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Actor Julian Sands reported missing while hiking in California mountains
The Warlockand A Room With A Viewstar is 65, and was reported missing by his family last week
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Julian Sands, the well-known British actor best known for roles in films like A Room With A View and the Warlock films, has gone missing during a hiking trip, ABC 7 reports. Authorities confirmed tonight that Sands was one of two hikers reported missing late last week amidst heavy storms in Los Angeles.
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Sands was reported missing by family members on Friday night. Although born in England, Sands moved to California in the 1980s, after scoring early career successes with his lead role in 1985 E.M. Forster adaptation A Room With A View. He's since worked steadily in Hollywood, appearing in a number of film and TV roles over the years, and building up more than 150 credits across a long career.
According to the news reports, Sands, 65, went missing while hiking on South California's Mt. Baldy last week. Search and rescue efforts have been hampered by severe storms in the area. A spokesperson for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department issued a statement today, saying that, "His wife did report him missing. From what I understand, he left sometime that day for a hike and when he did not return, his family reported him missing."
Sands is one of two hikers currently missing in the area. The other, Bob Gregory, was reported missing earlier this week, somewhere in the Crystal Lake area.
Los Angeles has been swept by storms over the last several weeks, with flooding affecting larges parts of the city and the surrounding areas. The SBCSD issued a further statement warning hikers to continue to stay off the local trails, noting that, "The conditions are too dangerous. In fact, even some of the more experienced hikers are getting themselves into trouble up there so we recommend that people to stay away from that area."


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The KLF's songs are finally available to stream
By Mark Savage
BBC music reporter
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After years of silence, The KLF have uploaded a selection of their most famous songs to streaming services like Spotify, YouTube and Apple Music.
The band's music has been officially unavailable since 1992, when they deleted their entire back catalogue.
But eight songs, including dance anthems like 3AM Eternal and What Time Is Love, are now available on an eight-track compilation, Solid State Logik.
Fly posters in London suggested The KLF would release more music this year.
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Solid State Logik collects all of the band's biggest hits - including the Tammy Wynette collaboration Justified & Ancient, and the Gary Glitter-sampling Doctorin' The Tardis.
It comes 29 years after founders Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond turned their backs on music, with a provocative performance at the 1992 Brit Awards - where they tied for best group with Simply Red.
The duo made their disdain for the industry clear by performing 3AM Eternal while firing blanks from a machine gun into the stunned audience, before an announcer said: "The KLF have left the music business."
Driving the point home, they later dumped a dead sheep on the steps of an after-show party with a note reading, "I died for ewe".
Cauty and Drummond later burned £1m of their royalties in bundles of £50 notes, on the remote Scottish island of Jura.
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KLF founder launches 'pyramid' scheme
In recent decades the duo have concentrated on book and art projects, including plans to build a "people's pyramid", inspired by the death of Cauty's brother and constructed from bricks, each containing 23 grams of human ashes.
But fans have clamoured for their music - with bootleg clips of their videos and performances achieving tens of millions of views on YouTube, and several "sound-alike" versions of their biggest hits appearing on Spotify.
When other streaming holdouts like AC/DC and Neil Young relented and made their back catalogues available, The KLF still held out. In 2018, Billboard named their absence as one of the eight most significant gaps on streaming services, alongside records by De La Soul and Aaliyah.
The band announced their surprise resurrection in two posters pasted under a railway bridge in Shoreditch, East London, alongside graffiti referencing The KLF.
The Instagram account of Cauty's girlfriend showed a figure creating the graffiti creating the graffiti on New Year's Eve.
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According to a statement on the band's YouTube page, Solid State Logik (named after the mixing desk the band used to create their biggest hits) is the first of five planned releases, covering all of the band's releases, under a variety of names.
It read: "KLF have appropriated the work done between 1 January 1987 and 31 December 1991 by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords [and] The KLF.
"This appropriation was in order to tell a story in five chapters using the medium of streaming. The name of the story is Samplecity Thru Transcentral."
Posters announcing The KLF's return appeared on Kingsland Road, East London
The text goes on to name several projects that are being prepared for release, some of which have never been heard before, including Kick Out The Jams, the Pure Trance Series, and a second volume of Solid State Logik.
"If you need to know more about the work done by The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu, The Timelords or The KLF, you can find truths, rumours and half-truths scattered across the internet," the statement continued.
"From these truths, rumours and half-truths, you can form your own opinions.
"The actual facts were washed down a storm drain in Brixton some time in the late 20th Century."
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Gov. Ihedioha wins in Appeal Court
An Appeal Court sitting in Owerri, the capital of Imo State, has granted victory to Governor Emeka Ihedioha in a suit filed against his emergence as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election.
Ihedioha had, at the party's primary election held in Owerri last October, polled 1,723 to defeat Sam Anyanwu, who got 1,282 votes.
Anyanwu had approached the court to nullify the victory of the governor.
He also wanted to be declared as the authentic winner of the primary election conducted by the PDP ahead of the election.
According to Anyanwu, Ihedioha engaged in over voting, thuggery, which he claimed, swayed the polls in his favour.
Upholding the ruling of a Federal High Court which had dismissed a suit filed by Senator Anyanwu concerning Ihedioha's candidacy, the Appeal Court said from the allegations of the plaintiff, the court could not establish the fact in his claims and therefore dismissed the suit for lack of proof.
In the judgement, Justice Raphael Chikwe Agbo, ruled that the plaintiff did not convince the court on the prayers he sought.
The judge therefore dismissed the suit for lack of proof.
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Sprintcar brothers step into form
Tue, 17 January 2017 2:15PM
Camera IconBunbury 360 sprintcar driver Daniel Keen continued his solid form with another win on Friday night at the Perth Motorplex. Credit: Richard Hathaway
Bunbury 360 sprintcar driver Daniel Keen is in the form of his short career, winning yet another feature race at the Perth Motorplex on Saturday night.
Keen has won three consecutive 360 feature races to put himself third on the series points table, behind his second-placed younger brother Michael.
Keen said he was a lot more confident behind the wheel this season and was working hard to improve.
"We have a new crew chief and he is more of a mentor than anything," he said.
"I have been flat out trying to work on my fitness and the chief has been working on my mental fitness.
"I have a lot more confidence behind the wheel now."
Camera IconDaniel Keen hits the straight at the Perth Motorplex on his way to a win on Friday night. Credit: Richard Hathaway
The brothers could drop down the points table after this weekend, with the pair to miss the meet in Bunbury because of a trip to the Eastern States.
They will next race in Esperance on January 27, before the State Championships in Collie a week later.
Daniel Keen said he wanted to take the State title off his brother.
The 23-year-old admitted there was always a rivalry between the two, whether it be in the 360s, wingless or in the sprintcar features.
Nominations are starting to mount for this weekend's Sprintcar AllStars event at Quit Bunbury Speedway over five divisions.
A field of 360 Sprintcars, Limited Sprints, Wingless Sprints, Super Modifieds and Stock Bikes will entertain the crowd.
Speedway promotions manager Andrew Roberts said it was great to see such an array of divisions for the event.
"We have to foster and develop the sport on all facets, hence the reason for so many different classes here this weekend," he said.
"Variety for the crowd will be top notch."
Gates will open at 4pm, with racing starting at 6pm.


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Each Asian market is extremely different. China, Japan, and South Korea can't be lumped together into a single market when you think about gaming in Asia.
If you're looking to break into the Chinese market, you should absolutely partner with a Chinese gaming company that can help you . You should also be working on Android and know that freemium apps reign supreme in China.
In South Korea, virality is part of the culture. Trends go viral with the blink of an eye. Trends that take weeks to sweep the U.S. can sweep South Korea within 24 hours – and often, the most viral games are created by South Korean locals. Even foreign developers who create successful games for the South Korean market are often outdone by locals who release better versions of their games a short time later.
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Atomic 212 appoints Jonas Lembke as its first ECD
February 1, 2017 9:18
by Zoe Samios
Atomic 212 has appointed Swedish creative Jonas Lembke as the agency's first executive creative director as it continues its bid to transition from media agency to full service agency.
Lembke is the first creative director for the full-service agency
Lembke has worked across agencies including Proximity in London, Otto Stockholm, Craik Jones, Ogilvy Interactive and BBDO Proximity Nordics in Sweden, focusing on digital creative.
Atomic 212 claims the appointment "fits within Atomic 212°'s industry-leading positioning as a future-proofed, agile creative media business".
CEO Jason Dooris said: "We've been winning such a large amount of creative and content work, and we've been hunting for the right fit to complement the award-winning resources that are already in place," Dooris said. "To get someone of this calibre on board will be sure to turbocharge our approach."
Lembke, who has already started at the agency, said: "I'm genuinely excited about the prospect of what's next and developing some industry-leading work for Atomic,
"I believe in a flat, informal creative department where people feel comfortable sharing ideas."
The agency's creative department has worked with ThinkTV, Origin Energy, TAB, Luxbet and NT Tourism.
Zoe Samios
Zoe Samios worked at Mumbrella between 2016 and 2019, finishing up as senior media reporter in March 2019. She completed her degree at the University of Sydney in Media and Communications. She's previously travelled overseas for internships, including to South Korea, where she worked as a reporter for The Korea Herald.
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Stephen Petronio
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"Get in Each Other's Way": Janine on her Costumed Intervention
By Team PetronioJune 9, 2014News
By Team PetronioJune 9, 2014Writing
Stripped (2014)
Music Philip Glass Etude #5
Costumed Intervention Janine Antoni
Lights Ken Tabachnick
Performer Stephen Petronio
Photo by Yi-Chun Wu
For the past two years, Stephen and I have been trying our best to get in each other's way. He is a seasoned collaborator; he understands the push pull of the process and how two creative minds can go farther out on a limb than one could ever go on their own. He also has tremendous faith in his process. He starts with a concept, brings extraordinary talents into the mix, and trusts where the process will lead.
We have found many of our leanings compatible, but more interesting for me, are our differences. I have come to realize that this is really the place were we have something to offer each other. It has been challenging for me to sort out our difference artistically from our differences that stem from our respective fields. In this realm, I have learned a lot from him because the stage is a very different space than the gallery. Especially when one thinks about how the audience perceives and experiences the work.
For his 30th Anniversary at the Joyce Theater, I made a "costumed intervention" for his solo, Stripped. I sewed 140 feet of men's ties end to end and wrapped them around his head to conceal his identity. The last one is tied like a traditional tie around his neck. They physically obstructed his senses and affected the quality of his movement. The initial appearance of his wrapped head is one of sad humor; his head is both concealed and inflated.
Courtesy of Janine Antoni
Each tie tells a story and Stephen is a story maker. He is a man of large expressive gestures and he uses them to communicate his ideas with great enthusiasm. He is very Italian in that way. I like to tease him that he is just an Italian that also moves his legs.
Stephen conceived of Stripped as a way to strip down to the essentials of his choreographic language. The dance is a collection of gestures. Stephen mines gestures from his past and gestures from other people. I thought of the ties as a representation of other men, or other days, another day another tie. So there is a collection of gestures and a collection of ties and an unraveling of sorts both physically and in terms of a character. As the dance and gestures unwind in a myriad of emotional states, they are enhanced by the beautifully forlorn Etude #5 by Philip Glass.
Courtesy of Yi-Chun Wu
Much of my work has questioned the tradition of portraiture. In Lick and Lather, I cast self portrait busts in chocolate and soap. I reshaped my image by licking the chocolate and washing with the soap. In Mom and Dad, I created a traditional photographic portrait of my parents. Using prosthetic makeup, I turned my mom into my dad and my dad into my mom. Traditionally, we locate a person's expression in their face, particularly their eyes. Questioning this assumption, I am always erasing the face, locating identity in unsuspecting places. Arguably, a dancer's body holds as much expression, or more, as their face. By masking Stephen's face, I locate his expression in his body yet his bizarre bulbous head flavors those expressions.
Courtesy of the Artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
I thought of the whole scenario as a portrait of a man. The man's tie is about surface; as a decorative accessory, it has no real purpose and is the most overt form of expression that a man has in his wardrobe. Though we start with the masculine trope of the suit and tie, a classic portrait of a man, it becomes a portrait of a particular man: over the course of the dance, the stereotype becomes specific. I wanted Stephen to unwrap, to remove his persona and expose his identity.
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Q: Modeling demand distribution with selling constrained by stock I'm working as a Data Scientist on a project where we are supposed to determine how many pieces of stock a certain retailer should have in each of its physical stores. The stock should be set on the finest granularity (there are very many products) and should be set so that there is a 99% probability that we do not miss a sale. The stock is not only assigned once, but is replenished every week. Only about 2% of the products available in the store sell on a given day so the target distribution is very steep and mostly contain zeros.
The initial solution that I took over is a simple Poisson regression. The demand is modeled using the sales data and we forecast the lambda for each product in each week which gives us a forecasted Poisson demand distribution. Looking at the CDF of that distribution allows us to set a stock level which should respect the condition of not missing a sale in 99% of cases.
Due to the low levels of selling, most of the stock levels we forecast end up being very low (1, or in ~10% of the cases, 2). The vast majority of our data is us selling k = [0, 1] pieces a day which means that the stock levels we set ends up respecting the 99% limit in our tests. But the practical effect of us setting the stock levels this low is that the outcome of selling k = [2, 3, 4, ...] pieces will be impossible in reality. But for the discrete distribution that we actually want to model, the probability of selling k = [2, 3, 4, ...] should never be non-zero. The demand distribution that we want to model is constrained by the stock levels which means we will never be able to observe the outcomes where k > stock. If this algorithm is left to its own devices, we will be systematically decreasing the selling as the stock levels get lowered and selling decreases.
I'm aware that the Poisson distribution is not the optimal choice in this case. Selling is constrained by stock (which means there's a dependency between events occuring, violating the Poisson assumptions), but the problem I'm describing would be true for any generic distribution of choice, right? How do I get out of this spiral? Stock levels limit the demand, selling is decreased if the availability of stock is not 100% (100% availability for any demand distribution is unreasonable), decreased selling means the new model will forecast lower values which further decreases the stock, which limits demand further.
Is there any way to accurately model the demand distribution of a product when the selling outcomes are constrained by the stock as I described above?


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Curiosity didn't just kill the cat, it also made the buyer click. This subject line is a favorite among redditors.
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Why it works: Similar to "quick question," this subject line plays on the buyer's curiosity. They must either read your email … or live with the unease of not knowing what you're offering.
Smart reps know that referrals are as good as gold in sales. According to NoMoreColdCalling.com, referred prospects have a whopping 50% close rate. If you've been introduced to a prospect by someone they trust, make it clear in the subject line that it's referral.
Why it works: Referral sales expert Bill Cates notes that salespeople who get referred to new prospects "borrow trust" from the referral source. This means that instead of coming in cold, the relationship between the rep and the prospect automatically becomes warmer thanks to the relationship between the referred prospect and the referral source.
Why it works: Think of a referral as social proof on steroids. The closer the prospect is to the referrer, the better.
Generally, prospects only have visibility into their own organization while salespeople enjoy a broader vantage point that spans countless buyers and customers. One Reddit user pointed out that this subject line provides a good opening to an email containing a case study or testimonial from an organization similar to the prospects'.
Why it works: Who likes to be alone? The mere fact that other people have done or are doing something is often enough to sway opinions and drive action, thanks to the bandwagon effect.
According to Laurie Puhn, 94% of couples who greet each other with "Good morning!" each day report they have an "excellent" relationship. Granted, you probably don't want to date your prospect, but you do want to forge a strong bond with them. A simple salutation might be just what the doctor ordered.
Why it works: In a world where fewer and fewer people greet each other when they get into the office, a simple "good morning" is a humanizing differentiator for your email.
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? To be honest, I really don't care as long as you use my name in conversation. Inserting a prospect's name into your email's subject line emphasizes that the message is just for them.
Why it works: Not only has research shown that people respond positively to hearing their names, the phenomenon of implicit egotism holds that our name-based preferences extend to the cities we choose to live in, and what occupations we pursue.
This is another one from Powell's arsenal. "Just put the full name of the person in the subject line and nothing else. I promise this works!" she writes. For example: "Jane Smith" or "John Doe." It really doesn't get any easier than that.
Why it works: We've already talked about the power of referrals, which is one reason this subject line is so potent. But there's another reason — in a sea of emails labeled with verbs and adjectives, a person's name (and one the recipient knows well at that) stands in stark contrast.
Why it works: According to Copyblogger, "A specific headline conveys more valuable information to a potential reader, which acts to draw them magnetically into the content." Although a subject line isn't exactly a blog post title, the principles of specificity still apply, and can help boost your open rates.
For example, "Sales Training at Business Inc." or "HR Services at Organization Y." Whatever it is that you sell, connect it with the company you're prospecting into for a subject line one-two punch.
Why it works: Just like the prospect's own name, buyers are also partial to the name of their company. When in doubt, personalize.
Seeking an introduction to the right contact at the buyer's organization? There's nothing like getting right to your point in the subject line of the message.
Why it works: According to sales trainer Jeff Hoffman, approaching prospects like a curious student instead of a knowledgeable expert boosts engagement. Posing a question in your subject line asking for the prospect's help paves the way for a conversation — the point of a prospecting email.
Can't think of a great subject line? One Reddit rep endorsed using a blank subject line every once in a while.
Why it works: Research from HubSpot Sales revealed that no subject line is the most powerful subject line of all. An analysis of 6.4 million emails showed that messages with a blank subject line were opened 8% more often than those with subject lines.
The age of Always Be Closing is dead — to be successful, salespeople must practice Always Be Helping. Use this subject line to tell the buyer you're eager to add value.
Why it works: As soon as your prospect sees this in her inbox, she'll wonder, Help with what? To find out, she will read your email. The well-written, personalized contents will prompt her to respond.
Another commenter on the Reddit thread said messages with this title are opened at a "very high" rate.
Why it works: Rather than trying to disguise the reason you're reaching out, be honest –prospects appreciate when you don't beat around the bush. You'll earn instant trust, not to mention differentiate yourself from less straightforward sales reps.
What's the subject line that you swear by? Share in the comments.


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And so it should shock no one what I wanted to try Byword after hearing Merlin mention it on Back to Work as well as David's prompt follow-up recommendation.
After using Byword for a few weeks now, I've decided that it's definitely staying in my workflow.
Byword is a well-made alternative to the other tools I use. It doesn't replace those other choices, but it does offer a pleasant change of scenery when my eyes need it. And it has just the right amount of choices for influencing that scenery.
Full-screen Byword looks great in Lion, and that's how I normally use it. The Markdown preview also renders very well on screen.
Byword even integrates nicely with nvALT and Simplenote, which keeps my mobile writing workflow intact.
I think what I like most about Byword is that has both aesthetic and utilitarian qualities. You can use it as a "pretty" distraction-free writing environment, or you can use it to quickly convert existing Markdown files to HTML, PDF, LaTeX, RTF, or even Word.
Worth mentioning: The RTF export eliminates a lot of steps in my Markdown to Word workflow, too.
Keep the Markdown editor and previewer in sync so I stay in the same place as I switch back and forth.
Detect Markdown in files that don't use an .md extension. In other words, highlight Markdown syntax in existing .txt Markdown files without having to convert to .md.
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India not past investor concerns; pockets of risk could reignite worries
By: Bloomberg |
While the worst of the country's liquidity shortage and soaring funding costs appears to have subsided for now, a string of corporate defaults suggests that those woes could come back.
A fund manager who predicted India's credit crunch months before it got serious last year said that "pockets of risk" remain that could reignite investor concern. While the worst of the country's liquidity shortage and soaring funding costs appears to have subsided for now, a string of corporate defaults suggests that those woes could come back, according to Suyash Choudhary, 40, head of fixed income at IDFC Asset Management Co. "There is still a chance that two or three such risks can interact with one another and therefore cause something bigger," Choudhary said in an interview. Two of IDFC Asset's funds have given the best returns among the top debt funds in India over the past year, according to Value Research data.
More bad news out of India's credit market in recent weeks suggests that investors may not have seen the last of turmoil sparked by shadow bank IL&FS Group's debt default last year. Troubled Dewan Housing Finance Corp.'s rating was cut to default and that of Eros International Media Ltd. lowered 10 steps on concern about its ability to repay debt.
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Also causing investor concern is news that the auditor of Indian tycoon Anil Ambani's shadow bank and its unit resigned, citing lack of satisfactory responses to its questions. Nerves have already been rattled by defaults at Jet Airways India Ltd. and debt concerns at conglomerate Essel Group. HDFC Asset Management Co, the country's largest asset manager, Monday said that it has decided to provide a liquidity arrangement to certain of the fund's fixed-maturity plans to deal with their exposure to bonds issued by troubled Essel Group companies.
Choudhary doesn't claim credit for foreseeing the IL&FS default, but he said the red flags in the credit market were beginning to show a year or more before it. There was a certain amount of euphoria as seen by compression of spreads on lower-rated assets, major funds flows into such investments, and a larger inclination toward venturing into illiquid structured transactions, he said. Things have improved since last year. The country's sovereign risk premium is much better, especially after a strong election mandate, Choudhary said. There's also reasonable confidence that regulators will step in to arrest the fallout if any risk event were to happen, he said.
Average yields on top-rated five-year corporate bonds issued by non-bank finance companies have fallen to 8.25% on Monday, after soaring to as high as 9.22% in October, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A key risk, Choudhary sees, is in asset managers investing in lower-rated credit for portfolios which are ill-equipped to take such calls. That's because secondary-market liquidity, price discovery or means of hedging risk haven't kept pace with the market expansion, he said. A stressed government fiscal situation and large debt supply means Choudhary's area of preference remains bonds due in 10 years or less. He prefers top-rated corporate notes and government and state debt.


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Q: Git "commits left behind" when switching back to a branch from detached head For certain commits in our repo (but not all), if I check out the commit, then return to the master branch, I get an unexpected warning about commits being left behind:
# Check out one of the commits in question:
$ git checkout dd33caa5b004b0e3bd449152f9335e40450db91c
Note: checking out 'dd33caa5b004b0e3bd449152f9335e40450db91c'.

You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around, make experimental
[...]
HEAD is now at dd33caa... Organized DataStore build files, added cleanup targets.

# Now switch back to the master branch so I can work:
$ git checkout master
Warning: you are leaving 17 commits behind, not connected to
any of your branches:

  dd33caa Organized DataStore build files, added cleanup targets.
  4916eec Fixes to C++ codegen to use maven features.
  a26291d Merge branch 'master' of [redacted origin repo address]
  93ae0b9 Add protobuf 2.4.1 jar file to install scripts. Add QTDIR to build script.
 ... and 13 more.

If you want to keep them by creating a new branch, this may be a good time
to do so with:

 git branch new_branch_name dd33caa5b004b0e3bd449152f9335e40450db91c

Switched to branch 'master'

All the commits in question (as far as I can tell) are reachable from master, and I haven't made any commits while in the detached head state (this is a clean clone of our repository).  The master branch's history looks like this:
* 04d7fcc (HEAD, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master) Removed files from DataS
* ecaa2f5 Fixed .gitignore.
* dd33caa Organized DataStore build files, added cleanup targets.
* 4916eec Fixes to C++ codegen to use maven features.
*   a26291d Merge branch 'master' of [redacted]
|\
| * 93ae0b9 Add protobuf 2.4.1 jar file to install scripts. Add QTDIR to buil
| * 3cba845 switched to protobug 2.4.1 jar files
| * 1046d22 fixed GATEWAY_ROOT
| * ebcda06 edit windows build scripting path for new repo location
| * bda1e17 add windows build scripts from old repo
* |   371883d Merge branch 'master' of [redacted]
|\ \
| |/
| * 771c579 Fix MCast and RMCast service names in gateway manager config
* | 864fb25 First cut at DataStore code generation update to sync with refact
|/
* f505e46 Testing new repository
*   111d89a Merge branch 'master' of [redacted]

Any idea what might be going on here?  It appears to be connected to one specific user's commits, and I can reproduce this with Git 1.7.9.6 on OSX and with Git 1.7.9.5 on Ubuntu, but not with 1.8.0 on Ubuntu...  so a Git bug, perhaps?  I don't see anything that looks relevant in the release notes, though...

A: Yes, this looks like a Git bug. If you care to find out what fixed it, you can do a bisection. Clone git.git, checkout a version that is broken and verify that the problem occurs, check out the latest and verify that it's fixed, and then run a bisection to find which commit fixed the problem:
$ git clone git://github.com/git/git.git
$ cd git
$ git checkout v1.7.9.5
$ make
$ (cd my-repo && /path/to/my/git checkout dd33caa && /path/to/my/git checkout master 2>&1 | grep "leaving .* commits behind")
$ git checkout v1.8.0
$ make
$ (cd my-repo && /path/to/my/git checkout dd33caa && /path/to/my/git checkout master 2>&1 | grep "leaving .* commits behind")
# if the above gave the expected results:
$ git bisect start v1.7.9.5 v1.8.0
$ git bisect run bash -c "make && cd my-repo && /path/to/my/git checkout dd33caa && (! /path/to/my/git checkout master 2>&1 | grep -q 'leaving .* commits behind')"

That should leave you on the commit that fixed your bug. Note that we're doing the opposite of the usual bisection, in which you are trying to find the commit that introduced a bug.


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Irish Republican News · July 25, 2015
End the appeasement of loyalist gang bosses
By Brian Feeney (for Irish News)
They pop up on TV news programmes everywhere in the UK and US like pimples or in some acute cases like suppurating boils. Well, not everywhere: everywhere there's been an incident in what are known as 'deprived areas'.
You name it, a racial attack, a riot, or a dog has mauled somebody. They're the species beloved of TV reporters, the Greater Brass-necked Community Leader ever ready with a comment, a sound bite and the obligatory pronouncement that 'the whole community is devastated'.
Of course there's no official position of community leader. It's a self-appointed role, be it in Charleston, Bradford or Belfast. In the north they're a problem because of the status they have acquired over the years particularly in loyalist districts where they are a blight on society. Anyone from the 'community' who pointed out the 'leader's' absence of credentials would get his or her head kicked in because almost universally the 'community leader' has gained that title due to his (and it's invariably a man) role in the UVF or UDA.
The subversion of community groups began a long time ago when the IRA announced at Bodenstown in 1977 a new policy of involving themselves in politics at street level through a new branch of the republican movement they called the civil administration. By the time of the hunger strikes in 1981 the republican movement had taken over community groups and tenants associations in republican districts in west and north Belfast, the Bogside and Creggan and similar places across the north.
Loyalists copied the model. The British encouraged them. The critical difference was that by 1985 Sinn Féin represented all those districts on local councils because people elected them and their councillors genuinely were 'community leaders'. Not so in loyalist districts where the people loathed, despised and feared the UVF and UDA front men. How do we know? Simple: when they stood for election they couldn't even get the members of their own organisations to vote for them. The best ever showing for UVF/UDA fronts was in 1998 when they got three per cent of the vote.
That didn't faze them one bit. They battened on like parasites strangling a healthy plant. Why? Money, and besides, it's better than work. You'll find many of these 'community leaders' have no qualifications and often a conviction prevents them getting a real job. They are as thick as champ but compensate with sly native cunning and an eye for the main chance, namely their own financial advancement. Professional community workers with formal qualifications run council community centres. Mind you, that doesn't stop the 'community leader' inserting the occasional yahoo from his own organisation into the role of community worker in the same centre.
The most outrageous aspect of this appalling arrangement is that it's government funded whether council run or not. Has been for forty years. What that means is that councils, the assembly and that NIO front, the Community Relations Council, subsidise the UDA and UVF by employing their bosses and local henchmen.
In practice it's danegeld. From time to time if the local 'community leader', let's be honest and call him the gang boss, decides his money stream is threatened he organises disturbances, what the ever insightful Newton Emerson calls 'grant applications'. Basically it means, gimme more money or I'll wreck the place. It always works.
It works mainly because of the cowardice, dishonesty and stupidity of policing strategy for the last umpteen years. When police say they're consulting 'the local community' about removing flags or bonfires they mean they're pleading with the local UDA or UVF gang boss who represents no one. They ignore elected representatives because they're 'useless'. Why? Because the police and NIO have been appeasing loyalist bosses for decades thereby undermining the people the community elects. Usually that leaves councillors with no alternative but to collude in the appeasement and continue to pay danegeld in hard cash or political credibility.
The majority of the community would love to get these gangsters off their backs. They watch in despair and resignation as the police pay them obeisance instead of arresting them and putting them out of business and the council pays them to destroy the community.


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5 Shockingly Crazy Judges Who Presided Over Modern Courts
'Tiger King's' Joe Exotic Chartered a Pickup Truck Limo In Hopes of Presidential Pardon
A.C. Grimes ·
Most of us, if accused of a crime, aren't crazy about having our fate decided by a jury (as the old joke goes, it's a dozen people who weren't clever enough to get out of jury duty). But the judge is a different story -- these are seasoned, esteemed experts in the law who have earned their robes by proving their knowledge and impartiality.
Well, most of the time. Sometimes you wind up with one who, let's just say, doesn't inspire as much confidence ...
Judge Sends Courtroom Sexts (and Has Courthouse Sex)
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A picture is worth a thousand words, so instead of telling you what sort of thing Judge Wade McCree did, we suppose we should just show you:
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A few inches down and we'd have seen his gavel.
Yes, the Detroit judge texted his way to infamy when he sent a shirtless photo of himself to one of his female bailiffs. To give a sense of the kind of guy we're dealing with, consider that McCree, who also handles sexual misconduct cases, brushed aside the impropriety of his actions with this brazen reply: "Yep, that's me. No shame in my game." And that's just the beginning for the self-proclaimed "king of latex."
When one Geniene La'Shay Mott entered McCree's courtroom to settle a child support dispute, McCree resolved to enter her. After securing a lunch date with Mott through one of her hearings, McCree began a 20-week affair with Mott, during which he used his position on the bench to get nookie in his judge's chambers, assist Mott's relatives in lowering their bond, and, according to Mott, get her pregnant. All while he was still presiding over her case.
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"'Your honor'? I barely knew 'er!"
For a moment it seemed that all was not completely lost for McCree, who had an ace down his pants in the form of a psychiatrist who said that McCree suffers from hypomania. That's a mental condition that could explain the judge's overly confident statements (which, to be honest, sound kind of awesome) and rash behavior. The commission deciding his fate, however, saw it otherwise, suspending McCree without pay.
But hey, at least he didn't whip out his dick on the bench. Which brings us to ...
5 Real Judges Who Put the Most Evil Supervillain to Shame
Judge Jerks His Junk During Trials
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Yes, Oklahoma Judge Donald Thompson violated what has to be one of the first two or three rules they teach you in judge school when he was caught exposing himself during court proceedings. And no, this wasn't just a one-time jerk-and-work -- according to court reporter Lisa Foster, Thompson exposed himself at the bench at least 15 different times between 2001 and 2003. And on at least four other occasions, he used a penis pump.
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If we wanted judges to keep it covered, we'd make them wear pants.
To make things extra awkward, this all occurred during jury trials, which means that while attempting to focus on evidence, jurors were being serenaded by the wet whoosh of a handy-dandy dick plunger. One such case involved a man on trial for child murder. Disturbingly, Thompson was heard pleasuring the old flesh gavel every day of those proceedings. When confronted by jurors about the noise, the judge denied hearing it at all, likely because the intensity of his mechanized fapping had dulled all his other senses.
Once caught, the judge attempted to dismiss the claims as a friendly misunderstanding, explaining that the pump was a gag gift that he innocently toyed with during hearings, not some secret pleasure device (not that it could have been much of a secret with all that goddamned noise). However, Thompson had been so ballsy with his stroke-a-thons that he failed to hide his love pump from the prying eyes of a policeman during a fateful murder trial.
This surprised Thompson, who'd heard that justice was blind.
During a lunch break, officers photographed the courtroom crime scene, and a subsequent investigation of Thompson's robes, carpet, chair, and desk yielded semen. Police had hit the jackpot, earning this crazy chronic masturbator a four-year prison sentence.
6 Hilarious Trials That Prove the Legal System Is Screwed
Multiple Judges Pulled Guns from the Bench
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We have to admit, being a judge probably means constantly wishing you could circumvent all the convoluted legal crap and just whip out a gun. In fact, it's mostly the ability to resist that impulse that qualifies a person to be a judge in the first place. But don't tell that to Florida judge J. Leonard Fleet, who pulled a .38-caliber revolver on a defendant when the man made unruly comments in the courtroom.
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His Second Amendment right.
To be fair, those comments were "If I had a gun, I'd kill that judge." Still, a calmer, saner man would have responded to the remark by charging the guy with contempt of court and getting him out of the room. But Judge Fleet was neither a sane nor a calm man. Witnesses reported seeing him place a single bullet in the chamber before uttering, "There's one bullet in the cylinder. Do you want to take your best shot? If you're going to take a shot, you had better score, because I don't miss." Then he calmly left the loaded gun on the bench for the rest of the morning session, just so everyone would realize he was batshit insane.
Clearly Fleet's courtroom theatrics were out of line, but this was back in the lawless days of 1992 (and it was Florida), so we can maybe give him a pass. We certainly wouldn't find that kind of behavior going on in 2013. It did, however, occur in 2012. In what was perhaps the world's worst attempt at advice-giving, Georgia judge David Barrett pulled his gun on a witness when he decided her testimonial skills were lacking. "You might as well shoot your lawyer," he suggested.
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"If brandishing guns and threatening lawyers is against the law, throw my ass in jail."
We should have mentioned that this woman was testifying as a victim of sexual assault and that her assailant once held a gun to her head. As you probably imagine, Barrett's behavior did not sit well with the other judges, and an inquiry, complete with finger-wagging, followed. The judge, apparently unable to take being in the hot seat himself, opted to resign rather than face continued scrutiny over his disastrous communicative style.
6 Judges Who Went Completely Insane on the Bench
Judge Cynthia Brim Is Clinically and Unstoppably Insane
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In 2012, the Chicago Tribune complained to its readership that Cook County voters had once again elected Cynthia Brim to serve as a judge, which seems like a petty thing for a big-time newspaper to do. After all, this is how democracy works -- sometimes the people you don't like get elected by the masses. What was so awful about Cynthia Brim?
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Did she hack the Tribune paywall?
How about multiple hospitalizations, courtroom meltdowns, a 5-mile freedom march to protest unfair news coverage, and refusing to take necessary antipsychotic drugs, for starters? Not to mention that she's been found legally insane in a court of law, unaccountable in court for shoving a deputy because at the time she was allegedly "absolutely psychotic in the sense of not having the ability to think straight or to even organize her thinking or to really remember a darn thing that happened." In short, it would appear that Cynthia Brim is unmistakably unqualified for another six-year stint as a Cook County judge.
You may be wondering what arcane trickery is duping Cook County voters into dopily choosing a patient from Nurse Ratched's ward to decide court cases. It's basically the same ball-tripping hallucinogenic that turns every city into a rubber room: complacency and politics.
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Things only look like they're moving, brah.
See, not a single judge in Cook County has been replaced in more than two decades, and as the Chicago Tribune noted in the complaint no one read, voters received robocalls from the county board president instructing them to vote for every Democratic judge on the ballot. Voters mechanically obeyed (do YOU follow every judge election on the ballot?) and thus swept the crazy lady back into office along with the rest. A job for which she will be paid $182,000 a year.
The Judge Who Knew Jack Shit About Law
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The various strikes against Georgia judge Kenneth E. Fowler are almost too numerous to list. Among the most astounding failures cited by a judicial commission was a consistent failure to grasp the most basic legal concepts, which often, for instance, resulted in him proclaiming defendants guilty until proven innocent. The judge was also notoriously inappropriate with language, drawing fire from the NAACP for racially charged language and raising eyebrows with such poetic flourishes as, "God damn, you asking for trouble" and "Shut up."
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"You don't like me calling you 'colored'? Then why call yourselves the 'NAACP'?"
When a female defendant sat before him over a traffic violation, the judge insinuated that she used sex to escape punishment, saying, "You must have really turned it on. You must be something good. You must have really showed [the officer] a good time."
Fowler also appeared to have no concept of evidence, allegedly convicting people without testimony and with as little evidence as the notes on a traffic ticket. He also told defendants they could buy their way out of community service by paying him a fee, an option curiously absent from the law.
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He kept the proceeds in his community chest.
Fowler's defense for all of this? He was acting out of ignorance. After all, he never studied law.
The judges presiding over his trial were unmoved by the rather circular defense that Fowler was incompetent by reason of incompetence and threw the book at him (too bad he couldn't read it). The court fined, disbarred, and banned him for life. See? You can't get away with shit like this. Well, you can for a while -- Fowler was a judge for almost a decade before he finally got the boot.
Related Reading: Oh, these aren't the only terrible judges we've managed to collect. This guy threatened to jail an entire courtroom because of one dude's phone. And this lady dedicated her career to making the Bronx more dangerous. Before you get all high and mighty yourself, read about the stupid things YOU use to judge people and wash it down with a humble pie milkshake.
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Category Archives: Weird
Today in Copyright Shenanigans
This is low-key hilarious.
As many of you know, my father in law passed away Monday morning. As designated family tech and photo person, I've pulled together a set of pix from over the years and assembled a slide show for the family to use in the eventual service.
I used the Photos app on my Mac, because it's easy to do, and it comes with themes and does a pretty good job of assembling transitions and stuff. It even comes with free-to-use background tracks!
Photos can export to video, and I then uploaded the video to YouTube to make it easy for my mother in law & etc to use and share.
Which is where it gets weird, because I just got this from YouTube's copyright squad:
Fortunately, nobody in those countries will need to see the video. I am, however, wildly curious as to how Apple's supposed free-to-use music is encumbered by copyright only in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria. I mean, WTF?
I can't decide which of these stories is more compelling
Bear link
Mucus link
HOWTO: Slice an enormous capsized cargo ship into smaller pieces
Just what it says on the tin, using an enormous lifting barge system and a big-ass chain.
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW (Dental Edition)
Gaaaaaah dental robot aaaaaah!
So about those flat earthers….
This video is actually pretty great, and zeros in on an aspect of the modern flat earth "movement" that I think lots of folks miss. It boils down to a sort of scientific solipsism, wherein the adherents distrust anything and everything they cannot explain or experience with their own senses.
Modern science stands on the shoulders of giants. Probably no one understands it ALL, but we trust the scientific method, peer review, etc., to lead us towards the light. Flat Earthers see the implications of modern science, find it at odds with their lived experience, and choose their own naive POV over that of the scientific community.
In the 1800s, there was a similar problem; a man named Samuel Rowbotham pushed a school of thought he deemed "zetetic inquiry."
In the Flat Earth sense, the term refers to flipping the scientific method on its head and deriving one's observations from testing, with no regards to any hypothesis. Of course, if you did scientific inquiry this way, you'd end up with stating that a sphere is flat just because it looks flat to a relatively minuscule observer on its surface.
It's weird to me that the answer isn't obviously "the gallows."
What Do the Hohenzollerns Deserve?
Apparently, the German royal family — deposed since 1918 — are trying to rewrite history, and perhaps regain a place of honor on Germany, including compensation for land and palaces in Berlin taken from them after abdication (which would come in addition to the dynastic wealth they retained even after 1918).
This is ridiculous, and would be ridiculous even without clear evidence of his family's collaboration with and support of Hitler.
Monarchies are all based on murder, mayhem, and corruption. Monarchal wealth that persists past the end of the governing monarchy ought to have been subject to state confiscation. It's ridiculous that the Hohenzollern descendants are still wealthy layabouts and not normal citizens with a historical footnote in their family tree.
Fortunately, it appears most Germans agree:
Many Germans are bewildered by their former royal family's demands. "This country does not owe a single coffee cup to the next-born of a luckily long-vanquished undemocratic regime, let alone art treasures or real estate," wrote Stefan Kuzmany, a columnist for Der Spiegel. "Even the request is an insult to the Republic." The Hohenzollern wealth, he argued, was the product of historical injustice: "The aristocracy in general, [and] the Hohenzollerns in particular, have always been a plague on the country and the people. Like all so-called noblemen, they have snatched their fortune through the oppression of the population." As Clark noted in his interview, "There seems to be a strong animus against the nobility within parts of the German public."
And now, some much-needed analysis from an economist
Why we must reopen.
DO NOT USE THE POPCORN BUTTON
No, seriously, Do NOT use the popcorn button.
"Is this an act of malice?" "No, Brother West; it is an act of WHIMSY!"
Like the author of this piece, I have never stopped loving this old SNL skit about Maya Angelou's prank show.
We need laughs these days, do we not?
This Gear Will Never Turn
Well, for certain values of "never;" the device in question includes a Googol-to-one gear ratio. It's a sequence of 100 gears, each with a 10:1 ratio to its neighbor.
In the "similar prior art" department, turns out this guy was inspired by a Arthur Ganson's sculpture "Machine with Concrete," which includes a sequence of gears and a drive shaft, with the gearing such that the final step is literally embedded in concrete — which is fine, because that particular part turns 1 time every 2 trillion years.
Both links feature video fo the machines in question.
Dept. of Areas of Wikipedia Inquiry
Surprising though it may be, it appears there is no overlap between the List of animals with fraudulent diplomas and the List of fictional badgers.
Make of this what you will.
Honestly, I think he speaks for all of us.
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Well, that's a relief
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The location of Australia has been corrected.
Turns out…
Australia sits on a fast-moving tectonic plate and is drifting north several inches a year.
Turn on the captions
No, seriously. Turn them on.
Nick Offerman IS Wednesday Adams
This is the highest & best use of DeepFakes tech yet.
I mean, they're not WRONG
You had me at "Medieval Sex Cult"
ZOMG:
"Medieval Sex Cult at Center of German Crossbow Murder Mystery."
The Importance of Relative Velocity in Military Aviation
Recently, a Dutch F-16 managed to shoot itself with its own gun during maneuvers.
The rounds have a muzzle velocity of 3,450 feet per second (1050 meters per second). That is speed boosted initially by the aircraft itself, but atmospheric drag slows the shells down eventually. And if a pilot accelerates and maneuvers in the wrong way after firing the cannon, the aircraft could be unexpectedly reunited with its recently departed rounds.
Click through; this is also not the first time something like this has happened. In fact, the first time was in 1956.
Also hilarious: the gun in question, a 20mm Vulcan cannon, can fire 6,000 rounds a minute — but the F-16 only carries 511 rounds, or about 5 seconds of fire.
Earth System Bug #429519: Sometimes, invertebrates eat vertebrates. Please fix.
Watch this massive tarantula drag an opossum it just killed.
("No" is an acceptable answer.)
sleep well.
"What kind of person sticks a ferret down his pants for more than five consecutive hours?"
Well, that'd be the King of the Ferret Leggers, naturally.
(h/t MeFi.)
FEED THE EELS PIZZA
Just what it says on the tin.
I mention this only so we can be sure to keep them all safe.
The Definitive Ranking of Tom Waits' 5 Horcruxes.
Kid jumps on ice-covered trampoline — in slow motion.
Erin does this. I'm sorry I haven't written them all down.
Sometimes, Twitter user @Sleep_Sayings' boyfriend says inscrutable, hilarious things in his sleep. So she started a twitter account.
"What did you think was going to happen, Steven?"
I fucking love the Skittles ads.
"Is this what you were looking for?"
Ladies and gentlemen, the future.
This is either evil or brilliant. It may be both.
Gaze in wonder as a Danish boy's choir attempts to maintain composure after eating very, very hot peppers.
Dana Gould: National Treasure
Here he is, at the 2012 Sketchfest, as Maurice Evans as Dr Zaius as Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain.
Eat the ice cream.
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Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream. Eat the ice cream.
Here's something fun I've been sitting on
This is a great timeline piece about an alternate universe wherein the Beatles accepted Lorne Michaels' 1976 offer to reunite on SNL for $3000.
This is the saddest thing on the Internet today
"World's Best Teens Compete In Microsoft Office World Championships."
Whisky. Tango. Foxtrot.
Today in Japanese Shit Robots
Dorodorobo!
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW
Time for Sushi!
NEIGHBOR STEVE I FEEL WAY MAY HAVE GOTTEN OFF ON THE WRONG FOOT
I really love this more than I can say.
Dept of QuackQuackQuackQuackQuackQuackQuack
This horse is happy.
This is easily the best and wrongest video of all time ever.
SEXY POOL PARTY. ("For a second, you were like CW-hot.")
"Am i gregnant?"
It's a good question.
Today in disembodied robotic mouths.
Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope..
My assumption is that both music and music videos are very, very different in Estonia.
Estonian rapper (yes) Tommy Cash brings us by far the weirdest, most freakish video I've ever seen, and I say that counting Peaches' "Rub".
Stay with it past 2:05 for sure.
(NSFW, btw. As is the Peaches video I mentioned but did not link.)
It's the fucking rooster that kills me.
This is best possible cover of Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life", and possibly the finest thing on the Internet to exist ever.
ATTENTION: THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
Fiber is fine, but I'm holding out for PorkNet
The future is now: Scientists wireless transmit high speed data through pork loin.
How to operate your frog.
If you show this to a true railfan, they may have a goddamn stroke
GAZE UPON THE WONDER OF THE ENDLESS SPIRAL TRAIN.
Ask not for whom the marmot screams. The marmot screams for you.
This is somehow both alarming and awesome
There is, apparently, at least one way to skin a watermelon.
This is hilarious until you realize with grim certainty that someone, somewhere, is masturbating to it
The Slow-Mo Guys got one of those enormous water balloons. One of them got in it, and then they filled it up until it popped.
I'd be a lot more charmed by this if it weren't for the haunting suspicious that someone, somewhere, is fapping to it.
Let's Get It On
(SFW.)


Young families often put off, delay, or downright ignore the idea of estate planning. Holding the belief that they are too young, too healthy, or own too little to necessitate an estate plan. Of course, that logic is in itself, flawed. Even a healthy young adult can experience a life-threatening accident or illness without warning. Planning for this very real possibility is not only responsible but a true expression of love and care.
For this reason, families with young children must take special care when estate planning. Thoughtful and comprehensive planning today will make certain your children are personally cared for and financially secure in the future.
Who will be your child's short term guardian?
A short term guardian is a trusted person who would likely live near you and your children and who would be able to get to your children in the event something were to happen to you. Often, parents grant the short term guardian the Power of Attorney giving them the authority to make decisions regarding education, healthcare, and other critical discretions on behalf of the children.
This is also important because, without a short term guardian, there is a very high likelihood that your children would spend time in the custody of the police or the department of child protective services during an emergency event.
What if someone challenges the guardianship?
When choosing a guardian for your children, your decision will likely be determined by your children's needs first. This sometimes may cause conflict among family members who may believe your chosen guardian to be unfit. Keep in mind that for someone to challenge your designated guardian and succeed, they would need to prove to a judge there was a very good reason to do so. Be that as it may, it is still a good reason to prevent potential conflict now through your estate planning efforts.
Clear and written expression of those you wish to be excluded from guardianship consideration will always carry weight in a court decision. It may possibly upset people close to you but your loyalty lies with your children first and no one else.
Kids' Protection Plan Identification Cards.
In the event of your death or incapacitation, as mentioned above, it is likely your children could end up in the custody of law enforcement officers or child protective services until guardianship is determined. Prevention of this traumatic process is crucial, parents can start by carrying child identification cards on their persons. These cards not only identify that you have minor children at home but also provide information for identifying and contacting their short term guardians as well as your estate planning attorneys.
Identification cards will give law enforcement officers and first responders critical information about who and where your children are and where they can go. This can prevent children from entering protective custody while it is determined what will happen to them.
Who will be your child's long term guardians?
One of the most important concerns parents have is naming a legal long term guardian who will be responsible for raising their child should both parents pass away or become incapacitated. A long term guardian shall be responsible for your child's general welfare including education, health, and physical/emotional care.
You should have complete confidence in your nominated guardian and be certain they are unconditionally willing to accept the responsibility of raising your child.
Many people choose to name successor guardians in the event an initially named guardian is unable or unwilling to take on the role.
Beyond the financial assets you may leave to your minor children are the equally important intangible assets. If you are unable to be there for your children, you may still be able to pass on your wishes, personal values, and beliefs. Take time to consider how you would like your selected guardian to raise your children, as these instructions will be invaluable in the event of your death.
The take away is that parents should nominate their children's guardians based on shared values and principles regarding child rearing, discipline, education, religion, ethics, and ideally; the love and care they will provide your children.
Medical Powers of Attorney for Minor Children.
This enables your chosen guardian to be able to speak on your behalf to your child's doctors in order to access medical information and make important medical decisions. Typical medical pertinent powers include the authority to make decisions regarding a child's medical, dental, and mental health treatment.
This power is not intended to only be used in the event of a parents' death but also if they happen to only be out of town, for example, during a vacation.
How Will Assets be Distributed?
Caring for children with special needs.
Special consideration must go into planning for the care of a child with a disability. A special needs trust is one way you can provide care for a child while still maintaining their SSI, Medicaid, or other governmental assistance benefits. Instead of leaving property or other assets directly to the beneficiary, it is left in a special needs trust with an appointed trustee. The trustee will have complete discretion over the distribution of assets for the sole benefit of your loved one.
A special needs trust ends once it is no longer needed, usually when the trust funds have been spent or upon the beneficiary's death.
Appoint a Trustee for beneficiary asset distribution.
Usually, distribution of assets can be identified in a trust as discretionary or mandatory and it is often recommended that a combination of both be used where applicable. A commonly used structure involves mandatory distributions at specified ages as to prevent a lump sum award to children at age 18. This is due to many young adults lacking the financial responsibility required to manage large sums of money.
However, a trust fiduciary may be given the power to make distributions based on their discretion where distributions may be made to the beneficiary to support their health, education, maintenance, and support.
The foundation of your estate plan should begin with the protection and care of your children. Having families of our own, we take nothing for granted and have a made our Kid's Protection Planning program a cornerstone of our estate planning services. With a comprehensive approach, we'll help you make the important decisions needed to ensure you leave no gaps in your estate plan.
When it comes to your children, make no compromise. At Kundani, Chang, Khinda, Wilson, we consider it our mission to help keep your family protected, always. To learn more about our Kid's Protection Planning program and other estate planning services, please call or contact online our legal experts today!


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A lot of the offseason talk surrounding the 49ers has revolved around Jimmy Garoppolo and whether or not he's the type of quarterback who can win a Super Bowl.
Despite having a solid first full season as a starter and leading the 49ers to a Super Bowl berth, Garoppolo became an offseason punching bag with sports show pundits coming out of the woodwork to throw a haymaker at the 49ers quarterback.
The 49ers were open about their discussions about Tom Brady, who ultimately signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Those talks didn't surprise former 49ers legend and Pro Football Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott, who knows that with quarterbacks there's always another option no matter how good you.
"Joe Montana was being discussed," Lott said laughing in a video interview Monday with NBC Sports Bay Area. "If you go back and you look at [Montana's ] career and you can go back and you can see moments where people started discussing [replacing] him. You have moments where people are always going to be discussed and the reason they are always going to be discussed is because there are always going to be things that people see wrong at that position. It's like if you're a great pitcher there's always something. You can't throw the slider."
The Brady talk should serve as a way to put pressure on Garoppolo to take his game to new heights in 2020.
Lott expects Garoppolo to elevate his play this season due to the genius of coach Kyle Shanahan and the experience factor.
"In this case, to me, [Garoppolo] has only played a couple years," Lott said. "What I believe is that he's going to get better and the reason he's going to get better is that he's going to understand the offense better, he understands a lot more about the discipline of the offense and another thing I think is going be great for him is that being with the guy --arguably the best offensive mind in football, that's Shanahan -- all of a sudden you have to be able to know that you're going to find ways to enhance your game because he's going to find ways to enhance your game. Bill [Walsh] would enhance Joe's game because he found ways to understand what more Joe could do with his game and that's the same with Jimmy.
"I think that having the two of those guys continue to be in the laboratory together and continue to get better, it's going to be much better. And what I mean by much better, they so close to winning that Super Bowl and when you look back at the game, just maybe, a lot of times in these games you never know ... I can look at a lot of games that we should have lost that we won and there are a lot of reasons and factors for how we handled the moments of those games. My point is I think Jimmy is going to get better at handling the moments of all games."
[RELATED: Lott believes 49ers trading for Adams would be 'huge win']'
Garoppolo was solid in 2019, throwing for 3,978 yards and 27 touchdowns while being the NFL's most accurate deep passer. Garoppolo also was one of the most efficient red zone quarterbacks in the NFL, completing 62.5 percent of his passes on throws inside the 10-yard line, including 16 touchdowns which tied Lamar Jackson for the most in the NFL.
It wasn't all good with Garoppolo, though. He also threw 13 interceptions and had another eight interceptions dropped by defenses. Garoppolo also was aided by the way in which Shanahan calls games, relying mostly short, safe passes to the likes of George Kittle and Deebo Samuel who could rack up the yards after the catch.
Garoppolo ranked third-lowest in Average Intended Air Yards (6.5) and second-lowest in Air Yards to the Sticks (minus-2.5), while his receivers led the NFL in yards after the catch at 6.6.
Garoppolo has been a polarizing figure this offseason. That comes with the territory of being a highly-paid quarterback for a marquee franchise. He has warts to iron out, of that there is no doubt. But he showed a lot of potential last season, especially late in the year when he led the 49ers to shootout wins over the New Orleans Saints and Los Angeles Rams.
I ranked Garoppolo as the No. 12 quarterback in the NFL. Squarely in the group of talented signal-callers who can win a Super Bowl with the right pieces around them and have the potential to enter the elite tier if they raise their game to the next level.
With Shanahan's guidance, Lott and the 49ers expect him to do just that.
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