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import warnings, socket, ssl
import md5
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from dbmanager import DatabaseManager, DBError

class BotManager:
    """ A class used to update information about online bots """

    def __init__(self, config):
        """ Initializes a bot manager with the given configuration.

            Keyword arguments:
            config -- The EngineConfig instance to use
        """
        self.db_mgr = DatabaseManager(config)

    def create_if_new(self, ip):
        """ Determine if the host specified by ip exists in the bot status table,
            and creates an initial record if not
        """
        try:
            results = self.db_mgr.exec_query('select * from bot_status where ip = ?', ip)
            if len(results) == 0:
               self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('''insert into bot_status (ip,  last_startup_time, last_shutdown_time, last_activity_time)
                            values (?, ?, ?, ?)''', ip, None, None, None, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred while querying bot status record exists for host {0}".format(ip))
            raise e

    def handle_update(self, ip, update, port=-1, message=""):
        """ Handles an update from a bot

            Keyword arguments:
            ip -- the ip address of the bot sending the update
            update -- A string representing the status of the bot
        """
        self.create_if_new(ip)

        # don't overwrite a valid port
        if port != -1:
            self.handle_port_update(ip, port)

        # always update the status message even if blank because
        # old messages become invalid
        self.handle_message_update(ip, message)

        lupdate = update.lower()
        if lupdate == 'startup':
            self.handle_startup(ip)
        elif lupdate == 'shutdown':
            self.handle_shutdown(ip)
        elif lupdate == 'ping':
            self.handle_ping(ip)
        elif lupdate == 'activity':
            self.handle_activity(ip)

    def handle_port_update(self, ip, port):
        """ Updates the port of the server sending from the specified ip"""
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('update bot_status set port = ? where ip = ?', port, ip)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurring updating the port of bot {0} to {1}".format(ip, port))
            raise e

    def handle_message_update(self, ip, message):
        """ Updates the status message of the server sending from the specified ip"""
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('update bot_status set message = ? where ip = ?', message, ip)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurring updating the status message of bot {0} to {1}".format(ip, message))
            raise e

    def handle_startup(self, ip):
        """ Handles a startup notification from a
            bot at the specified ip address """
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('''update bot_status set last_startup_time = ? where ip = ?''',
                                                    datetime.now().isoformat(), ip, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred handling the startup status of the bot at ip {0}".format(ip))
            raise e

    def handle_shutdown(self, ip):
        """ Handles a shutdown notification from a
            bot at the specified ip address """
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('''update bot_status set last_shutdown_time = ? where ip = ?''',
                                        datetime.now().isoformat(), ip, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred handling the startup status of the bot at ip {0}".format(ip))
            raise e

    def handle_ping(self, ip):
        """ Handles a ping notification (just an affirmation that the bot is alive)
            from a bot at the specified ip address """
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('''update bot_status set last_activity_time = ? where ip = ?''',
                                    datetime.now().isoformat(), ip, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred handling the startup status of the bot at ip {0}".format(ip))
            raise e

    def handle_activity(self, ip):
        """ Handles a notification of activity
            from a bot at the specified ip address"""
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('''update bot_status set last_activity_time = ? where ip = ?''',
                                                datetime.now().isoformat(), ip, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred handling the startup status of the bot at ip {0}".format(ip))
            raise e

    def clear_old_bots(self, days):
        """ Clears old bots out of the status table

            Keyword arguments:
            days --- The number of days to maintain a bot in the
                    status table if it is not sending updates
        """
        oldest_date = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=days)
        try:
            self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('delete from bot_status where last_activity_time < ?', oldest_date, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print('Error occurred while clearing the bot history ' +
                  'with oldest allowable date of {0}'.format(oldest_date))
            raise e

    def register_command(self, command_text, bot_ips):
        """ Registers a command in the database by storing a
            log of the command body and the ip addresses of the target servers"""
        try:
            command_id = self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('insert into command_log (time, content) VALUES (?, ?)',
                                      datetime.now().isoformat(), command_text, commit=True, lastrowid=True)
            for ip in bot_ips:
                self.db_mgr.exec_cmd('insert into command_map (command_id, bot_ip) VALUES (?, ?)',
                                     command_id, ip, commit=True)
        except DBError, e:
            print('Error occurred while registering ' +
                  'command {0} to bots {1} in the database.'.format(command_text, bot_ips))
            raise e

    def get_active_bot_ips(self):
        """ Gets a collection of ip addresses and ports of bots
            which are responding to commands as tuples (ip, port)
        """
        try:
            rows = self.db_mgr.exec_query('select max(time) from command_log')
            if len(rows) == 0:
                warnings.warn('Did not find any commands in the command_log!', RuntimeWarning)
                return []
            last_cmd_time = rows[0][0]
            active_bots = self.db_mgr.exec_query('select ip, port from bot_status where ' +
                                                '(last_activity_time > ? or last_startup_time > ?) '
                                                'and port > 0', last_cmd_time, last_cmd_time)
        except DBError, e:
            print('Error occurred while obtaining IP addresses of active bots')
            raise e
        return [(a[0], a[1]) for a in active_bots]

    def get_all_bots(self):
        try:
            bots = self.db_mgr.exec_query('select ip, port from bot_status')
        except DBError, e:
            print('Error occurred while obtaining bot status information')
            raise e
        return bots

    def validate_command(self, cmdhash):
        """ Determines if cmdhash matches the md5 hex digest of any
            commands sent in the last 10 seconds """
        try:
            time_window = datetime.now() - timedelta(seconds=10)
            rows = self.db_mgr.exec_query('select content from command_log where time > ?', time_window)
            matching_content = [1 for r in rows if md5.new(r[0]).hexdigest() == cmdhash]
        except DBError, e:
            print("Error occurred while validating the command {0}".format(cmdhash))
            raise e
        return len(matching_content) >= 1

    def send_to_all(self, content):
        """ Connects to all bots and sends the specified content
            Arguments:
            content -- the string to transmit to the bots
        """
        bots = self.get_all_bots()
        return self.send(content, bots)

    def send_to_active(self, content):
        """ Connects to active bots and sends the content

            Arguments:
            content -- the string to transmit to the bots
        """
        bots = self.get_active_bot_ips()
        return self.send(content, bots)

    def send(self, content, bots):
        """ Sends a message to the specified bots """
        self.register_command(content, [b[0] for b in bots])
        success = []
        failed = []
        for connect_pair in bots:
            try:
                s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
                s = ssl.wrap_socket(s)
                s.connect(connect_pair)
                s.send(content)
                s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_RDWR)
                s.close()
                success.append(connect_pair)
            except Exception, e:
                failed.append(connect_pair)
                continue
        return success, failed

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Lucas de San Jose, né José Tristany Pujol est un prêtre, carme déchaux, mort martyr de la foi à Barcelone au début de la guerre d'Espagne, tué par les milices républicaines. Il fait partie d'un groupe de centaines de prêtres et religieux, reconnus par l'Église catholique comme étant morts martyrs de la foi et béatifiés en 2007.

Biographie

José Tristany Pujol est né à Su (ville de Lérida) en Catalogne, le .
Peu d'éléments sur sa biographie sont disponibles. Il entre dans l'Ordre des Carmes déchaux sous le nom de Lucas de San Jose (Luc de saint Joseph). Il a été ordonné prêtre.
Il meurt assassiné par les milices du camp républicain lors des persécutions religieuses au tout début de la Guerre d'Espagne, le , en sortant de son couvent à Barcelone.

Béatification

Le procès en béatification se déroule de 1952 à 1959. Il inclut 14 membres de l'Ordre du Carmel eux aussi assassinés lors de cette période. Le  est signé le décret validant le procès. Le  il est déclaré martyr de la foi.

Il est béatifié par Benoît XVI le  avec 498 religieux espagnols, eux aussi morts martyrs à cette même période. L'annonce est faite à Rome, sur la place Saint-Pierre, l'homélie est prononcée par José Saraiva Martins.

La cause de canonisation est ouverte sous le titre de « Lucas de S. José, carmélite, Leonardo José, Lasallien Apolonia Lizarraga du Saint-Sacrement et ses 61 compagnons ».

Culte
Sa fête est célébrée le 6 novembre, en même temps que tous les martyrs de la guerre d'Espagne ; sur certains sites, sa fête est indiquée le 20 juillet.

Son culte est célébré par l'Église catholique et en particulier dans l'Ordre du Carmel.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Naissance en décembre 1872
Carme espagnol
Décès en juillet 1936
Prêtre catholique espagnol
Martyrs de la guerre d'Espagne
Martyr du Carmel
Carme déchaux
Bienheureux du Carmel
Bienheureux catholique espagnol
Béatification par le pape Benoît XVI
Martyr catholique au XXe siècle
Décès à 63 ans
Moine catholique du XXe siècle

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Events from the year 2018 in the British Virgin Islands.

Incumbents

Governor: Augustus Jaspert
Premier: Orlando Smith

Events

January

 16 January - the opposition Virgin Islands Party states in a press conference that former leader, Julian Fraser, would not be named as a candidate for the party in the next general election.
 18 January - Government announces proposals for the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport to be privatised for a period of 20 years as part of a wider redevelopment under a Public–private partnership.

February

 10 February 2018 - two people are gunned down in a double murder, the Territory's first of the year.
 19 February 2018 - Deputy Premier Kedrick Pickering announces the Government is actively considering legalising medical marijuana.
 17–28 February 2018 - a rapid succession of shooting incidents occur in Tortola, including one fatality.

March

 1 March 2018 - David Archer succeeds Rosalie Adams as Deputy Governor.
 28 March 2018 - After a threatened "backbencher revolt", the House of Assembly passes the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency Bill, paving the way for £300 million in loan guarantees from the United Kingdom to assist rebuilding after Hurricane Irma.

April
 6 April 2018 - A 5.2 magnitude earthquake hits the Territory.  No damage or injuries are reported.
 12 April 2018 - Kyron McMaster wins the gold medal in the 400m hurdles at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, the Territory's first ever medal at the games.  This followed the death of his longtime coach, Dag Samuels, late the previous year during Hurricane Irma.

May

 1 May 2018 - The United Kingdom House of Commons votes in favour of an amendment to the Sanctions and Anti-money Laundering Act 2018 mandating public registers of beneficial ownership in all British Overseas Territories by 31 December 2020.
 24 May 2018 - A public rally - the "Decision March" - protests against the British Parliament's decision to unilaterally impose legislative changes on the Territory.  Opposition leader Andrew Fahie called for an immediate constitutional review, and Deputy Premier Kedrick Pickering referred to "entering a divorce" with the United Kingdom.
 25 May 2018 - The immigration department announces that the population of the Territory has dropped by approximately 11% since Hurricanes Irma and Maria struck the previous year.
 30 May 2018 - The Territory is plagued by Sargassum blooms.

June

 8 June 2018 - A march organised to protest against the incumbent Government attracts fewer than 50 demonstrators.
 19 June 2018 - Premier Orlando Smith announces he will be stepping down.
 23 June 2018 - Myron Walwyn is elected as the new President of the governing National Democratic Party, although Orlando Smith remains Premier.
 25 June 2018 - A 3.6 magnitude earthquake hits the Territory.  No damage or injuries are reported.
 29 June 2018 - A judge rejects the extradition of Bob Hodge and Tico Harrigan, overturning a previous ruling.  The extradition proceedings have now been ongoing for nearly a decade.

July

 18 July 2018 - One person is killed in a plane crash taking off from Beef Island airport.
 20 July 2018 - A House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee announces an inquiry on the future relationship of the United Kingdom with the British Overseas Territories, including the British Virgin Islands.

August

 10 August 2018 - A man is gunned down in Purcell Estate, the Territory's fourth murder of the year.
 19 August 2018 - A 3.2 magnitude earthquake is felt in the Territory, the third minor earthquake in the past five months.  No damage or injuries ar reported.
 24 August 2018 - House of Assembly member Julian Fraser launches a new political party, the Progressives United.

September

 10 September 2018 - The Financial Services Commission publishes statistics for Q1 2018, which should a 12% jump in company incorporation rates.
 12 September 2018 - A 4.3 magnitude earthquake is felt in the Territory, the fourth minor earthquake in the past six months.  No damage or injuries ar reported.

October

 11 October 2018 - The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force issued a report indicating that crime had fallen 23% over a 5-year period.  The report also indicated that during 2017 (the year of Hurricane Irma), crime fell by 8% despite the widespread perception of a spike in criminal activity during that period.
 22 October 2018 - Two people are murdered in separate, but possibly connected, incidents.  They are the fifth and sixth murders in the Territory during the year.

November

3 November 2018 - Another minor earthquake affects the Territory, the fifth of the year.
19 November 2018 - Ronnie Skelton is fired as Minister for Health after stating proposals to form a rival party to the Government.
26 November 2018 - An explosion leads a massive fire at the Pockwood Pond incinerator.

December

7 December 2018 - A new party, the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) launches under the leadership of former Cabinet Minister, Ronnie Skelton.
22 December 2018 - Ronnie Skelton is officially appointed as the Leader of the Opposition, by virtue of leading an opposition party with three sitting members of the House of Assembly.

Deaths

 4 April 2018 - Elton Georges, long time Deputy Governor.
 16 October 2018 - Delores Christopher, politician and member of the House of Assembly representing the 5th District.

Footnotes

2010s in the British Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands


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It's gonna be a Kylie Christmas this year! The Australian pop star worked on her first full Holiday album after a lengthy festival tour this summer. She recorded the legendary tunes everyone knows and some brand new, hopefully soon to become, Christmas classics. The album Kylie Christmas was released last month and the official single is 'Every Day's Like Christmas', a tune written by Coldplay singer Chris Martin. Kylie even received some help from her producers team back in the day!
'Every Day's Like Christmas' was originally written as a slightly electronic pop ballad that suits the winter season. Of course the message is about how every day feels like Christmas day when you spend time with the one you love. Might sound cheesy, but isn't that exactly what a Christmas song is supposed to be? I thought so! To give the catchy tune some extra beat, Kylie reunited with Stock, Aitken en Waterman (SAW), the producers with whom she recorded hits like 'I Should Be So Lucky' and 'Better The Devil You Know'. Give us that late 80s early 90s sound that we love!
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Q: Arch Linux prevent lock when running specific application I'm currently running arch linux with i3. To lock my device, I use i3exit. Furthermore I have xfce4-power-manager installed to manage sleep timers ect.
My problem is, that I can't figure out how to prevent i3 from locking when I'm running a specific application. For example, when I'm in a zoom-meeting, my screen would automatically shutoff followed by a system lock if I don't intervene.
I want to be able to add any given application as an exception, so that my system won't lock while at least on of those applications is running.
The only thing I found so far, was a bash script which disables the screensaver, but I don't like that solution. I'm looking for something cleaner. Here is the mentioned script: solution

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The Young Nurses (1973)
There aren't too many exploitation sub-genres that Roger Corman hasn't explored at some stage. In the early 70s one of his reliable money-spinners was the nurse movie. The formula was simply. Take a group of pretty nurses (usually three of them) and then follow their adventures over a couple of days. Those adventures would invariably require them to take their clothes off. The formula required very little of the scriptwriters apart from thinking up situations in which a young woman was likely to get naked. Since every red-blooded American male has at some time had sexual fantasies about nurses the formula could not possibly fail.
The Young Nurses, released in 1973, is a completely typical Roger Corman nurse movie.
Of course the most important thing was to find pretty actresses prepared to do nude scenes. In the early 70s it would have been more difficult to find young actresses who were not prepared to shed their clothes. There was absolutely no need for the actresses to be able to act. In fact it was better if they couldn't - actresses who could act were likely to ask for too much money and if there was one thing Roger Corman disliked it was spending money on unnecessary luxuries like acting talent. In this particular movie the three actresses can't act at all but two of them get naked frequently.
The three nurses in this movie are Kitty (Jeane Manson), Joanne (Ashley Porter) and Michelle (Angela Gibbs). Kitty rescues a rich handsome young yachtsman who has fallen off his yacht. One of Michelle's patients died of a drug overdose but it's a rare and exotic drug and she decides to play amateur detective to find the source of the drug. Joanne wants to be more than a nurse - she wants to play doctor.
The beachside setting helps. At least there's nice scenery to look at as well as pretty girls.
There are some attempts at humour, mostly not overly successful.
This was Clint Kimbrough's only movie as a director, which is probably just as well. To say that he does an uninspired job would be an understatement.
Howard R. Cohen wrote the screenplay (and wrote several other movies for Corman) and it would be unfair to blame him for the way the movie turned out which was mainly due to the directing and the acting. He knew the ingredients Corman wanted and he provided them.
While Angela Gibbs and Jeane Manson are just routine bad actresses Ashley Porter is something else again. It's no surprise that this film launched her film career, and sank it as well. On the other hand she looks good without her clothes on.
The casting of black actress Angela Gibbs seems to have been an attempt to cover more exploitation movie bases by adding some blaxploitation elements - she rides a motorcycle and gets involved in a drug-smuggling sub-plot.
Look out for legendary director Sam Fuller as a drug lord.
There's not much to say about the three sub-plots. The Michelle segment does offer a few action scenes although somehow it seems like it belongs to a different movie.
The Joanne sub-plot is excruciating and heavy-handed as Joanne battles an uncaring system that just doesn't recognise that she knows far more about medicine than a mere doctor. They should just put her in charge of the whole hospital.
The only sub-plot that really works is the one involving Kitty. Even though Jeane Manson can't really act she does have some actual charm, and it has to be said that her body is pretty stunning. And Kitty is a nice girl and you can't help hoping she snares her rich boy. It's just a light love-conquers-all romance plot but it's harmless.
This is a movie with a lot of things wrong with it. It just doesn't have quite enough energy or quite enough of the sense of fun that it needed. The intercutting between the three unconnected plots which vary wildly in mood is also unsettling. It really does feel like three totally different movies spliced together.
There is however plenty of nudity. There's also a scene in which a young lady is undergoing a vaginal examination which, depending on your tastes, you might find uncomfortable or titillating. Or even both.
The DVD transfer (the movie is included in the Shout! Factory four-disc nurses set) is a good one.
The Young Nurses is a bit of a disjointed mess. But maybe I'm being too hard on it. It is what it is, and what it is is a Roger Corman nurseploitation movie. You expect nurses taking their clothes off and that's what you get. There are probably better movies of this type but if you just can't get enough of sexy nurses and you've bought the four-movie set anyway then I guess it's worth a look.
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Labels: 1970s, american sexploitation, roger corman, sexploitation
The Vanishing Shadow (serial, 1934)
The Vanishing Shadow is a well above average and very well-made 1934 twelve-chapter serial from Universal which combines both science fiction and crime thriller elements and does so very successfully indeed.
This one pretty much qualifies as a must-see for serial fans.
Here's the link to my review at Classic Movie Ramblings.
Labels: adventure, movie serials, sci-fi
Louisiana Hussey (1959)
Louisiana Hussey is a 1959 exploitation movie set in the bayou country. In other words it's a hicksploitation movie.
Pierre (Robert Richards) and Jacques (Peter Coe) Guillot are brothers but the problem is that they both love Lili (Betty Lynn). Lili has chosen Pierre and they're getting married and Jacques is very very unhappy. Then Callie, an old gris-gris woman, tells Jacques that she's found a sick child in the swamp. Only this is no child. Minette Lanier (for that is her name), is a very attractive and very well-developed young woman. Very well-developed indeed.
Minette is very reluctant to reveal anything about herself or where she comes from. Her clothes are expensive so it is assumed that she must be rich but she claims to have no home.
It is decided that Minette will stay with Pierre and Lili for a while.
The first thing Minette does is to seduce Pierre. But that doesn't seem to interest her as a long-term proposition. The houses in this backwater village are tiny and the presence of Pierre's wife in the house as well is going to cramp her style. So then she seduces Jacques.
Pierre and Jacques (and in fact all the inhabitants of this village known as The Pit) are decent honest people but they know nothing of the dangers of women like Minette. Seducing the brothers is child's play to her. The way she wiggles that bottom of hers poor Jacques doesn't stand a chance.
Of course things are going to get rather tense between Pierre and Jacques, especially as Minette has convinced Jacques that Pierre tried to seduce her.
The big question is what on earth a woman like Minette Lanier is doing in such a backwater. She is obviously not the type. Not the type at all. Pierre, having decided that whatever else Minette might be she's a bad woman (and a woman no man including himself could resist), decides to find out her secret before she can lead Jacques to his doom.
Director Lee Sholem worked mostly in television but made a few features as well. He was renowned for never ever going over schedule making him an ideal choice for low-budget material like this.
The acting isn't great but the performances are mostly fun. Nan Peterson's performance as Minette is particularly enjoyable. She oozes sex. She is certainly a convincing hussey.
By the standards of the time this film was probably considered to be rather racy but in 1959 the exploitation movie business was about to be revolutionised by the release of Russ Meyer's The Immoral Mr Teas, the first of the genre that became known as nudie-cuties. The nudie-cuties would make movies like Louisiana Hussey seem very tame indeed. It's fascinating to compare Louisiana Hussey with Meyer's Lorna, released just three years later. The subject matter and settings of the two films are fairly similar. Lorna has a fair bit of nudity and a great deal of fairly explicit violence. It's a whole different cinematic world. Of course being a Russ Meyer movie Lorna also has a lot more style and energy.
But Louisiana Hussey has its own charms and it manages to generate a considerable amount of sexual heat. Minette is like an alley cat on heat, but she's also a ruthless schemer. She uses her sexual power (which she has in abundance) without any scruples at all. She has no difficulty convincing us that she can wrap any man around her finger. Minette is a whole lot of woman.
There is a brief nude swimming scene in Louisiana Hussey but it's nudity 1959-style - trying to convince the audience they're seeing something while making sure that mostly they don't.
The Louisiana bayou setting is one of the film's big pluses wth some pretty nice location shooting. And in movies the bayous seem to be an ideal setting for sex and sin and madness.
One interesting feature is that the movie doesn't adopt a mocking tone towards the people of The Pit. They may be a bit out of their depth dealing with a woman like Minette but they're not stupid and they're not inbred.
I don't get to say this very often but the Alpha Video DVD offers a very good transfer indeed. The black-and-white image quality is nice and sharp, contrast is excellent and it looks pleasingly bright without being the slightest bit washed-out. This is definitely one of the company's better efforts.
And, amazingly, this is an Alpha Video DVD with extras. Yes, extras. There's a very brief snippet of an interview with Samuel Z. Arkoff plus 15 minutes of nudie shorts (judging by the girls' hairstyles they date from the 40s to the 60s).
This movie is pure trash but it's good thoroughly enjoyable trash. If you love bad girl movies (and I'm assuming that everybody does) then Minette is a pretty memorable bad girl and Louisiana Hussey can be highly recommended. And given that it's a fun movie and the transfer is good and the disc contains some actual extras Alpha Video's DVD can be unhesitatingly recommended.
Labels: 1950s, american sexploitation, hicksploitation, sexploitation
Kitten with a Whip (1964)
Kitten with a Whip is a 1964 juvenile delinquent melodrama (based on Wade Miller's novel of the same name) which despite its indifferent reputation is very much worth seeing and not just for Ann-Margret's awesomely over-the-top performance.
It's an absolute must-see for Ann-Margret fans and for aficionados of juvenile delinquent movies.
Here's the link to my review of this kitschy delight at Classic Movie Ramblings.
Labels: 1960s, camp classics, juvenile delinquent movies
The Rica Trilogy 1: Rica (1972)
The Rica trilogy might not be exactly classics of the pinky violence genre but they are at least representative of that genre.
The first film in the series, Rica (Konketsuji Rika), was released by Toho in 1972. This is an interesting reminder that although Toei is the studio most associated with pinky violence the other Japanese studios also dabbled in this disreputable but lucrative genre.
The gimmick to this series is that the lead character is half-Japanese and half-American, as is the actress (Rika Aoki) who plays her.
Rica is a girl with plenty of reasons to be bitter. The reason she's mixed race is that her mother, a Japanese schoolgirl, was raped by American soldiers during the Korean War. Rica herself was raped by one of her mother's boyfriends. As you might expect she has a bit of a problem with anger. She's found a way to deal with this. She finds that committing acts of extreme violence helps.
Now Rica has another problem, and another reason to be angry. She's the boss of a girl gang and gangsters have raped and kidnapped seven of her girls. Even worse, the girls have been sold into sex slavery to feed the appetites of American servicemen in Vietnam. Being a girl boss she's going to have to do something about it. It's a matter of honour.
It all gets very complicated from here on in, with rival yakuza gangs and rival girl gangs and betrayals and strange alliances. Rica gets sent to a Christian reform school but soon escapes. In fact she gets sent to the reform school several times but security is not exactly tight. She makes a bitter enemy, Dragon God Reiko. Reiko is the girl boss at the reformatory but Rica has a problem with any kind of authority figures.
This movie contains all the key pinky violence elements. There's graphic violence (some very graphic indeed), there are countless rapes, Rica gets chained up, there are full-scale gang fights, there's a fair bit of consensual sex, there's prostitution, there are drugs, there's sex slavery, there are vicious girl-on-girl fights, there's some nudity. Rica also finds love. He's a gangster of some kind but he's a good gangster.
Rica's world is not a world divided into criminals and law-abiding citizens, it's a world divided into honourable criminals and dishonourable criminals. Authority figures play very little part in this world and they're usually corrupt and inept (although the Japanese Christian lady who runs the reform school is surprisingly enough portrayed as quite well-meaning if a little naïve). In this world girl juvenile delinquents usually have a sense of honour. In pinky violence films girl juvenile delinquents are often portrayed as being essentially samurai, living by the honourable code of the warrior.
The main problem with Rica is the lead actress. It's not that Rika Aoki is terrible. She isn't. And she does look like an athletic sort of girl. The problem is that if you're a pinky violence fan you're going to immediately compare her to Meiko Kaji and Miki Sugimoto and she's not in the same league as those ladies. She doesn't quite have their looks, or their acting talent or their charm. Most crucially, she lacks the charisma that Miss Kaji and Miss Sugimoto have in spades. But she's OK. And she's quite attractive, but not in an obvious sex kitten way.
Rica also lacks the visual inspiration of the better pinky violence movies. On the other hand director Kô Nakahira can't be faulted for his pacing. This is a movie that never stops for a second.
Japanese exploitation movies often had political themes. There's a bit of an anti-war theme here, with American deserters from the Vietnam War treated sympathetically. They're the only Americans sympathetically treated. There's a fair bit of bitterness here about the American occupation. On the other hand, while Rica's mother was raped by an American soldier (and the mother of one of her gang members suffered the same fate) the real anger here is directed at Japanese yakuza (with perhaps some help from corrupt authority figures) selling Japanese girls as sex slaves. The fact that they're going to be used as sex slaves by Americans does seem to intensify the anger a little but of course that could be put down to nationalism rather than overt anti-Americanism. The important thing is that the political angles are not laboured - this is an exploitation movie, its job is to deliver excitement and sleaze and that's what it concentrates on doing.
There's one odd scene of Rica singing and dancing in a night club in a bikini. What's odd about it is that you expect it to get sleazy but it doesn't. It could just about pass muster in a Hollywood beach party movie. Incidentally, as was quite common in Japanese exploitation movies, the lead actress does her own singing.
The Media Blasters Rica DVD set includes all three movies on three discs. The anamorphic widescreen transfer for Rica is excellent.
Rica is a roller-coaster ride of sleazy thrills. If you like the pinky violence genre you'll find it worth your time. It's not difficult to see why this movie was successful enough to spawn two sequels. Recommended.
Labels: 1970s, asian exploitation movies, japanese exploitation movies, japanese pinky violence, juvenile delinquent movies
Venus in Furs (AKA Paroxismus, 1969)
Venus in Furs (AKA Paroxismus) was released in 1969 and is one of Jess Franco's most satisfying films. It's a dream-like hallucinogenic movie that plays havoc with reality and illusion. It was a British/Italian/West German co-production and it's also one of the most impressive movies to be made under the auspices of notorious English producer Harry Alan Towers.
Jazz trumpeter Jimmy Logan (James Darren) finds the body of a girl on the beach in Istanbul. She is Wanda (played by Towers' real-life wife Maria Rohm), a girl with whom he had become slightly obsessed. Wanda and her friends were into some fairly weird sexual stuff. Friends like Ahmed (Klaus Kinski) and photographer Olga (Margaret Lee). And Percival Kapp (Denis Price).
Two years later, in Rio, Jimmy meets Wanda. Is it the same woman? She certainly looks the same. He becomes even more obsessed by her, much to the sorrow of his girlfriend Rita (Barbara McNair).
Jimmy and Wanda return to Istanbul. Olga and Ahmed and the rest of their crowd are still there. Olga is obsessed by Wanda although whether she's motivated by guilt or lust is difficult to say. Ahmed's obsession may be somewhat different.
The Turkish police are interested in Wanda. The Brazilian police are interested in well. Of course Inspector Kaplan of the Turkish police knows that Wanda is dead, but he'd still like to talk to her.
An obvious question that is going to occur to the viewer is whether Jimmy (who provides us with a voiceover narration) might be an unreliable narrator. In fact one might wonder if Jimmy's ideas about what is going on have any connection with reality. One might wonder how in touch with reality any of the characters are. Or whether they exist. Or whether anything that happens is real. Of course it's also possible that all of it is real. The answer to all of these questions are in fact revealed at the end, in a fairly satisfying manner.
One might also suspect that what appears to be a straightforward linear narrative is really linear at all. Franco was a jazz aficionado and was rather interested in the idea of structuring movies like jazz improvisations.
The title Venus in Furs obviously comes from the novella by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (from whose name the term masochism is derived). It's not in any sense an adaptation of the novel but Wanda was the name of the woman in the novella. And she does wear furs. There are certainly plenty of hints of masochism in the relationships of both men and women with the film's Wanda.
To complicate things the title was not chosen by Franco and the distributors made changes to the film (which was pretty much standard practice with low-budget European films of this era).
This is one of Franco's most visually impressive and hypnotic movies. He comes up with some suitably striking images without resorting to too many cinematic tricks.
This is also one of his most technically polished films. While Franco fans are generally unconcerned by his occasional technical blemishes that criticism cannot be levelled at this production. It looks professional and it benefits from the generous (by the standards of Franco films) budget. It's also much tighter in plot terms than most of his movies.
It also benefits from one of the strongest casts he ever managed to assemble. James Darren is very good as Jimmy, a character who is both sympathetic and at times unsympathetic. Maria Rohm is extraordinary. This may be the finest achievement of her career. Klaus Kinski manages to be sinister and weird and pathetic and generally disturbing, as only Kinski could be.
The soundtrack is an odd but successful mix of jazz and pop, courtesy of Manfred Mann (who makes a cameo appearance as a jazz musician). Franco loved music as much as he loved film and in Venus in Furs the two are combined seamlessly. James Darren was cast partly because he really was a fine trumpet player and having an actual musician playing the lead rôle was a smart choice.
While Franco liked surrealism and indulged in it from time to time curiously enough he wasn't happy with the overt surrealist touches in this movie (which were forced on him). He wanted the film to be as realistic as possible. Given that the entire film has the feel of a dreamscape his instincts are probably correct. The overt surrealism is an extra layer that isn't needed.
The beach scenes are strongly reminiscent of those found in most of Jean Rollin's films. In fact this movie bears some stylistic similarity to Rollin's The Iron Rose.
Blue Underground's DVD came out quite a while ago but it offers a good anamorphic transfer plus interviews with both Franco and Maria Rohm. Franco reveals some intriguing thing about the film, such as the fact that he got the original idea from legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
Venus in Furs is one of the two or three best movies Franco ever made. Very highly recommended.
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Q: UI Automation - Elements on my UI have ember ids , which change frequently with addition of new UI elements. How to use the id for automation? Example of the HTML of a dropdown element:

The xpath and CSS selector also contain the same ember id.
xpath : //*[@id="ember1235"]
css selector : #ember1235
The ember id would change from id="ember1235" to say, id="ember1265" when there is a change in the UI.
I am using id to locate the element. But every time it changes I need to modify the code. Is there any other attribute I could use for Ember JS UI elements?

A: There is quite a lot to discuss in your question but hopefully we will have a good answer for you @PriyaK
The first thing to mention is that Ember IDs may not be the best method to select an element in the DOM. As you have already mentioned, they can change from time to time and also it doesn't really give you a great semantic thing to select in your selenium test so it might seem a bit out of context when looking back.
One thing that you could try is to either pass a class to the ember-power-select component (the one that provides the HTML that you used in your example) and use that to select the element, something like:
<PowerSelect
  @class="my-fancy-class"
  as |name|
>
  {{name}}
</PowerSelect>

Then you should be able to select the selected value by using the CSS selector .my-fancy-class span (because the component outputs the selected value in a span)
We just tried this in an example app but it didn't actually work  Never fear, you can also do something like this and it should work with the same selector as before:

  <PowerSelect as |name|>
    {{name}}
  </PowerSelect>

This is fine, but there are also a few issues using classes for selectors in tests. One example of a problem that might crop up is that your tests might all suddenly stop working if you did a style refactor and changed or removed some of the classes on your elements. One technique that has become popular in the Ember community is to use data-test- attributes on your DOM nodes like this:

  <PowerSelect
    @class="my-fancy-class"
    as |name|
  >
    {{name}}
  </PowerSelect>

which can then be accessed by the following selector: [data-test-my-fancy-select] span. This is great for a few reasons! Firstly it separates the implementation of your application and tests from your styling and avoids the issue I described above. The second benefit of this method is that using what @Gokul suggested in the comments, the ember-test-selectors package, you can make use of these data-test- selectors in your development and test environments but they will be automatically removed from your production build. This is great to keep your DOM clean in production but also, depending on the size of your application, could save you a reasonable amount of size in your templates on aggregate.
I know you say that you are using selenium for your testing but it's also worth mentioning that if you're using the built-in Ember testing system you will be able to make use of some testing helpers that addons may provide you. ember-power-select is one of those addons that provides specific testing helpers and you can read more about it in their documentation: https://ember-power-select.com/docs/test-helpers
I hope this answers any questions you had!

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The concept of the Hundred Days was first used to describe the period between Napoleon's return from exile and his final defeat at Waterloo, in 1815. As a marker of the president's first months in office, a "honeymoon" period when conditions for him to enact much of his agenda are supposed to be most advantageous, it has come to take on a rather different meaning in modern American politics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was in the Oval Office from 1933 to 1945, was the first president to have a period known as "The Hundred Days." He used it to usher in a series of legislative reforms that began the implementation of the New Deal, a domestic reform program which totally refashioned America in FDR's image and made his party, the Democrats, the dominant political force in the country for decades to follow.
In American politics, the Hundred Days are meant to be a period of Rooseveltian success, not Napoleonic failure. It is supposed to mark a period of dramatic change so that America comes to reflect the values and goals of its new president. It is not supposed to end in the president's own Waterloo. Every president wants to be a Roosevelt, not a Napoleon.
Roosevelt's Hundred Days have become the stuff of legend, and books on the period—including a smart, superbly written account by a noted Cambridge expert of American history, Professor Tony Badger—incorporate the phrase in their title. This is because the Hundred Days had more of a Napoleonic spirit than FDR himself would have liked to admit, conveying a gut-level instinct for action, ambition, and above all grandeur. The Hundred Days are supposed to be consequential, a period in which people realize they are living through an important part of history. They are supposed to be a reach for glory.
With the advent of the New Deal, FDR made good on this promise of a dynamic Hundred Days. Roosevelt worked with Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress to pass legislation on a wide number of problems caused by the Great Depression, from the banking crisis to widespread poverty and unemployment to the collapse of agriculture and industry. Within three months, many of the staples of the New Deal were set up. Not all would last, but Roosevelt and congressional Democrats showed that they had a plan and were doing what they could to enact it, quickly.
Few historians accept that the New Deal cured the Depression—the largest government stimulus program in world history, also known as the Second World War, did that instead. Nor did FDR have a coherent ideological vision: he was too experimental and pragmatic for that.
But by showing that he cared, and that he was willing to do whatever it took to help the American people in their time of suffering, he transformed himself into the most popular president in American history. After Roosevelt's first victory in 1932, Democrats won six of the next eight presidential elections and controlled both houses of Congress for all but four of the next forty-eight years.
The Hundred Days started something pretty special. It's no surprise, then, that presidents from both parties who followed in Roosevelt's wake have sought their own dynamic start. Most haven't been successful, and many have seen their presidencies nearly ruined from disasters right at the outset.
John F. Kennedy oversaw the humiliating debacle at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961, his 94th day in office, while Ronald Reagan was shot and nearly killed on March 30, 1981, his 69th day. Neither tragedy did much damage to presidents regarded, at the time and ever since, as popular and successful. On the other hand, the president who self-consciously strived hardest to emulate FDR's rapid achievements, Lyndon B. Johnson, saw the early hopes of his presidency destroyed by the war in Vietnam and the deterioration of race relations at home.
In other words, the Hundred Days marker is a poor gauge of presidential success. Roosevelt set an example of a quick-start, dynamically successful presidency, yet it remains pretty much the only example. President Donald Trump, who, despite Republican majorities in Congress, has accomplished virtually nothing of his agenda so far, may have had a good point when he recently tweeted to complain about being held to "the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days."
The problem is, it was Trump himself who set that standard. All through the presidential campaign last year, and then during the transitional period between the election in November and the inauguration in January, Trump not only promised quick action but quick results. The wall along the border with Mexico, supposedly adverse trade deals, ISIS—all were going to be solved "immediately" or "on day one." On countless occasions, he claimed he would repeal "immediately." At a campaign rally in Florida, in October, he said he would begin to repeal and replace Obamacare on his "first day in office. … It's going to be so easy."
It hasn't been so easy, of course, certainly not for President Trump. Only time will tell whether that means his presidency will ultimately end with him as a Roosevelt or a Napoleon. But he's not off to a good start.
Andrew Preston, Professor of American History, is the author of American Foreign Relations: A Very Short Introduction (OUP)
Professor Andrew Preston examines the origins of the first hundred days as a measure of presidential success in American politics.
In American politics, the Hundred Days are meant to be a period of Rooseveltian success, not Napoleonic failure.
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Cytomegalovirus infection in heart-transplants recipients, in a central region of Italy
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs very often after solid organ transplantation and is often a life-threatening complication of long-term immunosoppressive therapy. Actually it is unknown which type of drug is indicated to control the infection in immunocompromised patients. We studied 10 consecutive patients who had undergone heart-transplantation and in which CMV infection was the commonest post-transplant infectious disease. Our results suggest a careful monitoring of IgG seropositivity in heart transplant patients, especially when it is not possible to know the serum status of the donor. Copyright © by BIOLIFE. s.a.s.
Titolo: Cytomegalovirus infection in heart-transplants recipients, in a central region of Italy
DALESSANDRO, MARGHERITA
FALASCA, KATIA
RACCIATTI, Delia
ZINGARIELLO, POMPEA
Cacciatore P
Travasi F
Scarinci A
Ceccomancini A
Di Giammarco A
PIZZIGALLO, Eligio
VECCHIET, Jacopo
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INFLAMMATION
Abstract: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs very often after solid organ transplantation and is often a life-threatening complication of long-term immunosoppressive therapy. Actually it is unknown which type of drug is indicated to control the infection in immunocompromised patients. We studied 10 consecutive patients who had undergone heart-transplantation and in which CMV infection was the commonest post-transplant infectious disease. Our results suggest a careful monitoring of IgG seropositivity in heart transplant patients, especially when it is not possible to know the serum status of the donor. Copyright © by BIOLIFE. s.a.s.


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Neurons use fractal networks for better connectivity
Geometric Cognition, Neuroscience
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Many of nature's fractal objects benefit from the favorable functionality that comes from pattern repetition at various sizes. Examples from nature include beaches, lightning, rivers, and trees, as well as cardiovascular and respiratory systems such as the bronchial tree. Neurons, like trees, are thought to represent a common kind of fractal branching activity.
Although prior neuron research has calculated the scaling characteristics of their dendritic branches, this has generally been done to categorize neuron morphologies rather than quantify how neurons benefit from their fractal geometry.
Why does the body use fractal neurons rather than, say, the Euclidean wires seen in common electronics? Within the mammalian brain, neurons create vast networks, with individual neurons utilizing up to 60,000 connections in the hippocampus alone. They link to the retina's photoreceptors, letting humans see, and to the limbs, allowing people to move and feel, in addition to their connections within the brain. Given its relevance as the body's "wire," the study focuses on the effect of fractal scaling in creating neuron connections.
"By distorting their branches and looking at what happens, we were able to show that the fractal weaving of the natural branches is balancing the ability of neurons to connect with their neighbors to form natural electric circuits while balancing the construction and operating costs of the circuits," Rowland said.
(a) An example confocal micrograph (x–y layer) showing three neighboring dendritic arbors, each spanning the oriens (SO), pyramidale (SP), radiatum (SR), and lacunosum-moleculare (SLM) strata of the CA1 region. The dashed lines represent the strata boundaries and the bar corresponds to 100 μm. (b) A three-dimensional model of a dendritic arbor (reconstructed from a stack of micrographs in the z direction using Neurolucida and displayed using MATLAB) featuring the apical (blue) and basal (red) arbors and the soma (black). The neuron's axon arbor is not shown. (c) Schematic showing the neuron parameters L, W, ϕ, and θ. (d) Histogram of N, the number of neurons with a given D value, measured for the neurons' apical and basal arbors.
A D = 1.4 H-Tree fractal (generated using Mathematica and displayed using MATLAB) with W = 1 μm (a) and an example neuron's basal arbor (reconstructed using Neurolucida and displayed using MATLAB) with median W = 1.4 μm (b). The branch level i is colored as follows: red (1st branch), orange (2nd), yellow (3rd), green (4th), blue (5th), and purple (6th). Histograms for an H-Tree (c) and neuron (d) plotting the number of branches N with a given value of L/Lmax. Panels (e) and (f) show the analysis of (c) and (d) plotted in log–log space. Panels (g) and (h) take the H-Tree and neuron shown in (a) and (b) and adjust all their branch lengths to be equal. Additionally, the H-Tree's forking angle ϕ has been adjusted to 37° (the median value of the basal arbors).
(a) Schematic diagram of a coronal slice through the hippocampus at Bregma −4.52 mm showing the collection region (red box) within hippocampal CA1 (darkened area); the somata layer is denoted by the dashed line. (b) Confocal micrographs of Golgi-Cox stained cells. Three 774 by 774 µm cross-sections separated by 2 µm in the z-direction are shown. (c) A model showing a neuron's soma (outlined in white) as well as its basal (red) and apical (blue) dendritic arbors superimposed on the original micrograph. The image in (c) was generated using Neurolucida.
Nature's fractals benefit from the fact that they develop at various sizes, according to Taylor, who has long looked to fractals for bioinspiration. While trees are the most well-known example of fractal branching, he claims that this research shows how neurons vary from trees.
"Whereas the fractal character of trees originates predominantly from the distribution of branch sizes, the neurons also use the way their branches weave through space to generate their fractal character."
Maps of conceptual spaces in the hippocampus
Taylor, a Cottrell Scholar of the Research Council for Science Advancement, was given a broad U.S. patent in 2015 for not just his vision-related artificial fractal-based implants, but also for any such implants that link signaling activity with nerves for any purpose in animal and human biology.
How neurons exploit fractal geometry to optimize their network connectivity, Julian H. Smith, Conor Rowland, B. Harland, S. Moslehi, R. D. Montgomery, K. Schobert, W. J. Watterson, J. Dalrymple-Alford & R. P. Taylor
Published: January 2021, Scientific Reports volume 11, Article number: 2332
Source: How neurons exploit fractal geometry to optimize their network connectivity
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Payroll processor ADP reported in its National Employment Report on Wednesday that the U.S. added 192,000 new private sector jobs in January from December on a seasonally adjusted basis, paced by small business job growth. Meanwhile, ADP downwardly revised its December estimate from 215,000 to 185,000 new jobs.
ADP said that small businesses (1-49 employees) added 115,000 new jobs and medium businesses (50-499 employees) increased their staffs by 79,000 people. Large businesses (500 or more employees) decreased their work forces by 2,000 during the month, according to the report.
By sector, service providers added 177,000 jobs while goods producers added 15,000. By industry, professional/business services paced the gains with 40,000 additions, followed by trade/transportation/utilities (+33,000), financial activities (+12,000) and construction (+15,000), while manufacturers shed 3,000 positions.
"U.S. private sector employment got off to a good start in 2013, as 192,000 jobs were added during the month of January," said Carlos A. Rodriguez, president and chief executive officer of ADP. "According to the ADP National Employment Report, private sector employers created an average of 183,000 new jobs per month during the last three months. This is an encouraging sign of steady improvement in the job market."
Moody's Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi added that monthly jobs gains appear to have accelerated from about 150,000 to closer to 175,000 and that construction is finally "kicking into gear" to offset softness in manufacturing.
The monthly report, which is formulated in collaboration with Moody's Analytics, tracks changes in private, non-farms payrolls from month to month to try and gauge the final figure after three revisions by the Labor Department of government's monthly private payroll figure as part of its monthly jobs report. Last month ADP originally said 215,000 jobs were added in December, while the government reported 168,000 in its first estimate.
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Middle America is radicalizing. A look at the haters. From my Facebook blog.
Comment threads on articles, once regarded as an unfortunate but ignorable infection on the body politic, proved themselves in the last election to be shockingly malignant.
They are an important social force - they fill in for the water cooler, the diner, and the town square. They are where political ideologies are built and grievances are aired. They hold the campaign issues of tomorrow.
I wade through these comment sections because I don't want to be blindsided. It's the same reason I often start my day by reading the front pages of Breitbart and Infowars. I want to be fluent in the language of alternative facts.
As old-school sources are increasingly demonized and distrusted, right-wing chatter has migrated from the likes of Fox News to pages like "100 percent FED Up," a site whose Facebook page has 1.3 million followers and counting, which bills itself as "two moms inspired by the life of Andrew Breitbart."
Yesterday, many Muslim-owned shops across New York City were closed as part of the so-called "Bodega protest." Shopkeepers, many of them Yemeni, gathered to protest President Trump's chaotic immigration ban.
"100 Percent FED Up" posted clips from the protest, showing an orderly scene of protesters praying peacefully on the street. Their headline read: "THIS IS NOT IRAN…THIS IS NYC! Speaker Yells 'Allahu Akbar' As Thousands Of Muslims Take Over The Streets Of NYC In Protest."
As our president peddles ludicrous conspiracy theories like the myth of paid protesters, New Jersey Muslims cheering 9/11 and millions of illegal voters, we ought to stay apprised of the mood of his supporters.
I extracted some of the more egregious comments on the Bodega protest story here, and paired them with the profile photos of their authors.
I was unable to link to the Facebook comment thread itself, but here's the post.
"Where are the bombers and mass shooters when we need them!!!" -William S.
"They are a nasty desease that need to be exterminated" -Wes C.
"Perfect position for execution of satans army !!!!!!!" -Robert M.
"Need to be eradicated and soon" -Rickie H.
"Shoot those goat F--kers" -Ray P. (Nice of him to censor that dirty word.)
"Send the army in an show than how we take care of problems please someone shoot the Muslims in the street" -Nancy B. [center, in tie-dye kitty shirt]
"Should've mowed them down, this cult needs exterminated period" -Kenneth R.
"Like i said 1 nerve gas grenade and they are gone" -Larry F.
"Drop about 5000 lbs of c4 right on top of them" -Joshua M.
"Sad to say but most Americans want these dirty scumbags in the United States I for one would like to see them exterminated" -Joe W.
"KILL THEM ALL!!" Jarrod P.
"Remove the barbaric savages of the cult of peace and their enablers from the face of the earth." -Harold R.
"Just shoot them ALL" -George S.
"Lock and load" -Frank H
"Gas them all." -Dee C.
"They all need to be taken out" -Diana M.
"Time to thin out the herd, lock and load baby lock and load!" -Darrel P.
"wheres the bomb in the middle of that mess? just sayin..." -Christine D. [right]
"Open fire!" -Amy R.
"Break out the AR-15 and blast away" -Brandy P.
How should we as a society respond to calls for genocide from suburban grandmas and grandpas? How do we "heal" or "reach across the aisle" or "mend fences" with people who want to exterminate religious groups?
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Ana Miranda (Verts/ALE). – Mr President, one part of my work here in Parliament was also working for the defence of human rights and persons without a voice in Europe. Thank you to Ms Mogherini also for her commitment to the defence of human rights. We need to stand up for human rights. We need to condemn these attacks on human rights and fight against the death penalty and discrimination around the world, also in Europe.
The difficult situation of Brunei against homophobia needs our dignity and freedom to defend these people. They are alone. I belong to the LGBTI Intergroup of the European Parliament, and I am proud of that because the defence of persons around the world is also our responsibility. The fight for human rights around the world should be the fight for the freedom, for the respect and also for the dignity of human beings.
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