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Supreme Court: Torture and the Veil of Secrecy
The ongoing controversy over the use of torture against terrorist captives, to get them to talk, and the secrecy that prevents full disclosure of that history reaches the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It arises in a test case over when a victim of the Central Intelligence Agency's "enhanced interrogation" program at so-called "black sites" overseas can force the release of key facts about those abuses when the government insists that those facts are "state secrets."
This is the only case scheduled for a hearing on Wednesday. It is set for one hour, but very likely will run longer. The "live" audio of the hearing can be heard at the Quick Links section of the Court's online homepage – supremecourt.gov The hearing audio also can be heard on TV at c-span.org/supremecourt and on smartphones at C-Span Now App.
The case is United States v. Zubaydah. It involves a 50-year-old Palestinian national, Abu Zubaydah (his birth name is Zayh al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn), who was captured in Pakistan in March 2002. Suspected by the CIA of being a terrorist leader of Al Qaida, a claim strongly disputed later by the Senate Intelligence Committee and by numerous official documents, he has never been charged with a crime.
After being detained at several CIA-operated detention centers ("black sites") overseas, he was transferred to the U.S. Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in September 2006, and remains there. Various public reports show that he was subjected to brutal methods of torture during his foreign captivity, and his lawyers claim he now has permanent brain damage. His harsh treatment is at the core of his case in the Supreme Court.
Background: America – unlike Britain — has no Official Secrets Act to control the public disclosure of government secrets about defense policy and foreign affairs, but the U.S. has borrowed from Britain a version of a legal concept that goes back to the 18th Century. In English history, it has been known as the "Crown Privilege." A king or queen exercising that privilege could prevent the disclosure of military reports and other papers held by the Crown. In modern Britain, that authority is not as absolute as it once was.
In the United States, the concept of "state secrets" existed as long ago as the trial for treason of Aaron Burr in 1807. Chief Justice John Marshall upheld the right of Burr to obtain correspondence between President Thomas Jefferson and the general who was Burr's main accuser. Marshall, however, also ruled that any information that would endanger public safety had to be withheld.
Today in the United States, the idea exists as part of the law of evidence. Although there is a tradition in American courts that the public has a right to everyone's evidence, there are exceptions. Various "privileges" restrict or bar the disclosure in court of private data – what a spouse says to a marital partner, what a patient says to a doctor, what a client says to a lawyer, what a religious believer says to a priest or pastor. The "state secrets" idea is one of those, a "privilege" against disclosure that can be claimed by a top government official.
The Supreme Court's most important decision on "state secrets," and how courts are to handle access to such information, is the Korean War era ruling in United States v. Reynolds. That 1953 decision arose out of a 1948 crash of a B-29 bomber aircraft at Waycross, Georgia, after a fire broke out in one of its engines. The plane was on a secret mission, to test highly classified military equipment.
Six of the nine crew members and three civilian observers died in the crash. The widows of the civilian observers, led by a New Jersey woman, Patricia J. Reynolds, later sued the federal government, claiming negligence. They sought access to the Air Force's official investigation of the incident, as well as statements given during that investigation by the three surviving crew members. Citing the B-29's "highly secret mission," the government invoked the "state secrets" privilege to prevent disclosure of the information.
The families' legal campaign ultimately failed. The Air Force report remained secret until a half-century later; in 2000, a daughter of one of the women killed found the report by surfing the Internet. It did show negligence in the design and operation of the aircraft, and essentially revealed no secrets. The families returned to court, seeking to reopen their case, but that effort ended in 2005 when the Supreme Court refused to review a lower court decision that the government's earlier claim of "state secrets" did not amount to a fraud on the court system.
What is left from this prolonged episode, though, is the Supreme Court's 1953 Reynolds decision. To this day, it remains the guiding source of judicial review of "state secrets" claims. Rejecting the idea that the United States should imitate the absolute form of the "Crown Privilege," the Court put some restrictions on "state secrets" claims.
In Abu Zubaydah's case, a lower federal appeals court drew three principles from the Reynolds ruling: a claim of secrecy must be made in specific detail by a high-ranking government official, a court must make its own, independent ruling on whether the information at issue is "privileged" (that is, its disclosure would harm national security), and the court must decide how to move forward if it has found some (but not all) of the disputed information satisfies the claim of secrecy.
It is no longer considered a secret, because of repeated public disclosures, that the CIA did use torture methods at its overseas detention centers, nor is it a secret that Zubaydah was mistreated in that way. It also is no secret that the "enhanced interrogation" method was developed for the CIA by two U.S. private contractors, James Elmer Mitchell and John Jensen. And it is no longer a secret that those two ran a torture program at a CIA site in Poland.
The case turns on a demand by Zubaydah and his lawyer for the opportunity to question Mitchell and Jensen, to obtain information for use in an ongoing criminal investigation by Polish government authorities into any role Polish officials may have had at the "black site." After the U.S. government refused to help in that probe, Polish officials asked Zubaydah's lawyer to take action.
A federal trial judge, responding to a "state secrets" claim by then-CIA Director Michael Pompeo, ruled that the non-secret information about the Poland site could not be separated out from the secret, and thus dismissed Zubaydah's demand. The dismissal of the subpoena was overturned by a federal appeals court, concluding that the trial judge should make a further attempt to separate non-secret data from secrets. That tribunal did find that some of the information could endanger national security, if disclosed.
The Trump Administration took the case to the Supreme Court, and the Biden Administration has continued to pursue it there. The appeal claims that, despite public revelations about the CIA program, about the Poland site, and about Zubaydah's treatment, national security could still be damaged by further revelations. The Justices agreed in April to decide the dispute during this term.
The questions before the Court: Did the appeals court wrongly deny the "state secrets" claim by making its own assessment of whether details about the Poland detention site would harm national security? Did the appeals court wrongly allow the Zubaydah claim for information to go forward against the CIA contractors? Did the federal courts have any authority to rule on the Zubaydah demand, because Congress has barred court cases challenging conditions of confinement of terrorist suspects held at Guantanamo Bay?
Significance: Court cases about potential disclosures of the government's defense and foreign affairs secrets are rare, so each one of them potentially can expand or narrow officials' power to prevent such revelations.
In recent years, the federal government – in both Democratic and Republican administrations – has become considerably more aggressive in asserting the "state secrets" privilege. The claim has been made earlier and earlier in court cases, often seeking to shut them down altogether before they run the risk of any disclosures of protected information. Human rights groups and legal reform groups have long complained that "state secrets" claims are often exaggerated, and also that intelligence agencies routinely classify too much information as secret.
Lower courts have struggled to sort out the meaning of the Supreme Court's 1953 Reynolds decision, trying to maintain some measure of independence to weigh government secrecy claims while at the same showing sensitivity to the potential harms to national security if disclosures are ordered. The basic disagreement between the trial court and the appeals court in this very case illustrates how that struggle can play out.
The Supreme Court, of course, had complete discretion to deny review of the government's appeal; there was no mandatory duty to review it. Had the trial court been allowed to proceed under what the appeals court had ordered, it presumably could have adopted procedures to conduct some of the case behind closed doors, to see how it developed. The Supreme Court, though, does not often resist demands by the federal government for review of major cases involving significant federal policy.
There is also much symbolic meaning in the Abu Zubaydah case, because of the grave human rights abuses that have sometimes marked the United States government's "war on terrorism" and accountability for that, because of what Zubaydah is known to have suffered, because of the continued shame of operating the terrorist prison camp at Guantanamo Bay with its deeply flawed military tribunal system, because of sensitive diplomatic relations between the United States and its allies, and because of the underlying and abiding threat of global terrorism.
The Supreme Court's next hearings will be on Tuesday; Monday is a legal holiday, marking Columbus Day. On Tuesday, the Court holds a hearing on the first of what may be several cases this term on abortion rights; this particular case is about which state legal official may defend in court a state law restricting access to abortion. A second hearing will seek to clarify when a civil rights lawsuit may be filed to challenge officers' entry, without a warrant, into a private home to investigate possible child abuse. Both cases will be discussed here on Monday.


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Youth sports isn't totally full of crazy people. Really.
If you were to look at media reports, Twitter feeds and this here blog, it might be easy for you to come to the conclusion that everyone involved in youth sports is either a child molester, a thief, or generally a crazy person, and that the kids are out for blood, too. However, loyal readers of Valpolife.com, the official blog of the Porter Health (Valparaiso, Ind.) hospital system — and you are a loyal reader, aren't you? — are getting a different, radical message: that, generally speaking, kids are having fun in youth sports, and adults are helping them in that pursuit.
I'll wait a minute for you to compose yourself before I go on.
The Rutgers Youth Sports Research Council recently completed a study of over 5,000 publications keying in on the phrases "youth sports" and "violence." Going back over 20 years, the results yielded over 1,000 citations, but many were "false positives" that focused on an unrelated topic and only passively mentioned violence in youth sports. "The investigation failed to produce any evidence to substantiate the belief that violence in youth sports had reached epidemic proportions in recent year," wrote study author Gregg S. Heinzmann, Director of the Youth Sports Research Council.
In my experience as a coach and parent, it's an unusual day when a parent confronts a coach, or a fight breaks out, or a parent or relative in the stands is screaming at the ref full-bore. But the definition of news is something unusual, and it is unusual, believe it or not, when a coach is a child molester. You don't hear breathless reports about the planes that landed safely that day. You only hear about the ones that crash.
Not to say that everyone is holding hands and celebrating how wonderful we all are to our children. The caveat in Valpolife.com's sunny picture of youth sports is how money changes the dynamic. If we're all noticing parents getting more ornery, it might be as much as protecting their investment as protecting their child. And with more school districts going with pay-to-play in sports, parents are going to, probably rightly, demand more from coaches and the whole sports experience. After all, you have a $3 T-shirt rip, it's a minor annoyance. If that T-shirt is $100 — and you didn't have a lot of spare cash lying around even when you bought it — that becomes a very big deal.
Indiana University professor and chair of the Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Studies Lynn Jamieson agrees that while the data doesn't suggest any epidemic of violence, the negative influence of financial pressure has.
Over 99-percent of high school athletes will complete their athletic career on the prep stage. A tiny percentage will be able to leverage their athletic prowess into a scholarship or professional contract; yet there remains an unreasonable pressure by some parents to push their children beyond a logical point in pursuit of athletic greatness with hopes of financial gain.
Jamieson suggests a better alternative for parents is to leverage a portion of the dollars spent on athletics in a college savings plan. "Every dollar spent on leisure could be saved for higher education," said Jamieson.
Wait a minute — taking your travel team money and putting it toward college? Now there's a radical idea.


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Urgent appeal to trace relatives of man, 40, found dead at home
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Police are appealing for help to trace relatives of a man who died in his home in Paisley.
Allister Reid, 40, was found dead within his house on Thursday, May 10.
There are no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death.
Mr Reid is believed to have family in Renfrewshire area.
Re-appeal for information after missing Glasgow man David Sneddon spotted in Killearn
A police spokesperson said: "Anyone who has knowledge of Allister's relatives is asked to contact Paisley Police Office on 0141-532-6003 or 0141-532-5958 during office hours, Monday to Friday."
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Retail Profile: Artichoke
Owners: Karen and Brad Hughes
Square Footage: 883 sq. ft.
Own or Rent: Own
If you can't shop at Artichoke in person, you can visit via a virtual reality version of the Cincinnati store. Available on the Artichoke website, the virtual store allows customers to get acquainted before they come in, something owners Brad and Karen Hughes say lets shoppers connect with their tightly edited retail concept.
The store's merchandising takes an almost minimalistic tack, with walls lined with sleek shelving featuring only one item of each product on display. The rest are stored elsewhere. Customers, virtual or otherwise, see a honed-down version of carefully chosen products. It is a merchandising concept not dissimilar to the one Chuck Williams came up with years ago and Ron Johnson perfected at Apple.
"We source products from Europe and Japan and try not to deal with China," says Karen Hughes, pointing out that De Buyer is one of the more popular vendors. The husband-and-wife team also seeks out one-of-a-kind handmade items, especially those locally produced. "We deal with companies who are very strict on MAP and support small retailers and who don't sell on Amazon," she says. Working with buying group HTI has "been phenomenal" toward that business goal, Karen adds.
While the couple works with vendors to create product videos that customers can access via iPads, tablets or other devices, and have created a high-tech retailing vibe, the store owners themselves are decidedly old school when it comes to admiring old buildings.
The couple bought three historic buildings in the Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati. Working closely with the local Chamber of Commerce, they nailed down grants that helped them finesse the store in that up-and-coming neighborhood.
"The Over-the-Rhine Chamber of Commerce is terrific," says Karen. "We received a grant a few years ago that was extremely helpful in getting store fixtures."
And the region itself is supportive of a hands-on local effort, says Brad Hughes. "The community strongly resists chain stores. They want independent retailers, independent restaurants. We don't even have a Starbucks. It is a very interesting neighborhood. The people who live here are committed to small business."
A 2019 IHA Global Innovation Award (gia) winner for retailing excellence, Artichoke caters to both experienced and novice cooks who frequent the Findlay Market, Ohio's oldest continuously operating public market. The pair had often shopped the market for foods and spices but realized there was no place to buy cookware, so they took the plunge into retail.
To promote the cooking theme, the couple carved out 100 square feet for a demonstration kitchen, from the tight 883-sq. ft. space. Brad says they like to keep food cooking all day long, whether or not a demo is scheduled, because they like the vibe of home cooking in the store.
"We encourage our staff to cook their meals at the store. One of our employees will cook her dinner here quite often and bring it home to eat. We encourage that because we want people to cook. It is about food culture," he says, noting that he was whipping up a lamb and preserved lemon tagine in the store's kitchen for dinner that night.
Karen, who is also a graphic designer, says the couple worked with architect Terry Boling to renovate the building into a store and two apartments. While they currently live above the shop, an adjacent building is being rehabbed into the couple's future home.
The store's renovation won a 2016 Cincinnati Design Award, a program that recognizes the best built-environmental design produced by Cincinnati-area creative firms. The store also gained a dramatic four-story mural of a large, weeping woman on its south wall, painted by British artist D*Face during Blink 2017, a four-day arts and architecture festival that drew over 1 million people to Cincinnati's downtown and Over-the-Rhine neighborhoods.
"The best thing you can do for old architecture, is great new architecture," says Brad. Even though the space is small, he says it can be an advantage, thanks to the tight product focus and clean display.
"Having a small space is a problem, but I look at it as an opportunity," he says. "I call it retail jujitsu."
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Q: Main difference between HashMap and ConcurrentHashMap in the case of non-select operation? As per my knowledge while performing non-select operation in HashMap and ConcurrentHashMap , the ConcurrentHashMap blocks the entire Segments(by default-16)?

A: The difference is that HashMap is not thread-safe, which means that if you have several threads using it you need to take care of concurrent operations yourself. You can easily make it thread-safe using Collections.synchronizedMap(map) which creates a wrapper object, in which all methods are synchronized (on that wrapper object) and delegate to the wrapped map. As you can figure out this means poor performance as only one thread (reader or writer doesn't matter) has access to it.
As you pointed out ConcurrentHashMap is thread-safe and tries to handle synchronization a bit differently than Collections.synchronizedMap(). Instead of a single lock it tries to use multiple locks by partitioning the underlying map into buckets and having a lock per bucket. With that several threads can use the map concurrently without problems as they might be working on records in different buckets. In this case you don't need to lock the whole map (all buckets) but only the bucket in which the record you are interested in resides, which means that you can perform a parallel operation on all buckets at the same time. Obviously if all threads are working on the same record (or the same bucket) they will still be synchronized like in Collections.synchronizedMap() and will be blocked on writes. This approach is really good when the number of your reader threads outnumbers writer threads.
For instance you might have (very simplified):
ConcurrentHashMap = [ bucket1 = [r1->x], bucket2 = [r2->y], bucket3 = [r3, z] ]

When you are doing a read/write operation for entry with key r1 the map will choose bucket1 as that record should be there and lock bucket1 and only bucket1. Then when another thread comes if it queries for r2 it can safely do so but if it queries for r1 also it has to wait as bucket1 is locked.
Of course there's a performance penalty behind all of this but it's not terribly high (although I don't have any benchmarks to back this statement).
Does that answer your question?

A: No,In case of non select(EX. put) operation also,Lock is always taken at the segment level.
You can see the ConcurrentHashMap source code.
Whenever you call put() method on concurrent hashmap it first calculate hash position for the particular segment,then calls trylock() method on that segment only, not at the table level.

A: ConcurentHashMap has different structure than simple HashMap.
A ConcurrentHashMap is divided into number of segments (16 by default) on initialization.
It allows similar number of threads to access these segments concurrently so that each thread work on a specific segment.
While one thread is working on one segment it puts a lock on it. It does not block the rest of the segments.
If you want to read more about it, I suggest link below - good explanation with clear examples
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Extremely informative, and very unique in that this MOOC incorporated many diverse experts - experts who work both inside and outside the field - into the curriculum!
Great course and very interested in pursuing more than this certificate.\n\nIt is 100% for me. The emphasis on one health makes it great piece.
In general terms a great course. Most of the lectures are very clear and explanatory. Unfortunately, being an expert does not mean being able to convey a clear message and some of the lectures seem to be more a blurry burst of ideas, that make necessary to go over and over the videos or scripts in order to summarize the essence of what is being taught. Many thanks to the Global Health team.
One of the best courses I have taken. It shows you a different way of seeing things taken in account what you already know and makes you build your knowledge from that. Concepts that are familiar to you but taught in different points of view. Great course!
Fantastic course with great speakers and important themes. Highly recommended.
I must say that learning this course was a wonderful experience. The coverage of the interdisciplinary concepts and biodiversity in relation to global health was great especially through real examples and projects from all across different regions in the world. The importance of specializations like epidemiology, one health, zoonotic diseases and management in global health is well captured. Thanks.
While this course may have interesting and useful content, it has numerous errors. The quiz in week 2 does not show what I got wrong and right. The second video in week 3 is in French with no transcript and no subtitles. This course has enough mistakes to make it utterly useless to me. It should not have passed beta review.
the best.but what is next then?
Excellent course! Didactic, wide range of topics, synthetic, combining on-field experts and policy makers. Congratulations and thanks!
Ce cours m'a inspiré d'être polyvalent dans mon domaine en Santé Animale et d'avoir une vue générale d'autres domaines qui s'intéressent à la survie de la population mondiale , c'est l'un de mon rêve qui vient de se réaliser.


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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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Gloucestershire has been hotter than Istanbul today but don't be be lulled into a false sense of security.
The unseasonably warm weather has been a prelude to what could be one of the worst storms in a decade which is expected to hit the UK in Monday.
Over the weekend temperatures in Gloucestershire are expected to stay around a balmy 18C (64.4F), a little below the southern part of the country which will be around 22ºC, (71.7ºF).
On Saturday the county hotspots were packed as people made the most of the mild weekend to et out and about in the sunshine.
In Cheltenham shoppers dressed in T shirts could be seen browsing the Christmas decorations and one bride enjoyed July-style sunshine at her October wedding.
In the Turkish capital of Istanbul, the top temperature was not expected to exceed 63ºF, a tiny tad below Gloucestershire.
The Met Office say it will be cloudy but warm with sunny intervals over the weekend with above average temperatues for this time of year.
The Met Office say Gloucestershire will be very windy with a risk of severe gales and showers.
Wind should ease on Tuesday but Wednesday will be unsettled.
Nicola Maxey, a spokesman for the Met Office, said: "Hurricane Ophelia is now considered to be a Category 2 hurricane and is currently at the centre of the Atlantic.
"As it travels across it will have lost much of its strength and energy because the temperatures will have dropped.


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Gudar people or Gaodari  (Persian: گودر; Mazandarani: گودار; Gudari: Chule /چوله ),also called Godar, Gojar, Gosar or Xikesh, are a group of the Indo-Turkic people living in Mazandaran Province of Iran.According to Dehkhoda Dictionary, Gudar and Gudarz are the same.

Notable Gudar People

Arzemon Shekarchian,Iranian musician

References

See also
Gurjar
Gudar
Jugi people
Abdal of Turkey

Ethnic groups in Iran
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Ethnic groups in the Middle East
Indo-Aryan peoples
Stateless nationalism in Asia
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by PigPen on Tue 07 Nov 2017, 18:03
His movie has been shot down in flames... so, now Georgie isn't going to act as much. Translation: he's taking his ball and going home.
George Clooney isn't in a rush to take on a new film role anytime soon.
The 56-year-old actor told The Sunday Times Hollywood isn't a priority for him anymore. "Look, I acted for a long time and, you know, I'm 56," explained Clooney. "I'm not the guy that gets the girl anymore. I shouldn't be the guy that gets the girl."
However, there's a more obvious reason why the father of 5-month-old twins has chosen to take a step back from acting.
"[But], look, if somebody's got Paul Newman in 'The Verdict,' I'd jump," he said. "But there aren't that many like that. Acting used to be how I paid the rent, but I sold a tequila company for a billion f-----g dollars. I don't need money."
Back in June, Clooney confirmed that he and his business partners – nightlife businessman Rande Gerber and real estate mogul Mike Meldeman – sold their tequila company Casamigos for $1 billion.
"I have money," said Clooney. "So I can fight to make movies I want to make. If you look at what I've been in over the past 15 years, for the most part they weren't going to get made if I didn't do them. Nobody was going to make 'Good Night, and Good Luck,' 'Michael Clayton' or 'Up in the Air,' and I fought to get those out there."
Clooney admitted the current political climate has inspired him to possibly pursue politics. However, the Hollywood star stressed he's not ready to tackle that role.
"So many people since Trump was elected have really been pushing on me to get more involved in actual politics, specifically at the highest office," he explained. "I don't have political aspirations."
He added, "I have always been involved in politics. My father ran for Congress. It's been in our family forever. But, mostly, I can help in ways I actually know very well, like messaging [voters]."
Training to be Mrs Clooney?
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by party animal - not! on Tue 07 Nov 2017, 23:29
This isn't a new story tho is it? Seems like bits of other interviews cobbled together with a couple of extra sentences to me.....
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Over the Clooney moon
Also get the feeling that he's not doing Nespresso ads for a while either.........
by carolhathaway on Wed 08 Nov 2017, 06:33
For me it also sounds like a summary of quotes George has made before. When I googled George's name during the last days, some headlines said he would retire. Others just said he doesn't act anymore because he doesn't need the money since he sold Casamigos - without a context. So it all seems to be based on this article...
I tried to read the original article on The Sunday Times Hollywood but failed since you have to register and they didn't accept my German email-address.
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by Donnamarie on Wed 08 Nov 2017, 14:17
Agree that many of George's comments from 'The Sunday Times' are restatements or similar versions of what he has been saying for a while. If you look at what is available from The Sunday Times article (just a paragraph) the actual article begins by saying the interview was done in late August. So George's comments were made prior to the bad reviews of his movie.
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Leah and Daniel began their Georgia wedding day with a first look, which is also one of the first moments when you will join me in realizing that Leah's dress is incredible. She purchased it from a sample sale, and re-designed it with assistance from a seamstress. Just wait! The couple then exchanged their vows in front of family and friends before joining all of their guests at their reception at the Engine Room in Monroe, Georgia.
Tables were accented with greenery in gold vases and garlands designs by Gold and Bloom and gold sequin linens were used to make the design even more stunning. Leah and Daniel's wedding day is industrial, chic, and one where I cannot wait for you to see more. Abigail from A. Thomas Photography was on hand to capture every last detail, and we're so grateful we can share each photo with you!
Planning a wedding can be more than a bit overwhelming when you are not familiar with what vendors to work with or even how to schedule the day-of event.
Abigail (a.thomas photography) was the first vendor I chose and trusted. Whenever I had a question, I emailed Abigail and she was able to give me an overview of norms around timelines and day-of flow. She also helped me find a wonderful hair and makeup artist (Linda Margarita). On the day of the wedding, Abigail's bubbly personality helped loosen everyone up in front of the camera and calmed my wedding-day jitters.
As a bride, in the unfamiliar world of wedding planning, I was drawn to vendors who were genuine. Being in business, I appreciate seeing the bottom-line in order to figure out what are viable options. I spoke with so many vendors who continued to try to slip in hidden fees or additional costs even after knowing my all-in budget. That was red flag for me and I always chose to walk away from those agreements. At the end of the day, it really came down to working with people who I could trust. Every girl wants her wedding day to be one in a million, so I sought out vendors who wanted to be on my team and work toward that goal.
I wanted our wedding to embody sparkle and drama while also being simple and not too overdone. My favorite color has always been gold (even if its more of a metal than pigment) so that was the obvious choice for our wedding color. Growing up my mom and dad said I was always somewhat of a paradox. I loved playing dress up and pretending to be Grace Kelly decked out in the jewels, but could quickly leave the frills behind to go make mud pies in the backyard or challenge the neighbor boys to a soccer match (and win:)). I wanted our wedding to have that same paradoxical feel by being in an old engine room with exposed brick walls but with chandeliers, champagne drapery, and gold sequin table cloths. To offset the dressy gold, I wanted all natural greenery instead of florals to bring back some of the informal feel.
The ceremony was definitely my absolute favorite part of the wedding. We chose a song that holds a lot of meaning to us, "Ever Be" by Bethel Music, for me to walk down the aisle to. I remember stepping out from behind the drapery, pausing and taking a huge breath. It is overwhelming to step into a room full of so many people you love and who are there to witness the covenant and celebrate with you. Walking with my dad towards the man I will spend forever with was full of a lot more emotions than I had thought, the symbolism was definitely not lost on me in that moment. From the message, to communion, to the kiss, it could not have gone smoother.
Be in the moment. Trust me, I had my fair share of stresses, freak outs and sleepless nights (my sweet friends, family and fiancé can vouch that). You have to choose to fight for simplicity amidst the craziness of wedding planning. Take your thoughts captive and remember this planning is for one big, joyous party in your and your fiancé's honor! Make sure to take intentional pauses in planning in order to be in the moment while on a date with fiancé, at a bridal shower, and other life events. On the day of your wedding, let all of those worries and details go, and just be present. This is it! This is the day you have been dreaming of, you deserve to stop and take it all in! P.S. Marriage is so worth it!
Y'all there's just something m-a-g-i-c-a-l about beautiful greenery, neutrals, and gold! Obviously, I'm very much in love with Leah and Daniel's wedding palette. However, I love that you can immediately tell from just a few photos that these two are completely and oh-so-genuinely in love with each other (something their photographer, Abigail, also notes!). Their love is what makes their day even better.
It was SUCH a joy and pleasure to be a part of Leah and Daniel's big day! I loved designing their flowers (and greenery!) for such a sweet couple and family. I'm so excited they are featured on your blog today!
To this day, Leah's wedding has been one of my favorites I have ever coordinated. Her wedding was so joyful and fun, and everything was stunning. She was fabulous to work with, and I am thrilled that Every Last Detail chose her event to feature!


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Q: How to test whether an R function is defined to accept its input as `...` What would be a proper way to programmatically test whether a given R function accepts its main input as dot-dot-dot or via named argument?
For example, consider the difference between max() and log(). Whereas max() is defined to take ..., log() expects a numeric vector x.
How can I test a function for that difference?
For example:
# ddd stands for dot-dot-dot
is_main_input_ddd(max) # true
is_main_input_ddd(log) # false

A: From the comments of @rawr and @camille:
is_main_input_ddd <- function(.f) {
  names(formals(args(.f)))[1] == "..."
}

is_main_input_ddd(max)
#> [1] TRUE
is_main_input_ddd(log)
#> [1] FALSE

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Ed Roth's Outlaw was Ed's first experience with fiberglass. The build was started in 1957, and it made it's debut two years later as the Excaliber at the 1959 Disneyland Car Club Day and Autocade.
Jim Skonzakes' 1922 Ford Model T-Bucket of Dayton, Ohio. In 1959 Jim bought the famous Kookie T hot rod from Norm Grabowski. After buying the car, Jim brought it to Larry Watson at Watson's House of Style for a cosmetic makeover. Larry gave the car a Rose Pearl paint job with Candy Red flames.
Buzz Pitzen's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster of Los Angeles, California. Buzz was a member of the Challengers of Los Angeles car club. The build was started around 1954, and completed in 1959. Shortly after it was completed, Buzz sold the roadster to Barons of Westchester member John Rasmussen of Westchester, California.
George Wiegand's 1930 Ford Model A Roadster Pick Up of Lansing, Michigan. Known as The Barracuda, Jerry "Spider the Crazy Painter" Drake gave the car its flame paint job in 1959.
Bosse Ericsson's 1932 Ford Roadster of Norrtälje in Stockholm, Sweden. Built in 1959, Bosse's Ford was one of the first hot rods in Sweden to run a Chevrolet V8 engine.
Clarence Catallo's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe of Dearborn, Michigan. Known as "Silver Sapphire," Clarence's coupe was originally restyled by the Alexander Brothers in 1959.
Danny Schwartz' 1932 Ford 5-Window coupe, of Campbell, California, as it appeared in 1959.
Deaner Probst's 1933 Ford Cabriolet of Jefferson, Wisconsin. Known as "Lil' Dough," Probst dragged the car home as a project in 1957. He spent the next years working on it while showing it at various shows. This photo shows an early iteration of the car as it appeared in 1959.
Rich Vachata's 1936 Ford Convertible of Berwyn, Illinois. Rich was a member of the Bearing Busters of Berwyn, and the other members in the club helped him build the car. The first version was completed in 1959. In 1960 fellow club member Dave Puhl gave the car a scallop paint job. This version of the car was named the Beach Comber.
Ken Costello's 1939 Ford Coupe
Doug Osterman's 1937 Plymouth coupe of San Jose, California. Doug's coupe was completed in 1959 featuring body and paint work by Flyers Body Shop, custom upholstery by Kay Seat Covers and plenty of chrome by San Jose Plating.
Arthur Bentas' Raven
Jon R. Ford's 1937 Ford convertible of La Porte, Indiana. The Ford was Jon's first car, and he got it in 1957 when he was 13 years old. The build was completed sometime between 1957 and 1959.
Larry Ewing's 1940 Ford DeLuxe Coupe of Redwood City, California. The Ford was Larry's first car, and he bought it in 1957 when he was 15 years old. By 1959 he had fixed it up and given it a 1957 Pontiac Limefire Green paint job.
Maximilian King's 1940 Mercury convertible of Morristown, New Jersey was first restyled by Meekers Body Shop in 1946. In 1959 Korky's Kustom Shop restyled the car further for current owner Ray Henyon.
Fred Thomas' 1947 Chevrolet Four-Door Sedan of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The car came from California, and Fred bought it from a fellow from San Bernardino. The Cal owner had been studying at the University of Michigan, and he sold tbe car to Fred before he returned back home to California in 1959.
Jim Galvin's 1949 Ford Tudor of Ottawa, Illinois. Galvin is an original member of the Illinois Valley Mis-Fires car club. He built the Ford in his backyard, starting the build in 1958. By 1959, the car had been painted blue with a scallop paint job and a chopped top.
Lloyd Myers' 1949 Mercury convertible of San Jose, California. Lloyd was a member of the San Jose Rod and Wheelers car club. The Merc was completed in 1959.
Doyle Bidwell's 1950 Ford Coupe of Torrance, California. Doyle bought the car in 1959, while he was a freshman in high school. After buying the Ford, he became a founding member of the Brahmans of Torrance car club. He started restyling the car, but lack of money and experience prevented the build from ever being completed.
Richard Gregg's 1950 Ford Pickup of Sacramento, California. Restyled by Richard at Rick's Body Shop, the build was started in 1958 and completed early in 1959. The car was shown as "the Capri."
Vern LaCoursiere's 1950 Ford convertible of Tacoma, Washington. Vern was a member of the Tacoma Toppers. The Ford was his second car. Restyled in 1959, all work was done by Vern when he was 21 years old.
George Mizzi Jr.'s 1950 Mercury Convertible of Lyndhurst, New Jersey. Mizzi was a member of the Driving Deuces car club, and his Mercury was restyled at Monego's Body Shop. Named the "Purple Bug," the build was completed circa 1958 - 1959.
Garret Walther's 1950 Oldsmobile Fastback of Stockton, California. Garret bought the car in 1958. About a year he gave it a scallop paint job. He painted the base color, masked off scallops, and had Gene Winfield paint them gold at Winfield's Custom Shop.
Larry Ewing of Redwood City, California, installed scavenger pipes on his 1950 Oldsmobile 88 Coupe in 1959. "This was just a few months before I installed the chrome reversed wheels with big and little U.S. Royal Master tires. Going to the San Mateo Autorama and the Oakland Roadster Show at the time, I must have got the idea to do it! Kind of hard to see in the photo, but I tried as a 18-year-old with a Brownie camera!" When Larry got the car back in the mid-80s, he did a similar exhaust and had short turndown pipes coming out of the dual mufflers exiting just before the rear differential. "But it turned out to be annoying while in traffic or cruising slowly at car shows. The exhaust fumes would come up in the car when the windows were down. So I had complete over the axle tailpipes put on exiting at the rear bumper with turn-down tips." Photo courtesy of Larry Ewing.
Leo Lyons' Ultra Modern Merc of San Bernardino, California. The build was started in 1950, and completed in the Summer of 1959. Leo wanted to do something different. He wanted to build a custom car mostly from scratch. His initial plans called for building 10 identical custom Mercs, but only one, the prototype, was ever built.
Howard Tirban's 1951 Chevrolet - "Lil' Bitty Pretty One." In 1959 Howard's Chevrolet received a scallop paint job by Jerry "SPIDER the Crazy Painter" Drake.
Joe Crisafulli's 1951 Oldsmobile of San Jose, California. Joe, a founding member of the San Jose Rod and Wheelers car club restyled and painted the car himself late in 1959, while running J & J Auto Painting out of his dad's garage.
Ken Foress' 1952 Mercury Convertible of Lansing, Michigan. In 1959 local pinstriper and custom painter Jerry Drake, aka Spider the Crazy Painter, gave the car a flame paint job at Cooper Body Shop.
Bill Hoffman's 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air of Portland, Oregon as it appeared after it had received a flame paint job by Leroy Teeple in 1959.
Duane Steck's 1954 Chevrolet Bel-Air of Lakewood, California. Duane was a member of the Long Beach Renegades car club, and his Chevrolet was well known around town as The Moonglow. Larry Watson painted the car at least three times, and in 1959 he gave it a Candy Blue paint job. A sparkling Silver Pearl was used as base color, and according to Larry, it was his best candy blue paint-job ever.
Don Ellis' 1955 Ford Thunderbird of Portland, Oregon. Ellis was a member of the Ramblers of Portland car club, and the Thunderbird was restyled by several of the guys in the club. The build was started in 1958 and completed in 1959.
Sy Gregorich's 1955 Ford Crown Victoria - The Victorian of Detroit, Michigan was restyled by the Alexander Brothers, and was first completed in 1959.
Gary Ruddell's 1955 Pontiac of Norwalk, California. Gary was the President of the Seagrams of Norwalk car club, and the Pontiac was his first car. He bought it in 1959 and began restyling it shortly thereafter.
Dick Gonzales' 1955 Studebaker as it looked in 1959. This version, painted by Larry Watson, was known as the Yellow Pearl.
This version of Ron Aguirre's 1956 Chevrolet Corvette, The X-Sonic, made its debut at the Disneyland Car Club Day and Autocade, Septermber 5th, 1959.
Ron Luchs' 1956 Chevrolet 150 Sedan - Miss Taboo
The first version of Don Von Dwingelo's 1956 Ford Thunderbird as it appeared in 1959.
Leroy Kemmerer's 1956 Mercury of Castro Valley, California. Leroy's Merc, also known as The Jade Idol, was restyled by Gene Winfield of Winfield's Custom Shop. The build was started in 1958, and completed in 1959. The Jade Idol became an instant hit at car shows all over the US, and it was the car that helped Gene gain national recognition as a custom car builder.
Mickey Ellis' 1956 Mercury of Ogden, Utah. Mickey was a member of the Stags of Ogden car club. He bought the Mercury in 1959 so he would have something to drive besides his hopped up fenderless Model A roadster.
John Hychko's 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk of Waterbury, Connecticut was restyled by John at his Valley Auto Body in 1959.
Dick King's 1957 Chevrolet Four-Door Hardtop of Norwalk, California. Dick was a member of the Seagrams of Norwalk car club, and his car was restyled around 1958 - 1959. Once completed, the car was shown as Kings Royalty.
Doug Osterman's 1957 DeSoto of San Jose, California. Doug's Desoto was first restyled by Flyer Tabata at Flyers Body Shop in 1959. In 1960 it was taken to Joe Bailon of Bailon Custom Shop for a makeover. This version received one of Bailon's signature Candy Apple Red paint jobs.
Bob Turgeon's 1957 Ford Thunderbird, "Le Perle", was restyled by Darry Starbird at Star Kustom Shop. The build was completed in 1959. It won the Sweepstakes and Top Custom Shop Achievement Awards at the NHRA National Championship Custom Car Show in Detroit. The win swept Darryl into national prominence and made him a definite figure to be reckoned with in future championship shows.
Jerry DeVito's 1957 Ford Fairlane of San Jose, California. The third version of Jerry's Ford, was completed in 1959. Jerry was a member of the San Jose Rod and Wheelers car club.
Russ Edgers' 1957 Ford Convertible of Lansing, Michigan. In 1959, Russ' Ford received a scallop paint job by Jerry "SPIDER" Drake and Larry Cooper at Cooper Body Shop.
Chuck Burkart's 1958 Chevrolet Impala of San Jose, California. Chuck was a member of the San Jose Rod and Wheelers. In 1959 Joe Crisafulli gave the car a flame paint job at Flyers Body Shop.
The second version of Chuck Burkart's 1958 Chevrolet Impala, featuring a scallop paint job that Joe Crisafulli laid in 1959. Chuck was a member of the San Jose Rod and Wheelers.
Frank Goehring's 1958 Chevrolet Impala was restyled by Joe Crisafulli at Flyers Body Shop of San Jose, California. The build was completed in 1959.
Ray Strappazon's 1958 Chevrolet Impala
Terry Browning's 1958 Ford Ranchero of Neptune City, New Jersey. Terry was a founding member of the Haulin' Gents, and the "The Ruby Ranch" version of his Ranchero was completed in 1959.
Bill Merrill's 1959 Chevrolet Corvette of Thermopolis, Wyoming. Bill got the Corvette in 1959, while he was a junior in high school. He lived in La Jolla, California for a short while in the spring of 1959, and he had Dean Jeffris lay a panel paint job on the car. Unfortunately, the car was vandalized and the hood was damaged. Jeffries came down to La Jolla and picked up the car to fix the damage and painted the Corvette candy apple red with a gold underbase. The side panel was left gold with a clear coat covering it.
Ed Biggs' 1959 Chevrolet El Camino of Davenport, Iowa. Ed was a member of the Idlers of Davenport car club and he ran Biggs Automotive Service with his father. In the Summer of 1959, Ed decided to turn a brand new El Camino into a shop truck and rolling advertisement. He wanted to give it a custom paint job, so he ordered the car and had it delivered to a Gardena, California dealer so Joe Andersen of Joe Andersen's Custom Shop could pick it up and give it a panel paint job. Ed joined the US Air Force in September of 1959. He was stationed at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and decided to have his custom shipped with him to Europe.
In 1959 Barris Kustoms debuted the futuristic XPAK 400. According to George Barris, space styled customs was the latest rage of the year. Supposedly translated from Martian, the name meant air car, and that's what it was. It had no wheels. No transmission. No rear end, and it moved on a five-inch cushion of air. It was driveable on both land and water. In addition to huge fins and a groundbreaking sparkling Metalflake paint job, the XPAK 400 did also feature a plastic bubble top that had been vacuum formed over a male mold. A soft introduction, and a hint about what the future held.
A photo of Bill Krause's Maserati Type 61 "Birdcage" racecar taken at the 1959 Riverside Grand Prix. In February of 2021 Howard Miereanu told Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama that he met Billy Krause, as well as Dan Gurney, Richie Ginther and Phill Hill late in 1958, or early in 1959, when he was in his last semester at Art Center College of Design. "They all came to the school and wanted to see the auto designs we were creating. Our project was to design a futuristic race car. Billy liked one of my designs and asked if I would be interested in designing a paint scheme for his Birdcage. He told me that he was having Von Dutch paint the car. Wow…what an honor and I jumped at the chance and submitted a few designs and he selected the one you see on his car." Notice the flying eyeball that Von Dutch added to the nose of the car. Krause was Dutch's brother in law and in addition to the paint, he also lettered the Maserati. Photo from The Howard Miereanu Collection.
The 4th annual Bearing Busters Rod & Custom Show was held March 15, 1959.
The 1959 Pasadena Motor Pageant was held April 23 - 26, 1959 at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calfiornia.
The 1st annual San Luis Obispo Motor Show was held May 1, 2, 3, 1959 at the National Guard Armory at Camp San Luis Obispo in San Luis Obispo, California.
The 3rd annual Krankers Motor Revue 1959 was held on June 13th and 14th 1959 at the Commercial Exhibits Building at the National Orange Show Grounds, San Bernardino, California.
The 1959 Mid-America Auto Spectacular was held October 10-11, 1959 in Topeka, Kansas.
The 1959 Bakersfield Motor & Boat Show was held November 26 - 29, 1959 at the Kern County Fair Grounds in Bakersfield, California.
<-- 1958 - 1950s - 1960 -->
1 Hot Rods Built or Completed in 1959
2 Custom Cars Restyled or Completed In 1959
3 Show Cars Built or Completed in 1959
4 Hot Rod and Custom Car Shows of 1959
5 Hot Rod and Custom Car Clubs Established in 1959
Hot Rods Built or Completed in 1959
Ed Roth's Outlaw
Jim Skonzakes' 1922 Ford Model T Bucket
Buzz Pitzen's 1929 Ford Model A Roadster
George Wiegand's 1930 Ford Model A Roadster Pick Up - The Barracuda
Bosse Ericsson's 1932 Ford Roadster
Clarence Catallo's 1932 Ford 3-Window Coupe - Silver Sapphire/Little Deuce Coupe
Deaner Probst's 1933 Ford Cabriolet - Lil' Dough
Larry Ewing's 1940 Ford DeLuxe Coupe
Larry Ewing's 1950 Oldsmobile 88 Coupe
Custom Cars Restyled or Completed In 1959
Rich Vachata's 1936 Ford Convertible
Doug Osterman's 1937 Plymouth Coupe
Maximilian King's 1940 Mercury Convertible
Jim Galvin's 1949 Ford Tudor
Lloyd Myers' 1949 Mercury Convertible
Richard Gregg's 1950 Ford Pickup - The Capri
Vern LaCoursiere's 1950 Ford Convertible
George Mizzi Jr.'s 1950 Mercury Convertible - The Purple Bug
Leo Lyons' Ultra Modern Merc
Garret Walther's 1950 Oldsmobile Fastback
Howard Tirban's 1951 Chevrolet - "Lil' Bitty Pretty One"
Joe Crisafulli's 1951 Oldsmobile
Ken Foress' 1952 Mercury Convertible
Bill Hoffman's 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air
Duane Steck's 1954 Chevrolet - The Moonglow
Don Ellis' 1955 Ford Thunderbird
Sy Gregorich's 1955 Ford Crown Victoria - The Victorian
Gary Ruddell's 1955 Pontiac
Dick Gonzales' 1955 Studebaker
Grant Langseth's 1956 Dodge
Don Von Dwingelo's 1956 Ford Thunderbird
Leroy Kemmerer's 1956 Mercury - The Jade Idol
Mickey Ellis' 1956 Mercury
John Hychko's 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk - The Polynesian
Dick King's 1957 Chevrolet Four-Door Hardtop - Kings Royalty
Bob Turgeon's 1957 Ford Thunderbird - "Le Perle"
Doug Osterman's 1957 DeSoto
Jerry DeVito's 1957 Ford Fairlane - The Maze
Russ Edgers' 1957 Ford Convertible
Chuck Burkart's 1958 Chevrolet Impala
Frank Goehring's 1958 Chevrolet Impala
Terry Browning's 1958 Ford Ranchero - "The Ruby Ranch"
Bill Merrill's 1959 Chevrolet Corvette
Ed Biggs' 1959 Chevrolet El Camino
Show Cars Built or Completed in 1959
The XPAK 400
Hot Rod and Custom Car Shows of 1959
November:
11.26 thru 11.29. 1959 - Bakersfield Motor & Boat Show at the Kern County Fair Grounds in Bakersfield, California
October:
10.10 thru 10.11.1959 - Mid-America Auto Spectacular in Topeka, Kansas
06.13 thru 06.14. 1959 - The third annual Krankers Motor Revue was held at the Commercial Exhibits Building at the National Orange Show Grounds, San Bernardino, California.
05.01 thru 05.03.1959 - The 1st annual San Luis Obispo Motor Show at the National Guard Armory in San Luis Obispo, California.
04.23 thru 04.26.1959 - Pasadena Motor Pageant at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calfiornia.
March:
03.15.1959 - Bearing Busters Rod & Custom Show
Hot Rod and Custom Car Clubs Established in 1959
Ty-Rods of Rockville
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The BMW i3 isn't a car without controversy. From its looks, to the fact that it has less range than its competitors, to the fact that it's an electric hatchback from BMW, the i3 is a car that you either love or hate. It's quite the polarizing car. But is it the ugliest car in the US?
In this new video from Nick Murray, he asks the question, "What's the ugliest car in the US?". He goes though quite a few brands, picking out their worst cars, finally settling on a winner (or loser?). For instance, he talks about both Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti, two high-end luxury brands who make some shockingly ugly cars. In the Mercedes lineup, there are a couple of real trolls, such as the GLC Coupe and the CLA-Class, both of which should have been locked in a dungeon. Infiniti actually has more ugly cars than pretty cars at the moment, with all of them being so bulbous and lumpy, they look like trash bags filled with mashed potatoes.
But what about BMW? Well, Murray notes that BMW is actually making a lot of pretty cars at the moment and he's right. The new 8 Series Concept is going to be a stunner and the upcoming Z4 should kill it as well. Though, the Bavarians aren't without their design missteps. For instance, Murray mentions the 3 Series Gran Turismo and the X6 as two cars BMW seriously misfired on. Though, the BMW he names most ugly is the little i3. He says it looks like "A Barbie doll that's been down the waste disposal".
The BMW i3 is not a pretty car and it never has been. Although, I've always kind of thought that it's so ugly that it's cute, sort of like pugs. But calling it ugly is a bit unfair, as it's supposed to look weird and futuristic and eye-catching. It's not supposed to be pretty or conventional. So I disagree with Murray, there. I one hundred-percent agree on the 3 Series Gran Turismo, as that's basically Quasimodo with a couple of roundels and I feel it's far uglier than the i3.
Having said all of that, Murray doesn't think the BMW i3 is the ugliest car in the US. Instead, that dishonor goes to the Toyota Prius. Not only is the Prius hideous looking but it's also terrible to drive. In fact, it's so bad, it's actually losing a ton of customers, which is odd because Prius customers are the last car buyers that care about looks. They want it because it's a Prius and it will buy them green brownie points. So if it's so ugly that traditional Prius customers are backing off, it's bad.
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21 responses to "VIDEO: Is the BMW i3 the ugliest car in the US market?"
Love the i3, don't see enough of them. It's the electric 2002, there was nothing else like that in the marketplace, either, but it established BMW as an alternative, as does this. The fact that BMW allowed their staff a clean sheet to do something new is also unusual, and a rebuttal to criticism of BMW being too conservative. So of course people don't actually buy it.
Hugo Becker says:
I'd vote for the Mitsubishi Mirage personally. ; -)
Hinu says:
Can you even call it a car? It looks like crap, its interior is crap, the battery is crap (really short lifetime). Only uneducated and cheap people buy it. Why? They think they're saving money, when in reality the car is deteriorating faster than milk… It's such a bad car! It's like using paper towels to clean instead of a cloth towels. The latter is more expensive up-front, but will last you a long time and be cheaper in the long run. It's also greener and more sensible.
And a 3 cyl?! At least BMW turbo theirs.
M98987 says:
Sheesh. The VW Beetle?
This is a car designed by NASA.
But, does look like a Bulldog in Black.
Bfd says:
I guess the term to each his own applies here! I think the i3 looks like a pile of rocks, sorry! BMW thought it was going to sell a million units and it will be luck to sell 100k of them! It's a loser and the rumors now is the "I" brand maybe endangered. Instead, BMW would be better off incorporating the i portion into its existing lineup like the new e-Mini coming soon. That should sell….Good Luck!
Lexus makes an entire family of ugly cars… No contest.
Lexus rebadge an entire family of ugly Toyotas.
i3 is not for visual aesthetics. But when viewed as an urban car, the design decisions make a lot of sense. Function over form every time.
Sorry, but the range on the i3 is a joke. What 70 miles, may be?! The Chevy Volt/Bolt and Nissan Leaf have greater range.
There's a reason why 2 year old i3s with under 20k miles are selling for $18k?! And that's for a car that retailed for $40-45k.
So you have poor range combined with questionable looks. I guess there's a reason BMW canceled the i5….Good Luck!
i3 built as a city car, how many daily commutes are over 100 km? i5 cancelled because BMW are EVing their mainstream volume product: 3 Series, X3, Mini hatch. Don't need an EV, if I did i3 would be a great joke, apparently great lease rates. And I wouldn't have to drive a 5,000 lb. sedan.
Tell that to the millions that aren't buying low range EVs because the range is too low… -_- The i3 is marketed as a city car because the range is shit. Most people don't buy it as a city car… I didn't.
The statistics you throw out account for the average of people's daily commute. Not the busy days, not the holidays, the travels etc. It doesn't represent those days in any way because you're taking that statistics and sprinkling it all over the place, thus making your own.
Just because you can use math to change the numbers, doesn't mean you've found something interesting.
It's not the daily commute that is the problem. It's busy days, long distance travel, holidays, unforeseen events etc.
When BMW began selling i3 here, they had a loaner program so owners could borrow an ICE for weekend road trips, it was scrapped because no one used it. I live in a city of 7 million, several companies use i3's as their delivery fleet. As for stats, EV premium price is at least as much of an issue as range, most people who paid for the range extender don't use it. If i3's range is the issue, why did Tesla sell well under 6 figures last year, why does their large, older sedan still outsell their new, price reduced SUV?
Giom says:
The i3 is way ahead of its time. In ten or so years, even Murry is going to have to admit he was wrong.
With that design, they can keep upgrading the tech & still sell it in a decade. Like they did the original 1500.
johnbl says:
I love my 2 BEV i3's. CPO is the way to buy one. For my circumstance the range is adequate. But it will soon be lost in the dust of the TSLA Mod 3. Unfortunately BMW has been asleep at the switch.
If they meet their production #s, Model 3s will be lost in a sea of Model 3s. i3 unique for as long as BMW choose to produce it.
Yes that sea will be wide and deep.. but If i3 sales fall much lower then BMW's production will not last much longer…and all electric Mini's will not help i3's cause.
Or, BMW's next generation of EV will up performance @ iDivision. Isn't an i8 S planned? And Roadster.
Ugliest worldwide
No, it's not… But people love to ride the mainstream meme of "oh look, it's an ugly insect car". Most of the people haven't seen or tried it in real life, or even paid attention to the design.


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Home / Featured / 3 men jailed 19years each for possessing narcotic drugs
3 men jailed 19years each for possessing narcotic drugs
The Tamale High Court on Friday sentenced three young men 19 years each, in jail with hard labour, for possessing narcotic drugs without lawful authority.
The convicts, Fatawu Tininya, 29, Mashawudu Iddrisu, 20, and Zaaku Mahama, 19, were arrested at Savelugu with 13 and half maxi bags of cannabis last Thursday.
The court presided over by Mr Justice Richard Kogyapwah, sentenced the trio on their own guilty plea to the charge and sentenced them to 19 years each.
The presiding judge also confiscated five motorbikes which the convicts used to convey the Indian hemp to the state.
He also made an order of Special Recommendation to be served on the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Regional Police Commander for the police officers who arrested the convicts to be rewarded.
The facts of the case as presented by the Northern Regional State Attorney, Mr Salia Abdul Quddus, are that following intelligence reports that a group of people were conveying Indian hemp from the North East Region to the Northern Region, the police at Savelugu conducted a swoop at Yong Primary School at Savelugu in the course of which the convicts were arrested with the substances, but two other accomplices managed to escape.
Upon their arrest, the convicts claimed ownership of the 13 and half bags of the substances and named three people as their suppliers.
Mr Quddus said the police also seized five motorbikes during the operation.
The convicts were taken to the Regional Police Headquarters in Tamale where preliminary tests on the substances at the Drug Law Enforcement Unit revealed that the substances were cannabis.
They were subsequently charged with the offence and put before the court, he said.
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Peter Jackson walks us through his battle plans for 'The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies'
By Keith Staskiewicz Updated October 23, 2014 at 10:38 PM EDT
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Imagine Peter Jackson in a general's cap, planted wide-stanced in front of a huge New Zealand flag, teeth clenched around a cigarette holder as he rallies his troops of CG artists. While the reality is less Patton-esque, designing and creating the 45-minute fight at the climax of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is much like preparing for an actual full-scale assault. "There's a lot of logistics that have to be thought through," says Jackson. "We have dwarves and men and elves and orcs, all with different cultures, with different weapons, and different shields and patterns and tactics."
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The mega-melee takes place at the foot of the Lonely Mountain as various armies vie for the newly reacquired dwarven treasure of Erebor. Like so much in Jackson's Middle-earth, it represents filmmaking on the largest possible scale. "Before we could loose the first arrow, we had to design the landscape itself and figure out, 'Okay, if we have 10,000 orcs, how much room are they going to take up?' " Jackson says. " 'Are they going to fill up the valley or look like a speck?' Then we could start drawing the arrows on the schematics."
You'll notice that some of those arrows are labeled "EAGLES." Indeed, the gargantuan birds of prey that helped save the day in both the final Lord of the Rings film and the first Hobbit will return, this time led by the never-before-CGI rendered Lord of the Eagles. (No, it's not Don Henley.) Jackson acknowledges that the creatures have a habit of being a bit of a deus ex machina, something he tried to avoid this time around.
"Tolkien uses eagles in a way that can be kind of awkward because they tend to show up out of the blue and change things pretty quickly," says the director. "So here they're just part of the plan, not the saviors. I mean, I do realize that if the eagles had just been able to bring Frodo to Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings and let him drop the ring in, those movies would have been much shorter."
After making the Lord of the Rings trilogy and two previous Hobbit films, Jackson has learned that epic warfare can be surprisingly boring, especially if you're not watching people you care about. "We have a rule that we're not allowed to go more than two or three shots of anonymous people fighting without cutting back to our principal characters," he says. "Otherwise the audience just ends up with battle fatigue."


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Q: Selenium WebDriver go to page without waiting for page load I'm translating some Selenium RC tests to Selenium WebDriver using the python api. In Selenium WebDriver, I'm noticing that driver.get( 'http://...' ) seems to wait for the entire page to load before proceeding. Is there a way to not wait for a page to load? Some of the pages I'm requesting have a lot of external resources that can potentially take a long time to load. I'd rather wait for elements on the DOM to be present than wait for everything to load. Some of my tests seem to take twice as long in WebDriver because of this.

A: Yes and no. As of Selenium 2.24.1, the support for this is only in Firefox - you have to run it in a special "mode":
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March 17, 2016 — Preserving Maplewood: Original family furnishings add to the historical appeal, Columbia Missourian. Summary: Two story Lenoir house under going $182,400 in renovations, with the funds coming from the city of Columbia and the U.S. Dept. of Interior's Historic Preservation Fund Grant. The house is 139 years old, it was built by Slater Ensor Lenoir and wife Margaret Bradford Lenoir. It was occupied by Lavinia Lenoir, their daughter, and her husband Frank G. Nifong.
Those numbers are part of the story of Maplewood, a 1977 historic home owned by the City of Columbia and managed by the Boone County Historical Society.
Maplewood was built by Columbia pioneer Slater Lenoir in 1877, the house has 14-inch thick brick walls. The house was a home for Lenoir's child Lavinia Lenoir Nifong and her husband Frank Nifong from 1905 until their later years. Lavinia died in 1959, preceded by her husband in 1954.
The $3 million is a little harder to find.
The Nifongs also gave to two organizations what would total roughly $3 million in 2014 purchasing power dollars, according to a calculator on Measuring Worth.
In 1949, the Nifongs gave $100,000 toward a retirement home and in 1953, bequeathed another $100,000 for that purpose, for what now is Lenoir Woods. The Nifongs also gave what is now Boone Hospital Center, but was once Boone County Hospital.
"In 1953, the Nifongs gave $100,000.00 toward the construction of a wing, later named for them, at the Boone County Hospital. Finally, in 1953, the couple deeded the remainder of their farm to the Lenoir Memorial Home. Included in their gift were all the furnishings, antiques, works of art and memorabilia found in the house; all the associated outbuildings and contents; and all farm machinery and equipment," states the National Register of Historic Places nomination form for Maplewood, which placed the house on the Register on March 13, 1979.
So now you know something that's not easy to learn. Neither the Lutheran Senior Services website that lists Lenoir Woods references the Nifongs, nor does the Boone Hospital Center website.
The City of Columbia has received a $14,400 grant from the Missouri State Historic Preservation Office. The city will work with the Boone County Historical Society, which operates the house to deal with water damage, structural concerns and electrical issues, according to the city publication, CitySource, Vol. 17, No. 5, May 2015.


The Estonian Weather Service (EWS) is predicting unusually hot weather across the country over the next few days, with highs on Sunday likely to exceed even 33C.
The low pressure system to give rise to thunderstorms in Estonia on Tuesday has moved south on Wednesday, allowing a high pressure system over Russia to extend its reach toward the Baltic Sea, the EWS said in its latest forecast. While the air is drier as a result, eastern parts of the country may still see some scattered showers on Wednesday afternoon. Highs in many parts of the country are forecast to reach above 25C, locally even up to 30C.
Thursday and Friday will see the return of the low pressure system to the region, with heavy rains and thunderstorms developing across parts of the country. Warmer air coming in from the east will lead to highs exceeding 30C in some parts, with temperatures to remain closer to around 25C in areas with rain clouds.
It is the weekend, hower, that is supposed to heat up significantly in Estonia, as a strong high pressure system develops over Northern Europe and Russia. A rare, especially warm air mass is to arrive in the region along the southern edge of this system which will see temperatures across much of the country exceed 30C. Sunday is very likely to end up the hottest day of the year, with highs in Estonia forecast to reach at least 33C.
Widespread thunderstorms are likely on Saturday, however Sunday should see drier weather due to the increasingly strong high pressure system. The unusally hot weather is also forecast to continue through early next week, the EWS said.


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