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Macabre Jane Doe a shockingly good ghost story
by Sara Michelle Fetters - SGN A&E Writer
Sheriff Sheldon (Michael McElhatton) has a problem. After he and his team are called to a catastrophic crime scene that brutally took the lives of an entire family, bits and pieces of them strewn all about the house, the small town peace officer is dumbstruck when they find a mysterious body in the basement. This Jane Doe (Olwen Kelly) is perfect, nary a mark on her, and considering the condition of every other deceased individual they've so far found this is a perplexing set of circumstances indeed.
Sheriff Sheldon takes the body to the local mortician, Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox), and even though night is upon them he begs him to perform an immediate autopsy. The mortician agrees, his son and partner Austin (Emile Hirsch) deciding to stay and help, foregoing an early evening out with his lovely girlfriend Emma (Ophelia Lovibond) in order to make sure his dad finishes before morning. But as they begin the process of figuring out what killed this young lady, a mysterious malevolence begins to grow inside the mortuary, father and son suddenly not altogether certain that the body they are cutting into and dissecting is as dead as it looks.
Director André Øvredal exploded onto the scene in 2010 with the fantastic found footage fantasy-adventure-thriller Trollhunter, an astonishing Norwegian import that consistently surprised as it built its way to its fiery conclusion. It's taken awhile, but his follow-up effort, the English language supernatural horror-thriller The Autopsy of Jane Doe, was well worth the wait. Working from a smart, wittily unsettling script by Ian B. Goldberg and Richard Naing, featuring a pair of strong, increasingly frazzled performances from Cox and Hirsch, Øvredal manages to create a palpable sense of dread that's deeply disturbing. This is a good movie, at times even great, and if not for a few minor missteps right at the end I'd not hesitate for a second to call this terrifying little gem one of the year's most spectacularly discomforting winners.
It's all very nonchalant at first. Tommy and Austin are going about their respective days. The father loves that he's been able to work so closely with his son, especially with his wife's somewhat recent death still affecting them both. But the kid is ready to move on, he's in love with Emma and knows he can't stay forever working at the mortuary. Austin is ready to set out on his own and make his way in the world, and after he and his dad finish figuring out what it was that happened to this particular Jane Doe he intends on letting him know just that.
It's that normalcy, that everyday banality that helps make all that comes next even more insidiously disconcerting. While Tommy and Austin's chosen profession is inherently creepy just by its nature, the fact they, and the filmmakers, look at it as just another job needing to be done allows for a sense of familiarity and warmth to resonate even when the pair start cutting up a dead body to see what it had for dinner. Øvredal orchestrates these moments as if they were nothing more than everyday occurrence, and as such the growing nightmarish terror that begins to develop wormed its way under my skin to the point I almost couldn't take it.
Safe to say, Jane Doe isn't what she appears to be. Each shred of skin, snip of hair and bit of DNA revealing disturbing truths that make her equally pitiable and scary, the monster lurking within the blood and bone looking to avenge itself against all comers, no matter how innocently they might have wandered into its territory. The script discloses the secrets behind who Jane was and why she is still a threat with lithe, delicate grace, making sure the intelligence of the two Tildens is apparent no matter how extreme or crazy things ultimately became.
Once the carnage begins, Øvredal refuses to cut any corners or allow the viewer to catch their breath. The winds of change whip through the underground nooks and crannies of the mortuary with unrelenting fury, forcing Tommy and Austin to look at the world in profoundly different ways than they ever had before. It's tense, the director staging things with a breathless relish that's staggering, Cox and Hirsch anchoring things with a determined authenticity that's appealingly relatable.
Everything is ghoulishly perfect, up until the moment it is sadly not, the climactic scenes not nearly as well thought out or as nicely devised as everything else in the picture proves to be. Not that what transpires is dumb; it's more that it happens with such speed and is so perfunctory it is nowhere near as interesting or as much fun to watch as all that preceded it had been. It's a rather benign, and not exactly inspired, coda to what had been an exemplary thriller, taking things in a somewhat forgettable direction that's understandably disappointing.
Up until then, though, The Autopsy of Jane Doe is a stunner. Øvredal cements his status as a filmmaker on the rise, giving the found footage genre a notable jolt of inspired electricity with Trollhunter six years ago and now managing to do the exact same thing with supernatural ghost stories and tales of witchcraft and sorcery with this. A strong film, filled to the brim with shocks and scares, even with an ending that doesn't quite work I still kind of loved this chilling horror opus, and as such I'm eager to dive into its macabre layers again relatively soon.
Laughs in Why Him? not worth the price of admission
All-American dad and Michigan publishing magnate Ned Fleming (Bryan Cranston) is excited to spend the holidays with his Stanford student daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch). It's going to be a holly jolly family affair, her mother Barb (Megan Mullally) and younger brother Scotty (Griffin Gluck) equally excited about making the trip to California. The only caveat is they're all a little hesitant about meeting Stephanie's current boyfriend, the seemingly larger-than-life, sexually outgoing Laird Mayhew (James Franco), their only encounter with him so far hardly making the best of first impressions.
But Laird isn't the freeloading slacker they all assumed. Turns out, he's a video game mogul and a bona fide multimillionaire. He welcomes the Fleming family onto his spacious estate with open arms, hoping to show them his love for Stephanie is honest and pure. Problem is, Laird has no filter, none at all, saying and doing every utterly inappropriate thing that goes through his head the moment it enters his noggin. No matter how much money he has Ned is positive this is not the man for Stephanie, and before the Christmas holiday has passed he's going to make it his mission to ensure his only daughter comes to that same realization.
Working from a story he concocted with actor Jonah Hill (Sausage Party) and fellow screenwriter Ian Helfer (The Oranges), with Why Him? John Hamburg returns to the feature-length director's chair for the first time since 2009's moderately successful I Love You, Man. In a lot of ways, this overlong and overstuffed mess of a comedy reminds me a lot of that Paul Rudd-Jason Segel-Rashida Jones enterprise in that both made me laugh, both tugged at my heartstrings and both featured very talented actors going above and beyond in service of material that rarely deserved their herculean efforts. That move, for all the chuckles it might have produced, sadly wasn't all that good, and as unhappy as it makes me to proclaim it, you can pretty much say the exact same thing here.
Pity, because Hamburg allows Cranston, Franco, Mullally and Keegan-Michael Key (portraying Laird's take-charge business manager and friend Gustav) free range to milk as much potential laughter out of the material as they all can. They're all-in, each of them, throwing themselves headfirst into things no matter how dopey, tone-deaf and potentially offensive (and not in an appropriately politically incorrect way, but in a manner decidedly opposite of that) some of what happens might end up proving to be. This is especially true early on, a number of genius, laugh-out-loud bits occurring making me believe, if only for a second or two, this comedy could end up being something special along the same lines of This Is the End or Pineapple Express.
None of it holds together, however, the interconnected bits playing more like rough ideas for a flurry of 'Saturday Night Live' sketches than they do parts of a strong, finely-tuned narrative. Interesting ideas like rival companies vying with Laird's for mobile video game supremacy are hinted at only to never be mentioned again, while the melodramatic schmaltz layered over the material concerning Ned's printing business is so maudlin even John Hughes during his Curly Sue, Dutch and Career Opportunities downturn would have found similar material to be far too syrupy to have been included in even his schlockiest of misfires.
But there are some big laughs, most of them happening in ways I didn't see coming. There's a brilliant bit where Ned jubilantly calls out Laird and Gustav for their Inspector Clouseau / Kato relationship, their clueless reactions to his discover priceless. Mullally has an extended bit where she goes out of her way to seduce Cranston into a little clandestine hanky-panky, the veteran character actress having a field day playing the sequence out to its side-splitting conclusion. Then there is what feels like a ten-minute skit involving Cranston and a technologically advanced toilet that shouldn't work, shouldn't be funny and should be a total, and horrifying, chore to sit through. Instead, thanks in large part to him and him alone, the sequence is an uproarious riot, a fact that leaves me increasingly flabbergasted the more I think about it.
All of which makes the movie's failure to consistently entertain even more frustrating. The script doesn't hold together, the last third a particularly hackneyed slog that's as tiresome as it is banal. Deutch, so good in Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! and one of the only redeeming elements of the otherwise loathsome Vampire Academy, gets virtually no opportunity to showcase her skills, while the less said about the facets of the story concerning Gluck's smart-aleck little brother Scotty the better. As for how the issues regarding Ned's printing business are concerned, it's just bad, plain and simple, and it's hard to believe that as far as resolutions to a major plot point are concerned this is the best the filmmakers were able to come up with.
I can't hate Why Him? The movie did make me laugh, Cranston and Franco a delightful pair, while Mullally and Key are more than ready to steal every moment they can when the opportunity arises for them to do so. But too much of this comedy feels rushed and slapped together, the dramatic moments falling so flat caring about what happens to any of the characters or their respective problems is practically impossible. It's all sound, all fury, the nothing at the center signifying a creative indifference no audience member should pay good money to experience.
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Crispin Odey has donated at least £1.7m to the Tories and the pro-Brexit campaign in the last decade. (Photo: Rex/Shutterstock)
Guardian | 3 March 2020
by Fiona Harvey
Crispin Odey, one of the biggest donors to Boris Johnson's Conservative party, has invested in a Brazilian company linked to deforestation in the Amazon, the Guardian can reveal.
SLC Agricola has been accused of clearing land for soy cultivation, mostly from the Cerrado ecosystem in Brazil, which is rich in wildlife and plant species and is an important carbon sink. It has requested licences to clear thousands of hectares of Cerrado land, on top of at least 30,000 hectares that it cleared between 2011 and 2017, which resulted in the Norwegian government pension fund divesting from the group.
Though the company has government licences for the Cerrado land it is clearing and does not regard this clearance as deforestation, such clearances are controversial. Jair Bolsonaro's government has drawn widespread criticism for allowing land to be cleared and burned in the Amazon and elsewhere in Brazil.
Chain Reaction Research, which provides sustainable investment advice, has said SLC Agricola's "planned deforestation and lack of zero-deforestation commitment exposes the company to a number of business risks [and] could raise concerns with equity investors".
Odey Asset Management donated £10,000 to Johnson for his leadership bid and has donated at least £1.7m to the Tories and the pro-Brexit campaign in the last decade. The company is understood to have a sizeable stake in SLC Agricola.
Alasdair Cameron, an investigator at Friends of the Earth, said: "While Johnson talks of protecting and restoring the world's ecosystems, he and his party gladly accepted donations from an investor profiting from the destruction of Brazilian forests.
"The burning of tropical forests is not accidental – it is driven by the demand for soy, beef and other commodities. In the run-up to Cop26, it is worrying to see that the cosy relationship between environmentally destructive industries and UK politics is still going on."
A spokesperson for Odey Asset Management told the Guardian: "As active fund managers, we seek to invest in companies that we determine have a promising future, and one of the inputs to that evaluation is how those companies are using or adopting sustainable practices.
"Brazil has formed a vital part of increased global agricultural output, that has allowed food to be cheaper in real terms than ever before, and enabled a growing global population to feed and clothe itself. SLC Agricola is a good corporate citizen that abides by relevant legislation and adopts the most modern agricultural technology to maximise yield and use land efficiently."
SLC Agricola said it had not deforested without licences and did not have a zero-deforestation policy. The company said it had converted 1,500 hectares of land to farming in the three years from 2017 to 2019, all of which was Cerrado land. The company said its current strategy was focused not on "the acquisition of raw land for conversion, as was the case in the past," but on already developed areas and leased instead of owned land.
A spokesman said: "We are in full compliance with the Brazilian forestry code, which requires us to preserve 30% of our owned land. Also, we do not have interest in planting in the Amazon, and we believe it should be preserved. There are still huge amounts of degraded pasture land to be converted into farming, and not even that will be necessary. Farming yields have been going up due to technology, which requires less and less land to produce the same amount of food."
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Ninety-two percent of respondents to a global survey reported seeing a benefit in integrating service desk to desktop management tools, but 71 percent say they don't consider ITIL a factor in their purchase decision.
A global survey of almost 850 IT professionals on service desk trends reveals that 71 percent of small to midsize businesses do not consider the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) as a factor during the purchase of their service desk tool, even though half indicated having adopted ITIL in some form.
An overwhelming majority, 92 percent, indicated they have either not adopted ITIL at all or only use it as a guideline. Additionally, the survey—conducted by Dimensional Research and commissioned by Dell Kace—showed SMBs prefer ease of use to advanced features. Almost all reported integration of service desk with a desktop management tool as beneficial, though most SMBs reported that they do not have an integrated solution.
Service desk (also commonly referred to as help desk) tools are seen as the face of the IT organization by employees, and interactions and successes with a company's service desk have become the primary manner that corporate IT is judged.
The primary goal of the "Trends With Service Desk Tools: A Survey of IT Professionals" study was to gather data about the current trends in service desk solutions, particularly among SMBs. Although the majority of SMB organizations strive to optimize their service desk by integrating with desktop management, 71 percent feel cost factors or technical complexity has hampered their ability to make the integration.
"Our survey revealed IT departments believe they can achieve increased efficiencies by integrating their service desks with other processes to rapidly provide complete information about the endpoints they service," said Diane Hagglund, senior research analyst for Dimensional Research and the study's author. "Although most organizations see the value in integrating their service desk solutions with other systems, few SMBs have been able to implement this important integration."
To read the original eWeek article, click here: Businesses Don't Consider ITIL for Service Desk Platforms: Survey


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German-French relations The Elysée Treaty – a sign of friendship
Sixty years ago, Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and President Charles de Gaulle sealed the friendship between Germany and France when they put their signatures to the Elysée Treaty. Since then, the treaty has been a symbol of the strong binational relationship in politics and society.
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Federal Chancellor Adenauer and President de Gaulle of France sign the Elysée Treaty on 22 January 1963.
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In the 19th and 20th centuries, the relationship between Germany and France was marked by deep antagonism. A series of increasingly bellicose and political confrontations resulted in a long-lasting enmity between the two countries. Napoleon ruled over German territory until 1813. France's defeat in the Franco-German War was followed by its humiliation when the new German Empire was proclaimed in Versailles in 1871.
The annexation of Alsace-Lorraine further humiliated France and prompted anti-German sentiment in the country.
An age of military confrontations
The ongoing antagonism between Germany and France, accompanied by dreadful miscalculations in the conflicting system of alliances, resulted in the First World War, in which Germany and its allies were defeated in 1918.
When Adolf Hitler's Nazi Third Reich invaded Poland 21 years later, Great Britain and France declared war in September 1939. German troops occupied Paris and the northern half of France, while what was known as the Vichy government under Pétain collaborated with Hitler.
The Allies liberated France in 1944, after which Germany finally surrendered in May 1945.
The path to the Elysée Treaty
Immediately after the war, the idea that the two neighbours could be reconciled was unimaginable. However, when France's then prime minister and later president, Charles de Gaulle, invited Germany's then Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to his private country house, it was seen as a historic and unique gesture. The aim was to resume relations between France and Germany on the levels of culture, business and politics.
The process of bilateral conciliation became the driving force behind European unification and integration, which had begun with the signing of the Treaty of Rome and the founding of the European Economic Community in 1957.
Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer (l.) and President de Gaulle (r.) of France attend the mass for reconciliation in Reims Cathedral on 8 July 1962.
Photo: Federal Government/Steiner
In a moving mass for reconciliation celebrated in Reims cathedral – where French kings had been crowned for centuries – Adenauer and de Gaulle brought the German-French friendship into public view. From here, the two nations went on to sign the treaty of friendship in the Elysée Palace on 22 January 1963.
From the treaty of friendship to reconciliation
The signing of the Elysée Treaty was a milestone in European history. It laid the foundations for further European integration and close bilateral collaboration, and de Gaulle and Adenauer went down in history as the political masterminds of European reconciliation policy.
The Treaty included a consultation mechanism that required regular meetings at a political level. It also committed the governments to coordinate more closely on matters of foreign, European and defence policy, as well as on education and youth issues.
One example of this was the creation of the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO). Since its foundation, the FGYO has made it possible for millions of children and young people from the two countries to take part in over 320,000 exchange programmes.
A partnership in a modern Europe
The Elysée Treaty was signed in the spirit of reconciliation and exchange, putting the seal on the friendship between Germany and France. From then on, the two countries and their citizens were expected to work together in a relationship based on trust. Since the signing of the treaty, a close political and friendly relationship has developed which is still focused on developing the European project.
Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt (l.) and French President Giscard d'Estaing in the Elysée Palace in 1978
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In the 1970s, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt campaigned for the creation of the European Council and a system of European currency for the European Community (EC). The two leaders also set up the annual World Economic Summit.
A sign of reconciliation on a former battlefield: on 22 September 1984 Federal Chancellor Kohl (r.) and President Mitterrand commemorate those who died in both World Wars in a ceremony at Verdun.
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German Reunification came about during a period of close collaboration between President François Mitterrand and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl.
Then as now, Germany and France intend to take joint responsibility and promote European integration. To this end, President Emmanuel Macron and Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed in January 2018 to draw up a new treaty to mark the 55th anniversary of the signing of the original Elysée Treaty.
The Treaty of Aachen was signed in the Coronation Hall of Aachen Town hall in 2019 and supplements the Elysée Treaty.
To mark the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, Federal Chancellor Scholz will be joined in Paris by the whole Federal Cabinet. In addition to a meeting of the Franco-German Ministerial Council, ministers will hold bilateral talks with their respective counterparts. Speeches given by President Macron and Federal Chancellor Scholz at Sorbonne University in Paris will be a highlight of the anniversary.
The Treaty of Aachen aims to strengthen cooperation in economic integration and promote civil society partnerships between the two countries. It also provides for greater cooperation in foreign, defence, security and development policy. The Treaty of Aachen focuses on the global challenges of the 21st century and the competitiveness of the two countries. It also brings future issues such as climate action, the environment, health and sustainability to the fore.
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Aston Martin rolls backwards on stock market debut
"Aston Martin is a long-term growth story"
ASTON Martin failed to pull away on its debut in the London Stock Exchange yesterday, with shares slipping from £19 to £18.10 at the close of trading.
The drop, while not the best news for investors, was within the range anticipated by Aston Martin, with the spread pitched at between £17.50 and £22.50. The company was valued at £4.1bn after dealings ended.
Andy Palmer, the former Nissan chief who joined Aston as chief executive in 2014 and steered the company towards its first profit in eight years earlier this year, said it's too earlier tell how well the shares will perform.
He told The Times: "Aston Martin is a long-term growth story and we wanted investors during the book-building who were hankering for the long-term. I don't think you can judge the stock of Aston Martin Lagonda on one day's trading. There's been some ups and downs, but in the end it hasn't been so bad."
Aston issued the equivalent of 25% of the company's shares, raising more than £1bn for its shareholders which include Kuwaiti sovereign wealth funds and Investindustrial, the Italian-American private equity house, which continue to hold 70% of the business. Daimler, the owner of Mercedes-Benz, which sells engines and electronics to Aston Martin, owns 5% of the company. Palmer has a personal stake in the company worth £23m.
The luxury sports car brand is the first car maker to be listed on the London market since Jaguar left in 1990, after it was taken over by Ford. In addition to road cars, the company is bringing to market a luxury submersible and exploring flying car concepts.
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Peoples Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) has been investigating incidents of deaths in police custody and publishing reports on these from the 1980s. These investigations revealed that these deaths were most commonly the unintentional consequences of custodial torture, which in turn was part of routine police practice. In recent years, PUDR had stopped investigating and publishing reports on each incident of death in police custody since it appeared that the matter was getting greater publicity, and action seemed to be taken in each case – there was much greater media attention, magisterial inquiries were routinely undertaken, the NHRC took note of each case, and the police seemed be more aware of human rights – justice, it appeared was likely to be done. However as PUDR found and has discussed in this new report 'Continuing Impunity: Deaths in Police Custody in Delhi, 2016-2018' (being released today) it seems that the issue of custodial deaths is grappling with the old problems and questions.
The police explanations for the majority of these cases was that these were 'suicides' or occurred while the victims were trying to 'escape'. However as these investigations show there is ample ground to doubt that Sompal's death (pages 20-23) or Deepak's (pages 3-10) or Dalbir Singh's deaths (pages 10-14) were the result of 'escape attempts' or 'suicides.'(See discussion on pages 35-37-'Fiction after fact'). The Metropolitan Magistrate's inquiry has in fact stated that the police story of 'escape' in the case of Dalbir Singh's death in Naraina PS is false, and has ordered that an FIR be filed against the police.
There are rarely if ever any independent non police witnesses in cases of custodial deaths nor is there any independent mechanism of investigation. Thus Magisterial inquiries under S. 176 CrPC are rarely able to bring justice to the victims. In these cases discussed in the report Dalbir Singh's case of Naraina PS is the only exception. The report shows how judicial magisterial inquiries too are rarely able to function independently (pages 37-39) Moreover the MM's report is not a public document nor does it seem to be time bound, making it difficult for victim's families to sustain the fight for justice.
The NHRC's failure to implement its own guidelines of monitoring these deaths, granting compensation are also evident in these cases (pages 39-41).
All of these factors form the basis of the continuing impunity of the police and ensure that custodial deaths continue to occur.
The Metropolitan Magistrate's inquiry and report into all these incidents of custodial death under Section 176 of CrPC. should be made public. This should be done for all other cases of custodial death as well.
All the police personnel implicated in these cases should be arrested and prosecuted, after an independent and fair investigation.
The state should grant compensation to families of all victims of custodial death. A provision for granting of compensation by the state in all cases of custodial death should be developed urgently (based on the Calcutta High Court judgment of 6.9.17 as discussed on page 46).


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Q: Consecutive $n$-gonal numbers whose sum is an $(n+1)$-gonal number.
Prove that the sum of two consecutive $n$-gonal numbers is an $(n+1)$-gonal number, given $n\geq3$.

Well, this might be untrue since this my own observation.

A: This is false.
$9+16=25$, the two numbers on the left are square numbers and the one on the right is not a pentagonal number.

For triangular numbers it is true since $\frac{(n-1)n}{2}+\frac{n(n+1)}{2}=\frac{2n(n)}{2}=n^2$

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Amid terror scare, US House passes new restrictions on visa-free visits
Patrick Martin
In an action aimed at whipping up hysteria over terrorism and against immigrants and Muslims, the US House of Representatives voted by an overwhelming margin, 407-19, to approve legislation that would impose new restrictions and screening on visitors to the United States who had travelled to Iraq, Iran, Sudan or Syria in the last five years.
Republicans voted for the bill unanimously, 242-0, while Democrats backed it by a margin of 165-19. The Obama White House and both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders supported its passage. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the legislation "would actually make the country safer."
The bill makes significant changes in the 30-year-old federal visa waiver program, which allows citizens of 38 countries, including Australia, Japan, South Korea and most of Europe, to enter the US as visitors for up to 90 days without a visa. Some 20 million people made use of the program last year, accounting for 60 percent of all foreign visitors to the United States.
The legislation was stampeded through the House without any serious scrutiny in the wake of the attack in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people. The two gunmen, Syed Farook, US-born of Pakistani descent, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, a recent immigrant from Pakistan, were both Muslims said to be acting in support of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, although there are no known organizational links between ISIS and the mass killing.
Tashfeen Malik did not enter the country under the visa waiver program, although President Obama falsely implied she did in his nationally televised speech Sunday night. She came in under a separate program granting entry to the prospective spouses of US citizens, which would not be affected by the House bill. That only underscores the real purpose of the legislation, which is to further intensify the reactionary anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant political poison being pumped out by the media and both corporate-controlled political parties.
Setting the tone for this campaign is the current poll leader for the Republican presidential nomination, billionaire Donald Trump, who issued a demand Monday that the US government bar all Muslims from entering the United States for an indefinite period, while a more comprehensive strategy against ISIS is developed and implemented.
Trump defended this fascistic proposal in a series of campaign rallies and media interviews Monday and Tuesday, declaring that the entry of any Muslim into the United States—including even US Muslims who go abroad and then return home—represented a potential terrorist threat.
While most of Trump's Republican rivals condemned his proposal—with the significant exceptions of Dr. Ben Carson and Senator Ted Cruz, running second and third in most polls—none of them said they would not support Trump if he wins the Republican nomination. That alone demonstrates that their claimed opposition to his racist and fascistic views is based not on democratic principles, but short-term political calculations.
The brief debate before the near-unanimous House passage of the visa waiver bill saw both Democrats and Republicans appealing to the same fears of terrorism as Trump. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan said, "This will help neutralize the threat from foreign terrorists entering our country." Steny Hoyer, the Democratic minority whip, said the bill was "reasonable" and "measured," adding that the bill did not exclude anyone automatically, but provided "additional requirements designed to ensure that those who come in this country are in fact not a risk to this country."
The legislation now goes to the Senate, which is working on a slightly different version of the bill, naming only Iraq and Syria, but with tougher provisions for security investigations of prospective visitors. Both bills would prove more burdensome to the 38 countries involved than to any potential terrorists, since they require the governments of these countries to supply a mass of information about their own citizens to the US military-intelligence apparatus in order to remain in the good graces of Washington.
Prospective visitors are required to notify the US government if they have travelled to any of the four banned countries, and undergo more intensive screening. The governments of the 38 countries in the visa waiver program are required to supply the travel information through encoded chips in their citizens' passports. Many EU countries have not fully implemented chip technology in passports.
The main concern cited by congressional supporters of the legislation was the number of European-born Muslims who have travelled to Syria to join ISIS and then returned to their home countries, from where they could travel to the United States without a visa. A House Republican task force issued a report recently claiming that there were 5,000 people with western passports who had fought with or were fighting with ISIS.
There was no discussion in the House debate about the fact that most Europeans who went to Syria were encouraged to do so by their governments and by the American CIA, which recruited Islamists to join the rebellion in Syria against the government of President Bashar al-Assad, an ally of both Iran and Russia.
The visa waiver bill is only the first of a series of repressive measures to be taken up by Congress and the Obama administration in the wake of the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, with the aim of exploiting these terrorist attacks to undermine fundamental democratic rights.
Other bills and amendments include restrictions on the resettlement of Syrian refugees, intensified passenger inspections and other security measures at airports, renewal of US intelligence programs where legislative authority has lapsed (or where lawsuits have placed obstacles), expanded powers for the Department of Homeland Security, and banning the purchase of certain weapons by people who have been put on the federal no-fly watch list.
There have also been calls for a security crackdown on the Internet, in some cases from the top officials of corporations in the technology industry. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt wrote in a column published in the New York Times Tuesday that the industry should build "spell-checkers, but for hate and harassment," devising algorithms that could automatically detect and shut down web sites, chat rooms and other forms of communication used by ISIS and similar groups.
Schultz was responding to demands by President Obama, Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, and most Republican presidential hopefuls, that Silicon Valley collaborate directly with US intelligence agencies in policing the Internet, including turning over information on the clients of companies like Google when the US government demands it.
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Finally, a Conservative for Robert Bork's Supreme Court Seat
By Timothy H. Lee
President Trump has nominated in Judge Kavanaugh someone worthy of Judge Bork's legacy, and the Senate should waste no time in confirming him.
Thirty-one years is a long time to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy.
But in some ways, we've been waiting that long.
This week, however, President Donald Trump held to his campaign promise and nominated conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh to fill a Supreme Court seat that rightfully should've been occupied by the late Judge Robert Bork.
Officially, of course, that vacancy occurred due to the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy. But the only reason that Justice Kennedy filled that seat at all was because unscrupulous win-at-all-costs leftists commenced an unprecedented, unfair and indefensible campaign to slur Judge Bork's name three decades ago and deny him confirmation.
None of this is to unfairly malign Justice Kennedy, of course.
Justice Kennedy is a man worthy of respect, and more often than not proved himself a fair constitutionalist. For instance, Justice Kennedy provided the pivotal fifth vote for the majority in the landmark Heller v. D.C. decision that finally affirmed the Second Amendment's individual right to keep and bear arms. Justice Kennedy also joined the majority in such praiseworthy decisions as Citizens United and dissented when a narrow majority upheld ObamaCare.
On the other hand, Kennedy also joined such inexcusable majorities as the Kelo v. New London ruling allowing governments to abuse the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause.
And the fact that Justice Kennedy filled his seat at all only occurred because of one of the most unfair and sleazy spectacles in American political history.
By way of historical refresher, in 1984 Ronald Reagan won reelection with a landslide 49-state majority. When voters returned him to office by that margin, among the primary reasons was Reagan's promise to nominate strict constructionists to the Supreme Court. In 1986, Reagan lived up to that pledge by nominating Judge Antonin Scalia, who was confirmed by a 98-0 Senate vote.
Just one year later, however, hard-left Senators like Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden apparently decided that no tactic was too tawdry to deny Reagan another Scalia-like conservative Supreme Court justice when Justice Lewis Powell announced his retirement.
Accordingly, when Reagan nominated Judge Bork, a man of impeccable record who had been confirmed to the D.C. Court of Appeals - often labeled the nation's second-highest court - by a unanimous Senate vote just five years earlier, Senators Kennedy and Biden commenced their sleazy campaign. Kennedy, a man in no position to malign the morality of a respected scholar and jurist like Judge Bork, descended to such shameful scurrilousness as this:
Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions. Blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters. Rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids. Schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution. Writers and artists would be censored at the whim of government. And the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens for whom the judiciary is often the only protector of the individual rights that are the heart of our democracy.
That strategy succeeded, and Judge Bork's nomination was defeated by a 59-42 Senate vote.
President Reagan then nominated Judge Douglas Ginsburg to fill Justice Powell's vacant seat, but he withdrew from consideration after admitting to smoking marijuana in the past. Reagan then nominated Kennedy as his third option, and the Senate confirmed him.
From that date forward, Kennedy assembled a generally conservative record, as noted earlier. Throughout the intervening thirty-one years, however, conservative and libertarian observers could only lament what might have been but for the sabotage campaign waged against Judge Bork.
Now, at long last, Kennedy's retirement presents the opportunity to nominate a stellar conservative to fill that seat. And by nominating Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump did just that.
One can never predict with absolute certainty how any judge will subsequently rule, of course. But Judge Kavanaugh would have been required to pursue the most protracted and potentially fruitless effort in political and judicial history to have falsely portrayed himself as a conservative jurist in the mold of Judge Bork or Justice Scalia over the course of his long career.
Consider Judge Kavanaugh's encouraging rulings on Second Amendment cases, which probably constitute as clear a test as any for conservative and libertarian judicial temperament. In a 2011 ruling, Judge Kavanaugh voted to overturn a prohibition on so-called "assault weapons" in Washington, D.C.:
In Heller, the Supreme Court held that handguns - the vast majority of which today are semi-automatic - are constitutionally protected because they have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens. There is no meaningful or persuasive constitutional distinction between semi-automatic handguns and semi-automatic rifles. Semi-automatic rifles, like semi-automatic handguns, have not traditionally been banned and are in common use by law-abiding citizens for self-defense in the home, hunting, and other lawful uses. Moreover, semi-automatic handguns are used in connection with violent crimes far more than semi-automatic rifles are. It follows from Heller's protection of semi-automatic handguns that semi-automatic rifles are also constitutionally protected and that D.C.'s ban on them is unconstitutional.
That should come as music to the ears of conservatives, libertarians and supporters of judicial textualism. It should also reassure anyone inclined to dismiss Judge Kavanaugh as some sort of milquetoast centrist.
Thirty-one years, after all, has been too long a wait.
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Svaz československých spisovatelů (SČSS) byla profesní a odborová organizace v Československu, která existovala v letech 1949–1969 a sdružovala československé spisovatele, literární vědce, literární kritiky a překladatele. Vznikla krátce po nastolení komunismu v Československu a zanikla krátce po potlačení Pražského jara, kdy byla nahrazena federalizovaným Svazem českých spisovatelů (na Slovensku vznikl Svaz slovenských spisovatelů).

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Vznik a začátek 50. let
Svaz vznikl spojením Syndikátu českých spisovatelů, do nějž byly už předtím sloučeny jiné spisovatelské organizace, a Spolku slovenských spisovatelů. Ustavující sjezd nově založené organizace se konal 4.–6. března 1949, prvním předsedou byl zvolen Jan Drda. Svaz převzal vydávání deníku Lidové noviny, na konci čtyřicátých let vydával krátce týdeník Kulturní politika; v padesátých let vycházely i svazové měsíčníky Nový život a Květen a do roce 1967 také svazový týdeník Literární noviny.

Svaz měl celostátní působnost a jeho působení bylo úzce spjato s dobovou politikou. Podle sovětského vzoru se jednalo o celostátní organizaci, která měla v prostředí československé literatury pomáhat prosazovat komunistickou doktrínu. Jelikož za jedinou přípustnou tvůrčí metodu byl po roce 1948 pokládán socialistický realismus, dodržování tohoto stylu ve vlastní tvorbě bylo rovněž podmínkou vstupu do Svazu. Po jeho ustavení proběhla také politická školení pro všechny členy. Svaz uděloval stipendia spisovatelům, kteří čerpali svá témata na výjezdech do zemědělských družstev a továren nebo v hornickém prostředí, pořádal soutěže zaměřené na "nábor" nových spisovatelů z řad pracující třídy apod. Dále organizoval tvůrčí a čtenářské soutěže pro mládež (Fučíkův odznak, Soutěž tvořivosti mládeže a další).

Dne 22. ledna 1950 proběhla plenární schůze, která stanovila žádoucí směřování československé poezie; své referáty pronesli Ladislav Štoll a Jiří Taufer. Na základě výsledků schůze byla jako neslučitelná se socialistickým realismem zavržena meziválečná avantgarda, odsouzeno dílo Františka Halase (na základě Štollova posléze rozšířeného a knižně vydaného referátu Třicet let bojů za českou socialistickou poesii, 1950) a činnost Skupiny 42. Kromě toho bylo útočeno i na další literáty, z nichž někteří byli zcela vyloučeni z uměleckého života – například Konstantin Biebl (kvůli narůstajícímu tlaku spáchal sebevraždu), Vladimír Holan, Jiří Kolář, Jaroslav Seifert, Karel Teige, Jiří Weil. Řada spisovatelů byla uvězněna nebo odeslána do táborů nucených prací: Bedřich Fučík, Zdeněk Kalista, Josef Knap, Josef Kostohryz, František Křelina, Jiří Mucha, Josef Palivec, Václav Prokůpek, Václav Renč, Zdeněk Rotrekl, Jan Zahradníček. Ve vykonstruovaném procesu byl v roce 1950 odsouzen k smrti a popraven umělecký kritik Záviš Kalandra.

Uvolnění a opětovné utužení poměrů ve druhé polovině 50. let
V polovině padesátých let Svaz reagoval na částečné uvolnění politického a literárního života. Krátce po XX. sjezdu KSSS, na němž byl odsouzen kult osobnosti a způsob vlády Josifa Stalina, se konal II. sjezd SČSS (22.–29. dubna 1956). Na něm byli do předsednictva zvoleni umírněnější představitelé – prvním tajemníkem se stal Jan Otčenášek, jeho zástupcem Jan Noha a dalšími členy předsednictva se stali kromě jiných František Hrubín, Jaroslav Seifert a Milan Kundera; Hrubín se Seifertem na sjezdu pronesli výrazné příspěvky, v nichž odsoudili politické zásahy do uměleckého života v minulých letech.

Období uvolnění nicméně skončilo už na konci padesátých let, kdy se vedení KSČ rozhodlo navrátit se k tvrdší politické linii. Ve dnech 1.–2. března 1959 se konala Mimořádná Konference SČSS, na níž Ladislav Štoll přednesl výtky vedení KSČ. Umělci byli znovu donuceni respektovat komunistické politické zadání, došlo k obměně členů vedení Svazu (první tajemník Otčenášek odešel v září 1959 na pracovní dovolenou, Jana Nohu nahradil ve funkci jeho zástupce Ivan Skála) a časopisy Květen a Nový život byly nahrazeny nově vytvořeným měsíčníkem Plamen, který vycházel až do roku 1969. Změna ve směřování československého literárního života – ač ne tak nesvobodného jako v první polovině padesátých let – byla potvrzena i konáním masového Sjezdu socialistické kultury v červnu 1959 a Konference o současných úkolech socialistické umělecké kritiky v únoru 1961.

Uvolňování v 60. letech
V polovině roku 1963 se konal III. sjezd SČSS (22.–24. května), na němž se projevily demokratizační tendence, jež se v literárním prostředí pozvolna prosazovaly již od počátku desetiletí. Do orgánů Svazu byli zvoleni umělci kritičtí k dogmatickému marxismu (předsedou byl zvolen Jiří Šotola). Znovu bylo umožněno publikovat Václavu Černému a Josefu Škvoreckému, svůj debut vydal Bohumil Hrabal apod. Od roku 1964 začal vycházet nový, ideologicky nezatížený, svazový měsíčník Tvář. Postoj Svazu československých spisovatelů k prosazování demokratizačních principů byl nicméně nejednoznačný, kvůli čemuž byl kritizován například Václavem Havlem (projev "O úhybném myšlení"). Koncepci socialistické kulturní politiky kritizovali za tiché podpory předsedy Jiřího Šotoly i další spisovatelé (Milan Jungmann, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout, Milan Kundera a jiní). Na druhé straně bylo na konci roku 1965 zastaveno vydávání Tváře a až následující rok začal vycházet další neideologický svazový měsíčník, Sešity pro mladou literaturu.

Ve druhé polovině šedesátých let pokračovaly snahy literární obce o vytváření protiváhy vládnoucí moci; kromě jiného vyvrcholily spory mezi Svazem a stranickými ideology o podobu Literárních novin. V polovině roku 1967, krátce před vypuknutím Pražského jara, se konal IV. sjezd SČSS (27.–29. června), na němž odzněla dosud nejtvrdší kritika komunistického režimu. Kromě nejostřejšího projevu Ludvíka Vaculíka vystoupili Alexandr Kliment, Pavel Kohout, Milan Kundera, Antonín Jaroslav Liehm, Ivan Klíma a Václav Havel. Stranickému vedení loajální spisovatelé (Ivan Skála, Jiří Hájek a další) naopak proti těmto projevům protestovali a delegace ÚV KSČ dokonce opustila jednací sál. Na nátlak ústředního výboru byli z kandidátky do předsednictva Svazu vyloučeni Václav Havel, Ivan Klíma, Pavel Kohout a Ludvík Vaculík a ve volbách nebyl zvolen žádný předseda. Konfliktní průběh sjezdu měl dalekosáhlé následky: Klíma, Liehm a Vaculík byli vyloučeni z KSČ, Jan Procházka byl uvolněn z funkce předsedy svazové stranické organizace, dosavadní silně monopolní postavení Československého spisovatele bylo oslabeno posílením beletristické produkce nakladatelství Mladá fronta a Svoboda (vedoucími činiteli se stali Skála a Hájek) a rozhodnutím ÚV KSČ bylo Svazu odňato vydávání Literárních novin.

V roce 1968 se předsedou Svazu stal Eduard Goldstücker. Jako náhrada Literárních novin bylo pod názvem Literární listy zahájeno vydávání nového svazového týdeníku a od října 1968 bylo naplánováno vydávání nového deníku Lidové noviny. Na půdě svazu začala pracovat komise, která se zabývala perzekvovanými literáty z období let 1948–1967 a podpořila jejich publikační svobodu a rehabilitace. V březnu 1968 se na první plenární schůzi české části SČSS ustavil Kruh nezávislých spisovatelů, který sdružoval nečleny KSČ a literáty "na okraji", vylučované z běžného literárního života.

Invaze vojsk Varšavské smlouvy a zánik
Po srpnové invazi v roce 1968 začal Svaz vydávat Literární listy formou letáků. Po zářijovém omezení svobody slova a vzniku cenzurního Vládního výboru pro tisk a informace byl nicméně zastaven slovenský svazový týdeník Kultúrny život a v květnu 1969 bylo zastaveno i vydávání měsíčníku Plamen a týdeníku Listy, který Svaz začal vydávat místo Literárních listů.

Již od počátku roku 1969 byla připravována federalizace Svazu; dokončena byla mezi 10. a 12. červnem 1969, kdy proběhly zakládající sjezdy nástupnických profesních organizací Svaz českých spisovatelů a Svaz slovenských spisovatelů. Vydávání periodik původního československého svazu Červený květ, Host do domu, Sešity pro literaturu a diskusi i obnovené Tváře převzal Svaz českých spisovatelů, ale již během let 1969–1970 bylo vydávání všech časopisů zastaveno.

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 Svaz sovětských spisovatelů
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Umělecké svazy v komunistickém Československu
Pražské jaro 1968
Organizace založené roku 1949
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By Mao, on October 1st, 2012
Siblings Jessica Ryder and Jack Ryder were close, when Jack wasn't slipping dye into Jessica's shampoo and Jessica wasn't giving him noogies. It wasn't always easy being siblings of opposing genders, especially when your sister was older, stronger, and quite happy to prove it.
Lately, Jack had been focusing his attentions on his art. He had always enjoyed it and he loved his after-school class. He'd even won a few awards. His art teacher had been encouraging him to hone his talents, so Jack stopped pranking and picked up his paintbrush. The house breathed a collective sigh of relief.
Jessica was happy she didn't have to look over her shoulder every second, but she had to admit, it was strange. Jack had always been her silly kid brother, pulling pranks and being generally immature. That had changed over the past year. It seemed as if he was finally growing up.
"So, you're going to do the art thing for real now?"
Jack shrugged easily. "It's just a hobby. It's fun and I'm good at it."
"I thought you wanted to be like dad."
"I do. Who says I can't do both? Maybe I'm naturally skilled at everything."
Jessica rolled her eyes. "Oh, shut up. You only wish you were as good as I am at helping dad. You know he won't let you near the fire engine with a ten foot pole! Remember what happened last time?"
Jack groaned. He did. That had been one hell of a night. Poor Khalid had stayed up all night trying to repair the damage Jack had inflicted upon his poor, unsuspecting engine.
Jessica was just more naturally skilled when it came to engine parts and its inner-workings. She picked it up quick and was often helping Khalid with repairs and maintenance. She enjoyed it. There was just something about taking something apart, figuring out how it worked, and then putting it back together again.
She liked working with her hands and she didn't mind getting dirty.
Jack was in the middle of painting when his cell phone rang. It was Natalia. She was still serving out her sentence after that little prank she'd pulled on the principal's office. She must have finally gotten her phone privileges back if she was calling him.
"You still in the figurative pokey?" Jack asked with a slight smirk.
'No thanks to you. You could have warned me.'
"I did! I even begged you not to do it, but no. Did you even find what you were looking for?"
He heard her sigh and the sound of a book closing. 'Sort of. But I filled in the blanks. I'm good.'
"So, why call me and not Jess?"
'Because she'd think I'm weird. You know how she feels about this stuff.'
He laughed. He did. Jessica was a total skeptic when it came to things of a 'different nature.' "You are weird, Nat… but it's okay. At least you're pretty."
'Jerk. I'm gonna go call Jess now so she doesn't get jealous. Talk to you later.'
Khalid and Cherie were still going strong and enjoying their twilight years together. Khalid was trying to convince her that the kids were fine on their own. They were both beyond the years of babysitters. Jessica was seventeen and driving now and Jack wasn't far behind her. He'd won a radio contest, a weekend stay at a pretty nice bed and breakfast just outside of town.
Cherie finally relented and they left the next day. They'd only be gone two nights, but it was enough to make Cherie worry. She knew what teens were capable of. After several reminders to be good and not to do anything crazy, they left.
Of course, the first order of business was to throw a raging party. Well, as raging as Jessica and Jack were capable of. They really only wanted a few classmates over and they even managed to drag Catherine out of her funk long enough to attend. Even her sister, Juliet, couldn't deny the lure of a teen party.
Emma Steel was a surprise guest. Jack had met her a few times at his sports club meets. She was younger than him, but her status was undeniable. She had famous parents and she was rich. The girl herself was shrouded in mystery. He had been a bit surprised when she actually showed up.
"Wow, I didn't expect you to make it."
She gave him a look. "I've never been to a party before. I hope it's worth breaking curfew for."
Emma stepped in and everyone momentarily stopped what they were doing. She was younger than all of them, but what did that matter? She was practically a celebrity! If Emma felt uncomfortable with their attention, she didn't show it. She didn't act like a stuck-up person, so she fit in quickly.
"So, what magic did you work to get her here?" Natalia asked Jack later. She was rich, too, but even she'd never met Emma.
He grinned. "I just asked her. Why, jealous?"
"Hardly," she sniffed, giving the girl a look. "I've never seen her in person before. She's really pretty."
Jack shrugged. "She's cool. She reminds me of Jess a little."
Jessica was too busy with other things to be preoccupied with someone like Emma Steel. She spotted Catherine outside and went to talk to her. There had been something she'd been itching to say for a year. She wasn't sure how her friend would take it, though.
It had taken Jessica a long time to realize it, but she had a crush on Catherine. It was silly, but she couldn't deny it. Jessica liked girls. She had zero interest in boys.
"I'm sorry, Jess," Catherine said as gently as she could. "I'm… straight. Completely, hopelessly straight. I'm sorry."
Jessica was crushed.
Natalia came out to check on her only to see her distressed. She knew more than she let on and maybe had her own secrets to mix in with that. She had never intended on expressing it on this particular night, though. It felt like a complication for a later date. Still, she couldn't bear to see Jessica so upset.
She gave her a comforting hug, lingering a little longer than was necessary of friendship.
"It'll be okay. You really weren't a good match, anyway."
"You act like you've known this entire time!"
"Because I have. I'm your closest friend, Jess! You can't hide anything from me."
Jessica surprised her then, kissing her suddenly. It was chaste, barely more than a quick peck, but it validated what Natalia had suspected. Jessica was not just her closest friend. Perhaps she had her own little crush she'd been hiding all this time.
"I thought you liked Cat," Natalia said quickly. She wasn't nearly as embarrassed as Jessica.
"I thought I did, too. But I was wrong. Confused. It was easier. I didn't want to mess up our friendship… I'm sorry. I'll–"
Natalia took her hands into her own. "It's okay. I probably would have done this after we graduated, anyway."
Jessica stared at her, wide-eyed. "What?"
"Let's go back inside." Natalia ignored her questioning look, pulling her back into the house behind her.
The party raged on through the night and most of the guests ended up squatting on the floor. Thankfully, there had been enough sleeping bags and random pillow/blanket combinations to house everyone comfortably. Jack had turned in first and didn't know he'd be waking up to a house filled with girls.
"Jess! There's girls in your room," he said, glancing at the open door at Emma and Juliet chatting away inside. He stopped suddenly, noticing Cat giving him a look. "Uh, hey, Cat. Awkward."
"Go put some pants on, Jack. You can't run around like that in a house filled with girls." Jessica yawned, giving Catherine a look once he was gone. "Are we… okay?"
"Of course, Jess. As long as you're not weird, I'm not weird."
"Good… I'm glad."
Things between the siblings were awkward after the party. Cherie and Khalid never found out about it, thankfully, but Jessica felt horrible. She liked Natalia, a lot more than she had realized. Still, she knew about Jack's crush. She knew he'd be upset. She didn't tell him. She'd put off telling him until she had to. It was just easier that way.
So, this is only the second or third time I've used that 'vacation' opportunity. I don't normally like it because it wipes locked wishes/etc, but I figured it would be fun if they threw a party. Of course, no sooner do the parents leave that Jessica rolls this up:
And then, during the party, she gets this:
For those curious, Jessica is the sim I spoke about awhile back on twitter. Jessica is 100% gay. Twallan's SP randomizes it. I had no idea until she asked Catherine to prom when I played the McMaster household. I hit "no' because I panicked. I'm glad I did, because apparently, Catherine is 100% straight. Jessica tried flirting with her many times only to get rebuffed every turn. I was disappointed. I was kind of hoping they'd be my lesbian couple!
Then this happened:
And I was like, what? You guys are best friends. Forever. And then I figured I'd see what happened. Natalia accepted the first flirt and all after. She never acted put off. I checked her gender assignation and it was this:
Well, okay then! Totally NOT what I had planned, but when has that not happened? Geeze. Poor Jack.
Title is Nicki Minaj – 'Super Bass'.
Ryder round 10, ryder family
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October 2, 2012 at 7:26 am · Reply
Even among all my teen drama, I don't think I've ever had a brother and sister with a crush on the same person before! This has the potential to get so messy for everyone involved. Possibly even messier than I thought, now that you've said she's bi. What if she likes Jack AND Jessica?!
I'm glad Catherine seemed pretty cool about Jessica making a move on her though. That's another thing that can go really badly! Some sims get so offended when they have to reject a romantic advance!
October 5, 2012 at 10:39 am · Reply
You know, I don't think I've had it happen, either! How insane. It does have the potential for a lot of messiness! OMG, I hadn't even considered her liking both, LOL! Let's hope not.
Catherine and Jessica had been friends forever and whenever Jessica made the passes, Catherine refused them, but their relationship didn't drop. So, I interpreted it as her being cool about it.
MY SCREAMS COULD BE HEARD FROM SPACE O M G. I thought Catherine was the gay Sim you spoke of after he funk in the last update, and now I'm just breathless speechless flabbergasted etc omgggggggg.
I'm HERE for the unexpected drama though. I feel bad for Jack but he'll live. GET IT JESSICA AND NATALIA!!!!
LOL, JOSH!! Hahahaha, OMG. I am laughing so hard. xD I figured people would assume it was Catherine, but no, it was Jessica!
Gotta love surprise drama! I think Jack will be okay, once he gets over the initial shock of it… maybe.
Wow! I didn't see that coming! I like the idea of Jessica and Natalia together, though (but I am super sorry for Jack…poor little guy).
I wonder what is going on with Catherine?? I hope she'll snap out of it soon!
I was so surprised, too! The more I think about it, the more I like it, though. Poor Jack, indeed…
Oh man! This was full of unexpected crazy! First to stereo type. Cat totally looks like she could be a lesbian, so I can see why Jessica thought she might be too. By I had such big hopes of Natalia and Jack! And now knowing that Natalia is bi, just makes it that much more hurtful. If she picks Jessica, it's still her choice to not pick jack and that would have to hurt him.
I'm sad for jack with this new development.
I was definitely quite shocked! Cat really does have that look, but it turns out she's 100% straight! Who knew? Haha.
I thought the relationship with Jack and Natalia would grow on its own, but for all his flirting, Natalia has remained pretty neutral. Then, Jessica hits on her and she's immediately receptive. It was like something clicked!
claire :)
I love your story! Everything is so well thought out. What expandsion pack does the attraction things come with?
Thanks!! The attraction is from twallan's woohooer mod, I believe.


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Q: EF: Where(Date.Month == m) versus Where(Date >= ... && Date <= ...) I have a table, Measurements, which has a Date column.
This column is indexed (is a non unique index though)
Using EntityFramework I want to get all items from a certain month and year.
Question: What alternative is better in terms of performance?
Alternative 1:
  var results = db.Measurements.Where(m => m.Date.Month == month && m.Date.Year == year);

(The resultant SQL uses the DATEPART function)
WHERE (((DATEPART (month, [Extent1].[Date])) = @p__linq__1) OR ((DATEPART (month, [Extent1].[Date]) IS NULL) AND (@p__linq__1 IS NULL))) AND (((DATEPART (year, [Extent1].[Date])) = @p__linq__2) OR ((DATEPART (year, [Extent1].[Date]) IS NULL) AND (@p__linq__2 IS NULL)))

(...though I'm not sure why there is a "OR null" case)
Alternative 2:
  DateTime firstDateOfMonth = new DateTime(year, month, 1);
  DateTime lastDateOfMonth = new DateTime(year, month, DateTime.DaysInMonth(year, month));

  var results = db.Measurements.Where(m => m.Date >= firstDateOfMonth && m.Date <= lastDateOfMonth);

(The resultant SQL uses operators >= and <=)
  WHERE ([Extent1].[Date] >= @p__linq__1) AND ([Extent1].[Date] <= @p__linq__2)


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Jacob's Voice and Esau's Body Code for Negroes-FE(3)This is the Full Edition of our video- Jacob's Voice and Esau's Body Code for Negroes-(3) It is a continuation of our series on how the slave master hides behind his slave hunting partners to mete out evil against the Negroes.Like the case of the Biblical Eve and the Serpent, the ugly image sticks with the serpent who bears the brunt of the incident a lot more than the invisible Satan. Today, why the slave master is the architect and sponsor of the atrocities against the Negroes, he hides behind his slave hunting partners while the Negroes, who resemble the slave hunters bear the brunt of their activities.The video simply tries to show that although the voice may be Jacob's, the body is that of Esau as coded in the slave masters' book.Full video is available on Patreon and at Odysee.com, and crystalviews.net among others. Please note that we did not restrict the full video to Patreon out of a desire to make money but because we observed that the descendants of the slave hunters flag our videos when the full videos are posted openly. Full Videos can be found on odyssey.com and Crystalviews.net For those that have supported us, we say thank youYou are welcome to support us at https://www.paypal.me/OurRenaissance https://bit.ly/2OxCtF8 or at https://www.patreon.com/OurRenaissanceFor those that have supported us, we say thank youREFERENCESBlake, W. O. (1860). The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. H. Miller.Reindorf, C. C. (1895). History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Based on Traditions and Historical Facts: Comprising a Period of More than Three Centuries from about 1500 to 1860. The author.Crawford, G. W. (1865). Prince hall and his followers: being a monograph on the legitimacy of Negro masonry. Ams Press Inc.Moister, W. (1866). Memorials of Missionary Labours in Western Africa, the West Indies, and at the Cape of Good Hope: With Historical and Descriptive Observations, Illustrative of Natural Scenery, the Progress of Civilization, and the General Results of the Missionary Enterprise. W. Nichols. - Education - 508TheRenaissance

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This is the Full Edition of our video- Jacob's Voice and Esau's Body Code for Negroes-(3) It is a continuation of our series on how the slave master hides behind his slave hunting partners to mete out evil against the Negroes.
Like the case of the Biblical Eve and the Serpent, the ugly image sticks with the serpent who bears the brunt of the incident a lot more than the invisible Satan. Today, why the slave master is the architect and sponsor of the atrocities against the Negroes, he hides behind his slave hunting partners while the Negroes, who resemble the slave hunters bear the brunt of their activities.
The video simply tries to show that although the voice may be Jacob's, the body is that of Esau as coded in the slave masters' book.
Full video is available on Patreon and at Odysee.com, and crystalviews.net among others.
Blake, W. O. (1860). The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern. H. Miller.
Reindorf, C. C. (1895). History of the Gold Coast and Asante, Based on Traditions and Historical Facts: Comprising a Period of More than Three Centuries from about 1500 to 1860. The author.
Crawford, G. W. (1865). Prince hall and his followers: being a monograph on the legitimacy of Negro masonry. Ams Press Inc.
Moister, W. (1866). Memorials of Missionary Labours in Western Africa, the West Indies, and at the Cape of Good Hope: With Historical and Descriptive Observations, Illustrative of Natural Scenery, the Progress of Civilization, and the General Results of the Missionary Enterprise. W. Nichols.


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The Human Duplicators
MST3K: SEASON 4 (1992-93) • Sci-Fi, 26-Dec-1992
In the theater, the crew watches as an alien takes over a lab on Earth to create android clones to infiltrate the government in THE HUMAN DUPLICATORS (1965). Meanwhile, on the SOL, Tom Servo decides to duplicate himself, but finds that his clones aren't blindly obedient like he'd hoped. This episode features Michael J. Nelson as Hugh Beaumont and Kevin Murphy as William Conrad.
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Monster A-Go-Go
In the theater, the crew watches as a crash causes an astronaut to become an irradiated mutant creature, who then terrorizes a nearby town in MONSTER A-GO-GO (1965). Meanwhile, on the SOL, Gypsy doesn't understand Crow and Servo, and Crow and Servo don't understand the Piña Colada song. This epis...
The Day The Earth Froze
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Similar to Orson Welles and his wine, Todd Bowles and Sam Darnold will clear no sore foot before its time.
This afternoon it seemed as if it's almost time.
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Q: Programming an old school microcontroller (MSM80C49 from OKI semiconductor) I've read the whole datasheet, there's no typical guidance on programming procedure/setup/circuitry.
It just mentions a few steps on how to order pre-programmed chips. (I guess) on page 18.
On a version of datasheet, it mentions a development tool called EASE80C49, and development softwares EASE49 & ASM49
A quick search didn't help me find any info on these tools and softwares.
These chips are very cheap.
How can I program them?

A: (Putting my comments into an answer for posterity)
This type of microcontroller was intended for large volume production, so they are not programmable after manufacturing.  The program is contained in mask ROM which was custom fabricated based on the customer's supplied code using a custom printed photomask.  The program was literally etched onto the silicon.  This had a high startup cost to create the mask, but very low manufactured unit cost.
I imagine the development kit circuit board would have included a version of the microcontroller whose ROM contained a only bootloader to run whatever code was being developed from an external EEPROM memory.
The ones you see as "new old stock" for sale are probably programmed with the firmware for some consumer or industrial product of the era.  It would be difficult or impossible to make use of them outside their original environment.


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