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Here a proprietary evaporation retarder is being applied to the surface of the concrete. These products should be used during breaks in the finishing process. As soon as finishing resumed, the film applied will be broken and the protection from the product will be lost.
These products have traditionally been abused and treated as "finishing aids." The products are largely water and can have the same adverse effect on the concrete as adding any other form of water to the surface during finishing.


Mary McNamara-Cullinane is a regulatory expert bringing over 25 years of regulatory experience to Alira Health. Prior to joining Alira Health, Mary has had her own consulting firm since 2011 (MMC Regulatory Consulting). Mary worked as Senior Regulatory Consultant to MEDIcept, as Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs for Intrinsic Therapeutics, and held executive positions in Regulatory Affairs for Echo Therapeutics, Z-Medica Corporation, Molecular Biometrics, and Medical Device Consultants. Earlier in her career, she was a scientist at Hygeia Sciences (acquired by Carter-Wallace). Mary McNamara-Cullinane has over 25 years of regulatory experience in the medical device, diagnostics, combination product and biotech industries. She has successfully authored over 175 510(k)s, multiple PMAs, denovo submissions, requests for classification and designations submissions as well as been responsible for several clinical trials.
Mary has focused on helping emerging companies navigate challenges during development while establishing appropriate clinical, regulatory, and compliance pathways. Mary has a BA in Biology from Mass College of Liberal Arts, with concentrations in Molecular Biology and Medical Technology. She did post graduate studies at Northeastern University in Cardiovascular Health and Exercise Science. She is Regulatory Affairs Certified and has written extensively for various industry journals and newsletters on a broad range of topics related to regulatory affairs.


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SaltStack, the full software stack for application configuration management, private cloud building, public cloud orchestration and autonomic infrastructure, today announced cloud provisioning and orchestration for Google Cloud Platform's infrastructure service, Google Compute Engine, which was just released to general availability. Full details of the integration can be found in this SaltStack post on the Google Cloud Platform blog.
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Spoilers for recent events in The CW's DC Universe are below.
Arrow is definitely the darkest of the three DC TV shows on The CW, and it looks like some of that darkness will soon be spreading over to The Flash. The recent death of Arrow's Laurel Lance – also known as the Black Canary – will take its toll on Team Flash when Laurel's living doppelganger, known on Earth-2 as Black Siren, pops over to Earth-1 for an episode of The Flash. According actor Carlos Valdes, Cisco Ramon will have a particularly memorable and morbid reaction to Black Siren's arrival.
Cisco reacts in a pretty unexpected way. There's a little bit of a morbid shock, because the characters have an awareness to the fact that Laurel Lance is dead. That death had some effect on these characters in this world. So to see Black Siren, more than anything, is a shock to the senses. To know that someone relatively close to you is dead and to see a version of them still alive would be harrowing and jarring for anyone. There's a bit of disturbance there in terms of seeing her like that again.
Carlos Valdes' reveal to EW that Cisco would be especially affected by Laurel's death makes sense. Cisco and Laurel had some special one-on-one interactions when he perfected her sonic Canary Cry device for her in a crossover last season. Considering that Barry showed up at the graveyard following Laurel's burial, this won't Team Flash's first reaction to her death, but their combined reactions to Black Siren showing up could actually be far more compelling than the normal mourning route.
Black Siren won't be the first doppelganger of a fallen friend that Cisco has encountered. During his trip with Barry to Earth-2, he crossed paths with a villainous version of Ronnie Raymond known as Deathstorm. Of course, there may be a big difference for Cisco between seeing a version of Ronnie on a different Earth and seeing a different version of Laurel on his own Earth. Laurel Lance 2.0 doing villainous things on his home turf will likely be harder for Cisco to process than evil Ronnie on Earth-2. If things weren't so serious with Damien Darhk and H.I.V.E. over in Star City, I'd recommend Cisco calling up Oliver for some advice, as the archer may not have experience with Earth-2 doubles just yet, but he does deal with a lot of dead people showing up very much alive.
Now that Zoom has Barry's speed and every advantage when it comes to crossing between Earths, it's a lot harder for the good guys to win on Earth-1, and it looks to be no easy feat to stop Black Siren and her army of metahumans coming to Central City. Black Siren may have been a heroine in the comics, but the Flarrow-verse has shown repeatedly that comic canon does not direct the plot of the shows. Laurel 2.0 as a villainess could certainly add to the morbidity of her appearance on The Flash.
We'll see Black Siren in action with Cisco on The Flash on May 17 at 8 p.m. ET on The CW. Check out our schedule of summer TV premiere dates to see when other shows will be returning to the airwaves.


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The forum landing page still shows the incubator logo, even if AOO is now an Apache top level project since October.
I think the incubator logo must be changed by the Apache feather.
AFAIK, the forum landing page is not on the project SVN so only Imacat (not sure if Drew still have the "keys") can change it.
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Sorry I did not see this post. ^^; I'll check it A.S.A.P.
It's still there, probably because the forums are still incubating.


Yep, and for two of those years we played Lebron James, who went EIGHT YEARS without losing a single series in the East.
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The Parliament adopts this organic law.
Art. I.-the real estate cadastre Law nr. 1543-XIII of 25 February 1998 (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 1998, no. 44-46, art. 318), as amended, is modified and completed as follows: 1. In article 3 (1), subparagraph (d)) shall be completed in the final text "and territorial offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance".
2. In article 6 (6), subparagraph (b)) shall be completed in the final text ", offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance".
3. In article 8, paragraph (3) shall read as follows: "(3) access to data of the Central Bank, real estate cadastre for the central public administration authorities and their subordinate bodies, local public administration authorities, courts, bailiffs, territorial offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance, the Prosecutor's Office, tax authorities and the related specialized land registers is free. Operational activity expenditures for providing paper-based information from the cadastre authorities referred to, with the exception of local public authorities, must be paid by those authorities from State budget funds provided for in the estimates of expenditure of these authorities or other sources provided for by law. Expenses relating to the provision of information to the local public administration authorities shall be paid from the local budget. "
Art. II.-in article 96, paragraph 2, of the code of civil procedure of the Republic of Moldova nr. 225-XV of 30 May 2003 (reprinted in the Official Gazette of the RM, no. 13, 130-134, art. 415), with subsequent amendments, the words ' shall be transferred to the account of the territorial Office of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance "shall be replaced by the wording" shall be levied in accordance with the law. 198-XVI of 26 July 2007 regarding State-guaranteed legal assistance ".
Art. III.-the enforcement code of the Republic of Moldova nr. 443-XV of 24 December 2004 (reprinted in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2010, 214-220, 704), with subsequent amendments, shall be completed as follows: 1. Article 11 shall be supplemented by the letter o) with the following contents: ' a) decisions of the coordinators of the offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance for the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State. "
2. In article 15, paragraph (2) shall be supplemented with the letter h) with the following content: "h) sums of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State."
Art. IV.-the annex to law No. 393-XVI dated 8 December 2006 approving the methodology for calculating the charges for services provided by the organisation specialises in Surveying and its subsidiaries (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2007, nr. 18-20, art. 61), with subsequent amendments, shall be completed as follows: 1. In section 2.8.2 (6), after the words "prosecution," shall be inserted the words "territorial offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance ,".
2. In section 2.8.3 paragraph 2, after the words "prosecution," shall be inserted the words "territorial offices of the National Council for State-guaranteed Legal Assistance,".
Art. V.-Law nr. 198-XVI of 26 July 2007 with regard to legal assistance guaranteed by the State (Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova, 2007, no. 157-160, art. 612), with subsequent amendments, shall be completed as follows: 1. Article 2 (2) shall be supplemented by the letters d1 and d2)) with the following content: "d1) representing the interests of the State in the process of contesting the decision on the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State;
D2) started the procedure of request execution of the decision on the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State "article is supplemented with paragraph (51) with the following contents:" (51) coordinators of the territorial offices are entitled to require and receive free, online, from the central public administration authorities and local institutions in possession of the necessary information from State records to verify the income of applicants for State-guaranteed legal aid. the conditions of access to the information listed will be determined through the agreements between National offices of Council and the holder of the State register under the law concerning data protection registers and personal. The coordinators of the territorial offices may require the release of information from State registers and on paper. In this case, the holder of the State registry will be able to charge the payment for the release of information under conditions set by law. "
2. In article 23, paragraph 3, after the words "qualified legal assistance," shall be inserted the words "the fact which was not informed territorial Office," and in the final paragraph is completed with the words "guaranteed by the State, incurred from the time improving its financial situation."
3. the law shall be supplemented with the following contents of article 231: "Article 231. The method of recovery of the costs for legal assistance guaranteed by the State (1) in the cases referred to in article 1. and article 22. 23 para. (2) and (3) the territorial Office Coordinator shall issue a decision on the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State, which will be sent to the person concerned within 3 days from the date of issue, by registered letter with notice of receipt, or by any other means which enables confirmation of its receipt.
(2) within 30 days after the date indicated in the notice of receipt or confirmation of the communication of the decision issued by the territorial Office co-ordinator, the data subject may: (a) the duty paid) recognizes the voluntary amount requested, on behalf of the territorial Office;
(b) an application to the Office) address concerning revocation of territorial, in whole or in part, the decision on the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State (3) in the case of recognition of the debt, referred to in decision persona must submit proof of payment of the territorial Office of the amount before the expiry of the period indicated in paragraph 2. (2). If the application referred to in paragraph 1. (2) (a). (b)) or if they lack the territorial Office response, the person concerned may appeal against the decision issued by the Coordinator in the administrative court.
(4) the decision of the territorial Office of the Coordinator becomes enforceable: a) on the expiry of the period laid down in paragraph 1. (2) If no application was filed regarding the revocation or territorial Office Coordinator is not produced proof of payment of the amount specified in the decision;
b) irrevocable coming into legal force of the final court judgment, in so far as the decision on the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State was cancelled as a result of its comes up.
(5) decision the enforceability of the territorial Office Coordinator for the recovery of expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State run forced after filing the bailiff in accordance with the provisions of the enforcement Code of the Republic of Moldova. 4. Article 25 shall be supplemented (31) and (32) with the following contents: "(31) on application, the person seeking qualified legal assistance shall give consent in writing for the processing of personal data, in accordance with the law. 133 of 8 July 2011 on the protection of personal data, in order to check its revenues by the coordinators of the territorial offices of the National Council.
(32) The filing, in the cases referred to in article 1. and article 22. 23 para. (2) and (3), persons asking for qualified legal assistance should assume the obligation in writing to refund expenses for legal assistance guaranteed by the State. "
Art. Vi.-the Government shall, within 3 months from the date of entry into force of the present law, will bring its normative acts in compliance with this law.
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Your skin will love it too! The saponins from quinoa are used to promote healing of skin injuries in South America, making it a good antiseptic. It is also alkalising which promotes skin elasticity – making you look younger. Ooo yeh!
It's a weight loss gem! This little round grain is gluten free and neutral for ALL blood types! Yes everyone can enjoy quinoa in their diet. It is a great source of fibre, and low GI, thus helping you to feel fuller for longer and hence is a great addition to any weight reduction protocol.
Quinoa is naturally coated in saponins, which can make quinoa taste like soap if not rinsed thoroughly. So don't be lazy! Read the instructions and if is says to rinse your quinoa before cooking – do it – or else it will taste like you know what!
I personally like to cook it using the absorption method. I will place 1 cup of quinoa into a baking tray with 2 cups of boiling water. I will then add a stock cube, and a table spoon of sun-dried tomato or basil pesto to add some extra kick. Let it cook it a medium oven until you can fluff it with a fork and the grains all separate. If your quinoa is gluggy, it just needs more time in the oven.
Here is a great recipe from Taste to get you inspired. Happy quinoa-ing!
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Elinchrom compacts and flash heads offer the unique centred umbrella fitting for umbrellas and deflectors. This gives photographers the freedom to easily modify the hardness / softness of their lights. Deflectors can eliminate, soften or tone sharp shadow edges. The compacts work very efficiently with the Elinchrom softbox and reflector range.


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Please, send me more information on this property: MLS# 787538 – $79,400 – 3037 Mohican Avenue, Dayton, OH 45429.
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K. Viswanathan (Born May 4, 1962) of New Delhi, has earned the title of having the world's most decorated car at the Mega Car Rally. This apt title is bestowed on him on account of his 9 consecutive wins as the Best Decorated Car at Mega Car Rallies. These Mega Car Rallies were organized by Rashi Entertainment and Women's Era where he won every year starting from 2008 till 2015.


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The Condemnation of BlacknessThe Condemnation of Blackness
Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-Muhammad, Khalil Gibran, 1972-
"The Idea of Black Criminality was crucial to the making of modern urban America. Khalil Gibran Muhammad chronicles how, when, and why modern notions of black people as an exceptionally dangerous race of criminals first emerged. Well known are the lynch mobs and racist criminal justice practices in the South that stoked…
Crime and race — United States — History — 20th century.
African Americans — Social conditions — History — 20th century.
African Americans — Legal status, laws, etc. — History — 20th century.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.


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Malaysia aims to reduce the usage of single-use plastic to zero by 2030
Last year, the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change unveiled a roadmap to reduce the usage of single-use plastic in Malaysia to zero by the year 2030.
For 2019, the ministry aims to enforce pollution charge on single-use plastic. Effective March 15, a 20 sen pollution charge is imposed on customers for each plastic bag purchased within the Federal Territories.
Similar efforts have been introduced in states like Penang, Selangor and Melaka years before. The move was initially implemented on selected days before gradually extended to every single day.
However, the Penang government suggested to increase the pollution charge in its state from 20 sen to 50 sen to further reduce the usage of single-use plastic.
The roadmap also targets business premises to only provide plastic straw upon request.
Although the total plastic straw ban would only take effect on January 1, 2020, Selangor had already banned the usage of plastic straws at food and beverage outlets in its state since July this year.
The effort to stop the usage of single-use straws does not stop at eateries. Recently, Nestle Malaysia announced that they will use paper straws as an alternative for Milo packed drinks.
According to a report from The Guardian, Malaysia was the largest plastic waste importer in the world. From January to November 2018, it was recorded that Malaysia had imported over 910,000 tons of plastic waste.
The second spot was taken by another Southeast Asia country, which is Thailand. However, the volume of plastic waste imported by the neighbouring country was about half the amount compared to Malaysia. It was reported that Thailand imported about 470,000 tons of plastic within the first 11 months of 2018.
Whereas, the top exporter of plastic waste was the United States. More than 960,000 tons of plastic had been exported out of the country within the same time frame.
There was just a 50,000 tons difference between the plastic waste exported by the United States and the plastic waste imported by Malaysia. Comparing the size and population of the two nations, Malaysia is importing too much plastic waste into the country.
Environmental NGO Greenpeace Malaysia revealed that the United States, Japan and Britain were the three largest plastic waste exporters to Malaysia.
Unfortunately, the NGO dubbed Malaysia as "the world's rubbish bin".
Earlier in February, a small town in the outskirts of Selangor known as Jenjarom had become the home of 17,000 tonnes of plastic waste.
Additionally, the media also reported that Kuala Langat, the district where Jenjarom is located in, had over 33 illegal plastic recycling factories.
According to a report by the BBC, these illegal factories would dispose the massive amount of plastic using the cheaper methods, either burying or burning them.
The latter would lead to haze which is potentially harmful to human health and the environment.
While we are trying to put an end to single-use plastic, we still receive massive amounts of plastic waste from foreign countries.
It would mean nothing if we reduced our plastic waste just to make space for others. We hope that the government could do their part in preventing such incidents from happening again.
Nevertheless, let's not feel demotivated and continue to do our part as Malaysians by keeping our country clean.
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ATMM (Audio Technologies for Music and Media) was a trilogy of international and interdisciplinary conferences (2012, 2013 and 2014) that focused on the various aspects of audio, audiovisual and music technologies for music and media, and, also, on the relationship between sound, music and image in both 'traditional' and 'new' media.
First of its kind in Turkey in the field of audio technologies, ATMM brought together professionals, academics, practitioners and students, coming from eleven different countries. In three conferences a total of 79 presentations, 6 workshops, 7 musical performances, 5 panels and 6 product demonstrations took place.
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Peter Watkins: A Revolutionary Film-Maker (2015)
From the October 2015 issue of the Socialist Standard
To mark the 80th birthday of film-maker Peter Watkins, we examine his unfairly neglected work.
Peter Watkins, the film auteur, has been subject to massive marginalisation of his work. His entire oeuvre has seemingly met with extreme disapproval by the state, the power structures in capitalism and its ideological support structure, the mass media. Watkins can be a difficult film artist but he is essential cinema, the pioneer of the faux docudrama where he dissects historical events, the present day, or the near future. He described himself as a libertarian socialist and campaigns against false, stale and authoritarian film-making.
In the mid-1970s, Watkins' experience of film-making and his studies of mainstream cinema and television led him to develop his theory of the 'Monoform', the predominant style used by the 'Mass Audio Visual Media' (MAVM) industry. A film or programme produced in the Monoform would be edited with a rapid succession of different images which don't allow the viewer long enough to digest and consider what they have seen. This style manipulates the viewer into interpreting the film according to what the film-makers determine.
This theory influenced how Watkins would make his films. For example, The Journey (1987) did attempt in its use of time, space and alternative structures to counter the Monoform. His later preference for lengthy films gave the viewer more time and information to consider the subject matter, although he recognised that non-monoform movies don't have to be as long asThe Journey's14.5 hours! His use of non-professional actors and improvised scenes (even before he developed the theory of the Monoform) were intended to give a voice to people outside the media industry.
His theory of the Monoform includes a discourse about the 'Universal Clock' which refers to the synchronisation and the global movement of the televisions in the world, calibrated anywhere, at any time, their programming constructed without meaning, context or feeling but fitting within time constraints determined by commercials.
The Monoform treats audiences as receivers, consumers, passive spectators when faced with news, television and film. People are trained to accept the mass media in a non-critical light as if the media is neutral and informative. The Monoform precludes any critical analysis of technique, structure, or effect, and is based on pre-formed moulds, from which there is no real freedom. The public are viewed as inherently stupid so that it needs authoritarian, simplistic, rapidly-moving language forms in order to absorb consumer ideas from TV.
To counter the Monoform, Watkins advocates an organic relationship between the film-maker and the audience; using non-professionals furthers his cause of involving the public in a democratic media. Watkins has laid out new possibilities for meaningful audience interaction with media, not just for viewers and those involved in production, but on a personal level. He endeavours to remove the comfortable avoidance of reality inherent in conventional programming on television by challenging the mainstream media's handle on the way we view the world through television and film. Watkins has wrought more truth from the faux docudrama genre than the documentaries of the so-called vérité school.
Watkins himself pioneered the docudrama genre of dramatising events in the style of newsreel footage, right from the early years of his career. In the mid 1950s, he was part of the Playcraft amateur theatre group in Kent. He acquired an 8mm camera and directed the group in short films set in the first and second world wars, and during the 1956 Hungarian uprising. By the early 1960s, Watkins was working as an assistant producer at the BBC. He had already noticed that 'much of the commercial cinema in the 1950s and early 1960s, and television in general, felt extremely stilted and conventional, holding the public locked into set and authoritarian agendas', and he wanted 'to offer a way of countering the effects of soap-opera historical reconstructions and TV news broadcasts' (pwatkins.mnsi.net/part2_home.htm). So, when he had the opportunity to produce his own film for the BBC, he built on his newsreel style, and Culloden (1964) was the result.
The film showed the 1746 battle between forces loyal to the Stuart and Hanover royal dynasties, and its aftermath, as if a TV camera crew had been there to record it. In less than an hour, over 2,000 soldiers were killed, and the victorious Hanoverian Duke of Cumberland's troops then went on to hunt down any remaining members of opposing clans. One of Watkins' aims was to draw parallels between the resulting destruction of the clan system and the American army's impact on civilians during the then-current Vietnam War.
Many of the cast were non-professional actors, including descendents of those who fought at Culloden. This wasn't just an artistic decision in order to elicit more naturalistic performances, but also a political statement. Watkins wanted his films to provide a voice for anyone, rather than the biased, unrepresentative media industry. The film received enthusiastically supportive reviews, especially for its pioneering techniques.
After Culloden, the BBC commissioned Watkins again, and he produced the 1965 harrowing, bleak, nuclear war docudrama The War Game, 47 minutes in length. It concerned a nuclear attack on Britain focusing on the North Kent area, and featured instant flash blindness, a firestorm, radiation sickness, widespread psychological damage and suicide. We see the Army burn corpses, the rationing of resources, police shooting looters during food riots, civil disturbance becomes a capital offence, and people are executed by firing squad. The cast was almost entirely made up of non-actors, and Watkins filmed in the style of a news magazine programme.
The BBC violated their own Charter when in September 1965 they screened the film to senior members of the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Post Office, the Military Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretary to Harold Wilson's Cabinet. As a result, the BBC suppressed transmission before the screening date in October 1965, stating 'the effect of the film has been judged by the BBC to be too horrifying for the medium of broadcasting, it will, however, be shown to invited audiences.' A Parliamentary question in December 1965 'asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he made to the BBC concerning the Civil Defence film called The War Game; and why he exerted pressure to prevent its showing to the public'. But the Labour government denied any outside pressure on the BBC. There had also been pressure from Equity, the British actors' union, who were angry that non-professional actors had been used.
The War Game was released to cinema in 1966, and picked up the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, and a BAFTA. Hypocritically, the BBC picked up the awards although the BBC had also said the film was banned because it was an artistic failure! Today both The War Game and Culloden have been available for some years on DVD but it is difficult to obtain these films for theatrical screenings which is related to restrictions imposed by Equity. The BBC eventually broadcast The War Game twenty years later in July 1985 during the week before the fortieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
The film essentially stated that civil defence policies did not prepare the public for a nuclear attack. Watkins said later that 'I was interested in breaking the illusion of media-produced 'reality'. My question was 'Where is 'reality'?'' Watkins disassembled the fourth wall to uproot the MAVM complacency, and characters deliver direct Brechtian statements to camera. Patrick Murphy, a senior lecturer in Film and Television at York St John University, quotes Watkins: 'The War Game and Culloden are signposts to a direction that TV could have taken, but refused. Television could have been a plurality of forms and processes.' Watkins' disillusionment with the way television programming was heading meant that he left the BBC and turned instead to film production.
His reputation as a talented new voice meant he could attract the backing of major studios such as Universal Pictures. This led to Privilege (1967), a docudrama about Steven Shorter, a manufactured pop idol of the near future. Shorter's career is dictated by his management company, which is working with the government to distract his millions of fans from society's problems. His stage act uses violence to provide 'the public with a necessary release of all the nervous tension caused by the state of the world'. Shorter's popularity with the masses means that he can be used to manipulate them. So when the state wants to promote religious and national unity, Shorter is rebranded as repentant and faithful. The singer Paul Jones from Manfred Mann plays Shorter, giving a tense, awkward performance which reflects how the character is trapped and unable to express himself.
Privilege was dismissed by contemporary reviewers as 'paranoid, hysterical and unconvincing' (Privilege DVD booklet), and was shown by few cinemas. Consequently, it has been largely forgotten, whereas it should be recognised as a lively and perceptive critique of the mass media's power, echoing Herbert Marcuse's views about consumerism as a form of social control. The directions that Watkins' career would take next reflect his growing awareness of how the media industry stifles intelligent debate. The concluding part of our look at his work will follow in the next issue.
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A slow month in real estate gives price relief to buyers.
The price of detached homes in Langley headed downward in January, flirting with levels not seen in almost two years.
The benchmark price of a detached home in Langley hit $980,300, down 4.3 per cent from a little more than $1 million a year ago, according to statistics released by the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB).
The average price was just slightly higher, at $1,021,932, down 9.6 per cent year over year.
The average price of a detached home in Langley passed $1 million back in May of 2017, in the midst of a multi-year real estate boom.
That boom is now fading, as sales are down and the number of homes listed for sale are up.
In January of 2019, there were 298 detached houses listed for sale in Langley, up 63.7 per cent compared to a year ago. Yet just 52 houses sold, down 34.2 per cent from the 79 that sold in January of 2018.
Townhouse sales edged up to 58 this January, 16 per cent more than a year previously. But inventory was climbing faster, with 163 active listings, a 136.2 per cent increase year over year.
Prices were also down slightly for townhouses, with the benchmark rate of $485,000 down 2.8 per cent and the average down 3.5 per cent.
Condo prices were still stable or ticking up slightly – the benchmark was $408,800, up 0.5 per cent from a year ago – but inventory was rising faster there than in any other category. There were 234 condos listed for sale in January in Langley, up 271.4 per cent from a year ago.


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River Kitty Cat Cafe on its way to Main Street
John T Martin
john.martin@courierpress.com
The co-owners of the planned River Kitty Cat Cafe said they intend to have the business at 226 Main St. up and purring by June.
Nancy Drake and Annette Gries appeared before the Site Review Committee and received clearance to move forward, pending a walk-through by staff of the Evansville Water & Sewer Utility.
The business is a partnership with the Vanderburgh Humane Society. Guests will be able to enjoy a snack or beverage, play with cats and consider taking one home. It's the third cafe of its kind in the state; others have sprouted across the country.
Cat Cafe looks to offer furry friends, fancy feasts
River Kitty will be next to Zuki Japanese Hibachi Grill & Sushi Lounge, in a building that most recently was Eddie Erickson's Antique Shop and Studio. It will feature two rooms separated by floor to ceiling glass. The first room will be a cafe featuring French drip and pour over coffees and teas as well as croissants, cookies, biscotti and savory pastries.
The second part is the RK Lounge. There will be seating for human occupants, but the room is really being designed for the cats – lots of vertical features, cubbies for the kitties to lay in and lots of things for cats to play with. Litter boxes, a concern raised by some, will be in the basement of the building with the cats having ready access through a kitty door.
"We've got an air cleaner system going in, so there won't be any problem," Drake said.
There is a $5 fee for each hour in the Lounge. The cats – all adoption-ready through Vanderburgh Humane Society – will not be permitted in the cafe area, due to Health Department rules. All cats will have all been spayed or neutered, be up to date on their shots and microchipped. All of the proceeds from the adoption go to the Humane Society and the process can be started at the cafe.
Gries and Drake are cat lovers and Humane Society supporters who want to increase the local adoption rate.
"In society today there is a huge acknowledgment of the importance of our fur babies in our lives, and it is our responsibilities as humans to do our best to help all of them," Drake said.
For more information about the café or the Kickstarter campaign visit riverkittycatcafe.com.


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Police: Woman ran brothel in Blue Ash business park
Blue Ash police said the arrest was part of an undercover "community impact unit operation."
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Correction: A prior version of this story misspelled of the suspect's name. She is Victoria Jarufe-Maher.
A Batavia woman was arrested Monday after police said she was operating a brothel in a Blue Ash business park.
Victoria Jarufe-Maher, 27, is charged with promoting prostitution, a felony.
Police documents state Jarufe-Mayer's alleged operation was based in a pair of suites at the Perfect Small Business Park on Reed Hartman Highway.
The offices listed by investigators bear a sign reading "River Valley Client Svcs."
Business park officials said the renter of the suites is being evicted due to the owner misrepresenting their business to property management.
River Valley Client Services does not appear on the Ohio Auditor's list of businesses registered with the state.
While executing a search warrant at the business park, police seized six cell phones and tablets, more than $2,000 in cash along with ledgers and WiFi cameras, according to police records.
Reports indicate two other women, ages 20 and 25, were arrested as a result of the investigation as well. However, no court records regarding these suspects were available on Tuesday.
Jarufe-Maher is being held at the Hamilton County Justice Center. She is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.
Blue Ash officials said they plan to release more information about the investigation later this week.
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Ideas After a 5,394 Hour Run
By Cosmoline
Cosmoline
Just finished a really epic run on Voyageur mode. I've made a few suggestions earlier, but at this point I think I'm in a better position to assess them in light of the gameplay.
--TLD as it stands is *several* games. Scavenging is the first game. You start with nothing at a random spot in the wilderness and have to dart through forests and from one structure to the next. It's a stressful and exciting game, with variable rewards. Very much a rougelike survival spree. And I think this is the game that's been getting people so excited. The second game, which hits about 10 to 20 days in for most, is the encampment game. The achievement board shows most don't make it this far. This is when you've gotten basic supplies together, have your gear in shape and have figured out how to survive off scraps. This is when you're learning how to mend and start fires and use your environment. In this phase you loot some more and decide where you're going to create your base of operations. The next game is homesteading. By this time, usually by 50, you are kitted out with the custom gear and you've learned how to deal with the wolves. You learn the lay of your encampment really well, and even start to herd deer to wolves and take double kills. You conserve ammo and resources obsessively by this stage. This is where you also start setting rabbit snares probably, and stockpile food, lumber and other resources. The boredom of this stage is balanced by looting/exploring runs where you stock up, head out and loot what's left on the two maps. The final stage is probably best called the long grind. By 100 you've likely looted every structure and found the bunker. So you settle in to rabbit farming, fishing, double kills, and ultimately end up running out of bullets and tackling wolves off the deer to get the meat. It's a brutal stage full of moments of near starvation. Cloth becomes incredibly precious, and scrap metal, as well as basic first aid supplies. sewing kits and tools. By day 200 things get really tedious and the game, while still beautiful, starts to get to be more trouble than fun. But if you have a magnifying glass or firestarter, it can be prolonged for months. I'm sure I could have stretched my play out, but rather than do it I decided to go out in a blaze of glory and die chasing a mortally wounded wolf through the woods buck naked. My guy died with a full stomach and fully supplied cabin--he had earned it.
The upshot is the game starts out A+ and ends on a C. So the question is, what to do about this. I've suggested that the days should start getting darker and colder as the months go on--to truly reflect northern life and make the stages past day 50 get harder and harder. This would rationalize the leaderboards a bit I think.
Making the wildlife more responsive to the player would also be good. Once you learn the wolves' AI and patterns in voyageur you can play them like a fiddle. I started to look forward to seeing them since it meant dinner. Making alpha wolves with grey coats to be extra menacing, introducing woken bears, or something like that would help. But above all, the deer and wolves should cotton to what the player is up to JUST as they do in real life. Wildlife is smart, and won't come back to kill sites. So if you kill a wolf, wolves will probably leave that area for a week. That's great in the early game, but sucks in the later game. So it balances out. The deer should also shy away from areas where they are hunted.
I was earlier saying we should have a spear or bayonet. But now I don't think so. The ability to kill an unlimited number of deer would stretch the sandbox game to infinity and change its nature. Plus once you learn how to fight the knife is really effective at least in standard difficulty.
There's also the temptation to make this into another minecraft game where you get more and more stuff to make. I encourage the devs to keep resisting this. While it would be nice to see some BUCKSKIN PANTS craftable (to avoid being half naked for the last hundred days), the later phases shouldn't be about building new structures or wolf barriers and such. It should be made more interesting by improving the wildlife AI and making tweaks to daylight and climate to simulate winter's arrival. The goal IMHO should be to force the player out of his homestead and make him scout further for game. JUST AS HE WOULD HAVE TO IN REAL LIFE!
As far as bugs, the wolf jacket should be repaired with wolf hides and shouldn't spawn cloth when broken down. I'm assuming that will be fixed. Also the daylight keeps coming in when you're at the crafting table and work late. Minor point. The deer sometimes vanish into snowbanks after being killed, but that's not unrealistic. And overall its' remarkably bug free for alpha. Art, sound and voice work, though still being worked on, are already stupendous and really truly remind me of my home up here in Alaska. Saw a sunset last night that was right out of TLD.
Great game! Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing what's next.
TastyWheat
That's a really long run. I'll be excited when I can make it past a week (but I've only played through about 3 times). Once I master "wolf management" I can see this game getting relatively easy and repetitive. I agree that the longer you last the more difficult it should become to stay alive, but it's probably better tied to the level of your skills vs how long you've survived.
Yeah the only things I'd like to see added are ways to prevent the inevitable death that WILL happen eventually.
- Craftable shirt and pants (buckskins)
- a sharpened stick to help you drive wolves off deer. Not a sure thing by any stretch
- Another way to start fires - bow drill for example.
- A way to preserve meat, either freeing it or smoking it.
None of these would make the game easier, it would remove the inevitable end of the game.
But I'm not so sure it should be survivable. I kind of like the idea of a game that's almost certain doom. If done properly, the longer you play the harder it should get, with no easy way of keeping the food supplies coming. If the weather gets colder, worse and the sky darker as it does in real life, then the mid game gets tougher and the end game becomes even more challenging rather than a grind.
ChillPlayer
If done properly, the longer you play the harder it should get, with no easy way of keeping the food supplies coming. If the weather gets colder, worse and the sky darker as it does in real life, then the mid game gets tougher and the end game becomes even more challenging rather than a grind.
Any form of grinding would be immediatelly removed if there would be no rifle (at least in Stalker), LB would need to be reset then though
I think it is possible to get to 300 or beyond without starving if you have a way of making fire. My fellow never starved, I just got bored with the game after a point. And it takes a long time in game and a lot of waiting on the wolves.
I think the rifle is about right as is. It gives you a boost but the limited cartridges make you conserve it. And you can still grind without it. Heck I went for several stretches of 30 days or more without capping off a round. You use snares on the rabbit grounds and scavenge from the wolves. One of the techniques I used was to charge at the wolf right after he killed a deer. If he attacked me, it was a double. If not, it was a deer.
Those techniques you mentioned are what I apply after I run out of ammo. That's when I scare wolves away with my knife until I'm out of cloth and bandages and then I'd stick to rabbits and fish, although I never reached that point. But wouldn't you say that those 30 days without firing a shot were much more thrilling than the other days hunting with a rifle, especially if it was because you were out of ammo? I remember the first time I ran up to a wolf/deer with only a knife equipped, I was yelling and screaming in my head (and probably out loud) at this wolf and I never forget the relief when he just ran away from me lol. It's those situations this game can put you in that I love the most about it and that's why I believe that the rifle might seem to be a good thing at first but once you know the game, it really postpones the fun by a good while.
And no, I'm not masochistic enough to not pick up the rifle if the game hands it to me
I think the rifle has its own charms. It's reasonable to expect some firearms in rural Canada. And games that simply ignore that will tend to be as unrealistic as the ones where there are tricked out AR's and unlimited ammo everywhere. The game rifle is so inaccurate that you have to be within a dozen yards to hit anything with it, which limits it utility. And it's no sure one shot for a wolf. The process of learning to live without it is part of the game I think.
That's true, it actually belongs to the setting of wild Canada and also get's players the ability to learn to survive. All I say regarding the rifle is in regards of the current state of the game. When the devs introduce more to do than eat/sleep once you stocked up on food I most likely won't have any issues with it. But for now every game is the same until day 100 or so and the rifle plays a big role in this.
I still haven't gotten around to trying stalker yet (as my voyageur game hasn't ended yet), but on my current voyageur run I hadn't used the rifle at all until day 150 or so. That's when I decided to bag me some wolves to make the wolf coat. I shot 5 wolves in total (4 to make the coat and another 1 to repair it, only to find out you need leather for repairs...). I haven't fired the rifle since and I've been going a long time now.
Yes in voyageur the rifle is much less important than in stalker because there are fewer wolves. There are many places in stalker where 3-4 wolves roam the area. Not only makes this accessing building alot harder, you also always have to watch out for other wolves near by when you're harvesting. Without the "peng" of the rifle your options are very limited.
Playing in Stalker and playing in another mode is like being in a whole other dimension. Stalker is just stupid brutal.
There are spawns of Voyageur that have a lot of wolves, but they behave differently. In my current run the coastal ocean has had up to eight wolves roaming it, with one poor deer. But I was able to run between them pretty easily. They don't alert until you're right next to them, and often give a warning bark. In stalker they all seem to be hungry for manflesh and they obsesses over you much longer. It makes everything more difficult. Stalker mode isn't my favorite because it just seems to be unrealistically or absurdly brutal. To my mind it takes away from the beauty and isolated feel of the game to have so much attention on staying alive from moment to moment. It really is a different game. And I noted earlier that Pilgrim mode is also a different game--in some ways the most interesting of the three modes. The quiet isolation starts to get to you after awhile, and you start wishing the wolves would be aggressive so you'd have something to interact with. I found myself getting really jumpy in the silence, and it will hopefully give ruse to a psychological horror game mod in the future.
Well this game is specifically made to test how long you can survive. I did some Voyageur runs when I was new to TLD but once I made my first 50 days in Stalker I never looked back. It's just no challenge, I don't feel like I have to actually accomplish something to survive in Voyageur, where as in Stalker I need to be cautious and patient and do some thinking to get my food and supplies. I like that, get's my heart pumping now and then.
It's not absurdly brutal, it just teaches you the same lesson Dark Souls teached many players very succesfull: you are no god, you are not invincible. Wolves will kill you if you just rush in screaming Geronimo, you have to scout the area, learn their moving pattern, account for their "radar" and always be prepared for one more wolf to be there than you actually can see.
Pilgrim on the other hand has it's appeal, after 148 days in stalker I welcomed the calm setting and spent 50 days to get silent hunter and pacifist in Pilgrim. What I especially love is that you see most of the possible spawning points for loot, I discovered several spots I never bothered to check for in Stalker. I also have an idea for a video in mind that I want to make once I've finished my current stalker run. There's something special only in Pilgrim (I think ) and I like to exploit that. I'm not sure it will work though, we'll see.
I've been playing with a few ideas for horror-based mods, although obviously that's all a long way off. I'm thinking that, since zombie hordes are so played out, it might be fun to focus on one lone, terrifying monster instead, and have it stalk you across the landscape, forcing you to keep moving. Maybe something drawing from the region's native american folk tales? There's a whole archetype of ice-affiliated giant cannibals from northern folklore that's just ripe for the picking imo :9
I like that idea! Something like a windigoo, or maybe more Lovecraftian. When portents of it begin, such as weird colors in the sky or strange howls, you'd have to bugger off that map entirely. It wouldn't be enough to hide in a house. Animals could turn aggressive as a response to the Fortean events. And if you wait too long, reality on that map starts to bend. Could be seriously fun.
As far as Stalker mode, I appreciate the reasons folks like it. But to me it's too much of a game in that mode. Just darting from point to point, learning the guards/wolves timetables. I've done that so much over the years, from the arcades to early 3D to actual STALKER. In a way I'm kind of tired of it. The project as a whole has the potential to be a great deal more than that. In some respects it already is. In vanilla Pilgrim mode, you start wondering if it's any kind of "game" in any sense of that word. It turns into a strange existential exercise where you have to decide how long you want to keep struggling, and for what goal.
I think we need a way to throw ice or rocks at wolf to scare them/angry them away from the deer. It makes some sense and it can help when you're out of ammo.
tsotha
I would like to see a mechanism to improve the late game, but for me it's more important that it be fun than that my guy dies. The problem, as it stands is the routine, not the length of the game. I don't really like the "gradually colder" idea, since the counter for that is to build up an enormous larder and then hole up for the last part of the game, which is the opposite of the direction I want.
That's a good point. But the fact is winter does get colder, as my hands noticed on the bike rides the past few days! And if the balance is right, it could be survivable. Maybe it's something to do for the actual game game, not the sandbox.
Yeah, winter does get colder and after that it gets warmer. And then you get spring, summer etc... So if you start in the winter and manage to survive for 90 days, you should be in spring already and the game suddenly gets a lot easier (not so cold, more stuff).
Unless this is the start of a new ice age or something.


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Four people died on Friday November 18 after a small plane apparently broke up in midair before crashing into the ground east of Harvey Field airport in Snohomish County, US state from Washington, investigators announced on Saturday, November 19.
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The crash happened about an hour after the plane, a Cessna 208B, took off from Renton. On Saturday morning Nov. 19, the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office confirmed that all four people on board the plane had died. The Snohomish County Medical Examiner has identified the victims, and the crash is being investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration. According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, the crashed aircraft with aircraft identification number N2069B belonged to Copper Mountain Aviation of Alaska.
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Q: Does this shuffling algorithm produce each permutation with uniform probability? I've seen how a particular naive shuffling algorithm is biased, and I feel like I basically get that, and I get how the Fischer-Yates algorithm is not biased.  I have the following algorithm which was the one I first thought of when I thought about how to shuffle a list.  I know it consumes twice the memory and runs in unnecessarily large time, but I'm still curious if it produces each permutation with a uniform distribution, or if there's some sneaky reason I'm not seeing for it to be biased.
I'm also kind of wondering if there is some other "undesirable" property to a random shuffle that this would have, like perhaps the probabilities of various positions in the list being filled with some values are dependent.
def shuf(x):
    out = [None for i in range(len(x))]
    for i in x:
        pos = rand.randint(0,len(x)-1)
        while out[pos] != None:
            pos = rand.randint(0,len(x)-1)
        out[pos] = i
    return out

I generated a heat map of this on a list of 20 elements, running 10^6 trials, and it produced the following.  The (i,j) coordinate of the map represents the probability of the ith position of the list being filled with the jth element of the original list.

While I don't see any pattern to the heat map, it looks like the variance might be high.  Or that might be the heat map over-stating the variance because, hey, the minimum and max have to come up somewhere.

A: Undesirable property - this can be expensive if you're shuffling a large set:
 while out[pos] != None:
            pos = rand.randint(0,len(x)-1)

Imagine len(x) == 100,000,000 and you've placed 90,000,000 already - you're going to loop a LOT before you get a hit.
Interesting exercises:

*

*What does the heat map look like for simply generating random numbers between 1 and len(x) over 10e6 iterations look like?

*What does the heat map look like for Fischer-Yates, for comparison?
At a glance, it looks to me like, given a uniform RNG, it should yield a truly random distribution (albeit more slowly than Fischer-Yates).

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Kerry To Campaign During RNC! Unbelievable
luisca
John Kerry will attend Rallies in Tennesse on Wednesday. In the Middle of the RNC, disrespecting the long standing tradition that the other candidate lays low during the Rivals convention. President Bush retreated to his Ranch during the 4 days of the DNC and had expected the same from Kerry, what has happend to gentlemanship.
jamesag96
RE: Kerry To Campaign During RNC! Unbelievable
Is anyone really surprised? Their campaign is running scared on all fronts.
Get ready to hear a bunch of crap from McCaulliffe, the Clintons and the like.
Business as usual.
Their campaign is running scared on all fronts.
ROTFLMAO! You make Kerry sound like the incumbent in the fight for his life. Seems to me, this week is more crucial to Bush than Kerry at the moment. RWAK habits are hard to break, aren't they, James?
You want to hear real shit? Watch the lies out of the RNC. But then again, you approve of these lies, James, so they won't bother you.
RWAK, baby.
what has happend to gentlemanship...
Ask the GOP. After the trashing of John McCain and of that Georgia Senator (who's name all of a sudden escapes me!), in 2000, you complain about somenone not being a gentleman.
What a twosome of crybabies.
No surprise at all. Democrats gave up any sense of honor long ago.
This from a RWAK member who's party he supports main kind of politics is character assassination. Keep going, Mr. RWAK, you're making a real special name for yourself, and it isn't a good one.
After the trashing of John McCain and of that Georgia Senator (who's name all of a sudden escapes me!)
Max Cleland, I believe.
what has happend to gentlemanship.
I've got news for you. There is no gentlemanship in politics anymore. It's become disgustingly dirty. And if the Kery campaign manages to get a few more votes out of it, and it's enough to win a state, then so much the better for them. Personally, I don't like the idea, but as long as it isn't illegal, Kerry can do it, and I'll support him in his effort to win.
Give me a break Alf...your Daddy, or "son" didn't get much of a bump after his convention during which Bush laid low...and now in a few polls Bush has gotten a bump...before the convention. Yeah I'd say they are more than a little worried.
Lies out of the RNC...have you ever watched McCaulliffe speak, or Pelosi, or Barb Boxer...those folks make me laugh.
And for all of his well tought out responses...see RWAK,baby...Alf still fails to properly address the issue raised. Not surprised though.
Thank, Mir. Had a bit of a brain cramp there. Good rescue.
It's somewhere on the shelf next to the GOP's conscience, empathy, and honesty.
rsmith6621a
A Quote from KomoTV in Seattle website.....
"Kerry plans to break from the tradition of staying off the trail during the opposing party's convention with a speech Wednesday at the American Legion. Aides said it had not been determined whether he would address the Vietnam-era controversy in his appearance before the country's largest veterans' organization"
http://komotv.com/stories/32787.htm
Is that all you RWAKs is Whine Whine Whine......He is just speaking to group of Vets.....I believe Mr W is speaking at the same event as well....Call it what it is..... a conflict of schedule.........Bush spends 40% of our time in Crawford so whats new????
Here is a link on GWBs Website.........
http://www.georgewbush.com/Calendar/CalendarDetail.aspx?ID=1794
So should W cancel his speech too..........Find somthing else to moan about....
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Guys just take this failure to follow the traditions (which is all it is) for what it is.......
As sign that the Kerry camp believes that it is in trouble and needs to negate the bounce that Bush should get from his convention.....one that Kerry didn't get from his.
Another ignorant statement from L-188. What else is new.
Kerry can campaign and still leave the spotlight to Bush. why should the opposition relax because their rival is taking the nomination? Amazing, you seem to condone character assassination as a legit form of campaigning, but you squeal like a stuck elephant on this one. Amusing, really.
Well Bush did it during Boston....
Why not Kerry during New York.
And avoid the critisim that will follow from him not following the tradition?
Reason.....his campaign is worried.
DeltaSFO
Kerry can campaign and still leave the spotlight to Bush. why should the opposition relax because their rival is taking the nomination?
It's called tradition. But hey, liberals have never been known to be fond of that.
Duce50Boom
Fear not fellow republicans. Apparently we're all just ignorant RWAKs. Maybe when alpha1 figures out how to use his brain he'll think of something to say other than those two words. In the meantime I'll refer to alpha1 as an LWCS. You can figure out what CS means if you've ever had the 'pleasure' of being at the receiving end of one of his temper tantrums
Refer to me however you want, sir. I'll just ignore your ass whenever you do it, and keep on going.
The thing is, such lables BOTHER you guys. They don't do shit to me. So fire away.
How about labeling you guys as traitors? You seem to get spun up about that one.....
The Fact is that if Bush would have pulled this stunt during the DNC you would have made such a HUGE fuss about it. Now that republicans are making it about you guys braking a tradition as old as the parties themselves, you say oh, it doesn't matter. HIPOCRITS.
And during the DNC Bush wasn't "doing nothing" at Crawford, he was working on creating the national intelligence director.
[Edited 2004-08-29 08:33:17]
cfalk
Doesn't matter. I was quite worried before, but I am feeling more and more confident that the final election numbers are going to turn out something similar to Reagan-Mondale in '84. I think Bush pretty much has it in the bag, as long as he can maintain everybody's motivation to actually vote.
By the way, I wonder what all this bruhaha will do to voter participation levels...
but I am feeling more and more confident that the final election numbers are going to turn out something similar to Reagan-Mondale in '84
Boy I wish I had that confidence.
B2707SST
I'm not quite that confident, but the polls are starting to show upward movement for Bush -- and as Jamesag96, this is before the convention. In particular, Kerry's approval among veterans has dropped by 9 points; perhaps the SVFT attacks are beginning to bite him. Their second ad is far more effective than the first and will probably begin airing in more states soon.
Something also went down this week to spook the IEM presidential futures market on Kerry, breaking them out of a six-week trading range. I'm enough of a believer in efficient markets to suspect there's something behind it, especially since only the most hardcore political junkies trade on IEM.
If Bush can hold or gain in the polls after the convention, he will have the coveted Big M: momentum. If things continue to settle down in Iraq and the economy doesn't slip further, Bush's prospects will look pretty good. Still, the election is a long way away and plenty can happen between now and then. This one is going down to the wire.
--B2707SST
TWAMD-80
I must be ignorant, but could someone explain what RWAK is please??
For the last two months I was a bit worried, but I think that now, Unless Bush F***s up in the convention or later, he has it in the bag. He is winning in most of the swing states at this moment.
They need all the help they can get obviously. Maybe he plans on telling this group about his military service. LOL... Could be they are the last 100 people that have not heard it 5 times.
this is great news for the President. Every poll I've seen indicates that the more people see of Kerry the less they like him. Remember, Kerry's numbers fell during his convention.
Kerry's best hope to make up the ground is the debates where he will try to get GWB to address some of his policy failures -most notably, Iraq.
The problem is that the debates will be a double edge sword for Kerry. Everyone already knows that GWB is a bad public speaker - therefore expectations are low for him. If he survives, he'll have done enough. On the other hand, the expactation for Kerry will be very high. He'll need to hit one out of the park during the debates or people will say that he fell short - that's exactly what happened during the DNC. Expect the GOP spin doctors to be talking up Kerry in the debates and saying how worried the president is about debating him.
This expectation gap is going to be even greater for Edwards because everyone expects the former trial lawyer to be able to verbally kick the shit out of the VP.
luv2fly
I believe it stands for RWAK = Right Wing Ass kissers!!!!
I am feeling more and more confident that the final election numbers are going to turn out something similar to Reagan-Mondale in '84
It's comments like that and "Teresa Kerry is the worst example of a human being I've ever seen" that make you look like a complete nutjob, Charles. Awesome pictures, but you're off your rocker.
I'm not quite that confident, but the polls are starting to show upward movement for Bush -- and as Jamesag96, this is before the convention. In particular, Kerry's approval among veterans has dropped by 9 points; perhaps the SVFT attacks are beginning to bite him.
Unfortunately, it's true. But you said it yourself, they are in fact, attacks. Nothing more. There's no truth behind them, and the SBVL's can't prove anything. Kerry is hurting because of this for two factors: A) The GOP will stoop to any level, will do anything, nothing is off limits, to make sure their man wins. It doesn't matter if their man is destroying this country (and indeed even though Bush is enjoying a slight bump in the polls, still people think the country is going down the wrong road and we need a change, by something like a 3-1 margin) As long as they can make the opponent look bad by character assassination, insults, and outright lies, they're doing their job. Now, there's no sense in spewing this trash unless there's an audience right? B) Too many stupid people are willing to buy into their schtick. This country is full of people who either don't care, or are too ignorant to research. It's sad state of affairs when the GOP can walk up to you, shit in your hand, and you eat it up.
We're a negative country. We want controversy and mud slinging. We WANT to be lied to. The truth scares us. The GOP plays up to that, and in a way I cant blame them.
Their second ad is far more effective than the first and will probably begin airing in more states soon.
The one where they take his testimony out of context to make it look like he's attacking his fellow veterans? Classic. I hope they are proud of themselves.
" It's sad state of affairs when the GOP can walk up to you, shit in your hand, and you eat it up."
Hey Brian, put some of your man Kerry's ketchup on it... I'm sure his wife will appreciate the support. She is going to need it if she is going to have to find him a job in her company.... LOL priceless...
Hey Brian, put some of your man Kerry's ketchup on it... I'm sure his wife will appreciate the support. She is going to need it if she is going to have to find him a job in her company.... LOL priceles...
Priceless? Wow, and you italicized it! You must be so proud of yourself!
Good job Jeffie! You get the gold star for today!
Hey thanks! Missed that one. I'll put your little star next to the others..
Schoenorama
Check out this site for the latest polls:
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
This site tracks the state-by-state polls.
At time of this posting, Kerry has 270 against Bush 259.
SSTjumbo
Joined: Sun Jun 17, 2001 3:29 am
Weren't the democrats complaining that Bush tried to steal Kerry's thunder after the DNC with his new terrorist threats? Fine if they did, but justifying Kerry's campaigning during the RNC is downright hypocritical. Sad that I have to call that one.
MaverickM11
" the long standing tradition that the other candidate lays low during the Rivals convention."
Really? Is this actually a tradition? I don't see why one circle jerk should cease in deference to another circle jerk...
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