Check out shal's review of Panic!
"I wanted to read Panic because I adored Lauren Oliver's Delerium trilogy, and even though this one sounded different, I liked the direction it was going in. The idea of this big game and stunts, and where these two characters could face such things and possibly fall in love along the way intrigued me. Coming from a small town myself, it seemed realistic, and it very well could have been some town tradition that went on there."


The campaign to end fluoridation in Ireland is quickly becoming one of the most exciting fluoride campaigns in the world. Led by the positive creativity of Aisling Fitzgibbon (aka "The Girl Against Fluoride"), the Irish campaign has generated an unprecedented level of public interest and support, and what once seemed impossible (ending fluoridation) now seems within reach.
In recent months, a bill to end fluoridation has been introduced in parliament, a popular Irish magazine (Hot Press) has begun to actively investigate the issue, and Aisling has found a talented team of pro-bono attorneys to mount a bold new legal challenge to the national mandate. The Irish campaigners received an added boost when news surfaced that a parliamentary report calling for an end to fluoridation back in 2007 had been suppressed.
It is now distinctly conceivable that, just as Israel did earlier this year, Ireland could end its fluoridation program. To help make this dream a reality, however, Aisling and the Irish campaigners need our support. That's where The Naked Calendar comes in!
FAN encourages everyone with the means to support this great effort. A victory in Ireland will be a MAJOR blow to fluoridation everywhere, and a great hook to challenge fluoridation in your own community. Good luck Aisling! Go Irish!
It needed something very special to break through the "Dublin Wall" that has protected the forced fluoridation of Ireland's water supplies since 1963. A practice propped up by government propaganda and media acquiescence. Many have tried. Robert Pocock led a valiant battle before he passed away. A group called Dentists Opposed to Fluoridation led by Don McCaulie tried but they were outgunned by the dental establishment. Green MP (and former mayor of Dublin) John Gormley wrote a scathing report but his committee never released it. Declan Waugh, an environmental scientist, has recently published reams of paper documenting the dangers of fluoridation but once again has been treated with disdain and denial by the government's "Dublin Wall." Fluoridation, it would seem, must go on in Ireland for some unexplained reason.
But then there were two strikes and they came from the same source. A schoolteacher who persuaded her class to study the issue, and they did — and they did more: they formed the group Kids Against Fluoride. A very creative group that sports a blue glove with an anti-fluoride sign on the palm. By holding their hands up, singly or en masse, they get the message across, "It's time to stop fluoridation." The same schoolteacher also blessed Ireland with a 24 year old daughter named Aisling Fitzgibbon. Like Lady Godiva, this "Girl Against Fluoride" has taken off her clothes to reveal the truth. And like the character in Hans Christian Anderson has revealed that it is not her that has no clothes on but the "Emperor of Fluoridation"–the Ministry of Health itself. She is persuading many other young women and even legislators to do the same – and memorializing the naked truth in a calendar.
Aisling not only has an eye for the kind of creative approaches that can capture the imagination of the public, but she is very well-informed on the in's and out's of the fluoridation issue. She is very bright and articulate and more than held her own on national radio against the most slippery of Irish propagandists for fluoridation, Dr. Joe Mullen.
With the new Israeli Minister of Health announcing an end to mandatory fluoridation in Israel, surely Ireland must be next. If it is, the Irish people will have to thank Aisling Fitzgibbon and her mother for their energy and creativity in this matter. The Dublin wall is coming down.


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Q: What's the most efficient way to retrieve all matching documents from a query in Lucene, unsorted? I am looking to perform a query for the purposes of maintaining internal integrity; for example, removing all traces of a particular field/value from the index. Therefore it's important that I find all matching documents (not just the top n docs), but the order they are returned in is irrelevant.
According to the docs, it looks like I need to use the Searcher.Search( Query, Collector ) method, but there's no built in Collector class that does what I need.
Should I derive my own Collector for this purpose? What do I need to keep in mind when doing that?

A: Turns out this was a lot easier than I expected. I just used the example implementation at http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_0/api/core/org/apache/lucene/search/Collector.html and recorded the doc numbers passed to the Collect() method in a List, exposing this as a public Docs property.
I then simply iterate this property, passing the number back to the Searcher to get the proper Document:
var searcher = new IndexSearcher( reader );
var collector = new IntegralCollector(); // my custom Collector
searcher.Search( query, collector );
var result = new Document[ collector.Docs.Count ];
for ( int i = 0; i < collector.Docs.Count; i++ )
    result[ i ] = searcher.Doc( collector.Docs[ i ] );
searcher.Close(); // this is probably not needed
reader.Close();

So far it seems to be working fine in preliminary tests.
Update: Here's the code for IntegralCollector:
internal class IntegralCollector: Lucene.Net.Search.Collector {
    private int _docBase;

    private List<int> _docs = new List<int>();
    public List<int> Docs {
        get { return _docs; }
    }

    public override bool AcceptsDocsOutOfOrder() {
        return true;
    }

    public override void Collect( int doc ) {
        _docs.Add( _docBase + doc );
    }

    public override void SetNextReader( Lucene.Net.Index.IndexReader reader, int docBase ) {
        _docBase = docBase;
    }

    public override void SetScorer( Lucene.Net.Search.Scorer scorer ) {
    }
}

A: No need to write a hit collector if you're just looking to get all the Document objects in the index.  Just loop from 0 to maxDoc() and call reader.document() on each doc id, making sure to skip documents that are already deleted:
for (int i=0; i<reader.maxDoc(); i++) {
   if (reader.isDeleted(i))
      continue;
   results[i] = reader.document(i);
}

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Q: How to upload (client-side) & read CSV "abstract" data on D3? I'm actually stuck on my researches. I'd like to create some graphs using D3 (like bar-chart) from CSV files just by uploading them.
I've found something very interesting (http://bl.ocks.org/cjrd/6863459), but, it's using JSON, and each information in the file is clearly identified by a name (nodes, edges).
I did something like that :
    d3.select("#upload-input").on("click", function(){
    document.getElementById("hidden-file-upload").click();
});
d3.select("#hidden-file-upload").on("change", function(){
    if (window.File && window.FileReader && window.FileList && window.Blob) {
        //Files vars
        var uploadFile = this.files[0];
        var filereader = new window.FileReader();

        filereader.onload = function(){
            //Txt file output
            var txtRes = filereader.result;
            try{
                //TODO Read CSV
                var data = d3.csv.parse(txtRes);

But i'm now stuck with this method (d3.csv.parse()).
Imagine a CSV like this :
   chr19_pos17941294_SNV_C_JAK3;chr2_pos216242917_SNV_A_FN1;chr21_pos46320313_SNV_T_ITGB2;chr5_pos138266546_SNV_A_CTNNA1;chr6_pos160468278_SNV_G_IGF2R
   15;11;21;11;41;31

(It's DNA genes & how many patients do have them).
So, first, how to use the parsing method ? And, secondly, how to catch each column name correctly ?
I thought something like that would work to access the names:
data[0]

But, I made some tests, it's not I just get JSON object.

A: Looks like you're not loading a CSV (C=comma) but an "SSV" (S=semi-colon). d3.csv.parse assumes it's getting an actual csv, so you can't use it. However, d3 has a lower level object — which d3.csv uses behind the scenes — that can parse any DSV (D=delimeter). It's called d3.dsv, and it's documented here. So your code can do something like
    filereader.onload = function(){
        //Txt file output
        var txtRes = filereader.result;
        // Init the "SSV" parser, which splits data on semi-colons
        var parser = d3.dsv(';')
        try{
            // Parse the data
            var data = parser.parse(txtRes);

Based on your example data, the parsed data will be:
[
    {
        "chr19_pos17941294_SNV_C_JAK3": "15",
        "chr2_pos216242917_SNV_A_FN1": "11",
        "chr21_pos46320313_SNV_T_ITGB2": "21",
        "chr5_pos138266546_SNV_A_CTNNA1": "11",
        "chr6_pos160468278_SNV_G_IGF2R": "41"
    }
]


A new report paints a positive picture for WebRTC, but the technology is not without its challenges as companies like Google, Facebook and Twilio seek to make it the industry standard for real-time communications.
A recent report by Persistence Market Research outlines several reasons why WebRTC adoption should grow in the next couple years.
First, WebRTC is free and available worldwide, making it affordable and accessible for developers of all types that need to include real-time communications. WebRTC also is cross-platform, giving it added universiality.
With heightened concern about security recently, WebRTC also is attracting attention for its encryption by default. While many VoIP and UC platforms offer encryption, not all come with it enabled out of the box. WebRTC has encryption at its core, making it better suited for firms that worry about the security of their communications services.
Further, the report found that WebRTC can adapt to various network conditions and is interoperable with VoIP and UC solutions, making it easier to integrate with existing communications infrastructure.
The report says that retail and healthcare are two industries with high demand for WebRTC as direct communication with customers is of immense importance in these industries.
WebRTC is not without its challenges, though. One key restraint with WebRTC, the report noted, was that it is associate with the public internet and therefore suffers from a lack of service guarantees; if there is a network slowdown, WebRTC breaks.
While WebRTC does suffer from the same quality of service issues that other real-time communication technologies that use the public internet face, this is not the big stumbling block that it might be. Since WebRTC is an open standard, a number of firms have already rallied around the technology to fix most issues with the technology that might hinder adoption. There are already companies that offer quality of service guarantees for WebRTC for a price, and other firms also have come on the stage to offer things like easier integration and plugins when browser support is not available.
The promise of WebRTC is huge, even as some of the kinks are being worked out.


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Frankie Rayder
Full Name Heidi Rayder
Measurements 34-25-34 (US)
Spouse Flea (m. 2005)
Other names Heidi Rayder
Name Frankie Rayder
Hair color Dark brown
Children Sunny Bebop Balzary
Born January 26, 1975 (age 40) (1975-01-26) River Falls, Wisconsin, United States
Partner(s) Michael Balzary (2004–present)
Siblings Missy Rayder, Molly Rayder
Similar People Missy Rayder, Flea, Kate Moss, Angela Lindvall, Carmen Kass
Education River Falls High School
Francesca "Frankie" Rayder (born Heidi Rayder; January 26, 1975) is an American model who appeared in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show four times and in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue twice. She has an extensive portfolio of covergirl appearances for numerous high fashion magazines and was once a VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards for Model of the Year nominee. She has performed in many runway shows and has been featured in numerous print ad campaigns. At the peak of her fame, she was an it girl according to The New York Times and GQ once named her the Sexiest Woman in the World.
Frankie rayder backstage at alexander wang ss 2010
Notable affiliations and appearances
She is well known for her print work for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues (including the 40th Anniversary), The Gap holiday ads (along with her sisters), a Godiva Chocolatier ad campaign and the 50th anniversary Ann Taylor ad campaign. She has appeared on the cover of US Vogue, Vogue Paris, Vogue Italia, British Vogue, German Vogue and Vogue España.
Rayder was engaged to Red Hot Chili Peppers bass player, Flea, with whom she has one child. After giving birth in 2005, she took a hiatus from modeling until 2008. At first, she only returned to print work, but she has also returned to runway modeling in 2009. In her comeback, she achieved a Vogue España cover in February 2009. She has a younger sister, Missy Rayder, who is also a fashion model.
Rayder was born in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she was known as Heidi Rayder. As a teenager, she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, a large city close to her home town, where she was first approached by a model scout who spurred her interest in the industry. Her first major success came in 1992, when she met photographer Steven Meisel. Meisel booked her for a photo session, which became the first of many. Rayder's first session were soon featured in the magazine Italian Glamour. She is a graduate of River Falls High School, where she played for the basketball team, and she began her modeling career with Caryn Modeling & Talent Agency in Minneapolis. She worked at a golf clubhouse in her youth. She was given the stage name Francesca to seem more exotic.
Rayder made her Paris runway debut on the 1997 fall runway for designers like Chanel, Christian Lacroix, and Dries van Noten. In 1998, she was in high demand and her booking prices were sometimes bid up to $25,000 by clients hoping to pay her enough to cancel other appearances. In 1999, she became the face of Givenchy and Meisel photographed her for Dolce & Gabbana and Versace ad campaigns. In the fall of 2000, The New York Times referred to her and her sister collectively as the famous Rayder Sisters. At the same time, it also described Frankie as an it girl.
In 1999, she became the face of Givenchy. During Fashion Week 1999 in New York City, Rayder was booked solid for four or five shows a day for designers such as Marc Jacobs, Badgley Mischka, Daryl K, Tommy Hilfiger and John Bartlett in typical day. In 2000, she was one of the top-priced models. That season she modelled in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Later that year she was a nominee at the 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards for Model of the year along with Gisele Bündchen, Carmen Kass, Angela Lindvall, and Maggie Rizer, but Kass was the winner after defending-winner Bundchen withdrew to host the show.
In 2003 she became the face of Chanel. Rayder worked New York Fashion Week for top designers for several years. During the 40h Anniversary Swimsuit Issue shooting, Stewart Shining photographed Rayder. Rayder is, along with Cheryl Tiegs and Melissa Keller, one of several models associated with Minnesota who have made a name in the Swimsuit Issue. She has also appeared in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003 Victoria's Secret fashion shows and a cameo role in the 2001 movie Zoolander. In the early 2000s, GQ named her the Sexiest Woman in the World.
In 2004, she was one of the featured models (along with Linda Evangelista, Patti Hansen and her daughters Alexandra and Theodora Richards, Twiggy, and Beverly Johnson) in the 50-model 50th Anniversary Ann Taylor ad campaign photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Rayder was also mentioned in the press for several months for an ad campaign for Godiva Chocolatier. In 2005, she appeared in ads, which also included models such as Sophie Dahl, and Anouck Lepere, where the models posed lovingly with chocolate goods for Valentine's Day in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle. The promotion was for chocolate products that came with a "lottery" ticket that potentially could give the buyer 52 pairs of Manolo Blahnik shoes, including one custom-designed by Blahnik himself. The ads began receiving publicity in the fall of 2004.
Between 2004 and 2009, Rayder took a hiatus from runway modeling. She returned to the stage in New York in February 2009 for the Fall 2009 show. She had previously made a return to print work in fall 2008 advertisement campaigns for both Stella McCartney and Roberto Cavalli and for the 2008 Gap holiday campaign. Rayder also became part of The Gap's United States and Japan 2009 spring/summer campaigns. As part of her comeback, Rayder performed covergirl work for the February 2009 Vogue España and one of fourteen alternative covers for the September 2008 V magazine.
Following her success, Rayder traveled to Miami Beach, New York, Paris, London, and Milan, working for a number of agencies such as Company, Women Model Management, Page 305, City Models, Take Two, Storm, and Why Not. Her advertisement portfolio includes Givenchy, Valentino, Lagerfeld, Chanel, Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, DKNY, Gap, and Tommy Hilfiger. Rayder has also worked for designers such as Anne Klein, Matthew Williamson, Zac Posen, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Carolina Herrera, and Michael Kors, and appeared in a number of magazines, including Elle, Vogue, The Face, Photo, Harper's Bazaar, Allure, Rebel, and Marie Claire. Her magazine cover credits include: US Vogue (November 2000), Vogue Paris (April 1999), Vogue Italia (January 1999), British Vogue (April 1999, July 1999, November 1999, January 2001), German Vogue (September 1997, May 2000), Vogue España (July 2000, January 2004, February 2009), Vogue South Korea (December 2000), Vogue Brazil (September 2000), Elle France (August 2000), Elle United States (August 2000), and Elle Germany (September 1992). She was also featured in the 2004 (40th Anniversary) and 2005 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She appeared in the video for Phoenix's "Funky Squaredance," which was directed by her then-boyfriend Roman Coppola.
In 2002 Rayder was falsely linked to Nicolas Cage after his relationship with Lisa Marie Presley ended and when she was dating his cousin Roman Coppola. Her relationship with Coppola was widely chronicled and serious; that year, she was close to marrying the son of Francis Ford Coppola by some accounts. Early in her career Frankie and her sister Missy lived across the street from each other. They were featured together on the May 2000 cover of Harper's Bazaar. The Rayder sisters (along with a third sister named Molly) appeared in holiday advertisements for Gap as siblings in 2003 to the tune of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart". In later years, Missy and Frankie appeared in Gap holiday advertisements as a pair.
In 2004, Rayder started dating Red Hot Chili Peppers' bass player, Michael "Flea" Balzary. In January 2005 the couple publicly announced their engagement. On October 26, 2005 Rayder gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Sunny Bebop Balzary. Flea's former bandmate, John Frusciante, is Sunny's godfather. The song, "Hard to Concentrate" from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' 2006 album, Stadium Arcadium was written by Anthony Kiedis as a wedding proposal for Flea and Rayder.
There are a total of four Rayder sisters and they have one brother and her father continued to live in River Falls in 2004. Rayder and Balzary live together in Malibu, California. Some sources state that the couple have married, but no official confirmation is available.
In the September 2010 issue of C magazine, Frankie is featured with a group of women friends known as "The L.A. Ladies Choir" which meets at her and Flea's house in Los Feliz. The article goes on to mention that Flea is her husband and that he joins the women's group playing bass. The choir's group is coming out with their first album in September named "Joyfully."
Rayder is a knowledgeable Boston Red Sox fan, and she is also a Green Bay Packers fan. Rayder has volunteered her time for programs for youth in the arts. Rayder has a tattoo on her back.
Frankie Rayder Wikipedia
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Q: Converting QGIS2 Plugins to QGIS3 I am trying to convert a QGIS2 Plugin to QGIS3; specifically the Quickfinder plugin (I am aware of QGIS3 Locator and no I do not feel it provides the same or similar capability just thought I would get that out of the way). I used a Python 27 to Python3 converter to check the code and I changed some import module lines and qt4 to qt5 and resolved some initial errors.
The error I am getting now is

no module named 'core' C:...\qgis-ltr./python\qgis\utils.py line 335.

Can anyone help me understand this one and where I would start looking for to fix it?


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Källor

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Optimizing data is a key challenge in any business intelligence strategy which gets even more daunting in a world where unstructured data, big data, and containers are exploding. The role played by data engines and servers can be quite significant here.
Data professionals and IT teams who want to solve the challenges of data management in the current set of big data complexities.
Data is no more trapped in a structure or a device. It is proliferating across platforms in both structured and unstructured ways. The latest SQL Server scenario embraces the shifts brought by containers, Hadoop, and big data clusters. This whitepaper lists down some noteworthy changes that make relational database engines serve an enterprise's business intelligence strategy with utmost confidence. It captures the evolution of database management to corresponding changes in data generation and storage.
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Strengthening support for Linux and Spark were notable moves in this version of SQL server that was rolled out as a preview some months back. However, it remains to be seen if, and how well, containerized server instances and Linux adoption would aid Microsoft in this market ahead. Migration challenges, availability of apt skills, and Azure alternatives remain key concerns for many enterprises.
Want to know about SQL servers from the dimensions of performance, BI, and compliance? download this whitepaper by Microsoft now!


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Q: logic AND function on array with arbitrary/variable N values I am stuck with a huge problem. I have a dynamic array that may contain anything between 0 and N values (for simplicity of the question, assume they are all boolean e.g. 0 or 1). Of course, once an array is defined/read, the number of values is not unknown anymore. And, I can exclude two trivial cases easily at the start: 0 (empty) and single value array.
What is left is the case of 2+ values inside an array and a need to perform logical AND operation on all of them.
For example:
$array = array
(
    $a,
    $b,
    $c,
    .
    .
    .
    $n
);

    $logical_function = $a && $b && $c && ... && $n;

Is this even possible to do somehow in PHP? I know how to generate dynamic / variable variables names from an array, but how do I write the AND part function?
Thanks

A: If just one of the array element is false, the result will be false. So you can skip inspecting other elements when facing one false:
$result = true;
foreach($array as $arr)
{
    if($arr)
      $result = true;
    else
    {
      $result = false;
      break;
    }
}
return $result;

A: Here:
function logicalAnd(array $arr)
{
    $result = true;
    foreach($arr as $element)
    {
        $result = $result && $element;
        if (!$result) { return false; }
    }
    return $result
}


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Love Lives
Candace Cameron Bure Shares Her and Valeri Bure's Marriage 'Secret' on 25th Anniversary: 'Grace. Communication. Sex. Laughter'
Courtesy of Candace Cameron Bure/Instagram
The look of love! Candace Cameron Bure gushed over her husband, Valeri Bure, on their 25th wedding anniversary.
"25 years🙌🏼!! 🙏🏻 Praise the Lord for His faithfulness and, in humility, our willingness to trust Him and allow those who've gone before us and those who haven't but know God's Word to speak into us," the Fuller House actress, 45, wrote via Instagram on Friday, June 25, after hitting the marriage milestone three days prior. "And grateful for every other bit of solid advice and encouragement in between😭."
The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries star noted that she's "often" asked for marriage advice, joking that she'll "never write a book" about the so-called "secret" to a strong union. She did, however, share her and Bure's keys to making their romance stick more than two decades after tying the knot.
"Grace. Grace. Grace. Communication (which is so important but difficult when one partner isn't willing.)," she wrote. "Sex. Laughter. Patience. Lots of patience. Love (a verb. which must be put into action, it's not just a feeling.)"
The California native, who shares sons Lev, 21, and Maksim, 19, and daughter Natasha, 22, with the former hockey player, 47, revealed, "No marriage is picture perfect. Not one. And certainly not ours."
She added: "But through thick and thin, ups and downs, God has blessed us tremendously with guidance and perseverance. I believe God is the secret sauce 😉. I have more love for this man today than the day we married each other 🙌🏼❤ And I know he does for me ❤❤. Praise the Lord 🙌🏼."
The Christmas Town actress, who celebrated her anniversary with the former NHL player at the Casa Palmero resort in Pebble Beach, California, later shared a video with her husband talking about their relationship.
"My advice is give your life to Jesus. Without him, no marriage is working, or life in general," Bure said in the clip, revealing his own "secret" to a lasting marriage. "Thank you, Jesus."
The Russian athlete then joked that his wife was "missing everything behind the camera" as the pair sat side by side on the beach during the romantic getaway.
When Cameron Bure asked her husband what he thought was her favorite thing about him, he quipped, "Nothing! I don't know." The actress joked, "I like that you're kind of mean."
Bure revealed that his love "uses" him when she "wants me to be mean," which got a laugh from the mother of three. "I love that you love me," she concluded.
Scroll down to see the couple's anniversary trip, including the matching sweatshirts Cameron Bure had made for the occasion:
Credit: Courtesy of Candace Cameron Bure/Instagram
The look of love! Candace Cameron Bure gushed over her husband, Valeri Bure, on their 25th wedding anniversary. "25 years🙌🏼!! 🙏🏻 Praise the Lord for His faithfulness and, in humility, our willingness to trust Him and allow those who've gone before us and those who haven't but know God's Word to speak into us," the Fuller House actress, 45, wrote via Instagram on Friday, June 25, after hitting the marriage milestone three days prior. "And grateful for every other bit of solid advice and encouragement in between😭." The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries star noted that she's "often" asked for marriage advice, joking that she'll "never write a book" about the so-called "secret" to a strong union. She did, however, share her and Bure's keys to making their romance stick more than two decades after tying the knot. "Grace. Grace. Grace. Communication (which is so important but difficult when one partner isn't willing.)," she wrote. "Sex. Laughter. Patience. Lots of patience. Love (a verb. which must be put into action, it's not just a feeling.)" The California native, who shares sons Lev, 21, and Maksim, 19, and daughter Natasha, 22, with the former hockey player, 47, revealed, "No marriage is picture perfect. Not one. And certainly not ours." She added: "But through thick and thin, ups and downs, God has blessed us tremendously with guidance and perseverance. I believe God is the secret sauce 😉. I have more love for this man today than the day we married each other 🙌🏼❤ And I know he does for me ❤❤. Praise the Lord 🙌🏼." [jwplayer mjJfSedu-l3ahXupL] The Christmas Town actress, who celebrated her anniversary with the former NHL player at the Casa Palmero resort in Pebble Beach, California, later shared a video with her husband talking about their relationship. "My advice is give your life to Jesus. Without him, no marriage is working, or life in general," Bure said in the clip, revealing his own "secret" to a lasting marriage. "Thank you, Jesus." The Russian athlete then joked that his wife was "missing everything behind the camera" as the pair sat side by side on the beach during the romantic getaway. When Cameron Bure asked her husband what he thought was her favorite thing about him, he quipped, "Nothing! I don't know." The actress joked, "I like that you're kind of mean." Bure revealed that his love "uses" him when she "wants me to be mean," which got a laugh from the mother of three. "I love that you love me," she concluded. Scroll down to see the couple's anniversary trip, including the matching sweatshirts Cameron Bure had made for the occasion: [podcast_block]
Power Couple
The duo cozied up together on the sands of Pebble Beach, California.
The A Shoe Addict's Christmas star had custom sweatshirts made for her anniversary.
Happy Wife
Cameron Bure was all smiles in between spa sessions and beach time.
The couple enjoyed a beach getaway on their 25th anniversary.
Woman of the Hour
Cameron Bure posed outside the resort, wearing a big sun hat and summer dress.
The actress soaked up the sun while on vacation.
The pair shared a smooch before heading back to reality.
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As drug deaths surge, one answer might be helping people get high more safely
By Brian Mann
Justin Tang for NPR
Max, last name withheld, is shown at a Recovery Care clinic where he is a client, in Ottawa, Ontario, on Wednesday, June 29, 2022.
OTTAWA, Ontario — On a weekday afternoon, Max — who didn't want his last name used — sat on a plastic chair in a private clinic in downtown Ottawa waiting to get a supply of the drug he uses to get high.
"I used to be a complete mess before I got on this program," he said. "I used to inject a gram of meth every day three times a day."
Max is a fragile-looking man, 26 years old, who has been injecting methamphetamines for more than a decade. He doesn't have a permanent home and still gets high on the streets.
But instead of buying high-risk drugs, often laced with fentanyl and other chemicals by dealers, he injects stable doses of Ritalin prescribed by a doctor and dispensed by a pharmacist.
He receives this controversial form of addiction care, known as "safe supply," every week. The program is funded in large part by government insurance programs and closely monitored by Canadian health officials.
Max says with this kind of medical supervision, his overall drug use has declined sharply: "I've gone dramatically down. I've made big progress since last year."
This program, operated by a private company called Recovery Care, is part of a growing network of healthcare services across Canada pushing the boundaries of the public health response to an overdose crisis killing record numbers of people.
The goal of this kind of treatment, often described as harm reduction, is to reduce the catastrophic surge of drug deaths — not by ending illicit drug use but by helping people get high more safely.
Max joined the program in Ottawa after an overdose nearly killed him.
"I got on safe supply after I came out of the ICU, and I'm pretty sure it saved my life," he told NPR.
/ Justin Tang for NPR
Equipment for clients, including syringes and elastic bands, on a cabinet in the staff station at the Trailer.
Physician assistant Saskia Knol touches a patient's hand as they talk in the Recovery Care mobile health unit van, outside an Ottawa Community Housing residence.
A tsunami of drug deaths prompts a shift in addiction care
For decades, the overwhelming majority of addiction treatment, in the United States and Canada, focused on urging people toward abstinence and long-term recovery.
But research shows tens of millions of people in both countries actively use drugs. At any given time, most of those active users, like Max, aren't ready or able to quit.
Meanwhile, the supply of street drugs has grown far more treacherous.
Most illicit opioids and stimulants are now heavily laced with fentanyl, benzodiazepines and other deadly chemicals.
As a consequence, drug deaths across North America have roughly doubled over the last five years. In the U.S., a record 107,000 people died from overdoses in 2021.
Canada's per capita death rate was lower, but a record 7,560 people suffered fatal overdoses the same year.
Critics say focusing healthcare on those willing or able to stop getting high leaves huge numbers of active drug-users profoundly vulnerable.
"We've seen abstinence being forced on people, and it just doesn't work," said Dr. Charles Breau, a physician who helped pioneer Ottawa's safe supply program.
Breau now writes prescriptions every month for hundreds of patients.
People like Max use his medications, paid for by Canada's public health system, to achieve the euphoric high they crave without purchasing toxic drugs from street dealers.
"It's about survival," Breau said. "I feel like we're helping a lot more people by keeping them alive so we can offer care. This should have happened at the start, when the overdose epidemic started."
The Canadian government has concluded these programs are helping keep people alive.
Dr. Charles Breau, substance use lead at Ottawa Inner City Health, Monfort Hospital, and Recovery Care.
Pushing the boundaries of "harm reduction"
In the U.S., less ambitious forms of harm reduction are now fairly common.
Needle exchange programs are widespread, helping people avoid diseases such as HIV/AIDS and hepatitis. Many communities have begun dispensing Naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses.
Acceptance of these programs has been driven in part by the grim scale of the public health crisis.
"We have an American perishing every five minutes around the clock and that is unacceptable," said Dr. Rahul Gupta, head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in an interview with NPR.
"We know there is so much we need to do, making sure we save lives with harm reduction such as Naloxone," Gupta said.
The Canadian experiment in harm reduction goes much further.
With support and oversight from the Canadian government, most major cities, from Vancouver to Montreal, now offer a safety-net for people actively using high-risk drugs.
That includes ready access to Naloxone. People can also receive prescription drugs to get high. They can also use street drugs in supervised consumption sites.
Outreach programs bring safe "gear" — syringes, smoking pipes and other drug paraphernalia — into the community, so people can use drugs without spreading disease.
Physician assistant Saskia Knol prepares to work in the Recovery Care mobile health unit van, outside an Ottawa Community Housing residence.
Physician assistant Saskia Knol and addictions counselor Jimmy Massey in front of the Recovery Care mobile health unit van in Ottawa, Ontario.
While receiving these services, patients are offered other healthcare, along with access to housing and counseling.
Those ready to enter full recovery are guided toward rehabilitation clinics and offered medical treatments that can ease withdrawal.
"We see people in a vulnerable state. We see people who are just raw," said physician assistant Saskia Knol, part of a mobile outreach team that operates an addiction care clinic in a van.
Knol said her goal isn't to get the people she cares for off street drugs in the short term. "That's not going to happen," she said.
But she believes this kind of front-line addiction care is helping; and she rejects criticism that harm reduction might encourage illicit drug use.
"Giving someone a clean needle is not going to kill an active user. In fact, it's going to do the opposite," she said.
"There is no recovery if you're dead"
Anne Marie Hopkins, who runs an addiction program called Ottawa Inner City Health, said the basic philosophy of this harm reduction approach is simple: "There is no recovery if you're dead."
Anne Marie Hopkins, director of Operations at Ottawa Inner City Health, stands behind the staff desks at the supervised consumption and treatment facility.
Ottawa Inner City Health operates a clinic where people come daily to inject street drugs under medical supervision.
On a recent day, a half-dozen people sat in small booths — like the study desks in a library — getting high. A team of nurses and other care workers watched closely for signs of overdose.
"The individual in that booth is under a very mild overdose," Hopkins said, pointing to a woman slumped forward in a chair.
"We're just going to pop her on just a little bit of oxygen, probably a very low level, to make sure she doesn't dip down further."
This kind of addiction care can appear jarring. Hopkins pointed to a booth where a nurse knelt, helping a man find a vein in his arm so he could successfully inject and get high.
"For us that's harm reduction," Hopkins said. "If we don't assist that, what we were seeing over and over again was people injecting in veins that were much more dangerous — like for example the jugular."
This kind of medical care is unavailable for the overwhelming majority of people using drugs in the U.S. and would be illegal in most states.
But in interviews with NPR, people getting high at the Ottawa clinic described the program as a lifeline.
"The staff here are very special people, to come and be here with us and for us," said a middle-aged woman named Shelly, who also asked her last name not be used.
Shelly has battled addiction for decades and now comes to Ottawa's supervised injection site regularly to take opioids. She said getting high on the street has grown far more deadly.
"I see it every day, I see overdoses. Many, many friends have lost their lives," Shelly said.
A woman prepares a syringe before getting high at the Trailer, a supervised consumption and treatment facility operated by Ottawa Inner City Health.
A woman puts on makeup after injecting street drugs at the Trailer, a supervised consumption and treatment facility operated by Ottawa Inner City Health.
Addiction experts and policy makers in the US are watching
Preliminary data suggests Canada's harm-reduction programs are working, helping reduce overdose deaths.
But even many advocates for safe supply and supervised consumption sites say more research is needed to determine the long-term effectiveness of these strategies.
Meanwhile, as drugs deaths surge, policy experts in the U.S. are watching the Canadian experiment with a mix of hope and skepticism.
"There is a tremendous number of Americans at risk for an overdose who will not go into treatment, or at least they're not going to go into treatment right now," said Dr. Brian Hurley, an addiction physician with the Los Angeles County Public Health Department.
"If we say, 'Let's wait until they're ready [for abstinence-focused treatment],' they might be dead."
Hurley, who is slated to take over next year as head of the influential American Society of Addiction Medicine, said he's not yet convinced it makes sense to prescribe drugs so people can get high more safely.
But ASAM has endorsed the idea of supervised consumption sites, like the ones in Canada, opening across the U.S.
"I think we should see more communities start and test safe consumption sites, see what works and what doesn't, and make modifications, in order to bring these to scale," Hurley said.
Keith Humphreys, a leading addiction researcher at Stanford University, is more critical of the Canadian approach.
According to Humphreys, opening enough supervised drug-use sites in the U.S. to help large numbers of people would be costly and controversial, diverting funds from other, more well-established forms of treatment.
He also believes safe supply drugs programs are likely to be abused, with prescription medications sold on the black market.
The Shepherds of Good Hope, which provides services to people experiencing homelessness and is the site of the Trailer, a supervised consumption and treatment facility operated by Ottawa Inner City Health.
"When you start distributing opioids in the community, [people] will in some cases sell them and initiate new people onto drugs and those people will overdose," Humphreys said.
Despite these concerns, efforts are under way to provide more medical support to people using drugs in the U.S.:
Two supervised injection sites opened last year in New York City, with approval from local officials. State and federal agencies have allowed the clinics to operate, and care providers say they've already helped reverse hundreds of potentially lethal overdoses.
California's legislature approved a pilot program this year that would have opened similar clinics in Los Angeles, San Francisco and other major cities. The plan was vetoed in August by the state's Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The U.S. Justice Department is negotiating with a group that hopes to open a supervised injection clinic in Philadelphia. If such a program were to win approval from the federal government's top law enforcement agency, it would signal a major policy shift.
"We're chasing a crisis"
Canada's embrace of harm reduction is more ambitious than in the U.S., but the debate over how to help people actively using drugs remains volatile in both countries.
"There's a division and sometimes a really harsh division," said Donna Sarrazin, head of an Ottawa-based program called Recovery Care, which provides a wide variety of medical care to people using street drugs.
In part, this divide reflects a grudging shift in how substance use disorder is viewed. For decades, drug-users in Canada and the U.S. have been criminalized, often sent to prison rather than offered treatment.
A staff member speaks with a client as they sit in a booth at the Trailer.
Donna Sarrazin, the managing partner at Recovery Care, sits in the doorway of the clinic's mobile health unit.
While addiction is now widely recognized as a treatable illness, experts say stigma remains, complicating the public health response.
Here in Canada, front-line addiction workers offering services like supervised injection sites and prescription narcotics say they face a backlash from the community and others in healthcare — who sometimes compare them to drug dealers.
In interviews with NPR, those same care providers suggested the rest of the healthcare system will have to join them quickly, offering more medical care to active drug users, if the two countries hope to stem the epidemic of overdose deaths.
"We're chasing a crisis," Sarrazin said. "I don't see an end in sight. No matter how progressive we are or cutting edge or how much we're doing, it doesn't feel like enough."
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Feel USA: Lazercrotch
Smells like USA. Feel the true spirit of American pop music in short (but not a dwarf) playlist by John Calvin Murphy aka Lazercrotch, skweee producer from Portland.
Les Baxter. Pioneer of early Exotica music and an early believer in the theremin, which is basically the first synthesizer. Baxter scored many films and his music embodies 50's & 60's science fiction as well as America's fascination with tropical paradises and all things primitive during that era. While Exotica music did enjoy somewhat of a revival in the 1990's, it was short-lived and I do not believe this music receives the credit it deserves. Many write it off as "easy listening" but it is much deeper than that.
Martin Denny. Another master of Exotica who got his start playing Tiki music for soldiers in World War II era Hawaii. His music harkened back to the primitive and members of his band synthesized bird calls and animal sounds with their own voices, blending it in with bongo drums and other hand percussion while Denny tickled the piano. He would also adopt the Moog synthesizer, reimagining some of his otherworldly numbers on the album "Exotic Moog".
James Brown. I had heard some funky music before I heard James Brown, but I don't think I really understood Funk until I really listened to James Brown. His music is so potent and it injects itself immediately into your spirit and can make a toaster or a trash can look sexy. His influence can be found all over and exists even when it's not on the surface. The feeling and energy he brought has never been repeated and probably will never be.
John Carpenter. As if making all of those amazing 80's horror films was not enough, this man also made the soundtracks to many of them with synthesizers. In doing so he has helped bring synthesizers to the forefront of our culture. Many musicians, myself included, have been influenced by this "music" that wasn't necessarily intended to be music in the first place. I got a chance to see Mr. Carpenter playing many of his compositions live with his son, Cody, and a small band of younger musicians (drums, bass, guitar) this year and it was incredible! His sense of humor was remarkable and something that I think is very important to retain not only in music but with life in general. Skweee has this quality. It doesn't take itself too seriously
Herbie Hancock. A jazz legend but also an early visionary of the synthesizer, he often brought an affection for synthesizer technology to his already brilliant compositions. That resulted in him always being at the forefront or cutting edge of music. "Rockit" is sort of an 80's anthem to me.
Zapp & Roger. Sort of like James Brown in outer space, Roger Troutman and Zapp might be the funkiest thing that ever happened. Unfortunately, Roger was gunned down by his brother over some bullshit. Thankfully he left us with several funky albums that are just dripping with synth bass, glistening vocoder vocals, and the best clap ever.
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Общайтесь с хохотунами. Смотрите комедии. Танцуйте по любому поводу и без повода.
Петр Мамонов
Любое дело мимо любви — это мимо Бога. А мимо Бога — это мимо вообще.
Владимир Сорокин
Парадокс: если все советское время шло обыдление масс, то сейчас идет обыдление элит.
Винсент Галло — я против всех меньшинств!
Я против всех меньшинств, которые борются за то, чтобы стать частью мейнстрима.
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Человеку, у которого есть внутренние ограничения, можно давать свободу внешнюю.


How tall is a kitchen table? You must find the answer to this question before opting to buy a new table for the kitchen.
A small kitchen for many is a big problem. After all, the working areas, stove, sink, various cabinets, shelves, refrigerator and, if possible, a dining area should fit here.
And it's good if you have ten square meters at your disposal. Where, then, should you put the table, how to arrange the chairs? We have a couple of great tips! First of all, you must know how tall is a kitchen table?
How tall is a kitchen table?
Before beginning your search, you should calculate the range of measurements of kitchen tables that can fit into your kitchen based on design principles, which can vary between round, square and rectangle table sizes.
In addition to considering how many people you want to sit, the size of the kitchen table should also allow enough space for people to pass, fit into the size of the kitchen to create a visual balance.
In the kitchen, there should not only be space for the table and chairs but also that if the table has extendable areas and what they measure.
Each person should have a comfortable space to move and sit in a proper and comfortable way, without cramped and tight.
When the users are seated, there must be a space behind their seat, enough so that another person can pass freely; they can be at least fifty or sixty centimeters.
The table must be carefully placed so that it does not invade the work area, this way you will avoid accidents, discomfort, and spots where they should not fall.
To calculate the kitchen table that you need, you will draw a small plan with your kitchen, write the measurements and try to locate the table with the margins of step that I have explained previously.
Each person needs to be able to sit at the table, about 50cm wide and in the background another 50cm or so, when sitting near the table and away we will add 40cm more.
The round kitchen tables provide more places for the users. they can sit down to it normally between 4 and 8 diners. The rectangular ones help to size the kitchen, due to its different sizes and because it is not usual for more than 6 people to gather in the kitchen at the same time. The height of the table will be between 70 and 75 cm approximately.
Quite a large number of firms produce tables for the kitchen and many of these products are similar in size. And it's no accident.
The standard size of the table depends on how many people this table is designed for. In addition, it affects the shape of this product, namely: what shape its tabletop, a circle, an oval or a rectangle.
6 people – 150×90 cm.
8 people – 200×110 cm.
10 people – 260×110 cm.
12 people – 320×110 cm.
4 persons: a diameter of at least 110 cm.
6 persons: a diameter of at least 130 cm.
8 persons: a diameter of at least 150 cm.
10 persons: a diameter of not less than 170 cm.
after all, I hope that you have found the answer to the question of how tall is a kitchen table? using the past tips.


Lol sorry. I think it's your natural lip color and eyebrows that make your face a lot more feminine. Not to say your makeup isn't super cute because it totally is, but without makeup you look undeniably cisgender. Maybe try going without it once and a while and see how it goes!


For 50 years figurative video form has been a medium for artists, who often create prominent artworks with their camera alone, through capturing reality in the way which is parallel to cinema or animation. In a present-day era of 21 century, also known as 'the democratic era', videos of this selection treat such topics as political control, aggressive marketing, the fear of the unknown in small towns. There are no actors, no scripts, there may be no ending and there are always no limits in artistic expression by means of audiovisual media.
BBR 1 –NO. 1OF BLOSSOM BUDRESTRAINER is a fictional promo-video for a plant hormone developed by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Landscape Architecture in 2014. Its major effect is to restrain the growth of blossom buds of poplar trees so that poplar catkins can be controlled.
The Offence is a short story about a town official obssessed with modernity. His provincial town is a mainstay of xenophobia and fear of everything new and unknown. The town official decides on an unusual method to rescue the people from their backwardness. Understanding human perversion, he forces progress through restrictions, knowing well that they will be broken.
A girl talks on the telephone, a car drives by, a young man falls in an epileptic fit, a tram slowly turns at a crossroads, a panorama of a night city moves from left to right. For much of the time we observe the characters who are going somewhere or sitting and chatting with one another. Sometimes, the film speeds up its tempo and becomes like a teaser for itself, sometimes it slows down, and we see long, static shots – the movement of life in real time. Modern history, with all its attention to detail and its everyday rituals, always remains in focus in the film shot without a script, by chance. A direct point of view, medium-shot, but more often a long shot, the interspersing of long and short episodes, an uneven rhythm. In this film, there is no classical narrative, as if it has been assembled from chance scenes which have no unambiguous links between them. We never find out where the characters are going, what their aims are, but we see how an implicit feeling of alarm is hidden behind all their simple actions and movements. Unfinished film can be interpreted as a reenactment of the everyday life of the noughties.
Diving deep into the often obscure global flow of materials, in this instance copper, the film sets in motion a frantic flow of images combined with feverish pounding, hissing and rattling sounds sourced from West Africa, the USA and China.
At first glance, Shelly Nadashi's video A HIDDEN QUIET POCKET, shows a typical massage session. In its course the client asks the masseuse what rent she could demand for an apartment. With the massage movements and the questions of the masseuse the apartment takes shape. It becomes apparent that the property is a very well furnished apartment in the best location, and the customer can ask for a high rent. Through the increasingly intense movements of the masseuse, her envy and avarice become obvious – she gets ever closer to her client, more and more aggressively.
In this third Inner Trotsky Child video, Little Radek, the step-dancing Bolshevik, Machera, the Andean Robin Hood, and Maria Spiridonova, the pre-Soviet socialist assassin are your guides for Past Leftist Life Regression therapy.


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