Based on the latest research study conducted by PayPal, more Filipino merchants are using social media channels as the digital marketplace, not just being a networking platform.
This study entitled "Beyond Networking: Social Commerce as a Driver of Digital Payments", revealing the rapid growth of s-commerce in across seven markets in Asia, including the Philippines.
By this year, social media users in the Asian continents are expected to reach one billion, which is almost double the number of users, six years ago. As such, social media platforms have become an attractive marketplace for merchants. In the Philippines, there are 67 million active social media users, hence, low overheads, ease of setting up and a readily available consumer are adding to the lure of s-commerce. Fifty-five percent of those who surveyed said that with the help of friends and relatives, setting up businesses on social media are helpful, while 75% said that it is easier to set up their business on social media, independently.
Also, according to the survey, 87% of Filipino merchants are currently selling on social media, with 74% them accepting digital payments, of which e-Wallets or mobile wallets such as PayMaya, GCash, and coins.ph which are now becoming popular.
The growth of s-commerce is expected to rise, with 69% of merchant respondents told that will sell their products through social media/messenger platforms in the future. This will increase the potential of having an improved financial condition with such impacts on the economic empowerment and financial health.
Besides, thirty-two percent of Filipino respondents with internet access said they have already begun transacting on social media, of which, 94% said that s-commerce has empowered them to become independent.
"Merchants and consumers want convenient and smart payment solutions that can adapt to the alternative e-commerce platforms, like mobile commerce and s-commerce, that are emerging," said Rahul.
"PayPal.Me for Business, which is a personalised link that allows for swift and secure transactions compatible with social media platforms is an excellent example of PayPal's customer-centric approach to innovation. By shortening the cycle between discovery and purchase, we offer consumers a convenient buying experience, helping reduce cart abandonment and generating even greater revenue businesses.", he added.
The Philippines government is encouraging every Filipino to use digital payments such as the recently established National Retail Payment System (NRPS) that offers a safe, efficient and reliable payment systems that are interconnected and interoperable.


Today I thought it would be fun to interview my husband about the joys (the joys!) of being married to someone who was born in Israel and moved to the U.S. when she was ten.
Danit: How is it being married to me? Bill: I'd give it a seven. Danit: That's only a C. What the hell??
Well, I guess that's enough of that.
The truth is, my husband is a lapsed Catholic from Minnesota. That makes him nicer than just about everyone except Canadians. On snowy days, he drives around the neighborhood trolling for people digging their cars out, and then he stops to help them. If their car needs a jump, it makes his whole day.
I guess it's too soon to tell about the little one, but the big one is all peaches and cream and, at least according to my parents, who aren't at all bitter, he looks exactly like my mother-in-law. Plus, except when he's screaming that his food is too hot, he tends to be kind and helpful and even-tempered.
The reason I'm sharing this is because I'm surprised. I'd honestly believed that the survival of the Jews in the face of millennia of adversity would translate into genetic dominance, if not necessarily athletic prowess.
I had my second baby six and a half weeks ago. When the first one was born two years earlier, the nurses at the hospital fell all over themselves to tell me how handsome he was. "Oh, you say that to everyone, don't you?" my husband fake-protested modestly.
"Actually, we don't," said the nurse. "If the baby's ugly, we say something like, 'Boy, what a lot of hair!'"
But back to my husband, who's so nice that he's fetching me a Popsicle from the kitchen as we ready ourselves to watch CSI Miami (no, we don't have cable).


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Q: Action link with string id returning HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found I would like to receive a string as the id passed from action link in a view. But for some reason I always get the error HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. When I was debugging the delete code in the controller never gets executed it just throws an error. I do not understand why I cannot achieve it with the following code.
 //action link passing id (string)

    <td>
        @Html.ActionLink("Delete Room", "Delete", new {id=item.RoomName})|

    </td>

//controller method Delete
public ActionResult Delete(string id)
    {
        Room room = db.Rooms.Find(id);
        if (room == null)
        {
            return HttpNotFound();

        }
        return View(room);
    }

//RouteConfig.cs
public class RouteConfig
{
    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "Default",
            url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
            defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
        );
    }
}

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Alums' weight-loss story featured on ESPN3
FOR RELEASE: Thursday, May 24, 2012
HUNTINGTON, Ind. Huntington University alumni Josh and Heather Barkley of Ossian, Ind., were recently featured on ESPN3 for their immense weight loss through the CrossFit program.
After a doctor told him that he should consider bariatric surgery, Josh, a 2010 adult-degree graduate, decided it was time to start shedding some of his 375 pounds.
"He said it was like a light bulb went off in his head, and he thought, 'I did this to myself. I need to fix this myself,'" said his wife, Heather, a 2010 master's degree graduate and the coordinator for graduate and adult program marketing at HU.
After losing a combined 165 pounds in a year by following the fitness program and paleo diet, the Barkleys' story found its way to national television in May when they were featured at the Reebok CrossFit Games by ESPN3. See the video online at http://games.crossfit.com/video/barkley-couple-live-eat-breathe-crossfit.
Their story began when Josh contacted the owner of Fort Wayne Strength and Conditioning, Justin Springer, who had attended the same high school as Josh. Together, they worked on developing a workout routine that Josh could do at his weight.
Josh started the Guerrilla CrossFit program solo, but Heather then joined him six months later.
"For both of us, the Paleo/CrossFit lifestyle became a response to a three-year battle with infertility," Heather said. "I truly have come to understand how God created us to be holistic beings. If we take care of ourselves physically, the spiritual and mental aspects of ourselves also benefit."
The couple credits their happier marriage and healthier lifestyle to CrossFit and paleo diet, and hope the changes in their lifestyle will lead to a family in the future.
"At first, I was thrilled the changes worked well for him but didn't see a need to transition myself," she said. "I initially planned to try it short-term because of a six-week fitness challenge we did through our gym. I felt so much better and stronger after that experience; it just made sense to make it a long-term change."
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Home care sounds simple, doesn't it? Many people think of home care as having an all-purpose assistant/homemaker/aide who spends the whole day (and maybe stays overnight) helping with personal care, doing household chores, and reminding you or your parent to take your medications — basically, doing whatever needs to be done.
This description can be accurate, but only for some people, and even then mostly for those who can pay out of pocket.
Home care services can range from relatively straightforward tasks like helping someone get dressed and preparing meals to a level of care that involves operating and monitoring complex medical equipment and doing wound care and giving injections or infusions. Where you or your parent fit on this spectrum of need determines what kinds of services you may be eligible for and who will provide them, not to mention who will pay.
Each of these people can play an important role in home care, but often you or a family member has to coordinate the different visits and services. This in itself can be a major responsibility involving a significant and ongoing commitment of time.
Here, look at home healthcare services provided by professionals through agencies, which are sometimes covered by insurance. Then turn to the option of hiring a home care worker independently. A final topic to look at is physician home visits.
The AARP Caregiving Resource Center has a lot of information about home care and access to experts who can answer your questions. Go to the website or use the call-in number (877-333-5885), which has extended hours of 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. You can also use the Long-Term Care Calculator to estimate costs in your area.


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Q: "Could not find module 'Test.HUnit'" Error when executing Haskell's unittest (HUnit) in CodeRunner I have simple unit test code for Haskell's HUnit. I use Mac OS X 10.10, and I installed HUnit with cabal install hunit.
module TestSafePrelude where

import SafePrelude( safeHead )
import Test.HUnit

testSafeHeadForEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForEmptyList =
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return Nothing for empty list"
                           Nothing (safeHead ([]::[Int]))

testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList :: Test
testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList =
    TestCase $ assertEqual "Should return (Just head) for non empty list" (Just 1)
               (safeHead ([1]::[Int]))

main :: IO Counts
main = runTestTT $ TestList [testSafeHeadForEmptyList, testSafeHeadForNonEmptyList]

I can execute it with runhaskell TestSafePrelude.hs to get the results:
Cases: 2  Tried: 2  Errors: 0  Failures: 0
Counts {cases = 2, tried = 2, errors = 0, failures = 0}

However, when I run it in Code Runner, I have error message that can't find the HUnit module.

CodeRunner launches the test on a different shell environment, and this seems to be the issue. If so, what environment variables need to be added? If not, what might be causing the problem?

I also find that ghc-pkg list from the CodeRunner does not search  for the directories in ~/.ghc which contains the HUnit.
/usr/local/Cellar/ghc/7.8.3/lib/ghc-7.8.3/package.conf.d:
    Cabal-1.18.1.4
    array-0.5.0.0
    ...
    xhtml-3000.2.1

This is the results when executed in shell:
/usr/local/Cellar/ghc/7.8.3/lib/ghc-7.8.3/package.conf.d
   Cabal-1.18.1.4
   array-0.5.0.0
   ...
/Users/smcho/.ghc/x86_64-darwin-7.8.3/package.conf.d
   ...
   HUnit-1.2.5.2
   ...
   zlib-0.5.4.2

I added both ~/.cabal and ~/.ghc in the path, but it doesn't work.

A: The problem was the $HOME setup change. I used different $HOME for CodeRunner, but Haskell searches for $HOME/.cabal and $HOME/.ghc for installed package.
After my resetting $HOME to correct location, everything works fine.


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Medindia » AIDS/HIV News
Enzyme That Aids in the Release of HIV Particles Identified
by Kathy Jones on March 14, 2011 at 9:37 PM
The involvement of particular components of the infected cell in virion release has been analyzed in a new study from Heidelberg University Hospital. The latter discovered that the enzyme VPS4A plays a more active role in the process than was previously thought.
The team showed that complexes containing about a dozen VPS4A molecules form at points in the membrane at which newly assembled virions later emerge.
AIDS/HIV - Lab Tests and FAQs
Describes how screening for HIV is performed in a laboratory.
"We can now demonstrate in detail, for the first time, how host proteins interact with components of HIV, to enable them to bud from infected cells. Our ultimate goal is to elucidate the entire life cycle of the virus," said Professor Don C. Lamb.
"With the methods we have at our disposal, we can also study the effects of drugs on infected cells, which may allow us to improve their efficacy or even lead to the development of new classes of active compounds."
AIDS/HIV - Clinical Features
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general info about HIV Clinical Features
Viruses smuggle their own genetic material into a host cell and reprogram the cell to produce new virus particles.
For release of the newly synthesized viruses, HIV exploits cellular proteins involved in the loading, sorting and budding of cellular vesicles known as ESCRT proteins.
During budding, HIV makes use of ESCRT to cut the last connection between the virion coat and the cell surface, allowing it to exit the cell. The enzyme VPS4A forms part of the ESCRT machinery and is known to be necessary for the disassembly of the complex after use, allowing its components to be recycled.
The results showed that VPS4A also acts at an earlier stage in the budding process.
"In this case, we were able to count how many enzyme molecules assembled at the HIV budding site during its interaction with the nascent virion," said Dr. Barbara Muller.
"Our current methodology allows us to monitor the assembly of individual virions, and we are working on further refinements that will allow us to follow the complete life cycle of HIV," said Lamb.
"We can already visualize some steps of the life cycle at the level of a single virus, observe interactions and determine the kinetics of different processes. Of course, this means that we can also label therapeutic agents and observe what effects they have in infected cells. This can help us to optimize the currently available drugs and even allow us to develop new ones."
The study appears in Nature Cell Biology online on 10 March 2011.
AIDS / HIV - Treatment
Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief about the treatment for AIDS/HIV
AIDS/HIV - Prevention And Transmission
Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief about the prevention for AIDS/HIV
AIDS - Initial Theories and Disease Progression
AIDS was first detected in early 1980s, among gays, Haitians and black Africans. HIV is a descendant of a ...
"AIDS is an epidemic disease, a potentially preventable, deadly infection for which there is no cure, no ...
AIDS/HIV - Epidemiology
AIDS or HIV is an epidemic disease, a potentially deadly infection that can be prevented with precautions. ...
AIDS/HIV - Health Education
Encyclopedia section of medindia gives general info about AIDS information and health education.
AIDS/HIV - Worldwide distribution and Risk of Transmission
Epidemiologic studies indicate three broad yet distinct geographic patterns of transmission
Oral Health And AIDS
AIDS has taken on massive proportions in modern times. It is estimated that over 15 million people are ...
Enzyme That Aids in the Release of HIV Particles Identified Personalised Printable Document (PDF)


We all know computers can be used to make music, but can artificial intelligence be used to not only generate music, but complete one of the most famous unfinished symphonies of all time? Huawei has used its A.I. to find out.
The post Huawei's A.I. has finished Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and we've heard it appeared first on Digital Trends.


Man on the porch of his house in Georgia, probably near Atlanta. 1899 or 1900. View full size. Gelatin silver print from the collection of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Submitted by JC on Thu, 01/19/2012 - 12:52pm.
The background of this photo has been blocked out. Whatever is to the right of the house is gone, but you can make out something along the downspout, the edge of the gable end, and around the finial atop the small cupola. The plant at the bottom right is cut off but its shadow is not. What gives?
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 1:50pm.
There's a joke there but it looks like not everyone is getting it.
Submitted by edEx on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 1:48pm.


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Inside Tony Denny's luxury Elysium penthouse soon to go to auction
Tony Denny's luxury Elysium penthouse will soon to go to auction.
Tony Denny's most luxurious listing to date will soon go under the hammer with the auction of his Elysium penthouse in Terrigal.
Originally two penthouses, the properties were merged into one larger apartment that includes five bedrooms, a six-car garage and private lift lobby.
BRW Rich Lister and Central Real property developer Denny said that the penthouse is a "once in a lifetime" opportunity.
The Elysium complex boasts panoramic water views to the Terrigal haven and right around to Wamberal beach and the lagoon.
The Gohera limestone tiled kitchen includes Miele appliances and a butler's pantry.
The main bedroom includes floor-to-ceiling glass.
"It's what you'd expect to see at Bondi or the Northern Beaches in a luxury penthouse but at a fraction of the cost of what you'd pay in Sydney," he said.
"You just won't find an apartment of this size or location with a six-car enclosed garage and panoramic water views to the Terrigal haven and right around to Wamberal beach and the lagoon.
"We've saved the best for last … it is nothing short of spectacular."
Huge wraparound balcony.
Resort-style pool in the Elysium complex.
The architecturally designed north-facing penthouse includes a massive six-car garage, staged for the ad listing with a collection of Mr Denny's own personal collection of sports cars.
Step inside the bronze wrapped feature entry door to be immediately greeted by the ocean sparkling behind floor-to-ceiling glass.
Features include a huge wraparound balcony, Gohera limestone tiled kitchen with Miele appliances and butlers pantry, solid French oak timber floors, a black slate stone feature wall, Ortal gas fireplace and underfloor heating in bathrooms.
Mr Denny's own personal car collection in the six-car garage.
Coastal chic kitchen.
All bedrooms have their own ensuite and the main has access to its own private balcony with uninterrupted views that can be enjoyed with a glass of champagne from the freestanding bath tub.
Nestled among landscaped tropical grounds, the penthouse has access to a 25m resort style pool and lush green open spaces.
The Elysium complex comes with a strict Airbnb ban, an ingredient that has proved popular with local downsizers keen to enjoy their own private sanctuary.
Apartments were snapped up like hot cakes in 2017, selling in under two weeks to majority local buyers.
A bath with a view.
The penthouse is the final release for the development and it will be auctioned off by McGrath's Mat Steinwede, who is working in conjunction with Central Real to sell the one-of-a-kind apartment.
With an auction bidding guide of $4.5 million-$4.9 million, it is set to smash the current apartment sales record in Terrigal, which according to CoreLogic is around $3.5 million.
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Manchin Introduces Concealed Carry Reciprocity Law to Support Second Amendment Rights
Washington, D.C. -- In an effort to remove burdensome red tape that limits the ability of legal concealed carry permit holders to carry concealed firearms into other states that allow them, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is sponsoring the National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2012, which has the backing of the National Rifle Association.
Under the legislation, an individual with a valid ID and concealed carry permit would be allowed to carry a concealed handgun into any state that allows residents to carry concealed firearms.
"This commonsense legislation would cut down on the layers of regulations facing law-abiding Americans who have the right to own guns and use them responsibly," Senator Manchin said. "If we can streamline and simplify some of our rules governing gun ownership, everybody wins – especially the 65,000 West Virginians who hold concealed carry permits."
The legislation also says an individual who is ineligible for a concealed carry permit in his or her state would not be allowed to obtain an out-of-state permit in a state with less restrictive eligibility requirements, and use that permit to carry a concealed handgun in his or her state.
The Senate bill, endorsed by the National Rifle Association (NRA), is also sponsored by Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska). A similar bill passed the House last year with a vote of 272-164.
The executive director for the NRA's Institute for Legislation Action, Chris Cox, praised the Senators for introducing the bill and said it is critical to protect Second Amendment rights.
"Over the last two decades, the NRA has led the way toward a brick-by-brick restoration of self-defense laws throughout the country. National Right-to-Carry reciprocity is yet another step forward for law-abiding Americans," said Chris W. Cox, executive director for NRA's Institute for Legislative Action. "Citizens aren't immune from crime when they cross state lines, so it is only reasonable that they have an effective means of protecting themselves and their loved ones while in other states. The introduction of S. 2188 is a significant step forward in the ongoing effort to improve self-defense laws in this country."


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A Disneyland in Russia ?
Although this article of The Voice of Russia is talking about a Disneyland in Russia, in no way it means a "Disneyland" from "Disney" designed by "Walt Disney Imagineering", and if it does i will believe it when i will see it. That said, it seems that russian authorities have discovered that in the world we're living a country with no decent theme park can't pretend to be a real super power, economically speaking. I know, it's absurd, but it's all about image, just like fashion.
Anyway, apparently several theme parks projects have been proposed, including one designed by Gary Goddard, and in some years may be Russia will be the new theme park Eldorado like Asia is right now. In the meantime, here is the Voice of Russia article called "Russian Disneyland to be built near Kaliningrad":
"A Russian Disneyland may appear in the Kaliningrad Region, the westernmost region of Russia. The idea of laying out a modern amusement park in the Amber Land has been supported by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
This Disneyland will be the second in Europe if it opens near Kaliningrad. So far there is only one park like this in the Old World. It opened near Paris in1992. The French Disneyland is visited by over 18mln people annually. The very first park with this name was laid out in 1955 in American California. It became the embodiment of Walt Disney's idea of a park giving life to the world of animated cartoons and fairy-tales. At present, Tokyo and Hong Kong also have Disneylands. The largest Disneyland outside the USA is being built in Shanghai on an area of 67 hectares. It is planned to open in 2016.
Building a Disneyland in the Kaliningrad Region will be a priority project, Inna Moreva, the press-secretary of the regional administration, told The Voice of Russia.
"To develop tourism in our region we are going to use our strong points like our historical past, mild climate and proximity to Europe. We are also prepared to consider prospects of building new facilities, such as an amusement park."
A park, which will be interesting to both children and adults, will help the region to attract more tourists. Now it is too soon to say what it will be like, Inna Moreva continues.
"We think that tourism should grow fast in the Kaliningrad Region. What can we offer tourists? We need new modern interesting facilities, one of which may be an amusement park in the style of Disneyland, or Hansaland in Germany, or Legoland in Denmark, or Port Aventura in Spain. It would be wonderful to have something like this in Kaliningrad. Such a place would attract visitors not only from the Kaliningrad Region but also from neighbouring countries."
The groundwork of the Yekaterinburg project will possibly be used when building an amusement park in the Kaliningrad Region. The first Russian Disneyland was planned to be built in Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains several years ago. It was to cover an area of 60 hectares with amusements, hotels and restaurants. The project was expected to pay its way in 8.5 years. It was planned to receive 15,000 visitors simultaneously but because of the crisis the construction of the park in Yekaterinburg never began in 2008."
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Disneyland Paris announces Disney's Halloween Festival 2011
We're still in the middle of the summer but Disneyland Paris press office already sent the press release for the next Halloween festival beginning October 1sr. Halloween is always very popular at DLP, so here is the program for those of you who might be interested.
The Disney Magical Moments Festival turns wonderfully WICKED!!!
- From 1st to 31 October 2011 -
Welcome to Disney's Halloween Festival 2011
Disneyland Paris - July 2011
As Disneyland Paris celebrates Disney Magical Moments Festival, the arrival of October will turn this magical celebration into an event to die for! It's time for Disney's Halloween Festival 2011 for no less than 31 wonderfully wicked days!
A 'Halloweenmosphère' unique to Disneyland Paris
Calling thrill-seekers of all ages: Disneyland Park is inviting guests for a marvelous month of festivities, mischief and mayhem. The Disneyland Park will turn shades of orange, while Mickey-shaped pumpkins will invade Town Square. Get ready for eerie events and hair-raising shows, tricks and treats as guests are plunged into an extravagant atmosphere unique to Disneyland Paris. Family and friends, young and old, everyone is sure to have a ghostly good time in this pure Disney Halloweenmosphere.
31 star-studded days with the Disney Villains Meet & Greet
Few can resist the fascination of a Disney Villain. Have you ever had second thoughts before biting into a juicy red apple? Does the hook of a certain pirate have you trembling in your boots? Do screams from the Queen of Hearts send shivers down your spine? Their evil spells, demonic deeds and monstrosity have affected us all. Today the Disney Villains await you every day in October at Disneyland Paris for a pure Disney Halloween you'll never forget!
Cruella De Vil, Captain Hook, Jafar and the wicked witch from Snow White take vile pleasure in posing with guests and giving them a wonderful souvenir of the year's biggest monster mash. Disney's Halloween Festival is the perfect opportunity to become the accomplices to their devilish doings!
New: Disney's Maleficious Halloween Party, an all-new show hosted by the sinister Maleficent!
Disney's 'Mistress of All Evil' awaits you daily for a brand new show full of delightfully deadly surprises! Still seething with jealousy for not having been invited to Princess Aurora's christening, Maleficent plans to cast a spell of terror over Sleeping Beauty Castle. This year, she has given the job to the latest arrival to the family of Disney Villains, Dr. Facilier from the Walt Disney Pictures film The Princess and the Frog. Although Facilier proclaims himself 'World's greatest sorcerer,' Maleficent has plans to show him the true tricks of the trade. The height of the show - a sinfully delicious shower of treats!
New: Mickey's Halloween Treat in the Street! An interactive show with Mickey and friends!
Mickey and his closest friends are dressed in their Halloween best and await you for some unforgettable memories. You won't want to miss them each day on Castle Stage as Mickey invites you to his Halloween party. Come dance with Minnie, learn to Hula Hoop with Goofy and go on a bat hunt with Donald... while Mickey plays referee for his friends as they skilfully master each event.
Interactive fun several times a day followed by a sweet ending – a shower of Halloween candy!
Disney's Halloween Festival 2011 continues well into the night with magical parties full of Halloween fun!
Disney's Halloween Festival Events 2011
Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party
Want to celebrate Halloween in pure Disney style at a private party that's fun without being scary? Then Mickey's Not-So-Scary Party* is the place to be! Four dream opportunities for family fun with Mickey and Friends in their most boo-tiful Halloween costumes. These one-of-a-kind events are perfect for children of all ages who just can't wait to get dressed up. Disney Characters and Villains will be there to create an exclusive and interactive experience of exciting and truly unforgettable moments.
In addition to exclusive events and shows, guests will enjoy access to a number of attractions in Disneyland Park open especially for the grand occasion. Get ready for tricks and treats galore on 7, 14, 21 and 28 October 2011 from 8 to 11 p.m.at Mickey's Not-So-Scary Party, the big event of the Halloween season. Hurry, places are limited.
*Paid event: €25 per person, free for children under 3.
Disney's Halloween Party: the most unforgettable night in October
Guaranteed to be a scream. Get ready for the "deadliest" night of the year at Disneyland Paris! The now-famous Disney's Halloween Party* will take place on 31 October 2011 in Disneyland Park. A one-of-a-kind experience to enjoy with family and friends from 8:30 p.m. to 1 a.m.
By the light of the moon, the Park will reopen its doors to a most mysterious atmosphere featuring a wide variety of events, surprises and boo-groovy music until the late-night hours:
Spooktacular street entertainment and stage shows throughout the evening
The Disney's Fantillusion Parade led by the vicious Disney Villains, where the world of darkness meets the enchanted world in a fantastic twilight spectacular.
A special Halloween Sound and Light Show with the fantangulous backdrop of Sleeping Beauty Castle.
And oodles of other dreadfully delectable surprises!
But that's not all, since Terrorific Night returns this year as well, with its own good helping of thrills and chills!
Terrorific Night
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The John Carter of Mars you (probably) won't see next year in Andrew Stanton movie
Disney released recently the first pictures and trailer from Andrew Stanton's "John Carter of Mars" movie and it looks not that bad. Many great artists illustrated John Carter of Mars since the first release of Edgar Rice Burroughs novel, for instance Frank E. Schoonover with this original 1917 book publication cover below...
But if you were born in the 1960's, John Carter of Mars probably remember you more the great paintings of heroic fantasy master painter Frank Frazetta, like these below and on the top.
Frazetta unique style is recognizable instantly, only him put this kind of incredible "sexual animality" in the characters. For a whole generation, John Carter of Mars was synonymous of the Frazetta illustrations. And that's all the point: will Andrew Stanton characters will be as "hot" as Frazetta paintings? I wouldn't bet on that but i'm curious to see how far Disney has authorised him to go in the movie. It's supposed to be a summer blockbuster movie for all ages so i doubt that we will find this sexual animality in it.
We had a glimpse of that in the trailer and, so far, as you can see on the screen capture above, we can't say that Princess Dejah Thoris costume is as "sexy" as Frank Frazetta painted her. Not bad, but they can do better!
Pictures: copyright Frank Frazetta and Disney
Libellés : andrew stanton, frank frazetta, John Carter of Mars
Shanghaî Disneyland Construction Update by Stefan Zwanzger, The Theme Park Guy
Stefan Zwanzger, aka The Theme Park Guy is back from his last trip in Asia and he's back with the latest pictures showing the works at Shanghaî Disneyland site!
Don't expect to see the Shanghaî Disneyland castle, you won't see it bafore at least 2014 but according to Stefan "There is visible progress on the Shanghai Disneyland site: the huge moat that will encircle the Disney resort is being excavated, the three or four entry gates to the construction site are now equipped with barriers and security, and the site office has employees coming and going. And in the background, it's all digging and digging".
Above, one picture of the huge moat excavation and at the top a picture of the Shanghaî Shendi Group poster at the entrance of the site. There is dozens more pictures on Stefan's site so the best i can say is to jump to The Theme Park Guy web site right now! It's right HERE.
Pictures: copyright The Theme Park Guy
Libellés : Shanghaî Disneyland, The Theme Park Guy
4DX Theatre Review, First one in the U.S opening late August
Sometime you have the luck to be at the right time at the right place and so was I to experiment one of these new 4DX theatres. The first ones, if i'm not wrong, opened in South Korea and recently a new one opened at the magnificent Siam Paragon Cineflex theatres in Bangkok. The first one to open in the U.S will be in Los Angeles and is scheduled to open late August.
So, what are these 4DX theatres? Well, if you're not tired yet by 3D movies the 4DX theatres is the next step, full of in-theatre effects, and the goal of course is to take more bucks out of your pocket. 3D screenings are already more expensive than normal ones but at least in 4D theatres you will have plenty of special effects in addition to the 3D glasses...Basically, 4DX theatres are a mix of Star Tours simulation technology with Honey I Schrunk the Audience special effects. Said like this it sounds not that bad and even interesting, but wait for what's coming next.
The main reason why i was curious to experiment 4DX was not to "live" the effects - i did this several times in many theme parks - but to see how they succeeded to adapt this kind of technology/effects to a normal movie - i mean, a movie which has not been filmed specially thinking to the in-theatre effects. Because that's the main difference between 4DX theatres and theme parks attractions using the same technologies, here you will experience a screening of a normal movie, not "designed" for a specific ride.
In Bangkok Siam Paragon the movie who did the 4DX theatre opening was Transformers 3. There is enough action in it for the 4DX effects and that's probably the reason why they choose it. When you enter the theatre there is more or less 200 seats seats all by four together, and each four seats are based on a simulation platform. The special effects that you will experience during the screening are wind, smoke, water projection, and more.
What did I think about it? Well, when the film began i thought it was great. If you saw Transformers 3 you know that the opening sequence is on the moon, back in the 1960's. The camera is moving slowly up and down and the 4DX simulation system reproduce these movements, smoothly and gently, just like if your seat was on the same crane that was used for the camera. So, i thought that this was pretty cool and a real bonus in comparison to a normal screening. Then, wind effects arrived - depending of the movie sequence, of course - rain effect, too - don't worry, you won't be wet and there is no 10 minutes long water projection effect - and even smoke effects.
A little bit later Transformers 3 action sequences began, and so 4DX enjoyment problem too. Everything was working fine technically speaking but the only way they've found to reproduce the massive-explosive-speedy-action-scenes of Transformers 3 is to use the simulation platform to shake your seat, and sometime "in all directions". When there is an explosion scene skaking the seats is understandable - and God knows there is a lot of explosion scenes in Transformers 3 - but when it's another kind of action scene, a wild chase for instance, the simulation system find its limits and obviously they can't do anything else than shake the seats in a way that become quickly not fun at all.
I suppose that the guys behind these 4DX theatres think that modern audiences always want more sensations, but it's a pity they don't use the system in a more subtle way like they did at the beginning of the movie where everything was fine and enjoyable.
So, my advice is this one: if you live in a place where a 4DX theatre already exist or is going to open, go and try it. I'm not sure you will go back each time they will play a new movie, but it's interesting to try the system at least one time. Let's just hope that their future selections will be more subtle than Transformers 3 something which should not be very difficult to achieve!
Picture at the top: Ad for the Siam Paragon 4DX theatre.
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Libellés : 4DX review, 4DX theatre
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Among all the Indian Railways' websites, trainenquiry.com is probably the only site, which I seen working consistently well, in addition to having a user friendly interface. Over last few months they have been adding various features that enable train travellers to track the trains in real-time.
Today, trainenquiry has launched another feature that is especially useful in winter seasons. During this season, hundreds of trains get delayed due to existence of thick fog in path of trains. Now Trainenquiry website will offer travelers will real-time tracking of fog related delays and rescheduling of trains.
Fog is a special case. It is both predictable, happens every year around this time, and unpredictable because you never know specifically where and when it may strike. Sometimes it could lead to large-scale delays and cancellations. Due to the uncertainties, passengers need full and timely information to make their decisions. We hope this initiative fulfills that need and mitigates the fog-inflicted misery to some extent.
Trainenquiry currently offers real time delay for Trains that are still scheduled to run, and also for the ones which are getting delayed while en-route the journey. Mr. Bajpai also said that they have plans to introduce other new features in the days ahead, which includes representing the fog areas on railradar.
So, if you are planning to travel by train one of these days, make sure you head over to trainenquiry.com, to check if your train is a victim of fog. It may probably save a lot of time and effort!
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Salad is one of the most versatile and beloved staples in a healthy eaters life. There are infinite ways to concoct and construct a salad, and keeping them healthful is super simple if you know what you're doing. Far too many of us think we're making solid choices at our favorite salad joints, but are we? Here's your formula for a salad to send you on the streamlined path to meeting your goals.
It's recommended by the USDA that adults consume 2 cups of dark green leafy vegetables each day. There is no better spot to meet that recommendation than at the bottom of your salad bowl. This does not have to be boring. Choose spinach, arugula, dandelion greens, spring mix, herb greens, mesculin, kale, collards, turnip greens, chard, romaine or cabbage.
Tip: do not use the foundation of your salad for grains, even if they are whole grains. You'll wind up eating more calories than you need and lose the opportunity to get the micronutrients and water volume you need from your greens.
Say yes please to the veggies that are raw, non starchy, fresh and fabulous. Even the biggest pile of these favorite veggie toppings won't add up in the calorie department, but they're loaded to the brim with fiber, micronutrients, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. Yes to the cucumbers, sprouts, tomatoes, radishes, carrots, celery, artichokes, hearts of palm, peppers, onions, fennel, zucchini, mushrooms and herbs.
Tip: starchier vegetables are also loaded with good nutrients, so it is absolutely OK to add some corn, roasted squash, edamame, peas or beets, but keep in mind these are higher in calories and less dense with water, so use them mindfully.
Don't make the mistake of passing on the protein. It will increase your satiety and makes your lunch more interesting. Choose organic steak or chicken, wild salmon, pole caught tuna, or shrimp as top animal sourced proteins. Don't forget that a hard boiled egg, lentils or beans are also fantastic protein sources and a great meatless choice to get your protein in.
Tip: most salad places offer you a nearly perfect protein portion of 3 – 5 ounces. Keep this in mind when you're portioning your dinner. It can help you estimate how much you should be eating.
You absolutely need a serving or even two of fats to bring out all of the nutrient benefits loaded in your salad. A salad without fat is not going to be as filling or delicious as possible. Make your choices carefully, knowing that a little feta, parmesan, olive oil, dressing, seeds, olives, nuts or avocado are a good addition to your greens.
Tip: opt for the cleanest fats offered that have the most flavor. The more processed the ingredient, the less healthful it is likely to be, which is why olive oil with lemon juice trumps processed salad dressings most of the time.
Are you tempted by the "treats" like croutons, tortilla strips, dried cranberries, mixed mayo-based salads or bacon bits? The goal is to make your salad so delish that you don't want to ruin it with these toppings. In fact, a well constructed salad will satisfy you without the extras and you'll feel great about eating it on a regular basis.
Tip: plan your treats and mindful indulgences regularly. They have their place. Do not put them on your salad on impulse, but rather plan for them separately from your lunch.


Almost exactly one year ago, a federal judge said the New York Police Department had violated the constitutional rights of millions of New York City residents by targeting them for a procedure known as stop-question-and-frisk. The judge ordered a series of changes, including requiring officers in five precincts with the highest number of stops to wear cameras for at least a year.
The ruling was immediately challenged by several police unions and then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg's successor, Bill de Blasio, moved to quickly settle the case.
Since July 13, there have been four police encounters captured by amateur video that have led to investigations by the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, the Civilian Compliant Review Board and, in Garner's case, the Staten Island district attorney.
Meanwhile, calls for the department to fit officers with their own cameras are growing more insistent.
In a letter she and ten other lawmakers sent to de Blasio, she called for starting a year-long pilot program (the same kind the federal judge urged in the stop-and-frisk case last year).
According to a top James aide, she met directly with de Blasio at City Hall last week to discuss how that kind of program would work. Yesterday, James she had a similar meeting with police reform advocates.
The mayor, for now, is sticking to his position.
There are logistical challenges involved with equipping even a portion of the country's largest police department—there are more than 30,000 NYPD officers—with point-and-shoot video cameras.
But the technology involved in generating video, which de Blasio suggests is part of the hold-up, probably isn't foremost among them.
The challenge is more in what the city would do with the video once its acquired.
"The technology barriers to wearing body cameras is not huge," said John DeCarlo, a former police chief in Branford, Connecticut who now teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "But there needs to be infrastructure in place to handle the deluge of footage."
Some police departments in America and elsewhere have in fact begun using the cameras, but it's usually been in departments only a fraction the size of the NYPD, which is by far the largest police department in the country.
Craig Fischer, a researcher at the Washington-based Police Executive Research Forum, an independent think tank focused on criminal justice issues, told Capital, "Both Los Angeles and London are currently piloting cameras. Greater Manchester [in England] is also a huge department that has used cameras for a while. Other fairly large cities that use them include Fort Worth, Phoenix, San Diego, Oakland, and Albuquerque. Las Vegas recently started rolling them out, and New Orleans plans to implement them at some point soon."
DeCarlo said his department in Branford was small enough—fewer than 50 officers—so that the logistical challenges of data storage were negligible.
Once his officers were equipped with the cameras, which cost between $600 and 800 each, "the effect we saw was almost immediate," he said.
Within the first week, he said, a woman who had been pulled over for a routine traffic stop walked into headquarters and said the officer had sexually harassed her.
"Even before we called the officer in, we reviewed the video and nothing like that was going on. In fact, the officer was really polite," he said.
"Officers were really wary of us hanging cameras on them and this incident made believers of them," DeCarlo said.
He said cameras worn by officers in another police department he consults for saw a reduction in civilian complaints compared to the year before. Nothing changed about the way officers were trained or sent out into the field, except for wearing cameras, DeCarlo said.
"Officers stopped whatever they were doing and it was irrefutable that we saw a reduction in civilian complaints," he said. "They saw their behavior was being recorded and it got better."
Police videotapes in Branford are held for 30 days and are automatically deleted unless they are linked to a specific investigation, Morgan said. They do not go back into the tapes and fish for suspects, or use it to build a database of people to review later in future investigations, he said.
"We're not randomly keeping video files of people just because," he said.
Morgan, the spokesman there, said the public, and the officers are used to being filmed.
In August 2012, the city said they had "approximately 3,000 Closed-Circuit TV cameras connected to the Domain Awareness System," a sophisticated database of streaming information that includes things like smart cameras and license-plate readers. By April 2013, there were approximately 4,000 cameras the city was using. The price tag for running the Domain Awareness System, which gathers information from the cameras, 911 calls and other law enforcement databases, was about $230 million annually, paid with city dollars and federal grants.
But when it comes to body cameras for police officers, the challenge isn't just logistical, but political.
Last August, Patrolmen's Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch released a statement opposing "body cameras" an arguing that they could make officers less safe.
"Our members are already weighed down with equipment like escape hoods, mace, flashlights, memo books, asps, radio, handcuffs and the like. Additional equipment becomes an encumbrance and a safety issue for those carrying it," he said.


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var queryString = require('querystring');
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var app = express();

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Encircled by the motto FOEDUS INVIOLABILE (Inviolable or Unbreakable League) stand three female figures, dressed in classical style. The implements at their feet a harp, a shield bearing the cross of St. George and an oversized thistle give clues as to their identities. Shamrocks, roses and more thistles can also be seen. These details identify the trio as representations of Ireland, England and Scotland.
England, or maybe we should call her Britannia, is perhaps the elder sister, standing taller than the other women who look at her with affection. This is an idealised representation of the union between the three nations, formed as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. According to Greek mythology, The Three Graces were the daughters of Zeus (father of gods and men) and his wife, Eurynome (mother of all things). The Graces were also known as The Charites derived from the Greek word charis, meaning grace. The Graces bestowed joy, goodwill and well-being to the world and represented admirable qualities revered by the ancient Greeks.
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Q: How can I divide a div element's content with CSS selector? Let's say i have something like that:

    BlahBlahBlah Some text that I want to fetch.

something does not important.

    a link text

I want to fetch just "BlahBlahBlah Some text that I want to fetch." text. When I use "div.c1" css selector, It gives "BlahBlahBlah Some text that I want to fetch. something does not important. a link text."
How can I fetch the text that I want?
(Note: HTML code does not contain any mistake, please do not suggest modification, it is certainly as I wrote. The site that I want to fetch text does not belong to me, so I can not change the code.)

A: Simple answer. You can't. CSS selectors target Nodes, not specific letters in some text. There are small exceptions when you consider pseudo selectors, but you can't accomplish what you want with CSS alone.
The best advice I have is to modify the HTML and wrap the content you want to target in a  element and give it a CSS class that you can actually target.
Edit: (Since finding out you can't modify the page and you're using Jsoup to fetch it.)
Since you're using Jsoup to fetch the page and target your Node you simply have one more step to grab your text. Basically, after you select your node and grab the inner text, just run a regex over it and grab everything before the first period.
Your regex should look something like this in Java: "(.*\\.)"

A: You can "fetch" the text you want, assuming you mean "select" it for purposes of applying CSS rules, by writing a rule for the top-level element, and then overriding it for the children:
.c1   { color: rebeccapurple; }
.c1 * ( color: initial; }


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BACKGROUND: This study investigates a possible relationship between the effects of gamma knife (GK) on meningioma somatostatin receptors (SRs) and the high rate of early neurological improvement without tumour reduction at short-term imaging follow-up. METHODS: From December 1997 to December 2002, somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS) using an 111Indium-labelled somatostatin analogue, Octreotide, was performed both before and 7-12 months after radiosurgery in 20 patients with intracranial meningiomas. Semiquantitative data were calculated as an SRS index. FINDINGS: The pre-GK SRS index was always > 1, averaging 4.44 +/- 3.20. There were no statistically significant differences between the pre-GK average values of primary (4.80 +/- 3.65) and residual (3.75 +/- 1.93) meningiomas. At the first clinical/MRI follow-up, the neurological examination had improved in 15/20 (75%) and had not changed in 5/20 patients. A corresponding slight tumour shrinkage on high-resolution MRI was documented in 3/20 cases only. The post-GK average SRS index was lower than pre-GK values both in primary (3.87 +/- 3.19) and in adjuvant (2.52 +/- 1.14) treatments, but the differences were not significant. However, the subgroup of patients with early neurological improvement showed a higher pre-GK average SRS index (5.21 +/- 3.33) and a more substantial post-GK average SRS index decrease (3.86 +/- 3.00) than the patients whose clinical condition remained stable (2.10 +/- 0.59 and 1.99 +/- 0.55, respectively). The difference between the two subgroups of patients proved to be statistically significant (P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our preliminary findings suggest a possible relationship between a decrease in the concentration of SRs on meningioma cells at short-term functional imaging follow-up after radiosurgery and early neurological improvement.
Gamma Knife radiosurgery in skull base meningiomas: a possible relationship between somatostatin receptor decrease and early neurological improvement without tumor shrinkage at short-term imaging follow-up
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Q: Linux shell simulation: stuck on multiple pipes I know similar questions have already been asked but none of the replies helped me. I am trying to implement a miniature Linux shell and am stuck on multiple pipes. Commands with a single pipe (e.g. ls | wc) work, but if I add a second pipe, nothing is shown on the console. Here is my code.
void ExecuteCommand(NODE *cHead,NODE *oHead)
{
    int fd[10][2];  // file descriptors' array
    int nfdCnt = 0 ;    // file descriptors counter
    string strCmd;      // command
    string strOp = "";  // operator
    int nOpCnt = 0 ;    // operator count

    while(1)
    {
        if (cHead != NULL)  // cHead is head pointer to the linked list of commands.
        {
            strCmd =  GetCmdOROperator(&cHead); // get command
        }
        if (oHead == NULL)  // oHead is head pointer to the linked list of operators.
        {
            strOp = "";
        }
        else
        {
            strOp = GetCmdOROperator(&oHead);   // get operator
        }

        if (strOp.empty())  // no operator exists. single or last command in the chain.
        {
            // Fork the child process
            pid_t child_id = fork();

            if(child_id == 0)
            {
                // Execute the command

                if (nOpCnt) // if we previously encountered any operator
                {
                    close(fd[nfdCnt-1][FD_WRITE]);
                    dup2(fd[nfdCnt-1][FD_READ], FD_READ);   // read from pipe updated by previous command
                }

                // call execvp()

                exit(-1);
            }
            else
            {
                for (int i = 0 ; i < nfdCnt; i++)
                {
                    close(fd[nfdCnt][0]);
                    close(fd[nfdCnt][1]);
                }
                wait(NULL);
                break;
            }
        }

        if (strOp == "|")
        {
            nOpCnt++ ;

            if (pipe (fd[nfdCnt]) < 0)
            {
                printf("\npipe error");
                return ;
            }

            pid_t child_id = fork();
            if (child_id == 0)
            {
                close(fd[nfdCnt][FD_READ]); // we dont need this
                dup2(fd[nfdCnt][FD_WRITE], FD_WRITE);

                if(nOpCnt > 1) // if we have already encountered a pipe before
                {
                    dup2(fd[nfdCnt-1][FD_READ],FD_READ);
                    close(fd[nfdCnt-1][FD_WRITE]);
                }

                // call execvp()
                exit (-1);
            }
            else
            {
                nfdCnt++;
            }

        }

    }
}

A: I haven't looked too closely at your code, but it looks like you are leaving file descriptors open, in which case processes will block on a read since someone has the write side open even though you think you've closed it.  Try adding a close after each dup2:
 dup2( fd[ nfdCnt - 1 ][ FD_READ ], FD_READ );
 close( fd[ nfdCnt - 1 ][ FD_READ ])

(Also, add some error checking.  dup2, fork, close, etc. can all fail.  It is sometimes convenient to skip error checking when posting questions to a forum, but make sure that you don't omit it in actual code.)

A: This
 if (strOp == "|")

doesn't work in C; use strcmp to compare strings. Or maybe you mistagged your question C instead of C++? What language compiler do you use?


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Anonymous: In my first higher ed position, I was working at a large community college in Rhode Island for a grant-funded opportunity program. In my interview, my soon-to-be "Boss" expressed that, in talking with her next door neighbor, she realized that she knew my father and his work in the Foodservice & Hospitality industry.
A year later, I am walking into a staff meeting with 4 of my colleagues. My boss, who as a 50 year old Jewish woman living in the suburbs saw herself as an expert in dealing with people of color since her son had black friends from the "projects", says to me "you seem like you come from a single-parent home, were you raised by your mother?".
I was floored because she knew my father and her longtime partner worked with my father for years. I left this interaction feeling violated, unwelcome, unprotected on my own team and subject to attack by the very person tasked with leading me to the next level of performance. She and I have since both left the institution and mended fences but she never apologized for the comment but it has bothered me from time to time ever since it happened.
Anonymous: FIND COMMUNITY!! Find those people of color at your institution who may be able to support and advise you in times of despair anger or distress. subscribe to facebook groups for black Student Affairs professionals, find places for Black folk to engage in counterspaces and networking.
Anonymous: As a Black practitioner in higher ed, being mistaken for students in opportunity programming is the most common offense. Though unintentional, it sends the very real message that because we look, walk, dress, talk differently from our fellow employed staff at our PWI, we cannot possibly be qualified to REALLY work there.
Anonymous: That my "talk" is not appropriate in white spaces. For years I have dealt with this Black Inferiority complex in working in predominantly white spaces in higher ed. Because not many look like me or talk like me, I've entered spaces feeling that I needed to alter my behavior and talk to fit the expectations of the majority. I am working to unlearn this and embed my own culture in my discussions with others because I belong just as much as they do.


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Is America's House Divided Again?
By L. John Van Til on January 28, 2013 Featured, Government & Politics, Law & Justice, The Social Order
Having just viewed Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," and knowing that Lincoln's birthday is approaching, it seemed fitting to ponder one of Lincoln's most famous speeches, and perhaps a lesson for Americans today.
On June 17, 1858, Lincoln gave his famous "House Divided" address while being nominated to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois. Lincoln told his friends, who objected to that phrase, that he chose it because it was a biblical idea familiar to the American public. Lincoln quoted Jesus Christ: "A house divided against itself cannot stand" (Mark 3:25). Lincoln went on to say, "I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all of the other."
At the time of the speech, Lincoln had already been intimately involved in national debates about the nature of the Union for more than a decade. He was prescient about many things, including the coming of war.
How did the Civil War come about and how did Lincoln understand it? What was the basis of this struggle that divided the nation? What prompted Lincoln to speak of a "house divided?"
The Founders had not settled the questions of black slavery and of sovereignty—both at the state and national levels. They did not because these issues were intimately tied together and at the heart of how the nation defined itself.
As for sovereignty, each state had claimed it fully under the Articles of Confederation. That document did not work well, so a convention was called to create a wholly new document—the federal Constitution of 1789. But, the new Constitution did not deal directly with the questions of slavery and sovereignty either. The Founders, and their successors for several generations, were content to deal with these issues by a series of compromises. As we say today, they "kicked the can down the road." Typically, these compromises were like "The Compromise of 1820," whose principle feature was to admit two new states at the same time—one with and one without slavery. Many, like Lincoln, had no difficulty with this practice because they believed that slavery as an economic system was failing and would die out in the face of the growing industrial revolution.
By 1850 the compromise system was breaking down as many Southern leaders began to vigorously advance the doctrine of the supremacy of state sovereignty. Moreover, the difference between an emerging industrial North and a continuing cotton-based, agrarian South revealed that the North and the South had different visions of what the nation ought to be. Lincoln understood this and spoke about it often.
The election of 1860 was crucial in deciding whether the house divided would stand or fall. Republican Lincoln was one of four presidential candidates in that election. He won. Southern states seceded. The war came. The primary issue was not slavery, but, as Lincoln said, the preservation of the Union. The Union won, and the house was no longer divided, or so it seemed.
During the war, and after, congressional statutes, constitutional amendments, and a reconstruction program abolished slavery and defined national sovereignty, all through the exercise of unprecedented federal power. This is a very important point. Reconstruction ended in 1877, and national leaders turned their attention to the settlement of the West and a rapidly expanding industrialism. It took a long time—decades—but that expansive federal power used to end the Civil War continued to grow and eventually became an important political issue, even a defining one.
Historians routinely point out that the two World Wars, the New Deal, Square Deal, Fair Deal, and Great Society all steadily expanded federal power. More recently, President Obama and his supporters have sought to dramatically increase federal power to achieve their new vision for America.
It seems to some that Obama's agenda includes a use of power that echoes European-style socialist states. But, there is one huge difference: The American system grants considerable power to the president—which Obama's followers seem eager to use, or threaten to use.
Perceptive observers see that the Founders' view conflicts with Obama's. Recent political gridlock in Congress and in the states is evidence of this fundamental division. This division has not yet reached crisis proportions, but it may not be far away. There are murmurings in some states to secede in the face of massive and growing federal power. Moreover, it is possible that the federal government may spend itself into oblivion.
If Lincoln were with us today, he might ask: "Is America's house divided again?" He might suggest, too, that it cannot stand unless the conflicting visions are resolved, one way or another.
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Bob Struble
One of the big differences is that Lincoln's election precipitated secession because he was antithetical to Southern slavery. In other words he was opposed to this evil institution. Obama is, on the other hand, inspiring secession signatures exceeding 20,000 in each of 13 States, not for opposing evil but for pushing it upon us. Witness his Administration's support for abortion, same-sex-marriage, and secularization of the public square.
See my series in Catholic Lane, "Farewell to Apostate America." http://www.catholiclane.com/farewell-to-apostate-america-tentative-exit-plan/
Noel Fitzpatrick
Let us not forget that the Bushes and Reagan were not strongly pro-life, neither was Mr Romney before he flip-floped..


A/N: So things have been hectic and I've missed doing the Saturday Word of the Day quite a bit recently, sorry for that. Hopefully, things will settle down soon and I'll be able to get back to my regular posting habits.
*Inculpate: to involve in a charge; incriminate.
Ronnie's plan was very simple. Step one was to murder that stench ball, waste of space Hamish. Step two was to inculpate Victoria, that no good backstabber. It was a very simple scheme on paper, in reality it was a bloody mess of chaos.


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Since the Second Empire, the photographic portrait has experienced a real boom, linked to the desire for individual affirmation of the middle classes who, failing the too expensive services of painters, go to photographic workshops. But photography is also an excellent form of publicity for courtesans seeking international fame; in addition, it is the main instrument of worship for the female figure who, during the Belle Époque, turned into an obsession, without calling into question the patriarchal and misogynistic mentality of society. Since the Frenc" />
Liane de Pougy and the charm of ambiguity in the Belle Époque
Liane de Pougy.
Title: Liane de Pougy.
Date shown: 06 June 1899
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Technique and other indications: Negative gelatin silver bromide glass.
Storage location: Architecture and heritage multimedia library website
Contact copyright: © Ministry of Culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Atelier de Nadarsite web
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© Ministry of Culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Nadar Workshop
Dimensions: Height 13.5 - Width 9.5
Technique and other indications: Albumen print.
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Agrégée in Italian, Doctorate in Contemporary History at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
The metamorphosis of a mother in a "large horizontal"
Since the Second Empire, the photographic portrait has experienced a real boom, linked to the desire for individual affirmation of the middle classes who, failing the too expensive services of painters, go to photographic workshops. But photography is also an excellent form of publicity for courtesans seeking international fame; in addition, it is the main instrument of worship for the female figure who, during the Belle Époque, turned into an obsession, without calling into question the patriarchal and misogynistic mentality of society. Since the French Revolution and the Declaration of the rights of women and citizens proposed by Olympe de Gouges in 1791, feminist movements demanded equality between the sexes, but, at the end of the 19th century, the emancipation of women still came through alcoves. Enjoying a freedom unthinkable for other women, Hetairians can even display their possible Sapphic tendencies without fear of discouraging their suitors who, on the contrary, are drawn to the challenge of a seemingly impossible conquest, forgetting - or pretending to be. forget - that their relationship with the "big horizontals" is based on money. Belle Époque society tolerated such characters as the writer Jean Lorrain or the courtesans Liane de Pougy and Émilienne d´Alençon, provided their "eccentricity" did not set a bad example for young people from good families. However, high-flying courtesans have not always lived a dramatic childhood like that of Belle Otero, or at least miserable, like that of Emilienne d'Alençon: the story of Liane de Pougy proves that a young mother family can become a great casserole despite a good education and a bourgeois marriage, if the seeds of revolt and ambition smolder in his mind.
Born Anne-Marie Chassaigne in La Flèche on July 2, 1869, into a modest but respectable family of soldiers, an agnostic father and a very devout mother, Liane experienced the first chills of Sapphic love during her childhood. Very beautiful and very tall for the time (she measures 1.68 meters), Anne-Marie married, at the age of sixteen, the young soldier Armand Pourpe, with whom she had only one child, Marc, born in 1887. A painful childbirth and the birth of a boy, when she wanted a girl, mark the young woman, who feels no maternal instinct; stifled by the violent fits of jealousy of her husband, she ended up cheating on him, then abandoning him, in 1889. Finally free, Anne-Marie left for Paris, the city of all the pleasures and all the possibilities, that she had discovered during her honeymoon: after a period of apprenticeship in a brothel and thanks to the advice of the famous Valtesse de la Bigne, who inspired Zola to play the character of Nana, the modest Anne-Marie turns into Liane de Pougy and quickly climbed the ladder of gallantry. Proust was inspired by her to create Odette de Crécy, Swann's amorous obsession.
Like her sisters, Liane began a theatrical career to increase her notoriety and her earnings: in 1894, she began at the Folies-Bergère as a magician and acrobat, then performed as a mime at the Olympia. Her rivalry with the Belle Otero, her friendship with her "soul mate" Jean Lorrain and her connections with Émilienne d´Alençon and Natalie Clifford Barney, are the joy of social chroniclers: Liane is in particular the heroine of Gil Blas, which does not fail to announce the publication of his autobiographical novels.
The clever construction of a female idol
These three photos, taken by the Nadar workshop, show Liane de Pougy's passion for pearls. Sensitive to the sparkle of gold and precious stones, the famous hétaïre is, even more than a diamond crusher, a "pearl cruncher": the femininity and the lunar glow of the mother-of-pearl spheres irresistibly attract Liane who, at his beginnings in the art of gallantry, endured the blows of the whip struck by Lord Carnavon, the famous English Egyptologist, to obtain as a reward a pearl of inestimable value.
In the first two photos, Liane is barely in her thirties and already a celebrity in Parisian social life. The casserole is displayed in the first shot as an elegant lady, ready to go for a walk, perhaps in the Bois de Boulogne; her light dress, demure demeanor and serious look prove that, far from forgetting the attire and good manners learned in her youth, she now uses them to attract her wealthy suitors. The standing position highlights Liane's slender figure and the proud attitude of a woman who has succeeded in freeing herself from marital power and for herself a position - not honorable, of course, but also very profitable - in the community. Parisian socialite.
In the second photo, Liane appears on the page of the Renaissance, according to the cross-dressing fashion that charms male viewers with the double attraction of disguise: its sexual ambiguity and the pretty shapes it reveals (see Giuditta Pasta and cross-dressing at the opera). If she plays with her androgynous physique in this way, Liane de Pougy cannot resist the temptation to wear a round of pearls even on her male costume.
The third photo shows a ripe Liana, but still beautiful and full of charm. The model appears here as enveloped in an impalpable cloud of white veils, from which stands out her hair, still natural brown, and ten turns of large pearls. The luxury of the adornment contrasts with the attitude of the beautiful courtesan: her contemplative air, eyes raised to the sky, seems to announce the conversion which will transform the beautiful sinner into penitent Magdalene.
A "show woman" close to holiness
Liane de Pougy dreams of a theatrical career, although Sarah Bernhardt (see Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar and The birth of stardom) advised her to be satisfied with showing herself without speaking and that the ruthless but sincere critics have decreed that she plays "better lying down than standing": she then turns to pantomime where, for lack of expressiveness, her beauty guarantees success. Like Nana, Liane de Pougy triumphs in the theater without any talent, by the sheer force of seduction: rather than a woman of the show, we can thus see in her a "woman show" who offers herself to the public, anticipating the "woman object" of the 20th century.
In 1910, Liane married the Romanian prince Georges Ghika, fifteen years his junior, and gave up the life of demi-mondaine, without however renouncing Sapphic loves. The death of her son Marc, an aviation pioneer who fell on the field in 1914, awakens in her maternal love and also a strong sense of guilt. This mourning and, in 1926, a deep marital crisis prompted Liane to radically question her life; in 1928, his meeting with the Mother Superior of the Sainte-Agnès asylum in Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, near Grenoble, marked the beginning of his conversion. Widowed in 1945, Liane de Pougy entered the Third Order of Saint Dominic, near Lausanne, under the name Anne-Marie-Madeleine de la Pénitence; when she died on December 26, 1950, at the age of eighty-one, her confessor called her "close to holiness."
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Shepherdess Follies
Proust (Marcel)
Bernhardt (Sarah)
worldly life
Jean CHALON, Liane de Pougy, courtesan, princess and saint, Paris, Flammarion, 1994.Claude DUFRESNE, Three graces from the Belle Époque, Paris, Bartillot, 2003.Sylvie JOUANNY, The Actress and Her Doubles: Figures and Representation of the Performer at the End of the 19th Century, Geneva, Droz, 2002.Liane de POUGY, My blue notebooks, Paris, Plon, 1977.
Gabriella ASARO, "Liane de Pougy and the charm of ambiguity in the Belle Époque"
Video: PARIS 1900. 1930 La Belle époque, France, expo 1900 Marc Lavoine
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FILM RELEASE…. HAPPIEST SEASON
film release Kristen Stewart by Caroline Russo | on November 29, 2020	| 0 comments | in Film Release & Reviews | Like it
DirectorClea DuVall
WritersClea DuVall, Mary Holland
StarsKristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber, Alison Brie
Running Time1h 42m
GenresComedy, Romance
Meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time can be tough. Planning to propose at her family's annual Christmas dinner – until you realize that they don't even know she's gay – is even harder. When Abby (Kristen Stewart) learns that Harper (Mackenzie Davis) has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question the girlfriend she thought she knew. Happiest Season is a holiday romantic comedy that hilariously captures the range of emotions tied to wanting your family's acceptance, being true to yourself, and trying not to ruin Christmas.
The film stars Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Daniel Levy, with Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen. Directed by Clea DuVall.
Story by Clea DuVall in which Happiest Season represents a combination of her sensibilities as a writer- director – a positive, optimistic, heartwarming film, a celebration all of the tropes that make holiday movies a sheer joy, told in a way that audiences have never seen before. "I wanted to make a by-the-book, happy, bright, warm romantic comedy where you know that the end will not be bittersweet. There are a lot of LGBTQ films that are beautiful but skew more dramatic. The LGBTQ community deserves happy endings sometimes."
In co-writing the movie with DuVall, Mary Holland attests that making a satisfying holiday movie was job one. "I think that holiday movies are really significant to us," says Holland, who also co-stars in the film. "They're a big part of our childhoods, and a big part of how we experience the most wonderful time of the year, when we take stock of our lives, and are grateful for our family, either the one we're born into or the one we find. I'm so excited that this is such an accessible holiday romantic comedy."
"In Happiest Season, Clea and Mary have come up with a brilliant twist on the Christmas comedy that is laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving," says producer Marty Bowen. "It manages to be both timely and timeless in the best of ways and we think it's a holiday classic in the making."
As she continues as a filmmaker, DuVall says that audiences can expect more films that put new characters into familiar genres. "I gravitate toward universal stories," she says. "What I love about watching film is connecting with the characters – even when I'm watching characters who are not like me, which is most of the time, there's something about their story, their journey, that I connect with. As I filmmaker, I want to tell stories do have that universal quality, told through a more specific lens."
"It was important to us to make a movie that was not only grounded in reality and the intense drama behind certain family dynamics, but one that is also light and fun and relatable," says Kristen Stewart, who stars as Abby, half of the couple desperately trying to keep the secret. "Not every story told about same sex couples needs to be so dark and intense."
"What's wonderful about this movie is that we're within a very familiar genre to tell a different story," agrees Mackenzie Davis, who plays Harper, the other half of the couple. "When you watch a Christmas romantic comedy, you know everything's gonna be okay in the end. You will go through troubles and it will be stressful, but everybody will end up where they need to be in a positive way."
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Wedding story of Montana & Chris.
I received a call from Montana's sister who was looking for somebody to document a wedding. It was almost spring 2015 therefore not much time for preparations. We sent our offer with packages and after meeting this amazing couple we were so excited and couldn't wait their big day. Montana has roots from Barbados and Chris is from Staffordshire area. What is more, entire Montana's family got an invitation for their wedding! Finally all guests were special and from different part of the Globe. Amazing car Daisy took Montana to the town hall in Stoke where Chris was waiting for her. We love this kind of weddings due to their modest and simple character. We observed lots of touchy moments and tears of joy. Furthermore we felt atmosphere of happiness in the air. As a result of reportage we are presenting their wedding story in a short form.


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Tis the season for eating together with your family and friends. If you are anything like me, you love to cook but hate cooking around the holidays when you'd much rather be wrapped up in a blanket by the fire reminiscing on holidays past. That's where making casseroles come in. Seriously, if you haven't jumped on the casserole train, you need to! With minimal effort required and a relatively short cooking time, you can be spreading joy for all to hear without yelling it from the kitchen this year.
I've learned that making casseroles as side dishes can be particularly helpful too, especially if you are cooking for a crowd who will certainly scarf down all of the rolls and cornbread stuffing and still demand more food. My family is particularly fond of green beans and even grow them in their garden in the summer. While I may not have acquired the taste for green beans like they have, I'll definitely make an exception on my palette for this delicious green bean and mushroom casserole.
Start by snapping off the tips of the green beans and snapping any particularly long beans in half. I blanched mine quickly in some boiling water before transferring the beans into an ice bath. This step is important to ensure the beans stay nice and crisp and won't turn into mush while cooking in the casserole.
In a large skillet, add some butter and the sliced mushrooms. Let the mushrooms release their moisture before adding in the paprika, cayenne pepper, garlic and brown mustard.
At this point, the mushroom mixture will be rather liquidy, so let it simmer for a few minutes to evaporate some of the excess moisture.
Next, coat the mushrooms in flour. When a crumbly flour mixture forms, add the chicken broth.
The sauce should be nice and thick. I loved how this smelled, and I'm sure this mushroomy mix would have been a great sauce for pasta or would even make for a good knock-off chicken marsala if you are short on wine.
Let the mushroom sauce simmer for a few more minutes before reducing the temperature to low and pouring in the heavy cream and sour cream. Stir the cream into the sauce until it's completely incorporated.
Finally, just pour the cooked green beans into a casserole pan and pour the mushroom sauce over them! Bake the casserole for 25-30 minutes, or until the top is bubbling and just beginning to brown. If you'd like, add some crunch with fried onions (I used the kind you can find in the salad aisle) or even mozzarella cheese. However you decide to top it, this green bean casserole is as simple as it is delicious!
Bring a pot of water to a boil. Prepare a large bowl as an ice bath. Add the trimmed green beans to the pot of boiling water for 2-3 minutes (or until the water starts boiling again). Remove and immediately transfer to the ice bath to halt the cooking process.
Preheat the oven to 375°F. In a large skillet over medium high heat, melt the butter and add the sliced mushrooms. Saute the mushrooms for 4-5 minutes, or until the mushrooms have started to lose their moisture.
Add the paprika, cayenne pepper, spicy brown mustard, and garlic to the skillet with the mushrooms. Coat the mushrooms in the spices and let simmer for 2-3 minutes as the garlic becomes fragrant. Season with salt and pepper.
Sprinkle the flour into the pan and cover the mushrooms completely. Pour in the chicken broth and bring the sauce to a simmer for 2-3 minutes.
Reduce the heat to low and add the sour cream and heavy whipping cream. Stir until completely incorporated. Let the sauce stand to thicken for 3-4 minutes.
In a casserole pan, arrange the green beans on the bottom so there are very few open spaces. Pour the mushroom sauce over the top of the green beans in an even layer.
Bake the casserole for 25-30 minutes or until the top is bubbling and just beginning to brown. Sprinkle with french fried onions or mozzarella cheese, if you desire. Serve right away and enjoy!