What Does Cleaning a Dog's Ears Mean?
Why Are Dog Ears Hard To Clean?
How Often Should I Clean My Dog's Ears?
Cleaning your dog's ears is not an easy task, unless you use one of the best dog ear cleaners available today. This is because canine ears are a sensitive spot so dogs tend to either move or get anxious. Using an adequate ear cleaner for dogs is what will save you from a lot of trouble!
If your dog already has an ear infection, the ear cleaning routine will often be the same as the maintenance cleaning routine, just more often until the infection disappears. Zymox Enzymatic Ear Solution is perfect to get rid of yeast, bacterial and fungal infections.
Many reasons make cleaning dog ears a harder task than it seems and to illustrate it, let's compare human ears and dog ears. Humans have a short straight canal so we can just insert a cotton bud and remove any excess ear wax rather easily.
Because of this L-shaped ear canal, we cannot really clean a dog's ears using cotton buds only — we would simply not reach far enough to properly clean the canal as we would stop at the 90-degree angle.
Finally, because puppies aren't generally used to ear cleaning, they tend to become a anxious later in their life when their owner start doing ear cleaning routines to them. If you have a puppy, start early even if just to touch your dog's ears.
Now we know what the anatomy of dog ears is, we can talk about how to clean dog ears safely and efficiently. The method is quick, simple and not painful at all for the dog.
Make your dog sit down — if they aren't familiar with ear cleaning, dogs can start moving which makes the whole maneuver trickier (and potentially dangerous) so calm them down before starting anything.
Apply the dog ear cleaner as directed in the product's instruction — exact quantity always depends on the product! Most recommend 8 to 10 drops. Pull your dog's ear flap up to straighten the ear canal and facilitate the runoff.
Massage the ear canal for two minutes — a circular massaging movement will help with breaking down excess ear wax in all areas of the ear, the vertical and horizontal canals, as well as near the ear drum.
Let your dog go — after properly massaging your dog's ear, the ear wax will dissolve and it is then time for the liquid to get out. The best and easiest solution is to release your pet so they can shake their head and get rid of the liquid.
Use cotton balls to wipe the ear clean — clean up the outer ear as well as the vertical canal as much as you can and repeat the whole routine a day later if you notice a lot of debris remaining. Make sure your remove as much humidity as possible.
Apply a dog ear powder or ointment — dog ear powder is to remove any excess moisture so bacteria and yeast cannot grow; ointments are used for dogs suffering or recovering from an infection or allergic reaction.
Expect your dog to roll on the floor and rub his head against your furniture after the cleaning; it's normal as they still feel some liquid in their ears.
As a maintenance routine, ear cleaning should be done weekly or, if you notice your dog doesn't tend to get dirty ears easily, twice a month.
If you notice a lot of red or dark earwax, especially in your dog's outer ears, you do want to do a full ear cleaning and then consult a vet if it comes back. Red earwax can be symptom of a fungal or bacterial infection of your dog's ears. There can also be ear discharge visible.
If your dog scratches one or both ears often, you may want to also do a full ear cleaning over two consecutive days. If it carries on, you may need to consult a vet as it could be a sign of ear mites or foreign matter lodged in your dog's ear canal.
Because dog ears are so sensitive, it is vital that you buy and use a safe ear cleaning solution for dogs. Never use any household solution or DIY miracle remedies.
We've listed the best ear cleaners for dogs available in 2017, so take your pick!
Ear cleaners have different strengths and properties but stronger is definitely not better when it comes to maintenance dog ear cleaning. The Virbac Epi-Otic Advanced cleaner for dog ears is the perfect maintenance ear cleaners for dogs. No alcohol in the solution whatsoever so it offers a gentler cleaning experience for your dog's ear canal, making the perfect ear cleaner for puppies, too.
Don't get me wrong, Virbac is not just packaging water and selling it as ear rinse! The salicylic acid at 0.2% has known anti-adhesive properties to prevent bacteria from sticking to the ear surface. It does not just clean, it also prevents bad bacteria from growing inside your dog's ears.
So the Virbac Epi-Otic Advanced Ear Cleaner is great for routine cleaning but won't be potent enough to treat an existing ear infection, be it fungal or bacterial.
Unlike our #1 Virbac routine cleaner, Zymox offers us a product that is a lot stronger. It doesn't mean it is a better product, it just means you can use it to get rid of debris and pus. Surprisingly, it also kills antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.
Made in the USA, Zymox Enzymatic Ear Solution works great on curing your dog from ear infections (bacterial, fungal, and yeast) including the dreaded staphylococcus, malassezia, proteus and pseudomonas.
The Zymox Enzymatic Ear Solution is safe to use on cats and dogs but should not be used along with any other ear cleaner.
Some people don't feel great pouring drops of any ear cleaning solution in their dog's ears. If you're one of them, you will love these convenient dog ear cleaning drops to clean, disinfect, and soothe itchy dog ears. It is without too strong synthetic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, steroids or antibiotics. Instead, its five potent ingredients are the germ-killing aloe vera, pet-safe astringent boric acid, natural cleaning agent vinegar, antiseptic povidone iodine, and the strong antifungal isopropyl alcohol.
Mister Ben's Ear Tonic gets rid of wax buildup and reduces ear redness. It successfully fights against discharges, itchiness, bad smell and head shaking resulting from ear mites and infections (yeast and bacteria.) If your dog had an ear condition, expect his ears to be back to normal after 7 to 10 days of use.
It's a great product overall, slightly more expensive than few other ear cleaning solutions, but it is totally worth it if you feel more at ease with an easy-to-use product for your dog's ears. Definitely worth a purchase!
Completely alcohol-free, these luxuriously soft dog ear cleaning wipes are packed with soothing coconut oil and aloe vera. They succeed at cleaning dog ears infected by ear mites or bacteria. It gently wipes off all earwax, debris and pus and leaves fresh and dry ears behind.
I would probably recommend you to have these at reach after long walks in the forest or after your dog goes swimming. I wouldn't use these wipes as primary ear cleaning solution for my dogs but they definitely are a good punctual solution.
Dog ear cleaning powder is vital to use after a cleaning session in order to keep the dog's ears dry and avoid the build up of earwax. Don't expect dog ear powder to actually clean up your dog's ear canal; this is not its purpose.
The ear powder from Miracle Care does fulfill its promises: nothing fancy, minimal packaging, yet the results are here and those fantastic reviews on Amazon can attest to this.
That's good to know that if your dog's ears don't get dirty often that you only have to clean them twice a month. I have a miniature American Eskimo and she's pretty clean so luckily I don't have to clean her ears often. However I'm afraid I'll do it wrong, so I'll have to find a pet ear cleaning service I can take her to.
Enjoyed article on ear cleaning with video.
Was wondering if getting the dam exrayed after 45 days could hurt the babies? Holistic vets prefer ultrasound but way to costly.?


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The Dawnless Day
This article is about the Dawnless Day itself. For the book from The Lord of the Rings Online, see The Dawnless Day (The Lord of the Rings Online).
The Dawnless Day refers to 10 March, T.A. 3019,[1] when fumes from Mordor veiled the Sun in an attempt by Sauron to discourage or misguide his enemies. The veil of Darkness blacked out most of Gondor[2] and Rohan,[3] though some beams of light could pass through it.
Along with the Darkness, a host from Minas Morgul set forth toward Minas Tirith, as witnessed by Frodo, Sam and Gollum who passed the Cross-roads.[4] Later Orcs from the Morannon took Cair Andros and passed into Anórien.[1]
The Darkness was also observed by the Rohirrim who were mustering their Riders and rode from Harrowdale.[3]
On this day Faramir was rescued by Gandalf and Imrahil outside the Great Gate of Minas Tirith and Aragorn II led the Dead Men and the Grey Company, across the river Ringló.[1]
The Darkness was eventually driven away by a Western wind (perhaps sent from Manwë) on the afternoon of March 15, when Aragorn and his companions came to the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.[5]
↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Great Years"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Siege of Gondor"
↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Ride of the Rohirrim"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Journey to the Cross-Roads"
↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields"
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U.S. Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis to Christianity
by Jason Leopold / May 30th, 2008
Some U.S. military personnel appears to have launched an initiative to covert thousands of Iraqi citizens to Christianity by distributing Bibles and other fundamentalist Christian literature translated into Arabic to Iraqi Muslims.
A recent article published on the website of Mission Network News reported that Bible Pathway Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian organization, has provided thousands of a special military edition of its Daily Devotional Bible study book to members of the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, currently stationed in Iraq, the project "came into being when a chaplain in Iraq (who has since finished his tour) requested some books from Bible Pathway Ministries (BPM)."
"The resulting product is a 6″x9″ 496-page illustrated book with embossed cover containing 366 daily devotional commentaries, maps, charts, and additional helpful information," the Mission Network News report says.
Chief Warrant Officer Rene Llanos of the 101st Airborne told Mission Network News, "the soldiers who are patrolling and walking the streets are taking along this copy, and they're using it to minister to the local residents."
"Our division is also getting ready to head toward Afghanistan, so there will be copies heading out with the soldiers," Llanos said. "We need to pray for protection for our soldiers as they patrol and pray that God would continue to open doors. The soldiers are being placed in strategic places with a purpose. They're continuing to spread the Word."
Karen Hawkins, a BPM official, said military chaplains "were trying to encourage [soldiers] to be in the Word everyday because they're in a very dangerous situation, and they need that protection."
That would appear to violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment prohibiting government officials, including military personnel, from using the machinery of the state to promote any form of religion. The book's cover includes the logos of the five branches of the armed forces giving the impression that it's a publication sanctioned by the Pentagon.
The distribution of the Bibles and Christian literature comes on the heels of a report published Wednesday by McClatchy Newspapers stating that U.S. Marines guarding the entrance to the city of Fallujah have been handing out "witnessing coins" to Sunni Muslims entering the city that read in Arabic on one side: "Where will you spend eternity?" and "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. John 3:16" on the other.
A Pentagon spokesman said he was unaware of the issue involving the distribution of coins and Bibles and declined to comment.
The issue comes at a particularly sensitive time for Sunnis who recently clashed with U.S. military in an area west of Baghdad week after an American soldier was found to have used a Koran, the Islamic holy book, for target practice. Following a daylong protest by Iraqis that threatened to turn violent, Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond issued a public apology to Sunnis in the area.
"I come before you here seeking your forgiveness," Hammond said. "In the most humble manner I look in your eyes today and I say please forgive me and my soldiers."
The soldier who shot up the Koran was disciplined and removed from duty in Iraq.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of the government watchdog agency The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), said the religious intolerance among U.S. military personnel calls for a federal investigation.
"The shocking actions revealed just last week of American soldiers in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan callously using the Koran for automatic weapons "target practice" is absolutely connected to the same issues of national security breach wrought by our United States armed forces proselytizing the local populations via the distribution to them of fundamentalist Christian coins, bibles, tracts, comics and related religious materials written in Arabic," Weistein said.
"The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been acutely aware of such astonishing unconstitutional and illicit proselytizing in Iraq and Afghanistan for over three years now and knows how massively pervasive it really is. These proselytizing transgressions are all blatant violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and MRFF is now demanding that any and all responsible military personnel be immediately prosecuted under Failure to Obey an Order or Regulation," Weinstein added.
Members of the U.S. military first started actively proselytizing Iraqi Muslims soon after the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003.
In a newsletter published in 2004 by the fundamentalist group International Ministerial Fellowship (IMF), Capt. Steve Mickel, an Army chaplain, claimed that Iraqis were eager to be converted to Christianity and that he personally tried to convert dozens of Iraqis, which is also an apparent constitutional violation.
"I am able to give them tracts on how to be saved, printed in Arabic," Mickel said, according to a copy of the IMF newsletter. "I wish I had enough Arabic Bibles to give them as well. The issue of mailing Arabic Bibles into Iraq from the U.S. is difficult (given the current postal regulations prohibiting all religious materials contrary to Islam except for personal use of the soldiers). But the hunger for the Word of God in Iraq is very great, as I have witnessed first-hand."
Mickel evangelized Iraqis while delivering leftover food to local residents from his unit's mess hall. He handed out Bibles translated into Arabic in the village of Ad Dawr, a predominantly Sunni territory where Saddam Hussein was captured.
"Such fundamentalist Christian proselytizing DIRECTLY violates General Order 1A, Part 2, Section J issued by General Tommy Franks on behalf of the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) back in December of 2000 which strictly prohibits "proselytizing of any religion, faith or practice," said Weinstein, a former Reagan administration White House counsel and former Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG).
In addition to coins and Bibles, there have been reports of the distribution to Iraqi children of Christian comic books published by companies such as Chick Publications. These inflammatory comic books, published in English and Arabic, not only depict Mohammed, but show both Mohammed and Muslims burning in hell because they did not accept Jesus as their savior before they died
Chick Publications states on its website that its literature "is desperately needed by Muslims, but getting it to them without endangering our soldiers or enflaming the Muslim leadership will not be easy."
Postal regulations prohibit sending bulk religious materials contrary to Islam into Iraq, but allow religious materials to be sent to an individual soldier for their personal use.
Sending more of these materials than would be necessary for an individual's personal use, but not a large enough quantity to risk being flagged by the postal service, is one way that these materials are making their way into Iraq. Chick Publications advises those wanting to send their literature to military personnel to first find out "just what tracts would be most useful and how many they can effectively use," and "to find out whether the tracts can be drop shipped from Chick Publications or if they should be sent as personal mail from the soldiers' families."
A spokesman for Chick refused to comment for this story about the comics handed out to Iraqis.
Meanwhile, members of the 101st Airborne stationed in Iraq will continue their work evangelizing Iraqis unless it is told otherwise.
Llanos, the division's chief warrant officer, said about 2,000 copies of the military edition of the Bible provided to the 101st Airborne will soon be distributed to Iraqis.
However, reports on the Bible Pathway Ministries website up to 30,000 of the Christian books have been distributed to military personnel, some of which will presumably end up in the hands of Iraqis.
Jason Leopold is an investigative reporter and a two-time winner of the Project Censored award. He is the author of the National Bestseller, News Junkie, a memoir, and he has launched a new online investigative news magazine, The Public Record. Read other articles by Jason, or visit Jason's website.
This article was posted on Friday, May 30th, 2008 at 4:59am and is filed under Imperialism, Religion.
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Binh said on May 30th, 2008 at 11:02am #
Guess they don't know what happened to the Crusaders the first time around…
saint_al said on May 31st, 2008 at 4:47pm #
…or the second, or the third, or…
Chris Crass said on June 2nd, 2008 at 9:19am #
Or what a hypocrite is. Or what the 10 commandments were. Thall shalt not something something…


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On September 29–30, 2011, members of the RTP Steering Committee gathered to discuss progress made since the start of the grant in March 2010. The steering committee reviewed the training curriculum development timeline for the coming year and made headway on outlining mental health recovery competencies for social work practice. The group will continue to closely advise CSWE in the creation and pilot testing phase of a webinar series for social work field instructors, slated for release in early 2014.
RTP Steering Committee Members and CSWE Staff met in Alexandria, VA.


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Dersu Uzala
Synopsis: A Russian army explorer who is rescued in Siberia by a rugged Asian hunter renews his friendship with the woodsman years later when he returns as the head of a larger expedition. The hunter finds that all of his nature lore is of no help when he accompanies the explorer back to civilization.
Director(s): Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Yuriy Solomin, Maksim Munzuk, Mikhail Bychkov, Vladimir Khrulev
Production: Nelson Entertainment
Won 1 Oscar. Another 7 wins.
Yes, a grave.
No one's had time to die here yet.
You can see there is no graveyard.
This was a long time ago.
Actually, not such a long time.
Nearly three years.
I buried a friend here.
A friend.
Huge trees stood here.
A cedar and a fir tree.
Probably chopped down
when the settlement was built.
Could it be those?
Dersu!
In the islands, the hunter
Roams all day long
But no luck for him
And he curses himself
What's he going to do
How is he to serve
He cannot be cheerful
He'll try to aim better
So the hunter goes
To warmer waters
Where the fish were frolicking
In the beautiful weather
There on the shore
That year...
my assignment was
to go to the Shkotovo area...
in the Ussurii region...
to make a topographic survey.
Sometimes mountains and forests
look cheerful and attractive.
At other times,
they seem sullen and wild.
This isn't just my own feeling.
All the men in the unit
share this feeling.
With God's help,
we will spend the night here.
we'll find a more cheerful place.
We'll halt here for the night.
Yes, we'll stay here for the night.
That valley reminded me...
of Walpurgis Night...
a place where witches
would gather for their Sabbath.
A falling rock.
Is someone coming down?
It's a bear!
Please to not shoot!
Me are people!
Hello, Captain.
Look. A man.
You said it was a bear.
Won't you join us?
I am very hungry.
Nothing to eat today.
A Chinese?
A Korean?
No. Me is Goldi.
A hunter?
Me hunt all the time.
No other job.
Not have home.
Build a shack and sleep,
and living like in a home.
No luck today?
Today shoot at stag.
Me not hurt him much.
Stag run away.
Me follow after it.
Me see people tracks.
Me go slow.
Me think:
''What kind of people
so far in the hills?''
Me look close.
See Captain, soldiers.
So me come here quick.
Why did you miss the stag
if you're such a good hunter?
You never miss?
We're soldiers.
We're not supposed to miss.
You great hunter, shoot all beasts...
we don't have anything to eat.
Enough babble!
Here. Now you can babble.
My name is Arseniev.
Dersu Uzala.
I don't know well.
Me live a long, long time.
Do you have a family?
They all die long ago.
Before, I had a wife...
son and girl.
The smallpox finish all people.
Now me left alone.
Look, Dersu.
We are surveying this area-
the ranges, passes and rivers.
Will you be our guide?
Necessary me think.
Well, think it over.
Now, let's go to sleep.
The next day,
without saying a word...
Dersu took his place
at the head of our squad.
There is a road here.
- A road!
- Come here! There's a road!
What's there?
This road two, three days before,
one people come.
Then rain come.
These people Chinese.
How you not understand?
Look well!
He wear Chinese boots.
Water in his tracks.
You the same as children.
Eyes not see.
You live in the forest, die soon.
Chinese!
Soon we find shack.
How do you know?
Strip bark.
Make roof.
The rain-soaked ashes...
the bed of grass...
and a discarded piece
of Chinese fabric...
all confirmed Dersu's words.
Obviously, a Chinese spent the night
a couple of days ago.
Did you see that?
Yegor!
Captain.
Rice, salt, matches, give some.
What do you need it for?
Rice, salt, matches.
Wrap in birch bark, put in shack.
You plan to return?
Why return?
Other people come.
Find dry wood.
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater creative freedom. Drunken Angel (1948)--"Drunken Angel"--was the first film he made without extensive studio interference, and marked his first collaboration with Toshirô Mifune. In the coming decades, the two would make 16 movies together, and Mifune became as closely associated with Kurosawa's films as was John Wayne with the films of Kurosawa's idol, John Ford. After working in a wide range of genres, Kurosawa made his international breakthrough film Rashomon (1950) in 1950. It won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, and first revealed the richness of Japanese cinema to the West. The next few years saw the low-key, touching Ikiru (1952) (Living), the epic Seven Samurai (1954), the barbaric, riveting Shakespeare adaptation Throne of Blood (1957), and a fun pair of samurai comedies Yojimbo (1961) and Sanjuro (1962). After a lean period in the late 1960s and early 1970s, though, Kurosawa attempted suicide. He survived, and made a small, personal, low-budget picture with Dodes'ka-den (1970), a larger-scale Russian co-production Dersu Uzala (1975) and, with the help of admirers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, the samurai tale Kagemusha (1980), which Kurosawa described as a dry run for Ran (1985), an epic adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." He continued to work into his eighties with the more personal Dreams (1990), Rhapsody in August (1991) and Maadadayo (1993). Kurosawa's films have always been more popular in the West than in his native Japan, where critics have viewed his adaptations of Western genres and authors (William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Maxim Gorky and Evan Hunter) with suspicion - but he's revered by American and European film-makers, who remade Rashomon (1950) as The Outrage (1964), Seven Samurai (1954), as The Magnificent Seven (1960), Yojimbo (1961), as A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Hidden Fortress (1958), as Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). more…
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Expressive 2019 is officially co-located with Eurographics 2019!
We are officially co-located with Eurographics 2019 in Genoa. Expressive 2019 will start and end shortly before Eurographics 2019.
All accepted submissions will be presented in a single, unified track. This unification reflects the ongoing evolution of the symposium, which originated as the union of three separate events: Computational Aesthetics (CAe), Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering (NPAR), and Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modelling (SBIM). The symposium will also include an arts program, posters and demos, and presentations of published journal articles.


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Evenimentul zilei & Capital have a new CEO: Marian Duşan
27 mar 2013 15:00 13 nov 2020 18:53 English 0 comentarii
Carmen Maria Andronache carmenpaginademedia.ro
Evenimentul zilei & Capital publishing house has a new CEO, Marian Duşan. With a business background, he will manage the operations of the 2 publications, together with Virgil Munteanu, the executive director of the company.
Until today, Duşan was collaborating with the economic weekly Capital, where he was publishing columns on social-economic themes.
Duşan's mandate will last 4 years.
Asked by Paginademedia.ro if he will also become a shareholder of the publication and invest money in them, Dusan stated his openness in that direction but pointed out he didn't had any discussions in that direction.
"We aim to be the main player on Romanian newspapers market, but with a growth in stages (…) Even if the general direction of the market is online, we will continue to focus also on the print", Dusan said.
Who is Marian Duşan?
Born on April 5th 1979, Dusan is licenced in Law and Political Sciences and has a master degree in Political Psychology and Management Leadership.
At 18, in 1997, he founded in Bucharest BAD Com, a company that intermediated sales for different products, with one of the partners being Combinatul Siderurgic Calarasi. As he reached to provide a lot of materials for the factory in Calarasi, in the start of 2000 he wasn one of its main creditors. In 2002, he took over for Euro 1 what was left functional from the company, the reparations factory. At 22, he became the manager and, in 2007, he sells the factory for millions of Euro to Martifer Donasid concern and leaves for USA.
After reaching US, he entered investment funds specialized in tech sector. Nowadays, he's CEO at PTK Capital (New York), focused on projects on markets such as Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
In 2011, he started Romanian Business Accelerator, an association that aims to accelerate the functioning of Romanian businesses.
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After three days of intense play, the 2013 World Series of Poker Event #13: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better has come to an end. What started with 210 players on Wednesday ended in the early morning hours of Saturday with Mike "The Mouth" Matusow emerging victorious over a stacked final table to win his fourth gold bracelet and the accompanying $266,503 first-place prize.
Matusow, who won the NBC National Heads-Up Championship for $750,000 back in January, had an up-and-down day on his way to victory, which included beating Matthew Ashton in an concentrated heads-up battle.
Ashton, who finished third in Event #5 $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better for $86,437 less than a week ago, just missed out on another bracelet, but he had $164,700 in prize money to serve as consolation.
The third and final day saw the final 20 players return to battle down to a winner, and it didn't take long for the eliminations to mount. Within minutes of the day's start, Russia's Ognjen Sekularac departed in 20th place, and he was soon followed out the door by Will Thompson (19th - $9,583), Timothy Finne (18th - $9,583), Joe Tehan (17th - $9,583), Brian Hastings (16th - $11,528) and Eli Elezra (15th - $11,528), who were actually eliminated on the same hand. Ryan Miller also joined them on the rail in 14th place for $13,877, and that was all before the first break of the day! Ryan Miller also joined them on the rail in 14th place for $13,877, and that was all before the first break of the day!
Over the course of the next two levels, "Crazy" Marco Johnson (13th - $13,877), Richard Chiovari (12th - $17,025), Jose-Luis Velador (11th - $17,025) and Eric Rodawig (10th - $21,190).
Mike Leah completed showing the and Rodawig raised. Leah made the call and then bet when he paired that seven on fourth. Rodawig called off his last 17,000 and showed , which gave him a good shot at a low. Leah showed the . After the board ran out, Leah received the on seventh to make an eight-seven low to go with his pair of sevens, but it wasn't needed as Rodawig somehow missed everything and ended with king high after receiving the on seventh. Rodawig exited in tenth place for $21,190.
After Tuan Vo was eliminated in ninth place, the official final table was set with Yuval Bronshtein leading the way and Vladimir Shchemelev on the short stack. Not surprisingly, the Russian didn't last long, just four hands at the final table in fact. Twelve hands later, one of the fan favorites in Gavin Smith followed him out the door in seventh place.
Sixth-place "honors" went to none other than Tony Cousineau, who fell on Hand #61. Cousineau was down to just 2,000 in the first level of the day, which was barely enough to pay the antes, but managed to make a nice comeback. Nonetheless, he was surely disappointed to finish in sixth and add to his streak of most WSOP cashes, now at 55, without a WSOP bracelet.
Surprisingly, Bronshtein joined him on the rail two hands later and extended his own cashes without a bracelet to 22.
Four-handed play was an extended affair, 79 hands to be exact, but eventually two-time bracelet winner David "Bakes" Baker was eliminated. That brought about three-handed play, which lasted for two hours before Leah ducked out in third.
Heads-up play began with Matthew Ashton, who was celebrating his birthday, holding a 2-1 lead over Matusow, but "The Mouth" was soon able to even up the stacks. Before long he took the lead and there was no looking back.
Congratulations to Mike "The Mouth" Matusow on winning his forth gold bracelet! That does it for our coverage from Event #13: $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better, but there are still plenty of events to follow throughout the summer. See you then!
Hand #289: Matthew Ashton brought it in with the and then called when Mike Matusow completed with the . Matusow kept the pressure on with a bet on fourth street, Ashton raised and Matusow reraised. Ashton called off with a pair of deuces and was looking to overcome Matusow's pair of nines.
One by one the cards were given to each player, and neither improved until seventh. Matusow caught a king to improve to two pair, and while Ashton caught an eight to also improve to two pair, it wasn't enough to overcome "The Mouth's" kings and nines.
Hand #274: Mike Matusow brought it in with the and then raised when Matthew Ashton completed with the . Ashton check-called a bet on fourth before both players checked fifth. Matusow checked sixth and then raised when Ashton put out a bet. Ashton made the call and then called one final bet on seventh.
"Flush and six low," an excited Matusow said while tabling the . Ashton took one last look at his own cards and then sent them to the muck while Matusow stood from the table and raised his arms in celebration.
Hand #263: Matthew Ashton brought it in with the and then called when Mike Matusow completed with the . Ashton proceeded to call bets on the next three streets before both players checked on seventh. Matusow tabled the for a pair of kings, and it was good as Ashton sent his cards to the muck unseen.
Hand #249: Mike Matusow brought it in with the up and then raised when Matthew Ashton completed with the . Ashton called and then check-called a bet on fourth.
When Ashton paired his ace on fifth, he led out and it was Matusow's turn to call. The came action occurred on sixth street and then both players checked seventh.
Matusow tabled the for ten and sixes, and Ashton simply mucked.
"I caught the ten on the end," Matusow said with a smile on his face.
Hand #244: Mike Matusow brought it in with the up and then raised when Matthew Ashton completed. Ashton called and then check-called bets on every street.
Matusow tabled the for a straight and a low, which was good enough to scoop the robust pot.
Hand #240: Mike Matusow brought it in with the showing and raised when Mike Leah completed. Leah called off the remainder of his stack and the cards were tabled. Fourth gave Leah a big lead for the high, but running fours on fourth, fifth and sixth streets gave Matusow trips.
Leah seemed to know his days were numbers and was gathering his things even before seventh street was dealt. Matusow showed that he didn't improve, which meant Leah could stay alive with an ace on seventh. He wasted little time in grabbing the card and turning over the , the last card he will see in Event #13 $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low Eight-or-Better.
Hand #237: Mike Matusow brought it in and then called when Matthew Ashton completed. From there, Ashton check-called a bet on fourth before both players checked fifth. Ashton checked for a third time on sixth and folded when Matusow bet.
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God changed Jacob's name to Israel. In this series of articles we are considering the significance of that name change. I would venture to say that when we hear the name Israel, we immediately think of a tiny little nation with a population of roughly eight and a half million people, just barely bigger than New Jersey, in the middle east. Israel was however, the name of a man before it became the name of a nation. When we encounter the word Israel in the Bible we have the luxury of context indicating man or nation as we read.
Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah as wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian.
Now Isaac pleaded with the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his plea, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
But the children struggled together within her; and she said, "If all is well, why am I like this?" So she went to inquire of the LORD.
Isaac married a woman named Rebekah. She's not physically capable of having children because she is as the Bible states it, "barren". Isaac begs, or as the New King James Bible says, "pleads" with the Lord on Rebekah's behalf and she becomes pregnant. Rebekah is thinking, if this is a normal pregnancy what is going on inside my body? She doesn't know it yet, but the scriptures clue the reader, that she has twins in her womb, and they are "struggling together"!
Concerned about her pregnancy, this first time mother inquires of the Lord. Yahweh tells her that "you have two nations inside you". I can imagine Rebekah responding, "sure feels like it! Oh, you mean twins? That's a figure of speech Lord, right? After all I could not give birth to one whole nation let alone two!" Nope! Not a figure of speech. You are carrying two babies, who will become the fathers of two different nations. It seems to me God's choice to refer to Rebekah's twins as nations, is a way to underscore the immutable nature of this prophetic word. It isn't that these two boys might father nations, they most definitely will.
Notice the contrast? Isaac asks God for a baby, God gives him two. Isaac is thinking baby, God is thinking nations.
This passage in Genesis 25 is the first clearly recorded account of twins in the Bible. Some suggest that the first two babies in the history of mankind, Cain and Abel, were twins. They say since the Genesis 4:1-2 does not indicate how much time elapsed between the two birth accounts it is possible that they were twins.
Whatever maybe true of Genesis 4:1-2, can you imagine the attention paid to Rebekah's twins? The two nations are literally in their infancy and already drawing the world's attention. Having twins was not the norm.
So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb.
And the first came out red. He was like a hairy garment all over; so they called his name Esau.
There are many significant observations packed into these three verses. For the sake of time, and an attempt to stay on course, let's just consider the first sentence of verse twenty six.
When names in the Old Testament were assigned to a person they characterized something about the individual they identified. Sometimes the names seemed prophetic. I often find myself asking how could the parents know their babies would grow up to match the meaning of their name? Maybe God in His sovereignty influenced the naming of these important Bible characters.
Jacob however, was named based on his first action immediately after birth.
Here's the meaning of the name Jacob according to The exhaustive dictionary of Bible names by Smith, Stelman, and Judson Cornwall. Jacob (ja'-cub) = He will supplant; he that supplants; he that follows after; a heeler; one who trips up; takes hold by the land; supplanter; a detainer.
According to dictionary.com supplant is defined, to take the place of (another), as through force, scheming, strategy, or the like.
Next time we will take a look at a few instances in the life of Jacob that demonstrates the accuracy of his name.
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I thought Jacob meant "deceiver" but I guess I am wrong.


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Quebec gun registry bill passes in National Assembly
June 10, 2016 Brian 10
The registry is expected to be operational by 2018 with an estimated cost of $17 million and an estimated annual cost of $5 million.
Petition e-111 presented in the House of Commons by MP Bob Zimmer
May 13, 2016 Brian 14
Bob Zimmer, the MP for Prince George-Peace River and parliamentary sponsor to petition e-111, presented the petition today in the House of Commons
Last chance to sign AR15 petition e-111
May 4, 2016 Brian 5
AR15 Petition e-111 on the Government of Canada website will be officially closed to signatures on Saturday, May 7 at 3:39 PM (EDT)
Firearms marking regulations coming into force June 1, 2017
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Under the new firearms marking regulations, all firearms imported or manufactured after June 1, 2017 will be required to be marked with a stamp including year of importation and manufacturer name.
Senate bill S-223 read for second time
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Bill C-230 criticized for being a risk to firearms in Canada
April 15, 2016 Brian 5
Bill C-230, tabled by MP Larry Miller in February, seeks to define the term "variant". However, critics call it a risk to firearms in Canada.
Bill S-231 to be re-tabled by Senator Celine Hervieux-Payette
Bill S-231 may be titled "Strengthening Canadians' Security and Promoting Hunting and Recreational Shooting" but make no mistake – this bill is not in the best interest of Canadian law-abiding gun owners.
Spruce Grove Gun Club denied appeal by Alberta Court of Appeal
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Another hard hit to the Spruce Grove Gun Club, but they haven't given up fighting just yet.
RCMP reclassifies Akdal MKA 1919 to non-restricted
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Akdal owners, rejoice! The MKA 1919 has been reclassified by the RCMP from restricted to non-restricted, which has some very interesting implications
Facebook introduces policy changes, banning sales of firearms
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Facebook, Inc., has reportedly announced on Friday that it will be banning the sales of firearms on both its flagship website and on Instagram


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A class representing a rectangular array of pixels. A Raster encapsulates a DataBuffer that stores the sample values and a SampleModel that describes how to locate a given sample value in a DataBuffer.
A Raster defines values for pixels occupying a particular rectangular area of the plane, not necessarily including (0, 0). The rectangle, known as the Raster's bounding rectangle and available by means of the getBounds method, is defined by minX, minY, width, and height values. The minX and minY values define the coordinate of the upper left corner of the Raster. References to pixels outside of the bounding rectangle may result in an exception being thrown, or may result in references to unintended elements of the Raster's associated DataBuffer. It is the user's responsibility to avoid accessing such pixels.
A SampleModel describes how samples of a Raster are stored in the primitive array elements of a DataBuffer. Samples may be stored one per data element, as in a PixelInterleavedSampleModel or BandedSampleModel, or packed several to an element, as in a SinglePixelPackedSampleModel or MultiPixelPackedSampleModel. The SampleModel is also controls whether samples are sign extended, allowing unsigned data to be stored in signed Java data types such as byte, short, and int.
Although a Raster may live anywhere in the plane, a SampleModel makes use of a simple coordinate system that starts at (0, 0). A Raster therefore contains a translation factor that allows pixel locations to be mapped between the Raster's coordinate system and that of the SampleModel. The translation from the SampleModel coordinate system to that of the Raster may be obtained by the getSampleModelTranslateX and getSampleModelTranslateY methods.
A Raster may share a DataBuffer with another Raster either by explicit construction or by the use of the createChild and createTranslatedChild methods. Rasters created by these methods can return a reference to the Raster they were created from by means of the getParent method. For a Raster that was not constructed by means of a call to createTranslatedChild or createChild, getParent will return null.
The createTranslatedChild method returns a new Raster that shares all of the data of the current Raster, but occupies a bounding rectangle of the same width and height but with a different starting point. For example, if the parent Raster occupied the region (10, 10) to (100, 100), and the translated Raster was defined to start at (50, 50), then pixel (20, 20) of the parent and pixel (60, 60) of the child occupy the same location in the DataBuffer shared by the two Rasters. In the first case, (-10, -10) should be added to a pixel coordinate to obtain the corresponding SampleModel coordinate, and in the second case (-50, -50) should be added.
The translation between a parent and child Raster may be determined by subtracting the child's sampleModelTranslateX and sampleModelTranslateY values from those of the parent.
The createChild method may be used to create a new Raster occupying only a subset of its parent's bounding rectangle (with the same or a translated coordinate system) or with a subset of the bands of its parent.
All constructors are protected. The correct way to create a Raster is to use one of the static create methods defined in this class. These methods create instances of Raster that use the standard Interleaved, Banded, and Packed SampleModels and that may be processed more efficiently than a Raster created by combining an externally generated SampleModel and DataBuffer.
The height of this Raster.
The X coordinate of the upper-left pixel of this Raster.
The Y coordinate of the upper-left pixel of this Raster.
The number of DataBuffer data elements per pixel.
The parent of this Raster, or null.
The SampleModel that describes how pixels from this Raster are stored in the DataBuffer.
The X translation from the coordinate space of the Raster's SampleModel to that of the Raster.
The Y translation from the coordinate space of the Raster's SampleModel to that of the Raster.
The width of this Raster.
Constructs a Raster with the given SampleModel.
Creates a Raster based on a BandedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, bank indices and band offsets.
Creates a Raster based on a BandedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, and number of bands.
Returns a new Raster which shares all or part of this Raster's DataBuffer.
Create a compatible WritableRaster the same size as this Raster with the same SampleModel and a new initialized DataBuffer.
Create a compatible WritableRaster with the specified size, a new SampleModel, and a new initialized DataBuffer.
Create a compatible WritableRaster with the specified location (minX, minY) and size (width, height), a new SampleModel, and a new initialized DataBuffer.
Create a compatible WritableRaster with location (minX, minY) and size (width, height) specified by rect, a new SampleModel, and a new initialized DataBuffer.
Creates a Raster based on a PixelInterleavedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, pixel stride, and band offsets.
Creates a Raster based on a PixelInterleavedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, and number of bands.
Creates a Raster based on a SinglePixelPackedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, and band masks.
Creates a Raster based on a packed SampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, number of bands, and bits per band.
Create a Raster with the same size, SampleModel and DataBuffer as this one, but with a different location.
Creates a WritableRaster with the specified SampleModel.
Returns the bounding Rectangle of this Raster.
Returns the height in pixels of the Raster.
Returns the minimum valid X coordinate of the Raster.
Returns the minimum valid Y coordinate of the Raster.
Returns the number of bands (samples per pixel) in this Raster.
Returns the parent Raster (if any) of this Raster or null.
Returns the samples in an array of double for the specified pixel.
Returns the samples in an array of float for the specified pixel.
Returns the samples in an array of int for the specified pixel.
Returns a double array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element.
Returns a float array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element.
Returns an int array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element.
Returns the SampleModel that describes the layout of the image data.
Returns the X translation from the coordinate system of the SampleModel to that of the Raster.
Returns the Y translation from the coordinate system of the SampleModel to that of the Raster.
Returns the width in pixels of the Raster.
Constructs a Raster with the given SampleModel. The Raster's upper left corner is origin and it is the same size as the SampleModel. A DataBuffer large enough to describe the Raster is automatically created.
Constructs a Raster with the given SampleModel and DataBuffer. The Raster's upper left corner is origin and it is the same size as the SampleModel. The DataBuffer is not initialized and must be compatible with SampleModel.
Constructs a Raster with the given SampleModel, DataBuffer, and parent. aRegion specifies the bounding rectangle of the new Raster. When translated into the base Raster's coordinate system, aRegion must be contained by the base Raster. (The base Raster is the Raster's ancestor which has no parent.) sampleModelTranslate specifies the sampleModelTranslateX and sampleModelTranslateY values of the new Raster. Note that this constructor should generally be called by other constructors or create methods, it should not be used directly.
The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used. The dataType parameter should be one of the enumerated values defined in the DataBuffer class.
Note that interleaved DataBuffer.TYPE_INT Rasters are not supported. To create a 1-band Raster of type DataBuffer.TYPE_INT, use Raster.createPackedRaster().
The only dataTypes supported currently are TYPE_BYTE and TYPE_USHORT.
a WritableRaster object with the specified data type, width, height and number of bands.
Creates a Raster based on a PixelInterleavedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, pixel stride, and band offsets. The number of bands is inferred from bandOffsets.length.
a WritableRaster object with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, pixel stride and band offsets.
IllegalArgumentException - if dataType is not one of the supported data types, which are DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, or DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT.
The only dataTypes supported currently are TYPE_BYTE, TYPE_USHORT, and TYPE_INT.
Creates a Raster based on a BandedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, bank indices and band offsets. The number of bands is inferred from bankIndices.length and bandOffsets.length, which must be the same.
The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. The dataType parameter should be one of the enumerated values defined in the DataBuffer class.
a WritableRaster object with the specified data type, width, height, scanline stride, bank indices and band offsets.
Creates a Raster based on a SinglePixelPackedSampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, and band masks. The number of bands is inferred from bandMasks.length.
a WritableRaster object with the specified data type, width, height, and band masks.
Creates a Raster based on a packed SampleModel with the specified data type, width, height, number of bands, and bits per band. If the number of bands is one, the SampleModel will be a MultiPixelPackedSampleModel.
If the number of bands is more than one, the SampleModel will be a SinglePixelPackedSampleModel, with each band having bitsPerBand bits. In either case, the requirements on dataType and bitsPerBand imposed by the corresponding SampleModel must be met.
a WritableRaster object with the specified data type, width, height, number of bands, and bits per band.
Creates a Raster based on a PixelInterleavedSampleModel with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, pixel stride, and band offsets. The number of bands is inferred from bandOffsets.length. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster object with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, pixel stride and band offsets.
RasterFormatException - if dataBuffer has more than one bank.
Creates a Raster based on a BandedSampleModel with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, bank indices, and band offsets. The number of bands is inferred from bankIndices.length and bandOffsets.length, which must be the same. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster object with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, bank indices and band offsets.
Creates a Raster based on a SinglePixelPackedSampleModel with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, and band masks. The number of bands is inferred from bandMasks.length. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster object with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, scanline stride, and band masks.
Creates a Raster based on a MultiPixelPackedSampleModel with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, and bits per pixel. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster object with the specified DataBuffer, width, height, and bits per pixel.
Creates a Raster with the specified SampleModel and DataBuffer. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a Raster with the specified SampleModel, DataBuffer, and location.
RasterFormatException - if dataBuffer has more than one bank and the sampleModel is PixelInterleavedSampleModel, SinglePixelPackedSampleModel, or MultiPixelPackedSampleModel.
Creates a WritableRaster with the specified SampleModel. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster with the specified SampleModel and location.
Creates a WritableRaster with the specified SampleModel and DataBuffer. The upper left corner of the Raster is given by the location argument. If location is null, (0, 0) will be used.
a WritableRaster with the specified SampleModel, DataBuffer, and location.
the parent Raster or null.
Returns the X translation from the coordinate system of the SampleModel to that of the Raster. To convert a pixel's X coordinate from the Raster coordinate system to the SampleModel coordinate system, this value must be subtracted.
Returns the Y translation from the coordinate system of the SampleModel to that of the Raster. To convert a pixel's Y coordinate from the Raster coordinate system to the SampleModel coordinate system, this value must be subtracted.
a compatible WritableRaster with the same sample model and a new data buffer.
a compatible WritableRaster with the specified size and a new sample model and data buffer.
RasterFormatException - if the width or height is less than or equal to zero.
a compatible WritableRaster with the specified size and location and a new sample model and data buffer.
Create a Raster with the same size, SampleModel and DataBuffer as this one, but with a different location. The new Raster will possess a reference to the current Raster, accessible through its getParent() method.
a new Raster with the same size, SampleModel, and DataBuffer as this Raster, but with the specified location.
Returns a new Raster which shares all or part of this Raster's DataBuffer. The new Raster will possess a reference to the current Raster, accessible through its getParent() method.
The parentX, parentY, width and height parameters form a Rectangle in this Raster's coordinate space, indicating the area of pixels to be shared. An error will be thrown if this Rectangle is not contained with the bounds of the current Raster.
The new Raster may additionally be translated to a different coordinate system for the plane than that used by the current Raster. The childMinX and childMinY parameters give the new (x, y) coordinate of the upper-left pixel of the returned Raster; the coordinate (childMinX, childMinY) in the new Raster will map to the same pixel as the coordinate (parentX, parentY) in the current Raster.
The new Raster may be defined to contain only a subset of the bands of the current Raster, possibly reordered, by means of the bandList parameter. If bandList is null, it is taken to include all of the bands of the current Raster in their current order.
To create a new Raster that contains a subregion of the current Raster, but shares its coordinate system and bands, this method should be called with childMinX equal to parentX, childMinY equal to parentY, and bandList equal to null.
height - Height of the region starting at (parentX, parentY).
RasterFormatException - if the specified subregion is outside of the raster bounds.
Returns the bounding Rectangle of this Raster. This function returns the same information as getMinX/MinY/Width/Height.
the bounding box of this Raster.
the minimum x coordinate of this Raster.
the minimum y coordinate of this Raster.
the number of bands of this Raster.
Returns the number of data elements needed to transfer one pixel via the getDataElements and setDataElements methods. When pixels are transferred via these methods, they may be transferred in a packed or unpacked format, depending on the implementation of the underlying SampleModel. Using these methods, pixels are transferred as an array of getNumDataElements() elements of a primitive type given by getTransferType(). The TransferType may or may not be the same as the storage data type of the DataBuffer.
Returns the TransferType used to transfer pixels via the getDataElements and setDataElements methods. When pixels are transferred via these methods, they may be transferred in a packed or unpacked format, depending on the implementation of the underlying SampleModel. Using these methods, pixels are transferred as an array of getNumDataElements() elements of a primitive type given by getTransferType(). The TransferType may or may not be the same as the storage data type of the DataBuffer. The TransferType will be one of the types defined in DataBuffer.
the DataBuffer of this Raster.
the SampleModel of this Raster.
Returns data for a single pixel in a primitive array of type TransferType. For image data supported by the Java 2D(tm) API, this will be one of DataBuffer.TYPE_BYTE, DataBuffer.TYPE_USHORT, DataBuffer.TYPE_INT, DataBuffer.TYPE_SHORT, DataBuffer.TYPE_FLOAT, or DataBuffer.TYPE_DOUBLE. Data may be returned in a packed format, thus increasing efficiency for data transfers. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed. A ClassCastException will be thrown if the input object is non null and references anything other than an array of TransferType.
An object reference to an array of type defined by getTransferType() with the requested pixel data.
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - if the coordinates are not in bounds, or if outData is too small to hold the output.
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Returns the samples in an array of double for the specified pixel. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
Returns an int array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
the samples for the specified rectangle of pixels.
Returns a float array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
Returns a double array containing all samples for a rectangle of pixels, one sample per array element. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
Returns the sample in a specified band for the pixel located at (x,y) as an int. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
the sample in the specified band for the pixel at the specified coordinate.
Returns the sample in a specified band for the pixel located at (x,y) as a float. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
Returns the sample in a specified band for a pixel located at (x,y) as a double. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
Returns the samples for a specified band for the specified rectangle of pixels in an int array, one sample per array element. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
the samples for the specified band for the specified rectangle of pixels.
Returns the samples for a specified band for the specified rectangle of pixels in a float array, one sample per array element. An ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException may be thrown if the coordinates are not in bounds. However, explicit bounds checking is not guaranteed.
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REMEMBER: 4 STARS. "The thrills come with the search."
With a cast headlined by Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, Atom Egoyan's new film "Remember" brings over 150 years of acting experience to the screen. Plummer is Zev, a man set on delivering justice to the Nazi guard who killed his family 70 years before. Plummer and Landau are both Academy Award winners and early buzz suggests they may both earn Oscar attention again for this film.
Revenge is on Max's mind of (Martin Landau). After a lifetime of bring Nazis to justice with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, he's now an octogenarian living in a senior's home confined to a wheelchair. An Auschwitz survivor, he has made it his life's work to "find the man responsible for the murder of my family," but time is running out and there is one last name left on his list, Rudy Kurlander. Trouble is, there are multiple Kurlanders who fit the profile. In the dying days of World War II SS soldiers stole the identities of their victims and four Rudy's emerged in the aftermath. One is an alias for the man responsible for the deaths of Max's family.
To track down and dispatch Kurlander Max recruits Zev (Christopher Plummer), a ninety year-old widower from the senior's home. Like Max, Zev was at Auschwitz and as the last living survivors from the prison block is, as Max tells him, "the only person left who can recognize the face of the man who murdered our families." Despite a failing memory—"Sometimes I forget things," Zev says.—Zev embarks on the search for Kurlander, armed with a detailed letter from Max to remind him of the operation's details and a loaded Glock.
"Remember" is a road movie, a journey to justice. Along the way we meet several Rudy Kurlanders, a neo Nazi with a dog named Eva and several very helpful hotel clerks. Despite the constantly changing scenery and situations the constant is Christopher Plummer in a remarkable performance as a man on a mission. Struggling, he methodically works his way through the list, years of anger bubbling under the surface. He's genteel—"Let us not argue," he says while holding a gun on one of the Rudys. "We are too old for lies."—but deeply wounded by events that he can now barely remember. Plummer conveys it all, confusion, anger, fear, resignation and in one extraordinary scene, deep sorrow as he shares a tender moment with one of the Kurlanders.
Egoyan parcels out the story carefully, building tension to an explosive climax. The thrills come with the search, but "Remember's" main buzz comes from Plummer's heartfelt and assured performance as a man struggling to reconcile the past with the present.
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« ROOM: 3 ½ STARS. "story of a mother's love, not a ripped-from-the-headlines tale."
THE LAST WITCH HUNTER: 2 STARS. "generic action movie plus witches." »


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Joshua Staples (born 2004) is an Australian competitive swimmer. He is the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific champion in the 400-metre freestyle, 800-metre freestyle, 1500-metre freestyle, and 4×200-metre freestyle relay. In 2022, he was part of a first sweep of all men's individual freestyle events at a single Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships by Australian swimmers, winning three of the six gold medals with Flynn Southam winning the other three.

Background
Staples was born in Casuarina, Northern Territory, where he trained under the guidance of Peter Brasher as part of the Casuarina Storm Swimming Club. He currently trains with the St Peters Western swim club, where he is coached by Dean Boxall.

Career

2021–2022
After being named to the 2021 Australian World Junior Team, Staples took part in a training camp, held in Darwin before the 2021 Australian Swimming Championships, as one of two contingents, the other including senior Australian swimmers Kyle Chalmers and Travis Mahoney. The following year, he won the bronze medal in the 800-metre freestyle at the 2022 Australian Swimming Championships, held in Adelaide in May, with a time of 7:58.26. He also placed fifth in the 400-metre freestyle with a 3:50.07, fifth in the 1500-metre freestyle with a 15:23.55, and eighth in the 400-metre individual medley with a 4:26.24. Based on his results, he was named to the Australia roster for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

Day one of competition at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center in Honolulu, United States for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, Staples won the gold medal in the 1500-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 15:18.54, earning nine points for Australia. The following day, he placed eighth in the 400-metre individual medley, finishing in a time of 4:29.97 and scoring one point for Australia. Later in the same finals session, he helped win the gold medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay in a Championships record time of 7:13.07, contributing a time of 1:47.84 for the fourth leg of the relay in the final. In the 400-metre freestyle on day three, he won the gold medal in a personal best and Championships record time of 3:48.36, lowering the record over two full seconds from the 3:50.51 it was set at in 2010 by Nicholas Caldwell of the United States, and achieved nine points for Australia. For the 4×100-metre freestyle relay later in the same session, he split a 50.79 for the anchor leg of the relay, helping finish second in a time of 3:21.42 swimming exhibition.

The fourth and final day of competition, Staples won the gold medal in the 800-metre freestyle with a personal best time of 7:56.29, which was just 1.13 seconds off the Championships record of 7:55.16 set by Robert Finke of the United States in 2016 and earned nine additional points for Australia. Between his three gold medals in his individual freestyle events and the three gold medals won by fellow Australian Flynn Southam in the 50-metre freestyle, 100-metre freestyle, and 200-metre freestyle, the 2022 Championships marked the first time swimmers representing Australia won all possible gold medals in the men's individual freestyle events at a single Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. When points were summed for each athlete across their individual events, he was the highest scoring male competitor with 28 points, which was five points lower than the highest scoring female competitor Erin Gemmell of the United States.

International championships (50 m)

 Staples swam only in exhibition.

Personal best times

Long course metres (50 m pool)

References

2004 births
Living people
Sportsmen from the Northern Territory
Australian male freestyle swimmers
Australian long-distance swimmers

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Real Housewives of New York City star Bethenny Frankel's on-again, off-again boyfriend has been found dead.
Dennis Shields was found in his Trump Tower pad Friday of a suspected overdose.
According to reports he had "begged" his assistant to administer Narcan around 9 a.m., as he thought he was overdosing on prescription pills.
But the 51-year-old allegedly lost consciousness before the medication. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
Sources have said he overdosed on the painkiller OxyContin.
Dennis and Bethenny began dating in 2016 but have been friends for much longer. In May, the reality TV star told Steve Harvey that their relationship was complicated.
"I've been with someone on and off for years," she said. "It's like a partnership where if we're not being teammates and it's not working and one man is down, then the other man is down.


FOUR rescued lion cubs kept as novelty pets are being airlifted to live out their lives at an African big cat sanctuary.
Leading British-based charity Born Free today launched an appeal to take the lions back to the spiritual home of their ancestors. All four are feared to have originated from travelling circuses and taken away from their mothers before being weaned. The cubs were found at four different locations across France with claims they had been kept in "completely inadequate conditions".
All four lion cubs - Horus, Kuuma, Dadou and 'Girl' who has yet to be given a proper name - are subject to legal proceedings in France. One man has already been jailed for keeping an illegal wild animal while the other cases are still ongoing.
Born Free – the charity founded by actors Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna after they filmed the classic 1960s film of the same name about Elsa the Lioness – say they may never know the full story of how the cubs ended up as pets, but fear they originate from circuses.
Dr Chris Draper, Born Free's head of animal welfare and captivity and who is overseeing the relocation of the cubs to South Africa, said today: "The tragic stories of these cubs are the direct result from the appalling and continued demand for wild animals as 'pets' and in circuses.
Dadou was found in the back of a Lamborghini on the Champs-Elysées by Parisian police who saw him being photographed. He is thought to be about seven months old. When he was found he had weak legs and the tip of his tail was missing. He has now recovered and his legal case is waiting to go to court.
Horus, the largest of the four cubs and also around seven months, was found in reasonably good health on a child's bed at an apartment in the outskirts of Paris. The owner had posted photos on social media and was later sentenced to six months' prison for illegally keeping a wild animal.
Kuuma, also thought to be seven months, was found the same day as Horus in Marseille. She was underweight and unwell. Her owner has been prosecuted and the case is waiting to go to court.
Girl, smallest and youngest of the cubs at about five months old, was surrendered by her owner and was underdeveloped and underweight. She had glaucoma and extreme hair loss. She is now doing much better and her hair has grown back. Her legal case is ongoing.
Following the intervention of the French authorities and Born Free's partners Fondation 30 Millionsd'Amis, the cubs are being looked after at a safe location near Lyon before being transferred to Born Free's big cat South African rescue centre in the Shamwari Private Game Reserve.


Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli met with former US Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson in Beijing on Tuesday.
Zhang said the Paulson Institute has played an active role in promoting China-US relations. He expressed his hope that the Paulson Institute will continue to achieve fresh results in advancing bilateral cooperation in trade, environment protection and other areas.
Paulson expressed his willingness to continue to work on exchanges and cooperation with China, saying the Paulson Institute is ready to advance US-China trade and environmental cooperation.
As the international situation is undergoing complex and profound changes, healthy and stable growth of China-US relations is not only in the interests of both countries, but also in the interests of the world, Zhang said.
Over the past few years, the two sides have worked in line with the consensus reached by their heads of state to strengthen cooperation in various areas such as politics, trade and environment protection, he said. Such work has laid a good foundation for building a new type of relations between the two big powers.


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Anders Venger (5 January 1872 – 23 February 1935) was a Norwegian politician of the Conservative Party. He served Minister of Agriculture from 1923 to 1924, Minister of Labour from March to July 1926 and acting Minister of Education and Church Affairs from November to December 1923 following the death of Ivar Bergersen Sælen. He also served as deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1925.

Early life
Anders Venger grew up at Venjerbakken, one of Eidsvoll's oldest properties at the time. The farm was located on the west side of Vorma, close to Eidsvoll Verk and the industrial area Bøn. Venger was the son of Marte Olava Aas (1848–1907) and Johan A. Venger (1846–1921). His father, who had bought Venjerbakken in 1873, was also active in municipal politics in Eidsvoll.

Politics
Venger was elected mayor of Eidsvoll in 1912 and assumed the position in 1913. He held this post for 21 years until 1934, though he was on leave while he served as government minister.
He entered the Storting in 1919, elected as a representative from the constituency of Øvre Romerike. He was re-elected until 1927, when he choose not to run for re-election due to the impeachment proceedings against former prime minister Abraham Berge. During that same time frame, he also resigned as Minister of Labour in 1926.
Venger had also served as Minister of Agriculture and Otto Bahr Halvorsen's second cabinet and continued in the same post after Abraham Berge took over after Bahr Halvorsen's death in May 1923. As agriculture minister, he was able to pass farmer friendly bill regarding corn arrangements.
For many years, Venger was an active member of the Conservative central executive committee, and he also served five years as the party's deputy leader. He was considered to be a part of the party's agrarian wing, whom, during the 1920s, were in conflict with city liberals, where they disagreed on the party's agricultural policy.

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1872 births
1935 deaths
Government ministers of Norway
Ministers of Agriculture and Food of Norway