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How the Dystos Defeated the Technos
History 302 — Fall semester, 2032 — Final essay
[This is not prediction about tomorrow; it is extrapolation from today -Ed.]
This paper explores the victory of technological dystopians over technologists in regulation, legislation, courts, media, business, and culture across the United States, Europe, and other nations in the latter years of what is now known as the Trump Time.
The key moment for the dystos came a decade ago, with what Wired.com dubbed the Unholy Compromise of 2022, which found Trumpist conservatives and Warrenite liberals joining forces to attack internet companies. Each had their own motives — the Trumpists complaining about alleged discrimination against them when what they said online was classified as hate speech; the liberals inveighing against data and large corporations. It is notable that in the sixteen years of Trump Time, virtually nothing else was accomplished legislatively — not regarding climate, health care, or guns — other than passing anti-tech, anti-net, and anti-data laws.
In the aftermath, the most successful internet companies — Alphabet/Google, Facebook, Amazon — were broken up by regulators (but interestingly Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, Microsoft, Twitter, and the news behemoth Fox-Gatehouse-Sinclair were not). Collection and use of data by commercial entities and as well as by academic researchers was severely curtailed by new laws. Moderation requirements and consequent liability for copyright violations, hate, falsehood, unauthorized memories, and other forbidden speech were imposed on social-media companies, and then, via court rulings, on media and news organizations as well as individuals online. New speech courts were established in the U.S., the European Union, and the former United Kingdom countries to adjudicate disputes of falsehood and hate as well as information ownership, excessive expression, and political neutrality by net companies. Cabinet-level technology regulators in the U.S., the E.U, Canada, and Australia established mechanisms to audit algorithms, supported by software taxes as well as fines against technology companies, executives, and individual programmers. Certain technologies — most notably facial recognition — were outright outlawed. And in many American states, new curricula were mandated to educate middle- and high-school students about the dangers of technology.
The impact of all this has been, in my opinion, a multitude of unintended consequences. The eight companies resulting from the big net breakups are all still profitable and leading their now-restricted sectors with commanding market shares, and many have quietly expanded into new fields as new technologies have developed. Their aggregate market value has increased manyfold and no serious challengers have emerged.
Academic studies of divisiveness, hate, and harassment — though limited in their scope by data laws — have shown no improvement and most have found a steady decline in online decency and respect, especially as trolls and sowers of discord and disinformation took to nesting in the smaller, off-shore platforms that regularly sprout up from Russia, lately China, and other nations unknown. Other studies have found that with the resurrection of media gatekeepers in a more controlled ecosystem of expression, minority voices are heard less often in mainstream media than before the Compromise.
Even though news and media companies and their lobbyists largely won political battles by cashing in their political capital to gain protectionist legislation, these legacy companies have nonetheless continued and accelerated their precipitous declines into bankruptcy and dissolution, with almost a half of legacy news organizations ceasing operation in the last decade even as legislatively blessed media consolidation continues.
I would not go so far as to declare that we have reached the dystopia of the dystopians, though some would. In his final book, The Last Optimist, Jeff Jarvis wrote:
Far too early in the life of the internet and its possibilities, the dystos have exhibited the hubris of the self-declared futurist to believe they could foretell everything that could go wrong — and little that could go right — with internet and data technologies. Thus in their moral panic they prematurely defined and limited these technologies and cut off unforeseen opportunities. We now live in their age of fear: fear of technology, fear of data (that is, information and knowledge), fear of each other, fear of the future.
There are many reasons to be angry with the technology companies of the early internet. They were wealthy, hubristic, optimistic, expansionist, and isolated, thus deaf to the concerns — legitimate and not — of the public, media, and government. They were politically naive, not understanding how and why the institutions the net challenged — journalism, media, finance, politics, government, even nations — would use their collaborative clout and political capital to fight back and restrain the net at every opportunity. They bear but also share responsibility for the state of the net and society today with those very institutions.
Doctrines of dystos
In examining the legislation and precedents that came before and after the Compromise, certain beliefs, themes, and doctrines emerged:
The Doctrine of Dangerous Data: It would be simplistic to attribute a societal shift against "data" solely to Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal of 2016, but that certainly appears to have been a key moment triggering the legislative landslide that followed. Regulation of data shifted from its use to its collection as laws were enacted to limit the generation, gathering, storage, and analysis of information associated with the internet. Scores of laws now require that data be used only for the single purpose stated at collection and others impose strict expiration on the life of data, mandating expiration and erasure. Academics and medical researchers — as well as some journalists — have protested such legislation, contending that they all but kill their ability to find correlation and causation in their fields, but they have failed to overturn a single law. Note well that similar data collection offline — by stores through loyalty cards, banks through credit cards, and so on — has seen no increase in regulation; marketers and publishers still make use of mountains of offline data in their businesses.
News companies and their trade associations demonized the use of data by their competitors, the platforms. In our Geoffrey Nunberg reading, "Farewell to the Information Age," he quotes Philip Agre saying that "the term 'information' rarely evokes the deep and troubling questions of epistemology that are usually associated with terms like 'knowledge' and 'belief.' One can be a skeptic about knowledge but not about information. Information, in short, is a strikingly bland substance." "Data," on the other hand, became a dystopian scare word thanks to campaigns led by news and media companies and their trade associations and lobbyists, using their own outlets.
The Debate over Preeminent Data Ownership: In the 2020 American elections and every one following, countless politicians have vowed to protect consumers' ownership of "their data" — and passed many laws as a result — but courts have still not managed to arrive at a consistent view of what owning one's data means. Data generation is so often transactional — that is, involving multiple parties — that is has proven difficult to find a Solomonic compromise in deciding who has preeminent rights over a given piece of data and thus the legal right to demand its erasure. In California v. Amazon Stores, Inc. — which arose from a customer's embarrassment about purchases of lubricating gels — the Supreme Court decided, in an expansion of its long-held Doctrine of Corporate Personhood, that a company has equal rights and cannot be forced to forget its own transactions. In Massachusetts v. Amazon Web Services, Inc., an appellate panel ruled that AWS could be forced to notify individuals included in databases it hosted and in one case could be forced to erase entire databases upon demand by aggrieved individuals. Despite friend-of-the-court filings by librarians, educators, and civil libertarians, claims of a countervailing right to know or remember by parties to transactions — or by the public itself — have failed to dislodge the preeminence of the right to be forgotten.
Privacy Über Alles: Privacy legislation — namely Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — led the way for all net legislation to follow. Every effort to track any activity by people — whether by cameras or cookies — was defined as "surveillance" and was banned under a raft of net laws worldwide. In every single case, though, these technologies and their use were reserved for government use. Thus "surveillance" lost its commercial meaning and regained its more focused definition as an activity of governments, which continue to track citizens. Separate legislation in some nations granted people the expectation of privacy in public, which led to severe restrictions on photography by not only journalists but also civilians, requiring that the faces of every unknown person in a photo or video who has not given written consent — such as a birthday party in a restaurant — be blurred.
The Doctrine of Could Happen: A pioneering 2024 German law that has been — to use our grandparents' term — xeroxed by the European Commission and then the United States, Canada, Australia, and India requires that companies must file Technology Impact Reports (TIRs) for any new technology patent, algorithm, or device introduced to the market. To recount, the TIR laws give limited liability protection for any possible impact that has been revealed before the introduction of a technology; if a possible outcome is not anticipated and listed and then occurs, there is no limit to liability. Thus an entirely new industry — complete with conventions, consultants, and newsletters — has exploded to help any and every company using technology to imagine and disclose everything that could go wrong with any software or device. There is no comparable industry of consultants ready to imagine everything that could go right, for the law does not require or even suggest that as a means to balance decisions.
Laws of Forbidden Technologies: As an outcome of the Doctrine of Could Happen, some entire technologies — most notably facial recognition and bodily tracking of individuals' movements in public places, such as malls — have been outright banned from commercial, consumer, or (except with severe restrictions) academic use in Germany, France, Canada, and some American states. In every case, the right to use such technologies is reserved to government, leading to fears of misuse by those with greater power to misuse them. There are also statutes banning and providing penalties for algorithms that discriminate on various bases, though in a number of cases, courts are struggling to define precisely what statutory discrimination is (against race, certainly, but also against opinion and ideology?). Similarly, statutes requiring algorithmic transparency are confounding courts, which have proven incapable of understanding formulae and code. Not only technologies are subject to these laws but so are the technologists who create them. English duty-of-care online harms laws (which were not preserved in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland after the post-Brexit dissolution of the United Kingdom) place substantial personal liability and career-killing fines on not only internet company executives but also on technologists, including software engineers.
The Law of China: The paradox is lost on no one that China and Russia now play host to most vibrant online capitalism in the world, as companies in either country are not bound by Western laws, only by fealty to their governments. Thus, in the last decade, we have seen an accelerated reverse brain-drain of technologists and students to companies and universities in China, Russia, and other politically authoritarian but technologically inviting countries. Similarly, venture investment has fled England entirely, and the U.S. and E.U. in great measure. A 2018 paper by Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall posited the balkanization of the internet into four nets: the open net of Silicon Valley, the capitalist net of American business, the bourgeois and well-behaved net of the E.U., and the authoritarian net of China. The fear then was that China — as well as Iran, Brazil, Russia, and other nations that demanded national walls around their data — would balkanize the net. Instead, it was the West that balkanized the net with their restrictive laws. Today, China's authoritarian (and, many would argue, truly dystopian) net — as well as Russia's disinformation net — appear victorious as they are growing and the West's net is, by all measures, shrinking.
The Law of Truth and Falsity: Beginning in France and Singapore, "fake news" laws were instituted to outlaw the telling and spreading of lies online. As these truth laws spread to other countries, online speakers and the platforms that carried their speech became liable for criminal and civil fines, under newly enhanced libel laws. Public internet courts in some nations — as well as Facebook's Oversight Board, in essence a private internet court — were established to rule on disputes over content takedowns. The original idea was to bring decisions about content or speech — for example, violations of laws regarding copyright and hate speech — out into the open where they could be adjudicated with due process and where legal norms could be negotiated in public. It was not long before the remits of these courts were expanded to rule on truth and falsity in online claims. In nation after nation, a new breed of internet judges resisted this yoke but higher courts forced them to take on the task. In case law, the burden of proof has increasingly fallen on the speaker, for demonstrating falsity is, by definition, proving the negative. Thus, for all practical effect, when a complaint is filed, the speaker is presumed guilty until proven innocent — or truthful. Attempts to argue the unconstitutionality of this doctrine even in the United States proved futile once the internet was ruled to be a medium, subject to regulation like the medium of broadcast. Though broadcast itself (radio and television towers and signals using public "airwaves") are now obsolete and gone, the regulatory regime that oversaw them in Europe — and that excepted them from the First Amendment in America — now carry over to the net.
Once internet courts were forced to rule on illegal speech and falsity, it was not a big step to also require them to rule on matters of political neutrality under laws requiring platforms to be symmetrical in content takedowns (no matter how asymmetrical disinformation and hate might be). And once that was done, the courts were expanded further to rule on such matters as data and information ownership, unauthorized sharing, and the developing field of excessive expression (below). In a few nations, especially those that are more authoritarian and lacking in irony, separate truth and hate courts have been established.
The Doctrine of Excessive Expression: In reading the assigned, archived Twitter threads, Medium posts, academic papers, and podcast transcripts from the late naughts, we see the first stirrings of a then- (but no longer) controversial question: Is there too much speech? In 2018, one communications academic wrote a paper questioning the then-accepted idea that the best answer to bad speech is more speech, even arguing that so-called "fake news" and the since-debunked notion of the filter bubble (see the readings by Axel Bruns) put into play the sanctity of the First Amendment. At the same time, a well-respected professor asked whether the First Amendment was — this is his word — obsolete. As we have discussed in class, even to raise that question a generation before the internet and its backlash would have been unthinkable. Also in 2018, one academic wrote a book contending that Facebook's goal of connecting the world (said founder Mark Zuckerberg at the time: "We believe the more people who have the power to express themselves, the more progress our society makes together") was fundamentally flawed, even corrupt; what does that say about our expectations of democracy and inclusion, let alone freedom of speech? The following year, a prominent newspaper columnist essentially told fellow journalists to abandon Twitter because it was toxic — while others argued that in doing so, journalists would be turning their back on voices enabled and empowered by Twitter through the relatively recent invention of the hashtag.
None of these doctrines of the post-technology dysto age has been contested more vigorously than this, the Doctrine of Excessive Expression (also known as the Law of Over-Sharing). But the forces of free expression largely lost when the American Section 230 and the European E-Commerce Directive were each repealed, thus making intermediaries in the public conversation — platforms as well as publishers and anyone playing host to others' creativity, comment, or conversation— liable for everything said on their domains. As a result, countless news sites shut down fora and comments, grateful for the excuse to get out of the business of moderation and interaction with the public. Platforms that depended on interactivity — chief among them Twitter and the various divisions of the former Facebook — at first hired tens of thousands of moderators and empowered algorithms to hide any questionable speech, but this proved ineffective as the chattering public in the West learned lessons from Chinese users and invented coded languages, references, and memes to still say what they wanted, even and especially if hateful. As a result, the social platforms forced users to indemnify them against damages, which led not only to another new industry in speech insurance but also to the requirement that all users verify their identities. Prior to this, many believed that eliminating anonymity would all but eliminate trolling and hateful speech online. As we now know, they were wrong. Hate abounds. The combination of the doctrines of privacy, data ownership, and expression respect anonymity for the subjects of speech but not for the speakers, who are at risk for any uttered and outlawed thought. "Be careful what you say" is the watchword of every media literacy course taught today.
One result of the drive against unfettered freedom of expression has been the return of the power of gatekeeper, long wished for and welcomed by the gatekeepers themselves — newspaper, magazine, and book editors as well as authors of old, who believed their authority would be reestablished and welcomed. But the effect was not what they'd imagined. Resentment against these gatekeepers by those who once again found themselves outside the gates of media only increased as trust in media continued to plummet and, as I said previously, the business prospects of news and other legacy media only darkened yet further.
Wide impact
The impact of the dystos' victory can be seen in almost every sector of society.
In business, smaller is now better as companies worry about becoming "too big" (never knowing the definition of "too") and being broken up. As a result, the merger and acquisition market, especially in tech, has diminished severely. With fewer opportunities for exit, there is less appetite for investment in new ventures, at least in America and Europe. In what is being called the data dark ages in business, executives in many fields — especially in marketing — are driving blind, making advertising, product, and strategic decisions without the copious data they once had, which many blame for the falling value of much of the consumer sector of the economy. After a decade and a half of trade and border wars of the Donald/Ivanka Trump Time [Hey, I said it's a dystopia -Ed.], it would be simplistic to blame history's longest recession on a lack of data, but it certainly was a contributing factor to the state of the stock market. Business schools have widely abandoned teaching "change management" and are shifting to teaching "stability management." One sector of business known in the past for rolling with punches and finding opportunity in adversity — pornography — has hit a historic slump thanks to data and privacy laws. One might have expected an era of privacy to be a boon for porn, but identity and adult verification laws have put a chill on demand. Other businesses to suffer are those offering consumers analysis of their and even their pets' DNA and help with genealogy (in some nations, courts have held that the dead have a right to privacy and others have ruled in favor of pets' privacy). But as is always the case in business, what is a loss for one industry is an opportunity for another to exploit, witness the explosion not only in Technology Impact Report Optimization but also in a new growth industry for fact-certifiers, speech insurers, and photo blurrers.
In culture, the dystos long-since won the day. The streaming series Black Mirror has been credited by dystos and blamed by technos for teaching the public to expect doom with every technology. It is worth noting that in my Black Mirror Criticism class last semester, we were shown optimistic films about technology such as You've Got Mail and Tomorrowland to disbelieving hoots from students. We were told that many generations before, dystopian films such as Reefer Madness — meant to frighten youth about the perils of marijuana — inspired similar derision by the younger generation, just as it still would today. It is fascinating to see how optimism and pessimism can, by turns, be taken seriously or mocked in different times.
I also believe we have seen the resurgence of narrative over data in media. In the early days of machine learning and artificial intelligence — before they, along with the data that fed them, also became scare words — it was becoming clear that dependence on story and narrative and the theory of mind were being superseded by the power of data to predict human actions. But when data-based artificial intelligence and machine learning predicted human actions, they provided no explanation, no motive, no assuring arc of a story. This led, some argued, to a crisis of cognition, a fear that humans would be robbed of purpose by data, just as the activities of the universe were robbed of divine purpose by Newtonian science and the divine will of creation was foiled by Darwin and evolution. So it was that a cultural version of the regulatory Unholy Compromise developed between religious conservatives, who feared that data would deny God His will, and cultural liberals, who feared that data would deny them their own will. So in cultural products just as in news stories and political speeches, data and its fruits came to be portrayed as objects of fear and resentment and the uplifting story of latter-day, triumphal humanism rose again. This has delighted the storytellers of journalism, fiction, drama, and comedy, who feed on a market for attention. Again, it has done little to reverse the business impact of abundance on their industries. Even with YouTube gone, there is still more than enough competition in media to drive prices toward zero.
The news industry, as I've alluded to above, deserves much credit or blame for the dysto movement and its results, having lobbied against internet companies and their collection of data and for protectionist legislation and regulation. But the story has not turned out as they had hoped, in their favor. Cutting off the collection of data affected news companies also. Without the ability to use data to target advertising, that revenue stream imploded, forcing even the last holdouts in the industry to retreat behind paywalls. But without the ability to use data to personalize their services, news media returned to their mass-media, one-size-fits-all, bland roots, which has not been conducive to grabbing subscription market share in what turns out to be a very small market of people willing to pay for news or content overall. The one bright spot in the industry is the fact that the platforms are are licensing content as their only way to deal with paywalls. Thus these news outlets that fought the platforms are dependent on the platforms for their most reliable source of revenue. Be careful what you wish for.
In education, the rush to require the teaching of media literacy curriculum at every level of schooling led to unforeseen consequences. Well, actually, the consequences were not unforeseen by internet researcher danah boyd, who argued in our readings from the 2000-teens that teachers and parents were succeeding all too well at instructing young people to distrust everything they heard and read. This and the universal distrust of others engendered by media and politicians in the same era were symptoms of what boyd called an epistemological war — that is: 'If I don't like you, I won't like your facts.' The elderly and retired journalists who spoke to class still believe that facts alone, coming from trusted sources, would put an end to the nation's internal wars. Back in the early days of the net, it seemed as if we were leaving an age overseen by gatekeepers controlling the scarcities of attention and information and returning to a pre-mass-media era build on the value of conversation and relationships. As Nunberg put it in 1996, just as the web was born: "One of the most pervasive features of these media is how closely they seem to reproduce the conditions of discourse of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when the sense of the public was mediated through a series of transitive personal relationships — the friends of one's friends, and so on — and anchored in the immediate connections of clubs, coffee-houses, salons, and the rest." Society looked as if it would trade trust in institutions for trust in family, friends, and neighbors via the net. Instead, we came to distrust everyone, as we were taught to. Now we have neither healthy institutions nor the means to connect with people in healthy relationships. The dystos are, indeed, victorious.
[If I may be permitted an unorthodox personal note in a paper: Professor, I am grateful that you had the courage to share optimistic and well as pessimistic readings with us and gave us the respect and trust to decide for ourselves. I am sorry this proved to be controversial and I am devastated that you lost your quest for tenure. In any case, thank you for a challenging class. I wish you luck in your new career in the TIRO industry.]
[This paper will get an A. -Ed.]
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By Yona Levin Sports and Wellness March 7, 2018
Transgender wrestler raises questions about fairness and equality
Photo Courtesy of Leslie Plaza Johnson/Icon Sportswire
High school senior Mack Beggs has two Texas state wrestling titles, a college scholarship and a potential Olympic career. What he hasn't had is the opportunity to wrestle against other boys.
Beggs is a transgender wrestler who has been taking 36-milligram testosterone injections since he began high school. The University Interscholastic League (UIL) allows the prescription for competitive athletes because it is being administered by a medical professional for a "valid medical purpose." This dose is low for testosterone replacement therapy, even for someone just starting to receive injections. It's unclear what kind of effect the testosterone has on athletic ability because medical studies on the topic are rare.
Although Texas policy allows him to wrestle competitively while taking testosterone, Beggs is only allowed to compete in the girls' division because his gender is listed as female on his original birth certificate. Beggs said he has wanted to wrestle against other boys, but that he couldn't find a solution for his current predicament. "I can tell the State Legislature to change the policy, but I can't tell them to change it right now," he explained to the Dallas Morning News. He's right. Any changes that his activism prompts will happen too late for him to take advantage of. The UIL claims to have never received a request for Beggs to switch divisions, despite clear evidence of contact between his family and the organization.
Ever since Beggs' gender became public knowledge just over a year ago, he has been faced with outrage from his opponents, their parents and the public at large. The parents of two competitors withdrew their daughters from the 2017 UIL championship despite both wrestlers' wishes to continue. After Beggs defeated Cypress Ranch senior Kayla Fitts at the 2018 semifinal, she said that she felt it was unfair that she had to wrestle him because his testosterone injections amounted to steroids. "The strength definitely was the difference," she said. Fitts had a record of 52-0 for the season before losing to Beggs.
Going by the numbers, it seems Fitts might be right. Beggs is graduating with a record of 132-9, but he hasn't lost a match in the past two years—around the same time the physical effects of the testosterone, such as facial hair, began to appear.
It seems that the natural solution would be to let Beggs wrestle with other boys. Both USA Wrestling and the International Olympic Committee have altered rules to say that transgender men are only eligible to wrestle in the men's division. Neither organization will require documentation; the policy states that an athlete need only have "declared that his gender identity is male." The UIL has not yet followed suit, meaning that high school wrestling tournaments do not have to conform to this policy.
However, even if the UIL were to adopt this policy, other problems are apparent. Although USA Wrestling's policy for transgender men only requires a declaration of gender identity, the policy for transgender women has a laundry list of requirements, including medical records, regular testing of testosterone levels, consequences for irregular hormone levels and a ban on altering your gender identity for four years after declaring the change. This seems like blatant transmisogyny, but hormones are very relevant in a strength-based sport. While parents felt Beggs had an unfair advantage while competing in the girls' division, forcing trans male wrestlers to compete in the boys' division even if they haven't yet begun to transition puts them at a disadvantage. Similarly, a solution based solely on gender identity would have pre-transition transgender women wrestling in the girls' division, where they would be put at an advantage. Every potential solution, including regulations based solely on points of transition or solely on gender identity, brings up more layers of complication, such as intersex athletes or cisgender athletes who have hormone imbalances.
While in an ideal world we would be able to say that athletes should all be allowed to compete in the division that corresponds to their gender identity, the reality is that this is a complicated problem with no clear solution. For Beggs, who is graduating with an impressive record, the future is bright. He says he has never cared about public reaction, and is excited and proud to be moving forward with gender-affirming surgery and being allowed to compete in the men's division at the collegiate level.
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Mix together the honey, almond nut butter, almond milk, lemon juice and coconut oil. Microwave for 1 minute.
Mix the cinnamon, mixed seeds, flax seeds, coconut, apricots and vanilla whey in a separate bowl.
Place the dry mix into the food processor and blend to chop the apricots.
Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry mix. Ensure that your mix isn't too sloppy. It should be quite stiff in consistency.
Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper. Spoon the mix into the tray. Sprinkle on the pumpkin seeds. Freeze for 30 minutes at least. Slice and eat.
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Would this work in Israel? A halchic state with sectarian (noahide) divisions?
Gen. Paul Fares: "Once a new election law is passed, and after we promote the idea of a federal state, we will hold [parliamentary] elections, and in light of their outcome - two years later, after stability in Lebanon is restored - we will raise the idea of a federal state. This idea should arise out of the conviction of all Lebanese, not just some of them. It will take time for this conviction to take root. We need to explain it to the people, so they will understand the benefits of this new regime. It is not easy to shift them from one regime to the other..."
Interviewer: "Let's go into the details, so that the viewers get a better idea what a federal state is."
Gen. Fares: "The federal regime... First, people must get it out of their heads that it means partition. The purpose of a federal regime is to prevent partition. If we do not establish a federal state, we will reach partition. A federal state is meant to prevent partition. Is the United States partitioned in any way? It is a federal state. Is Switzerland partitioned in any way? It is a federal state. Is Germany partitioned? It is a federation. The UAE is a federal state. Why is the UAE a federal state, even though they are all Sunnis and they all speak Arabic? There are no Christians, Druze, Shiites, Kurds, Armenians, or Greek Orthodox over there. They are all Sunnis, yet they established a federal state. Why? The most stable country in the Arab world today is the UAE. Not only the UAE - all the countries with a federal regime are the most stable and prosperous countries in the world. That is because they have a federal regime. If we do not establish a federal regime, where are we headed? Either we will continue with the current regime, continue to fight and slaughter one another, or else one of the sides will try to establish a religious state. It will use its majority to take control, and will try to establish a religious state. This will be very difficult, and will also lead to massacres and fighting. Otherwise, we have no choice but to move over to a federal state."
"Our federal state will be put together on a sectarian basis."
Interviewer: "So there will be a Maronite province, a Sunni province..."
"Today, There Are 24 Districts in Lebanon; We Could Turn Them Into 24 Provinces... Each Province Will Live According To Its Unique Characteristics"
Gen. Paul Fares: "Today, there are 24 districts in Lebanon. We could turn them into 24 provinces - and if you make it 34, all the better, because then the provinces would be 'pure' - Shiite provinces for themselves, Maronite provinces for themselves, Druze provinces for themselves, the Greek Orthodox for themselves, and even the Armenian Orthodox for themselves, if we get to 34 provinces."
"Each province will live according to its unique characteristics. I gave an example in the press conference I held. Let's assume they want to ban alcohol consumption in the [Sunni] Sidon Province. We, the Christians of the Jezzine province, which borders with Sidon, drink arak. Why should it bother me if the people of Sidon don't want to drink arak? If the traditions and religion of the people of Sidon prevent them from selling and drinking alcohol, why should it bother me? It doesn't bother me. But it would bother me if someone from Sidon were to come to Jezzine, and say to me: 'Don't drink arak!' How is it your business if I drink arak? I do it here, not in Sidon. When I go to your province, I will respect your traditions, and you should respect mine. In the [Shiite] Nabatiya province, the governor might come up with the idea of passing a law that all women must wear the hijab. It's up to him. It's none of my business."
"Our Regime... Forces Us to Fight One Another"
Interviewer: "As long as he was elected..."
Gen. Fares: "But in the Jezzine province, I want all women to wear swim suits, and go out to the streets to get a tan. What does he care? He can come and have a look. Why do I have to force the Muslims to have their day off on Sundays? Let them have their day off on Fridays. The Muslim provinces can have their day off on Fridays, and the Christian provinces on Sundays. The banks there will be open on Sundays, and the banks here on Fridays, and the economy will remain active 365 days a year. What prevents this? Only our regime, which forces us to fight one another."
"What does 'popular defense' mean? It means that the entire people takes part in the defense. We are a small country with two strong countries on our borders. If we want to fight Israel, we need an army of at least 300,000 soldiers, and planes, tanks, missiles, a budget, and so on. First of all, we do not have that capability. Secondly, we don't have enough people whom we could recruit, and take out of work. That would destroy a weak country like Lebanon. We cannot deal with it this way."
"We Are Imitating Switzerland, But Doing It The Lebanese Way"
"A weak country like us, which is located between two strong neighbors, should rely on popular defense, just like Switzerland did. We are not inventing anything new. We are imitating Switzerland, but doing it the Lebanese way. If Lebanon is attacked... What did the resistance do in the South? All the people pick up their guns. All the men know where they should go and what they should do. Every woman knows what she has to do.
"What we need is to maintain a small army. The mission of this small army, in addition to defending the border, is to absorb the first assault when Lebanon is attacked, so that we can call up the popular defense. The popular defense will come from all over Lebanon, from all the villages and the towns - the entire people will rise up, pick up the weapons, and defend the country. These weapons should not be distributed all over. The weapons should be kept in storehouses protected by the state. The day popular defense is called up, all the storehouses will be opened, and everybody will take their guns, their weapons, their missiles, their cannons, and will know what they have to do and where they have to go."
Yechi Adoneinu Moreinu VeRabbeinu Melech HaMoshiach LeOlam VaEd!
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Biochemists understand that zinc-metalloproteins are involved in virtually every area of biochemistry. Moreover, transient changes in Zn also modulate gene expression and cell function. A fascinating example is the finding that many proteins involved in the transcription of DNA into RNA contain zinc. As a class, they are being call zinc-finger proteins. We are probing the reactivity of the metal binding sites of one of these DNA-binding proteins, called Sp1. Another Zn-Finger structure of great ineterest to us is the nucleocapsid GAG protein of the AIDS virus and its complex with viral RNA. Disruption of its Zn coordination site may reveal a new approach to AIDS therapy.
A unique structure that we study is metallothionein. It is, in effect, a giant metal chelating agent, that binds seven zinc ions in two metal clusters and which we believe is crucial to the uptake of zinc into tumor cells and its organized distribution into other zinc proteins. Chemical, cellular and molecular biological approaches are being used to explore these ideas. A particularly interesting observation is that under virtually all condition, some metal-free metallothionein exists in the cell. How does that happen, considering that metallothionein has a very large affinity for Zn? This question underscores that fact that relatively little is known about the reactions govern how extracellular Zn moves into cells and selectively binds to proteins or how intracellular Zn rearrangement occurs. Collectively, we call these processes Zn trafficking. We are studying trafficking using two complementary approaches—following the movement of stable isotopes of Zn through and among Zn proteins by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and examining Zn localization and fluxes in cells by high magnification microscopy with the aid of Zn fluorescence probes. A key question that this two-pronged approach can address is, what molecular species are being imaged with fluorescence microscopy.
Interestingly, metallothionein is also central to the cellular metabolism of toxic, heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, and perhaps chromate. It is also an important determinate of the activity of antitumor drugs that are alkylating agents or oxidants. Using cell populations in culture, such as kidney proximal tubule cell, and chemical techniques such as NMR spectroscopy with the spin 1/2 nucleus of cadmium, we are investigating the mechanism of toxicity of Cd2+ which is found in the environment and the workplace, and the possible role of metallothionein in cellular protection against carcinogenic chromate.
It is hypothesized that Zn-finger proteins may be highly reactive targets of many of the same chemicals that interact with metallothionein. To investigate this question, we are studying the reactivity of Sp1 with such agents as Cd, nitric oxide, and chromate and comparing these results with Sp1 activity in cells exposed to the same reagents. In so doing, we are able to obtain a robust understanding of the cellular mechanisms of action of toxic chemicals.
Huang, M, Krepkiy, D, Hu, W, and Petering, David H. "Zn-, Cd-, and Pb-transcription factor IIIA: properties, DNA binding, and comparison with TFIIIA-finger 3 metal complexes." Journal of inorganic biochemistry 98.5 (2004): 775-85.
Huang, M, Shaw III, C F., and Petering, David H. "Interprotein metal exchange between transcription factor IIIa and apo-metallothionein." Journal of inorganic biochemistry 98.4 (2004): 639-48.
Walsby, C J., Krepkiy, D, Petering, David H., and Hoffman, B M. "Cobalt-substituted zinc finger 3 of transcription factor IIIA: interactions with cognate DNA detected by (31)P ENDOR spectroscopy." Journal of the American Chemical Society 125.25 (2003): 7502-3.
Xia, C, Försterling, F H., and Petering, David H. "Identification of the internal axial ligand of HO2-cobalt(III)-bleomycin: 1H[15N] HSQC NMR investigation of bleomycin, deglycobleomycin, and their hydroperoxide-cobalt(III) complexes." Biochemistry 42.21 (2003): 6559-64.
Tabatabai, N M., Blumenthal, S S., Lewand, D L., and Petering, David H. "Mouse kidney expresses mRNA of four highly related sodium-glucose cotransporters: regulation by cadmium." Kidney international 64.4 (2003): 1320-30.


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Recent Legislation:
HR 1430: The House voted to pass a bill that prohibits the EPA from proposing any action or regulation that uses science which is not publicly available. This bill only allows the EPA to cite research that is verified by multiple, independent sources.
S J Res 34: A joint resolution concerning internet privacy was recently passed. This ruling overturns an FCC rule created last fall that would have prevented Internet Service Providers from selling individuals data.
HR 1181: A bill was passed in the House that allows veterans deemed mentally incompetent to purchase firearms and ammunition, unless ruled by a judge to be a danger to themselves or others.
The House passed two acts that grant Congress greater powers to control executive regulations. These bills establish clear procedures for reviewing all existing and proposed regulations in order to cute those that are unnecessarily burdensome.
PN 30: Jeff Sessions was confirmed to be the 84th Attorney General.
HR 7: A bill passed by the House prohibiting the use of taxpayer funds from going towards abortion services. Individuals can still purchase health coverage that includes abortion services, providing that no financial backing is appropriated by the federal government.
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Q: How do i prevent "cin" from changing lines in the output screen after each input how should i write or change the input code in c++ so that in the ouput screen there is no change of line. That is, even after encountering a "cin" statement and taking the respective input from the user and also after pressing enter the cursor remains in the same line . is there any way to do so? please help.

A: The language and its standard library have no notion of screen or cursor.
What you want to do definitely depends on your architecture and operating system.  On POSIX systems, disabling echo on the terminal may be a starting point.

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Weekly Song Challenge!
Jingle, Jangle, Jungle went patriotic this week since your holiday lands on a Sunday but ours is tomorrow. So here are the themes for this week and i didn't choose any classical or Broadway..wow!
A SONG WITH "RED" IN THE TITLE
A SONG WITH "WHITE" IN THE TITLE
A SONG WITH "BLUE" IN THE TITLE
1. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD BY SAM SHAM & THE PHARAOHS-1966
Believe it or not, this was the song that came into my head and I have no idea why because, immediately after, my mind went to Red, Red Wine. I love wolves so this might be why...maybe. Oh well, this is obviously about the big bad wolf-a man, who is ready to pluck little Miss Red off the steady path of goodness and, well, you get the picture. I had no idea who created this song until I looked for it so it's pretty cool that it came out when I was a mere 2 yrs old.
2. NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN BY THE MOODY BLUES-1967
I love The Moody Blues as much as I love ABBA and they are simply amazing to create such beautiful works, this one being their most famous and with good reason. It is so haunting, sad, mournful and exquisite. I had no idea that Justin Hayward was only 19 yrs old when he created this gem. When I was 19, I thought it was a great idea to have a shot of cognac every time I got an answer wrong in Trivial Pursuit but we shall not go there. I also just love the poetry before and after which I memorized years ago. I was so happy to have seen them when they were still all together before Ray Thomas had to retire due to health reasons and passed away in 2018, sadly.
3. DEVIL WITH A BLUE DRESS ON SUNG BY MITCH RYDER & THE DETROIT WHEELS-1966
I always thought Little Richard did this song but, that tells you how daft I am when it comes to music. I also thought the title was Devil In a Blue Dress but, I guess, the above title is more accurate. Devil in a Blue Dress is a movie with Denzel Washington and a good one too. This is such a great dance song, to me anyhoo, and can really get you pumping. I had no clue that this was originally written by Shorty Long & William "Mickey" Stevenson and performed by Long in 1964 but in a more Blues style and slower tempo. Of course, the gal is a bad apple ready to seduce the poor guy to get what she can from him. Oh well, thems the breaks:)
What can you think up?
Fun with Cards
Fairy & the Unicorn- Anything Goes
Dream Valley-Any Occasion
I love fairies, always have and wished they were real. It would be so cool to see such pretty beings flying around the flowers. So I had this spare piece of paper that I used to wipe up some extra distress inks I had spritzed with water to use for another card. This scrap was laying around forever when I decided to play and see how my fairy diecut would look like. I was quite pleased that it turned out better than I thought. I sprinkled her wings in blue and the butterfly in purple sparkle before I tried a stencil to create a border using my sparkle paste that I coloured with some blue powder. Well, it looks like a long gob of goo...blue goo. Since I am not a perfectionist, I just kept it rather than destroy it nor did I want to cut that part off oddly enough. I stamped and embossed the sentiment in purple with purple sparkle. To add more bling, I took my double sided tape for the border and tried out some new stuff I bought. It is very, very, very flyaway and stuck to my clothing but I love the look.
Animal Friends- Flamingo
Crafty Creations-Anything Goes
I have been wanting to create something, every month, for Animal Friends and, before I knew what was happening, the month was over. This time I made it under the wire and created this tropical card which was nice and simple. I stamped each letter in black except for the "i" which is stamped in pink. I wanted it funky so the letters are a bit off, just like me. I stamped the flamingos in pink except for one which is in the rainbow colours of green, blue and purple.... it is the rainbow month after all and I applaud all the people in the LGBTQ Community. I added the pineapple, leaves and flowers below to lend that tropical flair. I used pop up dots to raise the saying up, added pink stickles for the border and the flower centres and finished it off with some crystals. It has been pretty tropical here...disgusting actually, but I hope we get a bit of a break by Thursday.
Wishing you a great rest of the day!
Thursday Movie Picks: TV Edition-Fish Out Of Water
Wandering Through The Shelves actually picked a goody because, once my brain kicked into gear, I could think of many that fit this bill. I am choosing one I have talked about many times before but I just love the show plus 2 others most of you will probably not know, but that I liked. Here we go...
1.BEWITCHED-1964-1972
I love this show about a mixed marriage...a human and a witch. Of course, she tells him on their Honeymoon night which freaks him out but he loves her too much to leave. That being said, Old fashioned fart requests she stop using her powers as he does not want any help and wants to be the provider and expects her to be a good housewife. It is the 60s after all and this idea was still very prevalent but he always gets help from his beautiful wife despite the meddling mom in law who would love to turn him into a 180lb artichoke. Samantha can't help using her powers which is often seen by her nosy neighbour, Mrs. Kravitz. The later episodes with the new Darrin (Dick Sargeant since Dick York had to leave due to his health), just seemed to not capture the same romance as the earlier episodes. They also replaced Mrs. Kravitz with Sandra Gould when Alice Pierce died of cancer. Alice was perfect as this nosy neighbour because you still cared for her whereas Sandra Gould played her meaner and nastier I think. Anyway, I still love the show and would do anything to have those powers and my hubby wouldn't mind a bit!
2. THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY-1977
I fell in love with this show and the dreamie star, Jared Martin, when it came on as a mid season replacement but, alas, it didn't last long. It is about a small boat, in the Bermuda triangle who see some sort of greenish glow and, before anyone knows it, they end up on some island( no, Gilligan and the Skipper are not anywhere in sight). There they encounter Varian (Jared) who is from way in the future and who helps these stranded people understand where the F*&^ they are. As I remember, 2 of the people from the boat find their way back to their time but the brainiac kid (Ike Eisemann) and a doctor remain. Soon, a untrustworthy character, played by Roddy McDowell and a beautiful girl who is half alien and half gal from Atlantis(not related to Patrick Duffy) all team up. You see, they find different portals of time and can go back or forward in time. I think that premise is so cool where, in fact, I had a very vivid dream about this back in the 80s. My dream was trying to find the portal but I was with a bunch of dwarves from Time Bandits moving through time. The gateways emanated from Leonardo Da Vinci's studio. We could look at every window of his and see a different time. Anyway, back to TV...I would love to see these episodes again just to see if I think they are still great or really, really bad...you never know.
3. NORTHERN EXPOSURE-1990-1995
Now here is another show I would love to watch because it is such a quirky but endearing show. You have a nerdy doctor from the big city of New York City who must go to Alaska to be a doctor for 4 yrs as part of his student loan agreement. He must deal with snow, cold and a cast of weird characters who call their small town home. We have Maggie, a bush pilot who always argues with but falls for the nerdy dr. A very rich former astronaut who owns the radio station and newspaper and gets under people's skin. The owners of the local pub, a married couple with a 40 yr age difference, the "chill out dude" who is the DJ and offers his own comments about life in between songs, The older lady who runs the store and is one tough cookie. The Native American who works for the rich guy but dreams of becoming a film director and worships Orson Welles and the Dr's Native American receptionist who sits at her desk, rarely talks but when she does, offers some keen insight. This is a great show that made a moose famous as well as the small Washington town of Roslyn where the moose roams free during the opening credits.
Which 3 would you choose?
Weekly Song Challenges
Jingle, Jangle Jungle has another week of fun song themes and one is about summer....I just bitched..er...talked about the heat in my movie picks from last week. By the way, It's her birthday today so wish Mary a very Happy Birthday!
A SONG WITH SUMMER IN THE TITLE
A SONG THAT DAVE GROHL PLAYED ON
A SONG WITH MARY IN THE TITLE(IT'S HER BIRTHDAY TODAY)
1. SUMMERTIME SUNG BY KATHLEEN BATTLE-GEORGE GERSHWIN-1934
This song, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward (not his brother Ira surprisingly), is from the opera Porgy & Bess which I would love to see one day...you have your concerts and I have mine:). I think this is simply one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard. Kathleen Battle does a great job (duh!) and is one of the leading sopranos in the whole world, unfortunately she is a true DIVA!! Her meanness, ego-driven, narcissistic manner was so bad that she was actually fired from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. Everyone clapped when she was told to leave. You know she must be one mean MF when an opera diva is kicked out. Regardless, she does have a beautiful voice.
2. LEARN TO FLY INCLUDING A DUEL WITH ANIMAL FROM THE MUPPETS-2015
I had no clue who Dave Gruhl is but he is from The Foo Fighters. I heard of this band and probably know their songs but, anyway, I thought i would be cool to show him up against one of my favs-Animal from The Muppets. The Muppets came back, only for one season, where Kermit is the host of a late night talk show host. I remember many of you hated the show but I loved it. My favs were the rats and the Mexican shrimp. I think Animal beat Dave's ass but you be the judge.
3. MARY'S A GRANDE OLD NAME SUNG BY-1906 BUT SUNG BY IRENE MANNING
I hope you don't mind that I took a very old song but sung with such love in the film Yankee, Doodle Dandy with James Cagney as the showman George M. Cohan who wrote the song. Even though this is a hit on your head patriotic American film, I love it because of James Cagney. I think The lovely Irene Manning did a great job with the song.
Happy Birthday Mary! It must be great to be 29 again...just like me :)
Heat, blues...Christmas
We Canadians love to talk..er....bitch about the weather. We would not be proud Canucks if we didn't. It has been hot, sticky and humid which I hate, but then the temps go down by 20 in a day before climbing back up and so the roller coaster of weather crappola continues. I bet, come mid July, it will just be hot and sticky...ughhh. I told you I am a proud Canadian!
Cute Card Thursday- Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations-"I Love..."
We Love Chocolate Baroque- Hand-Coloured or paper-pieced.
Tic, Tac, Toe-Used Friendship, Any Colour, Sentiment tttc#118
I love Blue! What can I say, when I was 3, I asked my mom for some paint. She asked why and I told her I wanted to paint the dog blue. No, I didn't get the paint. I also love purple so I hade to create this scene with these colours in mind. I stamped the image in black and used my gamsol pencils to colour in the image. I used my sizzex to cut out the circled leafy design to and glued it in place. I stamped the saying on a piece of scrap I had laying around, added the glitter stickers and crystals...another favourite. Who would not love to be sitting somewhere in Italy, a tiny village, having a glass of wine with some fruit admiring the view? I know I want to be there and would have my best friend with me..
CCAYR- K & L-K is for Kraft & L for Love (what I love)
Sparkle Christmas-A Krafty Christmas
Happy Little Stampers: Watercolour-Anything Goes
CHNC-Use Washi Tape
Addicted To Stamps-Christmas
Color Throwdown-Red, Green, Kraft, Pinky ctd647
I normally don't like Kraft-the bownish colour. But I had this piece laying around and thought it would be good for the colour challenge. I glued a shimmer pearl white card behind the kraft. I used tombow markers and water-coloured the flower image before fussy cutting it out. I placed it on pop up dots, added some red crystals and stickles to the berries and around the card. I finished it off with some Washi tape at the bottom which I coloured up the gold with some red plus the stickers which I also coloured in red.
Today is a balmy 27C but by this eve drop down and tomorrow we will have a high of 18C. By Friday...back up to 27 and humid.
Thursday Movie Picks-Natural Disasters
Yesterday, for my music themes, one of the themes was to choose a song about a natural disaster and today, Wandering Through The Shelves chose natural disaster as the theme for this week. To be honest, I hope I am never in any of the 3 I chose today because it is horrifying yet we love watching disaster movies (Tidal Wave, Earthquake..love those 70s cheesy disaster flicks). Here are my 3...
1. SAN FRANCISCO-1936
When I first saw this as a kid I was taken with the characters and then the amazing special effects which are still used as footage when talking about the famous 1906 earthquake that devastated the city. It stars Clark Gable who owns a dance/entertainment/gambling hall who hires a young lady to be on the stage played by soprano Jeannette MacDonald. Spencer Tracy rounds out the cast as his boyhood friend turned priest who is trying to bring Gable to see the error of his ways. When a very rich man see Jeannette sing, he realizes she should be at the opera house not a pool hall place. Of course she has fallen for Gable and vice versa but Gable's view of sin does not bode well with the pure as driven slush Jeannette. It all comes to a head when the earthquake strikes. This climax of the movie is well worth the watch. The acting is quite good even if I find the religion (it is MGM and Louis B Mayor afterall) a bit heavy handed but it does not take away from quite a good story that involves love, power and redemption.
2. KRAKATOA: THE LAST DAYS-2006
Ok this is from the BBC television but it is still a movie and an excellent one at that played more like a docudrama taking the notes from a Dutch lady who was on the nearby island of Sumatra with her husband who was stationed there. They have 3 children including a new born baby. You also have a captain of a boat with, about 100 passengers who must also deal with the effects and Roger Veerbeek who was on the island of Java studying the volcano becoming friendly with the lighthouse owner, his wife and her son. His studies on this violent eruption brought Volcanology to the forefront. When this Volcano exploded, one could hear the explosion from over 3,000 miles away. You are truly on the edge of your seat knowing what is to come but helpless. You watch them go through the explosion, the pyroclastic flows and a tsunami. It killed over 36,000 people with many thousands more injured and the island left in ruins. the enormous ash cloud changed the skies all over the globe for 5 years. It is well acted and the effects are outstanding.
3. THE IMPOSSIBLE-2012
This film is based on the 2004 tsunami that killed over 227,000 people in indonesia but also India and Africa. The effects of this tsunami was even felt in Australia as well. My one dear friend was staying with me and we just laid on the couch all day watching CNN dumbfounded at the footage, we couldn't take our eyes off of it. Funny that he has visited many of those places since and he was surprised at how much has been cleaned up but the effects are still felt. This film is based on this horrible event taken by a true story of a family that survived the devastation but were separated for days not knowing if the other was alive. It stars Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor as parents to 3 boys who come to Khao Lak in Thailand to enjoy Christmas and New Years as a family. They have no idea what is about to happen and you watch as they are separated, suffer and somehow, against all odds, are reunited. (sorry, spoiler alert, unless you know about the Spanish family who went through the ordeal). The effects are great and, thankfully, before everyone went nuts for CGI which now makes everything look quite fake. This is another must see.
Which 3 films would you choose?
Weekly Song Challenge
Another week and a song challenge by Jingle, Jangle, Jungle. Unbeknownst (this sounds like a word to me so I am keeping it in) to her, she has tied in with a theme for my movies tomorrow but i won't tell you which theme she tied in with..I'll let you guess. Here are the 3 themes:
A SONG WITH BROTHER OR SISTER IN THE TITLE
A SONG ABOUT A NATURAL DISASTER
A SONG WRITTEN OR PRODUCED BY MUTT LANGE
1. SISTERS ARE DOIN' IT FOR THEMSELVES BY THE EURYTHMICS-1985
I love this song which I found very empowering when I was 21 and hating when the construction men whistle at me (now, if they whistled I would smile and thank them!). I danced to this many times loving anything by this band. They are one of the few rock concerts I went to and it was great. By the way, Aretha Franklin sing with Annie Lennox in this song.
2. BLIZZARD OF '77 BY NADA SURF-2002
I broke my rule of choosing the first song that came into my head(Hurricane by Bob Dylan) because I lived through the Blizzard of '77. I was curious if there was even a song about this and I couldn't believe it when I found out there was and this is pretty damn good! I grew up in the country where we got all the Buffalo weather. My brother and I were lucky that we made it home just before the blizzard hit. We were also very lucky that we did not lose our power but many were not as lucky with some dying because of this storm. I recall listening to the local AM station who kept the lines open for anyone who needed help. The DJ got very angry, rightfully, at one woman calling in because she was out of smokes! He tore a strip into her and I was ticked about that. Afterwards, I had fun in my big snowsuit climbing up the drifts (not man-made) with my friend and sliding down them but not before ducking under wires(they were near the top so you just had to lay flat at first before you could sit up as you flew down). I was tickled pink being out of school for 2 weeks because the school was completely under a snowdrift.
3. MAN, I FEEL LIKE A WOMAN SUNG BY SHANIA TWAIN-1997
When I saw her at the Grammy's, I thought she was the sexiest thing and I am no gay but I can appreciate how well she sang this song, making it sexy, strong but never vulgar or derisive to women. Shania was married to Mutt Lange for something like 17 years when she found out the dog was having an affair with her best friend. She divorced Mutt(what a stupid name) and he continued his relationship with her, now, former best friend. Her husband and Shania compared notes and...now they are married. Talk about a Soap Opera.
What 3 songs would you choose? Have you been through any natural disaster?
Some Blizzard of '77 picks...
No that is not me or my brother. My parents never thought of taking a picture. pretty cool though since this is the top of their house.
Thursday Movie Picks-Worst Book to Movie Adaptations
Oh, I bet you writers out there in the dark can have a field day today with this theme chosen by The Punk Theory. There are countless films based on books with many being good, entertaining and fun, a few being great and many that stank the high heaven. I hope you check out Wandering Through The Shelves to see what everyone else has chosen. Here are my 3 stinkaroos....
1. THE NOTEBOOK-2004
I might get some flack from this irritating romance but I can't help it.....this film sucks. The only redeeming quality of this film are the scenes with James Garner and Gena Rowlands who had chemistry and portrayed genuine love and affection for one another. The Garner character reads from Rowlands' notebook to her hoping she will register who she is and whom he is since she has Alzheimer's. We travel back in time to 2 young people who are attracted to one another but seem to fight, burp and fart around one another causing mayhem and irritation to this person watching this couple. Years pass, they kiss in the rain (oooh, that's original) before they burp, fart and fight knowing that they get under each others' skin like bedbugs but they can't be without one another....ok. You find out this irritating couple are the loving old souls...bulls&^! They would have divorced long ago or killed each other if I didn't go through the screen first to kill them. Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams did become a couple for a while but the burp and fart split many moons ago.
2. THE GREAT GATSBY-2013
The book is great and I don't mind the Robert Redford version although what he saw in Mia Farrow I have no idea. The remake stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan in an over the top monstrosity directed by Baz Luhrmann who just threw up color, glitter, camera tricks, modern shit and everything else to create a colossal bore of a flick. Tobey(Where is he?) Maguire is the narrator and eventual friend of the mysterious Gatsby played by Leo who has many parties (being the 1920s and all) before falling for the whispy Daisy. Who cares, this film dragged so much and was so long that I lost a third of my life watching this dredge.
3. 50 POUNDS OF SHIT..ER....50 SHADES OF SHIT..NOPE..WHO CARES-2015
I read a few parts of this horrible, horrible book while in Chapters and was laughing at the crap I was reading. Barbara Cartland must be turning over in her grave. The chick who wrote this dredge plus 50 Shits Darker and 50 Shits Freed (sounds like books for reasons why one needs a colonoscopy) is laughing all the way to bank. When there are so many great writers out there, what did she do to get these published and made into movies that so many went to see. Why? Why have so many gone to see the slop..no, I have not seen any of these flicks of bad taste. I don't care to see heavy breathing, butts, boobs and whatever else that a good porn will do. I would rather see "The Sheets of San Francisco" or "Ramb-ohhhh" (Yes those are real) than ever watch this dribble.
So which Flicks would you choose? Battlefield Earth anyone??
Jingle, Jangle, Jungle has a creative mind coming up with themes each week. So, without blabbing too much here are the 3 themes:
A Song With A Chess Piece In The Title
A Whistling Song
A Song With A Beverage In The Title
1. DANCING QUEEN BY ABBA-1976
Now, come on, of course I am picking ABBA and this song is very famous coming out when I was 12 yrs old loving this song from the start. I had heard S.O.S. before,not realizing it was from ABBA but this song made me fall in love with the group and I needed to hear all their songs. I even have ABBA's Spanish 1980 album "Gracias Por La Música", from 1980, with this song is on the album.
2. FINNISH WHISTLER WHISTLED BY ROGER WHITTAKER- 1974
When I read this theme, my mind went to Roger whom my mom loved and was able to see, with my brother, back in 2007 or 2008. This song became a big hit in Finland when he was in the Eurovision contest. I learned about Eurovision last week from some other bloggers(Ms. Jingle, Cathy and Mr. One Hand Typing) so it was neat to find this.
3. ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER SUNG BY GEORGE THOROGOOD-1977
I really like this man's singing style as it brings the wild out in me...not with him as he is ...Er...not pretty. I have his greatest hits and love listening to it. I don't like any of these drinks to be honest, well, beer is ok but not a favourite of mine, but it is the song that came into my head. I had no idea that it is actually a song from 1953 written by Rudy Toombs who must have had a bad breakup with his gal when he wrote this.
Which 3 musical ditties can you think of?
Thursday Movie Picks-Best Original & Best Adapted Screenplay
Here is another biggie from the Oscar contenders which is writing. Let's face it, you can have the best actors and directors but, if the writing sucks, the movie will suck. Check out Wandering Through The Shelves to see what everyone else has chosen. Without further adieu, here are my 3 from each category with the first being Best Original Screenplay.
1. CITIZEN KANE WRITTEN BY ORSON WELLES AND HERMAN MANKIEWICZ-1941
Well, this is a sore point for Herman and Orson since each claimed they wrote most of it and has become so legendary that a recent film was made about this (Mank-2020). This is considered the best film ever made (despite people now saying it is The Godfather-not a fav of mine) and I have to give credit to this brilliant film even though it is not one of my personal favourites. This is a somewhat veiled portrait of the huge newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, who was so incensed by the film that he and Louis B Mayer tried to buy up the negatives to have it destroyed. The film is famous not only for the film itself but everything that happened backstage, as it were. Movies and documentaries have been made about this film and it is worth watching the film and then watching the documentaries about it.
2. THE SEVENTH VEIL BY SYDNEY & MURIEL BOX-1945
When I saw this film as a young teen, I fell for the smoldering James Mason who plays a crippled musician who teaches, mercilessly, his second cousin, the meek but very gifted Francesca(played by Ann Todd). He does his all to make her great but at the cost of any romance with anyone. He berates her and, finally breaks her where she ends up in the psych ward. Yeah, he's a peach! This is well acted and James Mason is one of the few that could make an a-hole somewhat romantic because, wait for it, it is also a love story. Today, he would be thrown in jail, justifiably. I found out that Muriel Box was not only a gifted writer but a female director when they were very few female directors around.
3. THE PRODUCERS BY MEL BROOKS-1967
I love Mel Brooks who would probably not be able to get any film made today with all the political correctness out there. Not everyone likes Mel Brooks but I find him hilarious and this movie(which he later created into a Broadway musical winning many Tony's) shows him at one of his best. You have a con man, played by Zero Mostel, who bamboozles old, wealthy women of their money, to create stage shows by bamming them to happiness. Enter Gene Wilder, as a young tax auditor, who must never be away from his blanky. Soon the 2 are in cahoots to create such a bad show that it will close but they will make out like bandits. They find the perfect show in "Springtime For Hitler" which is all about poor misunderstood Adolph. It's absurd but you can't have it any other way.
Now onto Best-Adapted Screenplay...
1. LITTLE WOMEN BY SARAH Y. MASON & VICTOR HEERMAN-1933
One day, I will watch every film or TV remake of this classic novel, by Louisa May Alcott, so I can compare how each are. I have to admit, I do like this early sound film starring Katherine Hepburn as Jo who seems perfect for this character as the strong willed sister. You follow the lives of the 4 sisters but Jo is the star in every way.
2. JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG BY ABBY MANN-1961
This film is based on Abby Mann's writing for a Playhouse 90 TV film (back when TV had some great shows on regular TV) which he based on the actual Nuremberg Trials. Of course there is some poetic licensing, but the brutality of these men (and women) against the Jewish people (as well as Germans who were Gay, mentally challenged or openly defied the Nazis) really is shown in some graphic detail that was shocking back in the day (and even now). This film is intelligent and makes you question so much yet you are horrified at how many felt they were still in the right. It is truly worth watching.
3. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD BY HORTON FOOTE-1962
To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my all-time favourite books, written by Harper Lee and this film is one of my favourites. Horton Foote(love this name!) made a faithful adaptation of this book with an outstanding performance by Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, a small town, widowed lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white, trashy girl. You know the young man is innocent but when does that ever stop hate and bigotry? You view this film mostly through the eyes of his daughter, Scout, who questions everything and brings hope and love to those who need it, like Boo Radley. I have spoken about this film before but I had to include it here (just like I had to include Kane). Read the book...watch the film.
Which films do you love for their writing?
Happy Birthday...to me! I am officially 57 and I share a birthday with the Marquis De Sade and Johnny Weissmuller (Me, Tarzan). What a great way to share my birthday than with some songs and with my 3 favourite song topics that Jingle, Jangle Jungle has chosen.
TV THEME SONG
SONG USED IN A MOVIE
SONG FROM A BROADWAY MUSICAL
1. I DREAM OF JEANIE BY HUGO MONTENEGRO & BUDDY KAYE-1965
I love Bewitched which is strange to say this first but the reason I didn't choose Bewitched is because I already wrote about the show earlier this year so I went with this snappy theme song. The TV show is about an astronaut, stranded on an island who finds a lamp, rubs it and out pops Barbara Eden sans showing her belly button. She becomes his "slave" er, saviour, um...girlfriend....later wife who gets him and his buddy into all sorts of trouble but also bails them out of it. It is not as clever as Bewitched nor as sophisticated but I love the theme song which I always wished, like the Bewitched song, to be able to dance to it a la ballroom dancing.
2. MOON RIVER SUNG BY AUDREY HEPBURN-1961
This song was written by Henry Mancini, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer, with Audrey Hepburn in mind. The studio wanted to cut the song with Audrey stating clearly "Over her dead body"(with maybe some other colourful words in there). Thankfully, the execs lost and this song became famous winning Grammys and becoming the tune for Andy Williams. When I watched Breakfast at Tiffany's, I found this song enchanting and believable.
3. YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE BY ROGERS & HAMMERSTEIN-1945
This song originated from the Broadway show, "Carousel" which was later made into a film starring Shirley Jones and Gordon MacCrea about a young, innocent girl who falls in love with an angry, good for nothing carousel barker. This song is sung when all seems hopeless and it is one of the most inspiring songs ever composed. I ended up going with one of my favs, Andre Rieu and his orchestra but so many have sung this song that the list seems endless from Josh Grobin, The Celtic Women to Andrea Bocelli and Renee Fleming. Sometimes, when times are low, we need to hear this song.
What comes to your mind?
Thursday Movie Picks-Best Original & Best Adapted ...


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Open For Business: NASA Announces It Will Be Taking Tourists To The International Space Station
Though it's been in the works since 2012, the first privately funded commercial astronaut mission is now set to launch next year. NASA
If your long-lived dream has been to experience a microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station, well, you're in luck. On Friday, NASA announced a new initiative to bring commercial business and private astronauts to low-Earth orbit – and that means, you could someday beam up to the stars, you know if you're a well-connected American.
"For more than 18 years, humans have lived and worked aboard the International Space Station, conducting thousands of experiments in areas such as human research, biology, and physical science, as well as advanced technology development," wrote NASA. "New opportunities are needed to move beyond research and development, and the station will play an essential role in enabling those opportunities for new commercial markets needed to build a sustainable ecosystem in low-Earth orbit."
Though it's been in the works since 2012, the first privately funded commercial astronaut mission is now set to launch next year. Private astronauts can stay aboard the ISS for up to 30 days and will perform duties that are approved by NASA, including regenerative medicine, in-space manufacturing, bioengineering, and other work that fits within its mission. Just two short-duration missions will be launched every year, and it will be the commercial sponsor's duty to determine crew requirements and ensure their astronauts independently meet NASA standards. The best part? You could someday join them.
"In the long-term, NASA's goal is to become one of many customers purchasing services from independent, commercial and free-flying habitable destinations in low-Earth orbit," wrote the space agency. "A robust low-Earth orbit economy will need multiple commercial destinations, and NASA is partnering with industry to pursue dual paths to that objective that either go through the space station or directly to a free-flying destination."
NASA also says it has plans to outfit one space station with a port and utilities so that businesses can attach their spacecraft in future missions. Altogether, the agency says their new directive will offer both the supply and demand side for a "new economy" where government resources will help foster commercial activities that allow the private sector to identify new market opportunities beyond our atmosphere. The decision expands the ISS mission past just research and opens it up for private entrepreneurship. Currently, more than 50 companies have been researching opportunities that will allow for commercial manufacturing and production in space and provide private astronauts with commercial activities aboard the orbiting lab.
To qualify, commercial and marketing activities must either have a connection to NASA's mission, support development of sustainable low-Earth orbit economy, or need microgravity equipment for their work. Initially, NASA will provide 5 percent of its crew resources and cargo capacity for the directive.
The agency is seeking responses from the private sector until July 3.


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Yea, I've seen that... pretty cool.
Just spotted a space grey E92 M3 on Arthur st. I've seen it many times before, I even remember the guy pulling up next to me at Walmart when I had my M3 out.
I've seen that dark grey M3 rocking it around, kinda blew my mind seeing it in snow and salt..
Last edited by Nabs; 02-27-2013 at 09:52 PM.
There's also a Black Convertible M3 that gets driven year round.
I don't think anyone will ever take over the amount of Honda's and Toyota's.
True^^^^ I do love your car haha..
well you both can't compete when you hide your cars away for half the year!
He's an elderly man, not exactly a Forum savy kinda guy.
seen a white 02-04 honda integra type-r driving around on the express way between red river rd and john st.
There is no way someone could have legally imported a type-r, it's not old enough. Type-S maybe, or just a fake badged RSX?


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#include <gtest/gtest.h>
#include "libjoynrclustercontroller/messaging/MessagingPropertiesPersistence.h"

#include <cstdio>

using namespace joynr;

static const std::string persistenceFilename("test-messagingPropertiesPersistenceTest.persist");

class MessagingPropertiesPersistenceTest : public ::testing::Test {
public:
    MessagingPropertiesPersistenceTest(){}

    void SetUp()
    {
        std::remove(persistenceFilename.c_str());
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};

// Test that a channelId is created if none exists
TEST_F(MessagingPropertiesPersistenceTest, createChannelId)
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    std::string channelId = persist.getChannelId();

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    std::string secondChannelId = persist->getChannelId();
    ASSERT_EQ(firstChannelId, secondChannelId);
    delete persist;

}


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