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I've got a Tricaster 460 running the AE2, and my boss wants me to start doing live sports productions streamed online. I'm looking for suggestions/reviews of 3rd Party graphics solutions like Character Works, Vizrt, Nixus Celio, NewBlue Titler, and NSport.
I've virtually no experience with live sports, so I probably have a lot of blind spots in terms of implementing a solution that will work seamlessly in a live environment. Can anyone who's used a few of these products chime in with their opinions of the strengths and weaknesses of each?
Anyone have any advice for what to look for and what to avoid in a graphics solution that will be need to be run by a small team (possibly even just me running the graphics and the tricaster at the same time)?
You should probably also add Compix to your search (www.compix.tv).
To add to your confusion, there are also a plethora of free software packages.
You might want to check out Caspar CG, pretty well known for their titling and animation software (www.casparcg.com).
Obviously, going forward, any software that supports NDI gets a gold star, too.
I would suggest that you make a list of must have on the graphics front and them match up the providers. Basically what is most important to you.
I lucked out and had a company with a very solid package provide me one for free in exchange for some referrals and testing.
I will warn you that some of the higher end graphics solutions come with no pre built templates or very few. If you are looking for a turn key solution for sports you may want to look at Graphics Outfitters. The new Virtz partnership also looks amazing! Character Works has a solid product but they don't offer a full turn key solution. You would have to build each package from scratch or pay someone to do it. I looked a NewBlue Titler recently and like everything about them except for their turn key packages are a bit too flashy for me. I also wanted something I just could auto adjust columns and rows for chart style graphics like stats.
As mentioned, find one that does NDI. Another thing to look for is to find someone that can handle data link. It makes things much easier that way. You can build one lower 3rd for each team instead of say 100 for each football team. Even the regular Tricaster graphics can support Data Link now and they have some packages available for a really decent price.
Radio_TVPat1982, to your point. I guess my biggest need is the ability to pull real-time score and clock information so that I don't have to do it manually and risk displaying information that disagrees with the score keeping on the field/court/mat/whatever. I'll be covering mostly city league, highschool, and local non-collegiate or professional sports. I'll be travelling from small venue to small venue and most of them have their own score boards. Some don't have anything. I'm not worried about doing a little design work to make the graphics pretty or to match whatever brand I want. It's more important to me that when we go live the solution just works.
I've been told that most scoreboard systems are daktronics systems most of these graphics solutions mention that they work with Daktronics but I haven't seen anyone explain how the integration works. Is it a simple USB connection out of the daktronics board into a machine running graphics software? I imagine there is more to it than that. Also, what if one of these schools has some other off-brand scoreboard system. does that rule out the whole possibility of pulling data from the scoreboard?
With that in mind, I'm curious what others have to say about how they would handle this situation.
Just to follow up on answering your question about getting data in to your graphics from the score board. You are correct that most but not all boards are Daktronics. You will find some especially at the lower levels that are not even a brand you have heard of.
You will need a device that turns the data out the board and makes it readable in your graphics software. These boxes are typically called score bots. There used to be only one or two companies that made these now there are a few more. Sportzcast, and Graphics Outfitters I know both offer a box. You want to find a flexible one since you will be moving from site to site. Also know there will be some cable and network setup needed for these to communicate.
There is also one other solution that can be used and that is OCR (optical character Recognition) software. This basically takes a clock cam and the software can read the score and convert the data and send it down the line. It has some advantages and disadvantages. In a pinch it could work it you cant match a board. This however will not feed stats and things like that.
If you want things like real time data from stats you have to link that data to the source it is coming from. Say for instance if you are doing a D-I football game you can pull you stats from stat cast. One last note is that you can take this stuff straight in your Tricaster now a days if you have AE. Tricaster supports data link. Like the other graphics solutions you will need to set it up to work.
If possible it is normally best to go out a day ahead of time to setup the different feeds. From past experience it can go south quick.
Ok. To add to this discussion.
I have been following both Character Works and NewBlue Live FX for about a year and have seen important updates over the last versions of each software.
I need to purchase one very soon and have narrowed it down to those two.
New Blue Live 3 broadcast seems easier to use and Character works seems to do everything and more (Love the independent video control) but looks like it might be a hard learning curve to master.
NDI and macros use is critical.
Does anyone have any real work experience in both of these to point out some pros and cons?
Excellent NDI integration AND macro support.
Lots of templates that you can work with to start and modify, as needed.
Also, don't know if it's part of your requirements or not, but NBT has a very nice integration with social media, too, pulling live content from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.
I haven't worked with Character Works so can't compare.
Support for NBT is also good, I had gotten questions answered and issues resolved quickly.
Also, it was a pretty painless setup and was off and running fast.
PS Anyone reading this, we're thinking about our next TriCaster Chicago/Midwest users group meeting in mid-July.
I purchased CharacterWorks in August 2017 with the Live Input Capture and Secondary Output options. It was for a hockey arena. I felt that the learning curve wasn't too much of an obstacle. My largest hurdle was creating a timer that worked with my Daktronics timer and was able to auto-play a horn when the timer reached zero. I emailed for support and was given an answer pretty quickly but still could not figure out the small line of code I needed to write. When I reached out for more assistance they created a custom video tutorial for me that showed the exact steps I needed to take. I was very happy with the customer support response time. Keep in mind though that support is only through email.
Do you plan to send live video to the CharacterWorks machine?
I have used NewBlue Live for about 2 years. It has powerful features and plenty of pre-built templates. The templates are not really well designed. My biggest complaint with the software is trying to change a template.
The user experience for creating templates is terrible (IMHO).
For example, moving, sizing and positioning items on templates is painfully tedious. (It reminds me of software from the early 80's.) . The cursor doesn't respond well. It's hard to select the correct layer and settings for effects are on multiple tabs, which is slow. I work a lot with After Effect and Photoshop. There you can grab a layer and move it easily. If you expect this program to function as easily as those, you'll pull your hair out.
The other thing I dislike is the way it saves files. Not very user friendly. You end up with stuff all over the computer is you are not careful.
Woeful ... <-- your mileage may vary.
An inexpensive solution is SimpleSupers.com. It's an app for Windows that uses PowerPoint as a character generator. Build your titles in PowerPoint, activate the app, then advance your slides with key and fill from your display. It generates an alpha channel for use with your production switcher upstream or downstream keyer.
It's all cloud based and so no software downloads or additional hardware required.
It is currently free and I understand they are working on NDI integration at the moment.


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By Danna Elmalah, Student Nurse, The Netherlands.
Today I woke up feeling absolutely sick. In the past I would have felt miserable and inefficient, because I could not 'do' anything. I used to only feel like I was 'worth something' if I was doing things. The more things I was able to do, the better I felt about myself, but once I was not doing anything I felt worthless and unhappy. But this time around I do not feel that any more; I have noticed that when my body is sick it is actually telling me something… and that when my body speaks to me and I am listening, all that 'I can do' seems to matter less and 'who I am' starts to mean more. Now, being myself is way more important than what I can do.
The Big C – why me?
We all know what the phrase 'the Big C' means – it is a way of saying cancer without using the word cancer. I recall hearing it when I was growing up, people whispering it to one another that, "so and so has the Big C" – the feelings of fear, trepidation and worry were palpable. Even though as a young child I initially didn't know what the Big C was – I knew it was something bad, terrible, to be avoided at all cost if possible, there was a sense of finality to it and the smell of death hung in the air. It didn't seem to matter which particular big C you had – they were all cloaked with the stench of illness, disease, decay, sickness, bodily destruction and death. Even in the medical world, the word cancer was often avoided in the past so as not to induce such fears in the patient and euphemisms were used like 'growth' or 'ulcer' without revealing the true diagnosis.
The depth of fear around the Big C was and is huge – people instantly equate the C word with death, but not just death, it is a death that is considered to be slow, painful, miserable, full of sickness, sadness, a failing body, losing weight, having chemotherapy and its side effects like losing hair – of losing one's bodily functions perhaps and being dependent on others for help and support in a way that we never think we will need to be. And the reality is that cancer can wreak havoc on the body and all of the above can be part and parcel of the journey with cancer – and suffering of one kind or another, be it physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual is a common experience for the cancer patient even with all the advances in palliative care, medicine and surgery. Yet all these medical advances focus more on the physical aspects of the disease and to some degree, but usually less so, the psychological and emotional components, with very little, if any, addressing of the spiritual dimension.
Yet many people with cancer struggle with the 'why me' questions: what is the meaning of this cancer, this life even? Why do I have cancer now, at this stage of my life? Is there a reason? Is there a purpose to it? Is it a punishment? Is it God's will? The existential angst that arises through a cancer diagnosis is huge but often goes unaddressed and unanswered, especially in a way that is truly healing.
Dementia – what is really going on?
Having worked with many dementia patients in the past, and especially whilst working in a secure unit specializing with aggressive and violent dementia patients, I naturally began to look deeper into the causes of this distressing illness.
Often at the hospital where I worked we saw the same scenarios – a person who once had a respectable work and family life ending up living many of their days in a padded cell, because of the danger they presented to themselves and others.
What on earth takes over these once fully functioning, aware human beings?
What possesses these people to act in such ways?
I have wondered if there is more at play here than we currently acknowledge.
To lose a friend or loved one through suicide is traumatic for all who are involved. A few years ago a close friend of mine committed suicide and the ripples are still felt today. From time to time you review past conversations with the person, wondering what signs might have been missed and if more could have been done.
There is rightly much effort placed on understanding and preventing suicide, but what is unclear to me is why these efforts focus on only one form of suicide.
It would seem that most of suicide prevention focusses on the 'acute' cases; the cases where someone makes a choice, on some level, to end their life in an abrupt way.
Calling it a choice is not intending to minimise the anguish some people feel in the lead-up to that choice; in fact, contemplating the level of anguish one must be feeling to reach that point, helps me understand the choice all the more.


Justin Trudeau is the latest world leader to intervene in the UK's referendum on the EU and back a "remain" vote. The Canadian prime minister warned there would be "nothing easy or automatic" about negotiating new trade deals if Britain broke away from Brussels after the 23 June ballot.
"There's nothing easy or automatic about that [negotiating a deal], so I think there's a bit of an oversimplification of the story happening there," he told Reuters. The Liberal Party leader also argued that the UK is stronger and more influential on the world stage.
"More unity is a path toward greater prosperity. We have a great relationship with a strong and united Europe and certainly hope that that continues," he added.
Trudeau's intervention is notable since Canada is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and comes after Barack Obama came out against a Brexit during a visit to the UK in April.
The US president warned that Britain would be at the "back of the queue" for a trade deal with his country, explaining America is hoping to decide on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the EU.
Maybe some point down the line there might be a UK/US trade agreement, but it's not going to happen any time soon because our focus is on negotiating with a big bloc, the EU, to get a trade agreement," Obama said.
Japan's Shinzo Abe, Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Australia's foreign minister Julie Bishop have also intervened on the side of remain. Brexit campaigners hit back at the interventions by claiming Obama and Abe would not accept losing the same amount of sovereignty the UK has to as a member of the EU.
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The latest online opinion poll from YouGov, of more than 1,600 people between 16 and 17 May, put remain four points ahead of leave (44% versus 40%), with 12% of respondents undecided.


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GALLIPOLIS — As previously reported, the Gallia Grand Jury recently indicted Alfred Cordell, Jr., 47, of Bidwell with third-degree felony abduction and first-degree felony kidnapping.
According to municipal court complaint paperwork, around March 5, the Gallia Sheriff's Office received a 911 call and conversations could be heard in the background. Dispatchers reportedly could hear a woman pleading for her life and begging to not be stabbed. Gallia deputies found the residence in the Bidwell area and reportedly had to forcefully enter the structure as they were denied entry.
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I have been craving simpler foods lately, and lots of veggies. Maybe it is the onset of warmer weather which makes me want warm, heavy, comfort foods less ... or maybe it is seeing everyone's Whole30 photos on Instagram. Or, maybe it is what feels like an overload of sweets - after basically eliminating sugar from our lives completely, we had quite a bit of sweets on and around Raffa's birthday.
Whatever the reason, fresh, simple foods are sounding the best and the first two recipes here are right up that alley.
I just bought this spiralizer so that I could make zucchini noodles. And add a creamy avocado sauce, yes please!
Now, I may have eliminated sugar from my life but I still like to satisfy my "sweet tooth". I have been doing so with homemade goodies or simple desserts like yogurt and fresh fruit. I made these cookies yesterday, and they are delicious! They are easy and I feel much better about feeding them to John, Raffa, and myself because they are simply almond butter, coconut sugar, an egg, baking soda, cocoa powder and chocolate chips. They taste like the chocolatey-ish brownie ever, though.
After snow this past week, this weekend is supposed to be gorgeous weather. I am so excited to spend some time outside going on walks, going to the park, and going to a BBQ. Have a great weekend!


Roberto ''Juri'' Camisasca was born in the small town of Melegnano in 1951.His career is straightly linked with famous Italian composer Franco Battiato,with whom he is been collaborating since mid-70's.Reasonably his musical preferences were close to the avant/experimental style of Battiato.This fact was taped on Camisasca's debut ''La finestra dentro'',released on Bla Bla in 1974.Here Camisasca is helped by Battiato on synths and various musicians from Battiato's crew on the instrumental section,as well as Aktuala's percussionist Lino Capra Vaccina.
The album has nothing to do with Classic Italian Prog sound,yet it sounds quite progressive for the time,falling into the Experimental Rock section written in a singer/songwriter style.''La finestra dentro'' was arranged more for the sake of Camisasca's vocal experiments and less for any compositional ground,so it is a work heavily based on singing and whispering with music only as a background.There are plenty of instrumental diversity with various keys,piano,violins,acoustic guitars and strong percussion parts,some passages are even interesting,however all this stuff is sacrified for Camisasca's vocal exercises,which are of course interesting but very boring along the way.Influences come from Avant-Garde field,Italian Folk and Rock,but we will have to wait till the long ''Il regno dell'Eden'' for some really good music.This track is still very poetic and lyrical,but there is a nice musical approach with shifting moods and changing climates,from synth-driven passages to dreamy folsky parts and back.
Camisaca's story is really interesting from now on.He released a couple of singles and was a member of Avant-Garde supergroup Telaio Magnetico around 1975,but then he entered the Benedictine convent for over a decade.By late-80's he returns to discography again in the experimental field,continuing his collaboration with Battiato even in the new milenium as well as other Italian bands like PFM on ''Serendipity''.
''La finestra dentro'' is an album with little to no actual interest for a fan of Progressive Rock music or Italian Prog.It comes very strictly recommended only to those interested on weird vocal experiments under background music or anyone into obscure experimental material.


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I sometimes wonder if we might inadvertently use art as an escape instead of a way to connect. We want to sort of numb ourselves to the stresses in our lives. Instead, we could tap into our imagination. The mission of Creativity is to connect us with the whole. Using our mind to connect with a work of art or with nature serves us individually by lowering our blood pressure and relieving stress. It connects us with the transcendent nature of art too, whether it's a meaningful song or a poignant movie. We share in these experiences, sometimes with friends and family, which connects us to one another. Next time you find yourself being soothed by a beautiful ballad on Spotify, or lose all track of time during a Netflix binge, take note that you are touching the transcendent properties of Creativity.


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The first Christmas that Jennifer Behm met Kathryn Smith's parents, Smith knew she'd found a keeper.
The two met in April 2010 at the since-closed Marietta gay bar LeBuzz and hit it off immediately. They began dating and have been together ever since, but until 2015, marriage wasn't a serious consideration.
After Behm praised the resilience of her soon-to-be-fiance, their friends and family flipped over posters to help her ask for Smith's hand in marriage.
"One of the first things I did was to tell our parents of my plan because I knew it would be a difficult pill for all of them to swallow. Two very traditional southern families with gay daughters who want to get married, but oh wait — they are also two different races. They weren't easy conversations, but it was the right thing to do, no matter the outcome," Behm said.
Behm proposed in May 2016, and the two tied the knot last October.
However, it was during their vows that Smith's emotions almost got the best of her.
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It wasn't just joyful tears that filled their perfect day. There were plenty of comedic moments, too.
She said the most important advice she has for upcoming brides and grooms is to enjoy themselves, because the day will fly by.


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I bought the deluxe JLA starter box that comes with the "better" bag and in my first game second time using the bag it ripped and but a big enough hole in the bag that the dice fall out of it. Does anyone have any experience with Wizkids customer service? Do you think they would send me a new bag?
I quickly replaced mine. Dice bag is the weakest of the components.
In the long run you're probably off buying a nice quality dice bag.
The dice bag works best for storing rule books in my pack, it's rather inadequate for the intended use.
My hand actually won't fit in the bags that come with the starters so in order to play I have to crush the bag to get to the Dice. I was able to pick up the bags that Wizkids branded around when UXM came out and those are nice.
I got some bags from ArtCow when they had their 10 for $20 sale (a monstrous savings; their usual prices are pretty nuts- the discount came to @ $150). It took a few weeks for them to arrive, but I was fully satisfied with the final product. I used images of varying quality & resolution (mostly below their recommended specs), but they all looked very nice. The material is very thin, sateen-like microfiber. I'm not sure how well they'll hold up with heavy use, but they should do well for DM play.
If they have another sale like that, I might have to order another batch- they're definitely worth the $2 sale price (but way too expensive at regular prices- especially with their insanely high shipping).
I now want to make a Ninja Turtle Dice Masters set.
Does anyone actually use the dice bags that come with the starters.
I do. I'm still using the one from my DnD starter. Its like a soft cloth in consistency now, but still holding up strong. I feel like it's earned it's place, and until it fails me, no tyvex left behind.
I find it humorous that my tyvex Batman wallet has withstood three years in Tucson heat and is still going strong but the dice bags go down pretty fast. I have noticed most of the problems involve the community not being able to reach into the smaller bags, bottom line invest in some nice cloth dice bags you won't regret it. I prefer my Fantasy Flight Tentacles bag.
Jimmy from Wizkids said he actually is a fan of them at some point on the Nationals recordings. He also hinted that WK has something in the works regarding the bags.
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I've been talking about this since I started playing HeroClix 4 years ago.
I got another mat while I make this one, but I'm definitely going to make a Ninja Turtles template.
I don't even know what to do with all of my dice bags.
@pk2317 totally hooked me up and I got the 10 bag for $20, I also got a code to share so if anyone else is interested use the code ZCRAYSALEB7Y56 to get the 10 for $20 pouches on artscow.com. Such a good deal!
My daughter makes them and has made quite a few over the last year. I really like the quality, but of course I am a bit biased!
I have 2 bags made by IsaacBV's daughter and can vouch for their quality.
Can we see what they look like? I am intrigued!


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Q: Elastic search fuzzy query unexpected results I have 2 indices, cities and places. Places one has a mapping like this:
{
    "mappings": {
        "properties": {
            "cityId": {
                "type": "integer"
            },
            "cityName": {
                "type": "text"
            },
            "placeName": {
                "type": "text"
            },
            "status": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "category": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "reviews": {
                "properties": {
                    "rating": {
                        "type": "long"
                    },
                    "comment": {
                        "type": "keyword"
                    },
                    "user": {
                        "type": "nested"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

And City is index is mapped like this:
{
    "mappings": {
        "properties": {
            "state": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "postal": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "phone": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "email": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "notes": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "status": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "cityName": {
                "type": "text"
            },
            "website": {
                "type": "keyword"
            },
            "cityId": {
                "type": "integer"
            }
        }
    }
}

Initially we had a single document where cities had places embedded but I was having trouble searching nested places array so I changed the structure to this, I want to be able to search both cityName and placeName in a single query with fuzziness. I have a city including the word Welder's in it's name and also the some places inside the same location have the word Welder's in their name, which have a type:text. However when searched for welder both of the following queries see below don't return these documents, a search for welders OR welder's does return these documents. I am not sure why welder won't match with Welder's*. I didn't specify any analyzer during the creation of both the indices and neither am I explicitly defining it in the query can anyone help me out with this query so it behaves as expected:
Query 1: index = places

{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "should": [
                {
                    "match": {
                        "placeName": {
                            "query": "welder",
                            "fuzziness": 20
                        }
                    }
                },
                 {
                    "match": {
                        "cityName": {
                            "query": "welder",
                            "fuzziness": 20
                        }
                    }
                }

            ]
        }
    }
}

Query 2: index = places
{
    "query": {
        "match": {
            "placeName": {
                "query": "welder",
                "fuzziness": 20
            }
        }
    }
}

Can anyone post a query that when passed a word welder would return documents having Welder's in their name (should also work for other terms like these, this is just an example)
Edit 1 :
This is a sample place document I would want to be returned by any of the queries posted above:
{
   cityId: 29,
   placeName: "Welder's Garage Islamabad",
   cityName: "Islamabad",
   status: "verified",
   category: null,
   reviews: []
}

A: Using your mapping and query and fuzziness set as "20" I am getting document back. Fuzziness: 20 will tolerate 20 edit distance between searched word and welder's  so even "w" will match with "welder's". I think this value is different in your actual query.
If you want to search for welder or welders and return welder's then you can use stemmer token filter
Mapping:
PUT indexfuzzy
{
  "mappings": {
    "properties": {
      "cityId": {
        "type": "integer"
      },
      "cityName": {
        "type": "text"
      },
      "placeName": {
        "type": "text",
        "analyzer": "my_analyzer"
      },
      "status": {
        "type": "keyword"
      },
      "category": {
        "type": "keyword"
      },
      "reviews": {
        "properties": {
          "rating": {
            "type": "long"
          },
          "comment": {
            "type": "keyword"
          },
          "user": {
            "type": "nested"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "my_analyzer": {
          "tokenizer": "standard",
          "filter": [
            "lowercase",
            "stem_possessive_english",
            "stem_minimal_english"
          ]
        }
      },
      "filter": {
        "stem_possessive_english": {
          "type": "stemmer",
          "name": "possessive_english"
        },
        "stem_minimal_english": {
          "type": "stemmer",
          "name": "minimal_english"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Query :
GET indexfuzzy/_search
{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "should": [
                {
                    "match": {
                        "placeName": {
                           "query": "welder"--> welder,welders,welder's will work
                        }
                    }
                },
                 {
                    "match": {
                        "cityName": {
                            "query": "welder"
                        }
                    }
                }

            ]
        }
    }
}

Result:
[
      {
        "_index" : "indexfuzzy",
        "_type" : "_doc",
        "_id" : "Jc-yx3ABd7NBn_0GTBdp",
        "_score" : 0.2876821,
        "_source" : {
          "cityId" : 29,
          "placeName" : "Welder's Garage Islamabad",
          "cityName" : "Islamabad",
          "status" : "verified",
          "category" : null,
          "reviews" : [ ]
        }
      }
    ]

possessive_english:- removes trailing 's from tokens
minimal_english:- removes plurals
GET <index_name>/_analyze
{
  "text": "Welder's Garage Islamabad",
  "analyzer": "my_analyzer"
}

returns
{
  "tokens" : [
    {
      "token" : "welder", --> will be matched for welder's, welders
      "start_offset" : 0,
      "end_offset" : 8,
      "type" : "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position" : 0
    },
    {
      "token" : "garage",
      "start_offset" : 9,
      "end_offset" : 15,
      "type" : "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position" : 1
    },
    {
      "token" : "islamabad",
      "start_offset" : 16,
      "end_offset" : 25,
      "type" : "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position" : 2
    }
  ]
}

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Unrestrained lunacy
John Boehner emailed his accomplices this afternoon that:
Discussions are underway on legislation that will cut government spending more than it increases the debt limit, and advance the cause of the balanced budget amendment, without job-killing tax hikes. Those talks are moving in the right direction, but serious issues remain. And no agreement will be final until members have a chance to weigh in.
The opportunity for sarcasm is too on-the-nose. I'll pass.
Meanwhile, the Senate's GOP leadership is breathing a political sigh of relief that was unimaginable just a few days or even a few hours ago. Said Mitch McConnell, with remarkable justification, on CBS's "Face the Nation":
I don't think we've been hurt at all.
And here's a fascinating possibility. Through a coalition of conservative Democrats and giddy Republicans, the GOP's extortion of course sails through the Senate. Yet the House Tea Party Caucus (who all along have insisted they'll vote against any increase in the debt ceiling) votes in negative alignment with infuriated House Democrats, thereby constituting the death of the deal. Whereupon the GOP, given its far superior messaging skills, delightedly relates to the American electorate that it was Congressional Democrats who precipitated what would then be a materialized default.
Things cannot get any weirder than they are -- and at this grotesque point, no speculation is unthinkable. American politics is now defined only by unrestrained lunacy.
Posted at 01:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)
High Noon and the Tea Party Gang
Today's drama will have little to do with the contemptible debt deal under discussion, as outlined by a cheerful Mitch McConnell moments ago on CNN's "State of the Union": about $3 trillion in discretionary cuts, a joint congressional committee to recommend future slashing, a bogeyman "trigger" device to frighten each side into earnestness, a "mechanism" that allows Congress to vote in delight against an inexorable second-stage ceiling lift, and, of course, "no tax increases" -- in other words, a wholly intoxicated attempt at deficit reduction.
No, the real hijinks of our disintegrating and already dysfunctional democracy will commence around high noon, as mild-mannered Marshal Will Kane, played by mild-mannered Nevadan Harry Reid, faces off, on behalf of 300 million quivering townfolk, with Frank Miller's Tea Party Gang, recently populated by such ideological thugs as the wily Rand Paul and revoltingly glib Mike Lee.
From The Hill:
Leaders will have to rely on the goodwill of every member of the upper chamber to agree to unanimous consent to speed legislation through the Senate in time to make the deadline.
[A] senior GOP aide said members of the Tea Party Caucus ... would not drag out the floor procedure to delay a deal sanctioned by Democratic and Republican leaders.
Yes, we've grown accustomed to associating "goodwill" with "Tea Party Caucus," so there's no reason to suspect any pending skulduggery from those fine fellows (but we can hope, see below).
The same goes for their degenerate compatriots in the House, where any extortion legislation passed today will then head, possibly to save us all (?) in the nick of time.
But I repeat, I would have preferred no deal at all; I would have preferred a week or two of unremitting Economic Hell -- in which outraged townfolk would torch these swinish goons out of their air-conditioned styes and back onto their respective floors for a clean vote -- to the purgatorial salvation of ideological miscreants. Who, if successful in today's legislative designs, will be back, bigger and badder than ever.
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An insult to fraggees
If memory serves (and if any military historian out there knows better, please advise) I recall reading somewhere that during the Vietnam war the highest percentage of U.S. casualties suffered by rank was that of lieutenants; one reason being that a significant portion of these junior officers were shot by their own troops -- "fragged" -- who rather understandably objected to being ordered into suicidal environments. (It was for this reason that my oldest brother, who flew helicopters then and there as a warrant officer, Darwinianly declined a promotion.)
Of course it wasn't the lieutenant's keenest desire to order those poor bastards into combat. However the finer points of military command tended to muddle themselves as the stark horror of wading like a neon target through some godforsaken rice paddy settled distressingly in ass-drafted minds. The lieutenant was only following his own orders, yet ...
Right. Not fair. Not fair at all.
And that's why I resist Kathleen Parker's "fragging" metaphor in her column today:
If the nation defaults on its financial obligations, the blame belongs to the Tea Party Republicans who fragged their own leader, John Boehner.
Speaker Boehner was following no superior's orders yesterday. He was saving his own neck. In the U.S. House he's both a general and commander in chief, and if Boehner possessed any political blood uncontaminated by contagious cowardice, he would have gone down fighting rather than poltroonishly coddling his troops.
Boehner wasn't fragged. He just let himself be pushed -- in craven retreat.
Malignant rodents
From The Hill, the understatement of the week: "[S]ome veteran Republicans worry their party could be seen as intransigent."
Note the use of the conditional, which only amplifies the hilarity of the yeomanly euphemism of "intransigent" for sadistic, venomous, and mad as a hatter.
Yet how many "veteran Republicans" are cited? What number of worried and worldly old bulls does The Hill reveal to be brooding about their party's demonic descent?
Two -- one, George Voinovich, is retired from the Senate, and the other, John McCain, recently made a flagellant appearance at the Church of Hannity to renounce his impetuous heresy.
Otherwise, Republican sentiment -- which I can only assume is a prevailing sentiment, given the paucity of outspoken dissidents, not to mention recent events -- persists in the infantile notion that governance is merely a who's up, who's down political game. A former John Boehner and Mitt Romney adviser, for instance, clearly sees the biggest of all essential pictures: "President Obama has the most to lose here because he's presiding over the chaos." (Insert "tee-hee").
Which ironically brings us to the inescapable argument that Republicans, in this momentary question of political gamesmanship uber alles, are profoundly correct.
In ordinary, responsible and sane times, one would sanely be writing to one's congressman or senator or praying to one's god that such a crisis as this be averted. But this era of Republican "intransigence" is neither ordinary nor responsible nor sane -- indeed, what Republicans have wrought are extraordinary times that call for insanely extraordinary measures: a full-spread national swan dive straight into the roiling economic Styx, after which a spiritually cleansed electorate will most assuredly march to the polls with cathartic dynamite in mind and blow these Tea Partying Radical Rightists straight to hell.
I see no other way but the absolute worst of ridding ourselves of these malignant rodents.
Forcing Obama's hand
A rather stunned Sen. Kent Conrad just reported on "The Last Word" that Mitch McConnell has informed Harry Reid that he intends to filibuster the Reid proposal. Needless to say, this maneuver collides with any workable solution to Congress' self-imposed debt crisis prior to the default deadline.
I repeat my earlier speculation that congressional Republicans may be intentionally forcing President Obama into what the House will later maintain, in impeachment proceedings, was a usurpation.
From earlier today:
It may be that congressional Republicans privately have removed brinksmanship from the table; that their revised plan is to ensure that no default-avoiding bill, under any circumstances -- not even their own -- shall emerge from Congress; and that a guaranteed default will thereby force President Obama to reluctantly exercise the Constitutional option next week, thus creating the grounds for another year-long distraction: impeachment.
They've now left our solar system
We are way, way beyond mere political polarization. House Republicans can't even see Earth from wherever they are. It's expected that Iowa's Steve King would appear, as he did moments ago on MSNBC, to reeducate us about a default not really being a default, or that Tennessee's Marsha Blackburn would have appeared earlier to deny that Speaker Boehner's plan yesterday wasn't actually "in trouble."
But this, from The Hill, suggests a whole new plateau of abject, otherworldly self-delusion:
Despite vows by the Senate to defeat Boehner's plan, many House Republicans, including Boehner, had thought a strong vote on the Speaker's initial debt measure would have forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to accept the plan and send it along to President Obama [italics mine].
Impeachment may be the objective
This thought does occur.
It may be that congressional Republicans privately have removed brinkmanship from the table; that their revised plan is to ensure that no default-avoiding bill, under any circumstances -- not even their own -- shall emerge from Congress; and that a guaranteed default will thereby force President Obama to reluctantly exercise the Constitutional option next week, thus creating the grounds for another year-long distraction: impeachment.
Deprogramming Brooks
I'm enjoying the unseemly, internal, and rather lop-sided spat at the NY Times, mostly because of its unseemliness. It would appear that Paul Krugman has decided he has a readership of one: David Brooks.
As the latter inches farther away on the lunchbench from his increasingly lunatic associates on the right, he resists asking, unlike whom Andrew Sullivan labels as the "arch-Tory Charles Moore": "[I]s the Left right after all?" And Brooks' timidity drives Krugman nearly as crazy as the right is driving Brooks.
In his writing Krugman now resembles a diligent deprogrammer who's forever on the verge of breaking his Moonie-like charge, but can't quite get him to emotionally snap and blurt humiliated confessions of Wrong-Thinking. So Krugman has resorted to remote taunting, a kind of "You know who you are -- David."
Krugman, two weeks ago:
There aren't many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of so many people who have been in denial suddenly waking up and smelling the crazy.
So what's with the buzz about a centrist uprising? As I see it, it's coming from people who recognize the dysfunctional nature of modern American politics, but refuse, for whatever reason, to acknowledge the one-sided role of Republican extremists in making our system dysfunctional. And it's not hard to guess at their motivation. After all, pointing out the obvious truth gets you labeled as a shrill partisan, not just from the right, but from the ranks of self-proclaimed centrists.
Other examples abound, but you get the point. Such cattiness from the old grey lady. Unseemly? Sure. But it's a hoot.
Governance and ideology
"When the House takes action today, the United States Senate will have no more excuses for inaction," said Speaker Boehner, just prior to cancelling all essential floor activity for the day. Again.
They did however first rename some post offices, which for the GOP House is a remarkable feat of efficiency, discipline and organization.
Somewhere, Cantor is resharpening his fangs and reloading his venom sac. Well done, Eric. Bye-bye, Boehner.
It could be, John, that all of your weeping and sobbing and blubbering instilled something less than dread of reprisal in your juvenile-delinquent charges. Remember Niccolo's words: "[I]t is far safer to be feared than loved if you cannot be both." And if you never quite got around to reading the classics in political philosophy, surely at some point you've watched Vito exclaim: You can act like a man!
On a more serious note, all of this does bring to mind a fascinating scholarly article I once read on extremist right-wing government and bureaucracy. The author's model was a very well-known one, which for decades since has been grudgingly hailed for its ruthless efficiency (getting the trains to run on time, that sort of thing), so the academic writer/researcher decided to take a thoroughgoing, archival look at the government's actual, day-to-day operations. Turns out, because those in charge were little more than subliterate right-wing goons and gangsters, in reality they ran their government and its assorted bureaucracies very much as one might expect a bunch of subliterate goons and gangsters to run a government and its assorted bureaucracies. Things were a mess: calls not returned, letters not written, orders not given, conscientious follow-ups virtually nonexistent, critical decisions on all manner of exigencies postponed or forgotten -- all leading to a vast organization that teetered incompetently on collapse.
But by God they knew their ideology. It reigned supreme -- right up till its catastrophic, short-lived end.
The self-evident problem? Ideology is unsuitable for actual governance, which is all rather fussy and dull compared to the violent ecstasy of staging a revolution and brashly holding forth on utopian (or dystopian) ideals.
The latest McCarthyism
I have always found the most trenchant insight of McCarthyism's foremost historian, Ellen Schrecker, to lie in the concluding chapter -- "A Good Deal of Trauma" -- of her magnificent Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America.
As we assess the consequences of McCarthyism's assault on the left, we encounter a world of things that did not happen: reforms that were never implemented, unions that were never organized, movements that never started ... [and] questions that were never asked. We are, in short, looking at "might have beens" and at a wide range of political and cultural possibilities that did not materialize....
McCarthyism was only one of the many factors that made a new wave of reform unlikely. Still, for a few short years in the late 1940s, the American people had more political options then they would ever have again. McCarthyism destroyed these options, narrowing the range of acceptable activity and debate.
Put in another, shorter way, the crime of McCarthyism lay as much in what it subtly prevented -- socioeconomic progress -- as in what, and whom, it actively destroyed. That is, McCarthyism was an extraordinary national distraction of almost utter fabrication; it brooded, it raged, it preoccupied the country at a moment of enormous promise -- the extension of New Dealism -- and one is hard pressed to imagine that its timing was unwitting or coincidental.
I suspect that someday historians will look back on this Tea Party/Radical Right era as merely a variation on McCarthyism: the assaults on the left; the reforms stalled or killed; the questions never asked, since we consumed ourselves with the question of debt, "narrowing the range of acceptable activity and debate"; the unmaterialized political and cultural possibilities which a black, progressive president had potentially opened -- the Tea Party/Radical Right as "one of the many factors that made a new wave of reform unlikely."
I suppose there's an even simpler way to put it: The Right has always known how to press our buttons, and thus distract us from progress.
'Bye-bye [insert name here]'
Speaker John Boehner just appeared live to promote his "bipartisan" solution. Then Eric Cantor slithered to the mike to denounce the sinisterly partisan Harry Reid. Then Kevin McCarthy whipped around to decry the irresolute White House and applaud his noble, fairminded bosses.
And there you have it: the honorable House leadership.
When the vote occurs this evening, I just hope we see a replay of the 1993 budget vote; I hope as scatterings of Tea Partiers vote "Yea," their uncompromising colleagues yell, "Bye-bye [insert name here]."
Cold, calculating pragmatism: Dionne's centrism (I think)
E.J. Dionne's column this morning made my head spin. And as I tried, in my vertiginous state, to put my finger on why, I couldn't, really, because my problematic surroundings, erected by Dionne, were but reflections of semantics -- with which one can always do virtually whatever one wants (see, e.g., Socrates, QED).
Dionne pours the contrast:
Moderation in politics is about balance. It means believing in a vibrant and innovative private sector and a government substantial enough to do what the private sector doesn't, and it means enforcing sensible rules for economic competition. It means incentives for success, help for those making their way up, and security for the sick, the aging, the poor, the unlucky. It means balancing our love of individualism and our desire for community. This, in turn, means that reducing the budget deficit can't rely only on cutting programs. Yes, taxes need to go up.
And then he cements it:
Centrism is something altogether different. It's not a philosophy. It's a position based on calculation. It doesn't start with fixed principles. It measures where everyone else stands on some political spectrum at a given moment and then frantically adjusts.
All perfectly reasonable, right? Well it is, if you're of E.J. Dionne's elevated moderate temperament, which scorns unprincipled centrism. And therein lies the problem that I referenced above: Through the use of a couple of tame modifiers, I just radically reframed Dionne's definitions. It's a game we can all play: a modern conservative would scarcely define moderation or centrism in Dionne's way; and I myself, as a democratic socialist, would unquestionably define both of them differently.
To me, fiscal moderation implies a highest marginal tax of 95 percent on millionaires, a 100 percent estate tax on all those valued above a few thousand bucks, absolute equity in the financing of all K-12 schools, single-payer healthcare ... you get the point. To a genuine conservative (and by that I don't mean crackpots in Congress or cretins in tricorn hats), of whose counterarguments I confess a genuine if not paradoxically sympathetic understanding, my "moderation" makes me a crazed Menshevik; to notional Bolsheviks, I'd be a weak, abominable sellout of unmistakable reactionary tendencies.
So where does this leave us when it comes to defining moderation? Marooned.
Let's move on, then, to centrism -- which, after giving Dionne's working definition some thought, I'll argue that he's confused it with workable pragmatism.
Contrary to Dionne's centrism, pragmatism is a philosophy and, quite compatible with Dionne's centrism, it's a position based on calculation. It starts with fixed principles (from the left, for an Obama; from the right, for a Reagan) and then measures where everyone else stands on a given policy at a given moment and then frantically adjusts. The resulting product, usually, is something roughly midway.
But that's OK, because "midway" lies not far from either advancement to some pursued ideal or reversal from a retrievable mistake.
The trick is to move most everyone a bit one way or the other; the left's historical difficulty, however, is that because we're an organically conservative people, the right has always possessed an easier job of it.
The impossible dream: reasoning with a Tea Partier
In today's Washington Post, Judson Phillips, the Tea Party Nation's founder, stakes out his organization's historic commitment to ineffable ignorance:
We do not have a debt crisis. We have a spending crisis. There is only one way you get to a debt crisis — you spend too much money.
Let us review with haste: No debt crisis here, just a spending crisis; however we to got to this debt crisis -- the one he just declared nonexistent -- by spending too much money.
But let's review in another way, shall we? Let's say you, Mr. Phillips, have $100, and you spend that $100, perhaps imprudently, even recklessly. Do you have a debt crisis? No, of course not. You're just broke.
The crisis, Mr. Phillips, comes when you borrow $100 for a tax cut, and borrow another $100 for another tax cut, and then borrow another $100 for a new entitlement program, and then borrow another $100 for a war, and then borrow yet another $100 for yet another war.
And then you skip town, you retire, let's say, to Texas, on a government pension, and you leave your entire, misbegotten indebtedness to your unfortunate successor.
In a way, Mr. Phillips, you're quite correct. You don't have a debt crisis. He does.
You see, Mr. Phillips, we can quibble from now till next week's apocalypse about the wisdom of all your spending; we can argue and differ and do both rather violently about the fiscal smarts or ideological stupidity behind all of it; we can both haul out charts and graphs and think-tank propaganda to defend our respective positions -- but after all of that, one thing and only one thing will still be standing with a magnificent terribleness: We still owe all that money you borrowed.
This isn't like your world, Mr. Phillips, which is to say, it's not make-believe. These are real debts that we really owe. And beginning next month, unless we borrow more, we simply cannot repay them all. And that's called default, defined by Webster's as "a failure to pay financial debts."
Catch that, Mr. Phillips? Webster casts no moral or partisan or ideological judgment here; he doesn't on p. 300 of his tome point a finger at us and add: "because you spent too much money."
Pseudoconservatism's third partyness in the making
When even the Wall Street Journal's editorial board sees dangerous weirdness to its right, it's time to press Armageddon's pause-button and at least for a moment savor the procreation of pseudoconservatism's third partyness. The WSJ:
Strangely, some Republicans and conservative activists are condemning [Boehner's proposal] as a fiscal sellout....
The idea seems to be that if the House GOP refuses to raise the debt ceiling, a default crisis or gradual government shutdown will ensue, and the public will turn en masse against ... Barack Obama. The Republican House that failed to raise the debt ceiling would somehow escape all blame. Then Democrats would have no choice but to pass a balanced-budget amendment and reform entitlements, and the tea-party Hobbits could return to Middle Earth having defeated Mordor.
This is the kind of crack political thinking that turned Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell into GOP Senate nominees.
The likes of whom, along with the Bachmanns and Palins and Perrys, will be running again but as wholly irrelevant third-Tea-Party children, draining GOP votes but on the upside liberating that party from its present madness.
Behold, a return to two-party sanity, just as soon as our colossal nervous breakdown is over and the tea-party brats have been sent to their own sandbox.
The demonic Rick Warren
Straight from Christ's tweeting evangelical vicar, Rick Warren:
HALF of America pays NO taxes. Zero. So they're happy for tax rates to be raised on the other half that DOES pay taxes.
Unfortunately all too many of the first half DO -- to emulate the capitalizing Warren -- pay taxes, and I don't mean just payroll or sales taxes.
No, they witlessly pay a soul tax, euphemistically called a "tithe," to squalid religious demagogues like Warren, in the delusional belief that some god gives a good goddamn whether or not they've financially ponied up on Earth.
So keep tweeting and alienating the meek and poor, "Pastor" Rick, and perhaps thereby you'll reduce the sum or religious mega-ignorance.

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Schwarzenegger Month: Hercules in New York
Author capcomPosted on May 1, 2014 September 5, 2019 Categories Empty Balcony, Schwarzenegger Month, Shitty Movie Sundays
For no reason other than that I feel like it, I hereby declare this to be Arnold Schwarzenegger month at Missile Test. His Arnoldness has 54 acting credits to his name on IMDb. I'm going to watch a whole boatload of them and write some reviews. I'm looking forward to hours upon hours of explosions, gunfights, and rough accents. The first flick has only one of those, but it depends on which print a viewer manages to see.
Hercules in New York marks the debut performance of Arnold Schwarzenegger. What a gloriously stupid movie. Having watched it, it's amazing this man became one of the most famous actors of all time. Sure, everyone has humble origins, but I can't think of a star's early work being quite this humble. George Clooney had a role in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Matthew McConaughey was once in a shitty Texas Chainsaw flick. Paul Rudd was in an awful Halloween movie. Hilary Swank, she of the double Oscar, was once kicking ass with Pat Morita as The Next Karate Kid. But one thing these three all had in common was that there was budding talent on display in their bad movies. This movie, in no way, makes it seem that Arnold is a decade or so from making a run as a big time movie star.
The movie opens on Mount Olympus, in Zeus's garden or some such place. It's an interesting locale. The opening credits announce, almost proudly, that the movie was shot entirely in New York City. They weren't kidding. Zeus's garden sounds like it's about three blocks from the Henry Hudson Parkway. That's not this movie's only adventure with sound.
Arnold has an accent. We all know this, and have grown comfortable with his unique take on English pronunciation. But when this movie was filmed, he was still learning. I had an easier time understanding Bane than I did Arnold in this movie. No, just kidding. Bane was worse. But Arnold was still almost unintelligible, to the extent that the original cut of this film had his voice overdubbed. Not the cut I saw. I got to watch, and hear, Arnold in all his raw glory. Pay close attention and one can also hear the sound of the camera clacking in some scenes (something I cannot ever recall hearing in a movie before), and the sound of the camera operator walking on a creaky floor.
Oh, man. This film revels in cheapness in a way I never thought was possible. Zeus's lightning bolts are bent lengths of rebar spray-painted silver. I shit you not. I love it.
So, back in Zeus's garden, Hercules (Arnold) is arguing with Zeus, who is his father. It's been a while since he walked the earth, and he would like to visit. Zeus is against the idea, but in a fit of rage chooses to punish Hercules for his insolence...by sending him to earth. It's one of the most epic caves I've ever seen a parent make, but without it, there would be no movie.
Hercules finds his way to New York City, circa 1969. He befriends a local, Pretzie (Arnold Stang). Pretzie is the Chester to Hercules's Spike, his Ratso Rizzo to Arnold's Joe Buck, only not nearly as depressing. Because, unlike Midnight Cowboy, this movie is fun. Hercules in New York is a colossal piece of shit, but at no time does it take itself seriously. I think it's supposed to be a comedy, but I'm fine with it just being silly.
The plot, once Hercules reaches New York, is pretty thin. It's mostly just Arnold rolling around the city doing strong things. There are some mafia guys sprinkled in for drama, too. But my favorite scene has to be when Hercules wrestles an escaped bear from the Central Park Zoo. Only, you guessed it, it's just a guy in a bear costume. And by 'bear costume,' I mean something a furry would wear. Did I mention that I love this movie?
It's probably a good thing that the plot wasn't pounded home too hard. This isn't that tough of a film to sit through, but any weight would have made it quite a slog. It's a dog, but what else was it going to be? Alien: Resurrection is a better movie than Hercules in New York.
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When performing bank reconciliation, you compare your internal financial records against the records provided to you by your bank. A monthly reconciliation helps to catch and identify any unusual transactions that might be caused by fraud or accounting errors, especially if your business uses more than one bank account.
According to thebalance.com, to reconcile your accounts, compare your internal record of transactions and balances to your monthly bank statement. Go through each transaction individually, making sure the amounts match perfectly and noting any differences to investigate.
If you're familiar with balancing your cheque book, then you're already familiar with bank reconciliation. You're essentially doing the same thing for the same reason.
It's normal to see minor differences due to timing, including items that haven't yet cleared in the bank, but you should be able to easily explain those differences. For example, you might write a cheque to a vendor and reduce your account balance accordingly, but your bank will show a higher balance until it hits your account. These are also known as outstanding cheques.
Were legitimate cheques that you issued duplicated or changed, resulting in more money leaving your account?
Were cheques issued without authorisation?
Are there unauthorised transfers out of the account, or has anybody made unauthorised withdrawals?
Reconciling your account also helps you identify account management or administrative issues that need attention. For example, you might need to re-evaluate how you handle cash flow and accounts receivable, or perhaps change your recordkeeping system and the accounting processes you use.


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Tommy Herzog (born March 25, 1977) is a Swiss bobsledder who has competed since 1999. He won a silver medal in the two-man event at the 2007 FIBT World Championships in St. Moritz.

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Bobsleigh two-man world championship medalists since 1931
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1977 births
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"Oxes will be gored and it may just be that your ox is at the wrong corner of the field at the wrong time." Richard Dye, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois Chicago, on the severity of state budget cuts to come.
Prison and Youth Corrections Facilities Closing in Southern Illinois.
The Southern Illinoisan of Carbondale is upset with the closings of a prison and youth corrections facility in southern Illinois. A court decision suspending the youth facility closure led to the absurd situation of workers having to staff an empty building this week. "What's really needed and still possible is a decision by Quinn to suspend the closing plans through the state's current fiscal year," the paper says. Again, we reiterate, making cuts to the state budget will not be easy.
Why does Reboot Illinois exist?
ant Governor Richard Ravitch, is the most damning indictment of Illinois finances (and the political culture that brought us to fiscal disaster) we've read to date.
Read Crain's Chicago Business summary here.


Reason For Hope: Were animals vegetarians in the Bible?
Were animals vegetarians in the Bible?
According to this verse at the beginning of the Bible, it appears animals were vegetarians. This explains why there wasn't chaos onboard Noah's ark! They all wanted a salad, not each other.
But things changed, it appears after the ark and the flood.
Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
God tells man to eat animals.
Animals will fear man, probably because man will acquire a taste for them.
Man must not eat the meat raw, hinting at ancient Pagan practices.
Every man and animal must account for the life they have taken.
This is the first time we see that animals will eat other animals. All this to say, when God restores the earth back to its original state, establishing a new heaven and a new earth, animals will probably once again eat vegetables and fruit.


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The Best Festivals in Ireland
events & festivals, markets & shopping
Belfast, Cork, festivals, Ireland, Kerry, st patrick's day
Written by Victoria Philpott
One thing's for sure about the Irish – they know how to party. There's always some craic going on and when it comes to festival time there's so much craic you have to have a pint of Guinness to calm down. There's always some craic going on in Ireland, but these festivals are the chance to keep it all in one place. The Irish festival calendar is a hectic one, but here's the top festivals in Ireland not to be missed.
Belfast Festival
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The Belfast Festival started life as a university project for founder Michael Emerson who set up the then small event on the campus of Queen's University, Belfast. Now it's a huge music and theatre event attracting thousands of people every year. Past guests have included Jimi Hendrix, Dizzy Gillespie and Laurence Olivier.
The festival now takes place all over Belfast with events at the Botanic Gardens, Empire Music Hall, Ulster Museum and Mandela Hall among others. This year's events include a talk about Tartan Noir by authors Ian Rankin and John Gordon Sinclair and a dance by iconic choreographer Michael Clark, with music by Pulp's Jarvis Cocker. Tickets for the different events range from free to around £50.
Hostels in Belfast start at €7.65pppn.
Cork Jazz Festival
Since 1979 the annual Cork Jazz Festival has attracted hundred of music and jazz fans to play and watch in the city. You can catch the Jazz Train from Dublin or the Jazz Boat from the UK to make travelling to the festival all the more fun. Over 40,000 people take the trip every year and noted musicians including Ella Fitzgerald, Turk Murphy, Cleo Laine, Dave Brubeck and Gerry Mulligan have played. Last year Jean-Luc Ponty Quartet, Richard Galliano, Tim Minchin, the Harlem Gospel Choir, DJ Grandmaster Flash and the Bobby Watson All-Stars were just some of the musicians people were tapping their feet to.
The Cork Jazz Festival also has a monster food market in Patrick Street with live music and a circus show called Circus Squared where you can enjoy watching juggling, acrobatics and general circus style mayhem on the plaza.
There are lots of free events but some headline acts cost €30+ booking fee.
Book a hostel in Cork for just €11.20pppn.
Galway Arts Festival
With its riverside location Galway is a perfect setting for a cultural festival. There are 20,000 students at the city's university ensuring there's a youthful vibe in the city. But Galway still manages to retain its traditional charm with cobbled streets and narrow laneways. Last year more than 163,548 people attended and enjoyed at 160 performances, talks and exhibitions in 27 venues over 14 days. As well as the best of Ireland's talent the festival features the best in international theatre, visual arts, dance, talks, discussion and comedy.
It's a bit early for the 2013 lineup but previous years have seen David Byrne, Bon Iver, Blondie, Steppenwolf, Joni Mitchell and Henri Matisse take to the stage.
Hostels in Galway start at €9.99pppn.
Puck Fair, Kerry
August 10, 11, 12 2013
The Puck Fair in Kerry is Ireland's oldest festival. This year the festival is celebrating its 400th birthday! It's held without fail on the same days each year and gives locals and tourists hours of free entertainment every day.
There's a lot of fun to be had over the three days, I'll list a few but I'll have to take a deep breath: horse fairs, pipe and drum workshops, street entertainment, puppets, dancers, circus workshops, pipe bands, music, queen coronation ceremonies, fireworks, stalls, storytelling workshops, bonny baby competitions, fire shows, fancy dress competitions…
There are always a few headline music acts performing on the open air stage each evening – previous acts have included The Joshua Tree, The Driftars and Reverse. And of course, there's always plenty of drinking – the specially erected bars are open till 3am – there are also plenty of stalls to buy some genuine Irish souvenirs to take back home or even to wear at the festival.
Book a hostel in Kerry.
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Saturday, January 25, 2020 - 5:00pm PST
Starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Run time 136 minutes. Rated PG-13. Courtesy of Warner Bros.
Presented at the Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center, North Hollywood.
RSVP is not required for this screening.
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Starring Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Richard Schiff, Wendell Pierce, Richard Gunn and Danielle Brooks. Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Run time 113 minutes. Rated R. Courtesy of NEON.
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Q: D3.js reading data from csv file I tried re-implementing this chart I found online: http://plnkr.co/edit/5g4lUXnJa3pmWEfFq8rq?p=preview Basically, what I did was changing my x-axis to string instead of integer.
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    h = 500 - margin.t - margin.b,
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    y = d3.scale.linear().range([h - 60, 0]),
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But now I seem to have problem with the data plotting. The data currently is showing at my Y-axis only when it should display according to the strings that I have changed. See image here:


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