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The Queer Cutting Edge: Does The LGBTQ+ Community Need More Radical Films?
[Written by John Tinneny (he/him)]
[Photo by ラデク ストーン on Unsplash]
We've had Timothée Chalamet lounging about the Italian countryside and Cate Blanchett flirting with Rooney Mara over a department store counter during the holiday season. Now we have an actual Christmas rom-com, Happiest Season, starring Kristen Stewart as one half of a lesbian couple. Queer cinema has made a lot of progress over the last decade or so, with a string of critical and commercial successes showing that LGBTQ+ stories needn't be the kind of risk they were once seen to be. As these films appear more and more within the so-called cinematic mainstream, do they maintain the radical edge they once had, or are they in danger of becoming sanitised versions of queer lives, subsumed into a culture happy to accept them so long as they do not challenge the status quo?
Go back a few decades and the idea that queer art of any kind, never mind film, finding such a large audience would have been ridiculous. Visual artists like Keith Haring and Robert Mapplethorpe are now renowned, and even exhibited in the kinds of institutions which once rejected them. So in many ways it is heartening to see them get the recognition they deserve, even if it's posthumous. But it can be a mixed blessing: an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art of work by David Wojnarowicz was contested by activists for sanitizing his work and the AIDS crisis. There are many other examples of artists being repackaged and made into shallow representations of their actual selves and politics. Theresa May, a former Conservative prime minister with her own spotty record towards LGBTQ+ rights (eventually supporting equal marriage rights, but still very happy to oversee horrendous treatment of refugees while Home Secretary), wore a bracelet covered in the face of Frida Kahlo, a bisexual Mexican communist. This shows how the increased exposure carries the risk of queerness being lost, if not erased, in favour of superficial endorsements and fashion statements.
Looking at those in film who had an uncompromising and radical attitude, Derek Jarman serves as an example. Shakespearean sonnets recited by Dame Judi Dench over ethereal stop-motion imagery; a love triangle between Caravaggio and his muses; one feature that was just the colour blue filling the screen from beginning to end as Jarman narrated his loss of sight due to contracting HIV in voice-over. Throughout his work there is an unashamed treatment of queer lives and experiences, as he pushes the limits of cinematic form in admittedly bizarre films. Compare all this with films like Call Me by Your Name, which despite its gay content and lush style, deals with a fairly conventional coming of age/ first love story. It lacks any explicit sex scenes, and you can see where the radical edge is missing. This isn't to completely dismiss that film or many others like it, as the saying goes 'you can't be what you can't see'. While it may seem very deterministic on the surface, it does reflect the power of seeing oneself represented in lead characters with full lives and agency, in a media landscape that reduces LGBTQ+ individuals to sinister or tragic figures. But it is worth remembering how these films have been successful by being inoffensive in other ways, and even reinforcing other problems of representation.
A lot of films like CMBYN have been focused on white cisgender men – they are about as cutting edge as spoons – with the most blatant example being the Stonewall film about the eponymous bar and riot having (you guessed it) a white cis-man throw the first brick. That effectively erased the contributions of black trans women like Marsha P. Johnson in the retelling of this historic event, amongst other historical inaccuracies. Beyond this, the dearth of period dramas about queer women (Carol, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, The Favourite), instead centred on white characters do nothing to undo their issue with depicting race. Films focusing on queer Black characters like the Oscar winning Moonlight do thankfully buck this trend. However, it becomes clear that as queer cinema 'integrates', it can still end up repeating the structural biases against, and erasure of, other minorities rather than showing any kind of solidarity or breaking new creative ground.
There is the argument that LGBTQ+ audiences deserve a wide range of films reflecting the multiplicity of our varied lives. Plus, when we go to the cinema, it isn't always in search of thought-provoking films to challenge us. Sometimes we simply want to switch our brains off and enjoy some escapism for ninety minutes or so, but there also times when we should be pushed to sit up and pay attention. In resisting assimilation into society's standards around how we should present ourselves, and how we accept the lacking representation of others, there is not just creative potential for artists on-screen but for all of us, off and beyond it. Progress has been made, but also remains to be fought for on a variety of fronts, due its ability to push us outside of our comfort zones, ask us questions, and remind us of the importance and value of difference. This radical edge is something that we should always keep in mind.
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If you take a step back and think about it, cars are actually pretty boring subjects when it comes to photography.
Sure, your exotics always look good in photos because they have cool details and plenty of vents and sharp angles, but a metal body with four wheels really isn't that interesting.
Enter the photographer (that's you!). One of the best techniques to make a car look better in photos is using exaggerated angles — shoot from really high or really low.
You'd never use this perspective for shooting people, but for cars, the extreme angle adds drama to what is normally a rather mundane subject.
You can play with framing the entire car or just a portion of it, but the high angle adds flavor since you typically don't get to see a car from up above. The one thing to be careful of is reflections — make sure your own reflection isn't seen in the glossy paint when you're up close and high.
In these shots, the camera is almost set on the floor, and it gives the subject a larger-than-life feeling, which can be enhanced with varying degrees of zoom or depth of field.
And if you've got the means, go really high with a drone! This was filmed with a DJI Mavic Pro and edited with the DJI app on a mobile phone.
Thanks to digital photography, there's no longer a concern of being wasteful, so keep practicing and experimenting with different angles, and you'll start to notice a difference in the final results.
Share your photos with me on Twitter: @lagraffiti.


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New Speakers and Brexit
[This post was published as a report in July 2016 as a reflection of the Migration and Asylum Roundtable at the Second Whole Action Conference in Hamburg]
Moving on from the COST Migration and Asylum Roundtable: New Speakers and Brexit
The discussions at the Roundtable were fascinating and this is also a thank you to all those who attended and participated actively in the discussions. I originally intended to write a summary on the Roundtable and a call for further discussions on the participation from COST members on constructing a co-ordinated response to migration and asylum issues. In ordinary circumstances I would give a socio-legal argument, and discuss how the intersection of positive law, language and social realities places refugees on the social margins. However, recent events have made me view our discussions in a slightly different light.
Brexit has left many (on both sides) unable to fathom how it happened, in shock and uncertainty. In the run up to the referendum and since migration and asylum have been reoccurring themes of the Brexit debate. From discussions of migration controls, to grimmer racist undertones and the murder of Jo Cox, Labour MP and long-time refugee campaigner. Fear and anger has dominated the discussion of migration in the mainstream. What does any of this have to do with New Speakers and socio-linguistics? Or to rephrase slightly, what can socio-linguists say on this issue? Among the number of conceptual issues raised in the Roundtable, one of the most interesting was the resonance of the New Speaker label and the issues it has raised. The question asked was how the new speaker concept resonates within linguistics, or other disciplines and in the practical world of policy and law.
During the Roundtable the question old versus new speaker was also raised, along with the question of whether this labelling would distract from addressing the needs of refugees. Labels as we discussed at the Roundtable are tricky. Labelling refugees as New Speakers might yet be another level of differentiated, even stigmatisation when viewed from outside socio-linguistics in the media or in policy or legal matters. Does the mean the discussions and issues the New Speaker concept raises do not resonate with other fields? Can the issues that New Speakers change the debates surrounding Migration and Asylum? And finally, does addressing New Speaker issues actually give refugees and asylum seekers what they need? These were challenging questions raised during the Roundtable (not something I can hope to adequately address in a blog post).
What is it refugees and asylum seekers actually want? Housing, employment, access to health care… I would argue simply a life as any other citizen. In terms of service delivery, perhaps COST New Speakers can address some of these needs; supporting language education, for example, or providing translation support. It's easy to become stuck in these hierarchy of needs, focus on service delivery and miss the potential for changing the discourses surrounding migration and asylum. Whilst the term itself may not resonate as intended, the New Speaker concept has led to interesting discussions related to legitimacy, authenticity and power. As well as a wide range of implications at the level from daily interaction to policy.
The Brexit campaign used discourse and perceptions of language ability to take things one step further. Stories of racism have splashed across the news these past few months. With Nigel Farage's 'Breaking point' poster that depicted a faceless sea of impoverished looking refugees, to rise in hate crimes since the referendum, it's easy to see why many blame the Leave campaign for the 'sudden' spurge in racism. The problem is, it's not so sudden. It was there all along. Having another accent, or speaking another language in public (especially if you live outside of London) has always been viewed with suspicion.
On a deeply personal note; I remember as a young child living in communities where my family were 'the' only ethnic minority. One day I was suddenly moved to a special needs class, because the teachers assumed I couldn't speak English 'properly' and that I ought to relearn how to read – giving me 'Run Spot Run' as homework. This was because I'd been heard speaking Punjabi with my brother. (For any interested, I didn't do my homework, I was busy reading Tolkien at home). I was born British with another colour. There is the manner in which English language ability legitimises one 'right' to exist within a certain community space. And, how it valorises one's connection and ability to communicate within a community. Yet for me in the UK, language and race always went together.
For refugees the ramifications are much more serious than homework. Frontex (in)famously known for patrolling the borders of European states, has used interpreters to assign nationalities to those attempting to illegally cross the border. There has been significant evidence to show that these short interviews have led to substantial mistakes – impacting individual claims to asylum, or whether they will be detained. In this case, perceived speech patterns and accents are interpreted through race, leading to legal consequences. It would be simplistic to only speak of race and language in regards to Brexit. The perceptions of language ability also need to account of the history and political economy of Britain and the localised contexts of disenfranchised communities. There are communities in Britain which have been deprived, wrung out and left to dry by the recessions and austerity measures. The poverty and lack of access to services they face is very real. This has created not only a hotbed of resentment, but the specific conditions through which language ability has been perceived. For the local communities that voted in this reference the question was not really about race or even the EU, which they viewed as distant. It was a voice for much needed social change; austerity and the recognition that no, we haven't been 'in it' together. This hasn't been as much about migration controls and quotas, as much as lack of access to services and the instinct to protect limited resources. This is also not about migrants' actual language ability as much as fear of those who appear different fed by consecutive governments and media. For more than 30 years, a political elite has refocused the disenchantment and disenfranchisement of disaffected communities through an immigration discourse. The perception of language ability, shaped by social and political discourses, has impacted community relations and the lived realities migrants and refugees face.
Brexit has left many in shock and unable to fathom how it happened. Though perhaps, it shouldn't have.
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An AmeriCares ad that ran in the New York Times Wednesday includes two doctors from UVM.
In a recent photo, an infectious disease expert with the University of Vermont College of Medicine is wearing goggles, a mouth mask, gloves and a plastic blue apron over a full-body protective suit. His first name — "Majid" — is scrawled on the apron in black marker. A member of the U.S. Army and three identically dressed people stand nearby.
Ebola hasn't come to Vermont. Dr. Majid Sadigh, along with Dr. Margaret Tandoh, a trauma surgeon at UVM and the school's associate dean of diversity and inclusion, have gone to it. The two are spending six weeks in Liberia with the global health organization AmeriCares.
They are helping to establish an ebola treatment unit in Buchannan, the country's third largest city. Tandoh was born and raised in Liberia. In an AmeriCares video shot in the John F. Kennedy International Airport before she left, Tandoh said, "I'm willing to do whatever it takes. They are my people is the way I see it. I have friends that say, 'Why don't you just send some money and you don't have to go,' but I said, 'This is home. This is where I came from. This is what made me.'"
Sadigh, who is also the global health director at Connecticut's Danbury Hospital, has blogged about his experience on the school's Global Health Diaries site.
On November 11, Sadigh wrote about the normalcy of the scene outside his hotel. "Even though this region lies at the outskirts of Monrovia, Liberia, a spot now known on the map for the Ebola epidemic, there is little to suggest the catastrophe claimed by American media. Of course the schools have closed, but that has permitted steady streams of boisterous children out of doors, the cheery sounds of play mingling with the quick rhythm of their drums as they amble up and down the otherwise largely deserted streets."
Sadigh also noted signs that epidemic is being brought under control: "Daily reports from the local media of the decrease in seroprevalence of Ebola in blood samples collected from nearby communities demonstrate how this epidemic is slowly becoming less sinister, more manageable, not just for those of us who work here but those who live here ... "
Two days later, Sadigh described the intensity of dependence among health care workers: "We work in a chain, forming the rows of a beehive that ultimately make up a honeycombing pattern of connectivity. My survival is contingent upon my colleague beside me, on his/her attention to detail and maintenance of protocol every minute we prepare to both enter and exit a treatment unit ... Thus as I face a patient flailing with the delirium and confusion of sickness, I cannot help but think what would happen if my protective layers are accidentally punctured, if I am thus contaminated beyond the ability of sanitizing myself – not because of what it would mean to me, but for all those others who count on me."
In September, Seven Days wrote about another Vermonter who spent three weeks working in Liberia — Brant Goode, a nurse epidemiologist at the Vermont Department of Health.


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Ok, ok. I'll shave tomorrow morning. Stop giving me looks.
Quake upgraded to 4.6… do I hear 4.8?
Dunno what's happening at HP Pavilion this morning, but it's screwing up traffic.
RT @JohnFugelsang: Good Friday is when pro-death penalty Christians mark the execution of anti-death penalty Jesus; and it's all irony-free.


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Unravelling small world networks
D.J. Higham
New classes of random graphs have recently been shown to exhibit the small world phenomenon - they are clustered like regular lattices and yet have small average pathlengths like traditional random graphs. Small world behaviour has been observed in a number of real life networks, and hence these random graphs represent a useful modelling tool. In particular, Grindrod [Phys. Rev. E 66 (2002) 066702-1] has proposed a class of range dependent random graphs for modelling proteome networks in bioinformatics. A property of these graphs is that, when suitably ordered, most edges in the graph are short-range, in the sense that they connect near-neighbours, and relatively few are long-range. Grindrod also looked at an inverse problem - given a graph that is known to be an instance of a range dependent random graph, but with vertices in arbitrary order, can we reorder the vertices so that the short-range/long-range connectivity structure is apparent? When the graph is viewed in terms of its adjacency matrix, this becomes a problem in sparse matrix theory: find a symmetric row/column reordering that places most nonzeros close to the diagonal. Algorithms of this general nature have been proposed for other purposes, most notably for reordering to reduce fill-in and for clustering large data sets. Here, we investigate their use in the small world reordering problem. Our numerical results suggest that a spectral reordering algorithm is extremely promising, and we give some theoretical justification for this observation via the maximum likelihood principle.
Journal of computational and applied mathematics
adjacency matrix
Cuthill-McKee
proteome networks
small world phenomenon
sparse matrix
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The positional success statistic reported by the MySnookerStats application is enormously useful in providing a calculation of your overall snooker ability.
MySnookerStats simply calculates the proportion of times you successfully pot another ball once you have potted a first, taking no account of whether you played your shots with a genuine possibility or intention of getting into position for the next. As a result, your positional success as quoted by MySnookerStats will be lower than would be the case if a BBC statistician was 'marking' your game for you. However, the MySnookerStats value does give you a solid approximation of your probability of making a subsequent pot at any time, and this figure can be used to estimate your chance of making breaks of a certain size.
For example, if your positional play is so good that 90% of the time you will pot the next ball, then you have roughly a 1 in 15 chance of making a century when you come to the table early in a frame. On the other hand, if you succeed with the next ball only 50% of the time, you are looking at roughly a 1 in 67 million chance – it might be tough to swallow but you are 5 times more likely to win the National Lottery (1 in just under 14 million)!
The following table demonstrates the compounding effect and hopefully will serve to motivate you to work on improving your positional play – just look at the potential effect of a 5% improvement in your ability.
For the mathematicians amongst you, a 100+ break requires a minimum of 26 consecutive pots, the probability of which is approximately your positional success raised to the power of 26 (this should be correct to an order of magnitude). A 30+ break takes a minimum of 8 balls, 50+ typically takes 14 (although, of course, you can do it in 12 if you clear up the last 3 reds with at least 2 blacks and a pink), and 70+ takes a minimum of 18.


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Il Bürgerpark Pankow (letteralmente: "parco pubblico di Pankow") è un parco di Berlino, posto nel centro del quartiere di Pankow.

È posto sotto tutela monumentale (Denkmalschutz).

Storia
Il parco fu realizzato dal 1854 al 1864 su progetto di Wilhelm Perring come giardino privato del conte Killisch von Horn, sull'area precedentemente occupata da una cartiera.

Fu acquistato dall'amministrazione comunale di Pankow nel 1907 e aperto al pubblico.

Il parco venne ridisegnato dal 1965 al 1968 su progetto di E. Stein; nel 1973, in occasione del 10º Festival Mondiale della Gioventù e degli Studenti, tenutesi proprio a Berlino Est, vi venne eretto un monumento a Julius Fučík (militante comunista cecoslovacco ucciso 30 anni prima dai nazisti), dono della sezione cecoslovacca della Federazione Mondiale della Gioventù Democratica.

Nel 1980-81 il parco venne ampliato includendovi integrandovi anche un confinante cimitero (Friedhof Pankow I).

Caratteristiche
Il parco, attraversato dal fiume Panke, è sito ad ovest del nucleo storico del quartiere di Pankow.

L'ingresso al parco è ornato da un arco trionfale in stile italiano. All'interno vi sono un padiglione adibito a caffè e una biblioteca.

Gli spazi verdi sono ornati da svariati monumenti, fra cui spiccano il busto di Heinrich Mann (opera di Gustav Seitz del 1954), la statua di Johannes R. Becher (opera di Fritz Cremer del 1964) e il monumento a Julius Fučík (opera di Zdeněk Němeček del 1976).

Il patrimonio arboreo del parco è particolarmente ricco e variegato: alcuni alberi risalgono a metà Ottocento.

Galleria d'immagini

Note

Bibliografia

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Parchi di Berlino
Berlino-Pankow

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stated on January 25, 2008 in Boca Raton.:
"We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
By Tom Tobin January 25, 2008
U.S. is Saudi Arabia of coal
In the Republican debate on Jan. 24, 2008, in Boca Raton, Rudy Giuliani was asked a question about global warming. He said he would address the problem in part by supporting alternative fuel sources such as coal.
"We need to expand the use of clean coal," he said. "Carbon sequestration is expensive, but it's a process that works. We have more coal reserves in the United States than they have oil reserves in Saudi Arabia."
Giuiliani's comparison is accurate.
According to the U.S. Energy Department, the United States has 267.3-billion short tons of coal reserves, or 26.8 percent of the world total. Saudi Arabia has about 20 percent of the world's oil reserves.
We find Giuliani's statement True.
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SPILL NEWS: AJR EARNS HIGHEST BILLBOARD TOP 200 DEBUT + REACHES #1 ON THE ALT AND ROCK CHARTS
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: GREG ANTISTA AND THE LONELY STREETS - "FINALLY SAY GOODBYE"
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AJR EARNS HIGHEST BILLBOARD TOP 200 DEBUT + REACHES #1 ON THE ALT AND ROCK CHARTS
SINGLE "100 BAD DAYS" BREAKS TOP 10 AT ALT RADIO WITH 40 MILLION+ STREAMS
Last week, PLATINUM-certified NYC trio, AJR's new album Neotheater (AJR Productions/S-Curve/BMG) debuted at #9 on the The Billboard 200 and #1 on both the Alternative and Rock Albums chart plus #4 on the Top Albums chart and #3 on the Pop Albums chart.
In a rave review the album has been hailed as "the antidote to Top 40 gloom" – the radio success of their offbeat anthem "100 Bad Days" proves just that. The song is quickly climbing the radio charts, breaking the Top Ten on Alternative Radio this week and boasting over 40 million streams with 2 million streams gained every week.
AJR debuted "100 Bad Days" on the outdoor stage of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Neotheater unlocks a world where forties-style technicolor choruses co-exist in glorious harmony with beats indebted to hip-hop under highly shareable social commentary on the universal conundrum of growing up. Stream the full album HERE.
The band kicks off THE NEOTHEATER WORLD TOUR this fall, performing at the most prestigious and highest-capacity venues of their career including NYC's Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado and The Shrine Exposition Hall in Los Angeles. The new dates follow already confirmed US festival performances at BottleRock, Bonnaroo and Firefly this summer. The band sold over 100,000 tickets on their Click Tour in 2018, which wrapped up with a SOLD OUT show at NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom in December.
Neotheater follows their 2017 sophomore LP The Click [AJR Productions/S-Curve/BMG], which earned an RIAA GOLD certification and includes PLATINUM certified single "Weak" and GOLD certified singles "Sober Up" and "Burn The House Down." The band crossed 1 BILLION streams and they are the only new band to have multiple songs on Billboard's "Top 10 Alternative Songs of 2018."
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Ellen and her girlfriend Portia were hit by another Porsche this weekend in LA. The two walked away with minor injuries, and they're very lucky because the woman who hit them was arrested for suspicion of drunk driving. What a way for Ellen to kick off her new season of her show. It's a good thing they pre-taped segments in NYC so she could fully recover. Here's more:
The three-vehicle collision occurred when DeGeneres, driving a 2006 Porsche Carrera, stopped at a light on Sunset Boulevard. A 2002 Buick Le Sabre, driven by two men in their 20s, stopped behind her.
Then a woman identified as Jeanne Werber, 52, slammed her 2002 Porsche Carrera into the back of the Buick, which in turn collided with DeGeneres's car, a rep for the LAPD tells PEOPLE. Werber, who had minor cuts on her leg, was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
No one required medical attention. DeGeneres "had a little neck and back pain, but it doesn't look like it was anything serious," LAPD Sgt. Ken Buscarino told the Associated Press. De Rossi complained of back pain; the men in the Buick suffered scratches.
You can check out TMZ for a video of the scene of the accident.
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Jupiter Looks Like a Fireball in This 'Lucky' Infrared Image
A new infrared view of Jupiter.
Image: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley)/Gizmodo
Hard to believe, but this stunning infrared image of Jupiter was taken from Earth's surface, specifically from the Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii. Combined with other observational data, the new image is revealing more about the gas giant's epic storms and an odd feature seen in its Great Red Spot.
New research published in the Astrophysical Journal analyzes three years' worth of Jupiter data gathered by three very different sources: the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii's Maunakea, the Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA's Juno spacecraft, which is current in orbit around the gas giant. A crowning achievement of this new study, led by astronomer Michael Wong from UC Berkeley, is an exceptionally detailed image of Jupiter, showing the planet in infrared.
"These images rival the view from space."
A technique called "lucky imaging" was employed to build this mosaic view. After taking hundreds of short-exposure images of a target area, astronomers keep images taken during times of atmospheric stability and toss the others onto the trash heap. Only the best images are used to create a mosaic of the entire planet, resulting in a super-crisp, high-definition view of Jupiter, as seen from Earth's surface.
"These images rival the view from space," said Wong in a press release.
Left: A poorly resolved infrared view of Jupiter, taken when Earth's atmosphere was turbulent. Right: A "lucky" view of Jupiter, taken when the atmosphere was stable.
Image: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley)
Gemini visualized Jupiter at resolutions reaching 500 kilometers (300 miles), on a planet measuring 139,820 kilometers (86,880 miles) wide and an average distance of 778 million kilometers from Earth (484 million miles). At this resolution, "the telescope could resolve the two headlights of a car in Miami, seen from New York City," said Andrew Stephens, a Gemini astronomer and a co-author of the study, in the press release.
Jupiter's roiling interior produces heat that seeps through to its upper atmosphere, which the Gemini telescope can detect using its Near-Infrared Imager. But Jupiter's cloud layers are unevenly thick, resulting in the jack-o-lantern effect. Looking at the image, you can instantly see where the clouds are thickest—the dark parts—and where they're thinner and hazier—the bright parts.
Illustration depicting storm formation on Jupiter, and the instruments that contributed to this finding.
Image: NASA, ESA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and A. James and M.W. Carruthers (STScI
With the addition of Hubble data, the researchers acquired multi-wavelength views of Jupiter in both infrared and ultraviolet, and Juno endowed them with the power to detect the planet's radio emissions. This let the team study atmospheric effects such as wind patterns, atmospheric waves, and cyclonic storms, the latter of which can last for years and even centuries.
Juno recorded occasional radio spikes caused by lightning flashes in the Jovian atmosphere. The researchers managed to pinpoint the location of these lightning flashes and match them with concurrent observations made by Gemini and Hubble. This led to the discovery that lighting and the big storms that produce them form in the vicinity of gigantic convective cells, which loom above deeper clouds made up of water and other liquid.
Blotches within Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Graphic: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley
These observations also helped to solve a mystery about certain shapes within Jupiter's Great Red Spot. Turns out these blotches aren't strangely colored areas within the swirling vortex itself but rather holes in the cloud cover, as revealed by Gemini's hi-res infrared views.
A single instrument can't be expected to do it all, but when you combine these powerful tools, some pretty amazing things can happen.
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Have We Already Forgotten what the Health Care Case Said?
Noah Feldman (Harvard Law School) has an essay at Bloomberg titled Gay Marriage and Marijuana Are Coming to the Court with this notable paragraph:
In 2005, in Gonzales v. Raich, the Supreme Court held that Congress could make it a crime to use medical marijuana even when the drug was home-grown by the user, was not sold, and did not move in interstate commerce. The key precedent was the 1942 case of Wickard v. Filburn, which presented almost the same facts and reached the same conclusion regarding the production of wheat for home use. (Wickard was also the central case cited by Chief Justice John Roberts when he cast the deciding vote to uphold the Affordable Care Act last June. As much as conservative justices might regret Raich, there is no way Roberts would undercut his controversial vote to accommodate potheads.)
Look at that parenthetical closely. Surely anyone who's paying attention knows that (a) Wickard was a commerce clause case; (b) in the health care case (NFIB v. Sebelius) Chief Justice Roberts voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate under the federal government's taxing power, not the commerce power; and (c) Roberts joined Justices Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and Alito to say that Congress did not have power to enact the individual mandate under the commerce clause.
A quick look at Sebelius confirms that, in fact, Roberts (naturally) did not even cite Wickard (much less make it the "central case cited") in the section of his opinion upholding the Affordable Care Act under the taxing power (Section III.B). Roberts did cite and discuss Wickard in his commerce clause analysis (Section III.A), but that was to distinguish it and to refuse to uphold the Act on the strength of Wickard. In sum, Professor Feldman's suggestion that Roberts upheld the Affordable Care Act under Wickard is flatly wrong.
Is that significant? Of course, it's most likely just a simple error, as we all make. But perhaps it's an error suggestive of something broader. In an important recent article, Lawrence Solum argues that Sebelius changed the "constitutional gestalt" (as he calls it) regarding commerce clause challenges by making them more acceptable and plausible. Perhaps this is true -- but it's true only if Sebelius is recognized as a holding that the Affordable Care Act exceeded Congress' power under the commerce clause.
Because Sebelius actually upheld the Act (albeit under a different power), its commerce clause conclusion maybe be forgotten, or at least obscured. And the many commentators who dislike enumerated powers limits on the federal government have a great interest in seeing it obscured and forgotten. I'm not suggesting Professor Feldman's mistake is deliberate, but it is convenient --and suggestive, I think, of how many people would like Sebelius to be (mis)remembered.


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Q: How to move rows in a table view when your data source is a Results object? I have a table view that pulls its data from a Results object. However because you can't move items around in a Results object, I have to use a List object to move rows around in a table view.
But if you convert data from Results to a List object (to use the List object for the table view), the List object is no longer reactive. Meaning it just contains copies of the data in the Results object.
So my question is:
When your table view pulls its data from a Results object, how can you move rows around in a table view?

A: You can try to sort your array.
var results = [Results]()

So after the results are inserted. Try to sort them like this.
var filteredResults: [Result] {
    results.sorted(by: { $0.id < $1.id })
}

This will sort them from smallest ID to largest ID.
My example result struct
struct Result {
    let id: Int
}

Then in your DataSource use this array instead of the first one. It will show in the table view in the same order.

A: First of all, you have to define the Results struct like this.
struct Results {
    var items: [Int]

    mutating func move(from: Int, to: Int) {
        let temp = items[from]
        items[from] = items[to]
        items[to] = temp
    }
}

In UITableViewDelegate, everytime you moved item, this method will be called & you handle data changes in that
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, targetIndexPathForMoveFromRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, toProposedIndexPath proposedDestinationIndexPath: IndexPath) -> IndexPath {
    results.move(from: sourceIndexPath.item, to: proposedDestinationIndexPath.item)
    return proposedDestinationIndexPath
}

A: You need to add an index property to your models. Either that, or you need to define a new Realm class that has an index property and a reference to the objects you want to define. I would recommend the first because it is simpler. Here is one way to do this.
I would implement a protocol so you can apply the same logic to other models.
protocol IndexableObject: AnyObject {
    var index: Int { get set }
}

Now conform to the protocol.
class MovingObject: Object, IndexableObject {
    @objc dynamic var name: String = ""
    @objc dynamic var index: Int = 0
}

If you add an extension to Results it would be helpful. Basically what you want to do is extract the elements with indices in the range of [fromIndex, toIndex] and store them in an Array so you can update the indices once you preform your "move". The filter ensures that you only update the indices that are necessary rather than all of the elements in your Results set.
extension Results where Element: IndexableObject {

    func moveObject(from fromIndex: Int, to toIndex: Int) {

        let min = Swift.min(fromIndex, toIndex)
        let max = Swift.max(fromIndex, toIndex)

        let baseIndex = min

        var elementsInRange: [Element] = filter("index >= %@ AND index <= %@", min, max)
            .map { $0 }

        let source = elementsInRange.remove(at: fromIndex - baseIndex)
        elementsInRange.insert(source, at: toIndex - baseIndex)

        elementsInRange
            .enumerated()
            .forEach { (index, element) in
                element.index = index + baseIndex
            }
    }
}

Usage in your UIableViewController would like this.
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, moveRowAt sourceIndexPath: IndexPath, to destinationIndexPath: IndexPath) {

    let realm = try! Realm()

    try! realm.write {
        objects.moveObject(from: sourceIndexPath.row, to: destinationIndexPath.row)
    }
}

Just make sure that you sort by the index and link your objects up to a UITableView in a notification block. You should find plenty of info in Realm's online documentation on how to accomplish this.
lazy var objects: Results<MovingObject> = {
    let realm = try! Realm()
    return realm.objects(MovingObject.self)
        .sorted(by: \.index, ascending: true)
}()

func observeObjects() {
    notificationToken = objects.observe { [weak self] change in
        self?.processChange(change)
    }
}

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IOA elections PT Usha to be officially elected as first woman president
New Delhi: The legendary PT Usha will be officially elected as the first woman president of Indian Olympic Association (IOA) during the governing body's polls on Saturday, ushering in a new era in country's sports administration.
The 58-year-old Usha, a multiple Asian Games gold medallist and fourth place finisher in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 400m hurdles final, will be declared elected unopposed for the top post in the polls being held under the supervision of Supreme Court-appointed retired SC judge L Nageswara Rao.
The elevation of Usha to the top job will also mark the end of the long drawn crisis in the faction-ridden IOA, which was warned of a possible suspension by the International Olympic Committee if elections, originally due in December last year, are not held this month.
The elections will be held to choose joint secretary (female) and four ordinary members of the executive council and 77 members of the electoral college will cast their votes.
Alaknanda Ashok of Badminton Association of India and Suman Kaushik of Netball Federation of India are in the fray in a straight fight for the joint secretary's (female) post.
The voters will choose four members of the executive council out of the eight candidates in the fray.
The eight candidates are Amitabh Sharma, Bhupender Singh Bajwa, Cyrus Poncha, Harjinder Singh, Harpal Singh, Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Rohit Rajpal and Vitthal Shirgaonkar.
It will be an altogether new responsibility for Usha, an iconic track and field star, as she has no experience of holding any top office earlier. She is currently the chairperson of junior selection committee of Athletics Federation of India. She has also been in the various national awards committees set up by the government, over the years.
Usha, fondly known as the 'Payyoli Express', is being seen as a candidate of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which had nominated her as a Rajya Sabha member in July.
She will also become the first Olympian and first international medallist to head the IOA in its 95-year-old history, adding another feather in her cap after dominating Indian and Asian athletics for two decades before retiring in 2000 with a bagful of international medals.
Usha is the first sportsperson to have represented the country and also become IOA chief since Maharaja Yadavindra Singh, who played a Test match in 1934. Singh was the third IOA president who held office from 1938 to 1960.
Ajay Patel of National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) will be elected unopposed as senior vice-president. Olympic medallist shooter Gagan Narang and Rowing Federation of India president Rajlaxmi Singh Deo will also be elected unopposed as vice presidents.
Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWF) president Sahdev Yadav will be the treasurer as he is the lone candidate for the post.
All India Football Federation president and former goalkeeper Kalyan Chaubey will be elected unopposed as the joint secretary (male).
Olympic medallist wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt and archer Dola Banerjee will be in the executive council as male and female representatives of the eight Sportspersons of Outstanding Merit (SOM).
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A Harry Potter-Inspired Brunch Set in Hogwarts-Like Space Heads to NYC
Plus, the Hello Kitty cafe truck returns — and more intel
by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya Apr 18, 2019, 9:57am EDT
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Harry Potter-inspired brunch and dinner sets sights on NYC
Making rounds in Australia and Canada, pop-up brunch and dinner series The Wizard's Brunch will set up shop in NYC at a location that won't be released until two weeks before the event. The space will be transformed to look like the Hogwarts Great Hall, although it won't be referred to as such, since the event is not sanctioned by Warner Bros. There will be entertainment in addition to food, like fortune reading and a live band. Two events will take place on October 19: a family-friendly brunch from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and a 21-and-over dinner from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Tickets start at $60 and start selling April 29.
The Hello Kitty truck will be back
The nationally traveling Hello Kitty Cafe Truck returns to NYC on April 27 in front of the main hall entrance to the Shops at SkyView Center. From 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., the truck will serve cookies, macarons, mini-cakes, and confetti popcorn along with things like headbands, thermal bottles, and keychains.
Cabin is back in the East Village
After a bit of a lull and some retooling of its sibling restaurant upstairs, East Village's sort-of-secret bar Cabin (also known as the Cabin and the Cabin Down Below) has a burst of new life in the wake of its 10th anniversary party, according to longtime fan Erika Allen writing for Grub Street. Since 2009, the bar has maintained a guest list of celebs — mostly musicians. "For anyone who's lived in New York for any real amount of time, it's practically a bonding experience to mourn long-gone bars and to gripe about how the new ones aren't as good," she writes. "But what happens when those old ones come back to life? Do we still want to go back?"
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Momofuku Ssäm Bar has a new lunch menu from executive chef Max Ng that includes his Malaysian-inspired hot fried chicken, marinated in curry, dashi, lime leaf, and ginger and twice-fried in an Old Bay-, turmeric-, and curry-spiced batter before being glazed with Sichuan chili sauce. It's served on cucumbers pickled in jalapeño vinegar. Other lunch offerings include a fried fish sandwich, a pork roll, and marinated cucumbers. There are also cocktails as well as a new list of non-alcoholic cocktails.


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Where does YONKE rank in the most common names in the U.S.?
YONKE is identified by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a surname with more than 100 occurrences in the United States for the year-2000 U.S. Census. In "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000", the Census Bureau tabulated the surnames of all people who had obtained Social Security Numbers by the year 2000.
YONKE ranks # 35860 in terms of the most common surnames in America for 2000.
YONKE had 592 occurrences in the 2000 Census, according the U.S. government records.
Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, YONKE would occur an average of 0.22 times.
For the last name of YONKE the Census Bureau reports the following race / ethnic origin breakdown:
1.18 percent, or 7 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic Black Only"
0 percent, or Less than 100 total occurrences, were "Non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaskan Native"
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When "doomer" Guy McPherson stayed at my home during his sojourn to Bloomington, I told him that I didn't think even HE could know if we are "doomed" or not, because no matter how much "science" (or ANY perspective for that matter, for example metaphysical, mystical) we apply to any situation, we are still attempting to fully and precisely model something much more mysterious and complex than any of our models of it. That we simply CAN'T know all the "variables" and how they interact, and that therefore, we CAN'T know the future. Period.
Here's Ran Prieur, whose attitude is, I discover, similar to mine.
My new theory on the Guy McPherson crowd: Why would anyone go out of their way to believe in something (near-term human extinction) that's both depressing and unsupported by the evidence? It's because these are people who are already depressed and despairing for a variety of reasons, and by telling a story about the whole world, they can all be depressed for the same reason, and feel a sense of community.
I'm still fascinated by the future of humanity, and my motive is curiosity. But this is still a kind of bias, because challenges caused by failure, like energy decline and climate change, are less interesting than challenges caused by success, like artificial worlds that are better than reality, or the lifelessness of too much comfort, or the unintended consequences of using biotech to make ourselves better.
The reason I'm no longer a doomer is simply that I got tired of being wrong. And I started to feel contempt for other doomers who shamelessly made the same wrong predictions year after year. And you have to make precise predictions because otherwise what does "collapse" even mean? Do you think we're still going to have internet? Container ships? Large scale grain farming? Banks? Taxes? Electrical grids? Hospitals? Stock markets? Elections? These are all different subjects that require different specialized knowledge. Even something like "manufacturing" could have vastly different answers for different products. And for each thing that's going to go away, how long will it take, and by what chain of events?
Everyone wants to be right, but people who persist in being doomers want to be right in a different way than I do. I want to say what's going to happen, and then it actually happens. Some people want to feel like they understand the mechanism for how things happen. But the real world is much too complex for any one person to understand, so we make simplifications. In the context of collapse, the simplest idea is business as usual plus sci-fi extrapolation. The next simplest idea is total collapse: every one of the above things goes away, because they're all part of the same One Big Thing, and some of the conditions that made the One Big Thing possible are disappearing.
Everyone is stupid, but smart people know how they're stupid. I know that modern civilization is only One Big Thing inside my head, and out in the world it's billions of people I don't know, their knowledge and habits and intentions, plus trillions of physical objects and all the connections between everything. I know that you can't have perpetual economic growth on a finite planet, that renewable energy is not coming online fast enough for a smooth transition out of fossil fuels, and that presently fertile regions will become deserts; but it would be arrogant to think that large complex high-tech society cannot adapt to these conditions, just because I can't personally imagine how it can adapt.
Yes! As someone who loves taking the worst of the worst — whether a discarded door, a neglected property, or someone with "the worst symptoms of Lyme Disease any doctor has ever seen" (and I've now heard that from dozens of clients) — and shifting that worst of the worst into something magical, delightful and extraordinary, I have never considered myself a doomer. I'm an artist, and I just love these opportunities to create and to co-create with others.
So, yeah, we've got no shortage of challenges facing us, but that doesn't mean get depressed and stick our heads in the sand. That means we've got a new door, a new opportunity, a new life, which we get to build, and the Universe has been kind enough to remove some of our inertia and resistance by pinching, nudging and poking us in the directions our souls already long to go.
Time to root deep, grow tall and strong, fruit, and send those seeds all over the place!
"The worse your present position, the more you're willing to gamble on change"! Explains the outcome in the Greek referendum today.
Very true. Then why do we cling to the "Climate Change" narrative?
There too, there are too many variables for us predict what impact an increase in CO2 in our atmosphere will have on a warming climate. The failed climate computer models confirm this. But choose to put faith in doomsday.


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How do we overcome the COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy?
Posted By: Seema Ahuja February 18, 2021
On February 15, India crossed the one-month mark for the first phase of its COVID-19 vaccination drive. While the government is aiming to inoculate 300 million people across the country by August, data shows 8.3 million have received the vaccine as of February 15, 2021.
This indicates on an average almost 3 lakh people are being inoculated every day against the original target of 13 lakh per day. Is this a sign for worry?
I think it is, given that we have a population of 1.38 billion. More so, the government is aiming to inoculate 10 million health workers, 20 million frontline workers and 270 million people aged above 50 and those with comorbidities in the first phase of the drive. That's a humongous task and the current trend shows it's not going to be easy.
There is fear, doubt and some element of scepticism in the minds of people about the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines given the extraordinary speed at which they have been developed. This along with the fear of the unknown side effects are keeping many healthcare workers away from getting vaccinated. As a result, only one in 10 healthcare workers had taken the second dose of the vaccine on Feb. 13.
This initial experience with the healthcare workers indicates that the government is likely to encounter a much higher level of resistance and 'vaccine hesitancy' in the second phase of mass inoculation.
We have experienced similar trends in the past during polio, diphtheria and measles and rubella vaccines initiatives on account of misconceptions and misinformation. Unfortunately for the COVID-19 vaccine, the level of misinformation is multi-fold. This can only be addressed through an effective, mass scale, integrated Communication Campaign that the government needs to prioritise.
An integrated communications strategy
Customised communication with targeted messaging for diverse groups of people is very crucial. An effective mass media campaign, led by celebrity endorsements with participation from real healthcare workers, can go a long way in influencing people's behaviour and overcoming 'vaccine hesitancy'.
We should remember that the success of polio vaccination in India had a lot to do with a well-planned, high-decibel communications campaign involving advertising veteran Piyush Pandey and celebrities like actor Amitabh Bachchan, who was roped in as the brand ambassador for the Pulse Polio program in India.
A Comprehensive Communications Plan
To devise and implement a successful public outreach program several boxes will need to be ticked.
1. Communicate Proactively
The communication strategy needs to be integrated into the planning of the vaccination campaign right at the beginning. In the age of social media, the failure to communicate the right messages at the outset can lead to breeding of misinformation and 'fake news' about the dangers of taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
Israel, which had seen initial success in vaccinating its population against the novel coronavirus, experienced a slowdown in the campaign because of the spread of online misinformation. This led the Israeli Health Ministry to set up a digital task force to counter vaccine-related fake news.
2. Establish Trust
For effective communication, it is important to identify the target audience and frame messages that address their concerns and promote trust. The communication must provide a balanced view of the risks and benefits of vaccination for people to make informed decisions.
Research has shown that individuals can feel threatened and react defensively when faced with information that contradicts their values. This then reduces the likelihood of undergoing vaccination.
At the grassroots level, ASHA workers need to be involved in awareness creation as they enjoy a certain level of trust among the communities they serve. Mobilising populations through community leaders can also prove to be effective in promoting vaccination efforts.
3. Use communication tools wisely
The government today has a wide range of communication channels electronic mass media, social & digital media, print publications, mobile technology at its disposal. These channels need to be used basis of the target group and the messaging.
Social media needs to be leveraged with care. Vietnam was able to effectively fight the spread of the coronavirus last year thanks to a very successful social media campaign that involved a viral TikTok video of young people performing hand-washing dance moves as recommended by healthcare professionals. The video was tagged with the government-issued hashtag #ghencovychallenge and was viewed millions of times
4. Get Public Figures Involved
Roping in public figures to show that administering the COVID-19 vaccine is both safe and effective is a good communications strategy. Going ahead, the government can get celebrities and politicians to use their social media platforms to share their own experiences of receiving the COVID-19 shot. These public figures can act as 'role models' in spreading awareness on the importance of getting vaccinated and encouraging their followers and supporters to do so as soon as they can.
5. Use visual aids
The use of visual aids like infographics or video in the process of communication can help to make it effective and fruitful as they enhance a person's understanding of complex information. Studies have shown that visual aids help people understand and assess health risks better.
India needs to prioritize its Public Communication Campaign and Citizens Engagement to create a positive mindset about vaccination, earning the trust of its people. This program needs to supplement the current communication campaigns aimed at creating awareness on Best Preventive Practices aimed at reducing the spread of the coronavirus. The Vaccination Communication program must be implemented in a mission- mode to ensure a significant section of our population is protected through vaccination, in the shortest possible time, if we want to turn the tide against this deadly novel coronavirus.
*The views expressed in the post above, are personal and not of the employer.
Seema Ahuja
Seema Ahuja is SVP & Global Head of Communications & Corporate Brand at Biocon Group & Biocon Biologics. A multifaceted reputation management expert with over 30 years of experience in publicly listed leading pharma and healthcare companies, she has won several awards including 'The Communicator of the Decade Award' in 2017 by PRCI. More recently, she has won the 'Fulcrum Award for the Best In-house PR & Communications Professional of the Year in Healthcare 2020', has been recognised as a 'Social Media Influencer', 'Top 10 Women Leaders in Communication' besides featuring in 'Leading 25 Communication Leaders of 2020'.
1 Comment on "How do we overcome the COVID-19 Vaccine hesitancy?"
Raja Ghoshal | February 19, 2021 at 10:09 AM | Reply
A thought through and well articulated article. Above all, very timely!
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Mother Sues Her Son's Five BDSM Partners After He Dies From Silicone Injections To His Genitals
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Tank Hafertepen died of complications arising from silicone injections to his genitals on October 15th, 2018.
His mother and brother are now suing his five partners for wrongful death, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy related to his death.
Tank Hafertepen, born in Australia as Jack Chapman, emigrated to the United States to be with his partner, Dylan Hafertepen. The two had a master and pup kink relationship and blogged frequently about that relationship.
Tank's mother is alleging that his relationship with Dylan was an abusive one and accuses Dylan and their other partners of endangering Tank by encouraging him to get silicone genital injections.
Several friends of Tank within the BDSM community made similar allegations and even created online records supporting the abuse allegations. "Justice for Jack" trended among members of the community as his friends shared messages from Tank before his death saying he wanted to leave Dylan and change his name back to Jack Chapman.
A special Australian news report was created after his death which outlined his family and friend's allegations.
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According to text messages, photos and video shared online, Tank left Dylan for a time citing fear and abuse. With a friend's help he cut off his chain around his neck after Dylan refused to give him the key to the padlock.
But Tank later returned to his partners and recanted his prior statements in apology messages to his friends. Shortly after, Tank revised his will then died.
Despite his recanting his abuse allegations, some within the BDSM community allege Dylan has a reputation and history of abuse that is not acceptable within healthy BDSM relationships.
Mrs. Chapman claims that his five partners, Dylan Hafertepen, Daniel Balderas Hafertepen, Charles Osborn, Matthew Scott and Philip Myers, pressured Tank into getting the injections.
Dylan insisted, however, that this was Tank's kink, and not one that he encouraged.
"This was his fetish. I did not make him inject silicone."
"On the contrary, I helped him get some removed."
Body modification through steroids or injections is not uncommon in the kink community, but silicone injections are well know to be both extremely dangerous and illegal.
Despite this knowledge, Tank's partners thought that he just had a "routine infection" when he was admitted to the hospital 6 days before his death.
Charles Osborne, one of Tank's partners and executor of his will, reminisced about Tank and mentioned a persistent cough that he'd had for several months in a Facebook memorial post.
He did not explicitly state the cause of Tank's death in the post.
"Tank had a persistent cough for several months. Otherwise, he seemed fine, doing the things he loved -- working out, caring for clients as part of Lifelong AIDS Alliance, and spending time with his family."
"Until a week ago when he had trouble breathing and was admitted to the hospital with what we figured was a routine infection. It turned out to be much more."
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The lawsuit filed by Tank's mother and brother alleges that Tank's relationship with Dylan and the others was abusive, and states that they were not informed of his illness, hospitalization or death. They are seeking punitive damages and to overturn a revised will that Tank drew up weeks before his death.
The revised will left all of Tank's possessions to Dylan, including $200,000 from his father in an investment account. His mother maintains that Tank intended to leave that money to his autistic brother after his death.
The family's lawyer, Joe Murphy, said of the group:
"They robbed her of her right to be his mother."
In reference to the money, which he has claimed in court but not received, Dylan said:
"Tank had wanted the money to go towards our home together, but without Tank it's a reminder of what I've lost."
At the time of Tank's death, there were some who were concerned about the sometimes blurry line between consent and coercion in Dom/sub relationships.
Some folks who knew Tank called for Dylan to be held accountable as well.
Many, however, just missed Tank and mourned his loss.
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It can sometimes be difficult for someone outside of a relationship to tell the difference between a healthy dominant and submissive relationship and an abusive one.
Murphy said the Chapman's want to prevent Tank's alleged abuser from receiving any benefit from his death and they want to know what really happened.
"We filed this suit to bring some closure and resolution. One of the most important parts to her will be discovery. She wants to know what happened."
Hopefully this lawsuit will shed some light on the situation surrounding Tank's death and provide some clarity and closure for both his biological family and his chosen family.


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Prohibitive Policies Cause More Problems Than Illicit Drugs, Say Experts
Health Systems 01/07/2021 • Svĕt Lustig Vijay
In Portugal, where all illicit drugs are decriminalized, drug disorders claim the lives of just 0.8 in 100,000 people, a figure that pales in comparison to Brazil, the Philippines – or even the US where the death toll stands at a staggering 18.75 in 100,000 people, or 23 times higher than Portugal.
High death tolls, experts say, are largely preventable through policies rooted in robust evidence and human-rights, yet their adoption remains lackluster from north to south.
Carl Hart, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University and drug advocate
"Drug policy can be done better if we had a desire," said Carl Hart, Professor of Psychology at Columbia University. "There are great models around the world, if only we cared enough to observe those models and learn from those models."
"Portugal has decriminalized all drugs. They're not arresting people for what they put in their bodies. People are allowed a 10-day supply of drugs without fearing criminal prosecution."
He was speaking last week on the eve of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, at a panel hosted by the Graduate Institute's Global Health Centre on the global day of action for the grassroots Support Don't Punish campaign.
"I am advocating for the legal regulation of drugs," stressed Hart. "If we legally regulate those drugs, we increase the safety of that activity."
"We as a society should invest in people, and not investigate what substance people are ingesting. That isn't our business."
His comments come on the heels of a shocking US CDC report that reveals overdose-related deaths in the US increased by nearly 30% between November 2019 and 2020 with over 90,000 deaths during this period, almost double the death toll in 2015.
Aside from the millions of lives that drugs claim every year, drug-related health issues account for 5.5 % of all Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs). That equates to 131 million healthy years of life lost due to ill-health and lifelong disability.
Drug overdose deaths in the US rose by nearly 30% between November 2019 and 2020
Drug Problems Relate to Prohibitive, Stigmatizing Policies
Rather than drugs themselves, prohibitive and stigmatizing drug policies result in unnecessary incarcerations, murder, and the arrest of one American every 25 seconds, or 1.5 million Americans a year.
"Most of the problems related to drugs are related to prohibition," stressed Hart. "All of these people in jail, all of this murder, all of these horrible things that are often promulgated by the state itself – reverse these policies and then you will deal with a lot of that carnage."
If drugs were regulated rather than prohibited, a million Americans a year wouldn't go to jail, he added.
If countries decide to opt for legalization, regulation, and other smart drug policies, thousands of potentially lethal overdoses and accidents could be avoided, said Hart, mainly due to illicit drugs that are more potent than users think and can be spiked with potentially lethal contaminants.
"If we legally regulate those drugs, we increase the safety of that activity, we make sure that those drugs are not tainted with potentially harmful substances and we can control who is allowed to purchase those substances."
About a fifth of illicit drugs are laced with contaminants that users did not intend to take, surveys from New Zealand and England have found, sometimes with potentially deadly heavy metals, bath salts, or even horse tranquilizers.
Studies, mainly from New Zealand and England, indicate that cheap policies, like drug-testing programmes at parties and festivals, could prevent drug users from taking contaminated drugs bought on the illicit market.
According to one study of a drug-testing programme at a four-day festival in the UK, drug-related hospitalizations dropped by 95% the year it was introduced. One-fifth of festival attendees used the free testing service, and one-fifth of drugs were contaminated. Strikingly, two thirds of attendees' whose drugs were contaminated disposed of these drugs. These results suggest that screening programmes have potential to prevent drug users from taking contaminated drugs bought on the illicit market – and to reduce drug-related injuries, deaths, and drug consumption as a result.
Legalizing drugs could also reduce the appetite for synthetics like fentanyl, an opiate that is 50-100 times more potent than morphine, whose rising consumption has been fuelled by the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory failures, but also scarce access to heroin, said Hart.
"There is not a real need for illicit fentanyl," he said, emphasizing that fentanyl consumption could be reduced if drug users had access to heroin – an opiate they prefer.
"Most heroin users would much prefer heroin to fentanyl, for a number of reasons: the euphoria, in my view, is better with heroin…Heroin is relatively short-acting [and] the hangover effects are minimized."
In the US, 36 out of 50 states have legalized cannabis products for medical conditions from severe forms of epilepsy, back pain, to nausea and vomiting during chemotherapy.
And a wealth of studies have revealed that US states who legalized cannabis saw sharp drops in violent crime, fatal traffic accidents, opioid use and opioid overdoses – without leading to a spike in teenage cannabis consumption.
Last December, the UN Office on Narcotic Drugs recommended that countries remove cannabis from the "most dangerous" list.
Switzerland's Forward-Looking Policies to Address Illegal Drug Trafficking
Should drugs be legalized, policies will need to target low-income groups and young people, especially those who face mental health issues or violence, as they are most at risk from harm as a result of taking drugs, Thomas Zeltner, Chair of the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction, told Health Policy Watch in an interview.
Thomas Zeltner, Chair of the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction
One way to do that, he explained, is through targeted screening programmes in those groups – instead of screening whole populations.
"Only 1 in 20 kids or young people who use drugs will develop drug issues. And many of those who develop issues are children from divorced single mothers, children who have difficulties in school reading difficulties, and children with pre-existing mental health problems," he said, adding that the consumption of drugs like cocaine tends to lead to few problems in rich people, at least in Switzerland.
"We've done quite a number of studies and shown that giving vulnerable kids intensive support is much smarter than to spend the money on targeting all the kids in a class."
Once upon a time, Switzerland's approach on drugs used to be "amazingly open" and evidence-based, emphasized Zeltner.
In the late 90's, the sale and cultivation of the cannabis plant was legal in the Alpine nation, including plants with the so-called "Tetrahydrocannabinol" (THC) compound that is known to trigger a "high". That policy, he says, helped cut illegal drug trafficking as well as criminal and social problems.
"In the 80's and 90's, 100% of the cannabis market was in the hands of North Africans. Many of them were here illegally, and many of them had no other opportunity than to deal with cannabis. And so we had a lot of criminal and social problems."
"But after the Swiss authorities allowed shops to sell cannabis and to grow their own plants to satisfy their needs, what happened was that the cannabis market moved from North Africans to Switzerland, criminality went down and social problems went down."
Switzerland, added Zeltner, is also well known to have spearheaded research that was ahead of its time, leading to substantial benefits in drug users who did not respond to methadone – an oral drug that is still commonly used for opioid dependence.
"We saw that there were many drug users in the 80's and 90's," emphasized Zeltner. "We could not offer a treatment with methadone, which is the standard treatment for drug-using persons who want to get into treatment but cannot abstain from taking substances, because there were people who actually needed to inject drugs."
In the mid-90's, Swiss researchers designed a landmark double-blind trial to address that. Strikingly, the Zurich-based trial revealed that addicts could distinguish between heroin and morphine – and that small doses of heroin were more effective than morphine in treating addicts.
"The results from the double-blind clinical trial in Zurich were clear," he said. "Drug users could feel the difference between heroin and morphine, even though pharmacologists will tell you 'that's not possible', which was a very interesting finding."
Those results, said Zeltner, led to a groundbreaking shift in Swiss policy that would eventually position heroin as a standard treatment option for drug users in the country. Today, almost 10% of people with opioid dependence are prescribed heroin in Switzerland – a unique policy that has only been adopted in a few countries to date, despite robust evidence that it works.
"Heroin is actually a standard treatment in Switzerland," said Zeltner. "We are one of the very few countries where heroin prescription for drug users is legally allowed and is part of our legal drug policy."
"At least in the 90s, there was an amazing openness to try evidence-based policies to say – listen, if we want to make a further step forward, we just need to pilot new ideas."
Growing Conservatism has Reversed Evidence-Based Policy
In Switzerland, cannabis is considered illegal if its THC content is above 1%
In past decades, however, conservative political winds have reversed Switzerland's open and evidence-based approach to drug policy, warned Zeltner.
"It used to be possible in Switzerland to have scientific-driven discussions, but this has not been the case in the country," he said.
He was referring to Switzerland's current cannabis policy, which considers any cannabis product illegal if its THC content is above 1%.
While that drug policy is progressive in some ways, it has failed to resolve illicit cannabis trade, and reflects increasingly rigid views on drugs that have hampered progress in drug rehabilitation programs, Zeltner said. Cannabis, according to the Federal Office of Public Health, is still the most commonly used illicit drug in the country.
"It's evident that a large number of people in Switzerland are still buying and smoking illict cannabis with a high THC content," he said. "These days, it is very hard to get through and we should really get back to evidence-based policy."
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Il prend le, pouvoir après avoir tué son prédécesseur, Fiatach Finn. Il règne 15, 17, ou 27 ans selon la source retenue avant d'être tué avec les hommes libres d'Irlande lors d'une révolte des « aithech-tuatha » ou « peuples assujettis », conduits selon le Lebor Gabála Érenn et les Annales des quatre maîtres, par Elim mac Conrach, ou par Cairbre Cinnchait selon Geoffrey Keating.

Selon un poème du  de Mael Mura d'Othain, Fíacha Finnolach, ayant été détrôné par quatre rois provinciaux, Elim mac Conrach d'Ulaid, Sanb (fils de Cet Mac Mágach) du Connacht, Foirbre du Munster et Eochaid Ainchenn du Leinster, c'est Elim qui prend la royauté suprême. Des versions ultérieures de cette histoire ont supprimé la participation de la noblesse provinciale, faisant des sujets révoltés des paysans irlandais.

Son épouse Eithne Imgel, fille du roi d'Alba (i.e: Écosse), qui était enceinte s'enfuit chez son père en Écosse où elle donne naissance au fils de Fíachu, Tuathal Techtmar, qui reviendra plus tard en Irlande réclamer le trône. Le Lebor Gabála Érenn synchronise son règne avec celui de l'Empereur romain Nerva (96-98 ap. J.-C.). La chronologie de Geoffrey Keating  Foras Feasa ar Éirinn lui attribue comme dates 28 à 55 ap. J.-C. tandis que les Annales des quatre maîtres  39 à 56 ap.J.-C..

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Q: Best way of parsing huge (10GB+) JSON files I would like to know what is the best tool, IDE, programming language for parsing data stored as a json file.
I trying pandas in python and ff in R and both of them either crash for memory issues or take too long to process. Do you have experience with them? specially ff?
Is there any good alternative to them?

A: You can try go's json stream decoder.
Read the file as a stream, and then read token by token, you can decide what to do with each token:
f, err := os.Open("data.json")
if err != nil {
    log.Fatal(err)
}
defer f.Close()

dec := json.NewDecoder(f)
while dec.More() {
    // dec.Token()
}

This should consume very little memory.


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The update doesn't appear to be available in all regions just yet, but once it arrives, WhatsApp says you'll be able to toggle on the extra security from within the app's Privacy settings menu. There are options to let the app remain unlocked for one or 30 minutes after you unlock it, and there's also a toggle to prevent the contents of your messages from appearing in…
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