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The corner of 21st and Folsom will never be the same
Posted May 2, 2011 at 12:27 pm by Allan Hough
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Without that big iconic awning full of big cartoon tortas.
The least these guys could've done is put up a more bulbous awning, with big cartoon Italian pastries on it.
UPDATE: Our pal Jacob L. just wrote in with another pressing concern re: this new awning:
Can we talk about the side of this awning on the 21st side? First of all, it says "Um ! !"…do they mean "Mmmmm!!", as in this is delicious…or are they puzzled about something? Also, I am pretty sure "trees leches" is not the type of cake they are going to specialize in there…tres leches possibly, but milk trees cake doesn't sound as good.
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Cranky Old Mission Guy says:
Wow! Illiterate in 3 languages at the same time!
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Illiterati?
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I noticed this too.. how did that escape everyones attention?
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This is down now…looks like it's going to be a bar or something called Juntos Bar
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'Run Tommy, run': Tom Brady celebrated a successful Week 13 win on Instagram
"The end zone is that way!"
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady charges onto the field before an NFL football game against the Minnesota Vikings, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Foxborough, Mass.	–AP Photo/Elise Amendola
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TB12 officially became TB1k Sunday night, reaching 1,000 career rushing yards during the Patriots' 24-10 win over the Minnesota Vikings and finally capping off his #TB1k progress tracker.
Brady posted a photo of himself and running back Sony Michel on Instagram following the game, paired with a rather long hashtag caption: "W #9And3LetsGetTo10And3LFGTB121k."
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The play that earned Brady the milestone was a 5-yard gain and prompted a minor celebration from the quarterback, both on the field and on Instagram.
"Run Tommy, run," Brady captioned the action shot, followed by a picture from immediately after the milestone play: "The end zone is that way!"
Now at 9-3, Brady and his Patriots will head down to Miami on Sunday to take on the Dolphins, who currently sit in second place in the AFC East, three games behind the first-place Patriots.
"Hopefully I don't go backwards next week," Brady said after the game. "So, yeah, it was good to get the win, you know?"
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Baghdad Whines as Islam Bridles in a Freed Iraq
By Tish Durkin • 04/28/03 12:00am
BAGDHAD, IRAQ, April 21-At the mosque, the war was all about Islam.
"I want to say that we hate America," said Ahid Alah, a 39-year-old mother of five who had turned up with the throng at the Abu Hanifa mosque in the Adhmya quarter of Baghdad and expressly elbowed her way to an American journalist. "We are without weapons, but in spite of that they come and enter our country and kill us."
The war had blown a great hole in the clock tower, the sight of which was making people weep. Abu Hanifa is a Sunni mosque, but it had been announced that at midday prayers on Friday, April 19, a celebrated Iraqi imam, Ahmed Al Kebisi, would come to make a call for unity between Shiite and Sunni Muslims. Long before 1 p.m., when the address was scheduled to begin, the scene was being set. Close to the gates of the mosque, great banners stenciled in Arabic and the occasional camera-conscious English phrase were being unfurled and hung, or taken up by the faithful:
"No Sunni, No Shia, all are Islam."
"Unity of Islam."
"America Take Your Weapons and Go."
"No no for America."
The women's section inside had long since been claimed by men, and so the women were gathering to hear the imam speak through loudspeakers from a square across the street. So, too, had many men, who were prostrating themselves barefoot on prayer mats on the warm pavement, as if completely glassed in from the fumes in the air and the fury of traffic that produced it.
The youngest of Ms. Alah's children, a 4-month-old girl who had a tiny pink face and a pink gingham ruffle ringing her tiny bottom, lay deep in sleep on her mother's shoulder.
"When you see a U.S. Marine," I asked the mother, "what goes through your mind?"
"I cross the street and ask God to take America out of Iraq," she replied. "Saddam is better than the U.S. He is our president."
"There are some people who hate the occupation so much," I ventured, "that they think that it is O.K. even to kill a Marine, with a gun or a grenade or a car bomb."
Ms. Alah did not hesitate.
"I would kill any Marines if I had the chance," she said, as if she were talking about hopping off to Paris for the weekend. "But since I have children, I can't."
It wasn't as if one felt the need to search for a new fragment in the vast and vastly varied rubble of Iraqi reaction to the American presence here, but Ms. Alah offered one. There are those Iraqis who openly despise the whole business; who stand outside the media-packed Palestine Hotel waving placards urging the instant end of the American occupation (and no one characterizes the present presence as anything else). There are those who positively insist upon their gratitude; even accounting, as one must, for the long history here of praising authority as a means of survival, these people are not to be discounted. (Provided with electricity, telephone service and the means to make some kind of living before their good will is betrayed, no question-but not discounted.) By far most numerous are those who watch and wait, and look over their shoulders for any lingering shadow of Saddam even as they peer into the pitch-black mystery of the future.
"I expected more joy over the regime being gone," a pleasingly tough-minded European consultant to a humanitarian organization told me. He has lived in Iraq off and on for over a decade-long enough to know where to find ice-cold beer and a generator in this land of flashlights and warm Pepsi, and how to hold off on grand pronouncements or predictions of any kind. "There's absolutely no jubilation …. Bottom line, [the Iraqi elites] think there is going to be a civil war and the Americans are not going to stick around." Ms. Alah represented yet another shard of the population: those who smolder, but prefer to cross the street and pray in silence.
Later, the imam's address and the march that followed it would be portrayed by some of the Western media as rabidly anti-American. At times, it looked and sounded that way. It did not, however, feel it. While anger was certainly present and accounted for, it was, at its most intense, anger of a highly specific and wholly understandable kind. It was anger about innocents killed and wounded, homes destroyed, jobs suspended, public order torched, services halted. The more ideologically based the anger, the less heat it gave off.
Even loosely translated, the imam's address amounted to a pretty standard litany of the Arab anti's.
Anti-Israel: "The only winner in this war was the Zionists."
Anti-America: "All the people know who made Saddam enter Iran, enter Kuwait. For the Americans, you supplied him with the weapons to fight in Iran and Kuwait."
Anti-foreigner: "Many Iraqi people tried to get rid of the regime, but the foreigners foiled these attempts …. "
Deeply though the anti's ran through the crowd, the pro's ran deeper.
Pro-Islamic solidarity: "Don't be Sunni, don't be Shia, be Islam."
In a hint at the Islamist empowerment that the Western invasion may very well (if very ironically) bring about, pro-imam: "The government must return to the imams in every point."
And most poignantly, pro-miracle: "Ibrahim, the prophet, they put him in the fire and God saved him. God asked the fire to be cold just to save Ibrahim. So the imam asks God to save the country."
I was hearing all this through my translator, a lovely, soft-spoken, 25-year-old woman who worked until the war as a secretary in a Turkish-owned company that may or may not be reopening its office in Baghdad. At this point, her eyeglasses misted up and she tried but failed to keep a small sob inside her. "He asks God to save Iraq."
A sentence or two later, the Marines showed up.
Even through the eyes of an American who has often marveled at the manners, fortitude and idealism of the Marines here, the sight of men in combat fatigues with weapons at a religious service, albeit a politically charged one, that was full of grieving Iraqis, was a very basic kind of terrible.
A number of men in the congregation went-not very aggressively-to confront the Marines. The women stayed behind, but sounded eager to give the military men a much harder time.
"This is a clean place …. How can they enter our place? … This place is for God." My translator was taking rapid hits of verbal fire from the circle of women around her and then firing them at me. "They say that they are like a devil."
At the abandoned food-distribution center in downtown Baghdad, the war was all about ghee.
Ghee, as described in the writing on the large, antifreeze-sized cans of it being looted as I happened by, is a vegetable oil suitable for cooking. As treated by the men, women and children high-tailing it to waiting cars, it is silver and gold put together. Also being heisted with similar desire were cases of Dielac infant formula; enormous burlap sacks of chickpeas, sugar and flour; huge, thick bars of Ghar Al-Ameen, a green soap in an incongruously dainty green-leaf-labeled box (I considered stealing some of that.) This inventory constituted one of the two least fathomable categories of looting that one comes across here. These include the looting of stuff that is so basic that people's desperation for it breaks the heart, or so crummy that people's desperation for it boggles the mind. Into the former category would fall the small boy, bouncing on the back of a large truck, gleefully clinging to a stolen septic tank. Into the second would fall the sight of an elderly woman, fully covered, struggling in defiance of death across an extremely busy highway with an extremely ugly metal office desk.
Weapons are always present at the scenes of these crimes, and shootings sometimes occur, particularly in the case of banks. But the daylight was so broad and the felony so frank that I felt perfectly safe to stand there with a notebook and pester selected felons: "Excuse me, sir, do you speak English?"
No one could, but everyone was so sweetly apologetic about their inability to communicate their means, motives and opportunities for committing crimes while they committed them, I might as well have caught them in the act of selling lemonade. For several minutes, in fact, I observed and took notes as a man piled a huge amount of plunder on a plastic pallet, suitable for use with a forklift, and then proceeded to try to make a land barge of it by tying two long plastic strings to the grid and pulling.
After a tug or two, the strings broke, but were still long enough, he figured, and tied them on again and pulled them again, with great patience. He tugged again, they broke again, he repeated the exercise several more times before giving up and, without undue haste, piling the sacks one by one on his shoulders and making several trips, like everyone else.
It isn't that the means, motives and opportunities for such a crime are hard to grasp: unguarded food warehouse plus chronically hungry people equals theft. The whys and wherefores of the Iraqis' trashing their own museums and libraries are harder to grasp-so hard, in fact, that the Iraqis themselves have come up with an explanation that hints at complications in other areas. The explanation is that it isn't Iraqis who are trashing anything at all; unless they are Iraqis who are the low-income, high-birth-rate, often-Shia kind, who are not held to be Iraqis. Instead, it's outsiders-perhaps Kuwaitis exacting revenge, or infiltrators trained by the U.S. in Bulgaria, or the Marines themselves, who are not infrequently accused of doing the thieving, or of opening the doors of precious places and waving the thieves in. (In some quarters, the Marines are also rumored to be giving children candy that contains whiskey and cigarettes that contain marijuana.) Whatever the particulars, the general theory seems to be that the U.S. has encouraged looting in order to make the Iraqis look like criminals, and the Americans, when they step in to quell it, like heroes.
When, a good half hour later, Pfc. Kyle Cowley, 26, arrived on the scene, he was not greeted as a hero-except, undoubtedly, by the excruciatingly bony donkey who, in the absence of American military intervention, would have been obliged to pull the enormous haul to which he was strapped somehow out of the mud in which he was stuck.
Otherwise, Private Cowley was not greeted as much of a villain, either. He was greeted more like a really spineless substitute teacher.
He confronted two looters: the one with the donkey, and one who had loaded up a large truck. At some distance, ("Run! Run!") but they seemed unfazed.
"Take it out! Take it out!" he commanded a looter on a truck, who-with a moxie one had to admire-tried several stalling tactics, such as indicating that the items were too heavy to carry back and negotiating, by hand gestures, to keep certain items, such as the soap, provided he returned the rest.
"If you are strong enough to steal it, you are strong enough to put it back," Private Cowley said. "Now put it all inside the fucking building."
Fascinatingly, while the man with the truck was being watched, the man with the donkey made not the slightest move to unload his booty, and closely eyed the otherwise-engaged Marine as he held onto his donkey's tether, as if he was going to make a trot for it. I am sure that he eventually gave in, but the last I saw him, he was still standing.
"They know we can't do anything but fire into the air," explained Lt. Keolagh Stokes, 29.
At the military checkpoint near the Al-Rasheed Hotel, where Al Haddad, 47, hopped out of a black Mercedes, flashing a smile and a U.S. passport, the war was all about love.
"Hey, guys," said Mr. Haddad, sidling up to the rings of barbed wire as if it were a wine bar. His accent was half-Iraqi, half-hillbilly, on account of his having lived in Iraq until the age of 15, at which point he moved to Tennessee.
"You guys are just doing a wonderful job," he gushed to the Army soldiers on duty, to the palpable nausea of a British photographer within earshot. "You need anything? If I had some Starbucks coffee, I would bring you some."
Not surprisingly, Mr. Haddad turned out to be a general contractor with aspirations to build outpatient clinics in the wealthier quarters of the new Baghdad. Quite surprisingly, he also turned out to be an incurable romantic-so incurable that he told the soldiers his story.
In 1999, he had brought his mother over to the U.S. for medical care, and then brought her home to Iraq. During the month that he stayed in Iraq, he found a "wonderful girl," and they decided to get married. Alas, the brother of his heart's desire was an official in Saddam Hussein's intelligence service, and feared that he might lose his job, if not his life, if his sister were to marry an American. Thus, the marriage was forbidden unless Mr. Haddad renounced his American citizenship, moved to Iraq and remained there for at least a year, only after which he would obtain an Iraqi passport. He refused and returned to the U.S., but kept in constant touch with his fiancée, to the tune of $3,000 a month in telephone bills. ("But she's worth more than that," he said.) Three years passed, and no way to unite was found.
Then, with war looming, Mr. Haddad headed for Iraq. Unable to enter legally, he got himself smuggled into northern Iraq and paid a taxi driver $250 to take him from the border to Baghdad amid the bombing. ("I said, 'If my girl is going to die, I am going to die with her.'") Still alive upon arrival in Baghdad, he found that his fiancée was, too-but her brother refused to let him take her away, even temporarily, for safety; war, schmar, she had a reputation to think about. But Mr. Haddad was undeterred. ("You can execute me," he told his would-be brother-in-law. "I am going to sit in front of your mother's house until you let me take her.") Sure enough, as the bombing continued, he sat for hours on the sidewalk in front of his fiancée's house, hoping to force her family into handing her over. Success eluded him, but a compromise did not: The family promised that as soon as Saddam was finished, they would let him marry her, provided that he went away until the war was over. Agreeing to this, Mr. Haddad drove to Syria amid more bombing, and then on to Amman, Jordan. The next day, Baghdad fell. ("I went to the bus terminal trying to get a bus to see my girl, but nobody would take me. I stayed in the bus terminal for three days.") Finally, Mr. Haddad caught a ride back to Baghdad. This time, he triumphed. "I have no objection, and I have no reason to object," his future brother-in-law told him.
On Thursday, April 24, Mr. Haddad gets the girl.
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The Chevy Spark Should Be Remembered For Its Excellent Colors
Other cars could learn a lesson from the Spark's vibrant palette.
By Tony Markovich | Updated Feb 3, 2022 11:00 AM
At a time when inflationary costs are the highest they've been in decades and cars are more expensive than ever, it's extremely disappointing to learn that the cheap Chevrolet Spark will no longer be available after this year. What's worse is that the Spark has one of the best color palettes of any non-performance vehicle on sale in America, and all cars, no matter the class or type, deserve The Good Colors.
The Spark's demise was first reported by CarsDirect this week. "The Spark is being produced through August 2022, then it will be phased out of Chevrolet's product lineup," a GM spokesperson confirmed to our sister site The Drive. "Customers seeking comfort, function and style at an approachable price still have strong options within Chevrolet's family of compact SUVs."
Strictly regarding vibrantly fun colors, the Spark is virtually unrivaled in the Chevrolet lineup. Only the Camaro and Corvette offer anything nearly as expansive and energetic (really, it's just the Corvette) in terms of color options. The Spark currently offers 10 exterior colors, including Silver Ice, Summit White, Mosaic Black, Crimson (dark red), Red Hot (bright red), Blue Glow (dark blue), Nightfall Gray, Cayenne Orange, Nitro Yellow, and Mystic Blue (light blue). That's not mentioning some of the excellent old colors that were previously offered, such as Passion Fruit, Raspberry, Jalapeno Green, Toasted Marshmallow, Caribbean Blue, Kalamata Olive, Lime Metallic, Grape Ice Metallic, and Lemonade.
In contrast, The Camaro offers two types of blue and two types of red but no yellow. The Chevrolet Blazer crossover is offered in yellow, but not in blue or orange. The lineup's other small hatchback, the Bolt EV, is offered in two types of blue, a red, then black, white, silver, and gray. Chevrolet's only sedan is the Malibu, and it's only offered in Silver Ice Metallic, Summit White, Mosaic Black Metallic, and Cherry Red Tintcoat. How boring.
Even Chevy's small crossovers that will essentially serve as bigger alternatives to the Spark, the Trax and the Trailblazer, are weak. The Trailblazer is offered in Vibrant Orange, but its blue and bronze colorways are dark and muted. The Trax might as well be called seasonal depression because its colors are an uninspiring collection of dark hues. It's true that consumers love to buy black, white, gray, and silver, but c'mon, they're not going to buy fun colors if they don't have the opportunity. By the way, where are the greens, Chevy?
Sports cars shouldn't be the only cars that get fun colors, and a consumer certainly shouldn't have to pay absurd amounts of money to have neon body colors like yellow, orange, blue, or pink. The day the last Spark rolls off the assembly line will indeed be a sad one for people who use cars to express themselves. And of course, losing a new car with a $14,595 base price moves the lowest-MSRP-car award over to Mitsubishi — the Mirage starts at $15,640.
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The Fall River is the largest of California's spring creeks, fed by several icy aquifers coming from the snows and glaciers of Mount Shasta.
It is the nation's largest spring system, creating a wonderland of crystal-clear, 50-degree rainbow trout habitat. At the same time it is both the finest spring creek fly fishing opportunity in California and one of the best in the United States. It is certainly the angling showpiece of the entire Shasta Cascade region and one of the richest spring fed rivers in the world.
Fall River itself is some fifteen miles long with an average depth of 7 feet of icy cold water, making it impossible to wade. The entire river bank, from where the headwaters bubble out of the ground to its confluence with the Tule River is privately owned, making public access along the river difficult even though the water itself is open to the public. Millionaires and savvy sportsmen have bought up every piece of river frontage creating exclusivity and privacy to be reckoned with. A notable lawsuit in 1971 declared the river navigable if you can get a boat in the water, and Cal Trout's limited access point near the Island Road Bridge does allow for some accessibility for small prams or other watercraft, though gas motors are not allowed through the Cal Trout Access.
Included in your guided angling package on the Fall River is 8-10 hours of guided fishing with lunch provided.
Fall River closes for fishing on the 15th of November and opens again the following April.
For the most part, Fall River is wide, slow moving, and it is the waters in the mid section of the river that provide the best fly fishing opportunities for both nymphing and dry fly action.
the fish and cast slack-line presentations downstream to the feeding trout.
Limited public access is only one of the many reasons that Fall River is so popular with spring creek fly fishermen. The valley that the river winds through is spectacular, with the visages of both Mt. Shasta and Mt. Lassen to the west and south. The river bank abounds with wildlife, as waterfowl, otter, muskrat, eagles, osprey, heron, and deer all make regular appearances during a typical fishing day. Nature lovers, bird watchers, duck hunters and wilderness-oriented fly fishers covet this exclusive California resource. Bing Cosby, Clint Eastwood, and Walton Powell have all navigated and savored this natural spring fed ribbon of glass-like waters. The wild rainbow trout in the river, however, are certainly the main attraction.
The fishing on Fall River is technical and demanding because of its gin-clear water and slow-moving currents, but with a skilled and properly equipped guide these incredible fish and the full length of Fall River become accessible to anglers of all skill-levels. This fantastic spring creek is located only an hour and a half east of Redding (75 miles) near the small (population 648) historic community of Fall River Mills.
Fall River Mills is approximately 75 miles east of Redding on California Highway 299. There are several wonderful places to stay while fishing Fall River, from motels to all inclusive lodging.
• Circle 7 Guest Ranch is located across the river from Bob Wilson's Riverside House near Island Bridge, offering accommodations, river access, and boats.
The Fall River is approximately 1 hour, 20 minutes northeast of The Fly Shop.
Most Fall River fishing trips will start by meeting your guide at 8:00 am either at Spinner Fall Lodge, Circle 7 Ranch, or at the Glenburn Church (corner of Glenburn Road and McArthur Rd in Fall River Mills), unless prior arrangements have been made.
From Redding: Travel East on Hwy 299E to Fall River Mills. Just after you pass the golf course on the West edge of town you will see County Road A20 (Glenburn Rd) heading North. Turn left (North) on A20 (Glenburn Rd) and travel 5.5 miles to a stop sign. Turn right and go 1/4 mile to the Glenburn Church.


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a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (German: Okenfuß) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and...
a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (German: Okenfuß) in Bohlsbach (now part of Offenburg), Ortenau, Baden, and studied natural history and medicine at the universities of Freiburg and Würzburg. He went on to the University of Göttingen, where he became a Privatdozent (unsalaried lecturer), and shortened his name to Oken. As Lorenz Oken, he published a small work entitled Grundriss der Naturphilosophie, der Theorie der Sinne, mit der darauf gegründeten Classification der Thiere (1802). This was the first of a series of works which established him as a leader of the movement of "Naturphilosophie" in Germany.
Hans Christian Orsted
aka: Ørsted
1777, Aug 14 1851, Mar 9
a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. He is still known today for Oersted's Law. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century. In 1825, Ørsted made a significant contribution to chemistr...
a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism. He is still known today for Oersted's Law. He shaped post-Kantian philosophy and advances in science throughout the late 19th century. In 1825, Ørsted made a significant contribution to chemistry by producing aluminium for the first time. While an aluminium-iron alloy had previously been developed by British scientist and inventor Humphry Davy, Ørsted was the first to isolate the element via a reduction of aluminium chloride.
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1527, Apr 14 1598, Jun 28
a Flemish/Netherlandish cartographer and geographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). One of the founders and the notable representatives of the Netherlandish school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries), he is also believed to be the first person ...
a Flemish/Netherlandish cartographer and geographer, conventionally recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). One of the founders and the notable representatives of the Netherlandish school of cartography in its golden age (the 16th and 17th centuries), he is also believed to be the first person to imagine that the continents were joined together before drifting to their present positions.
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Paul Reubens Reunites Pee-wee Herman and Friends for a Radio Show After Fans Call the Station
Glenn Garner
27 November 2021, 7:00 pm ·3-min read
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Pee-wee Herman is back!
Paul Reubens, the man behind the beloved 1980s children's TV show character, brought back Pee-wee and friends on Friday for The Pee-wee Herman Radio Hour on the Los Angeles radio station KCRW-FM (89.9).
He was joined by beloved Pee-wee's Playhouse characters Chairry, Magic Screen, Miss Yvonne and even the bully Randy, in addition to a surprise appearance from Jack White. The hour consisted of soul songs and cheesy jokes in his memorable Pee-wee voice.
RELATED: Paul Reubens and His Pee-wee Herman Character to Be Subject of Two-Part HBO Documentary
Pee-wee's turn as a DJ was the result of a social media campaign and a letter that got lost in the mail. The character's verified Twitter account called out KCRW earlier this month, after he sent them a piece of snail mail
"Hi @KCRW, did you get the letter I sent you? I really REALLY want to be a radio Disc Jockey. But I never heard back from you. #DJlife #DreamBig," he wrote in the tweet, sharing the letter. "This seems too good to be true...is this REALLY Pee-wee Herman?" KCRW responded, to which Pee-wee pointed out his blue checkmark.
Hi @KCRW, did you get the letter I sent you? I really REALLY want to be a radio Disc Jockey. But I never heard back from you. #DJlife #DreamBig pic.twitter.com/CBXPJMPEe1
— Pee-wee Herman (@peeweeherman) November 10, 2021
He followed it up with several persistent tweets, minutes apart, also leaving a voicemail with the radio station and encouraging his 2 million followers to do the same. KCRW eventually conceded to his demands after the overwhelming amount of calls.
"The name's Pee-wee. Pee-wee Herman. KCRW is making my dream of being a radio DJ come true!" Pee-wee said in a statement published by KCRW. "They're giving me a real-life radio studio where I'll be donning some cans to play some of my favorite tunes. We call 'em 'tracks' in the 'biz.' It'll be one awesome hour of crazy-good FUN!! Haha!!!"
KCRW told the Los Angeles Times that The Pee-wee Herman Radio Hour is a one-time show "for now," but the show is now available to stream on the station's website for the next week.
RELATED VIDEO: Fans on the Street Give Us Their Best Pee-Wee Herman Impressions
Reubens, 69, created Pee-wee Herman when he was a member of the Los Angeles-based improv comedy team the Groundlings in the '70s. The character took off when HBO aired his stage show The Pee-wee Herman Show in 1981, followed by the 1985 movie Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Pee-wee's Playhouse, which aired for five seasons from 1986 to 1990.
After retiring the character in the early '90s, Reubens has portrayed Pee-wee on several occasions over the years, including in the 2016 Netflix film Pee-wee's Big Holiday. "I never said, 'I don't want to be Pee-wee anymore.' I loved what I was doing," Reubens told PEOPLE in 2016. "But I needed a break."
Pee-wee and Reubens will next be the subject of a two-part HBO documentary from Josh and Benny Safdie, the brother filmmaking duo behind Good Times and Uncut Gems.
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Italy approves new package to curb energy bills, help COVID-hit firms
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Kleenex tissue maker Kimberly-Clark Corp. is being sued for more than $500 million for allegedly falsely claiming their surgical gowns protect against Ebola.
California law firm Eagan Avenatti filed the suit Wednesday saying Kimberly-Clark continued to claim the " Breathable High Performance Surgical Gown provided the highest protection, despite failing industry tests for protection against infectious diseases, including Ebola.
The law firm says millions of the gowns have been sold since 2011, putting health care workers and patients at "considerable risk," reports Reuters.
Eagan Avenatti is seeking a class-action lawsuit alleging fraud, false advertising, negligent misrepresentation and unfair business practices and is brought on behalf of lead plaintiff and surgeon Hrayr Shahinian and 500,000 others.
Kimberly-Clark has said it does not comment on ongoing litigation cases.


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Wait till your payment gets approved, you don't seem to be Hack User yet.
Is there the possibility to make the glow or esp in general only activate when I am able to see the playermodel, so it is not glowing through walls as an example.
You can change the alpha of the glow colors in your config file.
This way you can kind of enable a visible only.
Em qual lugar encontro para efetuar o pedido do hack e pagamento?
Diga englis o alemán preferido decir Inglés, nadie entiende español aquí.
is the cheat still for sell?
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Is the halloween update already covered by the cheat?
Please wait for an update.
Where can i find the hack status?
You can see it after you buy the hack.
Hack is updated and should work.
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The rapper's upcoming album now has a companion film.
Last week, Meek Mill shared details of his upcoming album Wins And Losses. On Monday, the Philly rapper shared the first chapter in a new film of the same name. In the clip we're introduced to a bloodied young man in a hospital trying to find a young woman who's giving birth as a wounded ghost watches. Meek shows up briefly to spit a few bars from a new song. Watch it above.


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One Year Later – Two Surveys Examine Impact of COVID-19
Published in RINewsToday on May24, 2021
Over the year the raging pandemic has impacted on the physical and mental health of Americans. With daily COVID case counts now the lowest since last year and hospitals seeing less coronavirus hospitalizations, most states, including Rhode Island, are now opening up.
According to the American Psychological Association's (APA) latest Stress in AmericaTM poll (findings released on March 11, 2021), the nation's health crisis is far from over. Just one year after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, many adults report increased negative behaviors, such as undesired changes to their weight and increased drinking, that may be related to their inability to cope with prolonged stress.
APA's survey of U.S. adults, conducted in late February 2021 by The Harris Poll, shows that a majority of adults (61 percent) experienced undesired weight changes—weight gain or loss—since the pandemic started, with 42 percent reporting they gained more weight than they intended. Of these individuals, they gained an average of 29 pounds (the median amount gained was 15 pounds) and 10 percent stated they gained more than 50 pounds, noted the poll's findings.
Gaining Weight Bad for Your Health
Weight changes come with significant health risks, including higher vulnerability to serious illness from COVID-19. According to the National Institute of Health, people who gain more than 11 pounds are at higher risk of developing Type II diabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease, and people who gain more than 24 pounds are at higher risk of developing ischemic stroke.
For the 18 percent of Americans who said they lost more weight than they wanted to, the average amount of weight lost was 26 pounds (median amount lost was 12 pounds). Adult respondents also reported unwanted changes in sleep patterns and increased alcohol consumption. Two in 3 (67 percent) said they have been sleeping more or less than desired since the pandemic started. Nearly 1 in 4 adults (or 23 percent) reported drinking more alcohol to cope with their stress.
"We've been concerned throughout this pandemic about the level of prolonged stress, exacerbated by the grief, trauma and isolation that Americans are experiencing. This survey reveals a secondary crisis that is likely to have persistent, serious mental and physical health consequences for years to come," said Arthur C. Evans Jr, PhD, APA's chief executive officer, in a March 21st statement announcing the results of the study's findings.
Evans calls on health and policy leaders to come together quickly to provide additional behavioral health supports as part of any national recovery plan.
The researchers found that the pandemic took a particularly heavy toll on parents of children under 18-years old. While slightly more than 3 in 10 adults (31 percent) reported their mental health has worsened compared with before the pandemic, nearly half of mothers who still have children home for remote learning (47 percent) say that their mental health has worsened; 30 percent of the fathers who still have children home said the same.
APA's study also found that parents were more likely than those without children to have received treatment from a mental health professional (32 percent vs. 12 percent) and to have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder since the coronavirus pandemic began (24 percent vs. 9 percent). More than half of fathers (55 percent) reported gaining weight, and nearly half (48 percent) said they are drinking more alcohol to cope with stress.
As to essential workers, (either persons working in health care or law enforcement), the majority said that they relied on a lot of unhealthy habits to get through the year-long pandemic. Nearly 3 in 10 (29 percent said their mental health has worsened, while 3 in 4 (75 percent) said they could have used more emotional support than they received since the pandemic began. Essential workers were more than twice as likely as adults who were not essential workers to have received treatment from a mental health professional (34 percent vs. 12 percent) and to have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder since the coronavirus pandemic started (25 percent vs. 9 percent).
Furthermore, people of color noted that unintended physical changes occurred during the pandemic. Hispanic adults were most likely to report undesired changes to sleep (78 percent Hispanic vs. 76 percent Black, 63 percent white and 61 percent Asian), physical activity levels (87 percent Hispanic vs. 84 percent Black, 81 percent Asian and 79 percent white) and weight (71 percent Hispanic vs. 64 percent Black, 58 percent white and 54 percent Asian) since the beginning of the pandemic.
Black Americans were most likely to report feelings of concern about the future, say the researchers, noting that more than half said they do not feel comfortable going back to living life like they used to before the pandemic (54 percent Black vs. 48 percent Hispanic, 45 percent Asian and 44 percent white). They also feel uneasy about adjusting to in-person interaction once the pandemic ends (57 percent Black vs. 51 percent Asian, 50 percent Hispanic and 47 percent white).
"It's clear that the pandemic is continuing to have a disproportionate effect on certain groups," said APA President Jennifer Kelly, PhD. "We must do more to support communities of color, essential workers and parents as they continue to cope with the demands of the pandemic and start to show the physical consequences of prolonged stress," says Kelly.
COVID-19's Impact on Seniors
A newly released AARP study, released on May 10, 2021, has found that more than a year into the coronavirus pandemic, most adults age 50 and older say that it has had a negative impact on their mental health. Researchers found that seven in 10 older adults reported an increase in sadness or depression due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and nearly 8 in 10 said they had increased concern about the future, worry or anxiety. Half of adults 50 and older reported feelings of anxiety in the last two weeks, and 56% noted difficulties falling asleep or staying asleep, say the study's findings.
"If you are feeling stressed and anxious after the last year, you are far from alone!" said Alison Bryant, Senior Vice President of Research at AARP in a statement announcing the survey results. "As our survey highlights, most older adults' mental health and wellbeing was affected by the pandemic—and some of the ways we coped might not have been great for our health, either. With many communities returning to normal, we hope older adults will consider taking steps to reclaim their health this spring and summer," she said.
Coping with the COVID-19 pandemic
According to the AARP study findings, seniors are responding to the increased stress in a variety of ways. About one in four of the respondents reported they are eating comfort foods or "unhealthy foods" like chips and candy more often than before the pandemic. And 27 percent of people 50 and over have increased the time they spend praying or meditating. One in 10 survey respondents reported seeking mental health care in the last year, a third of whom did so specifically because of the pandemic. Overall, 15 percent of older adults said that experiencing the pandemic made them more likely to seek help from a mental health provider if they had concerns.
AARP's survey also highlighted how the pandemic increased loneliness and isolation among those age 50 and over. Among older adults, 58 percent reported feeling increased loneliness, and 62 percent were less likely to socialize with friends and family compared to before the pandemic.
May 24, 2021 by Herb Weiss	Categories: Health & Wellness	| Tags: AARP, AARP Rhode Island, Alison Bryant, American Psychological Association, APA, Arthur C. Evans, coronary heart diseae, coronavirus hospitalizations, COVID-19, essential workers, Jennifer Kelly, law enforcement, mental health professional, PhD, Stress in America, The Harris Poll, Type II diabetes mellitus, World Health Organization | Leave a comment
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Sometime back HTC has launched a smartphone, the J Butteryfly in Japan and now the same smartphone with changed name has been launched for south-asian market, the HTC Butterfly 2. The smartphone has been announced in an event held in Tokyo.
As per design it follows the same design language which we had seen in its flagship phone, HTC One (M8), it has a polycarbonate body at back and glass in front.
If we talk about specs then the HTC Butterfly 2 comes with a 5-inch full HD 1080p display screen, under the hood its powered by a Snapdragon 801 quad-core processor clocked at 2.5GHz along with 2GB of RAM. HTC Butterfly 2 comes in two variant of 16GB and 32GB, it do support microSD card slot so that you can expand memory up to 128GB.
HTC Butterfly 2 is only the second smartphone after the HTC One (M8) which features Duo Camera at the back, this one comes with a 13-megapixel primary camera rather than the UltraPixel camera along with dual LED flash, a smaller camera at the top is there which helps to focus on other objects in the frame. At front you will have a 5-megapixel wide-angle camera.
For connectivity it has 4G LTE (supports Indian networks too), WiFi, Bluetooth. As per software front, the Butterfly 2 runs on Android 4.4.2 KitKat on top of HTC's Sense 6.0 UI.It houses a 2,700mAh battery, which can provide 23.9 hours of talktime and 643 hours on standby mode which is good. It also features Power Saving Mode, in which it will shut down apps leaving very essential app and it can extend battery life up to two weeks.
HTC Butterfly 2 is IP57 certified, which means it is resistant to water and dust, but what's interesting is that unlike other IP57-certified devices, HTC Butterfly 2 doesn't has any flap over its ports, company has left them open. Internally HTC has given "short circuit protection" which makes them resistant to water.
It will be available from September 2 in Taiwan, and thereafter it will be rolled-out to Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. It will be available in white (will have matte finish at back), red and blue (will have glossy finish).


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Bradley Manning's Voice
Freedom of the Press Foundation Publishes Leaked Audio of Bradley Manning's Statement
Trevor Timm
Rainey Reitman
Today, Freedom of the Press Foundation is publishing the full, previously unreleased audio recording of Private First Class Bradley Manning's speech to the military court in Ft. Meade about his motivations for leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. In addition, we have published highlights from Manning's statement to the court.
While unofficial transcripts of this statement are available, this marks the first time the American public has heard the actual voice of Manning.
Bradley Manning's Full Statement
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He explains to the military court in his own cadence and words how and why he gave the Apache helicopter video, Afghanistan and Iraq Wars Logs, and the State Department Diplomatic Cables to WikiLeaks. Manning explains his motives, noting how he believed the documents showed deep wrongdoing by the government and how he hoped that the release would "spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan." In conjunction with the statement, Private First Class Manning also pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him.
Freedom of the Press Foundation is dedicated to supporting journalism that combats overreaching government secrecy. We have been disturbed that Manning's pre-trial hearings have been hampered by the kind of extreme government secrecy that his releases to WikiLeaks were intended to protest. While reporters are allowed in the courtroom, no audio or visual recordings are permitted by the judge, no transcripts of the proceedings or any motions by the prosecution have been released, and lengthy court orders read on the stand by the judge have not been published for public review.
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A group of journalists, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), has been engaged in a legal battle to force the court to be more open. While the government has belatedly released a small portion of documents related to the case, many of the most important orders have been withheld—such as the orders relating to the speedy trial proceedings or the order related to Manning's prolonged solitary confinement.
Michael Ratner, president emeritus of CCR, called the government "utterly unresponsive to what is a core First Amendment principle." Ratner noted this is a public trial, the information being presented is not classified, and that contemporaneous access to information about the trial is necessary to understanding the proceedings. Nonetheless, the lawsuit has been tied up in the appeals court for months.
Freedom of the Press Foundation's mission is to support and defend cutting-edge transparency journalism by supporting those organizations that publish leaks in the public interest. We often report on news surrounding government secrecy, educating the public about the important relationship between leaking and independent journalism. When we received this recording, we realized we had a unique opportunity to bring some small measure of transparency directly by allowing the world to hear for itself the voice of someone who took a controversial and important stance for government transparency.
We hope this recording will shed light on one of the most secret court trials in recent history, in which the government is putting on trial a concerned government employee whose only stated goal was to bring attention to what he viewed as serious governmental misconduct and criminal activity. We hope to prompt additional analysis of these proceedings by other journalistic institutions and the public at large. While we are not equipped (technically or as a matter of human resources) to receive leaked information nor do we plan on receiving them in the future, we are proud to publish and analyze this particular recording because it is so clearly matches our mission of supporting transparency journalism.
The information provided by Manning has uncovered stories of wrongdoing by the United States, as well as by leaders and politicians around the world. The cables were reportedly one of the catalysts that led to the Arab Spring and sped up the end of the Iraq War. To this day, more than two years after their release, the information provided by Manning is used every day by journalists and historians in major publications are the world to enlighten and inform the public, both in the United States and around the world. In a time when the extent and reach of U.S. government secrecy is unprecedented, and there are credible reports that the government has abused its secrecy and classification systems to cover up numerous illegal and unconstitutional activities, Manning's actions should be seen as an overdue sliver of sunlight into an overly secret system rather than as a basis for a prosecution seeking decades of imprisonment.
By releasing this audio recording, we wish to make sure that the voice of this generation's most prolific whistleblower can be heard—literally—by the world.
Regardless of whether one believes that Manning's acts were right or wrong or a mix of both, he has taken responsibility for them by pleading guilty to ten charges, for which he faces up to twenty years in prison. The government however, is continuing to pursue all of the charges against him, including charges under the Espionage Act and "aiding the enemy" —which could have huge consequences for press freedom and the First Amendment. The ACLU has expressed concern that this "aiding the enemy" charge could criminalize speech for all sorts of active military members, noting that "In its zeal to throw the book at Manning, the government has so overreached that its 'success' would turn thousands of loyal soldiers into criminals."
And Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler has argued that this prosecution could decimate national security journalism by outlawing whole categories of journalist-source relationships in the future: "[T]he prosecutors seem bent on using this case to push a novel and aggressive interpretation of the law that would arm the government with a much bigger stick to prosecute vaguely-defined national security leaks, a big stick that could threaten not just members of the military, but civilians too."
Extreme secrecy in our courts, just like in our government's policies and our politics, is an anathema to democracy. Whether military or civilian, this type of closed-door legal process impairs the public's right-to-know and journalists' ability to report on matters of deep public concern. The courtrooms of America should be open to the public, so they can see and hear what is being done in their name.
Please spread his words as far as you can: on your blog, in your videos, on Twitter and on Facebook.
Scroll down to listen to and share excerpts from Manning's full statement that may be of particular public interest. Transcript courtesy Alexa O'Brien.
Excerpt 1: Motive in releasing war logs
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During this time a blizzard bombarded the mid-atlantic, and I spent a significant period of time essentially stuck in my aunt's house in Maryland. I began to think about what I knew and the information I still had in my possession. For me, the SigActs represented the on the ground reality of both the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I felt that we were risking so much for people that seemed unwilling to cooperate with us, leading to frustration and anger on both sides. I began to become depressed with the situation that we found ourselves increasingly mired in year after year. The SigActs documented this in great detail and provide a context of what we were seeing on the ground.
In attempting to conduct counter-terrorism or CT and counter-insurgency COIN operations we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and not being suspicious of and avoiding cooperation with our Host Nation partners, and ignoring the second and third order effects of accomplishing short-term goals and missions. I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as [missed word] as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Excerpt 2: Contacting media outlets
At my aunt's house I debated what I should do with the SigActs—in particular whether I should hold on to them—or expose them through a press agency. At this point I decided that it made sense to try to expose the SigAct tables to an American newspaper. I first called my local news paper, The Washington Post, and spoke with a woman saying that she was a reporter. I asked her if the Washington Post would be interested in receiving information that would have enormous value to the American public.
Although we spoke for about five minutes concerning the general nature of what I possessed, I do not believe she took me seriously. She informed me that the Washington Post would possibly be interested, but that such decisions were made only after seeing the information I was referring to and after consideration by senior editors.
I then decided to contact [missed word] the most popular newspaper, The New York Times. I called the public editor number on The New York Times website. The phone rang and was answered by a machine. I went through the menu to the section for news tips. I was routed to an answering machine. I left a message stating I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I believed was very important. However, despite leaving my Skype phone number and personal email address, I never received a reply from The New York Times.
I also briefly considered dropping into the office for the Political Commentary blog, Politico, however the weather conditions during my leave hampered my efforts to travel. After these failed efforts I had ultimately decided to submit the materials to the WLO. I was not sure if the WLO would actually publish these SigAct tables [missed a few words]. I was concerned that they might not be noticed by the American media. However, based upon what I read about the WLO through my research described above, this seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information to the world within my reach.
Excerpt 3: Using Tor to submit documents to Wikileaks
On 3 February 2010, I visited the WLO website on my computer and clicked on the submit documents link. Next I found the submit your information online link and elected to submit the SigActs via the onion router or Tor anonymizing network by special link. Tor is a system intended to provide anonymity online. The software routes internet traffic through a network of servers and other Tor clients in order to conceal the user's location and identity.
I was familiar with Tor and had it previously installed on a computer to anonymously monitor the social media website of militia groups operating within central Iraq. I followed the prompts and attached the compressed data files of CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A SigActs. I attached a text file I drafted while preparing to provide the documents to the Washington Post. It provided rough guidelines saying: "It's already been sanitized of any source identifying information. You might need to sit on this information – perhaps 90 to 100 days to figure out how best to release such a large amount of data and to protect its source. This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day."
Excerpt 4: Manning's reaction when he found the Apache helicopter video
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During the mid-February 2010 time frame the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division targeting analysts, then Specialist Jihrleah W. Showman discussed a video that Ms. Showman had found on the T-drive.
The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an aerial weapons team. At first I did not consider the video very special, as I have viewed countless other war porn type videos depicting combat. However, the recording of audio comments by the aerial weapons team crew and the second engagement in the video of an unarmed bongo truck troubled me.
As Showman and a few other analysts and officers in the T-SCIF commented on the video and debated whether the crew violated the rules of engagement or ROE in the second engagement, I shied away from this debate, instead conducting some research on the event. I wanted to learn what happened and whether there was any background to the events of the day that the event occurred, 12 July 2007.
Using Google I searched for the event by its date by its general location. I found several new accounts involving two Reuters employees who were killed during the aerial weapon team engagement. Another story explained that Reuters had requested for a copy of the video under the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA. Reuters wanted to view the video in order to understand what had happened and to improve their safety practices in combat zones. A spokesperson for Reuters was quoted saying that the video might help avoid the reoccurrence of the tragedy and believed there was a compelling need for the immediate release of the video.
Despite the submission of the FOIA request, the news account explained that CENTCOM replied to Reuters stating that they could not give a time frame for considering a FOIA request and that the video might no longer exist. Another story I found written a year later said that even though Reuters was still pursuing their request. They still did not receive a formal response or written determination in accordance with FOIA.
The fact neither CENTCOM or Multi National Forces Iraq or MNF-I would not voluntarily release the video troubled me further. It was clear to me that the event happened because the aerial weapons team mistakenly identified Reuters employees as a potential threat and that the people in the bongo truck were merely attempting to assist the wounded. The people in the van were not a threat but merely "good samaritans". The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.
The dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote "dead bastards" unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass.
While saddened by the aerial weapons team crew's lack of concern about human life, I was disturbed by the response of the discovery of injured children at the scene. In the video, you can see that the bongo truck driving up to assist the wounded individual. In response the aerial weapons team crew – as soon as the individuals are a threat, they repeatedly request for authorization to fire on the bongo truck and once granted they engage the vehicle at least six times.
Shortly after the second engagement, a mechanized infantry unit arrives at the scene. Within minutes, the aerial weapons team crew learns that children were in the van and despite the injuries the crew exhibits no remorse. Instead, they downplay the significance of their actions, saying quote "Well, it's their fault for bringing their kids into a battle" unquote.
The aerial weapons team crew members sound like they lack sympathy for the children or the parents. Later in a particularly disturbing manner, the aerial weapons team verbalizes enjoyment at the sight of one of the ground vehicles driving over a body – or one of the bodies. As I continued my research, I found an article discussing the book, The Good Soldiers, written by Washington Post writer David Finkel.
In Mr. Finkel book, he writes about the aerial weapons team attack. As, I read an online excerpt in Google Books, I followed Mr. Finkel's account of the event belonging to the video. I quickly realize that Mr. Finkel was quoting, I feel in verbatim, the audio communications of the aerial weapons team crew.
It is clear to me that Mr. Finkel obtained access and a copy of the video during his tenue as an embedded journalist. I was aghast at Mr. Finkel's portrayal of the incident. Reading his account, one would believe the engagement was somehow justified as "payback" for an earlier attack that lead to the death of a soldier. Mr. Finkel ends his account by discussing how a soldier finds an individual still alive from the attack. He writes that the soldier finds him and sees him gesture with his two forefingers together, a common method in the Middle East to communicate that they are friendly. However, instead of assisting him, the soldier makes an obscene gesture extending his middle finger.
The individual apparently dies shortly thereafter. Reading this, I can only think of how this person was simply trying to help others, and then he quickly finds he needs help as well. To make matter worse, in the last moments of his life, he continues to express his friendly gesture – only to find himself receiving this well known gesture of unfriendliness. For me it's all a big mess, and I am left wondering what these things mean, and how it all fits together. It burdens me emotionally.
I saved a copy of the video on my workstation. I searched for and found the rules of engagement, the rules of engagement annexes, and a flow chart from the 2007 time period – as well as an unclassified Rules of Engagement smart card from 2006. On 15 February 2010 I burned these documents onto a CD-RW, the same time I burned the 10 Reykjavik 13 cable onto a CD-RW. At the time, I placed the video and rules for engagement information onto my personal laptop in my CHU. I planned to keep this information there until I redeployed in Summer 2010. I planned on providing this to the Reuters office in London to assist them in preventing events such as this in the future.
However, after the WLO published 10 Reykjavik 13 I altered my plans. I decided to provide the video and the rules of engagement to them so that Reuters would have this information before I re-deployed from Iraq. On about 21 February 2010, I described above, I used the WLO submission form and uploaded the documents. The WLO released the video on 5 April 2010. After the release, I was concern about the impact of the video and how it would been received by the general public.
I hoped that the public would be as alarmed as me about the conduct of the aerial weapons team crew members. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare. After the release I was encouraged by the response in the media and general public, who observed the aerial weapons team video. As I hoped, others were just as troubled – if not more troubled that me by what they saw.
Excerpt 5: On reporting that Iraqi detainees did nothing wrong
On 27 February 2010, a report was received from a subordinate battalion. The report described an event in which the Federal Police or FP detained 15 individuals for printing anti-Iraqi literature. On 2 March 2010, I received instructions from an S3 section officer in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Tactical Operation Center or TOC to investigate the matter, and figure out who the quote "bad guys" unquote were and how significant this event was for the Federal Police.
Over the course of my research I found that none of the individuals had previous ties to anti-Iraqi actions or suspected terrorist militia groups. A few hours later, I received several [playlist?] from the scene – from this subordinate battalion. They were accidentally sent to an officer on a different team on the S2 section and she forwarded them to me.
These photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself. I printed up one [missed word] copy of a high resolution photo – I laminated it for ease of use and transfer. I then walked to the TOC and delivered the laminated copy to our category two interpreter.
She reviewed the information and about a half and hour later delivered a rough written transcript in English to the S2 section. I read the transcript and followed up with her, asking her for her take on the content. She said it was easy for her to transcribe verbatim, since I blew up the photograph and laminated it. She said the general nature of the document was benign. The document, as I had sensed as well, was merely a scholarly critique of the then current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
It detailed corruption within the cabinet of al-Maliki's government and the financial impact of his corruption on the Iraqi people. After discovering this discrepancy between the Federal Police's report and the interpreter's transcript, I forwarded this discovery to the top OIC and the battle NCOIC. The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed me that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore. They told me to quote "drop it" unquote and to just assist them and the Federal Police in finding out, where more of these print shops creating quote "anti-Iraqi literature" unquote.
I couldn't believe what I heard and I returned to the T-SCIF and complained to the other analysts and my section NCOIC about what happened. Some were sympathetic, but no one wanted to do anything about it.
I am the type of person who likes to know how things work. And, as an analyst, this means I always want to figure out the truth. Unlike other analysts in my section or other sections within the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, I was not satisfied with just scratching the surface and producing canned or cookie cutter assessments. I wanted to know why something was the way it was, and what we could to correct or mitigate a situation.
I knew that if I continued to assist the Baghdad Federal Police in identifying the political opponents of Prime Minister al-Maliki, those people would be arrested and in the custody of the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police and very likely tortured and not seen again for a very long time – if ever.
Instead of assisting the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police, I decided to take the information and expose it to the WLO, in the hope that before the upcoming 7 March 2010 election, they could generate some immediate press on the issue and prevent this unit of the Federal Police from continuing to crack down in political opponents of al-Maliki.
Excerpt 6: Motives in releasing cables
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I read more of the diplomatic cables published on the Department of State Net Centric Diplomacy. With my insatiable curiosity and interest in geopolitics I became fascinated with them. I read not only the cables on Iraq, but also about countries and events that I found interesting
The more I read, the more I was fascinated with the way that we dealt with other nations and organizations. I also began to think the documented backdoor deals and seemingly criminal activity that didn't seem characteristic of the de facto leader of the free world.
Excerpt 7: Assessing sensitivity diplomatic cables
Up to this point,during the deployment, I had issues I struggled with and difficulty at work. Of the documents release, the cables were the only one I was not absolutely certain couldn't harm the United States. I conducted research on the cables published on the Net Centric Diplomacy, as well as how Department of State cables worked in general.
In particular, I wanted to know how each cable was published on SIRPnet via the Net Centric Diplomacy. As part of my open source research, I found a document published by the Department of State on its official website.
The document provided guidance on caption markings for individual cables and handling instructions for their distribution. I quickly learned the caption markings clearly detailed the sensitivity of the Department of State cables. For example, NODIS or No Distribution was used for messages at the highest sensitivity and were only distributed to the authorized recipients.
The SIPDIS or SIPRnet distribution caption was applied only to recording of other information messages that were deemed appropriate for a release for a wide number of individuals. According to the Department of State guidance for a cable to have the SIPDIS [missed word] caption, it could not include other captions that were intended to limit distribution.
The SIPDIS caption was only for information that could only be shared with anyone with access to SIPRnet. I was aware that thousands of military personel, DoD, Department of State, and other civilian agencies had easy access to the tables. The fact that the SIPDIS caption was only for wide distribution made sense to me, given that the vast majority of the Net Centric Diplomacy Cables were not classified.
The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other.
I thought these cables were a prime example of a need for a more open diplomacy. Given all of the Department of State cables that I read, the fact that most of the cables were unclassified, and that all the cables have a SIPDIS caption.
I believe that the public release of these cables would not damage the United States, however, I did believe that the cables might be embarrassing, since they represented very honest opinions and statements behind the backs of other nations and organizations.
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"The U.S. Army Military District of Washington has notified the military judge presiding over the United States vs. Pfc. Bradley Manning court martial that there was a violation of the rules for court. The U.S. Army is currently reviewing the procedures set in place to safeguard the security and integrity of the legal proceedings, and ensure Pfc. Manning receives a fair and impartial trial."
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Twitter's new six-second-video app is being used to market events and trade-show booths and to interact with attendees. But how much can you accomplish in a matter of seconds?
Launched in January, Vine allows users to film short, looping clips of non-sequential video footage, with a maximum of six seconds per post. It' s not ideal if you want to film a substantive interview with someone, or if you want to get across any message that requires more than a six-second explanation. However, meeting professionals are finding it a fun way to connect with their attendees.
Six seconds, on the other hand, can prove to be too limiting for some uses, said Liz King, founder of New York City–based Liz King Events. Vine is not her "favorite tool," she said, not only because of its brevity but also because of its looping feature.


text:
Q: Yii2 Controller Firing Twice / Depending on browser The controller/action is firing twice in some/most browsers.
Yii2
Firefox 91.0 (64-bit)
First test, keep dev console closed.
SiteController
public function actionTest()
{
    $path = \Yii::getAlias('@console') . '/runtime/';
    $n = 'A__' . self::random_uppercase(2);
    file_put_contents($path . $n . '.txt', time());

    return $this->render('test'); // Blank page is fine
}

private function random_uppercase($n = 1)
{
    $out = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $n; $i++) {
        $out .= chr(rand(65, 90));
    }

    return $out;
}

Run page in Firefox
console/runtime
> A__KW.txt

(delete file)
Open developer console and refresh the page
console/runtime
> A__XY.txt
> A__JU.txt

Action fires twice.

Chrome
-- Version 92.0.4515.159 (Official Build) (64-bit)
It happen regardless if the dev console is open or not.
Action fires twice.

Opera
-- Version:78.0.4093.147
It happen regardless if the dev console is open or not.
Action fires twice.

Can anyone reproduce the results?
I tried this on a couple of my sites and the results where the same for me.
Has anyone found a way to limit to only one call?
It's messing up my $_SESSION values
Help is appreciated, thanks.

A: Hopefully this will help others.
It's subtle so if you are not looking for it probably goes unnoticed.
( at least on my sites )
The first call is from the page/action (/?r=site/test)
This routes correctly.
The second one is from actionIndex in that controller.
The fix for me is to not use actionIndex and then no further action happens.
.
I had the test code snippet in actionIndex so it was not being noticed until I changed the file names. Then I could see that it was page route and then index.
If this is not clear enough, post your question and I will try and answer it.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Q: How to aggregate based on other rows that share a key? I have a table in the following format:

I feel like this should be simple but I'm struggling to come up with a performant query that can perform aggregations based on other rows with a shared key. For example, I want to sum the rows for a user with the key MediaLength but only if the rows with the key Score that share the event_id are greater than or equal to 3.
The result from a simple sum:
SELECT SUM(value::float) FROM data WHERE key = 'MediaLength' AND user_id = '9765f312-0d0b-4db0-b4c5-217eec81d7c3'
Result: 40
The result I am trying to achieve here is 15. In the table above you can see the rows are children of an event. I only want to sum the value column where key = 'MediaLength' and its sister row with key = 'Score' has value >= 3.
This is the query I have tried so far but it seems a bit messy and also doesn't work due to a more than one row returned by subquery error:
select
    sum(value::float)
        filter (where (
            select d.value::float
            from data d
            where d.event_id = event_id
            and d.key = 'Score'
        ) >= 3)
from data
where user_id = '9765f312-0d0b-4db0-b4c5-217eec81d7c3'

This is a simple example but in the future I would need to filter on potentially multiple other keys as well, so any advice on how to extend that is also hugely appreciated.

A:
I only want to sum the value column where key = 'MediaLength' and its sister row with key = 'Score' has value >= 3.

SELECT sum(value::float)  -- why the cast?
FROM   data d
WHERE  user_id = '9765f312-0d0b-4db0-b4c5-217eec81d7c3'
AND    key = 'MediaLength'
AND    EXISTS (
   SELECT FROM data ds
   WHERE  ds.event_id = d.event_id
   AND    ds.user_id = d.user_id    -- !
   AND    ds.key = 'Score'
   AND    ds.value >= 3
   );

Here, rows with key = 'MediaLength' qualify if any sister passes the filter. (There may be more sisters failing the test.)
If there can only ever be a single qualifying sister row (enforced by a unique constraint / index?), a self-join is a bit simpler:
SELECT sum(value::float)
FROM   data d
JOIN   data ds USING (event_id, user_id)
WHERE  d.user_id = '9765f312-0d0b-4db0-b4c5-217eec81d7c3'
AND    d.key = 'MediaLength'
AND    ds.key = 'Score'
AND    ds.value >= 3;

The self-join would produce multiple result rows for multiple qualifying sister rows.
At its core, this can be cast as relational-division problem. Especially, since ...

in the future I would need to filter on potentially multiple other keys as well

See:

*

*How to filter SQL results in a has-many-through relation


Ford's most important vehicle not named F-150 gets revealed tonight.
The hints about it have been flying for months, but the day for the 2020 Ford Explorer reveal is finally here. Tonight at an event at Ford Field, Ford will take the wraps off the most important vehicle in their lineup not named F-150.
As far as powertrains go, we are expecting the new 10-speed automatic also found in the Ford Ranger and a carry-over of the 2.3-liter turbo with a slight boost in power as it makes the transition from FWD to RWD. We're also expecting a V6 or two. We do know that a hybrid version could be offered as such a powertrain will be available in the Police Interceptor and is also finding its way into the Lincoln Aviator.
Ford will be live-streaming the reveal event starting at 7pm Eastern time at the following link - https://streamworks.media/AllNewFordExplorer/ Tune in then and see if you can spot me in the audience.
You can also follow @CheersnGears on Twitter or @CheersandGears on Instagram as I will be posting photos from the event.
Entirely predictable and that's ok because it will cause no ripples in the showroom.
It's proportions have started to venture into the wagony side a bit, it's losing some of the butch, going a bit soft and feminine. But it isn't anywhere near going full wuss like the 2020 Escape.
Looks good inside and out...familiar yet new. Interesting to see the portrait mode screen. Towing numbers seem low.