Australia is set to become "the most advanced country in the world" in drone delivery when the first commercial service starts operations in 2019.
Wing, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet, on Thursday announced that its commercial drone home-delivery service would launch in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) next year, reports Xinhua news agency.
The drones will travel at speeds of up to 125 km per hour and will deliver small packages, including cups of coffee, to homes within 5 km of the company's base in Mitchell in the northern suburbs of Canberra.
"We have high levels of automation and so the aircraft themselves are doing a lot of the determining of what is safe, and making sure that they are monitoring themselves to be healthy. If there are any anomalies or any problems, the aircraft actually take action themselves before even a human could react and are able to execute safe contingency actions," Burgess told the media.
"That's one of the reasons why we're able to perform such quick service and get people (their) packages within just a few minutes... The system can take off right away when the customer places an order."
Amazing, all google services is amazing.


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Review/Recap: Stargirl S2E1 "Summer School: Chapter One"
Posted on August 18, 2021 by SHAY REVOLVER
Stargirl's season two premiere starts off with a flashback to the a Golden Age, with a young Rebecca meeting a young boy named Bruce in small town Indiana. Young Bruce coaxes her to disobey her mothers' order to stay on the porch, causes her to almost get hit by a car and steal a present from her neighbors birthday party stash on the nearby front porch. The present turns out to be a possessed doll and Bruce turns out to be an evil entity and Rebecca ends up presumably dead and found by her mother with her screams heard while the camera ominously focuses in on her family mailbox in front of the abandoned front porch and the name McNider.
We then flash to the future with Stargirl and her team patrolling before curfew strikes on the hunt for supervillains but, no one believes that any ISA members remain free except Courtney who really wants to stay on patrol. The other team New JSA members head home and Stargirl retreats to her home to go over old JSA files to find some new evil to go up against.
Life As They Know It: Courtney becomes so involved in finding evil where there might not be any that Pat tries to remind her to enjoy the quiet moments and life itself. With no one willing to go on her over vigilant quest with her this episode sets Stargirl up to be the superhero who cried wolf, especially when we seen the glowing orb in her makeshift lair near her research. This set up makes it feel like the supervillains aren't going to be the only foil to the team this season, Stargirl is going to have to go up against finding a workable solution for maintaining work/school/life balance. Courtney isn't the only one having problems, Beth discovers her parents are getting a divorce, Hourman Jr., finds a mysterious trouble site in the woods on his way to school and Yolanda/ Wildcat has made crying in a confessional her daily routine as she deals with the memory of losing someone she cared about and then having to kill his father to save herself and the rest of the JSA.
Episode MVP: Not a major character by any means but, Zeek gave me joy. His character is a comedic delight that added a bit of levity to an otherwise dark and serious episode. He oversteps, he's nosy, pushy and wants to put a flamethrower on Stripsey but, damn it if watching him do whatever he's gonna do no matter what Pat says and watching Pat get all flustered while trying to be small town polite isn't the most awesome thing, IDK what is.
New Storyline, Who This? This season Courtney has an unfortunate run in with Artemis in the lunchroom where she flips her classmate and the run in leads me to believe that we are about to get more Artemis. Whether she's going to be a villain or join the JSA is yet to be seen but, whichever way this storyline goes I'm sure it's going to be interesting. There's also the OG Starman who's looking for his old sidekick/driver and potentially his staff.
Best Scene: It's a tie for best scene. This episode we get an emotional scene between Pat and Courtney in the school hallway after finding out that not only did she attack a fellow student (see above paragraph) but, she is failing several classes and has to go to summer school in order to continue on the junior year. The two talk about how her Stargirl duties in some cases are going to have to come in second to school , Courtney makes a quip about Pat quitting his superhero duties which stings a little but, they come back full circle and compromise enough to have them both leave without a bad taste in their mouths. The second scene that's worth mentioning is a more action based one than an emotional and cerebral one. Watching Stargirl go toe to toe with the owner of the green orb in what we are lead to believe is an intruder with villainous intent we discover it's actually the Green Lantern's daughter! But, that fight scene was amazing!
Overall: As far as second season premieres go, this was a solid episode. It tied up some lingering questions from the season finale, delved into the emotional and mental backlash of the teams actions from last seasons finale, added some new insights and storylines , all while making sure the episode was cohesive and interesting. The premiere also set up a less campy tone than the other CW /DC collaborations and even though the show is centered around high schoolers some of the plot point are not only universal but border on adult. The show goes dark but, in a way that pulls you in and revolves around emotional depth, multidimensional character development and a genuine story that you care about. The writers and director managed to hook me in by the time the credits rolled and make me eager to see how the rest of the season plays out.
Review/Recap: DC'S Legends of Tomorrow S6E12 Bored on Board Onboard
Still stuck in space after saving the Earth in the cosmic bowling competition, The Z's swap back and the Legends find themselves ship bound for over two weeks trying to find ways to keep themselves busy. Mick's still pregnant, Constantine and Fancy Z stay cozied up, Nick and B enjoy some gaming bro time and Eva & Sarah get their wedding planning on.
In order to kill time Constantine uses his magic to transform the team into a live action magical version of Gary's board game that is a murder mystery adventure using his house as a board game. Mick and Gary are still on the ship in real time and a distressed vessel docks the ship carrying a wounded Kayla.
Constantine's vamp blood powered magic has terrible consequences for the team making everything wonky, Legends are becoming their characters, some are dying and they might end up trapped in the game forever. Back on the ship Kayla is super peeved that they left her and took her ship and while Mick wants to tell her about their bundles of brain incubating joy, Gary advises it against it because she could decide to kill him and or the babies.
Episode MVP: There was very little interaction between this episodes villain and a majority of the team. So, the episode MVP this time around is based on an unexpected pairing who yielded an entertaining result. Gary and Mick. They did not get as much screen time this week as the rest of the team but, their team up to stop Kayla from resurrecting a big baddie is comic gold. In a show with so many extreme personalities and a double dose of camp it was fun to watch them play off of each other and even though they get knocked out for their efforts it was good to see their characters bond a little.
Best Scene: In keeping up with the romantic arc between Fancy Z and Constantine that hit a nice peak with the Buzzcock's duet on national TV that saved the planet this episode gave us some more depth to the relationship between the ships other couple. But, the best scene didn't involve Z and Constantine but, Z and B who talk feelings, red flags and love. The siblings share a super sweet moment where they both share their thoughts on the Constantine situation and how something is off but, dig deeper into their own sibling relationship in a way that feels authentic , pulled the heartstring and added depth to their characters.
Overall: Even though only about five minutes of the episode moved the story along and set up the seasons final battle, this episode was a damn good filler. It showcased the personal issues of the characters in a way that added depth and gave us insight into their motivations and needs. There were a lot of moments and scenes that played in a way that made me have very real feelings about imaginary characters and at times I got swept up in the show, which is a good thing especially when watching something in the space cowboy/fantasy /comic/sci-fi genre. Legends is always a treat to watch and six seasons in it is still consistent and one of the best DC shows on the TV.
Review/Recap: DC's Legends of Tomorrow S6E1 – "Ground Control to Sara Lance"
Posted on May 12, 2021 by SHAY REVOLVER
The Recap: Last season of DC's Legends of Tomorrow ended with the Legends defeating the Fates, this season picks up with Sara MIA after a night of celebrating their victory. Long story short, Sara was kidnapped by Aliens who release her somewhere in the timeline after her attempts at escaping them is unsuccessful, the rest of the team uses their individual skills in small teams to find her and there's an unexpected but, familiar bad guy behind Sara's disappearance.
The Sweetest Thing: It is totally mushy but, adorable that Ava finds out about Sara deciding to finally propose to her thanks to a super 8 film from David Bowie. But, that's not the only level-up relationship status going on aboard the Waverider, turns out Constantine and altered timeline Zari are getting all cozy and lovey-dovey and it's about time.
Finding Sara: The team enlists the help of a former alien abducted named "Spooner" to aid in their current quest after she traps two team members and refuses to believe the team is not Alien in origin. There was a lot of wiggle room in her introduction and we find out that she's quite savvy in a lot of ways that could come in handy with future missions leaving the door open for a possible new team member.
The Big Reveal: One of the coolest things about this episode is that we discover that the dear sweet, bunny rescuing, Gary is in fact an alien. He was sent to earth to capture Sara. But, finding out that one of the oddest, most fanboyish members of the Legends and Sorcerer's apprentice Gary is an alien isn't all that shocking, the biggest reveal of the episode is that Gary is/was engaged to the alien who wanted to collect Sara. Gary has a fiancé and a whole life outside of the team and I need to know more.
That's So Ava: Ava has a whole check less and index of ways to find Sara. Her Type A neurosis is adorable in it's completely organized way and her focus on the problem at hand as if it was another mission is completely in character for her.
Overall: There was a long wait to get back to one of my favorite shows on The CW and while the tone is different, the execution is still top-notch. Things have always been dark and deep with a perfect touch of camp thrown in and this episode keeps the traction and tradition going. It is well written, beautifully shot, expertly directed and the acting is superb. The team serves the writing and does the script justice in a way that makes even the most absurd storylines and phrases believable and interesting. The new baddies, Aliens, seem to make sense and don't come off as far-fetched in the context of the show because the talented cast and showrunners sell the hell out of the current scenario. I thought this episode was a top-notch intro into the world of The Legends and the way that things played out to set up the rest of season six has me super hyped to see what comes next. The episode was a nice intro into the world they live in and the show itself, so even if this was a viewer's first episode ever, you could still hop on board and be ready and interested in taking a ride on the Waverunner to see what the merry band of outcasts has come their way next. The writers are still amazing at creating characters that you can empathize and connect with and they tell a story that invites you into the world of The Legends in a way that makes you cheer for and feel for them.
Review/Recap: Batwoman S2E1 "What Happened to Kate Kane"
Posted on January 19, 2021 by SHAY REVOLVER
The first season of Batwoman ended on an unintentional cliffhanger after the season was cut short due to COVID-19 but, considering Ruby Rose's departure from the show the shortened season might have given the writers and creative team some time to formulate a well thought out, equally compelling changing of the guard for the Batwoman lore. There's a lot of pressure on Batwoman S2E1 "What Happened to Kate Kane" from the behind the scenes drama that ended the last season.
When things ended Alice had murdered her partner in crime Mouse and given Batman's rival, Tommy, his face so that he could steal the kryptonite from Kate. Kate was still reeling, and healing mentally and physically, from a double-cross from her father who didn't know she was in the suit. The betrayal still stung just as bad.
Things were getting really good towards the end of the first season. Between the familial and romantic drama, the action, and the LGBTQ+ representation all signs pointed to a killer season two with loads of goodies and unresolved drama to keep the show going. With the cast change and the familial bonds no longer a part of the story, most of us viewers wondered if those loose ends from the first season would get sorted out, what was going to be the bond that held everyone together or ripped them apart and what would Alice do now that she's killed her soulmate Mouse all for a shot at revenge only to have the object of her revenge ripped away before she could kill her herself.
Goodbye, Kate: If the opening minutes of "What Happened to Kate Kane" is any indication, Kate is, in fact, dead even with the hint that she could return. Her plane from National City went down in flames and her suit has found a new owner. While there's hope that Kate is still alive there's a greater chance that she's gone for good.
There's Something About Mary: Mary is not handling losing yet another family member and is understandably starting to crumble under the weight of the pain, guilt and trauma. After her initial run in with Ryan and the subsequent voluntary return of the suit, Mary seems to be okay letting Ryan rock the suit so that some version of Kate is still around but, I'm a little concerned about the emotional fall out that's likely to happen to her after feelings settle. Mary doing her due diligence to track down the suit realizes that she wants it to go after Alice and do the one thing that Kate couldn't and in the process give her the vengeance that she wants as well since Alice killed her mom too.
The New Batwoman: Ryan Wilder finds Kate's bat costume in the wreckage after failing to save a homeless man caught in the path of the crash. We get some insight into who Ryan is and the struggles that she's going through, like losing her home and living in her car, or not being able to get a job because she can't get a house because she is a convict, even if she was innocent. When Ryan decides to put on the suit to get a little revenge on the people who brutally beat her and got her sent to prison she realizes that putting on the cape with no understanding of the weaponry might not have been the best idea even if it was fun. Luckily, Ryan gets a second chance to do good and a place to live when she returns the bat suit. She's just as badass as Kate was and she's just different enough that she can fill the hole in the show while starting her own mythology.
Bad Bruce: When season one ended Alice had given Tommy her cousin Bruce's face, since he had been missing for four years, no one questions his return when Kate's plane goes down. I find it a little odd that Fox didn't catch on earlier when he had to let Bruce into the batcave or when he knew things that he didn't know. I'm still not getting why Alice and Bruce are still need the kryptonite ( and each other) or why that continued to be part of their plan after Kate was dead and they didn't know someone new had the suit.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox: Fox has a lot going on, so much so that he missed that Bruce wasn't Bruce. Fox is struggling with not being able to protect Kate and the guilt is wearing on him harder than it is on Mary. I'm glad they show him crying because I think that more men should cry on screen. I also love that he and Mary save Ryan from Tommy in the Bruce face when they realize that he's after the suit now that he has the only thing, kryptonite, that can make him unstoppable.
Overall: It was a simple well-done way to introduce Ryan to the universe. I feel like she has what it takes to carry the show and move it forward even without the familial bonds that made season one so compelling. Since this episode focused mostly on set up and outlining the new threats and building bonds and trust amongst the team, I think it fulfilled its purpose. Taking away the moral ambiguity but, taking the safety off of Papa Kane's gun by removing the will he or won't he kill his own daughter tension should make for an interesting season. Although I love that Alice told her dad the truth about who her sister was although, with Ryan in the mix even with the evidence of Mary showing up to parlay for Batwoman, he might not even believe it. There's a lot more that happens in this episode that made it well worth the wait but, I think it is well worth watching and enjoying so I left out a lot of the spoilers. Batwoman's second season starts off as a great reboot to the series and "What Happened to Kate Kane" is totally worth watching.
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E6 "Chapter Thirty-Four: The Returned"
Posted on January 4, 2021 by SHAY REVOLVER
The show's creative team decided to take pity upon us with "The Returned" after putting us through the emotional ringer in episode five but, they still came for us a little and toyed with our hearts. There's a battle of the bands brewing and the latest Terror is bringing back the dead of Greendale, for better or worse. This episode was filled with equal parts camp and bittersweet sadness, taking you on an emotional roller coaster that is so satisfying, even with all that tears, that you don't want to get off.
Camp Level 11: Satanic Panic, a band that Harvey's dad used to play with is back from the dead and they've got a bone to pick with Mr. Kinkle because he ratted them out and got them burned to death in a woodshed after a possible devil's deal. It is every 80s teen movie about those darn satanic killers in the wood mixed with a huge dose of Sometimes They Come Back. It's a nice C story that adds a bit of fun to the rest of the episode.
Terms of Endearment: This episode has our characters coming face to face with their loved ones back from the dead but, they haven't come to spread love but, pain and suffering and watching so many hearts get broken after everything they've already been through, it cuts deep, not as deep as the last episode but, I still got caught in my feels.
Overall: "The Returned" ended with a few more heartbreaks one of which I saw coming and had time to prepare for and one I didn't see coming at all even with all the breadcrumbs that were dropped ever since one of my favorite characters entered the show! They also managed to put in a sweet moment that brings you to tears amidst all the sorrow only to have it boomerang and break your heart. This show consistently draws you in, makes you feel deep, real feelings for imaginary characters so definitely watch this episode but please, bring tissues.
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E5 "Chapter Thirty-Three: Deus Ex Machina"
The Mortal Realm: In "Deus Ex Machina", Sabrina and Roz are co-Presidenting at Baxter High, where Nick has transferred to win OG Sabrina back. Hell is breaking through the mortal world. Lilith is hiding out at the Academy avoiding Hell and resigned to keep Adam away from hell until he 16 and can claim the throne.
The Infernal Realm: Future Sabrina is trying to clear out space in Hell because it's overcrowding. The mortal world is breaking through to hell. Robin decides to stay with Theo and fight, instead of returning to the unaffected Fae Realm with his people because Theo refuses to go with him.
Heaven Help Us: Metatron comes down to offer a solution because every solution both sides come up with, the Sabrina's can either kill one of them or merge. The Sabrina's are given six hours to get their affairs in order before the merge Future Sabrina wants to spend it saying goodbye to her old friends and OG Sabrina wants to spend it with Nick.
Overall: There's a lot of twists and turns in "Deus Ex Machina" that I left out because you have to see it to feel it and this episode was full of feels. I didn't mention this episode's terror because it is cosmic. Everything about "Deus Ex Machina" is heart-filled and centers upon personal sacrifices and all sorts of things that will make you cry, in fact, if you don't cry at least twice during this episode, I will assume you have no soul or heart. There was a cute little cameo that we've been waiting for all season and it added a smile to my face. There's also the heart-wrenching moment where Lilith faces the consequences of her actions and anyone with a heart feels actual sympathy for the devil. It was a lot going in expecting some simple horror camp and coming out the other end of the episode feeling emotionally drained and raw because you connected to everything that happened in the hour, that felt like more.
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E4 "Chapter Thirty-Two: The Imp of the Perverse
So It Begins: Prudence sets out to murder her father just as he mugs the third terror of his Imp of the Perverse and makes himself the supreme ruler in "The Imp of the Perverse".
The Fright Club: In the warped reality Robin the hobgoblin gets to go full Flash, Theo gets deemed a witch for defending him, Harvey goes junior SS officer in his service to Blackwood, Roz and Sabrina have to save the Greendale in the horror camp female buddy drama that we all needed and Nick and Sabrina flirt in the face of death.
The Third Terror: The Perverse is the Archieverse version of Loki and his level of petty mischief is kind of cool, he tells Ambrose how to reverse his own horror because Blackwood tries to pull a fast one and mugs him.
Overall: "The Imp of the Perverse" is a good one that has Sabrina focusing on something other than her love life and boys. In the end, she gets Nick back in a way that complements her instead of defining her. I really liked that Sabrina and Roz got to spend some sister/BFF time saving the town and restoring things. This episode had a fun twist with a very 1984 style layout and a call to resistance and doing what is right in the face of authority and even death. Overall it knocks another terror off the list and traded the show's usual fun time campy horror with a real cautionary tale that managed to still tie in with the way the series normally runs. This season seems very into isolating each episode and making it a good stand-alone story while still keeping it tied into the overall season arc.
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E3 "Chapter Thirty-One: The Weird"
Oh The Terror: In "The Weird", we meet the weird, where they turn Sabrina into Seven of Nine level baddie because she is the strongest and the weakest. The Weird has a squid-like appearance and Borg like demeanor. They take over Greendale absorbing its science class and demanding that they all kill themselves to feed the coming Void.
Sabrina's Love Life: So, not only is Sabrina being slowly taken over and puppetmastered by The Weird, but she also has a new boo in her life who may or not be the love Gollum she created, named Luke who she's got a crush on. But, Nick is still in the picture more than once when she needs him, even going as far as doing a Sound of Music duet to Sixteen Going on Seventeen while Ambrose extracts The Weird from her.
Plot Twist We All Should Have Seen: From the beginning of the series I thought that it was weird that out of all the families in Greendale, the witches that were slaughtered in the town's early days chose to curse her family. Well, it turns out Roz comes from a family of witches who denied their power and named it the cunning, and turned on the other witches because they didn't want to be thought of as in league with the devil.
Best Scene: When two of the Kings of Hell show up to kill Lillith's baby with the Dark Lord, the coven attacks them, murdering one and sending the other on the run by, inflicting upon them the pain of childbirth which of course the men could not handle. It was campy and glorious.
Overall: "The Weird" is another solid episode that finally focuses on Sabrina and deals with her inner turmoil and finally chooses to forget about her love life and focus on taking a breather, while still trying to stop The Terrors, on romance and focus on herself. It's a level of self-discovery and a path towards her own personal growth as a woman, giving her agency which is something that her character has needed and deserved since the beginning,
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E2 "Chapter Thirty: The Uninvited"
Episode Terror: This episode's terror is " The Uninvited" and his special power is removing the heart of the heartless. He appears as a beggar to people and knocks at their door, murdering anyone who does not endeavor to help him or invite him in.
Best Scene: Nick tries to release the incubus from Dr. Cee so that he's free to enjoy his wedding to Aunt Hilda but, his plan doesn't go according to plan. The incubus is released into the wild and the whole crew is worried as the incubus hates the divine feminine and is on the hunt for a perfect male host. The newly freed incubus finds its perfect host in THEO ! The reason it is the best, perfect scene because it is a big FU to anyone who is a TERF of anti trans, in cannon Sabrina just said something that most people already knew, TRANS MEN ARE MEN! and, they let people who didn't know that they are as well and it was refreshing and wonderful to see.
Sabrina's Bag of Tricks: Sabrina goes all in at Hilda's wedding during a toast to love where she flames Nick during a pity party speech. She also tries to ruin Queen of Hell Sabrina's engagement to Caliban who despite her best efforts to rip them apart instead makes him prove his love to her future self in the most painful way,leading Sabrina to approve of the union and Underworld Sabrina to lay out that Sabrina's real problem is that she is lonely.
The Fright Club: Roz and Harvey escape the Terror by Roz using her cunning and deciding to invite him in. Later Harvey and Roz are able to ID the terror for Ambrose and Harvey uses the drawings from his dream to identify all eight terrors giving a preview of what is to come.
Overall: Beautiful episode that includes a game of incubus wack-a-mole as the demon pops from body to body at the wedding landing inside The Uninvited himself where it not only dies but, allows the terror time to eat Dorian's heart and start a toasted his own where he tells his origin story. Each episode so far is a fully contained story that is not only well crafted and wonderful but, builds upon the last.
Overall 9.2
Review: The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina S4E1 "Chapter Twenty- Nine: The Eldritch Dark"
When season three ended, the Fright Club and the Witches joined forces to take down the Pagans, Future Sabrina decided to take her place as a Morningstar and reign as the Queen of Hell by her father's side while OG timeline Sabrina returned to live her life out as a Spellman. The Dark Reverend Blackwood released something called The Eldritch Terrors to get his revenge on the Spellman family, while Prudence broke Ambrose's heart and set out into the world to mourn the loss of one sister at the hands of the other. A lot went down in the finale all of which led us to this point, where we are at the edge of our seats waiting to see what will happen next because a time paradox, like the one Sabrina surely created allowing both versions of herself from different timelines to exist simultaneously, instead of merging and restoring the timeline, had to have some unforeseen consequences. That is where we pick up for the current, just released season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and, despite this being the beginning of the end for one of my favorite campy horror shows, I couldn't be happier to watch how it all plays out.
Where We Begin: "The Eldritch Dark" kicks off with Blackwood in a church revival tent scribbling and chanting to himself a gust of wind signals to him that the Eldritch Terrors that he released in the Season 3 finale are finally free, setting the stage for the current season and this episode. Back at the Spellman homestead, things seem to have returned to normal and Sabrina is still Nick free, he is dating Prudence after their steps of the Academy link up at the end of the last season, so she's playing the fifth wheel with her friends and she's missing the band and the Fright Club since life is boringly normal. A murdered homeless man outside of the mines signals something that seems like a normal crime instead of supernatural since everyone seems to have forgotten where they live. Zelda is still in charge at the academy, and dating the voodoo high priestess Marie who she fell for last season, the coven is now the order of Hecate, and Hilda is still going strong with her fiancé Dr. Cee. Ms. Vardwell is visited by Agatha who invites her to join her new "church" which she strongly considers because of her memory gaps and witchy flashbacks.
The Fright Club: Initially the gang is all there for the invented Bloody Mary excuse but, things get a bit harder when the Terrors show themselves. The first terror is a darkness that preys on fears and has set up the mines as a home base. As the Avatars of Darkness shut down the power all over the town, Fright Club stands by as Prudence, Nick, Ambrose, and Sabrina get ready to face it head-on, setting the stage for the B time and the Varsity Squad to join forces to start taking it on.
A Tale of Two Sabrinas: With nothing else going on or sparking joy in her life, Sabrina wants to visit her other self to see how things are going for her, despite Ambrose's very real and very logical objections. To get her friends back into her life she takes Aunt Hilda's advice and gives the Fright Club a little something to be frightful of by making blood flow in the boys' bathroom with a little help from Salem acting as the ghost Bloody Mary. The two get to meet up to generate some light to slay the darkness it's kind of charming and sweet watching Sabrina see what her life could have been.
Best Scene: Roz and her cunning helped her see through the trick but, she had a one on one chat with Sabrina to explain to her that they'll always be friends and if she misses her she just has to ask to hang out. I loved this scene most of all because it was the purest, girl-powered, grown-up friendship talks that I've seen on a teen show.
Episode MVP: Aunt Hilda. She has stayed the course as the heart of the show. She saved Zelda from the first terror and his emotional bullying by sowing seeds of doubt on her. She was there when Sabrina needed a way to get back in with her coupled-up friends. Plus she stays the epitome of speak softly and carry a big stick and I'm always here for her.
Overall: I tried to keep this spoiler-free because I really think "The Eldritch Dark" is worth a watch. The writing, pacing, and direction set the stage and world for the current season, and if this episode is any indication this season is going to be full of heart, hope, horror, and fun and that is something to look forward to as the end of the Sabrina era comes to an end.
Episode Rating: 8.4

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You may have seen the new DK Prototype Chain that Adam posted on the Come Up last week. Now images of the KMC 1710 Half Link chain have surfaced on Fat BMX. Paul's Boutique in the Netherlands is testing a few out and they posted some spy shots. Their rider, Timo van Lierop is trying to kill one at the moment.
With normal chains, you can get hung up by the openings in the top. Not here. Like the DK chain, the KMC chain has a plate that allows you to grind on it, without wearing down the links. Not that I think constantly grinding on your fixed gear's chain is a good idea, but maybe these will hold up to the occasional grind? Fixed Gears put their chains under a great deal of stress and grinding one would require constant monitoring. The last thing you want to do is break or drop a chain in traffic, or bombing a hill.
One thing's for sure, these chains do look like a promising half-link option. With a smaller ring, you could grind on your sprocket without tweaking the splined interface. I've yet to grind on my Tree, but maybe it's time to test it out.


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SIGNING ON: At the commemorative shirt handover marking the renewal of IT Support Business with AFC Bournemouth are, from left, AFC Bournemouth partnerships manager Amy Brunton, ITSB chief executive officer Lee Dredge, Cherries midfielder Andrew Surman and AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust head Steve Cuss
A Dorset-based managed IT service provider helping children to stay safe online, has signed up to support AFC Bournemouth for another season. Bournemouth and London based IT Support Business (ITSB) has renewed its partnership with the Cherries.
Under the arrangement ITSB is an official partner of AFC Bournemouth's self-funding, non-profit Community Sports Trust and sponsors a schools project called Connect with Care.
The project, whose club ambassador is midfielder Andrew Surman, provides lessons in one-hour workshops designed to educate young people on how to remain safe while using the internet.
ITSB chief executive Lee Dredge said: "As a provider of IT services to schools we feel it's our responsibility to help educate young people on the dangers of the internet and as a parent myself, it's a subject that's dear to my heart. That is why I'm delighted that we are once again going to be working with the AFC Bournemouth Community Sports Trust on this great initiative."
AFC Bournemouth partnerships manager Amy Brunton said: "It's great to have ITSB back on board for another season. The company is very much at the heart of this worthwhile educational programme. Connect with Care is a wonderful classroom-based scheme and the Community Trust's sessions are increasingly popular and have proved to be invaluable for parents, pupils and teachers."
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MHRA bans valproate prescription in women of childbearing age
The MHRA has announced a ban on the prescribing of valproate to women and girls of childbearing age, unless they are on a pregnancy prevention programme.
The regulatory authority announced today that the license for valproate has been changed, meaning that there will be a blanket ban on the prescription of valproate to all women of childbearing potential unless they are on a specific programme to prevent pregnancy.
'Ideally placed'
Royal Pharmacuetical Society (RPS) president Ash Soni said: 'The RPS fully supports these new measures to ensure women understand the risks of taking sodium valproate during pregnancy.
'They must get the right information from health professionals in order to make informed choices about their health and parenting options. Valproate is an effective medicine and women should never suddenly stop taking it without talking to a health professional.
'Pharmacists are ideally placed to give information and support when providing sodium valproate and are committed to reducing harm from medicines, enabling women to make the choices that are right for them.'
Prescribing advice
GPs are advised that they must not prescribe valproate for bipolar disorder or migraine and that they must not prescribe the drug for epilepsy unless there is no other effective treatment available.
Patients must also be signed up to a pregnancy prevention programme if they are to be prescribed valproate. The programme includes signing a risk acknowledgement form, regular pregnancy tests before, during and after treatment and a review of ongoing treatment by a specialist at least annually.
The new regulatory measures will be rolled out across the NHS, with new alerts to be set up on GP computer systems to ensure that changes in prescribing behaviour are established quickly.
The MHRA also confirmed that NICE will be reviewing all of its guidelines that include valproate and begin a full update to its epilepsy guideline in light of the licensing changes.


I know that this post is a day late, but I've been sick on and off for about two weeks now. I just got over being sick a week or so ago, and I woke up this morning with yet another cold. I've been taking vitamins, eating well, trying to get enough sleep, but for some reason, my health hasn't seemed to improve much. I feel dizzy and stuffed up and just all around terrible. Why, world, why?
This is the kind of thing that I make when I'm sick. It's pretty simple, hearty, and relatively healthy. I love lentils. They cook very quickly; they don't need to be soaked overnight like most other legumes. The way in which they are cooked can be compared to the way in which rice is cooked. Lentils have tons of fiber, iron, protein, which makes them a great staple for vegetarians or people who just don't eat a ton of meat, but they're earthy, versatile flavor make them perfect for a variety of different meals. Even my husband, who often seems adverse to foods that might be good for you, loves lentils. Almost every culture has a common use for lentils. This is just a meal that I threw together one night to use up some vegetables that had been in my fridge for a while, as well as some delicious lamb sausage that I got the other day. I had never had lamb sausage and it was fantastic. You can easily make this dish without the lamb, though, for a quick and easy vegetarian meal. Either way, I loved the variety of flavors in this stew. Onions, garlic, carrots, celery, tomato, rosemary…what's not to love? I believe that this dish gets even better the second or third day, as the flavors develop and meld together.
Soak your lentils according to package directions (there are a number of ways to do this, depending on how much time you want to spend doing it). I soaked mine in boiling water for 15 minutes.
Cook your sausages in your oven at 400 degrees F for 15 minutes until cooked through.
Slice and set aside. It doesn't matter if they cool a bit because they'll heat back up when you add them to the stew.
Heat some olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, then add in your diced onion, garlic, and spring onions. Saute for 5 minutes until softened.
Add in the celery and carrots and saute for another 5 minutes or so until slightly softened.
Add in the chicken broth, red wine vinegar, lentils, tomato paste, rosemary, marjoram, and red pepper flakes. Over medium heat, simmer for an hour to an hour and a half, stirring often, until thickened.
When thickened, stir in the sausage until heated through. Taste and season with salt and pepper.
Garnish with the green parts of the onions and enjoy.
Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Place your lentils in a large, non-reactive bowl and heat enough water to cover them until boiling. Cover the lentils in the boiling water and allow to soak for 15 or 20 minutes.
Place your sausages on a lined baking sheet sprayed with some non-stick spray. Bake in the oven for 15 minutes or so, until cooked through. Slice and set aside.
Heat your olive oil in a large pot over medium heat, then add in the diced onions and white parts of the spring onions. Saute for 5 minutes or so, then add in the garlic, and saute for another minute or two. Add in the carrots and celery, saute for another 5 minutes until slightly softened. Add in the chicken broth. Drain your lentils, then add them in as well, along with the red wine vinegar, tomato paste, rosemary, marjoram, and red pepper flakes. Stir to combine and allow to simmer for an hour or so, until thickened.
When thickened, add in the cooked and sliced sausage. Stir to combine, then taste and add salt and pepper as you see fit. Serve and sprinkle with the green parts of the spring onions. Serves 5.
This really looks great. I've never tried to make lentils. Guess it's time I try!Thank You for sharing another great recipe!Have a great weekend!
Tina: Thanks and same to you!
This sounds amazing! I have an entire bag of lentils I want to use before next weekend, so I will have to make this to get stzarted!
Also, when I am starting to get sick I mix a tablespoon of Organic Apple Cider Vinegar (it has to be unfiltered and have the "mother") with a mug full of warm water and then add honey until it tastes decent. The honey also has a lot of healing properties, so don't skip it just to be tough (my roommate did that and it didn't work for him). If you drink that a couple times a day you will feel great in no time! I haven't had a cold since I started doing that!
Alex: Thanks for the tip! I hate taking cold medicine because it always makes me feel stoned or something and I hate it. Right now my mind feels all cloudy and weird from the medicine I took two hours ago and my heart is racing. My nose isn't running as much but I hate that I have to feel all weird in exchange! I'm going to go try the apple cider vinegar thing right now!
This stew looks good; I love lentils!!
You might be suffering from allergy or sinus issues! I have them literally all the time…..I live on the East Coast and whenever I'm on the West Coast mine go away – my problems are caused by all the humidity. Maybe your move from AZ to NY is affecting you (I've been secretly stalking/reading without commenting for a while, hehe)!
Meredith: Thanks! I think you might be right – I feel fine today! I'll need to go grab some Claritin.
I don't usually want to eat after a run, it's usually the last thing on my mind, but this looks heavenly… And healthy!
Angela: Thank you! I need to go on a run today, haha.
I think it is the move also. Both boys had allergy and nose bleed issues when we moved from Chicago to California. I Love this picture! The white on white is so clean and appealing. I also love lentils. Loved Ironman, RD jr. is awasome.
Mom: I can't wait to see it, I think we're going to go on Wednesday.
So this is cooking on the stove as I type. I'm just doing a veggo version tonight, having added some potatoes and sweet potato to the simmering lentils. Herbs will be fresh rosemary, sage and tarragon as that's what I have. Can't wait. Of course, my children will undoubtedly turn up their noses but so be it. It's mother's day and I'll cook/eat what I damn well please. Hah!
Kim: I wasn't a big fan of lentils when I was a kid, either, but now they're one of my favorite legumes. I'm glad that you liked it and your version sounds absolutely amazing!
A sensation! I threw in some (seeded) chilli and served w/ natural yoghurt, the shallots and fresh coriander. A dinner winner!
Late to the party on your wonderful blog! I'd love to make this recipe. Can I leave out the celery or substitute it with another vegetable? Thanks.


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Eric Trump Is Trying to Stonewall a Fraud Investigation Into His Company Until After the Election
"We won't allow any entity or individual to dictate how our investigation will proceed," says New York's attorney general.
Eric Trump, the son of President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally for his father, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Saco, Maine. AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty
Eric Trump says he will now cooperate with an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James into whether the Trump Organization committed tax and banking fraud—but only after the election.
Last month, James filed a motion to compel Eric Trump and the Trump Organization to abide by subpoenas her office has issued for details of the company's financial history. Specifically, she is trying to determine whether the president and his company misrepresented the Trump Organization's finances to get better loans and tax benefits.
The investigation also focuses on whether Donald Trump paid taxes on more than $100 million in forgiven debt. Trump borrowed $120 million from private-equity fund Fortress Investment Group in 2006. In 2012, when the outstanding amount he owed had ballooned to roughly $150 million, he convinced Fortress to settle for $48 million. The rest of the debt was forgiven. Around that time, Trump said at least once publicly that he had purchased a loan from a lender. (When a loan is forgiven, the borrower owes a hefty tax bill, but if he or she buys it, the borrower can defer that tax liability at least temporarily.) Since he ran for president, Trump has listed a mysterious debt on his personal financial disclosure that he claims to owe to himself; it is worth $50 million or more and linked to the Chicago project. Trump has implied this debt was purchased from a lender. Mother Jones reported last year that this loan may be evidence of tax fraud if Trump in fact settled the debt and did not purchase it.
As part of her investigation, James confirmed that Trump did not buy the Fortress loan, and she asked the Trumps to provide documentation showing they paid the taxes on the forgiven portion of the debt. According to last month's filing by her office, James also is scrutinizing whether Trump overstated the value of his properties to convince banks he was a better credit risk and whether Trump misreported a conservation easement on a large property he owns north of New York City.
James said in her filing that the Trump Organization readily supplied most of the information her office requested and that Eric Trump—who has largely been running the company while his father serves as president—was scheduled to sit for an interview under oath on July 22. However, according to James, Eric Trump abruptly cancelled the interview. When James' office tried to reschedule, Trump's attorneys told investigators "we cannot allow the interview to go forward…pursuant to those rights afforded to every individual under the Constitution."
In a filing made on Thursday afternoon, however, the Trump Organization backtracked, saying Eric Trump would sit for an interview—just not any time soon. The Trump Organization's attorneys said they didn't allow the interview to go forward previously because they wanted to make sure James' office didn't provide the results of its investigation to other agencies that might be investigating Trump—possibly an allusion to New York City district attorney Cy Vance who is reportedly pursuing his own fraud investigation into Trump.
Although they didn't get that assurance, the Trump attorneys wrote, they are now happy to make Eric Trump available, but not before November 19, "because of Mr. Trump's extreme travel schedule and related unavailability between now and the election, and to avoid the use of his deposition attendance for political purposes."
They added, "It is well known that most, if not all, law enforcement and regulatory agencies studiously avoid certain actions within the 60-day period prior to a major election."
In a statement provided to Mother Jones, James said it wasn't up to the Trump Organization to tell investigators when its executives are free to talk. "While we cannot comment on the particular steps we're taking on specific litigation, we won't allow any entity or individual to dictate how our investigation will proceed or allow anyone to evade a lawful subpoena. No one is above the law, period," she said.
In its filing, the Trump Organization claims it has provided investigators with everything they requested regarding the Chicago loan—which the company's motion confirms was paid off at a substantial discount—but most of the section on the deal was filed under seal and is redacted from the public version.
The case is due in court on September 23 for an initial hearing.
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Ippolita Baldini: "Making people laugh is a gift"
By Derek Black	 On Dec 5, 2021
Ippolita Baldini he has no doubts: «Making people laugh is not easy, it is a gift. Only those who have it can do it. " It is certainly a natural gift that belongs to her. She sensed this when she was still a very sensitive child who used laughter to react to anger, discomfort and fear. She has demonstrated this over the years in the theater, on TV and in the cinema, where the Italian public has known her above all for the role of Dodi in Welcome to the North. And he confirmed it with the debut a Zelig last November 18, when she took the stage of the Arcimboldi Theater, once again playing the role of her beloved character Lucy, a very wild and always enthusiastic single. The first special episode of the historic Canale 5 broadcast, also conducted this time by Claudio Bisio and Vanessa Incontrada, marked the audience record with 22.3% share and peaks of over 5 and a half million spectators.
«It was extremely exciting – says the Milanese comedian – I think the two years of lockdown and restrictions also weighed: I was like an untrained athlete, but luckily the body always remembers everything. I was expecting a difficult audience, but Arcimboldi was like a hug ». Bisio and Incontrada also made her feel at home in the Temple of Laughter, which «for me they were two headlights. They are great. Vanessa helped me a lot: on stage I created a friendship between her and Lucy, my character, a sort of Chiara Ferragni from the discount, which allowed me to be immediately welcomed by the whole audience. Claudio is brilliant, a war machine: he leaves a lot of room for improvisation. When you bring a piece you don't know exactly what you will do, because it always takes a new turn with it ».
The inspiration for Lucy? A holiday in Greece
The prime time broadcast of Zelig it was not actually the debut on the small screen of the volcanic Lucy: the character of Ippolita Baldini had already made himself known in Colorado in 2016. And, even before that, in the Zelig Laboratories on Wednesday, evenings designed to be a real workshop where comedians and comedians can experiment with new ideas and characters in front of a real audience, with the contribution of the artistic direction of Zelig. «I went to do the first evening of the Laboratory in December 2015. Since then I have always been back, almost every Wednesday, to try the pieces».
The creation of Lucy took place above all in this "construction site" of laughter: modeled on the basis of the spectators' responses, perfected with the fundamental collaboration of the authors. But the first spark ignited in Greece, during a summer vacation with friends. "I was 31 years old, I had been single for a long time and I was in the grip of that anxiety that takes at some point some women who feel they have to make the turning point, but do not have the man to do it with. At that point, anyone is fine: just breathe – says Hippolyte laughing – I was with a group of friends, all in the same situation, all excited, always enthusiastic about even the most horrendous things that typically happen on vacation. At one point I had the grace to see myself from the outside. And I said to myself: what is happening? From there I made him a character ».
So does Lucy the single in some way resemble her? "Yes," he admits, "but it's a small part of me, the most festive one." A trace of this affinity also emerges in the name of the comic actress, who at the registry office is Roberta Ippolita Lucia Calcagno Baldini. Lucy was born from Lucia, while Roberta is the protagonist of two theatrical monologues by Baldini, My mom is a Marchesa e A Marchesa in Assisi.
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Even if from the audience you would not think at all, the cabaret that shaped Lucy and in some way also a stage like that of Zelig, where the script can turn into a wonderful and unpredictable flow of comedy, take Ippolita Baldini out of her comfort zone. «Coming from the theater, I have a discipline marked by little improvisation. It's a mental beauty difficult to defuse. I am also passing from cabaret to make myself known by a large audience, but I mainly define myself as an actress of comedy. I think of Angela Finocchiaro, Marina Massironi, Lella Costa … These women too have passed from cabaret but, they told me, with difficulty, not lightly. On the other hand, also playing with the spectator and improvising is a gift: I have colleagues who always succeed divinely. I often succeed ».
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"""
desispec.qproc.qextract
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"""
import time
import numpy as np
from numpy.polynomial.legendre import legval
import numba

from desiutil.log import get_logger
from desispec.xytraceset import XYTraceSet
from desispec.image import Image
from desispec.io.fibermap import empty_fibermap
from desispec.qproc.qframe import QFrame

@numba.jit
def numba_extract(image_flux,image_var,x,hw=3) :
    n0=image_flux.shape[0]
    flux=np.zeros(n0)
    ivar=np.zeros(n0)
    for j in range(n0) :
        var=0
        for i in range(int(x[j]-hw),int(x[j]+hw+1)) :
            flux[j] += image_flux[j,i]
            if image_var[j,i]>0 :
                var += image_var[j,i]
            else :
                flux[j]=0
                ivar[j]=0
                var=0
                break
        if var>0 :
            ivar[j] = 1./var
    return flux,ivar

def qproc_boxcar_extraction(xytraceset, image, fibers=None, width=7, fibermap=None, save_sigma=True) :
    """
    Fast boxcar extraction of spectra from a preprocessed image and a trace set

    Args:
        xytraceset : DESI XYTraceSet object
        image : DESI preprocessed Image object

    Optional:
        fibers : 1D np.array of int (default is all fibers, the first fiber is always = 0)
        width  : extraction boxcar width, default is 7
        fibermap : table

    Returns:
        QFrame object
    """
    log=get_logger()
    log.info("Starting...")

    t0=time.time()

    wavemin = xytraceset.wavemin
    wavemax = xytraceset.wavemax
    xcoef   = xytraceset.x_vs_wave_traceset._coeff
    ycoef   = xytraceset.y_vs_wave_traceset._coeff

    if fibers is None:
        if fibermap is not None:
            fibers = fibermap['FIBER']
        else:
            spectrograph = 0
            if "CAMERA" in image.meta :
                camera=image.meta["CAMERA"].strip()
                spectrograph = int(camera[-1])
                log.info("camera='{}' -> spectrograph={}. I AM USING THIS TO DEFINE THE FIBER NUMBER (ASSUMING 500 FIBERS PER SPECTRO).".format(camera,spectrograph))

            fibers = np.arange(xcoef.shape[0])+500*spectrograph

    #log.info("wavelength range : [%f,%f]"%(wavemin,wavemax))

    if image.mask is not None :
        image.ivar *= (image.mask==0)

    #  Applying a mask that keeps positive value to get the Variance by inversing the inverse variance.
    var=np.zeros(image.ivar.size)
    ok=image.ivar.ravel()>0
    var[ok] = 1./image.ivar.ravel()[ok]
    var=var.reshape(image.ivar.shape)

    badimage=(image.ivar==0)

    n0 = image.pix.shape[0]
    n1 = image.pix.shape[1]

    frame_flux = np.zeros((fibers.size,n0))
    frame_ivar = np.zeros((fibers.size,n0))
    frame_wave = np.zeros((fibers.size,n0))

    frame_sigma = None
    ysigcoef = None
    if save_sigma :
        if  xytraceset.ysig_vs_wave_traceset is None :
            log.warning("will not save sigma in qframe because missing in traceset")
        else :
            frame_sigma = np.zeros((fibers.size,n0))
            ysigcoef    = xytraceset.ysig_vs_wave_traceset._coeff

    xx         = np.tile(np.arange(n1),(n0,1))
    hw = width//2

    twave=np.linspace(wavemin, wavemax, n0//4) # this number of bins n0//p is calibrated to give a negligible difference of wavelength precision
    rwave=(twave-wavemin)/(wavemax-wavemin)*2-1.
    y=np.arange(n0).astype(float)

    dwave = np.zeros(n0)
    for f,fiber in enumerate(fibers) :
        log.debug("extracting fiber #%03d"%fiber)
        ty = legval(rwave, ycoef[f])
        tx = legval(rwave, xcoef[f])
        frame_wave[f] = np.interp(y,ty,twave)
        x_of_y        = np.interp(y,ty,tx)

        i=np.where(y<ty[0])[0]
        if i.size>0 : # need extrapolation
            frame_wave[f,i] = twave[0]+(twave[1]-twave[0])/(ty[1]-ty[0])*(y[i]-ty[0])
        i=np.where(y>ty[-1])[0]
        if i.size>0 : # need extrapolation
            frame_wave[f,i] = twave[-1]+(twave[-2]-twave[-1])/(ty[-2]-ty[-1])*(y[i]-ty[-1])

        dwave[1:]     = frame_wave[f,1:]-frame_wave[f,:-1]
        dwave[0]      = 2*dwave[1]-dwave[2]
        if np.any(dwave<=0) :
            log.error("neg. or null dwave")
            raise ValueError("neg. or null dwave")

        frame_flux[f],frame_ivar[f] = numba_extract(image.pix,var,x_of_y,hw)
        # flux density
        frame_flux[f] /= dwave
        frame_ivar[f] *= dwave**2

        if frame_sigma is not None :
            ts = legval(rwave, ysigcoef[f])
            frame_sigma[f] = np.interp(y,ty,ts)

    t1=time.time()
    log.info(" done {} fibers in {:3.1f} sec".format(len(fibers),t1-t0))

    if fibermap is None:
        log.warning("setting up a fibermap to save the FIBER identifiers")
        fibermap = empty_fibermap(fibers.size)
        fibermap["FIBER"] = fibers
    else :
        indices = np.arange(fibermap["FIBER"].size)[np.in1d(fibermap["FIBER"],fibers)]
        fibermap = fibermap[:][indices]

    return QFrame(frame_wave, frame_flux, frame_ivar, mask=None, sigma=frame_sigma , fibers=fibers, meta=image.meta, fibermap=fibermap)

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Madmen for Israel: Selling Zionism
Posted on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments
Madmen don't just pitch beer and toothpaste. Most progressives today agree their credits include the selling of America's wars, but as Columbia Professor Rashid Khalidi explained the other evening at Brooklyn Law School, even the mythology that dominates most Americans' thinking about Israel can be traced back to the clever fellows on Madison Avenue.
Below, I've transcribed an excerpt of Professor Khalidi's remarks from September 22nd because the better we understand the true origins of Israel's mythology about itself, the more effective we can be at stopping the humanitarian nightmare playing out inside the Gaza Strip. For length's sake, I do not run the entire speech here, but anyone who asks is welcome to my recording file. Please feel free to repost, tweet or circulate this via courier pigeon.
And do not even think of missing the New York book launch of Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict, Tuesday, Sept. 28, click for details. The book contains dozens of essays 2-4 pages long—perfect for subway and bus commuters (or those with the attention span of a gnat).
Excerpt from Rashid Khalidi's comments, B'klyn Law School, Sept. 22, 2010:
There have been significant changes in recent years in the way in which the whole question of Palestine is treated in the American public sphere. One way to appreciate this is to look back on changing ways Americans have comprehended the history of the conflict in Palestine since 1948.
…. It marks the period when half of the population of Palestine, more than 700,000 people were dispossessed and became refugees and all Palestinians were made stateless. Palestinians call these traumatic events a nakba in Arabic or the catastrophe.
In the American public sphere and in the U.S. political arena in particular, most of these past 63 years it has been possible to talk about only one side of this dual anniversary and that is the Israeli side. The sole event being marked every May 15th was therefore the seemingly miraculous birth of the state of Israel only three years after the revelation of the Holocaust. And those events were always linked in peoples' minds.
Any reference, especially in the first 30 or 40 or 50 years after 1948, to the dispossession that these events entailed for the Palestinian people was seen as scandalous. Talking about it was seen as indecent if not as a sign of borderline anti-Semitism. How can you sully an event like this, by talking about that?
It is important to stress that most Americans knew, and know, almost nothing about Palestine except the falsifications that have been foisted upon them from decades of propaganda which starts off by stressing the biblical roots of the modern Zionist enterprise and then goes on with other tropes. Thus, for most Americans, looking at one side of the coin seemed and still seems to be only right and natural way and that explains the background for some of the egregious things that Glenn [Greenwald] has just talked about.
You may or may not know that this stuff doesn't develop on its own. This carefully crafted propaganda was the work of seasoned professionals. People like someone you probably never heard of, a man named Edward Gottleib, for example. He's one of the founders of the modern public relations industry. there are books about him as a great advertiser.
In order to sell the great Israeli state to the American public many, many decades ago, Gottlieb commissioned a successful, young novelist. A man who was a committed Zionist, a fellow with the name of Leon Uris. He funded him and sent him off to Israel to write a book. This book was Exodus: A Novel of Israel. Gottlieb's gambit succeeded brilliantly. Exodus sold as many copies as Gone With the Wind, which up to that point was the greatest best-seller in U.S. history. Exodus was as good a melodrama and sold just as many copies.
I could take a non-scientific poll in this room and prove what I'm trying to say. I would argue that a large proportion of the false ideas that Americans have held, and still hold about Palestine, are drawn from Uris's images of that heroic modern David facing a backwards, brutal Arab Goliath, can be traced to this persuasive book and to the popular motion picture of the same name, which starred a then-young, then-handsome Paul Newman as Ari Ben Canaan.
Now this process of selling Israel didn't stop with Gottlieb. Gottlieb was the father of the American iteration of Zionism. It has continued unabated since then. If you're really enterprising you can go online and see that it's still ongoing.
This is rooted in something that's historic and important. In addition to being successful as an idea, in addition to being wildly successful as a national movement, in addition to being one of the few colonial settler movements ongoing, political Zionism has always been, since the days of Herzl and Weitzman, a resounding public relations success sold by professionals. This stuff does not create itself. These are people who are very good at doing it, top-drawer American professionals.
People like Frank Luntz, one of the foremost pollsters for the Republican Party, who does stuff for the Israel on Campus Coalition, which is quoted by Peter Beinart in the New York Review of Books article that I'll talk about in a minute.
The systematic hoodwinking of the American public by precisely the same means whereby the Republicans sold us the Iraq War—rehashed myths combined with distorted or cherry-picked facts put together with a lot of skill—is thus still ongoing when it comes to selling the Israeli narrative to the American public.
Precisely the same people, Luntz for example, are actually doing the selling. This is where this matrix comes from. My point is that over the past decade or so the limits of this process of indoctrination are clear. I would argue that this is especially the case with the younger generation of Americans.
End of transcript excerpt
For those who would like to hear my own talk on the topic of the waning Zionism of Jewish Americans, please listen to my 15-minute speech given July 2, 2010, in Oakland, CA. It was part of a panel with Jess Ghannam, Wael Elasady and Paul Larudee on Breaking the Siege of Zionism. My speech is the final 16 minutes of the file here. Breaking the Siege of Gaza
Sherry Wolf is a public speaker, writer and activist who is available to speak on Breaking the Siege of Gaza and other topics at your campus, community center or union hall for a moderate fee. Wolf is the associate editor of the International Socialist Review and author of Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics and Theory of LGBT Liberation (Haymarket Books, named one of theProgressive's "Favorite Books of 2009"). Contact Sherry at: sherrywolf2000 at yahoo.com or find her on Facebook. Check out the video of Sherry speaking with Cleve Jones and the cast of Hair at the National Equality March.
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Spain reportedly passed a law last week that requires sites linking to articles published by those in the country's newspaper association with snippets – as Google and other search engines do – to pay a tax. This is being referred to in the press as a "Google tax".
It's a new development in an otherwise old story. Publishers (especially throughout Europe) don't like not getting paid by Google, which links to their sites. Many smaller publications would love to simply have visibility in Google News, as well as the traffic that it can drive, but time and time again, we see publishers raising a stink over it. It's been going on for years. Sometimes the governments get involved, as we're seeing now with Spain.
The law has passed in one house, and is expected to in the other.
The Spanish law proposal declares that editors cannot refuse the use of "non-significant fragments of their articles" by third parties. However, it creates a levy on such use to compensate editors and declares it an inalienable right (derecho irrenunciable).
The introduction of the inalienable right was done to avoid what happened in Germany. If you are a digital editor that publishes with a copyleft license, like myself, and you minimally understand how the internet actually works, you cannot decide to not charge Google News. It is compulsory. More than a right it is an obligation. Therefore, Google cannot exclude sites requiring payment from Google News. It would still need to pay for those it includes, even if they do not want to be compensated.
Some expect Google to just pull Google News out of Spain if all of this comes to fruition, which is looking like a distinct possibility.


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SOCCER: Macclesfield's trip to Oxford United tonight (Tuesday) is the first clash between the two sides.
SOCCER: Macclesfield's trip to Oxford United tonight (Tuesday) is the first clash between the two sides.
United have been in a transitional stage for a number of seasons, although with their move to the Kassam Stadium and introduction of hero Mark Wright as manager has helped put the club on a firmer footing.
Wright - the one-time England hero and Oxford, Liverpool and Derby captain - made the move from Conference outfit Southport in the summer, taking Scott Guyett and Phil Bolland with him.
The two most dangerous players for Oxford are Paul Tait and Joey Beauchamp - which brings some good and bad news.
Tait came to Oxford on a free transfer in 1999, after a memorable long-stay with Birmingham City.
Beauchamp, who has spent the majority of his career at Oxford, will not be playing against the Silkmen due to injury, after local media reports of a disagreement between the midfielder and Wright.
Beauchamp is nursing a toe injury sustained in training. Reports in the local press have said that Wright has slammed the fans favourite for lack of commitment.
Wright has another view, saying: "What I actually said was that I need players to be absolutely committed to this football club, willing to give everything they have for the yellow shirt, and that they need to have that big heart.
"If you don't have that you don't make it in this game.
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Q: How to repeat the first characters of every word in a sentence timed by three in python? I want to make a function that takes a string (sentence) as an argument then takes the first word and saves every character that is a konsonant up to the first vowel (including the vowel) and save it in an empty string. Then i want it to take the second one and do the same thing... and so on... and so on...
Ex. input -> "This is good" output -> ThiThiThi iii gogogo
This is what i have came up with so far:
def lang(text):
    alist=text.split()
    kons="nrmg" nytext=" "
        for word in alist:
            for tkn in word:
                if tkn in kons:
                    nytext+=tkn
                else:
                    nytext+=tkn
                    nytext=nytext*3
                    nytext=nytext+"" break

    return nytext
print(lang("This is good"))

what i get is this -> T T Ti T T Ti T T Ti
What am i doing wrong?
Any help is appreciated!
Thanks :)

A: So the first thing is if you want to keep track of each word differently, then you need to use another variable(I called retText) because each word should be processed separately and results should be collected in the different variable.
Secondly, if you are looking for finding letters up to first vowel, then you need to check if the letter is vowel or not. kons variable holds the vowels and inside of the code, there is an
if not tkn in kons:
statement which checks if the tkn is vowel or not. Here is the full code:
def lang(text):
    alist=text.split()
    kons="aeiouAEIOU"
    retText=""
    for word in alist:
        nytext=""
        for tkn in word:
            if not tkn in kons:
                nytext+=tkn
            else:
                nytext+=tkn
                retText += nytext*3 + " "
                break
        else:
            retText += word*3 + " "
    return retText

print(lang("This is good"))

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About twenty round tables fill the day center at the Downtown Women's Center. Women sit around eating, talking, listening. It is, in other words, a normal afternoon at this center where hundreds come and go daily, stopping in to have a hot meal, take a shower, maybe change clothes. They come here to find respite from Skid Row.
The Downtown Women's Center is a day center, a health clinic, a supportive housing facility, and an educational and training enterprise in downtown Los Angeles. Founded in 1978 by Jill Halverson, the center provides care and empowerment for female-identifying people experiencing homelessness. Halverson, an outreach worker, started the foundation after becoming friends with Rosa, a longtime resident of the streets of Los Angeles.
Women make up almost one third of Los Angeles's homeless, about 16,000 of the 53,000 homeless population according to a 2018 count conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. (The LAHSA conducts annual counts; the 2019 numbers are expected in June.) The overall 2018 count took a dip from the previous year—a 4 percent decrease—but there was a 35 percent increase last year in the number of women on Skid Row, says Erika Hartman, MA, LMFT, the chief program officer at the Downtown Women's Center. "And we have seen an increasing number of women accessing services at the center this year."
Hartman is incredibly kind and measured. As we walk through the center's upstairs offices with her, coworkers smile, and when she gets on the elevator, residents of the permanent supportive housing facility always greet her with an enthusiastic "Heyyyy!"
"A lot of the barriers of funding, staffing, and actually supporting individuals experiencing homelessness are misperceptions," says Hartman, who leads a team of over seventy employees and oversees the DWC's various departments, including permanent supportive housing, health and wellness, workforce development, community-based housing, and evaluation. So often people are quick to make misguided judgments about the homeless, she says. They think all people are on the streets because of drugs or mental illness when those are more often results of homelessness than the cause. Mental health issues affect between 13 to 30 percent of the homeless population. "And with women who are using substances, most reported that they started using after they became homeless, to stay awake at night to be safe, to cope with trauma," says Hartman. (Research shows that the biggest driver of homelessness is a lack of affordable housing, followed by unemployment or underemployment. And the main cause of people filing for bankruptcy and losing financial stability is medical bills.)
That sort of misjudgment has directed Hartman's career. A licensed marriage and family therapist, she started her work at a methadone clinic. She heard story after story about how people fell into homelessness and why they started using drugs. The stories were haunting, unexpected, and common. Hartman gives the example of someone who fell off their bike and didn't have insurance to pay for a visit to the doctor to get pain medication. That's how heroin came into the picture. "What chance did this person have?" she asks. That humanized the issue for her. She went to work in gang intervention, then in child welfare. She saw the systems fail so many people. There were "pretty solid pipelines to homelessness," she says. "When I would hear someone making misguided comments, I would feel myself getting defensive: You don't know that person's story. I started to see that this is my responsibility. This is everyone's responsibility."
Hartman says the onus is on all of us to see and treat homeless people for what they are: people. "It's very strange how it's somehow acceptable to not talk to people who are experiencing homelessness," Hartman says. "It's somehow acceptable to not treat them as human," and that does not motivate people looking to better their lives. It perpetuates the problem. It also strengthens disproportionalities between communities, whether it be because of race, sexual orientation, income, or something else. "You think of people who may have been treated differently at some point and how that's contributed to their homelessness," she says, explaining that their homelessness causes a continuation of their mistreatment. So how do you stop the cycle? Basic interaction helps. Having a conversation or even making eye contact can make someone feel valuable, deserving, worthy of pursuing a better life.
Volunteering also helps. The DWC's pool of 5,000 volunteers touches upon nearly aspect of the center. People come and serve meals at the day center. They translate documents and host mock interviews for the job-readiness programs. Or they host enrichment activities, work in the specialized veterans' program, or restock the libraries. The DWC has many umbrella departments to offer women support and the means to get back on their feet. Because people become homeless for so many different reasons, "you need different approaches to work with all these different populations," says Hartman.
That wide scope also means that the staff is incredibly flexible. Hartman describes employees as needing an all-hands-on-deck mentality. "The work is hard enough that the people who don't have the heart for it don't stick around," she says. "We're in the trenches together. It's a different level of commitment to come to work every day on Skid Row."
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Dotti has lunch with the other women in the day center, many of whom are just beginning the cycle of homelessness. "A lot of them have had a lot of loss," she says. She wants to help them, to give them guidance and let them know that they're not alone. She wants them to know they're worthy.
Which brings us back to the dining tables. They're circular for a reason, Hartman says. This setup encourages community, a feeling that you're having a meal with your friends. It goes back to what Hartman says about destigmatizing notions about homelessness: Whether or not a woman has a home doesn't matter. Everyone is equal. What are unequal are the paths that brought them here. That is why the DWC has, for decades, helped so many women. Women "who know how to find a silver lining in anything," as Hartman says.
To learn more about the Downtown Women's Center and ways to volunteer and donate, visit downtownwomenscenter.org