Nest Cam IQ Uses CSI Style Technology, Does the Camera Protect?
Nest Cam IQ Uses CSI Style Technology, but Does the Camera Protect Your Home?
If you've ever dreamed of protecting your home with security cameras that recognize faces, akin to the technologies seen in crime shows like CSI, then the Nest Cam IQ is for you. Nest Cam IQ is the latest addition to the Nest catalog of stand-alone cameras. The first pair of cameras were indoor and outdoor models, and this is from a brand that is known for smart learning thermostats.
Nest Cam IQ users 4K technology (though the 4K is not for video purposes) and streams in 1080p full HD video. The device does not save or stream video in 4k, rather it uses the resolution to provide a better zoom function for the camera, which aids in the CSI-style capabilities.
When motion is detected on the Nest Cam IQ, the device zooms in, down to the 1080p video, and provides a clear, zoomed-in view of perpetrators in the home. From there, faces are recognized to know if people are strangers, or common guests.
This is the highest-quality camera available from Nest. This second generation of Nest indoor cameras looks like a shower head, and it's curvy and small white design is made out of poly-carbonate. A patented hinge on the camera allows user to orientate the lens however they like.
Nest Cam IQ also continuously records video footage, but only three hours of that footage is stored. Users can opt to see thirty hours of footage for only $30 a month.
How Does the Facial Recognition Work?
The Nest Cam IQ uses a feature called "Supersight." Supersight is the facial recognition component of the camera. Here is where users will feel like a science fiction device entered their living room.
Through Supersight, Nest Cam IQ detects if anyone in its field of view is a face that has been previously recognized and cataloged as a legal guest. It does this by learning faces, and the knowledge of the device improved with each interaction. Overtime Nest Cam IQ will begin to send notifications that only alert of strangers on camera. Any user concerned about privacy will be pleased to know that Nest only stores this data locally. No data will be sent to the cloud.
This facial technology is powered by Google's FaceNet. You can flag people's faces as friends or family and receive alerts anytime they do anything in the home, or create other custom alerts. For the full benefit, users will have to sign up for the Nest Aware subscription, which costs $10 per month, or $100 per year once a the free 30-day trial ends.
The Nest IQ cam is ready for pre-order today. Users can purchase the device for $299 and should receive it by mid-June.
As with many of the stand-alone products we've shown on our blog, these devices often succeed at their goal of monitoring homes through video feeds and sending push alert notifications, but they do not substitute for home security systems. Home security is more complex than simply seeing the home through a lens.
Stand-alone cameras are not connected to a central monitoring station, so alerting police of a break-in is dependent on you receiving a push alert notification and calling police. These devices also do not provide many of the other necessities homeowners will need to be fully secure: flood and weather sensors, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, and life-alert devices for older adults.
Nest Cam IQ has very unique features, and it may be fun and useful as a home security sidekick, but when it comes to fully securing your home, we suggest sticking to the pros.


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When we take dates from 01/12/2013 to 31/01/2014 it just returns me records up to 31/12/2013.
Another issue is when we take date from 01/01/2014 to 31/12/2014 then it returns me records from all dates of 2013 also.
Please help me to solve this.
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My Date column have data type as Text.
Please provide me correct query to find dates records between two string inputted dates.

A: Your Date column is a datetime not a date.
To compare the values, the dates from the range are cast to datetime, which is zero-hundred hours at the stsrt of the date. That's why you're not seeing the last day's rows.
To fix, add one day to the end date and test for less than rather than beteen which includes the ends of the range - ie less than or equal. Use greater than or equal for the start.

A: As you use Ms Access database, and your Date column have data type as Text. Looking at your code you want to search records between two dates. So do this:

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England's and Australia's cricketers are set to wear shirts with names and numbers on the back during this summer's Ashes – a first in 142 years of Test cricket.
The five-match series that begins at Edgbaston on 1 August following the home World Cup, with England seeking to regain the urn they lost in Australia in 2017-18, is slated to be the first played under the banner of the International Cricket Council's new World Test Championship.
As part of this tournament, during which the top nine sides will compete for points over a two-year cycle before a showpiece final in 2021, the ICC is understood to be considering the introduction of names and numbers on whites in order to make the players more easily identifiable on the field of play.
Such adornments have been the norm in one-day international cricket for some time. The coloured shirts first worn during the 1992 World Cup had player names printed across the shoulders and squad numbers were added for the 1999 tournament. In 2003 they were introduced to the backs of shirts and jumpers in the County Championship.
But Test cricket has been played in plain whites or creams ever since the first encounter between Australia and England in Melbourne in 1877. One minor change came in 2001 when England brought in a small embroidered cap number below the crest – denoting where a player sits in his country's history – with other teams then following suit.
This latest move to put larger squad numbers and names on the backs of players is yet to be signed off by the ICC board and may well draw scorn from some traditionalists. But there is a growing sense that the small change will help supporters old and new – in the ground or watching at home – while broadcasters will doubtless welcome it.
Despite a recent survey by MCC showing that 86% of 13,000 respondents consider Test cricket their favourite format to watch, the ICC is keen to market and promote it further via its new Test championship. Squad numbers will help build player brands while the replica shirt market may also be boosted as a result.
Players are expected to be able to choose their squad numbers from one to 99 and will likely marry these up against their existing ones for limited-overs formats. It means when England take the field for the first Ashes Test in 136 days' time, their captain may well be sporting the "Root 66" he has made his own.


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Flying circus: The Monty's eye in the sky reveals new Club Car fleet
2.34pm 19th June 2015 - Courses
Thenew fleet of Club Car vehicles spells 'The Monty' at The Address Montgomerie Dubai
The Address Montgomerie Dubai, one of the Middle East's most luxurious and desirable golfing destinations, is flying high with spectacular photography showcasing its new fleet of Club Car vehicles.
The state-of-the-art golf cars were specially choreographed to spell 'The Monty' on the 18th fairway of the venue's Colin Montgomerie designed golf course.
The image, taken by a drone, took four hours to set up in 45°C heat and features 76 of the venue's new 100-strong fleet of Precedent i2L vehicles.
Howie Roberts, General Manager of The Address Montgomerie Dubai, said: "Continuing our longstanding relationship with Club Car and investing in a new fleet of vehicles was an easy decision to make. The quality of manufacturing and product is outstanding and the aftercare is second to none."
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The important consequence in the daily work is a reduced need of augmentation procedure resulting in a huge increase of patients which accept implant based therapies due to less costs and therapeutically risks. Additionally this tissue care behaviour of the Ankylos® implant system facilitates the manufacture of the suprastructure - at the dental chair as well as in the dental lab. Especially an aesthetic result borne on a platform switched implant requires a creative implementation on the part of the dental technician, taking the surrounding soft tissues (emergence profile) and the face into due account.
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The Louisiana Community and Technical College System (LCTCS) manages thirteen public 2-year institutions in the state of Louisiana. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, and is located on the campus of Baton Rouge Community College. The chair of the Board of Supervisors is Vincent St. Blanc III, and the President is Dr. Joe D. May.

LCTCS Colleges
Baton Rouge Community College
Bossier Parish Community College
Central Louisiana Technical Community College
Delgado Community College
L. E. Fletcher Technical Community College
Louisiana Delta Community College
Louisiana Technical College (with its 40 campuses)
Northshore Technical Community College
Northwest Louisiana Technical College
Nunez Community College
River Parishes Community College
South Central Louisiana Technical College
South Louisiana Community College
Sowela Technical Community College

See also
 List of colleges and universities in Louisiana
 List of hospitals in Louisiana

References

External links
 LCTCS Homepage

Public university systems in the United States

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Johannesburg, South Africa—A diamond said to be twice as big as the 530.24-carat Cullinan Diamond—formerly the world's largest—that could be worth up to $30 million has been discovered in northwest South Africa, but the tale of its discovery is still unclear.
The BBC reported that a small South African mining firm made the discovery. A shareholder in the unnamed mine told the news agency that the diamond was unearthed at their operation in the northwest province on Monday.
He said the stone was about 7,000 carats, twice the size of the Cullinan, which is the centerpiece of the British crown jewels.
According to published reports, the stone has been rushed to a bank vault in Johannesburg "until we calm down and decide what we are going to do," a spokesman for the mining company that discovered it reportedly said. A security company is being hired to protect the diamond.
But some industry experts are reportedly skeptical about the unconfirmed claim.
Brett Jolly, a shareholder at the mine, told the BBC he hoped tests today would prove its worth.
In a photograph e-mailed to the BBC, the stone appears to be about the size of a coconut and has a greenish tinge.
A spokesman for De Beers said the northwest province is not known for producing gems, and greenish stones are even rarer.
The firm also said that if the find is genuine, it would be the stone of the century.
HOLY COW!! I hope it's real & they release some photos soon! I can't even imagine a diamond that large!
I wonder how many stones they will get out of it when cut. Inquiring minds want to know.
You would have to look at the stone in order to make an identification possible, that being said it looks a lot like a fluorite crystal.
If the story is a fantasy, what's the point ? Maybe I'm missing something, but I can't see any advantage to making a false claim.
But I do agree...if this one is fake...then it's hard to see who could buy into this scam... As soon as the stone reaches a cutter, the scheme is dead and no one will buy a stone without proper creds..
But does that look like a rough diamond to you? And could the "photographer" have gone any further back than that to take the pic?
That would be Bre-X, based right here in Calgary.
But does that look like a rough diamond to you?
Yes, it does ! Where's that hole in the ground ? I want to throw some money into it !
It would be neat if that really was a diamond wouldn't it ? It's so nicely formed that it'd be a shame to even cut it.
It sure looks like the weirdest diamond crystal structure I have seen...maybe 'cause it's petrified JELL-O !!!
You guy's are just WAY to skeptical. After all the owner did use the definite, "Garage Grinder" test. I suppose that you could say that it was tested by a GG. What more could you ask for ? Wake up and smell the roses ! We need to jump on this and put some money into it fast before DeBeers beats us to it!
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Am I dreaming, or did I see a different picture of this making the rounds yesterday? It may have been an 'example' of a smaller stone based on the description, but I thought there was a rather more natural/rougher looking green octahedral crystal pic making the rounds.
Re: the GG, I would think that fluorite would scratch readily enough on a grinder. The fishy part is that they haven't gotten preliminary proof that this is diamond yet.... surely it's not difficult to do that much?
I just found the largest fancy intense blue rough diamond ever in my yard!
This is so exciting I couldn't keep my camera from shaking!
well here is the worlds largest sapphire. I found it from a street vendor in florence Italy. I bargained the woman down from 13 euros to only 2. I wonder how many carats this thing actually is. It probably weighs about 3-5 lbs. Lets see one grams is 5 carats so how many carats are in a pound. HAHA!
Bump! I was just curious if anything else ever came of this.
And GilbertZ, I LOVE your avatar!
Last seen wearing: Great big YG lion ring.
If somebody finds a monster crystal, they take good photos of it.
Excellent assessment Gil! The stone turned out to be a fake. Seems the miners were salting the mine and this thing was a piece of plastic.
Somebody emailed me through my website right after the story broke, with that vague photo of the giant glassy-looking octahedron sitting on the table. I knew immediately it was BS.
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Riese's Team Pick: The Wire
You guys The Wire. The Wire! The motherfucking Wire! I have been eating The Wire for about two months now, and now that I'm done eating it I feel empty inside. It was just so good. I miss Omar. And, to pour a little extra salt into my wound of vulnerability — every season of The Wire is on sale on iTunes for $12.99 as of pretty much the day I finished watching them (Seasons One, Two, Three, Four, and Five) and since I can't take advantage of that deal, you probably should. It's "for a limited time." Or you can buy the entire series or stream it for $1.38 an episode via Amazon. You cannot watch it instantly on Netflix unfortunately.
The Wire follows a few cops and detectives and the criminals they prosecute in the city of Baltimore. Season one of The Wire focuses on the illegal drug trade, Season Two on the seaport system, Season Three on the city government, Season Four on the school system (MY FAVORITE SEASON) and Season Five on print news media.
The Wire was a critical favorite — Slate.com called it the best show on television, Salon.com called it the best TV show of all time, and The Telegraph said it's arguably the greatest television program ever made.
The first few episodes of each season can be a little slow, but give it time — by mid-season you literally won't be able to think about anything else. It's masterful, brilliant, careful storytelling and these are stories we rarely hear — at least not presented with this degree of compassion.
BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!
Back when it premiered in 2002, AfterEllen pointed out that the series would feature "the first regular Asian-American lesbian or bisexual character on television and only the second regular lesbian police officer in TV history." Kima Greggs, played by African-American/Korean-American actress Sonja Sohn, was described later as serving as "a moral center for the series, one of the only cops in the group not willing to lie, cheat, and steal to promote herself or to help the case." Also she's hot:
And, in one of the show's many daring/interesting/compelling choices, they made Omar Little, a "renowned stick-up man who lives by a strict moral code and never deviates from his rules, foremost of which is that he never robs or menaces people who are not involved in 'the game,'" unapolagetically gay, with an extended network of other gay men who meet up at a gay bar owned by a really nice blind guy named "Butchie" who I wanted to hug a lot.
i love you omar
Omar was hands down one of my favorite characters on the show — and FUN FACT! President Barack Obama says Omar Little is his favorite television character (his favorite TV show is, of course, The Wire) — "that's not an endorsement. He's not my favorite person, but he's a fascinating character."
The Baltimore City Paper said:
"Omar [is] arguably the show's single greatest achievement. Omar is a same-sex-loving, shotgun-toting free agent who robs drug dealers of their cash and stash. He's fearless yet tender. He could be as viciously cold-blooded as any thug, yet he's the show's most constantly hilarious presence. He is as scary a human being as ever depicted on television, and yet he is one of the only characters who never has a doubt about right and wrong."
Season Four introduced Snoop, a drug gangster played by lesbian actress/rapper/ex-con Felicia "Snoop" Pearson.
AS A MASSIVE SIDENOTE — in a bizarre intersection of art/life, Felicia, an ex-con, was arrested last week in Baltimore as part of a massive drug bust and charged with conspiracy to distribute heroin. When The Wire creator David Simon was asked to comment on the arrest, he had this to say:
First of all, Felicia's entitled to the presumption of innocence. And I would note that a previous, but recent drug arrest that targeted her was later found to be unwarranted and the charges were dropped. Nonetheless, I'm certainly sad at the news today. This young lady has, from her earliest moments, had one of the hardest lives imaginable. And whatever good fortune came from her role in The Wire seems, in retrospect, limited to that project. She worked hard as an actor and was entirely professional, but the entertainment industry as a whole does not offer a great many roles for those who can portray people from the other America. There are, in fact, relatively few stories told about the other America….
In an essay published two years ago in Time magazine, the writers of The Wire made the argument that we believe the war on drugs has devolved into a war on the underclass, that in places like West and East Baltimore, where the drug economy is now the only factory still hiring and where the educational system is so crippled that the vast majority of children are trained only for the corners, a legal campaign to imprison our most vulnerable and damaged citizens is little more than amoral. And we said then that if asked to serve on any jury considering a non-violent drug offense, we would move to nullify that jury's verdict and vote to acquit. Regardless of the defendant, I still believe such a course of action would be just in any case in which drug offenses—absent proof of violent acts—are alleged.
Both our Constitution and our common law guarantee that we will be judged by our peers. But in truth, there are now two Americas, politically and economically distinct. I, for one, do not qualify as a peer to Felicia Pearson. The opportunities and experiences of her life do not correspond in any way with my own, and her America is different from my own. I am therefore ill-equipped to be her judge in this matter.
Anyhow. If you need more convincing I'd recommend checking out The Baltimore Sun's Top 10 Reasons to Watch The Wire, which includes this compelling argument in its favor:
On its surface The Wire is a cop show, the most stereotype-ridden of TV genres, yet nowhere in The Wire do stereotypes exist. There are no good guys and bad guys, merely men and women who work on opposites sides of the socially acceptable. The Wire treats both as people caught up in the same racial, class, and political tensions that afflict any American, and dramatizes them in manners that feel natural.
Mostly I'd like you all to watch it so that we can all talk about it. It feels so realistic that after devouring five subsequent seasons of The Wire, I find Law & Order really disappointing.
Also Holly from The Office is in it.
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Okay, okay, you've convinced me. Or David Simon has. Numerous friends have told me I should watch the Wire, but his comment on Felicia's arrest got me:
"[T]he war on drugs has devolved into a war on the underclass, that in places like West and East Baltimore, where the drug economy is now the only factory still hiring and where the educational system is so crippled that the vast majority of children are trained only for the corners, a legal campaign to imprison our most vulnerable and damaged citizens is little more than amoral."
YES. Fuck YES. I saw this working on the South and West Sides of Chicago–the war on drugs and crime is a thinly veiled war on poor, mostly brown, people. If The Wire reveals even a fraction of that truth, I am so on it.
You'll love The Wire. Trust.
Why is it called "The Wire"?
A big part of the show was the use of wiretapping by the police on people involved in the drug trade. Hence, The Wire.
ahora quiero verlo. SERIOUSLY THOUGH YOU GUYS HAVE NOT FAILED MEYET ON A PRODUCT.
i had given up on any tv shows ever being good again besides skins and the x files, but i am willing to give this a try.
Also also, each season has a different version of the Tom Waits great 'Way Down in the Hole' as its opening theme, a song that will GET INSIDE YOUR SOUL. I mean, it's Tom fucking Waits. So there is that.
Omar is arguably the best character ever on a television show ever. He also gets inside your soul. This is a get inside your soul kind of show.
Watch it, be changed.
This version from Season 4 was the best imo.
I am terrified of watching The Wire because my brother told me that every little thing in the show *means something* later, and I am horrifically unobservant!
there were like 5 major characters who's names i consistently got mixed up and def don't remember and i still was able to get enough of what was going on to follow. i got a lot of characters mixed up actually i think. anyhow i sort of subconsciously picked 1-2 stories per season that i was really observant on, and the others I just kinda knew enough to stay on it
molllllly
The Wire is required viewing for life. It will break your heart seventeen times an episode and you will love every second of it.
My brother has been haranguing me for years now to watch The Wire. I am seriously afraid of the time commitment that will be involved, 'cause I find it difficult not to watch entire seasons of shows all at once. I'll need to be strategic about when to start 'cause I have no self control and I will disappear down a The Wire watching hole.
The Brooklyn Boy
Yes. This is a good show. Pretty much the only novel I've been able to watch instead of read. That will make sense if you think about it. So many layers. So much development.
Miss your face.
exactly, when i was watching it i kept thinking 'this style reminds me of something' and then i realized 'oh, NOVELS.'
I looooove that you're bringing The Wire back, Riese. Seriously. Every time I want to talk about it, no one knows what I'm going on about. The same happens whenever I bring up the track-n-field Nintendo game that came with the mat. So it was like the Wii before Wii, y'know? BECAUSE NO ONE EVER KNOWS.
julieann
You're not alone! I've been trying to get a friend to watch THE WIRE so I can quote it and not feel like I have an inside joke w myself.
Also, I HAD THAT GAME. And you had to tappy your feets! You're looking at a 'triple jump' masterrrrr.
Omar. Best television character of all time. The homophobes couldn't even hate on Omar.
my aunt told me to watch the wire, but she said only do it when i have 60 hours to sit around and do nothing else, because i won't be able to do anything else. so maybe this summer.
i haven't been able to do anything since i started watching the show: i've watched six episodes since i read this yesterday. thank god for weekends!
queermo
In my excitement about The Wire, I almost posted a major spoiler.
U GUISE JUST WATCH IT KAY? Then can we have an open thread posting our favorite Wire moments!
lindsey hart
Never watched it but will have to now. Thanks for the tip, will start downloading episodes.
I am embarrassed that my tv viewing tends to run oh soooo lesbian….been replaying old episodes of L Word for the last month. Never get enough of Shane….
katch
"it's all in the game yo. it's all in the game."
e m m a
snoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did you see the scene where she buys the chainsaw? i dk why but i love that scene so much.
i mean, nailgun, or something? haha. not chainsaw.
Yeah that scene was hilarious. The hardware salesman was rattling off specs and she was just like, give me the most powerful one. And his face when she handed him the roll of bills and said she doesn't wanna line up to pay and to keep the change.
i know! keep the change!
Ok, that was great but the use of the nail gun still gives me fucking nightmares and I watched the entire show in a couple of weeks two years ago. holy shit best show ever.
The Wire was absolutely one of the best shows on television and one of my favorites. My favorite season is season four. Everything about their look at the school system was familiar to me having grown up in an inner city school system. If I started telling stories about the ways my schools (the kids, the parents, the teachers, the building itself) were fucked up we'd be here all day.
That scene when Prezb… was telling his fellow teachers that what they're doing is juicing the stats is so real. Everything is a numbers game.
Seriously. In junior high I had a math teacher go out on disability for six months and they never found a teacher to take over the class. We had a few substitutes who did nothing and on days when they couldn't find one they either had an NTA (non-teaching assistant) sit with us or just had somebody come in at the start of the period and tell us to quietly go through book on our own. What happened instead was truth or dare, sleep, singing, card-playing, and on one special occasion – I'm not making this up – strip Uno.
When the teacher came back at the end of the year they tested everybody to see if we learned the nothing they taught us in that class and sure enough, except for the two students who were actually equipped to go through a text book on their own, nobody learned a fucking thing. They would have had to flunk a quarter of our grade at a time when they were being looked at to improve performance. So, plan B was a to administer the previous years final exam. Whatever you got on that test was your grade for the class.
I've never cheated at Heads Up – Seven Up.
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Almost cried in season 5 over Bodie. I'm also very sad at how the enterprising candy seller boy ended up. I'm so annoyed the Namond is so lucky and he got to "escape" the cycle somehow.
I remember this funny part when Kima's girlfriend wanted to buy a cup holder for their baby, and Kima went if our baby can't sip from the cup on his own, we have bigger problems. Hahaha.
I have many other favorite parts but I don't want to accidentally give spoilers.
My favorite cop is Greggs of course, then Daniels, then the Hamsterdam one, then the furniture making guy with glasses.
I saw a movie version of Brief Interviews of Hideous Men and the guy who played the police chief is in it! Burrell! And last year when I watched Rubicon I saw the guy who played Clay Davis! I ge excited when I see them in other shows.
This show reminds me of my country. Esp seasons 3-4. Season 5 reminds me partly of how the media is run in this neighboring country I lived in for a time.
To do business here, we need to deal with Clay Davis type people. For permits, licenses, etc. I always channel my inner Avon Barksdale when dealing with these bureucrats. I always remember what he told Stringer Bell that they could smell him a mile away yada yada. Remember that scene when they were reminiscing lookin over the city skyline.
Things to love about the Wire:
1. Omar-best character EVER.
2. Portrayal of the public school system: the most realistic (not perfect, but closer) on TV. i.e. the actors are not 30 and no one gives a shit about prom–teenagers as real people with real lives going to a school that is massively fucked in the way many schools are fucked
3. Major characters die when you expect them to, no one is saved by random stupid deus ex machina
4. Soundtrack.
5. Plot/more plots, none of which are boring or irrelevant
6. Hot lesbians that are not played by skinny straight white girls
I think that about does it. I need to re watch the whole thing.
it took me a really long time to get used to "3" — i remember in season one the person who bodie shot (i'm not giving the name in case anyone is reading this who hasn't seen the show accidentally sees this comment) I was shocked because in another show, that wouldn't ever happen, it was just so tragic and unfair. that sort of broke me in.
Season Four was my favorite too, because I'm obsessed with the failures of the US public school system — I read Savage Inequalities about ten years ago and since then have read everything I can find, watched all the documentaries, really somehow amassed a ridiculous amount of knowledge on this topic but I've never seen it delt with so realistically. I've volunteered in some fucked up schools and juvenile detention centers and ultimately that's what i want to do with my life is be a teacher. Season Four reminded me of that. There's no Michelle Pfiffer saving the children here.
Yeah, I am a public school teacher in a shitty system (though an awesome school: we try hard). Season 4 reminded me that the public school system sucks and fails like… everywhere in this country, not just where I am. I did appreciate though that there was no bullshit messiah business going on.
waiting for superman, have you seen it?
That was also a team pick.
Riese you should SO be a teacher you would be brilliant & kids would revere you just like us
dypole
I put all of The Wire on my iPod to watch while exercising at the gym (because if anything's going to motivate me to go faster, it's gunshots), and I have totally caught people on neighboring machines leaning over to try to watch.
I am only through season 2 so far, but damn is this an amazing show. Although, I have to admit, I really, really dislike McNulty.
that's how i watched it too, at the gym on my ipod. which is why i wanted to scream that itunes put it on sale. season two was the hardest for me to get into i think, but by the end i was just as invested as everyone else and was ultimately surprised by which characters i cared about at the end.
I liked season two, but only after I accepted that it was a pretty sharp deviation from season one. I mean, it was partly about my people! Who called each other "Polak" lovingly! I couldn't resist. And damn was Amy Ryan splendid in it, especially in those scenes where her character and Kima did stakeouts together. I wanted them to be best friends!
Also, I realized halfway through season two that I was kind of attracted to Stringer Bell, which on the whole was very confusing.
Very funny, I got a kick out of your story about people peeking a look at the wire on your ipod in the gym.
Never watched the show but after all this talk I went and got season 1. Will start tonight, if I can stay off autostraddle long enough….
It actually happens more often than I would have thought. The Wire is a popular one, as were Caprica and Boardwalk Empire. Big Love, Drop Dead Diva, and Damages only ever seem to get glances. I'm assuming people are attracted to sudden surges in on-screen action and then just keep trying to watch.
But yes, watch the show! It does start off a bit slow, but it's completely worth it. Just make sure you're paying attention, not only to catch all the important details but also to soak in all the excellent writing and acting (particularly when Omar is in the picture).
Just finished first episode and you were right, great show. Its the way cop shows should be, gritty. The McNulty character is particularly appealing. Thanks for the reco.
I was obsessed with The Wire a few years back and really lucky that the whole show was aired by the BBC. When people talk about a show this much and and it receives so much hype you wonder if it can live up to it but it truly does.
Your world becomes consumed by Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell, you start looking at people as if they're crazy for not knowing who Marlo is and Omar becomes an inspiring role model.
It's hard to pick a favourite character because the best thing about The Wire is that no character represents just one thing. They all feel like fully fleshed out individuals with good and bad traits.
However I do have a soft spot for Stringer and i know a lot of people dislike McNulty (with good reason) but if i was murdered i'd want him and Bunk working my case! That scene where they work out how that girl got killed in her apartment was pure genius!
pinkunicorn
I remember when it came out how I resisted seeing it because I thought, "How does this relate to me, my life?" Then I remember after watching the first season calling up all my friends and raving, "best show EVAH!!"
The thing that really got me was that every year it just got better.
It's funny how HBO decided to back The Sopranos over The Wire when it came to awards season, because even though I enjoyed The Sopranos it never came close to The Wire in terms of acting, believable characters and plots.
Don't love it as much, but Treme is from the same team and a damn fine show on its own.
I love The Wire. It should be required study for anyone who wants to figure out how to sustain and satisfy a narrative arc.
One point though: I don't believe Butchie (or his bar) were ever explicitly marked as gay. Nor were the other guys in the bar. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) that that was left ambiguous. Omar's boyfriends and the two women who were his associates in the early seasons were identified as gay, but those older men weren't. Which I always thought was an interesting dynamic: either there was some cool gay intergenerationalism going on in that bar or this was an intergenerational team that operated apathetic of sexuality.
I think they made a few references to that bar being a gay bar, unless i was totally projecting and missed everything. Butchie was gay but I don't think any of the other people with him were identified as gay, just like Avon's gay relative or other people that would stop in.
the entire scene of Omar on trial, by far my favorite episode with him. The tie and street clothes, wonderful. It should be watched!
not to mention the INCREDIBLE dialogue.
jessicav
I love The Wire, excited to see this post. For some reason, other than myself and my mum, most of the people I know who like it are male. But it really can be watched by anyone, it's that good.
Also, Rawls (one of the police officers) is gay – I think it's in Season 3, there's a scene in a gay bar and he's in the background. I assumed this story line was going to be taken up, but it wasn't, which was interesting in itself. Contributed to the novelistic structure that some people mentioned above!
I did the exact same thing. I watched all 5 seasons of The Wire in like 2 months and now I can't enjoy Law and Order the same way. Like I laugh during some of the episodes now.
So people have been recommending this show to me forever and I've always been like "Meh, no more cop shows. I don't care." But when I saw this I was like "Okay FINE! I'll watch it!" I got the first DVD from Netflix yesterday, just finished the third episode, like, 3 minutes ago and I LOVE THIS SHOW! Thank you for being the straw that broke the stubborn-ass camel's back!
I'm in love with Kima already. KIMA! Why won't you love me back?
bookbound
Oh my god y'all. I finally bought Season 1 and have been watching it at a rate of 3 or 4 episodes a pop. And it's SO GOOD. It's like watching a Shakespearean drama filtered through Dickens, Raymond Chandler, and Snoop Dogg, only with more cursing.
Also Kima is hot.
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Currently if you have several layers one on top of another it is difficult to edit the lower layers.
The property sheet would be similar to the layers window in Photoshop, but not much simpler.
It would list your layers in order and allow you to select which layer to edit.
Working fine, but things could be smoother.
I've found that if I have several layers one on top of another it is difficult to edit the lower layers.
Also that sometimes it would be useful to change the layer order after the fact.
Currently if I need to change a layer order it is best to start over or destroy some of the layers.
This would hopefully be leveraging the current data in the database.
This should only effect the server-side of the Xibo software unless as long as the database has a layout layer order. Otherwise the layout layer order would need to be known by the client players also.
May need to add a column or associated table to record layout layer order if this schema property does not exist.


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Malfeasance – Misfeasance and Non-feasance
Malfeasance – The doing of an illegal act is malfeasance. Which is self-accusatory in law. In such cases, it is not necessary to prove any carelessness or negligence or malice etc.
Misfeasance –It means those acts which are performed illegally. In that the work is not illegal but the way of doing them is illegal. The disobedience of the selfless duty of doing or not doing any act does not impose any legal liability on the doer, but the doer will be liable for damages if any act is done illegally.
Non-feasance – Where a person has a legal obligation to do an act and he does not perform it and it causes injury to another person, then it is called non-feasance.
Damage -The word damage means every kind of loss that can be made good by indemnification, that is, the damage can be cured by damages.
On the contrary, the word "damages" indemnity means the compensation which is in the form of money and which the court orders the defendant to pay.
What is the meaning of tort?
The word tort has been derived from the Latin term 'tortum', which means 'to twist'. Thus, tort means "a conduct which is not straight or lawful, but on the other hand twisted, ,crooked or unlawful." It is equivalent to the English term 'wrong'.
What are the definitions of torts?
According to Winfield –
"Tortious liability arises from the breach of a duty primarily fixed by law; this duty is towards persons generally and its breach is redressible by an action or unliquidated damages."
According to Salmond –
"It is a civil wrong for which the remedy is a common-law action for unliquidated damages and which is not exclusively the breach of a contract or the breach of a trust or other merely equitable obligation."
According to Underhills –
"An act or omission which, independent of contract, is unauthorized by law, and results either in the infringement of some absolute right to which another is entitled, or in the infliction upon him of some substantial loss of money, health, or material comfort, beyond that suffered by the rest of the public, and which infringement or infliction of loss is remediable by an action for damages."
According to Pollock –
"Tort is an act or omission (not merely the breach of a duty arising out of personal relations, or undertaken by a contract which is related to harm suffered by a determinate person, giving rise to a civil remedy which is not an action of contract."
According to Section 2(m), the Limitation Act, 1963 –
"Tort means a civil wrong which is not exclusively a breach of contract or breach of trust"
According to Fraser –
"It is an infringement of a right in rem of a private individual giving a right of compensation at the suit of the injured party."
What is the nature of tort?
After analysis of above definitions tort may be defined as "a civil wrong that is redressible by an action for unliquidated damages. Additionally, tort covers a civil wrong which is other than a mere breach of contract or breach."
Tort is Civil Wrong
This civil wrong is other than mere of contract or breach of trust
Tort is redressible by an action for unliquidated damages
What is the Characteristics of the Tort – Concept
A law of tort is a law relating to the violation of a person's rights. Under special circumstances, rights and duties arise between individuals according to the common law. The infringement of these duties and rights is called tort.
A tort is different from unfair acts that are wholly subject to breach of contract.
Remedy of the tort can be obtained by filing a suit for damages in the civil court.
Both tort and crime are different.
Tortious Liability is against all the people of the society, so every person of the society is obliged not to do the wrongdoing. It is a public right( Right in Rem).
The main aim is to re- compensate the plaintiff for the loss suffered by him
Tort is always redressible by an action for unliquidated damages
What is the difference between tort and Crime?
Tort is an infringement of private or civil rights of individualwhile crime is a breach of public rights which affect the whole community.
The forum of redressal is civil court in the matter of tort while processing are to be initiated in a criminal court in a crime.
The suit for damages is filed in the Civil Court against the wrongdoers by the plaintiff himself in tort while proceedings are initiated against the accused by the state in crime.
The main aim is to re – compensate the plaintiff for the loss suffered by him from the wrongful act of the defendant in tort while the main aim is to punish the accused if convicted to set example such crime is not repeated in future in crime.
Malfeasance in tort of lawMisfeasance in tort of lawNon-feasance
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My brother has been a member for many years. I finally got to play on a recent visit. Some of the best greens on which I have ever putted! Fantastic and challenging! A great course, as defined by perfect shots are amply rewarded, good shots are in play, but bad shots are trouble. While the course is not particularly long, it threads through woods, some fairways have contours so accuracy is rewarded. Straight is better than long.
The greens were memorable, with challenging pin placements, and conditions exceptional. Stimp 10.2 the day I played (posted on the starter booth).
Private, but if you can be the guest of a member, LCC is well worth playing!
Nice hidden gem in Central New Hampshire. Affordable membership fees considering this course hosted the NH State Amateur before. $75 guest fee and $97 with a cart. Practice facilities are top class and the course has a lot of character with wetlands, large greens and a great challenge for all golfers.


Sana Warraich, a LUMS law alumna will be joining Harvard Law School LL.M. programme on a Fulbright Scholarship this fall. The Fulbright is a programme of competitive, merit-based grants for international educational exchange founded by US Senator J. William Fulbright in 1946. The US government's flagship scholarship programme awards full scholarships to deserving students from across the world who wish to complete their Master's or PhD, in a field of their choice, in universities across the United States.
Sana graduated from the Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL) in 2015 and is currently working at Vellani and Vellani, a Karachi based law firm which specialises in commercial matters, as well as litigation and intellectual property services. Sana describes her experience at the firm as an important stepping stone in her professional and academic legal career. Sana will be pursuing an LL.M. with a focus on human rights, public policy and public international law.