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October Oddments
Scientists say God put taste buds in our lungs because He wants us to smoke tobacco . To save money, the Telegraph newspaper no longer uses proofreaders . The Burmese jungle teems with sneezing monkeys that look like Michael Jackson in his later stages . Gruesome thought: could they be Jacko-Bubbles hybrids ? Recall the rumors of a secret laboratory in the caverns beneath the Neverland ranch. I will report back once the results of DNA tests are in. Ghoulish Russian bears are digging up and eating corpses in graveyards : "In Karelia one bear learned how to do it [open a coffin]. He then taught the others," she added, suggesting: "They are pretty quick learners." When I observed " bears are capable of crimes more heinous than stealing picnic baskets ," I had no idea just how horrible they were. Russian "yetis" declare war on bears , and who can blame them? Some people think the Russian yetis (also known as Almasti) are actually Neanderthals .
3rd Grade Memories
School "When I grow up, I'm going to write things about white vans and blobs and dumb scientists . I'll publish my musings electronically somehow." "You're weird, Carter," said Betty Lou, so I pulled her pigtails. The Sweater My parents made me wear an itchy turtle neck sweater so I "wouldn't catch a cold". "Sweaters don't kill germs," I told them. "Go to your room," they told me. "Pay attention," I said to Mossy the Hobo. "If I lose the sweater, it's too obvious, so I'm going to give you this dollar, and tomorrow when you see me walking with my mom you run out and steal the sweater from me. Don't screw it up." The next day I'm walking with my mother, and up strolls Mossy. He grabs the sweater, and starts pulling it off me. I put up a fight, to make it look good. A guy driving by sees the commotion. He jumps out of his truck and punches Mossy square in the face. Mossy crumples, and lies twitching in a pool of his own blood until the ambulance arrives. The sweater
White Gliding Ghostliness
Multiple attempts by at least two different drivers to lure children into white vans in the Pittsburgh area - six in the past three weeks. Police urge everyone to "stay alert", but refused to comment when asked if they believe, as some do, that falling into a reverie causes the white vans to appear. In Sydney, Australia, a man tried to "entice" a 12 year old girl into his white van . Earlier in the day in another part of town, a white van stalked a 15 year old boy on the way to school. L ike a dreamer awoken from a nightmare t he youth vividly recounted the terror he felt as the white van pursued him, but was "unable to provide a description of any occupants of the vehicle". Police "don't believe any of the incidents are linked", despite the glaringly obvious white van connection. A man in a white van was observed " fighting with himself " in Grass Valley, California. A New Zealand woman was " grabbed on Te Ngae Rd and dragged into the back of a [white] car ". The woman esca
Strange Rediscovery
The New York Times reports : The city of Moberly, Mo., is stirred up over the discovery of a wonderful buried city, which was discovered at the bottom of a coal shaft, 360 feet deep, which was being sunk near the city. A hard and thick stratum of lava arches in the buried city, the streets of which are regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stone...A hall 30 by 100 feet was discovered , wherein were stone benches and tools of all description for mechanical service. Further search disclosed statues and images of a substance closely resembling bronze...A stone fountain was found, situated in a wide court or street, and from it a stream of perfectly pure water was flowing...Lying beside the foundation were portions of the skeleton of a human being. The bones of the leg measured, the femur four and one-half feet, the tibia four feet and three inches, showing that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man...[ cont .]
Glorious Piles
An examination of nearly a thousand Egyptian and South American mummies revealed few incidences of cancer, leading researchers to conclude the disease is caused by the modern way of life, and me to conclude properly operated large stone pyramids prevent cancer.
From North Yorkshire to Ashgabat
Others finally notice he monstrous evil of Whitby. The Whitby Gazette reports : "A Japanese television crew is currently filming in Whitby as part of an educational programme to be shown on NHK – Japan's equivalent of the BBC." While the NHK educates the Japanese people about Whitby's dangers, the U.S. media continues to ignore the situation. I attribute this neglect to incompetence and irresponsibility, but I am beginning to wonder. In Turkmenistan, where standards for clerical work are quite high, apparently, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a decree "severely reprimanding" press secretary Kakageldi Chariyardurdiev for assorted malfeasances, including "failing to highlight", and "improper organization". The President then signed a decree relieving Chairman of the Supreme Chamber of Control of Turkmenistan Gochguly Saparlyev of his duties ("failing to fulfill responsibilities"), followed by a decree appointing Deputy Chairman of the chamber Gadyrgeldi Mushshikov ac
Treacherous Bait
Near the nation's capitol a sea serpent was spotted , swimming merrily along. Cryptozoologists hope the monster will be captured; normal Americans hope politicians will be lured to the banks of the Potomac, where the serpent can lunge out and devour them.
Wonderful Indeed Are The Preserves of Time
That mummy is medicinal, the Arabian Doctor Haly delivereth and divers confirm; but of the particular uses thereof, there is much discrepancy of opinion. While Hofmannus prescribes the same to epileptics, Johan de Muralto commends the use thereof to gouty persons; Bacon likewise extols it as a stiptic: and Junkenius considers it of efficacy to resolve coagulated blood. Meanwhile, we hardly applaud Francis the First, of France, who always carried Mummia with him as a panacea against all disorders; and were the efficacy thereof more clearly made out, scarce conceive the use thereof allowable in physic, exceeding the barbarities of Cambyses, and turning old heroes unto unworthy potions. Shall Egypt lend out her ancients unto chirurgeons and apothecaries, and Cheops and Psammiticus be weighed unto us for drugs? Shall we eat of Chamnes and Amosis in electuaries and pills, and be cured by cannibal mixtures? Surely such diet is dismal vampirism; and exceeds in horror the black banquet of D
Smoke Break
"Hi, Carter." "Hi, Louise." "I saw you Saturday afternoon. You and a woman were walking down Third. I saw you from across the street. I waved and waved at you, but you didn't wave back." "Really. Were you, by any chance, wearing a hat? Because I suffer from an unfortunate condition known as 'hat blindness,' a quirk of the brain rendering me unable to recognize someone wearing a hat if I'm used to seeing them without a hat." "I was wearing a hat, actually. My sombrero. I wear it sometimes on weekends, because it makes me feel festive." "So that was you! You can understand how, because of my condition, I perceived you as a stranger and a madwoman, and therefore sensibly ignored you. " "I saw you Saturday, too." "You did, Elmer?" "Saturday night. You and group of people were coming out of a club on First. I said 'Hello', you walked right past." "Really. I don't discuss it much, but I also suffer from an unfortunate condition known as 'bald fag blindness,' a quirk of the
Interviewed last Sunday , retired General Colin Powell admitted illegal aliens are "all over" at his house, "doing things". He also claimed "immigration is what's keeping this country's lifeblood moving forward", but did not explain why the country's lifeblood needs moving, or how it's moved. Does he think immigrants tow the country's lifeblood using taco trucks? He didn't elaborate. The establishment considers Powell one of " Washington's venerable 'wise men ,'" which tells you a lot about Washington and the establishment. Harboring illegals isn't the only criminal activity Powell has been connected to since leaving the military: in 2008 he celebrated Nigerian cyber crime at a festival in London , prior to that he was Secretary of State.
I Produce an Object What People Make of It Is Not My Concern
A snake sabotaged electrical transmission lines in the Philippines , blacking out power to the entire province of Bohol. At this time the snake's motives remain undetermined. In California, a snake and his teenaged accomplice robbed a Walgreen's in broad daylight ; the pair then escaped on a "baby blue BMX bike". Alki Family Fun Day in West Seattle was almost spoiled after an 11-foot albino python attacked a fat woman . At this time who ended up eating whom remains undetermined. In Melbourne, Australia, a 5-foot long python was spotted lurking outside of a McDonald's. The python, named Boris, was quickly wrestled into submission by a pair of concerned citizens before he could attack any fat women, rob the McDonald's, or sabotage any power lines. Whether or not we are on the verge of some sort of snake crisis remains undetermined.
We're All Foreigners There
I laughed when Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced his dream of going to the moon (" We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here ?'"). At the time, I had no idea he owned a $48 million private plane, purchased using money given to him by the US and EU . Now he is using $22 million in foreign aid to buy seven supersonic fighter jets Ugandans can't fly or maintain . Our generosity, then, may have caused Museveni to believe Western nations will someday buy him a rocket ship . I'm starting to believe it myself.
Of Barnacles, Which Grow from Fir Timber, and Their Nature
There are likewise here many birds called barnacles, which nature produces in a wonderful manner out of her ordinary course. They resemble the marsh geese, but are smaller. Being at first gummy excrescences from pine beams floating on the waters, and then enclosed in shells to secure their free growth, they hang by their beaks like seaweeds attached to the timber. Being in process of time well covered with feathers, they either fall into the water or take their flight in the free air, their nourishment and growth being supplied, while they are bred in this very unaccountable and curious manner, from the juices of the wood in the sea-water. I have often seen with my own eyes more than a thousand minute embryos of birds of this species on the seashore, hanging from one piece of timber, covered with shells, and already formed. No eggs are laid by these birds after copulation, as is the case with birds in general; the hen never sits on eggs in order to hatch them; in no corner of the world
Plans Unveiled
Exciting developments on the urban planning front, happening in Sudan, of all places: The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region's cities in the shapes of animals and fruit. Elaborate blueprints for the new cities have already been drawn up. The regional capital, Juba, will be relocated and designed in the shape of a rhinoceros. Wau, the capital of Western Bahr el-Ghazal state, is to be a somewhat unwieldy giraffe… In Juba, the office of the regional president is situated where the rhinoceros's eye should be. In Wau, the sewage treatment plant is appropriately placed under the giraffe's tail. There is talk that the town of Yambio will be shaped like a pineapple. The creativity and ambitiousness of these designs could wake up our urban planners to possibilities besides light rail trains and sterile modernist blight. Imagine an American city in the shape of Mickey Mouse, or a hamburger. It's about as likely as the Su
Enter Certain Nymphs
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary, Come hither from the furrow and be merry: Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on And these fresh nymphs encounter every one In country footing. - Shakespeare, The Tempest (4.1.134-38).
Brief Reviews of Movies I Haven't Seen, Summer 2010
Eat, Pray, Love Watch, leave, vomit. The Expendables The Dependsables. Dinner for Schmucks The French film Le dîner de cons , adapted for American audiences (all the intelligence, subtlety, and wit was removed). Starring the painfully unfunny Steve Carell, widely considered one of the leading comedic actors of our time. Lottery Ticket On the eve of a holiday weekend a young negro (played rapper Bow Wow) learns he has a winning $370 million lottery ticket. For the next three days his neighbors and relatives in 'da hood' try to steal it from him while the audience yells things at the screen. Lottery Ticket 2 Set six months after Lottery Ticket , a young negro (played by rapper Bow Wow) declares bankruptcy after having squanderd $370 million. The audience yells things at the screen, eventually his corpse is found in a dumpster. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World A hipster who looks like a homosexual fetus (Michael Cera) attempts to win the heart of a girl. Based on a comi
New Proton Radius
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute think protons are much smaller than "previously thought". One day over lunch, Professor Glen Morangie theorized crumbs are actually much larger than previously thought. "Those are croutons," I told him.
Lurks and Larks
Deep in the Texas woods cryptozoologists searching for Sasquatch found something far worse: a sinister forest donkey , lurking suspiciously. Could the entire Bigfoot phenomenon be a hoax perpetrated by donkeys? The cryptozoological community should strongly consider it. Meanwhile, in Lapland (when was the last time you heard that?), a Thai berry picker vanished after reporting by cell phone "Something weird is following me, it's like a dog or something." Could the poor berry picker have been followed, then abducted, by a forest donkey? The local Poliisi should strongly consider it.
My Blogger Stats say the most popular ADC post of the summer is a picture of an orange telephone . The second most popular is the inscrutable Report of the Board of Consulting Engineers, Vol. 1 .
Skubalophagia
In a column about his epic journey from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican , pundit and milquetoast David Brooks reveals he enjoys eating garbage : "So I sit there in my green jacket, happily chewing on a Twizzler that I probably left in a pocket in 1979..." Disgusting as Brooks habit is, I suspect most establishment pundits of the official press are secretly harboring far grosser vices.
Summer Whitby Report
Photograph of anomalous big cat roaming field. The Black Beast of the Bay (an anomalous big cat ) was spotted prowling Whitby again this summer . The accursed town was also attacked by a raft of poisonous snakes , and at the moment the air in Whitby is obscured by massive swarms of insects . The bugs have "caused havoc", are "known to spread diseases", and are capable of " infesting the softest parts ". Ominously, "Experts predict the invasion will…soon attract…predators." Meanwhile, in Driffield, absolutely nothing continues to happen .
Secret of the Lamprey
Scientists studying sea lampreys have unlocked the mystery of human stress hormones. Eons ago, when Man was still an Aquatic Ape , disgusting lampreys would cling all over him, drain his blood, then drag him neath the waves. Researchers now believe these attacks caused a lot of stress, so stress hormones were evolved as a countermeasure. While Man eventually gave up being aquatic, fears of being covered in lampreys and dragged neath the waves can still induce anxiety in some beachgoers. Fortunately, Modern Man is able to augment his stress hormones with relaxing cigarettes, though the bureaucrats hate to admit it.
Closed Until August
The Greatest Dwarf Story Ever Told
I receive a missive from my old friend Judge Florentino Floro Jr . Just the other day I was wondering whatever happened to him, he must have read my mind (the judge is known for that sort of thing). It turns out he's been working on a book about his amazing life, the three Mystic Dwarves, crab mentality Pinoys, the nature of the universe, and more. He writes: eElven Supremacy 2010: 27 years Dalliance; LUIS, Armand & Angel; the Violet Lights The Greatest Story of Friendship Ever Told, eBook Part One 2 years and a quarter of a century ago, LUIS, Armand and Angel changed my life and wrote my destiny (at exactly 7 p.m., June 2, 1983, at the wake of my father, Florentino, Sr.). Even if today's scientists began to investigate aliens and the matter of how something can be made to travel faster than the speed of light, hoping that man can time travel, still, the Violet lights of LUIS remains a mystery and I predict that this pure light would be solely his and mine. The entire univer
Concrete Has Suddenly Become an Important Factor
When I was a boy, when I wanted to read the June, 1906 edition of Cement Age , the "monthly magazine devoted to the interests of cement", I had to pedal my bicycle all the way to the university library. Today, thanks to the advance of technology, I can access issues of Cement Age , the "monthly magazine devoted to the interests of cement", with the click of a button. But I never do, my interest in cement, concrete construction, and Cement Age having waned long ago, with the onset of pre-puberty. As is often the case the future was rendered obsolete before it arrived .
Some Day We Must Really Talk Things Over
We have known thousands who as young men at the University were volcanoes of originality and poetry, and promised to remain so, and now are either servile or liberal philistines. We, on the contrary, are steadily becoming strangers to the world and its ways, and live a private life which (silently for the moment) runs clean contrary to present trends. — Doesn't it sometimes seem to you as though one fine day on a lonely path you would meet a dwarf who would open a secret door in the moss and stones of the forest and lead you into a new world? — Do drop your hostility to the Middle Ages! What weighs upon us, somewhat, are the apes of the Middle Ages, not the real, genuine age of Dante and his consorts, who were, au contraire, wonderful people. Classical antiquity, if it were imposed par ordre de Mufti, would not be much less irksome. I have in my hands the historical proofs of how wonderfully people enjoyed themselves in the Middle Ages, when life was more colorful and rich than can po
The Moon Creeps Up to the Bubbling of Bassoons
In 1658 the eminently learned Sir Kenelme Digby performed an experiment using a "well-polished silver bason" proving the "rayes of the moon are cold and moist." Why lunar rayes are cold is obvious, but the source of their moistness has long been a puzzle (Sir Kenelme attributed the dampness to the sun, mistakenly believing the sun to be a "humid star"). But last week scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory finally found the answer. Moonbeams are moist because the Moon has lots of water in it , at least a "100 times more" than "previous estimates". RELATED: Digby's extrordinary street fight .
Economic Strategies (Charlatanism)
Transmit brain waves over long distances .
Mind Over Matters
Pondering recent events in the Middle East I realized it would ease tensions if news reports referred to Israel's raid on the aid flotilla as Israel's raid on the AIDS tortilla. It then occurred to me redefining oil as "nature's gravy" makes the oil leak crisis go away. A story headlined "Massive Flow of Nature's Gravy Means Early Thanksgiving for Gulf Coast Shorebirds" would be heartwarming. Economic conditions seem less grim if one pictures the economy as a donkey who tries to rape children .
These Donkeys Are No Gentle Doves
From Gaza another report of a Mussulman donkey turning suicide bomber . Given my animal bombs expertise and my low opinion of donkeys* it's a disgrace the government hasn't sought my advice on this growing threat . Donkeys who aren't religious fanatics are still nasty creatures. After a Colombian donkey's attempts to seduce two children failed, he viciously attacked them, sending both to the hospital. An acquaintance of the donkey said: "This donkey is no gentle dove...One may look at him with his ears down and his eyes half-closed and think he would not kill a fly, but when he is horny, dear mother, you have to be very careful." *Oddly, I once urged everyone to buy a donkey .
In the spring a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove, and in Ochopee, Florida a young Bigfoot's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Dave Shealy, Bigfootologist and RV park owner, explains : There are seven to nine Skunk Apes [Bigfoot's "smaller, smellier cousin"] currently living in the Everglades and right now is the best time to spot one because it's their mating season. Lately, he's heard lots of campers report strange sounds coming from the swamps…it's the Skunk Ape's mating call, which sounds like a low-pitched dove cooing. Though Skunk Apes are generally shy, Shealy says women on their periods should be careful when hiking the area because the cryptoids are attracted to the scent of menstruation. They're also aroused by used lingerie, so female campers shouldn't hang their panties out to dry because, in his words, "That's like raising a flag and inviting them in."
Finding an Entrance Where They Can
29 April, 3:00 AM. I'm waiting in a vacant lot, about 20 clicks from the US/Canada border. A figure approaches . "Did you hear about the Sichuan chef ?" He asks. You mean the Chinaman who got drunk, passed out, had an eel inserted into his anus by his so-called friends, then died because the slimy fish "ate his bowels"? What of it? In a nation of a billion people with easy access to eels that sort of thing is bound to happen. "Take a closer look," he says, then ambles off into the night. 1 May, 11:30 AM. At the Fashion Rock Café in Beijing I'm meeting with Miss Fong, Miss Feng, and Miss Fung, members of the ADC Irregulars, China branch. "We have source at highest levels of government," says Miss Fong. "Chinese scientists genetical engineer eels into weapon," says Miss Feng. "Released into sewer eels programmed to swim up plumbing to toilet," says Fung. "From toilet eels enter anus holes of enemy peoples. Then eat bowels in gruesome manner," says Fong. "Lab accident re
Varanus bitatawa Giant lizards were discovered living in the "heavily populated and highly deforested" Philippines island of Luzon. The shy reptiles, a new species, are vegetarians and didongular. Scientists say the six and a half foot long lizards escaped detection by spending "all their time high up in trees". Obviously scientists are so lazy hiding from them is easy, something to remember the next time a scientist denies the existence of the Sandsend Blob . I recently discovered one of my entries quoted in a book .
When Rambling
Technology having made it unnecessary no one stops me on the street to ask for directions anymore, except that madwoman seeking the secret entrance to Agartha.
Happening in the City Right Now
People buying shiny iPads, putting them in leather cases , downloading the New Yorker , blissful looks upon their faces, rubbing iPads on their nipples, overcome with jubilation. Just announced, read Spider-Man ! It all exceeds imagination.
The Magnalities of Nature
Man's moral decadence is often spoken of, while Nature's degeneracy gets a free pass. Consider the Nepenthes rajah. This disgusting vegetable has assumed the shape of a toilet to get unwitting shrews to crap into its "huge orifice". At the moment this leafy coprophile can only be found in the wilds of Borneo, which is some consolation. An N. rajah plant, left, and a toilet.
Variety of Factors
There is no doubt then but Centaurs as well as other Monsters, are produced, partly by the influence of the stars, and partly by other causes, as the ill disposition of the matrix, the bad temperature of the seed, the perverse inclination of the woman, the commixtion of seeds of divers kinds, sudden fear, bad diet, unwholsome air, and untimely Venus. - Alexander Ross, Arcana Microcosmi .
I'm posting political nonsense at The Paste-Board Cliffs .
Low jests for low times
Informed the Government has taken over health care I decide to send a stool sample to my congressman. Absent violent upheaval expect more of this sort of thing.
There's poetry for you
Respublica, by Geoffrey Hill The strident high civic trumpeting of misrule. It is what we stand for. Wild insolence, aggregates without distinction. Courage of common men: spent in the ruck their remnant witness after centuries is granted them like a pardon. And other fealties other fortitudes broken as named— Respublica brokenly recalled, its archaic laws and hymnody; and destroyed hope that so many times is brought with triumph back from the dead.
Some Lines from March 17
If a certain number of centuries ago, the exact number of which is unimportant for present purposes, Patrick hadn't banged a drum to drive the slithering serpents from Eire, today we would not find ourselves behind this faux-Irish pub, under this hospitality tent, sipping beer from plastic cups. There's history for you. Now if you gentlemen will excuse me, over there's a young lady with a nose ring who I sense wishes to hear me hold forth on the subject of leprechauns .
"The pain's nothing; pain many times is taken away with the apprehension of greater, as the toothache with the sight of a barber that comes to pull it out: there's philosophy for you." - John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi . Act. V, Scene V.
Economic Strategies (Paradigm Shifts)
Franchise this.
Economic Strategies (Sales)
Sell monkeys door-to-door .
Economic Strategies (Entertainment)
Move to Kazakhstan, open hip-hop consulting firm, provide advice on beats, rapping, bling, street cred, posse structuring, etc.
Economic Strategies (Big Scores)
Knockover poker tournaments .
The Paradox of Progress
The Chinamen are using robots instead of costumed mascots : Thirty seven multi-functional robots, which were customized to serve the visitors of Shanghai World Expo, made their debut here Sunday. Besides dancing and singing, the 1.55-meter tall robots, shaped after the Expo mascot Haibao, could "communicate" with visitors in six languages and take photos for them... The robots have touch screens on their chests to answer inquiries on road, public service and Expo information... Shanghai World Expo mascot Haibao. Haibao is an ancient Chinese mascot. Gumby is a shameless rip-off of Haibao, not the other way around. Your never having heard of Haibao until today shows your ignorance. The deployment of robots will protect those, like Lord Tebbit and myself, who engage in pre-emptive self defense against costumed mascots from the embarrassment of inadvertently attacking a disguised woman or child. Unfortunately removing the human within also drains nearly all of the fun fro
Two Epigrams by Thomas Bastard
In Habentem Longum Barbam Thy beard is long: better it would thee fit, To have a shorter beard, and longer wit. On his Three Marriages Though marriage by some folks be reckoned a curse, Three wives did I marry, for better or worse; The first for her person, the next for her purse, And the third for a warming-pan, doctor, and nurse.
Your Kung-Fu is no Good Here
Lord Tebbit battles Chinese dragon ! The 78-year-old was so upset by the noise caused by a Chinese New Year celebration near his home that he ran 100 yards down the street, grabbed a drum that someone was banging, and planted a kick on the backside of a dancing dragon - without realising a boy was inside." Restaurant owner Patrick Chung, who organised the street celebration in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, said: 'A drum was being beaten outside my restaurant as part of Chinese New Year but Lord Tebbit arrived and stopped the drummer. 'He probably did not realise what was going on. He did kick the dragon. 'There was a child inside the costume and he was kicking the dragon's bottom. He ran after the dragon and kicked it. The child was upset. He did not know what was happening.' Another witness said: 'This old man came running towards the dragon on the parade. 'He grabbed the drum and cymbal being played and then started violently kicking the dragon
A better future
Instead of creating a new ugly building, acclaimed architect Daniel Libeskind 's latest project is the vandalization of an old building normal human beings enjoy looking at. The "improved" Dresden military museum . Presented as a war memorial, the result is merely a monument to the talentlessness, vulgarity and egomania its designer. Libeskind says "You can't do architecture if you don't believe in a better future." In a better future his buildings would be razed to the ground.
Keep them away from the controls
President Obama intends to put Mussulmen into space . Good news! I thought, until I realized he didn't mean all of them. Instead the plan is to use the space program for "outreach" to "to non-traditional partners". For we live in a time of Progress, and Progress requires NASA abandon its mission of boldly going where no man has gone before to serve, instead, as an orbital 'Make-A-Wish Foundation' for backwards countries. This ridiculousness can't be prevented, so we should make the best of it and urge the President to also send a Zambian Afronaut or two .
The Cameleopard
There are two other animals, which have some resemblance to the camel. One of these is called, by the Ethiopians, the nabun. It has a neck like that of the horse, feet and legs like those of the ox, a head like that of the camel, and is covered with white spots upon a red ground ; from which peculiarities it has been called the cameleopard. It was first seen at Borne in the Circensian games held by Caesar, the Dictator. Since that time too, it has been occasionally seen. It is more remarkable for the singularity of its appearance than for its fierceness; for which reason it has obtained the name of the wild sheep. - The Natural History of Pliny .
Blast of January
Bleak January of tragedy coming on the heels of tragedy. A a sheep gave birth to a human-faced lamb , then an earthquake shook Haiti, followed by the death of Donald Goerke , inventor of SpaghettiOs®. (That all those years it never occurred to Italians to combine ring shaped pasta with sauce in a can shows how lazy they are.) With the world reeling tomorrow brings another disaster and with it more suffering: the release of Jackie Chan's new movie The Spy Next Door .
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use Ekyna\Component\Table\Bridge\Doctrine\ORM\Source\EntityAdapter;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Context\ActiveFilter;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Extension\Core\Type\Filter\FilterType;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Filter\AbstractFilterType;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Filter\FilterInterface;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Source\AdapterInterface;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\Util\FilterOperator;
use Ekyna\Bundle\CoreBundle\Form\Type\PhoneNumberType as PhoneType;
use Ekyna\Component\Table\View\ActiveFilterView;
use libphonenumber\PhoneNumberFormat;
use libphonenumber\PhoneNumberUtil;
use Symfony\Component\Form\Extension\Core\Type as FormType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints\NotNull;

/**
 * Class PhoneNumberType
 * @package Ekyna\Bundle\CommerceBundle\Table\Filter
 * @author  Etienne Dauvergne <contact@ekyna.com>
 */
class PhoneNumberType extends AbstractFilterType
{
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                'required' => true,
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(UPDATE 3) It's over, no SRS for Michelle Kosilek as U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear case
By Lexie Cannes (Courtney O'Donnell) on January 22, 2013 • ( 1 )
LEXIE CANNES STATE OF CANNES — UPDATE May 5, 2015: It's over. No SRS for Michelle Kosilek. The long saga of transgender inmate Kosilek ended this week when the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal. From the Boston Herald:
"The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Michelle Kosilek's argument that not allowing the procedure is unconstitutional and let stand an appeals court ruling that denied the surgery in December. That decision overturned a 2012 ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf, who ordered the surgery.
The Supreme Court justices did not issue any comments in their decision to not hear the case."
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/05/supreme_court_rejects_hearing_michelle_kosilek_case
UPDATE Dec. 16, 2014 — Not so fast there, says the First Circuit Court. They've now reversed themselves saying that Kosilek has 'access to adequate treatment" and surgery is now not needed.
From ThinkProgress: "Back in January, a First Circuit panel concluded that Michelle Kosilek, a Massachusetts transgender inmate convicted of murdering her wife, should receive the sex reassignment surgery (SRS) she had been prescribed by her doctors and fought for in court for nearly two decades. The Department of Corrections (DOC) continued to oppose providing the treatment, appealing the case to an en banc hearing by the First Circuit. On Tuesday, the First Circuit reversed the previous decisions, allowing the DOC to deny surgery to Kosilek, and presumably all transgender inmates henceforth."
Zack Ford of ThinkProgress believes the new ruling is bogus: http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/12/16/3604363/transgender-inmate-first-circuit/
UPDATED Jan. 18 2014: Higher court upholds ruling allowing SRS surgery for prisoner Michelle Kosilek. From ABC News:
"A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a judge's ruling granting a taxpayer-funded sex change operation for a transgender inmate serving a life sentence for a murder conviction, saying receiving medically necessary treatment is a constitutional right that must be protected "even if that treatment strikes some as odd or unorthodox."
U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf ruled in 2012 that the state Department of Correction must provide sex reassignment surgery for Michelle Kosilek . . ."
Appeals Court Upholds Sex Change for Mass. Inmate – ABC News.
Original story: U.S. District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf, concerned that the state of Massachusetts is dragging its heels, stepped up enforcement of his order to prep for the sex reassignment surgery (SRS) of trans inmate Michelle Kosilek.
As you may recall, Judge Wolf earlier ruled that withholding SRS for Kosilek amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. (Note: this ruling only applies to Kosilek, not all transgender inmates in Massachusetts). More on the Kosilek case here (several articles): https://lexiecannes.wordpress.com/?s=kosilek
According to a brief news report in the Boston Herald and the Mansfield Patch, last week, Judge Wolf ordered the corrections chief to submit a monthly report signed under oath on the status of the preparations. Judge Wolf has apparently put the actual surgery on hold while the state appeals its case, but wants the preparations completed.
State Must Report Progress on Kosilek's Sex Change Operation – Mansfield, MA Patch.
‹ Transgender embarrassment at airports to end — TSA to yank nude body scanners
UK's Telegraph newspaper publishes yanked Julie Burchill transgender hate piece ›
Tags: cruel and unusual punishment, First Circuit, inmate, Judge Mark L. Wolf, Massachusetts, Michelle Kosilek, US Supreme court, Zack Ford
May 5, 2015 • 5:11 AM
God forbid they create any positive case law for Transgender people. Only care about the gay rights, and that should be enough for us? Thanks SCOTUS.

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>more because of the latter than the former.
HTTP/1.1 document is a lot clearer than earlier editions.
that the separations you describe have been addressed already.
>or reduced-function translators until the phaseover is complete.
>been included in protocol specs.
despite there being less than 100 servers when it was superceeded.
header compression hack. But the scope for such changes is limited.
architecture is inadequate to extend it.
think that they could be adjusted to cope with very much more.
launch an attempt to reduce the size of the spec.
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Settlement Reached Over 'Clean Coal' Fiasco
Once touted as a model for the future of coal, construction on the plant was halted in 2017, with shareholders absorbing about $6.4 billion in losses.
Jeff Amy
The Kemper county energy facility.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Years of contention and threatened electric rate increases ended Tuesday as utility regulators approved a settlement declaring how much Mississippi Power Co. customers should pay for their share of a troubled $7.5 billion power plant.
Once touted as a model for the future of coal, the Mississippi Public Service Commission forced the unit of Atlanta-based Southern Co. to quit construction on the Kemper County plant in 2017, with shareholders absorbing about $6.4 billion in losses.
The move means residential customers could soon pay about $3 less per month than they're currently paying for the part of the power plant burning natural gas.
"It's been a long time coming," Northern District Commissioner Brandon Presley, a Democrat who was once a lonely voice opposing Kemper, said after the vote. "I don't think anyone thought we'd get here."
One prominent opponent, Hattiesburg oilman Thomas Blanton, still opposes the deal, and could bring a legal challenge. Mississippi Power also must conduct a study to evaluate what to do with excess electrical capacity.
The agreement pulls the plug on a coal gasification project launched by one of the nation's largest utilities with the much-hyped promise of burning coal more cleanly while capturing climate-warming carbon dioxide.
But Kemper's price ballooned from a promised $2.9 billion as the project suffered delays and court challenges, and the company never made the first-of-its-kind technology run reliably. Ultimately, political support for Kemper failed, and elections united three commissioners last May who told the company to shut it down.
"The economics really didn't work out and the technology was hard to perfect," Mississippi Power CEO Anthony Wilson said after the vote.
Instead, Kemper will keep making electricity by burning natural gas and its 189,000 customers from Meridian to the Gulf Coast aren't supposed to pay for the gasifier's costs.
Because of federal corporate income tax cuts passed late last year, the amount that Mississippi Power will collect from customers this year will fall to $99 million from the $113 million that had been previously agreed upon. The overall amount the company will collect from retail customers over time fell from $853 million to $728 million because of the same tax law changes.
Mississippi Power had once warned of a total rate increase of up to 40 percent. Customers already have been paying 15 percent higher rates since 2015 for the part of the plant that burns natural gas, plus associated infrastructure.
A residential customer who uses 1,000 kilowatt hours per month will see bills fall from $130 a month to $127. Mississippi Power's rates are still high compared to neighboring utilities. Mississippi Power charged residential customers 50 percent more for electricity in 2016 than Entergy Mississippi, the state's other privately-owned electric supplier, according to U.S. Energy Department data.
Customers will eventually see their payments for Kemper fall even more, as Mississippi Power has agreed to pay off some costs over eight years, instead of stretching them out over 20. Reducing that payoff period is worth tens of millions of dollars to customers over time. The company also agreed to forgo recovering more than $50 million in other costs.
Mississippi Power had faced opponents who wanted it to get even less, estimating that a built-from-scratch natural-gas plant would cost less than $600 million. One set of those opponents, which included the Sierra Club, settled.
Blanton remains unreconciled, but declined to say Tuesday if he would sue. He won a state Supreme Court verdict in 2015 that forced Mississippi Power to make refunds to customers.
For Kemper County, Mississippi Power initially estimated a price tag of $1.8 billion when the plant was announced it in 2006. In a sprint to grab federal tax credits, Mississippi Power started construction in 2010 with only 10 percent of the design completed. The company underestimated the concrete, steel, pipe and cable it needed, and how many workers would have to build the plant. Some parts had to be torn out and rebuilt, even as a whistleblower said intense schedule pressure led the company to mislead others on its progress. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission closed an investigation into claims that the company misled shareholders.
Meaning of 'Clean Coal' Unclear
Utility Will Abandon 'Clean Coal' Plant


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Prince of Stride Alternative Anime Opening Theme Song
Yu Alexius December 23, 2015	No Comments AnimePrince of Stride AlternativePrince of Stride Alternative Opening Theme
The opening theme song of the upcoming sports anime Prince of Stride Alternative has been featured in the new TV commercial of the show. There had been two versions of the show's TV ad that aired on Sunday featuring the opening theme for the anime adaptation of Kadokawa's Prince of Stride otome game. The song was titled "Strider's High" and it was performed by OxT, you can check the two versions of the TV ad below.
Everyone should mark their calendar on January 5, 2016 as Prince of Stride Alternative will premiere on AT-X at 11:00 pm as well as on other TV channels such as Tokyo MX, Sun TV, TV Aichi, KBS Kyoto, and BS11.
Prince of Stride Alternative Story
The original game revolves around "Stride," an extreme sport that involves six people on one team who run relay races through towns. Hōnan Academy and other schools compete to win eastern Japan's top Stride competition, "End of Summer."
The series revolves around a closed-down "Stride" club at Hōnan Academy. First-year high school students Takeru Fujiwara and Nana Sakurai attempt to restart the club, but they must recruit six members for the team. They ask Riku Yagami to join, but he turns them down by saying that Stride is the one thing he doesn't want to do. However, Takeru and Nana drag Riku into the clubroom to try to convince him.
Read: Prince of Stride Alternative Cast & Character Designs
OxT is performing the opening theme of Prince of Stride Alternative while the ending theme titled "Be My Steady" will performed by the unit called "Galaxy Standard" made up of voice actors from the anime's Saisei High School Stride Club. The group is composed of voice actors: Mamoru Miyano, Daisuke Hirakawa, Takuya Eguchi, Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Yuuki Ono, and Toshiyuki Toyonaga.
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Huge windfall for hospital's PFI investors as staff face job cuts
· Refinancing 'lined pockets' of firms, say MPs
· Trust fears £14.8m deficit by end of financial year
Terry Macalister and John Carvel
Tue 2 May 2006 19.11 EDT First published on Tue 2 May 2006 19.11 EDT
The impact of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the National Health Service will be questioned today in a highly critical report from parliament's spending watchdog.
The public accounts committee details how some of the top business names in the country, including an arm of Barclays bank, took money out of a hospital project and left it with huge debts.
The Norfolk and Norwich hospital is facing hundreds of job cuts as it seeks to balance its books, and there are concerns about the way the refinancing of other PFI hospitals may add to wider problems.
The contract to amalgamate two old hospitals - one in Norwich city centre - and bring them together on a new 63-acre site was 16 years in the planning and four years in the construction phase.
Norfolk and Norwich was completed in 2001 but two years later, Barclays, Serco, Innisfree and John Laing decided to refinance their joint working company, Octagon, so that they could take early profits.
By increasing the size of the borrowings - from £200m to more than £300m - and the time taken to repay that money from the year 2017 to 2037, they managed to take out a windfall of £115m. They gave only £34m of that to the hospital trust and kept the rest for themselves.
The Commons public accounts committee (PAC) will say today that the refinancing "lined the pockets of the investors" and increased their rate of return from 16% to 60%.
"My committee would not expect to see appearing before it another accounting officer defending what we believe to be the unacceptable face of capitalism. Such a face was shown by this private sector consortium in its dealing with the public sector," said the PAC chairman, Conservative MP Edward Leigh, last night.
"The trust might now have to pay up to £257m more if it needs to terminate the contract early. This is taxpayers' money and the risk of this large liability was incurred essentially so that investors could have fatter returns," Mr Leigh added.
He partly blames poor negotiating by the public sector officials as well as greed by the private firms. Mr Leigh is mindful that refinancing is increasingly common in all kinds of PFI schemes - for hospitals, prisons and schools - and so these windfalls could be repeated elsewhere.
The strategy of allowing companies to increase the debt of their PFI companies and extend the borrowing period is controversial, but this is the first investigation of the practice by the PAC, and its conclusions come at a sensitive time for the government. The Norfolk and Norwich trust warned last week that it may have to axe 450 jobs to address serious financial problems, caused in part by the extra costs of the PFI deal.
Anna Dugdale, its director of resources, told the board that the trust was heading for a deficit of £14.8m by the end of 2006-07 - the year set by Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary, for the NHS to take the tough action needed to return to balance. The companies involved in the scheme defended their role, saying their good fortune came out of the amount of risk they were prepared to take at an early stage of the PFI process.
David Metter, chairman of both Innisfree and the PPP Forum, a trade body representing PFI firms, said: "This was a first hospital in PFI after a long period of public sector contracts which had come in over cost and over time. It's important to remember that for every gain there has been a loss for the private sector, such as the National Physics Laboratory, which knocked John Laing out of construction, and the wider problems of Jarvis."
He said it was fair for companies to take some money out of a project once they had got it up and running.
Serco described the criticism as "wild" and pointed out that it had voluntarily shared the benefits with the health trust although it did not legally have to. Barclays was unable to comment.
The job losses at the Norfolk hospital are among the largest to be announced by trusts in the current wave of cuts to tackle the £600m-plus deficit that the NHS in England will declare shortly for 2005-06. A trust spokesman said the PFI investment added between £5m and £7m to the trust's annual costs. This was offset partly by a "smoothing payment" worth £3.8m which had been guaranteed by the government for the first 30 years of the contract. "This is a financial problem for us. To date we have been able to break even consistently, but this year is a massive challenge. There is no doubt that PFI plays a part," he said.
Paul Forden, the trust's chief executive, said: "It is reassuring that PAC has recognised that the trust has been paying a premium for having one of the first PFI schemes in the health service.
"PFI has since its inception been a controversial initiative, which clearly brings benefits as well as risks to the public sector. We are confident the people of Norfolk are receiving the benefits of excellent new hospital facilities available in Norwich as a result of this PFI scheme."
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Q: SSIS delete duplicate data I have a problem for making a SSIS package.Can anyone help?
Here is the case:
I have two tables: A & B, and the structure is the same. But they are stored on different servers.
I have already made an SSIS package to transfer data from A to B (about one million rows at a time, which takes between one and two minutes).
After that I want to delete table A's data, after having been transfered to B. The SSIS package I wrote would follow that. I use a merge join and Conditional Split command to select the same data.
After that I use the OLE DB Command to delete Table A's data (just use "Delete RE_FormTo Where ID=?" SQLCommand to delete). It can work, but it is too slow! It took about one hour to delete the duplicate data! Does anyone know of a more efficient way of doing this?
SSIS Package Link

A: The execution is bound to be slow because of the poor SSIS package design .
Kindly refer the document Best Practices of SSIS Design
Let me explain you the mistakes which are there in your package .
1.You are using a Blocking transformation (Sort Component) .These transformations doesn't reuse the input buffer but create a new buffer for output and mostly they are slower than Synchronous components such as Lookup ,Derived Column etc which try to re use the input buffer .
As per MSDN
Do not sort within Integration Services unless it is absolutely necessary. In
order to perform a sort, Integration Services allocates the memory space of the
entire data set that needs to be transformed. If possible, presort the data before
it goes into the pipeline. If you must sort data, try your best to sort only small
data sets in the pipeline. Instead of using Integration Services for sorting, use
an SQL statement with ORDER BY to sort large data sets in the database – mark
the  output as sorted by changing the Integration Services pipeline metadata
on the data
source.

2.Merge Join is a semi-blocking transformation which does hamper the performance but much less than Blocking transformation
There are 2 ways in which you can solve the issue

*

*Use Lookup

*Use Execute SQL Task and write the Merge SQL
 DECLARE @T TABLE(ID INT);
 Merge @TableA as target
 using @TableB as source
 on target.ID=source.ID
 when matched then
 Delete OUTPUT source.ID INTO @T;

 DELETE @TableA
 WHERE ID in (SELECT ID
             FROM @T);

A: After you Joining both tables just insert Sort element, he gonna remove duplicates....
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2009/11/12/sort-transform-arbitration-ssis.aspx

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Q: FtpWebRequest + Windows Azure = not working? Is it possible download data on Windows Azure via FtpWebRequest (ASP.NET/C#)?
I am doing this currently and not sure if my problem is that FtpWebRequest is in general not working as expected, or if I have a different failure..
Has sb. did this before?

A: If you're talking about Windows Azure Storage, then definitely not. FTP is not supported.
If you're working with Compute roles, you could write something to support this, but it's DIY, a la:
http://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2010/03/15/Using-FTP-to-access-Windows-Azure-Blob-Storage.aspx

A: I could solve my problem doing the ftp-request with FTPLib.
This means: You can copy/load files to azure or to an external source!
:-)

A: Make this working also with AlexFTPS , you just need to add StartKeepAlive.
  try
    {
        string fileName = Path.GetFileName(this.UrlString);
        Uri uri = new Uri(this.UrlString);

        string descFilePath = Path.Combine(this.DestDir, fileName);

        using (FTPSClient client = new FTPSClient())
        {
            // Connect to the server, with mandatory SSL/TLS
            // encryption during authentication and
            // optional encryption on the data channel
            // (directory lists, file transfers)
            client.Connect(uri.Host,
                           new NetworkCredential("anonymous",
                                                 "name@email.com"),
                                                 ESSLSupportMode.ClearText
            );
            client.StartKeepAlive();
            // Download a file
            client.GetFile(uri.PathAndQuery, descFilePath);
            client.StopKeepAlive();
            client.Close();
        }

    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        throw new Exception("Failed to download", ex);
    }


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With job hazards like decapitation, being a Puella Magi is no easy task. As such, they are well equipped with magical paraphernalia such as our featured product, Madoka Kaname's Soul Ring and Soul Gem necklace to fight off the baddies. This ring and necklace replicas are engraved with details seen in the anime and is made with quality metal.
All 5 of the Puella Magi has their own different colored Soul Gems. Sayaka Miki wears blue moon-shaped soul gem on her tummy upon transformation. This blue Soul Gem is a wooden handmade replica of Sayaka Miki's gem. Comes with a tape to attach to your tummy for your Miki cosplays or simply for fun! Also a great collection item for Puella Magi Madoka Magica fans!
The bad girl from Puella Magi Madoka Magica wears this awesome blood red soul gem. Whether or not you're cosplaying as the fiery red-haired violent Kyoko Sakura, this soul gem necklace is a cool memorabilia. Approximately 5cm high, 2.5cm width, inclusive of a high quality polished 57cm metal chain. Wear yours with pride now!
All 5 of the Puella Magi has their own different colored Soul Gems. The uber-cool Homura Akemi wears her purple soul gem on the back of her palm upon transformation. This purple Soul Gem is a wooden handmade replica of Homura Akemi's soul gem. Comes with a tape to attach to your hand if you want to cosplay as Homura, or wear it simply for fun! A great collection item for Puella Magi Madoka Magica fans!
From the Puella Magi Madoka Magica series, Kyoko Sakura is one of the most beloved characters and is one of the veteran Magical Girls. Orphaned at a young age after using her magical powers to grant another person's wish, she is now stoic and self-centred. She thinks life is cruel and that it's a 'dog eat dog' world out there. Add to your precious Puella Magi collection this beautiful Kyoko Soul Gem necklace and Soul Ring replicas.
Soul Gems and Soul Rings aren't just bling bling for the magical girls of Puella Magi. They serve their purpose in protecting the innocent girls from the baddies called Witches. Whether for cosplay or for collection, these high quality replicas are sure to impress!
Free yourself from all ill nature thoughts as you cosplay as Madoka Kaname! This beautiful pink soul gem enclosed in a protective silver pendant form is a must-have addition to your cosplay or for any Puella Magi fans! 5cm high, 2.5cm width, inclusive of a high quality polished 57cm metal chain.
If you've always wanted a green soul gem, look no further! In the color of a shimmering emerald, this green soul gem enclosed in a protective silver pendant form is an awesome memorabilia for fans of Puella Magi Madoka Magica! Approximately 5cm high, 2.5cm width, inclusive of a high quality polished 57cm metal chain. While stocks last!
An amazing must-have Mami Tomoe's soul gem yellow necklace up for grabs. Featuring an enclosed yellowish orange soul gem owned by the Mami Tomoe from the enchanting Puella Magi series! Measuring at approximately 5cm high, 2.5cm width, inclusive of a high quality polished 57cm metal chain. Am exciting new addition to your Mami Tomoe cosplay costume too!
Whereas the other Puella Magi had abstract-looking soul gems, Tomoe Mami's soul gem actually made sense; A flower shaped golden hairclip which she wears on her hair. This golden color necklace charm is inspired from Mami's soul gem. Made of base metal alloy and coated with a shimmering golden finish, put this around your neck as a lovely Puella Magi charm!
All 5 of the Puella Magi has their own different colored Soul Gems. Tomoe Mami wears yellow, and upon transformation, her Soul Gem transforms into the pretty yellowish-orange gem in the middle of her flower hairclip to complement her Puella Magi clothes. Nifty eh. This Soul Gem is a handmade replica of Mami's hairclip. Wear it for your Mami cosplays or simply for fun! A great collection for Puella Magi Madoka magica fans!
This charm is inspired from Madoka Kaname's soul gem on her neckline after she transforms into a Puella Magi. Wear this on our golden chain which is also included. The unique design means that even non Puella Magi fans will find it a beautiful accessory. While stocks last!
A bi-coloured dakimakura case made in comfy cotton, this piece features Tomoe Mami on one side in orange, and Homura Akemi on the other in purple! With these skilled Magical Girls literally by your side, you can be sure to have sweet dreams!
A reversed C-shape resembling a crescent moon, this soul gem belonging to Sayaka Miki that sits on her belly in her Magical Girl form, is now available as a pendant! A clear blue that reflects light beautifully, the soul gem is casted in golden metal and surrounds an aqua crystal within. With a matching gold chain necklace, this makes a great accessory for fans of the righteous swordswoman!
This western-inspired pillbox style hat accents Mami's gunner outfit perfectly! In a deep maroon colour, this slightly tilted hat – which iconic point comes with the fur fluff at the side- goes very well with her outfit of brown hues. With three alligator clips hidden at the bottom, this attaches onto your hair almost 'magically'!
All our Puella Magi Madoka Magica gems are made to be shiny and of high durability. These Soul Gems and necklaces make a great memorabilia.
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Dir: Takeshi Kitano. 2002. Starring: H. Nishijima, M. Kanno, K. Fukada, T. Mihashi, C. Matsubara. Japanese. Asian Cinema/Foreign
Takeshi Kitano's directorial works are often separated into two strains where the considerable overlap is conveniently ignored in favor of an artificial dichotomy. On the one hand we have the explosively violent yet introspective crime dramas like Sonatine (ソナチネ), Hana-bi (花-火), and Boiling Point (3-4X10月). Less widely seen (and therefore wrongly characterized) are his quiet, contemplative mood-pieces like A Scene at the Sea (あの夏、いちばん静かな海), Kikujirō no Natsu (菊次郎の夏) and Kids Return (キッズ・リターン). Dolls is usually placed in the latter camp or as an anomaly as its mixture of familiar ingredients (watching the ocean, yakuza, explosive violence, stoic acceptance of tragedy) from both strains is impossible to ignore.
In the first story, Matsumoto spurns his girlfriend Sawako to marry another woman, at his parents' insistence. Sawako loses both her mind and ability to take care of herself as a result. Matsumoto attempts to fix things by binding himself to her with a red cord. Together they wordlessly wander through stunning, artificial landscapes of amazing beauty steeped with sadness.
In the next story, real life singer Kyoko Fukada (Fukakyon) plays Haruna, a disfigured pop star who spends her days watching the surf after being disposed of by the fickle, superficial J-Pop industry. Nukui, her last remaining fan, proves his devotion and obsession in a manner that is disturbing and self-destructive.
In the final story, Hiro, an aging yakuza, returns to a park where he and his girlfriend used to meet every week before he rejected her to attain fame and fortune on his own. He is surprised to discover that she has been returning with lunch for him every week since.
In Dolls, the focus on the destructive power of love and impervious nature of devotion has led many to suggest that it is uncharacteristic of Kitano. However, the deadpan comedy, nihilism, stoicism, melancholy and even violence are all in evidence here, as they are in all of Kitano's films. It is not, however, run-of-the-mill. Kitano has rarely embraced theatrical artifice and otherworldly beauty as he has in Dolls. Each tale is summarized by Bunraku dolls who act out stories which are analogues for stories that follow.
In a bit of perverse situational irony Takeshi Kitano's longtime musical collaborator Hisaishi Joe parted ways with the director after the completion of Dolls. According to the musician, he was unhappy with the film. According to Kitano, the composer's services had grown too expensive. Whatever the reasons, Dolls stands as one of their greatest collaborations (with special mention to Yohji Yamamoto's costume designs).
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It is the policy of Grady County to provide a safe and comprehensive safety environment for all of the Grady County employees. In the state of Oklahoma, the Department of Labor oversees all safety and loss programs of every county. Grady County works closely with the Oklahoma Department of Labor to ensure that full compliance to both state and federal labor laws are adhered to.
For any Safety and Loss program to be effective, both management and employees are to be actively engaged in the safety program by attending all safety meetings and to maintain a posture of personal responsibility for ones own safety practices. Most incidents of injury in the workplace can be avoided by use of safety training and making one aware of any safety hazards that exist, and reporting those hazards to supervisory personal to eliminate the existing hazard. Sometimes a direct hazard may not be eliminated, but with effective controls in place, that particular hazard can be engineered to not pose a particular threat to the safety of employees.
Because the safety and well being of all county employees is paramount in Grady County, the Board of County Commissioners has established a safety incentive program for all county employees. This is a cash-to-employee award for not having a reportable injury or loss in a one year period. If the employee goes two years without an injury or loss, that award is increased. All scheduled county safety meetings must be attended by the employees to receive this award.
Grady County has adopted a Drug Free Workplace Policy to insure the safety of not only all county employees, but also any citizens that may come onto any County owned property. Pre-employment drug testing, random CDL drug and alcohol testing, and random drug testing for personal in safety sensitive positions is required.
The Grady County Safety and Loss Program is revised on an annual basis to ensure that with new technologies and safety training , Grady County employees will be assured that all is being put forth to maintain their safety and well being while employed by the county.


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Q: How to send PURGE method and check response in python Now I create a project. And try create a unauthenticated cache purge scanner program. I tried this but not work
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import os
import requests

with open('new-target.txt', 'rb') as f:
    L = f.seek(-2, os.SEEK_END)

    while f.read(1) != b'\n':
        f.seek(-2, os.SEEK_CUR)

    a = f.readline().decode()

filepath = a

with open(filepath) as fp:
   line = fp.readline()
   cnt = 1
   while line:
       x = "{}".format(line.strip())

       resp = requests.purge(x + "/")
       responsee = resp.status_code

       if responsee == 200:
           print("\033[1;32;40m [Method - PURGE]      \033[0m 1;31;40m Vulnerable: \033" + x)

       line = fp.readline()
       cnt += 1

Gave this error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/root/Masaüstü/Pentesting Tools/PURGE-PUT-Method-Scanner.py", line 23, in
resp = requests.purge(x + "/")
AttributeError: module 'requests' has no attribute 'purge'

A: Traceback which you got seems to be preety straightforwards. Module requests which you use in this case does not have that purge attribute, which you are trying to call in line 23.
Please refer to methods listed in documentation:
https://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/


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Mexico celebrates anniversary of attack on Moncada Barracks
Posted on July 27, 2021 by Anthony Brenner
Mexico, Jul 26 (Prensa Latina) Cuba's National Rebelliousness Day was celebrated on Monday by the Mexican people with a rally in front of the Cuban Embassy and the performance of several musical groups.
This is the culmination of an extensive program to support the Cuban Revolution on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks, events that began in 1953 the battle for Cuba's second independence, which was achieved on January 1, 1959.
These events included an important and mass march yesterday from Juarez Avenue, in the historic center of Mexico City, to the US Embassy on Paseo de la Reforma.
There, hundreds of Mexicans in solidarity with the Cuban people demanded the United States to end the criminal blockade imposed by Washington for almost 60 years and tightened by 243 measures approved by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), and maintained by incunbent Democratic President Joe Biden.
At that rally, Mexicans and Cubans endorsed their support for and welcomed the proposal of Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to grant Cuba the status of World Heritage for its heroic resistance to the predominance of the United States in the region, and the Dignity Award to the Cuban people, the protagonist of that historic resistance that the Mexican head of State described as a heroic deed.
As part of the festivities for the historic anniversary, which highlights the validity of the political thought of Fidel Castro, who organized the expedition of the Granma yacht from Mexican soil to start the war against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista (1952-1958) in the Sierra Maestra, there were two popular celebrations at the former official residence of Los Pinos, in Chapultepec Park.
Within the framework of these commemorations, Mexicans and Cuban residents in this country organized the defense of the Cuban Embassy, threatened by counterrevolutionary groups paid by Mexican organizations at the service of the US Embassy and the anti-Cuba circle in Miami.
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Before the Wrath
By Sue Pearson | March 29, 2020 | 0
#1 Christian Movie in America that proves that Jesus is Coming Back Very Soon!
Before the Wrath, narrated by Kevin Sorbo (God's Not Dead, Hercules), is the perfect response to the panic that has taken hold of the world. In a time when most people no longer believe that Jesus is coming back, this docu-drama (3-years in production) reveals new overwhelming discoveries from the time of Christ that prove not only is the Rapture real, but why it must soon come to pass.
The release of this docu-drama was delayed over a year due to a string of circumstance outside of the production team's control, and it seems that God had a plan all along; finally able to release worldwide during a time when much of the nation is quarantined to their homes; desperately looking for a message of hope. Before the Wrath has one of the most impressive lineups of prophecy experts ever assembled in a film. Narrated by Kevin Sorbo (God's Not Dead, Hercules), Jack Hibbs, Jan Markell, Amir Tsarfati, J.D. Farag and more.
But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 1 Thessalonians 5:1-2
While scholars debate the timing of the Rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the first place; knowledge that was once understood by those in the first century. Today, researchers in the Middle-East have rediscovered ancient anthropological evidence from the time of Christ that reveals exactly how and why the Rapture must occur; unveiling new biblical insight that will reignite hope for believers and prepare the world for what's coming.
Bible scholars continue to debate the timing of the Rapture, but why is such a mysterious event prophesied to happen in the first place? Is there a deeper understanding surrounding this occurrence that we've lost over the millennia that those living in the first-century clearly understood? Newly rediscovered ancient anthropological evidence from the time of Christ finally reveals unprecedented findings that could prove the upcoming Rapture is not only real to a skeptical world but sheds new light on how and why this event must take place. Regardless of your Tribulation Period views, "Before the Wrath" will captivate believers and non-believers alike; revealing new depths of theological understanding regarding what Jesus revealed to the ancient Galileans about the end of the world in ways you could never have imagined. These findings resulted from 10-years of research in Israel by leading ancient anthropological scholars which rediscovered lost Middle-Eastern views regarding how and why the biblical "catching away" was prophesied to occur. While everyone has been debating "when" this event is to happen, we've forgotten to ask "why" it does, and the answer could be the greatest theological discovery of our time. To fully present the impact this genuine eye-opening discovery has on the world, award winning documentary writer and director Brent Miller Jr, reproduces what Jesus Christ Himself unveiled to the ancient Galileans regarding the end of the world through emotional and beautiful cinematic reenactments with over 60 actors and extras on a Hollywood set.
https://www.prophecynewswatch.com/shop_order_wrath_select.cfm
But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.


The authors, pictured, retired at age 38 and have traveled the world ever since.
We retired at age 38 in 1991.
At the time, we were overwhelmed with owning a restaurant and with Billy's job managing a Dean Witter brokerage office in central California. So we inventoried our assets and decided to travel the world while we were still young and vibrant.
Now, 24 years later, we live on less than $30,000 net spending per year while hopping around the U.S., Central America and Asia.
Here's the answer: We have chosen not to devote our time or money to support a complicated infrastructure in our lives.
We have no US-based health insurance, no mortgage and no monthly subscriptions such as a cell phone plan, cable bundle or country club fees. We are debt-free and don't own any big toys, like a boat.
Instead, we use local SIM cards for our phones or we Skype. To get around, we walk, take public transit or hire a driver (we haven't owned a car in years). We've been proponents of medical tourism for decades and choose to spend much of our time in low-cost countries to keep our expenses down.
Over the past two decades, we've lived in Guatemala, the U.S., Mexico, El Salvador, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam and Thailand. Along the way, we had unexpected medical emergencies, full physicals, colonoscopies and serious dental work.
But we don't live like monks, either. We've refreshed our wardrobes and purchased netbooks, cameras and other digital equipment. In some years, our costs have been more than in others, but, on average, our annual net total spending has been around $30,000.
The authors have spent time living in Thailand, among other places.
To give you a better idea of how we make it work, take a look at the pie chart of our spending categories. The percentages are based on our actual spending from January 1, 2012 through September 30, 2014. We don't work from a budget, but rather operate from the position that we are not conspicuous consumers.
The $30,000-a-year figure reflects our actual spending, not a paycheck amount from which taxes and savings must be drawn. In the last couple of years, we've taken on housesitting commitments in the US, Mexico and Guatemala and this has cut our housing costs by 45%. Our medical expenses reflect some emergencies we experienced abroad.
Generally speaking, housing, transportation and taxes are the top three areas of cash outlay in a person's economic life. Modifying any or all of them — as we have — will have a significant impact on your annual expenses and just might let you retire earlier than you thought you could.
We eat high-quality meats, fish, fruits, and vegetables because we shop at farmer's markets in the States and abroad. When possible, we take advantage of rotating grocery sales, too. We share time with friends either cooking for them or going out to lunch instead of opting for higher-priced dinners. And when it's time to hit the road, we take full advantage of current airline deals and travel packages.
During the 15 years since we left the working world, we've received so many questions about how we were able to retire that we started an ad-sponsored website, RetireEarlyLifestyle.com and wrote two books, "The Adventurer's Guide to Early Retirement" and "Your Retirement Dream IS Possible."
We consider maintaining the website to be our volunteer time, helping people create their own retirement path. (We also volunteer on projects in local cultures.) Income from the site is inconsequential, since we live off our investments.
Paring down a consumer-based approach to living and choosing simplicity instead, doesn't mean a world of hardship. Our uncomplicated life reflects the efficiency of a well-oiled machine.
We think there is nothing shameful in choosing value over indulgence and shopping thoughtfully and with intention instead of on impulse.
In the long run, we've found, experiences make people happier than possessions. The initial joy of acquiring something new, such as a car, fades over time, but experiences continue to provide happiness through memories and re-telling tales for years into the future.
Billy and Akaisha Kaderli have been helping people achieve their retirement dreams since 1991.They run the RetireEarlyLifestyle.com site and are authors of "The Adventurer's Guide to Early Retirement" and "Your Retirement Dream IS Possible."


Seamless will soon seem less (sorry) when Google and Chipotle perfect the future of food delivery: burrito-delivery drones. Roanoke Times has the first video and photos of the drones being tested on Virginia Tech's campus (seriously, can you imagine college students drunkenly staring at the sky, waiting for their everything burrito?).
"A drone was spotted buzzing overhead just before 1 p.m. Monday. It descended to about 10 feet, hovered over a grass patch and then lowered a large white package to the ground on a string. The drone then flew away, leaving the package and string on the ground.
A woman with a clipboard walked over somewhat unceremoniously, cut the string and carried the package back to a staging area where test subjects watched from behind a safety net."
May we suggest equipping the drones with a soundtrack of angels singing?


So I'll be out for the entire day!
Here's wishing you and your loved ones a very happy Diwali. Have a prosperous and fun-filled year ahead.
Happy Diwali....and have 'dhoom dhaam' year ahead.
wish u a very very happy & prosperous diwali....have fun...take care..
Too b ad we could not meet, but my 3.5 days in Cal were a whirlwind and I am still fending off huffy relatives I did not meet.
Linked you by the way!


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