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Get Locked and Loaded for The Expendables 3: See Them Before The Fame
By Kerensa Cadenas on August 11, 2014
Ready for major explosions, roaring action and rippling biceps? That's what you can expect from The Expendables 3 which continues to assemble our favorite OG action stars and new up & comers. See the men and women of The Expendables 3 before they were kicking major ass!
Before They Had the Mercenary Build: Check Out the Expendables 2 Cast Before They Were Stars
By Danielle Turchiano on August 16, 2012
Countless little boys (and a number of little girls too) grow up dreaming of taking down the bad guys by any means necessary. Even those who don't start out as typical athlete types can find lucrative ways to make their fantasies work in the real world—from the army to the police force closer to home. But a select few get to live out these ideas well beyond what their imaginations could have comprehended for them as the stars of action hero franchises like Expendables. Do you think these young faces would have believed you if you told them they would grow up to become some of the hottest action stars in Hollywood?
Rags to Riches: Snakkle Reveals 13 Celebrities Who Went from Poor to Posh
By Katherine Butler on May 22, 2012
If the Real Housewives have taught us anything, it's that big dreams and Botox are as ubiquitous in Beverly Hills as a lost tourist looking for the Hollywood sign. But not everyone in Tinseltown has lived the luxurious life since birth. In fact, some of our favorite tabloid residents of Malibu and Bel Air came from humble beginnings, calling home to shelters, trailer parks, and even the back of a car. Here are 13 stars who went from rags to rich and famous.
Don't Give Up, Waiters and Waitresses! Snakkle Highlights 10 Stars Who Hit It Big After Age 30
By Lisa Angelo on May 1, 2012
Contemplating a career change? Frustrated with holding up the totem pole from the bottom? Fear not! These celebs started out as mere civilians, and now they're roaming the red carpet. Take notes!
Hollywood's Hottest Movie Comebacks
By Anna Dimond on February 21, 2012
We're calling out some of the best movie comeback roles in a town where there's always a second act.
Kelly Ripa Has the Best Response After Fan Asks Her to Leave Mark Consuelos for Jake Gyllenhaal
We're Totally Buggin' Over These Iconic Clueless Quotes: Which Is Your Favorite?
'Sell By' Is A Gay Romantic Comedy For People Who Hate Romantic Comedies
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Anthony Glees is Reader in Politics and Director of Studies at Brunel University. He is a frequent contributor and consultant to the media on security and intelligence issues and some of his early research on the Stasi formed the basis to two programmes in the 1999 BBC TV series The Spying Game. In 1988 he was invited to become Adviser to the War Crimes Inquiry in the Home Office, set up by the government to investigate the presence in the UK of suspected Nazi war criminals. He lives in Oxford.


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Heather's and The Rocky Horror Picture Show's Ryan McCartan Takes Over For Fiyero in Wicked
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Beginning Tuesday, September 11, Ryan McCartan takes over the role of Fiyero in the Broadway production of Wicked.
Ryan McCartan will make his Broadway debut in Wicked. In 2011 he was a Jimmy Award winner, the top honor given only to two students at the National High School Musical Theater Awards. He previously appeared off-Broadway in the original cast of Heathers: The Musical as JD. McCartan's TV and film credits include starring as Brad in Fox's remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show and as Diggie on Disney Channel's "Live & Maddie," among other numerous guest starring roles.
Mr. McCartan joins a cast which currently includes Jessica Vosk as Elphaba, Amanda Jane Cooper as Glinda, Isabel Keating as Madame Morrible and Kevin Chamberlin as The Wizard.
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Suzanna, co-owns and publishes the newspaper Times Square Chronicles or T2C. At one point a working actress, she has performed in numerous productions in film, TV, cabaret, opera and theatre. She has performed at The New Orleans Jazz festival, The United Nations and Carnegie Hall. She has a screenplay and a TV show in the works, which she developed with her mentor and friend the late Arthur Herzog. She is a proud member of the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle and was a nominator. Email: suzanna@t2conline.com
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If the global coronavirus crisis isn't brought under control by next year, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics – already re-scheduled for July 2021 – will be cancelled, the president of the organizing committee said in an interview.
Speaking to Japan's Nikkan Sports daily, Organizing Committee President Yoshiro Mori ruled out any possibility of the 2020 Olympics being postponed beyond 2021. If Covid-19 still remains a threat next year, the Olympic Games will not take place at all, he said.
In that case, it's cancelled.
Mori, who also served as Japanese prime minister in the early 2000s, recalled previous instances when large-scale hostilities made holding the Olympics impossible. The Games were cancelled three times before – in 1916 due to World War I, as well as in 1940 and 1944 during World War II.
The Japanese official likened battling Covid-19, which has infected over 3 million people worldwide, to "fighting an invisible enemy." If the world succeeds in keeping the epidemic at bay, "we'll hold the Olympics in peace next summer," Mori said, adding that humankind "is betting on it."
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On the day of arrival at Ahmedabad airport, our Holidays At representative will assist you at the airport and later transfer to your hotel for night stay.
Later proceed for sightseeing tour of Ahmedabad, visit Gandhi Ashram, City Museum and Hathising Jain Temple. In the evening, visit Adalaj Step Well, and Akshardham Temple.
Today morning after breakfast at hotel, later check out from hotel and proceed for Rajkot. Upon arrival at Rajkot, check into your hotel for night stay.
Later proceed for sightseeing tour of Rajkot visit to Gandhi's residence, (Bapu stayed here in Rajkot during his early years of life) also visit Gandhi Smriti, Gandhiji's School & Rashtriya Shala.
Rest of the day free for leisure activities or free for shopping at Bangdi Bazaar.
Today morning after breakfast at hotel, later check out from hotel and drive to Gondal. Upon arrival at Gondal check into your hotel for night stay.
Later afternoon proceed for Gondal Sightseeing tour, visit the Navlakha Palace, which houses the erstwhile ruling family's private collection of bead work, textiles, brassware, hand-painted toys and silver crafts, the centre promoting weaving at Gondal, and the historic buildings of Gondal.
Rest of the day free for leisure activities.
Today morning after breakfast at hotel, later check out from hotel and drive to Bhuj. Upon arrival at Bhuj check into your hotel for night stay.
Later afternoon proceed for sightseeing tour of Bhuj, visit Aina Mahal Museum, Pragmahal Museum. A.A. Wazir's (National Award Winner Artiest) Textiles Museum Shop. Rest of the day free for leisure activities.
Today morning after breakfast at hotel, later check out from hotel and transfer to Bhuj Airport to board the flight to your home.
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SharPharMade's Blog: #regram via @cjwisdoms "We'll be shooting the closing scene when filming resumes of "A Wound in Time". I'll be meeting next week with a well known Nuyorican poet, who is also a fixture in Spanish Harlem, to discuss his performance in the closing scene to be accompanied by the conga drumming of master congero Steven Guadalupe! Stay tune! #poet #conga #indiefilm #elbarrio #awoundintime #mystery #thriller #madeinnyc #nycstory #womandirector #womanscreenwriter #producer #gritty #wiseguys #littleitalyinharlem"
#regram via @cjwisdoms "We'll be shooting the closing scene when filming resumes of "A Wound in Time". I'll be meeting next week with a well known Nuyorican poet, who is also a fixture in Spanish Harlem, to discuss his performance in the closing scene to be accompanied by the conga drumming of master congero Steven Guadalupe! Stay tune! #poet #conga #indiefilm #elbarrio #awoundintime #mystery #thriller #madeinnyc #nycstory #womandirector #womanscreenwriter #producer #gritty #wiseguys #littleitalyinharlem"


We are only weeks away from fall and even though I love the summer that we had, I'm so excited about fall. In Ontario, we have the most spectacularly beautiful falls! I love the weather, the smells, the leaves changing colours and dressing up in warm cozy sweaters and throws. Could I stress it any more? I LOVE FALL! One of my favourite things about fall is decorating my front porch area and bringing autumn inside. Today, I am excited to share my 6 favorite fall front door decor ideas. I'm sure you'll find a few that you'll love to try to recreate this year.
An easy way to begin decorating your front porch is by adding a variety of pumpkins and ghourds. I love collecting different sized pumpkins in combinations of odd numbers: 3, 5 or 7.
As much as I love orange colored pumpkins, in recent years I've gone crazy for white ones. Especially, I love adding some writing on the white pumpkins. I'll definitely be adding the letter "V" this year to make my own monogram pumpkin. So cute but stylish too!
Next, an important element to add to your front porch decor is a variety of greenery that is associated with fall. Of course, the popular choice is mums. I love adding mums. Each year I'll pick one color choice and add a variety on my porch.
But, keep in mind that there are other choices as well such as: corn stalks, bales of hay, kale, different types of grasses and branches, or potted little peppers. Try to add 2-3 choices to add a dynamic look to your front porch. These can be displayed in individual containers across the porch or together in one or two containers or pots.
Also, when decorating my porch for fall, I try to add some whimsy by using unexpected types of containers. Of course, you can add whatever planters you currently have. But why not try different boxes and crates, a wheelbarrow, tin containers, a rubber boot? Use your imagination! Check out some local garage sales or thrift shops and pick up unique container choices. I like adding used or vintage looking items to create an interesting look and move away from a store-bought look. For instance, last year I incorporated a metal firewood container that I no longer use inside.
Of course, as the days get shorter, an important element to add to your front door decor is a lantern. Include a variety of looks, shapes and sizes. Again, display your lanterns in odd numbers.
Once you get the basic elements in place you'll then want to think about how you can add an unexpected touch to your fall front door decor. How are you going to add your personality? How will you make your house stand apart in the neighborhood? So, one way is by adding a piece of furniture like a bench, a rocking chair or some kind of table. Bring something from inside to your front porch. I also like to add other pieces like a ladder or a screen or an old vintage window pane.
As well, I love to add some kind of signage to my fall front door decor. Find a great quote about fall and add it to some wood or make a chalkboard sign. You can simply check out Pinterest for creative ways to add wording to your decor. Here are some of my favorite.
Get your DIY on and try to create your own unique sign to welcome your guests to your home this season!
Finally, I would also consider adding a fresh door mat for the fall season and even a wreath for your door.
It's still super hot here so I'm not yet putting my fall decor in place. But I am definitely collecting and can't wait to transform my front porch for fall. Then, when Halloween comes around, I will add a few other touches to getting into a more spooky mood in time for the trick or treaters!
Why not reach out to me and let me know what decor tips you use to create a great front porch design for fall?


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The Chief Ladiga Trail is Alabama's first rails-to-trails project. The 33-mile trail stretches from the Alabama-Georgia state line to Anniston. The Chief Ladiga is on the same rail corridor as the Silver Comet Trail in Georgia. The two are expected to be joined after the Cleburne County section is completed. When the Chief Ladiga and the Silver Comet trails are connected there will be a 90-mile corridor available for non-motorized travel from just west of Atlanta, Georgia to Anniston, Alabama.


Fruit flies are small flies. The key identifying characteristic of the fruit fly is its eyes, which are red in color. The head and thorax are tan in color with the abdomen somewhat darker. The two most visible signs of fruit fly activity would be the adult flies and the pupae. Adult flies often are seen flying around in kitchens or trash cans near the decaying fruit or vegetables.
Adults are 3 to 4 mm long, may have red eyes, though some are dark eyed, and a tan thorax. The abdomen is black on top, gray underneath. Fruit flies can appear to be brown or tan in color.
Fruit flies develop by complete metamorphosis. The eggs (which are difficult to see with the naked eye) are deposited near the surface of fermenting fruit or organic matters, a pair of filaments that are attached to the eggs protrude above the surface of the liquid. The female fruit fly will lay about 500 eggs. The larvae emerge about 30 hours after the eggs have been laid and feed near the surface of the fermenting material. The larvae feed for five to six days then crawl to drier areas of the food source or even out of the food source to pupate. The larva transforms into the pupa in the last larval skin, or puparium, which bears a conspicuous pair of filaments on the anterior end. The adult fruit fly emerges several days later. The newly emerged fruit flies are attracted to light and become sexually active in about two days. The adults mate more than once. Under ideal conditions, the life cycle from egg to adult can be completed in as little as eight days. The sudden appearance of large populations is not uncommon inside buildings.
Fruit flies are especially attracted to ripened fruits and vegetables in the kitchen. But they also will breed in drains, garbage disposals, empty bottles and cans, trash containers, mops and cleaning rags. All that is needed for development is a moist film of fermenting material. Infestations can originate from over-ripened fruits or vegetables that were previously infested and brought into the home. The adults can also fly in from outside through inadequately screened windows and doors.


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Людовик «Людо» Кук (; 25 сентября 1955, Берхем — 9 октября 1985, Эдегем) — бельгийский футболист, игравший на позиции полузащитника. Был известен благодаря своим мощным дальним ударам.

Биография

Ранние годы
Родился в Антверпене. С детства занимался футболом, в 9 лет поступил в школу местного клуба «Берхем». Кумиром Людо был итальянец Джанни Ривера. Рослый, но техничный Кук быстро развивался и в начале 1970-х годов дебютировал в основном составе, появившись ещё и в молодёжной сборной Бельгии.

«Берхем»
В сезоне 1971/1972 16-летний Людо Кук дебютировал в основном составе «Берхема», игравшего во Втором дивизионе, под руководством тренера Рика Коппенса. Игрок привлёк к себе внимание нескольких топ-клубов Бельгии, хотя отец настаивал, чтобы Людо не уезжал из родного города и продолжил выступления за основной состав. Однако летом 1972 года Констант ван ден Сток, президент «Андерлехта», убедил Людо покинуть «Берхем». Цена трансфера составила около 5 миллионов бельгийских франков, что эквивалентно примерно 120 тысячам евро.

«Андерлехт»

Начало
17-летний Кук попал в команду, в которой играли Франсуа ван дер Эльст, Роб Ренсенбринк, Поль ван Химст, Уго Брос и Жильбер ван Бинст. Главный тренер Георг Кесслер выпустил Людо в ноябре 1972 года в основном составе в матче против «Стандарда» из Льежа. Спустя месяц Кук забил свой первый гол в матче против «Син-Трюйдена». В своём втором сезоне под руководством Урбана Бремса Людовик окончательно закрепился в составе, начав играть важную роль в команде. Он помог ей выиграть чемпионат Бельгии в том сезоне. Кук был довольно умным игроком, который хорошо умел читать игру и обладал отличной техникой удара. Его удары с левой ноги доставляли головную боль многим командам.

Успехи в еврокубках
В середине 1970-х годов Кук стал ведущим полузащитником «Андерлехта». При помощи Ари Хана он стал одним из мощных столпов полузащиты клуба, являясь одновременно плеймейкером. В 1976 году Кук вышел с командой в финал Кубка обладателей кубков УЕФА, в котором «Андерлехт» выиграл у «Вест Хэма» со счётом 4:2, но по истечении получаса игры Людо получил травму и был заменён.

С этого момента для Кука началась чёрная полоса: постоянно его начали преследовать травмы. Более того, он начал даже злоупотреблять алкоголем, из-за чего пропускал соревнования. Иногда он даже вступал в драки и получал ранения, однако продолжал выступать, несмотря на проблемы. Под руководством Раймона Готальса, которого он знал по работе с национальной сборной, Кук не боялся за своё место в команде. А в 1978 году ему снова покорился Кубок обладателей кубков УЕФА.

Череда травм
В 1979 году Кук получил серьёзную травму колена, и эксперты в один голос утверждали, что настал конец футбольной карьеры Людовика. Однако спустя девять месяцев Людовик вернулся в клуб и продолжил тренировки. В сентябре 1981 года его ждала ещё одна напасть: в одной из международных встреч против польского «Видзева» он получил очередную травму после подножки противника. Людо унесли на носилках с поля, и он снова должен был ждать месяцы до своего возвращения в строй. Всё больше он боялся того, что не вернётся на свой былой уровень. К концу подходил срок действия контракта с «Андерлехтом», и Людо предлагали перейти в «Льерс», заменив там Эрвина Ванденберга. Свой интерес проявляли «Кёльн» и «Гент». Однако Людо продлил контракт с клубом ещё на два сезона и отказался покидать команду, продолжив выступления после возвращения в строй. Спустя несколько месяцев Людо вошёл в число лучших футболистов Бельгии, однако в гонке за приз игрока года всё-таки не опередил Эрвина Ванденберга.

Кубок УЕФА
Тренер Томислав Ивич отправил Кука в защиту, и там Людо также приспособился. Вскоре после увольнения Ивича тренером стал знакомый Людовика Поль ван Химст, который выдвинул Кука обратно в полузащиту. Играя под номером 10, Людовик помог команде выйти в финал Кубка УЕФА 1982/1983 годов. Вместе со своим коллегой Хуаном Лозано Людовик прекрасно играл на фланге. В финале была побеждена «Бенфика», и в активе Людовика оказался и Кубок УЕФА.

Путешествие в Италию
Долгое время ни один европейский клуб не мог купить Кука: это не позволяли совершить и травмы Людовика, и нежелание клубов отпускать игрока. Спустя несколько недель после финала Кубка УЕФА 1982/1983 его приобрёл миланский «Интер» за 45 миллионов бельгийских франков (1 миллион 125 тысяч евро). В Италии Кук играл часто против Эрика Геретса, выступавшего за «Милан». В ноябре 1982 года в матче за сборную Бельгии против Швейцарии Людо получил серьёзную травму и выбыл из обоймы клуба. Спустя год он отправился играть на правах аренды за «Асколи», но не восстановился до конца и не закрепился в клубе.

В сборной
В сборной Людовик провёл 46 встреч и забил 4 гола. Играл на чемпионате мира 1982 года, где он отметился шикарным голом в ворота сборной Сальвадора, и на чемпионате Европы 1984 года. Однако ни на одном из этих турниров сборная Бельгии даже не зацепилась за награды. Некоторое время он был капитаном в сборной, как и в «Андерлехте».

Гибель
Последний год своей жизни Людо провёл, играя за «Моленбек». 7 октября 1985 он возвращался после переговоров с клубом «Льерс», с которым ему удалось подписать соглашение. На трассе Антверпен-Брюссель близ города Румст автомобиль BMW Людовика попал в аварию: водитель не справился с управлением и врезался в ограждение. Пострадавшего срочно госпитализировали и отправили в клинику Университета Антверпена, однако не сумели спасти: 9 октября Людовик скончался.

В память о погибшем в Берхеме был переименован стадион клуба. Также в 1980-е и 1990-е в Антверпене проводился футбольный турнир памяти Людо Кука.

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Игроки сборной Бельгии по футболу
Игроки ФК «Берхем Спорт»
Игроки ФК «Андерлехт»
Игроки ФК «Интернационале»
Игроки ФК «Асколи»
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The solid state laser relies on the laser diode (LD) pumping array. Typically for high peak power quasi-CW (QCW) operation, both energy output per pulse and long term reliability are critical. With the improved bonding technique, specially Indium-free bonded diode laser bars, most of the device failures were caused by failure within laser diode itself (wearout failure), which are induced from dark line defect (DLD), bulk failure, point defect generation, facet mirror damage and etc. Measuring the reliability of LD under QCW condition will take a rather long time. Alternatively, an accelerating model could be a quicker way to estimate the LD life time under QCW operation. In this report, diode laser bars were mounted on micro channel cooler (MCC) and operated under QCW condition with different current densities and junction temperature (Tj ). The junction temperature is varied by modulating pulse width and repetition frequency. The major concern here is the power degradation due to the facet failure. Reliability models of QCW and its corresponding failures are studied. In conclusion, QCW accelerated life-time model is discussed, with a few variable parameters. The model is compared with CW model to find their relationship.


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WALTHAM, MA – March 25, 2020 – Evolv Technology, the leader in free-flow weapons detection, today announced that Evolv Express™ was named the Gold winner in the Threat Defense and Security, Applied Technology category in the prestigious 2020 Edison Awards™. A global panel of more than 3,000 leading business executives selected winners that represent "game changing" products and services combined with innovation and leadership in concept, value, delivery and impact.
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On this occasion Paradigm Discs has decided to reissue 2 LP's of what can only be described as rock music, minus the drum kit. These two records are something of a mystery. No group information was ever given, and no production date or location is indicated. It would seem though, that these records are both by the same group of Japanese people and that they were recorded in the mid seventies in Japan. In common with Magical Power Mako, the musical influences here are much more Germanic than anything Japanese, with long hypnotic free form rock hysteria, comparable to Faust in the use of experimentation and heavily fuzzed electric guitar. The emotional wordless vocals echo those of Damo Suzuki from Can. But unlike Can the rhythms are wrought from hand drums, sleigh bells, tambourine, bass drum and other simple means. Hard blown harmonica is a strong feature on this somewhat crazed mantric rock along with recorder, flute, zither, mandolin, acoustic guitar and synth. There is also a strong use of tape loops, electronics, environmental sounds, backwards tapes and what sounds distinctly like the hysterical laughter of Stan Laurel.
Also around 1974, I believe, or 1975, perhaps, 'Debon' by Brast Burn and 'Alomoni 1985' by Karuna Khyal were first released on Voice Records. These utterly charming buffet tables of canned sauerkraut, flambéed tonsil declarations, brown and green stringy mess over in the corner, and freshly prepared song salad with a dressing of giddy delay euphoria, would have been the most satisfying solution for many a connoisseur's hunger pangs for multitracked solitary psychedelic songster, had the LP's not been pressed on oregano-flavoured vinyl at the height of Japan's obsession with spaghetti westerns. Most of the world has waited 25 long years for Paradigm's reissues on inedible plastic and gold. It can be a trecherous and sometimes lonely road to follow, bypassing the fast-food rest stops of mixolydian jamming and redundant rock repetition, opting instead for such scenic hamlets as Tape Tomfoolery and Obfuscation Hill, but these albums travel the route with ease. Undoubtedly, many modern backward glancers will gleefully devour these like finely aged cheese, but isn't it odd how many people spread brie on Ritz crackers? I said no stoners... we're allowed to have one. (Alesandro Moreschi).
Quite an unbelievable find! This mysterious record has lain undiscovered since the mid seventies when (it is guessed) it was recorded by a group of unknown Japanese musicians and then released privately by Voice records. Rumours of the greatness of this psychedelic masterpiece have circulated for years (largely propagated by Nurse With Wounds famously obscure "list" on which Brast Burn feature) and it has finally seen re-release in a beautiful hand numbered CD issue of just 500. So, now that it's available what's it actually like? Well,... it's simply astonishing. Split into two long sequences, the music runs right up to the edge of sanity and screams wordlessly in the face of madness then jogs back to a lone hill top to lazily invent the form of psychedelic acid folk that Ghost have made an entire career from. There is utterly freaked out, acid-drenched genius at work on this record. Strains of Kraut rock run throughout, Can, and particularly Damo Suzuki's vocal style, are certainly valid comparisons, but this music really does seem to be running a race of its own, clouded in pot smoke, and headed in the wrong direction but glorious while doing it. Highly Recommended.
Behold: a true hidden treasure. Buried deep in time, this obscure artifact is something of a revelation. No group information was ever given, and no production date or location is indicated, however, it would seem that this record and the "Brast Burn" LP (also reissued by Paradigm) are both by the same group of Japanese nutters and that they were both recorded in the mid seventies in Japan. But all you really need to know is that it is stone cold fantastic, a wild and manic trip full to the brim with hypnotic jams constructed from all manner of eclectic instruments. The tribal blues sound is augmented with fascinating tape experiments, electronics, environmental sounds, moaned (howled) vocals and a host of musical delicacies, as dangerous as they are delicious. The influence of German bands such as Can, Faust and Guru Guru is evident throughout, so too is the influence of the good Captain (Beefheart that is) whose gut wrenching blues dirges find compadres in this unearthed swamp. Deranged psychedelic music for anyone with a passing interest in Kraut rock, the new Japanese psychedelic scene (most of whom owe these pioneers a great debt) or great music from the edge of the solar system. This CD reissue will hopefully bring the band some deserved attention, but with a hand numbered pressing of a mere 500 it is just as likely these issues will soon become artifacts in themselves. Highly Recommended.


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" DNC Adopts Resolution Calling for 'Right-to-Vote' Amendment to the U.S. Constitution	"
DNC Adopts Resolution Calling for 'Right-to-Vote' Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
[UPDATED to reflect the successful adoption of the resolution.]
While Republican state legislatures around the nation have been working to limit access to the polls over recent years, Democrats moved a non-partisan initiative forward over the weekend to help expand --- or, at least, to help protect --- the franchise for all Americans.
At their Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, the Democratic National Committee unanimously voted to adopt a resolution calling for a "Right-to-Vote" Amendment to be added to the U.S. Constitution.
According to the resolution, posted in full below, the Democrats are calling for "amending the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote."
The resolution also calls on "state parties to work with state lawmakers and others to access the need to petition for a statewide referendum on the November 2016 general election ballot (and all states where this is possible), advocating to amend the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote."
As the document stresses, there is currently no such explicit right stated in our nation's founding document, although several amendments bar the restriction of access to the polls based on race, sex and age. It also notes that while, in the past, the U.S. Supreme Court "has called the right to vote a fundamental right," the court's 2013 decision striking down a key element of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 has served to "undermine" that right.
"Of the 119 nations that elect their public officials using some form of democratic elections," the resolution notes, "108 have the right to vote in their constitution, but the United States is one of the 11 nations --- including Australia, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, India, Indonesia, Nauru, Samoa, and the United Kingdom --- that does not explicitly contain a citizen's right to vote in its constitution."
"A 'right to vote' constitutional amendment applies to and should be supported by all Americans because it is (a) nonpartisan - not Democratic, Republican or independent; (b) non-ideological - not liberal or conservative; (c) non-programmatic - it does not require you to support or oppose any particular legislative program(s); and (d) non-special interest - its application is not limited to minorities, women, labor, business, seniors, lesbians and gays or any other special interest groups."
The full resolution, adopted on Saturday, February 21, 2015, at the DNC Winter Meeting, follows below...
The following Resolution will be considered by the DNC Executive Committee at its meeting in Washington, DC, on February 20, 2015.
Submitted by: Donna Brazile, DNC Vice Chair/District of Columbia
Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Chair/Florida
Christine Pelosi, California
Maria Elena Durazo, DNC Vice Chair/California
Anita Bonds, Chair, District of Columbia
Leah Daughtry, At-Large/New York
Bel Leong-Hong, At-Large/Maryland
Minyon Moore, At-Large/District of Columbia
Virgie Rollins, National Federation of Democratic Women/Michigan
Lottie Shackelford, At-Large/Arkansas
James Zogby, At-Large/District of Columbia
Resolution on a Right-to-Vote Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
WHEREAS, in a democracy, the right to vote is a moral imperative, the most fundamental legal right and is protective of all other rights; and
WHEREAS, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act he said, "The right to vote is the basic right, without which all others are meaningless"; and
WHEREAS, each state, except for the State of Arizona, has explicitly enshrined the right to vote with at least some level of protection in its state constitution; and
WHEREAS, nowhere in the United States Constitution is there an explicit declaration of the right to vote, which weakens protection in federal courts and undercuts state voting rights protections due to state courts often "lock stepping" rights to the level of support provided federally; and
WHEREAS, the United State Supreme Court has called the right to vote a fundamental right, this fundamental right should be explicitly guaranteed to all Americans in the U.S. Constitution; and
WHEREAS, as President Barack Obama, as a professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago, began each of his constitutional law classes sharing with his students the surprising fact that an explicit "federal individual right to vote" is not in the U.S. Constitution; and
WHEREAS, the only reference to an individual right to vote in the original U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights is the requirement that any citizen qualified to vote for a member of a state's most "numerous house of the state legislature" is eligible to vote for Members of the House of Representatives; and
WHEREAS, the Constitution has been amended 17 times since the passage of the Bill of Rights and 7 of those amendments pertain to voting - 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th - but none of them add the explicit, fundamental, affirmative, individual, citizenship or federal right to vote to the Constitution; and
WHEREAS, three amendments outlaw discrimination in voting, whether on the basis of race (15th) with the 1965 Voting Rights Act serving as the implementing legislation for this amendment 95 years later, sex (19th), or age (26th); and
WHEREAS, a right to vote constitutional amendment would fulfill the promise of the 15th, 19th and 26th Amendments; and
WHEREAS, of the 119 nations that elect their public officials using some form of democratic elections, 108 have the right to vote in their constitution, but the United States is one of the 11 nations - including Australia, the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, India, Indonesia, Nauru, Samoa, and the United Kingdom - that does not explicitly contain a citizen's right to vote in its constitution; and
WHEREAS, with the exception of certain federal laws such as the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 and the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act of 2009, the U.S. has virtually no national uniform standards for voting systems controlled by the states; and
WHEREAS, since voting is a state right, with virtually no national uniform standards, we have ended up with multiple and varied election systems in the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia), 3,143 counties (or county equivalents), and about 13,000 local voting jurisdictions that administer about 186,000 precincts, all organized and controlled and managed by local election officials with 86% of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act Preclearance objections involving local, not national or state, voting issues; and
WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has unfortunately undermined the right to vote in recent years, notably in its 2013 decision of Shelby County v. Holder which made the preclearance requirement ineffective and, as Freedom Rider, Selma marcher and US Congressman John Lewis so aptly stated, "struck a dagger in the heart of the Voting Rights Act"; and
WHEREAS, since 2014 at least 83 restrictive voting rights bills were introduced in 29 states, and the Brennan Center reports that 21 states have enacted restrictive voting laws since 2011, including North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, and Wisconsin, and that in Texas alone this will affect more than 600,000 adult-age citizens who do not have state-issued photo identification; and
WHEREAS, voter turnout in November 2014 represented a smaller percentage of eligible voters than in a congressional election since 1942 , voter turnout in many primary elections in 2014 was at an all-time low in more than half of states holding primaries, and voter turnout in some major cities is now in single digits; and
WHEREAS, a "right to vote" constitutional amendment applies to and should be supported by all Americans because it is (a) nonpartisan - not Democratic, Republican or independent; (b) non-ideological - not liberal or conservative; (c) non-programmatic - it does not require you to support or oppose any particular legislative program(s); and (d) non-special interest - it's application is not limited to minorities, women, labor, business, seniors, lesbians and gays or any other special interest groups;
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) supports amending the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the DNC will encourage state parties to work with state lawmakers and others to access the need to petition for a statewide referendum on the November 2016 general election ballot (and all states where this is possible), advocating to amend the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the DNC specifically supports House and Senate Joint Resolutions which would amend the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote - e.g., such as resolution H.J. Res. 25 introduced into the 114th Congress by Congressman Mark Pocan of Wisconsin and Congressman Keith Ellison of Minnesota; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the DNC supports H.R. 885 to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, as introduced in the 114th Congress by Congressman James F. Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin along with 30 cosponsors, including several members of the Congressional Black Caucus; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the DNC will educate the general public on this issue by drafting and distributing this resolution in support of amending the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote and sharing the resolution with all appropriate governmental officials; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Democratic National Committee encourages other organizations and individuals - e.g., political organizations and leaders, religious organizations and leaders, civil rights organizations and leaders, other civic organizations and leaders, business organizations and leaders, voting rights organizations and leaders, labor organizations and leaders, women's organizations and leaders, youth organizations and leaders, gay and lesbian organizations and leaders, environmental organizations and leaders - to pass organization resolutions to endorse amending the United States Constitution to explicitly guarantee an individual's right to vote; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Democratic National Committee will establish a Right to Vote Taskforce to make recommendations on changes in laws, regulations, and practices designed to improve voter participation and better uphold voting rights in local, state, and national elections and consider changes to recommend to state and federal constitutions, statutes, and regulations; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Democratic National Committee will continue to work with members of Congress and the Obama Administration to repair the Voting Rights Act of 1965; and continue to work with various Secretaries of State and other election administrators to ensure all eligible citizens have access to the ballot box across the country.
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(11 Responses so far...)
... Alex	said on 2/21/2015 @ 6:14 pm PT...
I love this. The democrats actually have a good idea, but how will they find a way to mess this up too.
I am curious how this would effect laws that prohibit felons from voting. From what I see so far this is not addressed. Conservatives will have a field day spreading fear (whether it's warranted or not) about how a huge block of angry black men (who are now incarcerated) will vote to change our everything to a heathen society.
... Don Webb	said on 2/22/2015 @ 5:59 pm PT...
I notice that the Resolution didn't mention the right of 3rd partisans and Independents to vote for the candidates of their choice.
Why do we not count?
... Brad Friedman said on 2/23/2015 @ 12:20 pm PT...
Don Webb @ 2:
Note, the resolution reads [emphasis in original]:
So, in that regard, your concern seems misplaced.
That said, I sense that you are talking about ballot access above, for candidates, (rather than access to the polls themselves). If so, that seems to be a different issue entirely (though not necessarily one of lesser importance.)
... Larry Bergan	said on 2/23/2015 @ 4:36 pm PT...
It's better then nothing, but any resolution should include banning any voting machine in favor of hand counted paper ballots. I don't see how HAVA brought about any kind of uniform voting standard anyway.
It would have been nice to come up with this sort of resolution while the Democrats had all three branches of government. I would prefer the Republicans to not steal offices as opposed to being embarrassed somehow by an amendment they would never vote for.
... karenfromillinois	said on 2/24/2015 @ 12:24 pm PT...
the right to vote means nothing without WE THE PEOPLE being able to oversee the counting of the votes
... blurkel	said on 2/24/2015 @ 5:10 pm PT...
With the majority of states under GOP control, the rights of the people will not be honored. The Democrats can pose all they want, but it seems like they wait until they can do nothing about their proposal before they even bring it up. Talk is cheap, and so are the Democrats when they are busy selling out the American people.
Meanwhile, the GOP remain despicably unspeakable, so don't go thinking I support those bastards.
This would be a very good time to get rid of the machines. It's been around ten years and NPR had a segment about states needing to upgrade because the damn things are wearing out.
You know it will never happen. The election officials will just say they are under contract with the voting vendors. After this long, everybody probably thinks it would impossible to vote on paper ballots.
It's very concerning that hand counted paper ballots wasn't even brought up in the DNC proposal. I'll bet if Howard Dean was still the chairman, it would have been.
... Bev	said on 2/27/2015 @ 5:25 pm PT...
Get rid of HAVA the so-called Help America Vote Act which forced those e-voting machines owned and controlled by the extreme, abusive right and which was pushed by lobbyist and criminal Jack Abramoff. Were politicians blackmailed into adopting?
http://www.veteranstoday...child-sex-blackmail-ring
AIPAC and Abramoff Operated Child Sex Blackmail Ring
Posted by Stew Webb on February 2, 2014
... Brad Friedman said on 2/27/2015 @ 5:52 pm PT...
Bev @ 8:
That article (as well as that website) is horseshit. Just FYI.
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... Bev	said on 3/3/2015 @ 11:02 am PT...
We have to help our kids and politicians, media and military escape their abusers.
Agreed that Veterans Today has authors that must be disinformation specialists, as subjects too far afield. However, Stew Webb provides more documentation and has been a whistleblower who "was responsible for the Congressional Investigations and hearings that lead to the Appointment of Independent Prosecutor Arlin Adams for in the 1989 HUD Hearings, the Silverado Savings and Loan Hearings, the Denver International Airport Frauds hearings, the MDC Holdings, Inc. NYSE Illegal Political Campaign Money Laundering Colorado's biggest case aka Keating 5 hearings to name a few."
He also names others in his writings.
http://www.veteranstoday...d-blackmail-of-congress/
George Bush Pedophile Sex Ring and Blackmail of Congress
Posted by Stew Webb on January 12, 2015
The Franklin Cover Up is only the tip of the Iceberg
And, there are second sources on this very uncomfortable topic. Whistleblowers need to be encouraged to testify, to save kids now and in the future. And, perhaps to save Democracy itself as there appears to be a link to rigged elections by the same people who abuse children.
http://www.opednews.com/...-M-Young-120910-472.html
Still Evil after All These Years: The Franklin Scandal and Pedophilia in High Places
By Charles M. Young Posted by Dave Lindorff
The Omaha World-Herald was the foremost local cheerleader for persecuting teenagers instead of investigating their claims. One of its own columnists, Peter Citron, had a long history of arrests for pedophilia and child porn and was implicated by two witnesses at Larry King's sex parties. The long-time publisher of the World-Herald, Harold Anderson, was a big supporter of Larry King and had raised money for the Franklin. During the 18 years that King presided over the Franklin, the newspaper never noticed that King was living a hugely expensive lifestyle when he was supposedly making $17,000 a year in salary. The World-Herald Company is co-owner of Election Software and Systems, which counts half the election ballots in the United States.
http://franklinscandal.com/
THE FRANKLIN SCANDAL: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal
by Nick Bryant
The FRANKLIN SCANDAL is the story of a nationwide pedophile ring that pandered children to a cabal of the rich and powerful. The ring's pimps were a pair of political powerbrokers who had access to the highest levels of our government. Nebraska legislators attempted to expose the network in 1989 and 1990, but the legislators' efforts were followed by a rash of mysterious deaths and the overpowering responses of federal and local law enforcement, including the FBI and Justice Department, which effected an immaculate cover-up of the trafficking network.
The publisher is donating 50% of the book's proceeds to organizations that assist abused children.
http://markcrispinmiller...ancy-schaefer-two-items/
The strange death of Nancy Schaefer (two items)
...Senator Schaefer led opposition to HB582 and SB304, two bills introduced by fellow Republicans that would have likely resulted in increasing child sex slave trafficking. These bills would have made it legal for teenagers to participate in certain illicit acts. The bills effectively removed the legal authority that police now have to pick teenagers up and get them into protective custody so that they can no longer be pimped for those acts.
As President of Georgia Eagle Forum, Nancy Schaefer planned to be in Alabama this weekend for an Eagle Forum convention. Instead she chose to stay in Georgia to develop new information that would have further exposed corruption in DFCS and beyond. Many Eagle forum members who were close to Sen. Schaefer were aware of her courageous efforts. None of them believe that either she or her husband was involved in any type of suicide.
The same voting machine company: Election Systems and Software is also ES & S.
http://freepress.org/dep...nts/display/19/2012/4719
Who owns Scytl? George Soros isn't in the voting machines, but the intelligence community is
by Gerry Bello
In 2010, Scytl purchased a 100% interest in SOE software, an up and coming player in the American elections market with their Clarity Software Suite which is used in 525 jurisdictions in 19 states. SOE has a strategic partnership with ES & S, the major marketer of electronic voting systems in the US. ES & S was sued by the US DOJ in 2009 on anti-trust grounds after purchasing Diebold's elections division, Premier Election Solutions. ES & S subsequently sold Premier to rival manufacturer Dominion. Bob Urosevich, founder of ES & S, was also President of Diebold. In 2006 Urosevich was listed as managing director of Scytl Americas, although his name has subsequently been removed from their website.
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http://www.washingtonsbl...arroll-question-911.html
Why Would Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll Question 9/11?
Posted on February 1, 2015 by Kevin Ryan
http://truth-out.org/opi...ism-s-economic-depravity
Henry A. Giroux: Searching for Radical Democracy in the Ruins of Capitalism's Economic Depravity
... Bev	said on 3/5/2015 @ 8:16 am PT...
Needed to add the following:
http://www.thelandesrepo...t.com/VotingSecurity.htm
See: Lynn Landes
The Case For Open Voting
Democracy demands transparency, not trust -Sign up and be counted
There is no transparency to our current voting system. Congress has legalized election fraud by allowing, if not mandating, non-transparent voting systems that prohibit direct access to a paper ballot and meaningful public oversight....
Making matters worse, our public voting system has been privatized and outsourced to a handful of domestic, foreign, and multi-national corporations, most of whom have close ties to the right wing of the Republican Party. Just two companies, ES&S and Diebold, started by two brothers, Bob and Todd Urosevich, electronically process (using touchscreen machines or optical scanners), 80% of all votes. Their employees are in a perfect position to rig elections nation-wide. And evidence is mounting that elections in America have been computer programmed to prefer conservative candidates of both political parties. (those machines are in primaries so start there with real evidence)


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Q: Scope of variable initialised in viewDidLoad to another method In the view did load I have this segment:
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Which works fine,
However further down in: webViewDidFinishLoad I have:
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And the scope of spinner has been lost. I have not got spinner as an outlet or a property / synthesised - still getting to grips with it. I think once I get the handle over the scope, it should make obj-c ability better!

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And the scope of spinner has been lost.

spinner is a local variable. It disappears as soon as the code reaches the nearest closing curly brace following its declaration. If you don't want it to happen, make spinner an instance variable of the class or the class extension.
Instance variables are declared inside curly braces following the interface declaration or the class extension declaration, for example:
// In the header file...
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}
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@end

or
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A: You need to make the spinner an instance variable in the header file, otherwise webViewDidFinishLoad won't be able to see that variable.

A: In you viewDidLoad set a tag for spinner
  spinner.tag = 90;

and in webViewDidFinishLoad method use the following line
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 [activity stopAnimating];
     or  declare spinner in .h file so that you can use it any where.

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Read here about "Becoming Bucky Fuller" by Loretta Lorance, the definitive history of Buckminster Fuller's earliest research. The article summarizes the book, lists some errata, and discusses the impact of the book's conclusions on tensegrity research.
Cover of Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance, Published by MIT Press, 2009.
Becoming Bucky Fuller by Loretta Lorance, published by MIT Press in 2009, is a highly original, often fascinating investigation of how Fuller laid the groundwork for his later fame and fortune after a series of early setbacks.
Buckminster Fuller's fame reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s, when his visionary experiments struck a chord with the counterculture and his charismatic personality provided the media with a good story—that of a genius who could play the role of artist, scientist, and entrepreneur all at once. In Becoming Bucky Fuller, Loretta Lorance shows that Fuller's career did not begin with the lofty goals hailed by his admirers, and that, in fact, Fuller's image as guru and prophet was as carefully constructed as a geodesic dome. More thoroughly than any prior scholar, Lorance uncovers crucial differences between Fuller's and his admirers' portraits of his younger days as the alleged victim of both personal and professional setbacks and what actually happened. It is now evident that Fuller's greatest invention was himself.
According to Fuller himself and most secondary sources, after a series of personal crises in the 1920s—including the death of his young daughter, thoughts of suicide, financial ruin and a "year of silence" during which he pondered his purpose in life—Fuller resolved to devote himself to the betterment of society by offering the public economical, efficient, modern manufactured housing. But drawing on a close reading of Fuller's personal papers (in particular, the multi-volume scrapbook, Chronofile), Lorance finds a more nuanced story. Fuller's first independent project, the Dymaxion House, was the end result of a year Fuller spent honing a set of inspirations regarding lightweight structural principles, industrial production, and geometry. He worked tirelessly and converged quickly on the Dymaxion House design, and set out to manufacture it. When that didn't work, Fuller began to emphasize its possibilities rather than its practicalities, and to curate a compelling story out of his personal experience. By the mid-1930s, Lorance shows, Fuller the public figure had gone from being an entrepreneur with a product to being a visionary with an idea. He had become Bucky Fuller.
The word 'tensegrity' does not appear in the book, since it focuses exclusively on Fuller's earliest creations. That said, the book is related to tensegrity research as it exposes the intellectual and motivational roots of Fuller's quest. Tensegrity ended up being This broader context is one of using less materials to deliver more human benefit, particularly centered around humanity's need for shelter, whether at home (static) or in transit (dynamic).
The book is divided into seven chapters. Below find an overview of each chapter and some discussion of how the information relates to the historical development of tensegrity and possible future implications.
The early life of Fuller leading up to his involvement in the Stockade Building corporation. His involvement in sailing ships and being in the Naval reserve brings him a deep knowledge of ship architecture, elements of which would inform his work on tensegrity (masts and wires). He also uses early radio technologies which works on resonance and wire-conductors.
Fuller drafts designs based on his insights into tension, compression and pre-fabrication. He produces drawings of the house, a corporate structure for its production, and begins promoting it. Its earliest renderings show how he is attempting to segregate tension and compression.
Fuller's first public presentations of the house involve his writing up his insights, and responding to feedback. The house develops into the Dymaxion house and physical models are produced and displayed. Fuller refines his way of talking about the house, and begins highlighting his own family and experience.
> He believed designing in the fourth or time dimension, using radiating spheres and trigonometry, was truthful because "all matter is of globular, radiating form." The length of a radius, or "the distance from the center of the sphere to the greatest surface attained by radial measurement," represented time. As previously noted, Fuller may have conceived this formula as early as February 1928 when he recorded he formulated a theory about spheres in the diary. He made no comments about what the theory was in the diary, but in 40 Timelock he posited if matter existed at all, it "... must be spheroidal." Fuller arrived at this conclusion through a re-examination of the principles of Euclidian geometry which claim a point or dot, albeit a non-existent point or dot. as the basis of form. The "'Planeandsolid' geometrist does not claim," Fuller remarked, "his 'dot' or 'point' to be cubical," although he failed to comprehend "there is no cubism [as the]] onty 'straight line' is the radial or time line." Therefore, to Fuller, the failure to comprehend the spheroidal nature of matter formed the "basis of denial of the fourth dimension, which has been supported by the theoretical and fallacious plane and cubical geometry." Unfortunately, Fuller insisted, the use of the phrase fourth dimension to denote time was also "incorrect and limiting" because it was based on the "fallacious three dimensions of cubism." Still, "4D [was]] only the enigmatic term for time," so he would "use these characters as the trademark of our industrial activity, occasioned by the new or correct basis of figuring of the infinity of time dimensions." In other words, Fuller would use 4D because it was the closest approximation he had even though it was inadequate to express the relationships between geometry, industry, and time savings incorporated into the 4D House.
Fuller recruited investors and continued to display the models he had constructed. He hoped to have a prototype built for the upcoming Chicago-based World's Fair.
Fuller's inability to put the Dymaxion House into production is a problem, one that Fuller solves by promoting more the philosophy and less the physical model and particular rendition in the Dymaxion House. He revisits his original set of inspirations, his theory of spheres along with tension and compression architecture, and puts his knowledge and experience to use as an inspirational speaker and serial inventor. In the end, he not only filed 25 patents in a broad range of fields, he also produced the most compelling artifact of all: his own life as curated by him, to tell his story of assisting humanity.
This section lists errors, corrections or clarifications that have been uncovered since the book's publication.
Lorance writes, "Nor was his cheekbone broken when he was robbed of his last dollars and watch while walking home one evening in Chicago." Lorance may not be aware that Fuller was beaten and robbed in October 1927, though the extent of the damage to Fuller's face is not known from the diary entry.
The reference under discussion is from RBF's July 1939 letter to Joe Bryant, "[A]n old friend from N Y invited him to dinner at the Blackstone Hotel. Later, walking up Wabash Ave., he had reached Monroe St. when a colored taxi-driver asked him the time. As B[ucky]] reached for his watch, another man slugged him with brass knuckles, breaking his cheek bone. Unconcious (sic), he was robbed of his watch and his few remaining dollars."
On 13 October 1927, RBF noted in fountain pen in his diary, "R.B.F. - Held up and beaten." (Diary of AHF and RBF, in Chronofile Box 16 Volume 30).
The question is, how much trauma ensued? Facial trauma from such an assault has varying healing times, depending on the damage. Bruising and swelling may take up to three weeks to settle down. Significant facial damage can take months to heal.
Some cheekbone fractures can cause difficulty opening the mouth or jaw and require months to heal. If so, this period in October 1927 could have been conflated into Fuller's later reports of silence and learning to talk again.
The diaries and scrapbooks do not mention a healing period. No medical bills are preserved to detail the extent of the damage. However, there is evidence consistent with a period of healing, though it does not rule out a possibility that there was surface trauma only with a very short period of healing. This evidence is the lack of public activity reflected in the preserved archives. Between the beating and this event the diaries and preserved letters show no activity outside of caring for the baby. The first public activity is a month later on 13 November, when Fuller travels to the Joliet plant on Stockade business, a plant he had set up.
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Resultados do Grande Prêmio do Canadá de Fórmula 1 realizado em Mosport Park em 22 de setembro de 1974. Décima quarta etapa da temporada, teve como vencedor o brasileiro Emerson Fittipaldi, da McLaren-Ford.

Classificação da prova

Curiosidades
● Ambos os pilotos Emerson Fittipaldi e Clay Regazzoni chegaram empatados no Grande Prêmio dos Estados Unidos de 1974 na decisão do titulo, algo que se repetiria apenas em 2021 no Grande Prêmio de Abu Dhabi de 2021 com Max Verstappen e Lewis Hamilton.

● Uma leve vantagem a Emerson Fittipaldi no campeonato,pois,ele tinha vitórias no Grande Prêmio do Brasil de 1974, no Grande Prêmio da Bélgica de 1974 e neste Grande Prêmio do Canadá de 1974. Se ambos abandonarem a prova ou chegar fora da pontuação,Emerson é considerado campeão pelo critério de desempate,porque,Clay Regazzoni ganhou apenas um grande prêmio na temporada,o Grande Prêmio da Alemanha de 1974.

Tabela do campeonato após a corrida

Classificação do mundial de pilotos

Classificação do mundial de construtores

 Nota: Somente as primeiras cinco posições estão listadas. Em 1974 os pilotos computariam sete resultados nas oito primeiras corridas do ano e seis nas últimas sete. Neste ponto esclarecemos: na tabela dos construtores figurava somente o melhor colocado dentre os carros do mesmo time.

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Nyc Kids Found Stabbed To Death Were Concealed In Bathtub Full Of Clothes Cops
NYC kids found stabbed to death were concealed in bathtub full of clothes: cops
At 7:21 p.m., police and EMS workers responded to a 911 call that was most likely triggered by a carbon monoxide alarm in the third floor apartment, according to police and sources.
Author: Kevin Sheehan, Tina Moore, Jesse O'Neill
The bodies of a toddler and baby that were found stabbed to death more than a half hour after police responded to a domestic disturbance in the Bronx Saturday had been concealed in a running bathtub under piles of clothes.
The young boys, ages 3 years old and 11 months old, were found in the tub with "multiple stab wounds" to the neck and torso inside of a homeless shelter at 246 Echo Place in Mount Hope by their father just before 8 p.m., police said.
Police found the boys' 22-year-old mother naked and "acting irrationally" in the apartment, which was filled with noxious gas after she was lighting things on fire in the kitchen, police and sources said.
NYPD deputy chief Louis Deceglie speaking at the scene.
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Officials turned off the water to the running bathtub and took the unidentified woman to St. Barnabas Hospital. They did not notice that the slain children were concealed under the pile of clothes in the tub, according to police.
"There wasn't anything obvious to suggest there were dead kids in there," a police source said. "There was no blood."
Before she left for the hospital, a family friend told cops that the woman's children were with their father, police said.
Police found the boys' 22-year-old mother naked and "acting irrationally" in the apartment.
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The man, who was on the fourth floor of the building when cops were first called, made the gruesome discovery about 35 minutes later, and his desperate calls for help prompted neighbors to call 911 a second time, at 7:57 p.m., officials said.
The boys' mother was considered a person of interest in the horrific double murder, police said. Charges had not been filed against her Sunday morning.
Neighbor Shannon Holyfield saw the boys' father screaming and covering the two naked boys, covered in blood. She described the scene as "horrible and heartbreaking."
"He was screaming hysterically," Holyfield said. "He was screaming 'help me!' And I came and opened my door and I see him coming down the hall with the two boys in his arms.
"They were dead. They were dead. There was blood everywhere, it covered them," she continued.
"They are babies. The boys didn't deserve that."
Holyfield said the parents of the slain babies had been fighting earlier in the day.
The boys' mother was considered a person of interest in the horrific double murder, police said.
A man who lives on the fourth floor of the complex told The Post he helped the panicked father pull the kids out of the tub when he found them, and noted that first responders and shelter staff initially "walked past" the stabbed children.
"I tried to give the little baby some air but it was too much," the neighbor said.
"It's just sad," he said. "I told [the father] to put him on the bed. The oldest one, I tried to give CPR, to give him air but it wasn't working."
The 911 call was most likely triggered by a carbon monoxide alarm in the third floor apartment.
Further life saving efforts on the tiny unidentified victims were unsuccessful. The medical examiner was set to determine the cause of death, police said.
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One Simple Way to Help Teens Mature in the 21st Century
I marvel when I watch a college freshman quarterback play well under the pressure of TV cameras and 90,000 fans watching in person. My goodness, the poor guy is still a teenager. We've all seen the opposite, however, where a young athlete crumbles under the pressure of a close game in the fourth quarter. While this might be disappointing, it seems only natural for a teen.
Expectations of brain maturity for adolescents has changed over the centuries, and today, I'd like to discuss how we can aid in the maturation process for 21st century students. Why is it that the average teen seemed to be ready for adult responsibilities like full time jobs or marriage hundreds of years ago, but are seldom ready for even simple responsibilities today?
What Do We Know About Teenage Maturation?
We all know that brain circuits are still developing in adolescence, making it more difficult for teens to face challenges in our day. For instance, students don't always respond to incentives, like money, to improve their grades. According to a recent study, cash incentives attempts had mixed success.
The research published by the journal Nature Communications, revealed brain connectivity continues to expand through adolescence affecting a teenager's ability to perform when the stakes are high. For example, check out these two BBC articles that report what teen brain scans reveal about the adolescent mind:
Teenagers 'wired to be reckless'
Scans reveal how teenage brain develops
In one study, Harvard University researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures brain activity and detected changes in their blood flow. The brains of young people, ages 13 to 20, were scanned while they played a computer game. The teens played for high stakes (when they earned $1.00 for correct answers or lose $.50 for incorrect ones.) Then, they had teens play for lower stakes (earning 20 cents or losing 10 cents.)
Harvard researcher Katie Insel revealed that "older adolescents were able to boost their performance when the stakes were high. Younger teens, however, performed similarly for low and high stakes outcomes." There was no change in their brain.
It was clear to the researchers that not only is the brain still developing during the teenage years, but one signal of maturation is the teen response to taking risks. For a mature teen—the higher the stakes the more they feel ready to take a risk. For a younger, less mature teen, those high stakes will paralyze them from acting.
Foster Maturity By Raising the Stakes Appropriately
At the risk of oversimplifying, I believe teachers, parents, coaches and mentors can foster brain development; I believe we can empower healthy maturation. One way we can do so for students is to:
Encourage them to bite off challenges that stretch their risk taking abilities
and associate them with high stakes that they value.
If we're honest, we'd all would admit we don't necessarily take a risk unless we deem the stakes are valuable enough to us. For instance, we've all marveled at some of the ridiculous stunts male teens will perform in front of their friends or in front of girls. Their brain is communicating to them that even though the "stunt" might be risky (i.e. on a skateboard) they feel it's worth it for the reward of laughter, social media posts or just raw "likes." Every teen has their limit, where they draw a line in the sand and won't cross it. (Well, almost every teen). What we must do as leaders is to find their line and stretch them to take risks that matter, ones that actually make a positive difference in the community.
Offer some stakes that are just high enough to stretch their risk-taking ability when they act, but not so high they are paralyzed from acting. Just remember, the teenage brain is motivated differently than yours is, as an adult. Katie Insel adds, "This means that as teens age, they become better at adjusting brain connectivity across motivational contexts, which in turn allows them to do better when working towards a high-value goal."
Consider the teens who, a hundred years ago, were working an important job as an apprentice for their uncle; or those who got married at 19 and began families; or those who fought in Europe during World War I. Those were high stake ventures for which hundreds of thousands of teens were somehow ready to take a risk. The final part of the human brain to develop in our twenties is the prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for activities like planning, controlling emotions, and empathy. I say it's time we empower our young adults to mature in the right direction. Who knows what potential leaders are forming before our very eyes.
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Congrats to all of you for setting your training goals and following through with the Sunday run along the mighty Miramichi! This is the stuff that folklore is made of as future generations hear of your achievements, but we all know it's not folklore but folksore. It really happened!
Man you guys are awesome! Wish I could have been there as well!


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Q: Many To Many обновление записи TypeORM Есть отношение Many-To-Many в NestJS приложении.
Посетители могут иметь несколько типов, а типы могут иметь несколько посетителей.
Вот что имеется на данный момент, но я не знаю, можно ли избежать visitorService в данном случае. Возможно ли такое? Т.е я хочу сделать добавление, без инъекции сервиса посетителей
constructor(
    @InjectRepository(VisitorTypeEntity)
    private visitorTypeRepository: Repository<VisitorTypeEntity>,
    private visitorService: VisitorService,
  ) {}

  async addVisitor(id: number, visitorId) {
    const type = await this.visitorTypeRepository.findOne(
      { id },
      { relations: ['visitors'] },
    );
    const visitor = await this.visitorService.getById(visitorId);
    type.visitors = [...type.visitors, visitor];
    return await this.visitorTypeRepository.save(type);
  }

A: async addOrRemoveVisitor(id: number, visitorId, remove = false) {
    remove
      ? await this.visitorTypeRepository
          .createQueryBuilder()
          .relation(VisitorTypeEntity, 'visitors')
          .of(visitorId)
          .remove(id)
      : await this.visitorTypeRepository
          .createQueryBuilder()
          .relation(VisitorTypeEntity, 'visitors')
          .of(visitorId)
          .add(id);

    return { updated: true };
  }