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From Attempted Suicide to MLB Superstar-The Life and Very Complicated Times of Ken Griffey Jr.
May 3, 2013 Matt Blitz	2 comments
Despite spending the last decade or so of his career often injured, Ken Griffey Jr. was a 13-time All-Star, a 10-time Gold Glove winner, a 7-time Silver Slugger award winner, 1997 MVP, 6th all-time in career home runs with 630, and he accumulated nearly 80 WAR (more on "WAR" in the Bonus Facts below). Any number you look at, it's clear Ken Griffey Jr., nicknamed "The Kid," was one of the greatest players ever to step onto a baseball field. He became a superstar when he was only 19 years old, starting in center field for the Seattle Mariners in 1989. But just because someone is successful, famous, and rich (it's estimated he made over $150 million during his playing career) doesn't mean they can't be sad or, even, depressed. After becoming one of the biggest can't-miss prospects in baseball history, at the age of 18 the man who would not only be known for that beautiful swing, but also for his infectious and seemingly constant smile, attempted suicide.
Ken Griffey Jr. grew up in a baseball-centric household. His father, Ken Griffey Sr., was a very good Major Leaguer in his own right. A three-time All-Star, Griffey Sr. was probably most well-known for being an integral part of the 1970s Cincinnati Reds, who were nicknamed "The Big Red Machine" and won back to back World Series titles in 1975 and 1976. "Junior," as his dad's teammates came to know the younger Griffey as, was often around the Reds' clubhouse during these years.
Johnny Bench, the Reds' Hall of Fame catcher, once said (jokingly) in an ESPN chat that he saw Junior "stealing stuff out of my locker when he was 8." Despite his apparent closeness with his father, they fought a lot, according to Junior. "It seemed like my father and I were always fighting," Junior said in a 1992 interview. "I know a lot of kids go through that with their families, but it was hard for me." Junior also said that both he and his father were stubborn and intense, both good traits to have as professional athletes, but not always good when it comes to two such people's personal relationship.
On June 2nd, 1987, the Seattle Mariners made Ken Griffey Jr. the first pick of that year's baseball amateur draft. Junior was only 17 years old at the time of the draft and was the first son of a Major Leaguer to ever have been drafted first overall. The pressure on Junior was immense. Bob Harrison, a senior scout for the Mariners at the time, wrote in his scouting report that "He's the best I ever seen…. has all the tools to be a superstar."
Right away, he dominated the Minor Leagues, putting him on the fast track to the majors. Despite playing well, his personal life was in disarray. He was living away from home for the first time and didn't know how to be a professional. "He had no supervision," said Ken Griffey Sr. in a 1992 interview, "I had people tell me what he was going through, keeping late hours and all, very late hours."
In addition, he encountered things he never had to deal with growing up in an affluent household. There was an incident in Bellingham, Washington where he was called racial slurs and was chased with a gun. In addition, he felt like no matter what he did on the field, his coaches were always criticizing him. In every sense, Junior was being forced to become an adult when he was still only "The Kid." When he came home for his first offseason as a professional ball player, he moved back in with his parents. Things were not smooth there either. "It seemed like everyone was yelling at me in baseball, then I came home and everyone was yelling at me there," Griffey recalled in 1992, "I got depressed. I got angry. I didn't want to live."
In January 1988, Junior swallowed nearly 300 aspirin in a suicide attempt, something that could indeed have resulted in his death. According to Dr. Larry Pedegana, one of the Mariners' doctors at the time, "ingesting a lot of aspirin will cause metabolic acidosis, which can be fatal."
Jr. was found covered in vomit in his car by his girlfriend and her brother. He was rushed to the hospital by his girlfriend's mother, where his stomach was immediately pumped. He would remain in the intensive care unit at Providence Hospital in Mount Airy, Ohio for several days. Senior later admitted that he was "scared, even angry" at his son for his suicide attempt. In fact, when Senior came and visited Junior at the hospital, they once again began arguing. "I ripped the IV out of my arm," Junior said in the '92 interview. "That stopped him yelling."
Junior got better and his relationship with his father improved. "The problem was with me and my father… There weren't any deep problems with me afterwards," Junior stated in a 1992 interview.
Junior was in the Majors the next season, 1989, starting in center field for the Seattle Mariners. On August 29th, 1990, the Seattle Mariners signed Ken Griffey Senior, at the age of 40, to a contract for the remainder of the season. Two days later, on August 31st, Junior and Senior became the first father-son combo to play in the same Major League game.
On September 14th, in a game against the California Angels (who ended up winning the game 7-5), Ken Griffey Sr. strode to the plate in the bottom of the 1st and promptly drove a two strike pitch into the stands. Junior was the next hitter and he waited for three balls before he slammed the next offering out of the park. Junior and Senior had hit back to back home runs, claiming another distinction in baseball history as the only father-son combo to hit back to back homers.
Ken Griffey Jr. retired from baseball during the 2010 season, one of the legends of baseball. Today, he works for Mariners as a special consultant, working with Minor Leaguers on their defensive skills. He's also a dad to three children. None of which would have happened had his suicide attempt been successful. Junior later stated:
Don't ever try to commit suicide… Talk to people. Go another way. Don't kill yourself. It ain't worth it and I'm a great example… I am living proof how stupid it is…. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out?
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Bonus Facts:
For those not familiar with the baseball stat "WAR", it is simply a stat that attempts to encapsulate how valuable a player is vs. an arbitrary "replacement level" player. A replacement level player is basically any "AAAA" caliber player- the type that tend to bounce between AAA and the Major Leagues and can often be found on the bench with Major League clubs. These players are typically easy to find and acquire; most teams have no problem finding replacement level players when they need them. As such, this was chosen to be used as the base for WAR. A zero WAR player then is simply a replacement level, typically league-minimum type player. For reference, a Major League average position player or starting pitcher tends to be worth around 2 WAR (worth two wins more in a full season than an equivalent replacement level player). A team with nothing but replacement level players (all 0 WAR) should win between 45-50 games in a 162 game season.
The highest career WAR of any player to date is Babe Ruth at 168.3. Although, it should be noted that Ruth's numbers are likely heavily skewed by the era he played in. For instance, famed player and manager John McGraw once noted that Ruth couldn't hit "soft stuff" to save his life and McGraw used this to his great advantage when his team faced Ruth and the Yankees in the playoffs, typically shutting him down completely when he had a pitcher who had decent breaking pitches on the mound. If that's true, Ruth would likely have not been very good as a hitter in the modern era. Sluggers that can "hit a fastball very much" but not hit breaking balls are a dime a dozen and tend to have spectacular AAA careers, and sometimes good baseball careers in Japan, while floundering in the big leagues. The real question then is would Ruth have been able to adjust to modern pitching if he saw a consistent diet of breaking balls? If so, he probably would have been as good as ever. If not, he might not even have lasted more than a season or two in the bigs. In either case, Ruth was certainly the best player of his era, with nods to Ty Cobb, but it's not completely fair comparing his numbers to modern era baseball players, for a variety of reasons.
The highest WAR totals of position players in the modern era are Barry Bonds (163.6), Willie Mays (149.9), and Hank Aaron (136.2).
The highest WAR totals of a pitcher (unfortunately because of lack of statistical data currently only goes back to 1980) goes to Roger Clemens at 139.9 WAR. Clemens is followed by Greg Maddux (114.3), Randy Johnson (110.3), Nolan Ryan (106.1), and Pedro Martinez (86.8).
On August 10, 2013, Ken Griffey Jr. was formally inducted into the Mariners Hall of Fame. More recently, July 24, 2016, he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, being one of the few super star sluggers from the "steroid era" of baseball that seemingly played the game completely clean.
In 2000, Junior has said that he received over 350 death threats. Once, he said, he had to play in a game in St. Louis knowing the FBI was watching over his wife and kids in the stands after receiving a message threatening them.
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Q: User specific global variable in Node.js my program looks as follows:
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req.connection.user comes from  nodeSSPI module. I need to make this globVar user specific so it doesn't mixed up when users runs this app concurrently. Now it works well but only for single user :)
Thank you for your consideration on this matter.

A: I've been looking at what seems like the same problem and my solution was to simply use cookies, and set a variable within the cookies client-side.
In my case the problem was setting language choice permanently for each user and that was simplest.
This guide helps:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/expressjs/expressjs_cookies.htm

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The Spain international midfielder made his 40th appearance for the Catalan giants on Saturday, triggering another payment in his 2013 transfer.
Manchester City are due another €800,000 payment from Barcelona as part of the deal which took Denis Suarez to Camp Nou.
Having spent two years in City's academy system, the 23-year-old returned to his homeland in 2013 on a four-year contract.
He cost Barca €3.2 million at the time, with a number of clauses included in the transfer intended to benefit City if the midfielder prospered.
Suarez made little impact in Catalonia during an initial spell, as he was sold on to Villarreal in 2015, but was re-signed in the summer of 2016.
The terms of his move from City still stood once back at Barca, and he has gone on to become a first-team regular.
He took in his 40th appearance for the club against Getafe on Saturday, meaning that another payment was triggered.
City are set to receive €800,000 for every 10 outings Suarez takes in up to 100 games.
That means that Barca have currently paid out €6.4m for the Spain international, but the deal could end up costing them €11.2m.
They will happily stump up the cash, though, if Suarez continues to make the impact he did at Getafe.
Suarez stepped off the bench to influence a tight contest, with his equaliser just past the hour mark getting Barca back into the game before Paulinho snatched a late winner.
Meanwhile in the UK, Manchester City stormed to a 6-0 victory over Watford on Saturday afternoon , to go top of the Premier League table.


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How Weather Radar Works and How It's Getting Better
CF on Aug 19, 2014 Aug 19, 2014 - 16 Comments on How Weather Radar Works and How It's Getting Better
I don't like thunderstorms. Oh sure, they're fine if you're on the ground, but ever since a particularly nasty encounter with windshear in a severe storm flying into Charlotte back in the early 1990s, flying around storms has made me anxious. So when I went to visit with Honeywell back in May, I was particularly interested in learning more about advances in weather radar. Unfortunately we didn't get into much detail there, but I was able to schedule a follow up call. In short, weather radar is a whole lot better than it was back in the early 1990s, and there are a lot more cool things coming down the pipe.
[Disclosure: Honeywell paid for flights and hotel back in May]
I suppose we should start with the basics. How does weather radar work? Well, take a look at that pretty rounded nosecone in the front of the airplane. Now imagine that popped right off. Underneath, you'll find a big dish (Honeywell's is 30 inches in diameter) that handles radar duty on every airplane. That's right, the nosecone is really just an aerodynamic cover and nothing else.
That dish sends out pulses, and then it listens to hear when, or if, they come back. If something comes back, then the radar system figures out how far away it is. That paints a picture on the map of where there are objects. Here's a basic look at how traditional radar works (all images via Honeywell):
Of course, something like another airplane is an object that would create a return. Same goes for, oh, say, a mountain. That's important for navigation, but it doesn't help with weather. For weather, the returns come from water and ice in the atmosphere. And the size and intensity of the drops paints a picture on the screen for the pilots.
The pilots themselves have some control. As the image above shows, traditionally, they point the radar in the direction they want. If they're flying straight, then they point it straight ahead. If they're going to be descending, they might point it down. Or if they're looking for other altitudes with a better ride, they could point it however they want.
The result is that you get a narrow view of precipitation, but it provides an important tool for pilots. The thing is, there's a lot more that can be done with this data.
From Honeywell's perspective, the coolest thing their radar system can do (called IntuVue) is look at all altitudes from ground level to 60,000 feet without making an adjustment. It looks something like this in the cockpit:
The dashed lines in the main display show areas where there is weather outside of the current flight path. So if you need to change your path, then you'll want to make sure to avoid those areas as well. But instead of manually searching, you can see the whole picture. Here's another way to look at it on what looks to be a more advanced display:
In this one you can see the whole cross-section at the bottom. This shows that 90 miles away, there is one ugly storm that you can't fly above.
But there's a lot more than just this. Radar manufacturers realized that they could measure the movement of the water droplets, and that can tell you all kinds of interesting information.
The most obvious is a turbulence predictor. Radar systems now can look 40 to 60 nautical miles ahead and measure how much the drops are moving. If they are moving a lot, then that means there's likely going to be a lot of turbulence if an airplane flies through it. That looks like this:
If I'm a pilot looking at this, I either need to climb to about 30,000 feet to get over this area of turbulence, or I need to go to the left to go around it.
You can imagine how this also lends itself to predicting windshear. Sudden changes in the direction of wind can easily be seen if there's moisture in the air. If that happens on final approach, then pilots can be warned and you'll probably be going around. In other words, what I flew through 20 years ago would not be flown through today.
Take this and combine it with temperature data and it can also help with predicting damaging weather events like lightning and hail. Honeywell said that with its tests, there was a 93 percent correlation between where Honeywell predicted there would be lightning and where it actually occurred. A lightning strike won't usually cause much damage, but it still means a lengthy check after arriving. And of course, hail can cause serious damage.
Cool Stuff That's Coming
As computing power increases in these systems, there's a lot of cool stuff that can be done. Honeywell told me about two projects that are in progress now.
The first is working to create images that will show where a storm will be when the airplane gets there. Today, you see real-time weather images but the Honeywell system goes over 300 nautical miles out. So what they want is a system that will take into account movement of the storm to help pilots to know where the storm will be in 30 minutes when they get to that point. It can help pilots pick a better routing further in advance.
They are also working on modeling storm growth and decay. This is most important around nasty thunderstorms. You might be flying at 32,000 feet, and the storm ahead tops out at 30,000 feet. But what if it's still growing and by the time you get there, you would be in the thick of it? Or what if there's a storm ahead of you that's collapsing? You might not have to change your routing because by the time you get there, it will be smooth sailing.
This is all pretty comforting stuff, but to me, the most interesting issue is one that is still pretty far off. Since radar requires something like a water droplet to create a return, it still can't detect one of the bigger causes of injury – clear air turbulence (CAT).
The winds may be whipping around in crazy patterns that can shake an airplane severely but if there aren't water droplets present, radar is useless. So weather radar manufacturers are working to figure out how they might be able to detect that.
The most promising method seems to be one that uses lidar. (Europe has been experimenting with this already.) Using lasers, they can get readings off the air molecules themselves. And if you can then measure the movement of those molecules, you can detect clear air turbulence.
This is still in the fairly early stages. I asked Honeywell if someone in their advanced technologies area could talk to me about this, but apparently it's so early for them that they don't really have anything to discuss. Once that actually happens, however, it would be a huge leap forward, and it'll soothe the nerves of a lot of anxious travelers.
See other posts in my Honeywell series:
I Was on an Airplane That Nearly Crashed Into a Mountain (On Purpose)
What the F*&@ is an Auxiliary Power Unit?
16 comments on "How Weather Radar Works and How It's Getting Better"
Neil S. says:
This makes me super happy. I fly all the time, but turbulence still makes me a bit anxious.
When clear air turbulence happens I think everyone is more concerned since they look out the window and see clear blue skies, so naturally think the plane is about to go down. At least when it's stormy outside they expect some shaking and may not worry as much.
bobsmith99 says:
Great stuff Cranky. I also get a bit nervous flying around/over thunderstorms or knowing that we'll be flying through a weather system at some point during the flight. By the way, didn't Northwest Airlines- back in the day, utilize some weather detecting technology that the other airlines weren't? If so, did Delta adopt this when they acquired them?
bobsmith99 – They sure did. The Northwest Airlines Turbulence Plot is legendary for its awesomeness. Here's an article talking about it and its origins way back in 1968. It apparently comes today with this product.
That ABC News article at Flyertalk is quite interesting for its bit at the end of the other airlines that are picking it up: "Mesaba Airlines, Legend Airlines, Piedmont Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways" Seems odd that two of the four are regionals.
HunnerWoof says:
They actually used the same technology everyone else had. The difference was that NW had a different policy in terms of avoiding rough areas at all costs. So, where a WN or a UA pilot might look at the info and decide to fly through it because the bumps would be light or moderate and only last a short time, the NW pilot would burn fuel and schedule to go around the area. From what I understand, some, but not all, the policies were incorporated at DL.
Great article, Brett.
Do RJs typically have the same weather radar equipment as mainline aircraft? It definitely feels to me like airlines are getting better about flying around bad weather these days, but I've had some not-fun rides in RJs. Not sure if that's just because you feel it more in the smaller plane.
Also, is weather radar inop something that can be deferred? I remember congratulating the pilots on a United Express flight a few years ago that dodged some winter storms, and they shrugged and said their radar was inop and we'd just gotten lucky. Sure seemed like they were serious — I was pretty surprised that was something that could be flown without.
Geoff – On the first question, I'm guessing RJs don't have systems that are as good because they probably can't fit a 30 inch dish under the hood. Honeywell told me IntuVue is on an option for the 737, A320, A330, and 777 families. It's standard on the A380 and will be on the A350. No talk about RJs.
Cedarglen says:
An excellent post and thank you. Honeywell is on top of improved radars and pilot-friendly displays. That said, the pilots must learn how to use this enhanced information and the learning curse is steep. As with any new flight deck instrument or display, it is only as good as the pilots who use it, in fact command it. The improved techno-gizmos are only as good as the folks who learn to operate them and to properly interpret the information. Some will learn and some will not. In that sense, maintaining state of the art currency is important to all professions. A few steps can be mandated, but most are really a personal, *professional* responsibility. The pilot's professional obligations do not end when the parking brake is set. Great post!
Very true. The Southern Airways Flight 242 crash is decades old, but it highlighted the need to properly interpret data.
I'm guessing that either pilots are now trained on this, or the weather radar has been updated.
Interesting stuff. The other approach is equipping the aircraft to dampen the effects of turbulence. Together the two approaches should help make a smoother ride. Nice pictures Cranky!
Awesome! A post for weather geeks!
Bloomberg ran an article a couple of months ago about how some airlines, notably Southwest, are installing special sensors in their planes to better measure meso-scale atmospheric conditions, and thus, better predict the local effects of large-scale weather events like ice storms, as well to detect and transmit information about turbulence in-flight.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/airliners-become-weathermen-as-sensors-upend-forecasting.html
Apparently some of the data is fed back to the National Weather Service to also assist forecasters on the ground to refine public forecasts. I'd be curious to see how Honeywell's fancy new radars get integrated into this effort. Taken together, this sure seems like it could be a game changer – better advance forecasting of large-scale weather events combined with better real-time information of localized threats. Or heck, even the eventual ability to forecast where those localized events will occur and avoid them before they even happen.
Seems pretty cool.. But knowing the airlines they're going to want to lease the space to the weather service on their aircraft for those sensor or more likely, they'll want to sell the data..
Oh, a question that I'm curious about with these new systems.. Is there an increase in false positives?
I was on a Compass flight from SEA to LAX and we had 20-30 minutes where the fasten seat belt sign was on and the flight attendants were very forcefully verbally enforcing that the sign was on. The flight was pretty smooth though..
So given that airliners are in service for 20-30 years, how often (if at all) do systems like this get upgraded?
John Ranalletta says:
Prior to boarding, I check Jeppesen's tubulence maps to get a sense of what might be encountered. http://www.jetplan.com/jeppesen/weatherServlet?&action=show&graphicType=wxMapPrevG&img=ustball00.gif:14:ustb:.gif:400,350,300,250,200,upr,low,all:400-450,350-400,300-350,250-300,200-250,350-450,200-350,200-450:200:00,03,06,12,18,24:00,03,06,12,18,24
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The Gallagher Chiefs will play their final pre-season match on Wednesday, just a short way up the coast from the Brisbane Global Rugby Tens which took place over the weekend.
A twenty nine man team has been named, including a first run out of the year for some of the All Blacks players. Although in a perfect holiday destination, the players have been focused and working hard on building the right kind of momentum into the Investec Super Rugby season.
The match kicks off at 7pm on 14 February at the Sunshine Coast Stadium and tickets are still available at www.ticketek.com.au.
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Сергей Михайлович Дышев (15 июля 1956 — 1 марта 2022) — русский писатель и журналист, полковник полиции, главный редактор телередакции МВД РФ (на 2012 год). Автор ряда документальных и художественных книг, известен также как автор сценария к документальному телесериалу «Криминальная Россия».

Биография
Сергей Михайлович Дышев родился 15 июля 1956 года в городе Вытегра Вологодской области. Окончил Львовское высшее военно-политическое училище и Военно-политическую академию имени В. И. Ленина. С 1982 по 1984 год был корреспондентом в газете «Фрунзовец» Туркестанского военного округа. Участвовал в Афганской войне. Работал журналистом газеты «Красная звезда».

С 2002 по 2013 год занимал должность главного редактора телередакции МВД.

Автор более ста сценариев документальных фильмов и свыше 30 книг.

Главный редактор федерального журнала «Участковый». Проживал с семьей в Москве. Являлся членом Союза писателей России и лауреатом премии Союза журналистов РФ. Брат писателя Андрея Дышева.

Скончался 1 марта 2022 года после продолжительной болезни.

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Фильмография
 «Криминальная Россия» (документальный сериал, 1995—2007) — сценарист.
 «Девять апельсинов» (сериал, 2008) — сценарист.
 «Судьба партизана» (документальный фильм, 2010) — руководитель съёмочной группы.
 «Не укради!» (2011) — сценарист.

Примечания

Участники Афганской войны (1979—1989)
Выпускники Львовского высшего военно-политического училища
Выпускники Военно-политической академии имени В. И. Ленина
Писатели России XX века
Писатели России XXI века
Писатели Москвы
Русские писатели XX века
Русские писатели XXI века
Члены Союза писателей России
Полковники полиции (Российская Федерация)
Авторы детективной прозы

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DreamWorks Trollhunters: A Brief Recapitulation of Troll Lore: Volume 48
Written By: Richard Ashley Hamilton
We all know there are 47 volumes of A Brief Recapitulation of Troll Lore—authored millennia ago by the Venerable—and very dead—Bedehilde. But those books were written by trolls for trolls. And since Jim is the first human Trollhunter, it's time for him, Toby, Claire, Blinky, and AAARRRGGHH!!! to write a brand-new 48th volume. After all, Jim won't be the Trollhunter forever. And whoever inherits the Amulet after him—maybe another human boy, or a human girl, or even NotEnrique!—will benefit from this updated, humanized edition that collects and expands upon Jim's adventures for the whole new generation of champions to come.
With chapters written by each of the characters on their special area of expertise, DreamWorks Trollhunters: A Brief Recapitulation of Troll Lore: Volume 48 takes readers through everything they need to know about their magical world. Young Trollhunters-in-training can learn about all things trolls, from Changelings to Troll Market to the evil troll Gunmar. Delving deep into the world of Guillermo del Toro's epic series and including a variety of interactive inserts, this book is the perfect guidebook for all aspiring Trollhunters!
Publication Date: 11/7/2017
Trim Size: 8 x 10
Richard Ashley Hamilton, : Richard Ashley Hamilton is the award-winning screenwriter best known for his storytelling across DreamWorks' How To Train Your Dragon, Trollhunters, and 3Below franchises. He wrote on the Daytime Emmy-winning first season of Dragons: Race to the Edge and the Lumiere award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Hidden World Tour VR experience.
But in his heart, Richard remains a lifelong comics fan and has written for Dark Horse Comics, DC, and more. Richard currently writes his YA graphic novel series, SCOOP, for Insight Comics. and lives in L.A. with his wife and their two sons.
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If I mentioned a bespectacled boy wizard with an undead nemesis, two best friends and a flying familiar you might think I was talking about Harry Potter but what I'm actually referring to is The Unwritten, a clever, post-modern graphic novel series by Mike Carey. The comics follow Tom Taylor, who was the inspiration for a series of hugely successful children's fantasy novels in the vein of Harry Potter, written by his father Wilson Taylor, who disappeared mysteriously just after writing the story's conclusion. The Unwritten deals with themes related to fame, celebrity, and the relationship between fiction and human consciousness. Basically, Tom Taylor's life was screwed up from the start because his father modelled his bestselling novels so closely on his son's real life that the fictional Tommy Taylor's fans constantly compared him to his counterpart (turning him into the most pointless variety of Z-level celebrity in the process). In Wilson Taylor's final book it was even implied that the fictional Tommy would cross over into the real world, giving his delusional fans more excuses than ever to harass poor old Tom. Just when he thinks that his life cannot get any worse, the unfortunate Tom comes into contact with a very mysterious, very deadly group that has secretly kept tabs on him all his life. In the process of escaping from them, Tom travels the world to discover the truth behind his own origins. Tom's journey of discovery takes him to places where fictions have impacted and tangibly shaped reality in all manner of forms, ranging from famous literary works to folk tales to pop culture. In the process of learning what it all means, Tom finds himself having to unravel a breathtaking conspiracy that may span the entirety of the history of fiction. Literate, absorbing and totally original, The Unwritten will simultaneously leave you wanting more and make you question everything you have ever read.
The hero of The Unwritten, the real-life Tom Taylor (don't call him Tommy!) is generally portrayed as being somewhat rude and jaded about his status as a minor celebrity. While Wilson Taylor made a fortune from the famous fictional boy wizard based on the young Tom, he himself is without accomplishment, even claiming that his only real skill is the encyclopaedic knowledge of literary geography that his father passed onto him. As an adult, Tom makes most of his money through appearances at comic book and fantasy conventions. At one of these he is confronted by a man dressed as the villain of the Tommy Taylor novels, the vampiric Count Ambrosio, who also may be all too real. It soon becomes clear that there is much more to the Tommy Taylor novels than anyone thought, as evidenced by the lengths that several mysterious parties are willing to go to in order to kill, capture or save the real Tom. An always witty and original roller-coaster ride The Unwritten is the creation of Mike Carey, who was also involved in other seminal comic book series such as Lucifer, Hellblazer and X-Men. Carey's inspiration for Tom Taylor was Christopher Milne, who is famous as the Christopher Robin of the Winnie the Pooh books. It is often said that Milne grew up feeling that his father had stolen his childhood from him, turned a profit from it and then given it back to him in a form he could not use. In The Unwritten, Tom Taylor is very much in that situation when we first meet him, although his identity crisis a fair bit more serious than that!
A mixture of urban fantasy and horror which gets better and better with each subsequent volume, The Unwritten is similar to other landmark Vertigo Comics series such as The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, The Books of Magic, Fables and House of Mystery. Carey's prose is excellent (more akin to reading a well-written novel than most comics) and the visionary artwork by Peter Gross really sets off the quirky nature of the tale. The first few pages set up the intriguing premise, which soon becomes something far deeper – a deconstruction of the nature of storytelling itself. Carey uses the comics to analyse the boundaries between fact, fiction, myth and legend, and tells his tale in the blurred edges around them. For example, some of Carey's most impressive work comes in issue five, a standalone story focused on Rudyard Kipling, the great imperial poet. In a bravura piece of writing, Carey manages to reinterpret Kipling's entire literary output and personal life in the context of the series' ongoing plot. This concern with the nature of storytelling and the interactions between fiction and reality is strongly reminiscent of The Sandman comics, and there is perhaps no greater compliment that can be paid to any graphic novel series. Lastly, I should emphasise that this is not just a series for comic book fans. The Unwritten should appeal to anyone, like me, who has an interest in the history of fiction, as it just drips with literary references and signals a confluence of popular culture, bridging the artificially constructed divisions between high and low art. This is a series that definitely deserves to be read as widely possible – so read it and spread the word!
Tags: Mike Carey, The Unwritten, Tom Taylor, Vertigo Comics
Categories Comic, Fantasy, Review
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8 Responses to "The Unwritten"
ashsilverlock May 20, 2012 at 8:43 am #
Reblogged this on Fabulous Realms and commented:
Stephanie Saulter May 20, 2012 at 11:38 am #
Anil, I don't say often enough how much I enjoy your posts. This is another gem, and is sending me off to find The Unwritten right, um, now.
anilbalan May 20, 2012 at 3:07 pm #
Thanks so much – enjoy!
tridecalogism May 20, 2012 at 11:21 pm #
Wow, The Unwritten sounds amazing, just the sort of thing I'd love to read! 😀 I'm so glad that I read this post. I'll have to keep a look out for it from now on.
anilbalan May 24, 2012 at 7:23 am #
Thanks, I'm sure you'll like it 🙂
annabelcupcake May 23, 2012 at 11:47 pm #
Great comic. Great post. Love that you drew on "Sandman."
The World Is My Cuttlefish May 24, 2012 at 8:15 am #
I found you from ashsilverlock's reblog. I am intrigued by this series and will hunt them down. I've only read one graphic novel and am looking forward to this lot now.
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Patients are young or very young little girls and the discovery of an appropriate therapy could change the course of their existence. Promote knowledge of the mutation of the gene PCDH19, raise awareness and raise funds for research support is, at present, the only practical help we can offer to our children and to any new born.
PCDH19 gene encodes a protein, prothocaderin 19 which is part of a family of molecules supporting the communication of the central nervous system cells.
In case of mutation, prothocaderin 19 may be malformed, reduced in its functions or not produced at all. The abnormal expression of protocadherin 19 causes the occurrence of seizures beginning in the early years of life, they are mostly focal clustered seizures and mostly associated with fever. This form of epilepsy is almost always drug-resistant.
Often, but not always, epilepsy is associated with a cognitive impairment of varying nature, and behavioral or relational disorders with autistic traits.
The basic mechanism through which PCDH19 mutations cause this rare disease is still unknown. Also, it is not known at the onset which patients will undergo a form of severe epilepsy associated with mental retardation and which patients will have a less severe course.
The PCDH19 gene is located on the X chromosome, of which women have two copies. Thus, in case of mutation, 2 cellular populations are created: one with mutated PCDH19 and one with normal PCDH19. This natural mosaic seems to be harmful for the normal functioning of brain cells. Males, instead, since they have just one X, also have a single copy of PCDH19 gene that, in case of mutation, creates a single and uniform cellular population with a mutation that does not seem to be harmful for the functioning of brain cells. This mechanism causes PCDH19 to have a unique mode of transmission: men are healthy carriers and may transmit the disease which appears in women. However, many of the mutations noticed up to date are 'de novo', i.e. aroused for the first time in the patient. Thus PCDH19 may be familiar, transmitted by healthy carriers fathers or by mothers with such a slight phenotype that does not prevent to have children, or it may arise 'de novo'.
Scientists are looking at the family of PCDH genes as a promising area for further investigations on epilepsy and other neurological conditions, including autism and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Currently, there is no cure for girls affected by mutation of PCDH19 gene. Patients with a severe disease often require ongoing assistance both for the severity of epilepsy and for their cognitive deficits and behavioral disorders. These little patients are likely to suffer various forms of exclusion, first of all social exclusion, and their families, in addition to having to deal with the painful reality of the disease, often have no point of reference.
Insieme per la Ricerca PCDH19 was founded in 2011 by the association of some families of children suffering from this rare disease and has as its primary objective to promote, support and fund scientific research on mutations of the gene PCDH19.
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Mortal Engines 2
Reading: 4 minCategory: Movie Release DateAuthor: Ti-chan Wilson
When will the movie "Mortal Engines 2" come out?
What is Mortal Engines?
Many centuries ago, humanity felt an acute shortage of resources. At first people tried to find a way out, but eventually started to quarrel, and then fight with each other for resources. All this led to the fact that each city became detached and turned into a mobile machine.
The sequel to the post-apocalyptic action movie "Mortal Engines" has not been announced. The first part of the film received low ratings and mixed reviews from viewers and critics. Most likely, the sequel will not be filmed.
Each of the mobile machines called itself a city. They traveled through the desert and sought new supplies of necessary things and objects, destroying the weaker cities. Some of them were very small and immediately were absorbed by other, more powerful giants.
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Now people have no other way out and have to adapt to life in such brutal conditions. Every day, existence becomes more and more unbearable. The number of people on the planet is inexorably decreasing, which indicates a high mortality rate. This is understandable – it became extremely difficult to survive with the complete absence of necessary products, things and other things.
Esther Shaw – an avid rebel, who for a long time was hiding from the police, was absorbed by "London" – this is one of the biggest machines on Earth. Having met Tom Natsworthy from the lower London on his way, Esther exposed his life to many dangers, but the guy was far from being a coward. Passing through death tests young people understand that they are the ones that can change the future. Esther and Tom decided to achieve their goal for a peaceful life and a clean sky above their heads.
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Esther Shaw – Hera Hilmar. Icelandic actress. For filming prefers serious genres – thrillers, melodramas, action films. She starred in the films "Anna Karenina", "Da Vinci's Demons", "The Fifth Power", "Life in sight", recently the film "Ashram" was released, where she performed the role of Sophie.
Tom Natsworthy – Robert Sheehan. Became famous after the role of Nate in the series "Scum". Later he starred in the films "Moon scam", "Messenger", "Mute", "Lair of the monster", "Geostorm". It is considered one of the most popular British actors.
Shrike – Stephen Lang. In his huge file cabinet, countless films and serials. Most often appears before the audience in the image of an antagonist. Recently received an offer from Steven Spielberg to sign a contract for 3 subsequent parts of the "Avatar". Recall that in the first and second parts, he also received the role of the main villain.
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The plot is taken from the book of Phillip Riva with the same name. Although the film is similar to a book, it has many interesting and memorable details.
On the site Rotten Tomatoes the first part of the film "Mortal Engines" had 99% of expectations, which is the highest rate. Let's hope that the second part is waiting for the same success.
The first part will premiere on December 12, 2018. The budget of one film is more than 100 million dollars.
The film was directed by Christian Rivers. For a long time, the audience watched his acting career, but in 2016 Christian tried himself as a director in the film "A few minutes after midnight." The film was successful, which gave Rivers a push to continue the directorial activity.
Mortal Engines 2: release date
Mortal Engines 2 not announced
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Throughout this tip, we'll be using the Shell in Cosmos DB and outputting fewer fields than our documents store so that we can see consolidate views. In addition, some of the queries won't have corresponding images, but will have the document count that we expect along with the query to execute.
We've seen that we can remove or update records by using the unique key. We can also remove or update a group of records by using groups or by using operators. In the below query, we return all of the documents in our Azure Cosmos DB that are Treadmill Runs, displaying only the distance and time to show a consolidation of these documents. What if we wanted to remove all records that were over 3 miles? We could remove all the Treadmill Run types and add the two values that are exactly 3 back – but this would not be efficient if we had more documents.
We have four Treadmill Run documents – what if we want the two above a distance of 3?
Here we'll look at using operators. For this case, we'll use a not equals operator ($ne) because our values for distance are strings. In Azure Cosmos DB, we should the appropriate string operators like we would use with SQL Server, .NET or other programming languages and because our distance values are strings (as opposed to numbers), so we'll use the not equals. We'll see that we follow a similar structure to our query so far where we specify the field and then open brackets with our operators. This is the SQL Server equivalent of WHERE Distance <> "3". Since our numerical values for these documents are strings, let's apply a math operator to our numerical values.
We see two documents return with distances above 3.
In the below query, we use the math operator greater than ($gt) to return our Jump Rope/Pushup Circuit exercises in our Azure Cosmos DB where we did more than 250 pushups. We'll notice that our query for this follows the same syntax: we specify our field (Pushups) and use our greater than operator with the number we want returned above the value.
We see three documents with pushups greater than 250.
With querying values in Azure Cosmos DB, we can use the below comparative operators that can be used similar to operators in SQL Server. The list covers the useful operators that we may require in common CRUD operations, especially in removals or updates.
Without showing images of the results, let's run the below queries in our Azure Cosmos DB and see what we get using each of these operators minus the ones we've already seen in the above examples with images. I highlight the number of results we should get each time.
We use the equals operator ($eq) to find all the Treadmill Runs where the distance is equal to three miles and we get back 2 documents.
We use the greater than or equals to operator ($gte) to find all the Jump Rope/Pushup Circuit exercises where there were 290 pushups or more and get back 2 documents.
We use the in operators ($in) to find all the documents that are exercise types of Treadmill Runs or Endurance and we get back 6 documents. With Azure Cosmos DB, using the in or not in operators works like an array (for those familiar with object-oriented languages), where we're looking for values in our array or not in our array. In the above query, we specify the values we're seeking within the square brackets  and because these values are a string, we wrap these values in quotation marks. We'll use this same operator again, but this time apply the operator to numbers and we'll notice that we remove the quotation marks because in Cosmos DB, these are not required for numerical values.
This numerical in query returns 2 documents.
We use the less than operator ($lt) to find all Jump Rope/Pushup Circuit exercises where the pushups are less than 290 and we get back 2 documents.
We use the less than or equals to operator ($lt) to find all Jump Rope/Pushup Circuit exercises where the pushups are less than or equal to 290 and we get back 3 documents.
Similar to the in operator ($in) which uses an array in Azure Cosmos DB, we use the not in operator ($nin) to get all the Treadmill Runs where the distance is not in 3 or 3.1 miles. We get back 1 document. Identical to the in operator, we must pass in the appropriate type for our array – string values for strings and numerical values for numbers. For dates, we format our in or not in like strings, as we see in the below query which returns 7 documents.
For our Cosmos DB, suppose that our client wanted to set Treadmill runs at 3 miles only, regardless of whether it exceeded that value. We could run an update statement, but for this example we will remove these documents in a set – removing two documents using our operator not equal ($ne). However, we want to keep these values in our database, so we'll re-add them back with the same details except the distance is 3 miles instead of the more detailed values. Rather than add them as we've done in the previous tip, we'll first store the documents in objects that we'll add later.
We can store documents in objects – in this case, we store two documents in separate objects doc1 and doc2.
From here, we remove the documents in our Azure Cosmos DB that have distances not equal to 3 miles and validate the removals with a query to return the 2 documents remaining.
We remove 2 documents and confirm we have 2 remaining.
Now, we'll insert our two documents that we stored in two different objects – doc1 and doc2. Notice that we simply have to pass in the object with the insert statement and the record is added.
We add back our two records with the correct distances and validate we have four documents.
We save a query result to an object.
We save multiple documents in one object.
This becomes useful in many contexts with Cosmos DB, as we can re-use the object we've created if we need the documents for multiple purposes. In addition, we may want to transform the data for reports or for feeding to other back-ends and these objects allow us to do further manipulation without affecting the underlying data in our database.
Using operators can save us significant time when we remove documents or run updates on documents. Some updates may be applied relative to a field filter, but we may need to drill further into a field, like we saw with removing and re-adding our Treadmill runs. Azure Cosmos DB provides us with many standard operators we use with back-ends like SQL Server, which allow us to execute our CRUD operations against multiple documents at a time. In addition, we can create documents and save them to objects, or save query results in objects, from one document to multiple documents in the same object.


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Salvaging International Law: The Best Of Bad Options – Analysis
November 9, 2019 November 9, 2019 James M. Dorsey 0 Comments
By James M. Dorsey
These are uncertain times with trade wars, regional conflicts and increased abuse of human and minority rights pockmarking the transition from a unipolar to a multipolar world. What may be potentially the most dangerous casualty of the transition is the abandonment of even a pretence to the adherence to international law.
Violations of international law and abuse of human and minority rights dominate news cycles in a world in which leaders, that think in exclusive civilizational rather than inclusive national terms, rule supreme.
Examples are too many to comprehensively recount.
They include semi-permanent paralysis of the United Nations Security Council as a result of big power rivalry; last month's Turkish military incursion into northern Syria in a bid to change the region's demography; ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Myanmar; disenfranchisement of millions, predominantly Muslims, in India; and a Chinese effort to fundamentally alter the belief system of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western province of Xinjiang.
It's not that international law was adhered to prior to the rise of presidents like Donald J. Trump, Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Victor Orban of Hungary, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey or Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
It wasn't. Witness, as just one instance, widespread condemnation of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq as a violation of international law.
The silver lining at the time was the fact that international law was at least a reference point for norms and standards by which leaders and governments were judged. It still is, at least theoretically, but it no longer is the standard to which leaders and governments necessarily pay lip service. Today, they do so only when opportunistically convenient.
Instead, violations of territorial sovereignty, as well as human and minority rights, has become the norm.
It also is the de facto justification for the creation of a new world order, in which a critical mass of world leaders often defines the borders and national security of their countries in civilizational and/or ethnic, cultural or religious terms.
The abandonment of principles enshrined in international law, with no immediate alternative standard setter in place, raises the spectre of an era in which instability, conflict, mass migration, radicalization, outbursts of popular frustration and anger, and political violence becomes the new normal.
Last month's killing of Kamlesh Tiwari, a Hindu nationalist politician in Uttar Pradesh, because of a defamatory comment about the Prophet Mohammed that he allegedly made four years ago, reflects the deterioration of Muslim-Hindu relations in Mr. Modi's increasingly Hindu nationalist India.
Perhaps more alarming is the recent declaration by Oren Hazan, a Knesset member for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party, that China's incarceration of at least a million Muslims in re-education camps, or what Beijing calls vocational education facilities, was a model for Israel in its dispute with the Palestinians.
Equally worrisome is last month's revocation by Mr. Putin of an additional protocol to the Geneva Conventions related to the protection of victims of international armed conflicts. Mr. Putin justified the revocation on the grounds that an international commission, set up in order to investigate war crimes against civilians, risks abuse of the commission's power "by the states, which are acting in bad faith."
Russia alongside Iran and the government of President Bashar al-Assad have been accused of multiple war crimes in war-ravaged Syria. So have anti-Assad rebels, irrespective of their political or religious stripe.
Russia's withdrawal from the Geneva protocol, Mr. Hazan's endorsement of Chinese policy and Turkey's intervention in Syria in an environment that legitimizes abandonment of any pretext of adherence to international law as well as ultra-nationalist and supremacist worldviews are indicators of what a world would look like in which laws, rules and regulations governing war and peace and human and minority rights are no longer the standards against which countries and governments are measured.
The fact that Mr. Al-Assad, a ruthless autocrat accused of uncountable war crimes, is increasingly being perceived as Syria's best hope after more than eight years of brutal civil war aggravated by foreign intervention, drives the point home.
"As depressing as it is to write this sentence, the best course of action today is for President Bashar al-Assad's regime to regain control over northern Syria. Assad is a war criminal whose forces killed more than half a million of his compatriots and produced several million refugees. In a perfect world, he would be on trial at The Hague instead of ruling in Damascus. But we do not live in a perfect world, and the question we face today is how to make the best of a horrible situation," said prominent US political scientist Stephen M. Walt.
The problem is that stabilizing Syria by restoring legitimacy to an alleged war criminal may provide temporary relief, but also sets a precedent for a world order, in which transparency and accountability fall by the wayside. It almost by definition opens the door to solutions that plant the seeds for renewed conflict and bloodshed.
International law was and is no panacea. To paraphrase Mr. Walt's argument, it is the best of bad options.
Abandoning the standards and norms embedded in international law will only perpetuate flawed policies by various states that were destined to aggravate and escalate deep-seated grievances, discord and conflict rather than fairly and responsibly address social, cultural and political issues that would contribute to enhanced societal cohesion.
Identifying the problem is obviously easy. Solving it is not, given that the players who would need to redress the issue are the violators themselves.
Ensuring that nations and leaders respect international law in much the same way that citizens are expected to honour their country's laws would have to entail strengthening international law itself as well as its adjudication. That would have to involve a reconceptualization of the United Nations Security Council as well as the International Court of Justice.
That may not be as delusionary as it sounds. But leaders would have to be willing to recognize that criticisms of the application of international law, like Mr. Putin's objections to the way the Geneva protocol is implemented, have a degree of merit.
In other words, like national laws, international law will only be effective if it is universally applied. Western legal principles insist that no one is exempt from the law. The same should apply to states, governments and leaders.
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Currently, due to the major changes in the international education system and the introduction of e-learning and educational systems, traditional systems of management and control of educational centers are not very effective and require a smart system based on day-to-day technologies. On the network is tangible. In general, the concept of the Intelligent School was introduced in 1984 by David Perkins at Harvard, which was then gradually introduced to other schools, and was developed after some time nowadays in most of the developed countries, from these schools Human resource training is used in development programs. One of the features of the Smart School Index is the unlimited learning process for certain hours of the day, meaning that smart schools will never be shut down. In these schools, each student can learn at any time of the day through the Internet and the network or other software, and attend remote distance learning classes, and only through a laptop or A tablet without attending lectures and textbooks will participate in the classroom and the effect of this method will be on the student's assessment of the obvious teachers. Another benefit of a smart school is the lack of intelligence that students use to register with their cards to enter the school, and then correctly determine which student is at what time Enter and at what time out of school. This can greatly reduce the parent's concerns about whether their child has reached school or not. Another benefit of this is the easy and accessible communication between school officials and parents, as well as students, and troubleshooting and answering questions that may arise. Dynamic educational content as well as the ability to live up to many theoretical concepts of the concept will increase the learning efficiency and enhance the creativity of the student.
In these schools, intelligent control and management is needed that can plan equipment, software and human and financial resources, and by using the combination of modern technologies and appropriate educational environment, it will take a great step to achieve educational goals.
Smart board, which replaces traditional blackboards and provides you with a variety of features, including the ability to write, record tracks, input and output audio and video and text files. he does.
Intelligent school alarm, which is used automatically to inform the classroom.
The use of computers and laptops and smartphones that can install different programs to improve student education.
Data projector video that can be used to transfer images on a computer to a display or smartwatch, allowing students to view live and attractive images.
Smart building system for managing energy consumption and controlling light, temperature, entry and exit, water leakage, fire extinguishing, etc. It performs.
The attendance device that records the arrival and departure of students and staff at schools, and informs parents about the entry and spending of students.
One of the important issues in educational centers, especially schools, is paying attention to the issues of comfort and comfort of students and creating an appropriate environment for learning process and ultimately optimizing the costs of these centers. Not considering parameters such as optimum heat, the difference between outside and inside heat, school hours, the appropriate temperature in each season, ambient air quality, the communication structure of the various parts of the school environment (building map), and the number of entry points And the output of the building in large environments, including educational buildings, leads to the impossibility of adjusting the temperature in the building, unconventional consumption, and the inability to create a desirable space for training. On the other hand, monitoring and continuous monitoring of consumption in educational buildings provide the possibility of proper planning for better management of energy consumption in the country for officials at different levels, so if intelligent control of temperature, taking into account the above mentioned and The thermal model of the building and based on the hours of presence with a scheduled calendar, will significantly save energy and preserve the resources of the country.


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1 0 |a Women writers of Latin America : |b intimate histories / |c by Magdalena García Pinto ; translated by Trudy Balch and Magdalena García Pinto ; illuminations by Karen Parker Lears.
|a Austin : |b University of Texas Press, |c 1991.
|a x, 258 p. : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm.
|a Translation of: Historias íntimas.
|a Includes bibliographical references (p. -251) and index.
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0 |a Women authors, Spanish American |y 20th century |x Interviews.
0 |a Spanish American literature |x Women authors |x History and criticism.
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Along with Andrej Pejic, Irina Shayk and Kate Upton, new face of Cover Girl Jessica Stam walked the red carpet at the Jeffrey Fashion Cares event last night. We knew she dyed her hair brown, but it really is such a striking difference that we almost didn't recognize her. "Katie Grand wanted me to do it for a project that hasn't come out yet," Stam explained. "I don't know if I can talk about it yet. [It's a] modeling art project." Interesting, but what we really want to talk about is the recent controversial Vogue Italia (oh, Vogue Italia) spread, presciently titled "Haute Mess".
Along with Andrej Pejic, Irina Shayk and Kate Upton, new face of Cover Girl Jessica Stam walked the red carpet at the Jeffrey Fashion Cares event last night. We knew she dyed her hair brown, but it really is such a striking difference that we almost didn't recognize her. "Katie Grand wanted me to do it for a project that hasn't come out yet," Stam explained. "I don't know if I can talk about it yet. [It's a] modeling art project." Interesting, but what we really want to talk about is the recent controversial Vogue Italia (oh, Vogue Italia) spread, presciently titled "Haute Mess". Along with Stam, Karen Elson, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Lindsey Wixson, Daphne Groeneveld, Guinevere van Seenus and Coco Rocha all appear in, uh, over-the-top get-ups and statement makeup that some critics have deemed an uncomfortable generalization or racially offensive. So obviously we had to ask Stam for her first hand opinion on the matter. And then it got kind of awkward. Fashionista: So, the Vogue Italia spread, what do you think of the whole fall out of the "Haute Mess"? Jessica Stam: Of the what? Fashionista: Of the "Haute Mess" — Stam: Yeah, what do I think about the reaction to it? Fashionista: People's reactions to it. Stam: What's my reaction to it? It was a fun story. It was fun to shoot, I mean… (nervous laugh). Fashionista: How do you feel about other people's reaction to it, like the controversy…? Stam: I don't know — I don't know what people's reactions have been to it. Fashionista: Um, some people said it was racially offensive (Stam: "Oh really?") or stereotyping, negative generalizations… Stam: I don't know, the pictures, like the references were pulled off of websites and pretty exact to these...references, so I don't know. I mean, it's all in fun and people get…(mumble, mumble) I don't know …whatever.


This is an uplifting and quirky piece of ukulele pop that features clapping, whistling, glockenspiel and everything else you expect from a happy, feel good tune that would be great for promotional videos. Lively drums, acoustic and electric guitar and bass provide a great template for the ukulele and whistling to paint over. This track is a great example of the cool "sound" that big business campaigns are using.


Lest I be left out of the fun, I can't help but point out that yesterday the Amazing One himself, James Randi, issued a challenge to manufacturers of homeopathic remedies and retail pharmacies that sell such remedies, in particular large national chains like Walgreens and CVS and large national chains that include pharmacies in their stores, such as Walmart and Target. This was done in conjunction with the 10:23 Challenge, which is designed to demonstrate that homeopathy is nonsense. All over the world, skeptics and supporters of science-based medicine gathered to engage in overdoses of homeopathic medicines in order to demonstrate that there is nothing in them.
As much as I like Randi, unfortunately, I doubt that the prospect of winning $1 million will make much difference to huge companies like Boiron (a French company that manufactures popular homeopathic remedies), Walmart, or Walgreens, but I do like the spirit of the protest, in particular how it drives home a very simply message about homeopathy: There's nothing in it.


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Education: Morning Roundup, Laura Bush Is Looking for Great Principals
Laura Bush announces principal-training effort, Obama's loner school year proposal faces reality, and the Gates Foundation targets college graduation.
Nikhil Swaminathan
Morning Roundup:
From Education Week: Laura Bush Unveils Bold Principal-Training Initiative
Former first lady Laura W. Bush announced a new nationwide initiative today aimed at changing the way America's principals are recruited and prepared—and how they run schools.
From The Associated Press: Calls for longer school years face budget reality
President Barack Obama's call for a longer school day and year for America's kids echoes a similar call he made a year ago to little effect, illustrating just how deeply entrenched the traditional school calendar is and how little power the federal government has to change it.
From The Associated Press: The Gates Foundation focuses on college graduation\n
For many years, diversity in higher education has been measured by how many low-income students and students of color enroll in college. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation wants to make a dramatic change in that definition, by focusing instead on college graduation rates.
From The Los Angeles Times: Philanthropists move to rescue ICEF Public Schools\n
A group of the city's leading philanthropists, including billionaire Eli Broad and former mayor Richard Riordan, rallied Monday to save ICEF Public Schools, one of the nation's largest and most successful charter school companies, which was teetering on financial insolvency.
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You may be worried about a Surfside-style disaster in Chicago. Experts aren't. Here's why.
Last week's report of delayed structural repairs at a high-profile Gold Coast address kindled fears, but the situation here is different.
Dennis Rodkin
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111 E. Chestnut
City officials moved quickly to shut down a Gold Coast garage last week, reassuring residents of the condo tower above it.
Nevertheless, Chicago condominium experts say jitters about a condo catastrophe like the one in Surfside, Fla., are widespread, though largely unfounded, in Chicago.
"There's solace knowing that (officials) will manage the progress of the necessary repairs," said Tamara Pagel, a resident of the 57-story 111 E. Chestnut St. tower. "I'm definitely feeling better than I was last week."
City closes Chestnut Street condo tower's parking garage
After Surfside catastrophe, Gold Coast tower residents worry
Pagel was among the residents concerned for their safety when news first surfaced in early July that owners of the eight-story garage at the building's base had failed to make repairs to concrete pillars and slabs that a consultant reported in 2018 "must be performed as soon as possible, as the conditions pose an imminent hazard to the facility users and to the structure itself."
Two days after Crain's July 7 report on the long-delayed repairs, the city's Department of Buildings sent inspectors to the garage and that afternoon shut it down.
On July 12, the city posted citations that it issued to the garage owners for "fail(ing) to maintain building or structure in a structurally safe and stable condition" and will require the owners to "make repairs to building rapidly becoming dangerous, and to bring and maintain in good and safe condition, or wreck part that endangers life and property."
A Department of Buildings spokesperson said in an email that the citations will be referred to the city's law department, "for potential enforcement action." If a court finds liability, it would then determine whether to assess fines or call for legal sanctions.
The spokesperson did not directly respond to Crain's question about whether the inspectors found there was any risk to the condo residents but provided a statement from the department that said it "received concerns about the parking garage and completed an inspection of the parking garage only."
The department is requiring the owners not only to make the delayed repairs but to "immediately hire a structural engineer to complete a new critical exam of the parking garage to evaluate the structural conditions."
The fact that the city did not shut down the residential floors suggests the inspectors did not see significant risk to that part of the building.
"I'm glad the city took action immediately and is part of the process," tower resident Tracy Ryniec said in an online message to a Crain's reporter. "If they're saying the tower isn't at risk, then I trust that."
The tower contains two ownership associations, one that controls the parking garage and the other an association of condo owners on the floors above the garage.
On July 10, the condo owners association manager forwarded to Crain's a letter from Kellermeyer Godfryt Hart, a Des Plaines architecture and engineering firm.
"Please be aware," the letter said, "while the parking garage structure is in need of immediate repairs, the residential association and management have diligently maintained the exposed structural concrete elements of the residential tower." It listed projects that were completed in 1999, 2010, 2014 and 2020.
Repairs on the garage will take an estimated three to five months, the residential association said in its letter.
Angel Sarkissian, president of the garage owners association, did not respond to a request for comment. The 2018 report from Walker Consultants indicated that the urgent repairs would cost about $500,000 and the overall package would be in the $4 million to $6 million range.
Condominium industry executives say that since a condominium building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed June 24, killing at least 95 people, residents of Chicago towers have been anxiously inquiring about their own buildings.
"Every condo board meeting I've gone to since Surfside has started with someone bringing up these issues," said Jim Stoller, whose Chicago firm, the Building Group, manages about 6,000 condominiums in Chicago and Evanston.
The specific situation of the Surfside structure, built on a sandy barrier island, has little parallel in Chicago, where lakefront buildings are anchored to solid subsurface rock, Stoller said, but "homeowners are asking for reassurance about their own buildings, and that's good, because usually they don't want to know anything about the back-of-the-house issues."
In all cases he's seen, Stoller said, the condo board has been able to reassure the person who brings up Surfside that maintenance issues are up to date on their site.
The 111 E. Chestnut situation developed because the garage owners board put off performing costly repairs for more than three years.
"There will certainly be an uptick in, shall we say, enhanced due diligence," said Michael Shifrin, whose Chicago firm, Shifrin Legal, specializes in condominium law.
Condo board members are always expected to do their due diligence on financial matters relating to the building, but in the current climate, with one catastrophe in Florida and one briefly worrisome situation in Chicago, Shifrin said, "you'll see these board members being much more vigilant about their role on the board. Surfside served as a painful and tragic reminder that your obligations as a volunteer board member go to every aspect, from your (association's) financial stability to the structural integrity of your building."
Condo owners' jitters have not translated into requests for city inspections, the spokesperson for the building department said, noting there have been no additional inquiries in the weeks following the Surfside collapse.
An earlier version of this article gave an incorrect date for the Surfside collapse.
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Sherpa makes it so easy to track accounts, forecast, and report. With these time-consuming tasks streamlined, your management staff can quickly identify customers in need of assistance and diagnose shortcomings in the process. Determining behaviors that provide more success for certain representatives is just one application of the powerful Sherpa tracking tools. Sherpa comes with a robust reporting package to enable sales growth, proper account management, and territory management. Reporting tools for sales reps allow them to identify key opportunities and provide an overview of prospects in the sales funnel and how they are progressing.
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package radlab.rain.workload.comrades;

import radlab.rain.IScoreboard;

public class SubmitInterviewOperation extends ComradesOperation
{
	public static String NAME = "SubmitInterview";

	public SubmitInterviewOperation(boolean interactive, IScoreboard scoreboard)
	{
		super(interactive, scoreboard);
		this._operationName = NAME;
		this._operationIndex = ComradesGenerator.SUBMIT_INTERVIEW;
	}

	@Override
	public void execute() throws Throwable
	{
		this.doSubmitInterview();
		this.setFailed( false );
	}
}

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A grain-free alternative to traditional pizza crust (adding fiber) that tastes great!
THIS IS THE SECRET: Once you've strained the rice, transfer it to a clean, thin dishtowel. Wrap up the steamed rice in the dishtowel, twist it up, then SQUEEZE all the excess moisture out! It's amazing how much extra liquid will be released, which will leave you with a nice and dry pizza crust.
In a large bowl, mix up your strained rice, beaten egg, goat cheese, and spices. (Don't be afraid to use your hands! You want it very well mixed.) It won't be like any pizza dough you've ever worked with, but don't worry– it'll hold together!
Press the dough out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. (It's important that it's lined with parchment paper, or it will stick.) Keep the dough about ⅓" thick, and make the edges a little higher for a "crust" effect, if you like.
Bake for 35-40 minutes at 400F. The crust should be firm, and golden brown when finished.
Now's the time to add all your favorites– sauce, cheese, and any other toppings you like. Return the pizza to the 400F oven, and bake an additional 5-10 minutes, just until the cheese is hot and bubbly.
Time-Saving Tip: I recommend making a double-batch of cauliflower pizza crusts–> make one for now, and save one for later. After baking the crusts, wrap up the extra pizza crust in foil, and FREEZE it for a quick "frozen pizza" to enjoy another night! All you need to do is add toppings and bake at 400F, until the cheese is hot and bubbly.