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package sql // import "gopkg.in/src-d/go-mysql-server.v0/sql"

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"

	"gopkg.in/src-d/go-errors.v1"
)

var (
	// ErrInvalidType is thrown when there is an unexpected type at some part of
	// the execution tree.
	ErrInvalidType = errors.NewKind("invalid type: %s")

	// ErrTableAlreadyExists is thrown when someone tries to create a
	// table with a name of an existing one
	ErrTableAlreadyExists = errors.NewKind("table with name %s already exists")

	// ErrTableNotFound is returned when the table is not available from the
	// current scope.
	ErrTableNotFound = errors.NewKind("table not found: %s")

	//ErrUnexpectedRowLength is thrown when the obtained row has more columns than the schema
	ErrUnexpectedRowLength = errors.NewKind("expected %d values, got %d")
)

// Nameable is something that has a name.
type Nameable interface {
	// Name returns the name.
	Name() string
}

// Tableable is something that has a table.
type Tableable interface {
	// Table returns the table name.
	Table() string
}

// Resolvable is something that can be resolved or not.
type Resolvable interface {
	// Resolved returns whether the node is resolved.
	Resolved() bool
}

// Transformable is a node which can be transformed.
type Transformable interface {
	// TransformUp transforms all nodes and returns the result of this transformation.
	// Transformation is not propagated to subqueries.
	TransformUp(TransformNodeFunc) (Node, error)
	// TransformExpressionsUp transforms all expressions inside the node and all its
	// children and returns a node with the result of the transformations.
	// Transformation is not propagated to subqueries.
	TransformExpressionsUp(TransformExprFunc) (Node, error)
}

// TransformNodeFunc is a function that given a node will return that node
// as is or transformed along with an error, if any.
type TransformNodeFunc func(Node) (Node, error)

// TransformExprFunc is a function that given an expression will return that
// expression as is or transformed along with an error, if any.
type TransformExprFunc func(Expression) (Expression, error)

// Expression is a combination of one or more SQL expressions.
type Expression interface {
	Resolvable
	fmt.Stringer
	// Type returns the expression type.
	Type() Type
	// IsNullable returns whether the expression can be null.
	IsNullable() bool
	// Eval evaluates the given row and returns a result.
	Eval(*Context, Row) (interface{}, error)
	// TransformUp transforms the expression and all its children with the
	// given transform function.
	TransformUp(TransformExprFunc) (Expression, error)
	// Children returns the children expressions of this expression.
	Children() []Expression
}

// Aggregation implements an aggregation expression, where an
// aggregation buffer is created for each grouping (NewBuffer) and rows in the
// grouping are fed to the buffer (Update). Multiple buffers can be merged
// (Merge), making partial aggregations possible.
// Note that Eval must be called with the final aggregation buffer in order to
// get the final result.
type Aggregation interface {
	Expression
	// NewBuffer creates a new aggregation buffer and returns it as a Row.
	NewBuffer() Row
	// Update updates the given buffer with the given row.
	Update(ctx *Context, buffer, row Row) error
	// Merge merges a partial buffer into a global one.
	Merge(ctx *Context, buffer, partial Row) error
}

// Node is a node in the execution plan tree.
type Node interface {
	Resolvable
	Transformable
	fmt.Stringer
	// Schema of the node.
	Schema() Schema
	// Children nodes.
	Children() []Node
	// RowIter produces a row iterator from this node.
	RowIter(*Context) (RowIter, error)
}

// Expressioner is a node that contains expressions.
type Expressioner interface {
	// Expressions returns the list of expressions contained by the node.
	Expressions() []Expression
	// TransformExpressions applies for each expression in this node
	// the expression's TransformUp method with the given function, and
	// return a new node with the transformed expressions.
	TransformExpressions(TransformExprFunc) (Node, error)
}

// Partition represents a partition from a SQL table.
type Partition interface {
	Key() []byte
}

// PartitionIter is an iterator that retrieves partitions.
type PartitionIter interface {
	io.Closer
	Next() (Partition, error)
}

// Table represents the backend of a SQL table.
type Table interface {
	Nameable
	String() string
	Schema() Schema
	Partitions(*Context) (PartitionIter, error)
	PartitionRows(*Context, Partition) (RowIter, error)
}

// TableWrapper is a node that wraps the real table. This is needed because
// wrappers cannot implement some methods the table may implement.
type TableWrapper interface {
	// Underlying returns the underlying table.
	Underlying() Table
}

// PartitionCounter can return the number of partitions.
type PartitionCounter interface {
	// PartitionCount returns the number of partitions.
	PartitionCount(*Context) (int64, error)
}

//FilteredTable is a table that can produce a specific RowIter
// that's more optimized given the filters.
type FilteredTable interface {
	Table
	HandledFilters(filters []Expression) []Expression
	WithFilters(filters []Expression) Table
	Filters() []Expression
}

// ProjectedTable is a table that can produce a specific RowIter
// that's more optimized given the columns that are projected.
type ProjectedTable interface {
	Table
	WithProjection(colNames []string) Table
	Projection() []string
}

// IndexableTable represents a table that supports being indexed and
// receiving indexes to be able to speed up its execution.
type IndexableTable interface {
	Table
	WithIndexLookup(IndexLookup) Table
	IndexLookup() IndexLookup
	IndexKeyValues(*Context, []string) (PartitionIndexKeyValueIter, error)
}

// Inserter allow rows to be inserted in them.
type Inserter interface {
	// Insert the given row.
	Insert(*Context, Row) error
}

// Database represents the database.
type Database interface {
	Nameable
	// Tables returns the information of all tables.
	Tables() map[string]Table
}

// Alterable should be implemented by databases that can handle DDL statements
type Alterable interface {
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Kemba Smith
age 27, serving 24 years
Served 6 years before Clinton issued her presidential clemency on December 22, 2000
charged with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, money laundering, making false statements
Featured in Glamour magazine, June 1999. "Does This Woman Deserve to Be Locked Up for 24 Years?" p. 224
The only child of professional parents in a suburb of Richmond, VA, Kemba Smith lived a sheltered life. Her parents made strict curfews and rules. She was not allowed to date until she was a high school senior. At Hampton University, Kemba met Peter Hall, who was well-known on campus but not a student. With his self-confidence, Jamaican accent, nice clothes and fancy cars, Kemba felt she had found her 'knight in shining armor.'
Eventually, Kemba learned that Hall was involved in a drug ring. As time passed, he exerted more and more control over her, and became both physically and verbally abusive. When he went 'on the run,' Kemba dropped out of college to join him. She was naive and "always worried about him and never considered the trouble that I could get in." When she was five months pregnant with his child, Hall convinced her to go home.
Upon her return, Kemba learned that she was considered a 'fugitive,' and decided to turn herself in. By the time she was convinced that her only hope of release was to reveal the whereabouts of Hall, it was too late. He had been murdered in Seattle. Although the prosecutor admitted that she never actually handled or sold drugs, Kemba was sentenced for the entire amount of cocaine distributed by the operation, even though she had not known Hall when the conspiracy began.
Her son, William, was born in prison. She hopes to win her appeal, get 'a second chance', and help other young women avoid the mistakes she made. Kemba's cause has been taken up by students and journalists around the country as a prime example of excessive penalties for a low-level offender.
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Río Piedras est une localité argentine située dans la province de Salta et dans le département de Metán.

Démographie
La localité comptait  (Indec, 2001), ce qui représente une augmentation de  par rapport aux  (Indec, 1991) du recensement précédent.

Économie
La localité de Río Piedras est purement agricole, basée sur la culture du soja (depuis les années 1990), du blé (depuis le ), du maïs (depuis des millénaires) et du tabac. Dans la municipalité de cette localité se trouve une partie des dépôts de l'ancienne ville espagnole d'Esteco Nueva.

Histoire
Dans les environs du rio Piedras, une bataille pour l'indépendance de l'Argentine et l'émancipation de l'Amérique a eu lieu le . Dans lequel les forces patriotes commandées par Eustoquio Díaz Vélez, ont vaincu les réalistes dirigés par Agustín Huici. Ce combat des pierres est l'un des plus mémorables de l'histoire de l'Argentine, puisqu'il est honoré par l'une des premières strophes de l'hymne national.

Sismologie
La sismicité de la province de Salta est fréquente et de faible intensité, avec un silence sismique de séismes moyens à graves tous les 40 ans.

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Coordonnées géographiques et images satellites

Ville dans la province de Salta

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FEATURENo pain, no gain
The democratization of design
XVI.5 September + October 2009
Digital Citation
Bernd Ploderer, Peter Wright, Steve Howard, Peter Thomas
"I broke my foot. I was leg pressing at about 1,450 pounds and ... the bone just snapped. But I had to keep it up. I couldn't flex my leg properly. I couldn't walk without crutches for probably three months. ... I was still training, and I competed, too. I trained my left leg and I trained my upper body, and I still competed at the European championships. I left the crutches in the hotel room and put on a strong face."
—Francis, age 30
Training for bodybuilding competition is clearly a serious business that inflicts serious demands on the competitor. Not only did Francis commit time and money to compete, but he also arguably put winning before his physical well-being—enduring pain and suffering from his injury. Bodybuilding may seem like an extreme example, but it is not the only activity in which people suffer in pursuit of their goals. Boxers fight each other in the ring; soccer players risk knee and ankle injuries, sometimes playing despite being hurt; and mountaineers risk their lives in dangerous climbs. In the arts there are many examples of people suffering to achieve their goals: Beethoven kept composing, conducting, and performing despite his hearing loss; van Gogh grappled with depression but kept painting, finding fame only posthumously; and Mozart lived the final years of his life impoverished but still composing. These examples show that many great achievements come at a price: severe suffering.
Hegel described the driving force behind such activities as leidenschaft, the German word for passion. He wrote that "nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." We prefer the word leidenschaft to passion because it combines "suffering" (leiden) with the single-minded pursuit of a goal (schaffen). Leidenschaft encompasses more than what people loosely call their interest, hobby, or passion. Originally, passion described the dual nature of pursuit and suffering, but it has become a term that nowadays describes only pleasurable things like outbursts of emotion or romantic love.
The duality of leidenschaft has strong practical significance because it provides a fertile ground for the design of technologies. People embrace technologies that help them pursue their goals. Equally, suffering opens up opportunities and new challenges for technologies. However, it is unclear how interactions with and through technologies influence the duality of pursuit and suffering, and vice versa.
This article addresses this gap by presenting the findings from a field study of a bodybuilding social network site in relation to leidenschaft. By surfacing the technology features and their implications, we strive to guide the design of technologies for other leidenschaften—may it be playing the piano, competing in a triathlon, or any other activity people value.
The Three Elements of Leidenschaft
We observed members on BodySpace, a social network site specifically for people involved in fitness and bodybuilding. Similar to other social network sites like Facebook, BodySpace allows people to craft their profiles, establish connections, and communicate with other users through posts, private messages, and blogs. Additionally, BodySpace offers features such as training statistics and progress pictures to help bodybuilders keep track of their training. There is also a supplement store to generate revenue via the member network.
In order to understand the meaning behind the interactions on BodySpace and the site's significance for bodybuilding, two of us (Ploderer and Thomas) also worked out in a gym. We observed bodybuilders in various gyms, attended bodybuilding competitions, and interviewed 25 bodybuilders in the U.S. and in Australia. The triangulation of methods online and offline has enabled us (as nonbodybuilders) to acquire an understanding of social network sites and bodybuilding itself.
Our findings show that the duality of leidenschaft unfolds in three interconnected ways: First, bodybuilders work hard to improve their performance and strive for a certain achievement; second, they seek connections with others sharing the same leidenschaft; and finally, bodybuilders invest time, work, and money in their leidenschaft and develop a commitment to it. All three aspects gravitate toward a positive end, but each also exposes suffering: The pursuit of achievements surfaces one's limitations; seeking connections with a group comes at the cost of isolation from others; and committing to a passion also implies sacrificing other things for it. As illustrated in Figure 1, these three aspects constitute dualities that reflect the larger duality of pursuit and suffering contained within a leidenschaft. Here, we use the case of bodybuilding to elaborate on these three dualities, and building on our previous work, we will discuss how the dualities open up opportunities for the design of technologies [1].
Leidenschaft and Performance. One element of leidenschaft is that people strive for an achievement. Bodybuilders strive to transform their bodies in order to compete in bodybuilding shows, where they have to simultaneously look both muscular and lean. To gain muscularity, amateur bodybuilders usually work out in the gym once or twice a day, six days a week. Four to six times a day, they eat very healthy and regimented food, including various food supplements to grow their muscles. In order to get lean while keeping their muscle size for a competition, they go through what one of our participants, Bill, 27, called the "hell of preparation."
Over three to four months they maintain training intensity while gradually decreasing their food consumption. They literally starve in order to get their body fat down to 7 percent (women) or 3 percent (men). Such a low energy state can have severe physical and emotional consequences. Our participants reported that it is almost impossible for them to pursue their jobs or maintain long conversations. However, this is the condition that is necessary to enter a bodybuilding competition. While preparing backstage for a competition, they eat sweets, which spike their blood-sugar levels, giving them the energy needed to step onstage. Tanned, oiled, blinded by the strong lights, and almost naked, they pose for 10 to 15 minutes for the judges, a small audience of fellow bodybuilders, and applauding fans.
Competition forces bodybuilders to confront their limitations. This can lead to severe inner conflicts, as expressed by one of our participants, John, 28: "Well, we are never happy with our bodies; we always want more and more." No matter how much they improve, there is always someone else who delivers a better performance. Thus, the challenge is to remain aware of current abilities and limitations and prepare for the future performance to which they aspire.
The duality around performance creates opportunities for the design of tools that help people move one step closer to their goals. Tools provide access to information, which leads to improved performance. BodySpace is such a tool. It offers a mix of articles about training and dieting drawn from professional writers and users of the system. This information can have an immediate impact on training, but more important, it helps bodybuilders to plan ahead and establish goals. Setting short-term goals and tracking progress is a way of negotiating the duality of performance. On BodySpace, bodybuilders can set their goals, track their progress with statistics and photos, and write about their aims and current status in their blogs. BodySpace saves this information permanently and creates user histories that allow individuals to keep track of their progress. Their true value, however, unfolds when users share their histories with others. It becomes meaningful information from which others can learn and derive motivation, and with which they can compare themselves.
Inversely, such tools also surface a person's limitations. One of our participants, Lenny, 22, said he was not making enough progress in his training. Comparing his progress with others on BodySpace, he came to the conclusion that "it might be wise to have a break and then start again." But many participants criticized the lack of critical feedback in interactions with other BodySpace users. Bodybuilders need critical feedback to work on their limits, but as Jeremy, 50, pointed out: "They are so nice that they can't give you constructive criticism, because they are like 'I don't want to be mean or step on your toes' when they probably need it. So it's limited in the information you get."
These examples illustrate that people use tools to coordinate, improve, and sometimes also to reassess their quests for performance. However, the tendency to use tools for achievements can prevent critical feedback, which would help in dealing with limitations.
Leidenschaft and Connections. A second element of leidenschaft is to seek connections with others who perform the same activity. Bodybuilders establish connections at the gym and at competitions—although the competitiveness and hierarchies at these places often complicate initial contact. Though scarce, these connections help people to obtain valuable information and motivational support. Beyond that, connections provide a sense of belonging to a community that shares the same interests, empathizes with one's suffering, and normalizes the sometimes painful activities.
Connecting with a community that shares the same leidenschaft also means the risk of social isolation from the larger community. The ascetic lifestyle of bodybuilders is not compatible with everyone else's way of life, as expressed by Jeremy: "You don't hang out with people that aren't on the same page, that aren't into the same lifestyle. Because they are drinking and smoking and eating bad foods and doing crazy stuff." Even most typical gym users cannot relate to the specific norms and activities of bodybuilding. As a result, many bodybuilders describe a sense of social isolation: "I was a lone, lone wolf," says Jeremy about his early days at the gym. "It's a very isolated, individual sport."
The duality around connection opens up opportunities for technologies to establish and nourish communities based on a shared leidenschaft. Social network sites like BodySpace allow people to establish personal networks within the bodybuilding community. Our findings indicate that beginner bodybuilders in particular use BodySpace to establish connections with other bodybuilders, because their circle of friends often has no interest in bodybuilding.
A major challenge in establishing connections online is trust. We would like to emphasize three interrelated design decisions that have contributed to a generally positive and trustful environment on BodySpace:
BodySpace users are identifiable through their profile information, which is important in establishing contact. Bodybuilders judge other BodySpace users based on the physical achievements displayed in photos and their congruence with other profile cues, like bodybuilding jargon or statistics.
BodySpace profiles provide transparency about friendship requests. Confirmed friendship requests are listed as "friends." Unreciprocated requests are displayed as "stalking" on the profile of the person who sends the request, and as "fans" on the other person's profile. Such information helps to prevent spam requests and facilitates respect online.
BodySpace is designed as an open space to outsiders. Anyone can view profiles and observe any exchange of information (with the exception of private messages). The decision against privacy controls on BodySpace is important, because any leidenschaft carries the risk of obsessive behavior. While most bodybuilders live a very healthy lifestyle, some bodybuilders have developed pathologies such as overtraining, the consumption of performance-enhancing drugs, or distorted body image. BodySpace's open and public design has engendered an atmosphere that eschews such lifestyle choices. People interested in steroids, for example, usually congregate on private websites.
While BodySpace appears successful in providing a sense of belonging within the bodybuilding community, it slightly shifts the focus of social isolation. BodySpace has been successful in opening up the website to recreational gym users, who use it to lose weight or keep in shape. The interactions between bodybuilders and recreational gym users have fostered the exchange of knowledge and recognition across these groups, but they have also led to new tensions, e.g., what kind of photography or language is appropriate. Beyond that, few professional bodybuilders use BodySpace, partly due to the lack of privacy. Most professionals have private websites controlled by their sponsors. Some professional bodybuilders also use Facebook, where they can keep their profiles restricted to their friends and redirect their fans to a public fan page. On BodySpace, however, amateur bodybuilders remain largely isolated from the most experienced people in their community.
Leidenschaft and Commitment. The final element of leidenschaft is the commitment people develop. Commitment grows out of investing in your passion, whether it is time, money, or hard work. Bodybuilding magazines suggest that every bodybuilder can be as successful as Arnold Schwarzenegger, as long as they commit to the "3 Ds of bodybuilding: Determination, Dedication, Discipline." Bodybuilders show the "3 Ds" in their consistent training and in their regimented diets. They transform their bodies in radical ways and they suffer for their passion by going through the "hell of preparation." They sometimes also sacrifice jobs, social relationships, and even their health because they are committed to what they do. Asked why they endure such a demanding lifestyle, bodybuilders tend to say they "love" it, which expresses the devotion that grows out of the commitment. Equally, many bodybuilders use the words "obsession" or "addiction" to describe their relationship with bodybuilding. These labels underline the inherent duality of devotion and sacrifice that bodybuilders have to negotiate as a result of their commitment.
The issue of commitment opens up a design space for technologies that may be the most challenging of the three dualities presented in this article. Our findings show that BodySpace indirectly helps address this duality. BodySpace provides a theater in which people exhibit both aspects of the duality on a public stage. People display their devotion on BodySpace with slogans and photos, but they also share their training or diet sacrifices through blogs on their profiles. Moreover, BodySpace provides an empathic audience and rewards members with recognition for their commitment.
Two design features of BodySpace promote empathy and recognition: BodySpace has a news feed similar to Facebook's that keeps people up-to-date with events in their network of friends. And BodySpace highlights user updates and the most popular profiles on the home page. In this way, bodybuilders get rewarded with attention, which reinforces their commitment. John offers this insight: "Bodybuilders need to be noticed. It feeds our muscle ego; it motivates us. There are thousands of guys who show photos [on BodySpace] of themselves in their bathroom in their underwear flexing. They aren't thinking about anything but to show off what they look like and to see for themselves what they look like. This all might be strange to the nonbodybuilding world, but not to us—it's normal." The social status of appearing as a top profile is sometimes also rewarded with fame beyond the website. BodySpace invites popular members to professional photo shoots with the intention of being featured in bodybuilding magazines like Flex or Iron Man to promote the website. This means that not only hard work in the gym but also self-promotion on BodySpace can lead to fame and strengthened commitment.
The flipside of success and popularity on BodySpace is that people predominantly present themselves in positive ways and leave out the negative accounts of sacrifice. It is easy to find competition success stories. People share accounts of defeats or injuries to a lesser degree on BodySpace, and it is virtually impossible to find a blog entry in which someone admits withdrawing halfway through the preparation for a competition.
Passion and leidenschaft have long been a central issue in philosophical debates about human values. With the recent renaissance of human values in HCI [2, 3], leidenschaft has also become a genuine issue for interacting with and through technologies. Our research makes a contribution to the debate on human values in HCI by relating leidenschaft with the use of existing technologies. Leidenschaft inherits three interrelated dualities, and technologies both reduce and increase them. People utilize technologies as tools to improve their performance—tools that help them work toward goals—but they fall short in managing personal limitations. People engage with online communities that provide a sense of belonging but also pose challenges in terms of trust and may even further social isolation. People also adopt technologies as theaters to display their commitment to an activity. The theater provides an audience for accounts of devotion, but often lacks accounts of sacrifices.
The practical significance of the dualities lies in the implications for the design of technologies for other leidenschaften. The major discrepancy in the case of bodybuilding is that BodySpace succeeds in addressing the pursuit of a leidenschaft in all its ways—achievement, belonging, and devotion—but is limited in incorporating the management of the various sufferings—limitations, social isolation, and sacrifice. Our findings indicate that users of BodySpace must find other ways to deal with suffering, often with the help of a close bodybuilding friend or on their own. The main lesson learned for the design of new technologies for passion-centric activities is that focusing on the positive aspects of a pursuit is not enough. Addressing both sides of the duality opens up opportunities for technologies that might be radically different from current ones. Tools that capture progress and achievements also need to reflect the limitations of people and support critical and constructive reflection. Community technologies must focus on strengthening trust within the community. Beyond that, technologies should support the exchange of information across communities in order to stimulate innovation and to break up misconceptions. Having a tool and community that encompass both aspects of the duality also facilitates a theater where devotion and sacrifices are displayed and appreciated. Addressing these challenges with a holistic view is crucial, because technologies and leidenschaften shape each other and affect fundamental aspects of being human: how we spend our time and energy, how we feel about ourselves, and how we relate to others.
1. Ploderer, B., Howard, S., and Thomas, P. "Being Online, Living Offline: The influence of social ties over the appropriation of social network sites." In Proceedings of the ACM 2008 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (2008): 333–342.
2. Le Dantec, C.A., Poole, E.S., and Wyche, S.P. "Values as Lived Experience: Evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery." In Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2009): 1141–1150.
3. Sellen, A., Rogers, Y., Harper, R., and Rodden, T. "Reflecting Human Values in the Digital Age." Communications of the ACM 52, 3 (2009): 58–66.
Bernd Ploderer is a doctoral student at the University of Melbourne and a visiting student at Sheffield Hallam University. Ploderer is interested in CSCW outside the traditional office workplace. His current research explores how people orchestrate social network sites with other resources to pursue their passions.
Peter Wright is a professor of human-centered design at Sheffield Hallam University in the U.K. His recent research includes IT support for chronic illness, experience-based co-design of health services, and innovative approaches to user research.
Steve Howard has worked in many areas of HCI, including usability engineering, use-centered innovation, and "postusability" interpretations of user experience. Howard's current primary focus is "IT in the wild"—mostly mobile and pervasive computing applied to problems of real social need.
Peter Thomas is a visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne and visiting professor at Brunel University, London. He is currently the director of Manifesto Research, one of the Manifesto Group companies. Visit him at www.manifesto-group.com
DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1572626.1572628
Figure 1. The duality of pursuing a goal and suffering contained in a leidenschaft unfolds in three interrelated ways—people strive for achievements, but struggle with their limitations; they seek belonging with others engaged in the same activity, but isolate themselves from the public; and they devote themselves to their activities, but must make sacrifices.
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"In our darkest hour, there will be light."
Released in 2011, Green Lantern is a superhero movie inspired by the DC novel character with an identical name. The film is directed by Martin Campbell and is produced by Donald De Line and Greg Berlanti. The movie features Ryan Reynolds as the lead character and Blake Lively as her leading lady. The movie spent a budget of $200 million for production and grossed around $222 million.
Green Lantern depicts the story of Hal Jordan, an aircraft testing pilot who is chosen by a dying Green Lantern to become the first human to join the Green Lantern Corps. Along with this privilege, Hal receives a ring that gives him extraterrestrial powers, yet can only effectively use it if he is able to focus his mind into it. Hal must now use his newly inherited abilities to stop Parallax, who threatens the entire universe by engulfing planets.
Millennia ago, creatures known as the Guardians of the Universe harnessed the green essence that symbolized willpower to build an intergalactic law enforcement group, which they called the Green Lantern Corps. They divided the universe into 3,600 sectors, each sector being assigned with a Green Lantern to protect its inhabitants. A Green Lantern named Abin Sur manages to slay the powerful evil force called Parallax and traps him into the barren planet of Ryut.
Years later, Parallax escapes into the present time and almost slays Abin Sur. The Green Lantern manages to flee and crashes on planet Earth. Aware that he is going to die, Abin Sur instructs his ring to search for a worthy successor. The ring chooses a Hal Jordan and moves him to the crash site. Abin Sur assigns him as a Green Lantern member. He instructs Jordan to take the ring and recite the oath.
Hal goes back home and recites the oath. He is then transported to the Green Lantern Corps main base, a planet known as Oa. He is warmly welcomed by Tomar-Re and Sinestro, the Kilowagand Corps leader.
Green Lantern is currently available to watch and stream, buy on demand at Amazon, Vudu, Google Play, FandangoNow, iTunes, YouTube VOD online.
Celebrities continue to be "creative" with their baby names.
Not to be outdone by Marvel, who had two of their gay characters marry in a recent X-Men comic, DC Comics has revealed that their new, rebooted Green Lantern is gay. Find out more here.
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively Are Expecting Their First Child!


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It's easy to find cheap Disneyland hopper tickets throughout the year – you simply have to keep your eyes open for them. You can often buy the discounted tickets online, allowing you to get the tickets prior to your arrival. This will allow you to skip the lines at the ticket office entirely – and that gets you onto the rides a lot faster.
The cheap Disneyland hopper tickets are going to provide you with passes to both Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park. You will be given one ticket that lets you into both on a single day. You can go back and forth between them as many times as you please. This means you can go on the Grizzly River Run then over to Donald's Boat and then back over for The Little Mermaid ride if you desire.
When you buy the tickets, you have to look at the restrictions. There may be some blackout dates as to when you can use the tickets. This could include weekends, holidays, or other times of the year – such as Spring Break.
You also have to look at the cheap Disneyland hopper tickets to see when they expire. You never want to buy cheap tickets only for them to expire before you have a chance to use them. If you buy them in the spring, you probably have until the end of spring to use them – but that's not always the case. Read the fine print so you don't run into any surprises.
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Even with cheap Disneyland hopper tickets, you will find it hard to do all of the rides in a single day. In fact, it's almost impossible because you have to account for opening and closing times, wait times, and the time it takes you to go from one park to the next. If you find a deal that gives you a discount on multiple days, you want to grab it. It's one of the only ways that you can guarantee being able to see and do all there is to do in Disneyland.


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Polis bankrupts unemployment fund, installs 'too scared to work' system
Signaling little faith in our economy to rebound any year soon from the pandemic, Gov. Polis signed a law this week to bankrupt the state's $1.1 billion unemployment fund before jacking up taxes on employers for five years.
It's a risky scheme that Polis is counting on taxpayers and employers to fund, and works like this.
Polis is allowing the beefed up unemployment checks to continue several weeks longer than was allowed until the entire state fund is empty, which is projected to happen by August at the latest.
Then he's going to ask President Trump to give him millions or a billion more to keep paying what used to be called "unemployment" payments, but are now "I'm too scared to work because of COVID-19" payments.
Because for the next two years, unemployment payments will be also be determined on whether the claimant is worried about working during a pandemic.
Not because a person can't find a job, but because the person doesn't want a job.
Polis expects taxpayers, those of us left working anyway, to pay for all that while the governor gives businesses a brief break on having to pay unemployment taxes.
Don't get too comfortable business owners, because then Polis is going to jack up your taxes for five years to replenish the state's "I just don't feel like working" fund.
While the bill provides temporary relief from the surcharge to employers, it will increase the level of paid wages that the tax is levied on from the first $13,100 in wages paid in 2021 to the first $30,600 paid to an employee in 2026.
Employers also now have seven days to respond to an unemployment claim and challenge it instead of the normal 12 days under the bill.
This scheme is the very opposite of how to be a business-friendly state. Instead, it's an incentive for people to mooch off the government dole because they are afraid to work.
We're surprised Polis didn't just give them all masks, call them selfish bastards and order them back on the job.


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Startup CEOs & Cyber Security: Track your Tech!
June 6, 2014By Carl NiedbalaCyber Liability
Why startup CEOs should care about cyber security
The data breach that Target suffered around Thanksgiving last year has finally worked its way up to the top of the organizational totem pole. A couple of weeks ago, Target's CEO Gregg Steinhafel lost his job a result of the cyber security shortcomings that cost the company a ton money. Given the sheer size of the breach, the estimated costs to all parties involved could reach into the billions. Steinhafel is the first CEO to be fired from a major corporation over a cyber security issue.
1. Funding
Of course the implications aren't identical for the startup community, but they do still translate in important ways. For one, nobody likes losing money because of the failure to address risks that can [quite easily] be mitigated. Layered encryption, cyber liability insurance, and appointment of a Chief Information Security Officer (which target doesn't have) can go a long way in this area.
While the ramifications may be more severe when you have millions of shareholders, this doesn't make your handful of institutional investors happy either. In a way, you can equate the stock price drop of a company like Target to the refusal to participate in the next round of funding.
The other big parallel to the startup community involves branding. Target has a brand valued at a staggering $25.5 billion (2nd only behind Walmart!). Most estimate the cost of the breach at $1 billion before including loss of goodwill, which has yet to be calculated. One might consider the 46% drop in 2013 Q4 profits as an indication of some of this lost goodwill.
In a fiercely competitive yelp-review-fueled digital marketplace, branding can be everything. Startups can have robust yet fragile brands given their youth and inexperience. The last thing any startup company needs is a smudge on their brand name so early in the game. VC-backed startups are admittedly more agile than most, but recovering a loss of trust can be difficult no matter how fast you can move and adapt.
So what's the point of this post? It's a friendly reminder that while the CTO generally digs into the details of your tech and sets up security measures, it's ultimately the CEO that's responsible for making sure the company's cyber security measures are up to snuff. In fact, some legal experts have even suggested that remaining informed about your company's cyber security may become the next big fiduciary duty for executives.
At the end of the day, CEOs, it's your head on the chopping block…so pay attention!


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Q: Runtime Error - Cannot find this file; verify name & file path correct (Excel / VBA) Running into error message in title when attempting to link attachments to email. The attachments are stored in Folder Names respective to the "type" of company, which is why I'm attempting to add a for loop to retrieve "type" from spreadsheet.
Sub mailTest()

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem
Dim olAttachmentLetter As Outlook.Attachments
Dim fileLocationLetter As String
Dim dType As String

For i = 2 To 3

    Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
    Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    Set olAttachmentLetter = olMail.Attachments
    fileLocationLetter = "C:\...\user\Desktop\FileLocation"
    letterName = "TestLetter1"
    dType = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 2).Value

    mailBody = "Hello " _
                & Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 4) _
                & "," _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(2, 1).Value _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(3, 1).Value _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(4, 1).Value & " " & dType _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(5, 1).Value & " TTT" & dType & "xx18" _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(6, 1).Value _
                & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(7, 1).Value

     With olMail
        .To = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 5).Value
        .Subject = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 3).Value & " - "
        .HTMLBody = "<!DOCTYPE html>"
        .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & mailBody & ""

        ''Adding attachment
        .Attachments.Add fileLocationLetter & letterName & ".pdf"
        .Display
        '' .Send (Once ready to send)
    End With
    Set olMail = Nothing
    Set olApp = Nothing
Next
End Sub

What am I doing wrong here? The file is stored in 'C:...\user\Desktop\FileLocation\TestLetter1.pdf'
Thank you kindly.

A: You are missing the \ between the fileLocation and the letterName. Thus, either write this:
.Attachments.Add fileLocationLetter & "\" & letterName & ".pdf"

or this:
fileLocationLetter = "C:\...\user\Desktop\FileLocation\"

A: With much help from @Vityata, figured it out.
Essentially being able to make two attachments, one is static with known file name, the second attachment's name is dependent on stored cell value. The workaround was to break the path/name of the file as stored strings. Maybe there's an easier way, but this worked for me!
Code used:
Sub mailTest()

Dim olApp As Outlook.Application
Dim olMail As Outlook.MailItem

'' Identify Attachments
Dim olAttachmentLetter As Outlook.Attachments
Dim olAttachmentSSH As Outlook.Attachments

'' Identify Attachment Locations / Paths
Dim fileLocationLetter As String
Dim fileLocationSSH As String
Dim fileLocationSSHi As String
Dim fileLocationSSHii As String

 '' Type Variable, referencing cell in worksheet where "Type" is stored (in loop below)
 Dim dType As String

 '' Creating the loop - Replace 4 with end of rows. Will eventually create code to automatically identify the last cell with stored value
For i = 2 To 4

     Set olApp = New Outlook.Application
     Set olMail = olApp.CreateItem(olMailItem)

     Set olAttachmentLetter = olMail.Attachments
     Set olAttachmentSSH = olMail.Attachments

     ''File Location for Letter
     fileLocationLetter = "C:\...\Directory"

     ''File Location for Excel sheet - Need 3 fields as file name is dynamic based on loop value
     fileLocationSSH = "C:\...\Directory\Excel Files"
     fileLocationSSHi = "Beginning of File name..."
     fileLocationSSHii = " ... End of File name"

     letterName = "Name of PDF attachment"

     dType = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 2).Value

     ''Body of Email - Each new line represents new value (linking to hidden worksheet in Excel doc)
     mailBody = "Hello " _
                 & Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 4) _
                 & "," _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(2, 1).Value _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(3, 1).Value _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(4, 1).Value & " " & dType _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(5, 1).Value _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(6, 1).Value _
                 & Worksheets("BODY").Cells(7, 1).Value

     With olMail
         .To = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 5).Value
         .Subject = Worksheets("Test1").Cells(i, 3).Value
         .HTMLBody = "<!DOCTYPE html>"
         .HTMLBody = .HTMLBody & mailBody & ""

      '' Adding attachments, referencing file locations and amending file name if needed
         .Attachments.Add fileLocationLetter & "\" & letterName & ".pdf"
         .Attachments.Add fileLocationSSH & "\" & dType & "\" & fileLocationSSHi & dType & fileLocationSSHii & ".xlsx"

            .Display
         '' .Send (Once ready to send)

    End With

    Set olMail = Nothing
    Set olApp = Nothing

Next

End Sub

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Well, I just got 0wned on GSBot, so you guys need to help me. I think I am getting better as far as battling, but I need help figuring out what my weaknesses are, and what absolutely HAS to go.
Tauros: I'm using the same thing, except mine's got DE over Return. Good stuff.
Raikou: Boo, HP on a legend. Cheap... maybe Return for Blisseys. Or Crunch.
Smeargle: Damn right he can't Perish Trap. If you get yelled at for cheapness, try a Super Fang/Seismic Toss Smeargle. It ro><orz, and not just because I was the first to use it.
Machamp: Perhaps Light Screen somewhere, otherwise, decent.
Crobat: Interesting... I'd put Confuse Ray somewhere, it's just a question of where. If confuzzlement goes through Subs, I'd throw it over Thief to mess up JoltWak combos.
Ok, I updated my team, so, rate it NOW! Itsw even cheaper than before.
Tauros-I would really, really recommend dropping this. Apart from having no apparent role, it gives you a figthing weakness with no decent covers. Maybe try starmie here.
Raikou-Well, pretty standard. It isn't the best pseudohazer though, its defence is only ok, and most stat boosts are physical..so yeah.
Tyranitar-Umm...AP and rock slide? :/ I'd go with an elemental attack over one, or maybe roar so you can give raikou a HP or rest.
Machamp-Cursechamp is pretty good. After one curse its rock slide becomes almost as strong as tyranitars, which helps for zapdos's. Test it over light screen.
Miltank-I have yet to see psychup miltank kill a lax. It just gets into a PP war, which it eventually loses because lax has rest. If you are relying on it to kill laxxy, maybe go with scope lens, and body slam.
Just wanna point out that you gave Tyrannitar four moves that are all basically pure offensive... I like variety myself. Pursuit I like, though, it's great for an evil chuckle when you can use it.
Firstly, Scizor + Machamp > This team. At least take a fire move..I'd put Fire Blast on Tyranitar over Pursuit (the Pursuit trick is old, very very old).
Secondly, you only have one Rest user and one Curse user. I'd opt for at least another defensive Pokemon, probably Suicune over Raikou or Tauros (the two weak links on this team IMHO).
Thirdly, Psyche Up Miltank cannot kill a Snorlax. It can stall it for a while, but not very long, least of all if the Snorlax in question is carrying Counter. I would prefer to rely on Machamp for Snorlax, or maybe throw in an Alakazam.
It may be old, but I still think it's viable. If they have an Alakazam out, and you switch in your Tyranitar, they're screwed. There's not much Alakazam can do to Tyranitar, so a switch is best. With Pursuit, you can get them on the way out, of course, probably KO-ing it in the process. Without out, whatever is coming in will take the brunt of Tyranitar's wrath.
On the other hand... Having a Fire move would probably help out on this team.
Why does everyone hate Cloyster?


In the eighth waaz Mubarak (9th Muharram), Syedna TUS expounded on the beginning of Da'wat-ul-Haqq in this world and the Da'wat and adwaar of the 6 Naatiqs beginning with Adam AS and culminating with the 6th Naatiq, Sayyidul Mursaleen, Muhammad Rasulullah. Narrating many anecdotes from the history of the anbiyaa' Syedna stated that these Prophetic Stories (qisas) offer lessons ('ibrat) for us today. Syedna concluded by narrating the shahaadat of Abdullah son of Imam Hasan and the Shahaadat of Imam Hasan SA.
In the ninth waaz Mubarak (10th Muharram), Syedna did zikar of the immense sawaab in the ziarat of Imam Husain SA and prayed for the opportunity for ziarat in the near future. Syedna TUS also did zikar and tasbeeh of Panjetan, the 21 Imams and 52 Dai-s before him. With each name and tasbeeh Syedna narrated the fazaa'il and shanaat of our awliyaa' and hudaat, particularly their sacrifices for the sake of Dawat and the sake of Truth. He ended the waaz by declaring – with the Quran Majeed in his hand (see Sijill 39 Article and video excerpt) that he is the 53rd Dai, the successor to all of the 52 Dais before him and that he is the recipient of their Nass, particularly the Nass of the 51st and 52nd Dais.
In the tenth waaz Mubarak (10th Muharram), Syedna began the waaz by taking the wasila of Imam Husain SA, his ehle bayt and ashaab and beseeching doa for all mumineen, muminaat and their children. Syedna also beseeched Allah Ta'ala to grant tawfeeq and guidance to those who had gone astray so that they may return to Dawat-ul-Haqq and Dai-l-Haqq from the door of tawbah. Syedna then recited a heartrending narration of the maqtal of Imam Husain, his Ehle bayt and Ashaab.
In Ashara mubaraka, Mumineen mukhliseen gathered every day for Syedna's waaz mubarak, Husain Imam matam majlis, and niyaaz-e Husain in Darus Sakina—with Husain Imam's zikar, and in Syedna's saya, a true Baagh-e Iram.


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MASSIVE WIN: New poll shows Republican Lee Zeldin could win the New York Governor race against Democrat Kathy Hochul!
Featured, Politics, U.S.
An internal poll from the office of New York Rep. Lee Zeldin (R) shows the challenger to the current governor, Democrat Kathy Hochul, has a slight lead at the moment.
According to the poll, Zeldin holds a tight lead over Hochul, at 45.5% to 44%. The congressman attributes the lead to "hard work, the right message, strategy and execution, and also taking absolutely nothing for granted."
The poll is the first to show Zeldin ahead of Hochul, as previous polls have shown the incumbent with a significant lead. Zeldin's internal poll was conducted by Republican pollster McLaughlin & Associates.
"As we continue to get our message out coming off of this month's Republican and Conservative Party conventions and after airing television and radio ads statewide since the beginning of February, it's never been more clear that we have the issues on our side, we have the momentum of our side, and there's a big red wave headed straight for New York in 2022," Zeldin said.
Zeldin is not unopposed for the GOP governor's ticket, however. He must beat out several competitors in the upcoming primary elections.


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Take BQE/Belt Pkwy to Verrazano Bridge, stay right. Exit at Hylan Blvd. Do not go to Hylan Boulevard, as soon as you reach the top of the ramp at the first traffic light, the street sign will read Fingerboard Rd. Make a right, two blocks on the right . 198 Fingerboard Rd.
Locate and take the NJ turnpike to exit 13 to Goethels bridge to Staten Island, you will get on the SI expressway. East. Exit 13, Hylan Blvd. That will leave you on the service road. Continue straight for exactly 6 traffic lights, at which point you'll see a street sign that says Fingerboard Rd. Make a left onto Fingerboard Road, approximately 2 and a half blocks to 198 Fingerboard Road on the right side of the street.
If coming via the Bayonne bridge, follow highway after paying bridge toll to the SI Expressway. East. Exit 13, Hylan Blvd. That will leave you on the service road. Continue straight for exactly 6 traffic lights, at which point you'll see a street sign that says Fingerboard Rd. Make a left onto Fingerboard Road, approximately 2 and a half blocks to 198 Fingerboard Road on the right side of the street.
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Get off at exit 13 (Hylan Boulevard, Clove Road, Richmond Road), stay in middle lane follow service road, go 6 lights to Fingerboard Road. Make left at light 2 Blocks to 198 Fingerboard Rd.
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January 12, 2012 Special Issues » ReLeaf
Solid honey
By Jordan P. Hickey
Bryan Oller
Higher Elevation Masterpiece Productions
The story of glass, for all its intricacies, liquid tubes and folds, tapered bulbs whorled and fumed into glossy fingers and bowls, is tempered with a temptation that's about to become unbearable — to open with a dick joke.
"I'm not sure what I'm doing, but it kind of looks like a dick."
"That's 'cause you're gay and everything looks like a dick to you."
The back-and-forth drifts through the open door of Higher Elevation Masterpiece Productions — a building with a façade of charred beams and painted fires, sandwiched between two less colorful fronts at North Powers and Omaha boulevards — from a back room emitting a fierce brand of static. The oxygen and propane passing through flame and melting down a tube of glass make the sound; the men at the torches make the jokes.
In the front of the store, the showrooms are colorful and studded with cases filled with glass — glass set on glass, behind glass. It's a rush of visual stimulation, overwhelming in the extreme, and that's even before you look to the highest shelf.
In some of the cases, the rods and tubes fold once, and back again, into distinguishable forms: the glass eyes of an alien whose fingers grip a pipe; a reef perforated with bubbles and clownfish and angelfish lodged in the coral; the handle of a prison shiv you can smoke from.
They show mastery of the craft, a craft that sucked Steve Kelnhofer in when he was an unemployed electrician looking to make glass parts for a vaporizer. He read books, started creating things in a garage, expanded, opened Higher Elevation, and stocked it with "connoisseur glass."
But here's the thing: These pieces now sit on these shelves for years. Today's glass market is flooded, and the simplest pipes are what sells.
Kelnhofer, his cheeks somewhat sunken, gestures at the glass on the top shelf.
"I can see it," he says, his voice lilting with a bit of a Southern accent. "I know that it took 10 years of skills, and fucking shit breaking, and doing all that shit to get to that level."
But as a businessman?
"For me, it comes down to a time-dollar ratio," he says. "I only got so much time, and with so many businesses, to make so much glass."
Blower in red
He moves through a door to the back of the store. The flames that had been muted in front take on the qualities of small jet engines, creating a glow on the concrete floors that's swallowed by the black rubber mats where the blowers stand.
On the tables to his left are lines of red and green hoses that breach from the neck of the torch and lead down to a pedal below the bench, and on into the ganglia of tubes carrying gas held in white tanks. The walls in the back are choked with posters, while the hoods that suck up the gas are covered with bumper stickers.
There's a sour, almost pungent, burn in the air, and a slight chill when fresh air makes its way back from the front door. The music drones. You have to wear blacked-out glasses to look into the flames.
Nearby a blower's dressed in red, with a red dangling beard, a tube drooping limp from his mouth. The end of the tube is fixed to a piece of molten borosilicate (better known as Pyrex); he presses it against a black ceramic plate, and a base appears. A glass rod is held to the side, and the bowl grows nubby little fingers that line the rim.
Below the bench, there are small labeled boxes filled with granulated glass the size of BBs colored every color from "Elephant Grey" to "Lazuli." Called frits, they form color in the glass when applied within or without.
Another way to make color is found in the bulbs, with suspended bits of gold and silver, that stand out of jars like writing utensils and are used in a process called fuming — burning gold or silver and staining the inside of the glass with the colors it produces: oranges and reds from gold, cloudy blue from silver.
If you spend time watching the "lamp workers," what you're watching is work that's become second nature. As Kelnhofer puts it later, "I've got some guys here, they're workers and that's all they want to be. So, they're learned to a point where they can make pieces and parts real fast — 'cause that's how I pay, by piecework — and they make good money at it."
Of course, they, and the equipment they use, come with a price tag. An ounce of gold, a tenth of which one glassblower will burn through in a month, costs about $1,600. It's roughly $50 to $60 for an ounce of silver. The glass itself runs around five dollars a pound for clear, $60 for colored.
The torches here at Higher Elevation can cost three grand. And the large, digital kiln that anneals the glass, making all the molecules within it move at the same speed, runs $1,800.
But if we're talking business, it's better to go upstairs.
Melting profits
Past a row of work stations where no one is working and up the stairs, the music gets swallowed up by the boxes, and coat racks, and coat hangers, and ducts of the ventilation system.
There's a silver tube made of metal on the wooden desk, and this tube, this thing, is what keeps the business going: the Silver Surfer Vaporizer. The guys downstairs are making the glass pieces that go into it. Because it's what sells.
Kelnhofer isn't the only one torn between the demands of business and the call of artistry. Eric Ernst, CEO of Chubby Glass LLC in Boulder, says he's looking at a 20 percent dropoff in sales in 2011, as compared to 2010.
"Ten years ago, you could double your money," Ernst remembers. "You could double your money with every transaction, and you're thinking this is a great job ... now, you're making like 10 percent every transaction."
It's caused by the influx of glass from abroad, due to the increasing interest in glass. Fueled by the dispensary boom, Ernst says, the number of head shops has leapt from a few dozen 10 years ago, to around 550 today.
"I'm seeing it here, and I saw it in California, too," he says. "When California started the whole dispensary thing, the whole glass industry has just dropped, the floor has just dropped out."
Even then, it's not just abroad. It's also underground.
If you were to, say, ask Kelnhofer for his thoughts on the kids from Pueblo blowing glass, bringing it to his store to sell, he'd have some choice words for you. He'd tell you, becoming increasingly animated, that the industry is "fucking fucked" because no one who's doing it under the table is paying into the system.
"Your glass sucks, so you need to get it up to par," he says. "So you can get what you want for your underground shit, or fucking get out of the field, or come join the real field, or something."
The gratuitous F-bombs paint him as angry; in his presence, you see Kelnhofer is mostly just passionate about his work, perhaps to a fault. He loves glass.
Regardless, at this point, Kelnhofer's sunk into his chair.
"We're trying to do real business, and it's hard to do business ... and I've got all these guys underground here," he says. "And the thing is, I get what they're doing. Because if it's just you, it's not so bad. But when it's a whole group of people, you're like, 'Whoa, wait a minute.'"
Both Ernst and Kelnhofer give a sense of the uncertainty endemic to industries faced with radical change. Is it better to embrace what almost seems inevitable — for instance, to send some of the work abroad, to turn a better profit? Or do you adapt to change by looking at your business differently, by taking risks and branching out?
"For most people in Colorado, we're glassblowers, but we're mainly artists," says Ernst. "We're artists first, and glassblowing kind of pays the bills by blowing the pipes."
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Woman who said she was "Rosie" in WWII poster dies
A Michigan woman who said her photo was the inspiration for a popular poster lauding the efforts of working women during World War II has died.
Geraldine Doyle died Sunday in Lansing. She was 86.
The Lansing State Journal reports that a war production committee used Doyle's likeness from a photo taken when she was a 17-year-old factory worker in Ann Arbor in the illustrated "We Can Do It!" poster. The head-scarfed wearing woman flexing her bicep encouraged women to enter the work force.
The poster and Norman Rockwell's similar painting of a female factory worker followed a popular song titled "Rosie the Riveter." That name was attached to women performing jobs traditionally held by men.
A memorial service for Doyle is scheduled for Jan. 8.


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Prior to joining the Bliss team, Kelsey worked with the Indiana Department of Education serving the Department in numerous social media initiatives, constituent communication, and media monitoring.
Kelsey graduated from Denison University with a B.A. in International Studies and a minor in History. During her time at Denison, Kelsey traveled abroad to Prague where she studied Czech history and the challenges of building a new national identity. Outside of Bliss, Kelsey enjoys exploring new restaurants, traveling the world, attending sporting events, and living and breathing by the Indiana Pacers.


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The Lister Hospital in Stevenage offers general and specialist hospital services for people across much of Hertfordshire and south Bedfordshire and provides a full range of medical and surgical specialties. General wards are supported by critical care (intensive care and high dependency) and coronary care units, as well as pathology, radiology and other diagnostic services. There are specialist sub-regional services in urology and renal dialysis.
By October 2014, the Lister will have been transformed – through investment of £150 million in new facilities – into the Trust's specialist hospital for emergency and inpatient care for east and north Hertfordshire and south Bedfordshire.
Mr Vasdev is the East and North Herts NHS Trust Cancer Network lead for the Lister Robotic Urology / Vattikuti Foundation, USA collaboration. Mr Vasdev is an international proctor in Robotic Urological Surgeon and mentors' hospitals / surgeons in Europe and Asia (India, Hong Kong and Thailand) regularly in and is a clinical advisor to Prostate Cancer UK for the "Best practice pathway national development programme"or national implementation and is currently co-chair for the MRI implementation and biopsy standardization. Mr Vasdev has developed successfully adapted Robotic Surgery protocols implemented in over 40 countries to reduce Aerosol risks during the COVID-19 pandemic to allow continuation of Robotic surgery.


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Astor Case Highlights Rise In Elder Abuse Cases
Published January 2013 by Richard Turyn
The late Manhattan socialite Brooke Astor's son was convicted on multiple charges of taking advantage of her frail condition in advanced old age to wrongfully take funds from her, to induce her to change her will in his favor, and to abuse a power of attorney she had given to him to assist in managing her affairs.
The Astor case has become notorious because the Astor family name has been famous since the early 1800s and because the Astor estate is estimated to exceed $170 million dollars. But the case should help to focus public attention on the fact that financial abuse of our elderly citizens has become a significant and growing problem. The insurance company MetLife has published a study which reports that about a million older Americans have been the targets of financial abuse every year.
What are the reasons for this disgraceful trend and what can be done to curtail it? Three major reasons seem obvious. One, people are living longer. Two, the last 60 years saw substantial wealth-building among a larger percentage of our population than ever before. And three, many people feel that in the same period the traditional values of honesty, thrift and socialization have taken a substantial hit.
The combination of these three factors makes a rise in financial abuse of the elderly seem almost inevitable. The last two years of financial downturn, when many fraudulent activities (like Madoff's) tend to unravel, have made it more likely that thefts from the elderly will be discovered.
Distressingly, the guilty parties in many of these cases are close relatives of the victim. "We see a lot of cases where the kids help themselves with the intention of paying the money back. It becomes a bad habit," one attorney who specializes in this field was quoted in Consumer Reports. An economic downturn can make it harder for the "borrower" to quietly repay embezzled funds and that is when the crime is discovered. The fact that the stealing is done by a relative also often makes it more likely for it to come out later, rather than sooner. The results can be disastrous for everyone involved, although many times the guilty parties have not been prosecuted.
The wider value of the Astor case is that the prosecutors were able to overcome the problem that financial frauds are often complex and hard to prove to a jury. But since "nothing succeeds like success," prosecutors may decide to focus more on such crimes. In turn, that might make it more likely for other victims to come forward to complain of such possible crimes involving their finances and the people they have trusted to protect them.
Of even more wide and possible permanent significance, an item of proposed federal legislation called the Elder Justice Act ("the EJA") has been languishing in Congress since about 2003, having been revived every year but never having been enacted into law. The EJA makes the fight against elder abuse and crime, neglect and exploitation a national priority. By combining law enforcement, public health, and social service approaches to recognize, address, and prevent elder abuse, neglect and exploitation, the EJA could make a real difference in our lives in the years to come.
Much of the EJA focuses on providing aid to local governments and private groups on the front lines in combating elder abuse. One example of what it would do is provide funds to establish Adult Protective Services in every locale (as New York City already has) to intervene in situations where adults do not seem able to protect their own interests.
The EJA was included as a section of the Senate's health reform bill approved in October, 2009 by the Senate Finance Committee. With a single, final health reform bill approved by both the Senate and the House of Representatives still to come (if at all), we have yet to see whether the EJA will survive the full legislative process, and in what condition. Some legislators and lobbyists oppose one part or another of the EJA on grounds that it is too liberal or too conservative, too "big government" or too "do-nothing", too cheap or too generous.
Compromises may well be made. What happens to the EJA will say something about how we prioritize the problem of elder abuse. The Astor case may help us to appreciate what can happen to elderly citizens when nothing is done.
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In the United States there are many quality standards governing the production and sale of toys. Child safety is taken very seriously, and many toys, especially those coming from countries like China and Taiwan, do not pass the quality and safety standards test. Every year however, thousands upon thousands of toys get recalled after they have been sold for a long time. Recalls normally happen when a child or many children become injured due to the use of a toy that was originally thought to have passed the safety standards required.
Over 250,000 children are reported to die or get injured every year due to dangerous toys. There are many other cases that just don't get reported. Of these children, over 60% are 15 years old or younger, and they are mostly boys.
It's always important for children, especially those under 15 years of age, to be properly supervised when playing with toys. Injuries can also happen when the parent doesn't assemble the toy properly based upon the manufacturer's instructions.
Some injuries can be minor. However, if a malfunctioning toy that was defective from the factory or a mass-produced toy built using toxic materials caused the injury, it might be time to file a personal injury lawsuit. A lot of cheaply built toys can cause serious injuries or even death, making this a very serious matter.
In the state of Maryland, defective toy claims fall under the notion of product liability, which is a form of personal injury claim. In most cases, the parent or legal guardian of the affected child will have to prove negligence on the part of the toy manufacturer or designer in order to successfully win a claim.
In order to prepare for a product liability claim due to a toy injury in Baltimore, an experienced lawyer will ask for as much proof as possible to show that the product was defective, that there was negligence on the part of the designer or toy manufacturer, and that the child got injured as a result of this negligence. The toy manufacturer might argue that there were warnings, such as choking hazard warnings on the package, or that the parent didn't supervise the child properly. This is why it's important to consult with a qualified attorney who understands Maryland laws pertaining to product liability and injuries caused by toys.


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FIDH: Iran must immediately revoke the death sentences of prisoners of conscience
Posted on January 15, 2013 by Iranian Refugees Action Network
Some of these men are UNHCR-registered refugees, whom Iranian Refugee Action Network tried to help when they escaped persecution by the Iran regime. They were arrested after they fled to Iraq and, unfortunately, despite intervention, were handed back to the regime when the UNHCR were unable to act in time to stop this. They have now been sentenced to death, despite being completely innocent political prisoners – one is a chemistry teacher, one a poet and the group includes bloggers who tried to let the world know what is happening in Iran. Please, if you can, share and circulate this information, as we know that the only thing that stops the Iran regime from executing people is widescale attention from human rights activitists, politicians and the media. Please raise awareness of this case, before these men lose their lives, and their families lose sons.
Karim Lahidji, vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and president of the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), said today:
"The Iranian authorities regularly impose the death penalty for all forms of dissent. The ethnic communities, and in particular the Iranian Arabs, Kurds and Baluchis, are regularly targeted for demanding their rights, and occasionally members of these communities and their family members fall victim to the vengeance of authorities. The authorities also regularly ignore the strict ban under international law on execution of children. The Iranian government must immediately revoke the death sentences of activists from ethnic communities as well as all prisoners of conscience and join the accelerating worldwide trend to abolish the death penalty."
The Iranian authorities are threatening prisoners of conscience from the Iranian ethnic minorities, notably the Kurds and Arabs, with a new wave of executions.
The spectre of death is threatening two young Kurdish men: Zanyar Moradi and Loqman Moradi. These two men were sentenced to death for allegedly murdering the son of a local cleric based on confessions that were coerced. The judge admitted their coerced pre-trial confessions despite their denials in court. Furthermore, in keeping up with their unethical and illegal methods, the authorities televised the confessions on Press TV, the extra-territorial TV channel of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Special Rapporteur for the situation of human rights in Iran, Dr Ahmed Shaheed, noted in his report in September 2012: "According to reliable sources, both men [Zanyar and Loqman Moradi] vehemently denied the charges, but were forced to confess as a result of severe beatings and threats of rape and arrest of family members… Reliable sources reported that both men were forced to rehearse answers to questions they were asked during the televised interview." [1] According to the families of the two men, orders have been issued for implementation of their death sentences.
In addition, the Supreme Court has reportedly upheld the death sentences of five Iranian Arab prisoners of conscience, who were arrested in February 2011 and sentenced on ambiguous charges such as moharebeh (fighting against God) and corruption on earth: Mohammad Ali Ammorynejad (engineer, blogger and former teacher), Hadi Rashedi (high school teacher), Hashem Sha'baninejad (poet and teacher), Jaber al-Boushaka, and Mokhtar al-Boushaka. The latter two are brothers.
The Iranian authorities have repeatedly executed cultural, religious and political activists in areas populated by ethnic communities.
In May 2011, at least eight members of the Arab community were executed in Ahvaz, provincial capital of the Khuzestan province. One of them, Hashem Hamidi, was believed to be 16 years old at the time; three of them were hanged in public. The secret execution of four Arab political prisoners, including three brothers, in Ahvaz in June 2012 [2] sparked widespread local protests. "In a video plea to the Special Rapporteur, all four defendants denied the charges and maintained that they were tortured for the purpose of soliciting confessions." [3]
Ten 'Salafist' Kurdish prisoners, who were charged with involvement in assassination of a cleric, were tried in July 2011 and sentenced to death. Six of them were executed in late December 2012. The fate of the other four is unknown. Also, in recent years, a number of Kurdish, Arab and Baluch minority activists have been victims of extrajudicial killings and others have died in custody possibly as a result of torture.
Currently, more than 40 prisoners of conscience and political prisoners are known to be on death row. These include four more members of the Arab community who were convicted of moharebeh and other vague charges, 15-20 Kurdish and several Baluch people, some persons accused of contacts with opposition groups abroad, and a few web and programming experts. The real total number may be much higher as the Iranian authorities do not provide the information regarding the death sentences imposed and carried out, in particular on prisoners of conscience and political prisoners.
Thousands of prisoners are believed to be on death row in Iran. In December 2009, head of the Prisons Organisations estimated that there were 4,000 death-row inmates, but the authorities do not consider qesas (retaliatory death) sentence as part of this count. In late October 2012, Mr. Mehdi Mahmoudian, a journalist who is serving a five-year prison sentence in Rajaishahr prison for exposing police atrocities in illegal detention centres, reported that there were 1,117 death-row inmates, including 734 sentenced to qesas, in that prison alone that does not even hold drug-related convicts. Most victims of the death penalty in Iran are charged with drugs-related offences. However, the Iranian law denies the death-row drug-related convicts the right to appeal.
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