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package com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase;

import com.google.api.core.ApiFuture;
import com.google.api.core.ApiFutureCallback;
import com.google.api.core.ApiFutures;
import com.google.api.core.SettableApiFuture;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.config.BigtableOptions;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.config.Logger;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.grpc.BigtableSession;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.grpc.async.BulkRead;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.grpc.scanner.FlatRow;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.adapters.Adapters;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.adapters.HBaseRequestAdapter;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.metrics.BigtableClientMetrics;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.metrics.BigtableClientMetrics.MetricLevel;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.metrics.Timer;
import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Get;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Mutation;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RetriesExhaustedWithDetailsException;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Row;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.RowMutations;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.coprocessor.Batch;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

/**
 * Class to help BigtableTable with batch operations on an BigtableClient, such as {@link
 * org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table#batch(List, Object[])}. {@link
 * org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table#put(List)} and {@link
 * org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table#get(List)}. This class relies on implementations found in
 * {@link BulkRead} and in {@link BigtableBufferedMutatorHelper}.
 *
 * @author sduskis
 * @version $Id: $Id
 */
public class BatchExecutor {

  /** Constant LOG */
  protected static final Logger LOG = new Logger(BatchExecutor.class);

  /** For callbacks that take a region, this is the region we will use. */
  public static final byte[] NO_REGION = new byte[0];

  /**
   * A callback for ApiFuture issued as a result of an RPC
   *
   * @param <T> The type of message the hbase callback requires.
   */
  static class RpcResultFutureCallback<T> implements ApiFutureCallback<Object> {
    private final Row row;
    private final Batch.Callback<T> callback;

    // TODO(sduskis): investigate if we really need both the results array and result future.
    private final int index;
    private final Object[] resultsArray;
    private final SettableApiFuture<Result> resultFuture;

    public RpcResultFutureCallback(
        Row row,
        Batch.Callback<T> callback,
        int index,
        Object[] resultsArray,
        SettableApiFuture<Result> resultFuture) {
      this.row = row;
      this.callback = callback;
      this.index = index;
      this.resultsArray = resultsArray;
      this.resultFuture = resultFuture;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    @Override
    public final void onSuccess(Object message) {
      Result result = Result.EMPTY_RESULT;

      try {
        if (message instanceof FlatRow) {
          result = Adapters.FLAT_ROW_ADAPTER.adaptResponse((FlatRow) message);
        } else if (message instanceof com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row) {
          result =
              Adapters.ROW_ADAPTER.adaptResponse(
                  (com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row) message);
        }
      } catch (Throwable throwable) {
        onFailure(throwable);
        return;
      }

      resultsArray[index] = result;
      resultFuture.set(result);

      if (callback != null) {
        try {
          callback.update(NO_REGION, row.getRow(), (T) result);
        } catch (Throwable t) {
          LOG.error("User callback threw an exception for " + Bytes.toString(result.getRow()));
        }
      }
    }

    @Override
    public final void onFailure(Throwable throwable) {
      resultsArray[index] = throwable;
      resultFuture.setException(throwable);
    }
  }

  protected final BigtableOptions options;
  protected final HBaseRequestAdapter requestAdapter;
  protected final Timer batchTimer = BigtableClientMetrics.timer(MetricLevel.Info, "batch.latency");
  // Once the IBigtableDataClient interface is implemented, this will be removed.
  private final BigtableBufferedMutatorHelper bufferedMutatorHelper;
  private final BulkRead bulkRead;

  /**
   * Constructor for BatchExecutor.
   *
   * @param session a {@link com.google.cloud.bigtable.grpc.BigtableSession} object.
   * @param requestAdapter a {@link com.google.cloud.bigtable.hbase.adapters.HBaseRequestAdapter}
   *     object.
   */
  public BatchExecutor(BigtableSession session, HBaseRequestAdapter requestAdapter) {
    this.requestAdapter = requestAdapter;
    this.options = session.getOptions();
    this.bulkRead = session.createBulkRead(requestAdapter.getBigtableTableName());
    this.bufferedMutatorHelper =
        new BigtableBufferedMutatorHelper(
            requestAdapter,
            null, // configuration isn't passed in, but also isn't used in
            // BigtableBufferedMutatorHelper
            session);
  }

  /**
   * Issue a single RPC recording the result into {@code results[index]} and if not-null, invoking
   * the supplied callback.
   *
   * @param row The action to perform
   * @param callback The callback to invoke when the RPC completes and we have results
   * @param results An array of results, into which we should store the result of the operation
   * @param index The into into the array of results where we should store our result
   * @param <R> The action type
   * @param <T> The type of the callback.
   * @return A {@link ApiFuture} that will have the result when the RPC completes.
   */
  private <R extends Row, T> ApiFuture<Result> issueAsyncRowRequest(
      Row row, Batch.Callback<T> callback, Object[] results, int index) {
    LOG.trace("issueRowRequest(Row, Batch.Callback, Object[], index");
    SettableApiFuture<Result> resultFuture = SettableApiFuture.create();
    RpcResultFutureCallback<T> futureCallback =
        new RpcResultFutureCallback<T>(row, callback, index, results, resultFuture);
    results[index] = null;
    ApiFutures.addCallback(issueAsyncRequest(row), futureCallback, MoreExecutors.directExecutor());
    return resultFuture;
  }

  private ApiFuture<?> issueAsyncRequest(Row row) {
    try {
      if (row instanceof Get) {
        return bulkRead.add(requestAdapter.adapt((Get) row));
      } else if (row instanceof Mutation) {
        return bufferedMutatorHelper.mutate((Mutation) row);
      } else if (row instanceof RowMutations) {
        return bufferedMutatorHelper.mutate((RowMutations) row);
      }
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      return ApiFutures.immediateFailedFuture(new IOException("Could not process the batch", e));
    }
    LOG.error("Encountered unknown action type %s", row.getClass());
    return ApiFutures.immediateFailedFuture(
        new IllegalArgumentException("Encountered unknown action type: " + row.getClass()));
  }

  /**
   * batch.
   *
   * @param actions a {@link java.util.List} object.
   * @param results an array of {@link java.lang.Object} objects.
   * @throws java.io.IOException if any.
   * @throws java.lang.InterruptedException if any.
   */
  public void batch(List<? extends Row> actions, @Nullable Object[] results)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    if (results == null) {
      results = new Object[actions.size()];
    }
    batchCallback(actions, results, null);
  }

  public <R> List<ApiFuture<?>> issueAsyncRowRequests(
      List<? extends Row> actions, Object[] results, Batch.Callback<R> callback) {
    try {
      List<ApiFuture<?>> resultFutures = new ArrayList<>(actions.size());
      for (int i = 0; i < actions.size(); i++) {
        resultFutures.add(issueAsyncRowRequest(actions.get(i), callback, results, i));
      }
      return resultFutures;
    } finally {
      // If there is a bulk mutation in progress, then send it.
      bufferedMutatorHelper.sendUnsent();
      bulkRead.flush();
    }
  }

  /**
   * batch.
   *
   * @param actions a {@link java.util.List} object.
   * @return an array of {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Result} objects.
   * @throws java.io.IOException if any.
   */
  public Result[] batch(List<? extends Row> actions) throws IOException {
    try {
      Object[] resultsOrErrors = new Object[actions.size()];
      batchCallback(actions, resultsOrErrors, null);
      // At this point we are guaranteed that the array only contains results,
      // if it had any errors, batch would've thrown an exception
      Result[] results = new Result[resultsOrErrors.length];
      System.arraycopy(resultsOrErrors, 0, results, 0, results.length);
      return results;
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
      Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
      LOG.error("Encountered exception in batch(List<>).", e);
      throw new IOException("Batch error", e);
    }
  }

  /**
   * Implementation of {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTable#batchCallback(List, Object[],
   * Batch.Callback)}
   *
   * @param actions a {@link java.util.List} object.
   * @param results an array of {@link java.lang.Object} objects.
   * @param callback a {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.coprocessor.Batch.Callback} object.
   * @throws java.io.IOException if any.
   * @throws java.lang.InterruptedException if any.
   * @param <R> a R object.
   */
  public <R> void batchCallback(
      List<? extends Row> actions, Object[] results, Batch.Callback<R> callback)
      throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    Preconditions.checkArgument(
        results.length == actions.size(),
        "Result array must have same dimensions as actions list.");
    Timer.Context timerContext = batchTimer.time();
    List<ApiFuture<?>> resultFutures = issueAsyncRowRequests(actions, results, callback);
    // Don't want to throw an exception for failed futures, instead the place in results is
    // set to null.
    List<Throwable> problems = new ArrayList<>();
    List<Row> problemActions = new ArrayList<>();
    List<String> hosts = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < resultFutures.size(); i++) {
      try {
        resultFutures.get(i).get();
      } catch (ExecutionException e) {
        problemActions.add(actions.get(i));
        problems.add(e.getCause());
        hosts.add(options.getDataHost());
      }
    }
    if (problems.size() > 0) {
      throw new RetriesExhaustedWithDetailsException(problems, problemActions, hosts);
    }
    timerContext.close();
  }

  /**
   * Implementation of {@link org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.Table#existsAll(List)}.
   *
   * @param gets a {@link java.util.List} object.
   * @return an array of {@link java.lang.Boolean} objects.
   * @throws java.io.IOException if any.
   */
  public boolean[] exists(List<Get> gets) throws IOException {
    // get(gets) will throw if there are any errors:
    Result[] getResults = batch(gets);

    boolean[] exists = new boolean[getResults.length];
    for (int index = 0; index < getResults.length; index++) {
      exists[index] = !getResults[index].isEmpty();
    }
    return exists;
  }
}


The Pirelli Calendar 2015 has just dropped and it's H-O-T! Damn hot!
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is a former Japanese football player.

Playing career
Abe was born in Saitama on August 1, 1974. After he dropped out from University of Tsukuba, he joined Kashima Antlers in 1995. Although he played many matches in 1995, he could hardly play in the matches in 1996 and 1997. He also played for CFZ in 1997. From 1998, he played many matches and the club won the 1999 J1 League. In Asia, the club finished in third place of the 1998–99 Asian Cup Winners' Cup. In 2000, he moved to newly relegated J2 League club, Urawa Reds, based in his local area. He played many matches and the club returned to the J1 League in a year. However his opportunity to play decreased in 2002. In September 2002, he moved to newly was promoted to J1 club, Vegalta Sendai. Although he played in 2 seasons, the club was relegated to J2 end of the 2002 season. In 2004, he moved to newly promoted J1 club, Albirex Niigata. However he could hardly play in the match for injury. In 2005, he moved to his first club Kashima Antlers and retired at the end of the 2005 season.

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External links

Profile

1974 births
Living people
University of Tsukuba alumni
Association football people from Saitama Prefecture
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J1 League players
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Urawa Red Diamonds players
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Chicken tacos from Mony's served with (left to right) peanut, pistachio and avocado salsas.
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Tasting a flight of craft brews at Figueroa Mountain Brewery.
Open-Faced Mexican Burrito from the Lucky Penny.
Hand crafted confections from Cassie Koval.
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You can find Eat This Shoot That at http://www.eatthisshootthat.com or calling them at 805-364-0564. Their tours are a really fun way to experience Santa Barbara and the Funk Zone. You can also just explore on your own. There are many tasting rooms in the Funk Zone, as well as along State Street in the more "historic" part of Santa Barbara. It is a nice option if you don't have the time to drive to Los Olivos for the day, which is where the majority of the tasting rooms are located. From what I understand and could find online, Meiomi has a wine from Santa Barbara County but the address for the winery is in Acampo, just outside Lodi in Northern California. So I am guessing they source their grapes from Santa Barbara County and other coastal areas but make the wine in Northern California. I will also copy this message and send it to your yahoo address provided. Feel free to email me back with any questions about Santa Barbara and I will answer them to the best of my ability! Thank you!


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Through his Starkey Hearing Foundation, William F. Starkey has worked tirelessly to help those with hearing issues. For his decades of hearing work Austin was honoured for Outstanding Service by an Entrepreneur.
William F. Austin was awarded the prize in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, June 21st at the 39th annual awards, dubbed the `Nobel Prize` for public service.
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Is there a chance of a USA-Russia war in the near future?
Thread starter Charles Martel
The US has killed over 20 million people worldwide in wars over the last 60 years.
https://t.me/Fall_of_the_Cabal/8770
Putin is the new Covid.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/hKzbUv22dq2C/
This about sums up what the Russian news feeds on this war are...
Here is the Fake Psyop War to distract all the zombies.
https://rumble.com/vxe4ir-man-travels-to-ukraine-to-see-whats-going-on-yep-filmsets.html
wile
This could be the last gasps of the white and jewish managerial elite setting us for a full spectrum collapse. I notice things since I find tailgating the consensus as the absolute pits and what I see is that the colored folks DO NOT CARE one iota about this, literally go to twitter and see white leftists and jewish leftists sounding like a literal death cult that worships the atomic bomb.
Supporting the DC managerial kleptocracy only prolongs our pain, supporting the Ukrainian nationalists sh*t behavior only supports the DC kleptocracy. And what does the DC managerial elite kleptocracy offer you or anyone else? If you were to even ask that question of those evil people they would give you the back of the hand to your face, and I'm supposed to play Johnny Conservative for them?
Hard Pass
wile said:
Agreed. Good post.
It would really be simple, just ask what is in it for you or to even be bold enough to ask that they temper their hateful rhetoric towards us. But to see all these purportedly high IQ tough talking conservatives be bullied into submission to the narrative is sad and pathetic, any narrative not just this Eastern European border war version 10,001.0.
We have a choice, to be a powerless majority or an empowered minority. For this I give the Ukrainian nats some credit, for all their sh*t behavior they are an empowered minority, will they stand a chance against GloHo once GloHo needs them as the punching bag, I doubt it but then again GloHo's future is not set in stone just yet.
Everything, or most of what that reporter-ette, has said is probably true but it makes no difference. The Western media is lying just as much, if not more. Just sub out Russia as the good guy and insert Ukraine. Her call for peace is admirable, but if Russia pulls out or never went in, would peace be achieved? The western puppet government of Ukraine was/is hostile to Russia. NATO has advanced geographically on Russia for half a century or more. Sitting patiently and talking, like this reporter-ette would seemingly want, would lead to peace? Dealing with NATO, or realistically the American Empire, is a one-way street. And that street often times ends with the US attacking or invading you.
I'm not envious of the position Russia was put into. I'm also disgusted by American media coverage of the conflict, outside of Tucker Carlson. I fail to see how it is any different than what Russia, or more aptly the USSR was putting out in their day.
The Russians can't sustain their forces.
https://taskandpurpose.com/analysis/russia-invasion-ukraine-strategic-failures/
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Menelik said:
Haha that's funny stuff. Marine "expert" providing all the wrong analysis from western propaganda. Perhaps he was the guy in charge of the Afghanistan debacle? He also made sure to cite the military people that haven't won a real war since 1945, and used an atomic bomb to win that one.
He should brag about the 2 months it took to subdue Iraq in a war against poorly motivated militias on a nice flat desert theater with no worry about "humanitarian" casualties and supported by the rest of the world.
jaxvid rebooted
Flint said:
I've read in numerous military sites/periodicals that logistics, or lack of, is what the Russians are suffering from. Supposedly they are requesting rations, MRE type, from the Chinese. Do you have any sources or links stating otherwise? I would be interested in reading them.
I believe that is completely wrong. Russia is a big net exporter of foods and it doesn't make sense that they would be in need of any.
I know that the Russians are giving tons of supplies in humanitarian aid. If they are able to supply the Ukrainians with supplies how could they not for their own troops.
From website: thesaker.is
Meeting of the Joint Coordination Headquarters for Humanitarian Response in Ukraine ( I think this is a Russian/Ukrainian group)
2,165 tons of humanitarian cargo have already been delivered to the settlements of Kiev, Sumy, Chernigov, Zaporozhye, Kharkov, Kherson regions, as well as Lugansk and Donetsk people's republics during the 306 humanitarian actions, including 23 actions carried out over the past day, 110 tons of basic necessities and food were transferred to the civilian population of the liberated areas.
To date, 16 humanitarian actions have been planned and are currently being carried out in Chernigov, Kharkov and Kherson regions, in Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, during which 150 tons of basic necessities, medicine and food will be distributed.
The Russian side still keeps a sufficient number of vehicles ready at the checkpoints, including comfortable buses for transporting refugees to selected destinations, as well as to temporary accommodation points, where all citizens arriving on the territory of Russia are provided with three hot meals a day and medical assistance is provided around the clock.
More than 9,500 temporary accommodation centres continue to operate in the regions of the Russian Federation.
Mariupol has been in an extremely difficult situation for a long time.
The successful operation to unblock the city made it possible today from 15 o'clock to open humanitarian corridors for civilians to exit and to begin mass evacuation of the population that had been held hostage by neo-Nazis for a long time.
Car convoys with humanitarian cargo were promptly formed and immediately dispatched. The first convoy has already arrived in Mariupol and delivered 450 tons of medicines, basic necessities and food, including baby food.
In addition, four columns with a total of 200 buses have been formed to evacuate the needy and injured residents of Mariupol, of which 50 have already arrived in Mariupol, the rest are on the move.
Despite the endless streams of lies and misinformation, the Russian Federation continues to fully fulfill its humanitarian obligations.
Every day, for the eleventh day in a row, from 10 o'clock in the morning, the Russian side opens humanitarian corridors in the Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Kharkov directions. The exit of civilians and foreign citizens through them is provided both to the Russian Federation and in the western direction through the territories controlled by official Kiev.
You do realize humanitarian aid and military logistics are entirely different don't you? Thanks for sharing the article though!
I think we found a job opening for Jaxvid with the female television reporter put on ice, he sounds like is auditioning for the job with these lines...
Yes, of course, but in what world does an Army deliver tons of food to the "enemy" without enough to eat itself?
I don't know how else to address the issue of the Russians asking China for MRE 's? Maybe if it is true it is for the long run future? I have not seen any supply issues from the Russian side other then is to be expected from a movement of this size.
Food seems like the last concern for an attacking force in a developing nation. There has to be other sources locally. They are not in a desert nation.
I wish we had more conversations about sports and supporting White athletes than the back and forth about a war that can be discussed on any other site on the internet.
Yes, it just occurred to me that almost everybody in the US is getting only the approved version of what is going on. There has been a pretty stringent lock down on other news sources, especially anything remotely sympathetic to Russia. You really have to dig for other views.
I'm not naïve enough to think that the other side is completely honest either. But it's a good idea to have as much information as possible.
That's a good point and I don't disagree but the whole "if this thing gets out of hand and there is a nuclear exchange ending life as we know it" is slightly more compelling then my March Madness bracket.
You have to wonder why they banned the video, "Ukraine on Fire" from youtube and many other platforms. Many think the Ukraine is the head of the Cabal and Deep State. At
this point anything is possible. I do know one thing. All the Billionaires and Trillionaires are Anti Russia.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/UK8026M75HHl/
Ukrainian Agony of the silent hidden war that we were behind back a decade ago.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yv2SAgDTZ091/
Ukraine is getting its butt whooped, and the stooge set up as its president is a big part of the problem. Russia might lose in the long term without access to Netflix and other stuff like Prime but Ukraine was a pawn, and now it will probably be a smaller geographical entity while its kleptocracy skips town with US tax dollars in their pockets.
Should not have happened, didn't have to happen but since the managerial elite in DC is evil it happened.
Here's a good update on how the conflict is going, cutting through the veil of Western propaganda. It's an hour but we'll worth listening to while you're working on something.
Geez, a half a million children dead was worth disposing of Saddam.
I read that the Ukrainian's are saying up to 700 children have been killed.
I guess if the USA is doing the killing it's ok?

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Skin and coat care innovations help ease pets' irritations, resulting in happier, healthier pets.
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With new technology and endless tag designs, the pet identification category is both growing and changing.
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As the natural pet-food category continues to expand, manufacturers within the segment will fall under greater scrutiny from pet parents who demand refined recipes and premium ingredients.
Pets are considered members of the family, and owners want to provide them with the proper nutrition. With so many options available and trends taking off, it can be hard to keep up and sift through them.
Raw diets for cats and dogs are becoming more of a household staple, so retailers should educate themselves on the benefits and safety of feeding pets raw foods.
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Manufacturers say pet owners want healthful snacks, even when they want to give something fun and indulgent to their furry loved ones.


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Norman's Andy Alligator's Fun Park is offering a new form of entertainment. You can sign up to throw axes. Really.
Kyle Allison, co-owner of the Fun Park, thinks guests will be hooked at first throw at LumberAxe. Evidently, this is a sport that dates back to the Middle Ages.
Highly trained Axeperts guide the guests before throwing.
A 75-minute session at LumberAxe is $29.99 per person and reservations are required. LumberAxe participants must be at least 11 years old. Guests can book online or call 405-321-7275.
Andy Alligator's Fun Park also has a swimming park, which is open only during the summer.


Singapore's late leader governed undemocratically but effectively. Which raises a question: What is the ultimate purpose of government?
Washington, D.C., is fast becoming an acronym for "Dysfunctional Capital." Singapore, in contrast, has become the poster child for "the concept of good governance," to quote the Financial Times's obituary for the country's longtime leader, Lee Kuan Yew, who was laid to rest on Sunday. For Americans in particular, this contrast presents a conundrum. On the one hand, Americans hold as a self-evident truth that their democracy is the best form of government. On the other hand, they see mounting evidence daily of Washington's gridlock, corruption, and theatrical distractions, which makes their system seem incapable of addressing the country's real challenges.
In assessing the quality of national governance, international rankings often focus on three related baskets of indicators: first, a nation's level of democracy and civic participation, and the degree to which citizens exercise political rights; second, the effectiveness of its government in facing issues, making policy choices, executing policy, and preventing corruption; and third, its performance in producing the results people want, including rising incomes, health, and safety.
Let's start with performance, since it is easiest to measure. As a Russian proverb declares, it is better to be healthy, wealthy, and safe than sick, poor, and insecure. Who can disagree? On these criteria, how has Singapore performed over the course of its first five decades versus the United States; or the Philippines (which the U.S. has been tutoring in democracy-building for a century); or Zimbabwe (an African analogue that declared independence from the United Kingdom just a few years after Singapore, and where dictator Robert Mugabe has been as dominant a national force as Lee Kuan Yew has been in Singapore)?
As the table above shows, over the past 50 years, real per-capita GDP in Singapore grew 12-fold. In current dollars, the average Singaporean's income grew from $500 a year in 1965 to $55,000 today. Over that same period, real per-capita GDP in the United States and the Philippines doubled, and Zimbabwe's actually dropped. When comparing the United States and Singapore, it is important to note that Singapore was essentially catching up to America. But what about economic performance in the 21st century? Over the past decade and a half, U.S. GDP has grown an average of less than 2 percent a year—while Singapore's averaged nearly 6 percent. In the World Economic Forum's latest Global Competitiveness Index, Singapore was ranked second overall, behind only Switzerland (the United States came in third). For the past seven years, Singapore has also been ranked the best place in the world to do business by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
As for its healthcare services, Singapore's infant-mortality rate has fallen from 27.3 deaths per 1,000 births in 1965 to only 2.2 in 2013. A child born in the United States has three times the chance of dying in infancy of one in Singapore. In the Philippines, 23 out of every 1,000 children born die in infancy. In Zimbabwe, 55. In 2012, Bloomberg Rankings judged Singapore the world's healthiest country based on the full array of health metrics; the United States ranked 33rd, the Philippines 86th, and Zimbabwe 116th. Singapore also has one of the lowest crime rates in the world. A citizen is 24 times more likely to be murdered in the United States than in Singapore. And in 2012, less than 1 percent of Singaporeans reported that they struggled to afford food or shelter, by far the lowest percentage in the world.
The second basket in assessing governance focuses on what experts call the effectiveness of the governmental process itself. Each year, the World Bank produces Governance Indicators metrics on government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. Singapore leads the United States by a significant margin on each of these measures and is not even on the same level with the Philippines and Zimbabwe. Singapore's widest lead over both the United States and comparable nations comes in the prevention of corruption and graft. Singapore scores in the top 10 while the United States ranks 20 countries lower on the list, with the Philippines and Zimbabwe in the bottom third. According to the 2014 Gallup World Poll, 85 percent of Americans see "widespread" corruption in their government, while only 8 percent of Singaporeans believe their government is corrupt.
The contrast between Singapore's ranking in the first two categories, and the third, reminds us of a fundamental question of political philosophy: What is government for? Contemporary Western Europeans and Americans tend to answer that question by emphasizing political rights. But for Lee Kuan Yew, "the ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society establish conditions that improve the standard of living for the majority of its people." As one of his fellow Singaporeans, Calvin Cheng, wrote this past week in The Independent, "Freedom is being able to walk on the streets unmolested in the wee hours in the morning, to be able to leave one's door open and not fear that one would be burgled. Freedom is the woman who can ride buses and trains alone; freedom is not having to avoid certain subway stations after night falls." Lee Kuan Yew always insisted that the proof is in the pudding: rising incomes for the broad middle class, health, security, economic opportunity.
To Western ears, the claim that an autocratic state can govern more effectively than a democratic one sounds heretical. History offers few examples of benevolent dictatorships that delivered the goods—or stayed benevolent for long. But in the case of Singapore, it is hard to deny that the nation Lee built has for five decades produced more wealth per capita, more health, and more security for ordinary citizens than any of his competitors.
Thus Lee Kuan Yew leaves students and practitioners of government with a challenge. If Churchill was right in his judgment that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others, what about Singapore?


It also includes $771 million spent by the U.S. Forest Service in the past two fiscal years on firefighting efforts in national forests in California — lands owned and operated by the federal government.
What the figure doesn't include is funding FEMA is expected to give California to help fight this year's devastating wildfires under the feds' Fire Management Assistance Grants program. The program partially reimburses state and local governments for the costs of mobilization and logistics when major fires hit. FEMA reimbursed the state $4.7 million for the 2017 fires but the payments for this year's fires won't be known until next spring, said FEMA spokeswoman Brandi Richard.
All in all, the federal government spent a total of $2.9 billion fighting fires across the entire country in 2017, according to figures compiled by the National Interagency Fire Center. That includes money spent by the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and other federal agencies.
The cost of fighting California wildfires pales in comparison to the federal government's expenditures on other major disasters in recent years.
Notably, Hurricane Harvey, which tore though Houston and surrounding areas of the Gulf Coast in fall 2017, cost FEMA more than $3.3 billion in direct assistance to individuals and communities, including funds for projects designed to reduce the impacts of future disasters. The figure doesn't include the $8.5 billion in claims paid to property owners under the National Flood Insurance Program.
California officials have been quick to push back on Trump's remarks, saying the state has been dipping into its own treasury to cover many of the rising costs of wildfires. In September, Cal Fire obtained an additional $234 million from the Legislature after chewing through practically all of its firefighting budget in the first two months of the fiscal year.
"We're pretty self reliant," Cal Fire spokesman Scott McLean said.
Experts said Trump's comments ignore a basic truism of California's forests: The federal government, through the Forest Service, controls more than 20 million acres of forest property, about one-fifth of the state's total land mass. The state owns a mere 730,000 acres, according to a report by the Little Hoover Commission.
"We don't own the forests in California, the federal government does," said LeRoy Westerling, a climatologist and forestry expert at UC Merced. Much of the rest of the forested land is in private hands.
Trump, who's routinely fought California over climate change, immigration and other issues since taking office, sounded off on the costs of California wildfires during a cabinet meeting this week.
The Trump administration has been saying for weeks that California's devastating fires are largely caused by environmental extremists preventing common-sense efforts to "thin" the forests by removing excess trees. The president suggested that his administration could withhold federal firefighting dollars from California unless the state does a better job reducing tree densities.
State officials, though, say California is devoting hundreds of millions of dollars to thinning forests.
Westerling said the federal government is generally doing a poor job of reducing fire risks in forests. In a typical year, the Forest Service treats just 1 percent of the forested land it owns in California, he said. The agency "should be doing at least five times that per year to start to get ahead of the problem," he said.


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Q: Unit Inspection storage in SQL Server DB? I am no DBA.  I do have quite a bit of experience in retrieving data out of a DB for reporting purposes, but the actual designing of one I have little to no experience with.  So I am hoping someone here can give me some guidance on the best way to achieve what I am trying to do:
One part of the database that I need to design is the storing of inspections of housing units and buildings.  A Building has one or more Units.  A Building also has Features (out side of the units like Stairways, walkway, a roof, etc). A Building with one Unit is a house.  An apartment building is a Building with multiple Units.  A Unit is made up of Spaces (rooms, halls, living room(s), kitchen(s), etc) and Spaces are made up of Features (Doors, windows, floors, ceilings, walls, appliances, outlets, etc.  Basically everything that would need to be inspected in a Unit).  Setting up the relationships between these objects seems fairly straight forward to me, but I need to also include some sort of Inspection object(s).  Both Buildings and Units will need to be inspected.  Buildings and Units (which there can be 10,000+ units in a given DB and 100s of Buildings) needs to be able to have multiple inspections stored (Buildings and Units will need to be inspected at least once a year) for historical purposes.  An Inspection will basically be made up of each Feature in a Building or a Unit (depending on if a Unit is being inspected or a Building).  Keep in mind that the Features in a unit and a Building can be unique to that Unit or Building.  What is the best way to implement the Inspection object(s) in the Building/Unit/Space/Feature relationship in a SQL Server DB?

A: Personally I would have a structure like:
property
id INT INCREMENT(1,1)
name VARCHAR(255)
...

inspectionObject
id INT INCREMENT(1,1)
name VARCHAR(255)
...

propertyInspection
id INT INCREMENT(1,1)
date DATETIME
inspector INT (FK: inspector table)
propertyID INT (FK: property table)
...

propertyInspectionResult
id INT INCREMENT(1,1)
inspectionID INT (FK: propertyInspection table)
inspectionObjectID INT (FK: inspectionObject table)
resultID INT (FK: result table)

Something like that should be a good structure to go to, it then allows you to record the details for each inspection once, but have the many objects for an inspection also recorded.  You can then undertake some pretty decent reporting based on the results and so on.
If you need any further information let me know.
Matt

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Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam, University of Göttingen
Liza Wing Man Kam is a guest of the Department of Religious Diversity. She is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Chinese Societies at the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Göttingen.
Kam pursued architectural training in design schools and practices in London, Paris, Liverpool, Hong Kong and Singapore before she joined the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany in 2009 and obtained her doctorate (summa cum laude) in December 2013. Her doctoral research focused on depicting the transformation of the political, societal and cultural symbolisms represented by the Hong Kong colonial urban heritage in the city's unique post-colonial settings, by illustrating the inter-relation between architecture, historiography, identity formation and hence civic awareness.
Her current research investigates the colonial Shinto Shrines in Post-war Taiwan as both 'religious' space and political symbolisms for enunciating different powers. Departing from analyzing these shrines as colonial architectural icons the project studies their evolved/ evolving roles as various political symbolisms in post-colonial Taiwan, the liturgical and non-religious activities hosted in them, and their role being the tools and driving forces to gather/mobilize populaces. How do the performative effects of the conducted rituals affect the process of identity formations in parallel with the historical timeline marking the several political paradigm shifts in the Taiwanese society since the colonial era? How could other post-colonial settings in the Chinese context, such as Hong Kong, be compared?
Undertaking interdisciplinary approach (architectural history and theory, historiography, anthropology, urban sociology, political science and more), Kam is intrigued by the employment of narratives represented by both urban fabrics and space users in urban research, and how these narratives work in parallel/ contrast to history. As much as knowledge, she is also interested in sports, food, cinema and more.
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This section assumes that the ARM core begins fetching instructions at 0x0000. This is the norm for systems based on ARM cores. However, some ARM cores can be configured to begin fetching instructions from 0xFFFF0000.
There has to be a valid instruction at 0x0000 at startup, so you must have non-volatile memory located at 0x0000 at the moment of reset.
One way to achieve this is to have ROM located at 0x0000. However, there are some drawbacks to this configuration. Access speeds to ROM are generally slower than to RAM, and your system might suffer if there is too great a performance penalty when branching to exception handlers. Also, locating the vector table in ROM does not enable you to modify it at runtime.
Another solution is shown in Figure 2.13. ROM is located at address 0x10000, but this memory is aliased to zero by the memory controller at reset. Following reset, code in the reset handler branches to the real address of ROM. The memory controller then removes the aliased ROM, so that RAM is shown at address 0x0000. In __main, the vector table is copied into RAM at 0x0000, so that exceptions can be serviced.
Example 2.8 shows how you might implement ROM/RAM remapping in an ARM assembler module. The constants shown here are specific to the Integrator platform, but the same method is applicable to any platform that implements ROM/RAM remapping in a similar way.
; On reset, an alias of ROM is at 0x0, so jump to 'real' ROM.
; RAM is now at 0x0.
The first instruction is a jump from aliased ROM to real ROM. This can be done because the label Instruct_2 is located at the real ROM address.
After this step, the alias of ROM is removed by inverting the remap bit of the Integrator Core Module control register.
This code is normally executed immediately after system reset. Remapping must be completed before C library initialization code can be executed.
In systems with MMUs, remapping can be implemented through MMU configuration at system startup.


A media campaign targeting Hispanic families in Denver is motivating more parents to become involved in their children's education, an evaluation of the program shows.
Cambio, Acción, Educación—Spanish for Change, Action, Education—was launched in 2005 by the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options. The Washington-based group, known as Hispanic CREO, advocates for public and private school choice, as well as gets Hispanic parents more involved in their current schools.
"More families are recognizing that opportunities exist for them to better their educations," writes Christina A. Medina, the author of the evaluation and a public-affairs professor at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Paid for by a $250,000 grant from the Denver-based Daniels Fund and matching contributions from other donors, the effort also involved Univision, the Spanish-language television network.
The yearlong project, which began in response to the Colorado Supreme Court's overturning of a school voucher program, has included radio and television public-service announcements, free workshops for parents on how to better understand the education system, and a resource guide on Denver school choice options.
The Dec. 20 report said that parents who once felt disconnected from their children's schools now are attending PTA meetings and taking leadership roles in local schools and parent groups.
"… (In) just one year, we have mobilized more than 2,100 Hispanic parents to take a more involved role in their children's education," Linda Sosa, a Hispanic CREO field organizer, said in a press release.
More information on the campaign is available from the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options.


This BCC Research study was conducted with a global focus on 3-D scanning devices, services and applications. The market analyses herein thus also form a global perspective on the present and future state of the 3-D scanning market. All monetary values in the tables are in 2015 U.S. dollars.
•QC and automated inspection (by region).
The report is intended to provide business planners and managers with an improved understanding of the various directions in which this specific market and technology are developing. Through this lens, we examine the opportunities that will be created from both technological development and expanded awareness, as well as the realization of 3-D scanning's capabilities for a variety of verticals.
•In-depth analyses of the key 3-D scanning technologies, as well as an overview of the relevant aspects of important competing and complementary technologies.
•Information about recent technical developments and patents for laser triangulation, structured light, conoscopic holography and other 3-D scanning technologies.
•Current and potential applications for 3-D scanning devices and services.
•Key patent and patent application analyses.
•Global market sizing, trends and projections in the market for 3-D scanning technologies by technology, application segment and geographical region, from 2014 through 2020.
•Technology vendor and industry player profiles, including both device manufacturers and related service providers in the 3-D scanning market.
•Analysis of the opportunities for both current industry participants and new market entrants.
Overall, the report focuses on the near-field scanning market, excluding systems designed for the scanning of objects more than a few meters in extent or distance from the scanner. This distinction is based on the deeply interconnected relations in technology and applications that bind the near-field technologies together to form a cohesive and well-defined market. From this follows the relatively light attention given to time-of-flight scanning as a technology. Certain applications of time-of-flight scanning infringe on the edges of the 3-D art sector, but for a very limited set of applications that are very distinct and governed by different market forces than those examined in detail in this report. BCC Research feels that the qualitative and quantitative judgments contained in this report represent a valuable contribution to understanding the 3-D scanning market.
Erik Vickstrom is a management consultant with Acceleration Advisors, a Milwaukee, Wis.-based boutique management consulting firm. Erik has worked with both small engineering companies and Fortune 200 companies on the commercial verification of emerging technologies and on business model development and commercialization plans with technologies in the energy, materials, electronics, manufacturing, green-building and environmental markets. Before his current role, Erik worked with small- to large-size companies, focusing on business development and strategy in various stages. Erik is the author of other BCC Research reports, such as ENV007C The U.S. Market for Green Building Materials and EGY074B Energy Retrofits for Commercial and Public Buildings: Global Markets. He has also authored other publications focusing on topics in the financial sector. Erik received his degrees (MBA, MA and BS) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., where he also conducted his postgraduate work and studies.


The Brotli compression algorithm engineered by Google has been open sourced in a bid to gain browser-wide adoption. This freshly prepared data format has been named after Swiss baked goods and outperforms its predecessor with fast pager loads.
Google have been on a long quest to make the Internet faster and their Brotli compression algorithm, released this week as open source, is aimed at fuelling our need for online speed. It has already been said to outperform its predecessor, the Zopfli compression algorithm, released in February 2013.
Zoltan Szabadka, software engineer with Google's compression team, states that the new format of the Brotli algorithm allows them to get 20–26% higher compression ratios over Zopfli, which was released as Deflate-compatible in comparison. This kind of performance should hopefully address what Google is calling "modern compression needs".
We hope that this format will be supported by major browsers in the near future, as the smaller compressed size would give additional benefits to mobile users, such as lower data transfer fees and reduced battery use.
Extensive documentation has been provided to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) detailing how the smaller compressed size allows for better space utilisation and faster page loads using a combination of the LZ77 algorithm and Huffman coding. The Brotli algorithm itself is written in a combination of C and C++.
While Brotli is slower in the compression stakes compared to what is currently available, its decompression speed is rather impressive. This efficiency for 'compress once, decompress many times' items will be great for companies utilising Big Data.
Comment from discussion Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet.
The name "Brotli" follows the Google tradition of naming their algorithms after Swiss baked goods. A brötli is a small bun of bread in Swiss German.


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Coopers Beach in Southampton Named 3rd Best Beach in US
Coopers Beach in Southampton
One of the most popular beaches in the Hamptons ranks as the third best oceanfront park in America, according to Dr. Beach's annual list ranking the nation's top 10 beaches released Friday.
Coopers Beach in the Village of Southampton moved up a spot on the list after coming in at No. 4 two years in a row. The beach, which came in No. 1 in 2010, has slowly been inching back toward the top spot on the list, ranking No. 8 in 2016 and No. 5 in 2017.
"As the first 'Gold Coast' in the country, Coopers Beach is hundreds of yards wide, made of grainy white quartz sand," Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, a coastal expert and professor at Florida International University who has produced the list for the past 30 years, wrote in his review. "The beach is backed by large sand dunes covered by American beach grass interspersed with large and extravagant mansions."
Coming in at No. 1 was Grayton Beach State Park in the Florida Panhandle, followed by Ocracoke Lifeguard Beach in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. The full list can be found at drbeach.org
Dr. Beach also touted Coopers Beach as having "the best beach access in the Hamptons" and noted its "snack bar serving lunch and drinks." Of course, due to the coronavirus pandemic, that's not so true anymore.
Southampton village officials said while Coopers Beach is open to non-residents — unlike many town- and county-run beaches on Long Island restricting access to residents only — no daily passes are being sold for this highly ranked village beach.
Non-residents must mail village hall to get a non-resident beach pass, as the passes are not being sold on site, Southampton officials said. In addition, the concession stand is closed, picnic tables have been removed, certain bathrooms are closed, and the beach chair and umbrella rentals are closed.
And, of course, like every other beach in New York State, people must stay 6 feet apart and wear masks when in crowded areas.
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It is evident that atheists have not experienced God but how in the world can they deny that others have not experienced Him. Seeing that experiencing God is a personal matter that cannot be judged empirically by outsiders, as no one can get into another man's mind or body to know how or what he is, or has experienced. However, this is the very thing that an atheist must claim. This claim springs from an illusion of omniscience and an assumption that the only true knowledge must be objective knowledge.
We know that human beings experience pain to various degrees, and that it is impossible for one to experience another man's pain exactly and to the same degree. The same thing is true of our experience of God. People experience God in different ways and to distinct degrees. Therefore, the atheist claim that there is no God is totally unreasonable and contrary to the experiences of billions of people. Have they tested empirically everyone's experience of God? The only real claim that they can reasonably make is that they have not personally experienced God. Even so, in their arrogance they go one step further and say that no one has, or can experience God and if they claim they have, they are delusional.
The most that atheists can honestly claim is that they have not experienced God. However, that might be saying too much for they could have encountered God and not recognized it as a God experience. This could be a very likely theorem seeing that their preconceived biases could keep them from recognizing a God experience if they had one. The most that an atheist can say is that they have not had an understandable experience of God. Of course, many atheists will say, if they have not experienced God, that he cannot exist or that God in some way is obligated to reveal to them himself in such a way that he would be undeniable. They seldom blame themselves for accepting an ideology or world view that will not allow them to experience God. It could be that they're like a blind man who denies the existence of color because he cannot see it or has not experienced it and then blames color for their inability to see it.
In the end, the old saying that a man with an argument will never convince the man with an experience is true. The only person in whom the atheists experience will stick and will move to their unbelief are those who have never experienced God and are already in a sense in the atheist camp. The atheist will never be able to argue that God does not exist, with a man who has experienced Him. That would be like telling a man who was rescued from the sea, by an other man in a lifeboat, that the other man did not exist.
Humans come to know things through many ways. We learn through our mind, but we also learn through our other senses. In actuality, our mind processes the information that we get through our other senses. However, if some sense has been crippled or damaged, we may become dead to that sense and no longer be able to experience it or the things that it was created to sense. It could be also that some knowledge requires more than one sense and channel. I think this is the case with the knowledge of God. The knowledge of God requires the whole man. If any part of the man has been damaged or disabled it becomes increasingly hard for that man to experience God in any meaningful way.
Therefore, talking to a hardened atheist is like talking with a handicap man who doesn't know that he's handicapped. I once talked to a young atheist who I knew growing up, who had grown up in a very dysfunctional family where there was a great deal of brokenness. His parents claimed to be Christians and for whatever reason they could not work through their dysfunction. This environment caused him to be bitter towards his father and somewhat towards his mother. The bitterness not only hardened him from having a relationship with his father but it also hardened him to having faith in God. Being an intelligent person he had to come up with a rational explanation for his lack of faith. His self-justifying mechanism is the source of his unbelief and not his intellect.


Saracens announced today that Vincent Koch will be joining the club for the 2016/17 season.
Koch will link up with the English and European Champions after a spell for Cape Town Super Rugby franchise Stormers that has seen the 26-year old capped by the Springbok's on two occasions.
The Stormers prop forward is the latest player to link up with the Premiership and European champions and here we take a closer look at the 26-year old who will be joining the Sarries family later this summer.
Will join current Stormers team-mate Schalk Burger at Saracens next season, and will link-up with former Stormers Neil de Kock, Schalk Brits and Michael Rhodes at Allianz Park.
He has already played at Allianz Park, when he started for Western Province against Saracens back in November 2014.
Koch is one of six Saracens recruits for next season. He'll join Saracens as a tighthead prop competing alongside with Petrus Du Plessis and Juan Figallo for the number three jersey.


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Q: Grails unable to install uploadr plugin I am facing same error every time m trying to install uploadr plugin through "grails install-plugin uploadr" command , i have mapped compile ":uploadr:0.8.2" in the BuildConfig.groovy but then also getting this
error.![error][1]
| Error Resolve error obtaining dependencies: Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.grails.plugins:uploadr:zip:0.8.2 (Use --stacktrace to see the full trace)
| Error Failed to read artifact descriptor for org.grails.plugins:uploadr:zip:0.8.2

The stacktrace output looks something like that:-
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org.apache.http.client.HttpResponseException: Proxy Authorization Required (407)
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Make the shortcrust pastry as usual (with ingredients and doses given above) and let rest in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm and cut out all components: 4 walls (2 longer and 2 shorter), the roof (two rectangles), a tree and the base. Bake at 180°C for 12-15 minutes.
Meanwhile, beat the egg whites (cold from the fridge) with a pinch of salt and then add, a tablespoon at a time, the icing sugar. This will serve to create the snow, but above all as a glue to stick the candies and the various parts of the house.
When the parts are cold we can begin to assemble the house.
At first, I brushed the base with the egg white, to create a "snowy background", then I put the walls, candy fence, and driveway.
I decorated the roof when he was flat. The windows and the door when the walls were already assembled.
When the decorations on the roof are dry you can add it to the house and, with a pastry brush, you can create the snow effect that comes down from the roof, will give a special touch to your house. The egg white must be very hard so that the "snow stalactites" don't fall to the ground.
Let the house "dry" for at least 12 hours in a warm, dry room.
At the party, we put it on a low table, with all the children around and they ate the candies and the house with the hands. They had so much fun!


Wow. We all occasionally suspect that energy healers and new age stuff is kind of BS, but investigative journalist for the Daily Dot, Nayomi Reghay, proved that our suspicions are sometimes correct, unfortunately. Nayomi went down a rabbit hole (or a 5D portal, if you prefer) to uncover the truth behind the proprietor of Crystal Cactus, Audrey Kitching. Kitching runs an online store selling spiritual goods like candles, butterfly pins, and crystal dildos that are possibly cheap products repurposed from AliExpress. She also used to be big on Myspace and dated Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco, which may or may not be how she started scamming people? Caitlin and Sue don't know! But they do have insider text messages sharing a scammy experience where Kitching burped at our source to align their chakras and heal their energy. Also, this turns into a conversation about spirituality and feminism. Because sometimes there's truth in this unclear territory. They laugh and cry and as a whole so you're gonna want to tune in!


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Date of the Dead - Part One
This Nightmare Threads original story is a piece of fan fiction written about Peter Jackson's classic gorefest Braindead or Dead Alive depending on where you live. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and go watch it right now, you won't regret it. This scene takes place when the Simian Ratticus first arrives at the Wellington Zoo and follows an unlucky zookeeper...
The manifest read:
Sumatra/New Zealand Export
Simian Ratticus
Fergle looked in between the bamboo bars of the cage and then back down at the manifest. It still read "Quantity: 1".
"That's not right," Fergle scratched his head and once again looked at the manifest and into the cage. The matter shouldn't have been as confusing as it was for the volunteer stock boy. The manifest was definitely wrong because the quantity of Simian Ratticus was clearly two and not one. Although if one were to take a passing glance, one could understand the mistake because the two specimens were within intimate proximity due to the fact one had mounted the other and was furiously humping its crate mate.
He had set up the cage at the Wellington Zoo for one specimen and not two. Even if the accommodations had been adequate, it would never do to put these animals on display, especially in their current state. What if a child would happen to witness them in the act? Or the wives of one of the town aldermen? That would never do. He leaned in to take a closer look at the odd little beasties. They were ugly cusses. Fergle's saint of a grandmother always taught him that God in all of his infinite grace, did not make mistakes, but the monstrosities before him made him question the truth of that teaching. He imagined if a drunken monkey had sex with an inbred rat and then God had thrown in an extra chromosome for good measure, it would be a close approximation of the creatures before him.
Although they walked on all fours, they had the body of a small monkey that grew up too close to an atomic testing facility, complete with boils and patches of missing fur. Their heads took after the rodent branch of the family, with skin stretched tighter than a weathered outback shepherd. The one on top had the look of madness in its uneven eyes. The one on the bottom didn't seem to be enjoying itself too much. It wasn't that what the other was doing to it bothered it. It sort of just looked bored. Fergle was figuring out how he was going to get the two apart when something grabbed him from behind.
"Don't get too close to those buggers. They look about as healthy as a couple of Chinese whores." Dale, the grounds supervisor of the zoo and Fergle's boss, was returning from lunch. The smell of scotch wasn't too overpowering today.
"H-H-Hi D-Dale," Fergle stammered after catching the clipboard containing the manifest in mid-air. "The manifest s-says there's only one, but there's t-two in the crate."
Dale snatched the clipboard from Fergle's hands. "Well, they only charged us for one. So fuck it. I'll make some calls and see if we can unload it and make a little scratch on the side. Don't open your stupid stuttering mouth about this to anyone."
"What d-do we d-do with it now?" Fergle asked, taking his clipboard back.
"Put it the bloody cage."
"Like th-that? What if a ch-child sees?"
"Then separate them, you moron."
Fergle looked blankly at the rat monkeys. It seemed quite rude to him to interrupt the two. He could imagine how it would feel if he were the one being forcibly stopped while in the act. Not that he knew first hand. He was tall and stringy and although he could be said to possess "boyish" good looks. His stutter and lack of confidence would cause him never to be considered a ladies man. But a job was a job, and he had to get it done.
He didn't even want to think about touching the one on top with the look it currently had in its eyes. It might be more prudent to attack the situation by pulling the one on the bottom away from its attacker. In fact, it may even be grateful and assist in the endeavor. He grabbed the bottom rat monkey by the scruff of its neck but before he could yank it free the one on top swallowed his index finger. This was not just a bite; the rat monkey had swallowed Fergle's finger and spit it out free of flesh like a man eating a chicken wing. Dale stepped to the front as Fergle withdrew in pain.
"Right hell! Do I have to do everything?" Dale snatched the one on top and yanked hard. There was a wet ripping sound, and Dale was left holding the top half of the rat monkey, still with the crazed look in its eye. The bottom half was still pounding away without missing a stroke.
"That does not solve our problem." Dale took one last look at the rat monkey's crazed stare and tossed it over his shoulder so he could attend to its still copulating lower half.
"That should do it. No kiddies will be going home with an eyeful today," Dale said as he ripped off the bottom half. Inspecting his work, Dale saw that the member of the little bugger was still inserted into the creature, pumping away as fast as it could. Dale used a pair of scissors to remove the remaining offender. "That's that, but there goes our dreams of riches. You get yourself home and clean yourself up."
It took Fergle longer than usual to pack up owing to the fact that he was now permanently one digit down and due to the delay Dale beat him out. Fergle was about to turn off the lights when he remembered he didn't have time to go home. He was to meet Cindy for sodas in less than half an hour. Fergle didn't have a choice he had to get cleaned up at work. There was no way he was missing this date. He had had a crush on Cindy since grammar school, and now out of the blue, she asks him out. His heart began to race, and breath alluded him as he started to panic. He couldn't let Cindy see his mangled hand. What if she were to introduce him to someone of import? Then what? He could not shake hands missing an index finger. And God forbid if Cindy wanted to go for a walk afterward and hold hands in the evening air? This would just not do.
Gloves. He needed gloves. Luckily, he knew just where to find a pair in the zoo's lost and found. He stretched them over his hand and frowned at the glove's empty finger where his index should have been. He needed something to stuff in there. A pencil? Nope, too long. A pen? Nope, too thin. What could he use? Scanning over the desk, his eyes caught some movement. It was the rat monkey's penis still twitching. Fergle didn't notice it before, but that bugger was hung for his size. His pecker was about the same size as his missing index finger.
Cindy had spent the whole day and the beauty parlor getting ready for her big date with Fergle. It's not that Fergle Johnson was a catch by any stretch of the imagination. His only real quality was that he was one of the last eligible bachelors in town and Cindy wasn't getting any younger. She was almost to the age where it didn't look good being single. People would start to talk. Fergle Johnson was better than the alternative. She'd be damned if she was going to become a spinster at twenty-five. Cindy took a look in the mirror and was pleased with what she saw. "Fergle Johnson better appreciate the work I put into my appearance. Isn't that right Princess?" Cindy's white Pekingese barked back in agreement. In her opinion, Fergle Johnson should be incredibly flattered by the fact she spent the entire day making herself beautiful. Really, the only thing that got her through it was the thought of all the compliments her suitor would be bestowing upon her that evening.
"I must have lost a lot of blood," Fergle said aloud to no one, in particular, seeing as he was the only one on the deserted street. "Because gosh, I'm getting tired." It was a good thing Fergle was alone on the street, because he was, in fact, so tired, the entire thought would have sounded like "Arrrrgggrrhhh" if anyone would have been around to hear it. By the time he had reached Cindy's house, he was nearly walking at a shamble, not even bothering to pick up his feet as he walked. It was the thought of Cindy and the prospect of holding hands with her at some point during the evening that kept him from going home and burying himself under the covers until tomorrow. He wearily raised his hand to ring her doorbell. He remembered the index finger of his right hand had a rat monkey's penis in its place and decided to use his left hand instead.
Continue to Part Two


But are you willing to persevere? Willing to maintain purpose in spite of difficulties or discouragement? For I heard that we have lost hope, that the things we dreamed would take place after President Obama was elected are still not realized, that we are so discouraged that we have decided to become voiceless, to sit out the upcoming election.
We may have lived so long desiring things to be easy and immediate that we may have lost what our ancestors had, that ability to endure; maybe we closed our minds to what our ancestors fought for, their right to person-hood; certainly we can't have forgotten what our ancestors knew, that real change demands action and it takes time.
The proverb found in chapter 13:12 concludes showing us the other side of delayed hope," … But when the desire comes, it is a tree of life." I am Dona Halliday challenging you to remember the past, fight for your future, realize that giving up and sitting it out are not options. Show up, have a voice, be responsible, vote!
For the week I had wrapped my head in a pink scarf in support of Breast Cancer awareness month, I saw pink as this symbol of hope, this reminder that others were aware of this challenge, that people were uniting their efforts, pooling their resources, something was being done. But even as I had worn pink during the week my mind had been occupied by other things, it's so easy to forget when the struggle, the pain, the loss, the victory is not our own.
As I pulled cash from my purse to pay for my purchases I also pulled out a card and handed it to the cashier. The card, urges us to moves beyond the symbol to a point of action where we take personal responsible for our health. This card introducing BreasText is sponsored by Doris Shaheen Breast Health Center at Piedmont Hospital, 97.1 FM The River and Best Self Magazine. Personally, I had already taken action, I had texted the word Breast to 72239 and immediately I had received a text from the hospital assigning me a day that they will send me a reminder to do my monthly breast self-exam.
Symbols are great, but they should focus our attention on doing something, taking action, getting involved, making a change. I am Dona Halliday, challenging you to take personal responsibility and sign on for your health, send a text that can save your life.
It was Saturday, about 8:00pm, I was dressed in my favorite four and a half-inch high-heeled sandals, a little black dress and too much self-confidence for my own good. I was comfortable, at home, my surroundings familiar. My friend who was working at my desk turned and said "We should get married tomorrow." I laughed and replied, "I hope you don't throw that around to everybody, someone might have you down the aisle before you finish that sentence." Then, "what would you have done if I had said yes?" I asked. "We would get married," he stated simply. I really like him, he's laid back, has a great sense of humor, a keen business mind and one of the most focused persons I know. We've known each other for several years, we are friends — I was comfortable. So comfortable that I kept ignoring the little voice in my head.
The next day was Sunday. After church I took a different exit because of where I had parked, I had been late for church. I had used that exit only once before but I lived about 7 minutes from the church, so feeling "comfortable" I drove. Finally, I came to an area I knew, I had driven 25 mins in the opposite direction.
Saturday evening before I left home, I had been totally exhausted, that's what the voice had been trying to tell, or remind me rather. One of the boundaries I've set for myself is not to go out when I'm so tired, when I'm tired I'm vulnerable — I like closeness and comfort.
If we are honest, we would admit that normally on our way to the course that leads us away from what we have determined to live by, there are several warnings. When he had asked if I wanted to postpone, I should have listened to that voice, and said, yes. Before we left, I had leaned my head on his shoulder as we talked, I should have listened to the voice that said "Girl, you'd better sit up straight!" When we got to the restaurant, at the dinner table and I realized I was playing footsie beneath the table…, well, I did stop, but I should have listened.
One of my favorite verses. "Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life," comes to mind. There has never been a time when I've failed to guard my heart, that I have not failed. Whether it's a physical act of flirting too close to the edge of right and wrong, responding with a bad attitude, or giving in to anger, guarding my heart is absolutely necessary to living a life that represents God well.
Failure for me is saying no when God says yes or vice versa, forging my way when God says to wait, choosing what I want instead of yielding to God's word. You see, God's word is the standard, it's unchanging, everything else vacillates. So when I fail, God's word does not shift to make my wrongs right but I have to shift, repent, to meet His standards.
I've realized that when we fail, the challenge is not to allow shame, guilt or pride to keep us stuck, reluctant to admit our wrong doing, hinder us from making it right with God. I believe that's really the enemy's winning card, to make us feel we can never go back, to silence our voices, put out our lights. If you have failed in any way, I am Dona Halliday, challenging you to refuse to stay there, to get up and go back to God, for what I was reminded of in Church on Sunday is that covenant relationship, God's kind of relationship never gives up on us, neither does it passively wait for us to return but He comes seeking those who lose their way.
With a tale of doom and deep despair.
Sang that lying tongue from beneath.
To still that lying tongue from beneath.
Victory was about to reign.
And silenced that voice from within.
And change every dirge to a dance.


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Is there a way to disable and remove the label?
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As regular readers of my blog know, I am a Christian. I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often referred to as the Mormon church. I am no expert on Islam. However, I also have been fortunate enough to have a number of acquaintances and friends who are Muslims. They have all been good, decent people.
As a Mormon, I understand what it is like to have my beliefs mocked and that which I consider sacred blasphemed and scorned. The number one Broadway musical in the United States is a profanity and blasphemy saturated mockery of my religion, its founding prophet, and of God. And that is just a recent example. So I empathize with the hurt and outrage Muslims feel when Islam and its prophet and God are mocked.
As I wrote in my previous post, I recognize that there are many different branches and schools of Islam and that it is wrong to attribute the actions and views of one faction to all.
But even understanding that, I am repelled and shocked by violence perpetrated in the name of Islam and an apparently large number of Muslims who believe that violence is a moral and just response when their religion or prophet is ridiculed or mocked.
Your support for violence in response to blasphemy is not only immoral and unjust, but it is also contrary to the teachings of the Qurʾān and violates the teachings of the prophet Muhammad.
An "eye for an eye" and a "tooth for a tooth" is a statement of reciprocal justice and proportionality. Islam teaches that a just retaliation must be proportional to the the act to which it is responding.
In other words, for a follower of the Qurʾān, the proper response to a cartoon is a cartoon; the proper response to a movie is a movie; the proper response to an article is an article; the proper response to insult is insult; the proper response to burning a Qurʾān is perhaps burning a Bible.
When certain Muslims respond to a blasphemous movie with violence, they are responding disproportionately and therefore unjustly, immorally, and contrary to Islam.
And notice that the Qurʾān adds that a response is not required. In fact it declares that if you forebear from a response as an act of charity, even if it would be justified, it will be an expiation for you. In other words it will serve as an atonement for any wrongs you might have committed.
As a friend, I urge my Muslim friends, and all believing Muslims everywhere to uphold freedom of speech, to openly and adamantly condemn disproportionate, unjust, and immoral violence perpetuated by those claiming to be Muslims as contrary to Islam, and to repudiate those groups who encourage it.
Your idea of proportional response is too mechanical. If a man kills my daughter, justice isn't me killing his daughter. If a man rapes my daughter, etc.
Good point, Mr. Mandias. Proportional doesn't necessarily mean equivalent or identical, it just means of equal value or weight.
To avoid blood feuds, many ancient cultures established laws that prescribed a monetary recompense. For the Anglo-Saxons it was the "wergeld" which was the amount of gold required to make restitution for the death of a man.
Theories of Justice can be very complicated. My main point is that violence and murder are not just responses to a blasphemous cartoon or movie and that Islamic teaching seems to agree with that notion.


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Lon Chaney & William S. Hart, "Riddle Gawne" (1918): The Good Bad Man and the Cripple From Hell
The Good Bad Man and the Cripple From Hell.
Both men wore the face of the Devil. William S. Hart wore it in 1916, modeling for a portrait of Satan's face in The Devil's Double. Lon Chaney had not yet worn the Devil's face when they met in 1918.
Hart was a star, a "good bad man" they called him, his other face flickered out from beneath that drawn, grim visage he wore over it, a covering of austerity and morality that meshed uneasily with the fire below. Chaney was too short for the part in Riddle Gawne, a villain to stand face-to-face with Hart. But Hart saw it. "Inches never made an actor," he said.
Chaney faced him as the cameras were rolling. "I can't realize it; boys, I'm up in the air," he said, and shooting stopped. "It's the first time I've ever been allowed to play a scene when the star was in it."
Hart took him aside. "Diamond cut diamond" was the way it worked, he said; the villain made of the same steel as the hero, the actor made of the same steel as the star. Chaney took it in, his malleable face turned upward towards that long stony face. "Bill Hart saved my life," Chaney would say a decade later.
The scene, Hart remembered, was a 'pippin'.
Later, dull nights between shooting stretching on, a playful court and mock punishment sentenced Hart to an ass-paddling at Chaney's hand. A diversion, a rib on a star from a friendly crew; but Chaney didn't forget the lesson. "That man Chaney was raised, went to school, and graduated in a boiler shop, swinging an eighty-pound sledge," Hart later wrote, nursing memories of a sore behind.
Age and industry dulled Hart's fires, the warmth and goodness in him could not help but show. As his star fell, Chaney's rose. Hart led the box office in 1915/16; by 1928/29 it was Chaney. Chaney filled the screen with the abject, the disgusting, the hateful: 'cripples', vagabonds, 'orientals'. Neither Chaney nor his characters would truly cede their position to the "curly-haired boys and girls"; the character actor superseded the place of the star. A writer of the time called him "a man with a monomania" that "has eaten him alive for years". On screen, something in Chaney was, in his characters and in his performances, insistent.
It was in 1920 that it happened. Riddle Gawne had led to the crooked gait of The Miracle Man (1919), and then he bound his legs behind him and lurched on crutches through The Penalty. A "cripple from hell" fueled by lust and hate. It was there that he clambered a platform to pose for a young sculptor, his face rigid and cold, and brought to the screen once more the face of the Devil.
[William S. Hart's recollections quoted from William S. Hart, My Life East and West. "Bill Hart saved my life" and "curly-haired boys and girls" quoted from Photoplay, February 1928, Ruth Waterbury, "The True Life Story of Lon Chaney". "Monomania" quote from Photoplay vol 31 no 3, Feb 1927, Ivan St. Johns, "Mr Nobody". "Annual Exhibitors Herald Boxoffice poll" figures taken from Richard Dyer MacCann, The Stars Appear. Riddle Gawne image from Silent Era website. Reference to "cripples" and "orientals" draws on the specific language used in relation to Chaney at the time and obviously isn't even remotely ok today.]
Approximately one reel (about ten minutes) is all that remains of Riddle Gawne. Chaney and Hart share no scenes in the surviving footage
This post is part of the Lon Chaney blogathon run by Movies Silently and The Last Drive In.
Posted by retroremote at 2:22 PM
Labels: 1916, 1918, 1919, 1920, blogathon, Lambert Hillyer, lon chaney, Photoplay, Riddle Gawne, silent film, silents, The Devil's Double, The Penalty, western, westerns, William S Hart
Silver Screenings November 19, 2013 at 12:44 PM
Beautifully written, and wonderful stories, too.
retroremote November 20, 2013 at 4:55 PM
Thanks! I enjoyed your post on Chaney Jr. in "Of Mice and Men" -- I've never had a chance to see that version, so am looking forward to checking it out asap.
Joe Thompson November 19, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Interesting how Hart and Chaney both played men who posed as Satan. Each could sell it. Hart was a wonderful actor. Have you seen Hell's Hinges? Great movie. I'm sorry we have only a piece of this one. Thank you.
It's definitely an interesting link between the two. I agree, Hart is great and deserves much more attention. Hell's Hinges is an amazing film! Thanks for the comment!
PS. Just found your own Chaney posts. Looking forward to taking a close look at these!
Fritzi Kramer November 19, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Thanks so much for bringing attention to this fascinating fragment. What a loss to movie history the missing reels are! Loved the article and thanks for coming aboard the blogathon!
Thanks! It's definitely a shame that it's (mostly) lost. Even if it the film isn't great (the existing footage is nothing special), it'd be amazing to see these two face-to-face. Thanks for hosting a great blogathon!
Kristina D November 22, 2013 at 4:38 AM
Very interesting, and I agree, nicely written. Thanks
Lon Chaney & William S. Hart, "Riddle Gawne" (1918...
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Aside from teasing the Night King's arrival, the trailer takes a few moments to dwell on familiar artifacts: a weathered House Stark banner, Jon Snow's Longclaw, Daenerys' chain, Jaime's gold hand, Arya's Needle, and so on. When her mother asked her daughter to remind her of what happens, Clarke told her the opportunity for spoiling the ending had passed and now her mom would have to watch the series finale like everyone else.
Anyway, all of this is a long way of saying that the living are probably going to get their asses handed to them by the dead at the Battle of Winterfell and there WILL be some serious casualties.
With the show famous for its unpredictable twists and turns, the trailers have left fans even more impatient for the show's penultimate season, and more afraid than ever for their favourite characters.
Maisie responds, "I dunno, like during shooting like the final days were really like emotional saying goodbye to all of the cast". "Because when I found out that Arya died in, like, the second episode", she said nonchalantly of her character, before quickly covering her mouth in horror.
She said: "It made me petrified most of the time". Her mom just can't remember a thing about it.
But before you go into a blind panic, don't worry, it was just an "April fools". We then see a feather fluttering over the ramparts and catch sight of a number of items associated with our heroes. Before we proceed, you should know that some potential Game of Thrones spoilers may follow below, so you should stay away if you want to avoid any Game of Thrones chatter before season 8 kicks off on April 14th.


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