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But the two didn't know each other.
Fast forward a few months and the two are obviously close. Johnson has essentially been assigned to Parker, sticking with and pushing the 22-year-old as he works toward returning from tearing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee for the second time in three years.
"Frank is an extreme, extreme blessing in my life," Parker said. "He's a person that I need, a person that stays with me and sticks with me. It gets lonely at times, but he's always supporting and he makes sure that I get better."
Getting to this point after being strangers just a few months ago wasn't easy. Naturally, Parker was apprehensive about immediately trusting this new person in his life. He admits that at the beginning he wasn't always responsive to Johnson's coaching and didn't always listen to what the 59-year-old assistant coach had to say, often questioning why they were doing things a certain way.
Bucks coach Jason Kidd, who played four years with the Suns when Johnson was an assistant there, knew firsthand that Johnson had a knack for relating to younger players. That's part of the reason why he pulled Johnson back into the NBA after a nearly 14-year absence after being fired as the head coach of the Suns in 2003.
The two had been in touch since Kidd's tenure with the Brooklyn Nets, and this summer he approached Johnson about returning to the NBA. Johnson had been spending his time living in the Phoenix area and running some businesses he continues to operate, but also stayed close to basketball by working out players, including some from the NBA.
"Frank has dealt with younger players, in Phoenix with Amar'e (Stoudemire) and Joe (Johnson), highly-skilled guys," Kidd said. I thought he could be a guy that could help us develop Jabari."
So, Johnson stuck with it. He drew on his 13-year career as a player and eight seasons of coaching experience in Phoenix — including parts of three seasons as the Suns' head coach — to help him ultimately forge a connection with Parker.
Johnson credits that to putting in time with Parker and talking to him about all sorts of things — not just basketball. During those conversations, he helped Parker understand that he can empathize with his situation.
Johnson recognizes the lonely feeling that can set in when rehabbing from an injury because he's felt it before. During a two-year stretch of his career, Johnson broke his foot four times.
"(Parker) was like, 'Oh, OK. So now you know what it's like; it's lonely,'" Johnson said. "He knows how lonely it is for him at times. I know that."
Everyone, injured or not, has their good and bad days. Parker is not immune to pain building up, feeling bored by monotonous rehab exercises or the loneliness of being separated from the team either literally or symbolically.
That's when Johnson's impact is most needed.
"I have bad days; a lot of times I'm not as strong as it seems to be," Parker said. "I have struggles, but Coach Johnson makes sure that my well-being is fine and he's always uplifting me on my bad days."
In those times, Johnson reminds Parker how fortunate he is. During Johnson's playing days, he didn't have much of a support staff around him. Often there was just one person — more often no one — around as he fought back from injury. When the team went on the road, he wasn't part of the travel party.
Even still, Parker constantly battles his own deferential disposition, fighting between being part of the team and staying out of the way of the active members of the roster. Sometimes he's waited until after a practice or shootaround was over to get his work in, trying to stay out of the way of the team.
There's usually plenty of room at the team's Sports Science Center, but at shootarounds where there's only one court, Parker can be more conflicted. In San Antonio, he spent a good portion of one practice session running the arena stairs. Johnson joined him and later some other players, who didn't play much the night before in Cleveland, started going up and down the steps.
Part of Johnson's job is reminding Parker that he's part of the team.
"Certainly trying to make sure that he feels part of the team," Johnson said. "Jabari's a kid that he wants to stay out of everyone's way. He thinks he's in everyone's way. I have to constantly tell him, 'No, you're not in everyone's way. You have to believe you're part of this.' "
It's been easier to clearly see Parker as part of the team of late. He's spent time playing three-on-three with some of the team's younger, more inexperienced players, throwing down dunks and looking like his former self. He's also been able to get back into practice, testing himself and his teammates while offering another body amidst multiple other injuries.
None of that means Parker will get back to game action sooner than his projected return window in February, but it's a step forward.
"He'll be back better for sure," guard Rashad Vaughn said. "He's just built different, man. He's built to survive and come back from these things."
As much as Parker may be built differently, it's helped to have Johnson in his corner. And for Johnson, after all those years out of the NBA, this opportunity has been a learning, growing experience for him as well.
"It's been a fun experience for me to have such a young talent and to see how he's handling adversity at a young age," Johnson said. "I think he's showing a lot of patience through it all. I'm very proud of that, very happy for him."


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'Hereditary' Is the Most Profoundly Terrifying Film I Have Ever Seen
By Dustin Rowles | Film | June 8, 2018 |
I had been hearing so much hype out of the film festival circuit about how terrifying Ari Aster's Hereditary is that I actually found myself dreading the experience. I mean, I love horror films, but I wasn't sure I was ready to spend two hours in a state of total fear, and I didn't know anything about Hereditary going in, so I had no idea what to expect.
It's so much more terrifying than I had anticipated, but in a completely different way. The hype about this movie, somehow, managed to underplay how truly traumatic a film it is. Anyone who tells you that Hereditary will leave you with nightmares presumes that you'll actually be able to sleep again — it kept me awake long after I saw it. It's the kind of film where you want to run out into broad daylight as soon as possible so that you can shake it off, get out from underneath its spell, the pall of horror that blankets you while watching Hereditary.
To be clear: This is not a cheap, jump-scare kind of horror film. It's not a bloody, gory horror film with a huge body count, either. There's no real boogeyman or haunted house or blind alien monster or dark children's characters come to life. While a lot of the imagery in Hereditary may haunt you for days, the horror here is almost purely psychological. It will get into your head and implant itself.
I don't want to say too much about the plot — it's a movie that's best to go into cold, and words couldn't do it justice anyway — but this is a review, so I feel that I should at least lay out the premise and explain why Hereditary is so much more effective than any other horror film I've ever seen.
The film stars Toni Collette as Annie, who is attending the funeral of her mother when Hereditary opens. Annie's mother was a secretive and difficult person, and it's not clear early on how her death plays into the film, but it's enough to know that her mother's death leaves Annie and her daughter, Charlie, shaken. I'm not sure how to describe Charlie (Milly Shapiro), either, except to say that this is her:
She's creepy, but in a weirdly sympathetic way. You're both creeped out by her and want to give her a hug. Her family clearly loves her, too, but she also seems like something of a small burden, a quiet offbeat girl who stares off into the distance and occasionally cuts the head off of dead birds. You know the type.
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Anyway, one night Annie's son, Peter (Alex Wolff) decides to go to a party that will involve drinking and smoking pot, and Annie — who clearly wants to get her daughter out of her hair so that she can get some work done — makes Peter take Charlie with him. At the party, Peter abandons his sister to go smoke a bowl with a girl, and in the meantime, Charlie eats a piece of cake and has an allergic reaction. Peter, in a state of panic, picks up his sister, runs her out to the car, and speeds off to the hospital to get her treated. On the way, however, Peter swerves to miss an animal in the road, and Charlie — with her head out the window and gasping for air because of her allergic reaction — is decapitated by a telephone pole.
Let me just write that again: This quiet little girl is decapitated by a telephone pole.
It's a horrible, devastating, disquieting moment, and Ari Aster puts us in the car with Peter, who is in a complete state of shock. It's hard not to wonder what we might do in that same situation with your poor, defenseless little sister dead in your backseat, her head lying on the side of the road. A catatonic Peter cannot face the horror of what he has done, so he drives home, quietly walks into his house, and falls into bed. The next morning, he awakens to the wailing sounds of his mother after she discovers Charlie's headless body in the back of Peter's car.
And that's when the horror movie begins.
But here's why the horror movie that follows is so effective. It's because what happens afterward manifests itself from the guilt that Peter feels for killing his sister, and the resentment and anger that Annie feels toward her own son for his involvement in her daughter's death. But also, she feels her own sense of guilt, for having sent Charlie to the party. Meanwhile, the father — Gabriel Byrne's Steve — is mostly in survival mode. He's just trying to keep it together for his son. They're a broken family that desperately misses their daughter and sister. The grief is overwhelming, but it's commingled with guilt and shame and anger, and all of those emotions anchor the horror movie that follows.
We understand, then, why Annie decides to perform a seance. This is not a bunch of teenagers playing with a
Ouija board. It's a broken woman experiencing crippling grief who wants to speak to her daughter again, but who is also probably a little afraid to do so, fearing what her daughter might think of her, of her role in Charlie's death.
The grisly hell that follows — working from the already established base of emotions — is unspeakable. There are moments — images from this movie — that I will never forget, that have been forever imprinted upon my brain, that will sneak out from my subconscious and terrify me 40 years from now when I'm in hospice care.
There are probably layers in this movie, too, that I feel like I might have missed — symbolism, foreshadowing, little easter eggs — and I feel like it's a movie that I should study, that I should watch again to pick up on those things. But I will never watch this movie again. I think that, especially for parents, it's a movie that may be too hard for some to watch once, much less twice.
I've never really considered the idea that there might be a movie that is too scary to watch, and I suspect for a lot of people, that might sound like a challenge. But this is not that kind of movie. You can't endure Hereditary or cover your eyes during the scary parts. It's not a giant steak you can eat in under 30 minutes. It's not a rollercoaster that you can ride for two hours and hop off. It's an experience, one that will stick with you for hours, if not days. It's a great horror film — like combining The Conjuring and The Babadook with Manchester by the Sea — but I don't know that I would recommend it to everyone. Or even anyone.
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The province, home to the lucrative LNG gas project, has been gripped by widespread tribal fighting and a build-up of firearms, which local police have been at a loss to prevent.
The chief secretary to the national government, Isaac Lupari, said the personnel will march in the provincial capital, Tari, on Monday before being deployed across the province.
He said the operation is necessary because the fighting represents a genuine threat to law and order in the province.
Mr Lupari told the Post Courier newspaper that the operations will be reviewed at the end of February.
An arms moratorium has also been introduced.
Military and police operation to end fighting in PNG's Hela.
Military and police personnel in Papua New Guinea will start an operation tomorrow to try and end tribal fighting in Hela Province.
Papua New Guinea's government has agreed to a special police call out operation in Hela Province as its capital Tari is in lockdown after more tribal fighting.
The police command in Papua New Guinea's Hela province has again warned about the build-up of high-powered weapons in the region.


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Regaining perspective
It's a lot like flying: it's obvious that there are skills that will get rusty after an extended layoff: radio work, takeoffs (in taildraggers, anyway), landings (in anything but a parachute), and other tasks that benefit from recent practice. As it turns out, there are skills in airplane building that also suffer from lack of recent experience. As a case in point, it took an embarrassingly long time to figure out the perspective of this drawing:
It's obvious to me now, just as it may have been to you right away, but for the longest time I thought that the center section in the picture was stood up vertically. Eventually it dawned on me that it is laid down horizontally on the table, like so:
That's as far as I'm going today. I still need to read through the plans. My number one goal is to determine how far I can go before having to transfer the work from my comfortable, convenient basement out to the somewhat less so (on both accounts) hangar. From a quick read-through, it looks like there is a tremendous amount of work that gets done before the rollover structure gets built. The rollover is the first piece high enough that it will preclude removal from the basement. It gets attached as the last step before attaching the fuse to the tail cone, so it's very close to when I would have had to move to the hangar anyway.
The open question is whether I can skip over the rollover structure and tailcone attachment steps and install the rudder pedals, brakes, and the fuel lines before moving to the hangar. Those would ever so much easier to do in the basement where the lighting and tools are better.
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Jazz Music & the Influence of Yoruba Culture
ByGrimot Nane Zine	 June 30, 2020 December 31, 2021
There was a time in the '60s and '70s when several jazz musicians of repute had to visit Brazil for a new spark of inspiration. It was almost a "rite of passage" for many jazz musicians. Classics like 'Song for My Father' by Horace Silver; 'Brazilian Love Affair' by George Duke; 'Jive Samba' by Cannonball…
There was a time in the '60s and '70s when several jazz musicians of repute had to visit Brazil for a new spark of inspiration. It was almost a "rite of passage" for many jazz musicians. Classics like 'Song for My Father' by Horace Silver; 'Brazilian Love Affair' by George Duke; 'Jive Samba' by Cannonball Adderley Sextet; 'Sidewinder' by Lee Morgan; 'Big Band Bossa Nova' by Quincy Jones were born of rips and sounds of trips to and sounds of Brazil. These are a few of the Jazz Giants that had made their most successful albums through the Brazilian inspiration. Grover Washington Jr, George Benson, Earl Klugh, Bob James, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, Kenny Dorham and many others also had big lifts in their music by way of the Brazilian inspiration. The most Yoruba-influenced jazz group is apparently the Art Ensemble of Chicago (see picture above).
What is Brazilian inspiration? That's easy. It is Samba, and its begotten Bossa Nova observed in the creative and free-wheeling Brazilian environment and ambience. Samba we know is Yoruba music. I don't want to mention slavery—respects to George Floyd.
When Festac '77 (the Festival for Black and African Arts and Culture held mainly in Lagos, Nigeria in 1977) arrived, many jazz musicians, black and white, came to Nigeria to experience three things. One was to engage the source of Samba. The other was to explore the marvels of the talking drum and other indigenous African instruments. Then there was the opportunity for the first experience of Africa. Remember Miles Davis had said his album Kind of Blue (his greatest) drew its inspiration from the thumb piano sounds of a Guinean group playing in New York. (Maybe I will talk about other ethnic inspiration in African sometime; see https://wp.me/p1bOKH-V7 & https://wp.me/p1bOKH-WK).
However, the musicians were blown away by something I will narrate later. Yusef Lateef stayed behind until the military coup of 1983 and left shortly afterwards. Randy Weston is reputed to have done a sojourn in Lagos for a couple of years. Don Cherry for a year. Roy Ayers formed a close musical relationship Fela. Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim were the Jazz Giants from South Africa and also Manu Dibango from Paris and Loius Moholo from London gracing Festac '77.
The American and European jazz musicians that eagerly went to Lagos seeking Samba, talking drums and motherland were amazed to find 'Highlife' and 'Afrobeat', two Yoruba-influenced musical artforms. We do know highlife originated in Ghana, but the Lagos style of it is distinct and distinguished enough in its own right. Roy Ayers quickly formed a partnership with Fela. Juggy Jones, another American jazz artist, argued that Fela's music might have partly evolved from his music. Yusef Lateef, Randy Weston and Don Cherry played jazz and Highlife in Lagos clubs. Highlife and Afrobeat became sources of inspiration to jazz musicians but not like Samba did.
There was a jazz artist who still plays highlife to the present day and the father of the rapper, Nas, named Olu Dara who was not Yoruba he had adopted the name when it was fashionable. After Malcolm X was renamed "Omowale" [the Son who came back home] after a lecture he gave at Trenchard Hall, the University of Ibadan hinting his prodigality, many African-Americans in search of a dignifying identity started to adopt Yoruba names. Some of these musicians were sporting Dashikis routinely that had been made famous around the world. It is a Yoruba attire.
I did see a video on Youtube where a drummer was teaching rhythm on the drums, western drumkits. However, towards the end of the class, the teacher said drums could also be proficient for making make melodies. The talking drum is a melody maker rather than a strict rhythm instrument. The Talking drum is a Yoruba musical item.
The Candomble from Brazil and other religious groups in the Americas that have their origins in Yorubaland were also there to grace the occasion of Festac '77. I met some Oshun worshippers in France in 2009, and they are whites. They know a lot more than about Yoruba spiritual cosmology than I do, talking eloquently about Orishas, rites and traditions.
All in all, the Yoruba culture is not only influential in jazz music, Bossa Nova, and other international music forms but in dress, alternative identities, religion, and Yorubaland itself act as a homeland. Love, accommodation, authenticity and finesse are the only things that have successfully promoted Yoruba culture globally. Is there any other way?
Please, take a look at my articles, Urhobo Music Is 21st Century Ready and A Jazz Great I Met: Clifford Jarvis. Cheers
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Why History Cannot Be Taught in Nigerian Schools
One may wonder who within the Nigerian Ministry of Education orchestrated the removal of the History [of West Africa] as a subject from the national academic curriculum several years ago. Many have claimed that the removal was to hide the 'darkness of the Civil War' and to quell potential tensions it might harness. Has it worked for contemporary Nigeria? We know it has not. The Muslim-dominated North defeated Christian East in a very bloody and savage conflict that claimed millions of lives, and they want the people to 'forget' by robbing them of a significant component of their educational freedom? History is ultimately a reflection of the handwork of leaders for all posterity, and they know it. Agnotology does not often work enduring, and it has limits.
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The Power of Incumbency in Election and Big Thieving
ByGrimot Nane Zine	 March 24, 2015
One would wonder why the power of incumbency of presidents and governors in Nigeria,elsewhere in Africa and other places in the world is well-near indomitable at general elections. While incumbents can use state resources to campaign against the opposition, to buy votes wholesale and rig elections with impunity such resources are not always enough to secure election victory. Well, certainly not in 2015. Read More "The Power of Incumbency in Election and Big Thieving"
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President Jonathan's Boko Haram Excuse Is Inadequate
ByGrimot Nane Zine	 February 23, 2015
When President Goodluck Jonathan claimed he had "underestimated" the Boko Haram insurgency it was the latest in a long series of things he should not have said, another public relations disaster. Underestimation of the obvious is a major signal of administrative competence. Since Jonathan is not a military person his advisers must be openly held responsible for grossly misleading the president in such a strategic and important matter. Military personnel particularly high ranking officers should know the methods and history of warfare as well strategic analysis and forecasting of enemy capabilities, numbers and accessories on a substantive level. Read More "President Jonathan's Boko Haram Excuse Is Inadequate"
ByGrimot Nane Zine	 September 5, 2015 January 5, 2022
Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. – WB Yeats
I always felt William Yeats and Chinua Achebe were talking about the desecration of the truth by humankind and its consequences in the writing and interpretation, respectively, of this opening of the poem Second Coming. I also think I know why Achebe adopted it. He had a message for his people – " society is just as good as its collective approach to objective truth."
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Corruption | Governance | Institutions
Corruption in Nigeria: Is it Curable? Part Three
ByGrimot Nane Zine	 December 4, 2011 January 5, 2022
The Owners of Nigeria Technostructure
In Nigeria, there exists a non-market non-governmental extortionist technostructure that is nameless, but for convenience, we shall call it the ONT (i.e. the Owners of Nigeria Technostructure). The ONT is somewhat implicated in existing in the works of many authors (Dudley 1982; Agbese 1990; Diamond 1991; Osoba 1993, 1996; Cayford 1996; Ake 1996; Ihonvbere 1996, 1999; Smith 2001; Oduyela 2004; Madichie 2005; Asobie 2006; Omotola 2006; Oarhe 2010). Analogous to the concept of the market technostructure propounded by John Kenneth Galbraith in which corporate bureaucrats had more power than shareholders, and the focus of corporate activity was more on survival than profits. The ONT holds more power than market shareholders/leaders and government administrators, respectively or combined, and is focused on the survival of the nation's economy to serve it interests rather than national prosperity (see Asobie 2006). It is a fact that citizens of Nigeria are also shareholders (or stakeholders) in the economy.
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Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria
Monkey Tail: ogogoro (local gin) left to brew in marijuana leaves. Photo Credit: Usha Anenga
"Monkey Tail," though an unlikely-sounding moniker, is simply a drink made of ogogoro (local gin) left to brew in igbo (marijuana leaves, stems, roots or seeds) for a few days or more, producing varying units of intoxication (UOI) for the user.
The beverage gives users two different kinds of "highs" simultaneously with unpredictable outcomes, especially for a novice and depending on the alcoholic content, igbo potency and amount consumed. There is also the case of synergy where, for example, ten UOI of ogogoro plus ten UOI of igbo can cause thirty-seven UOI when consumed. Read More "Monkey Tail, a Date-Rape Drug in Nigeria"
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Have you come across the London Lucumi Choir? – Yoruba music as transmitted through the Cuban experience. Closer to candomble than to samba. Very beautiful!
Disclaimer: I was a member for a few years.
Mike Joffe
Grimot Nane Zine says:
Hi Mike, it has been a while. Thanks for your reply. I have checked out The London Lucumi Choir and I like them very much. I also checked out evidencebasedeconomics and I like it very much too. Cheers


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Q: display menu with out list tags Is there a way I can display a menu in my theme that isn't formatted in a list? i just want to display the <a> tags without the <li> tags.
is this possible?
theme file:
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'navigation' ) ); ?>

functions.php:
function register_my_menus() {
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Edit: see my answer below, found on Stack Overflow

A: It looks like what i'll need to do is look at a customized menu walker, as suggested at this thread over on Stack Overflow:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9003918/editting-wp-nav-menu-so-it-prints-divs-instead-of-lis
From there, looking at suggestions I found:
http://www.mattvarone.com/wordpress/cleaner-output-for-wp_nav_menu/
That's solved this perfectly!

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New law gives digital currencies legal status in Russia
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President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill recognizing digital currencies as a legitimate asset in Russia, but bans citizens from using digital coins to pay for goods and services.
Anatoly Aksakov, head of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets, was quoted by news outlets saying, "The legislator defines cryptocurrency as a means of payment and as a means of savings, as an investment, but this means of payment is prohibited to be used to pay for goods and services in Russia."
The bill also gives companies in Russia permission to tokenize their company and issue digital shares on a blockchain if they receive permission from the Bank of Russia. The bill is expected to become effective January 2021.
For several years, it was unclear whether digital currencies were considered legal or illegal in Russia. The bill that was signed on July 31 finally gives Russian citizens clarity on digital currencies; however, Aksakov said that the bill purposely avoids addressing concepts like digital currency 'tokens' and 'mining.' According to Aksakov, the Russian government plans to create more regulations around the digital currency industry in their autumn session and will pass a new bill that addresses both of these concepts.
Although the new bill sounds strict, it is much better than the bill that was initially proposed. Originally, the proposed digital currency bill suggested that digital currency should be illegal in Russia and that any individual who violates the law should face up to 7 years in jail and fines up to $28,000. However, after undergoing a round of amendments made by the parliament last week, the Russian government has finally settled on a digital currency framework that is relatively more user-friendly than the bill that was initially proposed.
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HORIZONTAL CURRENT BIPOLAR TRANSISTOR (HCBT) – A LOW-COST, HIGH-PERFORMANCE FLEXIBLE BICMOS TECHNOLOGY FOR RF COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS
Tomislav Suligoj, Marko Koričić, Josip Žilak, Hidenori Mochizuki, So-ichi Morita, Katsumi Shinomura, Hisaya Imai
10.2298/FUEE1504507S
In an overview of Horizontal Current Bipolar Transistor (HCBT) technology, the state-of-the-art integrated silicon bipolar transistors are described which exhibit fT and fmax of 51 GHz and 61 GHz and fTBVCEO product of 173 GHzV that are among the highest-performance implanted-base, silicon bipolar transistors. HBCT is integrated with CMOS in a considerably lower-cost fabrication sequence as compared to standard vertical-current bipolar transistors with only 2 or 3 additional masks and fewer process steps. Due to its specific structure, the charge sharing effect can be employed to increase BVCEO without sacrificing fT and fmax. Moreover, the electric field can be engineered just by manipulating the lithography masks achieving the high-voltage HCBTs with breakdowns up to 36 V integrated in the same process flow with high-speed devices, i.e. at zero additional costs. Double-balanced active mixer circuit is designed and fabricated in HCBT technology. The maximum IIP3 of 17.7 dBm at mixer current of 9.2 mA and conversion gain of -5 dB are achieved.
This article has been corrected. Link to the correction DOI:10.2298/FUEE1703429E
BiCMOS technology, Bipolar transistors, Horizontal Current Bipolar Transistor, Radio frequency integrated circuits, Mixer, High-voltage bipolar transistors.
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5 Indie Artists You Should Hear – Kileza
Kileza is an Indie-Pop singer/songwriter who calls the world her home. Born and raised in South Africa she's lived and performed in Argentina, Canada, and is now based in Berlin, Germany. Her music reflects the influences of her travels.
"I would describe my sound as psychedelic R&B," Kileza said. "It is a blend of experimental electro, soul, and hip hop – a weathered bag of the stories I've collected along the way."
Marketwire had this to say about the talented artist:
The music of this former South African Idol echoes the likes of Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill and John Mayer. Take one listen to her music and you'll soon understand why her songs transcend genre definitions and age barriers; she speaks straight to the human soul.
Kileza's EP Berlin Winter is a beautiful collection of heartfelt songs that covers a wide range of emotions.
"I just wanted to make music that was similar to what I was listening to at the time; melancholic yet calming; the perfect solution for a cold, grey and stagnant winter," Kileza said. "I was influenced by classical piano, and through osmosis, by Berlin's electro scene; these songs are about growing up, re-incarnation, love lost, and the pain found in re-inventing one's identity in a foreign land."
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I was inspired to write this post, as I stood in my kitchen with all the windows wide open in this summer heat. I heard so many sounds which instantly calmed my inner pool of balance, allowing any anxieties to just wash away.
This has to be my most favourite sound in the world. If you are a bit of a nature buff like me, try and identify the kinds of birds you can hear. Or just listen to how many different birds are singing their little hearts out and imagine where they are or what they might be doing as you listen.
Although this may trigger a bit of adrenaline for some people, just try using this as a challenge and just listen to the bee on his busy journey amongst the flowers. He has a job to do and isn't always interested in stinging random humans that are just sat quietly posing no threat.
If you are in woodland or anywhere near a tree, you may hear the comforting whisper of the breeze disturbing the green, summer leaves. A breeze that you can identify by tactile means, yourself, as it gently cools your face in the warm sunshine.
Walking through a meadow on a summer's day is usually accompanied by multiple buzzes of grasshopper legs and crickets. I used to love following the sounds which lead me to the individual little grasshoppers as a child and I sometimes find myself doing just that now, in order to get a good picture of the unsuspecting critter.
In early summer evenings and weekends, it has been rather comforting to hear the sound of children's laughter and screams as they play in their garden- perhaps having a water fight or playing ball games.
When the grass is growing after a healthy rainfall, it is only evident that you will hear the sounds of neighbours cutting their lawns and shortly after, that green smell of freshly cut grass in the atmosphere.
And finally, in the summer heat we all need a bit of water to keep us hydrated. Whether it's the sound of a hose pipe, the trickle from a watering can or the flow of a nearby stream, even the sea (if you live on the coast) as you have been to seek-out a local water source on this hot, dry day.


Animal Acupressure Demonstration at Friday Harbor Animal ShelterA demonstration of how animal acupressure works on our dogs, cats and horses will be given by Mariann Carrasco of Blue Island Animal Acupressure, LLC on Saturday February 16th from 1 to 4 pm at the Friday Harbor Animal Shelter.
Acupressure is just like Acupuncture only using touch instead of needles and is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. The goal of practicing acupressure is to restore, replenish, and maintain the natural harmony and balance needed in animal and human bodies to create optimal health and well-being.
There are 12 major meridians that run along the surface of the body that can be accessed at key points. These points, as well as the meridians, can get blocked due to external and internal pathogens, leading to illness and disease if left untreated. By clearing these key points with touch, the Qi will commence flowing, clearing the meridians and assisting in eliminating health issues.
Come see what acupressure is all about and how it may be able to help your animal. No need to bring your animal. There will be a demonstration dog available to "show how it's done". Please contact Mariann at 360-303-3608 or blueislandanimalenergy@gmail.com to RSVP or questions. The demo is free!


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15 Sci-Fi Movies & TV Series That Tried to Predict the Future
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With ongoing new sci-fi shows like The Peripheral and Severance portraying chilling possibilities about a not-too-distant future, it's the perfect time to look back at the movies and series that tried to do the same several years ago (and which ones came terrifyingly close).
Much of the reason science fiction is so successful as a genre is that viewers often don't have to suspend their disbelief that much. Many of the strange places and pieces of technology in the genre help to tell unique and imaginative stories while remaining grounded in reality. For instance, these movies and shows allow viewers to see what earth or humanity would look like when set in a different universe, in an alternate past, or sometimes in the future.
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While many sci-fi stories in the past have accurately predicted the future before it became the present, that isn't always the case. For years writers have tried their best to portray what they believe will happen. Sometimes these predictions can end up being a little off, and other times they turn out completely wrong. On rare (and often disturbing) occasions, some sci-fi series and movies manage to be right about the world viewers live in today.
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'2012' (2009)
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When the earth's core begins to heat up, and its crust becomes unstable, world leaders prepare for the end in just a few years. As the year 2012 arrives, destructive earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic activity threaten all of humanity. In the middle of all of it, a writer and his estranged family do their best to survive.
Of course, the movie 2012 didn't predict anything too far in the future, having been released in 2009, and apocalyptic movies aren't exactly new. Needless to say, though, the world didn't end in 2012.
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'Lost in Space' (1965 – 1968)
Humanity is heading out to the stars, and the Robinson family is chosen for a five-and-a-half-year trip to colonize a planet near Alpha Centauri. When a saboteur sneaks on board their spaceship, a series of disastrous events cause them to travel off course at hyper-speed, becoming hopelessly lost.
Although the years that the 1998 movie and the 2018 series take place are still far off, the original Lost in Space TV show is a different story. Set in 1997, which was around 30 years in the future at the time, the main events of the story involve prolonged space travel. In real life, while humanity had undoubtedly reached a fair amount of space-related milestones by 1997, humanity was nowhere near that level of space colonization.
'Meet the Robinsons' (2007)
Lewis is a brilliant child inventor who, after finding that his brand-new invention has been stolen, is approached by a mysterious boy named Wilbur. Discovering that both Wilbur and the invention thief are, in fact, time travelers, Lewis travels to the future, where he meets Wilbur's eccentric family.
Taking place in 2037, it may be a little early to claim that the beloved sci-fi animated movie Meet the Robinsons failed to predict the future. However, it's safe to say that many of the movie's technological advancements are not in our near future. This is especially true considering the movie's leading scientist, Cornelius Robinson, would probably have been debuting such technology around now.
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'The Island' (2005)
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In a society isolated from the rest of the world due to an all too familiar global contaminant, people live with almost everything they're doing monitored and controlled. The one thing they can look forward to is being chosen by lottery to go to an uncontaminated paradise called The Island.
Released in 2005, The Island is set fourteen years from then and showcases cloning technology. While this concept is possible in real life, cloning people so quickly and on such a large scale is not possible currently, let alone in 2019.
'Demolition Man' (1993)
John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) is a police officer with a reckless reputation that has granted him the nickname "The Demolition Man." After capturing a dangerous criminal but allegedly causing the death of 30 hostages, Spartan and the criminal are sentenced to prison in cryogenic freeze. When they are both woken up prematurely, they find a much different world than what they left behind.
The starting year in Demolition Man is 1996, just three years after the movie's release, and is also the year that humanity did not develop cryogenic technology. While the future the characters wake up in is still yet to come, the specific type of utopian society portrayed here is a little unrealistic.
'Timecop' (1994)
A police officer working for the Time Enforcement Commission spends his days catching criminals who mess around with time travel. When he uncovers a conspiracy orchestrated by a corrupt politician, he must stop it before the past is changed forever.
Although maybe not one of the best time travel movies, Timecop remains one of Jean-Claude Van Damme's more classic films. Unlike many other movies which try to predict the future, it initially takes place in the same year it was released in 1994. That said, humanity is not even close to developing time travel between the past and present, and even further from having a police force dedicated solely to that.
'Blade Runner' (1982)
In a futuristic dystopian society, highly advanced robots called replicants have been created that look no different from humans. When four replicants go rogue and start wreaking havoc around the city, a former police officer is brought in to track them down.
One of the most iconic movies to blend sci-fi and crime, 1982's Blade Runner, takes place in the then-far-off future of 2019. Many things seen in this movie are not realistic to how 2019 was. For instance, the film features flying cars, robots that look exactly like humans, and a Los Angeles where it constantly rains.
'Westworld' (1973)
In a world where androids are made almost indistinguishable from human beings, an adult amusement park is created using these robots as hosts. Here visitors can take an expensive vacation to one of three parks; Romanworld, Medievalworld and Westworld. In these parks, guests will find an authentic historical experience until the hosts begin acting independently.
Although you may be familiar with the Westworld series on HBO, the movie it's based on came out in 1973. In the original Westworld, the year is 1983, and many significant technological achievements have occurred. In the real world, however, even though androids exist, the level of sophistication and human likeness is still far away.
'2001: A Space Odyssey' (1995)
After finding a mysterious artifact on the moon in the form of a giant, black monolith, humanity endeavors to learn its origins. A small crew and their spaceship's artificial intelligence set off on a mission to Jupiter to answer that question.
As the title suggests, 2001: A Space Odyssey takes place in 2001 when humanity established a lunar base and achieved long-term interstellar travel. Since the movie was made just over a year before the Apollo 11 moon landing, people were already dreaming of going to the stars. However, humans haven't gone that far yet.
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'Back to the Future Part II' (1989)
Shortly after Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) returns from his trip into the past, Doctor Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) approaches him once again to ask for help. Along with his girlfriend and Doc Brown, Marty travels into the future of 2015 to prevent his son's incarceration.
As one of the more famous cinematic attempts to predict the future, Back to the Future Part II is a bit of a mixed bag. The movie predicted a few concepts correctly, such as Hollywood's obsession with sequels and 3D. By 2015, fans did not get "Jaws 19," nor hoverboards, flying cars or auto-fitting/auto-drying jackets exist. Nike did, however, come out with their power-lacing shoes.
'Futurama' (1999 – )
Matt Groening's beloved animated television series, Futurama, is set in the 31st century and chronicles the misadventures of a delivery guy called Philip J. Fry, who is accidentally cryogenically frozen and awakens 1,000 years in the future. Interplanetary travel, robotic technology and the consequences of global warming are among the futuristic technologies and societal issues depicted in the series.
Fans of the show know there's no shortage of times Futurama accurately predicted the future. From the use of smartwatches and virtual reality to more controversial topics like addictive interactive media and voluntary euthanasia, Fry and the gang have gone through it all.
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'Ex Machina' (2014)
Ex Machina is a stunning sci-fi psychological thriller A24 film directed by Alex Garland. The story revolves around the rookie programmer Caleb and a sophisticated humanoid robot called Ava, which was built by a zany wealthy inventor, Nathan.
The film explores concepts of consciousness, artificial intelligence and the blurring of human-machine boundaries. Its accurate portrayal of the future ethical and societal repercussions of developing AI technology can be seen today. Highly advanced AI like ChatGPT are inspiring discussions and debates about consciousness and intelligence, the notion that AI may influence people and the possible negative implications of building powerful AI, such as the loss of control or a potential revolt against humans. Thankfully, the jarring violence seen in the film hasn't happened in real life (at least not yet).
'Her' (2013)
Set in the near future, Her combines science fiction and romance to tell an intriguing tale of a heartbroken writer, Theodore Twombly, who falls in love with an advanced AI operating system, Samantha. Directed by Spike Jonze, the film dives deep into subjects such as love, grief and the nature of human relationships in the age of digitalization.
Her effectively comments on the growing use of technology in daily life and its effects on human interactions. Its core message about how individuals feel alone and unhappy in a more connected world is more relevant than ever before. Its more technical and accurate predictions include the adoption of wearable technology to engage with AI, such as earphones, and the trend toward minimalistic design in technology.
'Black Mirror' (2011 – )
Black Mirror is a legendary anthology series that needs no introduction. The show, created by Charlie Brooker, investigates the possible consequences of technological advancements and their negative effects on society. Each episode is a self-contained narrative with a varied cast and setting, yet they all share a similar theme of the impact of technology on humanity.
The series is known for its thought-provoking and often dark take on technology and the future. There are several Black Mirror episodes that are scarily accurate, with some of its real-life predictions including robotic dogs and bees, a social credit rating system, a robotic nanny and contact lenses with cameras. It's only a matter of time before fans get to see what other creepy forecasts the show has in store with the highly anticipated sixth season of Black Mirror.
'Minority Report' (2002)
Minority Report is a sci-fi action film set in 2054 that tells the story of John Anderton, the chief of a special police squad known as "Precrime," which exploits the powers of three psychics known as "precogs" to predict and prevent crimes before they happen. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the film tackles issues of free choice, fate and the ethics of leveraging new tech to detect and stop criminals.
While its central topic of predicting crime thankfully hasn't come true, it does manage to get several things right about the world people live in today. It accurately predicted the use of advanced biometric technology, virtual and augmented reality, advanced AI and automation, the prevalence of personalized advertising, the proliferation of large, interactive touch screens and other gesture-based interfaces and, most chillingly, the use of drones for surveillance and transportation.
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Police release e-fit of man they want to speak to after girl raped in an alleyway in Felmores
Essex Police urges anyone who might recognise the man to get in touch
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E-fit of man police want to speak to after reported rape in Basildon (Image: Essex Police)
Essex Police has released an e-fit of a man they want to speak to after a reported rape of a girl in an alleyway.
The incident is reported to have happened in March or April last year in Felmores, Basildon.
A man is alleged to have guided the girl into the alleyway, claiming it was a shortcut.
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She is currently being supported by specialist officers as enquiries continue.
The man is described as white, around 5ft 8in tall, slim, and with black hair.
He was wearing a black ring on his finger and is believed to be in his 20s.
Detective Inspector Kevin Hughes of our Serious Crime Directorate, who is leading the investigation, said: "This will understandably be alarming for the local community but please be assured that we have dedicated, specialist officers working hard to progress this investigation.
"Investigations of this kind are complex and lengthy, and our first priority is always to safeguard the victim and provide them with the support they need to speak with us when they're ready.
"Although it has now been some time since the alleged offence, we're hopeful that someone may recognise the man pictured or have information that can help us."
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Spain offers Madrid as host of December UN climate summit
by: ARITZ PARRA, Associated Press
Posted: Oct 31, 2019 / 11:39 AM CDT / Updated: Oct 31, 2019 / 12:35 PM CDT
Youngsters shout slogans during a small protest by Extinction Rebellion climate change activists outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
MADRID (AP) — Spain's interim leader has offered to have Madrid host an international U.N. climate conference next month that was originally scheduled to be held in riot-struck Chile.
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera on Wednesday canceled plans to host the Dec. 2-13 climate gathering, as well as a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders, to focus on restoring security in his country, where at least a dozen people have died.
A statement Thursday from Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's office said he offered the space because he understands why the Chilean government needs to prioritize its "national social agenda" and how pressed organizers of the COP25 meeting are, given the last-minute switch.
Sánchez, a Socialist, is trying to stay in power as Spain holds a general election on Nov. 10.
Spain said U.N. officials will consider Spain's proposal next week at their meeting in Bonn, Germany. It wasn't immediately clear on what scale the conference would be held if Madrid is chosen as an alternative. Last year's climate conference in Katowice, Poland, was attended by more than 20,000 people.
U.N. Climate Change Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa said Spain's offer would allow organizers to host the summit on its original timetable.
"It is encouraging to see countries working together in the spirit of multilateralism to address climate change, the biggest challenge facing this and future generations," Espinosa said.
Other options could be shifting the U.N. conference to a different month. Other possible host sites include major U.N. venues in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Bonn or Nairobi, Kenya.
The COP25 conference aims to work out some of the remaining unresolved rules for countries on climate efforts, smoothing the way for a bigger climate effort at the 2020 summit to encourage countries to increase commitments to cutting their climate-changing emissions.
Speaking Thursday in Santiago de Chile, Piñera called Sánchez's offer "generous" said it would allow climate experts to put together "all the progress that had been achieved."
Frank Jordans in Berlin and Eva Vergara in Santiago, Chile, contributed to this report.
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Iran's supreme leader blasts U.S. "clowns" in rare personal message amid a crisis
TEHRAN, Iran (CBS) — Iran's supreme leader took the unusual step of personally delivering a Friday sermon to his nation this week. The 80-year-old ayatollah took it upon himself to convey a vigorous defense of his military forces after they shot down a civilian plane, portray his country as united amid crisis, and rail against the Trump administration as "clowns" trying to deceive the Iranian people.
Khamenei struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight years. A handful of designated clerics usually deliver his Friday message for him. He has done so personally only a few times since he became supreme leader in 1989.


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Network: 05. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Title: Transitions to Higher Education During Austerity Times: Expectations and Challenges for Young People From Border Regions
The poster is addressing a small part of a larger research project about youth cultures and educational pathways in border regions of Portugal. Refers to data collected through a questionnaire (Silva, 2011) delivered in two different times, 2011 and 2015, in the beginning and after the most difficult times of austerity measures, that followed economic and financial crisis. Crisis affected young people from a large number of EU Member States, namely in what concerns to their expectations on education, employment and affected believes in education from socially disadvantaged populations, that were encouraged to invested in post secondary education.
The poster highlights geographic aspects related to less access to opportunities, namely to education and employment, and points out that challenges are maximized when we think about young people from border regions, at the same time rural and remote, willing to proceed to HE. Results shows that despite the crisis young people from those regions are still willing to proceed to HE, and highly considering the relevance of progressing their education, although they have to navigate additional constrains coming from the economic crisis.
Sofia Marques da Silva is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto and researcher at Centre for Research and Intervention in Education. She is the coordinator of the Project Young People and Education in Border Regions (JERF).
Ana Milheiro Silva had a research fellowship in the Project Young People and Education in Border Regions (JERF), and became recently a PhD student, continuing her research in the same project. She is member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto.
You can view the winning poster here.
The winner of the ECER 2023 Best Poster Award will receive a free entry to ECER 2024, Nicosia.


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Q: Min and Max are inversed in MySQL I don't know why I have this but when I try to get the min and the max I receive wrong response!
Here is the content for this date :

And here is my MySQL request :
SELECT min(`value`),max(`value`) FROM weather_data WHERE `date`="2015-10-22" AND `type`="temperature"

But the response of the MySQL request is this :

Do you have an idea of why I have this response?

A: Please note that you have a WHERE clause in your query. What your query actually does is selecting the line where the date is the mentioned date (1 row) and then selecting the max and min value from this row (the actual data)
The right query would look like this:

SELECT min(value),max(value) FROM weather_data WHERE type="temperature"

Please read the other posts regarding the datatypes too.

A: You have to change the data type from string to a numeric type: float or decimal.

A: It looks like value is represented as a string.  So, happily, min() and max() are working correctly.
If the values can be converted on your system, you can use:
SELECT min(`value` + 0), max(`value` + 0)
FROM weather_data
WHERE `date` = '2015-10-22' AND `type` = 'temperature';

The + will do silent conversion.  If the min and max both return 0, then the commas are not recognized, so replace them with periods:
SELECT min(replace(`value`, ',', '.') + 0), max(replace(`value`, ',', '.') + 0)
FROM weather_data
WHERE `date` = '2015-10-22' AND `type` = 'temperature';


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Sneak Peek: Hank Azaria Talks Baseball, Pumpkin Pie and Brockmire
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Hank Azaria, probably best known for voicing a variety of characters on The Simpsons and for his turn in The Birdcage as Agador Spartacus, the Guatemalan maid who had an adversity to shoes, is starring in Brockmire, a new series on IFC.
Brockmire follows Jim Brockmire, a down-and-out sportscaster who was on the verge of making it big when he had an on-air expletive-filled meltdown after catching his adulterous wife.
Brockmire is lured back into sportscasting by a comely owner (Amanda Peet) of a less-than-minor league baseball team.
Originating as a 2010 Funny or Die short with cameos by Joe Buck, Rich Eisner and other well-known sportscasters, Brockmire was first envisioned as a film, but eventually morphed into a television series that premiered April 5 at 10 p.m. ET on IFC.
I had the opportunity to sit down with Azaria (and his many voices) for a chat about the show.
Brockmire was originally a movie called Low and Outside. What happened to the movie?
We couldn't get it made as a movie and then had an idea to turn it into a cable show and thought it might be a better way to tell the story. There's a really strong narrative in the eight episodes but instead of being a slave and putting it into an hour and a half we could take our time to explore our character organically. I think the right thing ended up happening for this story and this character.
Who is your favorite character to voice?
Professor Frink on The Simpsons—I make myself laugh when I do it. I kind of enjoy doing it because it's just so ridiculous. My character from The Birdcage is also fun.
Did you ad-lib a lot in Brockmire or did you stick to the script? The tattoo line cracked me up!
That's written. Probably more than 90% was scripted by Joel Church-Cooper. I created this character a long time ago. I wrote the short with some friends of mine. Joel's taken over writing the character a few years ago and has done an unbelievable job. I couldn't come close—certainly from a narrative and a character development and dialogue point of view, even what comes out of the guy's mouth making jokes as Brockmire —Joel's the real deal.
Did you think The Simpsons would still be on after all this time?
Yes, I knew we'd last 30 years. No, of course not. When The Simpsons started you didn't even think Fox would last. It was a new network. It's astonishing. It might go beyond 30.
How did you get all these real sportscasters to come on board like Joe Buck? I thought he was hysterical in this series.
Joe did the short and he's been a fan of the character since then. He's a good guy. We put a bunch of feelers out and people responded.
I assuming you didn't go to Brent Musburger for permission. Did you go to him with that scene?
No, we figured he'd probably be seriously offended and we bypassed all that. (In Brockmire's voice)" Basically, all this is a big F-U to Brent Musburger. That's really the entire motivation of all this."
You obviously gravitate toward comedy but you also do drama like HBO's The Wizard of Lies. Do you prefer one over the other?
No, I really like being able to go back and forth. I guess if I only had to do one I'd probably do comedy just because it's a little bit of a merrier existence. I feel really fortunate I can do both.
Amanda Peet on Baseball, Brockmire, Nudity and Chemistry With Co-Stars
Who's your favorite band or musician? What's your favorite song?
I'm a classic rock guy. When I was growing up it was definitely Springsteen and I'd probably pick the song "Promised Land" but you know, in my old age – Led Zeppelin. "Ramble On" is a pretty tough song to top.
What book are you currently reading? Do you have an all-time favorite book?
I just finished the latest Lee Child "Jack Reacher," which was really awesome. I really love all those Robert B. Parker "Spenser" novels. Parker passed away but now Ace Atkins writes for him.
What's the worst thing you've ever eaten?
I hate fennel. I really hate fennel. I hate clove and I'm not a big nutmeg fan either. Often a pumpkin pie will really bum me out.
What's the best thing you've ever eaten?
New York pizza.
What's your favorite flavor of ice cream?
I'm a vanilla guy. You know what's really good that I've been doing lately? Ben & Jerry's Chubby Hubby.
What's your favorite sport?
Huge football fan.
Who's your favorite team?
Jets-Mets-Knicks.
Do you have a pet peeve?
There's so many! When you're in a line – it's that person in line that takes an unbelievable amount of time. What is wrong with that person!? That drives me insane.
What's your favorite travel destination?
Maui.
What was the last show you binged watched?
I'm in the middle of Vikings right now.
What's your favorite TV show of all time?
That's hard to pick. I have to go with Breaking Bad.
Is there a movie you can watch over and over again?
There are a lot of those but I'd go with Godfather I and II.
What's your go-to song to sing in the shower?
Probably Elvis Costello's "Radio Radio".
In what voice?
Doing my best Elvis Costello impression.
What's your go-to meal to cook for a romantic date/your wife?
Cold cereal. I really don't go that route. It's called the phone.
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Farrah Fawcett. Maybe Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman. I remember having a dream about Jaclyn Smith as a young man. I was of that Charlie's Angels era.
If you could have a superpower, what would it be?
I was just having this conversation with my son. I think I'd go with super strength. I would go the Hulk route.
Brockmire premiered April 5 at 10 p.m. ET on IFC. Enjoy an exclusive clip from this week's episode below.


So when I claim, as I recently have, that belief in the lordship of Jesus Christ obligates us to a position that honors the concept of limited government, I really am saying that everybody needs to get good with this. The Bible teaches it. So then, someone will say, "you are claiming that Jesus is a conservative"? Not really — given where He is, at the right hand of the Father, I really don't know how the label would attach. But I am willing to say that He wants you to be one.
Am I saying that Jesus wants us to be heartless money-grubbing, indiscrimnate carpet-bombing, nationalistic, crony-capitalists? Um, no. Not that. Jesus doesn't want anybody to be anything evil, and He doesn't want anybody to be somebody's evil caricature of anything either. Nobody has to do those.
But He does want us to take personal responsibility, honor the property of others, respect and follow the sexual ethic of Scripture, refrain from taking the blood of innocents, remember the poor with our own funds (as distinct from funds we stole from others), and respect the need for the civil magistrate to stay within his appointed bounds. Now, take those positions and bundle them all together. What do you call that? I call it a recognizable form of conservatism.


Now, video is starting to appear from last night's Glendale meeting and thanks to The Score, we have some fans who were pretty irate about the whole thing... one of them is Ronda Pearson aka - a Coyotes season ticket holder who let Glendale Mayor Jerry Weiers have it with both barrels.
Thank you so much for a tremendous show of support tonight. We will fight this aggressively, and hockey in AZ will survive!
But it does give an eyebrow-raise to the Scottsdale project.
A former NHL team owner would only speak on the condition of anonymity because he is in talks to buy a minority interest in another NHL club said that the NHL might direct the Coyotes owners to put the team up for sale, allowing new owners to start fresh negotiations with the city of Scottsdale, another suburb of Phoenix that is more affluent than Glendale.
The former NHL team owner said Scottsdale city staff might be enticed to help finance an arena if new team owners manage the relationship well, perhaps also promising to build a new practice facility in Scottsdale.
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A lifetime of inspirational locker room speeches has given Stephen Curry the preparation he needs for this moment: potty-training his daughter.
On the latest episode of his YouTube series "5 Minutes from Home," Curry revealed his strategy for potty-training his youngest daughter Ryan. While discussing how they try to be positive examples in the lives of their children, Curry's guest, rapper Nipsey Hussle, said he told his kids "you can live whatever your dream is."
"I'm trying to instill that confidence right now in potty training," Curry interjects. "'You can do anything you put your mind to, baby.'"
Today happens to be Ryan's third birthday. Big sister Riley has her birthday on July 19; she'll be turning six.
Curry also chatted his potential move to sports team ownership; back in December, Curry expressed interest in joining a group to purchase the Carolina Panthers, his favorite NFL team. Michael Rubin, the executive chairman of sports-apparel company Fanatics, and entertainment mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs were among the other interested parties.
"The moves are still ongoing," Curry said. "We're trying to figure something out."
"To be in this conversation [as a person of color] I think is something that is truly powerful," he added. "And hopefully can move the needle for the next time that this comes around."
The segment wraps up with a trip to Nepalese food truck MOMOlicious, where Curry and Nipsey partake in two plates of their fiery Momos.


This is a short video demonstrating placement of an iStent and then verification of it's proper position in Schlemm's canal using BSS. After placement of the iStent the microscope is repositioned and all the viscoelastic in the eye is removed. The eye is then softened a bit by burping fluid out of the anterior chamber to allow the perilimbal aqueous veins to dilate. The eye is then firmed up with BSS through a paracentesis and if the iStent is properly placed in Schlemm's canal the surgeon will see blanching of these vessels in the region where the stent is placed due to the flow through the stent into Schelmm's canal. Note the blanching here at 11:00 to 1:00 when the eye is firmed up with BSS after softening it first. Ike Ahmed has demonstrated that with proper placement of the iStent, Trypan blue can be injected into to the anterior chamber and subsequently can be visualized traversing into the aqueous veins in his excellent videos. This short video shows a technique that can be used on any patient using just BSS to verify proper placement and patency of the system.


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Q: Workflow for debugging PhoneGap using Safari's Web Inspector I'm developing a phone gap app and using Safari's Web Inspector to debug it. The tool is very useful but there are a couple workflow inefficiencies that are costing me some time.

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*Every time I stop my PhoneGap app in xCode the Safari Web Inspector window automatically closes leaving me with the task of re-opening it every time I make a change and re-launch the app.

*The only way I'm able to get a full read out in the console is by entering window.location.reload(). Again this adds a step to my work flow everytime I deploy a change in xCode.
Does anyone know how to set it up so that Safari Web Inspector stays open and the console automatically monitors the app?

A: To solve the reload issue, I add this in my head section when I'm debugging:
<script>
  alert('connect your debugger, if you want')
</script>

The alert stops all execution, meaning that I can (manually, ugh) connect my debugger and not miss anything. Execution resumes when I hit okay on the alert window.

A: I'm having the same issues. I haven't solved them yet, and I'm running out of time, so I'll show you what I've got so far:
Create an ActionScript that opens the web inspector:
https://gist.github.com/amuino/5649177 This works!
Have Xcode launch it! I tried creating a shell script that, in turn, opens the action script, but to no avail. This is what I've got:
How to run a script after Xcode runs codesign on my iPhone app?

A: Actually I found a way around this issue. It's not super elegant but it works.
At the entry point of my app I added some delay with setTimeout, like this:
setTimeout(function () {
    app.init();
}, 10000);

This will give you enough time (10 seconds) to reopen Safari Web Inspector and you will get full console read out.
It saved me a lot of headache.


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