For those who are interested to learn some technical stuff in preparation for a job that you are applying for or to simply add knowledge, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority or TESDA is offering online programs for free.
If you are into information technology, TESDA offers Computer Hardware Servicing;Tourism-related course: Room Attendant Servicing, Guest Room Attendant Servicing; For Electronics know-how, TESDA offers Cellphone Servicing.
Visit their website http://www.tesda.gov.ph/ and click the link on the side bar that says TESDA ONLINE Program to know more about it.
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MacGyver returns! A movie for the big screen is in statu nascendi. About the atypical TV-hero who draws his Swiss Army Knife instead of his gun, and who beats the bad guys with duct tape and a lot of ingenuity. Also next year the first in a series of graphic novels will be released, with new adventures of the action hero from the Eighties.
Actually, MacGyver has never been completely gone. Although the show was cancelled in 1992, the ingenious ex-secret agent is still very much alive, in re-runs of the series in a number of countries all over the planet. On the Internet, special MacGyver sites welcome new members every week, and YouTube is crammed with MacGyver clips. MacGyver has become a cult hero.
This ingenious tinkering was an essential part in the series. It led to a new word: to MacGyver. And the things you put together are called MacGyverisms. All MacGyverisms in the series were based on a real process, but the makers of the show always left an element out to prevent fans from blowing up their own kitchen. On Discovery Channel a series of MacGyverisms was tested in a show called Mythbusters, most of the time with positive results. MacGyver references pop up regularly in all kinds of tv series, and in the cartoon series 'The Simpsons' Marge's sisters Patty and Selma are madly in love with MacGyver.
What effect does that have on the creator of MacGyver?
The history continues, now that MacGyver will become a movie. Zlotoff will be producing it with Raffaella De Laurentiis. Zlotoff: "There's a crazy story behind all that. So, thanks to all the amazing work of the writers, producers and Richard Dean Anderson, the series ran for seven seasons—like 150 episodes or something—before ABC decided to cancel the show. Then, after the show had stopped, I read in the trades they were making two MacGyver movies for TV. So I called and asked the Writers Guild whether if, as the creator of the show, I might not be entitled to something. And they took a few days to research the contract and finally told me: you're not entitled to something, you're entitled to everything. Say what? Apparently, the company had a certain number of years to buy me out of the so-called 'separated rights'. But because the series ran so long they just never got around to doing it and so the buy-out period had already lapsed. You could've knocked me over with a feather.
So the Writers Guild called Paramount and told them they didn't actually have the sequel rights to make the TV movies. And they said, what do you mean?– we already made them! So the company said 'they're not sequels, they're just additional episodes." But the Guild disagreed, saying the series was cancelled, so these couldn't be more episodes but were sequels that they didn't have the right to make. And we were all set to go to arbitration, which is kind of like court, to try and settle the dispute. But Paramount called my agent the day before and asked what it would take for them to buy the TV sequel rights, so that we could avoid arbitration. Because whenever you go into that situation, you could win, but you could lose, and if they lost, they would have spent a lot of money to make something that they couldn't broadcast. And even I didn't want to put them in that situation. So we made a deal, and they paid me a respectable chunk of dough and I sold them the TV sequel rights. But, as part of that deal, it was now clear that I retained all the other rights, the feature film rights, the publication rights, etc. because I knew at some point the movie rights were likely to be valuable and I was just waiting for the right time. And I'm hoping that time is now. A number of successful TV-series have been made for the big screen like Charlie's Angels, The Adams Family and others. And so now New Line Cinema is aiming to do a big-budget MacGyver feature, which is incredibly exciting. But nothing is guaranteed in this business, so we're just knocking on wood and keeping our fingers crossed that it all works out.
Is it true you had a bit of a run in with the people who made the MacGruber movie?
Another thing: is he familiar with the phenomenon of fan fiction?
Zlotoff: 'You mean where fans write their own stories? Yeah I've heard of it, I have not read it , but clearly things like Star Trek and MacGyver and others which have proven to be iconic shows have developed such a following that there are people who want to keep the story going. And keep their heroes alive, which is pretty cool.
There is a lot of it on the Internet, like Virtual seasons of MacGyver, an eighth and a ninth season.
Zlotoff: "Oh really? I cant say I've read any fan fiction , I know that it's out there, but part of the danger with me reading that stuff is, I'm also developing MacGyver stuff, and should any of my stories resemble something that's out there… I don't want them to be able to say, oh, you read my story and stole it. So unfortunately it's kind of in my interest not to look at that stuff. But I'm really curious about it so I may go read some of it one of these days anyway.
So he's never seen the only MacGyver book that ever got released "MacGyver on Ice"?
Can you tell us something about the story?
Do you already know who will play MacGyver?
The fans all say Richard Dean Anderson is the one and only MacGyver.
Will the new MacGyver, like the old one, travel around the world a lot?
Zlotoff: "I am all for that. Because, like Mac, movies are really a global thing now and if we only set the story in America, I'm not sure we'd be doing justice to either the original character or the new realities of entertainment.
But other than the demands of show business, are there other reasons to give MacGyver a comeback?
I have read somewhere: MacGyver is what America should be. Jack Bauer is what America has become.
Can MacGyver, in this era of advanced electronics, still accomplish much with a paperclip and a Swiss army knife?
Have you ever tried to create another classic character like MacGyver?


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This Resolution is being presented by the Council for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be supporting House Bill No. 17 which aims to reduce truancy and dropout rates by increasing the compulsory education age from 16 years to 17 years.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would authorize the Department of Parks and Recreation to accept and use a $10,000 grant from Laffey McHugh Foundation for the City's 2017 Summer Youth Employment Program.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would authorize the Department of Parks and Recreation to apply for a grant in the amount of $399,699.64 from the Department of Labor. The funds will be used to support the City's 2017 Summer Youth Program.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would declare 924 ½ Bennett Street to be surplus and approve the property for disposition to the Wilmington Housing Partnership. The Resolution would also authorize the Mayor or his designee to execute any and all documents necessary to effectuate disposition proceedings for the property.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the Department of Planning to accept a $197,500 grant from the EPA's Brownfield Area-wide Planning Program for the purpose of developing an area-wide plan for brownfield redevelopment in the Brandywine Riverfront Northeast Community.
This Resolution is being presented by the Council for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be amending Rule 2 of the Rules of the Council of the City of Wilmington (Resolution 17-001) by changing "Silent Reflection" to "Universal Prayer" under Order of Business.
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This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing City Contract 17006HRPS – Limited Services Employment – between the City and Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc., for a period of approximately five (5) months beginning on or about February 1, 2017 and ending June 30, 2017. The City would have an option for three (3) one-year extensions provided the terms and conditions (including price) remain the same. The annual estimated cost is $1,137,000.00.
This Ordinance is being presented by the Treasurer for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be amending Chapter 2 §2-379(c) of the City Code to update and codify provisions related to the budget reserve account funds. The Ordinance would authorize the City Treasurer to access budget reserve account funds, extend the period from July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, and require that funds be replenish no later than October 1, 2017.
This Ordinance is being presented by the Administration for City Council's review and approval. If approved, the Council would be authorizing reconciliation of budget accounts for the previous fiscal year ending June 30, 2016.
This Ordinance is being presented by the Council for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be amending Chapter 2 of the Wilmington City Code, updating and formalizing Code provisions related to the Audit Review Committee to allow greater flexibility in permitting the City Council Finance Chair to send a designee in his or her place, and in adding the City Council Chief Financial Officer as a non-voting member.
This Resolution is being presented by the Council for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be encouraging the State of Delaware to consider the absence of local control afforded to Wilmington residents, the impact of the drawing of boundary lines for school districts, and school board election voting processes when seeking solutions to education issues negatively impacting Wilmington residents and students.
This Resolution is being presented by the Council for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be amending Rule 10 of the Rules of the Council of the City of Wilmington (Resolution 17-001) by adding Judiciary as a Standing Committee.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing Wilmington Fire Department to accept a $22,000.00 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to purchase water survival suits, water rescue and air monitoring equipment.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the submission of a grant application to the U.S. Department of Justice in the amount of $999,216.91. The funds will be used to plan and implement Revitalization Agenda for West Center City (RAWCC) which is a multi-sector partnership to reduce crime and violence; reduce physical blight and enhance the opportunities for quality housing; and increase quality programming to lead to stable and rewarding employment in West Center City.
This Resolution is being presented by the Administration for Council's review and approval. If approved, Council would be authorizing the submission of a grant application to the Delaware Department of Justice in the amount of $20,100.00. If successful, the funds would be used to purchase technology upgrades for the Hostage Negotiation Team Mobile Operations Center and Officer Down Individual First Aid Kits.


A patrial name or geographical surname is a surname or second cognomen given to person deriving from a toponym, the name for a geographical place. It was particularly common in ancient Greece and Rome. The lack of a family surname and use of a geographical cognomen as a surname may the sign of a lower class, such as courtesans when signing a contract. With medieval writers, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, whose works circulated around many countries, geographical cognomens sometimes served to distinguish better than "son of," "ben" or "ibn."
Roman Military commanders often took a second cognomen, an agnomen, recalling a victorious campaign: Africanus, Asiaticus, Macedonicus, Numantinus. These may be inherited as in the case of Augustus who inherited the cognomen Thurinus.
Athenagoras the Athenian (Athenagoras o Athenaios, Ἀθηναγόρας ὁ Ἀθηναῖος).
Mary Magdalene, "Mary of Magdala" (Greek Maria Magadelene, Μαρία Μαγδαληνή).
Giraldus Cambrensis "Gerald of Wales"
Galfridus Monemutensis, "Geoffrey of Monmouth"
Jacopo da Bologna "Jacob of Bologna"
Jacques de Vitry "James of Vitry-sur-Seine"
In examples 1 through 3, where the noun or adjective has case declension the partial name will typically decline in accordance with normal noun or adjective rules. For example in Giraldi Cambrensis opera - "the works of [genitive] Gerald of Wales" - Giraldus declines to Giraldi (the genitive form of Gerald) and cambrensis (nominative adjective) declines to cambrensis (genitive adjective, but the same as nominative in this example). The declension is normally not followed when citing Latin patrial names in English, "of Giraldus Cambrensis," but may cause confusion when trying to identify the nominative spellings of patrial names from Latin or Greek sources.
Bela Lugosi stagename "from Lugoj"
George Brassaï pseudonym "from Braşov"
↑ The New Century classical handbook Catherine B. Avery - 1962 "Toponyms (place names) also appear: Coriolanus, Norbanus, Sabinus, Soranus, Tusculanus.
↑ Molière: A Theatrical Life - Page 42 Virginia Scott - 2002 "Taviani identifies Lucrezia as a courtesan because of her name that, in the fashion of courtesans, joins a Roman first name to a geographical surname and because the contract was signed in a house owned or leased by her at a time when "
↑ European culture: a contemporary companion Jonathan Law - 1993 "His professional name means 'from Brasso', his birthplace. After studying in Budapest and Berlin he moved to Paris in 1924, where he worked as a journalist; he did not take his first photograph until the age of 30.


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Next Generation of Everything
The MCU's future lies with those it previously neglected: teen girls
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On Aug. 31, 2009, comics fans were rocked by the news that the House of Mouse was absorbing the House of Ideas. The $4 billion deal between Disney and Marvel Entertainment was just as surprising to those who followed corporate moving and shaking — but news stories quickly formed a consensus narrative. Outlets from New York Times to the Guardian to Forbes agreed: Marvel Entertainment would hand Disney an audience that the venerable studio was struggling to lure.
Speaking to Newsweek, Disney chief financial officer Tom Staggs put it in plain language: "We both have properties with broad appeal, but [Marvel properties] skew more toward boys."
More than a decade down the line, with Marvel Studios dominating the entire mood of franchise cinema, Marvel Entertainment and its mousy parent are reaping what they've sown. The teenagers of 2009 are the 30-somethings of the 2020s, and the teenagers of 2022 are of a different breed. The future of Marvel Studios is in clawing back the youth audience, but this time, it has a different plan. After a decade of drought, a certain kind of superhero is quietly cropping up in nearly every upcoming film on the company's slate.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is pivoting to girls.
Biff! Pow! Comic book movies aren't just for boys anymore
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Marvel sequels often expand their casts by adding on more heroes — Black Widow and War Machine in Iron Man 2, the Falcon and the Winter Soldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the Wasp in Ant-Man and the Wasp. Marvel's Phase Four (that is, everything from Black Widow on) takes that tendency and makes it a rule. And the rule is: add a superheroine. Ideally, a teenage one.
Black Widow has already introduced a younger legacy character with Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova, and Eternals not only chose a female character, Sersi, from the ensemble group of comic book demigods as its lead — it also gender-bent the eternally teenage character, Sprite, who until the film had always been depicted in comics as male.
Of Marvel Studios' upcoming feature films with release dates, only one (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) has so far declined to introduce a new superheroine. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will welcome the queer, teen, Latinx character of America Chavez to the MCU. Thor: Love and Thunder will feature Natalie Portman's unexpected return to the franchise to play Jane Foster's ascension to the role of Thor. Even without the untimely passing of Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever would likely still have leaned into the breakout popularity of Letitia Wright's Shuri, but the film will also debut Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams, a Black teen girl who reverse engineers Iron Man's armor to become the hero Ironheart. The Marvels will grab two superheroines from their Disney Plus debuts to star alongside Carol Danvers. Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania will bring in Big Little Lies' Kathryn Newton as the third actress to play the hero's daughter, and the first to actually put on her super suit as fellow shrinking hero Stinger.
Things are much the same in Marvel's rush to bring TV series to the Disney Plus service. WandaVision shone a light on the MCU Avengers' second female recruit, and introduced Teyonah Parris as Pulsar. Loki introduced its own version of Lady Loki, while Hawkeye brought Kate Bishop and Echo to the screen. And the company's future television slate is — when compared to previous output — shockingly female-led. Ms. Marvel, She-Hulk, Ironheart, Echo, Agatha: House of Harkness, and an untitled series featuring Danai Gurira's Okoye are all on the board.
It's a vigorous heel turn from a franchise that, in its first decade, had produced only two television shows (Agent Carter and Jessica Jones) with a woman as the sole title character, and didn't make a single woman-lead feature film. It's a show of faith for Marvel Comics' deep well of diverse characters, many of whom are no more obscure than Iron Man was before the year 2008, and a show of faith that many fans have been demanding for over a decade.
We should not take this as a company bowing to the demands of its existing audience, however. What's actually happening here is a company bowing to the reality that the audience it neglected in the last decade is the one it needs to survive.
New kids in town
There's a certain amount of bullshit bandwidth that should be given to any research into generational trends. But whether or not the generalizations of such research are true, they're still the generalizations that Disney and Marvel have to work with. And as the oldest Zoomers enter the workforce, a growing body of research on their cohort is coming to the same repeated conclusions.
According to the research, Gen Z is more racially progressive, more accepting of gender as a spectrum, and more queer and queer-accepting than any generation before it. They have a low tolerance for being pandered to, especially by corporations, they disdain brand loyalty, and they expect the brands they patronize to be socially responsible.
What's more, there's their recency bias. Millennials remember a time when an enjoyable superhero movie was a novelty, and a reliable superhero franchise? Practically unheard of. For every Batman Begins there was a Superman Returns, for every X-Men or Spider-Man there was an X-Men: The Last Stand or a Spider-Man III. But Hollywood's repeated attempts to create interconnected film franchises are the mass media environment in which Gen Z became aware of the existence of mass media. The oldest of them were just on the cusp of teenhood when Iron Man hit theaters, and the youngest could share a birthday with Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Superheroes aren't the shiny new thing to them — they are the default edifice of cinema. Many members of the cohort were media literate and heavily online as the vibrant, female, queer-dominated online fandoms that rose up around the Marvel Cinematic Universe were met with a thundering and awkward decades-long silence. While the oldest millennials grew up with bowdlerized translations of Sailor Moon, Gen Z's middle-grade television landscape has offered them the diverse worlds of Avatar: The Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, She-Ra, and Disney's own Owl House. Gen Z is watching Disney's repeated stumbles. They're even protesting them.
Marvel Studios has to find new ideas to get a new generation hooked on the MCU as Millennials age out of the youth demographic, because this time around, an Avengers line-up of five white guys and one white woman is not going to cut it. Fortunately for Marvel Studios, they have something to fall back on: the actual House of Ideas.
Marvel, now
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While Marvel Studios was building the Infinity Saga, superhero comics were evolving. Perhaps the oddest shock of going back to of-the-moment reporting on Disney's Marvel acquisition is remembering the 2009 industry perception of both companies. A large number of articles note Hannah Montana as Disney's headline product, and almost all define the vibe of Marvel Comics as "tough" or "grim."
Needless to say, those perceptions have changed — not least because Disney is now the house of not only Marvel but Star Wars, The Simpsons, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and the Alien and Predator franchises, to name just a few. But things have changed at Marvel Comics, as well.
Two years after 2009, Brain Bendis and Sarah Pichelli created Miles Morales. In 2012, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Jamie McKelvie, and Dexter Soy debuted a reimagining of Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel. In 2013, editors Sana Amanat and Stephen Wacker, writer G. Willow Wilson, and artists Adrian Alphona and Jamie McKelvie collaborated to make Kamala Khan the new Ms. Marvel. In the same year, Kieron Gillen and McKelvie definitively modernized the Young Avengers with an almost entirely queer cast. In 2014, Rick Remender, Carlos Pacheco, and Stuart Immonen gave Sam Wilson the title of Captain America. In the same year, Jason Aaron and Russell Dauterman made Jane Foster into Thor.
And that's just the first half of the decade. In 2015, Laura Kinney became the Wolverine in Tom Taylor, David López, and David Navarrot's All-New Wolverine. In 2016, Jennifer Walters took the title role in Mariko Tamaki and Nico Leon's Hulk series. In the same year, Bendis and Mike Deodato debuted Riri Williams as Ironheart.
For the writers, artists, and editors on these stories, the rewards of success often included being the target of vicious harassment aimed at punishing the creators of diverse comics. And it is now precisely that work that Marvel Studios is turning to for the billion-dollar movies and shows of the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Phase Four, often with just a "thanks" in passing. Between WandaVision (Demiurge and Speed), Loki (Kid Loki), Hawkeye (Kate Bishop), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (America Chavez) alone, Marvel Studios has introduced five of the members of Gillen and McKelvie's Young Avengers, with options for Shuri, Ironheart, Patriot (Eli Bradley) and Stinger (Cassie Lang) on the side.
This is not an accident. Marvel Studios' POC-led franchises like Black Panther, Shang-Chi, and a new Captain America are already in the can. Queer-adjacent films are clearly an arena Disney prefers not to consider, which may explain why it's been five years since Marvel Studios recouped the film license to the overwhelmingly popular and heavily queer-coded X-Men franchise without a peep of a new film. The future of the Marvel Cinematic Universe lies in Disney's ability to gain the loyalty of the most progressive and skeptical generation yet, and there is only one "safe," new axis of diversity for Marvel Studios to lean into: women.
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The Galaxy S7 leaks bonanza shows no signs of slowing down. After reports a few days ago said the phones will be available in stores on March 11th, a new rumor seems to corroborate it and reveal even more details about the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge's release.
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Dutch tech blog Android World learned from multiple sources that preorders for the handsets will start on February 21st, which is the very same day the phones will be announced in Barcelona, Spain. The prices for the handsets have not been divulged yet, but an extensive preview of the new phones suggested that the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge will have the same prices as their predecessors.
The site adds that the handsets will indeed launch on March 11th and that every person who preorders the handset from February 21st to March 11th will receive a free Gear VR headset, which is a fantastic deal. To get the glasses, users will apparently need to pre-register with Samsung through a special page.
Samsung already teased that its Galaxy S7 event will have some VR in it, so a promotion like this would make sense.
The phones will reportedly be available in three colors in the Netherlands, but both the Galaxy S7 and the Galaxy S7 edge will only be available in 32GB versions. That's not necessarily a problem, considering that Samsung is rumored to be bringing microSD support back to the Galaxy S line after having removed it last year.
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Love and death: these are the only themes. So it's been in Simon Joyner's twenty years of making records—from 1992's Umbilical Chords cassette to his new double LP, Ghosts. Over the course of a thirteen-album career in which he's produced a multitude of sounds and musical influences on a multitude of independent labels, he's only made two other proper double-albums (1997's Yesterday, Tomorrow and In Between and 2001's Hotel Lives). Both are classics of his discography, and Ghosts follows in their footsteps, creating and inhabiting a world in which Joyner's thematic preoccupations can be explored carefully and fully. Recorded on reel-to-reel in Joyner's warehouse on a sixteen-track tape machine over many months, Ghosts sounds unlike any Joyner record. The influence of dark, '60s and '70s private-press psych and folk records, as well as the noisy, transcendent music of New Zealand heroes like This Kind of Punishment, Alastair Galbraith and The Dead C are highlighted on this experimental, full-band song-cycle that pays subtle as well as brazen homage to several influential double-albums (perhaps most obviously with its Exile on Main Street-inspired gatefold artwork). Joyner's music gathers acolytes rather than casual fans, contributing to his "songwriter's songwriter" status and inspiring comparisons to other artists like Bill Fay, Townes Van Zandt, David Blue, and Leonard Cohen. Ghosts is an all-analog album (recorded and mastered), and available vinyl-only with a full digital download included.
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The institute will be conducted over four weeks (May 30-June 24, 2016) at the Ernest J. Gaines Center on UL Lafayette's campus. Each week participants will partake in lectures, group discussions, movie screenings, and field trips. Monday through Thursday of each week, morning sessions will involve lectures and group discussions. One afternoon session each week will be dedicated to a film screening of an adaptation of one of Gaines's works. Two to three afternoons each week will be reserved for participants to conduct archival research using the Ernest J. Gaines papers and the archival materials housed within the Louisiana Room in Edith Garland Dupré Library.
Detailed Agenda
WEEK ONE (Week of May 30)
Topic: Introduction to the Work of Ernest J. Gaines, Influences, and Regional Antecedents
Visiting Scholars: John Lowe and Gary Holcomb
The week will introduce participants to the work and life of Ernest J. Gaines. This will come through a screening of the short documentary, An Obsession of Mine, and through lectures by John Lowe, Gaines's biographer, and Gary Holcomb, Professor of African American literature. Participants will read Gaines's first novel, Catherine Carmier (1964) and his most recently published work, A Lesson before Dying (1993), which returns to many of the same themes of as education, manhood, the changing land and community in his debut work. Gaines has stated, at various times, the influence of many authors in his writings. Therefore scholars and participants will read and discuss these selected influences: Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons (1862), Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time (1925), a collection of Hemingway's short stories, and Lyle Saxon's Children of Strangers (1937), a novel by a Louisiana native that carries strong similarities to Catherine Carmier because of its focus on a Creole community in Louisiana. Film screenings: two short documentaries on Gaines: An Obsession of Mine (2009) and a 1972 film done in California.
WEEK TWO (Week of JUNE 6)
Visiting Scholars: Richard Yarborough and Keith Byerman
Field Trip: New Orleans
The week will serve as a platform for discussions on slavery in the South and its long-term effects, which can be seen, as Gaines mentions, throughout the twentieth century and into our own. Scholars will begin the week by leading participants in discussions on two major works of Gaines: Of Love and Dust (1967) and Bloodline (1968). The following days we will interpret themes and structure in short stories by Arna Bontemps, Charles Chesnutt, and Richard Wright and in the novel Absalom, Absalom! (1972) by William Faulkner. Throughout, we will discuss how these writers relate to Gaines and his work, highlighting thematic issues such as living in a Southern racist society (including the experiences of mixed-race individuals and of inter-racial relationships), protests against racial discrimination, the residual effects of slavery (such as share-cropping) and social conflicts within the Southern context. Film screening: The Sky is Gray.
WEEK THREE (Week of JUNE 13)
Visiting Scholars: Thadious Davis and Herman Beavers
During the week we will explore gender, religion, and protest in Gaines' fiction, specifically in the novels The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971) and In My Father's House (1978). This week's scholars, Thadious Davis and Herman Beavers, will lecture and lead group discussions on the Civil Rights Movement and religion in Gaines' work. In conjunction with selected works by Gaines, the group will explore the literary legacy of Jean Toomer's Cane (1923) and James Baldwin's Go Tell it on the Mountain (1953) and how their representations of religion and the South thematically relate to Gaines. The week will conclude with discussions on James Wilcox's portrayals of gender and religion in the South in Modern Baptists, published in 1983. Film screening: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman.
WEEK FOUR (Week of JUNE 20)
Visiting scholars: Marcia Gaudet and Maria Hebert-Leiter
Field Trip: New Roads, LA and Oscar, LA (Pointe Coupee Parish)
During this concluding week, we will feature two prominent scholars who will lead discussions on several themes and styles in Gaines's works in relation to more contemporary authors. We will speak to the continued relevance and universal nature represented in Gaines and selected authors: under-represented individuals and community in A Gathering of Old Men, the depiction of voice and land in Southern author Tim Gautreaux's Welding with Children (1999), the history and the mechanization of the land and the after-effects of slavery, so pervasive in Gaines's works and in Attica Locke's The Cutting Season (2012). The week will wrap up with the thoughts of Gaines himself in Mozart and Leadbelly (2005), which reveals how the author views himself as a writer especially in relation to American, Southern, and African American literature. Following discussions on Wednesday and Thursday, participants will present their research projects to the rest of the Institute. Film screening: A Gathering of Old Men.
WEEK ONE FIELD TRIP (Week of MAY 30)
Cane River Historical Park and National Heritage Area
Participants will visit this area, located in Natchitoches Parish, to see the land that Saxon writes about in his early 20th-century work, Children of Strangers. A nationally known area, Cane River consists of Oakland Plantation, Magnolia Plantation, and Melrose Plantation (the plantation where Saxon lived and wrote his work, and also former home of the folk artist, Clementine Hunter). Cane River is dedicated to the historic preservation of the Cane River region and its three -hundred year relationship with the Creole culture.
WEEK TWO FIELD TRIP (Week of JUNE 6)
Walking Tour of Literary New Orleans
– Literary New Orleans — New Orleans Conventions & Visitor Bureau
– New Orleans: Ten Literary Landmarks — Frommer's
New Orleans is not just a Mardi Gras parade destination and home to abundant restaurants. This city is steeped in rich literary heritage, from writers just passing through to those who made their permanent home in areas like the French Quarter and the Garden District. Participants will take a field trip to New Orleans to learn about selected writers and the distinctive culture they lived in. Guides will point out places where Southern authors such as Faulkner, Saxon, George Washington Cable, Tennessee Williams, Kate Chopin, Grace King and others spent time living and writing.
WEEK THREE FIELD TRIP (Week of JUNE 13)
Vermilionville Living History & Folk Life Park (Lafayette, LA)
Vermilionville is a living history museum and folklife park dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Acadian, Native American, and Creole cultures, based on the period between 1765 to 1890. The trip will serve as an introduction to some of the types of characters that the participants will encounter in the final week of the Institute. Of interest, Vermilionville will host an exhibit in June called "Black History in the Attakapas Region," which includes Lafayette and the surrounding areas.
WEEK FOUR FIELD TRIP (Week of JUNE 20)
Pointe Coupee Parish and Oscar, LA
On this trip to Pointe Coupee Parish, participants will see and experience the land that inspired novels like A Lesson Before Dying and The Autobiography of Mrs. Jane Pittman. This region is about one hundred miles northwest of New Orleans along the False River. Dr. Gaines was born and raised in this area on River Lake Plantation, and it is this plantation that inspired his work. He and his wife, Mrs. Diane Gaines, returned to Oscar and bought some of the land that his family once worked. They moved and restored the tin-roofed schoolhouse and chapel building from Gaines's childhood to their property and and continue to work diligently to maintain the small cemetery where the workers of River Lake Plantation were buried. Tentative plans include visiting the Gaines in their home.


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.class public Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "MockRadioStore.java"

# interfaces
.implements Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStore;

# instance fields
.field public mFavorites:Ljava/util/Map;
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation
.end field

.field private mSavedFrequency:I

.field public mStations:Ljava/util/Map;
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation
.end field

.field private mWriteCount:I

.field public saveFrequencyCount:I

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>()V
    .locals 2

    .prologue
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .line 31
    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 33
    new-instance v0, Ljava/util/HashMap;

    invoke-direct {v0}, Ljava/util/HashMap;-><init>()V

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mFavorites:Ljava/util/Map;

    .line 35
    new-instance v0, Ljava/util/HashMap;

    invoke-direct {v0}, Ljava/util/HashMap;-><init>()V

    iput-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mStations:Ljava/util/Map;

    .line 37
    iput v1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mWriteCount:I

    .line 39
    iput v1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->saveFrequencyCount:I

    .line 41
    iput v1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mSavedFrequency:I

    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public addFavorite(ILjava/lang/String;)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter "frequency"
    .parameter "name"

    .prologue
    .line 68
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mFavorites:Ljava/util/Map;

    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v1

    new-instance v2, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;

    invoke-direct {v2, p2}, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    invoke-interface {v0, v1, v2}, Ljava/util/Map;->put(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;

    .line 69
    return-void
.end method

.method public addStation(ILjava/lang/String;)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter "frequency"
    .parameter "cachedRds"

    .prologue
    .line 72
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mStations:Ljava/util/Map;

    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v1

    new-instance v2, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;

    invoke-direct {v2, p2}, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;-><init>(Ljava/lang/String;)V

    invoke-interface {v0, v1, v2}, Ljava/util/Map;->put(Ljava/lang/Object;Ljava/lang/Object;)Ljava/lang/Object;

    .line 73
    return-void
.end method

.method public close()V
    .locals 0

    .prologue
    .line 128
    return-void
.end method

.method public loadFrequency()I
    .locals 3

    .prologue
    .line 116
    const/4 v0, 0x1

    new-array v0, v0, [Ljava/lang/Object;

    const/4 v1, 0x0

    iget v2, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mSavedFrequency:I

    invoke-static {v2}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v2

    aput-object v2, v0, v1

    invoke-static {v0}, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/util/LogUtil;->logd([Ljava/lang/Object;)V

    .line 117
    iget v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mSavedFrequency:I

    return v0
.end method

.method public readFavorites()Ljava/util/Map;
    .locals 1
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "()",
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 50
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mFavorites:Ljava/util/Map;

    return-object v0
.end method

.method public readStations()Ljava/util/Map;
    .locals 1
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "()",
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;",
            ">;"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 45
    iget-object v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mStations:Ljava/util/Map;

    return-object v0
.end method

.method public saveFrequency(I)V
    .locals 3
    .parameter "f"

    .prologue
    .line 109
    const/4 v0, 0x1

    new-array v0, v0, [Ljava/lang/Object;

    const/4 v1, 0x0

    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v2

    aput-object v2, v0, v1

    invoke-static {v0}, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/util/LogUtil;->logd([Ljava/lang/Object;)V

    .line 110
    iput p1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mSavedFrequency:I

    .line 111
    iget v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->saveFrequencyCount:I

    add-int/lit8 v0, v0, 0x1

    iput v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->saveFrequencyCount:I

    .line 112
    return-void
.end method

.method public setStartFrequency(I)V
    .locals 0
    .parameter "startFrequency"

    .prologue
    .line 125
    iput p1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mSavedFrequency:I

    .line 126
    return-void
.end method

.method public waitForWriteCount(II)Z
    .locals 10
    .parameter "count"
    .parameter "timeout"

    .prologue
    const/4 v5, 0x1

    .line 89
    invoke-static {}, Ljava/lang/System;->currentTimeMillis()J

    move-result-wide v6

    int-to-long v8, p2

    add-long v3, v6, v8

    .line 91
    .local v3, tEnd:J
    :try_start_0
    monitor-enter p0
    :try_end_0
    .catch Ljava/lang/InterruptedException; {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catch_0

    .line 92
    :goto_0
    :try_start_1
    iget v6, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mWriteCount:I

    if-ge v6, p1, :cond_1

    .line 93
    invoke-static {}, Ljava/lang/System;->currentTimeMillis()J

    move-result-wide v1

    .line 94
    .local v1, tCur:J
    cmp-long v6, v1, v3

    if-ltz v6, :cond_0

    .line 95
    monitor-exit p0

    .line 104
    .end local v1           #tCur:J
    :goto_1
    return v5

    .line 97
    .restart local v1       #tCur:J
    :cond_0
    sub-long v6, v3, v1

    invoke-virtual {p0, v6, v7}, Ljava/lang/Object;->wait(J)V

    goto :goto_0

    .line 100
    .end local v1           #tCur:J
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v6

    monitor-exit p0
    :try_end_1
    .catchall {:try_start_1 .. :try_end_1} :catchall_0

    :try_start_2
    throw v6
    :try_end_2
    .catch Ljava/lang/InterruptedException; {:try_start_2 .. :try_end_2} :catch_0

    .line 101
    :catch_0
    move-exception v0

    .line 102
    .local v0, e:Ljava/lang/InterruptedException;
    goto :goto_1

    .line 100
    .end local v0           #e:Ljava/lang/InterruptedException;
    :cond_1
    :try_start_3
    monitor-exit p0
    :try_end_3
    .catchall {:try_start_3 .. :try_end_3} :catchall_0

    .line 104
    const/4 v5, 0x0

    goto :goto_1
.end method

.method public writeFavorites(Ljava/util/Map;)V
    .locals 0
    .parameter
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "(",
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;",
            ">;)V"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 64
    .local p1, favorites:Ljava/util/Map;,"Ljava/util/Map<Ljava/lang/Integer;Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/Favorite;>;"
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mFavorites:Ljava/util/Map;

    .line 65
    return-void
.end method

.method public writeStations(Ljava/util/Map;)V
    .locals 1
    .parameter
    .annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/Signature;
        value = {
            "(",
            "Ljava/util/Map",
            "<",
            "Ljava/lang/Integer;",
            "Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;",
            ">;)V"
        }
    .end annotation

    .prologue
    .line 55
    .local p1, radioStations:Ljava/util/Map;,"Ljava/util/Map<Ljava/lang/Integer;Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/station/RadioStation;>;"
    iput-object p1, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mStations:Ljava/util/Map;

    .line 56
    monitor-enter p0

    .line 57
    :try_start_0
    iget v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mWriteCount:I

    add-int/lit8 v0, v0, 0x1

    iput v0, p0, Lcom/sonyericsson/fmradio/mock/MockRadioStore;->mWriteCount:I

    .line 58
    invoke-virtual {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;->notifyAll()V

    .line 59
    monitor-exit p0

    .line 60
    return-void

    .line 59
    :catchall_0
    move-exception v0

    monitor-exit p0
    :try_end_0
    .catchall {:try_start_0 .. :try_end_0} :catchall_0

    throw v0
.end method

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Germany: 'No understanding' for Russia outrage on expulsions
Posted: Dec 6, 2019 / 07:03 AM EST / Updated: Dec 6, 2019 / 07:03 AM EST
FILE-In this Aug. 29, 2019 file photo people carry the body of the victim who has been identified as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian Muslim during the funeral in Duisi village, the Pankisi Gorge valley, in Georgia. Germany's foreign ministry says it has expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors announced they suspected Moscow's involvement in the brazen daylight slaying of a Georgian man in Berlin. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)
BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel's chief of staff is urging Russia to support the investigation of a killing prosecutors say appears to have ordered by Russian or Chechen authorities, and says he has "no understanding" for outraged reactions from Moscow.
Germany expelled two Russian diplomats on Wednesday over the brazen killing of a Georgian man on the streets of Berlin in August. German federal prosecutors said evidence suggested the slaying was ordered either by Moscow or authorities in Russia's republic of Chechnya.
Russia's ambassador to Germany rejected the accusations and threatened consequences for the expulsion of its diplomats.
"We see the expulsions as a very urgent signal to the Russian side to support us immediately and comprehensively in clearing up the identity and background of the suspected perpetrator," Merkel's chief of staff, Helge Braun, was quoted Friday as telling Der Spiegel magazine.
"Against the backdrop of a lack of support for months, I have absolutely no understanding for Russia being indignant or even considering counter-measures," he added.
A suspect is in custody in Germany.
Merkel is due to see Russian President Vladimir Putin at a previously scheduled four-way meeting in Paris Monday with the presidents of Ukraine and France. The government said Friday that Merkel and Putin also will hold a bilateral meeting.
Remote Irish island looking for 2 people to relocate and run its coffee shop


Your TV analysis for the week of April 5, 2015.
Note: The following breakdowns go into detail about their episodes. SPOILER ALERT!
Welcome to the Breakdown, where we take the week's TV highlights and break them down into party-size chunks. If you came looking for Game of Thrones, you're a week early. If you came looking for The Walking Dead, you're a week late. We do, in fact, have the premiere of Louie, a newbie in the form of iZombie and Dare(flippin')devil's first episode.
Liv continues to be a very likeable character. "Liv and Let Clive" wasn't the strongest in the way of plot, but character wise, it was a real treat. It's great to see all of Liv's friends and/or co-workers crossing over. By the end of this episode, Major and Ravi had a nice bromance going on, and as a gamer, I was glad to hear two guys on TV talking about video games in a non-cringeworthy manner. (There are definitely nerds in this writers' room.) Liv took on the traits of a former Blue Cobra gang member. In past episodes, she has taken on the personalities of a sociopath and an artist, but this week's personality was less colorful. She was pretty much herself with the addition of being more paranoid. Oh, and let's not forget, she picked up kung fu skills, skills in which she used to take out the head of the gang. Liv and Ravi spent the better half of this episode concerned about where Clive's ethics lie. He turned out to be clean, and watching the clues slowly reveal themselves was average. Finally, Blaine spent this episode being a master brain taste-tester. He hired some goons who tried to challenge his brain pushing business, but that ended quickly. We now know Jerome is about to be served on a platter, as this episode ends with Blaine sawing his head open. Consequences are sure to follow, especially with those shoes being so iconic.
New Girl wasn't too exciting this week. "Par 5" mustered up the show's usual laughs, but the situations felt like they were pulled from a hat. Winston goes on a date, Schmidt tries to become tanner and Jess goes golfing. These three plots were just funny enough at times. Jess's awkwardness was nothing new, even when you put a golf club in her hand. Winston is basically the same kind of awkward as Jess, and like her plot, was good enough. Even the comedically gifted Max Greenfield felt like he turned it down a notch. The funniest scene, though, was Nick and Winston doing Eddie Murphy and Seinfeld impressions, with Coach unexpectedly jumping in. While "Par 5" was obviously just filler for the show, I know New Girl is capable of delivery cohesive, funnier episodes.
Loretta found herself forced to side with Markham, so now he's as powerful an opponent as ever. Raylan and Boon will definitely have to face off at some stage too, unless all of this build-up has been a red herring. I'd like to think that Raylan will get his targets and ride off into the sunset, but it surely can't end that happily for him. He has signed over his house and cut all ties with Harlan, so now all that is keeping him there is Boyd Crowder. It's fascinating to see how perfectly everything has been set up for the finale. Back at the midway point of the season, it would have been impossible to predict virtually any of this. The characters were moved into position throughout the course of the season, and then Ava shooting Boyd set everything into overdrive. Simply wonderful.
Rejoice, everyone, for Louis C.K. has returned to the airwaves to pump more auteur comedy into our lives. What becomes a simple attempt to reach out to parents at a potluck at his daughter's school, leads Louie through a crazy menagerie of welcoming and bitter people. This of course ends up with him in the bed of a pregnant woman. Louie has always walked a fine line between hope and despair, and "Potluck" constant shifts from happy to sad continue to both show Louie's state of mind and deliver huge laughs. Five seasons in and "Potluck" is a reminder that no one creates television quite like Louis C.K.
"Into the Ring" did a great job of wiping the soiled vision of 2003's Daredevil from our minds. What we have now is a wonderfully gritty adventure that was set up nicely in its first hour. The origin story was satisfyingly brief, as were subtle references to other MCU events. The standout moments were the two fight scenes. This is the first time we are seeing Marvel produce something this dark and mature for the screen, and boy did they pull it off. I loved the way the fights were choreographed, with a shaking camera due to a body slam against a wall adding more to the brutal dance. We were introduced to some major players here. There was our titular hero, Daredevil/Matt Murdock, who serves as a dark knight if you will. Foggy stands in as a lighter, more comical character that the show can count on. Karen, played by former True Blood actress Deborah Ann Woll, is a dark character that more than certainly has some dark secrets buried. On the villain side of things, we weren't actually introduced to Kingpin quite yet. However, throughout the episode we hear of him and even hear his voice. Doing most of the villainous errands was Wesley, who seems to be the right hand man to Kingpin. Hell's Kitchen is a neighborhood in desperate need of a hero like Daredevil. As the episode ends, we see this is a place where kidnappings, muggings, weapon trades and drug operations are all what make it hell.
Are you impressed by 'Daredevil'? Was this 'Justified"s best episode? What other shows should we break down? Tweet us @YouNerded.
That's it for this week. Be sure to return every Saturday for your weekly TV breakdown.


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WordPress Changes – Poll – Kept in the Dark ?
Others in this series are Start – Herded ? Kept in the Dark ? Valued Customer ? and more to come. Workarounds are here. My standby blog is http://freedfromtime.blogspot.co.uk/
It is now evident that WP management will not pay attention to customers disquiet and have opted for obstinate. It also evident that they have kept some motives hidden (see below).
The only option left is to seek a change of management by alerting investors via the tech-media. The forums and this opportunity to vote is a means of doing so.
1. Behind the Scenes
The recent changes are not just about the appearance on mobile phones. There is further enterprise involved and perhaps the real reason for being so stubborn and rash in it's implementation.
The following applies to any WP hosted blog and any using Jetpack.
A system known as Rest-Api is being installed. The system plants a Rest-Api cookie bundle on your computer. The new user-interface does not work without it.
The the Rest-Api system provides three facilities.
Publicly available access to your posts/comments/likes. There is nothing new there, except that some further information is provided (e.g. the ID's of visitors).
If you give permission, remote access to your blog/image-library for the purposes of allowing a service (e.g. a printing company) to download content.
If you give permission, remote access by a developer. Access may include your statistics, the ability to create/edit/delete posts and whatever else you provide permission for.
Further information is available in sections 2 and 3. Otherwise jump to sections 4-6 .
2. Public/Limited Access
You might try clicking on some of these (I've kept it to the 4 most recent)_:-
Revealing my 4 most recent posts, or anybodies.
https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/freedfromtime.wordpress.com/posts/?number=4&pretty=1
Revealing my 4 most recent comments, or anybodies, with information about the commenter.
https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/freedfromtime.wordpress.com/comments/?number=4&pretty=1
Revealing my 4 most recent Likes, or anybodies, on a post with information about the Liker. The Post ID for this is "1" (my About page but may not be the same for you). Otherwise you will need a Post ID which can be obtained from the first link.
https://public-api.wordpress.com/rest/v1/sites/freedfromtime.wordpress.com/posts/1/likes/?number=4&pretty=1
Each of these will open in a new Tab. You can change the Blog name and you don't have to be logged in to your account in order to use them. However, Private and Password Protected are not shown unless you are logged in and add "&status=any". Note: Pretty=1 makes it readable.
Further content is available, when logged in and/or for a developer who has a Blogger's permission. (see Section 3).
2.1 Whats the problem.
This does provide further information such as numeric ID's for Blog, Post, Author and Comment relating to yourself and your visitors.
2.2 A Greater Concern
One might consider this point a breach of security. Usually half the battle for a hacker is knowing one's Log-in name/User name. With WordPress one's Display name is often the same as one's Log-in name/User name. However some have wisely hidden there User name behind a different Display name. The above Links reveal any hidden Log-in/User name.
To test this I have temporarily changed my Display name. Take another look at the first Link and you can see my Display name (Graham With Hats) and the hidden Log-in/User name (grahaminhats).
It is of course too late for me to hide my User name, as this is already attached to previous posts/comments. But, those who took that extra precaution, from the start of their Blogging, have been let down.
I debated whether to release this information but, considering that the content is now publicly available, it seemed better to make it known to Bloggers.
Given the present situation there seems no point in changing one's User name (you can't change it back) or Display name. Therefore, we must rely on strong Passwords. One form of strong Password, for recent times, is a phrase of three or four words that has a personal meaning.
3. Full Access
With a bloggers permission a remote service provider (e.g. printing company) or developer may have a limited or complete access to your site using the Rest-Api system. That access relies upon a new cookie bundle "public-api.wordpress.com" on your browser. None of the new UI (Stats, Editor and Notifications) will work without it. However, unless you are adept at cookie management, I don't recommend trying this. One can lose the ability to comment/like on other blogs if one cannot fully restore cookies.
The full range of Gets (view) and Puts (create/change), available with a Bloggers permission, can be found by clicking here. Full access can include Private and Password Protected.
Some Gets (as with the links above) are available to anyone.
A developer console here provides extended access when logged in to one's account or for a person who has the blogger permission. When using the developer console; to see the full return, click on the bottom left arrow of the brief return.
3.1 The Possible Problems
3.1.1 Security
Access is acquired using OAuth2 authentication. That method has been entirely disavowed by the lead author, who has removed his name from all specifications. His main concerns seem to be that, whilst OAuth1 was a protocol, OAuth2 is a framework that includes many musts and must-nots and requires an unusually high level of expertise to make secure. To read his post click here. An extract below:-
"To be clear, OAuth 2.0 at the hand of a developer with deep understanding of web security will likely result is a secure implementation. However, at the hands of most developers – as has been the experience from the past two years – 2.0 is likely to produce insecure implementations."
3.1.2 Business Worth
Being able to store images from a mobile phone/tablet, upload them to WordPress and then download them to a service provider might be of use to some. However, serious photographers and/or those creating company literature (e.g. pamphlets, brochures etc) are more likely to upload higher resolution images directly to a printing company.
Most of us, if approached by a developer who wants access to our site, would likely respond with "go forth and multiply- off".
E-commerce companies might want to make use of a developers services to compete. If they've got any sense they will use in-house services provided by people who have a deeper knowledge of their company's business and dedicated to it.
3.1.3 Business Loss
I believe that the new User Interface has been so badly implemented as to deter users in the new enterprise. For instance the Mobile App fails or crashes on some devices and the New Editor doesn't even have an "Add Contact Form" function.
Existing customers have suffered considerable and pointless nuisance. It has been shown that it takes less effort to keep existing customers than acquire new ones.
4. A Remaining Mystery
The Rest-Api system is not exactly a secret. Therefore why not tell bloggers what it's all about. There have been plenty of questions put on the forums and here, including questions to Matt Mullenweg on About WordPress Changes and What We Can Do. All we've been told is that it is "Improved or Upgraded" and that it will be "Neat or Nifty" . Why not tell us the whole truth. What are we, peasants ?
What's the mystery, why are we being herded and why remove the original stats page (as we have been told will happen).
The manner with which this has been undertaken seems irrational and unnecessarily forceful. This leads me to think that there is more to discover.
None of this nuisance seems necessary for the implementation of the new functions. Is it necessary for a fuller implementation or to Beta test it on the present customer base or are there others looking on and want to see it "neat" ? Others like Tiger Global who have invested and also have investments in mobile and e-commerce interests. Or, is it a "Just Do it" or "Plough on" or just plain daft attitude or a need to meet deadlines or are control issues involved ?
Perhaps, with new system, it is possible to monitor the Stats that we take an interest in.
Insights and conjectures will be welcome as comments, together with anything else you might wish to say
5. Did You Know ?
I've looked for the below item on the company blog and the the Daily Post. There does not seem to be any mention of it anywhere on WordPress.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2158771/wordpress-com-vulnerable-to-account-hijacking.html
It has probably been fixed by changing to https and the introduction of what looks like a security cookie. But, that login cookie still has a three-year expiry date unless you have a .com, in which case it expires at the end of the browser session.
6. Kept in the Dark ?
Do you feel Kept in the Dark ? This is hardly transparent. There is an opportunity to vote by clicking on a Like in the appropriate comment box below. The third comment box has a link to commentary with replies available.
Please spread the word by Linking, Sharing, Reblogging, or however you think best, so that others have the opportunity to view and vote.
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Zac Brown announces he's opening his Southern Ground Artists label to other acts. First signees include "Goodbye In Her Eyes" songwriter Sonia Leigh, Blackberry Smoke and "Colder Weather" songwriter Levi Lowrey
The late O.B. McClinton receives a Mississippi Country Music Trail marker at Gabbert Park in Senatobia
Hank Williams Jr. and Keith Urban headline a CMT tornado-relief special featuring Lady Antebellum, Alan Jackson, Little Big Town, Sara Evans, Ronnie Dunn, Tim McGraw and Alabama
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishes Steve Earle's first novel, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive," titled after a Hank Williams song
"American Idol" contestants Lauren Alaina and Haley Reinhart duet on "Gunpowder & Lead" during the FOX-TV show. Scotty McCreery and James Durbin chime in with "Start A Band"
Brad Paisley's May 28 H2O II World Tour stadium date at Pittsburgh's Heinz Field is postponed. The bill was to include Blake Shelton, Darius Rucker and Jerrod Niemann
Vancouver radio station CKNW reports Paul Brandt has sued a concert promoter for more than $48,000 in fees that are reportedly unpaid from a July 2009 show
People reports former MTM Records owner Mary Tyler Moore has undergone four hours of surgery to remove a tumor in the lining of her skull
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For several generations of San Franciscans, the mention of a political machine meant one thing: the Burton Machine. Under the auspices of Phil Burton, a loose coalition of liberals united on issues as diverse as opposition to the Viet Nam war and urban poverty, along with environmentalists and disenfranchised minorities, began to cooperate on an agenda to wrest power away from San Francisco's traditional Republican establishment.
It gained control of the city's Democratic County Central Committee, helped launch careers for George Moscone, Willie Brown, Art Agnos and sent Phil's brother John first to the state legislature and then to congress to serve alongside Phil.
Phil Burton's signature statement is inscribed on his statue, where a paper peeks out of his pocket with the scrawl, "Terrorize the Bastards." They were fearless in taking on powerful interests (in Congress Phil Burton's Democratic Study Group used the same tactics to move the House against a Democratic President over the Vietnam War).
But what made the Burton machine recognizable to all was its issue-driven agenda: human rights, health care, the environment, unions with job protection and decent working conditions, and an urban renaissance in the face of a decline affecting many cities.
There was one other recognizable feature of the Burton Machine: it was about empowering people who had little or no say in the decisions that affected them.
And it certainly wasn't about helping the rich get richer.
While elder John Burton continues the tradition, Willie Brown left the machine and started a new one…the Willie Brown Money Machine.
Brown's money machine, like his mayoralty and his career in public or private life, relies on personal relationships and owed loyalty. Mayors at their best have an array of skills that make them effective. They combine an ability to see an opportunity with a vision that sets the pace and direction for change. They know what will be required and they learn to see in people things even their own mother never saw and how to use that. Sometimes they know the rules and where the advantages can be gained through them.
Above all, the asset that makes those elements come together is a relationship built on a singular loyalty to the person at the top of the machine. More than a title or an office, that is the power that can keep a machine producing results in or out of office.
The network of former Brown aides and campaign workers now populate top positions in city agencies or have moved on to posts with major city contractors or as lobbyists.
They include Tiffany Bohee, new head of the "Redevelopment Successor Agency," Linda Richardson, new President of the Treasure Island Development Authority, Naomi Kelly, newly named Chief Administrative officer overseeing all city contracts, Kelly's husband Harlan Kelly in charge of the multi-billion dollars PUC infrastructure program, the reappointments of Eleanor Johns, Brown's former chief aide and current Executive Director of the Willie L. Brown Institute, to the Airport Commission, her husband Richard Johns to the Historic Preservation Commission with the power to open doors to tax benefits, as well as others at the Public Utilities Commission, Recreation and Park Commission, and down the list.
Mohammed Nuru is only the latest in a list that also includes Supervisor Malia Cohen, Ron Vinson, a senior official with the Department of Technology, Bevan Dufty, Lee's new homeless coordinator and seeking to be elected chair of the San Francisco Democratic Party, among many others.
Add to the list of former staffers and their partners those who have signed on either directly or through proxies like Rose Pak, and up comes Doreen Ho, newly elected President of the Port Commission with a hands-on role for the America's Cup.
The most important, of course, is Ed Lee, the mayor Brown shoehorned into office and who has done favors for Brown by retaining or naming Brown allies to key posts where they can continue to do favors for Brown clients and allies.
Brown made sure that he had a virtual army of loyalists when he increased the number of mayoral "special assistants" – hired and fired at will outside civil service – from the 119 he inherited to 521 with a request in the 2000 budget for an additional 100 special assistants.
It's a room where none of us are invited.
But on May 4, 2004, a dozen corporate leaders gathered around a conference table on the 25th floor of a downtown San Francisco office building.
They had been invited by Willie L. Brown, Jr. to hear his proposal for using his decades of government contacts to do them favors that would net multimillion dollar contracts and put a half million dollars in his own pocket to start.
Just four months earlier Brown had left the San Francisco mayor's office, ousted by term limits.
Brown told the corporate leaders – each had a potential financial interest in a proposed California high-speed rail effort – that he had the contacts to get the Legislature to start the approvals.
Among those gathered were the Parsons Brinkerhoff's CEO and three top officials of the California High Speed Rail Authority.
Brown, according to the Oakland Tribune's account at the time, took his seat at the head of the table to propose that he, and his former colleagues former Los Angeles Assemblymember and Transportation Chair Richard Katz and former Assembly member – attorney Terence Goggin, a fixture in Brown's money machine, be paid $1 million. Each of the dozen firms would provide $100,000 to start.
"In return, they would steer a favorable budget into law by lobbying all the key state politicians. Then they'd launch a campaign to convince California voters to pass a $10 billion rail bond," the paper reported.
Brown, Katz and Goggin followed three days later with a memo repeating the proposal.
"The memo, obtained by ANG Newspapers, confirms a picture that emerges from interviews with more than half of the participants and dozens of transportation sources familiar with high-speed rail," the paper told its readers.
According to the article, at least some of the industry representatives viewed the proposal as a "classic shakedown" although trolling for money from potential beneficiaries of government spending is not illegal.
Brown called the group "Friends of California High Speed Rail," and the meeting and memo appear to be its only event. The organization never registered nor did Brown, Katz or Goggin register as lobbyists. At that time, Brown's proposal appeared to be shelved.
In May 2010, a photograph of the groundbreaking for the first Bullet Train terminal showed that one of those wielding a shovel was Willie L. Brown, Jr. By then the Parsons Brinckerhoff government relations director was Stuart Sunshine, formerly Willie Brown's Director of Parking and Traffic.
One indication that this took place almost a decade ago comes from the report that Brown's cut was to be $500,000. According to sources approached by Brown recently, his asking price is now double to $1 million.
Brown's effort to make a handsome living from the contacts he developed as an elected official is nothing new in the world of post-politics.
Nor is it unusual for companies that might gain from public works projects to bankroll measures to first earmark public funds for those projects.
Funding a campaign to convince voters to put money into a project that in turn holds the promise of contracts is very much the way business is done. It was true of the November bond measure for street repair, where just over $150,000 in campaign contributions set the stage for more than $250 million in spending. It was true for the BART extensions to the airport, and for the city of San Francisco's other bond measures. Unions whose members are most likely to get work also are among the campaign contributors. No law restricts donors to ballot measures, only to candidates for office.
Still, it surprised some to find that Brown was using his considerable network of contacts in the state legislature where he served for 16 years as Speaker of the Assembly and self proclaimed " Ayatolla" against the interests of San Francisco, the city he once led.
In 2009, Brown reportedly turned to the state legislature to overturn a San Francisco law that prevented Parsons from bidding on a city contract with terms it wrote. Parsons then sought to share in the $26 million Public Utilities Commission contract.
Brown went behind the city's legislators to have the measure introduced by another members of the Assembly. Not satisfied with proposing that the San Francisco law be overturned, Brown had the measure written to take effect retroactively to allow Parsons to bid.
San Francisco's City Attorney already had deemed Parson's attempt to bid on the project to be a violation of state law.
Brown's end-run came as a surprise to the Board of Supervisors, where Brown's actions were viewed as an "attempt to strong-arm the city on behalf of a global conglomerate," according to a San Francisco Weekly article that first broke the news. A resolution opposing Brown's play quickly was introduced.
The Chronicle took a swing at the measure in an editorial.
"There is something inherently unfair about going back to rewrite a law after a possible infraction.
"AB746 is more than a technical clarification to the law. It's the type of special-interest lawmaking for the well-connected that gives Sacramento a bad name," opined the Chronicle.
The Chronicle noted that the "well-connected" in this case was their own columnist, but also admitted that the paper was unable to get its columnist to return calls.
"Brown, who writes a weekly column in The Chronicle, did not reply to messages seeking comment," stated the June 30, 2009 editorial.
The next day, the state senate pulled the bill for the year.
Today, the way into the office of the mayor handpicked by Brown to warm the seat until a new mayor could be elected, and then for a full four-year term, is out the elevator and through the atrium that now holds a bust of Willie Brown. It was moved up outside the mayor's door from its previous place in the basement.
City officials claim the move was necessitated by nothing more that a repair needed at the former location.
Brown does not register as a lobbyist or disclose his consulting contracts, hiding behind the attorney client loop hole, but in the past two years, he played a role in the sale of the Market Street building that now is Twitter's new offices, has ties to AECOM, the company involved in the Transbay Terminal, the Central Subway, the new Public Utilities Commission headquarters, with Recology and more.
San Francisco's lobbyist law, unlike Los Angeles and other jurisdictions, only counts those who directly contact city officials and not those paid to be "big game hunters." They help bag city contracts and permits by advising whom to contact, what persuasion to offer, how to work around any rules and to loom in the background as available muscle.
(San Francisco also leaves a loophole allowing contributions from those seeking development and other permits, banning only contractors from making contributions).
In fact, Brown maintains a higher profile than Mayor Lee as the go-to guy in San Francisco through his San Francisco Chronicle column of name-dropping and insider gossip featuring himself.
Last fall, as Brown protégé Ed Lee nailed down a four-year term as mayor, Willie Brown was also stepping into a new role.
He became a broker for pay-to-play overseas investors to obtain visas in exchange for funding projects, aimed first at Hunters Point and then at Treasure Island.
Brown became a principal in Golden State Renaissance Ventures that simultaneously launched the San Francisco Bay Area Regional Center approved by Washington to facilitate EB-5 visas for those willing to invest $500,000 in disadvantage communities and $1 million in other locales.
Brown's venture, headed by his longtime attorney Steven Kay, intends to generate $300 million in its first five years.
"The first fund, which also will be marketed to potential investors in India and Russia, will seek $27 million from 54 investors for the Hunters Point project's infrastructure," the San Francisco Business Times reported in its March 16 edition. "The next fund will support the residential phase of the project…[the] center also could get involved with the Treasure Island redevelopment project and a life sciences incubator, but those plans aren't yet solid," the Business Times reported.
Participation in the program through a Center like Brown's carries one huge advantage, in addition to Brown's contacts. The program requires that the investment create 10 new jobs, but if it is arranged through a Center, the job count can be based on a real estate model rather than an actual job count so that things like taxi business and restaurant increases far from the disadvantaged neighborhood would count.
It's a loophole that would make Willie Brown proud.
Applicants will pay around $40,000 each to Brown's Center for their work facilitating the match up on investment opportunities and the government paperwork for the visas. After two years, the investor can apply for a green card for permanent residency for themselves and their families, including children they hope can enter American universities. Best of all, they go to the head of the line while poor and middle class applicants for visas wait.
Brown's connections to Bohee and Linda Richardson are like money in the bank.


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Man arrested on suspicion of rape after man found with head injury in Harlow
The victim was found to be suffering from breathing difficulties and a minor head injury
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of the rape of a man who was found with a head injury in Harlow.
Police were called by paramedics to School Lane, Harlow at around 6.45am on Sunday (October 8) with concerns for a man's welfare.
The man was suffering from breathing difficulties and a minor head injury.
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He was taken to hospital and has since been safeguarded by specialist officers.
Police cordoned off the Harlow Town Park car park while forensics examinations took place.
Following the incident, a rape investigation has been launched.
A 35-year-old man from Harlow has been arrested on suspicion of rape, and released under investigation.
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Andrea Caracciolo (ur. 18 września 1981 w Mediolanie) – piłkarz włoski grający na pozycji napastnika. Zawodnik FeralpiSalò.

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Caracciolo rozpoczął piłkarską karierę w małym klubie AS Sancolombano Calcio i w latach 1998–2000 występował z nim w Serie D. W 2000 roku przeszedł do Como Calcio, ale nie rozegrał tam żadnego meczu i jeszcze w trakcie sezonu został piłkarzem US Pro Vercelli, z którym grał na boiskach Serie C2. Latem 2001 Caracciolo zmienił barwy klubowe i został zawodnikiem Brescii Calcio. W Serie A zadebiutował jednak rok później, 6 stycznia w przegranym 1:2 spotkaniu z Bologną. Z Brescią utrzymał się w lidze, ale nie mogąc wygrać rywalizacji z Luką Tonim, Roberto Baggio i Iglim Tare latem 2002 odszedł do Perugii. Tam grywał więcej jak w Brescii, ale znów był rezerwowym, tym razem dla pary Zisis Wrizas – Fabrizio Miccoli.

W 2003 roku Caracciolo wrócił do Brescii. Drugi pobyt w tym klubie okazał się dużo bardziej udany. W sezonie 2003/2004 Andrea strzelił 11 goli dla tego klubu przyczyniając się do zajęcia 11. miejsca. Natomiast w sezonie 2004/2005 uzyskał jeszcze lepszy dorobek bramkowy i z 12 golami na koncie został najlepszym strzelcem klubu, który opuścił szeregi Serie A.

Latem 2005 Caracciolo za 8 milionów euro przeszedł do US Palermo. W jego barwach zadebiutował 28 sierpnia w zremisowanym 1:1 meczu z Parmą. W lidze zdobył 9 bramek, najwięcej w zespole, a jedną dołożył w rozgrywkach Pucharu UEFA. Z Palermo zajął 5. miejsce w lidze. W sezonie 2006/2007 Andrea spisywał się słabiej niż przed rokiem i tylko pięciokrotnie trafił do siatki rywali. Po sezonie, który Palermo znów zakończyło na 5. pozycji, został wypożyczony do Sampdorii, w której zastąpił odchodzącego do Udinese Calcio, Fabio Quagliarellę.

Na początku 2008 roku Caracciolo został graczem drugoligowej Brescii Calcio. W sezonie 2008/2009 strzelił w Serie B 15 goli.

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W 2002 roku Caracciolo zadebiutował w młodzieżowej reprezentacji Włoch U-20. Następnie grał w kadrze U-21 i łącznie w obu reprezentacjach wystąpił w 12 spotkaniach i strzelił 2 gole. W 2004 roku zdobył młodzieżowe mistrzostwo Europy U-21.

W pierwszej reprezentacji "Squadra Azzurra" Andrea zadebiutował 17 listopada 2004 w wygranym 1:0 spotkaniu z Finlandią. W 68. minucie spotkania zmienił Lukę Toniego. Do kadry powrócił 16 sierpnia 2006, gdy wystąpił za kadencji Roberto Donadoniego w meczu z Chorwacją (0:2).

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You are here: Home › New addition to Thunder front office: Rookie
New addition to Thunder front office: Rookie
By Kevin Reichard on January 29, 2014 in At the Ballpark, The Front Office
We have a name for the newest member of the Trenton Thunder (Class AA; Eastern League): Rookie, son of team bat dog Derby and grandson of original bat dog Chase.
Thunder fans submitted 1,164 different names during a 10-day submission period, then thousands of fans voted for one of eight finalists during a week long online vote.
The eight finalists are listed below in order of votes received:
1. Rookie
2. (Inside The) Parker
3. Slugger
5. Scooter
7. Ace
8. Mo
"With all the young players that pass through Arm & Hammer Park each year, it's only fitting that we have a 'Rookie' here to fetch their bats," said Thunder General Manager Will Smith. "The interaction we had with the fans throughout the naming process was outstanding and there's no doubt that everyone is excited about Rookie becoming part of the Thunder experience."
Rookie will make many appearances at Thunder games during the 2014 season. He will be trained by Shelly's School for Dogs in Millstone, N.J. and should make his bat dog debut for Thunder fans during the 2015 season. Rookie, like his dad Derby, is sponsored by Arm & Hammer.
The Thunder gained worldwide attention starting in 2002 when then two-year-old "Chase That Golden Thunder" joined the team as an official bat dog, entertainer and mascot. In 2008, Chase fathered a litter of puppies. His son "Home Run Derby" followed in his father's pawsteps in Trenton while "Ollie" continued the family business with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Class AA, Eastern League). Chase and Derby worked alongside each other at Arm & Hammer Park from 2010 until Chase's passing last July.
Rookie was born on December 15 at Goldilocks Goldens of Levittown, Pa. Derby's mate Reba had a litter of two puppies, a boy and girl.
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Chemical eye injuries can occur from any exogenous material contacting the eye. This includes alkalis (e.g., lye, cements, plasters, airbag powder, bleach, and ammonia), acids (e.g., battery acid, pool cleaner, and vinegar), solvents, detergents, and irritants (e.g., mace). Severity of the eye injury depends on the pH, concentration, and the nature of the chemical.
Acid injury is mainly a superficial disease, as coagulative necrosis occurs (precipitation of tissue protein), which prevents further penetration of chemical beyond the cornea.  One exception to this is hydrofluoric acid, which may rapidly pass through cell membranes and enter anterior chamber of the eye.
Alkali injury is more common and more detrimental than injury from an acid. It causes a disruptive liquefactive necrosis with breakdown of normal cellular barriers, facilitating deeper penetration of chemicals into the anterior chamber, causing cataract formation and damage to the ciliary body and to the trabecular meshwork. Patients usually describe a splash of chemical followed by moderate to severe pain, photophobia, blurred vision, and sensation of a foreign body. Reflex blepharospasm and red eye are common signs of chemical injury. If the affected eye looks white after exposure to an alkali (See Image A), it could be an indication of a particularly severe eye injury with ischemia of the conjunctival and scleral vessels. A simple method of classifying the severity of chemical injury is the Roper – Hall Classification (See Table I).
Examination should be systematic and include visual acuity, conjunctival examination for redness or blanching, an assessment of limbal vessel loss, fornix examination (including areas of conjunctiva between the lids and the globe for injury and residual chemical), assessment of the corneal epithelium and stroma, measurement of the IOP (Intra Ocular Pressure) and assessment of the anterior chamber for inflammation.
Chemical injury is the only eye emergency in which treatment should not be delayed to evaluate visual acuity.
Keep the patient NPO in the event that surgery is required.
Consider discussion with an ophthalmologist once you have started irrigation.
Topical anesthetics (e.g., tetracaine) help to relieve pain and thus facilitate eye irrigation. The eye can be irrigated using an intravenous tube, nasal cannula, or Morgan lens (See Image B).
If you get a call about an eye injury you may instruct the patient to bring the chemical, if possible. It may be helpful to find out the exact chemical used.
Overall, when talking about ocular chemical burns the first and foremost interventions are irrigation, irrigation and irrigation.
(A) Cornea opacified by an alkali burn.
(Table I) The Roper- Hall Classification of chemical injury.
Image A available at http://www.kellogg.umich.edu/theeyeshaveit/trauma/chemical-burn.html "Chemical Burn" created by Jonathan Trobe, M.D, University of Michigan Kellogg Eye and The Reagents of the University of Michigan, used under Creative Commons Attribution license.
Image B is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230139/ "Chemical Burn to the Eye" by Justin Klaff, MD, Stephen M Milner, BDS, FRCS (Ed), FACS, Stuart Farris, MD, and Leigh Ann Price, MD in Eplasty (Open Acces Journal of Plastic Surgery), used under Creative Commons Attribution license.
Table I is adapted from Roper Hall MJ. Thermal and Chemical Burns. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1965; 85:631-53.
Gerstenblith A, Rabinowitz M. Trauma: Chemical Burn In Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2012.
Borooah S, Wright M, Dhillon B. Chemical Injury In Ophthalmology Pocket Tutor.1st ed. London, UK: JP Medical Ltd; 2012.


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