with a sense of humor will readily claim over the phone to be true blue voters. But I digress.
The Post article presented survey findings gleaned from 414 Republicans and "GOP-leaning Independents." What that means: from the proverbial getgo, the sample was contaminated. The last time I looked, Independents are not Republicans, hence they cannot be part of the "GOP base." If you wish to include nonGOP registered voters in some sort of functional definition of "GOP base," then you must include GOP-leaning Democrats. Such people exist; in fact, they were decisive in more than one election.
You Doubting Thomases out there asking why the Post poll included one group but not the other: I hope you find solace in Aristotle's words that are as timeless as they are inconvenient: "Wonder is the beginning of philosophy."
I submit that the poll did not include GOP-leaning Democrats because the Post is not interested in some functional, abstract or emotive "GOP base." The fact that the poll made GOP political figures (Huckabee, Romney, Palin, Gingrich) the topics of its questionnaire indicates what the Post really wants to know: who is likely to win the next GOP presidential primary?
The question is crucial; billions of dollars are riding on the outcome. Unfortunately, because the poll's methodology is fatally flawed, its road to the answer is paved with double and triple-bottomed boxes:
For starters, how did the poll identify "Republicans"? Answer: It let people on the telephone identify themselves. Don't look now, but the poll just fell into a double-bottomed box. Not only are some people mistaken or lie about their voter registration, others are not even registered to vote. NO PROBLEM: the Post poll blissfully went its merry way and interviewed them even though they were not members of the right population, i.e., the GOP base.
Sorry, I made a mistake -- the box is triple-bottomed. Many people interviewed over the phone in fact are registered Republicans but they will not vote in the upcoming GOP presidential primary. You don't need to read "Hamlet" to know there's the rub ...
To give you folks at home an idea of what's at stake, let's assume the turnout of GOP-registered voters in their upcoming presidential primary will be 50%. If the Post sample were randomly drawn from the right group, i.e., GOP registered voters -- which it was not -- then we could reasonably expect that 207 of the 414 Republicans interviewed would be nonvoters. Stated crudely, fully half of the interviews would be worthless for predicting the GOP primary.
Or would they? What difference does it make? Well, a trainload. GOP primary voters are, among other things, older than GOP registered voters in general. Older people go to bed earlier, have more physical problems answering a telephone questionnaire, etc. Result: they tend to be underrepresented in a random telephone poll. Such realities are why polls of primaries are notoriously less accurate than polls of general elections. Polls of city elections are even more problematic: city election voters tend to be much older and have far longer residency than either the general population or the registered voter population.
In drawing a sample of the GOP base, how can you be sure that someone is (1) registered to vote, (2) registered with the GOP, and (3) here comes the hard part -- will likely vote in the upcoming GOP presidential primary? How, in short, can the Post be sure next time it polls the right population?
Here we arrive at a sampling technique that most polling firms don't know and don't want to learn. Their reluctance is understandable: the technique will double their workload, triple their accuracy -- but halve their profits.
As with most magic tricks, the solution to the enigma of identifying real voters is hidden in plain sight ...
When you vote, what happens? In most places, after you give your name, precinct officials hurriedly search through a document -- a voter roster. The roster is a computerized list of all the registered voters in your precinct. Next, you sign the roster in the blank space beside your name, then step inside the voting booth. Unknown to the general public (and to most political consultants) voter rosters are usually public information retained by Secretaries of State for a legally specified number of years. If you go into the state archives, dig out the rosters, and draw a sample entirely from people who definitely voted in a past GOP primary -- you know they voted by their signatures -- guess what happens. The cause of the astounding accuracy of your poll is simple: the right population has finally, truly, really been sampled. (Sidebar: the Post poll claims a level of accuracy of plus-or-minus five percentage points. Such figures always accompany polls; they exude an odor of science. In truth, those numbers are blue smoke and mirrors because they assume the right population was sampled in the first place.)
To be sure, new people move into a state and minors turn voting age; such people obviously are not on the voter rosters in the state archives. For those experienced in working with rosters, however, such groups do not pose any significant problem; simply put, there are ways of weighting them.
When using actual, real, live voters -- not telephone chatter -- as the source of a poll sample, something intuitively obvious but surprising takes place: the number of undecided/no opinion drops drastically. That outcome has already been explained: polls done the outmoded way of randomly surveying people on the telephone invariably end up interviewing people who are not voters, hence do not care, hence have "no opinion." In that regard, the Post poll findings that 23% of the people interviewed had "no opinion" of Mike Huckabee, 19% had no opinion of Mitt Romney, etc., are as typical as they are predictable.
Blindly polling telephone talkers definitely skews polls. (A case in point: on Indian reservations, telephones belong disproportionately to better-off, more conservative voters). Given such undeniable biases, many readers will condemn the Post poll as corrupt. Others will conclude it was incompetent.
Who is right?
One answer: corruption or incompetence, it makes no difference. In news about our federal government and officials, The Washington Post leads the nation. Its readers and editors deserve better.
Well, there you have it, Dear Reader. If you ever wondered about what is not being printed -- what sort of thing the powers-that-be are forbidding you from seeing -- you now have a concrete case.
Was my missing article too long? Too complex for the "average reader" to understand? One thing I learned after decades of writing: when it comes to why an article or book was not published -- that is to say, why it was censored -- THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A REASON.
Which is why I don't waste time with reasons.
If The Washington Post truly wants to be the moral guardian of journalism in America -- if not worldwide -- it's easy. All the Post has to do is investigate itself.


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Q: want to add push notification when date stored in database equals to system date I am new in android try to make a reminder app which stores date taken by user,This is a reminder app, i want to push notification if date stored in database is equals to current date of system, but notification doesn't work properly and also want to compare date in mm-dd format
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                // set date picker for current date
                // add pickerListener listner to date picker
                return new DatePickerDialog(this, pickerListener, year, month, day);
            }
            return null;
        }

        private DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener pickerListener = new DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener() {

            // when dialog box is closed, below method will be called.
            @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
            @Override
            public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int selectedYear,
                    int selectedMonth, int selectedDay) {

                year = selectedYear;
                month = selectedMonth;
                day = selectedDay;

                // Show selected date
                Output.setText(new StringBuilder().append(month + 1).append("-")
                        .append(day).append(" "));

            }

        };

        public void doLaunchContactPicker(View view) {
            Intent contactPickerIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,
                    Contacts.CONTENT_URI);
            startActivityForResult(contactPickerIntent, CONTACT_PICKER_RESULT);
        }

        protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
            if (resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
                switch (requestCode) {
                case CONTACT_PICKER_RESULT:
                    Cursor cursor = null;
                    String name = "";
                    String number = "";

                    try {
                        Uri result = data.getData();
                        Log.v(DEBUG_TAG,
                                "Got a contact result: " + result.toString());

                        // get the contact id from the Uri
                        String id = result.getLastPathSegment();

                        // query for name
                        cursor = getContentResolver().query(Phone.CONTENT_URI,
                                null, Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?", new String[] { id },
                                null);

                        if (cursor != null && cursor.moveToFirst()) {
                            int phoneIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.DATA);
                            int nameIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.DISPLAY_NAME);
                            name = cursor.getString(nameIdx);

                            int phoneIdx1 = cursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.DATA);
                            int numberIdx = cursor.getColumnIndex(Phone.NUMBER);
                            number = cursor.getString(numberIdx);
                        }

                        cursor = getContentResolver().query(Phone.CONTENT_URI,
                                null, Phone.CONTACT_ID + "=?", new String[] { id },
                                null);
                    } catch (Exception e) {
                        Log.e(DEBUG_TAG, "Failed to get name", e);
                    } finally {
                        if (cursor != null) {
                            cursor.close();
                        }
                        e1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText1);
                        e1.setText(name);
                        if (name.length() == 0) {
                            Toast.makeText(this, "Name not found for contact.",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }

                        e2 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText2);
                        e2.setText(number);
                        if (number.length() == 0) {
                            Toast.makeText(this, "Name not found for contact.",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        }
                    }

                    break;
                }

            } else {
                Log.w(DEBUG_TAG, "Warning: activity result not ok");
            }
        }

        @Override
        public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
            // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
            getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
            return true;
        }

        @SuppressWarnings("deprecation")
        public void notify(View vobj) {
            String title = e1.getText().toString();
            String subject = e2.getText().toString();
            String body = Output.getText().toString();
            NM = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            Notification notify = new Notification(
                    android.R.drawable.stat_notify_more, title,
                    System.currentTimeMillis());
            PendingIntent pending = PendingIntent.getActivity(
                    getApplicationContext(), 0, new Intent(), 0);
            notify.setLatestEventInfo(getApplicationContext(), subject, body,
                    pending);
            NM.notify(0, notify);
        }

    }

A: you have to use "equals" to compare strings in java, have a look at How do I compare strings in Java?

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angular.module('starter', ['ionic', 'ngCordova', 'starter.controllers', 'starter.services','angularMoment'])

  .run(function ($ionicPlatform) {
    $ionicPlatform.ready(function () {
      // Hide the accessory bar by default (remove this to show the accessory bar above the keyboard
      // for form inputs)
      if (window.cordova && window.cordova.plugins && window.cordova.plugins.Keyboard) {
        cordova.plugins.Keyboard.hideKeyboardAccessoryBar(true);
        cordova.plugins.Keyboard.disableScroll(true);

      }
      if (window.StatusBar) {
        // org.apache.cordova.statusbar required
        StatusBar.styleDefault();
      }
      var push = new Ionic.Push({
        "debug": true
      });

      push.register(function (token) {
        // console.log("My Device token:", token.token);
        // prompt('copy token', token.token);
        window.localStorage.token = token.token;
        push.saveToken(token);  // persist the token in the Ionic Platform
      });

    });
  })

    .config(function ($httpProvider) {
    $httpProvider.interceptors.push(function ($rootScope) {
      return {
        request: function (config) {
          $rootScope.$broadcast('loading:show')
          return config
        },
        response: function (response) {
          $rootScope.$broadcast('loading:hide')
          return response
        }
      }
    })
  })

  .run(function ($rootScope, $ionicLoading) {
    $rootScope.$on('loading:show', function () {
      $ionicLoading.show({ template: 'กรุณารอสักครู่' })
    })

    $rootScope.$on('loading:hide', function () {
      $ionicLoading.hide()
    })
  })

  .config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {

    // Ionic uses AngularUI Router which uses the concept of states
    // Learn more here: https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
    // Set up the various states which the app can be in.
    // Each state's controller can be found in controllers.js
    $stateProvider

      // setup an abstract state for the tabs directive
      .state('tab', {
        url: '/tab',
        abstract: true,
        templateUrl: 'templates/tabs.html'
      })

      .state('login', {
        url: '/login',
        templateUrl: 'templates/login.html',
        controller: 'LogInCtrl'
      })

      .state('tab.listreturn', {
        url: '/listreturn',
        views: {
          'tab-account': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/listreturn.html',
            controller: 'ReturnCtrl'
          }
        }
      })

      .state('tab.returndetail', {
        url: '/returndetail:{data}',
        views: {
          'tab-account': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/returndetail.html',
            controller: 'ReturnDetailCtrl'
          }
        }
      })

      // Each tab has its own nav history stack:

      .state('tab.transport', {
        url: '/transport',
        views: {
          'tab-transport': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/tab-transport.html',
            controller: 'TransportCtrl'
          }
        }
      })

      .state('tab.requestdetail', {
        url: '/requestdetail:{data}',
        views: {
          'tab-transport': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/requestdetail.html',
            controller: 'TransportDetailCtrl'
          }
        }
      })

      .state('tab.map', {
        url: '/map',
        views: {
          'tab-map': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/tab-map.html',
            controller: 'MapCtrl'
          }
        }
      })
      .state('tab.chat-detail', {
        url: '/chats/:chatId',
        views: {
          'tab-chats': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/chat-detail.html',
            controller: 'ChatDetailCtrl'
          }
        }
      })

      .state('tab.account', {
        url: '/account',
        views: {
          'tab-account': {
            templateUrl: 'templates/tab-account.html',
            controller: 'AccountCtrl'
          }
        }
      });

    // if none of the above states are matched, use this as the fallback
    $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/login');

  });


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The Pentagon Thinks Cyber Ops Could Be The Next WMDs
U.S. military planners are asking researchers how to fight back hackers.
Justin Rohrlich,
Defense Management
By Justin Rohrlich
For years, the phrase "weapons of mass destruction," or WMDs, referred to physical threats: Nuclear bombs, chemical attacks, and biological warfare.
Department of Defense officials, however, are expanding the definition to include offensive cyber operations. They think the threat is so big, that they're seeking ideas from academics, research institutions, and non-profit organizations on how to counter a possible cyber-armageddon. Earlier this week, the Pentagon's Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, or PASCC, issued a solicitation requesting white papers to help the US prepare for such attacks.
"A new perspective is needed to address this problem," it wrote in the document. "It should include independent organizations not anchored to traditional WMD definitional and doctrinal concepts."
In other words, the Pentagon is looking for out-of-the-box thinkers.
A growing threat
In recent years, Russia, China, North Korea, and a number of violent extremist organizations have launched offensive cyberspace operations against the U.S. PASCC says the cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated—and a more integral part of US adversaries' military strategy.
PASCC points out that a powerful enough cyberstrike could destroy critical infrastructure, take the financial system offline, or compromise the accuracy of essential military systems. It also noted the potential threat of social media, which it says could be used to spread "false rumors and innuendo designed to strain alliances, divide polities, and undercut public confidence in institutional integrity and social cohesion."
Cyber-nuclear links
The main research question the Pentagon is trying to answer through its solicitation is related to the links between cyber warfare and WMDs. It wants to know how the U.S. adversaries might use cyber operations to make their weapons more lethal, or to erode the U.S.'s WMD defenses.
Cyber attacks can't destroy a city, but they could potentially manipulate a nuclear weapon by hacking into its controls, says Jeffrey Lewis, a WMD expert at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California.
"With nuclear weapons, every single piece hinges on the command-and-control system," he says. "Would you try to blow up every single nuclear weapon in Russia, or would you try to shut down the command-and-control system so the orders never got there?"
Is the U.S. ready?
The Pentagon's second question is whether the U.S.'s plans take into account those connections between cyber and nuclear warfare.
The U.S. already incorporated cyber operations into its Nuclear Posture Review, which reflects the Pentagon's official nuclear policy. Earlier this year, the Trump administration created a new category of attack to which US forces could respond with a nuclear strike: "significant non-nuclear strategic attacks." The term is "a euphemism for a cyber attack on our nuclear command-and-control systems," says Lewis.
He believes retaliating against a cyberattack with a nuclear weapon is excessive and dangerous, a point he plans to make in his own submission to the Pentagon's call for papers.
Here's the agency's solicitation. Submissions are due at the end of January.
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Learn Navigation and Access the Important Preference Settings of Outlook 2013 and other Keyboard Features.
Ms Outlook is a multi-layered software application with many useful functions waiting to be explored. Often, users never go beyond their original Outlook default setup. Also, Outlook 2013 is equipped with various new shortcuts across all the types of items.
This session by Ms Office expert Mitzi Gibson Katz offers you an opportunity to take a closer look at the automation within Outlook. The focus is on saving time, increasing organization, efficiency and making Outlook work for you like never before.
This webinar will feature an in-depth PowerPoint presentation with details as well as step-by-step procedures for all the techniques demonstrated in building an effective Outlook communication system. It will take your knowledge of Outlook to the next level and equip you with Best Practices to keep your system running smoothly.
Creating and managing task lists.
Integrating Outlook components with OneNote.


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package com.ilearnrw.common.security;

import org.springframework.security.core.Authentication;

public interface PermissionChecker {
    boolean isAllowed(Authentication authentication, Object targetDomainObject);
}


Rockwell won his class (9-12mo) Puppy, Dog, then won Winners Dog to complete his AKC CHAMPIONSHIP with this 4 pt major, then also won Best of Winners. That's my boy!!!!
Thank You!!!! Judge Kenneth A Buxton !!!!
Rockwell won BEST OF BREED over some top rated dogs today for a 5 point Major towards his GR CHampionship!! I am so proud of my CH Rockwell !!!
Thank You!!!! Judge Arlie D. Hussin !!!!


Take your decor to a new dimension with our great Tree Metal Wall Sculpture. With iron as his medium, the skillful artisan masterfully captures the simple yet awe-inspiring beauty of nature. Generously proportioned to add a grand-scale impact, this piece is meticulously hand-etched and ground for dramatic reflect.
Take your decor to a new dimension with our great Tree Metal Wall Sculpture.
It is a great gift idea for your friends and family people for wedding occasions. It energies your room beauty to a last extent.
With iron as his medium, the skillful artisan masterfully captures the simple yet awe-inspiring beauty of nature.


text:
Q: email id search is not working in mongodb full text search i have my collection something like this
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("58492f1a23e7a2bc20a252ce"),
    "type" : "valuation",
    "quote" : {
        "schedule" : "no",
        "valuation" : "XXX",
        "designation" : "III",
        "companyname" : "XYZ",
        "city" : "Delhi",
        "country" : "India",
        "phone" : "991147****",
        "email" : "atul.agrawal@abc.com",
        "mobile" : "991147****",
        "lname" : "Agrawal",
        "fname" : "Atul",
        "product" : {
            "contactNumberAsAbove" : true,
            "contactPersonAsAbove" : true,
            "description" : "Test obj",
            "mfgYear" : 2009,
            "city" : "Delhi",
            "model" : "2518",
            "brand" : "Ashtt9t",
            "category" : "Tipjbih"
        }
    },
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2016-12-08T09:59:54.686Z"),
    "__v" : 0
}
{
    "_id" : ObjectId("58492f8e23e7a2bc20a252d1"),
    "type" : "shipping",
    "quote" : {
        "comment" : "Hello World",
        "packaging" : "no",
        "allowed" : "no",
        "designation" : "II",
        "companyname" : "XYZ",
        "city" : "Delhi",
        "country" : "India",
        "phone" : "99114733**",
        "email" : "atul.agrawal@xyz.com",
        "mobile" : "99114733**",
        "lname" : "Agrawal",
        "fname" : "Atul"
    },
    "createdAt" : ISODate("2016-12-08T10:01:50.001Z"),
    "__v" : 0
}

now when i made this query
db.collection.find({$text:{$search:'abc@test.com'}}).pretty()

it gives me all the document in the collection.
i also made the text index on all the fields using this query
db.serviceenquiries.createIndex({"$**":"text"})

how can i search for email id

A: Give a try to search phrase:
db.collection.find({$text:{$search:"\"abc@test.com\""}}).pretty()


text:
import React from 'react'
import { Item } from 'semantic-ui-react'

const ItemExampleAlignment = () => (
  <Item.Group>
    <Item>
      <Item.Image size='small' src='/images/wireframe/image.png' />

      <Item.Content verticalAlign='top'>
        <Item.Header>Top Aligned</Item.Header>
      </Item.Content>
    </Item>

    <Item>
      <Item.Image size='small' src='/images/wireframe/image.png' />

      <Item.Content verticalAlign='middle'>
        <Item.Header>Middle Aligned</Item.Header>
      </Item.Content>
    </Item>

    <Item>
      <Item.Image size='small' src='/images/wireframe/image.png' />

      <Item.Content verticalAlign='bottom'>
        <Item.Header>Bottom Aligned</Item.Header>
      </Item.Content>
    </Item>
  </Item.Group>
)

export default ItemExampleAlignment


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class FixOrdersController < ApplicationController

  def create
    @building = Building.where(id: params[:building_id]).first
    @maint_issue = FixOrder.new(days_unresolved: params[:days_unresolved],comment: params[:comment], description: [:description], building_id: @building.id)

      maint_issue_hash = @maint_issue.attributes
      report_type = {class: "Maintenance Issue"}

    if @maint_issue.save
      render json: maint_issue_hash.merge(report_type).to_json
    end
  end

end


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Externa länkar
Ethnologue - Languages of the World

Pama-nyunganska språk
Utdöda språk

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text:
Earth Video
Top climate scientists admit global warming forecasts were wrong
Top climate scientists have admitted that their global warming forecasts are wrong and world is not heating at the rate they claimed it was in a key report.
The IPCC maintain that they are 95 per cent certain that global warming is caused by humans Photo: Reuters
By Hayley Dixon
3:45PM BST 15 Sep 2013
A leaked draft of a report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is understood to concede that the computer predictions for global warming and the effects of carbon emissions have been proved to be inaccurate.
The report, to be published later this month, is a six year assessment which is seen as the gospel of climate science and is cited to justify fuel taxes and subsidies for renewable energy.
The "summary for policymakers" of the report, seen by the Mail on Sunday, states that the world is warming at a rate of 0.12C per decade since 1951, compared to a prediction of 0.13C per decade in their last assessment published in 2007.
Other admission in the latest document include that forecast computers may not have taken enough notice of natural variability in the climate, therefore exaggerating the effect of increased carbon emissions on world temperatures.
The governments which fund the IPCC have tabled 1,800 questions in relation to the report.
'Scientists urged to cover up slow in global warming'
Row over IPCC report as nations 'try to hide lack of climate change'
'Hack the planet to counter climate change,' says Lord Rees
Climate change killed the woolly mammoth, researchers claim
Summers are getting hotter – honest
One of the central issues is believed to be why the IPCC failed to account for the "pause" in global warming, which they admit that they did not predict in their computer models. Since 1997, world average temperatures have not shown any statistically significant increase.
The summary also shows that scientist have now discovered that between 950 and 1250 AD, before the Industrial Revolution, parts of the world were as warm for decades at a time as they are now.
Despite a 2012 draft stating that the world is at it's warmest for 1,300 years, the latest document states: "'Surface temperature reconstructions show multi-decadal intervals during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (950-1250) that were in some regions as warm as in the late 20th Century."
The 2007 report included predictions of a decline in Antarctic sea ice, but the latest document does not explain why this year it is at a record high.
The 2013 report states: "'Most models simulate a small decreasing trend in Antarctic sea ice extent, in contrast to the small increasing trend in observations ...
"There is low confidence in the scientific understanding of the small observed increase in Antarctic sea ice extent.'
The 2007 forecast for more intense hurricanes has also been ignored in the new document after this year was one of the quietest hurricane seasons in history.
One of the report's authors, Professor Myles Allen, the director of Oxford University's Climate Research Network, has said that people should not look to the IPCC for a "bible" on climate change.
Professor Allen, who admits "we need to look very carefully about what the IPCC does in future", said that he could not comment on the report as it was still considered to be in its draft stages.
However, he added: "It is a complete fantasy to think that you can compile an infallible or approximately infallible report, that is just not how science works.
"It is not a bible, it is a scientific review, an assessment of the literature. Frankly both sides are seriously confused on how science works - the critics of the IPCC and the environmentalists who credit the IPCC as if it is the gospel."
Scientist were constantly revising their research to account for new data, he said.
Despite the uncertainties and contradictions, the IPCC insists that it is more confident than ever – 95 per cent certain - that global warming is mainly human's fault.
Next week 40 of the 250 authors who contributed to the report and representatives of most of the 195 governments that fund the IPCC will hold a meeting in Stockholm to discuss the finding to discuss any issues ahead of the publication. The body has insisted that this is not a crisis meeting but a pre-planned discussion.
Earth »
Environment »
In Climate Change
Bolivia's second largest lake dries up
China's dirty old town
Somerset Levels flooding
Communities are still powerless to stop wind farms
The weather prophets should be chucked in the deep end
Climate change MP: humans may not be to blame for global warming
Ignore the doom merchants, Britain should get fracking


A blog post series would not be complete without a final post about vacuumlo.
In the previous post we have seen that the large objects are split in tuples containing 2048 bytes each one, and each chunk behaves in the very same way as regular tuples.
NOTE: in PostgreSQL, IT IS possible to store a large amount of data along with the table, thanks to the TOAST technology. Read about TOAST here.
Large objects are not inserted in application tables, but are threated in a different way. The application using large objects usually has a table with columns of type OID. When the application creates a new large objects, a new OID number is assigned to it, and this number is inserted into the application table.
it is deleted. It is not, and we need to unlink it explicitly from the application.
If we want to get the rid of the LOB, we have to unlink it, either explicitly or by using triggers that unlink the LOB when a record in the application table is deleted.
Another way is to use the binary vacuumlo included in PostgreSQL.
It scans the pg_largeobject_metadata and search through the tables that have OID columns to find if there are any references to the LOBs. The LOB that are not referenced, are unlinked.
ATTENTION: this means that if you use ways to reference LOBs other than OID columns, vacuumlo might unlink LOBs that are still needed!
So vacuumlo does not do any vacuuming on pg_largeobject table.
In my previous post I showed how large objects use space inside the table pg_largeobject when inserted.
If you read this nice series of blog posts by Frits Hoogland, you should know about the pageinspect extension and the t_infomask 16-bit mask.
We know that: The page header is 24 bytes, and that the line pointers use 4 bytes for each tuple.
The first 4 pages have the lower offset to 452 bytes means that we have (452-24)/4 = 107 tuples.
The 5th page (page number 4) has the lower to 360: (360-24)/4=84 tuples.
The remaining pages have the lower to 36: (36-24)/4 = 3 tuples.
The space is still used and the tuples are still there.
Here we go. The large objects are split in compressed chunks that internally behave the same way as regular rows!
-- same size as before!


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#ifndef QMITKPOINTSETINTERACTIONVIEW_H
#define QMITKPOINTSETINTERACTIONVIEW_H

#include "ui_QmitkPointSetInteractionViewControls.h"

#include <mitkDataNode.h>
#include <mitkIRenderWindowPartListener.h>

#include <QmitkAbstractView.h>
#include <QmitkSingleNodeSelectionWidget.h>

class QmitkPointSetInteractionView : public QmitkAbstractView, public mitk::IRenderWindowPartListener
{
  Q_OBJECT

public:

  static const std::string VIEW_ID;

  QmitkPointSetInteractionView();
  ~QmitkPointSetInteractionView() override;

  void SetFocus() override;

  void RenderWindowPartActivated(mitk::IRenderWindowPart* renderWindowPart) override;
  void RenderWindowPartDeactivated(mitk::IRenderWindowPart* renderWindowPart) override;

private Q_SLOT:

  void OnCurrentSelectionChanged(QmitkSingleNodeSelectionWidget::NodeList nodes);
  void OnAddPointSetClicked();

private:

  void CreateQtPartControl(QWidget *parent) override;

  Ui::QmitkPointSetInteractionViewControls* m_Controls;

};

#endif


In days gone by Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems were used as little more than simple marketing machines. They contained enough information to know who your clients were and how to contact them, and perhaps even had some prospects in there, and be able to produce a mail merge to run a marketing campaign to them.
Over the last few years advice businesses have expanded their use of CRM systems to begin managing advice workflow, with a particular focus on managing their own regulatory risks. That is; the emphasis has shifted to utilising the CRM system as a means of managing the advisers compliance concerns.
The increased expectations around providing written advice and "know your client" rules has meant that advice businesses generally have become more proficient at capturing hard data on clients, such as product or portfolio information. It has become common to rely upon data feeds from their preferred product suppliers to maintain current information in these areas.
So we have evolved in general terms into better use of CRM systems, using them to manage essential advice and client service functions, and ensuring that the essentials are captured or covered.
The really smart businesses are working their CRM systems a lot harder though, and investing a lot more effort into capturing data. They have recognized that the intellectual property, or capitalized value, of their business is a reflection of their organized customer intelligence. In other words a service business is worth a lot more when any new owner or investor can rely upon solid data to gauge the strength and degree of the customer relationships, together with the latent opportunity that lies within the business.
Gathering more than just the essential client contact data by including social media profiles and accounts. Even though you may not be currently using those social media connections to engage with the clients it provides further contact points as well as intelligence on how or where they source information and engage with the wider world.
Building a stronger picture of the clients financial affairs by capturing more information on products, assets and portfolio's not currently "under advice", including their business structures and interests.
Mapping the clients goals and interests together with their family and business relationships. How are they connected to who, and where are they trying to go in life? The more you know in this respect, the more opportunities there will be to provide great advice.
Capturing customer feedback and interactions. Thinking beyond the compliance-driven need to record the instance of client contact, advisers should be capturing the mood (if not the actual words) of any contact or interaction. Whether that is via SMS, social media channels, emails…there is a wealth of information being providing by the clients in their interaction that are valuable insights and which can help you build a better business with deeper client relationships. You really don't have to look any further than Facebook to understand how a business can build immense value from capturing and then analysing and utilising this sort of data.
Integrating other technology platforms into, or in conjunction with, the CRM system. Financial management & reporting for the business; mind-mapping; social media interaction tools (e.g. Nimble, etc); analytical tools; automated email templates and calling systems and so on. There is a massive opportunity to introduce business efficiencies and improve the bottom line of the practice by investing in better tech integration.
A good CRM system should be way more than a compliance management system or a basic marketing platform. It can be the store of IP for the firm and a key efficiency or cost savings driver.
But the real bottom line is the more you know about your customers, the more valuable you are able to be to them. And therein lies the value FOR you.
What is the point of an expensive CRM system?
About 26 minutes ago from Tony Vidler's Twitter via Hootsuite Inc.


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Q: Варианты git diff Разбираюсь с вариантами git diff:
1) Чтобы сравнить index и working area - git diff
2) Чтобы сравнить HEAD и working area - git diff HEAD
3) Чтобы сравнить index и HEAD - git diff --staged
Это так?
Почему после коммита файла и последующего его изменения git diff --staged ничего не выдаёт - ведь индекс пустой, а HEAD нет - т.е. разница имеется?

A: вообще команда diff программы git показывает отличия между двумя деревьями файлов и каталогов. (чем, к слову, очень напоминает программу diff)

*

*команда diff без параметров/опций показывает отличия рабочего каталога относительно дерева, содержащегося в индексе. если же индекс (пока) пуст, то показываются отличия от дерева, на которое указывает указатель HEAD.

*если указать параметром коммит или указатель (ветку или метку):
$ git diff коммит-или-указатель

то сравниваться будет рабочий каталог и дерево, соответствующее данному коммиту или указателю.

*если же указать опцию --cached, то сравниваться будет дерево, содержащееся в индексе, с деревом, на которое указывает указатель HEAD. и если индекс пуст, то, аналогично изложенному в  первом пункте, будет сравнение «HEAD с HEAD», т.е. никаких отличий не найдётся.

*дополнительно к опции --cached можно упомянуть коммит или указатель:
$ git diff --cached коммит-или-указатель

тогда дерево, хранящееся в индексе, будет сравниваться не с HEAD, а с деревом, соответствующим данному коммиту или указателю. и, опять-таки, при отсутствии индекса, вместо него будет использоваться дерево, на которое указывает HEAD.
из всего изложенного следует, что команды
$ git diff --cached
$ git diff --cached HEAD

(в «нормальной» ситуации, когда HEAD указывает на существующий коммит или указатель) полностью эквивалентны.

Почему после коммита файла и последующего его изменения git diff --staged ничего не выдаёт - ведь индекс пустой, а HEAD нет - т.е. разница имеется?

см. пункт 3: если индекс пуст, то будет сравнение «HEAD с HEAD», т.е. никаких отличий не найдётся.


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BBC Apologies After Pornographic Noise Interrupts Live FA Cup Coverage
The BBC has apologized after pornographic noises interrupted live television coverage of the FA Cup. Watch footage of the incident below.
Loud moaning was heard while Gary Lineker presented the third-round replay between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool on Tuesday (January 17).
Confirming it to be an "amusing" prank, Lineker later shared a picture of a mobile phone that he said was "taped to the back of the set".
"We apologize to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening," the BBC said.
Lineker laughed off the prank as he presented the pre-match coverage in a studio at Wolverhampton's Molineux Stadium, alongside pundits Paul Ince and Danny Murphy.
"Somebody's sending something on someone's phone, I think. I don't know whether you heard it at home," he said, before handing over to former England striker Alan Shearer in the commentary gantry.
When the match started, Lineker shared a picture of the mobile phone with three laughing emojis. "Well, we found this taped to the back of the set," he wrote. "As sabotages go it was quite amusing."
Later on Tuesday, Lineker appeared on BBC's Newsnight and explained that he initially thought a video had been sent to one of the pundits' phones. However, he soon realized it was a prank.
Asked how loud the audio was in the studio, Lineker said he was unable to hear what anyone was saying in his ear, making it "quite difficult" to carry on with the coverage.
However, the broadcaster still saw the funny side of the prank and questioned why the BBC had to apologize.
"We've certainly got nothing to [be sorry] for," he said. "If you told me this morning that tonight I'd be on Newsnight talking about a porn scandal, I would have been terrified," he added, laughing.
YouTube prankster Daniel Jarvis has claimed credit for the prank, sharing a video on Twitter that appeared to show him at Molineux.
Jarvis is currently serving a two-year ban from all sports venues after being handed a suspended sentence last October. The prankster was convicted of aggravated trespass for invading the Oval cricket ground and colliding with England cricketer Jonny Bairstow.
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By Manchu, October 21, 2015 in Stormbringer
Mankcam 1,233
Yes the setting is very interesting, but the book itself is invaluable as a RQ6 game mechanics expansion. A very worthwhile investment, even if not intending to run a game using the Arkwright setting.
Edited October 29, 2015 by Mankcam
tzunder 33
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I would like to put an end to the idea that the Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski are in any way derived from Moorcock.
They are clearly strongly influenced by the D&D tropes, elves, dwarves, gnomes, half elves etc. There is a very broad attribution of nasty monsters as caused by a conjunction of Chaos, but that's it, it has no story relevance or is mentioned more than once per book, and only in passing. There is no concept of a cosmic battle between Law and Chaos with Balance as the middle way, none.
The name of the Witcher is the White Wolf, or the Wolf. He has grey hair. He is a monster killer. He has nothing to do with a decaying Empire of demi-elves.
That's it. It's a very nicely described, funny, foul mouthed and very very grim fantasy sequence in which political and military battles resemble the 30 years war in their brutality. In fact, given that Andrzej Sapkowski is a Pole, it wouldn't be a stretch to say they're influenced by the history of Poland and Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century, the setting easily maps onto a fantasy Germany-Prussia-Poland-Lithuania-Ukraine. The politics, the pogroms, the hypocrisy and the brutal killing all feel much more like the Eastern Front 1939-1945, or even 1956 than anything in Moorcock.
Just saying..
smiorgan 432
Having read all the Witcher books except the last, I agree ... to a point.
Better. I agree with everything you have said about the inspiration of the Witcher except that there is no Moorcock in that. Let me articulate.
Very true about the Eastern European / Baltic vibe. Northern kingdoms are Poland, Prussia Lithuania etc. Nilfgaard are the Germans. The Holy Roman Empire or the Nazi. Dwarves are Jews. Also a lot of slavic folklore, etc.
True about the D&D tropes. There are Tolkien-like halflings. Dragons of various colors. Doppelgangers that look very D&D and so on. To a large extent Sapkowski does to Fantasy what Sergio Leone did to Western. It's your usual Tolkien-land but everyone is dirtier and badder and there's a lot of gallows humor. It's spaghetti fantasy or, given that he's Polish, pierogi fantasy .
True that it's not a Moorcock rip-off, as some ill-informed Moorcock fans that clearly have not read the books have said. The stories have not much of cosmic struggle and are not very Moorcock.
That said. Well.. He is still a anti-hero type. He is an albino, as repeated several times. His hair (in the books) is white, not grey. He is a mutant and regarded as not fully human by people. He is called the White Wolf. He uses drugs to enhance his combat capacities. He is superhmanly quick with the sword and has command of magic. He is regarded as somewhat of a jinx and feared by the common folk who recall fearsome episodes of his career "the Butcher of Blaviken" a bit like "Elric womanslayer". So, I find it difficult not to think that Elric was an inspiration for the 'character' of Geralt of Rivia, as opposed to the stories.
lawrence.whitaker 1,264
I haven't read the Witcher novels, but this character doesn't seem to me to be any less egregious an Elric knock-off than the Steve Erikson half-demon in the Malazan books, or the ludicrous Kaleb D'aark from Warhammer.
In fact, fantasy is filled with knock-off characters and pastiches. It's all part of the heritage.
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Location: "West of the Moon and East of the Sun."
I've always felt that there are no new stories or characters. What we have are new story-tellers and that the uniqueness in a tale is truly in how it it told. Many authors mimick, consciously or unconsciously, their mentors, and because readers crave more of the same in the same sense that many take comfort in a Starbucks or McDonald's, there are ears who will listen and be satisfied. Once in awhile, however, a George Lucas will come along and, in the first film at least, take something old and tell it in such a manner that it blows us all away. I believe, it's the storyteller that counts more than the story; indeed, just like it's the GM who is ultimately responsible for a good campaign.
Yes. To bring it to the extreme. Turin son of Hurin in the Silmarillion bears many similarities with Elric. Doomed guy? Check. Black sword? Check. Kills friends? Check. Dragon helm? Check. Consanguineous/incestous lover? Check (Nienor sister/ Cymoril cousin), Dies by falling on his sword? Check. Sword finally speaks when he dies? Check.
I've always found that quite ironic, considering how much Moorcock despises Tolkien. Actually, the story of Turin is the perfect counter-example of Moorcock's view of Tolkien as sanitized / comfort food fantasy.
Probably the similarity depends on the fact that both Tolkien and Moorcock took inspiration from the character of Kullervo in the Finnish Kalevala.
I did not know about Kaleb D'aark. But they (GW) also perpetrated the embarassing High Elf Gilead!
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/75899.Gilead_s_Blood
Edited October 25, 2015 by smiorgan
In that hideous interregnum when White Dwarf ceased to be a roleplaying magazine and was morphing into a Warhammer catalogue (something the disingenuous editors at the time denied, whilst also denying that WD had ever been anything other than a GW mouthpiece), here was a dreadful comic strip drawn by either Brett Ewins or Brendan McCarthy and featured Kaleb D'aark, some sort of murderous high-elf thingy with a soul-sucking axe shaped like the jawbone of a very bad ass. It truly was bad, and quickly became known as Kaleb Cliche.
Mind you, GW were ripping off Moorcock and Tolkien wholesale and simultaneously for Warhammer, so one shouldn't be surprised.
Edited October 25, 2015 by lawrence.whitaker
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I still have a Kaleb D'aark figure somewhere! IIRC my FLGS was giving them away with every purchase of X numbers of figures at one point.
Richard Watts 13
Just popping in to say hello. It's quite delightful to see people still loving Stormbringer after all this time...
Hi Richard! It's great to have you here.
P.S. Just yesterday I was thinking about selkies and I remembered Calisander, the Old Hrolmar monograph, and all. I am still super-proud to have contributed two or three NPCs to that book.
Questbird 267
Or even Elric! (still my game choice).
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Except that Stormbringer was printed in 1965 and the Silmarillion was printed in 1977, but written decades earlier. So they were truly independent and the parallels were coincidence and more to do with common source inspirations. Tolkien's characters in the Silmarillion are not given much depth as the book is more akin to King of Sartar than an actual story.
Yes, sure. It's just common sources.
King of Sartar. This is exactly what I was thinking when reading it: "This is like the Silmarillion".
Jason Durall 690
Hypothetically, if you (meaning anyone reading this) could start over with a game based on Moorcock's Elric books, what would you do?
How would it differ from Stormbringer 1-4, Elric!/Stormbringer 5th edition, and the Mongoose editions?
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26 minutes ago, Jason Durall said:
I think I would combine d100 with some narrative Indie gaming ideas.
Characters would not start out as new adventurers ever. So you could begin life as a beggar, but by the time of the game you are have at least a year of "the road" under your belt.
Character generation would also be cooperative. One player would create a character who is the focus of the game, at least for a part of the campaign. The other characters would be related to that character in a way that was meaningful and gave the entire troupe a reason to be together,
A growth mechanic, providing improvement and new abilities would replace traditional experience. It would also introduce new wrinkles to the current relationships and allow for a change in focus character from chapter to chapter or book to book. It would also allow the GM to up the stakes as the campaign progressed.
It would need to include a multiverse aesthetic, if the characters moved forward into different time periods / universes they would need to retain their flavor and relationships. The game would and should be firmly young kingdoms, but with a strong appendix on Dreamthief's Daughter and Skrayling Tree adventures, pending how well it sold which would allow full blown expansions into that territory.
We live in a post "We love it when no one wins" world even though Supernatural (TV Show) has not figured that out yet. There may be some fatigue with such a depressing and nihilistic approach. So I think you would need to sell the game and ideas on the notion that although no one ever wins, they never lose either. The struggle is eternal and it is the struggle that matters, that defines you, and defines how posterity (readers and players) will see you.
Yet with all of that, still a firm and functional fantasy rpg. Any such licensed game would definitely need more than a nod from Mr. Moorcock, I dare say it would need a little direction or input from him.
Also an examination of the sword Stormbringer and other such artifacts as characters in the game in their own right. Possibly even as far as player characters who can help or hinder the puny mortals who pick it up to swing around?
On 11/14/2015, 7:48:43, ReignDragonSMH said:
Some thoughts:
What about a number of campaign options, where the GM and players could pick whether they'd like to play novice characters, seasoned adventurers, or Sphere-hopping badasses?
Another option would be a campaign mode where the players could do the "one Champion" and the rest could be a Companion and other associated heroes/associates of varying levels of competence.
Maybe an option where a player gets to play a sentient weapon, borne by the Champion?
I think Passions and Personality Traits are a must.
I agree that a proper Eternal Champions game should have a degree of planar travel, though how much would be up to the campaign framework chosen, I suppose.
To me, the doom-haunted aesthetic of the Young Kingdoms is one of its more interesting selling points. Perhaps different campaign settings, such as when Sadric is on the throne and Melnibone has not yet fallen?
I should have read your second post before making my own!
A French game called Bloodlust is based on the premise that the players do in fact take on the roles of the weapons, and their human bearers are subsidiary vessels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodlust_(roleplaying_game)
IIRC, Derek Pearcy (of Steve Jackson Games at the time) was working on an English translation of it, but I don't think it ever got very far.
Yes, having options for a more traditional campaign is a good thing. Maybe the players do not want to be part of the eternal struggle this go around, which works fine. The world can tumble towards its doom around them, without their help or hindrance.
A kingmaker mode might not be a bad idea either.
On 14/11/2015, 19:05:38, Jason Durall said:
I think I'll go for a game bringing together some of what I think are the best features of each "incarnation" and then add on it with things that have nevere been properly explored.
I'll start with Stormbringer 1-3 and 4. They were amazingly flavorful games. Here is what I see as the strong points:
- The simple, fast and furious d100 engine. Brutality and randomness.
- Random character generation. Regional traits. A reasonable but limited number of professions.
- Magic centered on summoning and invocations rather than on anything remotely similar to RQ battle magic or D&D spells. Magic is violent, powerful and crazy. When you do magic you are never fully in control. As rooted as they may be in the actual saga, the Mongoose Elric "runes" don't really work for me.
- Demon weapons. Yes there was demon weapon inflation and that should be addressed, Demon binding should probably be more restrictive. But losing demon weapons in the Mongoose version was a big loss of flavor. Here I'd go towards the Bloodlust route. The weapons should have passions and goals and affect the character who will be as bound to the weapon as it is to the character.
From Elric! / Stormbringer 5 I'd take
- The smoothed combat system. Still fast and brutal.
- Possibly, some necromancy from Bronze Grimoire and chaos magic from Corum.
- The way Law magic is handled in the Lords of Law monograph.
From the Mongoose versions I'd take severa things:
- Passions!
- Pacts with the Lords of the Higher Worlds and other supernatural entities.
- Random life events at chargen.
- The cleverly designed economy of magic points in summoning (much better than in Elric!)
- Dream magic and dream realms.
Al this for a game centered on the Young Kingdoms and the Elric Saga.
I'd like to see 4 levels of play:
1) Scoundrel. You play a beggar from Nadsokor or a farmer from Vilmir. And try to survive.
2) Adventurer. You play the Smiorgans and the Avan Astrans of this world. You rub shoulders with champions and supernatural heroes but your destiny is tied to this plane.
3) Minor Champions. Say, Rackhir you visit strange interplanar places and maybe end up in Tanelorn
4) Eternal Champion and Companions.
On 11/17/2015, 4:17:21, smiorgan said:
It was done pretty well in Corum too; no actual magic just perfectly crafted objects.
I like the rest of your list though.
On 19/11/2015, 03:34:50, Questbird said:
Now that I think of it, Law in Corum was even better! Contrivances!
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I've got RQ6 and MRQII's Stormbringer books... would be nice to see them updated to RQ6, and to see some of the awesome art and layout that you see in French publications, but really what more do you need?
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Арме́н Сергі́йович Мартирося́н (; нар. 10 лютого 1961, Єреван, Вірменська РСР) — вірменський дипломат і державний діяч, заступник міністра закордонних справ Вірменії (1999—2003), Постійні представники Вірменії при Організації Об'єднаних Націй (2003—2009), посол Вірменії в Німеччині (2009—2013), посол Вірменії в Індії (з 2015).

Освіта
 1978—1983 — Єреванський політехнічний інститут. Інженер електронної техніки.
 2004—2006 — Колумбійський університет, США. Державне управління, магістр.

Професійна діяльність
 1983—1987 — працював у виробничому об'єднанні «Разданмашина».
 1987—1990 — був першим секретарем Разданського райкому ЛКСМ Вірменії.
 1990—1995 — депутат Верховної ради Вірменської РСР.
 1992—1993 — радник прем'єр-міністра Вірменії.
 1993—1994 — заступник директора виробничого об'єднання «Разданмашина».
 З 1994 — директор дочірнього підприємства виробничого об'єднання «Техномаркет». Віце-президент об'єднання малих підприємств.
 1995—1999 — депутат парламенту Вірменії. Член постійної комісії з фінансово-кредитних, бюджетних та економічних питань. Керівник депутатської групи «Реформи».
 1999—2003 — заступник міністра закордонних справ Вірменії.
 2003—2009 — Постійні представники Вірменії при Організації Об'єднаних Націй.
 2009—2013 — посол Вірменії в Німеччині.
 4 квітня 2015 року призначений послом Вірменії в Індії.

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Вірменські дипломати
Постійні представники Вірменії при ООН
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Adam Ant performs his Anthems – The Singles Tour at The Royal Concert Tour Nottingham on Sunday 28th May 2017.
The 80s saw a group take the music world by storm with its mix of a little bit of post punk with the flamboyance of the glam influenced new romantics, and who had a lead singer that dressed as a pirate and slathered his face in greasepaint. It is unbelievable that Adam Ant still manages to strike a pop star pose today after his difficult times when his untreated bipolar disorder laid him low.
With the Ants having been long gone to pursue their own various projects, the young man from Marylebone still sells out venues and last night Adam Ant was at the Royal Concert Hall to perform songs from all stages of his career on a tour called Anthems – The Singles.
Looking good for 62, he burst onto the stage wearing a brown leather pirate's coat, a black bandana and two straw hats that inspired the look for Captain Jack Sparrow, and kicked off with a strident Beat My Guest which is the flip side of Stand And Deliver. Because that is what this concert promised; a dip into the star's back catalogue of hits, B sides and his personal favourites.
Among Vive Le Rock and Gotta Be A Sin from his 1995 album Wonderful, came some little known rarities, even unknowns to anyone other than his diehard fans. There was Fall In, and Red Scab which is on the B side to Goody Two Shoes; Greta X which was the B side to Vive Le Rock, Friend Or Foe and a brilliant Room At The Top.
That is not to say that the big singles were not present because they were and he did not disappoint. The crowd erupted at Antmusic and Prince Charming, followed by other fans favourites Goody Two Shoes and a stomping Stand And Deliver, which had the crowd on their feet.
Adam Ant hasn't forgotten the moves; he can still do the nimble footwork, he still has the swagger and his posturing hasn't aged a jot. He was in great form, looking lean, relaxed and effortlessly exuding bundles of charisma. He had this audience in the palm of his hand as he brought the house down.
What wasn't evident was a swinging chandelier, a buxom blonde and a dandy highwayman, but whilst those videos will always remain in the hearts of the audience of a certain age, Adam Ant showed that he is so much more. He is a talented musician who still knows how to entertain.
Hi. Many thanks for your comment. I'm pleased that you have had a look at the site. If you look at picture 6 you can clearly see that he is wearing two hats. Apart from his pirate hat, he always wears two hats. But hats aside, it was a good concert.


I really enjoy cooking and baking. It runs in my family for years. My grandmother was known to bake wedding cakes for every couple nearby. She did it with such an ease, smoothly and by heart. She knew all the recipes and needed no notebook.
Luckily, she was wise to write them all down for future chefs to come so my mother and I could still enjoy those vintage perfect combinations of simple ingredients. So happens with panettone. She used to make it at the drop of a hat but somehow I am totally untalented to make it. This is why I buy ready made ones for Christmas and really could not complain about the taste; there are so many different kinds and shapes and fillings that we enjoy !
If you have any panettone leftovers or one originally wrapped one in your pantry after holidays , just make this Panettone Leftovers Breakfast Bake. If you do not have forest fruits at hand, use any other fruits (frozen or fresh) ; even jam or Nutella is all right. Just spread it over the slices soaked with dressing and continue with step five.
Butter the pan and place 12 slices of panettone into it.
Prepare the dressing: slowly melt butter in a small pot and add lemon zest and juice into it.
Using pastry brush, spread the mixture over the panettone slices.
In medium sized bowl, mix 3 eggs and add icing sugar.
Using spatula, combine the eggs mixture with whipping cream and spread over the panettone slices.
Leave aside so the slices soak the mixture.
Arrange with 3 slices of lemon and bake for 20 minutes.
Leave to cool and garnish with icing sugar and forest fruits to taste.
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What a brilliant use of this delicious leftover. I might just buy a Panettone for this purpose, and not wait for the leftover. 🙂 YUM!
This looks so good!! I would love this for breakfast this weekend!
Oh yes; we have enjoyed this one after holidays but it is wise to buy panettone for that purpose only; totally agree to Valentina 🙂 Thank you Katherine !
Hello dear Angie ! Thank you so very much !
With Christmas coming soon and the appearance of the customary Panettone gift, this is a good recipe to have. It sounds like a great brunch dish.
Thank you Ron ! It is a lovely twist to french toast bake because of typical season's flavours.
This looks delicious! A lovely breakfast!
Thank you Kelly. Enjoy the week end !
A fabulous way to start the day! And a scrumptious way to enjoy panettone.
We love making French roast with panettone – and I know we would love this! Perfect use for all those little leftover pieces!
I bought panetonne once just to make something similar! It wasn't even left over! But I love the drizzle and the berries in yours. Fabulous recipe!
So glad you too like this one ….Your posts are so wonderful and inspirational 🙂 Thank you so much !
I've never had panettone – can you believe it? But I would buy one just to make this breakfast treat!
Hello Jeff; you should definitely give Panettone a chance 🙂 Thank you for commenting !
LOVE this idea for leftover panettone! My mouth is watering!!!
You would enjoy this one, I am sure. Thank you Kim !
A lovely breakfast and fabulous pictures.
What a beautiful breakfast bake! Great idea to use berries. Cheers!


In the early 20th century Charles Wicksteed owned a company that made drills, saws and gearboxes. In 1921, to celebrate the end of WWI, he took pipes from his factory and used them to build swings in a park in Kettering, England.
A year later he introduced the world's first playground slide to the park. It stood 12 feet tall and featured polished boards that could be slid down.
I came to the conclusion the great mistake so many private benefactors and public bodies make is this: they lay out a beautiful Park to sit in, and look at, but they do not realise that the people want more than this, they want something doing. And those who cannot play themselves, enjoy looking at those who can. The Play Ground should not be put in a corner behind railings, but in a conspicuous and beautiful part of a Park, free to all, where people can enjoy the play and charming scenery at the same time; where mothers can sit, while they are looking on and caring for their children.
My Play Ground is not confined to boys or girls, or old or young, it is open to all. I have seen a dozen women of forty years of age on the Plank Swing together, and enjoying it as much as the children. I have also seen old ladies of 80 go down the slides. It is a good thing to have plenty of variety and then no one tires.
I used to be told how boys abused everything and what a disgraceful thing it was for two men to swing together on the same swing. So I made up my mind it would be far easier for me, as an engineer, to make the Playthings so strong that they could not be broken, rather than try to reform the users. In this I have succeeded without disturbing the delicate balance, so that the youngest child alone can operate any of the playthings.
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These pictures, and those after the jump, are old drawings of what paleontologists used to think dinosaurs looked like. They tended to be pictured as being dull colored and very lizard like. Today it is believed that they were much more colorful and active. In fact, fossils are now yielding some information on just what those colors were.
When ancient people were faced with strange bones, they did exactly what we do today, and used the best knowledge available to reconstruct the creatures that left them behind. Sometimes this resulted in poor conclusions. The first name assigned in print to any dinosaur remains was the ignominious title of Scrotum humanum – a label given by British physician Richard Brookes to the broken end of a femur in 1763, believing it to be the fossilised testicles of a Biblical giant.
We now know that the leg bone belonged to a Megalosaurus – correctly described as an extinct reptile by William Buckland in 1824. You can't entirely blame Brookes for his conclusions, as dinosaurs would not be described as a group until 1842. That was when Richard Owen, head of what is now the Natural History Museum, revealed to the world a new class of strange, extinct creatures he called dinosaurs, meaning 'fearfully great reptiles'. He imagined Iguanodon, Megalosaurus and Hylaeosaurus to be reptiles with legs sprawled out to the sides, with scaly grey or green skin: something like modern lizards or crocodiles.
In 1854 artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins created life-sized sculptures of these animals as directed by Owen, and you can still see these on display in Crystal Palace Park in south London. Visit them and you will see they look very different to how we depict dinosaurs today.
Over time, we have come to completely revise our understanding of the appearance of dinosaurs, and much of this began with the description of another American dromaeosaur called Deinonychus in the 1960s. John Ostrom at Yale University made the revolutionary suggestion that this species was a bird-like, fast, warm-blooded pack hunter, and so began the 'dinosaur renaissance' of the 1960s and 70s. Ostrom championed the idea that birds were dinosaurs, and was spectacularly vindicated when Sinosauropteryx, the first known feathered dinosaur, was found in China in 1996.
Above is a video of a restored 1944 Dairy Queen ice cream making machine. The behind the scenes machinery of making ice cream is certainly grittier than a brightly lit and colorful ice cream parlor.
Get ready for a wistful weekend with Cody Jinks.
"The first time I saw an airplane was down near the stock route. It landed near us. We thought the white people might kill us. We were frightened of the white people so we hid in a wattle tree."
Get ready for a self-centered and cranky weekend with Frida Snell.
Above is a review of Night Wars. It appears to be a cinematic tour de force of the first order. Particularly impressive are the scenes where, while sleeping with loaded guns, the protagonists return to Vietnam in their dreams to participate in fire fights.
If you just want to see the sleep fights, and they are a sight to behold, you can go to time stamps 6:00 and 9:12.
Time for yet another random walking around video. This one is through the streets of Yangon, Myanmar.
While there is no such thing as a connoisseur of walking videos, I've watched enough of them to begin to spot differences in them. In this one I particularly like his camera work. While usually the camera in these things just point ahead, he tends to focus on points of interest, sometimes even turning as he passes them. A nice touch.
Get ready for a oddball fusion weekend with Gangstagrass.
Uncle Sam - It's all right! There's no fighting! The noise you hear is just my family celebrating!
The illustration is from 1902. It is hard to read, but the kids in the picture are labeled: Philippines, Hawaii, North, Porto Rico, South, Mass., Texas, New York and Alaska, with the black boy bearing no label. The concerned looking lady in the white robes is Peace.
Ernst Haeckel was a 19th century German biologist. After the untimely death of his young wife he became fascinated by jellyfish (medusae). Their ethereal and fragile beauty touched a chord in his sorrow.
These samples of his illustrations are from Public Domain Review. There are more after the jump.


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