A wacky selection of "rare, lost and strange cartoons" featuring a wealth of vintage material, much of it never before seen outside the film collectors' market and often transferred from the only known 35mm and 16mm copies to have survived.
Though the outer packaging doesn't really mention it, this is the first volume of an intended series that will mine private collections for such unusual animated one-shots that would normally turn up as extras on other discs if they weren't so out there. While bigger companies have found a niche market for their big name characters on home video, there's a whole range of shorts and films out there, either fallen from copyright and therefore of no interest to those big companies who would see little or no return on an investment to put them out, or the forgotten films that many don't even realise still exist…films produced by leading industry veterans after their big studio contracts dried up, or indeed by them moonlighting on the side for commissioning clients. Sick and twisted? You ain't seen nothing until you enter the world of Steve Stanchfield's Cultoons!, dedicated to bringing you these most off the wall shorts from animation history!
Mendelssohn's Spring Song (1931, 5:40) begins the exploration with a barnstorming entry by effects legend Cy Young made to promote the two-strip Brewstercolor system. In fact, it's said that this was the short that brought him to Walt Disney's attention and kick started his long career at that studio. After the success of the Silly Symphonies, many other companies followed suit, often merging the word "cartoon" musically with "tune" or playing with other musical terms to come up with Merrie Melodies and the like. This one is the first and only from a planned Jingles series, and one can see why it garnered Young praise: it's elaborately animated, with many inventive ideas that give it a surrealistic edge that was missing from many other of the Symphony imitators.
Monkeydoodle (1931, 8:18), created by sports cartoonist turned animator Les Elton, is a bizarre short that obviously has some sort of mixed up history since the version presented here was comprised of no less than four different print sources, even including some short silent passages where the sound prints had been cut. Seemingly trying to introduce Simon The Monk as a star – he even gets an animated title card treatment – this is a tremendously detailed picture, often feeling like the early solo work of Ub Iwerks. There's some good perspective animation touches, angled shots and character animation that really brings Simon and his hound opposite to life realistically for cartoon interpretations of their species, even if the bonkers plot throws almost everything into the mix!
The Hobo Hero (1935, 7:58) is another Elton effort, less crazed in its visual ideas but just as screwy with its narrative. A seemingly un-connected stream of gags, this features the deadpan, Keaton-esque Piccolo Pete, whom we find riding the rails and coming to the rescue of a trapped pooch. Though the animation is fluid – the result of some obvious rotoscoping – and the design is as detailed as Monkeydoodle, this particular Elton piece lacks its solid timing and staging, and the surrealistic elements just come over as being too bizarre, and after the admittedly exciting railway track rescue the cartoon breaks down in interest and simply becomes too strange to describe.
Kool Penguins (1935, 7:40) is the first commercial in this collection, announcing the arrival of a fun bunch of cartoon penguins who were intended, and would become, major mascots of the Kool Cigarette Company. As with the later PM Picnic in this collection, it's films like this that really show how animation was essentially part of the adult culture back then. This would have been shown during a program for mature audiences in theaters, who would have lapped up cartoons just as much as a sophisticated comedy short or a newsreel, a far cry from today when companies are doing their best to cut smoking from family films and going as far as digitally altering children's animation to remove traces of cigarettes. Despite being promotional, perhaps it was that fact that meant it had money spent on it: Kool Penguins certainly looks as good as any other cartoon of the time and it's clear to see why smoking became the in-thing to be caught doing.
Winder Bakers At The World's Fair (1939, 3:36) puzzled me until I realised these were the only known remaining fragments of a longer production, and one that might have featured live-action sequences, according to the liner notes, or perhaps a live stage narration. While there's not much else to talk about with this one, it presents a fun look at the ingredients that go into making a yummy loaf of Slo-Baked Wonder Bread.
Ford Service Commercials by Dr Seuss (1950, 4:08) are quite a find, written and designed for the motor company by Ted Geisel and animated at the UPA studio, then a rising force in limited animation that would find a home both in theaters and on television. These are quite a pointer to the work we know from both of these entities, from the Geisel/Seuss' Whoville designs and wordplay to the limited animation style that UPA would make their own. Each running just over a minute, we're offered four samples here.
Animated Theatrical Commercials (1940-41, 7:10) are by no means "more of the same" as the Ford ones, as these were always intended to be shown in movie houses before the main feature. A compilation of spots for Coca-Cola (Pebble Punch, 1:40), Shell Oil (Cops And Robbers, A Squirt In Time and The Oilympic Games Endurance Relay, all 1:20) and Brookfield Butter (A Date With Kate, 1:20), these short shorts display all the hallmarks of the work of Cartoon Films, the company set up by Ub Iwerks, and until the hard sell comes out of nowhere around the halfway mark in each set up, audiences would likely not realise they were watching little more than a commercial! Especially fun is Coke's Pebble Punch but all of these Technicolor advertisements make plugging their wares particularly entertaining.
Korn Plastered In Africa (1931, 7:13) has a title that pretty much tells you all you need to know! Created by "Scarfoot" McCrory, and featuring children's radio host "Uncle Don" Carney, this is one straight nuts cartoon, a spoof of Trader Horn that takes place in darkest Africa. Full of cycles and a lack of narrative structure, this just doesn't really work on any level, like a stream of consciousness where even the lead character is mostly relegated to just the soundtrack. Even surrealism needs a theme, but this one is just too wacky and not in a good way, though has to be seen to be believed. Just what was that about!?
PM Picnic (1948, 6:51), like the Kool Penguins, pushes the boat out to use an animated cartoon aimed squarely at adult eyes. This promotion for PM's Whiskey was apparently produced for storeowners, which seems a terrifically long-winded way to go about making your product seem "cute". The film resembles one of David Hand's Animaland shorts, with a little bee all a-buzz at the prospect of the clear clean taste of the deluxe whiskey, but even as a commercial endeavor this feels disjointed and seems to only serve to introduce the little fluffy bunnies and forest creatures that would be used in the print ads for the drink.
Toddy Commercials (1952, 2:20) are exactly the type of programming one would expect in coming to a Cultoons! disc on commercials, and very much the kind of advertisements commonly shown at drive-ins and on television in the 1950s. "Yes, see how better that pop corn tastes with Toddy Chocolate Drink, delicious cold or hot!" assures the narrator in these part-animated, part-cheesy live-action pieces that run around 50 seconds a pop. Probably the most in need of help in the sound department, the image on these also suffers from a heavily interlaced or digitised look, so thank goodness they're nothing more than short curios.
Monsters Do Have Their Place (1971, 0:48) is the most recent inclusion here, and an interesting one at that, looking like a plea from the movie theater chains to try and encourage the audience to help prevent the burgeoning pay TV industry draw away their business. Short, with mainly still framed rostrum camera animation, this is particularly of its time given the way paying for one-off events and downloads have today become the norm.
Goofy Goat (1931, 7:50) is a black and white print of an originally two-strip Technicolor short – sometimes credited as the first sound/color cartoon – and a clear attempt by producer Ted Eshbaugh to launch a series character. Easily the most fully rounded "cartoon" in this collection, it was also known as Goofy Goat Antics in later rental release (from which this print derives) when it must have become obvious that no further Goat cartoons would be forthcoming. That's a shame, since Goofy Goat seems to have a playful sense of humor ("Get out of the way, you road hog", he yells to a pig passenger in the car in front) and Eshbaugh comes up with some very amusing business. The format of the short allows for several different settings and what would have been effects moments to show off the color, in which this would be fantastic to see, though the lack of this doesn't take anything away from the enjoyment and this is probably my favorite of the titles included here.
No Fare (1935, 7:03) is most certainly another attempt to launch a series, this time for conductor Goofy Gus And His Omnibus, and comes from a distinguished pedigree of artists that were or would later be found working for the biggest animation studios in Hollywood. Unfortunately there is not much else known about this short, and even the director cannot be confirmed, but even if the animation is skilled, there's just not enough else going on with the plot or characters to engage an audience. Despite the hyperactive soundtrack it's a surprisingly slow and drawn out cartoon, without a clear resolve, and obvious as to why there were no more trips for Gus and his bus.
Easy Does It (1948, 31:15) is by far the most accomplished – and the longest – film on this disc, coming in at a healthy featurette length. Although commercial in design (for Stokey/Van Camp Foods), this Hugh Harman production, made after his split with MGM and Rudy Ising, looks every bit as good as his earlier work, though has a little difficulty completing the task of telling the story with it never particularly feeling like we are being sold something. But it's finds like these that really make these collections more than worthwhile, and this one is pure gold, a wonderfully animated, marvellously entertaining cartoon that plays like a paean to the Mom 'n' Pop stores of small-town America. Genuinely heartfelt, and by turns excitingly fantasist and struck with a cold realistic streak, there's a nice emotional message buried in the story as well as its required push for the food brand. Lengthy live-action central segment and hard sell aside, this is almost as good as a 1940s Disney special or segment from one of the Package Features, and a very good choice for this collection of Cultoons! to go out on a fine note.
Although Steve Stanchfield's collections have always been top-notch affairs and presented as professionally as any studio release, his Thunderbean Animation titles have stirred the interest of independent distributor Mackinac Media, who have shelled out for even better cover print and disc pressing, so this current batch look and feel better than ever. The actual contents, save for some corporate branding, remains the same from Thunderbean's own DVD-R versions from not so long ago, so those with that set of discs need not upgrade here unless they want to feel the extra security from having a silver mastered disc instead of a burnt one and pro-printed packaging.
The on-disc extras are plentiful, with the entire program playable in one sitting, or by selecting each cartoon, which brings up an additional introductory screen with some background info before the cartoon plays. In some instances, these pages also highlight the available Audio Commentary tracks on selected cartoons. These feature such names as Mark Kausler, Jerry Beck, Milton Knight, Stephen Worth, Mike Kazaleh and Stanchfield himself, discussing Monkeydoodle, Spring Song, Goofy Goat, the Ford Service Commercials and PM Picnic in various participant configurations. It's great to sit in with these guys as they are both a wealth of information and in cases newcomers to some of the cartoons. Hearing them sprout facts and figures about the titles and their creators, or just hearing their obvious enthusiasm – and bafflement at some of the crazier entries – reminds me of why I myself love writing about animation.
Also on offer is a detailed text essay, Cultoons: Unearthing The Forgotten, written by Steve Stanchfield and concentrating on how he personally got into film collecting, his adventures in putting out the original tape transfers and his pleasure at being able to source even better prints and produce more refined transfers and presentations for these new discs. These notes make for fascinating background reading on how we are able to experience these films, as well as a little on the man who has been the driving force in making that possible.
The design of the Mackinac-distributed discs change very little from Thunderbean's originals, merely adding small logos on the back and changing the overall branding line from the Animation Classics Collection to The Golden Age Of Cartoons banner on the front. Great is the four-page color liner notes insert (possibly a benefit of the Mackinac deal since these don't appear in Stanchfield-only issues), which have description outlines of all the shorts different to those found as text screens on the disc itself.
As always, Stanchfield has ensured to transfer this rare material to maximum effect, windowboxing the prints so as not to lose any image information, and presenting all the films in their original ratios, one even in its intended 1.17:1 aspect. Print quality varies overall, of course, given the nature of the age and history of the elements, but the very best as been done here to deliver an authentic picture, with restoration work carried out where needed, such as splicing in segments from alternative prints to give us as close to a full version as possible on these very early, sometimes neglected films. The only thing that slightly becomes objectionable is a small copyright notice (though buried in the lower windowbox bar) that verifies the donating collector and Thunderbean's restoration credit (sometimes at least twice during a short), which otherwise appears on another entry at the end as a much cleaner text credit of its own.
With such material lucky to have survived at all, we can't be too picky on the audio quality of these tracks, though anyone who makes any complaint about the fidelity here just doesn't know what they're talking about. Dynamically, everything is fixed in the mid-range, but this doesn't stop the audio sounding full and the various orchestras plugging away never sound too fuzzy or filtered. And these are the originals, too…no added effects that stick out like a sore thumb!
As someone who loves to put on a show and share material with audiences myself, I've great respect for anyone who goes the whole hog in putting together collections like these and can very much appreciate the time and energy they take. And that the end result, complete with the kind of menus that such series as the Disney Treasures and Golden Looney Tunes would be envious of, is as good as anything else out on the market prove that Steve and his Thunderbean collaborators have pulled off a great service to animation aficionados by hauling these films out from private collections and making them much more widely available. While the occasional title here might satisfy younger viewers, these kinds of discs are ultimately not for children, though us big kids everywhere will get a big kick out of 'em!


Google can now stream apps to your phone: What does that mean?
People are increasingly searching the web from their mobile devices rather than their desktops, and Google knows this, so it's updating Google search in a way that allows the search engine to find and surface content from apps installed on your phone. And if you don't have a specific app installed on your smartphone, it will offer you the option to "stream" the app instead.
Why is Google Search changing?
Google thinks the best answers to your questions might be buried in an app - even ones that you don't even have installed yet. So, it's adding new ways for you to search for and find content from apps without having to download them in the first place.
Similar to how it indexes webpages, Google started indexing content from apps two years ago: "We now have over 100 billion deep links into apps in our index - including some popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, Airbnb or Pinterest," explained Google.
Thus, with this update, you'll be able to search on Google and find the best answers whether they're from an app or a website. Previously, Google was only able to show information from websites (as well as information from apps that have matching web content).
A lot of great content only lives in app, and Google wants you to have access to that information when you search on Google. For example, if you need a hotel for a trip to Chicago, search results will now include results from the HotelTonight app installed on your phone.
What if you don't have an app installed?
This is where things get interesting: let's say you're visiting Arches National Park and want to search for details about the scenic drive there. Well, the Chimani app will have all the information you need, but it would be a hassle to download the app and then search in Google.
What's the point of that right? You might as well just use the app and forgo Google Search altogether. Well, with this update, you'll start seeing an option to "stream" some apps you don't have installed, right from Google Search. You just have to be on good Wi-Fi.
For instance, with one tap on a "Stream" button next to the Chimani app result, you'll get a streamed version of the app, so that you can easily find the information you're looking for and even access other in-app features just as if you were in the app itself.
In addition, if you like the app, Google will give you the option to install it. Keep in mind Google's app-streaming feature within Google search is still in beta.
How is all this streaming stuff possible?
Google said it is using new cloud-based technology.
Rajan Patel, the director leading the app indexing team, told TechCrunch that "streamed" apps run on virtual machines through Google's cloud platform and can respond to your touch similar to how native apps do.
He also painted this streaming stuff to be more of an experiment. Google wants to see how users respond to it before the company embarks on a worldwide rollout or even an expansion to iOS.
Google is only working with a small group of partners, such as HotelTonight, Chimani, Daily Horoscope, New York MTA Subway Map, and others. It plans to add more partners over time.
When can you start streaming apps?
Google said you will have to be in the Google app on your phone for any of this to work, at least initially. Also, your phone must run Android Lollipop or higher and have a Wi-Fi connection. The ability to search and stream stuff from apps is only live in the US for now, as well.
Check out Pocket-lint's Google hub for more developments.


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5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. (Hebrews 10, NIV)
5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth...10 Yet it was the Lord's will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life a guilt offering, he will see his offspring and prolong his days, and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand. 11 After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities. (Isaiah 53, NIV)
"Understand that the Torah, the books of Moshe, NEVER prescribe human sacrifice. The idea of someone dying for (in the place of) the sins of another is foreign to the Torah concept of individual and collective responsibility for sin (Deut 24:16; Ezek 18:20)."
(Raine Miller, Counter Missionary website at:
http://uk.geocities.com/hesedyahu/Tanakh/mp_refutedis49is61.htm )
The verses she gives in her defense are these:
"16 Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin." (Deuteronomy 24)
20 The soul who sins is the one who will die. The son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him. (Ezekiel 18)
Its interesting that Raine Miller wants to appeal to the relevance of scriptures like these when she thinks they support her view but then claim that they don't apply when they don't.
These scriptures go on to say that if a man turns from his evil ways he will not die.
Now on to Abraham and Isaac.
If you don't want to read the whole story just read what is underlined.
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. 2 Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
Note: Notice the word sacrifice and burnt offering is used here, though this is prior to the giving of the Law which Raine quotes?
...9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
Note: He almost did it and this pleased God, which shows that God's command was justified.
God does not tempt people with evil commands. (James 1:13 ff)
11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied. 12 "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son." 13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided." Note: This is called a 'burnt offering'
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, "I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me." (Genesis)
First, of all if the guilty one is the only one allowed to pay the price then why were so many animal sacrifices made in their place?
The point of the verses that Raine offers are that only God can make these kind of decisions.
Secondly, what happened with Abraham and Isaac was primarily to find out how much Abraham loved and believed God, but it was to be a human burnt offering.
God commended Abraham for going ahead with what He commanded before he stopped him, so what He commanded couldn't have been wrong.
The scriptures that Raine gives are God's commands to man not God's commands to God.
Have you ever heard the saying, "I brought you into this world and I can take you out."
Well, its true, but only of God.
Raine's argument is a relatively simple argument to refute so here we go.
Its interesting that the Angel of the Lord considers Isaac, Abraham's only son.
If this was 'foreign to the Torah's concept of individual and collective responsibility for sin' then why was animal sacrifice (a ram) acceptable here?
Why should an animal die for one's sin?
Because God said so!!
The animal was essentially sacrificed in the Jew's place throughout the Old Covenant.
Why was Abraham able and willing to sacrifice his son to the point of reaching out his hand and taking the knife to slay his son?
This is expounded on in the New Covenant which says: "By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." (Hebrews 11)
Notice all the examples of faith given in this chapter, that are recorded in the Old Covenant have some kind of connection to the life, death or resurrection of Christ.
1) By faith Abraham, even though he was past age--and Sarah herself was barren--was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. (Hebrews 11:11)-Like Mary and Joseph, God helps with conception.
2) Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. (Hebrews 11:19)-This is pointing to the resurrection of Christ.
3) By faith he (Moses) kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel. (Ibid, vv. 28)
"Christ our passover is sacrificed for us" (1 Corinthians 5)
Abraham being willing to sacrifice his only son as God commands foreshadows what God did with his only begotten Son. (John 3:16)
This is Christ taking our place so we wouldn't be judged, but we must receive and believe his report to make it applicable to us. (Isaiah 53)
The Son didn't pay for the sins of the father but the sins of the world. But this was an eternal sacrifice that was far better than the sacrifice of animals which was the Old Testament system.
Man doesn't have the right to decide who pays for his sins, but God does as He did with animal sacrifices throughout the OT, and with his eternal Son in the New Testament.
The New Testament gives the answer to what rights God has:
"Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and figuratively speaking, he did receive Isaac back from death. (Hebrews 11:19) "
A human cannot sacrifice a mere human for their own sin because:
1) That's not their decision to make
2) They cannot raise them from the dead again.
In the case of Isaac and Jesus, God would raise them from the dead, should they die.
Hebrews says that figuratively speaking Isaac did raise from the dead.
"In Psalm 40:6 the Masoretic text (Psalm 40:7 in the Stone Edition) has purposely changed the phrase body you have prepared for me, as properly quoted again in Hebrews 10:5, and verified by the Dead Sea Scrolls. This verse speaks of a man who has a special body prepared for Him by YHWH, to come to earth because the scrolls of Torah testify of Him! Now if you were a Masoretic counter-missionary evangelist, you'd want this verse tampered with also. That is exactly what they did. They changed Psalm 40:6 to you opened my ears. What does open ears have to do with a person coming in a prepared body?"
(The LXX Factor in Stealing Your Faith)
http://www.lebtahor.com/truth/koniuchowsky/koniuchowskyarticle.htm
Other translations read 'you pierced my ears' which doesn't make any sense at all.
Read all the translations that have been influenced by the Masoretic Text, (used by Counter Missionaries) but not available during NT times and Psalm 40: 7 doesn't even make sense where they have hid 'the body' in the text.
The Masoretic Text appears to have been revised by Counter Missionaries after the NT ,Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls by about a thousand years.
What is interesting is that the majority of translations include 'the body' in the NT reference, but don't include it in the Psalm that it is quoted from by the NT writers.
4 because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; 6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased. (Hebrews 10, NIV)
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean. 14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God! (Hebrews 9)
Those Counter Missionaries, always trying to hide the body and what is even more astounding is that many of the missionaries/translators fell for it.
BJ Maxwell 04/17/2006

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In the future I'll share with you my recipe and technique for a clambake, it is what I always serve the first night after setting up camp.
We knew everyone who camped there and became one big family. Those friendships carried on for many years and the memories are among my favorites.
At the station we didn't meet a single Roma or Sinti, even though we had seen videos that made us think there was a lot going on at the station.
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Dundee United sign keeper Mark Birighitti from Central Coast Mariners
Birighitti is the latest addition to Jack Ross' squad.
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United have made their third signing of the summer. SNS Group
By Andy Coyle
21st Jul 2022
Dundee United and Motherwell face tough Conference League qualifiers
Dundee United complete signing of Steven Fletcher and Dylan Levitt
Dundee United have announced the signing of goalkeeper Mark Birighitti from Central Coast Mariners.
The 31-year-old has signed a two-year contract to join Jack Ross' side and is a direct replacement for Benjamin Siegrist, who moved to Celtic after leaving Tannadice at the end of last season.
Birighitti, who was capped by Australia in 2013, has a wealth of experience, having played for Swansea and NAC Breda as well as A-League sides.
He told the club's official website: "It's a long way from home, but I've played in Europe before in England and in the Netherlands and I was always keen to get back here.
"There's no better place to do it than Dundee United and I'm really looking forward to the season ahead.
"When I heard United were interested it was a no-brainer. I said yes straight away."
The goalkeeper is Ross' fourth summer signing, following the addition of Craig Sibbald, Dylan Levitt and Steven Fletcher earlier in the window.
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First, as the Thai's say "jai yen yen", relax. Stay calm and set a simple goal to get out in one. Then, square your stance and turn your clubface inwards at address, shift your weight forward, and play the ball in the back of your stance. Turning the clubface inwards lets you use the clubface's leading edge like a shovel to slice through the sand. Shifting your weight forward and playing the ball back encourages you to hit down on the ball.
Also, choke down on the club, grip the club firmly, and keep your wrists solid throughout the swing. You'll meet a lot of resistance when your club hits the sand, so you'll need to keep your wrist solid.
Take your normal backswing. Then make a smooth transition to your downswing. Come down hard into the ball; almost as if you were shoveling sand. Aim to enter the sand just beyond the lie's outer circle. Be sure to accelerate through impact.
A helpful hint is to imagine burying the club like a shovel in the sand and leaving it there. The ball comes out low with little backspin. It runs when it lands.
Hitting a fried egg in Thailand isn't as hard as you might think. Make these adjustments and you will never have to fear fried eggs when golfing in Thailand.


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  var box = this;
  setTimeout(function() {console.log($(box).val());}, 10);
});

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*change: fallback

*keyup: for entering a value

*mousewheel: hmmm... I wonder?

A: See: HTML5 number spinbox controls not triggering a change event?
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Racially Motivated Murder in 1983 Where A Black Man Was Lynched Is Uncovered, 5 Suspects Charged & Two Of Them Are Cops
Investigators said two men got away with murder for more than three decades thanks, in part, to help from two law enforcement officers.
The explosive news came in a news conference from the Spalding County sheriff Friday.
the death of Timothy Coggins was "no doubt" racially-motivated, according to sheriff Darrell Dix.
It was in 1983 that Coggins' body was found abandoned near power lines on Manley Road.
According to the report, Coggins died of multiple forms of trauma. The sheriff said after an exhaustive investigation, the case went cold.
A new witness came forward earlier this year, which led to a re-examination of the case. Original witnesses were contacted and re-interviewed.
Channel 2 Action News learned that two of the five people implicated in the death of Coggins were acting in their official capacity when the crime happened. Dix said Milner Police Officer Lamar Bunn was charged with obstruction, and Spalding County Detention Officer Gregory Huffman was charged with violation of oath office.
Frankie Gebhardt, 59, and Bill Moore Sr., 58, were charged with felony murder.
Sandra Bunn, 58, was charged with obstruction.
"There is no doubt in the minds of all investigators involved that the crime was racially motivated, and if the crime happened today it would be prosecuted as a hate crime," Dix said.
Coggins' family thanked the current sheriff and the GBI for taking another look at this case.
"We know that there's been tireless nights and we know that you guys have put in so many hours making sure that these people were brought to justice, so on behalf of them, we would definitely like to say 'thank you,'" said Coggins' niece, Heather Coggins. "The only unfortunate part in this is that our grandparents, Timothy Coggins' parents, are not able to see this today."
The sheriff said recent media coverage helped witnesses to come forward.
"Thanks to the assistance of both local and statewide new media coverage, previously unknown witnesses stepped forward and when interviewed, many of the witnesses stated that they had been living with this information since Coggins' death but had been afraid to come forward until now or had not spoken of it until now," Dix said.
The sheriff said the investigation is not over and that more arrests are expected.
Friends of the victims said they thought this day would never come.
"It worried everybody to death, but we never could find out what was going on, so life just continued to go on," Alton McFarland said.
The Coggins' family never gave up hope for justice.
"Even on my grandmother's deathbed she knew that justice would one day be served," said Heather Coggins. "So we are eternally grateful and we would like to say thank you."
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Apple vs Adobe vs HTML 5 vs Apple vs Flash vs whatever
I'm fed up. It's enough. Thx. I don't care who started it; I don't care why Steve and Shantanu don't want to play with each other's companies anymore and I'm seriously fed up with everyone talking about nothing else.
Disclaimer: I'm a Flex and Flash developer myself and I personally would have really liked to see any form of Flash support for the iPhone or iPad. But maybe it's time that everyone moves on. I for my part will continue to do Flash and Flex and use lots of other Adobe tools because there are a lot of cases in which those technologies make a lot of sense. But I will also continue to be a good Apple customer and buy Macs and iPhones and probably an iPad at some stage.
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Rob May 1, 2010 at 6:53 am
Only an Apple fan would write this post. That article Steve Jobs wrote is outrageously dishonest. You "don't care" about that?
kai May 1, 2010 at 8:59 am
Yep, agree. As a lot of public statements a bunch of marketing/sales people do every day. I'm not saying SJ is right, I'm just saying – it's enough, I can't be bothered anymore with everyone speaking about nothing else. Move on, let him hate Flash for right or wrong reasons – Adobe should turn around and show the capabilities of Flash on mobiles and make the promises they (and Macromedia) haven been making for years a reality.
infocyde May 1, 2010 at 11:25 am
Betrayed but still loyal, the cult of Jobs holds a powerful sway over its members.
There are no good guys, only companies making a profit. Maybe open source is the way to go.
Justin L May 8, 2010 at 4:33 am
the irony is that apple and adobe take nearly identical approaches, and everything jobs says in criticism of adobe is equally applicable to apple. for example:
apple writes closed, proprietary, vendor-locked software, and forces you to use their environment to target it. no windows development for iphones, no languages the boss doesn't ok, no features or content the boss finds objectionable, and of course, you pay for the privilege. but jobs criticizes adobe for having vendor-locked tools.
apple writes unmanaged, potentially exploitable software in a 20 year old language that also wastes a lot of cpu time on dynamic binding. adobe has similar security and performance issues, jobs criticizes them for it.
jobs says he can't support flash because one vendor chooses the specs, then he turns around and says he can't support flash because it's intended to be portable and apple therefore can't add vendor-specific extensions.
both vendors have locked, closed, proprietary, inefficient, untrustworthy platforms. both vendors embrace, extend, and extinguish a few data format standards and call themselves open.
really nothing could be better for the rest of us who have been saying all along that the little apple/adobe bubble couldn't be less open, free, individualistic, creative, and thinking different from the worst of microsoft's tactics.
apple and adobe are doing more with their little spat to expose their combined closed-ness than all the voices of reason outside the scene ever could.
Joel Fiser June 16, 2010 at 10:44 am
Jobs attempt to use his current perch at the top of the heap to try to kill an excellent technology that's good for the web and therefore good for the World is not so easily forgotten.
He's shown he cannot be trusted with that kind of power and I'll do anything I can (technologically speaking) to help bring about his and his company's demise.
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ROLLER COASTER WEEKEND ENDS ON A HIGH NOTE FOR MMR
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Michael Myers Racing survives an incident in the first race of the weekend to come back with a top 12 finish on Sunday – with some help from a Road to Indy graduate/NTT INDYCAR SERIES driver
LEXINGTON, Ohio – Michael Myers Racing entered the race weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course with hopes of continuing their progress during their first full Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship season.
Despite an incident in Friday's first race that sent the team scrambling to repair the No. 42 Sturgis Finishing/Metalloid/Myers Garage Tatuus USF-17, the team recovered quickly to earn their second-highest finish of the season – with a little help from former Road to Indy star RC Enerson.
"We decided we needed a driver coach and who better than my coach from the Lucas Oil School of Racing, RC Enerson!" said driver Michael Myers. "We have a great relationship and I appreciate that he came out. I worked with him from the first time I was in a formula car. It was great having him there, with all his knowledge. He really helped me this weekend and huge thanks to the school for letting me utilize him."
The series conducted an official test on Thursday, with three sessions to allow the drivers and teams to get up to speed. But Mother Nature had other plans, with the track hovering between wet and damp for much of the day – making it next to impossible to make any gains with the setup.
"Thursday was definitely typical of moody Mid-Ohio! It would rain then dry up, so the track was very inconsistent all day. The track is like ice as is, so I don't think anyone got a good read on their car. We didn't even go out in the first session, and it was still wet in the second session. It was drivable, but just barely.
"Then in the final session, we were making good progress when the skies just opened. Fortunately, RC made a great call to have me come in to work on strategy, and I was just about to go back out when he radioed that it was raining in Turn Two and I needed to stay in! I got back to the garage just in time. It was a downpour in a very short amount of time and I'm just glad I wasn't one of them caught out."
The USF2000 series took to the track early Friday morning for official practice, then the lone qualifying session early in the afternoon that would cover all three races (races two and three form the grid via the second quickest lap in qualifying or a driver's fast race lap, whichever is quicker). The pressure was on for Myers, knowing that the chances of significantly increasing his time – with 27 other cars on track – was slim.
"It's an interesting element, having just one session. You have to do well right away, but we weren't able to finish what we wanted to finish, and that set up a challenging weekend."
Starting race one on Friday evening in 22nd position, Myers began to work his way forward, up to P19 in the first 10 laps – until an incident on Lap 11 ended his day and caused significant damage to the car.
"I got tangled up with another car in Turn Five and it ripped off the right side of the car and damaged the floor. It was a racing incident, and I know what each of us could have done better, and it was a very painful experience for both of us. But it meant that my small team was once again working late on the car. They did a great job to get the car ready to go on Saturday."
Myers took the race two green flag in 26th position and job one was getting a feel for the car once again and making sure it felt as though everything was back to where it had been before Friday's incident. Once he was set, he was once again making progress, with Enerson offering valuable feedback to the young driver at the end of the day.
"I learned a lot from that race. RC highlighted the places where I needed to be more aggressive, really showing me what I needed to do. That comes down to my lack of experience, since I haven't really gotten the chance to race hard in this series. RC helped re-wire my brain and I was fired up Sunday morning – and it showed!"
Race Three took the green flag early Sunday morning, offering one last chance for the Myers team to make a statement – and they did. Myers started 22nd and carved his way through the field to finish 12th, despite two caution periods that slowed his progress.
"That was the finish we really needed after the last few races. I had a great start, working my way past a few guys that first lap. I made a few more good passes through the race and had some crazy battles. I feel like that's the first time since the INDYCAR GP back in May (where Myers finished 11th) that I've been able to race that hard. I was really happy with that race; we got a lot of race craft out of that."
The series now takes a "summer break" returning to action in seven weeks at New Jersey Motorsports Park.
"We definitely have some time to wait, but we'll get some testing done and be ready to go."
Myers also has his "day job" to keep him busy between now and the end of August.
"I am a web designer and developer, and I do graphic work. I've done a lot of websites, and I have a good mix of company and individual clients. I stay pretty busy and it helps fund my racing! So I basically have two full-time jobs."
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BROWNSBURG, Ind. – Michael Myers completed the hometown double last weekend, capping a thrilling month of May by competing in his first oval race, finishing
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Offshore wind farms could power much of coastal China: study
Under the Paris Climate Agreement, China committed to rely on renewable resources for 20 percent of its energy needs by 2030. Currently, the country is on track to double that commitment, aiming to hit 40 percent by the next ...
World fritters away half trillion dollars on coal support
Nations around the world risk wasting $640 billion by continuing to prop up the coal industry rather than investing in less expensive and environmentally friendlier wind and solar power initiatives.
Scientists create 'artificial leaf' that turns carbon into fuel
Scientists have created an "artificial leaf" to fight climate change by inexpensively converting harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) into a useful alternative fuel.
Research group advances perovskite solar technology for green energy production
In a new research paper published in Nature Energy earlier this month, Professor Michael McGehee and his research team demonstrate how to dramatically improve the stability of tin-containing perovskite material used in stacked ...
Chemists demonstrate sustainable approach to carbon dioxide capture from air
Chemists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a practical, energy-efficient method of capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) directly from air. They report their findings in Nature Energy. ...
Modern wind turbines can more than compensate for decline in global wind resource
Wind energy contributes significantly to the energy sector's sustainable, low-CO2 transformation. However, the efficiency of wind turbines depends on available wind resources and the technical characteristics of the turbines. ...
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About one in four people in the United States lives in an area served by cellular phone towers at risk of an outage caused by wildfires, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Wind and solar produced a record 10 percent of global electricity in the first half of 2020 as the world's coal plant fleet ran at less than half its capacity, analysis published Thursday showed.
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Sweat Much? Here's Why and What You Can Do About It
This explains so much.
If genius really is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration, then some of us must be a lot smarter than others. While sweat is a normal human function, a lucky few seem to produce higher-than-normal amounts—especially in the hot summer months. But before you hole yourself up in air conditioning all season, there are a few things you should know about sweat. Here's the basics on what it is, why it happens (to certain folks more than others), and what you can do if you're concerned about it.
There are three types of sweat
All sweat is not created equal, says Laure Rittié, PhD, research assistant professor in the department of dermatology at the University of Michigan. And everyone sweats differently: Some people may have problems with all three types of perspiration, while others may really only ever notice one or two.
First, there's body sweat—the odorless type that pours off you during a workout or when you stand out in the hot sun. This type of sweat exists to help cool the skin and keep the body's internal temperature as close to 98.6 degrees as possible. You'll notice it pretty much everywhere, but especially along the forehead and the spine.
Then, there's perspiration on the palms and soles of the feet. This type of sweat helps increase adherence and grip, says Rittié, and, evolutionarily, it's the body's response to a perceived threat. (That's why some people notice it when they're feeling anxious.) "When you want to hold onto something, you'll do better with wet fingers," Rittié explains. "In the beginning, we didn't wear shoes, so sweaty feet helped us run or climb when we needed to."
Finally, there's sweat that's emitted from the armpits and the genital area. This is the type that produces so-called body odor, thanks to bacteria living in these places. "We're not completely sure what the function here is, but we think there's some pheromone-type of communication going on," Rittié says. "If one individual in a herd senses danger and starts to emit those strong smells, it could alert others around them."
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Sweating a lot doesn't mean you're out of shape
The body begins producing body sweat when it starts to heat up—either externally, from high temperatures, or internally, from muscle exertion (like when exercising). So if you push yourself harder than your body is used to, your body is more likely to kick on its internal air conditioning; that's why a highly trained athlete may be able to run a 10-minute mile without breaking a sweat, while the same workout may leave a less conditioned person red-faced and drenched.
But the more you train your body, and the more time you spend in hot, humid climates, the more efficient you become at sweating. "The body will adjust and react a little earlier before you get too hot," says Rittié, "so your sweating will be more spread out over time and across your whole body—rather than building up and releasing all at once, and leaving one big spot on your shirt."
Yes, that may translate into more sweating overall—just look at any NBA basketball game and you'll see that even highly-trained athletes sweat a ton—but it's ultimately a good thing. It means the body is better able to respond to the demands of heat and exercise, and stays cooler as a result.
How much you sweat is largely determined before age 2
Whether you sweat buckets or stay fresh as a daisy on hot days also has a lot to do with genetics. "If one or both of your parents were heavy sweaters, then there is a good chance that you will be too," says exercise physiologist Michael Bergeron, PhD, President of Youth Sports of the Americas. Men also tend to sweat more than women, he says, although that's not always the case.
Body composition matters, too: Larger people generally sweat more, because they work harder to carry a heavier load. "But many comparatively small people can sweat tremendously," says Bergeron. And because muscle generates heat, he adds, people with more muscle mass also tend to sweat more than their leaner peers.
But actually, a lot of how much a person sweats has to do with the first two years of life. That's when sweat glands are first activated, says Rittié; if they don't get fully turned on during this period, they likely never will. In other words, a super-active toddler who runs around in the heat will likely develop greater sweating ability (again, a good thing) than one who's not very active.
Heavy sweaters should hydrate more
"The more you sweat, the more deliberate you need to be about replacing the water your body's lost," says Bergeron. When exercising, most adults can comfortably and safely take in about 1.5 liters (a little more than 50 ounces) of water an hour. If you're sweating more than that amount—you can weigh yourself before and after a workout to find out—you should make up for it by drinking extra water before and after you work out.
Sweat also contains important electrolytes, like sodium, that the body needs to function properly. Most people get enough salt in their diets that they don't need to worry about this, but if you're exercising for longer than an hour and really sweating a lot, an electrolyte-enriched sports drink can help replace what's lost.
Rittié also points out that acclimating your body to exercise or to heat—so that you ultimately sweat less—won't work if you don't drink enough water on a regular basis. "Staying hydrated before and during exercise will help train your body to fight the heat," she says. Cold water is best, she adds, "because it helps to cool down your internal organs."
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Prescription treatments may help
Besides staying in shape, wearing sweat-wicking clothing, and spending two to three weeks acclimating to the heat, there's not much people can do about heavy sweating during exercise. (Putting antiperspirant on your hairline or on other body parts may help curb localized perspiration—but, Rittié warns, when you block sweat glands in one part of the body, others will compensate by working even harder.)
People with excessive day-to-day sweating, however—a condition known as hyperhydrosis—may have more options. If you're already using an over-the-counter aluminum-based antiperspirant and it just isn't cutting it, your doctor may recommend a prescription-strength solution with aluminum chloride. These work best when applied before bed, but can cause skin and eye irritation for some people.
Botox injections and certain types of medications have been shown to block the nerves that trigger sweat production, and may be useful for people who sweat excessively under their arms or on their hands and feet. (If those don't work, electrical stimulation or even surgery may be considered.) Friction also contributes to sweaty feet, says Rittié, so changing up your shoes and socks—and being sure you aren't sliding around in them—may help, as well.
If sweating is truly causing a problem in your daily life, talk to your primary doctor or dermatologist about potential solutions. Otherwise, grab your water bottle and get outside. Embrace your sweaty self, and try to be thankful your body is doing its job.


Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election has prompted anguished reactions from around the globe. His inflammatory pronouncements show that he is utterly unsuitable for that office and beneath contempt. Lying, bullying, boasting about assaulting women – a full catalogue of his faults would surely fill this column.
Moreover, Trump's policy proposals have been so fantastical, fascistic, contradictory, or completely lacking in specifics that it would be foolish to predict how his presidency will unfold. This in itself plunges the world into deeper political uncertainty.
But on the much narrower question of what a Trump presidency will mean for science, we can look at his attitudes to international collaboration, the environment, the value of evidence and a host of other issues that directly affect research. And those signs are deeply worrying.
US science has long thrived on a steady supply of the brightest and best minds coming from other countries. But Trump's poisonous rhetoric – directed at Muslims, Mexicans, and others – demonstrates a xenophobia that will surely give foreign scientists pause for thought before they consider a move to the US.
He has also expressed a strong anti-intellectual streak, readily dismissing evidence that does not suit his own worldview. This puts him strikingly at odds with a scientific culture that lauds critical thinking and rationality, and it will be more important than ever for scientists in the US to stand up for evidence-based approaches to policymaking.
Trump has offered few specific details on federal research funding beyond broad platitudes. During the election campaign, he told ScienceDebate.org that 'we must make the commitment to invest in science, engineering, healthcare and other areas that will make the lives of Americans better, safer and more prosperous'. The fear is that his administration will have a particular, blinkered view of what sort of research that entails.
Take the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which Trump has vowed to neuter just as it stands on the brink of enforcing stricter regulations following the reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) earlier this year. Trump, of course, has no truck with such interventions. Instead, he believes that 'a vibrant, robust free market system will regulate the private sector', an utter abrogation of the government's responsibility to protect its citizens' environment.
Last year, President Barack Obama played an instrumental role in reaching a landmark climate deal that aims to limit global temperature rise to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels. Trump, who has described climate change as a Chinese hoax, promised to renege on that agreement and boost domestic coal production. If that happens, it will be much harder for the world to tackle the threat of global warming.
This attitude could also affect government funding agencies that support research on climate change, and on ways to mitigate its effects. Chemistry lies at the heart of many of these programmes: whether developing techniques to capture carbon dioxide, creating the batteries needed to store renewable electricity or performing the environmental monitoring needed to track the planet's health. If the president-elect truly believes that climate change is a hoax, why would he advocate funding any of these efforts?
As nascent industries, solar and wind power still benefit from government subsidies, but Trump has decried this government intervention. Instead, he once again invokes 'a thriving market system' that 'will allow consumers to determine the best sources of energy for future consumption'. In other words, he will allow cheap fossil fuels to hold sway, no matter what the environmental consequences.
Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court is reviewing Obama's proposal, the Clean Power Plan, to limit emissions from America's fossil fuel power plants. That court currently has a vacancy, and Trump is expected to select someone who would vote against the regulation.
Some of Trump's support has undoubtedly come from those disaffected with the consequences of globalisation and technological development. Although they have brought enormous benefits to the world as a whole, and to science in particular, some sections of society have been hurt by these trends – those in the US whose manufacturing jobs have relocated to developing countries, for example.
While Trump has promised to rebalance the inequalities in American society, it feels naïve to hope that he means it. But if he does act, he should not rewind the country to some long-lost idyll fuelled by fossil fuels and environmental negligence. Instead, he should focus on stimulating jobs in the industries of tomorrow – renewable energy, electric vehicles, biomedicine and more.
Yet Trump has also questioned the need for the US government to improve the science and technology education that would underpin these jobs, instead arguing that education should be driven by the whims of 'market influences'. It's a chilling concept for anyone familiar with Trump University, his now-defunct business that is subject to a class-action lawsuit for alleged fraud.
Some seek solace in the mantra that Congress will circumscribe Trump's power. Even though Republicans now have a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, many of these politicians do not subscribe to Trumpism, and it's possible they could moderate his more extreme urges.
Or we might pin our hopes to the suggestion that he was simply lying when he talked about building a wall along the border with Mexico, or barring Muslims from entering the US. That this was just empty hyperbole, as some pundits say, designed to whip up his supporters.
Perhaps that is so. But it is a sad and worrying state of affairs when our best-case scenario is that the next US president is merely a mendacious, opportunist demagogue.


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In July I had a rare opportunity to train 26 teachers in a public school here in Porto Alegre, Brazil. My prayer for this time of training was that God would give me wisdom to teach something valuable to these teachers and that it would open the door for other oppor-tunities in the future! Based on the feedback, God answered both of these prayers. The principal asked if I would be willing to come back and do more training and the vice principal asked if I would be willing to do some training with other principals and vice principals in Porto Alegre. I said yes! While no dates have been set, I am very grateful for this opportunity to bring biblical principles into the public school setting.
Paulo and I continue to love our new church family! We have seen spiritual growth and growth in numbers in our congregation. We are blessed to have as members 2 Seminary graduates – one being a former student of mine; a current seminary student, and 2 pastors besides Paulo. One of these pastors runs a Drug/Alcohol Rehabilitation Centre. This pastor's wife, Luciana, just had surgery to remove a cancerous tumor and will now undergo chemotherapy. She almost died of cancer last year and more tumors have started to appear again.
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Q: RE: host pip server on cloud we are moving from on premises to a cloud. we currently host some of our custom build python packages on on premises pip server. but as we move to cloud we would like to have these custom pip packages hosted on cloud (aws), but before we do that we would like to implement some security measure so that none of our python application code can be read by anyone without decrypting it. so here is what I have in mind, to encrypt those pip packages when we store and then decrypt these packages when we start to install these packages at the deployment time.
build-> encrypt-> store on cloud pypi -> pull from cloud pypi -> decrypt -> deploy on instance

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*is this a good starting point for providing security to the packages?

*what are some of the tools we can use along with jenkins (build purposes) and ansible(deployment) purposs

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Q: Friendly URL and remove php prefix i have this in my htaccess
Options +MultiViews

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ dash.php?p=$1
RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/$ dash.php?p=$1

and im trying to make this url:
http://mywebdomain.com/dash.php?p=dash&mode=All

look like this:
http://mywebdomain.com/dash/All

Is there a way to do this?
and also if i had for example this:
http://mywebdomain.com/user/manage.php?p=manage&mode=Me

how could i get that to look like this:
http://mywebdomain.com/user/manage/Me

I have successfully managed to get the .php extension removed by the Options +Multiviews command but i am struggling trying to work out why it wont work for the re-write of the extended parts of the url.
Thanks for any help in advance too :)
Jonny

A: With MultiViews on, you do not need Rewrite to accomplish this.
since dash.php file exist in document root, Apache will pass requests to /dash/anything to dash.php, and that php script can parse the URI (found in $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]) to check what was the full uri called.
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Posted in 2011 on September 20, 2011
How Language Use Forces Minorities to the Margin
Desi Arnaz played the role of Ricky Ricardo in the popular 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy."
Hanging on his dressing room door was a sign that read, "English is broken here."
For those of us who are Hispanic, our "broken" English serves as a reminder that we do not belong.
And even when some of us attempt to assimilate, we will continue to be outsiders, strangers – regardless how many generations we have been present in the land.
For many Hispanics, their presence in the United States was due to the borders crossing them.
For others, like me, we are here because of 20th-century gunboat diplomacy.
Today, many are pulled here by this country's insatiable thirst for cheap labor.
Most of us reveal ourselves the moment we open our mouths. Once our "broken" English is detected, we are relegated to marginality, facing hostile congressional laws and proposals unless we can certify our belonging – our "legality."
Yet even when we are "legal," we remain unheard.
So, what price do we pay when English is broken here? How does the dominant culture hear Hispanics? And how does the act of hearing create, maintain and sustain oppressive structures?
Language is more than a collection of words. It is a conveyer of concepts. Latina and Latino identity is not derived by any given race (we are black, white, yellow, red, brown and every possible combination thereof), but rather from our culture that facilitates the ability to speak Spanish.
Even when some of us do not speak Spanish, we remain tied to a Spanish-based culture.
Unlike other groups who consciously attempted to assimilate to the mainstream, most Hispanics have stubbornly refused to forsake their native tongue.
To the dominant culture, our language represents the ethnic stubbornness that resists assimilation. Latinas and Latinos by choice continue to preserve their language by passing it to the next generation.
With the act of speaking Spanish, Hispanics place themselves in direct conflict with the sociopolitical structures that would have us articulate self-oppressive expression with each linguistic utterance.
Hispanics who wish to produce successful discourse so as to participate more fully in the structures of society must observe the cultural capital of that society, which is to speak a fluent English.
To prove the point, the reader will note that I am not writing this article in my native tongue. To do so is to not be heard.
Asserting one's ethnic language, or speaking the dominant language with an accent, usually disqualifies the speaker from social advancement.
Regardless of the effort exhausted, the attempt to speak English properly is viewed by others as a parody.
Thus, our inability to master the dominant language signifies us in a symbolic system that we will never command; rather, it is a system that commands us.
Defenders of English as the official language often insist on its predominance because of some alleged intrinsic virtue.
In reality, they are defending their position of power. Power need not be overtly exercised.
Rather, power can be transmuted into a symbolic form through the routine flow of day-to-day life, which is forced to be conducted in the language of the dominant group.
This process empowers the dominant group by bestowing a kind of legitimacy. Language, as a symbolic power, presupposes the values of the dominant culture in such a way that Latinas and Latinos speaking English participate in their own subjection.
Still, to insist as Hispanics upon the validity of our own language dooms us to being oppressed because English is a precondition for economic and political success. And yet, where there is repression, resistance exists.
Speaking Spanish presents a horror to the dominant culture: namely, that a person might one day succeed financially and politically without needing to communicate in English.
As long as Hispanics were an insignificant minority, they could be heard as an exotic other from a tropical culture that, while bizarre or strange, is still amusing to observe.
But as demographic shifts took place in the last 20 years making us the largest U.S. ethnic group, we went from being paternalistically stereotyped as hard-working, family-oriented people from a noble race to being dangerous "illegals" bent on robbing, killing and raping true Americans.
According to a 2011 demographic study conducted by the Brookings Institution, Hispanics represented 41 percent of the population growth in the nation's largest metropolitan areas during the past decade – while white populations continued to stagnate.
Hispanics went from representing 11 percent of metropolitan areas in 1990 to 15 percent in 2000 to 20 percent in 2010.
These major metropolitan areas added 11 million Latinos and Latinas, 4 million Asians, 3 million African-Americans and about 400,000 whites.
The old white-black paradigm of race analysis is at best obsolete and soon to be replaced with a Spanish-English demarcation.
"English only" legislation offered throughout this country is an attempt by the dominant group to curb this perceived threat.
So I ask: ¿Podemos hablar?
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Elvis didn't invent the peanut butter and banana sandwich, but he sure did make it famous. This version includes bacon, and is a family favorite!
This sandwich has been a long time in coming. I've posted it on my personal Facebook wall several times. Every time, my friends ask "What is it?" and "How do I make it." So I've decided to share it here. Finally!
Peanut butter and banana sandwiches were not invented by Elvis.
You see, I'm a Southerner. I grew up eating peanut butter and banana sandwiches. We never even knew Elvis Presley ate them. When Elvis died, an interview with his cook revealed he loved fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
Most of the country had never heard of this bizarre concoction, but we Southerners were quite familiar with it. I was 9 years old at the time, and didn't understand why everyone thought it was so odd. I'd been eating it my whole life.
Of course, as an adult, I realize the uniqueness of our Southern culture, and that many things we do, say, and eat differ from other parts of the country. While I can't tell you how Mr. Presley ate his sandwiches, I can share how we eat ours.
When I was a kid, I remember it being made two ways. Neither was toasted or grilled.
The first way I remember it being made was to spread peanut butter, and sometimes mayonnaise, on the bread. Then slices of banana were added. The other way was to mash up the banana, peanut butter, and mayo in a bowl, then spread it on the bread.
Both ways are good, but my favorite was the mashed up version. Seriously, I'd eat it with a spoon. So good! The version I'm sharing with you today is a bit more than basic.
So let's talk about this sandwich I'm calling The Not-Elvis Peanut Butter Sandwich.
This recipe is so simple, I hesitate to even call it a recipe. I think it makes a perfectly fine lunch. We don't have it often, maybe a few times a year, and it's so good!
1. Spread the peanut butter on one side of one slice of bread. Top with sliced banana, then slices of bacon. Drizzle with a bit of honey.
2. Cover with the other slice of bread. Spread butter on the outside of the sandwich.
3. Heat a skillet over medium heat. Grill sandwich on each side until golden brown and peanut butter is melted, about 2 minutes on each side.
I recommend using a cast iron pan or griddle or this grill pan.
When I make these, I cut the banana in half, then slice it lengthwise twice, creating three slices. You can do whatever you want, I just do it this way because it covers the bread with the least amount of effort.
Elvis didn't invent the peanut butter and banana sandwich, but he sure did make it famous. This version includes bacon, and is a family favorite! Perfect for lunch.
Spread the peanut butter on one side of one slice of bread. Top with sliced banana, then slices of bacon. Drizzle with a bit of honey.
Cover with the other slice of bread. Spread butter on the outside of the sandwich.
Heat a skillet over medium heat. Grill sandwich on each side until golden brown and peanut butter is melted, about 2 minutes on each side.


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