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Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years
Alvin Toffler burst into the limelight in 1970 with the publication of Future Shock, a book that caught the spirit of the age with its challenging vision of a society being torn apart by the 'premature arrival of the future'. It became a worldwide best seller. Since then, he and his wife Heidi (who recently owned up to her half of the creative effort and put her name on their books too) have published a string of influential books. The Third Wave (1980) and Power Shift (1990) form a trilogy with Future Shock. Each one and the Tofflers' most recent book, War and Anti-War, takes a different lens to explore the technological and cultural forces shaping the future.
Although the Tofflers are often thought of as the world's most famous futurologists, two words that are definitely not in their vocabulary are 'predict' and 'trend'. 'We believe nobody can predict the future,' says Alvin. 'We'll read the stuff that comes out of mathematical models, but we'll read it with a degree of scepticism. What we have constructed is a model of historical and social change.'
That model is seen most clearly in The Third Wave, which maps out three gigantic waves of change. The First Wave corresponds to the agricultural revolution which dominated human history for thousands of years. The Second Wave – industrial civilisation – is now playing itself out after 300 years of dominance. The Third Wave is crashing over us right now, having started with the birth of a postindustrial, high-technology, information economy in the 1950s.
The transforming power of technology always plays a central role in the Tofflers' books, …
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Beekeepers enjoy taking advantage of the fact that the honey bee will store more honey than the colony will need. A typical hive will store a surplus of 60 to 80 pounds of honey. Beekeepers set their goals on extracting this honey and filtering it into bottles.
Hives entering their second (or later) year should undergo spring treatment before the honey harvest. Certain treatments would not affect the purity of the honey, but the use of harsh chemical treatments will contaminate the honey supers. In either case, treatments should cease during the honey harvest.
Beekeepers want to ensure that their hive is well maintained and offer feed for their bees as a reliable source of food to collect for the colony. Having a feeder on during the honey harvest will allow for the bees to store sugar water instead of honey. This does not affect the harvest from being edible but will give the honey an influential sugar water flavor. Beekeepers want to harvest honey instead of sugar, therefore remove the feeder while honey supers are on the hive.
Preliminary steps need to be taken to ensure that the queen does not enter the honey super and begin to lay eggs. A queen laying eggs in the honey super will limit the amount of space to store honey and will pollute the honey with larva upon extracting. Adding a queen excluder will guarantee that she will not enter the honey super.
Worker bees will be able to go up into the honey supers and store nectar that is being foraged from flowers. The queen excluder will prevent the queen from entering the supers but will allow workers to easily move up. The key step in harvesting honey from your hive is to clear out the honey supers. Every beekeeper will have their own method to clearing out the honey super and some are easier than others.
An escape screen is an easy way to harvest that will ensure that once your bees have left the honey supers, they are challenged to get back into it.
Using a fume pad and a Natural Honey Harvester will quickly force your bees to vacate without contaminating your honey.
After harvesting frames from the honey super, take the frames into the extracting room and begin to uncap each frame. There are multiple methods in uncapping frames: Sideline Uncapper, Cold Knife, Hot Knife, or an Uncapping Fork are some methods for beekeepers to use. Here are some videos on these uncapping methods.


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JoJo Rabbit: Hitler, the Jews and the boundaries of comedy
Sophisticated film set in Germany during the second World War deploys its laughter expertly and contains a message for our time
Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 05:00
Kevin Gildea
The official trailer for JoJo Rabbit, written and directed by Taika Waititi. Video: FOX Searchlight
JoJo has an imaginary friend - a dopey, goofy rubber-faced Hitler, played by Waititi himself
Taika Waititi is the director of the hugely popular Hunt for The Wilderpeople and Boy, both of which showcase his own heartfelt whimsical comedy, and also of the blockbuster Thor: Ragnarok. He also co-directed (with Jemaine Clement from Flight of The Concords) the hilarious vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.
His new new film, JoJo Rabbit, is a very funny comedy set in Germany towards the end of the second World War. The film follows 10-year-old JoJo, an enthusiastic member of the Hitler Youth, whose worldview is challenged when he realises his mother is hiding Elsa Korr, a young Jewish girl, in their house.
JoJo also has an imaginary friend – a dopey, goofy rubber-faced Hitler, played by Waititi himself. (As he has said in interviews – who better to play Hitler than a Polynesian Jew?).
The film has been much lauded yet also criticised in some quarters for the temerity of using comedy to engage with such material. Yet, it is part of a long tradition of filmmakers using comedy to tackle difficult subjects. Armando Iannucci portrayed a murderous tyrant in The Death of Stalin, yet managed to generate a hilarious comedy – intelligent with an almost slapstick physicality – that bore witness to the horror of that time.
Mel Brook's 1967 film The Producers caused controversy because it revolved around the making of an irreverent musical – Springtime for Hitler – but is now considered a classic comedy. It is gloriously silly and denigrates Nazis on this silly, simple level.
Springtime for Hitler
A pioneer in using comedy to broach difficult subjects is film director Todd Solondz who managed to make comedy from the darkest materials of life while staying true to the core of reality. The paedophile-son scene in his film Happiness is difficult to watch yet truly moving and very funny.
Monty Python pushed the envelope on humour, culminating in their The Life of Brian, banned in Ireland for many years. It took aim at Christianity and Christ, nailing both targets with hilarious results. Former Python Terry Gilliam made the brilliant Brazil, a dystopian comedy in which the horror developed directly from the tone for a truer version of 1984 than the dour dystopia of the actual film adaptation of Orwell's book.
Waititi talks of having been influenced by Chaplin's The Great Dictator – whose Adenoid Hynkel lampoons Hitler. The film ends with a heartfelt speech calling for love to triumph over fascism.
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Waititi has also described playing Hitler, including the moments when he wasn't performing, as a funny imaginary friend and felt very flat because he "was" Hitler. Equally, watching JoJo Rabbit there were moments where my laughter was complicated by the fact that I suddenly thought: that's supposed to be Hitler, and all that that meant seeped out through the cracks of the comedy. "Silly Hitler" seemed sometimes problematic – sometimes not.
One criticism of JoJo Rabbit is that the humour is too whimsical and gentle and should have been more savage. Yet, this style of comedy is appropriate for a world seen through the innocent eyes of a child in a comedy with goodies and baddies and people in the right and people who are wrong and the cool position and the stupid position. Even on this rudimentary level we know whose side we're on.
There is a Wes Anderson influence in terms of framing, mise en scene and tone. But Anderson's characters are often self-contained and impermeable to the outside world, although seemingly bearing its slings and arrows; there is a deadpan ironic distance, with characters acting as though in an elegant cartoon.
Waititi is more open to emotion. Some of the film's most poignant and devastating moments are also its best. At the moral heart of JoJo Rabbit is the relationship between the boy and his mother. There is a devastating moment that is shocking because the journey up until then has been largely comic. Lulled by the comedy, I was suddenly crying.
Through comedy, Waititi shows how people get caught up in these things: early in the film, at a book burning ("Let's burn some books . . . Yeah!" shout the Hitler Youth), we see JoJo's unsure look as people enthusiastically fling books on a pyre. He knows this is not right but his feelings disappear as he responds to the general enthusiasm and happiness of his fellow Nazis in burning books.
He responds to the sense of belonging, of being part of a group, a family, of a sense of fun, almost a game, that his 10 year old self can revel in; after all, everybody else is doing it.
As his mother later angrily says: "You're not a Nazi - you're a 10-year-old boy who likes dressing up in a funny uniform and wants to be part of a club." (Oh, how many adult white male men members of how many institutions could this describe?!)
A message for all times
JoJo Rabbit is a sophisticated film that deploys its laughter expertly. Comedy on screen has become ever more sophisticated – whether it's Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat, or TV's The Sarah Silverman Program, Fleabag, Catastrophe or Curb Your Enthusiasm (see the audacious Palestinian restaurant episode – where Larry David stamps along many knife edges).
Roberto Benigni, director of Life is Beautiful, has said that "the point where comedy and tragedy meet, when you laugh and cry at the same time, is almost God-like" while the writer James Woods, in his book The Irresponsible Self, quotes Freud's interest in "broken humour", defined as the humour "that smiles through tears".
For me, the Holocaust is beyond joking – it is the void of human experience and can only be addressed by a documentary like Claude Lanzmann's Shoah or a poem like Paul Celan's Death Fugue. But humour existed even on the darkest edges of human existence, on the border of annihilation, as can be seen from this shocking joke from Treblinka, as quoted in Jeremy Dauber's book Jewish Comedy (A Serious History): "Cheer up – we'll meet again some day in a better world. In a shop window, as soap."
In the same book Dauber points out comedy can be an actual form of resistance: "Hitler set up joke courts to punish and silence mocking opponents."
Waititi speaks of the need to tell this history in case it is forgotten. In order to do this we need to retell again and again, in many different ways, to reach all audiences. My children, Alex (14) and Rosa (16), wanted to see JoJo Rabbit because they love Taika's work. (I don't think, at their age, they would be as interested in watching Shoah or reading Celan). After the screening I asked what they thought of it. Alex thought it was "very funny and sad," while Rosa said it was "extremely funny ... a unique mix of funny and sad and a unique take on that period of time."
JoJo Rabbit is a comedy of resistance. It's a rally call to love and to reject hatred and scapegoating of the other - a message for our time. A message for all times.
It's very funny. It's important.
JoJo Rabbit is released on January 3rd
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Jeremy Dauber
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Mel Brook
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Todd Solondz
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Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker review. It's unworthy of the word 'cinema'
Spies in Disguise: Will Smith is the voice in this ho-hum Bond parody
The movie quiz: What film recently took home the most Golden Globes?
Just Mercy review: Irresistible legal drama with a real world Atticus Finch
0:39 Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives
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Review: Jamie Foxx does his best work in a decade. Charismatic Michael B Jordan puts in a tone-setting performance
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence in a noisy, inconsequential violent romp
Trey Edward Shults's third film crashes on to the cinema screen with sound and fury
Review: Sheer cinematic sweep of director's latest impresses even as viewers' patience is tested
Despite its three Oscar nominations, Bombshell isn't as smart as the women it depicts
The cast work hard, but the film grants Jean Seberg no agency in her own story
4 50 hidden gems Netflix probably won't recommend for you
6 Revealed: The fight to stop Samuel Beckett winning the Nobel prize
8 Brian Cox: 'Princess Margaret started to run her fingers down the inside of my shirt'
10 'In five seconds my life changed. I was worse than the worst jazz snob'

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Q: How to fix error with mutate when trying to create single matrix from multiple datasets I am trying to take multiple datasets (each dataset = 1 patient) that includes gene and expression data and make a singular matrix, with genes as column name and each row the expression data for the respective patient. The problem is that some patients have genes noted that others do not, so there is not a reference.
Ideally I would like the output below.
Dataset 1                   Dataset 2
Gene     expression         Gene     expression
a        0.3                a        0.1
b        0.1                c        -0.3
e        0.2                d        0.05
f        0.2                f        -0.1

Ideal Output:

     a     b     c     d     e     f
1    0.3   0.1   NA    NA    0.2   0.2
2    0.1   NA    -0.3  0.05  NA    -0.1

Another user (@mikebader) helped create a possible solution:
file_names <- list.files(data_dir)

###Making dataframe list
dflist <- list()

for (i in file_names){
  dflist <- append(dflist, read.csv(i, sep="\t"))
}

###Creating merged DF
df <- bind_rows(
  lapply(seq_along(dflist), function(x) mutate(dflist[[x]], dataset = x))
) %>%
  pivot_wider(id_cols = "dataset", names_from = Gene, values_from = expression)

However, when I try to execute this I get the following error.
 Error in UseMethod("mutate") :
  no applicable method for 'mutate' applied to an object of class "character"

I am not sure what the next step I should take is?

A: You can put the dataframes in a list, bind them together with a unique id column and use pivot_wider to get data in wide format.
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)

dflist <- list(df1, df2)

bind_rows(dflist, .id = 'id') %>%
  arrange(Gene) %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = Gene, values_from = expression)

#  id       a     b     c     d     e     f
#  <chr> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
#1 1       0.3   0.1  NA   NA      0.2   0.2
#2 2       0.1  NA    -0.3  0.05  NA    -0.1

data
df1 <- structure(list(Gene = c("a", "b", "e", "f"), expression = c(0.3,
0.1, 0.2, 0.2)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -4L))

df2 <- structure(list(Gene = c("a", "c", "d", "f"), expression = c(0.1,
-0.3, 0.05, -0.1)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -4L))

A: I figured out the issue. It was because I was not correctly making a list of dataframes. Instead I used the below, and then the code worked.
dflist <- lapply(file_names, read.csv, sep="\t")

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A fire in Trump Tower Saturday (April 7) killed a man who hailed from Westchester County, according to the Armonk Daily Voice.
67-year-old Todd Brassner was a native of Harrison, New York and graduated from the private, New Rochelle Academy, a school that shuttered its doors in 1987.
The fire broke out on the 50th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan in his apartment Saturday. It was a four-alarm fire, which was reportedly very difficult for fire fighters to battle. Four out of 200 fire fighters on the scene needed medical attention after the fire was extinguished.
Todd Brassner made his living dealing art works and bought the apartment in the building on Fifth Avenue near West 56th Street, back in 1996. He was in poor health, according to the New York Post, prior to the fire, and struggled financially due to his medical condition. EMT's took him to Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, where he died from injuries sustained by the fire soon afterward.


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import { Observable }       from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { ErrorObservable }  from 'rxjs/observable/ErrorObservable';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';
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Donner Seeks Seat on SMC Board:
Hannah Heineman, Mirror Staff Writer
Tom Donner, who retired from Santa Monica College (SMC) in June after 30 years of service, is seeking to be elected to their Board of Trustees.
In an interview with the Mirror, Donner explained that he was "approached by the Board members who are not seeking reelection – Herb Roney, Dorothy Ehrhart-Morrison and Carole Currey" – to run because they felt without them there would be a "need for institutional memory."
Donner, who is an attorney, retired after serving as interim president twice and as executive vice president. He began his career at SMC in 1976 when he was "hired to set up the College's business office." By retiring, he was able to set up another career in law, specializing in estate planning. His office is in Santa Monica.
If elected, Donner's long-term goals are "to protect student services when budget problems make cuts." These services are vital to student success because they include "counseling and financial aid." Another long-term goal is to "strengthen classified service in order to have appropriate staffing for running the College."
Donner's short-term goals include "strengthening the relationship with the City and the School District." Donner says this is important because "Santa Monica is a destination city, and we need to recognize services need to be provided to those from outside Santa Monica." He also wants to work on securing more state funding for the College and having a strong relationship with the student body since "supporting students can make a difference."
Donner noted in many cases "problems are generated" when the College works on issues with the community because they always "look at the worst case scenario." Instead, he recommends "to start looking at the most likely scenario, and we will get solutions we can live with." He also mentioned an important role for the Trustees is "to work with the State legislators to explain what's needed in our District." Another area of concern is that "so many 18-24-year-olds are underskilled in Los Angeles County, so the community has to step up to train that group." Part of this is the College having "a role in making high school graduates ready for college-level work" because the state colleges no longer want to include remedial work as part of their curriculum.
Richard Tahvilvaran-Jesswein, President of the Santa Monica College's Faculty Senate, stated that the faculty is opposed to Donner becoming a member of the College's Board of Trustees because he's linked to a lot of "strife and difficulty" with the faculty during the time the College was under the direction of President Piedad Robertson. They think of him as "going backwards" to a negative time when decisions were made that were "hostile to the interests of faculty and students," such as eradicating some of the school's vocational curriculum.
Donner believes he wasn't endorsed by SMRR (Santa Monicans for Renter's Rights) because he "doesn't live in Santa Monica" and isn't "a person they know." Also, he's more "fiscally conservative" so they labeled him "a conservative," which "doesn't fit in their mold." Despite this, Donner got "more votes than expected" at their August meeting when they made their endorsements.
The Co-Chair of SMRR, Denny Zane, told the Mirror he believes the fact that Donner doesn't live in Santa Monica "did not enter into" SMRR not endorsing him. He did agree that Donner's "reputation for being fiscally conservative," and thus giving the impression of being more conservative than the traditional SMRR candidate, was a valid observation by Donner. In the end though, Zane feels the SMRR endorsements were "a positive endorsement of those who were endorsed not a negative on his endorsement."
By mirrormmg October 26, 2006
Mural Honoring the Life Of Molly Steinsapir Coming To The Palisades


The big stump is a rather large colony of bees. It is too late in the year for me to attempt to cut them out, so I am going to try to get them through winter where they are.
Somehow, which I have yet to figure out, the bees have no flow, and apparently have not had a flow for some time.. I noticed no activity at one of the nucs, so checked on it, and found the bees in the cells head first.. I am completely astounded.. We have had exceptionally excellent weather. PLENTY of rain, and there are flowers/goldenrod blooming EVERYWHERE.. If I was made to bet on the state of things, I would have bet we were in the best fall flow for over ten years..
Last year, we got 0 inches of precipitation from the end of June to the beginning of August.. we got .10 inches, then nothing until the first part of October, and we had a mild flow the entire time, my bees made honey.. this year, with great rain, and a plethora of flowers my hives are nearly empty and I am feeding like a madman to get them ready for winter.. Go figure... Fumagilin syrup was fed, and now I am just trying to put on a little extra weight. Time is quickly running out. I will have to stop feeding by the end of this week, so they can get the syrup dehydrated, and hopefully capped.. After that.. we will be preparing to wrap them up for the winter. More pics of them when they are ready! Lets all pray for a mild winter!!


Head trainer, instructor, coach, "The Boss"
Arielle joined TBE while she took a gap year from University of Colorado. She arrived with a sweet green thoroughbred, which we sold so she could persue higher goals. While in Aiken, she piloted the best horse in the world (Zoomer, of course) around several training level events, winning a lot. We then acquired sales horse Say No More for her to campaign for the rest of her time. She has successfully completed several preliminary level events now, and we wish we could keep her forever! But sadly for us she must return to school this Fall, and we wish her the very best of luck and hope she returns to Area 2 when she is done.
Katie and her young mare "Lola" (Leave a Legacy) have been training with Tracey for several years, and joined as a full time working student for the winter season of 2016 in Aiken. While there they conquered a lot of their troubles, and gained tons of confidence. They completed several events while there, and certainly have a bright future together. Katie has also hosted several clinics for Tracey in Salisbury, Maryland.
Emily came on to our team starting in January of 2015 to check out the scene of active competing at the upper levels in eventing. With a great background working for several other riders, she easily acclimated to our program and became everything you can hope for in young working student. She came with her ottb Kenny, who had hardly ever jumped at age 14, and successfully worked through his training to compete at the beginner novice level in Aiken. She also has formed an solid partnership with Tracey's school horse, Zoomer, who she competed at the novice level at Fairhill in 2015 for a 3rd place.
Erin began as a working student for Tracey Bienemann Eventing at the end of August. 2013 was her first year showing and eventing her horse "Joe," and they have been working with Tracey for about a year on and off until she started in August. Although it has only been a few months, Erin and Joe have shown great improvement in all aspects of their work. A unique opportunity arrived for Erin when Tracey was injured in September, when she got the ride on all of the "big guys" while Tracey was grounded from riding by her shoulder. Erin and Joe have had several successful outings at the beginner novice level, and will be looking to continue to improve and show their stuff at the beginner novice and novice levels.
Alison Asti is better known as "Mom." In addition to owning her own ottb in training, "Hopper," she also supports several other horses in the TAB Eventing string. She is the tailgate coordinator extraordinaire, bringer of food and drinks and extra moral support to events, and the official reminder to Tracey of all things necessary (and unnecessary) for every ride. Thanks Mom!
Allyson has been riding her lovely and talented OTTB "Austin" with Tracey since 2014, progressing from their first real jumps together, through their first cross country schools, and into their first events! For the Winter of 2016, Allyson handed the reins over to Tracey for a while to get Austin more exposure and his first recognized events, where he excelled in all three phases at the novice level. In addition to working Austin, Allyson also enjoys riding and showing the best horse in the world, "Zoomer," to improve her jumping confidence.
Darby has been riding quite a while, but when she acquired her Norwegian Fjord pony, "OFI Skogen," she knew she had something special. Darby decided to learn separately from her young horse to start, as Skogen has an excellent scooting spook move, and needed some solid basics for them to understand each other. Darby now lessons on Skogen consistently, improving their confidence and communication. Hopefully Darby and Skogen will be ready to make a dressage show appearance together soon!
Caroline has been a student and family friend from when Tracey worked at Dodon Farm with Steuart Pittman. After getting her first green horse, "Silver Sneakers" to bring up the levels, she has proven to be a skilled young rider. Although Tracey doesn't get to teach Caroline often because of distance, she still works with her at competitions and in Aiken. Caroline's family, Hank and Ginny Nayden, also contribute to help sponsor Tracey Bienemann Eventing. Caroline held her own competing through 2013 at the preliminary level and completing her first CCI1*; she has a lot to be proud of at such a young age! Caroline will move on to college at Oberlin, and hopefully continue her involvement with eventing.


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[AxisOfEasy] Your New Volvo Will Report You For Driving Drunk Or Texting
March 25, 2019 by easydnssupport 12 Comments
Weekly Axis Of Easy #90
Last Week's Quote was "Your digital identity will live forever… because there's no delete button", which nobody got and I find that somewhat disconcerting. So here's another one by the same person:
This week's quote: "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." by…..?
THE RULES: No searching up the answer, must be posted in the comments below:
The Prize: First person to post, gets their next domain or hosting renewal on us.
Your new Volvo will report you for driving drunk or texting
FEMA released personal info of 2.3 million citizens to private contractor
Facebook, again, FFS. Over 800 million passwords stored in the clear.
European Union fines Google $1.7 Billion for privacy violations
Your GPS devices stop working on April 6th (unless you do this one thing…)
WordPress Social Warfare plugin 0-day being exploited in the wild
QuadrigaCX story keeps getting weirder
Tired: Russian Collusion. Wired: Google interfered in US mid-terms
Ransomware attack cripples hydro / aluminum giant Norsk
The next generation of Volvos will make use of in-car cameras to detect abnormal driver conditions, such as distracted driving (usually that's texting but who knows these days? Maybe it's balancing your chequebook or grilling a hamburger. I saw a woman peeling a potato once while I was barreling down the Gardiner Expressway….) Anyhoo… if the system detects anomalous behaviour, like excessive steering correction or weaving over lane lines, it will resort to escalating levels of remediation from warning the driver; to slowing down the car; to notifying Volvo On-Call service who may then dispatch authorities.
In other words, while your parents' Volvo was an unglamorous fuddy-duddy of cars, your kids' Volvo will narc them out to the cops.
Just in case having your home destroyed by Hurricanes Irma or Harvey wasn't enough, FEMA accidentally released personal data on 2.3 million disaster victims to a third-party contractor. The data included social security numbers and banking information, potentially leaving victims vulnerable to identity theft and banking fraud. FEMA is not calling this a data breach. It's a case of "data oversharing". And they are taking "aggressive steps to rectify it".
Read: https://www.wsj.com/articles/fema-officials-accidentally-released-private-data-from-2-3-million-disaster-victims-11553306354 (paywall)
Every f-ing week it gets harder to write the inevitable blurb about Facebook f-ing over their users without lacing the entire section with unedited f-ing f-bombs I'm so sick reporting this s**t: From now on we just call them F-book. F-ing F-book stored passwords for over 800 million users in the clear and searchable by f-ing F-book employees.
Zuckerbook went on to say…. Nevermnind, The F-book apology checklist has been so overused it's already jumped the shark for 2019. We didn't even make it through March.
Also F-book: They've asked the courts to seal documents pertaining to their being sued by lawmakers over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
(You might also be interested in reading "Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon", and keep in mind that easyDNS runs a Mastodon instance at https://nojack.easydns.ca )
European Union fines Google $1.7 Billion for anti-trust violations
The European Union anti-trust commission has levied a $1.7B USD fine against Google for using its dominant market position to force customers to only advertise via Adsense. This makes the third billion dollar fine at the hands of the EU, the other two being a $5B fine for abusing its market dominance in mobile and another $2.7B for manipulating shopping search results.
Apparently the Global Positioning System uses a method to store dates which rolls over on April 6, 2019. It's kinda like the Y2K bug, except most of the satellites are expected to remain in orbit, even after it rolls over. Kidding aside, if you have a GPS device that was built for the rollover or that can update its firmware, you're ok. Older devices that weren't built for this will likely brick themselves after April 6. (h/t to long time OG member David Cuddy)
If you run any WordPress sites using a plugin called "Social Warfare" you should probably go clean things up now. Wordfence broke the news of a 0-day vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild. It's a cross-site scripting vulnerability which was installed in 70,000+ sites. The plugin has been removed from the WordPress code repository pending a fix.
It seems as though the surviving founder of QuadrigaCX, Omar Dhanani has a somewhat checkered past. Bloomberg dug into it and found that he had been sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison in the US for identity theft and a bank card scam, after which he was deported… to Canada.
QuadrigaCX went up in smoke when the other co-founder, and CEO Gerald Cotten unexpectedly died …while in India …where he was building …an orphanage. It sounds weird just typing it, especially when I realize that I exchanged emails with Cotten a mere 2 days before his reported death. (QuadrigaCX was a beta client of a new domain protection platform we will be announcing soon. It does, amongst other things, realtime phishing site detection. Hit me up if you want on the invite list for that.)
Well the Mueller Report finally docked and it smells like a big nothingburger. But what nobody is reporting is a study by Dr. Robert Epstein a San Diego-based Harvard Ph.D, who analyzed Google search results from three hotly contested California congressional mid-term battles and found "a clear democrat bias that may have flipped seats away from Republican candidates".
(Epstein is a Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), a UCSD visiting scholar, and former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. He reportedly backed Hillary Clinton in 2016)
Read: https://www.theepochtimes.com/another-way-google-manipulates-votes-without-us-knowing-a-go-vote-reminder-is-not-what-you-think-it-is_2754073.html
And this 1-minute explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MydfaDtVNYY
"The situation is quite severe", was the word from Norwegian giant Norsk, one of the largest aluminum producers in the world. They were hit with a ransomware variant of the WannaCry worm and had their key systems encrypted. They believe the attack originated in the US.
Here's the important part: Norsk will not be paying the ransom and will instead restore their systems from backups.
That means, they have backups. It's amazing how many companies don't. Does yours?
Read: https://www.zdnet.com/article/norsk-hydro-will-not-pay-ransom-demand-and-will-restore-from-backups/
Josh Beavers says
From the 3/26 email I am guessing the "We can more or less know what you're thinking about" is Mark Zuckerberg?
Marcus says
gcv says
Is the quote from Mark Zuckerberg?
Adrian Colegate says
Answer to the quotation question is Eric Schmidt
John Manuel says
"We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." – Sound like Mark Zuckerberg to me…
Elissa Cogan says
Agree with John Manuel (would have been a guess) but could also be Jeff Bezos.
Rick McKelvie says
I'm thinking Edward Snowden.
Mark Robinson says
Answer: General Paul M Nakasone, Director, National Security Agency
Andy Konecny says
this had me checking quotes of Kuckerberg, Page, Brin, then thought of Schmidt, but then I was too late. sigh. In hind sight that is so him.
Andy Haley says
"We know where are are. We know where you've been".
I thought Facebook at first, but see everyone else has the same thought. So the next one on the list would be, Google. I don't post to Facebook anymore, but Google is integrated into my apps, my phone, my email. Google is everywhere.
Jennifer Turnbough says
That's a google quote for sure. Must be Eric Schmidt
T.R. Elass says
I think the quote is from Kevin Mitnick


When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Houston one year ago, residents of the fourth most populous state in the U.S. had little idea they would soon make history. Harvey was a Category 4 storm that caused $125 billion in damage and is the second largest natural disaster in US history behind Hurricane Katrina.
Overnight, thousands of lives were upended when over four feet of rain fell on the area. Disastrous flooding forced 37,000 people out of their homes and into shelters. For those living in shelters, MAP International provided Disaster Health Kits (DHK) to serve those in need.
In the aftermath of the storm, lives were torn apart. Flood waters, mold and loose debris posed serious health threats for many people affected by this tragedy.
Even before a disaster hits, MAP becomes a disaster response center. And much of the preparation necessary for a humanitarian response requires significant advance planning.
When we know a hurricane is forming, or receive news of an earthquake, or see refugees fleeing conflict, MAP springs into action.
This past week, MAP International hosted members from Rotary International District 6920 to pack MAP's signature Disaster Health Kits (DHK). These kits are readied for a disaster that has yet to happen. Why?
It's been more than 100 days since Hurricane Maria shattered the homes, livelihoods, and day-to-day normalcy of thousands of people in Puerto Rico and throughout the Caribbean.
Our hearts broke as we witnessed another hurricane devastate the lives of so many following the destructive paths of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
Candice Dyer was moved by the images she saw on television each week as hurricane after hurricane devastated the U.S. and Caribbean islands. Rather than passively allow the news coverage to come and go, Candice felt compelled to act.
She told a friend she wanted to do something.
As a journalist, Candice knew she had to do her research. The information she discovered about MAP and the highest ratings it has received from charity watchdog organizations impressed her.
Houston resident Brent Flaskamp and his family were among the fortunate ones. Relatively unscathed by Hurricane Harvey, they soon realized how small a margin separated them from those who lost everything.
"Our church and neighborhood were untouched. But just a mile away, in a low-lying and low income neighborhood, houses were totally flooded," he says.
When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, MAP was ready to respond, providing much-needed Disaster Health Kits to those in need. For those displaced from their homes, these Disaster Health Kits provide the most essential hygiene supplies, offering both comfort and important health benefits to those in need.
Since the flooding began, our team from Grace Church of Humble, Texas has been working 12-14 hour days coordinating up to 3,000 meals a day for people in the hardest hit communities. Our local church even served as a shelter for four days.
"It could have been so much worse," is a phrase I've now heard from people standing in the midst of rubble to those surveying the flood damaged ruins in front yards. It's a statement of gratitude but also a realization that even when the worst didn't happen, it will take weeks, months or years to rebuild many lives.
Many of our friends and family experienced significant flooding due to the enormous tidal surge from Hurricane Irma. At this time, we ask for your continued prayers for the well-being of all those affected by both Irma and Harvey.
MAP's international headquarters, located in Brunswick, Ga., is now officially closed since Coastal Georgia is under a mandatory evacuation order due to #HurricaneIrma. Despite being told to evacuate, a handful of devoted MAP employees worked Friday morning to ship out valuable relief items to Texas.


Effective prayer points for favour – Favour is a really valuable gift that God could bless any man with. Favour opens doors automatically for a person. If your boss looks upon you with Favour, there is nothing you will do in their eyes that will be wrong. If the Lord himself looks upon you with favour, you will just find that you do everything with relative ease. Because He will crown even the tiniest of your efforts with huge success. Favour is a big gift. Indeed.
Even when people meet new people and then select who will be their friends, they pick the friend that they think is most FAVOURABLE. The one that they feel will have the most rapport with them. Favour is a really deep and huge concept. Sometimes, we mix luck with favour.
They are both very similar though. Because when the two are in effect, to outsiders, the person benefitting from either Luck or Favour seems to be doing little and gaining maximum results. Sometimes, God just does His stuff that way. Luck however, is more like coincidence that favours one positively. While favour is more decision based. If someone will favour you, then they took the decision to favour you. That is pre- thought. Luck is not pre-thought. It just happens.
Praying for this wonderful gift called favour is really a good thing.
A smart move in fact. In order to earn maximum result in life, one needs favour as backup. Whether favour from God or humans, one has to be present and prayer is extremely important.
Praying for what you want is a good thing. Praying for favour is a really, really excellent idea! So, do you need perhaps ideas for prayers for favour? Not to worry! We got you covered! Below we compiled a really long list of prayers to send and use for yourself. You could share these and you could pick your favourite prayers and pray! It's entirely up to you!
1. I ask of you Father, that You allow my parents to receive favour in your eyes. Let everything that they do please you. Grant them favour O God. He who receives favour from You has found a lifetime's gift.
2. I ask of you my Lord, to bless me with favour so mighty that everything I lay my hands on from today starts to blossom and flourish.
3. Dear God, I ask that you help me receive favour from my potential helpers.
4. Dear God, grant me unlimited favour to conquer my enemies so that I can have full cause to glorify your name, Amen.
5. My Father in Heaven, I ask for favour so that all previously closed doors against me will start to open for me Amen. Let it be so, O God.
6. In the name of Jesus, I receive total and thorough favour today and forever, Amen.
7. I receive mighty favour today so that I can have victory over principalities and powers from the dark side of this world. Lord please grant me such favour.
8. I receive unlimited favour today to accomplish whatsoever I want to accomplish. For You have said in your Word that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.
9. My Father and my God, I pray this day that You grant me outstanding favour in all my endeavours. Let your favour bring me benefactors and helpers from far and wide in Jesus' name. Amen.
10. My dear God, I ask You to give unto me favour beyond my expectations. The power and favour to be prosperous in all my doings, Lord grant it unto me. Amen.
11. I pray to you God to grant me favour to not lack financially, favour to receive wealth and also to have good health. Because health is indeed wealth. Father Lord grant it unto me. Amen.
12. Dear God, you are the one that makes a way where there seems to be none. Dear Lord, give me your divine favour to overcome challenges in Jesus' name, Amen.
13. Father Lord, with your mighty favour, let me be prosperous in all my doings in Jesus name.
14. Dear Lord, I know your favour is all sufficient, God grant me favour to have a long, fulfilled, gift packed and sweet life in the mighty name of Jesus.
15. God, I ask for favour to excel in my are of work and also for promotion in my place of work. Amen.
16. O God, I ask for favour which supersedes favour. Let people see me and the glory of the Lord shining bright in my life. Amen.
17. O God, I ask for favour to successfully complete whatsoever I lay hands on to start. Help me not to leave things mid way. Amen.
18. O Lord, I ask for your favour as I go out and as I come in. Lord, protect me and guide my footsteps. Amen.
19. O Lord, I ask that you grant me favor in all of my dealings. Amen.
20. O Lord, I ask for favor to overcome all of the devil's temptations, Amen.
21. My Father, I ask for your grace and favour concerning all of my needs. Please Lord provide for me in areas I am lacking. Amen.
22. Father, I ask for the strength and favour for you to bestow on my guardians and friends. Provide for all of their needs. Amen.
23. O Lord, I ask for your favour to walk in truth and faithfulness with you. Lord, give me the grace.
24. O God, I ask for unlimited favor in my education. Help me to top my class always. Help me to always have excellent grades. Amen. Success is mine.
25. O God, I ask for favour to always excel in whatever things I lay my hands upon. Only you can do this for me and also I ask for favour which makes it easier.
26. Lord, I ask for favour to reach great heights. Heights that I had before hand thought I couldn't reach, help me to reach it O God.
27. Lord, I ask for favour to meet fantastic people. Fantastic people that will impact and change my life for the positive. Help me meet them Lord.
28. Dear Mighty One, I ask for favour and grace to always do your will. Help me to be able to do your will according to your wishes in glory. Amen.
29. Lord, I ask for favour to impact lives positively as I journey through this life. I want to touch lives positively and tremendously. Help me to be able to do this. Grant me favour. Amen.
30. I pray now that God's favour will bring me unlimited joy, boundless joy and testimonies Amen.
31. I pray that through God's favour, I will accomplish great and greater things more than my peers, parents and neighbours have ever achieved. Amen.
32. I ask for the favour of God today to accomplish the impossible. For nothing is impossible when God is involved. That is why I am praying for God's favour right now to be able to accomplish what the world says impossible. May the Lord grant me such favour. Amen.
33. I ask for favour of God to guide me to my place of unlimited success. Spirit of success will start to abide within me, Amen.
34. I ask for the favour of God to destroy every plot of the enemy against my life, my career, my children, my family, my wife, my husband.. May the plans of the enemy never come to pass over our lives. Amen.
35. I ask for your favour Lord, so that You always meet me at my point of need. Give me such favour O God.
36. Lord God, I ask that You look upon me with favour and bless me in all of my financial needs. Help me not to lack anymore financially. Amen.
37. Lord, I ask for your favour, help me to grow my finances beyond my own imagination. Send me lots of clients and customers, help me to make it in life. Amen.
38. Dear God, I ask that I should always be the head and never the tail. Grant me uncommon favour to always be at the top.
39. Lord, I ask for grand favour from you, I want you to bless all the works of my hands, whatever business venture I might be going into, bless it for me beyond my own imagination. Amen.
40. Lord, I ask for uncommon favor to never give up in my life pursuits. It takes a strong man to keep going. Help me to never give up, even when I lose hope, give me strength and courage to never give up. Amen.
41. Favour Lord, is what I ask for. Favour. To be able to stand firm against adversity and trials from the devil. Help me to not be swayed by the devil and his circus. Amen.
42. Lord, I ask for your favour. The favour and strength to overcome temptation in every form especially temptation to sin, Lord grant me such strength.
43. God, my father, I ask that you rain showers of everlasting favour on me. Let favour overflow in my life, let me always be favoured.
44. Lord, I ask for favour to be an excellent motivation to all of my friends. Grant me that favour Lord. Amen.
45. God, give me favour to always stand out in all I set out to do.
46. God, my Father, I ask favour to not miss opportunities as they come. Help me to grab opportunities as soon as they present themselves, Amen.
47. I ask of you Father Lord for favour concerning the health of me and my family. Help so that none of us falls I'll to any kind of illness. Amen.
Prayer of Favour for Students.
48. Lord God, I ask for your favour in my academics. Lord, help me to excel and come out in flying colors. Amen.
49. Lord God, I ask for retentive memory to be able to have good grades. Lord grant me such favour and blessing. Amen.
50. Father Lord, I ask for raised G.P this semester; I am willing to put in the effort required to get such, Lord. I just need your strength, grace and favour to be able to actualize it O God. Help me.
51. Dear God, I ask for your favour to be able to choose my major wisely. Even though I don't really know what to major in yet. Teach me.
52. Father God, I ask for favour for my teachers. Give them the strength, capacity and power to be able to impact the right amount of knowledge in me for me to grow up as a smart individual, Amen.
53. Dear Father, I pray concerning my parents. Provide them with enough money so they can take care of my studies without complaints. Help them not to complain financially. Amen.
54. Dear God, I pray concerning we the students of this nation, help us to be useful to this nation after being through with our studies. Help us to be of use to the nation. Grant us such favour.
55. Dear Father, I commit my earnings into your able hands. Help me to earn significantly more in my work. Amen. Increase my earnings..
56. Father in heaven, I ask for your blessings upon the work of my hands. Grant me favour to win huge work contracts so that I can glorify your name.
57. Almighty Father, I ask for favour in the eyes of my boss. Help me grow and look favorable in their eyes. Strengthen their likeness for me. Amen.
58. Dear Alpha and Omega, provide me with enough resources to be able to sufficiently cater for my children. I don't want them to lack anything in terms if their wants. The financial resources to be able to fully cater for them provide it for me. Amen.
59. My Father and my God, I commit my business into your hands. Bring me more valuable customers. More valuable clients. Allow not my business to run bankrupt. Help us to turn in huge profits at the end of the month and year, Amen.
So, above are effective prayer points for favour. Just pick one and pray!


I wanted to write about this topic because it's something that I think has a really negative impact on my life. Growing up my parents entered me into beauty pageants causing me at age of 3 or 4 to view other girls as competition. These little girls who were dressed up in their Sunday best were not little girls for me to become friends with or get to know, they were the enemy that I was out to destroy; while smiling and waving at the judges of course.
Here is the irony, I am aware that these girls are out to take the same prize I am going for (1st place), so therefore I must crush them, but I also need to hide the "want to win" attitude because it is not "lady-like" and it's frowned upon.
Is this why little girls grow up to be jealous and spend a lot of time vying for our position in relationships? Is this why men think we are insane? Because we are dealing with the fears that some cute 3 year old with better curls and tap dancing skills could come and take it all away from us?
I have worked really hard at appreciating other women and not feeling threatened but there is just something in my DNA that causes me to compare myself to others.
I have to bring social media into this discussion because for me, it has escalated everything. I know that people only post the best of everything on there, but there is no disclaimer.
And I will incessantly check my phone to find out while I'm at the movies, driving on the freeway, or even rudely while someone is talking to me.
People say we are addicted to our phones, and I disagree. We are addicted to the narcissistic "hit" our phones give us by telling us we are ok, or better yet that we might just be awesome.
In 12-step rooms people often say we are comparing but what does that mean? From where I sit I see all of us becoming less interested in anyone's insides and more obsessed with people's outsides.
When I grew up I didn't spend a lot of time thinking about what I looked like. I didn't constantly check myself in a mirror and I didn't see pictures of myself the minute they happened, and that was kinda nice.
What I really want to say is that what we look like on Snapchat with or without a filter doesn't matter, that our beauty and our worth shouldn't be based on that—but I think those words are really late to a party that has already kicked off.
There have been days when I was feeling pretty good about myself and my life only to go on my phone and realize that others are doing so much more and I am behind in a race that I will never win, I cannot "Keep up with the Kardashians" or anyone else.
I'm sure that I am doing better than some and not as well as others but I need to constantly remind myself that I am running my own race, that people who I meet along the way are running their own race, and that even that adorable 3 year old with the perfect curls and mad tap dancing skills is not my competition.
I couldn't help but laugh, as I said, "No, of course not- have you seen my stand up??


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Carlyle Clark Presents Children from Dark Houses - Meet Fantastic, Funny PI Investigative Team!
The trouble with troubled youths is that, despite guards and fences shrouded with red-berried firethorn and topped with inward-pointing surveillance cameras, they are adept at vacating authoritarian premises without the permission of said authority. One such youth, Imran Khan, had recently, under cover of night, adepted himself clean out of San Diego's Barrington Academy. Imran's parents hired Wynn and Sanchez Investigations to find him.
As he drove his silver 2010 Mustang GT into Barrington's parking lot, Private Investigator Atticus Wynn wondered if it wasn't just good sense that led the boy to flee. After all, Imran's fellow students had committed such delightful acts as dousing blind-drunk homeless men with odorless charcoal lighter fluid then offering them a cigar and a match, torturing small animals, and posting videos on the Internet of themselves sexually assaulting incapacitated girls. Of course, Imran himself was no angel. His parents had brought him to the academy after his fists sent his mother to the hospital. Like the other boys at Barrington, Imran's parents' wealth had allowed him to sidestep the juvenile justice system and continue his education at the expensive reformatory-style boarding school.
Atticus parked his car, clambered out, and stretched. Had he still been a smoker, this would have been the perfect opportunity to lean against his muscle car, taking long drags while surveying the laboriously landscaped grounds. Rolling his neck, he noticed his hand had curled as though it held a cigarette. He opened and closed it a few times, pondering. A cigarette and a swagger would notify any ne'er-do-wells that Atticus himself had once been a rascal. He'd be interviewing some of them, and it might make them more likely to talk if they felt they weren't selling out by helping The Man. It wasn't as if he'd be making an excuse to sneak in a little tobacco. Nope. Not at all. He grinned ruefully. Even without a cigarette jutting from a sneering mouth, Atticus could have still looked cool as hell had he been allowed to pack his new .45 in the complicated-looking shoulder holster his girlfriend and partner, Rosemary, had bought him because it was sexy. Having a muscular, black PI strut into their midst with a big gun holstered under his arm might be like having an ultra-violent video game character come to life. Grand Theft Atticus: San Diego Swagger.
Unfortunately, Atticus had been forbidden to bring his gun per academy rules and the admonishment of school chancellor and no-gun meanie, Dr. Everton Ingalls.
Children from Dark Houses:
An Atticus and Rosemary Mystery Thriller
By Carlyle Clark
It didn't take me long to sink into the fun of reading this book, even though the topic of trouble youths and dysfunctional homes gives us the darkness from the title.
Nor did it take long to think of who I would have play Atticus... If you're a Rush Hour fan like I am, you'll recognize Justin Hires..... But for a writing style, since this is my first book from Carlyle Clark, I felt some connection to top author Walter Mosley's, PI Investigator, Easy Rawlins... He and Atticus would sure get along! LOL
Atticus and Rosemary are in business together, but are also lovers, which adds a bit of spice and loving feelings as each can often be found worrying about the other when the job has called for them to separate...
And this one certainly did. Not only were they tracking a young boy who had escaped from an "academy" for rich, troubled kids, but they soon found that the parents were truly the troubled ones! The Khans were constantly fighting and the wife was an alcoholic who abused Imran. When he retaliated and attacked his mother, he was immediately sent to Barringon Academy.
Then when he escaped in less than a week and the Academy contacted the police, Mr. Khan practically went crazy...and then hired the PIs to handle the search...
"Practically. Mr. Khan was furious with me for contacting the authorities. He made up some nonsensical story about having picked up Imran himself. He claimed if I made a fuss, I would only be hurting myself and the academy by pointing out our, as he called it, lax security. He ended the call saying he was going to contact the police and 'clear the whole thing up.' "Ten minutes later, he called back. He was completely calm and rational. It was like dealing with two utterly different people. We discussed what to do outside of law enforcement, and I recommended he hire the agency the academy always uses, FitzHerbert. He opted for your firm instead." "Do you have any idea why he was so adamant the police not get involved?" The chancellor shrugged. "Nothing specific, no, but it didn't surprise me. Mr. Khan had not wanted the police notified when Imran had assaulted Mrs. Khan, but the mandatory reporting laws required the hospital to contact the authorities." He shrugged. "People from less developed countries generally fear and distrust police."
And that's when the fun began... After Atticus had talked with
the Chancellor, he knew that the man would expect to be involved with all interviews...which wasn't going to happen...so Atticus went...rogue...and did, indeed find out information that would benefit their search...
Only to be followed when he finished at the Academy. Who would be following him this early in the investigation? It was time to get Rosemary involved, calling her to meet him...
Rosemary Sanchez's phone rang, or to be more accurate, warbled into song. Specifically, Muddy Waters famous blues tune "Mannish Boy," which she had not programmed into it. It started at the part that refers to the singer's destiny to become "the greatest man alive." She snorted. That Atticus.
Clad in jeans and a gray T-shirt that read ARMY across the front, she'd been in the midst of her daily bed-making duel with her nemesis, her tortoiseshell cat Mawroo, who with feline telepathy, always anticipated the moment she began to make her bed. As the sheet came billowing down, Mawroo leapt onto the mattress. The cat-hump raced around beneath the sheet like a gopher in a cartoon, all the while uttering her namesake cry, "Maaaaawrooooo!" Rosemary could only answer such an affront to bed-making etiquette by scrabbling her fingers about so that the hump raced hither and thither after them, sometimes rolling over to create four paw tent poles, claws poking through the sheet.
Rosemary answered the phone while, in protest at the interruption, Mawroo "mawrooed"!
"Let me guess," Rosemary said. "You made one too many smartass remarks, and now we're barred from Barrington."
"Scoff, scoff," Atticus said. "What's that supposed to mean?" she asked.
"I wanted to scoff at your lack of faith, but I've only read about people scoffing and never actually seen it. Thus, I don't know how one would actually go about scoffing in real life. So I improvised."
"I don't know whether it's more disturbing to think you've been pondering that for a while or that you just thought it up."
"Either someone's playing a violin with a meat tenderizer," he said, "or you are foolishly trying to make your bed with Mawroo in the room."
"I don't have a choice," Rosemary said. "She sulks all day if I shut her out."
"How can one tell if a cat is sulking or just being a cat?"
"When one loves another being and is in a close relationship, one pays attention and thus becomes quite attuned to the being's sensibilities."
"Are we still talking about a cat here?" Atticus asked.
"Meow," Rosemary answered.
"Um, er, normally, I'd be game for the metaphorical banter, but I happen to have a gentleman tailing me. I'm hoping you can come out here and tail my tailer." Rosemary's tone switched from banter to business. "Already someone following you? Feel dangerous?"
"Can't tell," he said, "but it's hard to see what I could have done so quickly to make someone want to hurt me."
"You've never been on the other side of your smart mouth."
"Anyway," he said, "once you've got him, I'll lose him."
"And I'll follow him back to his criminal lair."
"Criminal lair?" he asked.
"Yes," she said. "Any criminal associated with Barrington Academy wouldn't have anything as uncouth as a hideout. He would merit a lair."
"Brains as well as beauty," he said. "Brains enough that once this ne'er do well is ensconced in his lair, you wouldn't dream of doing something as stupid as trying to get a real good looksee before you've called your charming partner in for back up, right?"
"You do recall I've done a tour of duty in a war zone?"
Whoa! Would you believe there will soon be bikers coming into the mix...and Rosemary does exactly what Atticus had warned her not to do...she went into the biker's lair and confronted the leader! Gutsy, but she barely made it out!
Later there's one awesome scene where Imran's mother takes on one of the bikers!
Then there are the main characters who just happen to be involved with Imran's efforts to escape... Yep, it's going to get real complicated and Atticus and Rosemary are separated often...and wind up in dangerous situations with no backup!
You've got to read this one to believe how cool everything keeps going even when things look realllly bad! I loved the complexity of the story line and think that many of you will too! Do check it out!
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Carlyle Clark was raised in Poway, a city just north of San Diego, but is now a proud Chicagolander working in the field of Corporate Security and writing crime and fantasy fiction. He has flailed ineffectually at performing the writer's requisite myriad of random jobs: pizza deliverer, curb address painter, sweatshop laborer, day laborer, night laborer, security guard, campus police, Gallup pollster, medical courier, vehicle procurer, and signature-for-petitions-getter.
He is a married man with two cats and a dog. He is also a martial arts enthusiast and a CrossFit endurer who enjoys fishing, sports, movies, TV series with continuing storylines, and of course, reading. Most inconsequentially, he holds the unrecognized distinction of being one of the few people in the world who have been paid to watch concrete dry in the dark. Tragically, that is a true statement.
Posted by Glenda A Bixler Reviews at 1:45:00 PM
Labels: African American Author, An Atticus and Rosemary Mystery Thriller, Black characters, Carlyle Clark, Children from Dark Houses, Justin Hires, PI Investigators
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When apprehended in 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer — killer of 17 men, cannibal and body-part hoarder — quickly entered the pantheon of single-name-famous serial killers. Much has been written about Dahmer's gruesome crimes, but perhaps more fascinating was the 2012 graphic novel My Friend Dahmer. In it, syndicated cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf — whose weekly feature "The City" ran in this paper for years — recounted being friends with a teenage Jeff Dahmer during their senior year in a northern Ohio town. And yes, young Dahmer was an odd guy — but who could have guessed how horribly wrong things would go after graduation?
Now, that reflective work has been adapted into an eponymous film, directed by Marc Meyers, who co-wrote the script with Backderf. Set in 1978, it is a quietly unnerving coming-of-age story about a troubled young man. He is seemingly transitioning from a shy boy beset with confusing thoughts — "I like to pick up road kill, but I'm trying to quit" — to an adult willing to follow through on disturbing impulses.
The affectless and slump-shouldered Dahmer (Ross Lynch) wanders through his life against the backdrop of normal adolescence as practiced by Middle American boys: band practice, goofing off in basements and parking lots, enduring boring classes, talking about girls and making plans for life. He is there, and not there.
At home, Dahmer's parents fight, and bitterly divorce. Dad (Dallas Roberts) knows things aren't right with his son, but his corrective measures are clumsy. (He tears down the backyard hut in which Dahmer indulges in his preferred hobby — performing various disintegration processes on road kill.) Dahmer's mom (Anne Heche) is mentally ill, and too caught up in her own self-serving mania to see how lost her son is becoming.
In school, Dahmer is teased or ignored. Then one day he stages a fake seizure in the hallway, grunting and writhing on the floor. The stunt earns him the admiration of a small band of nerdy dudes, helmed by prolific doodler "Derf" Backderf (Alex Wolff). Dahmer joins in the group, but due to his social awkwardness and oddness, he never quite integrates. The guys do appreciate his "spazzes" — the nickname for his fake fits, which they also call "Dahmers" — and deploy him in other pranks. He is in, but not in.
The film is studiously low-key; those who revel in the sensational aspects of serial-killer stories might be bored, but I found the slow-motion unraveling and re-building of Dahmer to be fascinating. For us, every action Dahmer takes, however small, is charged with what we know happens later. It's all speculative, but when we see Dahmer fondling bones, spying on a handsome male jogger, or drifting away from his few acquaintances, it feels portentous and even explanatory. Perhaps nothing would have prevented Dahmer from the horrific path he eventually chose, but the film suggests that there was little in his troubled adolescent life to throw up any roadblocks. It's a haunting story.
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The James Bond movies have been around for more than fifty years. By sheer virtue of the massive number of films they've made featuring the smooth-talking, quick-thinking gentleman spy, the franchise's total box office figures are huge enough to rival that of Star Wars, Marvel, and Harry Potter.
And the number's about to get a little bigger as Daniel Craig has been confirmed to return for his fifth movie in the 007 tux. Over the half-century that Bond has been around, more has changed in the movies than just the actor playing him.
The one thing that's never changed is the character. He's always suave, cool, well-dressed, getting himself into trouble and looking good doing it. Here are 15 actors who could take on the role after Craig hangs up the tux.
15. Colin Firth
Colin Firth's name started getting bandied around for the role of James Bond somewhere between the release of Kingsman: The Secret Service and the ensuing popularity of his character, Harry Hart, and Daniel Craig's comments about wanting to slash his wrists rather than play Bond again.
Unfortunately, Firth himself has said that, for him, "the James Bond ship has sailed." He worries that "there might be an age limit on Bond, and even if I were to start now, you'd have to be good for the next few." So, sadly, he's given up on any hopes of being 007.
He added, "I think Kingsman was as close as I'm going to get." Thankfully, we did get to see him as Harry Hart in Kingsman, and that may have been even better than James Bond.
14. Alicia Vikander
Don't dismiss the idea of a female James Bond too quickly. We could call her Jane Bond. There's a theory among fans of the movies that there's no actual James Bond. It's simply a codename assigned by MI6 to the secret agent who goes by the number 007.
It makes sense. This would explain why he's been six different guys over half a century, and a bunch of different periods in time. So, what if one time, 007 happened to be a woman?
Bond producer Barbara Broccoli told GQ, "It's like Hamlet, who has been played by a variety of different people, including women. So, presumably, Bond could be."
And why Alicia Vikander, you ask? Because she's not only a brilliant performer — as shown by her Oscar-winning performance in The Danish Girl — but she's also a physical action-adventure kind of actor, starring in the upcoming movie version of the Tomb Raider video games.
Plus, Vikander is a vocal feminist with outspoken views about the gender inequality in film and how women can carry blockbusters. Bond would be the perfect platform for her to prove that.
13. Damian Lewis
There was an uproar when Daniel Craig was cast as James Bond because audiences didn't want the character to have blond hair. So imagine the response if Bond went ginger? If you move past that though, Damian Lewis is a pretty viable option.
His schedule's relatively freed up, aside from half of each year when he shoots seasons of Showtime's Billions, where he plays a younger, sexier, less "presidential" Donald Trump.
And Lewis has ample experience with the subject matter of international espionage and double-crossing villains — remember Homeland? That show never required him to take down a megalomaniac in a lavish casino on a remote island or drink a shaken martini, but those are skills he'd pick up along the way.
12. Henry Cavill
Henry Cavill has played a Special Forces captain fighting in the 2003 invasion of Iraq; Superman in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice; a slick gentleman spy in the movie adaptation of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.; and an undisclosed role in the upcoming sixth Mission: Impossible movie.
What does all of that add up to? Why, James Bond, of course! There would probably be scheduling conflicts with his appearances as Superman in the DC Extended Universe, but maybe the producers of each franchise would be able to come to mutual agreement and find a way to share the man.
Apparently, Cavill auditioned to play Bond back in 2005 and found himself second to Daniel Craig on the shortlist, so this could be his second shot.
11. Jason Statham
We got to see Jason Statham play a James Bond-esque gentleman spy in the movie Spy alongside Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law. But don't take that as his audition to play Bond, because he wasn't playing Rick Ford like he would play 007. He played Ford for laughs, with all the falling over and other slapstick funnies.
Statham's Bond would be more like Frank Martin from The Transporter movies or Deckard Shaw from The Fast and the Furious movies: a badass proficient in various martial arts. Wouldn't that be a great twist on the James Bond character?
We've had the gritty movie but we've never had the gritty actor. Statham said to The Guardian, "Could I do it? Abso-f*cking-lutely." And then he added, "Would I do it? Abso-f*cking-lutely."
10. Fionn Whitehead
His turn in Christopher Nolan's World War II masterpiece Dunkirk may have made him look like a wuss, but that's because that was the role. He was playing a frightened young soldier wrapped up in a global conflict. He was supposed to be playing it like a wuss. And he nailed it. That's not how he would play James Bond.
Being cast in the role might encourage him to bulk up a little bit and change up his image. And he might seem a tad young, but bear in mind, there's not going to be another Bond for a good few years. Daniel Craig is locked in for one more movie that'll take a couple of years to make. Plus the producers want the blond Bond back for another one after that.
Fionn Whitehead is a young, likeable actor who's starred in a successful movie before. That's really all we need.
9. David Oyelowo
David Oyelowo is a brilliant and fierce actor. He brought Martin Luther King, Jr. to the screen in Selma, so James Bond should be a walk in the park. It would also secure Oyelowo as a top-billing movie star name, since he's not quite there yet.
It's sad that playing a fictitious spy who has lots of sex and kills people for a living would cement him as a movie star, but playing the civil rights hero wouldn't. But hey, that's Hollywood for you. He's currently shooting an action movie called Gringo, where he stars as a businessman who gets into a spot of bother down in Mexico.
Following that up with Bond could be the perfect career move.
8. Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens isn't quite on fire, but he's burning brightly at the moment. He's relatively young and very handsome. He's good at playing characters who have demons. And that's what we're looking for in a Bond — a guy with some edge.
Stevens' turn in Downton Abbey showed us that he was right in his element in suave clothes at fancy soirees. And his dark performance in The Guest showcased his grit, gun-wielding prowess and devilish charm.
We also saw a soft and sensitive side in his performance as The Beast in the new Beauty and the Beast movie, which grossed well over $1 billion. Dan Stevens could be our guy.
7. Taron Egerton
Taron Egerton is a bright young actor with a promising future in film. It probably won't include an appearance as James Bond though. But he would be so good for the role.
He starred as Gary "Eggsy" Unwin in Kingsman: The Secret Service and its fast-approaching sequel, Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Eggsy's character arc in the first movie was a chav turned Bond. Except he's even cooler!
Yet, Egerton has his plate full at the moment with upcoming movies. He's starring in a new big budget Robin Hood movie alongside Jamie Foxx as Little John, Ben Mendelsohn (Director Krennic from Rogue One) as the Sheriff of Nottingham, Jamie Dornan (Christian Grey) as Will Scarlet, and (for Christ knows what reason) Tim Minchin as Friar Tuck.
He's also got Billionaire Boys Club and something called Pigeon Impossible coming up, so he probably wouldn't be interested in putting the new stuff aside to basically play the same character in a less funny version of Kingsman. Oh, well.
6. Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy seems like a no brainer. Enough men want to be him and enough women want to be with him to make him the perfect choice to be James Bond. When Daniel Craig was expected to call it quits, it was reported that Hardy was the producers' top choice to replace him.
He reportedly had even signed a deal right before Craig changed his mind. Everyone's favorite director and huge Bond fan Christopher Nolan has endorsed Hardy for the role saying, "he'd be amazing. He really would."
Hardy himself teased, "there's a saying amongst us in the fraternity of acting…that if you talk about it, you're automatically out of the race. So, I can't possibly comment on that one!"
5. Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender has all the qualities we need in a James Bond. He's devilishly handsome, with some bicurious fans nicknaming him "Michael FAST-bender." He's got a way with the ladies, dating Alicia Vikander in real life. And he's also a terrific actor.
Assassin's Creed and X-Men proved he's a capable movie star in big blockbusters. And indie hits like Shame and Hunger, as well as otherwise great, artistic movies like Inglourious Basterds, proved he's more than capable as a serious actor.
In fact, in Basterds, his character had a very Sean Connery-like charisma and presence — and he was a spy. Fassbender himself has shrewdly said that he's "flattered that people are sort of making that link." Excellent!
4. Charlie Hunnam
Charlie Hunnam is a handsome and charismatic British actor, which would make him an ideal James Bond. What makes him particularly special is his edge. There's a real intensity to the guy — check out his portrayal of badass biker Jax in the FX drama Sons of Anarchy.
Okay, he proved somewhat unsuccessful as a movie star this year with that King Arthur movie, but don't forget Pacific Rim did well enough at the box office for a sequel to be commissioned. Bond would succeed with anyone in the role. James Bond sells itself — it's not about star power, because the character himself is the star.
All that matters is finding a talented actor who's fit for the role, and Hunnam is just that. He's sexy, charming, charismatic, and able to handle himself. We've seen him hold a gun and sweet talk a woman with gusto in Sons of Anarchy, so what else do you need? Sign him up!
3. Daisy Ridley
Moviegoers were delightfully surprised by the fierceness of newcomer Daisy Ridley when she played Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And she could do for Bond what she did for Star Wars: inject it with a splash of feminism.
We've covered how there could be a female Bond, just like there's been a female Doctor Who (well, there will be soon) and some female Hamlets — the frame of reference used by 007 producer Barbara Broccoli.
Ridley probably wouldn't have time to lead yet another franchise — or promote.
2. Idris Elba
Idris Elba has just disappointed a lot of people with his dreadfully scant adaptation of Stephen King's ludicrously vast and epic saga, The Dark Tower. The 95-minute movie coasted over just about everything that made the books truly special and great.
But don't blame Idris Elba for that. He didn't direct the movie or write the script, and he did his best with his performance. He's probably everyone's top choice to play James Bond at the moment. It's not even necessarily because he's black and it would be PC to have a black Bond — it's better than that.
People want Idris Elba to play James Bond because he's a fantastic actor — who just so happens to be black. It's a much better and much more PC, if we're going to use that word, reason to want him in the role. Still, Elba probably won't be playing Bond anytime soon: he keeps dismissing the prospect, saying he's "too old" for the role.
1. Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston would be the perfect choice to play James Bond. He's tall, thin, handsome, charming, talented, and oh-so-cool. If he can win over audiences as the jerky bad guy in the Thor movies, then he'll sure be able to win them over as the charming gentleman spy.
He basically already played Bond in the AMC miniseries The Night Manager, as a hotel manager who gets embroiled in an espionage plot involving Hugh Laurie's charismatic billionaire. The character Hiddleston played, Jonathan Pine, was a veiled John le Carré version of James Bond, and he pulled it off brilliantly.
The Guardian's review said of the actor's performance, "as the embodiment of the show's atmosphere of paralyzed establishment glamor, Hiddleston is the business. When the noble beast beneath that accommodating English exterior begins to make itself known, I do find the righteous revenge he's intent on wreaking…compelling."
If 007 producers could just send him an offer, shoot some adrenaline into the Bond franchise, we'll all have a merry Christmas.
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When you are going through a divorce, you need to know what to expect and how you will pay your bills moving forward after the divorce. With child support, there is some predictability, as Michigan uses a formula to calculate the amount of child support, based on the income and needs of the parties and the parenting time schedule, among other factors. There is no such formula to calculate spousal support, also called maintenance or alimony, in Michigan. If you are getting a divorce, your best bet is to work with an experienced alimony and spousal support lawyer.
It is impossible to predict the amount of spousal support you will get in your divorce. In fact, you are not guaranteed to receive any spousal support at all when you divorce in Michigan. The judge will decide on a case-by-case basis if she will order spousal support and if so, how much you will receive.
Since there is no algorithm for Michigan courts to use to calculate spousal support, judges have to look at the totality of the circumstances to determine how much spousal support, if any, is appropriate in a given case. Of course, if you and your spouse can reach an agreement on the issue of spousal support, all the judge has to do is decide if your arrangement is fair and reasonable. If the judge has no objection to your decision, the judge can incorporate your terms into the divorce decree.
When you and your spouse cannot agree on the issue of spousal support, the judge will look at multiple factors to determine if support is appropriate and if so, the just amount. These factors can include:
How long you were married. If you both married in your 40s and have good health and stable careers, but called it quits after just a few years, the judge is unlikely to award spousal support. On the other hand, if you have been married for 30 years and never worked outside the home or you have a debilitating medical condition, the judge is more likely to award spousal support.
Whether you need help in the short-term so you can support yourself. The judge might award spousal support for a limited amount of time so you can complete your education or obtain job skills.
The financial position of you and your spouse following the divorce. After the judge has determined what is marital property and what is separate property, the judge will step back and take a look at the overall picture. If one party is receiving primarily cash property, it will be easier for him to pay his living expenses after the divorce. If the other party is receiving mostly non-income-producing property, that person may need spousal support to maintain cash flow and pay her bills.
The age and health of both parties. These issues speak to each individual's ability to self-support and contribute to the support of the other spouse.
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I believe Edith Prague, the state's new 87-year-old commissioner on aging, when she says she will know when it's time to retire. And right now, that's not anytime soon.
I spent part of a day with Prague last week to see how one of eastern Connecticut's most prominent senators from the last two decades is making out in her new job as head of the state's new Department of Aging.
Before we parted company, I asked her about the grumblings I heard after Gov. Dannel Malloy nominated her for the job, complaints that she is too old.
Of course she had heard those complaints too, often from people who said the appointment was just a lucrative political payback.
"You are never too old as long as you are well and you are willing to work hard and you are committed," Prague, feisty as ever, told me, adding she will know best herself when she needs to leave.
"When I become aware that I can't do the job I will be the first to admit it," she said. "And you can make darned sure I will get someone to replace me who can do the job."
Indeed, Prague is especially well suited to head the new agency.
She was actually the commissioner on aging back in the day when Lowell Weicker, the Republican renegade, was governor. When Weicker made a move to combine the department with the Department of Social Services, Prague refused.
Weicker fired her. That was in 1992. Two years later, she ran for the Senate seat she kept for 18 years, earning a reputation as a stalwart liberal defender of unions, the needy and seniors.
Prague says she believes it was her efforts that led to success in having the Department of Aging reconstituted as a separate state agency.
When I asked about Malloy's invitation to nominate her as the new commissioner, she suggested that was her idea, too, "dropping a few hints around."
She now calls herself the "recycled" commissioner.
She will be an effective commissioner in part, she says, "because it takes a senior to know what a senior needs." Her long time in the legislature will serve her well, because she knows who to call to get things done.
The state needs a Department of Aging now, the commissioner says, because the state's elderly population, more than 600,000 strong, is the fastest growing group in the state.
"We are going to do great things," she said, putting at the top of her agenda transportation initiatives to help the elderly get around better in the many rural areas of the state.
Prague didn't run for reelection to her Senate seat after she suffered a mini stroke on Christmas Day 2011. She said her daughters and doctor persuaded her not to return to the rigors of campaigning, especially in a district that had been slightly reconfigured.
But she said she would run again now, if she were not commissioner.
She was originally scheduled to be sworn in Jan. 8, but on Jan. 4, while walking her dog, she was knocked down by a large boxer. She ended up with a broken pelvis, spending six weeks in a rehabilitation center.
She was eventually sworn in April 19.
"It was hard sitting at home," she said. "I can't do that."
Now she's back to work full time.
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Put that down as one of the primary jobs of the new commissioner on aging: inspiring the aged.


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