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Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies
Nicola Veronese, Damiano Pizzol, Pinar Soysal, Nicola Veronese, Lee Smith, Igor Grabovac, Guillermo F. Lopez Sanchez, Lin Yang, Tao Xiao, Petre Cristian Ilie, Jae Il Shin, Andrea Garolla, Christopher Parris, Yvonne Barnett, Mark A Tully
Background Prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) in male survivors of cancer across cancer types has not been systematically analysed. Aim To estimate the prevalence of ED in all types of cancer and identify characteristics associated with ED in survivors of cancer. Design and setting Systematic review and meta-analysis (MA) of cross-sectional studies. Method MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and EMBASE were searched, targeting reports published from inception to 1 February 2020. All retrospective or prospective studies reporting prevalence of ED in male patients with cancer and using a validated tool for detection of ED were included. A random-effects MA model was used to pool prevalence of ED as absolute estimates at three different stages, that is, 'healthy', 'at diagnosis', and 'after treatment'. A univariate MA regression including the three-level group variable as the only independent variable was used to assess the difference in ED prevalence across the three groups. Further MAs were conducted for studies involving patients at diagnosis and after treatment, and statistical inferences were made with setting for multiple testing controlling for a false discovery rate (FDR) <0.05. Results In total, 1301 studies were assessed for inclusion. Of these, 141 were potentially eligible and subsequently scrutinised in full text. Finally, 43 studies were included with a total of 13 148 participants. Overall, pooled data of the included studies showed an ED prevalence of 40.72% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 31.80 to 50.29) in patients with cancer, with prevalences of 28.60% (95% CI = 12.10 to 53.83) at time of diagnosis and 42.70% (95% CI = 32.97 to 53.03) after treatment, with significant difference between these two stages and across cancer locations, controlling for an FDR <0.05. Conclusion Erectile dysfunction was particularly high in male survivors of cancer and was associated with cancer treatment, cancer site, and age. © The Authors.
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE
Veronese, N., Pizzol, D., Soysal, P., Veronese, N., Smith, L., Grabovac, I., Sanchez, G. F. L., Yang, L., Xiao, T., Ilie, P. C., Shin, J. I., Garolla, A., Parris, C., Barnett, Y., & Tully, M. A. (2021). Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE, 71, E372-E380.
Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. / Veronese, Nicola; Pizzol, Damiano; Soysal, Pinar; Veronese, Nicola; Smith, Lee; Grabovac, Igor; Sanchez, Guillermo F. Lopez; Yang, Lin; Xiao, Tao; Ilie, Petre Cristian; Shin, Jae Il; Garolla, Andrea; Parris, Christopher; Barnett, Yvonne; Tully, Mark A.
In: THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE, Vol. 71, 2021, pag. E372-E380.
Veronese, N, Pizzol, D, Soysal, P, Veronese, N, Smith, L, Grabovac, I, Sanchez, GFL, Yang, L, Xiao, T, Ilie, PC, Shin, JI, Garolla, A, Parris, C, Barnett, Y & Tully, MA 2021, 'Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies', THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE, vol. 71, pagg. E372-E380.
Veronese N, Pizzol D, Soysal P, Veronese N, Smith L, Grabovac I e altri. Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE. 2021;71:E372-E380.
Veronese, Nicola ; Pizzol, Damiano ; Soysal, Pinar ; Veronese, Nicola ; Smith, Lee ; Grabovac, Igor ; Sanchez, Guillermo F. Lopez ; Yang, Lin ; Xiao, Tao ; Ilie, Petre Cristian ; Shin, Jae Il ; Garolla, Andrea ; Parris, Christopher ; Barnett, Yvonne ; Tully, Mark A. / Prevalence of erectile dysfunction in male survivors of cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies. In: THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF GENERAL PRACTICE. 2021 ; Vol. 71. pagg. E372-E380.
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Gillian Spencer (born December 18, 1939) is an American soap opera actress and writer.

She had supporting roles on the soaps The Secret Storm as Lynn Wilkins Warren from 1961-1962 and The Edge of Night as Leora Davies in 1963 before joining Guiding Light in 1965 in the role of the troubled heroine Robin Fletcher. Gillian was part of the original cast of One Life to Live as the original Victoria Lord from 1968 until 1970, and it was during her stint that Viki's split personality was introduced. While Erika Slezak would become famous for this part, Gillian and Lee Patterson (Joe Riley) were fan favorites and the show's first major romantic couple.

From 1972-1975, she played As the World Turns'''s Jennifer Hughes, Kim Stewart's sister, Bob's third wife and Frannie's mother who died after being hit by a car. However, she is probably best remembered for playing the role of Daisy Cortlandt on the ABC soap, All My Children, a role she played from 1980 through 1989, and in 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, and on April 20, 2010 with Taylor Miller (Nina Cortlandt) for the tribute episode for James Mitchell (Palmer Cortlandt).  Daisy (Palmer's first wife) was originally presumed dead and used the alias "Monique Jonvil" to befriend Nina in college.

Over the years, Nina often referred to her mother as "Monique". For her role of Daisy, Spencer received an Emmy Nomination for Best Actress. In 1997, Gillian made a guest return to "As the World Turns" where the spirit of Jennifer appeared to her ailing sister.

Spencer appeared in the 1968 feature comedy What's So Bad About Feeling Good?; in the film, she plays The Sack, a melancholy young woman living in a New York City commune with a burlap sack covering her entire body except for her bare feet.

She was co-head writer of Another World. She has also been a writer for As the World Turns, All My Children and the serial Days of Our Lives.

Positions heldAll My ChildrenScript Writer (1989–1992)
Story Consultant (1986–1989)
Actress: Daisy Cortlandt (1979–1989, 1994, 1995, 2010)Another WorldScript Writer (1997–1999)As the World TurnsScript Writer (1993–1994)
Actress: Jennifer Sullivan Ryan Hughes, R. N. (1972–1975, 1997)Days of Our LivesScript Writer (September 3, 2001 – September 2003)The Edge of NightActress: Lyn Wilkins (1962–1963)General HospitalBreakdown Writer (2000–2001)Guiding LightScript Writer (March 2004 – May 13, 2005)
Occasional Script Writer (December 2003)
Actress: Robin Lang (1964–1967)One Life to LiveInterim Headwriter (July 16, 1999 – December 1999)
Script Writer (May 12–14, 1999)
Breakdown Writer (May 17 –July 15, 1999)
Actress: Victoria Lord (1968–1970)The Secret Storm''
Actress: Leora Davies (1963)

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American women television writers
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The iGeo involves teams from over 40 countries from around the world who come together to take part in a range of geographical activities and share their culture with others. The competition involves three elements: a written response test, a multimedia test and a fieldwork exercise and written test.
A team of four Year 12 students will be selected and will be accompanied by two teacher who will act as Team Leaders and travel to the 2020 iGeo in Istanbul, Turkey, subject to travel advise from the NZ Government (MFAT).
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Q: What is the preferred production setup for eve I am setting up an Eve instance for production and wonder what is the "preferred production setup" for Eve - if there is such a thing.
uWSGI seem to work nice.
Gunicorn works nice with standard Flask - but not so easily for Eve as Eve has an implicit import of "settings.py".
Suggestions or recommandations?

A: Tornado is pretty popular with Eve and Flask in general. Because it is non-blocking and uses epoll, it can handle thousands of simultaneous standing connections, which means it is ideal for real-time web services. Integrating this service with Flask is straightforward (source).
So imagine you have your average run.py script for launching your REST API:
from eve import Eve
app = Eve()

# custom stuff here

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

You could then have a run-production.py script like this:
from tornado.wsgi import WSGIContainer
from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop

from run import app

http_server = HTTPServer(WSGIContainer(app))
http_server.listen(5000)
IOLoop.instance().start()

You can then launch run.py when debugging, and run-production.py when going live.

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Protests in Peru as country is thrown into political uncertainty
By Claudia Dominguez and Aimee Lewis, CNN
Updated 4:34 PM ET, Tue October 1, 2019
Police in LIma as demonstrators march on September 30.
(CNN) Protestors gathered in Peru's capital Lima on Tuesday as the country descended into political uncertainty following President Martin Vizcarra's decision to dissolve congress, prompting rebel lawmakers to suspend him and appoint another leader.
In a televised message to the nation on Monday, Vizcarra announced the dissolution of the country's congress and called for new parliamentary elections to be held within four months.
Congress president Pedro Olaechea responded by declaring the temporary removal of Vizcarra, alleging "moral inability" and accusing Vizcarra of "breaking the constitutional order."
After Olaechea's announcement, Vice-President Mercedes Araoz was sworn in as President on Monday night, leaving the South American country with a conflict between the legislative and the executive.
Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra speaks in October 2018.
Monday's political crisis came after the Peruvian congress named a new magistrate for the country's top court, the constitutional tribunal.
Vizcarra had asked congress for a vote of confidence in order to modify the selection process for magistrates, saying: "Members of the constitutional tribunal are elected in a very hurried and non-transparent manner. We have proposed a vote of confidence to correct the election process."
According to Reuters, proposed nominees for up to six of the tribunal's seven members had come under scrutiny for links to criminally suspect judges.
The political drama is the latest chapter in Vizcarra's year-long campaign to confront corruption, with right-wing lawmakers obstructing his efforts.
Protesters supporting Vizcarra took to the streets on Monday to express their frustration at congress.
The US Embassy in Peru said demonstrations throughout the country was a possibility on Tuesday and that it was monitoring the situation.
All branches of the Peruvian military and the Peruvian police have expressed their loyalty to Vizcarra. A joint announcement by the armed forces called Vizcarra the "Supreme chief of the Armed Forces and the National Police of Peru," saying their "main mission is guaranteeing the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Republic."
The Organization of American States said it was the responsibility of the constitutional court of Peru to "rule on the legality and legitimacy of the institutional decisions adopted" as well as the "differences that may exist in the interpretation of the constitution, depending on the actions and positions expressed to the court by political actors."
The statement from the OAS General Secretariat added: "It is a constructive step that the elections have been


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Brabham a fost o echipă de Formula 1 care a concurat in campionatul mondial între 1962 și 1992.

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Abstract: The issue of food is indeed a systemic problem involving fundamental aspects of the social, cultural and economic organisation of our planet. This paper focuses on the main aspects related to the concepts of food security and food safety. While the first problem mainly affects less developed countries, the second concerns diet in the developed world. They are influenced by important factors such as the structure of food distribution, the effective access to food resources, the lack of confidence about the safety of the products, and the different consumption behaviours affected by social, economic and religious factors.
Keywords: food security, food safety, food distribution, consumption behaviours, food resources.
The theme behind Milan's Expo 2015 goes far beyond the subject of food, leading us to examine fundamental aspects of the social organisation of modern life.
The first problem concerns food security which, according to the FAO, "exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (World Food Summit, 1996).
After the Second World War, governments and international organisations began to seek an answer to the problems linked to an insufficient availability of food, especially in developing countries, promoting policies to increase the number of lands devoted to agriculture. These initiatives met with only partial medium and long term success, and in the end it has to be recognised that an approach focused only on production is not enough to shape an effective response to the problem (Lang, Barling 2012).
The current preference is for food systems, a concept that encompasses many other elements, all important factors in ensuring safe access to food. One crucial aspect is the organisational structure of food distribution: the production of foodstuffs in a particular area does not always mean that the local population will have access to them. The simplest example of direct access to food from self-production, where people cultivate the products they consume, seems to be geographically limited and restricted to a handful of products. Even in less developed areas forms of exchange and trade of varying degrees of complexity regulate the effective availability of food products (Gregory, Ingram, Brklacich 2005). In the advanced industrial societies the food distribution chains have become long and extremely sophisticated. A study by Grienvik in 2003 showed that distributors are crucial to the functioning of food product chains. A food product chain pyramid serving 160 million consumers will be constructed on a foundation of around three million direct producers. The distribution chain that transfers these products to the final consumer is, however, controlled by around 90,000 producers/processors and one hundred large buyers for the supermarket chains (Gregory, Ingram, Brklacich 2005; Grievink 2003). In other words, today's food systems have the shape of an irregular hourglass: a large base of producers, a narrow centre section controlled by a limited number of operators and an exaggeratedly large upper section formed by millions of consumers. In this situation large distributors and producers have a decisive influence on the market.
Another problem concerns effective access to food resources. The actual availability of foodstuffs obtained directly from producers or more frequently through distributors, does not necessarily lead to its consumption. This is influenced by cultural, social, economic and religious factors, which can take many forms. For example there are taboos that limit or forbid the consumption of various types of meat. Judaism and Islam forbid the consumption of pork and other "impure" animals, Hindus not only don't eat meat from cows, but also during many periods of the year they have to observe a partial or total fast. Not forgetting taboos related to eating pets; animals like cats and dogs that are considered part of the family usually are not eaten. There are, though, some exceptions. Horse meat, for example, is eaten in many areas of the world, including the Mediterranean, but this practice is often considered with horror by the people of Northern Europe, where owning a horse, hunting on horseback and show-jumping are extremely widespread. Taboos surrounding the killing and the bloodshed of animals may be the most common, while there are others like for instance eating insects, that is regarded with disgust in many parts of the world. In Western culture, insects are seen as a source of impurities, dirt and illness. However, in other parts of the world insects like butterflies, crickets and locusts are eaten without hesitation. The FAO has calculated that there are around 1,900 edible species consumed around the world, and this figure is steadily rising (FAO/WUR 2013). In short, cultural factors impose rigid distinctions between what can and what cannot be eaten, establishing a strict hierarchy of foods that are good to eat (Harris 1998).
The social structure can create further problems. We know that the sharing of food within a culture usually reflects the social hierarchy, with the élites usually have access to more and better food than those further down the ladder. In late-nineteenth century a survey on Italian families' food consumption in various regions of the country painted a picture of hypocaloric diet mostly composed by polenta, cornbread, dried vegetables, potatoes and a few green vegetables (especially in the central-southern areas), with a little adding of wheat and almost no meat and animal protein. At the same time, richer families ate large meals based on bread made from wheat flour, meat, especially beef, dairy products, fruit and fresh vegetables. Only in the 60s these social divisions began to disappear in Italy (Scarpellini 2012).
A complex, unequal reflection of the social hierarchy also exists within families. Extensive research and oral history tell us that in farming families, the head of the family took precedence in the distribution of food. Children and especially women were given less tasty and nourishing food, and in smaller quantities. In 1942 one of the few official surveys on the female diet in Italy analysed the diet of five teams of rice weeders at work. The meal provided these 350 women with around 3,000 calories per day, while the figure for men who worked alongside them was over 4,000 calories (Somogyi 1959). Similar situations have been documented in many other parts of the world.
The conclusion that could be drawn is that food security is now a problem that primarily affects less developed countries with dramatic implications. The FAO has estimated that in 2012 there were 870 million malnourished people in the world, the equivalent of 12.5% of the global population (FAO 2012). However, it would not be correct to say that this phenomenon is totally absent in the most developed countries. Poor nourishment does exist there, when compared with local living standards. The economic crisis that hit many western countries in 2008, with a corresponding widening of the income gap, has in fact created new areas of poverty across vast swathes of the world.
The most important problems concerning diet in the developed world concern food safety. During the 80s a series of serious food crisis have started: the epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease"), the dioxin-contaminated chickens, bird and swine flu, the frequent outbreaks of E. coli and the contamination of foodstuffs by toxins of agricultural or industrial origin. Safe and constant access to food has not eliminated fears about the safety of the products available. Inevitably, the extended production chains, the growing presence of foods produced by large companies using a variety of processes, transporting foodstuffs over long distances and the growing participation of the pharmaceutical industry in food production processes, have eroded the confidence and knowledge that once existed among the general public when their food was a familiar, local product. The result is a fear of food, even where no dangers exist. This has an effect on food choices among a wide section of the population, leading to a morbid preoccupation with avoiding foods perceived to be unhealthy. A number of studies have recorded high levels of this type of anxiety among Europeans, especially concerning the presence of toxic contaminants in food, pathogens in meat and contamination by containers in plastic or other materials. Not to mention questions hanging over GM products and the new nanotechnology (Scarpellini 2012, 271).
All these concerns are worsened by worries about the environmental effect of the human food chain through exploiting non-sustainable resources and creating environmental pollution. Given the modern food system structure, humankind's ecological footprint has long since outstripped the planet's ability to replace what we take out of it.
In this context, feeding the planet is a global challenge, or rather, glocal, as it must include, on the one hand, an integrated, sustainable approach that can reconcile transnational economic dynamics with local socio-cultural factors, and, on the other, the respect for the needs of small producers and large distributors. This is the right approach both to address problems affecting less developed countries, and to tackle new concerns in more developed areas. Basically, providing a response to all this means highlighting the most profound values and choices that underlie our social organization.
Clapp, Fuchs 2009: Jennifer Clapp, Doris Fuchs (eds.), Corporate power in global agrifood governance (Cambridge: The MIT Press).
FAO 2012: FAO, The state of food insecurity in the world 2012. <http:// www.fao.org/docrep/016/i3027e/i3027e.pdf>.
FAO 1996: World Food Summit, 1996 < http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/ w3613e/w3613e00.HTM>.
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The internationally acclaimed performer, teacher, clinician and adjudicator Hans Nickel was born in the Netherlands in 1958. He has held the position of solo tuba with the WDR Symphony Orchestra (West German Broadcasting Corporation) based in Cologne, Germany, since 1986. Nickel is Professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne, Professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf (incorporating the low brass of the Ausbildungsmusikkorps der Bundeswehr)and also Senior Lecturer for Tuba and Euphonium at the Hoogeschool Zuyd (Conservatoire)in Maastricht (Netherlands).
Hans Nickel is particularly popular with ERASMUS students from Europe, and with students from China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, and always has a very international class. He himself has visited both Zaragoza and Madrid in 2019 in Erasmus exchanges in his role as Professor. Many of his former students are now holding positions in orchestras worldwide, whilst others are teaching at prestigious institutes.
As an orchestral guest, Nickel has appeared with most European top orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Sir Simon Rattle.
Brass Bands were a long-time hobby for Nickel and he was a member of the Dutch Championship Brass Band Limburg for several years, winning a host of soloist prizes with them, including the European Soloist of the Year in both Rotterdam and Cardiff.
Hans Nickel frequently gives Master Classes and show-case recitals around the world, including Japan (University of Fine Arts, Tokio), Korea(Seoul), China and Russia. Nearer home he has been a regular guest in Italy(Montepulciano), France (Paris, Surgeres and Avignon)and other European cities. In the autumn of 2017 he gave his first Master Class in Amsterdam on the invitation of his former student and now solo-tuba in the Concertgebouw, Perry Hoogendijk. In a similar relationship he returned to Seoul in May 2018 to hold a Master Class together with a former student, and will returned to China in August 2018 for the third time in 10 months for a week of Master Classes and to give a recital at the 1st Wuhan International Tuba Euphonium Summer Camp. In 2019 he gave a Master Class and recital at the Tianjin Jinbao Musical Instruments Festival.
Hans Nickel performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician, particularly active in the field of contemporary music having premiered many new works for tuba including: Jan Van der Roost (Obsessions and canTUBAllada, Riva del Garda, Italy, 1997 ITEC), Karlheinz Stockhausen (In Freundschaft 1996), Jan Bedrich (Dialogy per Tuba, Piano e Baterie) and Edward Gregson (USA prmiere Alarum, Chicago 1995 ITEC), Hamers (Chameleon, Cardiff), Harrap (Klee-Blatt, Klee Ausstellung, Kunstsammlung NRW and Sonate für Tuba, Harfe und Schlagzeug, WDR Funkhaus Cologne) and Adler-McKean (Engführung,WDR Funkhaus Cologne). As a chamber musician he has appeared all over the world, including performing at the Huddersfield Contemporary Festival, Holland Festival, Landgraaf Poezie Festival and the Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik, with groups as highly regarded as Belgian Brass Soloists, Ensemble Modern(Frankfurt), Asko Ensemble (Amsterdam), Music Fabrik (Cologne), HR Brass (HR Frankfurt),the Blechbläserensemble der Berliner Philharmoniker (Berlin) and many others. In the autumn of 2008 he formed together with colleagues from WDR the brass quintet 'Brass Consort Köln' with whom he has created an educational project for schools, has appeared on children's television and readio and performed in many festivals including the Aachener Bachtagen.
He has performed the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto together with the WDR Sinfonieorchester, the Slowak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Noord Hollands Philharmonisches Orkest, the Staatsorchester Braunschweig and the Philharmonischen Orchester Hagen. In 2014 he performed the John Williams Konzert für Tuba und Orchester together with the WDR Sinfonie Orchester in the Kölner Philharmonie. This van be enjoyed on youtube.com/watch?v=GyiDwtve-LY and has to date attracted over 150.000 viewers.
Nickel has a multitude of recordings to his name encompassing the R.Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto with both the WDR Symphony Orchestra and the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (canTUBAllada), Tuba Obsessions (Tuba Solo), Orchester Finalisten (Asko Ensemble), Nessun Dorma (Belgian Brass Soloists), Jazzpana- Grammy winner- (Vince Mendoza and the WDR Big Band), aus dem leopardizyklus(Ospald) and new in 2018 a Bernstein CD together with Wayne Marshall. In the spring of 2020 he will be making a film for Arte of Stockhausen's Tierkreis. canTUBAllada was titled 'essential listening' by the London Sunday Times. Visitors to the German cinema film "Der Führer" will recognize the unique sound of Hans Nickel on the film sound track.


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In four weeks from today, many of the greatest minds in credit management will gather at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas at CreditScape, the 2014 Western Region Credit Conference.
1. NEW TO WRCC: Top-notch presenters and program moderators, including Chris Kuehl; Steve Zipkoff; Lisa Wright, Esq.; Rita Jo Schilling; Steve Ragow; Romelio Hernandez; Andrew Edlefsen; Bob O'Brien; Kelly Brockway; Joyce Simas; Ross Cirrincione; Lee Clutter, CBA; Tracy Rosenbach, CCE; Jennifer Walsh, CCE; Elissa Miller, Esq.; Michelle Herman and Diana Crowe.
2. As the Credit Industry keeps changing, lots of information has changed since last year. Keep current on the latest trends in credit management.
3. With the economy going global, CreditScape offers a bigger focus than ever before on international issues.
4. New Industry Huddles provide a forum to network with credit managers in the Construction, Food and Technology industries.
5. Sessions "tracks" include fundamental credit principles, legal, international, collections and finance to help make it easy to pick your conference schedule.
6. More than 10 new topics/sessions that have never been featured at this event before!
8. "Fly Me to the Moon" Event on Thursday night offers a fabulous reception at the Moon nightclub for all registered conference attendees. The Moon is a sultry penthouse nightclub with one of the most spectacular architectural features in Las Vegas – a massive retractable roof that opens up to provide a mind-blowing view of the stars above. Located at the top of the Palms Fantasy Tower, Moon's dramatic, surreal environment is truly out of this world. Come play among the stars!
9. CreditScape is still the only conference of its kind on the west coast, offering credit education to credit managers by credit managers at an affordable price.
10. The venue (The Palms Hotel) is new too.
I hope to meet you in person at the conference!


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Fly Kathmandu/Paro by Druk air A 319, the only national carrier. The flight offers you beautiful view of mountain and landscape. On arrival and after visa formalities you will be received by ITT members. Afternoon / evening time at leisure. Overnight Kichu Resort or similar.
Visit the ruined fortress of Drugyel dzong which still attracts visitors due to the strategic location of the fort. The fort defended the Paro valley from the Tibetan invasion from the north in the early 17th century. On clear weather Mount Chomolhari 7320 meters can be seen towering over the dzong. Proceed through the beautiful valley to the watch tower or locally known as Ta-Dzong. It was housed into the National museum in the 1960s by the third King Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The seven floors museum highlights various aspects of Bhutanese culture and history dating back to the 7th century. A short walk downhill to the Rinpung Dzong which serves as the administrative center and school for monks. Walk further down crossing the traditional bridge into Paro Town. Evening drive 1 and 1/2 hours to Thimphu (54km). Overnight at Hotel River view or similar.
Morning visit the Painting school, National library, Royal goldsmith workshop and Handicraft centers. Afternoon drive 3 hours to Wangduephodrang crossing the Dochula pass 3100 meters. On fine weather you will see the eastern Himalayan ranges including the highest mountain in Bhutan Mt.Gangar Punsum 7520 meters. The drive from the pass is all the way downhill dropping to the lower and warmer valleys of lobesa. Visit the Wangduephodrang Dzong from outside and the market area. Overnight at Wangdi Kichu Resort or similar.
Drive almost 6/7 hours crossing 3 passes over 3000 meters. The route offers magnificent views of the Himalayas and beautiful landscape through scattered hamlets and forest of rhododendrons and pine. After one and half hours from Chendebji Chorten arrive at a small town known as Trongsa meaning new village. The town mainly consists of fresh Tibetan refugees but the most impressive of all is the Trongsa Dzong. The whole of eastern Bhutan was con trolled from this fortress during the mid 17th century. Visitors are not allowed inside the building. Proceed another 2 hours to Bumthang visiting the Chume weaving center. Overnight at Mountain lodge or similar.
Drive back to Wangduephodrang. Overnight at Wangdi Kichu Resort or similar.
Drive 3/4 hours to Paro via Punakha and visit the Dzong . Lunch at Thimphu and drive to Paro visiting the oldest building in Bhutan, the Simtokha Dzong. It now serves as a Buddhist university. Overnight Kichu Resort or similar.
Day hike to Taktsang monastery. Horses can be arranged with an extra cost. The hike which is all the way uphill takes about 3 /4 hours through villages and pine forests. The monastery clings to a huge granite cliff 800 meters from the Paro valley. It is believed that the great saint Padmasambhava came in the 7th century on a flying tigress and meditated in a cave for 3 months. The demons were subdued who were trying to stop the spread of Buddhism and converted the Paro valley into Buddhism. During the end of the 17 century a monastery was built on the spot where the saint mediated and it is a pilgrimage site for every Bhutanese to visit once in their life time. Stroll back to Resort. Evening at leisure. Overnight Kichu Resort or similar.


I'm in the process of moving to LED and have made a significant investment in HUE. So far my review is mixed. The lights are nice and I like the ability to have color, but Phillips app and control is a bit lacking.
1. In CQC do you have to control everything by individual light, or is there a way to combine for group control?
2. How many devices do you run on a single hub?
3. How are you controlling lights across multiple hubs if/when not doing so through CQC? The Phillips app requires you to switch the hub connection before you can control the associated lights.
4. In CQC I see a field for scene that is R/W, but not sure how you would control a scene without a group or room. Says it is enumerated with the default hue scenes, but how do you make use of this?
5. Does the CQC driver support motion sensors and switches? Does not appear to.
6. Any other advice or thoughts from users who have experience with the Hue system and integration to CQC?
Sorry if this has already been discussed. I didn't see any recent threads.
I think that the reason we didn't add motion sensors is because of the horrible way the Hue API is implemented. It's a strict REST API, so it's purely polled. And every poll gets everything, and there's a lot of info associated with each device. So, in order to get any sort of quick response to a motion sensor change, we'd have to hit it a few times a second, and it's pulling over the entire database of device info every time.
It's a completely stupid API and they couldn't have possibly done any research before creating it. We would completely overwhelm the device once you started getting any significant number of devices on it. It's bad enough just for lights and taps. We have to poll just to see taps.
I guess the argument could be made that we are pulling over everything anyway, why not make use of it. But I'm not sure it's really viable to load it up and try to use it with an automation system that needs low latency responses to changes. I know some other folks started having problems with it seeming to max out.
I complained about this really bad design years ago, but nothing has been done to fix it to my knowledge. It wouldn't be hard to do.
For the scenes, you just write the scene name to the field to set that scene. It gets those names from the list of scenes configured in the Hue.
Thanks for the quick response. Okay, I quickly just tried some tests with the scenes to see how that might work and getting some odd behavior.
Since everything is setup by rooms, I cleared all scenes from one room and created a test scene that just turns on (green) for that room. I named the scene CQC and then restarted the driver to force a refresh on the enumerated list. I could then write "CQC" to the scene field, but this resulted in every light turning on. It also did not result in the test room lights turning green. I believe every light in the house went to it's last on value.
I'm not sure how this is supposed to work. For a moment I thought you could have multiple rooms setup with the same scene name and it would set each room accordingly. I'm assuming CQC is just sending the scene name to the hub, and letting the hub do the work, correct?
It is just sending the scene name to the hum. I don't know about multiple rooms with the same scene name and what that implies via the control protocol. I added this at the request of some other folks, so maybe they'll see this and respond as to how it works for them.


Joey Lynn Resciniti | Author: #IWSG: Character names or book titles?
#IWSG: Character names or book titles?
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What's harder for you to come up with, book titles or character names?
BOOK TITLES! I have just the worst time thinking of a title. For instance, my first novel was originally titled, Marty Unmedicated. Then it spent a while being called Six Days on the Fifth Floor. I still sort of like that second title. And I've never gotten completely used to having the nonsense word "hondo" in my book's title. It is explained in the end and gives you one of those "ah ha" reader moments, so I feel moderately confident I picked the right moniker.
My second publishing effort, Magic Ear Kids, was somewhat easier to name. I thought for a while I would call it She's a Magic Ear Kid. After all, I only have the one kid and "kids" leads a person to believe my experience is more extensive. A quick trip to the Google revealed the search string "magic ear kids" leads back to my hearing loss blog. The name followed the Internet presence. If I was going to call my collection of stories about parenting a child with hearing loss by a different name, I should have thought of it ten years ago!
My work in progress is currently named "No Title."
Character names seem to pop up in my mind with no effort. I tend to write mostly composite characters made up of several of the people around me. I give the character a name that's most like the main influencer in the fictional version of reality I've created. For instance, if a person that I most modeled the character after has a common name found in the Bible, I'll just pick a different common name found in the Bible for the fictional character. Mom of two kids with normal names that are spelled weird? There are lots of weirdly spelled normal names! It's a system that's been working.


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Michael Anti (Jing Zhao) is a Chinese journalist and political blogger, known for his posts about freedom of the press in China.
Born in Nanjing, Anti became famous when Microsoft deleted his blog at the end of 2005. His case made headlines around the world and contributed to ongoing debates about the role of Western companies in China's censorship system. Anti himself, while angry at the deletion of his blog, argued that the Chinese are better off with Windows Live Spaces than without it.
Anti has broad experience with both American and Chinese journalism. He worked as a Researcher at the Beijing Bureau of The New York Times. He graduated from Nanjing Normal University in 1995, where he majored in Industrial Electrical Automation, but turned to newspapers in 2001. He has been a Commentator for the Huaxia Times, Correspondent of the 21st Century World Herald, War Reporter in Baghdad in 2003, Researcher at The Washington Post's Beijing Bureau, Columnist for Southern Metropolis Daily, and Publisher of the Far and Wide Journal. He is a recipient of a Wolfson Press Fellowship at Cambridge University and the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.
Is Xi Jinping Redder Than Bo Xilai Or Vice Versa?


Sheldon was born in Geelong, Victoria and was was three years old when she began taking weekly Tap and Theatrical Jazz classes. Upon moving to Perth in 2004, Sheldon began at The Dance Collective at the age of 9 and has trained in Hip Hop, Heels, Jazz, Contemporary, Jazz-Funk, Burlesque and Dancehall. Sheldon has performed in many TDC concerts, performed at corporate events for Variety of WA, RAC, WA Fireball, and HBF as well as competing in Hip Hop International 2017 and representing Australia in the 2016 World Supremacy Battlegrounds Championships with Public Crew.
Sheldon is passionate about teaching dance and loves to build a positive and enjoyable environment for all of her dancers.
Sheldon has a Bachelor of Science: Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology from Murdoch University, and is currently working towards a Masters of Teaching, due to graduate Mid-2018.


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In which… ah, the hell with the classy headings. Kick his ass, Utena!
Click here for an explanation of the watch party, and an invitation to chime in with your own thoughts (Tumblr tag: #Utena Watch Party).
For Returning Viewers, Vrai's episode analyses are here for your reading pleasure:
Episode 11: Gracefully Cruel – The One Who Picks the Flower
Episode 12: For Friendship, Perhaps
And my newbie-friendly commentary is below the jump.
Notes from Next Door
This commentary assumes you've at least seen the episode(s) under discussion. It occasionally hints at future events or calls attention to recurring themes, but will be free of specific spoilers unless otherwise noted. As a reminder, please be courteous to newcomers in your comments and mark all spoilers as such.
Opening Chatter
Okay, but seriously, 13-Year-Old Me: Why did you like Touga? Like, I REALLY liked him the first time I watched this series, and now I can't for the life of me figure out why. Maybe I should blame it on his voice actors (Takehito Koyasu and Crispin Freeman). I had crushes on both their voices (yes, dammit, you can have crushes on voices) as a young 'un, so it's possible those feelings of affection just carried over. Or perhaps it's as Vrai states in their own analysis, that:
It's the natural impulse to look at a character's role in the story, compare it unconsciously to other stories that have had the same sort of role, and forgive them in the name of how things will end. In other words, 'it's alright that he's a jerk now, because eventually he'll totally realize he was wrong all along and fall for the heroine.' (Gracefully Cruel – The One Who Picks the Flower)
So maybe I had just fallen into the trap of the fairy tale/romance story conventions and was so busy waiting for Touga to "see the light" and become a Proper Prince that I brushed aside his current callous, manipulative behavior. Granted, I still find him fascinating as a character, because I appreciate crafty antagonists and trope deconstruction, and also because his motivations are still so opaque and his past so closely linked to Utena's that I'm curious to see more about it, but… likable? Nope. Nuh-uh. No, sir.
I kinda get the feeling the other characters in the series are starting to feel the same way. Miki and Jury are clearly unsettled by Touga's machinations—for all their flaws, these two do have a sense of propriety and an honor code of sorts. Like Touga, they're in contact with "End of the World" and have a better understanding of the "game" than the other duelists, but unlike Touga, they've never been willing to use that knowledge against others. Seeing how he treats Nanami, Utena, and Anthy, Miki very nearly has a breakdown during a StuCo meeting, and Jury even helps Utena, supplying the sword that ends Touga's short reign.
My favorite image during these final two episodes is the balloon parade floating past the StuCo meeting when Touga first reveals a few of his plots to his two closest allies. The StuCo imagery up to this point has been primarily of collusion, unity, and basic trust: An apple split and shared, cards laid out on a table, even Miki posing so Touga can throw knives at his outline. Here, though, the imagery is scattered, individual balloons floating away in opposite directions, hinting at the rifts that are forming between the three StuCo members.
There's a second idea here of "Icarus flying too close to the sun," I think, an image that is punctuated by the sound of a popping balloon that ends the scene. In Episode 11 it seems that the one flying too high, destined to take a fall, is Utena; by the end of Episode 12, it seems more likely that it was the arrogant, cynical Touga, or perhaps even the student council itself.
Utena's Castle in the Sky
The big question throughout these two episodes has to do with both Anthy and Utena's motivations and their understanding of (and relationship to) one another. Is Anthy truly just a reflection of her "fiancee's" desires and wishes—and if not, then what version of her is the "real" Anthy and what version(s) are protective masks? As for Utena, I think the questions here are twofold, and they're the two questions posed before all of the duelists: (1) What do you believe is in the castle, and (2) who is Anthy to you?
I'll come back to Anthy in the next section, but for now let's focus on our protagonist. First, the castle. I think the big question for Utena throughout this season (and perhaps throughout the entire series) is what does she really want: To meet her prince, or to be a prince? Or, as Ikuhara puts it in his Episode 11 commentary: "Why did she want to become a prince? Who was it who wanted to become a princess?" When Utena harnesses the "power of Dios," it's an image of a prince who imbues her with the power of a prince, suggesting that she still believes her strength and nobility comes from a force outside herself, a "manifestation of her power channeled through the ideal of the prince" (Vrai, Episode 11). And, when she thinks Touga might be that prince, she starts to wonder if her journey is over, if she's found the goal she sought. So she hesitates, and loses.
The thing is, while Utena does "take back" her role as prince by the end of these episodes, there's still the question of whether this is because she recognizes that Touga is not the prince she's searching for, or if it's because she's come to understand her own goals and values. I think it's a little of both but moving toward the latter, particularly given that she fights Touga in the girls' uniform, suggesting that she is moving away from her rigid previous notions of what makes a "prince" and what makes a "princess." Even without her princely attire, Utena is still strong enough to not only challenge Touga, but also to beat him (with a little help from Anthy, that is).
From Ikuhara again, this time regarding Episode 12:
A "prince" is "someone who can exercise power."
What is that power for?
I stopped seeking to be sought after. That wasn't being true to myself.
I want to become "someone who can exercise power." I want to become a prince.
–For friendship, perhaps.
Now, as for Utena's relationship to Anthy. We've talked at length during the other duelist's episodes about how they each see the Rose Bride and how easily they all (even Miki) fall into the trap of using her as a reflection, a stand-in, or a "key" for something they want rather than seeing her as a person. While Utena certainly treats Anthy as more than just a walking doll, she's also guilty of this as well, as "defending" Anthy allows her to become the prince who rescues princesses. Of course, she's only rescuing Anthy if Anthy truly wants to live as an "ordinary girl," which may be why it's so important (for Utena) that Anthy admit this herself. As Vrai notes when Utena tells Touga that Anthy hates being the Rose Bride:
Anthy's features are conflicted, and it looks as though she might even speak. But Utena is impatient, and rather than helping Anthy find her voice she shouts opinions over her, asking for nothing more than a 'yes.' While to Utena's mind it's freeing Anthy from her prison, it's truly just conforming her to a different set of standards without Anthy herself having any say in the matter.
And that is a child's idea of saving someone – that if they would just do what you say, then they would be much happier. We see Anthy realize it as well – the struggling answer she might have made is put away in favor of a bland face and the answer her fiancée wants to hear… Utena is like any of the other duelists at this point. She wants to 'save' Anthy because she enjoys the feeling of having someone who needs her, because it pushes her closer to what she believes a prince should be. (Gracefully Cruel – The One Who Picks the Flower)
As much as I love Utena (and how can you not?), she's not a perfect protagonist by any means, and she's as guilty as the other duelists of shoving Anthy (and herself, to be fair) into boxes that fit her idea of what the world "should" be like. By the end of Episode 12 I'm not sure we've come to any real conclusions about this belief system, and about whether Utena might be changing her mind or not. True, she challenges Touga so that she can "take back" herself, not the Rose Bride, and this is great, because it suggests she's moving away from this idea that her worth lies in being "princely"—that is, in living and fighting for others.
But how does Utena feel about Anthy when this is all over? She's seen Anthy parrot first her words and then Touga's, suggesting that she really does just feel however her fiancee tells her to feel. The fact that Utena fights for herself and not for Anthy even implies that Utena may believe Anthy is perfectly fine following Touga around. I'm not sure we're supposed to be clear on this just yet (there are another two cours left to explore this central relationship, after all).
What is important, though, is that Utena may have at least realized that she was foisting her own wishes onto Anthy—trying to make her into someone in need of rescue and protection. Into a "princess." And hopefully recognizing that will encourage Utena to change the way she both views the world and interacts with Anthy, shifting away from ideas of princes and princesses and moving more towards equality and mutual understanding, to asking Anthy what she wants, rather than simply telling her.
The Rose Bride's Reflection
Sometimes I get stuck on bits of imagery. One of those (as you may have noticed from my Utena/Jury discussion) are the reflections and mirrors prevalent throughout this show. We see them often in the dueling arena, such as when Anthy is reflected in the sword pulled from her chest (at an angle that is not, by the way, physically possible for it to actually be her reflection), but also in water, windows, mirrors, and so on. In these two episodes, I think we see reflections used both literally (a person's actual reflection) and structurally ("mirror" scenes) to give us a hint of how Anthy might actually be feeling, and to suggest that she might not be the hollow echo Touga believes (and, admittedly, I sort of believed my first time watching, too).
In Episode 11, when Utena and Anthy are hanging out in their dorm talking about their picnic lunch, Anthy glances down at her teacup. She stares at a reflection of herself in the tea and confesses to Utena that she wishes she had more friends. Now this is right after Utena sort of pushes the idea of "more friends" onto Anthy, and given the way the episode ends (with Anthy proclaiming that she's happy being the Rose Bride and doesn't need friends), it's tough to say for certain if this is an echo or a truth.
But in Episode 12 we see a similar scene: Anthy and Touga having tea together. The scene is a mirror of the one from the previous episode: In that one, Utena is facing and engaging Anthy in conversation, while here Touga is turned at an angle, his attention consumed by a phone call. Again the "engaged" talks to Anthy and again Anthy agrees with what they say—but here, here, when she glances into her teacup, there's no reflection of herself gazing back. It's an empty mirror, void of Anthy herself.
And okay, yes, it's pretty obvious that Anthy isn't happy with Touga during these episodes. But what these mirror scenes do tell us that I think is so important isn't how Anthy feels with Touga, but how she feels with Utena: That she may actually be allowing herself to slip out from behind her mask at times, and act not as an empty, reflective surface, but as a girl longing for personal connections.
"My sort of normal"
We've reached the end of the Student Council Saga and my mind is officially a noodly mass of metaphor and character analysis, so rather than try to end on anything exceptionally profound, let's just end with personal reactions. More to the point, let's end with Wakaba, a.k.a. The Best Character In These Two Episodes. From Vrai, who nails it:
Wakaba's actions in this episode are the perfect model of how Utena should've reached out to Anthy, presented without commentary or even knowledge on Wakaba's part. Wakaba doesn't tell Utena how to feel; instead, she begs her friend to open up to her about what's wrong, to discuss it with someone for emotional support or some kind of input. She won't let it go, no matter how Utena seems to want to push it under the rug, because she's so distraught over how withdrawn and miserable her friend is. She won't let her disappear or hide.
And she doesn't tell Utena what to do – she reassures her that she's loved, that she's supported, and tells her to take 'it' back. Not 'go back to the way you were,' but 'find the thing that makes you happy again, because that's critical to who you are.' Wakaba's unnerved, no question, and she fumbles through all this in a typically adolescent way by fixating on the uniform (a physical mark of all the difficult, intangible emotional things that she can't quite put into words), but her concern is honestly for Utena's wellbeing over her own (even when it gets her slapped, even when saying those things risks Utena not wanting to see her anymore). That's friendship. (For Friendship, Perhaps)
My favorite conversation in these episodes has to be the one between Utena and Wakaba under the rose wall, for all of the reasons Vrai notes, but also because of Wakaba's insistence that "normal" is a relative term. Utena has been throwing around that word "normal" (Japanese: futsuu) since the first episode (remember how she insisted that she was a Totally Normal Girl?), without ever trying to define it. You can't, really, something that a lot of kids struggle with during middle and high school (I know I did), trying to "be true to ourselves" without alienating ourselves from those around us.
If we're lucky like Utena, we'll find someone who loves us for who we are, someone who knows that a mask of "normalcy" would be far stranger than whatever "weirdness" we might display when we're being open and honest. Wakaba is that kind of friend, a girl who knows what Utena's "normal" looks like and loves her for it, and is there to help her find that normalcy—perhaps we should drop that stupid word and instead call it "happiness"—when it seems she's lost it. There's a lot of darkness in Utena, more so as the series progresses, so these simple yet profound moments of genuine love and friendship are vitally important, both for the characters and for us at home.
The Party Continues
Thus Endeth The Marathon! Now that I'm all caught up with Vrai, I'll be posting single-episode commentary the Sunday after they post their Friday analyses. Vrai takes a week off at the end of each Nozomi disc (about every four episodes), so I'll be following suit. That means no post this Sunday, but we'll both be back the week after with Episode 13: "Tracing a Path." It's a recap episode, but that doesn't mean there won't be plenty to discuss.
In the meantime, you've still got a week to join the Watch Party and get all caught up in time for the upcoming Black Rose Saga. I encourage everyone to join in with whatever stray thoughts and personal reactions you might have. Utena is a huge story with a lot of worthwhile talking points, and any additional opinions are heartily encouraged.
Until then, go forth, smash some shells, and steer clear of any runaway kangaroo boxers. See you next week!
Next -> Episode 13
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In November of 2016, Josh Kuiper from the Grand Rapids Prosecutor's office made a serious mistake. He allegedly drove while heavily intoxicated. After driving the wrong way, his automobile crashed into a parked car and then knocked down a pedestrian before he finally stopped. Luckily it appears there were no serious injuries. Three Grand Rapids officers responded to the incident and appeared to discuss 'passing him on sobriety'.
One of the responding officers, Matthew Janiskee, discussed his wife Monica Janiskee as well. Mrs. Janiskee is currently an assistant prosecutor in the Grand Rapids office. When presented with concerns that his wife might dig into the case, Janiskee responded that she won't, because he would get "pissed".
Grand Rapids City Manager and Police Chief have both responded to this recording with disgust, adding that they hope the people understand that this is not regular police behavior and that they also hope that this incident will not make people lose faith in the police department. To that we say, good luck.
This incident happened to be caught on tape. Imagine how many similar incidents have likely occurred, that never saw the light of day. The police and prosecutors are NOT on your side. They will look out for each other at your expense, every. single. time. Don't let their tricks cost you your freedom. Get yourself a Former Prosecutor now!


KEL-TEC's new 14+1 pump-action shotgun should be on the market by years end. Visit their webpage for more details and other available firearms. And here is their lastest update on bogus auction listings. Video review by GunsAmerica. More reviews at; Defense Review, GunBlog.com and Shooting Illustrated.
Ron Paul describing our 2nd amendment rights.
And please watch this great clip of Ted Nugent going off on Piers Morgan on CNN. Ted wasn't going to have ANY of his nonsense and misinformation. There's no way you can watch this without laughing. Classic Ted at his best...dealing with a liberal anti-gunner. CNN has diabled embedding so I had to put this up as an external link. Click here to view on YouTube. ENJOY!
A story was recently posted on Facebook that grabbed my attention, about a Senator that supposedly shot an intruder. That wasn't the story though. It was the fact that he was anti-gun...and used a gun to defend himself. A hypocrite? Well, people quickly jumped on the thread and started hammering this guy as such. So, I did a little digging and found that the story that Smart Girl Politics had posted on their website was, in a nutshell, false. While it's important to defend our gun rights, it's also important to shoot down any misinformation that others may spread, regardless if it was intentional, or by accidental oversight. Fact is is that this Senator had been rated B+ by the NRA, and before he retired it was upgraded to an A rating. The story was posted on Dec. 12, 2010, yet the original story, and incident, happened in August of 2009. I've provided links below for you to view yourself, and, I also forwarded this information to SGP and asked if they would remove the story, or at least update it. Several email addresses were used but I have yet to get a response back. I'd also like to note that the person who posted the story on SGP, Paula Tyler, was recently 'reinstated' to the Tennessee SGP, as described on her profile page in an April 10 entry.
This story also appears on Field & Stream's website with a date of 02/14/11. I sent an email to multiple addresses and have yet to get a reply and the story is still posted.
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Video is an important tool today. And if presented correctly it can make a far greater impact on the message one's trying to convey. Videos can show you proper gun cleaning and maintenance, the right firearm for your hunting or self-defense needs, safety instruction, the latest technology available, someone testing the gun you're considering to buy, or even, sorry to say, improper use of firearms. Yes, sometimes we need to see someone being stupid to appreciate the extra efforts of being safe. No matter what you're looking for...I'm sure there's a video of it!
Residents in the U.S. state of Lousiana are fighting for their right to defend themselves. Police confiscated their guns after hurricane Katrina struck five years ago. It was an attempt to keep order amid the looting and violence which followed. But as Priya Sridhar has been finding out, many in the state are still angry over what THEY believe was a violation of the constitution.
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This clock, by the NRA's Member's Councils of California, details the death rate of firearm homicide's and compares it against other fatalities. The attack on our Gun Right's will never end and we must all help educate those that fear firearms due to the mainstream media's exhaustive efforts to keep gun ownership in a negative light. With virtually everyone having a camera or cell phone these days, isolated incidents get immediate attention and the public is fed their dose of horror. Disarm America and they enslave the world. Click here to view the clock in action.


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LONDON (AP) — Julian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, has tweeted President Donald Trump on Thanksgiving, appealing to him to pardon the WikiLeaks founder.
Moris posted a photo of their two young children on Twitter Thursday and wrote: "These are Julian's sons Max and Gabriel. They need their father. Our family needs to be whole again."
"I beg you, please bring him home for Christmas," she added.
Assange, 49, remains in a high-security British prison cell as he awaits a judge's decision about whether he can be sent to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
Moris said he has been confined exclusively to his cell for over a week because of a coronavirus outbreak on his prison block.
Assange attended four weeks of an extradition hearing at London's Central Criminal Court in September and October. The judge overseeing the case said she would deliver her decision on Jan.4.
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Some of us minimalists like fewer but quality things with simple designs that aren't over the top. Often times, minimal headphones designs are great for listening to music on the way to work without standing out like a sore thumb!
The JVC HA-S20BT Flats Wireless fit the minimal headphone design compromise plus they have a snazzy, understated look with good sound quality across the sound spectrum.
The earcups on the HA-S20BT Flats Wireless have a swivel design similar to the JVC HA-XP50BT Xtreme Xplosive Wireless on-ear so you can lay them flat for transportation. Even better is the weight, they only weigh 96 grams making them ideal for when out-and-about.
The JVC HA-S20BT Flats Wireless feature Bluetooth 4.1 (class 2) and support the SBC codec, which is an audio codec similar to aptX that enhances the audio quality over Bluetooth. There is virtually no difference between SBC and aptX when it comes to audio transmission.
The latency is higher with the SBC codec though but that is only an issue when gaming where you want audio and video syncing without lag. With that said, the HA-S20BT Flats Wireless are not gaming headphones so lagging audio is not an issue.
Talking about audio, the sound quality is brilliant with plenty of volume available on demand. As well as the volume, you can skip tracks and answer calls via the integrated 3-button control on the right earcup thanks to Bluetooth profiles A2DP, AVRCP, HFP and HSP.
The earcup buttons, which are tactile and responsive, blend nicely with the sleak, semi shiny black finish.
The earcup padding is cushy and comfortable, sitting comfortably on your ears without discomfort. The headband can be adjusted and has the right amount of clamping force and a small curvature at the top to prevent hot spot on the top of the head.
The micro USB port is located also on the right earcup, next to the microphone pinhole. Charging the rechargeable battery built-in the HA-S20BT Flats Wireless takes 2.5 hours and lasts between 9 and lasts 11 hours on medium/high volume.


It has been slightly over a month since the release of OpenMW 0.42.0. If you look back to when 0.41.0 was released, you'll see that it took us 8 months to deliver the new version, making it perhaps one of the lengthiest releases in our history, yet in its size it isn't that different from preceding versions.
That is not to say that OpenMW developers have been slacking off, however. Or that during the course of those 8 months we had much less progress. The reason for this delay was that our video editor's computer broke down at a rather unfortunate and inconvenient time. When discussing whether the release should be done without including a video, the decision was made that we would halt the release process until hardware issues were solved. After all, if anyone wants to play the up to date version of OpenMW, they needn't wait for the release because they can use our nightlies, which we have recently made more visible by including them in the downloads page.
The good news is that while the release process was in limbo, work on the next version had already started and by the end of it had reached a point where we almost had enough to release version 0.43.0 the day after 0.42.0. At the time of this writing, we are sitting at 85 closed issues, making this release already larger than the previous. Check out the bugtracker for more detail.
A little more than a month ago we also saw the release of TES3MP version 0.6.0 and more recently a stability patch 0.6.1, with the next version possibly landing very soon at mid-September. Since TES3MP is built upon the OpenMW engine, we received part of the media attention and had a burst of new developer applications afterwards.
With new people on the board, there has been increased increased interest in improving our code documentation. One of our new coders is looking into possibly extending the .OSG animations or making it possible for OpenMW to read more than just Morrowind's version of .nif files. Scrawl has released his incomplete experiments with shadows and an old member by the name of AnyOldName3 is trying to get them working, though he urges me to include that there's no guarantee he'll succeed. In addition, we've had the return of Aeslywinn, who in the past did some great work on OpenMW-CS and is back to continue where he left off.
A new feature of his that's already been merged with OpenMW gives modders the comfort of being able to reload assets in OpenMW-CS without having to close and re-open the program. His next undertaking seems to be land records, which would be a step towards being able to edit landscape, the main missing feature in OpenMW-CS.
While we have enough issues closed to produce a rather sizable release, no call for the release process to start has been made yet. After all, we just released 0.42.0 only a brief time ago. It is likely that the upcoming version will be bigger than usual and will arrive in about two months, with the mentioned land records and other features currently being worked on possibly included. Overall, areas that remained stagnant a few months ago are now getting visible development and things are looking good for the OpenMW project.
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Thanks for the great update DestinedToDie. Welcome back to those who have returned and welcome to those who are new. Thank you everyone as always for all the work you do.
60+ issues are remaining on 0.43 at the time of this post - I'd say that it should be released when all of them are done. Unless it's critical, no new issues should be added into 0.43 and instead shifted to 0.44.
This is not how version have worked in the past.
Most issues listed in the 0.43 have been inherited from previous versions.
We have somme bugs thare are here since 0.30 and are listed currently in the 0.43 bug list and will probably not be solved before 0.43 release.
The standard way here is to add new issues to the last unreleased version (so currently 0.43) until the release process start.
Hi, I've just started playing OpenMW after the release of 0.42.0 and I wanted to thank and congratulate you guys for the progress you've made on this. In the past I've tried to get into Morrowind without much success, but the stability of your engine combined with the luxury of enjoying an extremely performance friendly implementation of distant terrain has made it very easy. I look forward to your future releases and give you my best wishes.
Hey guys it is possible to add more shurtcuts to the game? e.g. loot all like in TES-V by pressing key "R"?
"Loot all" is [Enter], but I'd also like to know if there's one for "Hide Corpse" or for "Cancel". I know that you can right-click out of containers, but it would be good to extend that if possible to enchanting, alchemy and so on.
Anything is possible for openmw my friend.. that should be simple enough to implement. but lets focus on the important ones first.


Since launching in 1979, the Cozy Coupe has established itself as one of the most widely recognised children's toys of all time, having sold over 22 million units to date.
One of the most popular cars of all time, there have also been Princess and Royal editions along with Black Cab, Yellow Car and Police Car variations.
In the Northeastern Ohio town of Hudson, a Little Tikes Cozy Coupe is manufactured every minute of every day, 50 weeks a year.
As more and more toy cars become electronically powered or branded with car logos, the Cozy Coupe has remained traditional throughout and this is something Little Tikes attributes to the iconic vehicle's success.
"The Cozy Coupe is an iconic toy for a very good reason. Children the world over have adored it from its conception back in 1979 to today and those parents and grandparents who have loved the Cozy Coupe as a child will almost inevitably want to provide their children with the same toy that gave them so much joy," Rachael Springett, marketing manager, Little Tikes at MGA Entertainment tells ToyNews.
"The fact that the toy is still going strong over 30 years is testament to the entertainment it offers children, staying relevant and fun for at least two or three of their most formative years.
"This longevity is extended further, with Coupes often passed down to younger siblings or friends, meaning it often stays a part of the household for over a decade.
Little Tikes puts the enduring success of the product down to the different ways it appeals to both adults and their children alike.
"The brand's credibility and heritage gives parents a peace of mind, and trust in the durability and safety of the toy, making it a very high value for money toy," adds Springett.
"For the little ones, it's the simple fun of driving their own car, having the freedom and the pleasure of getting about under their own steam to explore the world around them and copying what they see mummy and daddy do so often for real.
"This a toy with an immensely impressive heritage that leads to endless consumer demand as fans grow up and become parents and grandparents themselves." So, 2003 saw the ten millionth Cozy Coupe sold, 2009 was the 30th anniversary and 2013 has seen something special to celebrate the car's fame.
The dream of big kids everywhere could soon be coming true: an adult-sized Cozy Coupe.
"To celebrate the news that the Cozy Coupe is still the best selling car in the UK – wildly outselling the Ford Fiesta as the UK's most popular car – and to belatedly celebrate its 30th anniversary, we decided to go big on the celebrations," Springett explains to ToyNews.
"So big, in fact, that it would require months of dedicated craftsmanship, design skill and the know-how of a dozen toy and engineering experts. We decided to fulfill the dreams of many a grown- up and create the world's first, Giant Coupe.
But, Little Tikes warns us not to get the wallet out just yet.
It may look simple, four wheels, a steering wheel, horn and roof, but the design of the Cozy Coupe has been key to its enduring success.
"Designed with a removable platform to protect little feet and a parent grab handle for pushing in the early days, the Coupe has a high back seat and storage in rear for those sunny picnic trips to the park," continues Little Tikes' Springett.
The car came from a mechanical background, with the design being the brainchild of a Chrysler designer.
The car's design, described as a 'cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and Fred Flintstone's vehicle', was created by Jim Mariol, who had worked as a designer at Chrysler in the USA. The Coupe became Mariol's greatest 'coup' in a career that spanned over 50 years.
And let's not forget, in this age of electric cars and low- emission zones, the Cozy Coupe is unrivalled in its tiny carbon footprint.
"Powered by little legs, the Cozy Coupe boasts impressive rocking-horse-power and a significant low-end torque.
"It also runs on a variety of extremely eco-efficient fuels including milk, juice and biscuits," adds Springett.
In May 2012, following requests from parents around the country, Little Tikes launched the Cozy Coupe Club in the UK.
"This offers parents the chance to add personalised number plates to their little one's car," explains Springett.
"The fact that there are already 2,666 members show just how quickly this taken off.