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Anticarbamylated protein antibodies are associated with long-term disability and increased disease activity in patients with early inflammatory arthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register
Jennifer H Humphreys, Marije K Verheul, Anne Barton, Alexander J MacGregor, Mark Lunt, Rene EM Toes, Deborah PM Symmons, Leendert A Trouw, Suzanne MM Verstappen
Norwich Epidemiology Centre
Objectives: Anticarbamylated protein (anti-CarP) antibodies are a novel family of autoantibodies recently identified in patients with inflammatory arthritis. The aim of this study was to investigate their association with long-term outcomes of disability and disease activity over 20 years' follow-up in a cohort of patients with inflammatory polyarthritis (IP).
Methods: Norfolk Arthritis Register recruited adults with recent-onset swelling of ≥2 joints for ≥4 weeks from 1990 to 2009. At baseline, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and 28 joint disease activity scores (DAS28) were obtained, and C reactive protein, rheumatoid factor (RF), anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) and anti-CarP antibodies were measured. Further HAQ scores and DAS28 were obtained at regular intervals over 20 years. Generalised estimating equations were used to test the association between anti-CarP antibody status and longitudinal HAQ and DAS28 scores; adjusting for age, gender, smoking status, year of inclusion and ACPA status. Analyses were repeated in subgroups stratified by ACPA status. The relative association of RF, ACPA and anti-CarP antibodies with HAQ and DAS28 scores was investigated using a random effects model.
Results: 1995 patients were included; 1310 (66%) were female. Anti-CarP antibodies were significantly associated with more disability and higher disease activity, HAQ multivariate β-coefficient (95% CI) 0.12 (0.02 to 0.21), and these associations remained significant in the ACPA-negative subgroups. The associations of RF, ACPA and anti-CarP antibodies were found to be additive in the random effects model.
Conclusions: Anti-CarP antibodies are associated with increased disability and higher disease activity in patients with IP. Our results suggest that measurement of anti-CarP antibodies may be useful in identifying ACPA-negative patients with worse long-term outcomes. Further, anti-CarP antibody status provided additional information about RF and ACPA.
Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207326
Published - 1 Jun 2016
10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207326Licence: CC BY
ManuscriptFinal published version, 476 KBLicence: CC BY
Humphreys, J. H., Verheul, M. K., Barton, A., MacGregor, A. J., Lunt, M., Toes, R. EM., Symmons, D. PM., Trouw, L. A., & Verstappen, S. MM. (2016). Anticarbamylated protein antibodies are associated with long-term disability and increased disease activity in patients with early inflammatory arthritis: Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 75(6), 1139-1144. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2015-207326
Humphreys, Jennifer H ; Verheul, Marije K ; Barton, Anne ; MacGregor, Alexander J ; Lunt, Mark ; Toes, Rene EM ; Symmons, Deborah PM ; Trouw, Leendert A ; Verstappen, Suzanne MM. / Anticarbamylated protein antibodies are associated with long-term disability and increased disease activity in patients with early inflammatory arthritis : Results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register. In: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases. 2016 ; Vol. 75, No. 6. pp. 1139-1144.
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Q: opening specefic page on DOM load by date vaule, javascript , phonegap I've a phoneGap build project, that open a specific page everyday by taking date value from phone.
Its like one year's full todo list is written down on 365 pages and i want to show one page everyday that matches present day's date.
I've 365 HTML pages like 1.html 2.html so on.. when user opens the app, it should check the date and open matching html page accordingly.
For ex: if today's date is Jan 1st, when user open app it must open 1.html. if its Jan two it must open 2.html and so on.
I've tried this:
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
open() }, false);

function open(){
window.open ('1.html','_self',false);
}

it wont work and i don't know How to keep today's date value in a variable, compare it and pass result to open specific page accordingly.
Can someone help me how to achieve this? should i use arrays? or if statements? please help.. Much appreciated .

A: Just create a function to get the day number of current date like :
 var dayNumber = function(){
    var now = new Date();
    var start = new Date(now.getFullYear(), 0, 0);
    var diff = now - start;
    var oneDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    var day = Math.floor(diff / oneDay);
    console.log('Day of year: ' + day);
  }

So after that you can open the html page you want like that :
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
open() }, false);

function open(){
var number = dayNumber();
var html   = number + '.html';
window.open (html,'_self',false);
}

A: Change your code as below. It will work. getDAYNumber() is a function it will accept the date and returns the day number.
Date.prototype.getDAYNumber = function() {
var onejan = new Date(this.getFullYear(),0,1);
return Math.ceil((this - onejan) / 86400000);
}

document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
open() }, false);

function open(){
var daynum = new Date().getDAYNumber();
var htmlPage = daynum+".html";
window.open (htmlPage,'_self',false);
}

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Thanks for the wonderful reviews of Copyright Litigation Handbook on Amazon here.
I have read this entire book. It is extraordinary for more reasons than I have space here to enumerate. It is a book about copyright law for litigators, and it is at the same time a book about litigation for copyright lawyers. It is written for a broad audience of attorneys whose practice may touch upon copyright law, but it is also a great practice overview for an experienced copyright lawyer. It is organized in a logical way proceeding from case evaluation through trial. Throughout, it offers nuggets of advice that are extremely valuable - the sort of experienced advice that makes a huge difference in the development of one's legal abilities.
Until Raymond Dowd wrote this book, there simply was no litigation-friendly guide to copyright litigation. Thank goodness Mr. Dowd chose to devote the equivalent of several years of time and effort to write this book, and to update it with this 2009 edition. This is the book that both occasional dabblers in copyright should go to first (which I wish I had when I started out), as well as now-experienced copyright litigators like me. It is the book I go to first when drafting a complaint (or even when deciding whether to sue), and consult when beginning to prepare for trial. Everything is litigation oriented, so one doesn't need to wade through abstract theorizing to get a sense for how you can use the current state of the case law to your client's advantage. The forms for a complaint and other litigation papers are particularly useful. And the ideas for motions in limine are priceless, and as far as I know, a unique feature of this book. --David Wolfsohn, Woodcock Washburn LLP.
In Multimatic Inc. v. Faurecia Interior Systems USA, 2009 WL 4927957 (6th Cir. Dec. 22, 2009), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals considered the question of whether a confidentiality agreement entered into by two parties protected intellectual property (trade secrets and copyright) developed during the course of the confidential relationship.
Multimatic agreed to develop cross-beam systems for the DaimlerChrysler Avenger and Sebring lines for Faurecia, a supplier to Chrysler. There was no agreement on price, but the agreement implied that if Multimatic used Faurecia's 3D CAD designs, the parties would work together.
Citizen Media Law Project maintains a summary of lawsuits against bloggers here with helpful links to case documents, an excellent resource.
The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development, and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University, an initiative to enhance and expand grassroots media.
In Kleinman v. City of San Marcos, --- F.3d ----, 2010 WL 447894 (5th Cir. 2010 Feb. 10, 2010), the Fifth Circuit decided the question of whether Ralph the Cactus Planter, a junked Oldsmobile '88 filled with dirt, planted with cactus and covered with paintings by artists commissioned to include the message "make love not war" was protected by the First Amendment or a work covered by the Visual Artists Rights Act ("VARA").
The Fifth Circuit looked to the Second Circuit's analysis in Bery v. Bery, 97 F.3d 689 (2d Cir. 1996) and adopted Bery's distinction between works of fine art and works of decorative art. The court found the Junked Vehicle statute to survive intermediate scrutiny under a First Amendment analysis.
The court found that VARA did not apply, since Ralph was a distinctive corporate symbol of the Planet K business (novelty shops). VARA excludes "any merchandising item or advertising, promotional, descriptive, covering, packaging material or container." The court upheld the district court's finding that Ralph was "promotional material" and thus VARA did not apply.
The decision is problematic for artists and lacking in copyright analysis. A chassis of an car that has been almost completely transformed is not at all a "utilitarian object".
The artwork would appear to be a sculptural work and have sufficient copyrightable elements to be protected as such under federal law. Two painters were commissioned to paint the work. The court's VARA analysis seems problematic, compare the First Circuit's thoughtful analysis in Buchel v. Mass MoCA, discussed here. Query also how narrowly tailored the junk vehicle statute really is.
Why put a fence around Ralph? Can the state really put a fence around every art installation that contains part of an old car?
Caballo Viejo - image courtesy Wikipedia - the song by Simon Diaz that inspired the Gypsy Kings' Bamboleo featured in a recent decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals Latin American Music Company v. ASCAP, 2010 WL 324526 (1st Cir. 2010).
In Latin American Music, the First Circuit considered the question of whether an exclusive license for a song, where the license agreement was silent on the duration of the license and how it would be terminated, could be terminated orally?
The case came before the First Circuit on appeal following a jury trial. The court found that Section 204 of the Copyright Act did not apply to terminations of license agreements. The court considered Section 203 (requiring that certain terminations of author's rights be in writing) and found that the Copyright Act was silent on the point. The court rejected the argument that the Copyright Act preempted state contract law, and upheld the application of New York contract law to determine whether "reasonable notice" under New York law was given. The court upheld the admissibility of a videotaped deposition at trial where an unavailable witness testified that he had orally terminated the license.
The decision also considered the propriety of jury instructions and evidence cited in a closing argument. The court reiterated that if attorneys have a problem with a court's jury instructions or with an adversary's closing, they must preserve their objections on the record.
In 1998, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau seized Egon Schiele's Dead City and Portrait of Wally at the Museum of Modern Art, creating a scandal that changed the legal landscape of Europe and the United States for victims of Nazi persecution and their survivors. Ray Dowd represents the heirs of Fritz Grunbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer murdered in the Dachau Concentration Camp. Fritz's wife Lily died in the Minsk Death Camp. Grunbaum's art collection surfaced in Switzerland in 1956 under disputed circumstances, and in the first Holocaust-era art recovery trial in U.S. history, Bakalar v. Vavra, the District Court found that passing the artwork through Switzerland gave it clean title. The case is now on appeal to the Second Circuit. This presentation will cover the legal and evidentiary obstacles to litigating Holocaust-era expropriation and provide legal practitioners with basic tools to assemble evidence and prove Nazi property looting.
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Monday's looking ugly—
And so are the stories behind these links.
Rep. Matt Gaetz continues embracing Trumpism with both arms. Of course, he's just following established Republican precedent.
Republicans claim impeachment is a witch-hunt but they're the ones obsessing about witchcraft. Or thinking that witch hunts were led by witches.
If the NCAA allows college athletes to benefit from endorsements, NC's worthless Senator Richard Burr has a dumb-ass response: tax athletic scholarships.
So a New Jersey public school system banned kids from prom if they hadn't paid off their lunch bills. A good Samaritan offered to wipe out the debt; the school district said no.
Right-wing bullshit artist David Barton insists quite untruthfully that human beings can't damage the Earth's climate.
Republicans don't support veterans, not when the veterans don't toe the party line. Or when they're immigrants.
Ultraconservative forced-birth attorneys are getting judicial appointments. This kind of strategy is paying off: Brett Kavanaugh and Sam Alito met with the leader of an anti-gay hate group.
Climate change is going to hammer our power grid, infrastructure and military unless we do something. And it's pretty obvious we won't.
I remember when handwriting analysts would brag about how they could identify the right candidate for companies to hire. I have the same skepticism that AI analyzing facial expressions in interviews is any more reliable, but it's seeing use anyway.
The power of the Internet to fill kids' minds with racist, sexist garbage.
Republicans and propagandists keep insisting impeachment is falling apart. No More Mr. Nice Blog looks at why they may not care their lies are so debunkable.
"What leader worth voting for would negotiate with Mitch McConnell or Kevin McCarthy and believe either will keep his word; what sane president would turn over sensitive documents to Republican-led committees; what Democratic president would simply accept that the federal courts are now the property of the opposition, and submit issues of national policy to them, in the confidence of receiving a fair shake? " — from a discussion of where liberals and America go after the Trump era (assuming there is an after).
The first Republican tax cut didn't do much for the economy. So they're going to try it again. Not really that surprising — from the view of the 1 percent, I suspect the issue is less jump-starting the economy than "give us more money!"
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Filed under economics, Politics
Tagged as david, Richard Burr
David Brooks and other odious people
David Brooks has written about how he believes the old WASP elite ran the country better than today's meritocracy because they imposed social structure and forced everyone beneath them to cling to common standards and rules. So there's more than a little projection when he believes one of the driving forces of extremism is "I yearn for order. Blunt simplicities." Because that's his own approach.
Also, because Brooks can't actually come out and say how bad the right is (they are, after all, the extremists doing almost all the killing), he has to explain this is the mind of extremists on both sides. And by implication that anyone who blames anyone specific is an extremist and potentially dangerous because smart people like Brooks know things are really, really complicated. And "Did you really think you could raise me on gourmet coffee and yoga pants and I wouldn't find a way to rebel against your relativism and materialism? Didn't you observe the eternal pattern — that if you try to flatten a man to the bourgeois he will rebel by becoming a fanatic?" is some really, really bad writing.
In other matters:
Trump's campaign manager predicts Donald Jr. will follow his dad and form a political dynasty. As No More Mr. Nice Blog notes, not a chance.
A court decrees that it's morally wrong cops can steal $200,000 in the course of its search, but even so, "the law was not clearly established" that this crosses a legal line.
The political hacks running NOAA warned its staff not to publicly question Trump's "Dorian threatens Alabama" claim.
A Brazilian mayor tried to block the sale of Marvel comics featuring a gay male kiss on panel.
The movie Satan's School for Girls? According to crackpot preacher Jesse Lee Peterson, it's a documentary — educated women serve Satan! The sexist turd also believes Brett Kavanaugh isn't a real man because he has daughters.
Speaking of Kavanaugh and sexist turds, right-wing misogynist Josh Bernstein says obviously Christine Blasey Ford was a slut who came on to Kavanaugh and when he turned her down, she decided to wait 20 years to get revenge! Yeah, that's really plausible (it's even dumber and nastier in detail).
Following Brett Stephens' freakout over being insulted on Twitter, Slate looks at the history of Stephens and other NYT columnists being special snowflakes.
"Tour was all about how hard it was for the slaves," according to one review of a plantation tour that discusses the realities of slavery.
Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw says universal background checks would be bad because he couldn't lend guns to friends who couldn't pass. He is, very, very upset that anyone should think this means his friends shouldn't have guns. Because nobody ever uses a borrowed gun to — oh, wait. And wait again.
Alaska's attorney general is working hard to destroy public sector unions.
The pastor of a Tennessee Catholic school has banned Harry Potter from the library because the spells are real (spoiler: no, they're not!).
To end on an upbeat note as I like to do, North Carolina Republicans' racist gerrymandering has been thrown out by a state court (based on the state constitution so it doesn't clash with the Supreme Court's federal ruling). Republicans have thrown in the towel, though I won't be surprised if they have more tricks up their sleeves.
Filed under economics, Politics, Undead sexist cliches
Tagged as David Brooks
I shall shed my links over dark evil
Evangelical pastor Mark English on dealing with anti-Semitism in his congregation: "'I'm not in government. It would be like me trying to understand the insurance business,' he said, when asked about Yanko's allegation that Jews control the government. 'The government is so complex — I don't think that any one group controls everything.' He felt no need to address his congregant's anti-Semitic beliefs, either one on one or from the pulpit." What a righteous dude. Slacktivist adds more.
Conservatives have long supported the right of forced-birth protesters to harangue anyone entering a clinic. But subjecting Trump supporters to the same tactics? Outrageous!
Rep. Steve "when did white supremacy become a bad word?" King thinks he deserves an apology for criticism of his no-rape-exception-for-anti-abortion-laws remarks. Which included (I missed this first time) that Republicans oppose an exemption because "they understand it is not the baby's fault, to abort the baby, because of the sin of the father, and maybe sometimes the sin of the mother too."
Ben Shapiro claims no major Republicans ever questioned Barack Obama's legitimacy as president. Shapiro lies.
"They view themselves as just a part of the system, just doing their jobs. It's not up to them what happens, they're just 'enforcing the law, they don't set policy they just enact it … but the reality is that they're not just wheels grinding away in a machine. They're people, and they have choices about what they do."
The Constitution is failing us. So what now?
The Trump administration supports the right of employers to discriminate against transgender people.
A look at Gamergate as a dry run for the Internet harassment even more common today.
Court evangelical Eric Metaxas says it's funny to call Italians "dago" or "wop." Nope.
Good news: Brock Turner lost an appeal against having to register as a sex offender.
Charlotte's mayor and city council are all black, and all received racist hate mail about going back where they came from.
In North Dakota, state ID laws have stripped the right to vote from 10 percent of Native Americans of voting age, because they don't have street addresses so their ID shows a mailing address (this is explained in the article) and the state law requires a street address. A court's response: most voters can meet the street-address requirement so who cares?
How'd I miss Nathan Larson last year? This Republican candidate for office in Virginia is a confessed pedophile and rapist (and white supremacist) who also believes "We need to switch to a system that classifies women as property, initially of their fathers and later of their husbands." (h/t to Echidne).
DC hate crimes are up. Prosecutions are down.
"Getting a job sweeping hallways is like getting into Northrup Grumman used to be." Roy Edroso on why it's not easy to take this job and shove it.
A pastor declares quite inaccurately that a)the Bible is our constitution and b)God doesn't let everyone into heaven, so that proves God supports Trump on immigration!
The new servant economy is not a good thing.
Trump says Jews who vote Democratic are disloyal to Israel (apparently forgetting American voters are not Israelis). And right-winger Wayne Allen Root says Israelis look on Trump like the King of Israel and the second coming, apparently forgetting Jews don't believe there's been a first coming yet (Slacktivist unpacks how nuts this is). More on Root (birther, liar, white supremacist and conspiracist) here.
Australia actively pushed to get kids vaccinated for HPV, which causes cervical cancer. They've almost eliminated cervical cancer. Texas, by contrast, has a bad vaccination rate and a lot more cancer.
In American meritocracy, those with more money get to have more merit.
So let's have some injustice links.
Yes, we're putting immigrants in concentration camps. And the Trump administration says not giving kids baths or somewhere to sleep beside cold concrete floors is acceptable. It's not the first time we've gone this route, but that's no excuse. Points to Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez for calling a spade a spade, and not backing down when she got flak from the media (among others) that she shouldn't say things like that.
Radley Balko, a libertarian who actually says intelligent stuff, looks at how destructive being kept in jail before trial is for the poor. So bad, they'll plead guilty just to get out and back to their jobs. LGM adds more.
In Tennessee, Sheriff's Detective Grayson Fritts told his church the government needs to gather up and start executing gays. Subsequently, Cracker Barrel chose not to serve his church group. Over in Alabama, Mayor Mark Chambers also advocates for killing gays.
California legislator Evan Low has introduced a non-binding resolution opposing conversion therapy and asking for compassion for gays. The religious right's response? Lie through their teeth.
Laura Ingraham, who claims legal immigration is destroying America now says Democrats are trying to replace the white population. That's so close to the Nazis' "You will not replace us!" that I wonder she doesn't come out with a swastika tat.
"The religious right showed no mercy and no charity toward these groups when it had the power to impose its will, but when it lost that power, it turned to invoking the importance of religious tolerance and pluralism in a democratic society." Adam Serwer on how some on the right, having failed to win that way, now reject democracy.
It's not unusual to have lawmakers skip a session to prevent a vote. But threatening violence if you're brought back?
The Minnesota Historical Society identified one state location by its old Native American name. To some Republicans, admitting the Dakota were there first is revisionist history.
In Alabama, the new forced-birth bill makes no exception for rape victims. And guess what, the state also gives rapists visitation rights to the kids.
The Trump Administration wants to charge stores a fee for accepting food stamps.
To end on a justice note or two, Sandy Hook parents have won a couple of court victories against the liars who claim the shooting never happened. And students at one Catholic School pushed back against the administration's arguments that harassment was the fault of female students for dressing sexy.
Update on NC Senator Thom Tillis
Despite his record of supporting bad alternatives to Obamacare, Tillis is enthusiastically claiming the Republican Protect Act will shield people with pre-existing conditions from being charged higher premiums. See, he cares!
Even if true, is a much, much worse deal for most of us than the post-ACA status quo. This fits with most of the Republican alternatives. And while the bill says a plan may not discriminate between people based on pre-existing conditions, the LA Times says there's nothing to stop an insurer from offering two tiers of plans, one for healthy young people, and a pricier one for older sicker people. Which fits, too; a stock conservative solution is that if we don't let states set minimum standards for insurance, the free market will fix everything (they are amazingly flexible on "state's rights" when it gets in the way of big business, aren't they?
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Given Tillis lies like a rug, I am not inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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A North Carolina school insisted female students wear skirts to "preserve chivalry and respect among young women and men." How does that work? "Visual cues" signifying this is not a boy and should be treated accordingly. Plus blather about teen pregnancies and casual sex, which as we all know never happen when women wore skirts.
Oh, and in North Carolina, once sex starts a woman can't change her mind. It's a 2017 story, but online research indicates it's still the law here.
Now for something positive from NC: the Guilford County sheriff fired a jail chaplain who thought his mission included converting inmates.
Less positive: the Supreme Court told Texas must either allow inmates to have a spiritual adviser with them in the execution chamber, regardless of faith, or ban all spiritual advisers. Texas went with option 2.
Rod Dreher bemoans kids who'd sooner play online than get physical in the sports arena. Of course he never played himself.
If women have "daddy issues" why do we mock them instead of their fathers?
Donald Trump has decided Homeland Security shouldn't focus as much on domestic terrorism. Timothy McVeigh, Eric Rudolph, Christopher Hasson, the prez has your back!
The problem with capitalism is often that capitalists suck.
Conservative Austin pastors unsurprisingly fight an ordinance that protects against firing for gender identity and sexual orientation.
How America sold out to Russian (and other) kleptocrats.
A pastor told his female parishioners God would bless them for submitting to his sexual demands. (hat tip to slacktivist).
The appeal of Satan-fearing paranoia? "Even if there isn't a good guy, there sure as hell is a villain." Or as Fred Clark puts it " It was a lie that reassured them they were the good and virtuous and heroic people, distinct from and better than hundreds of thousands of their neighbors who were — in fact and, more importantly, by comparison — unspeakably vile and depraved."
A-OC reminds us that tech companies and Big Pharma rely on government support for innovation and don't pay much back.
In El Salvador, having a health crisis in pregnancy can get you 30 years in prison.
"But, being "not quite as bad" when it comes to gender discrimination isn't enough for Democrats, not ever, but especially not now." Which is to say Michigan Democrats are not doing enough.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (yep, that guy) is totally in favor of trans rights (the same way he's concerned about the environment), but if we give them rights, couldn't Trump declare himself the first female president?
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney thinks it's terrible that we don't support anti-gay discrimination in other countries. The administration is also comfortable with overseas efforts to push women into having more babies. Unsurprising given our own alt.right movement is fueled by male supremacy. And Republicans have been courting the far right overseas for a long time.
Beware! Trump claims the noise from wind turbines gives people cancer. No More Mr. Nice Blog provides some perspective (it's a fringe theory that the noise will keep people awake, which weakens their health).
National Review's Graham Hillard says it seems reasonable to respect trans people's requests about which pronouns and names to use, but we shouldn't! "A man is a man. A woman is a woman. Let us not pretend otherwise." Remember, it's the people who hate LBGTQ people who are the real martyrs.
A woman in West Virginia claimed she saved her daughter from an Egyptian-immigrant kidnapper by flashing a gun. She lied about everything.
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Judging Tucker Carlson by things he says? That's outrageous!
So as I linked to recently, alt.right-curious Tucker Carlson (who thinks its bad when women out-earn men and that women buying men dinner is disgusting) told a radio host that women like being ordered "do what you're told" and that a statutory rapist whose willing to marry his victim shouldn't be treated as a crook ("arranging a marriage between a 16-year-old and a 27-year-old is not the same as pulling a stranger off the street and raping her"). Given his continued sexist views (he also believes men are the oppressed sex in America) his defense that "if you want to know what I think, you can watch" lacks a little something. Right-wingers, however, have an explanation: his words are irrelevant because liberals used research to unearth his quotes! How dare they look up things Carlson said in the past! It's like a Jedi mind trick, or that time they stole Kevin D. Williamson's career! Liberals destroy everything! While I doubt Carlson will go down, he is at least hurting.
It's way too early to place bets on 2020, at least for me. I hate the fact that running for president has already started. And there's absolutely no predicting anything at this point. Okay, I think it' s a safe bet that if Trump doesn't die or get impeached (and he's not getting impeached), he's the Republican candidate in 2020 but beyond that? But I do think there's some truth to the argument that the media will gush over Trump a lot and that this will help him. It wouldn't be the first time media gush has shaped the election. And we'll also get silly commentary like this.
Anti-Islam bigot John Guandalo says it doesn't violate the First Amendment to ban Muslims from government because Islam is not a religion. Fox News' Jeanine Piro claims Ihlan Omar follows sharia which is unconstitutional so she can't be in Congress. And other people think allowing her to walk around being Muslim means we've forgotten 9/11. I'm sure if we start showing posters with prominent white conservatives and ask why we've forgotten Oklahoma City, they'll agree it's just the same, right?
Trump can't stand to admit to even a tiny mistake.
Why people shout racist abuse.
Reagan signed MLK Day into law, but he wasn't a fan of King, and implied King brought it on himself by encouraging people to break the law.
Professional liar Dinesh D'Souza struggles to prove the left inspired Hitler's genocidal views.
Oh, the horror! "Every email announcement the Federalist Society sent out met a snarky, vitriolic response by progressive students."
Right-winger Tony Perkins demands the feds regulate PayPal because it's too left-wing.
A feminist guide to raising boys.
The far-right in Europe isn't very different in its sexist views from the Muslim far-right.
Why Facebook moderators supposed to moderate crazy political posts start to believe them instead. And people targeted by conspiracy theories find their lives become nightmares.
Will self-driving cars have a harder time spotting black pedestrians than white?
Successful people are often shocked when someone points out they had luck (including being born rich, born white, not growing up in an abusive home) as well as talent.
Let's end on an upnote: two boys starting a feminist club in their all-male school.
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The market does not always do right by us
One of the basic libertarian axioms (at least for many of the libertarians I've read) is that a completely deregulated market is a sweet deal for us consumers. The market doesn't need government to make businesses do right; they have to do right to attract customers. If they fail to give good service (or good products), we shop with someone else and they go belly-up.
Last week's godawful flight was a reminder what a load of codswallop that is.
I like flying, but the decades since the government deregulated air flight in 1978 (not complete deregulation), it hasn't gotten better for us consumers. If anything, the airlines thrive on making things worse, then offering extra money to upgrade. As the Consumerist blog put it, though I can't find the link, it's in their interest to make us miserable so we'll upgrade. Seats are small (and could get worse), service is poor and the airlines stay solvent by not having much redundancy: if a flight gets canceled or a crew member doesn't show, it's often not easy to find an alternative (in fairness, there are financial reasons for that).
Or consider calling your Internet service, power company, insurer … well, pretty much anyone. Some small businesses pick up the phone; with big ones (or even slightly big ones) it's a tedious slog through a phone network. In one case (dealing with one of my mother's banks), I could not find an answer in the list of "press 1 for X, 2 for Y" options.
Having human operators would be a vast improvement, but that would cost them money; much better to stick us with the wasted time we spend on the phone (Slacktivist points out that we also get the burden of handling Internet and debit card security).
In both cases, we consumers are stuck. It's often impractical or massively inconvenient to drive out of state (to Mysticon, for instance). If we need to talk to someone on the phone, we need to talk to someone on the phone. And unless we have a boatload of alternatives, we're stuck. So we suffer, they make more money and the shareholders/owners suck it up. Which is why I also see libertarians explaining this is the way it should be: the only people companies aren't allowed to screw over are the owners.
Just to be fair, I'll look at a counter-argument. The conservative flagship National Review has been a welfare case for years. They rely on donations, even to pay their legal bills in a case a few years ago. So they're not depending on success with consumers to stay afloat. And without the pressure to compete in the marketplace we get articles like Kevin D. Williamson's (yes, that Kevin D. Williamson. Who's also the Kevin D. Williamson who claimed Romney was more of a man than Obama because five sons beats two daughters) explanation for why Swedish-style socialized medicine won't work here. To wit, because Swedes are responsible, while Americans just mooch and want a handout. No, it doesn't make any sense — but without free-market pressure, it doesn't have to.
January 7, 2019 · 5:12 am
The 2020 election begins now! God help us all.
As far as Politico is concerned, Elizabeth Warren is already tanking her chances. No, the secret to winning is trust to old, center-right white candidates! Or wildly popular politicians like … Paul Ryan? But women, it's essential they be likable!
Mitt Romney, meanwhile, would like you to know that he's very anti-Trump except where he supports him. One LGM blogger suggests, however, this is a clear sign Romney thinks the tide is turning against President Shit-Gibbon. But NMMNG says if Romney thinks that could land him the 2020 nomination he's dreaming. But just in case, Trump's allies are pushing harder to declare Trump the party's pre-emptive nominee.
And Jerry Falwell Jr. assures everyone evangelicals will stick with Trump regardless of what sins he may have committed. Falwell's excuse is that Jesus shouldn't be setting public policy, which quite simply I think is a lie; the religious right (which was founded by his father as a political force) is all about letting their view of Jesus' wishes define the law.
And of course there are the constant arguments that Dems won't really be any different from Republicans if they had more power or don't really care about stopping them. After all they could totally have stopped Kavanaugh making it to the Supreme Court if they tried. Plus arguments that if Democrats trash-talk Trump, it's all over for them.
Trump's tax cut benefits rich foreign investors more than Americans who don't own stock.
65 percent of jail inmates haven't been convicted of anything. The majority are there because they can't afford bail.
Deplatforming hatemongering websites or starving them of cash has been an effective tactic. Then you get someone like tech CEO Rob Monster, who made it his mission to save the hate-site Gab.
The founder and former leader of Identity Evropa has filed for bankruptcy. Not much detail at the link.
Customers without plastic keep running into problems at businesses that don't take cash. For one thing, a number of stores don't say this up front.
More white, right-wing terrorism: Antigovernment radical James Stachowiak calls for people to commit lone wolf terrorist acts.
Chipotle requires employees to sign arbitration agreements giving up their right to sue. Now employees are requesting arbitration and Chipotle is stalling.
Idris Elba says the only reason to worry about Me Too is if you're guilty of harassing someone. Likewise, while many Wall Streeters now avoid meeting with women and even worry about hiring them, attorney Stephen Zweig says the solution is "try not to be an asshole."
"Why do we think "innocent until proven guilty" is an appropriate basis for deciding who we invite into our personal, professional, or public spaces?"
"A video clip of two black people showcasing visible anger toward the president would have been played over and over again on cable news." Hilary Clinton got crap for not playing nice with Trump at Bush the elder's funeral.
Hand-waving poverty and other links.
There's a school of right-wing thought that as Jesus said the poor are with us always, there's no point to helping them. We're not going to end poverty, we may not be able to help everyone, so what's the point?
Of course by that logic, there's no point to paying for police. We're not going to get rid of all crime,we're not going to catch all criminals, so why not just give up? But people do grasp that stopping crime is a good thing, even if you don't bat 100 percent. I dont' think poverty's any difference. Helping one person who can't get medical care (the topic in the link above) does make a difference. And Jesus wasn't saying don't bother to help the poor because you can't end poverty. He's quoting an Old Testament passage, the point of which is that poverty enduring is a reason to be generous, not to just give up.
There's a right-wing school of thought that not only is it bad to help the poor with tax dollars, it's bad to help the poor period. Homeless shelters are bad because they give homeless people less reason to get a job and afford rent. What they need is to suffer so that they'll have an incentive to get off their lazy asses. Because that's the real problem, isn't it? A variation on this idea is that what poor people really need is not charity but jobs, so capitalism is the real charity. John Stossel, for example, wrote some years back that putting your money into a new business would do far more good than putting it into charity.
Of course that ignores that increasingly money flows to the stockholders, not to paying employees jobs they can live on (see here for more). Nine out of 10 jobs in Silicon Valley pay less than they used to. It's worth remembering that capitalism by itself has a mixed record at best of helping out the poor and downtrodden. Wages were good in the 20th century because of unions and government support for labor rights, moving us away from the Gilded Age where the worker had no rights at all.
Nevertheless, Kevin Williamson (yes, Kevin "kill women who get abortions" Williamson) takes that ball and runs with it, and runs roughshod over Christiantiy. Sure, Jesus said that if you have two coats, you should give one to someone who doesn't have one. But you know what? Capitalism mass-produces coats! If you open a coat factory, you can hire people, pay them well and they can afford their own coats! Besides, what if he needs food more than a coat, huh? While Williamson also acknowledges that charity is important, it feels like lip service as he gets to the important point, reassuring rich people that just by running businesses they're making the world better.
And of course, there's still the standard war-on-the-poor tactics: Arkansas requires Medicaid recipients report their work hours to keep coverage. But it makes it very hard for them to do so, for example only allowing online reporting.
Rep. Paul Ryan is leaving office getting plaudits for fighting the deficit. But his budgetary priorities increased it. He only cared when it justified slashing the social safety net.
Will Congress start holding banks accountable for misdeeds?
Greed is not good.
A couple of economists continue insisting that supply-side economics works. They're wrong.
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Sean Kelly Gallery. Closing next week: Joseph Kosuth 'Existential Time'
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Joseph Kosuth 'Existential Time'
Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Sean Kelly. Wednesday, October 21, 12pm EST. Details below
Don't miss the last week to see Joseph Kosuth solo exhibition 'Existential Time', closing Saturday, October 24, 2020. Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, has initiated language-based works and appropriation strategies since the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. For this exhibition Joseph Kosuth has developed a series of installations that address the problem of time and existence, emphasizing the lack, limitations, and abundance of meaning that surrounds the experience of being in time, past and present. Kosuth's presentation of three separate bodies of work: 'Existential Time,' 'Illumination (Existential Time)' and 'Quoted Clocks,' all from 2020, investigates time and existence through a variety of references from other writers. Kosuth's reflection on time in this exhibition stems from both a personal and philosophical concern with finding meaning within the various contexts and narratives life provides. It is thus also an investigation into the process of making meaning in artistic practice.
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1991: Optimal year for rock music
Especially for heavy metal and hard rock as can be heard on the following albums: Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid, Armored Saint's Symbol of Salvation, Cannibal Corpse's Butchered at Birth, Cerebral Fix's Bastards, Dark Angel's Time Does Not Heal, Death's Human, Entombed's Clandestine, Lita Ford's Dangerous Curves, Metallica's black album, Morbid Angel's Blessed are the Sick, Motörhead's 1916, Mr. Bungle's self-titled début, Ozzy Osbourne's No More Tears, Paradise Lost's Gothic, Prong's Prove you Wrong, Queen's Innuendo, Savatage's Streets: A Rock Opera, Skid Row's Slave to the Grind, Sepultura's Arise, Suffocation's Effigy of the Forgotten, Tesla's Psychotic Supper, Van Halen's For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge and White Lion's Mane Attraction (a surprisingly cool album).
As for other bands releasing singles without having to record an album of original material, the following is worthy of recognition: Anthrax's Bring the Noise (a rap metal cover), Faith No More's Perfect Crime, Perfect Crime, Megadeth's Go to Hell, Mötley Crüe's Primal Scream and Ratt's Nobody Rides for Free (my favourite). To emphasize the eventful nature of 1991, three of these singles were on soundtracks whose movies (one of them being Point Break) starred Keanu Reeves (the other was Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey).
If that's not enough rockage for you, there's Use Your Illusion by Guns 'n' Roses, Notorious by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, the self-titled album of Cycle Sluts from Hell, Wretch by Kyuss, Sailing the Seas of Cheese by Primus, Out of Time by R.E.M. along with Superstition by Siouxsie and the Banshees. It speaks volumes about 1991's magic that Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger, Nirvana's Nevermind and RHCP's Blood Sugar Sex Magik (sic) were released on the same date: September 24. Third time lucky.
You would think that 1990 would have been the best year for rock music with so many people in 1989 wanting to start the decade with a big bang. As for other rock albums that were released in 1991, the year was rounded out by Blur's Leisure, The Cult's Ceremony, NOFX's Ribbed, Fishbone's The Reality of my Surroundings, Firehouse's Flyin' the Flannel, Hole's Pretty on the Inside, Jaxbox's Grippe, My Bloody Valentine's Loveless (ethereal elegance), Pearl Jam's Ten, The Scream's Let it Scream, Temple of the Dog's eponymous album, Transvision Vamp's Little Magnets Versus the Bubble (their coolest album) and U2's Ashtung Baby.
1991 was the best example of the stars aligning for the genre (even Billy Corgan described Gish as a very spiritual album for The Smashing Pumpkins). Not only was 1991 the apotheosis, it was the coolest year for the genre. If I had to pick the coolest record, it would be the first and last album of Nymphs. As such, it was the last golden year.
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2. This recommendation was under consideration of "Committee of Allowances" and Ministry of Finance vide their Resolution dated 06.7.2017 had accepted the recommendation of "Committee on Allowances" regarding abolition of DCA and replacing the same with Additional Post Allowance (APA).
4. After detailed deliberations with this Ministry, guidelines have now been issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Department of Personnel & Training (DoP&T) vide their OM No.2/13/2017-Estt. (Pay-II), dated 08.08.2018 for newly proposed Additional Post Allowance (APA).
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Following on from Matt's unboxing video last week I have been using the Nokia N95 as my main device. I have to say that I am really very impressed with it. So here for your listening pleasure is my overview/review podcast.
The keypad on the Nokia N95 is revealed when the screen is slid open upwards.
And the media buttons allow you to control music and video playback when the device is in landscape mode.
On the left hand side you can find the headphone socket and the microSD card socket complete with its cover.
On the right are the camera and volume controls.
The camera on the N95 is 5 mega pixels and has Carl Zeiss optics.
The (N95) camera has leap-frogged my existing Fuji digital camera… Still images; wonderful, Video; remarkable. The sound and picture quality is astonishing!
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Does It Look Like It's Our First Time? CASINO ROYALE
Why the best Bond film is more than just a Bond film.
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Does It Look Like It's Our First Time?
This article was originally ran in June of last year, as part of our ongoing James Bond series "Does It Look Like It's Our First Time" we have adapted it and rerun it today. If you are interested in the rest of the series you can find those articles here.
Our film begins as we fade in on the streets of Prague in the evening hours in black and white. Steam rises from the sewer grates as a car pulls up and a man exits. Glancing from side to side he quickly heads into an office building and rides the elevator to the top floor. He moves with purpose and there is a glint of fear in his eye as he enters his office. As he reaches his desk we suddenly hear a voice from the shadows: "M really doesn't mind you earning a little money on the side, Dryden. She'd just prefer if it weren't selling secrets". As the line is uttered the camera pans around to reveal a man seated in the corner, shrouded in shadow, with a cold menace radiating from his eyes. Dryden pauses and delivers the line that changed the course of a franchise: "If the theatrics are supposed to scare me, you have the wrong man, Bond. If M was so sure I was bent, she'd have sent a Double-O." And with that, everything changed.
In that one moment, and in the moments that follow as we see James Bond brutally and efficiently collect his first two kills and claim his status as 007, Director Martin Campbell, Daniel Craig, and the entire team behind Casino Royale sent a very clear message: this isn't your dad's James Bond.
After 44 years and 20 films the Bond franchise was in desperate need of change. It reached magnificent creative highs with the first three films Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger, but the quality began to drop almost immediately as the franchise became over reliant on gadgets and quips as it slowly became a parody of itself. By the time Casino Royale reached theaters in 2006 the franchise was in danger after a string of flops. A major course correction was needed and the crew behind this film was happy to provide it. By starting over from the beginning of Bond's career and by choosing to adapt the first story they were able to strip away all of the excess that was weighing down the franchise, go back to basics, and simply focus on telling a good story, and they absolutely delivered.
It's important to note how far removed Casino Royale feels from the Bond films that came before it. Not only does the film do away with many of the hallmarks of the franchise, it does so while not even attempting to hide it's disdain for what had become of the Bond franchise. It sneers at the gadgetry, the swashbuckling, and the horrible puns, taking the time to fire multiple shots at how ridiculous the films had become. It is a film that strips Bond down, both figuratively and literally as it tears away at the tropes to produce a Bond unlike anything that had come before. There are no fancy gadgets, no giant space lasers, no diabolical plot to end or take over the world. No, the stakes of this film are much lower, much more human. While the film contains three magnificent set pieces, each of which could easily be considered an all-timer for the genre, they all are motivated by, and move the plot forward by serving a strong narrative purpose. The core of the story is brilliant in it's simplicity: After Bond's interference causes a villainous money man named Le Chiffre to lose over a hundred million dollars of his clients funds, Le Chiffre plans a high stakes poker game in Montenegro in hopes of winning the money back. Mi6 sends Bond, backed by the stunning Treasury representative Vesper Lynd, to infiltrate the game and insure that Le Chiffre does not win, in hopes that they can then turn him by offering him protection from his clients, gaining valuable information in the process.
Craig is a revelation in his first performance as 007. His is a cruel Bond, with a chiseled physique, icy blue eyes, and a menacing presence. All of the suits, dinner jackets, and cultural refinements only serve to barely mask the violence buried mere millimeters beneath the surface. This is a man that looks like he could kill with his bare hands, and on a couple of occasions he does just that. His combat style is brutal and precise, dealing out death with devastating fury. It is however in the quieter moments when Craig truly shines. His conversations feel like pitched battles, with him constantly maneuvering for the upper hand. He is one moment exuding the easy charm that has clearly gained him access to many a lady's bedroom, and the next his every word drips with venom. Perhaps what is most shocking about his performance is how little regard his Bond has for human life. Very early in the story the film establishes that Bond cares little for his fellow man, and considers almost any amount of collateral damage to be acceptable as long as the mission is completed. He is closed off to the world and takes steps to insure that he always keeps others at arms length. It is because of this that the tragedy that occurs when he finally lets someone in is so visceral. Craig's performance provides layers to Bond never seen prior. He is at times calm and sophisticated, but also produces a gamut of emotions previously foreign to the character. He is manic, reckless, charming, terrifying, wrathful, and sorrowful all in different measures. It's a performance unlike any that came before it.
It is also worth noting how much messier Craig's Bond is allowed to get than any of his predecessors. Unlike prior Bond's, Craig doesn't always come out of the fight clean, in fact he almost never does. He is constantly bloodied and banged up, with the injuries from one scene carrying over to the next. After a particularly memorable fight with an African warlord, Bond is forced to change his dress shirt, because the one he had been wearing is drenched in his own blood. This is a Bond that is allowed to be hurt, and no scene exemplifies this more than an astonishingly brutal torture sequence that occurs during the back half of the film. Craig makes you feel every hit he delivers and every one he receives, selling the violence and danger inherent in being a man whose job title is professional assassin.
Mads Mikkleson's turn as the slimy and villainous banker Le Chiffre is noteworthy as well. Mikkleson plays Le Chiffre as man constantly flirting with the boundaries of his power and control. He gambles on the stock market using his client's funds, and when that backfires, attempts to win it back by playing poker of all things. It is in these scenes at the poker table, with him and Craig seated across from each other that Mikkleson truly shines. There is a manic edge that ever so often bursts forth from the calm exterior for mere fractions of a second. He constantly seeks for an edge, doing whatever it takes in an attempt to win the money that will be his salvation. Human lives mean nothing to him, not even of those closest to him, he cares for only two things in the world, money, and himself.
No accounting of this film would be complete without discussing the performance of Eva Green as the beautiful and brilliant Vesper Lynd. Be warned if you haven't seen the film there are MAJOR plot spoilers ahead, so stop reading and go watch the movie and then come back and rejoin us. A running gag amongst Bond fans is how every Bond girl claims to be a "different type of Bond girl", and they never are. Since the beginning of the franchise the producers, writers, and directors of the Bond films have for the most part been content to just check off a series of boxes to create Bond girls that really aren't that integral to the story. They show up, demonstrate a special skill or knowledge, maybe their name is a pun or an innuendo (Pussy Galore, Plenty O'Toole, Dr. Holly Goodhead, Kissy Suzuki, Tiffany Case, Bibi Dahl, Xenia Onnatop, Molly Warmflash), they sleep with Bond, he probably has to rescue them, and they sleep with Bond again. Very rarely do they have any real impact on the character of Bond, and even rarer still do they change him. Even Tracy Bond, the only woman Bond ever marries, had little long term impact on the series, being killed off at the end of the only film she appeared in and then being mentioned only once more in the history of the franchise. Vesper Lynd broke this pattern in a big way. She was smart, sophisticated, and proved to be more than Bond's equal when it came to wordplay. Eva Green plays Vesper as a woman who, like Bond, keeps her distance from others. She makes it clear very early on that she has no interest in becoming yet another one of Bond's conquests, never feeling afraid to make her disdain for him known and never capitulating to his will. Because of this when the characters do manage to penetrate through each other's emotional armor and fall in love, it feels real. This also makes her inevitable betrayal, where we learn she has been working for Le Chiffre's backers the entire time, and her watery death in Venice, so excruciating not only for the audience, but for Bond as well. It validates his original belief that he can trust no one and leaves him a hollow shell of a man. When asked at the end if he needs time to recover Bond coldly replies "Why should I need more time, the job's done and the bitch is dead" and you're left wondering if he means it or simply wants to mean it. What you know for certain however is that he is a man irrevocably changed. This was a woman for whom Bond had been prepared to give it all up, to attempt to reclaim what was left of his soul, but in the end he discovers that regardless of what she might have felt for him, she had been using him the entire time.
It's for all of these reasons and many more that Casino Royale feels like more than just a Bond film. It was a touchstone of early 2000's action cinema, a film that like Mad Max Fury Road did last year, felt too stupid good to have been a product of the traditional and cynical Hollywood studio system. Across every single measure by which we judge film, it was better than all of the Bond films that came before it, and disappointingly all of the ones that have come after. By deciding to start over, it charted a bold new direction for the franchise, one in which fan service was not seen as something to aspire too, and the only goal was making the best film possible. Sadly, as any of you who have watched Spectre know, this bold new direction quickly had the legs cut right out from under it, but it is still laudable nonetheless. It's the kind of film that will stand the test of time, it holds up now 10 years after it's initial release, and will still hold up when revisited in 30 years. It was the film that showed that 007 could still surprise us at the cinema. It was the film that transcended Bond.
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Sheepdogs have large, floppy and hairy ears that invite otitis externa.
If your dog is shaking his head or scratching his ears, he may be suffering from otitis externa, an ear infection in the external ear canal. Otitis externa can affect any breed of dog, though WebMD reports that as much as 80 percent of all infections occur in breeds with long, drooping ears. Other predispositions also play a role. Regular cleaning of your dog's ears can help to reduce the risk of infection and avoid discomfort and the need for treatment.
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Treating otitis externa is essential for preventing the spread of infection into the inner ear. Untreated infections can lead to perforated ear drums and permanent loss of hearing. Your vet will examine your dog using an otoscope. If a discharge is present, the vet will run samples to determine which bacteria may be present. Otitis externa treatment involves the administration of daily eardrops or topical ointments. Which drops or ointments you will need to use will depend on the underlying cause of infection. In most cases, treatment can last from two to four weeks. Don't attempt to treat a dog yourself.
Many dogs, especially those in high-risk categories, suffer from chronic otitis externa. In this case, regular ear care is essential in reducing the risk of infection. Talk to you veterinarian about the proper method for cleaning your dog's ears on a regular basis. Let the veterinarian trim away any ear hair that may be blocking the ear canal. If allergies are a problem, work with your vet to avoid the allergens responsible for the allergic response.


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By Georgi Gotev | EURACTIV.com
"You can have the end of Europe. I think the European Union can't survive with Marine le Pen in the European Council representing France. It will be game over," Letta said.
The former leader, who is also president of the Jacques Delors Institute, spoke to a think tank forum in Valletta, organised together with the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the EU.
Without naming current frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, Letta said that if "a younger pro-European" wins, he would be "very optimistic", because he believes the elections in Germany would be won by a pro-European.
He added that Angela Merkel had now become much more pro-EU than she has ever been, while the SPD candidate, Martin Schulz, had become an "unbelievable" political phenomenon, by investing his remarkable European career in national politics.
But Letta said that the French elections were more important than the German ones, because after the Brexit referendum and the election of Donald Trump, the presence of France in the UN Security Council had become "crucial for the future" of international relations.
EU under attack
Letta stated the EU was under attack and that it was of major importance to show to the citizens that the Union is "useful", especially on issues where national solutions don't work, such as the migration crisis.
He stressed that the EU was too slow on delivery, explaining that the decision to establish the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (EBCG) was a good one, but that there was a risk of "very poor delivery".
The forum in Malta was dedicated to the EU's neighbourhood policy, and the venue largely focused on the refugee crisis. Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat emphasised in his speech that decisions taken at EU level should be implemented.
Muscat cited his own country as an example, which although exposed to refugee arrivals itself, has opted to take asylum-seekers from Greece and Italy under that is meant to see the relocation of 160,000 asylum seekers across the EU within a two-year timeframe.
Muscat said that there should be a Commissioner in charge of monitoring how decisions made at EU summits are implemented by the member states.
EURACTIV.com asked Muscat and Letta what would happen if the decision to relocate the 160,000 asylum seekers is not implemented by September. Some countries from Central Europe simply refuse to relocate refugees, while other countries took in small numbers.
In theory, the Commission could launch infringement procedures.
Muscat said he didn't want to be the one to say that relocation is impossible. He also said that he didn't know what would happen if the decision was not implemented in the assigned timeframe.
Letta said that by failing to implement the relocation decision, EU countries would miss a great opportunity. He added that the EU was based on solidarity and responsibility, and that the first time that Germany had appealed for solidarity, the reaction was not at the level of expectations.
"It is inconceivable that some countries didn't offer any reaction," Letta said.
"Even in the time of the Internet, you cannot escape your history and geography," he added.
Vladimir Bartovic, director of Czech think tank Europeum, asked if the "flexible solidarity" advocated by Slovakia and the rest of the Visegrád countries could be accepted as a contribution, to which Muscat clearly replied that this was not the approach of the rest of the Union.
The Maltese prime minster explained that in his experience EU countries have come to an agreement on external aspects of the migration crisis, rather than on the internal ones, such as burden sharing. He called the external aspects the "low-hanging fruit" where more unity could be achieved.
Muscat insisted on the need to push for a multi-speed Europe, although he added that as the leader of a small country, people would perhaps expect him to advocate for maintaining the status quo.
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Q: Django url template tage and variable values with dot (.) why doesn't {% url myVar %} where myVar = 'jack.johnson' doesn't work ?
The view is fine, the urls.py is:
url(r'^(?P[A-Za-z0-9-._]+)/$', overview, name='user_profile'),

A: Because the URL name is 'user_profile', not 'jack.johnson'.

A: Confirm that you're using at least Django 1.0 (named url patterns didn't exist before then), re-read the Django doc on Naming URL Patterns, then try
{% url user_profile myVar %}

A: guys, sorry. I found my mistake and the example I gave was misleading.
Thanks for the quick response.


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Home Blog Was HMV's bankruptcy down to industry changes or high prices?
Was HMV's bankruptcy down to industry changes or high prices?
In the final few days of 2018, UK retailer HMV went bankrupt for the second time in just under six years. This news led a few readers to get in touch with questions about the numbers behind HMV's decline.
The general tenor of the questions could be summed up as "Was HMV's failure down to the industry's move to digital delivery or to being more expensive than their rivals?"
It's a fascinating topic and one which gets to the very heart of the changing face of the Home Entertainment sector, both in the UK and worldwide. We're not going to be able to ascribe an exact percentage of HMV's woes to each of the factors, but we can look at what the numbers tell us.
Let's start with the simpler question of industry shifts, and then we'll move on to how HMV compared to its rivals.
How the UK Home Entertainment sector is changing
HMV opened its first store in 1921 and, after an expansion in the 1960s, fast became a fixture on British high streets. It offered all manner of products including movies, music, games, merchandising, entertainment equipment, and more.
They were a major player in the UK entertainment sector, selling 31% of all physical music in 2018 and 23% of all DVDs and Blu-rays. Its market share actually increased throughout 2018 but this was not enough to save the store from the massive shifts in the industry.
It's not that consumers are spending less on home entertainment products – far from it. The UK Home Entertainment sector has grown by 18% in the past five years, from £1.98 billion in 2014 to £2.34 billion in 2018. But it's where that money is going which has spelled double doom for HMV. Over that period, Subscription VoD sales have more than tripled while DVD and Blu-Ray sales are a third of what they were in 2014.
This falling tide sinks all retailers who rely on physical sales, no matter if the company is dead wood or solid as oak.
HMV's physical presence on the high street only exacerbated their problem as it made them far less able to respond to the shifting market than an online-only retailer. They couldn't reduce their wage bill without closing stores, they were chained to sites with high pedestrian footfall and had to hold far more stock across all their stores than an online-only operation which can despatch discs from a single warehouse.
So there's no doubt that the writing was on the wall for the model HMV had relied upon for the past half-century.
Let's now take a look at the other factor which readers asked about – HMV's prices.
How competitive was HMV?
Towards the end of last year, I conducted an as-yet-unpublished study into the price of DVDs, Blu-Rays and digital movies in the UK. The data from this work is the perfect source for us to investigate how HMV compared to some of its major rivals.
This data focuses on major movies (top 200 at the box office) over the past eighteen years and the lowest price at which the movie is on sale at each retailer. There is more detail on the methodology and relevant notes at the end of this article.
We'll start with the breadth of inventory. It's no surprise that Amazon offers the widest selection of movies, on both DVD and Blu-Ray. HMV carried two-thirds of available DVD titles and four-fifths of available Blu-Ray titles.
Looking at prices, the median price for a major movie DVD release at HMV (at the time of my research) was £5.99.
This is very cheap if compared to the industry average cost of a DVD in 1999 (£15.75) but slightly more expensive than most of their other rivals in 2018 (Amazon was £5.63, Base.com was £5.14 and Zoom.co.uk was £4.04). Only Zavvi had a higher median DVD price, at £6.29.
The picture was worse for HMV when it came to Blu-Rays, where they ranked at the most expensive of these five retailers, at £8.99.
This meant that HMV was rarely the cheapest place for UK consumers to source their DVDs. Only 17% of DVDs were cheapest at HMV and only 14% of Blu-Rays.
Note: The charts above add up to more than 100% as often more than one retailer shared the same cheapest price for a title.
So I guess both of the readers' theories were borne out, although to different degrees.
The major cause seems to be the shift from physical to digital ownership and the move away from single title purchases to subscription offerings such as Netflix.
But it's also true to say that HMV was rarely the cheapest place to source your DVDs and Blu-Rays. The main weapon they had was their physical presence on high streets, but as more consumers shifted their purchases online, this factor became less of an advantage and more of a millstone.
The data on the sector came from The Official Charts Company, Futuresource Consulting, IHS Market via the UK industry body BASE (not to be confused with Base.com, one of the retailers studied and a wholly unconnected company). The prices came from each of the retailers, with help from FindAnyFilm to find listings.
I gathered the price data in October 2018. Throughout the year, prices fluctuate so it's possible that the picture would have been subtly different had it been conducted in the Christmas period or the January sales.
I focused on feature films released theatrically between 2000 and 2017 (inclusive) and which appeared in the top 200 of the Domestic box office of each year. This was to focus the data on the most common titles and not to let it get swamped with TV series, low budget or straight-to-DVD titles. Many retailers offer more than one DVD or Blu-Ray version of a movie, either as part of a package or just different issues of the movie. In each case, I took the lowest price the movie was available at from that retailer.
The charts showing the percentage of movies on offer relate to movies which were available at any of the five retailers, not all movies made. This is so that it represents all the movies they could actually stock and excludes movies not available on DVD or Blu-Ray in the UK. Likewise, the cheapest price is of the five retailers, not of any retailer in the sector.
There are likely to be many other factors which contributed to HMV's woes. I only present these two as (a) these were the ones I was asked about, and (b) these are two I have good quality data for. At the time of writing, HMV is still trading, under the bankruptcy guardianship of KPMG. I have used the past tense because my data relates to last year, not because HMV no longer exists.
Like anyone who was a child in the UK in the 1990s, I have fond memories of browsing HMV for movies. It introduced me to the joys of independent and cult movies as well as helping me pad out my collection of less highbrow content. But I don't think I've been to an HMV in the past five years or longer, and I very rarely visit any retailer of physical content.
This is yet another lesson in how quickly things can change, no matter how inconceivable a shift may seem. Companies like Blockbuster and HMV represented huge powerhouses and held dominant market positions. This means that we should not be so certain that the film industry of the future will be dominated by the major players of today.
Maybe in a decade or two, I will be writing about 2019 being the high point for Disney, before their decline, irrelevance and eventual bankruptcy. Or Netflix. Or Apple. Hard to even imagine, but history suggests it's more possible than we might think.
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In a word – neither! HMV, along with all the other failing shops on the UK High Street are failing as a direct and unmitigated result of bad management decisions.
20:20 hindsight is always a fine thing, but we can now say that shop chain owners were too keen to sign long leases at high prices, councils levied business rates at unrealistic levels and made driving to the shops difficult or impossible and management just dug their heads into the sand and refused to do much or anything about changes in tastes and the on-line revolution.
In the specific case of HMV, new owners Hilco insisting on £48m in service charges didn't help either.
It is not just HMV. I went into our local mall on the Tuesday before Christmas and both floors of our local Debenham's (clothing) were completely without a single customer. Marks and Spenser (food and clothing) had a handful, but the food store had about 12 staff milling about, not doing much and jut six customers. In that particular mall and on that particular day, it was pretty much long faces all round.
HMV on that day had a few customers looking for something worth buying, but it soon became obvious that they were not finding anything that they wanted. Like Debenham's and M&S, they are not offering anything unique or even especially attractive. Like Debenham's and M&S, they are offering the same tired old hash everyone else has.
Because HMV has no unique content (thereby loosing out to Amazon Prime and Netflix) and a very poor on-line presence, there is no imperative to go to all the trouble of finding a parking space and battling into a town centre to visit their shops.
There is a lesson here for the movie industry! You had better wise up and start rejuvenating both your product and your structures. The new movie houses are in the living room. There are whole new markets opening up and for all demographic groups.


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PT Session is the first of two new applications from Pete, and unlike PT Prefs Helper which is Mac OSX only PT Session is available for both Mac and Windows.
PG PT Session is a utility initially designed to simplify making music lists. It can open a Pro Tools session text export file and you can then select which tracks to re-export. It then does this in a simplified format - no channel number (with a multi-channel track it just takes the left channel), no event number, removes fade in/fade out/cross fade can optionally ignore muted clips. It can also, on export, optionally merge all the tracks that have been selected into one merge track - useful if you need to just have a list of clips that occur across multiple tracks.
PT WAV Checker is the latest addition to the Pete Gates stable of useful Pro Tools related utility apps and is also available for both Mac and Windows.
WAV Checker is a utility that scans WAV files and verifies their structure. Pete tells us that it hasn't been battle hardened by other people yet so don't panic if it flags a file that plays fine (or crashes this software!). If you have a 'false positive' Pete asks if you would send him a copy of the file (if you are permitted to do so) and he will investigate. If it crashes, also please let him know what you were doing and he will dig into it.
We love what Pete is going for the Pro Tools community. Like a number of developers his day job is as a dubbing mixer and supervising sound editor and has chosen to create some apps in his spare time to solve problems that we all have.