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How Inflation Could Be Caused in 15 Minutes
One of the conundrums of monetary policy over the past eight years is the Federal Reserve's failure to cause inflation. This sounds strange to most. People associate inflation with misguided monetary policy by central banks, especially the Fed.
So-called "money printing" is seen as a certain path to inflation. The Fed has printed almost $4 trillion since 2008. Yet inflation (at least as measured by official statistics) is barely noticeable.
With so much money around, where's the inflation?
This conundrum has several answers. The first is that the Fed has been printing money, but few loaned it or spent it. The banks haven't wanted to make loans, and consumers haven't wanted to borrow.
In fact, the private sector on the whole was deleveraging — selling off assets and paying off debt — even as public debt expanded. The speed at which consumers spend money (technically called velocity) hasn't accelerated.
From 1996-2008, it increased at a steady pace, exactly as Milton Friedman and other monetarists had recommended since the 1970s.
Beginning in 2008, the money supply "went vertical" with three successive quantitative easing (QE) programs of money printing. These were QE1, QE2 and QE3.
But there was declining velocity over the same period. In effect, the money printing from 2008-2015 was cancelled out by the declining velocity over the same period. The result was practically no inflation.
Increased money supply alone does not cause inflation. The money must be borrowed and spent. The absence of lending and spending (declining velocity) is one reason disinflation and deflation have been more prevalent than inflation.
The second reason for the absence of inflation is that the world has been confronting powerful deflationary headwinds, principally demographics and technology. The rate of increase of global population peaked in 1995. Today populations are in decline in Japan, Russia and Europe. They are also stagnant elsewhere outside of Africa and the Middle East.
Fewer people means less aggregate demand for goods and services. Improved technology and efficiencies from predictive analytics have lowered the cost of everything from inventories to transportation. This combination of less demand and greater efficiency results in lower prices.
The final reason is globalization.
The ability of global corporations to locate factories and obtain resources anywhere in the world has expanded the pool of available labor.
Global supply chains and advanced logistics mean that products like smartphones are created with U.S. technology, German screens, Korean semiconductors and Chinese assembly. The phones are then sold from India to Iceland and beyond. Yet many of the workers are paid little for their value-added in these global supply chains.
These deflationary tendencies create a major policy problem for the Fed. Governments need to cause inflation in order to reduce the real value of government debt. Inflation also increases nominal (if not real) incomes. These nominal increases can be taxed.
Persistent deflation will increase the value of debt and decrease tax revenues in ways that can cause governments to go bankrupt. Governments are therefore champions of inflation and rely on central banks to cause it.
In the past eight years, the Fed has tried every trick in the book to cause inflation. They have lowered rates, printed money, engaged in currency wars, used "forward guidance" (promises not to raise rates in the future), implemented "Operation Twist" and used nominal GDP targets. All of these methods have failed.
The Fed then shot itself in the foot by tapering asset purchases, removing forward guidance and raising rates. These tightening moves made the dollar stronger and increased deflationary forces even as the Fed claimed it wanted more inflation. Now it plans to start shrinking its massive balance sheet next month.
This tightening episode is proof (not that any was needed) that the Fed does not understand the dynamic deflationary forces it is now confronting. My expectation is that the Fed will soon reverse course and return to some form of easing.
A central bank's worst nightmare is when they want inflation and can't get it. The Fed's tricks have all failed. Is there another rabbit in the hat?
Actually, yes.
The Fed can cause massive inflation in 15 minutes. They can call a board meeting, vote on a new policy, walk outside and announce to the world that effective immediately, the price of gold is $5,000 per ounce.
The Fed can make that new price stick by using the Treasury's gold in Fort Knox and the major U.S. bank gold dealers to conduct "open market operations" in gold. They will be a buyer if the price hits $4,950 per ounce or less and a seller if the price hits $5,050 per ounce or higher.
They will print money when they buy and reduce the money supply when they sell via the banks. This is exactly what the Fed does today in the bond market when they pursue QE. The Fed would simply substitute gold for bonds in their dealings. The Fed would target the gold price rather than interest rates.
Of course, the point of $5,000 gold is not to reward gold investors. The point is to cause a generalized increase in the price level. A rise in the price of gold from $1,000 per ounce to $5,000 per ounce is really an 80% devaluation of the dollar when measured in the quantity of gold that one dollar can buy.
This 80% devaluation of the dollar against gold will cause all other dollar prices to rise also. Oil would be $400 per barrel, gas would be $10.00 per gallon at the pump and so on. There it is — massive inflation in 15 minutes: the time it takes to vote on the new policy.
Don't think this is possible? It has happened in the U.S. twice in the past 80 years. You may even know some people who lived through both episodes.
The first time was in 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt ordered an increase in the gold price from $20.67 per ounce to $35.00 per ounce, nearly a 75% rise in the dollar price of gold. He did this to break the deflation of the Great Depression, and it worked. The economy grew strongly from 1934-36.
The second time was in the 1970s when President Richard Nixon ended the conversion of dollars into gold by U.S. trading partners. Nixon did not want inflation, but he got it.
Gold went from $35 per ounce to $800 per ounce in less than nine years, a 2,200% increase. U.S. dollar inflation was over 50% from 1977-1981. The value of the dollar was cut in half in those five years.
History shows that raising the dollar price of gold is the quickest way to cause general inflation. If the markets don't do it, the government can. It works every time.
History also shows that gold not only goes up in inflation (the 1970s), but it also goes up in deflation (the 1930s). When deflation runs out of control, as it did in the 1930s and may again, the government will raise the price of gold to break the back of deflation. They have to — otherwise, deflation will bankrupt the country.
Do I expect deflation to run out of control soon? Actually, no. Deflation is a strong force now, but I expect that eventually the Fed will get the inflation they want — probably through forward guidance, currency wars and negative interest rates.
When that happens, gold will go up.
Still, if deflation does get the upper hand, gold will also go up if the Fed raises the price of gold to devalue the dollar when all else fails.
This makes gold the ultimate "all weather" asset class. Gold goes up in extreme inflation and extreme deflation. Very few asset classes work well in both states of the world.
Since both inflation and deflation are possibilities today, gold belongs in every portfolio as protection against these extremes.
About James Rickards:
James G. Rickards is the editor of Strategic Intelligence, Project Prophesy, Crash Speculator, and Gold Speculator. He is an American lawyer, economist, and investment banker with 40 years of experience working in capital markets on Wall Street. He was the principal negotiator of the rescue of Long-Term Capital Management L.P. (LTCM) by the U.S Federal Reserve in 1998. His clients include institutional investors and government directorates.
His work is regularly featured in the Financial Times, Evening Standard, New York Times, The Telegraph, and Washington Post, and he is frequently a guest on BBC, RTE Irish National Radio, CNN, NPR, CSPAN, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, and The Wall Street Journal. He has contributed as an advisor on capital markets to the U.S. intelligence community, and at the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. He has also testified before the U.S. House of Representatives about the 2008 financial crisis.
Rickards is the author of The New Case for Gold (April 2016), and four New York Times best sellers, Currency Wars (2011), The Death of Money (2014), The Road to Ruin (2016), and Aftermath (2019) from Penguin Random House. And his latest book, The New Great Depression was published in January 2021.


There are no weight loss magic bullets.
Calories = 4x carbs + 4x proteins + 9x fats (in grams).
There are many other micronutrients, including vitamins, minerals, and fiber. We don't even know what all of them are. A diet containing a variety of fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains will contain as much as you need of all of them.
Unless specifically diagnosed with a metabolic problem, you won't need to take extra supplements if you have a healthy diet, as in #4. And if you have enough of them, adding more won't make you any healthier.
The more processed a food is, the more nutrition it loses. Basic cooking can help make nutrients more available, but heavily processed foods will have lost much. "Enriching" it generally doesn't help.
Sugar is unnecessary for your diet, but does little harm in moderation. Replacing it with zero-calorie sweeteners does not appear to help and may hurt.
Serious metabolic disorders are on the rise. You need to see a doctor to devise a good nutrition plan for your case. The advice I give here will help prevent nutritional disorders, but only a doctor can diagnose problems.
Despite the flap in newspapers, the basic outlines of nutrition are the same as decades ago: lean meats, whole grains, a variety of vegetables, easy on the pure starches and sugars (and refined foods in general), not too many calories. The rest is mostly fad and overgeneralization.


Author Lori Tsugawa Whaley will present two discussions on Chiune Sugihara, a.k.a. "the Japanese Schindler," and his relationship to the ancient samurai principles known as a code of bushido; the way of the warrior.
Chiune Sugihara was born on Jan. 1, 1900. As a descendent of the samurai, he learned the principles of integrity, honor, and benevolence. However, it is the bushido principle of courage that characterizes his life.
Sugihara's story of courage was the inspiration for Whaley's book "The Courage of a Samurai," to be re-released as "Seven Samurai Secrets of Success" through Tuttle Publishing in latter 2019. The book outlines the bushido principles providing modern-day examples of Japanese and Japanese Americans who exemplify these principles.
Whaley included ganbaru as a tribute to her dear late mother, who taught her to do her best and never give up.
Whaley has traveled to Japan numerous times and embraces her Japanese heritage. She is an inspirational speaker, life coach, Japanese folk tales storyteller, chef, wife, mother, and grandmother. She is dedicating her life to share the code of bushido, and encouraging others to do the same.
"The world is waiting for you to unveil your unique gifts and talents…what are you waiting for?" she says.
Both events were organized by Mitchell Matsumura and Sansei Legacy in conjunction with GVJCI and Union Church of Los Angeles. For more information, visit Sansei Legacy on Facebook.
A third-generation Japanese American and a descendant of the samurai warrior, Lori Tsugawa Whaley is on a mission to empower others to reach their God-given potential, no matter their path, heritage, or circumstances. She captivates and compels individuals to embrace their talents and life experiences to live life to the fullest.
Growing up in a predominantly Caucasian rural farming community in southwestern Washington, she struggled with being different. She channeled her energies in a tireless quest to learn about her Japanese heritage. The discovery of the ancient Japanese warrior code of conduct known as bushido became her guide. Today, she empowers others to live by these same principles of courage, integrity, benevolence, respect, honesty, honor, and loyalty that guided the samurai.
Her resolve has been strongly tested, having endured the painstaking recovery from two auto accidents that resulted in traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic physical pain. This journey to recovery is the basis for her compassion to guide others in overcoming their own limiting circumstances.
Whaley graduated with honors from Portland State University with a bachelor's degree in art. She is a member of the Japanese American Citizen League, Japan-America Society of Washington, Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington, Toastmasters International, and Association of Women-Owned Businesses.
A Pacific Northwest native, she has been married for over 40 years and resides in a Japanese-style home. She and her husband have two grown children and five grandchildren.
Her book became an Amazon International eBook Best Seller in October 2016. It explores the code of bushido, honors Japanese and Japanese Americans who exemplify this code, and shows us how applicable it is for our lives today.
In September 20218, Whaley signed a contract with Tuttle Publishing to release a new edition in mid-2019 with new title and new cover.
For more information, email [email protected] or visit www.LoriWhaley.com or https://www.facebook.com/LoriTsugawaWhaleyFanPage/.
Following the German invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jews and other Polish citizens fled eastward ahead of the advancing German army; many refugees found at least temporary safety in Lithuania. Options for escape were limited and required diplomatic visas to cross international borders.
One route was through Asia using a combination of permits issued by foreign envoys responding to the refugee crisis: a bogus visa for entrance to the Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao and a visa for transit through Japan.
One such envoy was Chiune Sugihara, the first Japanese diplomat posted in Lithuania. In the absence of clear instructions from his government in Tokyo, Sugihara granted 10-day visas to Japan to hundreds of refugees who held Curaçao destination visas. After issuing some 1,800 visas, Sugihara finally received a response to his cables alerting the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo of the situation in Lithuania.
The Foreign Ministry reported that individuals with visas headed for the U.S. and Canada had arrived in Japan without money or final destination visas. In his response, Sugihara admitted to issuing visas to people who had not completed all arrangements for destination visas, explaining that Japan was the only transit country available for going in the direction of the U.S., and his visas were needed to leave the Soviet Union.
By the time the Soviets ordered all diplomatic consulates closed, in late August 1940, Sugihara had saved thousands of Jews over the course of just a few weeks. Because of his efforts, Yad Vashem awarded him the title of "Righteous Among the Nations" in 1984.
"Also, I felt at that time that the Japanese government did not have any uniform opinion in Tokyo. Some Japanese military leaders were just scared because of the pressure from the Nazis; while other officials in the Home Ministry were simply ambivalent. People in Tokyo were not united. I felt it silly to deal with them. So, I made up my mind not to wait for their reply.


High impact weather and water events, and their likely increasing frequency of occurrence, negatively affect surface transportation safety, mobility, capacity and productivity in ways that require a serious reevaluation of current practices for delivering weather-related decision support services to transportation stakeholders. The goals include: reducing crash risk and public exposure to weather-related hazards, minimizing disruption along transportation corridors, improving transportation network design and increasing durability to minimize infrastructure damage or accelerate restoration from high-impact events. Due to the diverse geographies, climates, economies and policies around the nation, a wide variety of services have evolved in response to weather impacts. This presentation will describe how the National Weather Service and the Federal Highway Administration are working together to develop guidance for improving collaboration between State Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and the Weather Enterprise. Current practices of DOT interactions and relationships with the Weather and Climate Enterprise (public, private and academic) are being evaluated and different methods of collaboration and good practices will be documented. Best practices will include strategies for effective communication and data sharing before, during and after events that have a high impact on surface transportation, public behavior and emergency response, as well as long term planning and maintenance. The objective is to provide State and Local DOT road and traffic managers and planners, commercial providers, and the public with the best available practices, guidance and tools by first learning how others are responding to similar weather, water and climate challenges.


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US ECONOMY RANKING GLOBAL
JUST THE FACTS AUGUST 30, 2014
1 Hong Kong 90.1 +0.8 4 Switzerland 81.6 +0.6
2 Singapore 89.4 +1.4 5 New Zealand 81.2 -0.2
3 Australia 82.0 -0.6 6 Canada 80.2 +0.8
Mostly Free
7 Chile 78.7 -0.3 21 Lithuania 73.0 +0.9
8 Mauritius 76.5 -0.4 22 Georgia 72.6 +0.4
9 Ireland 76.2 +0.5 23 Iceland 72.4 +0.3
10 Denmark 76.1 0.0 24 Austria 72.4 +0.6
11 Estonia 75.9 +0.6 25 Japan 72.4 +0.6
12 United States 75.5 -0.5
The United States, with an economic freedom score of 75.5, is the 12th freest economy in the 2014 Index. Its score is half a point lower than last year, primarily due to deteriorations in property rights, fiscal freedom, and business freedom. The U.S. is ranked 2nd out of three countries in the North America region, and although its score remains well above the world and regional averages, it is no longer one of the top 10 freest economies.
Over the 20-year history of the Index, the U.S.'s economic freedom has fluctuated significantly. During the first 10 years, its score rose gradually, and it joined the ranks of the economically "free" in 2006. Since then, it has suffered a dramatic decline of almost 6 points, with particularly large losses in property rights, freedom from corruption, and control of government spending. The U.S. is the only country to have recorded a loss of economic freedom each of the past seven years. The overall U.S. score decline from 1995 to 2014 is 1.2 points, the fourth worst drop among advanced economies.
Substantial expansion in the size and scope of government, including through new and costly regulations in areas like finance and health care, has contributed significantly to the erosion of U.S. economic freedom. The growth of government has been accompanied by increasing cronyism that has undermined the rule of law and perceptions of fairness.
http://www.heritage.org/index/country/unitedstates
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Fem is a major feminist magazine and the first Latin American one. The idea for it was conceived in 1975 during a conference in Morelia, Michoacán, and it was established in the following year by Alaíde Foppa and Margarita García Flores. In 2005, its director, Esperanza Brito de Martí, reported that the print version was being discontinued due to high costs and from then on, the magazine would only be published online. The magazine focuses on social and political issues, art and cinema. It contains news, poetry and short stories. Topics range from domestic violence to health care, women in the student movement, AIDS, prostitution, and Chicanas.
Güereña, Salvador; Pisano, Vivian M. (1 January 1998). Latino Periodicals: A Selection Guide. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-0540-4.
Hernandez, Jennifer Browdy de (2003). Women Writing Resistance: Essays on Latin America and the Caribbean. South End Press. ISBN 978-0-89608-708-8.
The Female Persuasion Should Be a Literary Breakout. Will It?


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STOKE CITY SEASON REVIEW 2011/2012
The below word cloud was generated using all of Stoke City's match reports from the BBC website from the 2011/2012 season. The more frequently a word is used, the larger it appears on screen. The image was generated using the wonderful wordle.net.
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Posted by Steven on July 1, 2012 in Club
Tags: Premier League, Stoke City, word cloud
Analysis of player nationalities at Premier League clubs 2010/2011
As a follow up to my previous blogpost related to the different nationalities represented in the Premier League I thought it might be interesting to slice the data slightly differently. This time I'm going to look at player nationality by club. The data in this article relates to the nationality of players who started matches in the Premier League last season (2010/2011). For example, every club has 418 starting berths each season, that's 11 players multiplied by 38 games. Of those 418 potential starting berths, Birmingham City used 242 Englishmen. That's a percentage of around 57%.
Only six teams in the Premier League last season fielded teams that featured more than 50% Englishmen. These were Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United and West Ham United. The following table displays the most English clubs in the Premier League last season.
Clubs with most English starting players in the Premier League 2010/2011 season
A few things of note:
The three relegated sides Birmingham City, Blackpool and West Ham are in the top seven most English sides.
It is Wigan Athletic and Arsenal who have the least English sides by far. They are also the only two clubs in the Premier League whose most used nationality was not English. Arsenal's was (unsurprisingly) French, whilst Wigan Athletic had more Honduran starters than any other nationality last season.
Of England's Champions League representatives for the 2011/2012 season it is Manchester City who are the most English having started Englishmen 43 more times than their city rivals Manchester United.
Clubs featuring most of one particular nationaliy
A few things to note on the above data:
Wolves feature a large number of Irishmen, this is probably unsurprising due to their manager being ex-Ireland international Mick McCarthy.
Blackpool were the "most Welsh" Premier League side during 2010/2011. Both David Vaughan and Neal Eardley featured regularly for the Tangerines.
Fulham featured a number of Northern Irish players, a hang-over from Lawrie Sanchez' era at Craven Cottage perhaps?
Liverpool featured more Spanish starters than any other side, their previous manager to Kenny Dalglishg was (of course) Spaniard Rafa Benitez,
Different nationalities starting games by club Premier League 2010/2011
A couple of things to note related to the above data:
The most English side Birmingham City also started the least number of nationalities (only 9) during the Premier League campaign.
West Brom used more than double the number of nationalities than Birmingham City.
If you have any ideas on ways this data can be further analysed I'd be happy to hear from you.
Posted by Steven on August 1, 2011 in Club
Tags: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Chelsea, Everton, Fulham, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Newcastle United, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Bromwich Albion, West Ham United, Wigan Athletic, Wolverhampton Wanderers


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Disney California Adventure: How we got here and what's next
By By Brady MacDonald
Jun 18, 2012 | 8:30 AM
Paradise Pier at Disney California Adventure (Disney)
After more than a decade in existence and $1.1 billion in renovations, Disney California Adventure still probably needs another billion dollars in improvements before it can be worthy of the Disney name.
RELATED: Disney park braces for 'carmageddon' as Cars Land opens
As the hoopla surrounding the grand reopening of the Anaheim theme park dies down, I thought it would be a good time to take a look back at what DCA was, has become and could be.
REVIEWS: Cars Land | Radiator Springs Racers | Mater's Junkyard Jamboree | Luigi's Flying Tires |Buena Vista Street
The story of DCA actually starts way back in 1991 when Disney announced plans to build the $3-billion Westcot in the old Disneyland parking lot. For myriad reasons, the West Coast version of Disney World's Epcot was eventually canceled and new plans were unveiled for an edgy and hip 55-acre theme park celebrating California pop culture.
PHOTOS: Buena Vista Street | Cars Land | Radiator Springs Racers | Mater's Junkyard Jamboree | Luigi's Flying Tires | Cars Land origins
Located a football field away from Disneyland, the $1.1-billion Disney California Adventure opened in 2001 to dismal reviews and low attendance thanks to an absence of Disney characters, on-the-cheap carnival rides and bad word of mouth from early visitors who complained about the laughable theme, bad puns and lack of children's attractions.
By the end of the first year, high-profile, high-end restaurants by Wolfgang Puck and Robert Mondavi pulled out of the park, operating schedules were scaled way back and Disney officials scrambled to come up with a way to put lipstick on a pig.
The problems were endless and all self-inflicted. The nighttime "Luminaria" pyrotechnic water show spewed a constant and heavy plume of smoke on the crowds lining a man-made lagoon. The poorly conceived and ill-received Eureka parade featured stilt-walking Chinese food takeout boxes perched on chopstick legs. And among the meager 23 attractions on the park map were a bread-baking demonstration and a tortilla-making exhibit.
The Paradise Pier area of the park was the worst offender, leading some to dubiously dub the park "Six Flags California Adventure." The land with the seaside amusement park theme included a wave swing inside a giant unpeeling orange, a sunglass shop inside a towering dinosaur and a McDonalds restaurant inside a hamburger-shaped spaceship.
DCA was a stinker and everybody knew it -- except Disney, which threw good money after bad at the park. The addition of a bug's land kiddie area, Tower of Terror drop ride and Monsters Inc. dark ride failed to significantly goose interest, improve attendance or fix the park's faulty conceit.
Finally in 2007, Disney admitted defeat and conceded the obvious: DCA was broken and in serious need of repair to the tune of $1.1 billion. Over the next five years the company dutifully set about correcting the mistake.
Stripping off the pun-filled pop culture veneer, the reimagined park would offer a more historic take on California with a back story that focused on Walt Disney's 1923 arrival in Los Angeles.
During the five-year renovation, Disney California Adventure re-themed several attractions (Silly Symphony Swings and Goofy's Sky School) and added a pair of classic dark rides (Toy Story Midway Mania and Little Mermaid: Ariel's Undersea Adventure), wildly popular nighttime entertainment ("World of Color" and ElecTRONica) and two new lands (Cars Land and Buena Vista Street).
RELATED: Looking into the crystal ball at DCA's future
Which brings us up to today and what lies ahead for DCA.
With about 35 rides and shows, Disney California Adventure still only has about half as many attractions as Disneyland.
Of the park's eight themed lands, it's a fairly safe bet that Disney won't be making many changes to Cars Land, Buena Vista Street or Paradise Pier anytime soon now that the $1.1-billion renovation is complete. That leaves five lands and about two-thirds of DCA still in need of attention from Walt Disney Imagineering, the creative arm of the company that has crafted a comprehensive vision for the entire park going forward.
If Westcot was set to cost $3 billion and Disney spent $1 billion on its first attempt at DCA and another $1 billion on the renovation, it stands to reason it will take yet another $1 billion to get the park up to the company's gold standard. I suspect the next phase of upgrades to DCA will be announced in more typical but robust $100 million to $200 million annual increments rather than in a single billion dollar chunk.
The next logical area to attack is the newly dubbed Hollywood Land, which has a pair of studio soundstages sitting empty that once housed the "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" show and the Hollywood & Dine food court. Any makeover would remove the still-remaining pop cultural signage in the land and affix a distinct 1930s to 1940s golden age of Hollywood time period to the area. And then there's the question of what to do with the last remaining five acres of the former Timon parking lot sitting behind Tower of Terror.
After that, Imagineering will have to figure out how to tackle the neighboring Grizzly Peak and Condor Flats lands, which both suffer from the same problem: a severe dearth of attractions. Grizzly River Run, lacking both Disney DNA and audio-animatronics, takes up a precious five acres of land and serves as a constant reminder of the old park, making the rapids ride and its iconic peak a prime target for renovation or removal. Meanwhile, speculation has circulated for years that Soarin' Over California could get an internationally-themed movie upgrade while Redwood Creek Challenge Trail might be leveled in favor of a new E-Ticket ride.
Like a doughnut hole in the middle of the park, the Pacific Wharf food court, the unused San Francisco city block and under-utilized Golden Vine Winery seem orphaned from any land, time period or storyline. Short of few name changes, all three areas remain essentially unchanged since DCA opened in 2001. The entire space cries out for a Buena Vista Street-style reimagineering.
That leaves a bug's land, a 2002 Band-Aid intended as a quick fix to the persistent complaint that DCA lacked any attractions for young children. What visitors got and what we're still left with is the most pathetic collection of kiddie rides ever assembled in a Disney park: the bumper cars don't bump, the teacup ride ends before it gets going and the caterpillar train feels like the beginning of a dark ride that doesn't exist. And then there's the absolute lack of a connection to DCA's California theme. But like any set of off-the-shelf carnival rides, bug's land can and should be folded up overnight and shipped to the next county fair or church picnic where it belongs.
It may take another five years of consistent investment to undo the bad will DCA has built up over the past decade, but if the turnstiles spin and the cash registers ring the money should be there to continue the park's considerable uphill climb. If and only if that happens, DCA could still turn out to be a worthy neighbor to Disneyland despite the rough start.
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Sooo.... This New Malaysian Airlines Thing
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What "intelligence data"?
What "many countries"?
Did you read that part (exactly words = intelligence data from many countries) from Fox News? CNN? AP? Reuter?
Just because an article online (or on newspaper, or someone said it on TV/radio) said "intelligence data from many countries", it is no more than just 5 words of "intelligence data from many countries". Until you see the actual data and verify its accuracy, it is no more than a "claim".
I can write an article and post online say "Intelligence data from many countries show that aliens are about to invade the Earth". What is the difference between my "intelligence data from many countries" and the same words used by whatever press you saw it from? Nothing!
The plane crashed near Russian border inside Ukraine. Just what radar systems and intelligence gathering methods do you think other countries have in this region?
Yes. I have seen quite enough of how those media organizations in "developed countries" spin the truth to suit their purposes.
And please don't use the words "conspiracy theory". It is usually a sad attempt to discredit whoever disagree with oneself.
vashstampede, Jul 25, 2014
Ukraine: No "Western" Interest In Investigating MH17
After all the propaganda about the downed MH17 flight, screams about alleged looting and demands of access to the site, one would have expected some serious attempts to immediately investigate the case.
But hardly any are made:
At the field in Ukraine where the exploded remnants landed, there are no guards and no recovery workers, no police officers and no investigators. Early Thursday evening, there were almost no people — just two curious 12-year-old girls looking at part of the tail of the Boeing 777.
"There's no one out here," said Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, whose monitoring mission has been on the site every day since Friday. As for the arrival of international experts, "it's not like our door is being broken down."
After the U.S. blustering "we have evidence" that Russia did it and then showing nothing of it - "just trust us" - the U.S. seems have lost all interests to really find out who's ammunition downed the plane. Russia had early on called for an international investigation and it was Russia alone so far which presented real evidence on the case. U.S. ships with very capable missile defense radars were in the Black Sea over the last weeks and likely have very detailed track records of every flight and missile launch up to several hundred of miles away. None of those have been made public. We can guess why.
And those "looting" claims?
There were a few new faces at the site on Thursday. Three Australian investigators worked in the field, joining three Malaysians. Before departing Thursday, the Malaysians said that they were surprised at the amount of access they had to the site and that they felt safe, Mr. Bociurkiw said.
There have been widespread reports of looting, but Mr. Bociurkiw said his monitoring group, which has now spent more time at the site than any other, had not seen any. The Malaysians said they had seen valuables in the fields untouched, he noted, including a bottle of duty-free perfume, auto parts, backpacks full of belongings, a watch and some jewelry.
Those claims of looting were false just as the claims of mishandling the remains of the victims were false.
But the White House will not take back one any of those false claims. It continues its anti-Russia campaign is coming up with new claims for which again no facts are presented to back them up:
American officials, citing military intelligence, including satellite images, warned that Russia appeared to be preparing to arm the rebels with more high-powered weaponry — including tanks and armored vehicles — than it had previously supplied. In Kiev, a military spokesman said that Ukrainian troops were coming under increased fire from the Russian side of the border and that the Ukrainian military had recently shot down three Russian surveillance drones. One was used to target a Ukrainian base near the town of Amvrosiivka, which then quickly came under heavy rocket attack, the spokesman said.
Again these are just claims. Not one of the "satellite images" cited was presented.
But the main stream propaganda continue to support such fall for such nonsense and market it so well that many drones believe it without a doubt.
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Yes... I don't think it would probably do much good either... but I think the important thing is sending a message, not "punishing" them for something that wasn't (hopefully!) done with intention.
I agree about the involvement, as most outside of Russia do, but apparently everyone here doesn't.
What do you mean everyone else here, on the forum? Well, everyone has the right to their opinion, but we can't deny the facts, that area is controlled by the pro-Russians and this has to mean something.
Peninha, Jul 28, 2014
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I was talking about the pro-Russia statements. Sure it means something, Peninha... we're on the same side here.
I was responding to the post that was questioning the intelligence that showed from where the missile was fired, media coverage, etc... as if all the media sources around the world were reporting lies or something. I didn't agree with that... and yes, that was definitely my opinion.
Kate, Jul 28, 2014


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DAY 4: the photos
Some more of Chris Bilheimer's photos from the fourth night.
Refreshed after a day off, the band was in top form.
MONDAY ROUNDUP FROM DUBLIN
With two shows down and three to go, we're all enjoying a day off in Dublin, taking tours (the Viking Splash tour is a blast), visiting friends, catching up on rest, nursing slightly "sore" heads, marvelling at the really good Irish weather (where's the rain been), but more
DUBLIN 2–WORKING REHEARSAL ROLLS ON
Sunday night's sell-out crowd at the Olympia was witness to another scintillating set from R.E.M. as the band worked their way through 11 new songs including closer "I'm Gonna DJ" as well as such classics as "Wolves, Lower," "Sitting Still," "These Days," "Heron House," "Second Guessing," and "Electrolite."
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Chris Bilheimer was on hand to get a few shots for HQ.
R.E.M. OPENS WORKING REHEARSALS IN DUBLIN
R.E.M opens their five-night stand at the Olympia Theatre in Dublin this evening. Saturday night's support comes from Dublin's own David Kitt.
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R.E.M. OPENING REHEARSAL ROCKS DUBLIN
The band kicked off its rehearsals in Dublin in electrifying form to a packed, spirited sellout crowd tonight at the Olympia Theatre. The set tipped heavily in the direction of brand new songs, ten in all, but also featured a selection of classics including "Second Guessing," "Letter Never
***UPDATE*** PETER & MIKE ON DAVE FANNING SHOW TONIGHT
UPDATE: Owing to technical problems in post production, Dave Fanning's interview with R.E.M. scheduled for broadcast tonight on RTE Radio 1(Ireland) and www.rte.ie/radio1/drivetime has had to be deferred. In its place tonight at 1900hrs (Irish Time GMT +1) archive of previous interviews will be broadcast.
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LEFT OF THE DIAL RE-AIRS FRIDAY
Just a reminder that the BBC's excellent feature on American Alternative Rock, "Left of the Dial (program 6 of "The Seven Ages of Rock" special), will be re-broadcast on BBC 1, Friday, June 29th at 12.05am.
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BERTIS REPORTS FROM DUBLIN
A few random Dublin memories from over the years, on my first day here this time:
Our first time here was 1984, the band's second tour of Europe, back in the Reckoning days when that meant a few club shows where they could be arranged. SFX was the hall,
JACKNIFE LEE TALKS TO HQ
R.E.M HQ's David Bell caught up with producer Jacknife Lee on the eve of the Dublin Olympia shows to discuss the Vancouver recording sessions, and many other things, including the Irish, Grouse Lodge, R.E.M.'s Working Rehearsal, the producer's role, and Jacknife's iPod:
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Mt. Bike Trails Near Estes Park???
Discussion in 'The West' started by Quanz56, Jan 13, 2008.
I am going to be down in the Estes Park area for a few days in September and want to know if there are any good mtn. biking trails near there that would be worthwhile to ride at while I'm there.
Sorry for the generalized info. Let me know if you need more specifics.
there is the devils backbone on 34 from loveland as one goes up the canyon to Estes Park.


What makes a poem "good"?
Poetry demands precision. The novelist can get away with less than precise expression from time to time because the story will pull the reader along. The job of the poet is to create a picture in the mind and an emotion in the heart. Every single word counts. The wrong choice–a word with the wrong connotation or the wrong number of syllables or an unlovely combination of consonant sounds–spoils all.
The underlying thought of the poem is also important. Some poems are written to create a picture only, but the most memorable poems also convey a universal truth about the human condition. For me, a "good" poem leaves me with goosebumps along my arms. I think a poem is "bad" when it lacks a discernible point and sounds like prose.
People are led to write a poem because they have been strongly moved by some event. They've experienced a strong emotion, received an insight, and wish to capture the experience in words. Only a few, however, succeed in turning the experience into a poem that will be meaningful to another person.
For the student, having a genuine insight into the true badness of some poems is, I think, a necessary corollary of having a grasp of what makes good poems good.
That the rivers were overflowed and petty streams all around.
A successful poem doesn't have to rhyme or scan or have a certain pattern of lines. It does need to paint a picture with carefully chosen words. It should have a point that a reader unknown to the poet can respond to.
Fortunately, poets can study a wide variety of poetry–good and bad–in order to learn what works and what doesn't.
Re "consensus of opinion"? Is there any other sort of consensus?
Apart from that, I think it's an interesting post on a tricky and, as you say, subjective topic.
Aside from that, I hesitate to judge any poem as being"bad." Poetry is personal and if we succeed in reaching that point of response in our readers, even just one reader, then we have successfully shared that personal part of us with another.
Prof. Cooney's definition "simply weak and ineffectual and lacking in interest" merely points out what might be uninteresting to him, failing to reach something deep within himself.
I know I don't like Vogon poetry!
Poetry is personal, no doubt, but good poetry should be universal.
I am reminded of the grading of cardamom- Grade AGEB (Alleppy Green Extra Bold) is the best cardamom that fetches the best appreciation; the others are graded lesser, but nevertheless in terms of flavour or frgrance they are equal to AGEB. Similarly all poetry is good (to somebody at least), but the best are those that convey a universal message (truth?).
AmaT, I agree that poetry, like anything else, is to a degree personal–meaning, a matter of taste. But. . .would you hesitate to condemn a badly written novel, just because there might be someone (other than the author and his/er mother) who enjoyed it? I've read a lot of good poetry that I personally found tedious; but I've also read a fair amount of bad poetry, and there absolutely is an observable quantitative difference.
To me, that is to a significant degree the litmus test of good writing, particularly of good poetry. If I can detect the human who suffered, it isn't good art, it's egoizing.
Sigh! Oh, the devil in the digits!
Qualitative, of course, not quantitative.
Bad poetry does exist. Meaning can be found in literally anything, if a person tries hard enough to find it. Just because you can find meaning in something does not make it "good". Art cannot be completely opinion based (on a grand scale). If it could, we'd all be rich and famous because our mothers found something moving in our macaroni art from 1995.
The word, "hella", is under consideration to come into formal existence. Where are the protesters when you need them?
Thank you for your lovely post. It is one of the best I have read while browsing for similar posts. I like your style of putting the good ideas.
To me, yes, poetry demands so much of precision and delicacy both in writing it and reading it that it can only be digested at leisure. And it takes great skill and art of detachment, wisdom and patience to make the feeling relevant to someone else.
Sadly for me though I still sometimes, to use Kathryn's nicely put expression, 'egoize.' But I guess it is not that bad, if there is no self-indulging lamentations, and if we can show detachment- consider The Raven y E.A.Poe and so many others..
I have read poems that a are gibbrish, and just don't make any sense at all, I believe a poem should make sense and that it should reveal the meaning before it ends. i also think a poem is very interesting if it is spine-tingling,but you have to really read it several times to get its meaning, or even be challenging like a puzzle, that you just really like alot but can't quite figure out its meaning, but truely, I have read so-called poems that are just words thrown together,sota like the poem submitted here in the comments, it sounds like just crazy words, sorry, but it does to me.
art form, and in any art, no such judgement can be made regarding "good or bad" as did the honorable Prof. Seamus Cooney proceeded to do amateurishly. One can only say they liked it or didn't like it. Period.
Beyond that it is up to the reader to like or dislike, but not assign labels.
Looked up the good professor, couldn't find anything he'd written. Without a public body of work, there is zero credentials to back up his opinions.
art form, and in any art, no such judgement can be made regarding "good or bad" as did the honorable Prof. Seamus Cooney proceed to do amateurishly. One can only say they liked it or didn't like it. Period.
@Rocky – Bad and somewhat borrowed. Compare the middle of your 'friend's' poem and the 3rd line in this poem by Yeats.
I wouldn't call the poem bad, but underdeveloped. Underdeveloped work is like a spine without the skinned wrapping. All he/she needs to do is delve back into the piece, examine it, remember it, feel it, form it, and re-mold it.
In fact the concept is rather interesting – this notion of displacement from oneself – the ego & the self. Very Freudian. I would encourage the author to give a second go around. Stab the best words and lines to act as a template to the piece.
I would re-use "Thoughts scatter/ from a centre/ that cannot hold." Very honest and fluid, yes intelligent and it gives me the image of a centre – a place of coping – that jelly feeling too, when I read "scatter" and "cannot hold." A jelly heart-? Paranoia? Lost and in love?
A good poem usually has a good idea or unique observation at its centre. The form of the poem is not important, but the words are everything and must be vivid and suggestive in the mind.
A bad poem is the opposite. It has a cliched and over-used idea and lacks any insight. The words might try hard to be profound but just come across as being pretentious.
That's what I think, but of course, like music, one person's idea of a 'good poem' differs from another person's idea.
For example, Wordsworth, who is rated as one of the great poets, leaves me indifferent.
So, what if the poetry is meant to be bad, horrific, grotesque, offensive, etc.??? If the evil or ill-intent shines through, is it still considered bad poetry? Or is that just well-written disgusting poetry? Hmmm… Quite a conundrum we've constructed here.
Perhaps you might not even classify it as poetry, but just childish and demented ramblings. Where are the lines drawn. Oh, I'm so confused. How will I sleep at night until my works are placed in their appropriate box???
A bad poem is one that isn't written in natural speech, in which the person is trying to speak like they in a Tyler perry play or Shakespeare play. A bad poem is one that doesn't show insight into a sight, but just skims the surface of most of the images in the poems. A bad poem is one with force rhyme and is loaded with abstracts and too many adjectives. A bad poem is one that switches subjets in the poem and subject are not connected to bring the theme closer to the reader senses. Poets will write bad poems simply because they know the basic things to avoid, so they don't write bad poetry, and they don't know somethings that they must do to create great poetry. Poets always write pass the point in which they've emptied their mind on the theme. Also many poets don't know how a poem begins, and each stanza should, so they just try to mimic the sound and volume of voice of famous poets. I love it when I get from a reader, a comment that is just Wow or let me digest this, or they say I'm in awe. Then come back and write a letter expressing how the poem affecting them. I know then I dove deep into the pleasure of my theme in my poem, so deep that I drowned my readers senses in it.
Poets forget that images have many layers, the first layer is often easier to discover and can be very literal and abstract.
Poets often forget that poetry is almost the truth of ourselves, whispered to ourselves in secret. I l've nothing I say to myself in my mind, unwritten.
All this I know and much more, and I never went to college for years in poetry. I took a few courses and taught myself through learning books. I was a fast learner in poetry, and came very natural to me. I have always written the way Jack Kerauc, says to, before I knew who he was. I find him to be one of the best teachers in writing, in his articles.
I am a poetry coach. My first student fell in love with poetry and said after taking my beginning poetry lessons, he would of paid me a couple of hundred. He was that impressed. He will be my advanced poetry to mastee poetry writing student in august. I have a girl from India, who after taking my free beginning advanced lessons have asked me if I could critique all her work. She is very sad that the course is over.
I don't think poetry has qualities of "goodness" or "badness" – those words are imprecise, and this is poetry we're talking about, after all, so precision is important. Rather, poetry can be "effective" or "not effective". Ultimately, poetry is a form of communication; it tries to create a unique and strong bond, beyond ordinary communication, a sort of communion between the poet and the reader. I say "communion" as a word that simultaneously represent the bond and the significance of the shared message – I believe both qualities are necessary – and by significance I mean something that touches the reader deeply, even if the poem's message is otherwise seemingly superficial.
The question of what makes that potential communion effective or not effective is a relevant and important question to people considering writing poetry. Also, as a reader of poetry, I would rather focus my limited time on writers who other readers generally find accessible, rather than on writers who most others find inaccessible. A poem which only creates a communion with a tiny percentage of readers (say 1%) is ineffective compared to the same poem re-worked so that it creates that communion with a much larger percentage of readers (say 75%). Both writers and readers of poetry should be aware of this concept and care about it. The most effective poetry has a quality of universality, meaning it has a reasonably strong chance of appealing to almost any reader.
Kathryn comments that she believes ego should be removed from poems – there are poems where doing that can make the poem more effective, and there are poems where doing that can make the poem less effective. There are some wonderful poems where the ego of the writer is front and center. The secret is to know when one technique works best, and when the other works best.
Victoria Hunter offers some useful tips of techniques which are often found in effective poems, but once again, there's always exceptions, a time and a place in a poem which demands the opposite of the normal techniques. Thus, a skilled amateur can begin to discern features which commonly appear in effective poems, but a master poet also knows exactly when to break those rules.
Really, Rocky? A friend sent you that poem?
Poems can be labeled good or bad. This is a form of free speech that each person in American can "label" a poem bad or good if that is what they believe. That said, some poems are really bad and not just underdeveloped.
It is not the place for others to tell us what we can or cannot say as regards poetry or any other art form. We all have different opinions, but we are free to say what we like, that is, to voice our opinion without censor as to whether art is good, bad or underdeveloped. We all have a right to our opinion, and just as a person is free to say we "can't" we are free to say "we can".
No work of man is poetryless even to say one's own name is art of life.
Am not part of this language but it is part of me, those who challenge some poems shouldn't be blamed because people even say to beautiful creature(human being) that there are some ugly people which indeed try to insult God the Creator let alone the language of Shakespeare.
let's just stop seeking the beauty of this world and dig life a channel.


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Election Unlikely to Change S. 510 Fate in Senate
By Helena Bottemiller on November 3, 2010
Though Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives, Democrats maintained narrow control of the Senate in Tuesday's midterm election, a reality that will likely not impact the fate of the pending FDA Food Safety Modernization Act slated for a cloture vote during the lame duck session in November.
At press time, Senate Democrats were poised to hold 49 seats, Republicans held 46, Independents 2, while 3 remained in play as election returns rolled in on the West Coast. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), who scheduled the beleaguered food safety bill for a cloture vote before recess, kept his seat in what proved to be a very tumultuous campaign cycle.
With limited upheaval in the Senate, it is likely that the food safety bill will remain on track to pass in the upper chamber. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, and Labor Committee and an avid supporter of the legislation, recently told reporters he believes he has over 90 yes votes for the bill.
"I remain optimistic that regardless of the outcome of the election, S. 510 will be taken up by the Senate when they return," Caroline Smith DeWaal, food safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, told Food Safety News, before the final returns were reported.
Whether the bill makes it through a conference committee and to the President's desk before the new year is another question.
"I frankly don't think it will make much difference either way," said David Acheson, former associate commissioner of foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, "I see about a 5 percent chance [for the bill] and I suspect the election won't change that much either way."
The House passed its version of the food safety bill in July 2009. After a year of debate and compromise with small, sustainable agriculture advocates, the Senate bill contains some provisions aimed to reduce the regulatory burden on small farms and food facilities. The Senate version also does not contain registration fees to help pay for the $1.4 billion measure.
It remains to be seen whether Congressional leaders will dedicate the time necessary to resolve these important differences before the new congress comes to Washington in January.
Bill Marler, leading food lawyer and publisher of Food Safety News, thinks it's "now or never" for the bill.
"If S. 510 does not pass in the lame duck session, get reconciled with HB 2749, and get signed by the President by years end, we will not see food safety legislation again this decade," he said.
As Robert Guenther, senior vice president of public policy at United Fresh, a produce industry trade group, explained Tuesday, regardless of legislative progress, the Obama administration will likely continue as planned on regulatory priorities, presumably including food safety in the mix.
"As we start to take stock in what may take place next year, a quick read on tonight's election result tells us that President Obama's legislative agenda will be all but dead for the next two years," wrote Guenther during the Untied Fresh's live election blog update. "However, what we may see is an even more active regulatory agenda from the administration on policy issues that the President deems important."
Correction: This article originally wrongly attributed Robert Guenther's statement to Patrick Delaney of United Fresh.
Tags: Food Safety Modernization Act, FSMA, Harry Reid, S. 510


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Departementsleitung
Prof. Christoph Meier graduated as pharmacist at the University of Basel in 1987. He got his PhD at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Basel with Prof. F. Follath, and worked then for 4 years at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology at the University Hospital of Zürich with Prof. Peter Meier-Abt. Between 1995 and 1998 he conducted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Center (BCDSP) in Lexington, MA, USA, with Professor Hershel Jick and his daughter, Professor Susan Jick. He also got a Master degree in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, MA, and an assistant professorship at the Boston University School of Public Health.
In 1998, Prof. Meier started to build up his own research unit at the Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Hospital of Basel (with Prof. S. Krähenbühl), the so-called "Basel Pharmacoepidemiology Unit". He has a close research collaboration with Prof. Susan Jick and colleagues at the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program in Lexington, MA. In 2008 he got a "Titularprofessorship" from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, and in 2009 he was elected head of the Hospital Pharmacy at the University Hospital and professor for Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacoepidemiology at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He serves as Department Head since 2012.
Other activities:
Member of the editor board of the journal Drug Safety, Member of the Human Medicines Expert Committee (HMEC) at Swissmedic
1995 – 1997 Postdoctoral fellowships from the Swiss National Science Foundation and from the Harvard University, Boston, MA 1999–2005 Research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation entitled "Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Methods in Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs: Assessing Risks and Benefits of Long-Term Exposure to Drugs in Cardiovascular Medicine", and "Pharmacoepidemiologic Research Methods in Post-Marketing Surveillance of Drugs: Assessing Risks and Benefits of Long-Term Exposure to Drugs" 2002 Award "Best Doctoral Thesis of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University Hospital Basel in 2002" for my doctoral student Brigitta Schlegel, MD, who conducted a study entitled "HMG-CoA-reductase inhibitors and the risk of fractures", published in JAMA in 2000 2005 Clinical Award for the best publication of the year 2005 by the Swiss Bone and Mineral Society (SBMS) for the publication "Use of beta-blockers and the risk of bone fractures", published in JAMA 2004


Jared Knickelbein, Kristine-Ann Buela, Robert Hendricks; Stratification of antigen-presenting cells within the normal human cornea. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2013;54(15):2892.
Purpose: In recent years, evidence has emerged demonstrating a unique stratification of antigen-presenting cells (APC) within the normal murine cornea, an immune-privileged site once thought to be devoid of such cells. In this study, we investigated the phenotype and distribution of APC within normal human donor corneas.
Methods: Human corneas were obtained from the Center for Organ Recovery and Education (CORE). Fluorescence confocal microscopy was used to image corneal whole mounts. Only corneas without abnormalities noted on slit lamp examination by CORE were utilized.
Results: CD11c+ dendritic cells (DC) were identified in the basal aspect of the epithelium as well as in the anterior stroma. A significant population of Langerin+ cells (LC) was found confined to the basal epithelium. The density of CD45+ DC diminished from peripheral to central cornea. CD68+ macrophages were identified mostly within the anterior stroma. The majority of CD45+ cells within the epithelium express MHC class II (HLA-DR) on at least portions of their dendrites.
Conclusions: Our results reveal a unique stratification of APC within the normal human cornea with DC and LC situated more anteriorly than macrophages, suggesting progression from APC to barrier function. These findings are strikingly similar to the distribution of APC previously described in mice thus confirming the relevance of the murine model for study of corneal APCs. Flow cytometry is currently being employed to further phenotype the APC population within normal human corneas.


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Q: Using sinon mocks correctly I am using sinon mock as follows
var sandbox = sinon.sandbox.create();
var mockPictureUrl = "http://test.com/test.gif";
var opts = { getUserPictureURL: function () {} };
var mock = sandbox.mock(opts);
mock.expects("getUserPictureURL").once().returns(mockPictureUrl);        expect(AuthController.getUserProfilePictureUrl()).to.equal(mockPictureUrl);
mock.verify();
mock.restore();

If we call sandbox.restore() do we have to call mock.restore()?
Is that the correct way to use sinon mocks?

A: You are right, with sandbox.restore() you restore all spied, mocked and stubbed objects inside the sandbox, what is very convenient if you have many in your test, since there is no need of restoring the faked objects individually.
You can read more about the sandbox utility in Sinon.JS webpage.
If you are mocking only one object, you could decide to not create a sandbox, and instead mock and restore the object directly.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


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Q: Создание бургера Проблема состоит в том что вручную active добавляется и код работает, а js прописываю и никакой реакции и ошибку не могу найти

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burger.addEventListener(`click`, function() {
  burger.classList.toggle(`active`);
})
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  position: relative;
  width: 30px;
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  z-index: 2;
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  position: absolute;
  width: 30px;
  height: 2px;
  background-color: #9e9ea7;
  left: 50%;
  top: 50%;
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.dribble__burger span:nth-last-of-type(2) {
  top: calc(50% - 5px);
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    position: fixed;
    top: 0px;
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    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    padding: 15px;
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    transform: translateX(-100%);
    background-color: green;
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    top: 50%;
    transform: translate(-50%, -50%) rotate(-45deg);
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A: В данный момент ваш пример работает, но есть проблема

Возможно в этом проблема, тогда стоит убрать .dribble__burger span свойство left: 50%; до 0.
Второй момент: думаю вы помните что крести появляется только при @media(max-width:915px)
Третий момент: поменяйте на кавычки одинарные тут 'click' и тут 'active'


Sugar in your diet can be naturally occurring or added. Natural sugars are found in products such as milk and fruit. Added sugars include sugars and syrups that are put into foods during preparation, processing or even added at the table. Examples of foods with added sugars include cakes, cookies, soft drinks, candy, sweetened yogurt, ice cream and fruit juices. Added sugars are used to enhance the flavor, texture, color, and shelf life of food products.
The effect of sugar on your body and overall health depends on the type of sugar you are consuming. Many people do not understand the difference between natural sugar and added sugar. Products that contain natural sugar are typically high in nutritional value and fiber content. For example, the nutrients found in an apple have an impact on how your body breaks down the sugar compared to a slice of cake. Fiber slows down the digestion process and helps prevent blood sugar levels from increasing quickly. Fiber in naturally occurring sugar also helps contribute to feeling full after a meal. On the other hand, the body breaks down added sugars rapidly, causing insulin and blood sugar levels to spike. As a result, you may not feel full after eating, no matter how many calories you have consumed and long term this can lead to many health issues.
Today, added sugars make up a large portion of many people's daily caloric intake. This has contributed to increasing obesity rates among children and adults. Many people rely on quick, processed foods for meals and snacks. It is important to become aware of your sugar intake because added sugars can contribute to extra calories and provide little nutritional value. A diet high in sugar is the leading cause of many health problems including poor nutrition, tooth decay, weight gain, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
You may not even realize how much sugar you are consuming in your diet, due to the many names sugar can be listed as on a food label. Other terms for sugar include maltose, sucrose, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, molasses, cane sugar, fruit juice concentrates, malt syrup, cane syrup, honey, or raw sugar. The ingredients on a food label are listed in descending order by weight. Therefore, if you see sugar listed among the first few ingredients, the product is likely to be high in added sugars. Although it may be difficult to read food labels, the Food and Drug Administration has updated the Nutrition Facts label to help people identify how much sugar is actually added to foods. The label on packed foods and drinks currently displays the total amount of grams of all sugars found in a serving of a product.
By limiting added sugars within your diet, you can cut back on calories without compromising nutrition. Focus on consuming more nutrient rich snacks such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, and plain yogurt instead of cakes, cookies and candy. Lastly, try to drink water instead of sugary juices, sodas or sports drinks.


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Halloween horror at Silent Movie Theatre
October 19, 2009 December 20, 2018 Steve Biodrowski	Silent Movie Theatre
The Cinefamily is in the middle of an intense month of horror movie programming at the Silent Movie Theatre in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles, offering an eclectic mix of classic and cult films so wide that it is sure to include something to please everybody, from Hammer horror to Asian exploitation to slasher movies. Titles include the silent masterpiece HAXAN (Witchcraft), APRIL FOOL'S DAY, MY BLOODY VALENTINE (the uncut original), DON'T OPEN TILL CHRISTMAS, HORROR OF DRACULA, REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HAUNTED COP SHOP, CHOPPING MALL, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS, several movies from Brazilian cult auteur Coffin Joe, plus a documentary on television horror-movie hosts. Check out the schedule below…
Title: American Nightmare (aka Combat Shock)
A different kind of terror, American Nightmare (aka Combat Shock) is a gritty post-Eraserhead exploration of the horrors of reality. No monsters, no vampires, no masked slashers — this film relies on war, junkies, muggings and waiting in line at the welfare office to carry and punctuate its nihilistic saga of a Vietnam vet's desperate pursuit to save his wife and mutant Agent Orange-poisoned child from the horrors of poverty and urban squalor. Ending with one of the most brutal climaxes ever committed to celluloid, it is an unforgiving and controversial masterpiece. Director Buddy Giovinazzo will bring his original uncut 16mm answer print, a batch of early shorts he made, and join us for a Q & A!
Date: October 20 at 8:00pm
Title: Haxan (w/ new live score by Eddie Ruscha)
The beautifully disturbing 1922 granddaddy of all shockumentaries, Haxan employs a variety of techniques to weave its historic tale of the occult. Mixing and mashing actual documentary footage with "re-enactments" and slide shows (one of such slide shows was so famously used in the opening of The Exorcist), Danish director Benjamin Christensen made a film full of vivid and haunting visuals just waiting to be underscored by an audial equivalent. Enter Eddie Ruscha (of Future Pigeon), a gifted artist and electronic experimental musician with a score he composed to complement the film, one that wowed audiences at the Hammer earlier this year. Dir. Benjamin Christensen, digital presentation, 1922, 74 min.
Title: Holliday Horror Triple Feature
My Bloody Valentine (uncut version!): The name My Bloody Valentine evokes various things, like the recent 3-D remake or the '90s shoegazer band. But what it all too seldom communicates is what a great friggin' slasher movie the 1981 film version is. First of all, it has an iconic slasher in "Harry Warden," its gas-masked, pick-axe-wielding miner. Secondly, the working-class characters are a cut above the usual teen victims; you actually find yourself giving a shit about them. And, the stalk n' slash finale takes place in a mineshaft! C'mon! There are many great kills, which sadly were themselves brutally hacked by the MPAA, but are finally shown here in this rare uncut 35mm screening! Of all the slasher knock-offs of the early '80s, this was the most deserving of a franchise, but alas, it was not to be. Best viewed with a heart-shaped box of chocolates by your side. Director George Mihalka will be in person for a Q & A! Dir. George Mihalka, 1981, 35mm, 90 min.
April Fools Day: Depending on your frame of reference, this 1986 gem is either late for the party or ahead of its time. Sharing much of the same post-modern sensibility that would make Wes Craven's Scream a hit ten years later, April Fools Day explores the tropes of the slasher genre without descending into spoof. Your mileage may vary on the whodunit aspect of the plot, but the film is a pretty classy affair for a horror film of the era, and the cast is stocked with great '80s B-listers like Deborah "Valley Girl" Foreman, Amy "Friday The 13th Pt. 2" Steel, and the guy who played Biff in Back To The Future. Good fun to the last twist. Dir. Fred Walton, 1986, 35mm, 89 min.
Don't Open 'Til Christmas: You want to see Santa Claus get killed, right? Well, this movie really targets your demographic. In an alternate-universe London conveniently overpopulated by street corner Santas, one man finds it his duty to thin the herd — so you get to see all manner of Santacide in this sleazy British slasher. We're only showing it on VHS, but c'mon, this is the one Christmas horror movie you haven't seen ten times, and it's a blast. Besides, you'll have already watched two prints tonight! Let's do this! Dir. Edmund Purdom, 1984, 86 min.
Title: Psychedelic Coffin Joe Night
Awakening Of The Beast: Banned for almost 20 years, this surreal and insane catalogue of debauchery was Marins' most controversial, experimental, and provocative film — and with a full-on, twenty-minute Technicolor trip sequence inside of Coffin Joe's world, it was also Marins' most explicitly psychedelic. The movie links together episodic scenes of drug use, orgies, and general moral inequity with a Charlie Kaufman-like meta-story with José Mojica Marins/Coffin Joe debating with critics on the detrimental effect of drugs and phenomena like his films on Brazilian culture. And the climax is a real monster — a bizarre "experiment" sequence in which our hosts oh-so-scientifically dose four degenerates (of various class and demographics, of course) with LSD, give them a Coffin Joe poster to stare at, and watch them all enter a brightly multi-colored hellscape of Marins' devising. Marins' relationships with authority had always been mutually acrimonious, but here he sets out to make a film that includes everything the establishment didn't want to see. Awakening of the Beast was a cinematic act of defiance and an aesthetic revolution. Incredible. Dir. José Mojica Marins, 1970, DigiBeta, 93 min.
Finis Hominis (End of Man): Financially crippled by the banning of Awakening of the Beast, and threatened with imprisonment if he ever dared release it, Marins decided with his next film to abandon his gruesome obsessions, and emphasize the fantastical imagination and elemental myth-making skills that led critics to compare him to Bunuel, Arrabal and Jodorowsky. So exit Coffin Joe, and enter Finis Hominis – -a wholly new archetypal creation that, in a sly wink to his censors, is the Jungian opposite of his evil-embodying Coffin Joe character. Or is he? Who is this benevolent, messianic Christ-figure who emerges naked from the sea, puts on the outfit of a sideshow fakir, and goes about leaving a trail of happiness and spiritual fulfillment wherever he goes? Stripped of the horror elements that usually cloak Marins' vision in blood and guts, what is laid bare by Finis Hominis is a director capable of focusing his feelings and observations into intriguing and personal parables — a philosopher, and an artist. Dir. José Mojia Marins, 1971, DigiBeta, 79 min.
Title: Horror of Dracula, plus Revenge of Frankenstein
Horror of Dracula: The poster child for pre-Exorcist modern horror, Hammer's thrilling and unapologetically blood-stained adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel made bona fide movie stars out of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. And, fifty years after the fact, Horror of Dracula remains a tent pole of the horror genre. Director Terence Fisher and cinematographer Jack Asher use the lush palate of Technicolor to create the first romantic and fully seductive vampire film. Not since the heyday of the Universal monster rallies had a nightmare-scape seemed so palpably alive, and able to infect the waking world. Lee brings to his undying Count all of the "wrath and fury" that Jonathan Harker wrote home about. "This is better than Citizen Kane," somebody once said. "And it's in color." Technicolor, to be precise. Dir. Terence Fisher, 1958, 35mm, 82 min.
Revenge of Frankenstein: The true superstars of Hammer horror — director Terence Fisher and DP Jack Asher — are back in action for this first sequel to the taboo shattering The Curse of Frankenstein. Tossing Mary Shelley right out the window, Hammer advertised the entirely original creation as "the World's Greatest Horrorama" in "Supernatural Technicolor." While British critics declared it "a crude sort of entertainment for a crude sort of audience," your mileage may vary. Peter Cushing is in top form as the indefatigable Baron F, but the one to watch is Michael Gwynne as Frankenstein's Monster, a devilishly handsome sod who passed through society's meat-grinder to become a slobbering hunchback with a ravening hunger for human flesh. Hammer's crowning glory is its "Frankenstein" series, of which this entry is one of the best. Dir. Terence Fisher, 1958, 35mm, 89 min.
Title: Haunted Cop Shop
Before he hit the big time with Chungking Express, sensitive art house director Wong Kar-Wai cut his teeth by writing this knockabout scream-fest, starring a young Jacky Cheung who went on to star in many of Wong's biggest films. Still pretty obscure, and hard to find with English subtitles, it's the first in a string of "spooky police" films — this case pits a precinct against a horde of vampiric foes on the day of "The Feast of the Hungry Ghosts," complete with dire warning from an ex-cop monk. Surprisingly creepy, often hilarious and sometimes wildly tasteless, this 1987 oddity feels like a better version of the Joe Piscopo vehicle Dead Heat with a healthy dose of Eastern action mayhem. Lots of exorcisms, acrobatic feats and a grisly game of mahjong add seasoning to a fun stew that manages to take its scares very seriously while tickling your funny bone. Dir. Jeffrey Lau, 1987, 35mm.
Date: October 24 at 11:00pm
Title: Plan 9 from Outer Space, plus Ed Wood
The Cinefamily presents a 50th anniversary screening of PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, commonly considered the worst film ever made. It is doubled billed with ED WOOD, the 1994 bio-pic of PLAN 9's auteur, starring Johnny Depp in the title role.
Title: TV Horror Host Night featuring "American Scary"
Hey, who was your horror host? If you're tempted to respond, "Whaddaya mean, my horror host?", you probably grew up in the post-local television era. Which means you spent your childhood without a mordantly sardonic costumed creep to introduce (and heckle) your Z-grade shock/shlock fare when you were staying up way too late. Horror hosts are one of the folkways of TV, beginning in the 1950s when broadcast was both local and live, with the indelible Vampira. Each station spawned its own variations on the theme, from the classic "cool ghoul" Zacherley in New York, to Chicago's undead hippie, Svengoolie, to Cleveland's beatnik-styled Ghoulardi (director P. T. Anderson's father!) It just gets weirder from there, in the documentary "American Scary," which digs deep to discover that before Mystery Science Theater 3000, there was a whole world of campy characters for every kid — and stoned sophomore — to call their own. And we've got our own host, Mr. Lobo, to share even more great goodies and treats that they couldn't pack into the film…..and then, continuing the fine tradition, we'll all watch a rare surprise TV-movie feature from the 70s!
American Scary Dir. John E. Hudgens, 2006, digital presentation, 91 min.
Title: Hell's Bells
If Halloween is the Devil's favorite holiday, then surely heavy metal is his favorite music. Cinefamily's Sound of Horror series ends with a mind-bending, soul-stealing, ear-shattering tribute to the Satanic roots of heavy metal — from the born-again perspective. As our primary source material, we're doing a remix of Hell's Bells — an incredibly well-argued and researched Craig Baldwin-esque video essay exposing heavy metal's awesome power to corrupt our youth. Witness how rock and roll mocks Christ, tempts the libido and promotes the worship of Satan, all through album covers, music videos, backwards messages and occult iconography. Convincing as hell, you'll believe rock n' roll is stuff of Beelzebub — turn it up! And, as the final piece of damning evidence, Cinefamily presents a live performance from hell's houseband Nilbog, specializing in covers of themes from favorite horror movies.
Title: Slasherpalooza – a Night of Gonzo Slasher Films
Chopping Mall: In this ridiculous hybrid of Friday The 13th, Dawn of the Dead and Short Circuit, four pairs of teens who work in the local shopping mall plan an after-hours booze-n-sex party. Their fun is soon interrupted by the mall's malfunctioning "high-tech" robot security guards, who attempt to slice the kids into sashimi using lasers, claw arms and assault rifles. The spoofy premise is well-served by thumbs-up doses of nudity, screaming, slit throats, outdated technology and nerdy filmic in-jokes (the mall's sporting goods store is called "Peckinpah's"). An early effort by wildly prolific trash king Jim Wynorski (Deathstalker II, The Bare Wench Project III, Ghoulies IV), the script features such timeless bon mots as "I'm sorry for getting hysterical –I guess I'm just not used to being chased around a mall in the middle of the night by killer robots." Dir. Jim Wynorski, 1986, 35mm, 77 min.
Shakma: Remember hearing about the California man whose pet chimp went ape and ripped off his face and testicles? Did it make you flinch, covering your own parts in sympathy? Get ready to flinch once again, for Shakma will swipe at your jewels in a blood-thirsty rage. Christopher Atkins (the deeply tanned star of The Blue Lagoon) and his friends hang out after-hours in their med school building playing (what else?) a D&D-like role playing game run by game master (or as he pronounces it, "Gay Master") Roddy McDowall, and proceed to have their throats ripped out by an angered, psychotic lab test baboon who hunts them down one by one. The real stars of the film are the production's animal handlers, who managed to not get themselves or the filmmakers killed while their baboon actor forcefully hurled itself at doors, windows, its co-stars or anything else in its path, screaming bloody murder all the while in a truly terrifying electric rage. Dirs. Tom Logan & Hugh Parks, 1990, 35mm, 101 min.
Night of the Demon (brand-new HD transfer!) Night Of The Demon breaks major slasher conventions by introducing one of the most unusual and allusive psycho killers of all time — BIGFOOT! Who is Bigfoot, and why is he doing these terrible things? Our furry friend has gone completely homicidal, leaving a trail of dead girl scouts, castrated bikers and raped teenagers in his wake. This Z-grade doozy packs a bloody whallop — this is one of the most absurd and comically gory movies we've ever seen. The audiene reaction to this film is gonna be half the fun. DO NOT MISS IT. Director James C. Wasson and producer James B. Hall will be here in person!
Title: Embodiment of Evil, plus Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind
Embodiement of Evil: "Higher than God. Lower than Satan." Marins' demonically anticipated, decades-delayed finale to the "Zé do Caixão" trilogy is finally here! More than 45 years after the underbelly of Brazilian cinema was re-carved in his image, Marins has been blessed with the biggest budget ever afforded to him, giving him access to larger, crazier sets and state-of-the-art special effects through which he could unleash his most twisted of visions. This is also the first time that Marins has made a film entirely free of censorial constraints. There will be moments when you absolutely will not believe what you're seeing! Grotesquery and surrealism abound, drenched in sex, poetry, blasphemy and blood. Spiders crawl over torsos both living and dead, Zé takes a fantastical journey through a giant uterus, hooks tear flesh, and bodies tear in half. Politically charged and unrepentantly transgessive, Embodiment of Evil marks the return of a wildly unique maverick of the fantastic, rougher, freakier, more perverse than he's ever been before. Your blackest prayers are about to be answered. — Mitch Davis, Fantasia Festival. Dir. José Mojica Marins, 2008, DigiBeta. 94 min.
Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind is a flat-out freakout multi-movie montage of the most insane footage censored from Marins' entire career up to this film's release, and framed by a self-reflexive plot about a man driven to madness by the films, who's convinced that Coffin Joe will come to steal his wife. Marins himself is brought in to cure the man, requiring him to scream in his ear repetitively, "Coffin Joe does not exist! Coffin Joe does not exist!", among other things. During the extended hallucination sequences that make up the bulk of the film, everything, (and we mean everything), is infused with a tripped-out delirium. The soundscapes are distorted and hypnotic, the compositions radical, the colors lurid, the editing associative and assaultive, and the images ripe with potent imagery. We can say without hesitation this is one of the top ten mind-blowers in head film history. Dir. José Mojica Marins, 1978, DigiBeta, 86 min.
Title: Cinefamily Halloween Party & Fundraiser
Description: Details to be announced
Date: Saturday, October 31 at 8:00pm
Location: Silent MovieTheatre – 611 N. Fairfax Avenue, Los Angele 90036s
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