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Monday Overnight Open Thread (1/21/20)
The Quotes of The Day
Quote I
"If that was the end of it and you could guarantee that, I'd be very happy. This is a lady with a compulsion. Hopefully, she understands the extreme penalty she'd be under if this does reoccur. You get cynical after a while." Gordon Holness
Quote II
Anybody know what the deal is with gay men and the formality they seem to prefer in names? Maybe your experience is different, but every gay man I have ever known – and remember, I lived in San Francisco just off Castro Street for several years – wanted to be called Robert, or Michael, or James. Never Bobby, Mike or Jimmy. A notable exception would be Pete Buttigieg. Though, I suppose if you are a gay man and Butt is already part of your name, adding Peter to the mix would be a bridge too far.Ammo Grrrll
Quote III
"The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it." Ayn Rand
Quote IV
"It comes as no surprise that folks are upping the ante now for Australia," "The philanthro-porn we're seeing now is another innovative way to grab the attention of donors who otherwise might remain apathetic." Melanie Ulle, CEO of Denver-based Philanthropy Expert
Quote V
McSally laid out that simpering microphone jockey and showed that maybe she can take the fight to her gun-stealing, socialist-tolerating astronaut opponent and keep our seat.
Fredocon cruise director Bill "Ahoy" Kristol and the usual suspects wet themselves over her show of awesomeness – as a conservative, that's a mighty credibility boost right there. By the way she owned her play and milked it for earned media afterwards, it looks like she figured out that she's got zero chance if she's just another GOP weenie too frightened by the over-paid, under-successful consultant class suits surrounding her to toss a haymaker at some punk reporter. It's about time. Kurt Schlichter
Quote VI
"Mr. Hoyer from Maryland ... made a very revealing statement for anybody who's concerned about Constitutional rights -- and especially for me -- even those of my Democratic counterparts who worry about their communities, where they discuss police action and rights being violated,"Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA)
Quote VII
UNKNOWN MALE: "The reason I'm out here is that I do not support in any way, shape, or form Governor Northam and the Democrats' gun control. What I also don't support is the fact that every news piece you've seen on this, this weekend they always brought the issue of race as though it's nothing but white, rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment. When actually black Americans, Asian Americans Hispanic Americans, Americans in general care about the Second Amendment. I work at a gun store part time and I can tell you that the number of customers I see of all races, all colors, all creeds who care about the Second Amendment and who just want to peaceably live their lives, enjoy their rights and the Second Amendment. So that's why I'm out here. And main — big media, mainstream media, be damned. If you take a good look at me you can see I'm a black American and all I'm out here for is to enjoy in my Second Amendment rights. That's why I'm here." Unknown male in VA
Quote VIII
If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, 'brethren!' Be careful, teachers!" Martin Luther King, Jr.
As I write this ONT the Lobby Day (Advocacy Day) has not occurred in VA yet. Bitter Clinger has submitted this video.....LANGUAGE WARNING
Virginia follow up..............
Well done common sense, Constitution loving Virginians.
More than 20,000 people converged in the streets of Richmond, Virginia, on Monday to protest their right to bear arms in the face of swingeing state gun control laws set to be enacted later this year.
They started arriving before dawn – army veterans, stay-at-home-moms, attorneys, welders, democrats, republicans – united under banners defending the second amendment and, they believe, a constitution under attack.
And many of them came with their guns: AR-15s, long-guns and handguns. Governor Ralph Northam had issued a ban on a list of weapons including guns on Capitol Grounds but though the official rally was confined to a steel pen in the grounds sloping up to Virginia State Capitol, there were more people outside that perimeter and outside the scope of the ban.
The EU is a swamp. Officials have no idea how the real world works. Every day folk in Ireland and Germany are pissed.
Berlin and Dublin were ground to a halt in the past 48 hours amid growing outrage at EU regulations. Furious agricultural workers and farmers shut down roads across both Germany and Ireland in fear that environmental regulations are hurting their jobs. Thousands of farmers took part in the protest in Germany, as several hundred tractors blockaded main roads in Bavaria, Baden Württemberg and Bremen, as well as the German capital.
he Berlin mayor, Michael Müller, recognized that it was a "burden for Berlin," but "the farmers have their point of view".
He added that locals would "have to tolerate" the upheaval.
The rallies coincided with Berlin's Green Week, a food and agricultural fair which starts on Friday, which has often attracted huge waves of protests in recent years.
Farmers across Europe are increasingly alarmed about the future of the agricultural and environmental policy, following the EU's £852bn Green New Deal policy.
It sounds as if Virginia is an open primary state. Operation Chaos anyone? Hugh Hewitt is voting for Bernie in the Dem primary there.
Conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt announced that he planned to back Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Virginia Democratic primary because "he's authentic."
"Because Virginia allows early voting and because I don't know where NBC or Salem will have me on March 3, I'm voting this week, and because it's Virginia, I get to vote in the Democratic primary," Hewitt explained Sunday on Meet the Press. "I'm voting for Bernie Sanders. And I think a lot of people will because he's authentic."
The conservative host clarified that he was not planning to vote for the independent Vermont senator in the 2020 general election and will instead support President Trump.
"I want a clear choice between the authentic, traditional socialist and all the people who just pretend to be," Hewitt said about the rest of the Democratic field.
There is napping and then there is napping hibernation. Scientists are researching human hibernation.
Bears may be the most famous example, but they aren't the only animals capable of hibernating.
Various types of squirrels, bats, and even birds can also lower their bodies' core temperatures, putting themselves in a state of dormancy for weeks or even months at a time — and one day, humans could join them on that list.
"We couldn't find any showstoppers, any reason it wouldn't be possible," John Bradford, an aerospace engineer researching human hibernation for NASA, recently told The Atlantic.
Bradford's NASA work should clue you into one of the reasons scientists are so interested in human hibernation: it could be useful for deep-space travel.
I've given up on attempting to figure out what makes people tick. More apps, more loss of privacy and perhaps freedom.
An app that is supposed to be a fun activity for dashcam users to broadcast their camera feeds and drives is actually allowing people to scrape and store the real-time location of drivers across the world.
BlackVue is a dashcam company with its own social network. With a small, internet-connected dashcam installed inside their vehicle, BlackVue users can receive alerts when their camera detects an unusual event such as someone colliding with their parked car. Customers can also allow others to tune into their camera's feed, letting others "vicariously experience the excitement and pleasure of driving all over the world," a message displayed inside the app reads.
OK, I get it. This next link comes from Slate. Evil bastard Tech companies rated.
The Evil List
Which tech companies are really doing the most harm? Here are the 30 most dangerous, ranked by the people who know.
Maybe it was fake news, Russian trolls, and Cambridge Analytica. Or Travis Kalanick's conniption in an Uber. Or the unmasking of Theranos. Or all those Twitter Nazis, and racist Google results, and conspiracy theories on YouTube. Though activists, academics, reporters, and regulators had sent up warning flares for years, it wasn't until quite recently that the era of enchantment with Silicon Valley ended. The list of scandals—over user privacy and security, over corporate surveillance and data collection, over fraud and foreign propaganda and algorithmic bias, to name a few—was as unending as your Instagram feed. There were hearings, resignations, investigations, major new regulations in Europe, and calls for new laws at home. There was an industry that insisted it now valued privacy and safety but still acted otherwise. There was WeWork, whatever that was.
The ONT Musical Interlude
Born on this day: 20 Jan 1952
Paul Stanley, guitarist and singer with American hard rock band Kiss who had 1976 US No.11 album Rock and Roll Over which spent 26 weeks on the chart and the 1987 UK No.4 single 'Crazy Crazy Nights'. Kiss have been awarded 24 gold albums to date, the most of any American rock band - selling more than 40 million albums. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. via thisdayinmusic.com
On this day: 20 Jan 1988
The Beatles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Yoko, Sean, and Julian Lennon all attend. Paul McCartney did not attend, sending instead a letter stating that continuing business differences with the other ex-Beatles was the reason for his absence.
What a Dick.
Some people are oblivious. And others are just plain Genius Award Winners.
A customer at a supermarket in South America faced the wrath of disgruntled employees when they parked their car in the wrong spot.
According to Fox News, the driver parked their small Peugeot 208 hatchback in the shopping cart area of a COTO shopping centre in Temperley Argentina, in the Buenos Aires province.
That's a top score in the being-a-jerk department, so employees responded by putting the shopping carts in their rightful spot anyway, all around the vehicle, boxing it in.
Chic-Fil-A corporate may be changing. However, their employees are still top notch. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
Chic-Fil-A Employees Rescue Family From Storm
The internet is full of stories of Chick-fil-A employees going above and beyond to serve their customers.
An Alabama woman's recent Facebook post about her local Chick-fil-A has been shared more than 14,000 times.
Weekly commenter stats for week of 1-19-20
Top 10 commenters:
1 [660 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, 003 with a License to Kill' [92.64 posts/day]
2 [467 comments] 'Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo'
3 [436 comments] 'Christopher R Taylor'
4 [420 comments] 'rhennigantx'
5 [415 comments] 'Commissar Hrothgar'
6 [409 comments] 'garrett'
7 [375 comments] 'rickb223'
8 [368 comments] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
9 [324 comments] 'runner'
10 [321 comments] 'tubal'
Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [126 names] 'Miklos, between Norway and Denmark (where the train stops)' [17.69 unique names/day]
2 [41 names] 'mindful webworker - 100-comment droll'
3 [33 names] 'National cash advance and boner pill emporiumr'
4 [31 names] 'Ha'
5 [31 names] 'Surfperch'
6 [31 names] 'Baracky O'Cracky'
7 [29 names] '18-1'
8 [29 names] 'Duncanthrax The Scholarly Austere'
9 [28 names] 'Meade Lux Lewis'
10 [25 names] 'wth'
19 [18 names] 'ace'
Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by School Work.
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A Distant Grave: A Mystery (Maggie D'arcy Mysteries #2) (Hardcover)
By Sarah Stewart Taylor
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In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D'arcy tackles another intricate case that bridges Long Island and Ireland in A Distant Grave.
Long Island homicide detective Maggie D'arcy and her teenage daughter, Lilly, are still recovering from the events of last fall when a strange new case demands Maggie's attention. The body of an unidentified Irish national turns up in a wealthy Long Island beach community and with little to go on but the scars on his back, Maggie once again teams up with Garda detectives in Ireland to find out who the man was and what he was doing on Long Island. The strands of the mystery take Maggie to a quiet village in rural County Clare that's full of secrets and introduce her to the world of humanitarian aid workers half a world away. And as she gets closer to the truth about the murder, what she learns leads her back to her home turf and into range of a dangerous and determined killer who will do anything to keep the victim's story hidden forever.
With the lyrical prose, deeply drawn characters, and atmospheric setting that put The Mountains Wild on multiple best of the year lists, Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers another gripping mystery novel about family, survival, and the meaning of home.
SARAH STEWART TAYLOR is the author of the Sweeney St. George series and the Maggie D'arcy series. Taylor grew up on Long Island in New York and was educated at Middlebury College in Vermont and Trinity College in Dublin. She lived in Dublin, Ireland in the mid-90s and she now lives with her family on a farm in Vermont where they raise sheep and grow blueberries.
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Publication Date: June 22nd, 2021
Series: Maggie D'arcy Mysteries
Praise for A Distant Grave
"A fast-paced, tension-filled yarn filled with twists the reader is unlikely to see coming. Taylor tells the story in a lyrical prose style that is a joy to read." —Associated Press
"Taylor combines complex layering of plots with depth of characterization, lovely Emerald Isle color, and prose that often rises to lyricism. . . a practitioner par excellence of literary crime fiction." —Fredericksburg Free Lance Star
"Complex, slow-burning…Taylor has crafted another believable and intriguing installment of Maggie's story." —BookPage
"Taylor pulls out all the stops—subplots, threats, red herrings, warning bells—to keep the pot boiling till the end." —Kirkus Reviews
"As intricately plotted as The Mountains Wild. . . [a] tense thriller." —Library Journal
"Tana French fans will be eager for the next series entry." —Publisher's Weekly
"The Irish setting takes center stage... a solid series." —Booklist
"Lyrical, haunting, and impossible to put down... Absolutely do not miss this." —Hank Phillippi Ryan
"A Distant Grave is an entrancing and expertly crafted police procedural that surges to a full-tilt finish. Sarah Stewart Taylor commands the most complex of emotions — grief, guilt, love — with ease to deliver a story that, like a chill off the water, gets in your bones." —Tessa Wegert

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Water Theft Won't Pay (But Switching Your Supplier Might)
SwitchWaterSupplier.com • May 5, 2021
As a business, it's understandable that you're looking to reduce your expenses wherever possible, but resorting to water theft isn't the way to go, as four firms recently found out.
WWT Online reported that the four businesses in question were fined a combined £18,000 after illegally tapping into hydrants operated by Thames Water using illegal standpipes.
Director of J Ffrench Jason French pleaded guilty to three offences of water theft and was ordered to pay £2,726, while the director of National Road Sweepers Ltd Munya Chiromo was ordered to pay £3,378 after appearing in court in August of last year.
Marcus Rickard, director of Centurion Power Cleaning Ltd, had to pay £4,516 after pleading guilty to three offences of water theft last year.
However, it was Adam Richardson, director of Quattro Plant Ltd, who was handed the biggest fine after pleading guilty to six offences. He was ordered to pay £7,502. The news provider noted that this is not the first time the business has been in court for stealing water. In 2019, the company was fined over £8,000 for carrying out seven similar offences.
Claire Rumens, Thames Water's illegal connections manager, explained that the prosecutions are about far more than the business recovering money that is owed to it.
"Over the last few years, we've ramped up our work to find and stop illegal connections, uncovering hundreds of offences and saving millions of litres of water," she revealed. Ms Rumens added that the company considers court action "a last resort", but stressed that they will always prosecute repeat offenders.
In the last four years, Thames Water has recovered more than £500,000 from landowners, contractors and other parties who have illegally taken water from its hydrants.
If you want to try and reduce your water bills, rather than resorting to illegal activity you can change business water supplier to one that offers you a more favourable tariff and conditions. We can help you find the right water supplier to support your organisation.
Water theft is a bigger problem globally than you may realise. Last year, the World Economic Forum highlighted research published in the journal Nature Sustainability, which found that between 30 and 50 per cent of the world's water supply is stolen every year.
Many of the thefts are perpetrated by those in the agricultural sector, and include using treated drinking water without paying for it as well as taking water from natural sources in breach of environmental guidelines.
Among the recommendations from the study are to introduce tougher penalties for water theft around the world, as well as using improved monitoring technology to help identify water theft where it occurs more quickly.
The report stated: "Water crises constitute a challenge for humanity. When regulators fail to understand the value of water, inadequate prescribed penalties increase the risk of theft."
How To Save Water At Work
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Todd Snyder Made the Turtleneck of the Year
Todd Snyder and Champion Turned Your Favorite Sweatshirt Into a Turtleneck—and They Nailed It
Now this is how you elevate a classic.
By Avidan Grossman
Ben Alsop
SHOP $118, toddsnyder.com
Welcome to The Esquire Endorsement. Heavily researched. Thoroughly vetted. These picks are the best way to spend your hard-earned cash.
The internet's various comments sections are not, to put it mildly, often lauded as hotbeds of friendly discourse. (What? You don't say!) What goes down immediately below any piece of content you interact with online often amounts to nothing short of a cesspool of negative energy, a black hole of bad karma you should avoid at all costs.
Well not so on the Todd Snyder site! And especially not so when it comes to the reviews left beneath the brand's beloved collaboration with Champion, an ongoing partnership that sees the two team up each year to update classic Champion styles with a little signature Todd Snyder flair. The customers effusively declaring their love for the duo's Heavyweight Turtleneck Sweatshirt are the most wholesome thing I've seen in ages, and their sentiments a sight for sore eyes. (Shoot it into my motherfucking veins is the more online-appropriate response here.) How many among us have forgotten the simple pleasure of scrolling through some random swath of the internet with nary an alt-right troll in sight? Too many, I'd guess. So, I figured, why not let these doggedly optimistic reviewers chime in here?
In the powerful words of one William F. (the very first review on the page, a 5 out of 5): "I love it." I love you, William! Let's do this fucking thing.
Sure, this heavyweight bad boy might technically be a turtleneck, but you'd be hard pressed to find any fleece layer more versatile.
It's the ideal hoodie alternative.
If you've found yourself in a bit of a stylistic rut lately, a dynamite fleece turtleneck is juuust left field enough to help you get your groove back—while not taking you anywhere you weren't already willing to go. (Reviewer Justin L. notes the style's comfort and versatility, two HUGE talking points I also had on my checklist. Damn. We're so in sync, dude.)
Still not convinced this turtleneck/sweatshirt hybrid can really keep up with your best-in-class hoodie collection? Howard J. has the poetic rejoinder for you: "I look forward to putting this on to just hang out at home, but it's smart enough to wear out as well." Let's fucking go, Howard! I knew you were the right man for the job. The transitional nature of the piece is one of its biggest selling points, especially in comparison to its slightly, ah, schlubbier hooded counterparts. Way to rise to the occasion, team. I'm proud.
The coziest turtleneck you'll ever own derives its powers from a hefty 16 oz. fleece that's been garment-washed to perfection.
It's a Champion.
In his endearingly enthusiastic review, Walter C. calls this very product "top-notch," and notes, perhaps punningly, that's it's a champion. (Good one, Walter!) In other words, don't let the extended neck fool you: This is still one super cozy sweatshirt made in Canada out of 16 0z. fleece, and then garment-washed for over half an hour to achieve peak softness. There's a reason the iconic Champion logo carries so much industry cachet after a century in the business, and that public goodwill isn't a result of the brand phoning it in for the last 100 years. Sometimes they do make 'em like that anymore, and chances are it's Champion making 'em.
Todd Snyder's vintage riff on the iconic Champion logo sits on the sleeve.
It's made to be bought in multiples.
No matter how excited you might be at this point to actually pull the trigger on a turtleneck of your own, you've still got a lot of catching up to do. Because Rory S. beat you to the punch, and boy did he beat you there by a mile. Rory is the proud owner of six (count 'em, six!) versions of the style in various colors. Get on Rory's level, guy. Sheesh. Somebody at Todd Snyder needs to hook this man up with a sponsorship deal ASAP because he's putting on for the team like nobody's business.
For real, though, this is exactly the kind of garment that invites doubling (or tripling, or sextupling) up. An easy-to-wear staple that's just different enough, made with care, and still somehow inexplicably comfy? As my dear, personal friend William F. might put it: I love it. And you will, too.
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This Samsung washing machine has a large 9kg drum capacity. It's also really energy efficient with an A+++ energy rating. It has a maximum spin speed of 1400rpm. Plus, with 14 wash programmes to choose from, it will really help you take care of your clothes.
This is a great price and would.be ideal for us.. we are forever forgetting to put a sock or 2 in the machine.. with this we could just pop them in whilst its on. Great find.
This seems like a really good price. Thank you very much for sharing.
This is brilliant, thanks so much for sharing. Always good to be able to get a discount on big appliances like this as it makes such a difference.


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Q: Binding lost instance on manual trigger I'm trying to store the instance of the DataTable declared inside the constructor, this seems working until I trigger the change event of a filter manually. Infact, I have a select #filter which populate the DataTable instance, if I do:
$('#filter').trigger('change');

I can see the instance of the DataTable, but if I manual change the select option I get as instance value null.
This is my code:

function ContactHelper() {
  this.init();
  this.contactsTable = null;
}

ContactHelper.prototype.init = function() {
  console.log('initialized');

  $('#filter').on('change', function() {
    let newData = {
      'first_name': 'foo'
    };

    console.log(this.contactsTable);;
    this.contactsTable.row.add(newData);
  }.bind(this));

  this.initContactsTable();
};

ContactHelper.prototype.initContactsTable = function() {
  this.contactsTable = $('#my-dataTable').DataTable({
    columns: [{
        data: 'first_name'
      }
    ],
    destroy: true,
  });

  $('#filter').trigger('change');
};

$(document).ready(function() {
  let cHelper = new ContactHelper();
});
<link  href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.10.7/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" >

      Name

<select id="filter">
  <option value="0">foo</option>
  <option value="1">foo2</option>
</select>

as you can see I binded this to the change event, is something wrong in my code?
Fiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/twx0bdfq/

A: After calling init() method in the constructor you set the contactsTable to null. Try this:

function ContactHelper() {
    this.init();
}

ContactHelper.prototype.init = function() {
    $('#filter').on('change', function() {
        let newData = {
            'first_name': 'foo'
        };

        this.contactsTable.row.add(newData);
    }.bind(this));

    this.initContactsTable();
};

ContactHelper.prototype.initContactsTable = function() {
    this.contactsTable = $('#my-dataTable').DataTable({
        columns: [{
            data: 'first_name'
          }
        ],
        destroy: true,
    });

    $('#filter').trigger('change');
};

$(document).ready(function() {
    let cHelper = new ContactHelper();
});
<link  href="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/datatables/1.10.7/css/jquery.dataTables.min.css" rel="stylesheet" >

      Name

<select id="filter">
  <option value="0">foo</option>
  <option value="1">foo2</option>
</select>

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With the part last weekend wrapped-up, I fully admit I didn't feel much like cooking. But rather than resort to fast food and microwave meals, I bucked up, made a menu and managed to have a week's worth of fairly quick and easy meals on an other-wise inspired week.
Having a few leftovers helped, of course, as it's a lot easier to refashion one dish into another than to start from scratch. But whether you've got some soup stocked away in the freezer or just got your goodies from your local CSA (community-supported agriculture), planning your meals is the first way to make mealtimes easier to tackle. And if you're starting from scratch, checking out the store's sales papers or what's in season for your area can be a good kick-start to your list-making.
Of course, if you know you've got a busy week ahead–like this week we had our anniversary and then the Greek Food Festival–it's okay to give yourself permission to have a night off from the kitchen. It's okay to go out one night (or two) if it's part of the plan. And if you're concerned about the health benefits (or lack thereof) of a night out, remember it's all about balance. If you're going to indulge one night, balance it out by going a little healthier the night before or after. What you want to avoid is planning to cook, getting overwhelmed by your schedule, and pulling in for fast-food and–just like a dieter that falls off the wagon–getting off-track, discouraged, and throwing the plan out of the window for the rest of the week or month.
So you've got your plan and you've looked ahead at your schedule, what else can you do to make getting dinner on the table something other than mission impossible? Prepping ahead! If you know you're going to need diced onions for 3 meals this week, go ahead and chop them all when you're preparing the first dinner and put the extra in containers in the fridge so you can just pull them out the next nights and get cooking. If you need hard-boiled eggs for a salad in a couple of days, go ahead and boil and peel them one evening after you've finished dinner for the night. Think ahead about what and when you can get some of the work out of the way and the next night will be so much easier.
Give yourself permission to take a night off if you or your schedule demands it.
Prepare what you can ahead of time to make night-of preparation quicker.
What are your tips for making mealtime easier?
Those are all good tips. I don't cook that often and when I do I make a bunch of leftovers so I can eat 2 or 3 meals which I don't mind doing. I often eat salad for dinner as it's easy and I can add whatever is at hand. I'm a lazy cook.
When I lived alone I'd cook ahead and have leftovers for lunches–loved that!
A big pot of soup and a batch of biscuits make a nice extended meal option for the winter.


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Best Mockumentaries
Mockumentaries are a strange yet entertaining film breed. While they resemble found footage films in many ways, they typically boast more structure. They often feature interviews, as well, both scripted and improvised.
Check out this list of the best mockumentaries, next time you're looking for something thought-provoking—and a little wild.
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1981)
This Is Spinal Tap (1984)
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
Best In Show (2000)
Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)
Behind The Mask: The Rise Of Leslie Vernon (2006)
District 9 (2009)
Digging Up The Marrow (2014)
What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
Tour De Pharmacy (2017)
Director: Jamie Uys
Starring: Marius Weyers, N!xau
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Where To Watch: Fandango
This film is most popular among anthropology students, but is a riveting watch for anyone seeking both hilarity and education.
It follows a fictional tribe in a remote part of Africa, after the people discover a Coca-Cola bottle that falls from a passing plane.
The confusion, reverence, and subsequent violence over the unknown object is simultaneously funny and eye-opening, as the leader embarks on a journey to return the bottle to the gods.
Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean
Where To Watch: HBOMax, Fandango, Vudu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV
This mockumentary follows an aging band of rockstars as they traverse the hedonistic universe of a band on tour.
While the band tries to regain their previous popularity, they must deal with a variety of challenges: some external; others, self-inflicted.
This Is Spinal Tap has garnered a cult-like popularity over the years. What's more, it continues to be just as delightfully quotable today as it was decades ago.
Director: Michael Patrick Jann
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Kirstie Alley
A small town in Minnesota hosts an annual beauty pageant. For these teenage girls, the stakes have never been higher.
This mockumentary gives viewers a realistic behind-the-scenes look at pageant culture, coupled with more entertainment-driven plot devices—including strange "accidents" befalling the contestants.
While a critical and commercial flop, Drop Dead Gorgeous became a pop cult classic, particularly among LGBT fans.
Director: Christopher Guest
Starring: Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara
Where To Watch: Fandango, Vudu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV
See the hoops that dog owners must jump through to ensure that their precious pooch wins Best in Show at a competition à la Westminster Kennel Club.
While owners insist on grooming every stray bit of fur or defending their dogs' honor…these animals couldn't care less about the contest.
Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Pamela Anderson
A lot of people have been fooled by Sacha Baron Cohen's brilliant acting in this mockumentary.
In this film, Cohen plays a filmmaker from Kazakhstan. From afar, he falls in love with Pamela Anderson and resolves to marry her.
Just as hilarious as Cohen's convincing acting are the reactions of the people he encounters—most of whom weren't in on the joke at all, until the movie's release.
This resulted in a lawsuit or two, but also makes for an entertaining mockumentary—perhaps the "realest" fake doc out there.
Director: Scott Glosserman
Starring: Nathan Baesel, Robert Englund
Where To Watch: Amazon Prime, Apple TV
Clearly making fun of the slasher genre, this mockumentary follows a man who loves horror movies. When he decides to become a serial killer, using the quirks and tricks he's observed in his favorite films, he invites a bemused documentarist to film his exploits.
The wannabe murderer then refines his techniques, modeling them after famous fictitious killers like Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Michael Meyers.
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope
Where To Watch: Fandango, Hulu, Vudu, Amazon Prime, Apple TV
Unlike most mockumentaries, District 9 is not a comedy by any stretch of the imagination.
It chronicles the landing of a desperate alien species in South Africa who, in a twist not seen in most alien movies, are seeking help from humans.
However, instead of assisting them, humans trap them on Earth in ghettos. Their intention is to study—and then steal—the aliens' technology.
Also at home in the found footage film genre, District 9 is a great watch for sci-fi movie fans sick of stereotypical camera work or narrative devices.
Director: Adam Green
Starring: Adam Green, Ray Wise
This self-referential film is about a filmmaker—played by the director, in fact—who wants to make a movie about monsters.
Along the way, he meets a man who claims to have proof that monsters are real. They set out together to show that monsters truly exist in the real world.
Director: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Starring: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
This film chronicles the journey of four housemates…who just so happen to be centuries-old vampires.
They try to make their way through the modern world: while many conveniences make their lives (or undeaths) easier, aspects like dating, socializing, and comprehending new technologies aren't nearly as simple.
Director: Jake Szymanski
Starring: Andy Samberg, Orlando Bloom
Where To Watch: HBOMax
In this comedic sports mockumentary, audiences follow five cyclists while they navigate the seedy underbelly of cycling and doping.
John Cena, Daveed Diggs, and Freddie Highmore star in this hilarious film, and Jon Hamm narrates.
While most mockumentaries are comedies, the style lends itself to almost any genre imaginable, from sci-fi and horror to music and food.
They take a sometimes dry format meant to educate, then turn it into a vehicle for pure entertainment. Similar to a rock biopic, unique camera angles keep audiences interested, while an unparalleled realism makes every joke, scare, or absurd notion feel miles away from fiction.
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Looking for suggestions for packing/shipping prints to ensure the image arrives in excellent condition. I would be selling 8 1/2 x 11 and 13 x 19 prints.
I agree; the key is to buy envelopes of the right size AND find thin cardboard. Neither of those will be that easy to find in 13x19" size.
You could cut up the boxes that your paper came in, for at least a few cardboard sheets.
I know that some printing companies ship prints rolled up, in a cardboard roll, but I don't know where you would buy those. AND the prints would be curled and would need to be flattened by the recipient.
@Gale. The correct answer is shipping tubes. For multiple prints in a single tube, any craft store should have archival quality linen free paper to seperate the prints from each other. Yes, they are rolled up. The product will relax when unpacked. The customer most likely will have the prints matted and framed, so the prints will be placed into a professionals hands.
A flat envelope containing 13x19 prints will NOT fit in anyones mailbox. Most shipping tubes WILL fit, the largest easily with the MB door left ajar.
Shipping tubes can be purchased in bulk at wholesale prices. Google.
Thanks for all the input. I like the idea of the shipping tubes.
MARYIACOFANO.COM you can find the tubes at any ups shipping store.
Meghan Gonski of course they can't fit in a mail box Thomas. you send them through the mail service that delivers them instead of sticking them in a mail box.
You can also get frame boxes from places like Uline in all different sizes. These are anywhere from 1/2 inch deep up to 3 inches, and a wide variety of width x length. Put the photos in a bad, and tape to the inside of the box. This is how I shipped craft papers when I had a scrapbook store.
Thanks to everyone for your tips/techniques.
I am close friends with our local postmaster. Prints "Photos, do not bend" doesn't mean a thing to postal carriers, or the sorting machines. If you don't want them bent, insure the packaging won't bend.


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Effects of Trimetazidine on Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Thrombolytic Agents [Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars]
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 1994; 22(4): 253-256
Effects of Trimetazidine on Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Thrombolytic Agents
Ayhan BALTAY1, Rasim ENAR1, Haşim MUTLU1, Murat ERSANLI1, Nuran YAZICIOĞLU1
We investigated the effect of trimetazidine (TMZ) on left ventricular function and infarct size in 35 acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients to whom streptokinase (SK) was administered. Seventeen (group A) were given 40 mg TMZ orally on admission and then continued with a dose of 20 mg three times a day. The other eighteen patients (group B) served as the control group. Early stage (in the first five days) and follow up (1st and 3rd month) echocardiography and radionuclide ventriculography (RNV) were carried out. Coronary angiography was performed in 30 patients (15 from each group) on the 10th day of AMI. There was no difference in age, sex, atherosclerotic risk factors and old myocardial infarction between the groups A and B. Average angina period was 3.1±1.5 h in group A and 3.1±1.3 h in group B before SK administration was iniated (NS). Localization of AMI, rhythm and conduction disturbances and heart failure did not show any significant difference in group A and B. The number of diseased vessels and extension of lesions were also similar in each group. Wall motion score index was estimated with echocardiography. It was 6.7±3.4 at the early stage, 4.1±3.7 (1st month), 2.6±0.7 (3rd month) in group A. and group B it was 4.7±2.3, 3.2±1.8, 2.6±2.2, respectively. Ejection fraction (EF) was determined with RNV. In patients with anterior infarction in group A, EF was 28±13% (early stage), 31±17% (1st month) 37±17% (3rd month); in group B it was 29±8%, 35±9%, 36±9%, respectivel (NS). In patients with inferior infarction in group A. estimated EF was 46±4% (early stage), 53±4% (1st month), 55±1% (3rd month); in group B it was 46±6%, 52±5%, 53±4, respectively (NS). Also, there was no significant difference between the estimated EF values at the early stage, in the first and third months in both groups of patients with anterior and inferior MI. In conclusion, TMZ appeared to have no effect on left ventricular function in the early phase of AMI in patients treated with thrombolytic agents.
Keywords: Acute myocardial infarction, streptokinase, trimetazidine
Ayhan BALTAY, Rasim ENAR, Haşim MUTLU, Murat ERSANLI, Nuran YAZICIOĞLU. Effects of Trimetazidine on Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Thrombolytic Agents. Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 1994; 22(4): 253-256
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Oh, and did we mention it has a recording studio?
In a city with as many good hotels as Los Angeles, it's hard to decide where to stay. There's the mythic Chateau Marmont. The hipper-than-thou LINE. The breezy Shutters on The Beach.
But we can't think of too many places where you can sleep, drink, and record your next album under the same roof.
Enter Gold Diggers, a new music-inspired boutique hotel and recording studio in East Hollywood. The 11-room "Bed and Beverage"— which is partly inspired by New York City's fabled Chelsea Hotel — is the creation of Dave Neupert, a partner in L.A. nightlife venues including La Cita and Melody Lounge, as well as New Orleans' Royal Street Inn & R Bar.
The 1924 building has lived many lives: as a tavern and inn catering to motorists traveling Route 66; a film studio; a rehearsal space for punk and rock bands; and a dive bar with exotic dancers.
Now, the revamped spot is channeling its storied history through music-centered amenities and stylish interiors with a hint of rock 'n roll (a jewel-toned velvet sofa here, a leopard-print pillow there). Guests even receive a custom vinyl LP on their pillow.
Downstairs is the Gold-Diggers Bar, a moody space clad in dark wood and accented with gold pendant lighting, marble tables, tufted leather seats, and a gold velvet stage curtain. The hotspot is home to Heat Wave, one of the city's coolest funk and disco parties, and has already hosted live performances by the likes of Iceage, Nick Waterhouse, and Sofi Tukker.
But the most show-stealing feature is the state-of-the-art recording complex, which houses nine studios outfitted with writing, tracking, and mixing technology. The facility also features a multi-use soundstage and a large tracking stage that can be used for events, live performances, and screenings.


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GRG's counselors Richard and Norah sat down together to share their thoughts and vision for GRG's mental health programming for the groups. Coming from very different backgrounds, they sometimes watch each other's sessions. In this blog they share some of their experiences and what they have learned from each other and from GRG's 21 groups.
I always love it so much that when you meet someone or visit them you first have a really relaxed introduction and exchange greetings together. In the Netherlands [where I am from], you would just say 'hi' and get down to business. Here I feel that with everyone, including our clients, you can start off really gently by just greeting and making some jokes. This for me makes everyone start the entire session much more at ease: instead of performing, you work more on relationship building. It's something I have learned watching you, Richard, work with our groups, and it has made it much easier for me to build rapport with my clients. I think one of your greatest strengths as a counselor is your ability to win people over by making even the heavy topics somewhat approachable, by involving everyone in group discussions. Your positivity reminds the groups of their resilience and that solutions can be achieved. Your approach is really quite different from [what I learned in] my previous training in Netherlands. Tell me, is there anything that you see as a big difference in my style compared to yours or to between our different cultures?
Richard: Oh yes, the first time I saw you, Norah, I thought it would be very hard for us to work together given the nature of our groups, the language barriers and our different upbringings. It was difficult to imagine working with a white lady in the field, as I knew the groups would expect you were going to give them something or pay their children's school fees. But I have been so impressed with your patience to let groups air out their problems, asking you to fix them, but then that you explain that you are a student and are here to learn, and that counseling is a way to fix some of the problems they face; that GRG is working to help them change their lives. … I got confidence [after] working with you the first three weeks when we spent so much time in the field. You quickly adapted to the system, and your character was a great asset for our psycho-social service provision. You ate the local dishes with no problem and mixed freely with the local communities. That is something I found quite remarkable about you and your style, and I very much like that. What is it that you like working most with these groups?
Norah: … That is a hard question for me because it is such a different world for me here, but I like many things. I love Uganda with its beautiful weather, beautiful landscape and beautiful people. People are so welcoming and friendly. When I visit clients at their homes, they are appreciative and excited that I came to visit them. … I am very welcome.
You know, that is what I like most: that I really feel that the work we are doing is appreciated. There is virtually no other organization or government assistance [that provide] counseling in rural villages, so many of our clients have no way to get help except through GRG. When we do our follow-up visits, and people share stories about how they can use trauma-coping skills. Or going for a third or fourth individual session and the client telling you about how much they have gained and how they now are better able to care for their children or interact with their spouse.
It's so different from my world at home, and it's those little successes that make it easier to manage the huge scale of challenges we face in this work.
Working with people abducted by the LRA [Lord's Resistance Army] or those who lost family members in the war, there are just so many challenges that you obviously know very well. What is one of your hardest challenges now that you've been doing this for more than a year?
Richard: The greatest challenge I have often faced is the difficulty in following up with the groups and our individual clients. People don't live according to a watch here, so if you tell someone we are coming at 10 in the morning, they might only come back from the garden at 2 in the afternoon, and if you ask them what time it is, they aren't really very sure or concerned. It makes it a challenge as we've scaled up our GRG counseling, and we need to be able to visit the groups more often. But we don't have a big counseling staff, and we share the truck with our colleagues who are doing leadership training and other activities like savings and loans and entrepreneurship training, [but] sometimes it takes all day just to see one [counseling] client. It would be great if GRG could find a donor [to help] so we could add a motorcycle in the future. That way you and I could decide to go and meet this group or that one after one of their weekly meetings, to do a surprise check-in, or to be able to visit clients in one specific area on back-to-back days.
Norah: I totally agree. I'm really excited for the peer counseling program to begin in September. After we train five or six people in each area where our groups are based, … it will provide a huge resource to have peer counselors. [They will be] there to help when there are conflicts in the community immediately. We hear of so many cases of suicide, domestic violence, family members fighting over land. If we have the peer counselors in place, they can be the first person to calm down the situation, and then they can refer the situation to us or to other relevant support [services] through our referral networks. I've really learned here that while peer counselors may not have a background in psychology or a lot of academic skills, they understand the needs of the community and how to maximize the limited resources. I'm so excited that even before we suggested it to the groups—[based on] our own observations and strategies to make our counseling support more sustainable and to reach more people—it was the groups who suggested that we … train some of their members to help. Our groups have so much practical experience in managing and solving conflicts, learned from when they started as a divided group with LRA returnees on one side and those people who were in camps or were victims in other ways on the other side. But they've learned that working together and supporting one another they can achieve so much. I think the peer counselors will be great role models and will help not only our groups, but the entire community to achieve a lasting peace and to address the problems after the war.
Richard: You know, growing up in a war context, I was inspired to help my community to struggle for a peaceful future, and I know people in our groups have the same attitude. We saw too much war in northern Uganda, and it's only us who change that for peace. If we train 50 peer counselors, it's like putting a GRG counselor in every village. It won't solve everything, and we still need to give … mentorship and counseling for counselors, but it brings something new that hasn't been done. It gives the community the tools. Now it's them [who can] do something that they never knew they could do before.
Norah and Richard will continue to share their progress as GRG launches peer counselor training among its other counseling activities in 2015 and 2016. Be sure to follow their blogs, and please send them your questions or words of encouragement.
To sponsor peer counseling or expanded trauma care in one of the villages where GRG operates, please visit www.grassrootsgroup.org.


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Paris Couleurs / Paris Colours. Gérard Ifert, Ektachromes 1953-1954. Text (FR/EN) by Catherine de Smet
Publisher: Éditions B42, €25. Graphic design: deValence, Paris
In the early 1950s, Swiss designer Gérard Ifert walked the streets of Paris on quiet Sundays, taking pictures of the colourmen's shopfronts
The 'designer as photographer' is a trope that has been much explored in articles, books and exhibitions, with photos by graphic designers as different in temperament and outlook as Rudy VanderLans, Nicolete Gray, Robert Brownjohn, Wojciech Zamecznik and Ken Garland, writes John L. Walters.
Photography can be a fruitful 'side project' for many creative people (including actors, musicians and artists), but designers often take a systematic approach to narrowly defined subject matter, resulting in what is sometimes called 'photo-graphism'.
A selection of Gérard Ifert's photographs featured in photobook Paris Colours.
Paris Colours is a slim photobook that gathers together 33 photographs by Swiss designer Gérard Ifert (b.1929), together with a text by Catherine de Smet, who is currently working on a forthcoming book about Ifert's work. Ifert had studied at Allgemeine Gewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland, graduated in 1949 and left to find work in Paris. In the early 1950s, he walked the streets of Paris on quiet Sundays, equipped with a square-format Rolleiflex camera loaded with Ektachrome film. He was particularly drawn to the shopfronts of 'marchands du couleur' or 'colourmen', who sold paint and used these products to cover their shops' exteriors in lavish and sometimes startling coloured patterns.
Ifert chose and framed his subjects to emphasise their similarity to the Concrete Art of Swiss painter-designers such as Richard Paul Lohse and Karl Gerstner, both of whom he knew. When typography enters the pictures, it is to advertise a paint brand name, or a service. The shops were closed on Sundays, so Ifert could capture the closed, painted shutters, with few cars or passers-by to disturb the compositions, though a few pictures are framed at the foot by parked cars.
De Smet recounts other examples of what Ifert called 'photo-paintings, architectural details, aeroplanes overhead, spurting fountains and the play of various types of light,' three of which would be exhibited in 'The Sense of Abstraction' exhibition curated by Edward Steichen at New York's MOMA in 1960. Other examples of the designer's photography include charming pictures of children's chalk drawings – sometimes including blurry, active children – and in the 1960s, some colourful pictures of vacant billboards. His work was featured, alongside Zamencznik and William Klein, in the exhibition 'Photographisme' at the Centre Pompidou in 2017-18. This can now be seen under the title 'Photographics: Klein, Ifert, Zamecznik' at Zurich's Museum für Gestaltung until 9 Feb 2020.
Paris Couleurs: Ektachromes 1953-1954. Spread from Catherine de Smet's introduction 'Le grand atelier anonyme' shows examples of Concrete Art by Josef Albers (left), Max Bill (top right) and Richard Paul Lohse, all published in Karl Gerstner's Kalte Kunst?
The opening essay of Paris Colours also shows examples of contemporaneous art, including the paintings Homage to the square by Josef Albers and Verena Loewnsberg's Komposition 257, both reproduced in Gerstner's 1957 book Kalte Kunst? [Cold Art?]. Ifert's triumph in this heartwarming body of work, beautifully presented in deValence's careful book design, was to find an engaging, 'vernacular' counterpoint to Concrete Art in what de Smet calls 'the vast, open studio of the city.'
Cover of Paris Couleurs: Ektachromes 1953-1954. Design by deValence.
John L. Walters, editor of Eye, London
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'Photographics: Klein, Ifert, Zamecznik' in Zurich until 9 Feb 2020
'Photographisme. Klein, Ifert, Zamecznik' in Paris
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Contribution of bacillomycin D in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 to antifungal activity and biofilm formation.
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Q: How can I capitalize every third letter of a string in C#? How can I capitalize every third letter of a string in C#?
I loop through the whole string with a for loop, but I can't think of the sequence right now.

A:         var s = "Lorem ipsum";
        var foo = new string(s
            .Select((c, i) => (i + 1) % 3 == 0 ? Char.ToUpper(c) : c)
            .ToArray());

A: I suspect you just want something like this:
// String is immutable; copy to a char[] so we can modify that in-place
char[] chars = input.ToCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < chars.Length; i += 3)
{
    chars[i] = char.ToUpper(chars[i]);
}
// Now construct a new String from the modified character array
string output = new string(chars);

That assumes you want to start capitalizing from the first letter, so "abcdefghij" would become "AbcDefGhiJ". If you want to start capitalizing elsewhere, just change the initial value of i.

A: You are already looping through the characters inside a string? Then add a counter, increment it on each iteration, and if it is 3, then use .ToUpper(currentCharacter) to make it upper case. Then reset your counter.

A: You could just use a regular expression.
If the answer is every third char then you want
var input = "sdkgjslgjsklvaswlet";
var regex = new Regex("(..)(.)");
var replacement = regex.Replace(input, delegate(Match m)
                     {
                         return m.Groups[1].Value + m.Groups[2].Value.ToUpper();
                     });

If you want every third character, but starting with the first you want:
var input = "sdkgjslgjsklvaswlet";
var regex = new Regex("(.)(..)");
var replacement = regex.Replace(input, delegate(Match m)
                     {
                         return m.Groups[1].Value.ToUpper() + m.Groups[2].Value;
                     });

If you want a loop, you can convert to a character array first, so you can alter the values.
For every third character:
var x = input.ToCharArray();
for (var i = 2; i <x.Length; i+=3) {
    x[i] = char.ToUpper(x[i]);
}
var replacement = new string(x);

For every third character from the beginning:
var x = input.ToCharArray();
for (var i = 0; i <x.Length; i+=3) {
    x[i] = char.ToUpper(x[i]);
}
var replacement = new string(x);


One of the perks of working as a celebrant in the wedding industry is that I get to work alongside (and befriend) some truly talented artists. Collaborating with Sarah Petryk of Allium Floral & Event Design — see some of her work over on our Collective page — always gives way not only to visually stunning floral designs, but also to the inspiration that comes from working alongside such a talented individual.
This early December, we gathered some friends at Promise Ridge, and Sarah led us in a holiday wreath-making workshop. Of course, in true Bacon & Lox fashion, we made the whole thing into a party!
Per B&L tradition, we asked everyone to bring something to share. Society friends Stacey and Laura brought their incredible pomegranate margaritas, while a special request was made for Kasey's magical chocolate chip cookies to make an encore appearance after their overwhelmingly positive reception last year. Since it was an outdoor affair, I made a foie gras terrine (thanks to my time at the French Culinary Institute's charcuterie class a few years back) and a steaming pot of French onion soup, while friends Jen and Sarah each brought one of their incredible cheese platters. And no Bacon & Lox Society gathering is complete without our dear friend Rob Yaskovic on portrait duty, capturing the action in fine form.
The results were as incredible: Our wreaths wound up being as varied and personally-inspired as the food and friends we had around the table! We wove in all types of crazy, fun ingredients, working with things like air plants, succulents, sheet moss, and more. Even though everyone had access to the same supplies and components, each wreath turned out differently — it was inspiring to see everyone's own unique artistic sensibilities. Some workshop attendees, basking in the holiday spirit, went on to gift their custom wreath to a loved one. My mother, who attended the workshop last year, boxed hers up and sent it to her father (my grandpa Rodney) all the way in Las Vegas.
We value personal creative expansion in a big way, and our wreath-making party provided an opportunity to learn a new craft from an expert in the field. We got to bond with each other and enjoy some cocktails while learning a new skill at the very same time! When we were done, each of us took away a physical reminder of the incredible experience we had all just shared, and it was something that we'll all be able to share with everyone.
The Bacon & Lox society loves togetherness, creativity, and holiday spirit...and our wreath-making extravaganza was the perfect combination of all three!


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Q: Facial recognition Software using python I'm following a tutorial for creating a facial recognition software (link: https://pythonprogramming.net/haar-cascade-face-eye-detection-python-opencv-tutorial/) and I keep getting the error:
OpenCV Error: Assertion failed (!empty()) in
cv::CascadeClassifier::detectMultiScale, file C:\projects\opencv-
python\opencv\modules\objdetect\src\cascadedetect.cpp, line 1698
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Users/Jacob/PycharmProjects/DesignProject/main.py", line 17, in
<module>
    faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)".

Looking at my code (below) and other questions like this online, it says that it was because I didn't specify my file path, but i still get the same error. I'm still new to this type of software, and python in general, so I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. Any help would be appreciated!!!
import cv2

face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/C:/User/Jacob/Downloads/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')

eye_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('/C:/User/Jacob/Downloads/haarcascade_eye.xml')

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)

while 1:
    ret, img = cap.read()
    if ret is True:
        gray = cv2.cvtColor(img, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
    else:
            continue

    faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.3, 5)

    for(x, y, w, h) in faces:
        cv2.rectangle(img, (x, y), (x+w, y+h), (255, 0, 0), 2)
        roi_gray = gray[y:y+h, x:x+h]
        roi_color = img[y:y+h, x:x+h]
        eyes = eye_cascade.detectMultiScale(roi_gray)
        for (ex, ey, ew, eh) in eyes:
            cv2.rectangle(roi_color, (ex, ey), (ex+ew), (ex+ew, ey+eh), (0, 255, 0), 2)
    cv2.imshow('img', img)
    k = cv2.waitKey(30) & 0xFf

    if k == 27:
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Thank you to those that helped!! the solution was to put the xml files into the working directory of the project instead of trying to type out the entire file path

A: your path is wrong. You don't need / before C.
This is how it should be,
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('C:/User/Jacob/Downloads/haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')
But I believe you are on windows and I recommend using something like below,
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier(r'C:\User\Jacob\Downloads\haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')

A: In windows when you are mentioning any file you should '\' instead of a forward slash'/'. So your file path should look somewhat like this:

C:\Users\XYZ\Desktop\project code\abc.xml

Also, I suggest that you put all your XML files in the same working directory(where your code is placed) so that you don't have to mention the entire file path. You can just mention the file name. This helps when you are experimenting with different XML files and need to change the input files often.
Hope this helps,cheers!

A: import cv2
import sys

# Load the cascade
face_cascade = cv2.CascadeClassifier('haarcascade_frontalface_default.xml')

cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0,cv2.CAP_DSHOW)
fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'XVID')
#it must be noted that original size of video must be written correctly because it     is not shown in video player
while(cap.isOpened()):
    ret,frame = cap.read()
    if ret == True:
        print(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_WIDTH))
        print(cap.get(cv2.CAP_PROP_FRAME_HEIGHT))
        gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame,cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)

    # Detect the faces
        faces = face_cascade.detectMultiScale(gray, 1.1, 4)
        for (x, y, w, h) in faces:
            cv2.rectangle(frame, (x, y), (x + w, y + h), (255, 0, 34), 1,1)
        cv2.imshow("Test",frame)

    if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord("q"):
        break

cap.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()


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Hulme Hippodrome
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Lord Horror
As Thin As Reality?
Matchstalk Men
I don't like this song very much, but I think it made a big impact on people my age in the late 70s, in spite of being completely uncool. It was in the charts for about 3 months and was Number 1 during April 1978, when I was eleven.
I already knew about Lowry (1887-1976) from my grandma's table mats… and that was about it. We weren't taught about him at school and I don't remember ever seeing his paintings in a gallery. Art teachers didn't dwell on him because they really didn't want us to paint like he did. He was considered a 'people's artist', I think, which was an oblique way of saying that he was popular but not very good.
You could say the same thing about the song… but it did something useful: it introduced a whole generation of young people to the paintings of L. S. Lowry via the unlikely route of Top of the Pops.
The lyrics painted their own picture of poverty in Salford and Manchester; they sounded like the stuff my grandad (and countless other grandads) came out with on a regular basis, along with 'You young'uns today – you don't know you're born', and other well-worn phrases; but these observations seemed more relevant and interesting when someone was singing them on the telly.
Brian & Michael – Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs
When the recession in the 80s really took a grip, we already knew what poverty on a grand scale looked like in our cities from Lowry's paintings. The old industrial buildings looked bleak and impressive to us, and we copied the appearance of the figures in the paintings with our big clompy shoes and second-hand clothes. 'Short back and sides' became all the rage for girls and boys, with hair left longer on top. Sun-tans were out; black and white photos were in, as was 'Black & White':
There were lots of postcards of Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy around in the early to mid-80s, and an interest in images from early cinema was fuelled by Harold Lloyd and other newly restored silent films being shown every evening on the BBC. The itinerant workers depicted in these depression era films looked very similar to the figures in the Lowry paintings.
Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan – The Kid – 1921
Certain images of 50s film stars were also popular, then as now: James Dean, Elvis in 'Jailhouse Rock', Marlon Brando in 'On The Waterfront', Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn; but somehow these images, the black & white 'kitchen sink' films of the 50s and 60s and Lowry paintings seemed to sit well together in our collective imagination.
There was also great interest in George Orwell, not surprisingly due to our living through the year of his most famous title '1984'. Some of us went on to read 'The Road to Wigan Pier' and 'Down and Out in Paris and London' in which Orwell 'slummed it' with menial workers in order to get an insight into their everyday lives, which he then recorded.
I met a girl from America sometime around 1986 whose name I can't now remember, but she lived in the big old house which still backs onto the territorial army barracks in Hulme. She told me she had been determined to come to Manchester ever since she'd read that the city was filled with hoards of un-sun-tanned, unhealthy-looking people without 'big hair', wearing second-hand clothes, singing in english regional accents and generally embracing pauperdom. She saw the place as the opposite of Los Angeles, where she was from, and she found it culturally fascinating.
At the time we called the scene 'Alternative', although this word came to mean something else very soon after.
'Alternative' in Manchester in the mid-80s was defined by what it opposed: mainstream 80s culture, in particular the big sportswear brands sold through the highstreet sports shops. It embraced the music of independent British record labels like Postcard, Kitchenware, Factory, Cherry Red and On-U-Sound, independent local clothing companies and independent films. It was somewhat bookish although not really political.
However by the late 80s the word 'Alternative' was used by club promoters to describe non-dance music club nights and it became an umbrella term for 'all the tribes', conjuring up images of punks and goths in particular. Consequently the particular tribe of young people which I am describing from mid-80s Manchester was marooned in time without a useful name to describe it.
We were the people who ran around Manchester before people started wearing Joe Bloggs, Gio Goi, Bench, taking E and going on cheap Spanish holidays. We weren't just into grim, northern, depression style… there was a big interest in 'jazz' style and this included 1920s, 30s and 50s influences… though it didn't have much to do with actual jazz music in most cases. There was also a big rockabilly influence, which was again more about a look than a sound. We tried to 'embrace the grimness' of our environment rather than escape it or deny it… and the neglected cityscape was often visually stunning while also being incredibly bleak.
What was striking with hindsight was the lack of aspiration to be rich. It was, in those days, cool to be poor. And certainly it was possible to have a great time in Manchester without much money, although I'm now talking about young, free and single people, not families with children. I disliked London in those days because so much of its cultural life catered to the very wealthy. Meanwhile, Manchester's cultural life was pretty much designed for the unwaged, which meant that everybody could join in as long as they didn't live too far away from town.
I would like to like the Matchstalk Men song, but it reminds me of Mull of Kintyre from a few months earlier… nice enough tune, but slow and sentimental, and I've heard it a million times… so sadly I just can't bare to listen to it.
Thankfully, the paintings of L. S. Lowry can now be viewed all year round at the fantastic gallery and theatre complex named after him in Salford, which officially opened in October 2000. More details can be found at The Lowry website: http://www.thelowry.com/.
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Vladimir Gligorov's text, with which the president of the Foundation fully agrees.
LE FIGARO - The Yugoslav impasse
One should bear in mind: the recognition of Croatia and Slovenia by the European Community is a serious mistake that the Community will pay dearly in the future. Obtained by Germany against the will of France and Great Britain, it does not facilitate the settlement of the Yugoslav crisis and is a cowardly precedent in a region wracked by post-communist convulsions. What do we see today?
Professor Gligorov: Bad Economic Situation In All The Balkan Countries
BELGRADE – Being a Researcher at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Professor Vladimir Gligorov, assessed today that the Balkan countries led bad economic policies in the past 20 years and that among them there is almost no difference concerning disturbing indicators.
The sentence condemns us to conflict – how should we avoid that?
The Appeals Chamber's sentence elicited euphoric reactions of opposite presage in both Croatia and Serbia. Few politicians in Croatia can afford not to share the general enthusiasm for the "victory of justice", that is, the general frustration and resentment of "obvious injustice" in Serbia.
Nordic Council in the Balkan way
In the Balkans, Euroscepticism is a means to maintain a system of government and political behavior, including those in power who benefit most from it. In some countries, this is more or less pronounced, with Serbia and Macedonia leading the list – this was said, among other things, last Thursday, at a rally organized by the Peace and Crises Management Foundation of businessman Boris Vukobrat, who has been living in Paris for years. The reason for the one-day scientific conference was to commemorate the Foundation's two decades of work, stemming from the desire to prevent the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, where, unfortunately, as it was known and, after all, "self-critically" noted at the meeting, there was no success.
Boris Vukobrat: Everything has failed after the cleavage of SFRY
The most important thing in the region is the relations between Serbia and Croatia and it is quite certain that because of the imperatives imposed by the EU, we must cooperate. In recent weeks, there has been a setback because no one in Croatia expected Tomislav Nikolić to be elected president, but that will come off, said Boris Vukobrat, founder and president of the Peace and Crises Management Foundation, in an interview for ''Blic''.
Boris Vukobrat – by himself
Twelve years ago, when he founded the Peace and Crisis Management Foundation with the people who shared his beliefs that it was possible to end the war in the former Yugoslavia and then restore trust and cooperation among nations through economic cooperation, Boris Vukobrat has become accustomed to being an idealist, dreamer, utopian. Now that his ideas have, at least declaratively, become what all politicians in this region are in favour of, this businessman of Serbian descent sees no satisfaction in that.
Ex-Yugoslavia Press Clippings 1984-2004
This is a remarkable collection of Press Releases which provides insight into the activities of Mr. Boris Vukobrat and of our foundation on the territory of the former Yugoslavia between 1984 and 2004. The entire collection is in Serbo-Croatian and it has been collected and scanned over years – so please excuse the low quality on some of the press releases. It has been made available for free download and unlimited distribution.
Of course, this is also clear today, for the simple reason that it could not have been prevented by much larger forces than an NGO. However, despite being "pessimistic of the spirit", the counselors proved to be "optimists of the will", because the main topic of the conversation was not a lament over the past lost battles, but a look ahead to new forms and possibilities of connecting the republics of the former Yugoslavia. The composition of the people who responded to the invitation to speak on this topic was impressive: Mojmir Mrak (Ljubljana), Žarko Puhovski and Zoran Pušiž (Zagreb), Zdravko Grebo (Sarajevo), Veselin Vukotić (Podgorica), Azem Vlasi (Priština), Vladimir Gligorov (Beč), Vojislav Stanovčić, Danica Popović, Ilija Vujačić, Vukašin Pavlović (Belgrade) - to name just a few.
Of course, the situation is now significantly different and more complicated: Slovenia is now member of the European Union, Croatia is about to become one, while other ex-Yu countries are closer to or further from this goal, and Serbia, for which we are, of course, most interested here – is at the furthest spot from that objective. There were a lot of ideas of new forms of integration of ex-Yu space, but no less argumentation were given on why this was difficult to achieve.
For example, Zoran Pušić simply pointed out, as a good example, not more nor less than that, the Nordic Council, which includes Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, some EU members, some not, one NATO member, some not, but cooperating around common interests. Zdravko Grebo replied that the example was excellent but unrealistic at the moment. The market was emphasized as the main integrative factor, a field of economic cooperation which is becoming more and more pronounced, but, on the other hand, it was pointed out that it would not be able to do it alone, i.e. without an administrative - political "umbrella", that is, the will to settle and pacify political and legal relations between the countries of the region.
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Tag: Nana Addo
On Friday, 1st October 2021, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo commenced a 4-day tour of the Ashanti Region, as part of his duties as the President.
His visit to the Ashanti region was solely to interact with the chiefs and people of the towns visited, commission projects, and also inspect some ongoing projects. Sradio5.com has compiled a list of all the activities Akufo-Addo undertook during his four-day visit to the Ashanti region.
A four day tour in the Ashanti Region by his Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa photo credit:Nana Addo
1. Akufo-Addo paid a courtesy call on the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, where I thanked him and Asanteman for the strong support in the run-up to the 2020 elections.
2. Inspected ongoing works on the construction of the Kumasi International Airport, which, according to the contractor is expected to be completed in June 2022.
3. Akufo-Addo was in the studios of Ashh FM where he talked about a lot of things including the coup in Guinea and its effects as well as ECOWAS sanctions.
4. He inspected the processing plant of Darko Farms, which has been revitalised by the 1-District-1-Factory policy.
5. Akufo-Addo also paid a courtesy call on the Akroponghene and Nananom of Nwabiagya North.
6. He inspected ongoing work on the construction of the J.A. Kufuor Senior High and Technical School.
7. Akufo-Addo inspected ongoing work in the Abuakwa-Tanoso Road; visited the site of the Creative Arts SHS in Kwadaso.
8. Inspected ongoing work on the construction of the Ohwimase-Twedie Road in the Atwima Kwanwoma Road.
9. The president also worshipped with congregants at the Church of Pentecost, McKeown Temple.
10. Inspected work on the Lake Road Expansion Project.
11. Inspected ongoing work on the construction of the 250 capacity Regional Hospital at Sawua.
12. Inspected ongoing work on the construction of the Dompoase Junction to Aputuogya Road.
13. Inspected the newly constructed Bosomtwe Girls SHS; commissioned the NHIA office in Bekwai.
14. Inspected work on the Bekwai Hospital, which is nearly complete.
15. Commissioned the Cocoa Ase Astro Turf, at Abrepo Junction.
Alan Kyeremanteng and Afriyie Akoto are eyeing my seat
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has revealed that his ministers for Trade and Industry as well as Agriculture, Alan Kyeremanteng, and Afriyie Akoto both have their eyes on his seat. Akufo-Addo seemed to have announced contenders for the next leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as his tenure comes to an end. Both ministers have reportedly harbored ambitions to become the flagbearer of the ruling party according to a report filed by 3news.com.
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Bangladesh could lose 1.1% of GDP for coronavirus: Finance Minister
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Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said Bangladesh could lose 1.1 percent of its GDP growth due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The minister said in the last fiscal year, the country had attained 8.15 percent growth, the highest in the Asia-Pacific region, and was projected to attain 8.20 percent growth in the current fiscal.
"Unfortunately, Bangladesh could lose 1.1 percent of GDP growth due to COVID-19 spread," he said, citing an analysis of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
AHM Mustafa Kamal was addressing a videoconference with the World Bank and IMF headquarters on the latest coronavirus situation from the NEC Conference Room in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area, said a press release of the finance ministry.
He also urged the World Bank and the IMF to stand beside Bangladesh with greater support considering the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
"It's our ardent request to the World Bank Group and the IMF to come up with greater support to us considering this risky situation," he said.
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