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Hey, Who Wants to See Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth Return in Wolverine 3?
Not me! Because reminding everyone about the horror that was X-Men Origins: Wolverine is not the way to go here. Deadpool and Days of Future Past just got done erasing the worst parts of the early X-Men movies from the timeline. Don't undo all their hard work.
Ha. Ha. Ha. Look. Schreiber's a talented guy, but please, for all that's good and great in the world, let's go on pretending that the first Wolverine movie never happened, okay?


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'Stupid prick' – Biden was caught insulting a journalist
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US President Joe Biden during a press conference at the White House
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The press conference was about to end, but the microphone was still on: When a Fox News reporter asked the President of the United States about soaring inflation in the United States, Joe Biden became corny. The insult can be clearly heard in the recordings.
WLS President Joe Biden was caught horribly insulting a journalist because his microphone was still on. "What a stupid prick," Biden said Monday at the White House via Fox News correspondent Peter Dossey, according to the recordings. The White House later included this statement in the official minutes of the press conference.
Doshi asked Biden at the end of a press conference for his way out of whether high inflation in the United States might hurt his Democratic Party in the November midterm elections. What a great plus, more inflation," Biden said sarcastically in a low voice. "What a stupid prick."
Biden used the expression "stupid son of a bitch." "Son of a bitch" is considered a less serious insult in the United States than the literal German translation of "Hurensohn". Biden's comments were clearly heard in the recordings.
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Doshi, who is a reporter for his station at the White House, was relieved by the president's statement. "No one has checked it yet and said it's not true," he smiled to Fox News.
Dossey later said Biden called him. "Nothing personal, my friend," said the US president.
Biden and the press
Biden and Dossey have clashed in the past. Recently the US President commented on a hand letter from the journalist at a press conference with the words: "You always ask me the most beautiful questions. None of them have much meaning to me. "
The conservative news anchor is known for providing highly critical reporting on Biden, and Ducey repeatedly highlights himself with persistent and provocative questions about the president. Fox News was also a longtime favorite of Biden's predecessor Donald Trump.
On the other hand, Biden is known for the fact that he likes to express himself in slang and also makes frequent verbal interruptions. However, at the beginning of his tenure, he would walk around his staff to treat journalists with respect. He wanted to distinguish himself from Trump, who openly assaulted journalists.
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Today I'm reviewing 2 product's by Clarins.
First of all both of these products are 100ml sized (gift sized) and I've just checked the Clarins website & to buy individually they are 200ml sizes.
It soaks into the skin in seconds leaving a moisturising, non-sticky kind of matte sheen to the skin.
It has a kind of mild citrus/peachy scent which would make sense as it's prime ingredients are Peach milk, Shea, Candlenut oil & Orange blossom.
One thing I hate is exfoliators with big ole beads in them that feel like your skin is being sanded to the bone! Well, this is quite the opposite…. It comes out the tube as more like a paste (kind of looks like hair removal cream!) and after polishing my skin in the shower the dry skin on my upper arms & shoulder's was removed and smoothed after a long winter of heating and jumpers. The skin was beautifully soft and 'de-scaled'.
The scrub also won Instyle magazine's 'Best body exfoliator' in 2014 and I can really see why, I love it!
Do any of you guys use Clarins??
My top 3 face primers!
Here are my top 3 primers….
The Hydrating vitamin rich light cream feels lovely and cooling on the skin and contains ingredients such as aloe vera and cupuacu seed butter.
The primer really sinks into the skin allowing for fast make-up application.
The primer is Laura's first 'Spackle' to have a paraben-free formula, which I love!
The Dior Skinflash primer comes in a sleek silver brush head packaged formula and at 15ml it will definitely be a considered purchase, however this primer really has that 'staying power' that a lot of primers can lack, especially if you wear very full coverage foundation/Make-up and really makes it 'stick' and last.
The primers gives an illuminate glow to the skin on it's own and really brightens up any dull and dark areas on the face.
Dior describe the primer as 'Enriched with an energising cocktail of minerals and hyaluronic acid to plump up the skin' so especially good for a mature skin.
It contains olive & witch hazel extracts as well as bisabolol which helps to give the skin that healthy glow.
So I know I'm a little late with my 'February favourite's', or maybe I should call it 'Current favourite's'?
As myself (Nina) and my sister Louise run this blog we each will have our own 'Favourites' post.
I plan on doing in depth reviews on the products listed (that haven't already been reviewed) at some point.
I got this in a set for Christmas (which I will be reviewing next week) and have been using it as a makeup primer, works well and doesn't break me out, yay!
This gorgeous baked blusher in shade 'Apple custard' and it's a beautiful sheer pinky plum colour, I've been applying to the apple of my cheeks for a colour hit.
I got this as part of a Collection from QVC.
I also got this in a QVC collection (Laurageller.com doesn't yet ship outside of the US).
This is one of Laura's newest body care products (can't wait to try them all).
Oh my favourite ever product, I use this everyday (full review on blog), my shade is 'Light plus' .
I love this colour (10.21 Stockholm) it doesn't go quite as light as the picture but goes a very light natural blonde shade and doesn't go brassy.


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Iran Report: June 9, 2003
June 09, 2003 00:00 GMT
9 June 2003, Volume 6, Number 24
U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT DENIES SEEKING REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN. U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith said during a 4 June Pentagon briefing that the U.S. wants Iran to turn over all the Al-Qaeda operatives on its territory and to comply with its Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obligations, "but as for the future of the Iranian government, that's a matter to be decided by the Iranian people," the American Forces Press Service reported.
Feith said that a recent report in London's "Financial Times" newspaper "grossly misrepresented" U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's views on Iran and the U.S. desire for regime change there. A 30 May report in the British newspaper had stated that Rumsfeld is pushing for regime change while "'neo-conservatives' outside the administration are turning up the volume of their demands for an end to Tehran's theocracy."
Meanwhile, anonymous U.S. defense officials confirmed on 3 June that they met with Mahmudali Chehragani, who heads the Southern Azerbaijan National Awareness Movement, "The Washington Times" reported on 4 June. Chehragani is just one dissident Iranian with whom the United States occasionally speaks, the officials said, but they are not specifically trying to encourage internal opposition or support a change in government. "The role of the U.S. is to communicate to the Iranian people our firm support for their democratic aspirations and human rights, and to let them know their voice is heard," the officials said in a statement.
Chehragani has other ideas, saying in an interview that appeared in the 3 June issue of Baku's "Ekho" daily, "Our aim is to create a democratic, modern, and secular state with a federal system in Iran, in which the highest status of autonomy will be granted to southern Azerbaijan." He continued, "We want Tabriz to become the capital of our autonomy, which will have its own government, parliament, state attributes, and army." Chehragani said his organization is in touch with other Iranian minorities, including Kurds, Baluchis, Turkmen, and Arabs. He acknowledged that there are some problems with the Kurds stemming from conflicting territorial claims to the cities of Urumiyeh, Maku, and Khoi.
Some Iranian minorities welcomed the 1978-79 Islamic revolution and what they hoped would be greater autonomy than they had under the monarchy. What they encountered instead was a system that frowned on anything distinctive to an ethnic minority -- be it language, religion, culture, or even territorial identification.
Recent research on ethnic minorities found that Tehran gives lip service to practical recognition of minority rights and, in reality, state policies advocate unity, encourage acculturation to a common culture, and promote assimilation. The state, Persian nationalism, and Shia Islam are supposed to be the unifying factors, and this unity is imposed through force when necessary. (See A.W. Samii, "The Nation and Its Minorities: Ethnicity, Unity, and State Policy in Iran," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, [http://www.cssaame.ilstu.edu/issues/v20/samii.pdf]). (Bill Samii)
IRANIAN OFFICIALS DENOUNCE PERCEIVED U.S. INTENTIONS. Although U.S. government officials have denied intending to overthrow Iran's theocratic regime, Iranian officials seem unconvinced. They were especially vocal in their denunciations of the U.S. during the first week of June, as the country commemorated the 1989 death of the "Father of the Revolution," Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Speaking at the Imam Khomeini mausoleum in Tehran on 4 June, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Iran's young people would resist a foreign military attack, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) and Iranian state radio reported. He claimed that the United States has been threatening Iran since the 1979 revolution. Iranian officials do not want to expose the country and its people to war, he said, but attacking Iran would be suicidal. In recognition of this, Khamenei said, Washington is trying to "terrorize Iranian people and officials by speculating on a military attack or other threats so that they achieve their wishes upon the retreat of [Iranian] officials and their betrayal of the nation." According to IRNA, the slightly less than one million mourners from all over the country replied with "thunderous" chants of "Death to America."
Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani said during a 4 June ceremony at the Imam Khomeini mausoleum that U.S. anger towards Iran is mainly based on the Islamic revolution's negative impact on U.S. regional interests, state radio reported on 5 June. Rafsanjani claimed that public support for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini foiled American plots against Iran. He added: "America is caught in the swamp of Afghanistan and Iraq."
Expediency Council member Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Nateq-Nuri, a former parliament speaker and the heavily favored candidate that Mohammad Khatami defeated in the 1997 presidential election, warned Iranians on 4 June that the United States is seeking to overthrow Iran's Islamic system of government by fomenting instability. He said that the United States would like to engineer popular uprisings to bring down the Iranian regime, IRNA reported. He explained that in its efforts "to sow discord among the masses to materialize its evil [objectives]," the United States is aided by some people within the country who weaken Iran's revolutionary institutions "by the heavy criticisms they direct at them." Among them, he said, are those who claim that there are "unelected, powerful bodies in Iran's system."
Also on 4 June, Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's representative to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), echoed Nateq-Nuri's statements in warning that Iran's "arch-foe" is launching a psychological war by sowing discord, IRNA reported. Some Iranians aid the U.S., he said, by "raising unsubstantiated claims that the religious state is inefficient." His remarks came after the IRGC issued a statement on 2 June that said allegations about human rights violations in Iran and a "propaganda campaign" against Iran's nuclear program "are all aimed to disappoint the Iranian people, but to no avail," IRNA reported. As did Nateq-Nuri, Movahedi-Kermani complained that the United States is promoting the idea of holding a referendum in Iran, presumably on the system of rule, as a way to undermine the system, and that "some political camps in Iran are backing the idea." Movahedi-Kermani said change is not needed, but noted, "Those favoring change should be put away from the system." (Bill Samii, Steve Fairbanks)
FRIDAY PRAYERS CONGREGATION HEARS ALLEGATIONS ABOUT AMERICAN SPIES IN IRAN AND OBJECTIVES IN REGION. Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, who is one of Iran's most outspoken hard-line clerics, said in a pre-sermon speech at the Tehran Friday Prayers on 6 June, "The enemy has dispatched hundreds of spies to our country in order to bribe a number of Iranian officials," IRNA reported. These alleged spies have $500 million that they will distribute among Iranian officials, he claimed, citing a news agency in Turkmenistan. Mesbah-Yazdi added that some officials already have been bribed. He returned to one of his favorite themes -- insiders versus outsiders -- and said that anybody who has friendly relations with the enemy is an outsider (see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 30 August 1999).
Mesbah-Yazdi's claims earned an angry response from the Iranian government. The vice president for legal and parliamentary affairs, Mohammad Ali Abtahi, said on 6 June that the relevant government agencies should ask Mesbah-Yazdi to identify the recipients of this money, ISNA reported. If Mesbah-Yazdi cannot provide names, then "he should be asked not to use the holy platform of Friday Prayers to create anxiety among the public." Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi, furthermore, dismissed the allegation as "a sheer lie," ISNA reported.
Ayatollah Mohammad Emami-Kashani gave the sermon in Tehran on 6 June and, according to state radio, he said that America intends to impose American values on the region -- "In other words, to remove Islam." Emami-Kashani said that the Islam of Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam, is the Islam that Jesus Christ would have propagated if he was alive today. "Were Jesus Christ to come back to life if he would mobilize the world's Christians, including American ones, against the White House." Emami-Kashani also accused the U.S. of acting against Iraqis' interests and stealing their oil and resources. (Bill Samii)
IAEA REPORT FAULTS IRAN ON NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS. A much-anticipated report by the International Atomic Energy Agency, distributed to governments on 6 June in advance of a meeting of the agency's board of governors on 16 June, has concluded that Iran has failed to comply with its nuclear safeguards agreement, Reuters reported that day. "Iran has failed to meet its obligations under its safeguards agreement with respect to the reporting of nuclear material, the subsequent processing and use of that material and the declaration of facilities where that material was stored and processed," Reuters quoted one passage of the eight-page IAEA report.
One part of the report said that Iran did not declare until this year that it had imported 1.8 metric tons of natural uranium in 1991, nor did it declare the facilities for handling it, according to Reuters. "Although the quantities of nuclear material involved have not been large...the number of failures by Iran to report the material, facilities and activities in question in a timely manner as it is obliged to do pursuant to its Safeguards Agreement is a matter of concern," the report said.
The IAEA report also revealed Iran is building a previously unacknowledged heavy-water research reactor. That facility could increase Iran's technological options for the production of nuclear weapons, according to "The New York Times" on 7 June. The paper mentioned a 5 May letter that, the report said, "informed the agency for the first time of its intention to construct a heavy water research reactor" and also "informed the agency of its plan to commence construction in 2003 of a fuel manufacturing plant at Isfahan."
U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, calling the report "deeply troubling," said on 6 June that "Iran's clandestine nuclear program represents a serious challenge to regional stability, the entire international community and to the global non-proliferation regime," according to the 7 June issue of "The Washington Post." Boucher did not discuss details of the report nor did he predict what actions the IAEA board would take. The White House is pressing the IAEA to issue a formal finding of "noncompliance" for Iran, an act that could trigger sanctions by the Security Council, according to "The Washington Post."
Iran immediately rejected the report's accusations. "We have answers for all the points mentioned," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Assefi on 6 June, Reuters reported. Iran's atomic energy organization spokesman, Seyyed Khalil Musavi, said on 7 June that Iran had fully abided by its obligations and could provide answers to the agency, AFP reported. "This report, like most other reports by the IAEA, shows the transparent interactions between Iran's atomic energy organization and the IAEA. We will also study and evaluate this report and express our official stance in a declaration at the IAEA meeting on June 16 in Vienna," Musavi said. (Steve Fairbanks)
BOLTON TESTIFIES ON IRAN'S CLANDESTINE NUCLEAR PROGRAM. The IAEA report comes on the heels of testimony given on 4 June by Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton to a House of Representatives International Relations Committee hearing examining U.S. nonproliferation policies in the aftermath of the conflict in Iraq. In his testimony, available at http://www.state.gov/t/us/rm/21247.htm, he said Iran is developing "a uranium mine, a uranium conversion facility, a massive uranium enrichment facility designed to house tens of thousands of centrifuges, and a heavy water production plant." He said such a facility would support the production of highly enriched uranium and plutonium for nuclear weapons. "While Iran claims that its nuclear program is peaceful and transparent, we are convinced it is otherwise," Bolton said, adding that "one unmistakable indicator of military intent is the secrecy and lack of transparency surrounding Iran's nuclear activities. (Steve Fairbanks)
G-8 LEADERS URGE IRAN TO COMPLY WITH IAEA PROTOCOL. Leaders of the G-8 attending the organization's summit meeting in Evian, France, on 2 June adopted a statement calling on North Korea and Iran to abandon nuclear-weapons development and sign an accord that would allow stepped-up monitoring of nuclear facilities by international inspectors. "We will not ignore the proliferation implications of Iran's advanced nuclear program," the statement read. "We stress the importance of Iran's full compliance with its obligation under the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty]. We urge Iran to sign and implement an IAEA Additional Protocol without delay or conditions. We offer our strongest support to comprehensive IAEA examination of this country's nuclear program." (Steve Fairbanks)
RUSSIA FAVORS IRAN'S SIGNING OF IAEA PROTOCOL, BUT CONTINUES NUCLEAR COOPERATION. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Aleksandr Yakovenko said on 5 June that even though Russia is "actively pushing" for Iran to sign the IAEA additional protocol, which would open its nuclear facilities to unscheduled IAEA inspections, Iran's failure to do so would not hinder Russian completion of the Bushehr nuclear-power plant, AP reported. Yakovenko added that Russia's shipment of nuclear fuel to Bushehr would also proceed as planned, though Moscow is still insisting that Iran sign an agreement to ship the spent fuel back to Russia. Russian Atomic Energy Minister Aleksandr Rumyantsev announced on 2 June that Moscow "has reached an agreement in principle" on Iran's return of all spent nuclear fuel to Russia from the first unit of Iran's nuclear-power plant in Bushehr, ITAR-TASS reported.
Iran's ambassador to Moscow, Gholamreza Shafei, said on 5 June that the agreement on spent fuel had been drafted and Tehran was ready to sign, Reuters reported. But an unnamed Russian Nuclear Power Ministry official on the same day said that fuel would only be delivered six months before the power generating unit is put into operation, which he said would not be until 2005, Interfax reported. Russia is now blaming the delayed startup on the need to replace outdated equipment installed by the project's previous construction company, Siemens, according to Interfax.
Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated on 3 June that Russia would continue with its construction of Iran's nuclear-power plant at Bushehr, Reuters and several Russian news sources reported. "Iran is our neighbor. We have been cooperating and will continue to cooperate with [Iran]," Putin said at a briefing in Evian, France, after the G-8 summit, Interfax reported. His reported remarks contradicted earlier reports that cited an anonymous, high-ranking British official as saying that Putin told G-8 leaders on 2 June that Russia has frozen the Bushehr project.
Putin expressed concern that unidentified rivals might take over at Bushehr. "We are categorically against the dredging up of problems that could be used in the name of unscrupulous competition, including on the Iranian market," he said. Putin added that Russia would insist on IAEA supervision of Iran's nuclear program, though he was not reported to have specified that Russia will require Iran to sign the Additional Protocol of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which would require Iran to submit to surprise inspections by the IAEA.
In Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi on 2 June reiterated Tehran's preconditions for joining the Additional Protocol, asking Western countries to lift their sanctions against Iran's nuclear programs, IRNA reported. (Steve Fairbanks)
BUSHEHR REACTOR NEARLY DONE, BUT RUSSIA WOULD INCUR 'ENORMOUS LOSSES' IF PROJECT IS STOPPED. Mr. Ghaffurian, head of Iran's Nuclear Research Center, said in the 1 June issue of "Kayhan" newspaper that 80 percent of the "operational work" on the nuclear reactor at Bushehr is complete, and IAEA regulations have been observed in the project. Ghaffurian said that the light-water reactors that will be used at Bushehr for electricity production are "extremely safe." The Bushehr facility initially would produce 1,200 megawatts of electricity and this eventually would increase to 6,000 megawatts, according to Ghaffurian.
If Moscow were to suspend work on the Bushehr nuclear-power station, the Russian nuclear industry would incur "enormous losses," gazeta.ru reported on 3 June. The state budget would lose around $500 million a year if the project was not completed, according to the report. Some 600 Russian specialists currently working in Bushehr along with "several hundred" more expected by the end of this year would lose their jobs. In addition, numerous subcontracting companies, such as one in St. Petersburg that is producing a turbine for $38 million, would incur losses, according to the website. (Bill Samii, Steve Fairbanks)
KHATAMI WANTS TO AVOID EXPEDIENCY COUNCIL IN LEGISLATIVE DISPUTE. President Hojatoleslam Mohammad Khatami has encouraged a compromise between the parliament and the Guardians Council on two key bills in order to avoid intervention by the Expediency Council, which adjudicates in such cases, Iranian state television and IRNA reported on 1 June. Khatami, in a recent letter to parliament speaker Hojatoleslam Mehdi Karrubi, urged compromise on bills concerning presidential powers and elections.
The Guardians Council had rejected the bill on presidential powers on 9 May, and Khatami said in his letter that the differences are minor and can be overcome. Khatami's letter went on to say that the election regulations should respect the Guardians Council's powers to supervise elections while simultaneously guaranteeing the rights of voters and candidates for office.
Guardians Council Secretary Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said during the Council's 7 June meeting that he appreciated Khatami's letter, state radio reported. Jannati expressed the hope that the legislators would eliminate the problems discovered by the council, so when it reviews the legislation again it will not have to find it incompatible with Islam and the constitution.
Iranian government spokesman Abdullah Ramezanzadeh said during a 31 May press conference in Shiraz that the bills on presidential powers and elections would contribute to public activism in all aspects of national life and enhance the system's legitimacy, IRNA reported on 1 June. Ramezanzadeh said some would oppose the bills: "There are, no doubt, certain individuals that cannot be convinced to yield to the real will and vote of the nation, and those are the same people who try their best today to prove that the nation's representatives [elected officials] are ineffective." Ramezanzadeh also warned that public participation in the political process will turn to apathy if people believe their votes are irrelevant: "Naturally, if the people find out that their votes are not going to have any significant effect, the level of their cooperation will decrease drastically."
Khatami's desire to circumvent the Expediency Council seems to reflect a struggle for political power between the executive branch, which he heads, and the Expediency Council, of which Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani is chairman. Members of parliament, furthermore, frequently complain about the Expediency Council's involvement in the legislative process. (Bill Samii)
IRANIAN STUDENT GROUP REFUSED RALLY PERMIT. The "Toseh" daily newspaper reported on 3 June that the Iranian government has refused to issue permission for a rally to the country's main politically active student group. The rally was scheduled for 9 July -- the anniversary of the 1999 attack on a Tehran University dormitory by security personnel and hard-line vigilantes.
Abdullah Momeni, secretary of the majority Allameh wing of the Office for Strengthening Unity, said that exams end on 1 July and that because the summer holiday will have begun the rally must be held off-campus. Momeni said citizens are constitutionally entitled to hold rallies, and that by refusing to issue the permit the government is depriving them of the right to condemn the 1999 attack.
The "Aftab-i Yazd" daily reported on 29 May that Iranian universities have witnessed several violent incidents in recent weeks. It cited events in Isfahan, Hamedan, and Tehran that were organized by the Office for Strengthening Unity and disrupted by rival conservative student groups (see "RFE/RL Iran Report," 19 and 26 May 2003). (Bill Samii)
AL-QAEDA REPORTEDLY EXPELLED FROM IRAN. An anonymous "Iranian source very close to the [Islamic] Revolution Guards [Corps, IRGC] command" claims that Al-Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu-Ghayth recently left Iran through the area where the borders of Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan meet, London-based Iranian journalist Alireza Nurizadeh wrote in the 5 June "Al-Sharq al-Awsat."
The decision to expel Abu-Ghayth and other terrorists who are being sheltered by the IRGC in Tehran, Qom, and elsewhere was made at a Supreme National Security Council meeting last week. President Mohammad Khatami reportedly objected to the adverse impact on Tehran's relations with Riyadh, Cairo, Manama, and Kuwait City, and he wanted to extradite the terrorists to their countries of origin. He was forced to accept a compromise, however, to only expel them from Iran.
Iranian security forces recently deported 190 Pakistanis who had entered the country illegally en route for Europe, where they hoped to find employment, Islamabad's daily "The News" reported on 3 June. Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency Deputy Director Akbar Baluch said the immigrants crossed the Pakistan-Iran border from the Mand and Taftan areas of Baluchistan. One of the deportees said he and his companions contacted agents in Karachi who arranged for their transport to Mand, and in Mand each one of them paid 10,000 rupees (about $180) to an agent who "helped us cross over the border into Iran via unfrequented routes." The Pakistanis were arrested when they reached the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas.
These two reports, if accurate, indicate the ease with which Al-Qaeda personnel could slip into Iran and corroborate U.S. statements about Iranian assistance to Al-Qaeda personnel. (Bill Samii)
IRANIAN OFFICIALS MEET WITH PALESTINIAN FOREIGN MINISTER. Palestinian Foreign Minister Faruq Qaddumi had separate meetings on 31 May with Iranian Expediency Council Chairman Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani and parliament speaker Hojatoleslam Mehdi Karrubi, IRNA reported on 1 June. Rafsanjani called for greater unity among Palestinian groups in light of the "sensitive" regional situation and in order to "defeat the plots of the oppressors." He also said that "psychological warfare" is being waged against Islamic countries. "The continued brutalities against Palestinians in the occupied lands is indicative of the Zionist determination to defy any peace agreement," Rafsanjani added.
Karrubi, meanwhile, stressed that Iran will continue to support the Palestinian uprising (Intifada), and he explained, "The Palestinian issue was an underlying theme of the Islamic revolution." Qaddumi informed the Iranians about the "road map" for a permanent two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In an interview that appeared in the 30 May issue of London's daily "Al-Arab al-Alamiyah," Qaddumi expressed concern that another Islamic country could be exposed to "what Iraq suffered." He said Iran is worried because its newest neighbor is the U.S. Army, and "Iran needs the solidarity of the Islamic countries to support it so that it will not be exposed to what Iraq suffered." Qaddumi rejected the suggestion that Tehran wants to see a pro-Iranian regime in Baghdad. "Iran is interested in Iraq being free, independent, under independent Iraqi leadership, and to some extent away from U.S. influence," he said. (Bill Samii)
TEHRAN MAINTAINS SKEPTICISM ABOUT IRAQI AFFAIRS. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 31 May called on the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) to encourage Islamic countries "to resist U.S. plots and Zionism," IRNA reported. Khamenei made his remarks to OIC Secretary-General Abdelouahed Belkeziz following the three-day meeting of OIC foreign ministers that ended in Tehran on 30 May. He did not actually address the OIC gathering itself. "The United States has imposed an American ruler on Iraq and this calls for Islamic countries to set aside their discrepancies and take a peculiar stance toward the U.S. move," IRNA quoted him as saying. Belkeziz's response to the leader's remarks was noncommittal.
In an undated interview published in Germany's "Der Spiegel" on 2 June, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi criticized the U.S. occupation of Iraq but rejected the likelihood of a U.S. attack on Iran. Since U.S. intervention in Iraq was not approved by the United Nations, which he said must take over a "central role," the Americans are "occupiers who have no business in Iraq." He denied that Iran is pushing for an Islamic republic in Iraq based on the "Iranian model." That possibility, he said, "Just exists in the imagination of some Americans." He said U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's warning to Iran against interfering in Iraq reflects the "ignorance of the Americans." He explained that Washington is "looking for a culprit" because U.S. officials "see that things are not going the way they wanted." However, he said, Iran is not worried about being the next victim of a military strike. This is because "we are not a dictatorship but a democracy and, in addition, we do not violate any international laws." (Steve Fairbanks)
IRANIAN-BACKED IRAQI SHIA PARTY SENDS MIXED SIGNALS. Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) representative Hamid al-Bayati said in a 2 June interview with Al-Jazeera satellite television that the seven-member Leadership Committee of Iraqi political groups intends to proceed with its plan to form an Iraqi administration, "regardless of what the United States decides."
The Leadership Committee, which is made up of SCIRI, the Iraqi National Congress, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, the Popular Union of Kurdistan, the Iraqi National Accord, the Movement for Constitutional Monarchy, and Adnan Pachachi's Independent Iraqis for Democracy, had met that day with U.S. Administrator L. Paul Bremer and British envoy John Sawers and, according to al-Bayati, Bremer opposed convening an Iraqi national conference because it would be too difficult. Bremer's plan is to appoint an interim council of up to 30 Iraqis that would advise U.S. officials on policy and personnel choices. INC spokesman Entifadh Qanbar also expressed skepticism about the U.S. plan, "The Washington Post" reported on 3 June.
Al-Bayati also described changes in SCIRI, saying that party chairman Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim had announced that SCIRI's militia, the Badr Brigades, would be transformed into the Badr Institution for Building and Reconstruction. Bayati noted, "we do not need armed struggle after the fall of this regime." Al-Bayati makes this sound like a voluntary process, but reports from other sources indicate that the militia is being forced to disarm and that it is engaged in military activities against coalition forces.
The Kurdish newspaper "Hawlati" reported on 28 May that U.S. forces were disarming and detaining Badr Brigade personnel in the area of Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad. SCIRI's Iran-based radio station, the Voice of the Mujahedin, reported on 3 June that U.S. forces raided SCIRI offices in Tal Afar, near Mosul, seized "the contents" of the building, and made some arrests.
Citing an unidentified U.S. spokesman from the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division, the "Financial Times" reported on 6 June that 20 members of the Badr Brigade were detained on 21 May. The individuals were linked to "planning, supporting, financing and executing at least one RPG [rocket-propelled grenade] attack on U.S. forces, and are suspected in several others." SCIRI spokesman Hamid al-Bayati, however, said that the accusations are "completely false" and added that he has not received any information from the U.S. Army about the case.
Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim complained in an interview that appeared in the 7 June issue of "Der Spiegel" magazine that the American disarmament policy is biased. He noted that Kurdish units and even former Ba'athists are allowed to keep their weapons while the Shia militia is not. In his words: "the USA is partial. The Badr Corps is an integral component of the Iraqi people. In the opinion of many Iraqis, Washington's decision is clearly an aggressive act against the Shia majority in the country."
Meanwhile, British envoy to Baghdad John Sawers said on 3 June that Tehran is still providing support to Iraqi Shia groups, "The Guardian" reported on 4 June. "We have seen signs of and attempts to exercise undue and unwelcome influence in support of fundamentalist groupings," Sawers said. He added that Tehran continues to aid the Badr Brigades. Sawers pointed out that cross-border traffic is difficult to track, "But it's clearly not done with purely humanitarian intent." Iran used humanitarian and cultural activities as cover for subversion and covert action in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the 1990s and Afghanistan more recently.
As SCIRI appears to be having some difficulties, Iraq's oldest Shia political organization, Al-Da'wah al-Islamiyya, appears to be making a comeback. Unable to work in Iraq under Saddam Hussein's regime, Da'wah now is establishing offices around the country and recruiting new members so it can participate in elections and be part of the country's new administration. Furthermore, Da'wah's Baghdad representative, Abdul al-Anizi, said, "We want to have good relations with the Americans," "The Chicago Tribune" reported on 3 June. (Bill Samii)
MUQTADA AL-SADR IN TEHRAN, FOLLOWERS RALLY IN Al-BASRAH. Some 2,000 Iraqi Shia staged a rally in front of the British military headquarters in Al-Basrah, AFP reported. They chanted, "Leave peacefully lest we expel you through our jihad," and they handed British officers a petition demanding that the British withdraw to the outskirts of the city. The demonstration was called by the Sadriyun, an organization currently headed by Hojatoleslam Muqtada al-Sadr, the son of the murdered Ayatollah Muhammad Sadeq al-Sadr. Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, is in Tehran to participate in events commemorating the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Al-Sadr met with Expediency Council Chairman Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, who said, "If the Americans want to put in power a puppet government that acts contrary to the interests of the people, then they will certainly face many problems," IRNA reported on 8 June. The Iranian news agency referred to al-Sadr as the envoy of Ayatollah Kazem Haeri-Shirazi. (Bill Samii)


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Q: Why does the concatenation order change with a User-Defined Table Type? I've encountered what seems to me to be a strange ordering issue when using CONCAT with a User Defined Table Type.
I've put the SQL below that allows me to reproduce this:
I have the following user type:
CREATE TYPE [dbo].[StringList] AS TABLE
(
    [Value] VARCHAR(8000) NOT NULL
)

And the following query to set everything up:
DECLARE @ColumnNames AS TABLE([ColumnName] VARCHAR(MAX))
DECLARE @ValueTable AS [dbo].[StringList] --VariableLineA
--DECLARE @ValueTable AS TABLE([Value] VARCHAR(MAX)) --VariableLineB

INSERT INTO @ColumnNames([ColumnName])
VALUES
('Forename'),
('Surname')

INSERT INTO @ValueTable([Value])
VALUES
('Ellis'), ('Ali')

And this is the query I'm running:
SELECT CONCAT(STRING_AGG(CONCAT([ColumnName], ' - ',  [sc].[Value]), ', '), ', ') -- QueryLineA
        --CONCAT(STRING_AGG([ColumnName] + ' - ' + [sc].[Value], ', '), ', ') --QueryLineB
FROM        @ValueTable AS [sc]
INNER JOIN  @ColumnNames ON 1=1

If the VariableLineB line is uncommented, and the VariableLineA line is commented out, the following string is returned for both query lines if run individually or together:
Forename - Ellis, Forename - Ali, Surname - Ellis, Surname - Ali,
If the VariableLineA line is uncommented and the VariableLineB line is commented out, the following string is returned for QueryLineB, and from both queries if run together, but not QueryLineA on its own:
Forename - Ellis, Forename - Ali, Surname - Ellis, Surname - Ali,
When QueryLineA is run on its own, the following string is returned:
Forename - Ellis, Surname - Ellis, Forename - Ali, Surname - Ali,
Why has the order changed?  What am I seeing here, and is there any way to prevent this from happening?
In terms of usage, the values of @ValueTable would be getting passed into a function, and it's important that the original order (whatever that may be) remains the same.

A: The order changes because the order of the tables involved in the cross join has changed. In one plan @ValueTable is the outer (driving) table, in the other @ColumnNames is the outer table.
for each row in @ColumnNames
    for each row in @ValueTable
    concatenate the result
    //produces Forename - Ellis, Forename - Ali, Surname - Ellis, Surname - Ali,

for each row in @ValueTable
    for each row in @ColumnNames
    concatenate the result
    //produces "Forename - Ellis, Surname - Ellis, Forename - Ali, Surname - Ali,"

Order is never guaranteed unless specified in the query, so if consistent order is important you should add a stable order by clause defining order for both tables inside the STRING_AGG definition.
SELECT CONCAT(STRING_AGG(CONCAT([ColumnName], ' - ',  [sc].[Value]), ', ')
                        WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY [ColumnName],  [sc].[Value])  , ', ') -- QueryLineA
FROM        @ValueTable AS [sc]
INNER JOIN  @ColumnNames ON 1=1

A: In SQL Server, the order of the returned rows is not guaranteed unless you use an ORDER BY clause in your query, since a table is by definition an unordered set of rows. Thus, the results you add to another table (or table variable) won't have a specific row order unless you give it one when you do a select.
Since you need @ValueTable to have a specified order, you will need to add a sequence to the table - an IDENTITY column will work - and ORDER BY in your joined query, something like this:
CREATE TYPE [dbo].[StringList] AS TABLE
(
    [Order] Int Identity(1,1) not null,
    [Value] VARCHAR(8000) NOT NULL
)

A: STRING_AGG() function may contain optional ordering WITHIN GROUP clause which specifies the ordering of separate values in aggregated result.
When ordering clause is NOT specified then the values ordering in aggregated value is NOT specified. It is RANDOM and non-deterministic (it may differ from query execution to the next one).
In most cases it is defined by what object was scanned for to extract separate values for concatenation - table scan, index (clustered or non-) scan, temporary table/index, extracting by referenced field value while extracting values from another fields of joined table using this another table scan by some way, etc...
Query plan change or/and any another factor may change extracting order (even when the plan stays unchanged!), and this cause that the aggregation order may change too.
Remember - "no values ordering clause specified or documented" is equal to "the ordering may be any" in all cases.

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Q: mysql database from linux command line with dot in database name I have mysql database which has dot in database name
database name = "abc.domain.com"
my query for linux command line is
mysql -u"root" -p"123" -h 0 -e"USE information_schema;select column_name, column_type from information_schema.columns where TABLE_SCHEMA = `abc.domain.com` AND table_name=`bugs`;" | column -t > /tmp/describe

in above command I am writing database name in between backticks ``  it understand as linux command.
In mysql it is working fine.
how to solve this problem?

A: Try this:
/bin/sh -c mysql -u"root" -p"123" -h 0 -e"USE information_schema;select column_name, column_type from information_schema.columns where TABLE_SCHEMA = \\\`abc.domain.com\\\` AND table_name=\\\`bugs\\\`;" | column -t > /tmp/describe

Or
    $ export F='USE information_schema;select column_name, column_type from information_schema.columns where TABLE_SCHEMA = `abc.domain.com` AND table_name=`bugs`;'
    $ printenv F
    USE information_schema;select column_name, column_type from information_schema.columns where TABLE_SCHEMA = `abc.domain.com` AND table_name=`bugs`;
   /bin/sh -c mysql -u"root" -p"123" -h 0 -e $F | column -t > /tmp/describe

EDIT1:

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

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Eric Bischoff Recalls Living A Block Away From Vince McMahon
By Marco Rovere | December 05, 2020
During the latest episode of the 83 Weeks Podcast, Eric Bischoff looked back on the time he spent living in Stanford, Connecticut in 2019 as the Executive Director of SmackDown. Bischoff actually said he was living on the same block as Vince McMahon, and he told a story about seeing him drive home late at night.
"When I was in Stanford last year, I actually lived a block away from Vince McMahon," Bischoff said. "It was great. [His place] was a very exclusive condominium. It was always fun because I would be out walking my dog at night, and I'd see Vince come blasting around the corner. He drove like a f***ing mad man. He'd come zipping around the corner, dive down into the parking area. He lived right down the street from me.
"I'd be sitting on the jet [to leave for SmackDown/Raw], and typically we'd be waiting for Vince to arrive. He'd come blowing up to that corporate jet like he was taking a pitstop at the Indy 500. He liked to drive."
Bischoff also talked about the night he was fired live on Monday Night Raw in December of 2005 and thrown out in a garbage truck. He said that night was actually a relief to him, and he gave some insight into what the conversation was like leading up to that night with the McMahon family.
"This wasn't me necessarily getting fired," Bischoff said. "I got notified by Stephanie McMahon that they just decided they were going to go in a different creative direction. I still had time left on my contract when I got the call from Stephanie, and she said 'Look, we're going to take a different direction, pay you through your contract. You didn't do anything wrong, there's no heat. We just need to go in a different direction.
"I remember getting that call because the two times I was terminated, both times I was relieved. Stephanie, I think, anticipated me being upset or having some type of response to the phone call, and I just said, 'Steph, I completely understand. We have run out of rope as far as this character is concerned. It's starting to get redundant.' "
Bischoff continued on to say his time as the general manager of Raw had run its course. He said the story of being the pain in the ass GM and ruining things for talents like John Cena, Stone Cold, and Kane, had to come to an end.
"It worked for about 3-4 years, but after a while, you get tired of doing that as a performer," Bischoff said. "You know you're essentially doing the same things over, and over, and over again. You may be doing it with different people and the set ups may be different, but you just run out of room. I wasn't a wrestler and couldn't get in the ring. I was pretty limited. As a performer, you actually get tired of it. When Stephanie called me, I was like, 'ah, the time is right.'
"I fulfilled my goal. My goal was to end my career in WWE as a talent on a positive note. That was my note going in when Vince McMahon called me. I told my [wife] that this was my way of putting the period on the last sentence in the chapter I want my career to end on. This was actually a perfect set up for me."
Bischoff compared that show, which was dedicated from start to finish to the angle of him being fired at the end of the show, to wrestling shows today. He said this show is a perfect example of how great storytelling is written because the show starts with his trial and leads into McMahon firing him and sending him off in a garbage compactor. Bischoff also mentioned the issues regarding wrestling storytelling today, and he said the audience aren't the ones at fault.
"Story architecture requires that a story threads from beginning, to middle, to end," Bischoff said. "That's how you grow an audience during the course of an hour as opposed to getting a big tune in, leveling off during the middle of the show, and if you're lucky, maybe pumping your number towards the end. That's simple basic fundamental storytelling that will never ever, ever change! Whether it's a book, an infomercial, a movie, or yes indeed, a wrestling show.
"Nothing has changed in terms of the audience - what's changed is the discipline or lack there of amongst the people that produce it. Phew, I am never going to get a call to go anywhere again to appear on any wrestling show for the rest of my life, but you know what? I am good with that."
In that same breath though, Bischoff also talked about the possibility of returning to WWE. He said if the company were to ever call, he'd keep his options open, along with AEW. This is because he loves the ability to perform in front of an audience. Bischoff also talked about his future and if his appearances on AEW Dynamite could've been the last time we ever saw him on a pro wrestling show.
"I'm not going to lie, if I get a phone call from WWE and they offer me an opportunity to do something as they have, some of it, I do, some of it, I don't," Bischoff said. "It has more to do with timing, and my schedule, and what's going on in my life than anything else. It's not me being a bit** or a diva. Same with AEW.
"I am so grateful for the opportunity to perform for AEW because I love to perform. But I also know my train has left the station. My time is over and I'm good with it. If I never appear in front of a camera again, I'll be disappointed because I love to perform, but I'll also understand it and not take it personally. I'm perfectly comfortable being 100% honest."
If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit 83 Weeks with a h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.
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BUFUJA, Uganda (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in eastern Uganda on Nov. 23 destroyed the maize crops of a former Islamic sheikh (teacher) in eastern Uganda who was beaten unconscious after revealing his faith in Christ, sources said.
The day before his fields were destroyed, 30-year-old Malik Higenyi of Bufuja village, Butaleja District, received threatening messages on his mobile phone, he told Morning Star News.
Higenyi, who along with his wife and two children secretly embraced Christ on April 16, made an open confession of faith at his church on Nov. 13. News of his confession reached a mosque in nearby Lubanga village immediately, sources said.
Higenyi suffered a head wound and a broken bone in his right hand.
Relatives ostracized him, and Local County 1 Chairman Walubi Mailadi supported their opposition to his conversion, sources said. Fearing attacks, he and his family have been unable to return to their thatched-roof home.
The family received Christ when a local pastor (name withheld for security reasons) visited his home and discipled him the following months.
Since Higenyi's public confession, Muslims from Lubanga mosque have been holding meetings to discuss his punishment, and after Friday prayer meetings they have issued harsh statements against apostates, sources said.
Higenyi and his family are now without a home and have taken refuge at an undisclosed location.
"Please pray for Higenyi's family at this difficult time, for they are emotionally troubled," the pastor told Morning Star News.
The attacks are the latest in a series of aggressions against Christians in eastern Uganda. On Oct. 20, Muslims in Kobolwa village, Kibuku District gutted the home of a Christian family for housing two boys who had been threatened with violence for leaving Islam.
On Aug. 10, a Christian woman in eastern Uganda became ill after she was poisoned, she said. Aisha Twanza, a 25-year-old convert from Islam, ingested an insecticide put into her food after family members upbraided her for becoming a Christian, she told Morning Star News. She and her husband, who live in Kakwangha village in Budaka District, put their faith in Christ in January.


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TMBP Extra: Everybody had (another) good year — 2nd Blogoversary
Work begins anew for the Beatles. From the opening scene in Let It Be.
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were working stiffs like the rest of us* 45 years ago today, when those four, joined by a film crew, headed back to work after New Year's.
The hours they put in over the subsequent month has stood the test of time, as documented on the Let It Be album and film, and with the results of their labor also eventually surfacing on Abbey Road and various solo albums.
But you all knew this.
I did too before I started this blog, two years ago today. But I just didn't know how deep the story ran and how much more there was to these sessions. Especially with so much of our knowledge of this era couched in the record's tumultuous production and release a year later and the breakup that preceded it.
A few days ago, I rewatched the Let It Be film (I've been watching it every few weeks in spurts as I write, but this was purely for "leisure," having a few beers with my wife, who wanted to see it again). Knowing what I know now, both in my own immersion in the tapes and researching what is available about the sessions (far less than you think), I'm struck by what really got me interested in the tapes in the first place: You see all of the results, but absolutely none of the motivation.
Why did they move from Twickenham to Apple all of the sudden? Who's this guy showing up to play keyboards? Why are there so many covers, and so many songs we'd see later on Abbey Road? What's the deal with playing on the roof? Was that the first choice for the concert they allude to really late?
The movie creates more questions than it answers. And of course, that's a part of what makes listening to the tapes so captivating.
Finding answers is also what makes for some really deep blog posts. In 2013, I wrote 13 posts on the timeline (of 19 total posts last year) covering a little less than 3 1/2 hours on the tapes.
Yes, a mere 3 1/2 hours of conversations and rehearsals were able to form the basis of 13 posts — and more than 17,000 words therein. But talk about memorable moments in just those 200-plus minutes:
We get the background to the infamous "I'll play whatever you want me to play" argument as featured in the film, an incident often misplaced as the immediate cause of George's walking out on the band.
Paul introduces "Carry That Weight" and "Golden Slumbers" and in a remarkable morning session alone at the piano, also gives a proper debut to "The Long and Winding Road." Moments later, "Get Back" is born largely from a jam with George.
We learn that Brian Epstein's ghost still hangs over the band, which is completely unmotivated at this stage in its career. Unable to come to any agreement on — or build any desire for — a live show, the group admits their doldrums have lasted more than a year. Not just ending the sessions, but breaking up the band, has become a viable, openly discussed option.
It makes you wonder what kind of film Michael Lindsay-Hogg could have made if he had his way. This drama is writing itself. And with a great soundtrack!
Cheers to you all!
And to think, we're only at the middle of Jan. 7. There's a heck of a way to go, and I can't wait to dig in.
I can't say enough for the support I've gotten from readers, be it in comments, over Twitter, Facebook and from other blogs. It's been amazing to share this experience — and communicate with — Beatles fans as passionate and curious as I am. I want to especially thank and point back to Hey Dullblog, Kenwood, A Mythical Monkey, Ultimate Classic Rock and the York Beatles Appreciation Society for linking to me over these years. It really makes this all the more fun to know people are reading and enjoying it.
And the most special thanks to my wife, Dianne, for being my editor and putting up with my "child-like wonder" at Paul's playing the songs he introduced Jan. 7, 1969, live daily in 2013.
Here's a recap of the first few days:
What's next? More of the same in 2014. Happy New Year!
*- Full disclosure: While I may be a working stiff, I actually have the day off. But back to work Saturday!
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2 responses to "TMBP Extra: Everybody had (another) good year — 2nd Blogoversary"
Mythical Monkey
This has been one of my favorite blogs on any topic, and if this is your two year anniversary then I must have been following it since pretty near the beginning.
The Get Back sessions have held a warm spot in my heart ever since my father brought home a double album Get Back bootleg back in 1977, which would have been my junior year in high school. I remember it had songs I'd never heard such as "Commonwealth" "Suzy Parker" something labeled "Tennessee" on the record jacket, plus the Enoch Powell version of "Get Back" a fast version of "Two of Us" and several attempts to work out "Don't Let Me Down." Taken, I'm sure, off the camera rolls (you can hear an occasional high-pitched beep in the background).
It was interesting that, even as the Beatles were disintegrating, how much John could crack up Paul — for example, as Paul is singing the chorus "Commonwealth — it's much too wealthy for me," Lennon replies "It's much too common for me" and Paul nearly loses it.
My dad was an interesting guy — conservative, middle-aged international businessman — but he took the Beatles seriously from the moment they arrived, and recommended to my big brother that he quit his summer job in 1965 so he could go see the Beatles in Atlanta. "You'll never remember this job, but you'll never forget seeing the Beatles."
That's a great story, and bless your dad for giving such great advice! What an amazing quote.
I can't thank you enough for the compliments. It's very humbling, and I'm very appreciative. This has been just too much fun, and I'm grateful other people can enjoy this labor of love!
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@345Breathless @McCartneyPod My pleasure! I lived through 8-tracks as a kid, and they were pretty weird, especially in retrospect. 1 day ago
@345Breathless @McCartneyPod Just one head, but it was able to play both the tracks in the single program at once.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
@345Breathless @McCartneyPod Yeah. So there are the 4"programs" on one single side of the tape (and each has a L &… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
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Q: Improve speed of first detection in face-api.js? In face-api.js the first call to detect a photo takes about 10 seconds, and then takes milliseconds for all subsequent detections.
Is there any way to call some function to prepare before starting detection and avoid this initial delay? Taking into consideration that the user needs to do an action (click a button) to start the face detection.
I am already doing the initiated boot load. According to the code.
App Init()
const MODEL_URL = "/static/models";
faceapi.loadTinyFaceDetectorModel(MODEL_URL);
await faceapi.loadFaceLandmarkTinyModel(MODEL_URL);
await faceapi.loadFaceDetectionModel(MODEL_URL);
await faceapi.loadFaceRecognitionModel(MODEL_URL);

navigator.mediaDevices
  .getUserMedia({ video: { frameRate: { ideal: 10, max: 15 } } })
  .then(stream => {
    this.cameraPreview.srcObject = stream;
    this.cameraPreview.style.display = "block";
  })
  .catch(err => {
    alert("error");
  });

Call Detect
start(){
    configProcessFace();
    detectFace();
}

configProcessFace() {
    let inputSize = 128;
    let scoreThreshold = 0.58;
    this.faceOptions = new faceapi.TinyFaceDetectorOptions({
        inputSize,
        scoreThreshold
    });
},
async detectFace() {
    faceapi
    .detectSingleFace(this.cameraPreview, this.faceOptions)
    .run()
    .then(res => {
        if (res && res.box) {
            ...
        }
        window.setTimeout(() => {
            this.detectFace();
        }, 40);
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
});

A: I push a picture with a face, in the proportions 512x512 and did the recognition while loading the application. When the user will recognize it, it takes 1 second.
For consult:
prepareFaceDetector() {
      let base_image = new Image();
      base_image.src = "/static/img/startFaceDetect.jpg";
      base_image.onload = function() {
        const useTinyModel = true;
        const fullFaceDescription = faceapi
          .detectSingleFace(base_image, new faceapi.TinyFaceDetectorOptions())
          .withFaceLandmarks(useTinyModel)
          .withFaceDescriptor()
          .run()
          .then(res => {
            console.log("--------> " + JSON.stringify(res));
          });
      };
}


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Market plunge reveals growing investor pessimism in US economy
By Gregory Daco, opinion contributor — 12/05/18 10:15 AM EST
Markets had a rough day Tuesday with the S&P 500 index falling more than 3 percent, the Dow Jones Industrial Average shedding 800 points, and the 10-year Treasury yield falling to 2.91 percent — its lowest in three months.
While there is, as always, a confluence of factors influencing market fluctuations, excessive U.S. growth pessimism and excessive post-Group of 20 (G20) trade optimism carry a large portion of the blame.
While the G20 meeting between President Trump Donald John TrumpNational Archives says it altered Trump signs, other messages in Women's March photo Dems plan marathon prep for Senate trial, wary of Trump trying to 'game' the process Democratic lawmaker dismisses GOP lawsuit threat: 'Take your letter and shove it' MORE and Chinese President Xi Jinping was a success in that the threatened escalation of trade tensions was pushed back 90 days, conflicting post-meeting communication and Trump stating that he was a "Tariff Man" left many investors worried about rising protectionism.
Indeed, beyond the political spin, it is difficult to foresee an imminent and substantial trade deal between the two economic giants. Addressing the structural issues related to forced technological transfers, intellectual property protection, industrial subsidies and market access in China will instead require lengthy negotiations and patience.
But still, while 2019 will likely feature increased trade protectionism, October's 10-percent market correction and Tuesday's combined decline in stocks and Treasury yields reveals excessive growth pessimism.
With the U.S. economy growing at a strong 3-percent pace, the labor market churning out more than 200,000 jobs monthly, the unemployment at a 50-year low and private-sector confidence near all-time highs, recession odds remain quite low — Oxford Economics puts the odds of an economic downturn in 2019 around 20 percent.
Looking ahead, though, this divergence between markets and the economy could persist, driven by unsynchronized global growth, elevated and rising trade tensions, technology sector troubles, oil turbulences and the Federal Reserve's tightening of monetary policy.
On the global front, there are similarities between the recent bout of temporary economic decoupling and the one that was present in 2014-2015.
A fiscally-stimulated U.S. economy has largely been insulated from slower global momentum, which has led to both a strong dollar and ongoing monetary policy tightening — both seen as potential headwinds for stock prices.
On the trade front, policy uncertainty remains extremely elevated in the wake of the Trump-Xi meeting. While the two leaders negotiated a three-month tariff time-out, President Trump subsequently tweeted that in the absence of a deal with China, he would "be charging major Tariffs against Chinese product being shipped into the United States," stocking renewed investor fears.
Indeed, the most under-appreciated paradox in U.S. trade policy today is that increased protectionism is hurting the very companies the U.S. administration wants to protect from unfair trade practices.
Most visibly, the imposition of tariffs on key inputs like semiconductors is leading to heightened cost for the tech sector and disrupting global supply chains.
In addition, there is a less visible, but increasingly active effort by the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment (CFIUS) to scrutinize U.S. exports as well as foreign direct investment in certain new technology sectors, such as artificial intelligence and robotics.
A request for notice published on the Federal Register last week gives businesses 30 days to comment on new export-control rules. These rules could have a severe impact on U.S. exports, business investment and GDP, if imposed.
The energy sector has also come under pressure of late with Brent crude price falling nearly $25 to the low $60 per barrel since its early October peak.
A combination of strong U.S. oil output due to smaller-than-expect transportation bottlenecks, firmer Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) production owing in part to waivers granted for Iran's oil exports and weakened demand have helped push prices lower.
With OPEC producers facing a dilemma of either cutting production to support prices but losing market share or maintaining production but losing revenues, the lead-up to Thursday's OPEC meeting remains turbulent for markets.
All of these developments have made the Federal Reserve's monetary policy normalization process even more interesting going into 2019. Indeed, while the Fed's main focus remains the state of the economy, it is not indifferent to market movements, especially those that affect the economy.
Balancing a desire to tighten monetary policy gradually to avoid rising inflation and the development of financial market imbalances with the need to avoid excessive tightening that risk stoking market instability is not an easy task.
Last week's dovish Fed communications, including speeches by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Richard Clarida, is symptomatic of this difficult balancing act.
How to communicate ongoing monetary policy normalization in the face of a strong but cooling economy without communicating excessive growth and recession pessimism will be the key challenge.
Gregory Daco is the chief U.S. economist at Oxford Economics.
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Ease of Doing Business (EoDB), an index published by the World Bank is a benchmark study of the regulations across different Countries of the World. It is an aggregate figure that includes different parameters which define the Ease of Doing Business in a country.
The index is a means of measuring business regulations and its implementation across 190 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. The Doing Business project, launched in 2002, looks at domestic small and medium-size companies and measures the regulations applying to them through their life cycle. It provides indicators on regulation for starting a business, dealing with construction permits, getting electricity, registering property, getting credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, trading across borders, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency.
According to the World Bank's latest 'Doing Business' index, India stands at 100 out of 190 countries in the Ease of Doing Business ranking. In this regard, Government of India (GoI) had in 2015 –'16 decided to formulate strategies and steps towards creating an enabling framework for stimulating investments and growth across the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors.
Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), GoI had laid emphasis on simplification and rationalization of the existing rules and introduction of information technology to make governance more efficient, effective, simple and user-friendly. Govt. of India (GoI) has been ranking States based on the Ease of Doing Business and also in getting timely clearances. The States had been ranked based on the parameters that include ease in setting up a business, registration of property, labour compliances, infrastructure availability, finance and tax issues, inspection reforms and ease in exiting business. Kerala is in the 20th position in the EoDB ranking of States done by DIPP, GoI during the year 2016-'17.
Government of Kerala (GoK) had decided to undertake reforms to help place the State on an equal footing amongst other top ranked States and identified specific areas for improvement in various aspects of doing business in the State. The key areas identified were i) Registration, ii) Revenue iii) Municipality Building Rules iv) Panchayat Building Rules v) Survey and Land Records, where speedy reformations required for making a more conducive atmosphere for starting business. It was also decided to adopt the best practices of other States to improve the ease of doing business environment in the State.
KSIDC, being the nodal agency of the Government of Kerala, had done a study on the modification / amendments to be made in the concerned Rules and Regulations related to the existing clearance procedures in the State.
Based on the recommendations of the study report by the agency, amendments to following seven Acts were prepared by KSIDC and vetted by the concerned departments. The same was approved by the Cabinet and an Ordinance issued on 20.10.2017. Amendments to the following Rules based thereon had also been prepared by KSIDC and put up to Government; the same have been cleared by the concerned departments and are being issued shortly.
Amendments to Acts
The Kerala Panchayat Raj Act, 1994
The Kerala Municipality Act, 1994
The Kerala Lifts and Escalators Act, 2013
The Kerala Groundwater (Control and Regulation) Act, 2002
The Kerala Head Load Workers Act, 1978
The Kerala Shops and Commercial Establishment Act, 1960
The Kerala State Single Window Clearance Boards and Industrial Township Area Development Act, 1999
Amendments to Rules
The Kerala Panchayat Raj (Issue of Licence to Dangerous and Offensive Trades and factories) Rules, 1996
The Kerala Panchayat Raj (Profession Tax) Rules, 1996
The Kerala Municipality (Registration of Private Hospitals and Private Paramedical Institutions) Rules, 1997
The Kerala Panchayat Raj Building Rules, 2011
The Kerala Municipality Building Rules, 1999
The Kerala Factories Rules, 1957
The Kerala Inter-State Migrant Workers (Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service) Rules, 1983
The Kerala Contract Labour(Regulation and Abolition) Rules, 1974
The Building and Construction Workers(Regulation of Employment and Condition of Service(Kerala)) Rules, 1998
The Kerala Motor Workers Rules, 1962
The key advantages to the entrepreneurs, based on the Ordinance issued and amendments made in the Rules are highlighted below:
Employers shall no longer be obliged to hire the services of headload workers if they have their own manpower or machinery for loading/unloading tasks. An employer may henceforth arrange loading and unloading operations on his own.
Changed the name of "Dangerous & Offensive Trades and Factories" licenses for starting and running enterprises to a more industry friendly "Factories, Trades, Entrepreneurship Activities and Other Services", thereby removing all negative connotations.
Eliminated the need for NOC from the DMO for undertaking all activities. Henceforth, Clearance from District Medical Officers to be applicable only for hospitals, clinics, laboratories and paramedical institutions.
Specific time limits (15 days) fixed for issue or rejection of licenses beyond which deemed licences will be issued.
Approval based on Self-certification and Third party certification for specific levels is implemented in the State for clearances from LSG / PCB / CTP / Fire & Rescue. However, misrepresentations if any detected later, a penalty of maximum of Rs.5 lakhs shall be charged.
The power of the Local Body to issue stop memos to industries that have obtained all statutory approvals, on receiving complaints about nuisance created by the venture has been taken away; instead, the local body has to seek an expert opinion from the concerned departments and take action based on that.
Stop memos/prohibitory notices to be issued, if any, only if the establishment fails to comply with the corrective norms of the technical departments within the stipulated time frame.
Licences to be issued with a validity of 5 years and renewal of the same will also be for 5 years. Renewal will be automatic based on fee payment with no separate application process.
Introduction of self-certification for green category industries for Pollution Control Board and self-certification for factory licence from Factories & Boilers, for factories with less than 25 workers.
Investment Promotion and Facilitation Cell constituted on behalf of Kerala State Single Window Board and will be responsible for smooth interaction with applicants and issuing speedy approvals.
Single Window Board to have the power to issue composite clearances that will be binding to all departments/agencies. Deemed licenses may be issued by the respective Boards in cases where the stipulated time period of 30 days have exceeded.
Extraction of ground water below limits fixed for the Block concerned shall be permitted on the basis of self-certification of the unit concerned; however, in case of misrepresentation, a penalty of Rs.5 lakhs may be imposed.
All persons extracting ground water are now required to make provisions for treating, recycling and reusing used ground water.
The licence for lifts and escalators may now be issued for 3 years instead of 1 year at a time.
Only two documents required for obtaining electricity connections – proof of identity and proof of legal occupancy.
Coverage Area and Floor Area Ratios have been increased in the relevant rules thereby increasing he available land for construction
Categorizations of industrial activities in the 'Hazardous' category has been linked to the definition in Factories Act. The access road width, set back etc. will henceforth be dependent on this classification.
Delegation in powers of approval from the Department of Town and Country Planning have been ensured, with CTP being the appellate authority
Spot registration introduced under 5 labour laws
Orders issued for inspections to be done on the basis of a risk assessment of units, with the more risky to be inspected more often.
Provision for joint inspection by departments have been introduced.
An online single window clearance mechanism (SWIFT) including online Common Application Form (CAF), unifying the applications of the concerned departments/agencies with online payment provision, for speedy disposal of clearances in the State have been introduced.
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Q: Limit of powers of $3\times3$ matrix Consider the matrix
$$A = \begin{bmatrix} \frac{1}{2} &\frac{1}{2} & 0\\ 0& \frac{3}{4} & \frac{1}{4}\\ 0& \frac{1}{4} & \frac{3}{4} \end{bmatrix}$$
What is $\lim_{n→\infty}$$A^n$ ?
A)$\begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 & 0\\ 0& 0 & 0\\ 0 & 0 & 0 \end{bmatrix}$
B)$\begin{bmatrix} \frac{1}{4} &\frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ \frac{1}{4}& \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ \frac{1}{4}& \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\end{bmatrix}$
C)$\begin{bmatrix} \frac{1}{2} &\frac{1}{4} & \frac{1}{4}\\ \frac{1}{2}& \frac{1}{4} & \frac{1}{4}\\ \frac{1}{2}& \frac{1}{4} & \frac{1}{4}\end{bmatrix}$
D)$\begin{bmatrix} 0 &\frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ 0 & \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ 0 & \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\end{bmatrix}$
E) The limit exists, but it is none of the above

The given answer is D). How does one arrive at this result?

A: If you are in $1$, you have same probability to stay there or to pass to $2$, but no way to get back from there. Thus you are finally drifting to $2$.
States $2$ and $3$ are symmetrical: at long they will tend to be equally populated, independently of the starting conditions.
Therefore also starting from $1$ you will at long be split between $2$ and $3$.
Thus the answer is D).

A: By this question, we know that
\begin{equation}
A^n=
\begin{pmatrix}
2^{-n} & n\cdot 2^{-n-1} - 2^{-n-1} + \frac12 & {1-\frac{n+1}{2^n}\over2}\\
0 & {2^{-n}+1\over2} & {1-2^{-n}\over2} \\
0 & {1-2^{-n}\over2} & {2^{-n}+1\over2}
\end{pmatrix}.
\end{equation}
It is thus clear that $\lim_{n\to\infty} A^n = \begin{pmatrix} 0 &\frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ 0 & \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\\ 0 & \frac{1}{2} & \frac{1}{2}\end{pmatrix}$.

A: I'm lazy and prefer not to do tedious matrix inversions and multiplications if I can avoid it. Other answers have explained how to quickly eliminate the given possible solutions based on properties of Markov chains and their associated transition matrices, but one can also reason directly from the eigenvalues of the matrix.
It's often worth examining a matrix for obvious eigenvectors and eigenvalues, especially in artificial exercises, before plunging into computing and solving the characteristic equation. From the first column of $A$, we see that $(1,0,0)^T$ is an eigenvector with eigenvalue $\frac12$. The rows of $A$ all sum to $1$, so $(1,1,1)$ is an eigenvector with eigenvalue $1$. The remaining eigenvalue $\frac12$ can be found by examining the trace.
$A$ is therefore similar to a matrix of the form $J=D+N$, where $D=\operatorname{diag}\left(1,\frac12,\frac12\right)$ and $N$ is nilpotent of order no greater than 2. (If $A$ is diagonalizable, then $N=0$.) $D$ and $N$ commute, so expanding via the Binomial Theorem, $(D+N)^n=D^n+nND^{n-1}$. In the limit, $D^n=\operatorname{diag}(1,0,0)$ and the first column of $N$ is zero, so the second term vanishes. Thus, if $A=PJP^{-1}$, then $\lim_{n\to\infty}A^n=P\operatorname{diag}(1,0,0)P^{-1}$, but the right-hand side is just the projector onto the eigenspace of $1$. Informally, repeatedly multiplying a vector by $A$ leaves that vector's component in the direction of $(1,1,1)^T$ fixed, while the remainder of the vector eventually dwindles away to nothing.
Since $1$ is a simple eigenvalue, there's a shortcut for computing this projector that doesn't require computing the change-of-basis matrix $P$: if $\mathbf u^T$ is a left eigenvector of $1$ and $\mathbf v$ a right eigenvector, then the projector onto the right eigenspace of $1$ is $${\mathbf v\mathbf u^T\over\mathbf u^T\mathbf v}.$$ (This formula is related to the fact that left and right eigenvectors with different eigenvalues are orthogonal.) We already have a right eigenvector, and a left eigenvector is easily found by inspection: the last two columns both sum to $1$, so $(0,1,1)$ is a left eigenvector of $1$. This gives us $$\lim_{n\to\infty}A^n = \frac12\begin{bmatrix}1\\1\\1\end{bmatrix}\begin{bmatrix}0&1&1\end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix}0&\frac12&\frac12\\0&\frac12&\frac12\\0&\frac12&\frac12\end{bmatrix}.$$


Most of us have psychic abilities to a certain degree. The problem is many people simply ignore their intuition, letting their psychic potential go to waste.
While natural clairvoyants may need little more than meditation to keep their abilities strong, others require practice to fine-tune their skills. Nevertheless, over time psychic abilities can be developed and even perfected. Here are seven way to unlock your psychic potential.
Meditation is a powerful tool for developing your psychic ability. Why? Because meditating raises your energetic vibration. And simply put, spirit energy vibrates at a higher frequency. Too often we rush through the day with a scattered brain that leaves us anxiety-ridden and stressed. Through meditation, you'll begin to feel more connected to your higher self, your spirit guides and the energy of others. Just 10 to 15 minutes of meditation a day can help you become more spiritually-tuned.
How many times have you been plagued by the question, "What should I do?" And how many times have you disregarded that instinctive gut feeling, opting instead for conscious reasoning? The problem is, with conscious reasoning often comes ego-based decision making. And when the ego takes over, instinct falls to the wayside. For example, while instinct may guide you to forgive someone, your ego may guide you towards revenge.
Your intuition tells you important things that your own mind will argue with. Spiritually, intuition might be described as a sixth sense, innate wisdom, inner sense, inner voice or spiritual guide. Yet, for those not spiritually attuned, trusting intuition seems more like magic. And maybe it is a form of natural magic that humans can tap into. To access your intuition, switch off your inner critic. Stop rationalizing everything and just listen – without judgment.
Being psychic can be a little frightening, particularly if you question where the answers you receive come from. But those who have a natural psychic ability trust first and foremost that their "knowing" comes from a place deep within themselves. Psychic ability isn't guided by some unseen force; it's guided by intuition, confidence in self and the ability to feel another's emotions, or rather, get into someone's head. When you're guided by fear you can't really get in touch with your spiritual side. So, instead of fearing the unknown, embrace your psychic ability and treat it like a gift.
Spirit guides gently guide you throughout life intuitively, helping you stay on track with your soul's purpose. They'll hook you up with people, resources, money or even articles like this — wink — that will help you reach your goals. The catch is, they really can't help us unless we ask them first. Our spirit guides are always at the ready to connect with us, but first, we need to tune into their frequency by dedicating time during meditation.
Simply ask your guides for a sign. Don't justify what transpires, just go with it. When I asked my spirit guides for a sign, soon after, I found a feather lying outside my door. Create a sacred space to connect with your spirit guides daily. And when you have a question or need some help with a project, just ask. But, be clear on what you would like them to guide you with, and then trust that they'll get the job done.
Psychometry is the ability to "read" the energy or history of an object simply by touching it. It's a great way to develop your psychic abilities. Here's how you can practice psychometry.
Choose a quiet area in your home, free from distractions. Sit in a relaxed position and close your eyes.
Rest your hands on your lap with your palms facing up. With your eyes closed, ask someone to silently place an object in your hands. The object should be unknown to you and something the person has had in his possession for a long time.
Allow images and feelings to come into your mind, and then say whatever you see, hear, feel or sense while you hold the object.
Don't judge. The impressions may seem strange and even meaningless to you, but they might be of significance to the owner of the object.
Here's another easy way to develop your psychic abilities. Close your eyes and breathe in deeply. Make sure you're comfortable and your feet are firmly planted on the floor. After a few deep breaths, think about the next day. In your mind imagine yourself there. Now, write three predictions down on paper for that day. Check back the next day for accuracy.
You can strengthen your telepathy skills by attempting to read other's thoughts. You can also communicate your thoughts to others — silently. Begin by simply guessing what your friends or family are thinking whenever possible. Additionally, ask a friend to draw pictures or select random playing cards. Then, try to figure out what your friend has drawn, or which card they have chosen. Keep practicing daily. Telepathy takes concentration and may take years to develop. But with time and practice, you will become more accurate.
Miracles don't happen overnight. Unlocking your psychic ability will happen, but you may need to practice daily to get there. If you're experiencing little to no success then go back to the beginning and follow the advice given. Believe in yourself and be grateful for everything you achieved. Before you know it, your vibration will shift and you will be more psychic.


Happy Monday Everyone! You guys might have seen that Cathal and I visited Hoboken, New Jersey on Saturday. I remember my first two Summers in NYC, a trip to Hoboken and the infamous Carlos Bakery from Cake Boss was always on my to do list, yet for some reason I never quite made it. Obviously I wasn't the only one who was excited to visit the bakery as when we first arrived there was at least 70 people ahead of us in the queue, so we went for a wander before coming back for some treats. It was actually very cool to see some of the cakes being made on site especially for a baking fanatic like me!
After we pigged out on some canoli's and a cupcake we walked around the town a little and now I have to say that I slightly want to live there! It's very similar to a nice suburb with an old fashioned feel to it, not to mention the endless amount of restaurants and beautiful views of Manhattan. No matter how run down this city makes me with constantly being on the go, seeing its skyline renews my love for it each and every time.