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Posted on November 15, 2012 July 2, 2017 by anne
Republicans should look to their roots
A Texan friend of mine heard Karl Rove a couple of days ago talking angrily about President Obama winning by "suppressing the vote." Not long after that, she read that Sean Hannity wants to create a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal immigrants. She wrote to me that she was compiling a list: "ways in which the Republicans are now stealing Democrats' language."
She was right to find it amusing. But, if you step back, it's also tragic. The Republican Party doesn't need to steal Democrats' language, let alone Democrats' ideas. Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," all the Republican leadership needs to do is click its collective heels together and start looking for answers much closer to home.
If Republican leaders really want to appeal to Hispanic voters, for example, they don't need clever Spanish-language marketing or better slogans. Nor do they need to steal political positions from across the aisle. Instead, they could resurrect the only sensible comprehensive immigration reform bill not passed into law — a bill largely written by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). The McCain-Kennedy Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 was a grand compromise: It attempted to win support from immigrants' rights groups, which tend to be on the left of the political spectrum, and business leaders who employ immigrants, who tend to be on the right. It created not only a sensible path to citizenship for illegal immigrants but also a "guest worker" status for people who want to work for short periods, and it enhanced border security. The Bush White House supported the bill, which was defeated by congressional Republicans.
Maybe it's time for those same Republicans to take seriously something that several observers have noted recently: For millions of people on the lower end of the pay scale, health-care expenditures take a bigger chunk of income than do taxes. For Republicans, this problem ought not to come as a surprise, since their elected representatives have been discussing it for two decades. As The Post's Ezra Klein (among others) has beautifully documented, the Heritage Foundation came up with the idea of individual mandates in 1989; Sen. John Chafee (R-R.I.) wrote a bill — with 19 Republican co-sponsors — proposing comprehensive health-care reform in 1993. In the mid-2000s, Sen. John Breaux (D-La.) told me he reckoned that bipartisan agreement on the basic elements of health-care reform already existed in the Senate: All that was needed, he told me, was the political willpower to make it happen.
Republican leaders might also consider the writings of conservative columnists and think tanks more carefully. For many years, The Post's Charles Krauthammer has advocated a hefty gasoline tax offset by an equivalent payroll tax cut. Steve Hayward at the American Enterprise Institute has been arguing for years that "conservation" is a word with the same roots as "conservative."
The conservative movement is a broad church, and its worshipers include even a few sympathetic foreigners. Republicans could certainly do worse than to consult their counterparts across the Atlantic.
The British Conservative Party spent 12 years out of office after the 1997 elections that brought the Labor Party and Tony Blair to power. After two attempts to win by running well to the right of Blair, David Cameron led a group of Tory "modernizers" into power by, among other things, embracing "conservative" notions of conservation and budgetary austerity — and by deciding that the state should have no role in dictating private morality: Intolerance, one once told me, is "unconservative." One Tory minister, Iain Duncan-Smith, spent his years in the political wilderness creating a think tank, the Centre for Social Justice, dedicated to the study of long-term poverty and welfare reform. He's now in a position to put some of its proposals into practice. So is his colleague Michael Gove, another Tory modernizer, who spent his years out of power thinking about education and is now hard at work reforming British schools.
The British Conservatives didn't merely hire new speechwriters to carry out this change, or ape their opponents in the Labor Party. They simply looked to their history and to their roots. There is no reason the Republican Party can't do the same: There's no place like home, there's no place like home . . .
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Q: Why is 'edit' not finding emacs? I'm trying to make the 'edit' command use emacs (homebrew-installed)in the OS X terminal.
Whenever I try it, I get:
> edit
-bash: edit: command not found

I've tried, in my .bashrc file
export EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/emacs"

and just
export EDITOR=emacs

in my .bashrc.
No luck.
Trying to solve the problem, I've tried:
> which emacs
/usr/local/bin/emacs

> type -a emacs
emacs is /usr/local/bin/emacs
emacs is /usr/local/bin/emacs
emacs is /usr/bin/emacs
emacs is /usr/local/bin/emacs

A: Your question asks why edit isn't finding emacs, but that's not actually your problem. Your problem is that you don't have an edit command to begin with.
You can use the following alias to create edit:
alias edit="eval \$EDITOR"

A: edit is not a bash builtin:
anew@Wintermute:~$ man builtin | grep edit
anew@Wintermute:~$

Certain *nix programs will look for $EDITOR and invoke it (cvs, svn, git, etc), but your shell is looking for a command called edit in your $PATH.

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Ressano Garcia — The eight teenagers walking towards the bright-green house, called Casa da Acolhida, look like any other group of young people. But they're not.
Carrying their possessions in torn plastic bags, they are making their way from a police station 200m away. They had been interrogated there after being caught trying to cross the border into South Africa unaccompanied by an adult and without the necessary documentation.
The town of Ressano Garcia houses the Lebombo border post, the country's busiest.
A sign at the border post informs anyone willing to read it that unaccompanied minors must be in possession of an unabridged birth certificate, a valid passport and a court order, death certificate or affidavit confirming their parents' permission for them to travel. But for those who do not have this documentation and are desperate for better lives in South Africa, the only option left for them is an illegal one. And there are many like these eight children.
A policeman the Mail & Guardian spoke to said that "between one and five a week" were caught. "But there are no official statistics," he added.
A 2017 report published by the International Organisation for Migration found that "data on children in migration has been particularly limited".
Casa da Acolhida — loosely translated it means "The Welcome House" — was established to receive unaccompanied minors who had been apprehended once they are back on Mozambican soil and released by the police. Here they are fed, their names recorded and transport to their homes is paid for.
Some of the people at the house agree to speak to the M&G but now they are hungry. "Comida e mais importante [food is the most important thing]," says 17-year-old Tomas Abdala*, adding that he had not eaten since very early the previous day.
The plate of arroz e feijão (rice and black beans) he wolfs down might have sated his hunger but it can't rid him of his disappointment. "I feel like a fool … a fool. Because I didn't complete my mission," he says.
His mission was to find employment in South Africa. "Any kind of job I could find. The only thing I want is a job," he says.
An orphaned farm worker, Tomas left his home in Gaza province's Chokwe district and arrived two days later in Ressano Garcia. Once there, he jumped the fence "about 200 metres" from the Lebombo border post.
"We paid people to help us get from this side to South Africa. There are people there whose job it is to help people jump across the fence," he says.
After paying R150 to his facilitators, he was on South African soil. But not for long.
"I only walked for a little bit, then I was caught," he says. "When they caught me, they spoke in Zulu, saying, 'You will be transferred to the prison or you can pay to be released," he says.
But the R800 bribe his captors demanded in exchange for his freedom was too steep.
"Other people who were also caught had this money and they were released immediately. But I didn't have this money. So me and the other people who didn't have this money were arrested. We had to come back to Mozambique," he says.
At the Lebombo border post, teenagers join adults in plying their humble trade. Wiping sweat from their brows, they sullenly sell fruit, soft drinks and castanha (cashew nuts).
Miguel Faustino* could have been one of them but he chose another route, one he thought would be more lucrative. With nobody other than his unemployed father to rely on, the 18-year-old says he came to the border-post town to earn money to continue his education.
From Fridays to Sundays, he would be stopped by motorists not wanting to declare all their goods to customs officials. Faustino and his friends would then carry these goods across the border into South Africa, where they would be rewarded with "R10 or R15" for their efforts. Slight of frame, Faustino says the weight of the goods varied but were "on average about 15kg each".
Faustino says he had made many such trips that weekend and, by Sunday, had pocketed R150. But when he was caught, he had little choice but to hand over his earnings to a policeman who demanded a bribe in exchange for his release.
He says the R20 he kept safely tucked away will be enough to get him back home.
"I'm very happy to go home. I want to go back to school," he says.
Tomas does not have this option. He left school when he was just eight years old. "There was nobody to support my education," he says, clenching his jaws and staring into the distance.
"All I want is to live here in Mozambique — maybe Maputo —and have a job. I just want a job. My dream is to live here, working and building my family," he says.
Picking up his tattered rucksack with an almost defiant determination, Tomas heads off, wearing the laceless and faded running shoes he wore the day he set out for South Africa. As he walk-runs past the police station in the direction of the border town's bustling main road, he looks like any other kid. But Tomas, like the others released back on to their home soil that day, is not like others. He is one who, despite his best efforts, was walking away from a border — away from his "mission" —disappointed and feeling "like a fool".
Carl Collison is the Other Foundation's Rainbow Fellow at the Mail & Guardian.


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Q: Too frequent disk checks on Ubuntu 12.04 I want to report a problem or any improper programming .
Some time ago to install Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit on my computer.
I realized that when the operating system always checking the message I get the filesystem .
Or rather the Linux fsck
But I realized that this is being done very often
Someone knows why this originates ?.

A: This is a boot option. If you would like to turn it off, follow these steps:
Open /etc/fstab with your desired text editor. I will use gedit, but you can use any text editor.
sudo gedit /etc/fstab

You will see all of your drives, and allocations. You will see a line that looks like this:
UUID=(Your harddrive's UUID)     /        ext4       defaults    0      (1 or 2)
This is a boot option and location assigner. In the line, there should be either a 1 or a 2 for the second number. Replace it with a zero, now save and reboot. Done!


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package android_testsuite.mytest.network_test;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.SelectionKey;
import java.nio.channels.Selector;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

import android_testsuite.mytest.util.Const;

public class Tcp {
    private int mPort;
    private String mHost;
    private Selector mSelector;

    public Tcp() {
        mHost = Const.HOST;
        mPort = Const.PORT;
    }

    public Tcp(String host, int port) {
        mHost = host;
        mPort = port;
    }

    //处理连接请求
    public void connectAction(SelectionKey key) {
        SocketChannel sc = (SocketChannel) key.channel();
        try {
            sc.configureBlocking(false);
            sc.register(mSelector, SelectionKey.OP_READ);
            sc.finishConnect();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    //处理读请求
    public void readAction(SelectionKey key) {
        ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(Const.BUFFER_SIZE);
        SocketChannel sc = (SocketChannel) key.channel();
        int readBytes = 0;
        try {
            int ret = 0;
            try {
                while ((ret = sc.read(buffer)) > 0) {
                    readBytes += ret;
                }
            }  catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            finally {
                buffer.flip();
            }

            if (readBytes > 0) {
                System.out.println(Charset.forName("UTF-8").decode(buffer).toString());
                buffer = null;
            }
        } finally {
            if (buffer != null) {
                buffer.clear();

            }
        }
    }

    public void run() throws IOException {
        //打开选择器
        mSelector = Selector.open();
        //打开通道
        SocketChannel channel = SocketChannel.open();
        //设置为非阻塞模式
        channel.configureBlocking(false);
        //创建网络地址
        SocketAddress target = new InetSocketAddress(mHost, mPort);
        //申请连接
        channel.connect(target);
        //给选择器注册连接事件
        channel.register(mSelector, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT);
        System.out.println("please input the information to send, ended by quit");
        //建立输入信息流
        BufferedReader systemIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

        while (true) {
            if (channel.isConnected()) {
                String command = systemIn.readLine();
                channel.write(Charset.forName("UTF-8").encode(command));

                if (command == null || "quit".equalsIgnoreCase(command.trim())) {
                    systemIn.close();
                    channel.close();
                    mSelector.close();
                    System.out.println("Client quit !");
                    System.exit(0);
                }
            }

            int nKeys = mSelector.select(1000);
            if (nKeys > 0) {
                for (SelectionKey key : mSelector.selectedKeys()) {
                    if (key.isConnectable()) {
                        connectAction(key);
                    } else if (key.isReadable()) {
                        readAction(key);
                    }
                }
                mSelector.selectedKeys().clear();
            }
        }
    }

}

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Police lights, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons Photo
By Tyler Pialet | tpialet@eptrail.com | Estes Park Trail-Gazette
October 15, 2019 at 8:56 a.m.
Estes Park Police Department
Editor's Note: The charge(s) are merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
At 11:22 p.m. in the 300 block of N. St. Vrain Avenue, 35-year-old Randy Miller, male of Estes Park, was arrested on a felony warrant out of the Boulder County Sheriff's Office failure to appear on four counts of DUI and evading interlock. He was transported to Larimer County Jail.
At 10:47 a.m. in the 1300 block of Manford Avenue, 29-year-old Ethan Morley, male of Estes Park, was arrested on charges of domestic violence, harassment, violation of a restraining order and violation of bond conditions. He was transported to Larimer County Jail.
At 8:17 a.m. at the intersection of Manford Avenue and Elkhorn Avenue, 22-year-old Laxman Adhikari, male of Estes Park, was charged with public indecency. He was issued a summons and was released from the Estes Park Police Department.
Estes Valley Fire Protection District
EVFPD firefighters generally respond to medical calls in their personal vehicles, allowing for a faster response. On other incidents, firefighters respond to a fire station to respond in department apparatus with specialized equipment.
During the week of Oct. 6, the Estes Valley Fire Protection District (EVFPD) responded to 14 calls for service. This included:
Emergency medical (assist EPH): 3
Motor Vehicle Crash: 1
Detector/Alarm: 4
Smoke Investigation:2
Assists: 2
Hazmat: 1
Gas Leak: 1
Tyler Pialet | Managing editor
Tyler is the Trail-Gazette's managing editor.
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Maine Style: The Duffy 50 Is Designed With ICW Cruising In Mind
John Wooldridge
After years of cruising the Intracoastal Waterway on twin-engine boats ranging from a fast, 42-foot semi-displacement trawler to a 49-foot fulldisplacement trawler, Ray and Donna Kurlak were ready to commission the cruiser of their dreams.
Because Ray stands 6 feet 7 inches tall, he was looking for a builder that could accommodate his height in the interior of a semi-custom design. And while the Kurlaks enjoy cruising together, with their Lab mix Sofie by their side, they didn't have a driving need for a layout that was cut up into multiple staterooms. That being said, they do have grandkids and great-grandkids who come aboard from time to time, so the goal was a simple-to-maintain, seaworthy vessel with a comfortable raised pilothouse.
"We've always been owner-operators, so that dictated the size, generally," Ray said. "We wanted to stay in the 50- to 55-foot range, a size more easily handled by the two of us. The last boat we owned was a Grand Banks 49 MY with an aft raised flush deck, ample interior space, and a king-size bed in the owner's cabin aft. I loved the stand-up engine room and the reliability of the twin Cat 3208s, but I've owned higher-speed boats in the past, which is probably why I didn't adjust well to the 9.4-knot cruising speed displacement hull."
The Kurlaks found the boat they were looking for in the Duffy 50, a stretched version of a 48-foot design by the same name from the board of noted Downeast designer Spencer Lincoln. And after thoroughly discussing their mission with Atlantic Boat Company President Nate Hopkins, they commissioned the Brooklin, Maine-based builder to lay the keel for Two's Company.
"Actually, the basic hull structure is pretty much the same as a Duffy 48," said Hopkins. "We've done stretch versions on this model a number of times, so it wasn't a completely new equation. The biggest difference in this stretch was the pilothouse forward and the larger enclosure for the main cabin that the Kurlaks wanted. In a normal Maine-style sedan cruiser, with a trunk cabin and a pilothouse and a large cockpit, the pilothouse ends up being further aft. To keep the weights where we wanted them, we had to put the engine room slightly under the main cabin floor to get the weight and balance right."
Geoff van Gorkom of Van Gorkom Yacht Design in Newport, Rhode Island, did all the weight and balance studies for the extension, as well as the engineering for the laminate schedule. He modeled the boat using a computer program that allowed them to move weights around and predict changes in trim.
"Having a proper running angle was mandatory," Hopkins said, "and it was spot-on when the boat was launched. We did three float tests to check our predictions, two during the buildup after all the composite work was done and the essential structure was in place. Then we did it again with the interior installed, and filled all the water and fuel tanks. The stretched design floated within an inch of its predicted lines."
The other major project was the custom deck, and it was an interesting problem, indeed. The craftsmen at Atlantic Boat Company, skilled workers who have launched 1,250 hulls in the last 40-plus years, built a wooden male mold in the shop-essentially the shape of the air inside the structure-then laid fiberglass over it to form the finished inner surface of the deck, pilothouse, and main cabin. To achieve a fair inner surface, they handlaid up multiple layers of light fiberglass cloth on top of the mold. Instead of using a single piece of 25-lb. cloth on the inner laminate, which might show print-through patterns of the fabric, they used two layers of 12-lb. cloth, butting and staggering the seams so they were able to make a very strong but very smooth inner laminate. Then they added a layer of coring, covered it with layers of fiberglass, and faired the part again.
They also built the overhangs out of core material, then glassed the entire outer layer of the part, making the outer fiberglass layers relatively smooth and very strong. Finally, they faired the part one more time and Awlgripped the entire part. The finish was dazzling.
The raised bulwarks forward on Two's Company were created by adding height to the mold; the hull sides were all laid up as one piece, making the addition rigid and stiff. Overlapping layers of knitted fabric and a foam core were used throughout the hull. The deck mold rests on a flange inside the hull at the original sheerline, and it is glassed in place for strength and waterproof integrity. On the outside, Ray specified a beefy commercial rail, through-bolted for strength, so he could lay up against pilings with no fear of damaging the hull.
Foam stringers to strengthen the hull were glued and then fiberglassed in place. This makes it possible to build engine beds specific to the application. Atlantic Boat does so much custom work and installs so many different kinds of motors, a molded stringer system is impossible. A customer requesting a flybridge fishing boat on this hull would need an entirely different engine placement. The beauty of the design is that there's so much space in the engine room, there's always great access for almost any engine. The yard lets the customer pick the engine based on the desired cruise speed, and together they determine what the overall systems equipment package and interior build will weigh. The floors inside the boat are all supported by fiberglass I-beams that span from side to side, with 3 inches of sound insulation underneath.
"The shaft angle is mounted very flat, because the engine is mounted low, down into the full-length keel space," Hopkins said. "And in this boat's case, the keel was extended 2 feet, and the rudder and prop are completely protected. The prop is a five-blade Hung Shen nibral wheel. Ray wanted a spare prop, so we bought the replacement wheel first and let him run it for a season. Based on what we learned about the boat's performance, we ordered the nibral wheel and shaped it for optimal performance."
This hull can be easily stretched up to 56 feet, according to the builder. Ray Kurlak had a particular layout in mind and knew what he wanted in the way of performance-he didn't want to be pinned down by marginal weather, and he wanted to run twice as fast as before. The hull has a fine entry and deep forefoot for comfortable wave entry at higher speeds, so it slices through the waves well, without excessive lift. It also has flatter sections aft for good side-to-side stability and improved speed. Lying beam-to in the small wave troughs during our sea trial, the boat didn't exhibit a snap roll. She seemed to stiffen on the shoulders and dampen herself nicely, the keel undoubtedly adding a certain amount of resistance.
Atlantic Boat Company has always been in Brooklin, Maine, a pretty, quiet little town near West Penobscot Bay and Deer Island, home of WoodenBoat magazine and its annual boatbuilding school. Atlantic Boat offers seven basic models with the Duffy nameplate, the smallest being a 26, and it builds between 10 and 12 boats a year. They have a very experienced crew, skilled craftspeople who can do fiberglass layup, mechanical installations, woodworking, plumbing and electrical work, and even electronics-usually Furuno and Raymarine installations. Hopkins is justifiably proud of the fact that they only subcontract a few components, like stainless steel safety rails and window parts.
CLASSIC DOWNEAST CRAFTSMANSHIP
The trawler-style pilothouse on Two's Company is the main living area during the day, and it accommodates the helm to starboard, a capacious nav station to port, and a long, L-shaped settee and table behind the helm. Aft are a large, U-shaped galley, pantry, desk, day head, and small cabin with over-and-under berths. The interior is finished in varnished teak with a teakand- holly cabin sole.
"We tend to cruise in the fall and spring, when the temperatures can be cooler and the weather less predictable," Ray said, "which is why, almost exclusively, I chose to operate all our boats from the lower helm, even the ones with flybridges. We appreciate the protection from the weather, as well as the reduced noise levels so that we can talk normally under way. When we realized that we only used the upper station when docking, or to take in a little sun on a nice day, the need for a flybridge diminished. As a result, we can get under more ICW bridges than ever before and have made it easy to lower the mast."
There's a tremendous amount of room in the pilothouse with this design. The helm is set to starboard, rather than on the centerline, giving a better view of the water ahead past the high bow. Having a long history with Furuno electronics, Ray specified them for Two's Company. The helm console is large enough for a 12-inch multifunction display, a multi-data display, two VHF radios, and a Caterpillar digital engine readout, which provides engine performance data like load indication and fuel usage to help achieve efficient cruising speeds. Ray has all his routing on a laptop running Nobeltec Admiral so that he can upload routes; he feeds a second GPS to the laptop as a backup.
With two VHFs available, Ray can monitor Channel 13 for commercial operations in busy ports like Norfolk, Virginia. He also can operate an electronic foghorn on one while scanning Channels 9, 13, and 16 simultaneously on the other. To improve cellular communications, the boat has a wireless amplifier and a separate antenna. Scanned split- or full-screen images from TV cameras in the engine room, and mounted on the cabin top looking aft to give a better view of overtaking boats or the slip into which he is backing, are controlled with an EverPlex 4CQ switcher and are displayed on a dedicated monitor.
Visibility is outstanding, even with the Avon 311 RIB and Nick Jackson crane mounted on the centerline atop the cabin aft. Two aft-facing windows let you look past both sides of the dink. This is a nice setup for two people running a boat on the ICW, with room to port of the companionway, or on the large table in front of the settee, for the navigator to keep track of progress on paper charts while the helmsman uses the electronic chart display.
A king-size bed with a Select Comfort air mattress dominates the owner's stateroom, in the forward cabin. The Kurlaks praise the beautiful woodwork by Atlantic Boat craftsman Jim Staples, with due credit to the cabinetmakers in the shop. The floor is handlaid teak and holly, ripped on the saw in the yard as the boat was being built. Tall curved doors throughout the boat, plus extra headroom in all the cabins, provide clearance for a man of Ray's height. In the main cabin on the port side there's a huge, U-shaped galley, with Corian counters above loads of storage lockers. A home-size pantry is found on the centerline, next to a large refrigerator-freezer by Nova Kool, selected by the Kurlaks because it ventilates into the cabin and doesn't need ducting to the outside. There's a microwave with vent over the electric cooktop, plus a deep sink for pot soaking and cleanup. Aft of the breakfast bar, there's a small computer desk to port of the door leading to the cockpit, with the day head and bunk room to starboard.
THE HOLY PLACE
The engine room, accessed through a hidden door near the settee, features a fairly typical centerline single-engine layout. There are shelves on the sides for the genset, batteries, Hydro-Slave tank for the hydraulic rudder control, SeaLand vacuum pump and holding tank, and most other systems components, which are easily reached. Access to all sides of the engine is amazing, with walkways between the inner and outer stringer for maximum headroom. All of the wiring and plumbing runs are neatly installed and secured against movement.
If you have to pull the engine because of severe damage to the block, it will clear the doorway aft when disassembled, minus the heat exchangers. Most of the time, though, this engine would be rebuilt in place. In the sedan version, the engine would come out of one big hatch. Two's Company has a 24VDC system, served by a Xantrex charger and inverter, and 24-to- 12VDC step-down for electronics. A Fireboy automatic fire-suppression system and Delta "T" Systems engine room ventilation were also installed.
"Ray's decision to set a cruising speed at 70 percent load will help ensure that the C18 engine will be longlived," Hopkins said. "We have a lot of these engines working commercially in Maine, many of them with over 2,000 hours a year. The Caterpillar 3406E was the forerunner, and I know lots of boats with these engines in the 20,000-hour range."
With roughly 4,800 nautical miles under the keel, Ray has found the boat's fuel consumption to be 7gph at 9 knots, giving him a range of 810 nautical miles. At 18 knots, fuel burn rises to 32gph and range falls to 354 nautical miles. Both range values are approximate and are based on 90 percent tankage.
"We selected American Boat because we loved the Duffy look and reputation," Ray said. "Nate Hopkins and his crew listen to what you want to do, and if they can do it, they make it happen."
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This special issue of Access highlights end-user computing projects that took unique approaches to tackling challenges around desktop and application delivery. We recognize two organizations for their innovative initiatives that improved productivity for end users and simplified administration for IT teams.
The University of Arkansas' use of Dell EMC's infrastructure hardware and software services, as well as thin clients and VMware's VDI software, which allowed the school to reduce IT's management workload. End users saw benefits of greater flexibility regarding access to their applications and better support for graphics-intensive apps and processing on Windows 10 machines.
Informa's deployment of Liquidware monitoring software, which made possible the company's migration from physical and virtual desktops to cloud-hosted desktops from Amazon WorkSpaces. The project challenged the common notion that desktop as a service is only for desktop deployments done from scratch.
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Admiral Philip Davidson accused China of destabilizing the Pacific by threatening the sovereignty of several islands in the region. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
Admiral Philip Davidson, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, recently accused China of destabilizing the Pacific by threatening the sovereignty of several islands in the region. Beijing claims that the entire South China Sea belongs to it, something that is dismissed by countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, and Malaysia, which also claim areas of the South China Sea.
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"The Communist Party of China seeks to control the flow of trade, finance, communications, politics, and the way of life in the Indo-Pacific," Davidson said in a speech (Reuters). This is being done not only through aggressive territorial claims, but also by debt-trap diplomacy, corruption, intellectual property (IP) theft, and military intimidation. He believes that the countries in the region are now splitting up into two groups: ones that support a "Beijing-centric" order and others that want a free, open Indo-Pacific. Davidson warns that countries that side with China in expectation of economic stimulus often end up worse off.
The South China Sea is one of the most critical regions when it comes to international trade as US$3.4 trillion worth of goods pass through the area every year. Getting absolute control over the region effectively means controlling the direction of global trade. This is why Beijing is so aggressive in making territorial claims. Plus, the South China Sea is also rich in several resources that Beijing plans to extract and use for domestic consumption.
Getting absolute control over the South China Sea effectively means getting control of the direction of global trade. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
Conflicts between China and Australia are also growing as the Asian nation seeks to control the Pacific. However, the Australian government is being forced to not be too aggressive against Beijing's bullying since China is essentially their biggest trading partner. Last year, Australian intelligence concluded that a cyberattack carried out against the parliament was done by China. However, the government chose not to publicize the issue. Davidson points out that Beijing has shown a clear willingness to hurt Australian companies whenever the state has tried to simply reassert national security and sovereignty.
The admiral also expressed dissatisfaction that the Philippines had decided to end a security pact with the U.S. that allowed American forces to train in the Asian country. "Our ability to help the Philippines and their counter-violent extremist fight in the south, our ability to train and operate within the Philippines and with Filipino armed forces would be challenged without that Visiting Forces Agreement," Davidson said in a statement (Stripes).
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The U.S. administration is reportedly considering blocking the sale of an aircraft component to China. The component is manufactured by CFM, a joint venture between General Electric and Safran. "The Commerce Department had been reviewing the joint venture's license, but the decision on whether to continue allowing the technology to be sold to China has now been kicked up to cabinet members. The plane that would use the CFM engines is scheduled to go into passenger service in 2021," according to The New York Times.
The U.S. administration is reportedly considering blocking the sale of an aircraft component to China. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
China has been using Western-manufactured components to further its "Made In China 2025" initiative, a program that aims to make the Asian country the leader in several industries, including aircraft manufacturing. The U.S. fears that allowing China to have access to advanced products and technologies might enable it to reverse engineer them. This could enable China to dominate specific industries at some point in the future due to its manufacturing capacity.
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If travel teaches you anything, it's that laughter is universal.
One of the best things about wandering the world is finding yourself in situations where laughter transcends language. For example: two years ago, while in Japan, I observed a solemn religious ceremony take place. A monk was chanting monotonously before an altar, pouring what was presumably holy water from a bottle – or at least, trying to. He couldn't get the cap off. The more he twisted and heaved at it, the more it stuck. He passed it around the other monks – still chanting – but nobody could budge it. It wasn't long before they were stifling their laughter. Watching the holy man giggling to himself while trying to retain composure was one of the purest, warmest things I've witnessed while travelling – nothing builds empathy like a shared laugh.
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But what of the Japanese sense of humour? While many other parts of the culture are increasingly familiar – technology, fashion, food and literature – little of their humour has made it to our shores. Do we share the same tastes? Would a westerner understand Japanese comedy? And, crucially, would a Japanese person laugh at Del Boy falling through the bar?
Fortunately, at our offices we're lucky to have many employees in Japanese/Western relationships – the perfect people to shed some light on whether humour translates!
"Japanese humour is often a bit dry, very obvious and slapstick, especially on TV or in films. People tend to take everything quite literally, which is why British humour can be difficult to grasp. Sensitive issues are a no-go – nothing on race or sex, or any kind of dark comedy. There are lots of words that sound very similar in Japanese or have different meanings which could be made into a joke but when I mention these to my wife, she just says – they're different words, why would that be funny?
"If I try to make a funny comment in Japanese during conversation (the same way I would interject in English) I often get "oyajigagu" as a response (it means dad/old man joke)."
– Mark Johnson, Senior Travel Consultant
"One observation from my own partner is the joy and laughter that Japanese people find in the physical pain of others (in game shows, not real life). I'm always amazed to see my otherwise loving wife bent over in side-splitting laughter at the sight of a J-celebrity testing their pain threshold on national TV. I love that Japanese people can appreciate good slapstick humour. I never saw much of this in the States growing up, so it's always refreshing and interesting for me, if not hilarious.
"The Japanese language has so many similar sounding words, which makes it rife with possibilities for misunderstanding. I love when comedians take advantage of this, but it is very hard to translate. Perhaps that's another reason I enjoy it so much.
"Japanese stand-up is so incredibly different to American stand-up. There are no Jerry Seinfields or Eddie Murphys here, but rather groups or duos of comedians whose comedy is often skit-based. I don't know if you can find much in the way of subtitled 'owarai' (Japanese comedy) on YouTube, but if you can, please watch. It's brilliant!"
– Tyler Palma, Tokyo Office Manager
"One of the most famous forms of comedy in Japan is Manzai, a duel stand-up routine. This is where most Japanese comedians cut their teeth before becoming TV personalities (I've always found it dreadful but it's very popular!). Here is a clip of Jinnai Tomonori; he has a unique style where he uses a video as the other part of his act.
"One interesting show is Gaki no Tsukai Batsu, a game played by Japanese comedians. They're put in bizarre situations, and if they laugh, they face a punishment (they're usually smacked with a paddle). There's a special episode every New Year's Eve, which Japanese families will sit together and watch.
"The Japanese are big fans of slapstick comedy, so some of our more classic series go down really well. My wife really likes Fawlty Towers, Blackadder and The IT Crowd, but can't get on board with shows like The Office or Curb Your Enthusiasm."
– Ben Guest, Senior Travel Consultant
"Frankie Boyle would find it difficult to get along with people in Japan. I'm just saying…"
– Yuki Hunter, Booking Delivery Manager
"Japanese comedy, by and large, is harmless. Quaint, even. Reliant on physical comedy, puns, and exaggerated movements and facial expressions. The Japanese public eats up 'gags'. A comedy duo will be super popular for a year, then run their gag into the ground. Then the duo either adapts, comes up with another gag, or disappears forever. It's a very common occurrence!
"Of course, there are comedians here that are insanely funny and talented, and don't rely on a single ippatsu (gag). They're rare, but they exist. For example, Atsushi Tamura, Teruyoshi Uchimura, and Downtown. They're a cut above the rest.
"Japan is also unique in that it subtitles its own shows in Japanese. This allows the audience sitting at home to read along and know when to laugh, as the font on screen gets bigger and more colorful during punchlines. Imagine doing that in the States!
"My favorite show right now is called Zenryoku! Datsuryoku Times. It hilariously skewers all the tropes in Japanese comedy and television, and makes fun of itself. Is Japanese comedy funny? I'll admit, some of the funniest things I've seen on television in my life have been here (though, like most TV, the majority is crap)!"
– Brett Plotz, Tour Leader
Types of comedy in Japan
Manzai
Manzai is the most popular comedy style in Japan by a mile. It's a love-hate thing for many, as performances always follow the same pattern and contain similar jokes. There's always a stupid person (the boke) and the straight-man (tsukkomi). The boke will make a long, rambling speech, while the tsukkomi makes dry comments on how stupid they are… and occasionally slaps them in the head. It's basic, but many Japanese comedians begin here then branch out into other styles.
Manzai is safe comedy, and easily digestible. In the West, stand-up comedy makes fun of everything – the government, cultural trends, celebrities, etc. However, if a comedian in Japan made a joke about the prime minister, or how terrible Japanese beer is, they'd be banned from TV and radio. This is largely because the vast majority of entertainers in Japan are represented by the same agency (Yoshimoto). Plus, there are only a few channels that do comedy shows. This means if someone burns a bridge, they're done. It makes sense for Japanese comedians to play it safe.
Rakugo
The other main comedy style you'll find in Japan is rakugo. Rakugo is a very old, traditional style of comedy, in which a lone storyteller kneels on a small stage before a live audience and tells a comedic tale. They do this using only two props: a fan and small cloth. If manzai reflects Japan's present, rakugo reflect the nation's rich heritage. This form of entertainment appeals mostly to the elderly (you'll still find theatres with long queues of old people who want to see rakugo). It may not be as popular as it once was, but because of its long history in Japan, it's not going anywhere soon.
The wacky, the weird, and the wonderful
Thus concludes our overview of comedy in Japan – well, almost. Because no article on the subject would be complete without the inclusion of the most bonkers, genius game show I've ever heard of. The premise? Contestants have to bite into various pieces of furniture around a seemingly ordinary room, in a bid to discover which are made of chocolate.
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XBOX-Live has been making the random feature work well for a long time.
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Honestly, I wouldn't mind a Mass Effect 2-esque thing where you had to recruit the best Mistings in the Final Empire to do something, while you'd be the Mistborn.
Then again, I kind of want every game to be Mass Effect 2-esque on the awesome scale.
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Oh SNAP, I'm an Allomancer.
I would agree to the instant-multiplayer system, but for an MMO - no wai! That's a bad idea.
And for what Chaos said, it's a one-in-a-kind situation we had in TFE, where a Mistborn was the captain of group of Mistings. It depends on what the story would be, but I don't think the original Mistborn's story would do the trick in a videogame.
But if we would have a situation like that, I agree with Chaos. That would be a totally good idea.
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I disagree, I think the very goal oriented plotof TFE would be great for a game.
When to live is to die, and to die is to live, does either really matter?
Certainly, I wouldn't mind playing through the events of TFE and also expanding upon things immensely.
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is anyone really doing something? I can program flash game if others make animations and graphics. Based on brandon's original 2d idea.
I've started a couple times, but when working 70+ hours a week and doing full time school it's a bit hard. lol.
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70+ hours? How do you find time to be a Brandon Uber fan? What do you do?
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Me, I just refresh the BS site until I get the first Table of Allomantic Metals.
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I read at work. =]
Quote from: Miyabi on April 12, 2010, 09:06:08 PM
70 hours? If you work EVERY DAY that's TEN HOURS! Minimum! And school? I'm starting to doubt either the credibilty of your schedule or your sanity.
It'd be interesting to see how the magic system is handled, especially as it expands with new metals and such.
I do school online, so I do a lot of that work at home or at night. I usually get one or two 18 hour shifts in a week then the rest are a bit shorter and I usually take one day off during the week.
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I'm convinced you are trying to work yourself to death. You are both slave and slave driver. Scary.
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I just discovered this site today, so I'm new here.
My idea of this would have a campaign and multiplayer, where you play as a mistborn in campaign and have many different modes in multiplayer (such as mistborn free for all's, maybe a co-op of mistings, and surviving waves of hazekillers playing as a mistborn). The metal burning could be assigned to your d-pad, and change when you press your left trigger, as such:
COMBAT LAYOUT
^ iron/steel
< pewter/tin
> chromium/atium
v duraluminum/drink vial
Here's a chart of the 18 metals, just in case
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/graphics/mb_table_v13.jpg
something like that. the atium in multiplayer obviously cant show u where people are about to move, so when you burn it you will dodge every attack and yours cant be blocked. due to the extremely OP nature of this, you will have a very limited amount of atium per multiplayer round, if its even enabled, and drinking a metal vial will not replenish atium.
Anyway, just a few ideas. I'd love to see something like this happen
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I don't see that it is possible to make a videogame using a Mistborn as the PC without making it an RPG. There are just too many metals to burn to make it an action game. The controls would become unwieldy and make the game into a bad one.
What's more, if I were in charge of this game being built, there are VERY few studios I would trust to build it. BioWare could mail it in, and still come away with a win (look at Mass Effect 2 for proof), so I would trust them to do it as an RPG. They are really the only studio that just immediately springs to mind. I'd have to do some serious digging into studios to see who I would trust with a property like this. The list would be very small. I've seen too many promising games ruined by people that, while able to build a solid game, just didn't have the grasp of how to build a GOOD game.


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Introduction: To report a case of histologically proven epithelial downgrowth after multiple failed penetrating keratoplasties and glaucoma filtering surgeries that was successfully treated with Boston keratoprosthesis implantation.
Materials and Methods: A 61-year-old monocular patient had severe congenital ocular syphilis with secondary glaucoma. He had undergone many intraocular surgeries with a history of epithelial downgrowth, and he presented with a failed graft after 7 penetrating keratoplasties. Implantation of a corneal graft with an aphakic type of Boston keratoprosthesis was performed, combined with anterior vitrectomy. The main outcome measures were visual acuity, ocular inflammation and media clarity.
Results: Media clarity was restored and revealed severe retinal scarring and a pale optic nerve. Best corrected visual acuity of 20/400 was maintained without any further surgical intervention during 6 years follow up. No retroprosthesis membrane or epithelial growth behind the keratoprosthesis was observed.
Discussion: This is, to our knowledge, the first case of long-term successful treatment of epithelial downgrowth with a Boston keratoprosthesis. This approach might be considered a suitable treatment of epithelial downgrowth.
Treatment of epithelial downgrowth has met with only rare success despite attempts with a variety of methods such as stripping the membrane, swabbing with alcohol, cryotherapy and wide surgical excision.(1, 5) Corneal transplantation has had a high failure rate.(6) Secondary glaucoma, corneal edema and recurrence after treatments have been the rule.
We herein describe a case of epithelial downgrowth treated with the Boston keratoprosthesis as a new alternative treatment for epithelial downgrowth to keep the media clear on a long-term basis.
A 61-year-old man was referred to the Cornea Service of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in August 2000 with a history of congenital syphilis, congenital deafness and congenital glaucoma. He had undergone multiple filtering surgeries and cyclo-cryotherapies for control of the IOP in both eyes. Finally his right eye was enucleated. The left eye had poor vision from corneal edema and graft failure since 1992. The eye had undergone a total of 5 PKs which often failed after 6-12 months postoperatively. Corneal epithelial downgrowth was first documented in the pathology report of the second transplant specimen in 1995. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) during the past 10 years had been 20/400 in his left eye (20/50 with telescopic lens). He also had a right cochlear implant for his congenital deafness.
On examination, the BCVA of his left eye was counting fingers at 5 feet (20/200 with telescopic lens) and the IOP was controlled. Because of this stable situation, we declined surgery and decided to continue observation. During this period he underwent 2 more PKs elsewhere, which again failed 6-12 months postoperatively.
The patient returned in March of 2002. At this examination, his left eye BCVA was counting fingers at 4 feet. His left cornea was edematous and cloudy consistent with graft failure (Figure 1). IOP was approximately 5 mmHg (finger palpation) on 0.2% dorzolamide hydrochloride-0.5% timolol maleate ophthalmic solution twice daily. This time we agreed to perform keratoprosthesis implantation following detailed discussion regarding the risks and benefits. A Boston keratoprosthesis (KPro Type I) in a fresh donor corneal graft was implanted using standard technique.(7) The diameter of the donor corneal button was 8.5 mm, and the eye was trephined to 8.0 mm; anterior vitrectomy was also performed. At the end of the operation, 400 micrograms of dexamethasone was injected into the anterior chamber. A soft contact lens of 16.0 mm diameter and 9.8 mm base curve (Kontur Kontact Lens Co., Inc., Richmond, CA) was applied. No intraocular membrane formation was identified during the surgery. Histopathology of the corneal button demonstrated thin epithelial layers on the endothelial side consistent with epithelial downgrowth (Figure 2).
Preoperative appearance of left eye showing a cloudy, edematous left cornea with peripheral vascularization.
Postoperatively, the IOP was low (on no glaucoma medication) and the eye developed peripheral choroidal detachments, which gradually improved over 2 weeks. He also showed low-grade anterior chamber cells and flare, which required several subtenon injections of triamcinolone 40 mg during the first few months. The postoperative regimen included 1% prednisolone acetate, 0.3% ofloxacin, and vancomycin (14 mg/ml) drops, originally 4 times daily but gradually reduced to once per day. His vision improved to 20/400 after one month and has remained at that level since (Figure 3).
At the most recent visit, 6 years after the operation, his BCVA was maintained at the level of 20/400, with low IOP without any glaucoma medication and a stable cup-disc ratio of 0.85. The keratoprosthesis has remained in place without sign of inflammation or tissue melt (Figure 4). No retroprosthesis membrane or epithelial growth has been observed, but the optic nerve was markedly pale and there was severe retinal scarring, which had been noticed since the media clarity was restored. No further surgery was considered.
One month after the Boston keratoprosthesis implantation with contact lens in place. There was only mild conjunctival injection and a few cells and flare in anterior chamber. The visual acuity was 20/400.
At most recent follow up visit, 6 years after the surgery, the left eye was quiet and without signs of intraocular epithelium or retroprosthesis membrane formation. The visual acuity remained 20/400.
Epithelial downgrowth is a rare but usually devastating complication of multiple ocular surgeries.(1, 2) It can occur after intracapsular or extracapsular lens extraction complicated by improper wound healing. With advanced surgical techniques, it is presumably less frequent.(3, 8) It can also be observed in cases of traumatic, full thickness corneal wounds. PK has also resulted in epithelial downgrowth, as in the present case, and with a history of multiple surgeries the risk of developing this condition is increased.(3,4,5,9,10) Regardless of etiology, the epithelial cells slowly spread over the posterior corneal surface, trabecular structures and iris. For unknown reasons, further posterior spread is very rare.
Epithelial downgrowth can result in two serious complications: glaucoma and corneal edema. Both are very difficult to treat and have a high risk of recurrence after attempted treatment. The secondary glaucoma often requires placement of a glaucoma drainage device or diode cyclophotocoagulation, often with unsatisfactory results. Corneal edema resulting from epithelium interfering with the endothelial pump function is likewise very difficult to eradicate. Repeated PKs rarely lead to restoration of vision in the long term.(6, 10) The remaining peripheral epithelium usually re-invades the posterior graft surface, resulting in graft edema and failure, and likewise the trabecular structures can be further occluded.
Recently, radical surgery has had some success in isolated cases but especially in the localized disease such as segmental epithelial cyst, which overall has a better prognosis compared to the diffuse variant.(12-13) In contrast, a keratoprosthesis in a corneal carrier graft may be another, rather simple and effective alternative treatment for epithelial downgrowth. The Boston kerotoprostheis surgery is much less complicated and less destructive than some block dissection techniques.
In our case, there was no identifiable epithelial tissue or membrane on the posterior surface of the keratoprosthesis or on the vitreous surface, postoperatively. Two months after the surgery, there were no inflammatory cells visible in the anterior chamber, only some anterior chamber flare, undoubtedly the effect of multiple surgeries on the blood-aqueous barrier.
Our patient's current visual acuity, although better than the preoperative vision, is still disappointing. The vast destruction of the retina as well as the pale optic nerve (not visible preoperatively) fully explain this level of vision. However, the media have remained very clear during the whole postoperative period and should have allowed a vision of 20/70-40 if the posterior segment had been normal. Three more cases with epithelial downgrowth have since been implanted with the Boston KPro with anatomically good results. These patients with shorter follow up will be described more fully in a future setting.
The clinical picture in this patient has shown remarkable stability with media clarity and absence of inflammation. This technique of essentially bypassing the cloudy cornea might be applicable in others cases of epithelial downgrowth as well, regardless of etiology.
None of the authors has financial interest in any of the products described in this manuscript.
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3. Sugar A, Meyer RF, and Hood CI. Epithelial downgrowth following penetrating keratoplasty in the aphake. Arch Ophthal 1977; 95:464–7.
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Saint Laurent ist ein Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2014 über das Leben des französischen Modeschöpfers Yves Saint Laurent im Zeitraum 1967 bis 1976, als dieser auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Karriere war. Filmstart in den französischen Kinos war am 24. September 2014.

Handlung
Paris, 1974: Der Modeschöpfer Yves Saint Laurent quartiert sich unter dem Namen "Swann" (nach Marcel Prousts Romanfigur) in einem Hotel ein. Telefonisch führt er ein Interview, in dem er über seine Depressionen spricht.

Zeitsprung in das Jahr 1967: Yves Saint Laurent ist ein erfolgreicher Modemacher. Seine Kreationen sind begehrt, er kleidet zahlreiche Prominente, wie Marguerite Duras oder Catherine Deneuve ein. In einem Nachtklub lernt er das Chanel-Model Betty Catroux kennen, die ihn zu seinem "Smoking" für Frauen inspiriert. Für diese Leistung wird der Franzose weltweit gefeiert, selbst der amerikanische Maler und Pop-Art-Künstler Andy Warhol richtet ihm per Brief seine Glückwünsche aus.

1970 verbringen Yves, sein Lebensgefährte Pierre Bergé und ihre Freunde den Sommer in Saint Laurents Villa Majorelle in Marrakesch. Dort arbeitet Yves an der "Libération"-Kollektion, die jedoch durchfällt. Er entschließt sich zu jenem berühmten Aktbild, mit welchem er seinen Duftstoff "YSL pour Homme" bewirbt. Bergé versucht einstweilen die Verbindung zu Yves' internationalen Geschäftspartnern in Sachen Mode zu lösen, nur mehr die "YSL"-Parfums sollen von amerikanischen Franchise-Nehmern vertrieben werden. Der Künstler selbst sucht in Begleitung von Betty Catroux und seiner neuen Muse Loulou de la Falaise Ablenkung im Pariser Nachtleben. Dort lernt er den Dandy Jacques de Bascher kennen, der auch mit Karl Lagerfeld befreundet ist ("Die Leute denken, dass ich nicht arbeite. Aber ich arbeite: Ich inspiriere Karl!"). Saint Laurent verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in den gutaussehenden Lebemann und geht eine Affäre mit ihm ein. Sie feiern orgienhafte Partys und konsumieren exzessiv Rauschmittel. Saint Laurent gerät immer mehr in einen Teufelskreis aus Alkohol- und Tablettensucht. Das erste Opfer dieser wilden Feiern ist Yves' Bulldogge Moujik, die nach dem Genuss verstreuter Medikamente stirbt.

Bergé beendet schließlich das Verhältnis zwischen Saint Laurent und Jacques de Bascher. Daraufhin tritt Yves nur mehr in Briefform mit seinem Ex-Liebhaber in Kontakt. Seine Schaffenskrise hält jedoch an. Bergé muss seinen Freund sogar zu Hause einsperren, damit dieser nicht wieder Zuflucht in den Drogen sucht. Nachdem Yves den schlafenden Pierre Bergé mit einer Skulptur erschlagen möchte, sucht der Geschäftsmann Hilfe. Ein Krankenhausaufenthalt wird unvermeidlich. Der Film alterniert ständig zwischen den Kindheitserinnerungen Saint Laurents sowie dem Künstler (gespielt von Helmut Berger) im Jahre 1989, der kurz vor seinem Rückzug aus der Welt der Mode steht.
Im Krankenhaus gelingt es Saint Laurent schließlich, neue Kleider zu entwerfen: Die Präsentation derselben stellen Bergé und Loulou de la Falaise mit dem YSL-Team alleine auf die Beine. Die Schau des Jahres 1976 wird ein großer Erfolg, dem der Meister selbst beiwohnen kann.

Der Film endet im Jahr 1977, als das Gerücht kursiert, Saint Laurent sei verstorben, und Journalisten der Zeitung Libération den Künstler in seinem Studio besuchen, um sich von dessen Lebendigkeit zu überzeugen. Bergé bittet Saint Laurent scherzhaft um ein Lebenszeichen ("Bewege bitte den Arm, damit wir sehen, dass du lebst!"): Dieser grinst daraufhin teuflisch in die Kamera.

Entstehung und Produktion
Drehbeginn des Filmes war im September 2013. Aufgrund des bevorstehenden Erscheinens des Films Yves Saint Laurent, der ebenfalls vom Leben des Modeschöpfers handelt, wurde die Veröffentlichung zunächst auf Oktober 2014 verschoben. Die Uraufführung fand schließlich im Mai 2014 in Cannes statt.

Im Gegensatz zu Jalil Lesperts Yves Saint Laurent wurde der Film von Pierre Bergé, dem Geschäftspartner und Lebensgefährten des verstorbenen Saint Laurent, nicht autorisiert. Daher konnte nicht an den Originalschauplätzen gedreht werden, auch Originalstücke aus den Kollektionen blieben Bonello und seinem Team verwehrt. Bergé hatte im Vorfeld sogar mit einer Klage gedroht, falls Urheberrechte verletzt würden.

Helmut Berger, der hier den alternden Yves Saint Laurent darstellt, war mit dem Modeschöpfer befreundet. Für den Film Gewalt und Leidenschaft (1974) entwarf Saint Laurent speziell für Helmut Berger auf den Film zugeschnittene Kostüme. Für den Film Die romantische Engländerin (1975) wurde Berger erneut von ihm ausgestattet. Regisseur Bonello nannte auf einer Pressekonferenz in Cannes die Besetzung mit Berger eine "einleuchtende Wahl". Der alternde Yves Saint Laurent wird von Berger gespielt, aber von Gaspard Ulliel im Originalton synchronisiert.

Der Regisseur des Films, Bertrand Bonello, hat zwei Gastauftritte; einmal als Fotograf einer YSL-Werbung, in der allerdings nur seine Stimme zu hören ist, sowie einen zweiten Auftritt als Journalist gegen Ende des Films.

Kritik
Die Kritiken waren überwiegend positiv. So beurteilte Le Monde Saint Laurent als Bonellos "zweifellos vollständigste und kompletteste Arbeit".

Unter den wenigen überwiegend negativen Kritiken wurde oft die Zusammenstellung der Szenen kritisiert. So meinte Paris Match: "Das Problem ist, dass er [Bonello] durch das Jonglieren mit den "Flashbacks" einen Film schafft, der, das kann man wohl sagen, stark zusammenhanglos wirkt."

Für den Schweizer Tages-Anzeiger präsentiert der Film eine "sonst […] eher seelenlose Ästhetik, die der Couturier angeblich selber zum Programm erhoben haben soll." "Die Bilder spiegeln das Seelenleben eines Mannes, der beklagt, nie wirklich gelebt zu haben, und seinen Lebensüberdruss im Drogenrausch vergessen will." Des Weiteren wurde Ulliels Darstellung als "weit weniger überzeugend" als jene von Pierre Niney im Film Yves Saint Laurent kritisiert.

Auszeichnungen
 Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes 2014:
Palm Dog – Special Mention (Moujik)
weitere Nominierungen: Goldene Palme (Bertrand Bonello); Queer Palm (Bertrand Bonello)

 International Cinephile Society Awards 2014:
Bester Regisseur (Bertrand Bonello)

 Satellite Awards 2014
Nominierung: Bestes Kostümdesign (Anaïs Romand)

 César 2015
Beste Kostüme (Anaïs Romand)
weitere Nominierungen: Bester Hauptdarsteller (Gaspard Ulliel), Beste Nebendarsteller (Louis Garrel und Jérémie Renier), Bester Regisseur (Bertrand Bonello), Bester Film, Bester Ton, Beste Kamera, Bester Schnitt und Bestes Szenenbild

 Magritte 2015
Bester Nebendarsteller (Jérémie Renier)

 Prix Lumières 2015
Bester Hauptdarsteller (Gaspard Ulliel)
weitere Nominierungen: Bester Film, Bestes Drehbuch und Beste Regie

 International Cinephile Society Awards 2016:
Bester Hauptdarsteller (Gaspard Ulliel)
weitere Nominierungen: Bester Nebendarsteller (Helmut Berger) und Bestes Szenenbild (Katia Wyszkop)

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Filmtitel 2014
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the industry July 16, 2009
Willem Dafoe, Peace-Loving Alien From Mars
By Amos Barshad
Defiant Defoe: Willem Dafoe has joined John Carter of Mars, which revolves around warring factions on the title planet and a Civil War soldier (Taylor Kitsch) transported into the thick of things. Dafoe will play Tars Tarkas, the leader of the Tharks, who knows he must steer his people away from war. That's some solid casting — if an alien spaceship ever did land on Earth, and then the door opened and a whole bunch of Willem Dafoe–looking aliens came out, we would not be surprised at all. [HR]
Country Roads: Straw Dogs, the remake of the 1971 Sam Peckinpah film about a husband (Dustin Hoffman as a mathematician in the original, James Marsden as a Hollywood screenwriter the new one) who moves south to his wife's hometown and encounters some trouble with the locals, has added a few cast members: Kate Bosworth will play Marsden's actress wife, and Alexander Skarsgård (Eric from True Blood) will play the wife's high-school boyfriend, a former local football star. The search for an anthropomorphic dog made of straw continues. [Variety]
High Pursuit: Taken director Pierre Morel will direct Pursuit, a thriller based on the early life of war photographer Jason Howe, who fell in love with a woman while on assignment in Colombia and subsequently discovered she was an assassin. We don't know how Howe figured it out, but we're guessing it has something to do with repeated losses in GoldenEye for Nintendo 64. [Variety]
On Track: Patrick Dempsey will star in The Art of Racing in the Rain, an adaptation of the Garth Stein novel that features the inner thoughts of Enzo, a family dog, as he recounts the lessons he learned from his master, the race-car driver Denny Swift. Wonderful. Just wonderful. [Variety]
Footeing the Bill: Horton Foote's The Orphans' Home Cycle — nine semi-autobiographical works set in the fictional town of Harrison, Texas, divided into three parts and encompassing nine hours altogether — will feature Bill Heck as the protagonist, Horace Robedaux, and Maggie Lacey as his wife, Elizabeth. The plays come to Off Broadway in November and will be staged individually, as well as — for those theater thrill seekers — in one-day marathons. [Variety]
Three Kings: Seth Gordon is in talks to direct King Dork, the adaptation of Frank Portman's YA novel about a harassed high schooler who takes refuge in music while trying to find out the truth about his father, who died while combing through some books (?). Gordon directed The King of Kong, and is signed on for a feature adaptation of the documentary; that means King Dork could complete his prestigious, arbitrary "movies with the word 'king' in the title" trilogy. [HR]
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A scene from a few years ago on my drive to work.
My fellow authors at Story Empire and I have a board where we share ideas, discuss upcoming posts, marketing strategies, etc. And yes, we often need to rant – sometimes about writing, other times about life in general.
A few days earlier, I had noticed some floaters in my eyes. I've had these for years, but there were a couple of new ones and one that went across the middle of my left eye. My supervisor, who is a nurse, encouraged me to get an eye exam, so I made an appointment for two weeks out.
By Wednesday, the floaters were not any better – in fact, new ones appeared. Called my ophthalmologist back, and they were able to squeeze me in for later that morning. He found a torn retina and set me up with an appointment that afternoon with a specialist.
Arrived at four for my appointment. Three and a half hours later, I finally see the doctor. (Think someone is trying to teach me patience?) Not only was the retina torn but had detached. I underwent an emergency procedure to repair it. Failure to do so within twenty-four hours would have resulted in me losing vision in my left eye.
This past week was one of the longest in my life. For seven days post-op, I had to lay on my right side. If I sat up, I had to keep my head tilted to the right. Not the easiest thing to do. I thought I would never make it.
Of course, I couldn't read (except for a few short messages and emails on my iPhone). Couldn't write (can't very well type with my head leaning to the side). I could lay on the sofa and watch TV (not a big TV person but I had to do something)!
I'm happy (and thanksful) to report I went for a follow-up appointment this week and the surgery was a success. The vision in my left eye has improved from twenty/fifty (the day after surgery) to twenty/thirty. I will return to work on Monday.
The point of my post? Not to call attention to myself but to encourage you. Don't take life for granted. Slow down, and have a little patience. (Talking to myself here.) For those of you who dream of becoming a writer, don't wait. Get those words out of your head and on paper or into the computer. Seize the day. Live your dream. Hug someone you love.
I can't tell you what a pleasure it was to sit at my computer on Wednesday evening and be able to read. Thursday morning, I was back to writing. Yes, my ordeal has put me behind in finishing my WIP which means I won't have an October release, but that's okay. I'll get back to the story and hope for November.
In the meantime, I'm learning to be patient. Somehow, being irritated at those drivers doesn't seem important. I've learned not to take life, or anything, for granted.
Happy things have gotten better for you, Joan. I'm normally a pretty patient and laid back person, as well as hard to anger and easy to get over anger when it did happen. But when I drove to work and back, I turned into a different person. Not road rage or anything like that, but I easily became upset with the pokey drivers.
Kim, I'm the same way. Not into road rage but I do get impatient. Hopefully this event truly taught me a lesson.
Joan, I am so glad you work with a nurse who directed you wisely to get that exam. But waiting two weeks could have been devastating! Bob had a torn/detached retina several years ago. He saw his eye doctor early that day, picked me up at noon for a 1pm appointment and at 6pm we finally saw the specialist. It was early next morning when they did his surgery. I'm happy to say his vision was restored as well. Patience, patience, patience…someone's been trying to teach me that too.
Sherrey, you've been through so much lately which has required patience. I thought the issue with my knee is frustrating but this was scary. Fortunately, while in the waiting room I spoke to a man who had surgery for a detached retina serval years ago. He' had no other problems. Glad to know that is the case with Bob also. Take care, my friend!
Very happy that you went in and the surgery was a success. Great reminder for what's important.
Denise, it was eye-opening. (No pun intended.) Thanks for visiting.
So glad you went to the doctor when you did. My M.O. is to shrug it off and let it get worse. Don't hit it too hard yet.
Craig, I'm usually the same way. I think it's a common trait with healthcare workers (not to reflect back on our industry). But I knew something wasn't right, and I'm glad I sought medical attention.
I'm still taking it easy but its so good to be able to read and write again.
Sometimes Life has a way of slapping us "upside the head," as we say down here. It's often necessary to remind us how fragile we really are, and that we should never take life and good health for granted.
I'm truly sorry you went through such a frightening ordeal and such a tedious recovery period. But I'm very glad to know your surgery was a success, and that you learned a couple of important life lessons along the way. Patience IS said to be a virtue, but it's also good for reducing needless stress. Bottom line: Stress bad. Patience good. And successful surgery, something to celebrate!
Heck, just celebrate something every day. We forget to do that in this crazy world, but if we'd just take the time to count our blessings, we'd all be happier, I suspect. Me, included.
It is, Staci. In ways, I feel like I have a new lease on life.
I can imagine. And I can't wait to see what you do with your new-found gratitude and enthusiasm.


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So cute! I love those tiny pumpkins hidden in the vines! Would love to know how you made this.
This is so sweet! Love it! Happy Halloween to you also, Stacey!
Thank you Kathy H & Denise! Hope you both had a wonderful halloween.
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Study: HMO Independent Review process helps consumers but some medical conditions and low participation raise red flags
Many covered by ERISA plans cannot appeal denials of care
AUSTIN, TX — Consumers benefit when they ask for independent review of their health maintenance organizations' care denials, a Consumers Union study released today says. But many consumers have no access to this process because federal law does not require their self-funded employer plan to offer independent review.
"The primary reason for low participation numbers is that nearly half of the people with health insurance are covered by employer self-funded plans which offer independent review on a voluntary basis," said Lisa McGiffert, senior policy analyst with the Southwest Regional Office of Consumers Union. Although HMOs make thousands of coverage decisions a week, Texas independent reviewers settled a total of only 587 disputes in 2001. "Only Congress can fix that problem by passing the Patient Protection Act with an independent review process similar to the one in Texas."
Consumers Union evaluated 263 appeals filed with Texas Department of Insurance during a six-month period, from March 22 through September 26, 2001. This sample included all three Independent Review Organizations (IROs) in Texas and 63 health plans. The study can be downloaded from http://www.consumersunion.org/health/iro/review_exe.htm.
The study found that 55% of Texas consumers who appeal their health plan denials to an independent reviewer received some additional treatment, in other words, the denials were fully or partially overturned. But for treatment for mental illness, the rate was much higher: 70 percent of denials were overturned or partially overturned.
The rate of overturned cases for certain medical conditions indicates that some consumers may not be getting the healthcare coverage they need. Among the areas are mental illness, gastric bypass, eating disorders and substance abuse care.
"The independent review process is helping consumers gain access to needed medical care and providing necessary oversight of HMOs," said Lisa McGiffert, senior policy analyst with the Southwest Regional Office of Consumers Union. "However, the large number of appeals in areas like mental illness and the likelihood that the independent reviewers would overturn these denials raises a red flag. HMOs may need to reevaluate some of their policies and guidelines to improve their coverage and prevent unnecessary appeals."
The study concludes that after five years in existence, the independent review process balances the medical needs of consumers with the need to review costly care. Consumers Union recommends:
· The independent review system should be expanded to include Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plans through final passage of federal legislation, and should cover consumers in all states.
· A state agency analysis of independent review decisions should be done regularly and should identify procedures or conditions where reviewers tend to overturn HMO denials. HMOs should be directed by licensing agencies to review their internal guidelines for these conditions and correct them to avoid unnecessary requests for review.
· Health plans should review and modernize their guidelines for approval of gastric bypass, eating disorders, and substance abuse care. Patients who meet medical standards should be granted access to a higher level of care. Not all conditions can be adequately treated using outpatient methods, although they might be less expensive initially.
· The independent review process should be available to all denials based on retrospective reviews of medical necessity.
Consumers Union concludes that all consumers can benefit from the Texas experience with independent review but, like Texas, Congress must pair independent review with the right to sue health plans when patients are harmed due to denial of care.
"Independent review saves our healthcare system money, encourages HMOs to make the right decision early on, and has a deterrent effect on lawsuits. It contributes to patient safety and well being." McGiffert said. "However, independent review cannot help patients already harmed because of denial of care – they must have access to the courts."
Consumers Union Southwest Office
Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports, is an independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving only the consumer. We are a comprehensive source of unbiased advice about products and services, personal finance, health nutrition, and other consumer concerns. Since 1936, our mission has been to test products, inform the public, and protect consumers.