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Boulders offer new clues about early human migration to the Americas
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Researchers from the University of Buffalo have found compelling evidence in boulders that supports a new theory of how early humans first migrated to the Americas. Photo by Jason Briner/University of Buffalo
By Brooke Baitinger, UPI
Recent archaeological evidence has sparked a new theory of when and how the first people came to the Americas.
Scientists now theorize that the first Americans took a coastal route along Alaska's Pacific border to enter the continent. This new theory casts doubt on the conventional one that says the earliest settlers came from Siberia, crossing the now-defunct Bering land bridge on foot and then moving through Canada when corridors opened between massive ice sheets at the end of the last ice age.
A new geological study published this week in the journal Science Advances offers compelling evidence to support the new theory.
A research team led by the University of Buffalo analyzed boulders and bedrock, traveling by helicopter to four remote islands within the Alexander Archipelago, about 200 miles away from Juneau.
They found a once-glacial landscape. The rock surfaces were smooth and scratched from when ice moved over it, and the boulders were positioned erratically from glaciers picking them up and leaving them elsewhere.
To pinpoint when the ice receded from the region, the researchers collected bits of rock from the surfaces of the boulder and bedrock and ran tests to figure out how long the samples, and therefore the islands themselves, had been free of ice.
They used a method called surface exposure dating, which reveals when the boulders were exposed to the elements and cosmic radiation from space because they were no longer sheltered within ice.
The dating revealed evidence that part of a coastal migration route became accessible to humans 17,000 years ago. During this period, the ancient glaciers receded, exposing islands of southern Alaska's Alexander Archipelago to air, sun and possibly human migration.
The timing of all these events is vital to the theory because it coincides almost exactly with when humans are thought to have arrived in the Americas. Recent genetic and archaeological estimates suggest that settlers may have begun traveling deeper into the Americas 16,000 years ago, soon after this coastal gateway opened up.
"Our research contributes to the debate about how humans came to the Americas," Dr. Jason Briner, a professor of geology at UB's College of Arts and Sciences who led the study, said in a press release. "It's potentially adding to what we know about our ancestry and how we colonized our planet."
Their research does not confirm the theory because the project examined only one section of the coast. Scientists would need to study multiple locations up and down the coastline to draw firm conclusions, the researchers said.
But they say the evidence is compelling because it hints that the seafaring theory of migration is possible. And in recent years, evidence has mounted against the conventional theory that humans populated North America by taking an inland route through Canada.
The new coastal migration theory offers another narrative, and the new study may mark a step toward solving the mystery of how humans came to the Americas.
Technology - U.S. Daily News: Boulders offer new clues about early human migration to the Americas
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Manhattan College and the Maxine Greene Institute will co-sponsor the fifth annual: Imagination, Inquiry and Innovation Institute (I-4). The theme of the 2019 event is: "Look Again: The Art of Multiple Perspectives."
This is an opportunity for presenter to share innovative work in a broad range of fields: fine and performing arts, media and communication specialists, humanities, education, sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, health care, and business.
IT Services Department Training Team: Alberto DeAngelis and Anita McCarthy will be presenting a poster session on Digital Accessibility.
From 9:00am-4:30pm on Saturday, March 30, 2019.


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Biblibio: What did people used to do?
What did people used to do?
When I first got a cell-phone at the ripe old age of 14, I found myself suddenly in possession of a great deal more freedom than I'd even known. Pretty soon, though, I was forced to use the phone. Leaving the house without it suddenly became "irresponsible". Walking around without any form of instant communication became unthinkable. Now, on vacation abroad, I find myself walking around without a cell-phone. When my family gets annoyed that there's no way to contact me, a common (and bitter) sentiment pops into my head: "What did mankind do before cell-phones were invented?!"
When I walk into a bookstore, I buy mostly based on reviews and author familiarity. Though I've begun to branch out in recent years, I'm still fairly adamant about only buying books I know I want to read and keep. I'll rarely buy a book that I only just discovered. First I'll research the book on Amazon, I'll read reviews and I'll try to figure out how worthwhile the book might be (and if there isn't maybe another book by the same author that would be better suited to start with). Even in the case of books I've heard of or authors I like, I do careful research before picking the next read.
But rather like cell-phones, I find myself wondering what it used to be like. I barely remember an age without the internet, without this marvelous tool that allows me to look up books and book reviews within minutes. I've been using Amazon since I was eight, and various other book-cataloging sites since I was maybe nine or ten. To be honest, most of my reading life has been grounded in the internet and the research process it has enabled. It's hard for me to imagine anything else.
Yesterday, while browsing in a used bookstore, I came across A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel. When I'd considered reading another book by Mantel (after being completely and absolutely blown away by Wolf Hall), I'd sort of pushed the idea to the side, not finding any clear indicators of what the next book should be. I'd heard of The Giant, O'Brien but that was all. Though Mantel wrote the best book I've read in the past two years (hands down), I never bothered to look for more. A Place of Greater Safety came as a complete surprise, having never even heard of the book*. At that moment, I had no form of researching the title and I was desperate to buy any book. It looked interesting, it was cheap, so off the shelf it went and into my hands.
The older among us can shed light on this matter. Though I obviously have no idea what it used to be like, I have to say that almost every time I buy a book without extensive research and based purely on my gut feeling, I enjoy the experience that much more. Even when the book itself is terrible, it feels fresher and cleaner. I'm much less aware of the plot and of the characters and I have far fewer expectations, making for an overall more carefree and enjoyable reading experience.
Maybe I should also get rid of the cell-phone. Life is so much calmer this way.
I never buy books without knowing stuff about them, and that was the case before I started using Amazon. When I buy a book without knowing anything about it, it usually ends up being a bad reading experience. Plus then I'm out $15 or whatever.
I think all the books I buy are based on some sort of research or recommendation, and I can't imagine what it would be like not to have access to all that information when having to choose a book. Before the internet, I sort of just hung around bookshops and asked for recommendations from the staff, but it seems that with most bricks and mortar stores going away, the only real way to find anything out it to peruse the internet. And you bring up a good point: how did people ever do all this before?
Before the internet, I had a harder time finding books; I would sometimes wander around a bookstore and have no idea what to buy, because I hadn't heard of many of the authors and didn't want to buy a book without knowing more. I would discover books through newspaper reviews occasionally, but more often through what other authors mentioned, and also through what my college teachers talked about. These days, I have no trouble whatsoever! It's quite a difference.
I'm only a couple years older than you, but I very much remember what it was like before Internet and cellphones. I didn't have the Internet till I was 12 and I didn't have a cellphone till I was 17. My primary method of finding books before the Internet was literally walking into the library or bookstore and browsing. Sometimes I used those recommended reading lists that libraries have and I remember a friend telling me to read this cool new book, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," circa fourth grade. Only in the past few years have book blogs and online reviews become my source for which books to buy. Even so, I still make buys from something cool I found in a used bookstore. I also still read book reviews in the newspaper. Before the Internet, I think a lot of educated readers depended on newspaper critics for their choices, which is why critics used to have a lot more power than they have today.
Wow, do I feel old! I never had trouble finding books before the internet. I'd read reviews in newspapers and Sunday literary inserts, I'd get recommendations from teachers but most of all I'd spend time just browsing in the bookstore and reading the backs of the books. They used to be much more helpful than they are now. There was also the Book-of-the-Month Club and a few book catalogs. In some ways buying books was more fun because I didn't know that certain books or authors were so popular or important and I get to feel like I discovered them.
I can definitely say I had years of buying books pre-Amazon. I just browsed used bookstores, looked for authors I'd enjoyed and picked up something else by them. Or even better, follow the recommendations of the bookstore people. I love bookstores that let the staff post signs about what they like. I used to go to a charity book sale each year where I just picked up anything that looked good, and found some great stuff that way. It was cheap and for a good cause, so no worries if you ended up not reading it or reading it and not liking it. I also used to follow the New York Times annual lists (and still do).
I do think sometimes we suffer from way too much information today.


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package org.xander.katas;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class ListMergerTest {
    ListMerger listMerger;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        listMerger = new ListMerger();
    }

    @Test
    public void basic() {
        assertNotNull(listMerger);
    }

    @Test
    public void inputListsIsSorted() {
        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
        list.add(0);
        list.add(1);
        list.add(2);
        list.add(3);
        list.add(3);
        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(list));
    }

    @Test
    public void inputListsIsNotSorted() {
        List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<>();
        list.add(0);
        list.add(3);
        list.add(2);
        list.add(1);

        assertFalse(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(list));
    }

    @Test
    public void mergeListsOne() {
        List<Integer> listOne = new ArrayList<>();
        listOne.add(1);
        listOne.add(3);
        listOne.add(4);
        listOne.add(5);
        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(listOne));

        List<Integer> listTwo = new ArrayList<>();
        listTwo.add(0);
        listTwo.add(2);
        listTwo.add(6);
        listTwo.add(7);
        listTwo.add(8);
        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(listTwo));

        List<Integer> mergedList = listMerger.merge(listOne, listTwo);

        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(mergedList));
    }

    @Test
    public void mergeListsTwo() {
        List<Integer> listOne = new ArrayList<>();
        listOne.add(1);
        listOne.add(3);
        listOne.add(4);
        listOne.add(5);
        listOne.add(11);
        listOne.add(17);
        listOne.add(18);
        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(listOne));

        List<Integer> listTwo = new ArrayList<>();
        listTwo.add(0);
        listTwo.add(2);
        listTwo.add(6);
        listTwo.add(7);
        listTwo.add(8);
        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(listTwo));

        List<Integer> mergedList = listMerger.merge(listOne, listTwo);

        assertTrue(listMerger.checkListIsSorted(mergedList));
    }
}

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Q: why can't I run this query? I'm trying to run this query
$tableDate = DB::select('SELECT (DATE_FORMAT(created_at,"%m-%d-%Y")) as
   dateTaken FROM `test_answers`WHERE user_id= '.$id.' GROUP BY (test_id)
');

but it is giving me this error

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1055 'mte30.test_answers.created_at' isn't in GROUP BY (SQL: SELECT (DATE_FORMAT(created_at,"%m-%d-%Y")) as dateTaken FROM test_answers WHERE user_id= 2 GROUP BY (test_id) )

I tried it on PHPMyAdmin and it worked.
Can someone tell me why it's not working using Eloquent?
Thank you

A: The reason this doesn't work with strict mode on is because you haven't specified in the query which created_at to use.   If you're using GROUP BY and you are selecting a column that isn't grouped on or aggregated, you may not receive the correct data.
You have multiple rows in test_answers but MySQL doesn't know which row's created_at you care about.  You could fix this by simply telling MySQL which created_at to return, something like MAX(created_at) to select the most recent, or MIN(created_at) to select the oldest.

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Girl's scalp ripped off while she was on spinning carnival ride
Updated: 3:17 PM CDT May 10, 2016
KETV-TV SOURCE: KETV-TV
A Nebraska official says investigators have found no indication that a spinning carnival ride was malfunctioning when an 11-year-old girl's hair got caught in it, ripping her scalp.Nebraska Labor Department spokeswoman Grace Johnson also said Monday that investigators have no reason to believe the person operating the ride wasn't paying attention Saturday afternoon when the incident happened on the King's Crown ride at a Cinco de Mayo festival in Omaha.The Omaha World-Herald newspaper reports the girl was taken to Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center where she underwent surgery to repair her scalp.Her mother, Virginia Cooksey, says Tuesday that her daughter is in critical but stable condition and her treatment seems to be effective so far.She said the girl is "still sedated, but fighting through this."
OMAHA, Neb. —
A Nebraska official says investigators have found no indication that a spinning carnival ride was malfunctioning when an 11-year-old girl's hair got caught in it, ripping her scalp.
Nebraska Labor Department spokeswoman Grace Johnson also said Monday that investigators have no reason to believe the person operating the ride wasn't paying attention Saturday afternoon when the incident happened on the King's Crown ride at a Cinco de Mayo festival in Omaha.
The Omaha World-Herald newspaper reports the girl was taken to Nebraska Medicine - Nebraska Medical Center where she underwent surgery to repair her scalp.
Her mother, Virginia Cooksey, says Tuesday that her daughter is in critical but stable condition and her treatment seems to be effective so far.
She said the girl is "still sedated, but fighting through this."

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Resonance FM est une radio libre () londonienne à but non lucratif. Elle est gérée par le London Musicians' Collective (LMC) et présente une ligne de programmes visant à couvrir des artistes à l'écart des médias de masse. Son aire de diffusion est définie par un rayon de  autour de son émetteur, situé sur le London Bridge.

La station est basée à Borough High Street, depuis son départ de Denmark Street en .

Domaine
Resonance se présente elle-même comme la première station d'« art radiophonique de Londres ». Elle diffuse ainsi par exemple depuis  un programme hebdomadaire présenté par l'équipe du magazine The Wire, spécialisé dans la musique expérimentale et l'art contemporain. D'autres programmes sont destinés à certaines communautés londoniennes non desservies par d'autres stations.

Histoire
À l'origine de Resonance FM se trouve une programmation radiophonique de 4 semaines réalisée par le London Musicians Collective en 1998 à l'occasion du festival Meltdown organisé dans le Southbank Centre et soutenu par John Peel. La station diffusait depuis le Royal Festival Hall et disposait d'une autorisation temporaire d'émission d'un mois sur la fréquence 107.3 FM.

Phil England, l'un des organisateurs du programme original, établit qu'il visait à tenir un «  discours critique sur l'art radiophonique ».

Après un hiatus de trois ans, la station fait son retour sur les ondes le  depuis des studios de Denmark Street dans le quartier de Soho (West End). Le professeur Professor Anthony Everitt, désigné par Ofcom pour évaluer le travail de Resonance FM, salua sa grande ouverture musicale, la richesse de ses programmations et le fait qu'elle permettait ainsi à un plus grand nombre d'accéder à la culture d'avant-garde.

En conséquence la station obtint une autorisation d'émettre pendant 5 ans 24 heures sur 24 et 7 jours sur 7, qui fut renouvelée le . Sa licence ne lui permet cependant que de disposer d'une faible puissance d'émission (la station peut être reçue dans le Central London mais ne couvre pas l'intégralité du Grand Londres), en particulier en comparaison avec les grandes radios londoniennes. Des interférences avec des radios pirates, en particulier durant le week-end, sont un problème dans certaines zones.

En 2006, Resonance FM est devenue la première radio libre nominée pour un Sony , l'une des plus prestigieuses récompenses de l'industrie radiophonique britannique.

Notes et références

Liens externes
  Site officiel
  It's radio, but not as we know it, BBC, .
  Imogen Tilden, New arts-based radio station for London, The Guardian, .
  David Stubbs, Sounds eccentric, The Guardian, .

Radio à Londres
Station de radio au Royaume-Uni
Station de radio fondée en 1998
Station de radio de musique alternative

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Thursday, Sep. 20, 2018, 12:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Join us for the afternoon book group at the Magnolia Branch. Everyone is welcome. This month's title is "H is for Hawk" by Helen Macdonald.
As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer. She learned the arcane terminology and read all the classic books, including T.H. White's tortured masterpiece, The Goshawk, which describes White's struggle to train a hawk as a spiritual contest. When her father dies and she is knocked sideways by grief, she becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk.


In the position of Industrial Automation Architect you are responsible for developing, maintaining and rolling out the software standard that is based on ISA88 and PackML. The Controls Engineering department is in a transition because intelligent software plays an increasingly important role in the development of the machines. As an architect you have the opportunity to think along and form a vision about the future that we need to go to with our controls. You should think of simulation, software generation and automated testing.
The professional knowledge required for this is developed and maintained within the company, so that there are good growth opportunities. This mainly takes the form of self-study, seminars and focused courses.
You have an BSc/ Msc in the direction of Electrical Engineering / Mechatronics / Industrial Automation or comparable level gained through experience.
You have gained 3 to 5 years of work experience in such a role. You also have knowledge of the PLC languages (such as STL) and affinity with C ++.
Affinity with industrial automation and mechanics in the food processing industry is an important pre.
In addition, you are up to date on the new technologies to take the software standard to a higher level.
You are also willing to travel 10 - 20%.


Large deformations on a XII Century Romanic church at Val d'Aran (Spain).
Val d'Aran is located in the north side of the Spanish Pirineo, between Spain and France. There we can find a group of Romanic churches built on XIIth Century, which presents large geometrical deformations of more than 10% its initial form. The basilical churches were initially covered with timber roofs. Later these were replaced by barrel vaults supported by non-monolithic columns with circular section (Puig i Cadafalch 1908).
It is particularly interesting the church of Santa Maria d'Arties (XII-XIII), which large deformations were previously discussed by several authors as Villanueva (1974), Bassegoda (1974), Sáez (1976) and Polo (2009). The work presents the analytical assessment of the masonry structure of this Romanesque church, where the constructive materials are working to the limit. It has been performed a limit analysis by means of thrust-lines and a FEM calculation to assess the large movements of the structural elements and to determine its possible causes.
Costa-Jover, A.; Lluis i Ginovart, J; Fortuny-Anguera, G.; Coll-Pla, S.; 2014,Large deformations on a XII Century Romanic church at Val d'Aran (Spain). 9th International Masonry Conference 2014 in Guimarães. Book of abstracts. Page 221. ISBN 978- 972- 8692- 85-8.
Congres: Large deformations on a XII Century Romanic church at Val d'Aran (Spain).


CESA has been selected to take part in the Airbus Defence & Space (CASSIDIAN) ATLANTE programme to develop, certify and manufacture the landing gears. The nose gear contains a shock absorbing system based on oleo-pneumatic technology, an electromechanical linear actuator for the steering and a leg weight on wheel (WoW) weighing system.
With a view to achieving less weight the main landing gear is made of compound materials. This gear is included in the Arrestor Hook type braking system.


WELLINGTON college pupils have taken part in an educational outreach programme ahead of this year's Cinemagic festival.
The annual celebration of film for young people is holding a 'Reel Issues for Youth' project, bringing debates on cinema and guest speakers to schools across the North.
In the Carolan Road school one of the classrooms was recently transformed into a mini-cinema for the day, with a screening of a film on community relations and a talk from filmmaker Mal Marken.
The Cinemagic festival begins on November 16.


Grace Church is committed to an active life of prayer. Members gather at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning to pray for the church, the worship service, the staff, members and the community. All are welcome to come and pray.
Class starts at 9 a.m. in the Robertson Room.
An inter-generational approach is used so the same lesson is covered as the children and youth cover in their class. The class is Bible study and discussion.
Each class is complete that week so participants may come any or all Sundays as they are available.
Teachers are members of the class. Participation is open to all interested persons.
Preschool, Elementary (K-4th), Youth (5th-8th), and High School (9th-12th). The children and youth sit with their families for the first part of Worship, and then come up to the front of the church for the Children's Message, which is at approximately 10:30 am. They will go to their Sunday school classes after the Children's Message. *On Communion Sundays there is no Sunday School for Children or Youth. After Children's Message, they will return to their seats and remain in Worship.
All our Sunday school classes (children, youth and 9:00 am adult), as well as our Youth Group and mid-week Kids' JAM program, are taught the same lesson each week, adjusted to the age and ability of the group. This church-wide curriculum has given adults, youth and children the opportunity to discuss together what they have been learned during the week. It is a blessing to watch all of the children and youth learn more about God's love for themselves and each other.
Volunteers from the congregation gather together each Sunday to praise God through song with a weekly anthem or hymn. Worship Team helps to lead in congregational singing.
Our Prayer Partner program pairs an adult with a non-related child. During the year, each Partner prays for the other one, while getting to know more about each other. There are currently 23 Prayer Partners, with additional adults and children asking to be paired. The All-Church Carnival, as well as the Hot Chocolate and Cookies Event, are just two examples of events that give everyone the opportunity to spend time with their Prayer Partner.
This group meets on the 4th Tuesday of the month from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. in the Sanctuary for a quiet time of experiencing God through individual meditation, prayer, journaling and spending time in God's word. Come for a time of spiritual refreshment.
2nd Saturday Fellowship Breakfast meets the 2nd Saturday of each month at 9 a.m.. Usually lasts about an hour to an hour and a half. A truly great fellowship led by various members. The subject is based on the Scripture to be used in the Sunday service for that week. The only requirements are that you are awake and hungry!
This is a hand-on ministry demonstrating God's Love to those in need. Every Friday at noon we serve a hot meal at Lawrence Park – not only to homeless people, but also to people who are just in need. Clothing and personal items are also provided. All are welcome!
Call for more details or just Come and See!
Women's Morning Circle meets the second Thursday of the month from 10 a.m. until noon in the Fireside Room of Grace Hall for a time of fellowship and study. They take a summer break and do not meet in July and August. The circle reads and discusses a different Christian-themed book each year.
Women's Afternoon Circle meets first Tuesday of the month starting at 2 PM. They meet in the Fireside Room of Grace Hall for Bible Study (using the Horizon Bible Study Series) and have refreshments and lots of fun!
This group meets every Monday evening from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. All women who enjoy reading and the fellowship of discussing what they have read are invited to join.
Anyone who knits, crochets or does other types of needlework is invited to attend. Participants enjoy a time of fellowship while making prayer shawls and other items which are given to those who are going through difficulties in their lives. Group meets once a month, usually on Wednesdays.
A casual get-together for those that like to eat! A time of fellowship and food, this group meets once every other month in Grace Hall at the church. Everyone is welcome. The menu varies, but the good time doesn't!
Come for a relaxed time of fellowship and food, followed by a good movie for adults. Both the dinner and the movie viewing are held in Grace Hall at the church. Meeting times vary.
A weekend in the mountains! This relaxing retreat is held at the Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center in Lake Tahoe, CA. Everyone is invited to enjoy spiritual renewal, fellowship and fun surrounded by God's awe-inspiring surroundings. Usually held at the end of July or beginning of August.
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People give the Coen Brothers way too much credit. Sure they make good films on the odd occasion, but, after dazzling everyone with the exhausting and nihilistic No Country for Old Men, they belched out this Washington DC-based trifle, and still people acted like it was the second coming of Allah, Buddha and Abbott and Costello.
There are Coen Brothers comedies that I have enjoyed, especially Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski, but this is certainly not one of them. In fact, I find it pretty much devoid of humour for something being marketed as a comedy.
I had similar issues with Fargo back in the day, which was lauded to the high heavens by all and sundry, but left me cold, colder than a Minnesotan winter. The humour was invisible to me, the purpose as well, though I have gotten to a better place emotionally where I don't actively hate the film anymore.
Still don't like it, though. And I definitely didn't like Burn After Reading either, which has practically nothing to recommend it. Honestly, this is one of those times where I am oblivious as to what worth others see in something. Had the Coens not made it, had the cast not be the usual A-List shmucks like Clooney and Pitt, this flick would not have even gone straight to DVD.
Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) is a miserable, alcoholic CIA analyst downgraded from his position to something lesser, compelling him to quit. He threatens to write his memoirs outlining his war against not the Soviets but against the idiots who have plagued his existence. People don't line up around the block in anticipation.
His wife (Tilda Swinton) is a stone cold bitch who has, for me, the only funny moment in the whole film, when she threatens a child with harm at her place of work. She is itching to get rid of Osbourne whilst having an affair with a sex-obsessed federal Marshall (Clooney) at the same time. She is advised to get a copy of all of Osbourne's financial information, and accidentally gets a copy of his memoirs for her troubles.
The memoirs, mentioning the CIA and the Russians and such, fall into the hands of two morons who work at a gym called Hardbodies. One of the morons is played by Brad Pitt, who plays the role of a moron with eerie believability. The other moron is played by Frances McDormand, who moronically believes that the 'explosive' data contained on a CD will be worth enough money from either Osbourne, the Russians, or perhaps Oprah that she'll be able to afford the multiple cosmetic surgeries she craves in order to stave off the physical effects of aging for another year or two.
Amidst all of this, coincidence, happenstance and bad luck contrive to render various people either in worse positions than they started off in, dead, or somehow better off, for no real reason discernible to any character in the flick.
The story tries to give a sense that life in Washington DC might be a bit strange because of the number of people working in both government and in the 'clandestine services' community. Everyone is watching someone and is in turn being watched by someone else. But no-one should mistake, as I did, this alleged 'comedy' as being about espionage or the various intelligence agencies.
The flick's main two points are that everyone's fucking around on someone, if not multiple people, and that morons either get their comeuppance or score beyond their wildest dreams just for having been involved in something completely tangential to the actual intelligence community.
For all the actors involved, I'm sure they probably had a lot of fun, but I certainly didn't have any, watching them go through the motions. Of all of them Clooney probably plays a character completely unlike most characters he generally plays (zero charm, sleazy beyond belief and all fidgety), but is no more likeable or interesting because of it.
I was annoyed by almost everyone in this, and found few moments that were believable. Much of the acting, especially Frances McDormand, who is lucky enough to be married to one of the Coen Brothers, is especially irritating, overplaying her idiotic character to the point where I thought I was watching an episode of Who's Line Is It Anyway?, the improvisational comedy show that they torture suspected terrorists with at Guantanamo Bay.
Pitt plays a moron very well, but since I find him pretty dumb in everything from The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford to Mr & Mrs Smith to Meet Joe Black to anything he does, the fact that he's deliberately playing a moron here doesn't really make a noticeable difference to my appreciation of his performance or him in general.
About the only character that made any sense to me was the section chief or some kind of high up in the CIA who gets briefed a few times about the various shenanigans that are transpiring in his 'domain'. Played with aplomb by J.K. Simmons, who's most famous for playing newspaper mogul J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man movies, he plays a director with no problems making bodies disappear, who epitomises the ruthless efficiency of the CIA in cleaning up its own mistakes.
Except, in this case, the CIA had nothing to do with anything, and he himself isn't sure what's happened or why they've had to get involved. We never get to understand why either. And if he doesn't know, and we don't know, and the Coen Brothers can't tell us, then what was the goddamn point?
The other problem, for me, is that he's only in it for 30 seconds, and he plays a bored bureaucrat the way everyone else plays whatever they're playing in a fairly bored or boring way.
So much of the film, from the melding of "adult" sex farce crap with paranoid 3 Days of the Condor type stuff, to letting McDormand shamelessly mug the screen at every opportunity just grated on me from beginning to end.
There was just nothing there for me, and I am mystified, truly, as to why people rated this flick through the roof. I have loved the Coen Brothers for decades, but that doesn't mean everything they do works for me. Their failures are often as disappointing as they are baffling, and I find them, as with The Man Who Wasn't There or Intolerable Cruelty, to be cold film experiments with nothing in it for the audience bar idle curiousity.
I'm more than happy for them to make flicks that don't work in some fair ratio between their flicks that do work, as in, maybe two Burn After Readings or Ladykillers for every No Country for Old Men. It's only fair. You've got to pay your dues in this life. And for the Coen Brothers, I am willing to cut them ample slack for the films they have made that I have absolutely adored and think are modern masterpieces.
Of course, none of that makes Burn After Reading any less irritating to sit through or pointless to watch for me. In fact I'd go as far as to say it is one of the film's they've made that I liked the least and am most amazed by in terms of the critical fawning. That Kool-Aid must be damn tasty. Sure, I'll grant that the individual bits of characterisation and stunt-casting create some amusing moments, but nowhere near enough to justify the time or the expense or to get it anywhere near creating a cohesive whole.
Which reminds me: about the only element of the film I thought they got absolutely right was the length. 90 minutes with this was more than enough. Any longer and I would have started an insurgency to take back the cinema from the forces of banality.
4 ways in which Burn After Watching would probably be a more apt title out of 10
"Osbourne Cox? I thought you might be worried... about the security... of your shit." – Burn After Reading.


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Known to everybody is a super beverage, green tea helps us achieve a number of benefits. From boosting your metabolism to reducing the risk of heart disease, green tea has become a beverage that many people cannot do with out. These days tea lovers around the world have come up with numerous recipes for green tea. You can brew a simple cup of green tea and enjoy the benefits, and you can also use green tea to concoct various delicious and healthy beverages or foods.
There is nothing like a glass of iced tea on hot summer day, so why not jazz it up with green tea and the wonderful flavors of citrus and mint. You can toss some mint leaves, orange slices and green tea bags to a boiling pot of water to make a delicious pot of tea, you can leave to cool at room temperature and serve over ice. It is simple as that, and splendidly delicious.
When sweetened with mango and ginger, delicate teas like Ceylon Green tea make for refreshing afternoon drinks or light and fruity iced teas. You can add slices of mango and ginger along with green tea bags, to a pot with boiling water and strain after steeping for a few minutes, you can drink it hot or cold, you can add sugar after steeping if you wish to accentuate the fruity flavor.
This drink very easy to make and is a delight on a hot summer day. You only need green tea bags, sugar and nectarines. All you have to do is steep the green tea bags in hot water, meanwhile, make a sugar sugar and add pureed nectarines to the syrup and let it cool for a while, then add the syrup to the green tea and add ice, and all you have to do is enjoy.
Spice up your everyday oatmeal bu adding green tea to the mix. Steep a green tea bag in boiling water, then mix the tea with your favorite instant oats as you normally would prepare. This gives your regular oats a blast of antioxidants, and adds extra nutrients to your breakfast.
Green tea can be used as a delicious marinade for your steaks and even vegetables. All you have to is steep several green tea bags in hot water, and add a touch of honey to thicken the liquid and add salt and pepper. Smother your vegetables, meat or fish in the catechin rich marinade and cook as desired. Your food will taste better and also healthy.
We all love a bit frosting and adding green tea to your frosting can add a bit of delightful flavor to your frosting, all you have to do is add two tablespoons of green tea powder to your light butter cream frosting and add bright color to your cakes and impart a sweet and decadent flavor to your everyday cakes.
Add some pizazz to your regular smoothies by adding green tea to them, for this recipe all you need is strawberries, pineapple, and green tea. Steep green tea bags in how water and let it cool for the while, add it to the fruits and blitz it into a wonderfully delicious and healthy smoothie.
This drink contains the goodness of peaches and green tea. All you need is green tea bags, fresh peaches and sweeteners. Steep green tea bags in boiling water, blend peaches till its pureed and add 1 or 2 cups of cooled green tea to the pureed peaches, strain the peaches and tea through a fine mesh and add sweeteners to the tea and enjoy.
These some of the innovative ways you could use green tea to create so many delicious recipes.


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Q: asp.net connection string issue (database is on server side) I need to connect to server database, hosting support gave me data how to connect:
server=176.9.119.68,3333\sqlexpress;Database=;User ID=;Password=
Right now I created new website (file->new website->asp.net website) and added new item to project (right click -> add new item -> sql server database).
and right now I have connection string:
<connectionStrings>
    <add name="ApplicationServices"
         connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true"
         providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>

what do I need to do to connect to server database: I need to change connection string or I need to change some steps in adding database.
P.S. After I add database, I need to add ado.net entity frameword to connect to this database (I know how to do this when database is inside my project , but may there will be extra steps when database is on the server side?)

A: Simply replace the existing connection string with your providers one. To test, you can use Sql Management Studio to connect  to that server. If gets connection then you can work with remote database in your local projects. Below is the connection string. We too work on similar fashion, for websites and small web based applications. But for enterprise application we prefer Local Development Servers.
 <connectionStrings>
        <add name="ApplicationServices"
             connectionString="server=176.9.119.68,3333\sqlexpress;Database=*******;User ID=******;Password=*****"
             providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
      </connectionStrings>


Add an infrared device or create an AV Scene with Smart Remote app.
Click on the infrared device or AV Scene you would like to customize.
Click on "customize screen layout" (beta version).
Click on a button or widget to edit or move it or click "+" to add a button or widget.
Once you are done editing please make sure to click "Save".
Click on the IR device or AV Scene you would like to edit.
Click "restore to default layout".
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The AUM series linear motor uses ironless technology to make the motor obtain higher thrust in smaller volume, and has the advantage of higher force density.
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2.The 3D drawings of air-cooled/water-cooled series can be downloaded at the resource center.


: During a discussion, one side describes the other side's argument as a "red herring". What does this mean? Even using the context of the discussion, and accounting for the intelligence and integrity of the speakers, I am unable to conclude what the phrase means.
A red herring is an alternative, somewhat old fashioned, name for a smoked herring. Such fish have a very strong smell and were usually known, not as kippers, but as red herrings in many parts of 19th century Britain. Because of their smell they were good at masking other smells; as a result they could easily cover the scent of a fox. A red herring pulled across the trail could divert the hounds onto a false path. Thus, by analogy, the phrase came to be used to describe any false trail.


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Q: Pasar el valor de un input de html a una variable php Espero alguien pueda ayudarme. Tengo una duda sobre cómo pasar el valor de un input que tengo oculto ya que éste obtiene un valor que le mando a través de un js.
<input type="hidden" name="nombre" id="nombre" value="nombre obtenido desde un js">

Lo que quiero es que el valor de ese input pasarlo a una variable de php dentro de la misma pagina lo que quiero es lo siguiente:
$variable = input nombre;

¿Alguien sabe como hacer esto?
Mi página la tengo estructurada así:
<input type="hidden" name="nombre" id="nombre" value="nombre obtenido desde un js">
<?php $variable= "input nombre"    ?>

El valor del input es obtenido así:
var  inputproducto = document.getElementById("nombre");
inputproducto.value= _nombre;// ese valor ya lo tengo en el js solo se lo
                                envio al input

A: Quizá simplemente puedes almacenar el valor desde JS con una cookie y haces la asignación en PHP:

<?php
     $variable= $_COOKIE['variable'];
?>

De esta forma lo consigues rápidamente, espero sea lo que buscas.

A: Creo que entiendo lo que necesitas, pero no es necesario usar PHP, solo JS. Si quieres usar el valor del input hidden en otros controles, un código como este te puede bastar:

    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function(event) {
      var inputproducto = document.getElementById("nombre").value;
      var caract_1 = document.getElementById("caract_1");
      var caract_2 = document.getElementById("caract_2");
        caract_1.value= inputproducto;
        caract_2.innerHTML = inputproducto;
    });
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <title>Ejemplo Imput hidden y JS</title>

<input type="hidden" name="nombre" id="nombre" value="nombre obtenido desde un js">
<input type="text" name="caract_1" id="caract_1" value="">

Fíjate que el JS manda el valor a otras partes del documento.


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Paysafe expands Betfred USA Sports partnership through Income Access deal
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U.S. sportsbook will leverage Paysafe's Income Access to launch affiliate marketing program across multiple states
September 8th, 2021. Houston, Texas – Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a leading specialized payments platform, today announced an expanded partnership with Betfred USA Sports, the wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary of U.K.-based bookmaker Betfred Group. Building on an existing payments relationship, the deal sees Betfred USA Sports plug into the affiliate marketing software of Income Access, Paysafe's marketing technology and services provider, for the upcoming launch of a multi-state affiliate program.
The announcement marks the expansion of a partnership through which Betfred USA Sports currently leverages the Skrill USA digital wallet1 for its Iowa online sportsbook, and credit and debit card payment processing via Paysafe's best-in-breed payment gateway for its online sports-betting brand for the Colorado market. Both online gaming brands were unveiled in September 2020 and followed the launch of respective retail sportsbooks earlier that year.
With its market presence and strong brand recognition, Betfred USA Sports is positioned for continued growth in the regulated U.S. iGaming space. The launch, scheduled for later this year, of its Income Access-powered affiliate program will support that objective as the operator will utilize a robust reporting and tracking platform to nurture relationships with marketing partners in both the digital and retail space. The program is set to first launch in Colorado with additional states forthcoming.
Through its industry-leading technology, Income Access, winner of the EGR B2B Award for Affiliate Software Supplier for the last three years running, will help Betfred USA Sports strengthen its acquisition efforts across multiple regulated states. The platform will also allow the operator and its affiliates to collaborate more effectively in promoting a comprehensive range of wagering options across American and international sports.
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Move the oven rack to the top position and set your oven to broil.
After you've removed the husks and washed your tomatillos, score the bottom of the tomatillos with an X to help them cook evenly. Place the tomatillos, scored side up, on a baking tray with the Anaheim chili, onion, cayenne pepper, and serrano pepper. Drizzle them with avocado oil and toss around so they don't stick to the pan and place them into the oven. Broil for 7-10 minutes or until the peppers and tomatillos are looking browned. Remove them from the oven and if the peppers are brown and blistered take them off the tray and set aside. If not, filp all the ingredients and place them back in the oven for another 7-10 minutes or until the tomatillos are very soft.
Once the peppers are cool enough to handle, remove the skins, which should slide right off. If you like hot salsa, add them straight to the blender with their seeds. If you prefer medium salsa, cut the peppers open and remove half of the seeds with a spoon. If you like mild salsa, remove all of the seeds.
Add all the ingredients into the blender and blend until all the ingredients are broken down and you've reached salsa consistency. Serve.


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Vintage One: 20 years of Mtn Bike passion and counting.: Letting the genie out of the lamp?
A few months ago I was thinking this: What is Missing. The idea being that there is nothing in the 29er FS market that hit all the buttons for an All Trail bike if you also wanted light weight. Basically, like the old blog said...an Ibis Mojo 29er with less travel.
Well, it has been no secret that Ibis has been working on a 29er FS even if they did do it kicking and screaming along the way (seems that they are not...or have not been...ardent big wheel fans). Here it is.
It is, at least at first glance, just what I wanted it to be. If the geometry is 'in there', then I just may have to begin saving up big time cuz a CF Ibis is darn expensive. But, I could trim the quiver a bit, eh? This could replace the Epic AND the FSR and be as light or lighter than the Epic is. Hard to argue with that one. But that cost is daunting. Well, you can't have it all. Light...strong...cheap. Pick two, as they say.
Time will tell, but I am stoked and I bet more than a few companies are looking at this one through squinted eyes, wondering if they should have rubbed that magic lantern just a bit harder.


Rising electronic pop talent, Puzzle was one of our special support artists at EQ Music Live in August which featured headliners The Sound of Arrows.
We caught up with Puzzle backstage at Zigfrid von Underbelly to talk about supporting legendary Swedish widescreen pop pioneers – The Sound of Arrows, the inspiration behind his track "Kamikaze", his style reference points and what's next for the emerging artist after the release of his recent "Babylon" EP.
Check out our live footage of Puzzle at EQ Music Live and enjoy our backstage chat with him.
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La ligne de Saint-Florentin - Vergigny à Monéteau - Gurgy est une ancienne ligne ferroviaire stratégique française qui reliait les gares de Saint-Florentin - Vergigny et de Monéteau - Gurgy.

Elle constituait la ligne  du Réseau ferré national.

Historique
La loi du  (dite plan Freycinet) portant classement de 181 lignes de chemin de fer dans le réseau des chemins de fer d'intérêt général retient en n° 26, une ligne « d'Auxerre à Vitry-le-François, par ou près Saint-Florentin, Troyes et Brienne ». La ligne de Saint-Florentin - Vergigny à Monéteau - Gurgy qui constitue un tronçon de cet ensemble est déclarée d'utilité publique par une loi le . La ligne ne sera cependant pas construite avant les années 1920.

La ligne est concédée à la Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée par une convention signée le  entre le ministre des Travaux publics et la Compagnie. Cette convention est approuvée par une loi le  suivant. Cette convention a fait l'objet d'un avenant signé le . Cet avenant est approuvée par une loi le .

La ligne de Saint-Florentin - Vergigny à Monéteau - Gurgy est mise en service le .

La fermeture intervient en plusieurs temps : le service voyageur entre Saint-Florentin - Vergigny et Monéteau - Gurgy est déjà supprimé le  ; le , l'armée allemande dépose la voie entre Monéteau et Pontigny. Seule la portion Pontigny St Florentin continuera donc à être exploitée. .

Le , un train de munitions allemand se rendant au camp de Varennes stationne pour des raisons techniques dans la gare de Pontigny. À l'aube, un groupe de résistants déposent des pains de plastic sous les wagons. L'explosion est effroyable. Les maisons tremblent ; l'abbaye elle-même est touchée et la toiture est ouverte à tous les vents…

Le  voit le déclassement de la section de Pontigny à Monéteau-Gurgy (PK 12,460 au PK 24,480), et le  du tronçon du  au PK 12,460 à Pontigny.

Le service marchandises est arrêté entre Saint-Florentin-Vergigny et Pontigny le .

Les déclassements des tronçons de la ligne se poursuivent :
à Pontigny du PK 12,225 au PK 12,240 le  ;
à Monéteau du PK 24,480 au PK 25,950, le  ;
et de Saint-Florentin-Vergigny à Pontigny (PK 4,220 à 12,225) le . Néanmoins le déclassement de cette dernière section est annulé, le , par une décision du Conseil d'État.

Infrastructure
Cette ligne était intégralement à voie unique, toutefois les terrains achetés préalablement à la construction permettaient l'établissement d'une .

Entre Saint-Florentin et Pontigny, le tracé est envahi par la végétation.

Entre Pontigny et Monéteau, un chemin en excellent état permet de suivre le tracé et découvrir les infrastructures de l'ancienne ligne de style « PLM tardif » : gares avec ses quais, maisons de garde barrière, ponts, etc.

Patrimoine ferroviaire
La quasi-totalité des maisons de garde-barrière (17) et l'entiéreté des bâtiments de gare (Cheu, Pontigny, Rouvroy - Venouse, Héry) ont échappé à la démolition et sont devenues des habitations particulières. Ces gares et maisonnettes de passage à niveau correspondent au style « PLM tardif » qui se caractérise par de hauts bâtiments munies de facades colorées avec de grandes baies, des charpentes apparentes, des arcs en briques de plusieurs couleurs ainsi que le nom de la gare et de la compagnie « PLM » en carreaux de céramique.

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Notes et références

Voir aussi

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Is fuel the Robin Hood of the NDA government?
Is fuel the Robin Hood of the governing NDA? An instrument to rob the 'rich' to help the poor, as admitted to by one of its Union Ministers?
It appears very much so. One of the ministers recently inducted into the Central government, the bureaucrat-turned-Union Minister for Tourism, Mr. Alphons Kannanthanom , has foul-mouthed most audaciously and insensitively in his characteristic devil may care manner, in the ardency and enthusiasm of a newly inducted minister to condone the centre's failure to check the prices of fuel that has been habitually going through the roof on a daily basis in recent times. The minister justified the hike by contending that 'Those who use vehicles are not poor, and that the revenue from fuel hike is being used for various welfare projects for the poor. According to him, the decision by the government to hike up fuel prices was a deliberate one, and that the additional revenue made available through the fuel price hike would help build houses and toilets for the poor, and to help construct projects like national highways. This comment by the minister had the trolling 'industry' in social media to go on overdrive. To add salt to the gaping wound he caused by the first part of his atrocious comments, he persisted with his gibberish discourse by saying that those who own vehicles are not from financially weaker sections. 'About 30% of Indians are starving. The Modi government gives high priority for their uplift' he continued like a keyed up doll. The opposition in Kerala from where the minister hails was one of the first to pounce on him, terming his outlandish remarks 'nonsense', and rightfully so. As his statements closely followed another one of a similar kind in terms of lack of responsibility and basic sense when he attempted to condone the ban on beef by advising foreigners visiting the state of Kerala and the nation to sate their 'craving' for beef by consuming the meat of vastly superior quality available in their native nations, and not to bank on the meat of inferior quality available in India and his home state. One must remember that he is the Union minister of Tourism, with a great deal of responsibility in terms of his actions and, more importantly his words.
His contention that 'those who use vehicles are not poor' managed to get under my skin for the simple reason that not everybody is born with a silver spoon in the mouth, and that citizens purchase vehicles and other luxuries with the money that they earn by turning their blood to sweat through hard work, despite the odds, which is exactly my case and surely would be many others' too. Their possessions including the vehicles they use are truly what they earned and deserved to possess, by toiling for them. These hardworking people simply do not deserve to be punished for that through hiking up the price of fuel without which these vehicles wouldn't ply!
The cost of fuel truly has gone through the roof. Ironically, the reduction of crude oil in international market does not reflect on the money Indians needs to shell out to buy fuel. The price of a liter of crude oil in India is Rs. 20.19, which is purchased by Indians for Rs. 71.48 from the fuel outlet. The breakup of factors leading up to the huge leap by Rs.51.29 for every liter, reads as follows: cost of refining the crude oil-Rs 6.03; margin of Oil Marketing companies-Rs.3.31; Central Excise Duty-Rs.21.48; Commission of dealers-Rs.Rs.3.23; Value Added tax levied by individual states -Rs.17.24. These combine to hike up the cost of crude oil in the international market from Rs. 20.19 to Rs. 71.48 by the time a 'rich' Indian decides to purchase a liter of fuel. Evidently, the major factor responsible for this leap is the Excise duty levied by the centre, which stands at a huge Rs.21.48, which was a mere Rs. 9.07 before the present NDA government led by Narendra Modi assumed power.
As for the minister's contention that the money pocketed by the government's kitty would be used for developmental intentions like building toilets and homes for the poor, and for building and maintaining roads, these are the purposes for which Indians are arm twisted to pay taxes of various hues with the Aadhaar card on their head. The card currently is the weapon considered with a great deal of fear, than the gun by an average Indian! That is exactly why I paid Rs. 23,994 as onetime road tax when I purchased Maruti's Alto K10 VXi on 9/10/2016.By paying that kind of money, I expect to have roads of world standards to ride my new car on. It is absolutely unfair to ask me to shell out more money through bloated fuel prices to provide me with well laid out roads. Apart from the road tax, commuters are required to pay considerable money as toll, collected by numerous toll plazas (read wayside looters) located all along Indian roads. For the fiscal ended March 2017, sale of domestic passenger vehicles alone were 30,46,727 units against 27,89,208 in the previous year. One can only imagine the large sum of money the government would have grown richer by, bleeding the owners of those vehicles in the name of 'onetime road tax'. The government might as well master the art of maintenance of roads and building new ones from that money, by no means menial. It is indeed the responsibility of the government to do so. That is exactly what Indians who voted this government to power expect out of it. As for homes and toilets for the poor, Indians are already paying taxes from the womb to the tomb- taxes of various shapes, sizes, and hues. Lately Indians have been asked to pay up something called the GST, which are imposed on them in various isomeric forms viz: cGST,sGST,iGST, etc(something which even the Almighty is yet to come to terms with, or even understand-this, leaving alone those numerous clueless Chartered Accountants in this country! ), in addition to the painful process of milking through income tax, value added tax, and others, these taxes are paid by Indians for upliftment of fellow Indians, who deserve help to live with dignity and basic amenities in this nation.
Therefore, the Modi-led NDA government may please do away with the habit of hiking up fuel prices to create the legendary English outlaw of the 12th century that Robin Hood was, in the excuse of robbing the so-called' rich' to help the poor. That simply amounts to cheating and burglary, something which Indians did not place this government on the throne of governance for. And, it is also advisable for ministers and those in high offices to master the delicate and responsible art of speaking sensibly, to save great deal of embarrassment to themselves and the ministry to which they belong!


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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Arizona Case Law › Arizona Supreme Court Decisions › 1980 › Rimondi v. Briggs
Rimondi v. Briggs
124 Ariz. 561 (1980)
606 P.2d 412
John C. RIMONDI and Susan Johnson Rimondi, husband and wife, Appellants, v. Rachael Allene BRIGGS, Appellee.
Supreme Court of Arizona, In Division.
January 24, 1980.
*563 O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingsworth & Beshears by M.E. Rake, Jr. and Franzula M. Bacher, Phoenix, for appellants.
Johnson, Tucker, Jessen & Dake by Richard H. Oplinger and Ruth L. Harris, Phoenix, for appellee.
HOLOHAN, Vice Chief Justice.
Plaintiffs appeal from a jury verdict for the defendant in the second trial of a personal injury action arising out of an automobile accident. The first trial resulted in a hung jury and mistrial. We have jurisdiction pursuant to Rule 19(e), Rules of Civil Appellate Procedure, 17A A.R.S.
Late one night while driving on Apache Trial Highway, plaintiffs' left front tire on their van went flat. Instead of pulling off into one of several nearby driveways, plaintiffs pulled into the outermost of the three westbound lanes and stopped. The testimony is conflicting as to whether the flashers were on and whether the rear van doors were open or closed. Defendant testified that she did not see the van until it was too late to change lanes as she was hemmed in by cars in the two lanes to her left. Defendant struck the left rear and side of the van where the plaintiffs were standing. Plaintiffs brought suit for their injuries.
The issues on appeal are:
1) Were the slides taken by an accident reconstruction expert properly excluded? 2) Was it error to admit the investigative officer's testimony concerning whether the van doors could have been partially open? 3) Were plaintiffs properly put to a choice between using the defendant's deposition or cross-examining defendant? 4) Were plaintiffs improperly precluded from questioning the defendant about her plans to stay with her boyfriend the night of the accident? 5) Was giving the Recommended Arizona Jury Instruction No. 5 on contributory negligence error? 6) Should the trial court have separately instructed the jury on proper lookout and foreseeability? 7) Should the trial court have instructed the jury on A.R.S. § 28-701(A), speed not reasonable and prudent?
Regarding admissibility of the slides, Marshall Day, an accident reconstruction expert, at plaintiffs' behest took a series of slides purporting to show what defendant could see from her car as she approached the van. Defendant objected to the introduction of these slides on the basis that the slides did not depict the scene in substantially the same way as it existed at the time of the accident and they were therefore prejudicial. Defendant's objection was based on the fact that there was no testimony that the light setting on the test vehicle was the same as on the defendant's vehicle and the fact that the stop action effect of slides did not accurately represent what the defendant saw as she drove down the highway. The trial court sustained this objection and precluded use of the slides.
The trial court has considerable discretion in ruling on the admission of photographs. Udall, Arizona Law of Evidence § 132; Baker v. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., 11 Ariz. App. 387, 464 P.2d 974 (1970); Arnold v. Frigid Food Express Co., 9 Ariz. App. 472, 453 P.2d 983 (1969). Pictures must faithfully represent what the party saw. Baker, supra. The slides at issue were still photographs which would not reflect the scene as viewed by a person in a moving vehicle. This factor could be misleading; further, the same conditions as were present at the time of the accident were not shown to exist when the pictures were taken. The ruling of the trial judge excluding the slides was proper.
Officer McCarthy, the investigating officer of the accident, testified that sometime after the accident he went to the *564 wrecking yard where the plaintiffs' van was stored and tested the rear doors to determine if a vehicle could strike the van without damaging the door if the doors were partially open. He concluded that a vehicle could. Plaintiffs objected to this testimony asserting that Officer McCarthy was expressing an opinion as to the cause of the accident without being qualified as an accident reconstruction expert. Although we agree that a witness who testifies as to the ultimate cause of the accident must be qualified as an expert witness, Steed v. Cuevas, 24 Ariz. App. 547, 540 P.2d 166 (1975), we do not agree that Officer McCarthy's testimony constituted an expression as to the cause of the accident. All Officer McCarthy said was that the accident could have happened with the back van doors partially open without those doors being damaged. He did not testify as to the position of the doors on impact which testimony would have been on the cause of the accident. The officer was relating his observations. He moved the van doors to see if the left rear of the van could have been struck by defendant's vehicle without the doors being closed. This is not an expert opinion for which special foundation would have been required. We hold there was no abuse of discretion in this instance.
Plaintiffs' third assignment of error is that they were forced to choose between reading portions of defendant's deposition during their case and cross-examination of defendant. The trial court stated that he would not allow plaintiffs to read the defendant's deposition in plaintiffs' case in chief and later also cross-examine the defendant "which will in essence be going through the whole thing again." (Reporter's Transcript, p. 120.) The court stated that plaintiffs had proved a prima facie case without reading this material, which was plaintiffs' stated purpose for reading the deposition aloud. The ruling of the trial court was clearly wrong.
Rule 32(a)(2), Rules of Civil Procedure, 16 A.R.S., states that "[t]he deposition of a party ... may be used by an adverse party for any purpose." In Southern Pacific Co. v. Cavallo, 84 Ariz. 24, 323 P.2d 1 (1958), this court ruled that a plaintiff could read into evidence the deposition of a party defendant even though the defendant was present in court. The "any purpose" provision of the rule has been given the broad construction suggested by the words. See Porterie v. Peters, 111 Ariz. 452, 532 P.2d 514 (1975). The trial court's ruling on this issue was erroneous. The error was not prejudicial because the plaintiff was allowed full cross-examination of the defendant when she took the stand. Since the ruling of the trial court did not result in prejudice, the error must be considered harmless.
Plaintiffs next complain that they were improperly foreclosed from inquiring before the jury into the fact that defendant on the night of the accident had planned to spend the night with a male friend. Plaintiff claim that this showed the defendant's state of mind and bore out their theory that defendant's inattention caused the accident.
Plaintiffs' cross-examination on this point reads as follows:
"Q Your new boyfriend's name was a Mr. Mitchler or Michler; is that right? "A Mr. Mitchler. "Q Mitchler. And he lived to the west also? "A Yes; he had called and asked me to come by. "Q You were going down to spend the might with Mr. Mitchler rather than going home and spending the night at home or spending the night at the Desert Flame? "A I wouldn't say I was going to spend the night with him. I was going there. I think that might sound a little better. "Q You didn't plan to spend the night? I don't care one way or the other. I just want to know. "THE COURT: Counsel, Mr. Tucker hasn't objected, but I do. We are getting into an area that is of no concern to this jury where she is going to spend the night." (Reporter's Transcript, pp. 146-147.)
*565 As is obvious from this excerpt, counsel got very far indeed in his questioning. The witness admitted that she was headed to her friend's house. Counsel was precluded only from obtaining a direct statement that the defendant had planned to spend the night there. We hold that the trial court's action in foreclosing further questioning in this area was proper. A trial court's rulings on the admittance or exclusion of evidence will not be disturbed on appeal unless a clear abuse of discretion appears and prejudice results therefrom.[1]Sequoia Mfg. Co., Inc. v. Halec Construction Co., Inc., 117 Ariz. 11, 570 P.2d 782 (1977).
Prejudice in a civil trial will not be presumed but must affirmatively appear from the record. Webb v. Hardin, 53 Ariz. 310, 89 P.2d 30 (1939). Plaintiffs' point with regard to the defendant's state of mind was made by her statement that she was going to her boyfriend's house. Any further inquiry would only introduce irrelevant and incompetent matters in the case.
Plaintiffs assign as error the trial court's instruction to the jury on contributory negligence, Recommended Arizona Jury Instruction Negligence 5, which reads:
"The defendant claims that the plaintiff was negligent and that his negligence contributed to cause the plaintiff's injury. Whether contributory negligence is a defense is left to you. If both plaintiff and defendant were negligent, and if the negligence of each was the cause of the injury, the plaintiff should not recover. This means that you must decide two things: "(1) Whether the plaintiff was contributorily negligent, and "(2) If the plaintiff was negligent, whether this negligence should prevent a verdict in his favor." (Emphasis supplied.)
Plaintiff challenges the use of the word "should," contending that this court's opinion in Manhattan-Dickman Construction Co. v. Shawler, 113 Ariz. 549, 558 P.2d 894 (1976) required reversal if "should" is used. We disagree. Both the Court of Appeals and this court have repeatedly approved use of "should" in the contributory negligence instruction. See Brierley v. Anaconda Co., 111 Ariz. 8, 522 P.2d 1085 (1974); Mantovani v. Green, 90 Ariz. 376, 368 P.2d 448 (1962); Layton v. Rocha, 90 Ariz. 369, 368 P.2d 444 (1962); Steed v. Cuevas, supra; Purchase v. Mardian Construction Co., Inc., 21 Ariz. App. 435, 520 P.2d 529 (1974); Rhind v. Kearney, 21 Ariz. App. 570, 521 P.2d 1148 (1974); Shaya v. Petzoldt, 21 Ariz. App. 91, 515 P.2d 1189 (1973); Anderson v. Gobea, 18 Ariz. App. 277, 501 P.2d 453 (1972); Winchester v. Palko, 18 Ariz. App. 534, 504 P.2d 65 (1972); Malinski v. Pember, 9 Ariz. App. 444, 453 P.2d 540 (1969).
We find no error.
Plaintiffs also assert as error the trial court's failure to instruct on proper lookout.[2] Instead the trial court gave RAJI Negligence 14:
*566 "A driver may assume that another motorist will proceed in a lawful manner and obey the laws of the road. He may act on that assumption unless it should become apparent to him, acting as a reasonably careful person, that the other motorist is not going to obey the laws of the road. "All drivers have a continuing duty to make that degree of observation which a reasonably careful person would make under similar circumstances."
The instruction given covers the areas of right-of-way, lookout and presumption that other drivers will comply with the law. See Nichols v. City of Phoenix, 68 Ariz. 124, 202 P.2d 201 (1949). Plaintiffs cite no authority which is contrary to the law set forth in the instruction given. Plaintiffs rely on the bare assertion that their instruction should have been given. There was no error in refusing to give the requested instructions. Cf. Kelch v. Courson, 103 Ariz. 576, 447 P.2d 550 (1968).
Plaintiffs also object to the trial court's refusal to give plaintiffs' requested instruction on foreseeability. As pointed out in Tucker v. Collar, 79 Ariz. 141, 285 P.2d 178 (1955), foreseeability is an element of negligence. The duty to act or refrain from acting arises from the anticipation or realization of harm. Arizona Public Service Co. v. Brittain, 107 Ariz. 278, 486 P.2d 176 (1971). The problem of instructing juries in terms of reasonable anticipation, probabilities, possibilities, etc., results in more confusion than help. Arizona Public Service Co. v. Brittain, supra. Considering the issues and circumstances presented by the evidence in this case the instructions given, taken as a whole, were adequate to instruct the jury, and there was no error in refusing the plaintiffs' requested instruction.
Plaintiffs' last assignment of error concerns the trial court's failure to give an instruction which contained A.R.S. § 28-701(A) on imprudent speed. In this regard plaintiffs assert that defendant was "over-driving" her headlights. Assuming arguendo that this would constitute a violation of the statute, the record on appeal does not support this proposition. Defendant did testify that she was driving with her headlights on low but there was no evidence as to how far her low beams could illuminate. The only other testimony on this subject concerned the statutory requirement for the number of feet the low beams must illuminate and the stopping distance for a car traveling at the speed she was estimated to have been traveling. By all accounts her speed was less than the posted speed.
In view of the lack of evidence on this point, we find no error in the trial court's refusal to give this instruction.
STRUCKMEYER, C.J., and GORDON, J., concur.
[1] We note here that Evidence Rule 403, 17A A.R.S., which allows the exclusion of evidence if its probative value is outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, was not in effect at the time of the trial. Wright and Graham, Federal Practice and Procedure Vol. 22 § 5215, suggest that "unfair prejudice" refers to the unfair advantage that results from the capacity of the evidence to persuade by illegitimate means, including emotionalism. There would certainly be a tendency for this piece of evidence to persuade by emotionalism. Plaintiffs' point in regard to the defendant's state of mind was made by her statement that she was going to his house. Further elaboration was unnecessary.
[2] Plaintiffs wanted either of these two instructions:
"Plaintiffs' Requested Instruction No. 2.
"The driver of an automobile at night is guilty of negligence if he collides with an object which he has failed to see and which an ordinarily prudent driver under like circumstances would have seen."
"It is the duty of every motorist at all times to keep and maintain proper lookout for other vehicles and persons upon the highway. A driver has the obligation to make such observation as will enable him to see what a person in the exercise of ordinary care could and should have seen under the circumstances then and there existing.
"Thus a driver is negligent if he collides with an object or person which he has failed to see and which an ordinarily prudent driver, under like circumstances, would have seen.
"If you find that the defendant, RACHAEL BRIGGS, negligently failed to make such observations, and further find that such negligence was the proximate cause of plaintiffs' injuries, then your verdict should be for the plaintiffs."
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package com.viesis.viescraft.common.items;

import java.util.List;

import com.viesis.viescraft.ViesCraft;
import com.viesis.viescraft.api.EnumsVC;

import net.minecraft.creativetab.CreativeTabs;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.EnumRarity;
import net.minecraft.item.Item;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.util.text.TextFormatting;
import net.minecraft.util.text.translation.I18n;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.Side;
import net.minecraftforge.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;

public class OLDItemModule extends Item {

	public OLDItemModule()
	{
		ItemHelper.setItemName(this, "modules/airship_module");

		this.setHasSubtypes(true);
        this.setMaxDamage(0);

		//this.setCreativeTab(ViesCraft.tabViesCraftItems);
	}

	@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
    public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, EntityPlayer playerIn, List toolTip, boolean advanced)
	{

		toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + "THIS IS AN OUTDATED ITEM!");
		toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + "WILL BE REMOVED NEXT UPDATE!");
		toolTip.add(TextFormatting.WHITE + "Place it into a crafting table");
		toolTip.add(TextFormatting.WHITE + "to get an equivalent item.");

		/**
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 0)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.0.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.0.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 1)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.1.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.1.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 2)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.2.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.2.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 3)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.3.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.3.2") + " -20%");
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 4)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.4.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.4.2") + " -30%");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.4.3"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 5)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.5.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.5.2") + " -50%");
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 6)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.6.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.6.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 7)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.7.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.7.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 8)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.8.1") + " +25%");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.8.2"));
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 9)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.9.1") + " +50%");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.9.2") + " -25%");//Really 30%
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 10)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.10.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.10.2"));//Really 30%
		}
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 11)
		{
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GOLD + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.#"));
			toolTip.add(" ");
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.GREEN + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.11.1"));
			toolTip.add(TextFormatting.RED + I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.tt.module.11.2"));//Really 30%
		}
		*/
	}

	public EnumRarity getRarity(ItemStack stack)
    {
		if(stack.getMetadata() == 0)
        {
        	this.setMaxStackSize(64);
        }
        else
        {
        	this.setMaxStackSize(1);
        }

		switch (this.getMetadata(stack))
        {
			case 0:
				return EnumRarity.UNCOMMON;
			default:
            	return EnumRarity.RARE;
        }
    }

	@Override
	public String getItemStackDisplayName(ItemStack stack)
    {
		String itemName;

		if(stack.getMetadata() == 0)
        {
        	itemName = I18n.translateToLocal("OLD Logic Chip");
        }
        else
        {
        	itemName = I18n.translateToLocal("vc.item.module.#") + " - " + EnumsVC.AirshipModule.byId(this.getMetadata(stack)).getLocalizedName();
        }

		return itemName;
    }

	@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	@Override
    public void getSubItems(Item itemIn, CreativeTabs tab, List<ItemStack> subItems)
    {
    	for (EnumsVC.AirshipModule contents : EnumsVC.AirshipModule.values())
    	{
			int meta = contents.getMetadata();
			ItemStack subItemStack = new ItemStack(itemIn, 1, meta);
			subItems.add(subItemStack);
    	}
    }
}


Phil Anderton went to school at the Edinburgh Academy and played cricket for the Edinburgh Academicals and St. Andrews University.
His career spans multi-national consumer goods companies Procter and Gamble and The Coca-Cola Company, where Phil held senior marketing positions in Europe and the USA. He subsequently worked in sport with commercial, marketing, CEO and Chairman positions at Scottish Rugby, Heart of Midlothian FC, the ATP World Tour and Al Jazira Sporting Club.
With his links to Raeburn Place and his public profile, Phil was therefore a natural choice for RPF to approach when we were looking for people to champion the redevelopment plans. We were fortunate as Phil agreed to take his involvement a step further and lead the initial push with the fundraising campaign.
Having made good headway with the fundraising campaign, Phil has now stepped back in order to work full-time on his own business interests, but we are delighted to have his continued input as one of our Ambassadors.
I thoroughly enjoyed playing cricket and socialising at Raeburn Place in the 1980s and would love to see this special place restored for the enjoyment of everyone in the local community.


Data is a dangerous tool in making decisions. You need to understand the different ways in which it can fail you before you can make good use of it. Otherwise, you might make completely wrong data-driven decisions.
And then, of course, there's also some decisions (for example, high-level design decisions) which must be made based on something other than data.
This article outlines three possible failure modes of data-driven decisions, with Digg's catastrophic failure earlier this year as the backdrop for the points.
See patterns and correlations where there are none.