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.class public final Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
.super Ljava/lang/Object;
.source "TvInputHardwareInfo.java"

# annotations
.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/EnclosingClass;
    value = Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;
.end annotation

.annotation system Ldalvik/annotation/InnerClass;
    accessFlags = 0x19
    name = "Builder"
.end annotation

# instance fields
.field private mAudioAddress:Ljava/lang/String;

.field private mAudioType:I

.field private mDeviceId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

.field private mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

.field private mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

# direct methods
.method public constructor <init>()V
    .registers 3

    .prologue
    const/4 v1, 0x0

    .line 147
    invoke-direct {p0}, Ljava/lang/Object;-><init>()V

    .line 141
    iput-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mDeviceId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 142
    iput-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 143
    const/4 v0, 0x0

    iput v0, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioType:I

    .line 144
    const-string/jumbo v0, ""

    iput-object v0, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioAddress:Ljava/lang/String;

    .line 145
    iput-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 147
    return-void
.end method

# virtual methods
.method public audioAddress(Ljava/lang/String;)Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
    .registers 2
    .param p1, "audioAddress"    # Ljava/lang/String;

    .prologue
    .line 166
    iput-object p1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioAddress:Ljava/lang/String;

    .line 167
    return-object p0
.end method

.method public audioType(I)Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
    .registers 2
    .param p1, "audioType"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 161
    iput p1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioType:I

    .line 162
    return-object p0
.end method

.method public build()Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;
    .registers 5

    .prologue
    const/16 v3, 0x9

    const/4 v2, 0x0

    .line 176
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mDeviceId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    if-eqz v1, :cond_b

    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    if-nez v1, :cond_11

    .line 177
    :cond_b
    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;-><init>()V

    throw v1

    .line 179
    :cond_11
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    if-ne v1, v3, :cond_23

    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    if-nez v1, :cond_23

    .line 181
    :cond_1d
    new-instance v1, Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;

    invoke-direct {v1}, Ljava/lang/UnsupportedOperationException;-><init>()V

    throw v1

    .line 180
    :cond_23
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    if-eq v1, v3, :cond_2f

    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    if-nez v1, :cond_1d

    .line 184
    :cond_2f
    new-instance v0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;

    invoke-direct {v0, v2}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;-><init>(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;)V

    .line 185
    .local v0, "info":Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mDeviceId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-set2(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;I)I

    .line 186
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-set4(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;I)I

    .line 187
    iget v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioType:I

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-set1(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;I)I

    .line 188
    invoke-static {v0}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-get0(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;)I

    move-result v1

    if-eqz v1, :cond_56

    .line 189
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mAudioAddress:Ljava/lang/String;

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-set0(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/String;

    .line 191
    :cond_56
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    if-eqz v1, :cond_63

    .line 192
    iget-object v1, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    invoke-virtual {v1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->intValue()I

    move-result v1

    invoke-static {v0, v1}, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;->-set3(Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo;I)I

    .line 194
    :cond_63
    return-object v0
.end method

.method public deviceId(I)Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "deviceId"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 151
    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mDeviceId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 152
    return-object p0
.end method

.method public hdmiPortId(I)Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "hdmiPortId"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 171
    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mHdmiPortId:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 172
    return-object p0
.end method

.method public type(I)Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;
    .registers 3
    .param p1, "type"    # I

    .prologue
    .line 156
    invoke-static {p1}, Ljava/lang/Integer;->valueOf(I)Ljava/lang/Integer;

    move-result-object v0

    iput-object v0, p0, Landroid/media/tv/TvInputHardwareInfo$Builder;->mType:Ljava/lang/Integer;

    .line 157
    return-object p0
.end method


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Why Sex and Porn Matter
In a series of conversations, some of them with a troll on a Village Voice article about Stoya, and others after the fact with friends about my anger and passion on the subject of sex-positivity, I've realized that while my reasons for writing impassioned essays and graphic novels and making films and continually making myself a part of sex-positive culture are very clear to me, they might not be to everyone else. It's easy to forget, when you're on a crusade, that to others, that crusade might be all well and good, but not nearly as important as it seems to the crusader.
So I'm going to try to write out, without getting too long-winded, why sex (and porn) are so important to me, and why I'd argue that the issues they bring up could be important to everybody with a humanist streak.
It's not just that I like sex and therefore I love talking about it. I mean, I do. And I do. But there's a lot more going on here. This shit is important.
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Sex is powerful. Universal. Capable of transporting us, transforming us. I believe this to be true. I don't think that all sex always has to be a transformative, mind-blowing, love-infused experience with the person you're most bonded with. I think that sex can be equally awesome if it's done for fun and recreation, with strangers or friends, here or there, on a train or in the rain… etc. But I think that human sex has the potential to change people's lives and points of view because it can be such an intense, emotional, really visceral experience. It can bring people together in strong emotional and physical bonds. And it can give us a sense of peace and understanding and power in our bodies. Basically, sex can be a unifying and gratifying and powerful force in human life.
But because it's so powerful on the individual and unifying levels, and because it can produce life, it has been one of the central focuses of control by church, government, etc. for eons. As the site of procreation, female sexuality in particular has been under the regulation of those in power in many cultures. The sexual impulse, particularly in Western cultures in which inheritance, lineage, and the control of growing empires have been of the utmost importance, has been discouraged and put under almost constant surveillance, analysis, and control. As power changed hands from religious leaders to politicians to corporations, and everything in between, female sexuality has been monitored and kept as far as possible under the control of those in power–often men, but that's not my point. The point is that sex has been used against us for thousands of years–it has been turned into something that inspires fear, shame, revulsion, and a need for secrecy because we have been taught by the witting and unwitting heirs of this system of control for so long that sex is dangerous. Sex is bad. Sex is powerful, but not in ways that can benefit us. It's powerful in ways that can harm us only. So we have to be afraid of it. Treat it carefully. Keep it secret–keep it safe in that secrecy.
And so we go about in a world that has changed drastically since the days when Hebrews prized procreation above all else as they vied for a political and physical foothold, since the Christians and then the Romans adopted many of the Hebrews' rules about sex, since the Romans gave way to the Catholic Church as the locus of power in Europe, since the Church ceded much of its power to politically divided nations that maintained an interest in controlling their populaces, and up until the present day, when conservative interests are desperate to keep the power they once had over us all.
If you doubt this to be true because your personal experience doesn't reflect it, just take a look at any online article about pornography or sex in a mainstream publication. Notice how it seems impossible for the journalist or commentors to look at sex with a clear eye, without turning everything into a joke or a back-handed insult. Note how incensed the commentors are by the idea that sexuality or pornography has any right to be discussed openly. Note how impossible it is for women to be noted as human beings by our media, rather than as their sexualized bodies. Also note how cultural conservatives of all stripes, who see the world changing in favor of gay rights and human sexual liberation and are terrified of losing their grip on power, seek to control the rights of sexual minorities and women over their own bodies and sexual lives–not by implication or suggestion, but overtly. These people do not want women to have the right to choose, or gays to have the right to marry, or anyone who is not a white male in a position of authority to have the right to their own bodies and sexual choices. The fight over sex, make no mistake, is alive and well. And the longer our bodies and our sexualities are treated as shameful, secret, taboo terrors to be controlled and manipulated by those in power, the longer those in power will have tangible control over all of our lives.
Because it has retained such a "special" status in our culture, sex has been largely removed from the marketplace. In many industrialized nations, the sale of sex is strictly prohibited. It occupies an "exalted" place that puts it "above" the economics that drive the rest of our capitalist society, and thus it can remain more effectively taboo. (This, by the way, isn't an argument for or against capitalism, it's just a statement of one more way in which sex is taken out of the mainstream and into the realm of fear, secrecy, and shame.) The idea of selling the body is repugnant to most of us because we have been taught that sex is some sacred thing that should not be sold, but because it's so sacred, we have to keep it out of sight.
The one place in which US culture, in particular, gets around this silencing impulse is in pornography. Porn is legal. It is massively popular because everybody likes sex and nobody ever seems to get enough of it. We can't buy sex, but we can buy videos and photos of other people having sex. Porn is the only place where straight-up, actual sex without moralistic jargon surround it can be bought, sold, and taxed in America. It is permitted to continue as a source of tax revenue and as a "necessary evil" in our culture. But it is punished simply for existing: porn companies face higher rates for payment processing and more difficulty finding distribution than other companies. Porn is subject to vague "community standards" for obscenity that leave it open to prosecution at virtually any moment, almost anywhere. Being involved in porn is a black mark on the reputation of individuals and companies alike in the eyes of the public because it dares to monetize sex for the advantage of those who make it. Our engrained sense of 'propriety' (read: thousands of years of programming as the result of religious and political control) shies away from this.
But at this point, because we live in a culture where sex is so deeply subversive and yet still so unavoidably enticing, we secretly (or not so secretly) love porn. We spend a lot of our money on it, and way more of our time on it. The internet is basically made of porn because we cannot get enough of it. And so pornography becomes one of the most universally accessible languages in which to talk about sex. What we like about porn, or what we don't like about it, can be a jumping-off point for a real discussion about sexuality that is difficult for most of us to get to. We can talk about it in terms that aren't quite as personal. Porn is the only public display of sex that is easily accessible. It is sex on display. We can talk about it: in terms of economics or morals or logistics or whatever. We can beat around the proverbial bush (pun intended) to get to the crux of the matter: sex is important to us.
It's not that porn and thus sex are the only issues in our culture that are important. There are major problems in our culture with labor, economics, education, environmental degradation, access to clean water and sufficient food, and so many other things. But the one thing that almost every person, everywhere, with any exposure to our Western imperial culture can understand on a basic level, devoid of language and politics, is sex. It is one thing we almost all share and understand. It is one place where so many of us have been terrorized and controlled through assault, rape, fear, shame, legislation, confusion, and secrecy–where our personal experiences have been used by those in power to control us. And yet it is also one place in which we can all also understand ourselves, come to understand each other, and to feel power in our own bodies and lives.
I believe that utilizing our right to enjoying sex without fear and shame, taking control of our bodies, to taking joy and pleasure in sex… that these can be the start of a revolution. Porn is one gateway to a discussion and change of attitude toward sex. It is in the best interest of every human being to have the right to experience their own sexuality in their own way, with access to the education and tools and, yes, porn that helps them find pleasure in their sexuality. It is one way in which we can break the chains that have been put on us. By talking about sex, opening up dialogues about pornography as the public display of sex through performance and what it means to us, and refusing to continue allowing those in power over the legislation and attitudes that have governed our own bodies and sexualities for so long, we can raise a proud middle finger at thousands of years of oppression and start to move away from the things that divide us, toward a unified and humanist and ultimately free world. A world that might be closer to unifying on issues like the environment, the economy, our labor, our lives.
That's what I think. It's high-minded and maybe a bit hyperbolic in places. But it's true. Sex isn't just a part of life that should get tossed aside because it's embarrassing. It's an integral part of a much larger tapestry that we only have some small measure of control over, personally. But through our universal needs and desires, and our respect for one another and their needs and desires, we can start to understand one another. Sex is one of the most surveilled and controlled parts of our lives. It doesn't have to be that way. The only way to change it is to change it.
So. Let's just do it. N'est-ce pas?
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The Scent of Tea Doesn't Fill That Room Anymore.
The episode begins with where it was left out last time.Komachi searches for snacks in the refrigerator to whom Hachiman offers to prepare coffee. Hachiman asks for advice thus ending their conflicts. Hachiman explains the whole story. Komachi seems to understand Hachiman but explains that others may not. Komachi request Hachiman that he should stop the other two from becoming the candidates and prevent the club from disappearing.
The next day Hachiman unable to deduce any plans watch Yui preparing her campaign with Yumiko and Hina. He meets Zaimokuza in the school library who shows concern and ready to offer his help. Later the two discuss the situation in a restaurant. Saika, Saki and Komachi also joins their discussion and contributes their point.
Hachiman realizes that he made a mistake in his approach that Isshiki wants to protect her brand image and so acts in-front of every body and doesn't want to take any risk that will damage her image which is the reason she doesn't want to lose by votes of no confidence and thus he comes up with a strategy.
Hachiman ask Saki for a list of people she feels suitable for president candidacy. Saki list down Hayama, Miura, Tobe, Hina, Yuighama, Yukinoshita and finally mentions Hachiman name itself. Hachiman and Zaimokuza Opens a Twitter account for the campaign for the individuals. The next day the twitter message is view by students throughout the school. When the account receive a suitable number, Hachiman contacts Zaimokuza.
The next day Hachiman visit class 1C to see Isshiki. Both of them write down the names in a list in the library. Isshiki questions about the girls she saw on the time of double date but Hachiman gives of a vague answer. Hachiman gets the idea of Isshiki's liking to Hayama.Hachiman question to make sure which Isshiki misunderstood that leads to rejecting Hachiman.
Hachiman begin to careful use the words that will make Isshiki unhappy about losing, since she was nominated as a prank. When Isshiki admits that she wants to get back at them. Hachiman reveals that the list are nothing but Isshiki's nomination list from twitter. He begins to point out the benefits of becoming the president like She can boast that she is talented to manage two departments. She can use club as an excuse to skip the council and vice-versa. Since being a freshman her mistakes will be overlooked. Finally Hachiman puts down his trump-card stating that she can ask Hayama for help practically spending more time with him. Isshiki seems to impressed with Hachiman and agrees.
Hachiman reports to Service club, where Yukino and Yui are not ready to quit their idea of candidacy. Hachiman present them the list stating that Isshiki accepts to become student council president. Yukino questions if it is Hachiman's doing to which Hachiman answers as some unknown volunteers did it. Hachiman recollects how he fished out votes with individual names mentioned by Saki and later changes the title of all accounts under the name "Nomination for Isshki". Thus no one will know even if they find out all the criticizing will be directed to the person who's name was not mentioned. Yui decides to check the account in her mobile but drops off the idea. Yukino whispers that the reason for her to act is gone and that he would sure to understand her with that words she leaves to inform Shizuka about the conclusion of the request.
Hachiman apologize to Yui since she was working hard. Yui says she doesn't mind with relieved eyes and tries to fix Hachiman's hair in way hugging him explaining that she was well aware that she couldn't beat Yukino even if she wins she cannot comes to the club so she was relieved that Hachiman protected her favorite place. She constantly phrase that Hachiman did his best when Hachiman neglects that he didn't do anything. Yui adds on by saying that Hachiman didn't do anything which is visible but he may have a guilt in his conscious of it.
The election results are posted that Isshiki becomes the new student council president. Hachiman wishes her luck and offered to carry Meguri's luggage. On their way Meguri explains her wish of Yukino being the president, Yui becoming the vice president and Hachiman takes care of general affairs and Meguri would come by even after her graduation to have fun talk of the time they spend together during cultural and athletic festivals with the final scene showing the club members as all ways. The post credit shows the conversation of Isshiki and Tobe in the student council room.
Minami Sagami's name is written in the paper.
This episode marks the beginning of runing gag/Callback (comedy) of Isshiki's rejection of Hachiman.
This is the first episode to show a vision of someone(Meguri).
This is the first episode to use a social networking (Twitter).
The episode shows the concern of Zaimokuza for Hachiman.


This handy app provides you with some simple commands that'll make Netflix even easier to use.
Some good news for Samsung power users: You can now Netflix and game at the same time, thanks to a new Good Lock add-on called MultiStar.
The Chrome extension adds a "Browse all" menu o the Netflix menu bar with lots of "hidden categories" that sort Netflix's traditional categories into more specific genres.
Most of us know how to share a YouTube video, but there are plenty more things you can do too.
Both Cortana on Windows PCs and Spotlight on Mac OS can be used to check on the latest scores.
The website tracks all the latest (but not necessarily greatest) content arriving on Netflix.
Watching a horror movie with a scaredy cat isn't enjoyable for both parties, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Studies suggest the faster you consume TV shows the less joy you get out of them.
The update to the Windows 10 app should be rolling out soon.
The feature is currently only available on the Netflix web platform, but it's appearance could mean Netflix if planning to bring it to their apps down the line.


Join us for our fourth and last session in conjunction with The Codette Project!
When you have a design, how do you know whether it works? As UX designers, we take it to the user to judge. This session will go through how to set tasks and conduct a usability test that gives you direct feedback on how good your UX really is.


Got featured in the May 1st issue of Femina as the official blogger at Lakme Fashion Week. When I look back at the past few years, I can't help but feel a numbing sense of indebtedness for all that life has given me in return of one promise I made to myself.
Some days are indeed just meant to serve as a reminder that there's so much in life to be grateful for.
Congrats! How cool is it to see onself in a fashion mag! You look stunning.
Hey kavya u have an interesting blog, i too run a blog on fashion, lifestyle and music. Why dont u check it out turtok.com and tell me wat u think about it, Feedback will help me!
Love the look, printed pants have been my go to outfit piece this summer.


I'm on the exotic rebodies mailing list and got a message today that they are now offering diablo-style FAKE-LEATHER (pleather) seat covers (Like Mr Mikes). They are $60 off the regular price of $280 if your pre-order (Making them cost $220). You can also get two tone ones for $240.
I have Mr Mikes seats in my car. They're awesome and are very similar to the 355 pattern! The only thing is living in Canada I was hit with huge duty fees at the border which made the chairs quite expensive... more expensive in fact then if I got my seats redone locally (Always get a quote from a local apolstry shop BEFORE ordering from anybody!). Oh well! The b4 and after pictures are below - took about 3 hours for first seat and 1 hour for the second... while my seats were apart I also rust-painted the tracks black and put on new springs below the chairs... The picture is a little light they look much better in real life!
One thing I forgot to mention - I paid $400 USD for my Mr Mike Seats - They are listed $430 but Mr. Mike is a reasonable guy (Wink Wink).. I dont think Mr Mike offers any seats with the Diagonal stiching, but his cheapest seats, in a single color, are $380... And they are REAL LEATHER!
I have a Getrag 5 speed transaxle that will fit a Fiero. Please email me dave.newman@aceweb.com for details.
OEM F355 steering wheel cover and seat covers with carry bag on Ebay.


Here's a kitty who likes to keep art materials in purr-fect order. The case is long enough to hold pens or pencils and has enough body to make finding the right color simple. Just zip it closed to keep all your colors secure for your next outing or art time. This case is made of handwoven fabric and made fair trade in Nepal.
I was very happy with the kitty case- super cute- great colors!


The new missal (third English edition) was implemented November 2011. It includes changes in some of the prayers and responses Catholics were accustomed to hearing and saying during Mass. It also created new feast days for Saints that have been canonized in more recent years since the last edition of the missal.
We have created this page to help further your understanding of the changes and the Mass in general. If you have any questions, feel free to contact the parish office.
USCCB videos: videos featuring Fr. Rick Hilgartner (a frequent visitor of Holy Family while we were without a pastor). They take a detailed look at why a new translation was needed, how it was created, and what it looks like.
The New Translation of the Mass: Fr Mitch Pacwa, SJ with Colin Donovan (EWTN).


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Craig Neidorf (born 1969),  Knight Lightning, was one of the two founding editors of Phrack Magazine, an online, text-based ezine that defined the hacker mentality of the mid 1980s.

Craig, along with Phrack co-founder Randy Tischler (aka Taran King), came up with the concept of Phrack and published it from 1985 onwards. The Phrack newsletters were recognized for providing very informative updates of the national scene considering their oblique sources and served as a bible to the hackers of the day.

In 1990, Neidorf was facing 31 years in jail after being arrested and charged with receiving a document stolen from BellSouth, and with publicly distributing it online. BellSouth described the document, on the subject of the inner workings of the Enhanced 911 system, as being worth US$79,449 (a figure which included, among other things, the value of the VAX workstation on which the document had been typed). The charges were dropped when it was revealed that the document was not, as initially described, source code, but rather a memorandum, and that more detailed documents could be ordered from BellSouth for $13. The proceedings are formally known as United States v. Riggs.

The case was a catalyst in the founding of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

References

External links
Transcript of the opening statements at Neidorf's trial

1969 births
Living people

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Photographer and Author Tony Northrup has put together a video tutorial on how to use your DSLR's histogram and exposure compensation to get proper exposure when working with backgrounds that are too dark or too bright. He also talks about spot metering vs. evaluative metering, and discusses when and why he chooses the different modes. There are a number of good tips in this video, and if you're out taking photos in the snowy North, you might find them helpful.
If you haven't seen any of Tony's work or other videos, head over to his YouTube page, where he has lots of short, but highly informative videos about different aspects of photography. One of his more popular videos was this one below, about shooting portraits in the full sun and filling with flash.
You can connect and follow Tony Northrup's work through his facebook page or his portfolio site.
Maybe that is the difference between a photographer and someone who takes pictures? I don't know... my point is, is that there is a certain connection to your work when YOU do it opposed to letting the computer take over the controls.
Just for argument's sake, I dragged Chelsea back out into the snow, took a snapshot with my iPhone, and it wildly underexposed it.
I thought maybe it really did have more sophisticated metering; it's feasible, since it's not relying on a limited number of metering sensors like a DSLR does, and it has powerful processors in it. Nope, same dumb metering, but no convenient thumb dial to allow me to fix it.
For the record, I love my iPhone camera.
I wanted to address Edward's comment. While preparing for a workshop I am hosting to help people take better photos with DSLRs, Point-and-Shoots, and smart phones; I noticed when I took my iPad mini into a shady backlit situation it detected my face and seem to meter bias my face and overexposing the background giving me roughly the correct exposure on my face. My face is about middle grey.
I was so fascinated by this I then pulled out my iPhone 4 to try this, but no luck. The iPhone seem biased towards the background and underexposed the face as I would have expected it to. Maybe the user has an iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 which is making this metering priority on the face itself or maybe he got lucky.
Thanks for this. . I have had some issues with overexposure during some really important shoots. This would definitely help.
Even though I already knew this information it was a very informative video. Tony explains in a clear simple manner that anyone should be able to pick up on. I have never heard of him, but will now check out his other videos. The thing I look for the most when watching tutorial videos is the simplicity and clarity of the subject and speaker. I always turn off a video when people ramble with nonsense. Nice work Tony and thanks for the post Mike!
How about manual exposure... Sorry but that's just basic stuff. Got a manual, anyone?!?
Good video for beginners though.
Respectfully, Helmut, part of what I wanted to convey is that all anyone needs to know about exposure, from complete beginner to working pro, is to use evaluative/matrix metering and exposure compensation.
I actually say this in Chapter 4 of my book, but the only times I really use Manual exposure (apart from M mode combined with auto ISO) is at night and in the studio, where the AE system completely fails. In every other circumstance it's better to have your camera instantly adjusting the exposure for you based on changing lighting conditions.
For example, if the bride is walking down the aisle at an outdoor wedding, and the sun peeks out from behind a cloud, the exposure needs to change by several stops. With my technique, your camera adjusts automatically, and exposure compensation keeps that white dress nice and bright. With manual exposure, the photographer needs to notice the change in ambient light, decide whether to adjust the aperture, shutter, or ISO, and how much, turn a dial, and then continue shooting. The sun could be emerging from behind the cloud for 10 seconds or more, and the photographer would need to be adjusting the exposure for every shot. Nobody could manually adjust exposure fast enough to keep up with an emerging sun, and the photographer on M would blow out his shots or miss the moment while he made adjustments. The photographer on AE would be able to concentrate on focus, composition, and not tripping over the ring bearer.
Well, just wanted to add that because I've had several people watch the video and indicate that AE and AF were for amateurs, but every working pro I know (outside of the studio or night photography) uses AE and exposure compensation.
Well, you got a good point with changing ambient light and rapidly adjusting the exposure. Nonetheless I usually shoot in manual mode during my trips or shootings. I spent the whole year 2012 on the road on an around the world trip. At the beginning I used auto exposure with exposure compensation, too and only sometimes manual mode. But after some time I realized that in most cases because the lightning conditions changed fast or the subjects varied so much that manual was better as I had to adapt the exposure compensation almost all the time. So I went to fully manual and after shooting for such a long time on manual I just know how much I have to dial to get the right exposure.
But this said, I still use AE from time to time if I have the same subject.
Sorry for the late response, but I just saw your answer today after logging in to Disqus.
My camera doesn't have a histogram.
"Exposure square"? I know of the exposure triangle: ISO, shutter speed, and aperture; but I don't know what the fourth element is.
Light. It's in my book. Extending the exposure triangle is my way to encourage photographers to take control of the light when they can't get the exposure they need, rather than simply being passive observers.
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New Massachusetts Opinion on Duty and Foreseeability
A hospital did not breach a duty of care as a matter of law to a police officer who suffered injuries while responding to a traffic accident allegedly caused by a just-released colonoscopy patient, Massachusetts' highest court has ruled, affirming the trial court below.
The police officer responded to an emergency report of a pedestrian-automobile accident. On his way to the scene of the reported accident, another car hit the Plaintiff's police car, causing what were apparently serious injuries. The pedestrian involved in the accident to which the Plaintiff was responding had earlier that day undergone sedation after a colonoscopy at Brockton Hospital. Plaintiff's theory was had the hospital provided an escort for the patient/pedestrian, he would not have had to respond and the accident would not have occurred.
Specifically, Plaintiff argued that a duty of care existed under two theories to back door the foreseeability problem: (1) a "special relationship" the hospital had with the patient and with Plaintiff, (2) a voluntary assumption of a duty of care by the hospital to protect third parties from harm caused by "impaired" patients.
The case generated some attention. Amicus briefs filed by the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys to support Leavitt, and by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association and the Professional Liability Foundation, Ltd., to support the hospital.
The Massachusetts high court found that both theories were no distinctions from the duty and foreseeability problem in finding that a hospital owes a duty of care to a non-patient third party to prevent a sedated patient from causing injury after the patient leaves the hospital.
Whether negligence extends to "an innocent third-party bystander" was recently decided in Maryland in Gourdine v. Crews. In that case, the family of a man killed in an auto accident sued Eli Lily claiming that his death was caused by a diabetic who blacked out while under treatment with two insulin medications. Continue reading
Posted in: Auto Accidents, Medical Malpractice, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Products Liability and Wrongful Death Claims
Updated: May 5, 2020 9:59 am
Wyeth v. Levine!
Wyeth v. Levine!!!! Plaintiffs' lawyers have seen drug (and medical device) injury victims take punch after punch. But in a huge win for patient safety, the Supreme Court upheld in a 6-3 ruling today that in a Vermont woman's verdict against Wyeth for injuries she suffered after taking one of the drug maker's medicines. Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority, said FDA oversight of drug labeling doesn't prevent the filing of state tort claims.
It is a little pathetic that this is a huge win. Gee, the law for the last 90 years will not be completely uprooted. Yippy! But the Drug and Device Law Blog predicted victory and those guys have been on the winning side of most everything lately. (A guest Drug and Device Law blogger also broke down the justices individually and predicted victory but I cannot find the post to link to it.) So I'll admit I was more than a little scared. Now, I'm thrilled that even this conservative Supreme Court found decisively in favor of the Plaintiff.
The one downside: a loss may have mobilized Congress to act. This win in Wyeth v. Levine could ironically slow progress on a bill to overturn Medtronic v. Riegel.
Posted in: Pharmaceutical Drugs and Products Liability
Preemption in the Media
The broadcast media has largely ignored the Supreme Court's ruling in Medtronic v. Riegel. But I found a clip from MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on preemption and President Bush's efforts until the bitter end to push for preemption.
Keith Olbermann's portrait on these things is not exactly "fair and balanced." I think it is a mistake not to present more fully both sides of the argument because it is hard to change minds without presenting all the facts. But I'm just thrilled to see some broadcast media discussion – albeit MSNBC – of the perils of preemption.
Wyeth v. Levine – October
The Wall Street Journal has an article today on the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine. In an unrelated but very related story, The Washington Post had an article from a Republican suggesting that the RNC drop the focus on McCain and salvage Senate races instead.
These are related stories because if the Democrats get to 60 senators, I think Wyeth v. Levine and Riegel v. Medtronic will become a moot point. There are interesting landmarks on the path to 60. The first is the outcome of Ted Stevens' trial. If Stevens is acquitted, Republicans should hold that seat. Who knew Alaska could have the impact it is having in this election? The second is whether Al Franken can unseat Norm Coleman in Minnesota. I hope Franken wins and, like most of us, I enjoyed Stuart Smalley on "Saturday Night Live." But after reading one of his books, I'm not sure he is a step towards a post-partisan movement. Franken sings the "all conservatives are evil and all liberals are righteous" spiel that the entire country is tired of hearing.
Posted in: Pharmaceutical Drugs
Updated: May 4, 2020 4:38 pm
Publication of My Book on Maximizing the Value of Personal Injury Cases
Insurance Settlements, a two-volume treatise for which I am the lead author, is now available from James Publishing. This treatise is for personal injury lawyers handling auto accident, truck accident, medical malpractice, and product liability cases with a lens toward getting the best outcome at all stages of these cases (though trial). The better title for the book – with the benefit of hindsight – would have been "Maximizing the Value of Personal Injury Cases." Maybe I can convince James Publishing to change it down the road.
I'm excited about the book. If you are interested in getting a copy, click on this James Publishing link.
Posted in: Auto Accidents, Discovery, General, Insurance Companies, Litigation Strategies, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury Verdicts, Pharmaceutical Drugs, Products Liability, Truck Accidents, Uninsured Motorist and Wrongful Death Claims
Should Companies Be Required to Disclosure Expected Litigation Obligations in Product Cases?
The Wall Street Journal has an editorial with an anti products liability lawyer spin. No surprise. But what is surprising is that I agree with it.
Considering Enron and other business collapses that left stockholders holding the bag with no actual picture of the company's financial condition, the Financial Accounting Standards Board wants to tighten standards. One requirement would make companies account for the potential cost of ongoing litigation not just regarding attorneys' fees but regarding the actual value of the claims. The Wall Street Journal editorial says product liability lawyers will use the information to extort settlements and influence jury verdicts.
I'm not worried about either of those outcomes no matter how many times the editorial uses the phrase "extort settlements." But I think there is a risk of forcing a defendant to publicly estimate settlement and verdict values because I think it tips off product liability lawyers and creates a floor for the value of any mass tort claim. I also think the editorial is correct, that predicting the trajectory of long and complex litigation is inherently unscientific. Mass tort cases are like the stock market in that their values are always changing. A good trial outcome or even a good expert deposition in an MDL can increase or decrease the value of a case. I've been involved with mass torts from both sides and believe knowledge of the true value is rarely known even to the insiders until the advanced stages of the settlement process.
Posted in: Litigation Strategies, Pharmaceutical Drugs and Products Liability
Wyeth v. Levine – August
The Wall Street Journal has a good article online about the preemption battle that is being waged the FDA's bureaucrats in the courts and in Congress.
The last line of the article says that "Some drug companies are telling plaintiffs' lawyers that if they settle their cases now, they won't pay as much to the plaintiffs as they would have six months ago, before the Supreme Court announced that it would hear the Wyeth case. A lawyer negotiating a settlement with one drug maker said company executives told him it wants the 'Wyeth discount.'"
I don't think many cases will settle for a "Wyeth discount" because both sides seem to think they will win. I cannot imagine how the court could find that there is a conflict between state and federal law in drug cases because I think federal labeling requirements create a floor for state tort claims, not a ceiling.
Zimmer Durom Cup Recall: Post Market Surveillance Needs Facelift
A New York Times article yesterday on the Zimmer Durom Cup's problems underscores the post-market surveillance problem with drugs and medical devices, pointing to the Zimmer Durom Cup problems that have led to Zimmer recalling their hip replacement component. This is a Zimmer fault; they should have a system of tracking and honestly responding to reports of problems with their hip replacement components. But we cannot expect drug and medical device companies to police themselves. Here, the Zimmer Durom Cup recall was precipitated by Larry Dorr, an orthopedic surgeon who is the medical director of the Dorr Institute for Arthritis Research and Education in California, who outed Zimmer, who previously paid him as a consultant, by speaking up in public about the problems and Zimmer's blind eye to them.
Safety and speed are the yin and yang of regulating drugs and medical devices. Americans want both; we want safe and well-tested medical devices, but we also want instant access to breakthrough products. But not we should not treat all new drugs and devices equally. We needed to rush new AIDS drugs onto the market with little testing 10 years ago because the risk-benefit analysis demanded it. But some of this other stuff? Sure, the marketing department of the drug and device companies would prefer it that way, but is that the best thing for the consumer or even the pharmaceutical company in the long run?
Adding to the problem is the Prescription Drug User Fee Act in 1992, which was a deal between the FDA and the drug industry. Drug and medical device companies agreed to pay millions of dollars in fees, and the FDA promised that they would complete drug and medical device reviews within a year for those products on the fast track.
Riegel v. Medtronic: Congress to the Rescue?
Since the Supreme Court's disaster in Riegel v. Medtronic, I have been hoping and expecting Congress would step in to fix the Supreme Court's ruling, because it was clear from the amicus briefs submitted in Riegel, from history, and from common sense, that Congress did not intend to prevent medical device tort claims. Yesterday, California Congressmen Henry Waxman and New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone, along with 62 bipartisan supporters, introduced HR 6381, the Medical Device Safety Act. This bill would undo the wrong the Riegel does to medical device victims. We expect the Senate to offer a similar bill next month.
As the Wolf said in Pulp Fiction, we can't start congratulating ourselves yet (I'm paraphrasing). This bill has not even made it out of a committee yet. But at least something is happening.
Congress Looks at Riegel v. Medtronic
On Wednesday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform began hearings on the reversal of the Riegel v. Medtronic holding that preempted state tort claims regarding medical devices if the FDA granted the product a pre-market approval.
Pharmaceutical drug manufacturers have been on a real hot streak of late before this conservative Supreme Court. They are looking to extend their streak by asking the Supreme Court to extend the preemption umbrella to pharmaceutical drugs in Wyeth v. Levine, which is expected to be heard this fall. Congress could cut this pro-business Supreme Court off at the knees, although I doubt they could get a bill past President Bush. Things may change in 2009.
The star-studded cast of witnesses includes Dennis Quaid (whom I imagine will speak to the heparin overdose of his twins), William Maisel, (Medical Device Safety Institute), Aaron Kesselheim (Harvard Medical School's Division of Pharmacoepidemiology), David Kessler (former FDA head), David Vladeck, (Georgetown law professor who has written on preemption) Gregory Curfman (New England Journal of Medicine editor); Christine Ruther (drug company consultant) and State Representative David Clark (Republican state legislator from Utah, who I suspect is in favor of preemption).


A Bollywood biopic of India's prime minister is set to hit theaters days before the country's general election begins, raising demands from the political opposition that its release be delayed until after voting.
Vivek Oberoi stars as Narendra Modi in the film.
The film also shows Modi as a young boy saluting the flag, venturing on a spiritual sojourn in the Himalayas and later dispensing an aphorism to tycoon Ratan Tata as the chief minister of the western state of Gujarat. Near the end of the trailer, the actor playing Modi warns arch-rival Pakistan not to test India with terrorist violence, an allusion to tense geopoliticaldevelopments that have recently colored Indian politics.
"If you strike us again, we'll strike harder," Modi says, before the trailer ends with a younger version of Modi holding the Indian flag and yelling, "Glory to Mother India," as snow falls around him.


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1926, Born; St. Louis, MO; March 25
In 1929, he moves to Louisville, KY with family
1943-44, studies at University of Missouri, Columbia, from 1944-46, enters U.S. Navy Officers Training Program at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Takes first art course (drawing)
June-December, 1946, receives Navy commission; is stationed at Norfolk, VA and Boston for duty in the Atlantic fleet.
1947, Returns to University of Missouri; receives B.A. degree in Journalism
Fall of 1947, moves to Paris on a G.I. Scholarship; enrolls at Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Studies with Jean Souverbie;
emphasis on academic drawing. In Paris, visits fine art museums, cathedrals and historic sites in order to study art history. Travels to the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Greece to look at art.
1948, forms friendship with Ellsworth Kelly and meets Eduardo Paolozzi and Cesar, all fellow students at Ecole des Beaux-Arts.
Marries Delphine Seyrig in 1950
October, 1950, first group exhibition, Les Mains eblouies, at Galerie Maeght, Paris. Other participants include Pierre Alechinsky, Eduardo Chillida, and Comeille
Visits studios of Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp with Kelly; finds himself influenced by their sense of organic form. Through his father-in-law, Henri Seyrig, he meets Alexander Calder
Meets experimental filmmaker and artist Robert Breer
Becomes interested in the resurgence of geometric abstraction in Paris, especially in such exhibitions as Salon des Realities Nouvelles which included Max Bill, Auguste Herbin, and Richard Lohse. Also visits Salon de Mai to see the most current work of the School of Paris artists, including such masters as Henri Matisse
Influenced by silhouetted forms and expressive shapes in Henri de Toulouse-Laurtrec's posters, 19th century Japanese woodcuts, Vasily Kandinsky's and Jean Arp's woodcuts, and ink drawings by Matisse.


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Henceforth, the National Cinema Center of Armenia is an Associate Member of the International Federation of Film Archives - FIAF, which is a notable and significant achievement. Highly appreciating the activities of the Cinema Center in recent years concerning preservation, restoration and promotion of the Armenian film heritage, on April 27 the FIAF Executive Committee officially approved the membership of the National Cinema Center of Armenia during the Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives in Budapest.
The Cinema Center was represented by Vigen Galstyan, NCCA's Head of the Film Heritage Department, who made a summary report, presenting the archive collections of the National Cinema Center of Armenia, film restoration projects and the upcoming programs aimed at internationalizing the Armenian Film Heritage. Thanks to numerous meetings during the Congress, preliminary cooperation agreements were reached with a number of major institutions, including the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Il Cinema Ritrovato Bologna Film Festival, the Lisbon and Toulouse cinematheques, the Estonian Film Museum, the Bulgarian Archive and the National Archives of the Philippines.
The celebration activities of the 100th anniversary of Armenian cinema, as well as the 100th anniversary of Sergey Parajanov have been included in the framework of the forthcoming cooperation. The FIAF members also expressed their readiness to professionally support the National Cinema Center of Armenia in developing the archiving and restoration of film heritage in Armenia.
The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), founded in Paris in 1938, assembles the world's leading film heritage institutions. The members of the Federation describe themselves as "defenders of the art forms of the 20th century". Their responsibilities embrace activities on finding, viewing, collecting and preserving films and videos, which are equally valued both as works of art and historical evidence. According to 2021 data, 92 cultural institutions from different countries of the world are members of the Federation, and 80 organizations cooperate with FIAF as associate partners.


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Taltz Label Updated to Include Data on Psoriasis Affecting Genital Area
Taltz is a humanized interleukin-17A antagonist
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved updated labeling for Taltz (ixekizumab; Eli Lilly) to include data on psoriasis involving the genital area.
The approval was based on data from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial that included 149 adults with plaque psoriasis who had a minimum body surface area (BSA) involvement of 1%, a static Physician Global Assessment (sPGA) score of ≥3 (moderate psoriasis), a sPGA of Genitalia score of ≥3 (moderate psoriasis involving the genital area), who failed to respond to or were intolerant of at least one topical therapy used for the treatment of psoriasis affecting the genital area, and who were candidates for phototherapy and/or systemic therapy.
Patients received an initial dose of Taltz 160mg followed by 80mg every 2 weeks, or placebo, for 12 weeks. Results showed that 73% (N=55) of the Taltz-treated group had a sPGA of Genitalia score of 0 (clear) or 1 (minimal) compared with 8% (N=6) in the placebo group. Additionally, 73% (N=55) of the Taltz-treated group had a sPGA score of 0 or 1 compared with 3% (N=2) in the placebo group.
Psoriasis Negatively Affects Patient Sleep Quality
Impoyz Cream Available to Treat Moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis
Ilumya Approved for Moderate-to-Severe Plaque Psoriasis
Genital itch scores (as measured by the Genital Psoriasis Symptoms Scale [GPSS] Itch numeric rating scale [NRS]) were also reduced in the treatment group, with 55% (N=31) of patients having a ≥4 point improvement vs 6% (N=3) for placebo. In addition, 78% of Taltz-treated patients scored 0 (never) or 1 (rarely) on the Sexual Frequency Questionnaire (which measures the impact of psoriasis on frequency of sexual activity) compared with 21% in the placebo group.
"Psoriasis involving the genital area can significantly impact patients, yet it's not routinely examined by healthcare providers," said Caitriona Ryan, MD, lead study investigator. "The results from this clinical trial may raise awareness around the topic among healthcare providers."
Taltz, a humanized interleukin-17A antagonist, is approved for the treatment of adults with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy or phototherapy and for active psoriatic arthritis. It is available in 80mg single-dose prefilled autoinjectors or 80mg single-dose prefilled syringes.
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CBA Loop Review: is it Time to Unbank Yourself?
A little over a month ago, CBA took the veil off their latest product, Loop. CBA Loop was unveiled as a new digital money management and consumer banking service that targets millennials and tech savvy customers.
The new service was meant to eliminate the need for customers to visit physical bank branches as all the core banking services would be provided through the app.
Probably the most annoying aspect of the service, the registration process is too long. Once you download the app, you will be required to register for the Loop account which involves filling forms after forms after forms on your device. The information required is also not that necessary but somehow CBA thought that you shouldn't get an account if you cannot tell them how much you earn monthly, where you work (the address) and even where you live.
To add insult to the injury, you cannot use the app until you have completed registration, which involves you walking into a bank and spending some time to get your biometrics and picture taken and collect your MasterCard-powered CBA Loop Debit Card.
I do understand that the process is important for the KYC (Know Your Customer) purposes but even government services just need my National ID number. Shortening this process should be on CBA's to-do list as it turns away so many potential customers who are looking to "unbank" themselves but end up in a banking hall anyway.
The best thing about CBA Loop and the core of the service is the app itself. Admittedly, the app is beautifully designed and well thought out. Once you launch the app, you're met with a dashboard that shows you an analysis of your income versus your spending and an "Ok to spend" tab that shows you how much money you have to play around with.
Tapping the hamburger menu on the top-left takes you to a list of well-arranged square menus. Here you'll find different options such as sending money, paying bills, investing (Loop Invest), loans (Loop Loan), your bank statement, budgeting, loop goals and cash flow statement among others.
Using the app is easy, as there are no hidden tricks or special learnings required. The only downside, is the app would not show me my information on the home screen as required, it would otherwise display an error, which was annoying as it happens more times than it should.
Through the Loop app, you can send money using various methods, categorized into mobile or bank transfers.
Sending money directly to a bank account has the following options, Loop transfer, Pesa Link, EFT (Electronic Funds Transfer) and RTGS (Real Time Gross Settlement). With these options, there are corresponding charges with Loop and Pesa Link remaining the same while EFT and RTGS are set at Ksh.60.5.
All these figures are constant regardless of the amount of money you are sending.
Investing is not an easy task. You must know your financials well and get to know the trends and state of the economy. This for the longest time, together with the assumption that investing is for the rich, has made millenials shy away from investing (this is just an assumption based on the people I interact with).
However, Loop App makes it as easy as setting the amount you want to invest, selecting your investment period, which is between 3 months and 1 year and setting whether you want a pay-out or to re-invest at the end of your investment period.
One can invest as low as Ksh.1000 and the rate of return goes as low as 7.5% for the three-month and as high as 9% for the twelve-month investment.
I am not a financial guru, so I will refrain from commenting on the rate of return.
This is a simple area that you can create a budget of how you spend your income. The app will use this budget to alert you when you're spending too much on an item, as opposed to the amount you had set aside for that item. For example, if I set a budget of Ksh.2000 to spend on meals per month, each time I use my Loop card to pay for meals at restaurants, the app will keep track of this and alert me if I spend more than Ksh.2000 on food.
However, for this section to work effectively, you must use the Loop card for all your payments and seeing that Kenyans are not a big on using cards, good luck with that CBA.
Another helpful section is the Loop Goals section. This section allows you to set financial goals that you'd like to meet, in other words, it helps you save up for something. For example, you're saving up for a car, this section allows you to set how much you want to be deducted from your account either weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually and set aside for your car savings.
A major highlight of the Loop app is the pay bill menu. From here, one can pay for bills ranging from DSTV, GOTV, Startimes, Zuku Fiber, Single Business Permit, Parking, NHIF, KPLC Pre-Paid and Post-paid.
One may simply say that all these services have a paybill number and they could simply just pay via m-pesa but it gets interesting. With the Loop app, you are not required to remember any paybill numbers, you simply select the service you want to pay for, say DSTV, input the account number and amount and tap proceed. The app will show you who that particular account number belongs to, to ensure that you do not send money to someone else's account.
It works well and makes paying bills that much easier. Plus, paying for your bills through the app ensures that your spending is recorded and you can stick to your budget. The service is powered by Cellulant, the same company behind the Mula payments app.
Hopefully they can add more services within it. JTL? Safaricom FTTH? NSSF? The list is long.
Certain menus still don't work on the Loop app, for instance, you cannot get a loan through Loop Loan section, Buy Goods doesn't work as well and as mentioned earlier, the "Ok to Spend" section works intermittently.
The service also charged customers Ksh.44 transaction fee to buy airtime, which did not sit well with its customers. Instead of removing this transaction fee, CBA did the noble thing and removed the option to buy airtime altogether.
Aside from the irony of that tagline, unbank yourself, CBA Loop is a neat product. It has the potential to grow into something that every millennial will be running for but for now, it still needs some work.
The sign-up process is too long, CBA ATMs are hard to find and the app doesn't even have an option to find the ATMs, we hate cards (not me though) – so give us incentives to encourage us to use the card as opposed to just withdrawing the cash and finally, the app needs to work 100%, 80% is not good enough. We're millennials, we might easily get distracted by the competition.


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David Lynch to Begin Production on New Netflix Series in May
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The celebration for David Lynch's birthday is continuing all week long. Following the surprise release of his 17-minute short film What Did Jack Do?, one of hi...


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Current Release: 6.1.5 Dec 14st, 2019

Current Development version: 6.1.6-SNAPSHOT

Next Release Version (planned): 6.1.6

P.S. Когда я не могу найти версию, то я просто пишу 1.0.0 и дальше студия предложит изменить версию до самой последней. Не уверен что правильно делаю, но это работает :)

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Situated at the top of the hill, Avis Castle stands out as an extraordinary viewpoint. The whole village has developed from this point. Both the castle and the urban wall were built in the first half of the 13th century and would later be renovated by Constable D. Pedro, namely two centuries afterwards. The castle bears Medieval features along with transition elements (such as the bastions) and modern elements like its bastion-like structures. Three of the former six towers remain today, as well as some wall curtains, used in modern constructions. South from Évora there are the remains of a ravelin, giving place to the flourishing garden Passeio do Mestre de Avis.


Combining a novel form of wayfinding with a nod to the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, this new airport terminal trades moving walkways for a color-coded circuit of racetrack paths (or runways, if you will).
Blue leads to departures and red takes people to arrivals – a simple scheme but easily visible when set against the more monotone surrounding interiors. The collaborative project featured contributions by PARTY with consultants from Nikken (photography by Kenta Hasegawa).


Sean and his yard look to have a potentially top flight 3yo in the form of Chimichuri Run.
The latter showed his class in no uncertain terms when capturing Saturday's G3 Spring Spree Stakes (delayed by week) in devastating fashion.
Ridden by S'Manga Khumalo, Chimichuri Run was always travelling well just off the pace and the handsome chestnut produced a striking turn of foot when asked to quicken. Chimichuri Run put the 1200m race to bed with 400m left to go and strode clear to post a four and a quarter length win over older rival Premier Show.
Given a hefty rating of 108, it was a really smart effort by the 3yo to down some battle-hardened older rivals and Chimichuri Run looks to have a bright future ahead of him.
It was a second consecutive feature race win for the Drakenstein Stud bred colt, who was making a return to Gauteng having romped to victory in last season's G3 Haval Motors South Africa Umkhomazi Stakes on eLan Gold Cup day.
Now a winner of three of six starts (he was also third in both the G1 Tsogo Sun Gold Medallion and G2 SA Nursery last season), Chimichuri Run is now likely to be aimed at some of the bigger 3yo races in the Cape Summer Season. The chestnut son of champion sire Trippi and G1 SA Fillies Classic dead-heater Spiced Gold is owned by Chris Van Niekerk, who had celebrated his birthday the day prior to the Spring Spree.
It was a good week for the Tarry yard who also sent out 3yo fillies Second Request and Saints Alive to win impressively at Scottsville and the Vaal respectively.


Has anyone ever seen "Siberia"?
Last edited by rivdee; 10-14-2013 at 12:44 AM.
I saw about 5 minutes of it once. 5 minutes I will never get back.
I mean, the concept was ok - but all downhill from there.
Even "The Cape" was better than this.
I haven't seen it (never even heard about it), but IMDB actually gives it 6.4, which is not all THAT bad. What did you hate about it?
i also saw the commercials and didnt look interested!! glad i didnt waste my time now!! thanks for the heads up!!


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"Before becoming a Muslim, a Sikh, a Hindu or a Christian lets become a human first." Guru Nanak Dev JI
Holden Clough is proud to a multi-faith school where we respect and celebrate children's beliefs and experiences from a wide range of religious and non-religious backgrounds. The principles of our Religious Education (RE) teaching is carried throughout the entire curriculum and forms the basis of our school's ethos. This is underpinned by our Golden rule:
We believe Religious Education contributes to pupils' readiness to participate in life in modern, diverse Britain and in a plural world.
Religious Education at Holden Clough poses challenging questions about meanings, beliefs, issues of right and wrong and what it means to be human. In RE, children learn about and from religions in local, national and global contexts, to discover, explore and consider different answers to these questions.
We believe RE gives children the chance for reflection and wider vision. RE at Holden Clough teaches children to articulate their personal beliefs and values while respecting the right of others to differ. The principles of our RE teaching is carried throughout the entire curriculum and form the basis of our ethos.
The aims of our RE curriculum are to:
Know about and understand a range of religions and worldviews
Express ideas and insights about the nature, significance and impact of religions and worldviews.
Gain and deploy the skills needed to engage seriously with religions and worldviews.
Holden Clough follows the Manchester Agreed Syllabus for Religious Education 2016-2021. In doing so, we ensure that pupils are equipped with knowledge and understanding of a range of religions and worldviews, enabling them to develop their ideas, values and identities. The syllabus is taught through three strands:
- Believing (religious beliefs, teachings, sources; questions of meaning purpose and truth)
- Expressing (religious forms of expression; questions of identity, diversity and belonging)
- Living (practices and ways of living; questions of values and commitments)
The aims and learning outcomes support the delivery of high-quality RE that enables coherence and progression across the school. Key concepts are revisited within and across year groups and on a cross-curricular basis, so that children become confident in applying them and deepening their understanding.
RE is timetabled so that pupils are provided with 36 hours of RE each year in EYFS and Key stage one and 45 hours each year in Key stage 2. This is delivered through a combination of timetabled lessons, drop-down days and cross curricular activities.
RE also makes important contributions to other parts of the school curriculum such as spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) education; citizenship; personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education. Alongside making a key educational contribution to the promotion of fundamental British values.
At Holden Clough the delivery of our R.E. curriculum will promote critical thinking, creativity and confidence. We firmly believe that our RE curriculum is the key to children becoming tolerant and well-rounded members of society with an understanding of respect and social responsibility.
Outcomes:
Children to have successfully worked through the scheme of learning.
The majority of children will achieve the end of key stage outcomes as detailed in the Agreed Syllabus.
Pupil voice:
When discussing RE with children, they will talk enthusiastically about their RE learning and demonstrate their understanding through the use of age appropriate subject specific vocabulary.
They will be able to apply their religious learning to their own lives and make links between the two.
To find out more about the curriculum your school is following please contact the school office mail@holdenclough.tameside.sch.uk
RE Curriculum 2020 and 2021 RE key questions overview.doc Assemblies


Please write to your MP on this topic now!
I know he's going to vote the way I want him to, and he knows I want him to vote the way he's going to. Is there a point in writing anyway?
Well it might be worth congratulating him on this, but no, if you're one of the rare few who knows what on earth their MP is thinking, this is probably less necessary.
I wouldn't claim to know what he was thinking on every issue, and I'm sure there are issues where we disagree anyway.


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Bernard Haitink est un chef d'orchestre néerlandais, né le  à Amsterdam et mort le  à Londres. Il est particulièrement célèbre pour ses interprétations de Mahler, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, Chostakovitch et Liszt.

Biographie

Origines et premiers pas
Bernard Johan Herman Haitink naît en 1929 à Amsterdam de Anna Clara Verschaffelt, travaillant pour l'Alliance française, et de Willem Haitink, fonctionnaire appelé à devenir administrateur du gestionnaire du réseau public de transport d'électricité des Pays-Bas.

Il étudie d'abord le violon au conservatoire d'Amsterdam, puis la direction d'orchestre auprès de Felix Hupka, qui également dirigeait l'orchestre de l'école. Il devient violoniste de l'orchestre symphonique de la Radio néerlandaise et, en même temps, prend des leçons auprès du chef d'orchestre Ferdinand Leitner en 1954, qui lui confie en 1955 le poste de second chef de l'orchestre de l'Union des radios néerlandaises.

Premiers succès

En 1961, c'est la consécration : Haitink succède à Eduard van Beinum, qui lui-même avait remplacé Willem Mengelberg en 1945, à la tête de l'orchestre royal du Concertgebouw. Il va y rester pendant vingt-sept ans. En 1967, il devient également le principal chef de l'orchestre philharmonique de Londres, et ce jusqu'en 1979. En 1968, il y enregistre sa première version de la Symphonie  de Mahler qui deviendra un succès, notamment grâce aux voix d'Aafje Heynis et d'Elly Ameling.

Les années opéra
En 1972, Haitink commence à porter son attention sur l'opéra. Il devient ainsi en 1978 le directeur musical du festival de Glyndebourne, poste qu'il occupera jusqu'en 1988. Il dirige Les Noces de Figaro de Mozart au festival de Pâques de Salzbourg 1991. Puis il est directeur musical de la Royal Opera House jusqu'en 2002.

Reconnaissance mondiale
De 1994 à 1999, il est directeur musical de l'orchestre de la jeunesse de l'Union européenne.

D' à 2004, Bernard Haitink est directeur de la Staatskapelle de Dresde. En 2006, il accepte de devenir chef principal de l'Orchestre symphonique de Chicago aux côtés de Pierre Boulez (chef émérite), dans l'attente de la nomination d'un nouveau directeur musical. En dehors de ce poste, il détient des positions honorifiques à l'Orchestre philharmonique de Berlin (membre honoraire), à l'Orchestre symphonique de Chicago (chef émérite) et à l'Orchestre royal du Concertgebouw d'Amsterdam (chef honoraire).

À partir du début des années 2000, il dirige régulièrement l'orchestre symphonique de Londres.

La retraite
Bernard Haitink met fin à sa carrière après un ultime concert, le , à la tête de l'Orchestre philharmonique de Vienne, au Concert Hall, KKL de Lucerne dans le cadre du Festival de Lucerne. Il dirige alors le Concerto pour piano  de Beethoven avec le soliste Emanuel Ax, puis la Symphonie  de Bruckner.

Bernard Haitink meurt à Londres dans la nuit du , à l'âge de 92 ans.

Enregistrements
Bernard Haitink a réalisé de nombreux enregistrements chez Decca, EMI, et Philips, notamment les dix symphonies d'Anton Bruckner, les quinze symphonies de Dmitri Shostakovitch, les ballets de Stravinsky, l'intégrale des symphonies de Johannes Brahms et de Gustav Mahler avec l'orchestre royal du Concertgebouw, ainsi que de nombreuses autres œuvres avec l'orchestre philharmonique de Berlin, l'orchestre philharmonique de Vienne, l'orchestre symphonique de Boston (dont, à nouveau, l'intégrale des symphonies de Brahms), l'orchestre symphonique de la Radiodiffusion bavaroise et l'orchestre national de France.

En 2003-2004, il enregistre avec l'orchestre symphonique de Londres une intégrale des symphonies de Brahms, en concert, fort appréciée par la critique, puis en 2005-2006, avec le même orchestre, une intégrale des symphonies de Ludwig van Beethoven, en concert, aussi saluée par la critique ; mais aussi l'intégrale des symphonies de Ralph Vaughan Williams, encore considérée comme un référence, aux côtés même des versions d'Adrian Boult, André Previn. Ces deux derniers enregistrements ont été réalisés chez LSO Live, le propre label de l'orchestre symphonique de Londres. En 2011, il enregistre La Damnation de Faust de Berlioz avec le Radio Filarmonisch Orkest & Groot Omroepkoor.

Distinctions
 Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres (1972)
 Officier de l'ordre de la Couronne de Belgique (1977)
 Chevalier commandeur honoraire de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique (1977)
 Commandeur de l'ordre d'Orange-Nassau (2002)
 Membre honoraire de l'ordre des compagnons d'honneur (Royaume-Uni) (2002)
 Grammy pour son interprétation de l'opéra Jenůfa de Janáček (2003)
 Docteur honoris causa du Royal College of Music (2004)
 Commandeur de l'ordre du Lion néerlandais (2017)

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Article de Martin Kettle paru dans The Guardian du 5 mars 2004 pour les 75 ans d'Haitink

Chef d'orchestre néerlandais
Artiste de Philips Records
Artiste de Decca Records
Artiste d'EMI Group
Élève du Conservatoire d'Amsterdam
Membre de l'ordre des compagnons d'honneur
Docteur honoris causa du Royal College of Music
Personnalité anoblie sous le règne d'Élisabeth II
Commandeur de l'ordre d'Orange-Nassau
Chevalier commandeur de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique
Commandeur de l'ordre du Lion néerlandais
Officier de l'ordre de la Couronne
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Récipiendaire de la médaille d'or de la Royal Philharmonic Society
Naissance en mars 1929
Naissance à Amsterdam
Décès à 92 ans
Décès à Londres
Décès en octobre 2021


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Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project (LSNTAP) is part of the Michigan Advocacy Program, a legal aid organization that provides access to the justice system for those who need it the most through direct legal help and statewide advocacy. LSNTAP helps nonprofit legal aid organizations improve client services through effective and innovative use of technology. To do this, we provide technology training, maintain information, create online tools, and host community forums.
About the LSNTAP Team
The manager for the program is Shellie Reid. Shellie comes to us with a long history of public service and a love of technology. During law school, Shellie served as an Access to Justice Tech Fellow with a legal services organization in northern Virginia. As an active member of the Delta Model Lawyer group, she researched the competencies needed to be a successful lawyer in the modern world. Shellie spent some time working in the financial legal services sector before joining LSNTAP.
The Advisory Committee is made up of leaders in the legal tech and public interest spheres. They provide valuable input on many topics related to legal technology, helping LSNTAP better serve the legal aid community.
In 2021-2022, LSNTAP undersent a strategic planning process, which helped define our Mission, Vision, Values, and strategic goals for the upcoming years.
LSNTAP's Mission is: Empowering the legal aid community to improve client services and build capacity through effective and innovative use of technology.
LSNTAP's Vision is: All legal aid organizations have access to curated information about technology which they use to deliver effective legal services.
LSNTAP's Values are:
Collaboration: we bring people together to gather and share expertise and create economies of scale
Innovation: we cultivate curiosity, experimentation, and creativity
Community: we support each other and share and learn from our successes and failures
Vision: we keep our fingers on the pulse of what's next
LSNTAP is excited to be working with Just-Tech to help advance the use of technology by legal aid programs across the country. Working closely with MAP/LSNTAP through the end of 2022, Just-Tech will be providing technical assistance, webinars, and technology-focused toolkits to help legal aid programs leverage technology to increase access to justice for disadvantaged communities.
Just-Tech, LLC is a mission-driven technology firm dedicated to advancing and supporting the use of technology by public interest, legal aid, and public defender organizations to increase access to and delivery of justice for disadvantaged communities across the United States.
Last updated on December 29, 2022 .


Maximus has experienced (as Borat would say) "great success" in its social media marketing, with a controversial post by the sports drink brand lighting up on Facebook.
To honour Business Clean Up Day, Maximus issued a cheeky post to its followers yesterday to demonstrate it was "doing our part".
The post had garnered over 41,000 reactions at the time of writing, with most of them being positive. Furthermore, Maximus' comment game was on point, joking around with many followers who made their views known about the post.


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Man arrested in midnight murder probe
A MAN has been arrested following the fatal stabbing of a 71-year-old walker out on his regular late-night stroll in Ashton.
Forensics investigators examine Henrietta Street.
Retired refuse collector Dennis Cottrill, 71, was found lying in Henrietta Street shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning by two police specials on their way home after a night out.
Mr Cottrill had suffered stab wounds to the chest and died shortly after arrival at Tameside Hospital. He lived in nearby Melbourne Street with his brother and had never married.
Police say Mr Cottrill regularly took a late night walk before going to bed.
A 29-year-old Ashton man has been arrested as part of police inquiries and he is set to be interviewed throughout today (Thursday).
Greater Manchester NewsTragedy of 'lovely' teenager with dreams of studying at Oxford who died in 'railway accident' Eve Cockburn was just 16-years-old at the time of her death in September 2018
Greater Manchester PoliceMan arrested on suspicion of rape of a teenage girl releasedThe 57-year-old will face no further action
Chelsea FCChelsea boss Frank Lampard defends Man United manager Solskjaer after Marcus Rashford injury blowChelsea FC manager Frank Lampard has had his say on Manchester United's use of Marcus Rashford despite his injury trouble.
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Ashton and MossleyTool company's social media post poking fun at gay men spectacularly backfiresToolfolks.com shared the post on Facebook, text message and email
SalfordMore than 1,000 new homes in Salford could be approved this week - but only one would be affordableThe plans include what would become the tallest tower in the city


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Trump is already swimming in cash for his 2020 reelection campaign
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Published 9:12 pm PDT, Monday, October 15, 2018
FILE — President Donald Trump signs tax legislation into law in the Oval Office, at the White House in Washington, Dec. 22, 2017.
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REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
President Donald Trump has raised at least $106 million for his reelection campaign since the start of his presidency in January 2017.
In just this past quarter, Trump has pulled down more than $18 million.
Trump's campaign may have raised more money, but it has also spent more than twice as much in the last three months.
President Donald Trump raised over $100 million for his 2020 reelection campaign, an amount from the likes of which no US president since Ronald Reagan has seen at this point in their presidency, according to a Washington Post report published Monday.
Trump raised at least $106 million since the start of his presidency in January 2017 and more than $18 million this past quarter, The Post reported. Trump appears set to carry on that momentum weeks ahead of the November midterms elections.
Last quarter, 98% of campaign donations were $200 or less, according to The Post.
Trump's campaign may have raised more money, but it has also spent more than twice as much in the last three months. Trump's campaign spent $3.6 million from April to June, less than half of the $7.7 million earned from July to September, according to filings reviewed by The New York Times.
The lion's share of Trump's campaign funds went toward advertising with American Made Media Consultants, a consulting firm established by Trump's reelection campaign manager, Brad Parscale. AMMC, which was reportedly incorporated in April, was paid $1.6 million, according to a Federal Election Commission report reviewed by The Times.
Despite the Trump campaign's quarterly gains, a Democratic candidate for the Senate appears to have outearned him. Rep. Beto O'Rourke of Texas, a rising star in congressional politics, raked in $38.1 million last quarter and achieved a new quarterly fundraising record for a Senate election. O'Rourke's campaign tripled the $12 million Sen. Ted Cruz, his Republican challenger and incumbent, earned last quarter.
But more fundraising does not necessarily translate to more votes. Although O'Rourke may have pulled in significantly more money than Cruz, some recent polls indicate Cruz has a healthy single-digit lead.
A Quinnipiac University survey reportedly placed Cruz in the lead by nine percentage points, while a New York Times Upshot/Siena College poll put Cruz ahead with eight points.
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Stevens Stuff
1. Sunday's Washington Post will carry my brief contribution to its "Topic A" feature, "Who should replace Justice Stevens?" In a last-minute cut to save space, my third paragraph was deleted, so I take the liberty here of posting my submission with that paragraph added back in:
President Obama has recently raised alarms about the supposed threat of conservative judicial activism — of Supreme Court majorities that would wrongly override democratic enactments and invent constitutional rights that advance conservative policy ends. But the alternative that he favors is liberal judicial activism: He has committed to appoint justices who will indulge their own subjective passions, their "deepest values" and "the depth and breadth of [their] empathy" in deciding what the Constitution means.
In his comments thanking Justice Stevens for his service on the court, Obama said that he would nominate someone who "knows that in a democracy, powerful interests must not be allowed to drown out the voices of ordinary citizens." If the president genuinely cares about not having the voices of ordinary citizens drowned out, he would favor a third way, the path of judicial restraint. He would search for and select a nominee who would steadfastly defer to the political processes and leave in force democratic enactments unless they violate the clearly ascertained meaning of a constitutional provision.
A century ago, it was liberals who advocated judicial restraint and who opposed the freewheeling use of "substantive due process" to invalidate progressive economic and social legislation. Unfortunately, since the 1960s, most liberals have become aggressive advocates of the sort of lawless judicial activism epitomized by Roe v. Wade. Rulings like Roe poison American politics by removing contentious issues from the give-and-take compromise that the ordinary processes of representative government entail.
Of the candidates being mentioned to fill the Stevens vacancy, the one who most clearly offers the promise of pursuing the path of judicial restraint is Judge Merrick Garland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
2. CNN.com carries my assessment of the leading contenders to replace Stevens. (Nothing new for anyone who's been reading Bench Memos.)
3. From the NRO archives, here's my January 2007 essay, "Rites and Wrongs," in which I discuss how President Ford's state funeral stands in sharp counterpoint to Ford's statement that he was "prepared to allow history's judgment" of his presidency to rest exclusively on his appointment of Stevens—and that he specifically agreed with Stevens's positions on the Establishment Clause.


Can Smoking Affect LASIK Surgery Recovery?
Many eye surgeons and physicians believe that smoking can adversely affect general eye health and LASIK surgery outcomes. Studies have previously indicated that smoking plays a role in cataracts and age-related macular degeneration, and new research indicates that smoking may affect a patient's chances of contracting uveitis. For smokers who are considering laser eye surgery, it's time to get more informed about the effects of smoking on eye health and LASIK surgery results.
It is thought that smoking increases blood cells' stickiness in the eyes, which increases the likelihood of dangerous clogs and build-ups in the blood vessels. These clogs, also known as retinal vascular occlusions, can cause vision loss. Effects can be worse in pregnant women and those using oral contraceptives; and smoking can also worsen diabetic retinopathy.
Mounting evidence shows a direct relationship between common eye diseases and exposure to tobacco smoke, as well as many other various factors. However, when it comes to smoking effects, the evidence is very compelling. Smoking is a known risk factor for several serious eye conditions such as diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, and vascular occlusions. Unfortunately, all of these conditions can lead to complete blindness.
While smoking's effects on the heart and lungs are well documented, it can also affect body systems such as the tissue healing process, and physical immune response. Various studies show that the most common surgical complications related to smoking are wound infection and impaired healing. Where LASIK is concerned, this could entail delayed healing of corneal tissues and increased infection risk. Dry eyes are a common side effect of LASIK surgery, and an eye doctor will confirm that it is more common in smokers than in non-smokers. In fact, tobacco smoke, whether direct or 2nd hand, can exacerbate dry eyes.
To reduce the risk of complications following LASIK surgery, patients should stop smoking a minimum of eight weeks before the surgery. After the procedure, patients should not resume smoking until the eyes have reached complete recovery. Smoking ultimately delays LASIK recovery in various ways, namely due to inhibiting the healing process, stressing the heart, causing hypertension, reducing blood oxygen levels, and causing damage to the lungs. In fact, some smokers may turn out to not be good candidates for LASIK due to vision and health concerns that may already be affected by smoking.
Smoking has detrimental effects on numerous parts of the human body—both internal and external. A patient's LASIK outcome may also be an effect. However, most of the high-risk conditions that can develop from smoking can be gradually reversed when a patient stops smoking.
If you're considering LASIK surgery and want to kick the habit, contact Dr. Goosey's office today for more information and to find out if LASIK is right for you.


Take one French widower, his two young children, and drop a former city girl from Chicago into a small town in southwestern France. Shake vigorously… and voilá: a blended Franco-American family whose lives will all drastically change.
I've been working on learning French for what feels like forever (more so me getting busy and French lessons being on the back burner. French isn't THAT hard). So when I was given a chance to review this memoir about an American woman moving to France, I was already interested. I loved this book so much that I actually bought a paperback copy to have on my shelf.
The author is really funny. But not in a "I'm desperately trying to be funny in a dry way". (Dear Author- don't ever feel bad about that garlic press. You did NEED that). She's funny because you can see her going through these experiences. I've not gotten to travel abroad, but I've traveled across the US a lot and I can tell you the weird insecurities you start to feel are entirely real.
There is a scene in the beginning and the author is going to the market. And she only has her basket. She's quickly realizing her basket is heavy and then she still has more to get. Y'all, I swear I have done this so many times. As I was reading that scene, I felt my shoulders sag in defeat for our heroine. You arms are full, you're walking in an environment you aren't entirely used to and in the big scheme of life, its not a big event but at that time, it can feel so overwhelming.
One thing I truly enjoyed about this memoir was seeing true aspects of French life. Don't get me wrong; I do enjoy seeing glamorized Parisian stories where everything is fabulous and beautifully outrageous and romantic. But that isn't really reality, and getting to see a side of France that most don't see was most enjoyable for me.
We also see this new French family coming together in other ways. Where kids are involved, there is always push and pull. While some of these scenes aren't always the funniest/cutest/quirky stories that some want in a memoir, I appreciated seeing them here. The author has made a huge change in her life and not all change is pleasant. It can become pleasant over time, but that doesn't mean everything you experience in the moment is this grand experience.
If you are interested in the French way of life, and also a heartwarming tale of love and life, then you'd definitely enjoy this memoir from Samantha Vérant.


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Zbeida Belhajamor, née le  à Tunis, est une actrice tunisienne.

Biographie
Née le  à Tunis, elle est issue d'une famille cinéphile, avec une mère travaillant dans un ministère et un père consultant en gestion.

Si elle s'intéresse à la danse, au chant ou à la guitare puis au théâtre, elle est dès son adolescence en contact avec des personnalités de la scène nationale tunisienne, dont Taoufik Jebali. La cinéaste Leyla Bouzid la remarque durant le casting de son premier film, À peine j'ouvre les yeux, mais elle est trop jeune, à 14 ans, pour le rôle. Quelques années plus tard, elle tourne avec la réalisatrice Mirvet Médini Kammoun dans Noces d'épices, et poursuit ses études. Elle obtient une licence à l'École supérieure des sciences et technologie du design à Tunis.

Leyla Bouzid la recontacte des années plus tard et la retient pour le rôle de Farah, l'un des deux rôles principaux dans le second long métrage de cette réalisatrice, présenté au Festival du film francophone d'Angoulême puis au Festival de Cannes 2021 dans le cadre de la Semaine de la critique, Une histoire d'amour et de désir.

Filmographie

Cinéma

Court métrage
 2017 : Noces d'épices de Mirvet Médini Kammoun

Long métrage
 2021 : Une histoire d'amour et de désir de Leyla Bouzid : Farah

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Actrice tunisienne de cinéma
Naissance en décembre 1999
Naissance à Tunis


When slimming down engines, auto makers are commonly turning to lightweight materials such as aluminum, but this frequently presents technical challenges during other manufacturing processes, something that Plasmatreat is combating with its innovative plasma cleaning.
The technique has already proved its worth with GM's iconic 50th anniversary Chevy Camaro launched earlier this year. When engineers designed the 2016 Camaro, they slimmed down the 3.6 liter V6 engine for maximum performance, using an aluminum alloy block for the engine and a cast-aluminum integral oil pan design.
However, this threw up issues with getting adhesives and sealants to adhere to the surfaces, and since even a small leak could lead to engine failure, GM turned to Plasmatreat's open-air plasma technology to prevent these problems.