Climatic fluctuations usually change the intensity of existing interactions. Thus, in the context of the global climate change, it is important to consider new potential interactions or changes that may appear. Heavy rainy periods (one of the consequences of global climate change in eastern-central Argentina) can promote flooding in some estuaries (mainly on coastal lagoons), and thus, affect interactions between species. In this work we investigate if climatic fluctuations can affect Spartina densiflora Brong. (dominant marsh plant) survival through a chain of biotic and abiotic interactions in a SW Atlantic costal lagoon (37° 40′S, 57° 23′W; Mar Chiquita, Argentina). To achieve this, the long-term rainfall behavior of this region, and the effect of rainy periods on submergence of estuarine marsh areas (using satellite images) were analyzed. Then, the effect of flooding on the activity of the dominant herbivore of this system, the burrowing crab Neohelice granulata (= Chasmagnathus granulatus), was studied using pitfall traps. Finally, the effect of flooding on crab herbivory rates and plant survival were analyzed using transplants, stem-marking and flooding experiments. Long-term rainfall behavior showed that mean annual rainfall has increased during the last century, with the occurrence of more rainy years, and increases in cumulative monthly rainfall increased the submerged area of the S. densiflora marsh. Also, crab activity in the marsh largely increased during periods of flooding, associated with more than 100% increments in herbivory rates and stem mortality. These results reveal that increments in rainfall regime can trigger a cascade of abiotic and biotic interactions leading to increased marsh mortality, and stresses the importance of considering both, biotic and abiotic factors, together to predict changes in community organization.


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Mendocino County receives a large portion of the property taxes and sales taxes collected in the County (cities, school districts, etc. get the rest). The County also receives a number of smaller taxes such as the "Bed Tax" collected from visitors to lodging establishments.
In 2000 the County's local tax revenue was $33.5 million. It grew 75% over the following 15 years to $58.7 million in 2014.
In contrast the County's total pension-related payments more than tripled in that same time from $6.8 million to $22.3 million. The County's pension-related payments are to the Pension Fund and to the owners of the County's Pension Obligation Bonds.
Pension-related County payments grew twice as fast as the County's local tax base. Over the long run it will continue to do so.
About half the County's funding comes from the Federal and State governments and the other half comes from "independent-local" sources. The Federal-State funds have significant restrictions about how the money can be spent. They also often require some amount of "matching funds" from the County; these funds are also restricted as to how they can be used.
The truly discretionary part of a county�s budget is much less than the total of local revenue sources � half or even less. The County must pay most of its unfunded pension debt out of this part of its budget. More unfunded pension debt results in less local control over County resources.
Is the County merely doing a "bookkeeping entry" to charge the cost of increased pension-related payments to a fed/state funded activity to make it "look like" they are paying for pensions but in fact what's really happening is there's less money to actually fund the activity?
There's no question that unfunded pension debt payments have rapidly increased and that is eating into the County's local revenues.
As more and more of our local tax base is diverted to pay unfunded pension debt our County has less and less money to fund locally-defined programs. The money from the feds and state come with huge cables attached. The County has to perform according to bus-loads of rules and regulations. But the money we have left from our local revenues - less the matching funds required by the feds and states - is what we have to fund our own programs.
The more we lose control of that discretionary part of our local revenues the less we can define our own progams - and the more our County becomes simply an extension of the federal and state governments.


"Engaging Minds. Amazing Results." Steve Sonnenberg, business leader of Emerson Process Mgmt (www.emersonprocess.com), said he couldn't think of a more appropriate focus for the 2009 Emerson Global User's Exchange, which is being held this week at the Gaylord Palms hotel and conference center in Orlando, FL. And thus we have the theme for this year's Emerson Exchange, as Sonnenberg used his keynote address to announce that Emerson is repositioning its product development strategy to focus less on features for features' sake and more on creating technology with usability as the central mission.
According Sonnenberg, faced with an aging workforce and a struggling economy, companies have less in-house expertise than has traditionally been the case. He says that as skilled automation professionals continue to opt for retirement and the economic downturn forces more layoffs, companies are left with relatively inexperienced maintenance and operations personnel. As such, he says companies need technologies that are easy to use and provide the most relevant data points in a format that enables this relatively inexperienced workforce to make prudent decisions in the most efficient manner possible. "[Companies today] want to drive the car not build it," says Sonnenberg.
As such, Sonnenberg says Emerson has launched a new initiative called Human Centered Design Institute, which will aim to ensure the technologies Emerson is developing are user friendly. He says, "The truth is, the automation technologies that were developed 20 years ago weren't developed on work practices, they were developed based on features." Now, with it's Human Centered Design program leading the way, Sonnenberg says Emerson will be making sure that it's technologies are designed with the actual work process and usability front and foremost.
Some of the first examples of this focus, according to Sonnenberg, can be seen in Emerson's latest version of Delta V S-Series with I/O on Demand, touted as a wholly new, simplified method for connecting to the control system. In addition, Sonnenberg says Emerson is releasing 50 new AMS test screens, which offer a more simplified view and bring the automation function more in line with current end-user needs.


Home / Life&Culture / Ellie Goulding Engaged To Boyfriend Caspar Jopling!
Goulding, 31, previously had a two-year relationship with ex-McFly bassist Dougie Poynter, dated DJ Greg James and DJ/producer Skrillex, and was romantically linked to Prince Harry.
Singer Ellie Goulding and art dealer Caspar Jopling have announced their engagement.
She's sung about how she's still "Falling for you", and it certainly seems to be true for Ellie Goulding and her boyfriend Caspar Jopling.
In an interview with The Observer, she said: "I thought for a long time that I could never really take the time to nurture a relationship because I'm never around. Nicholas Jopling of Yorkshire and Mrs. Jayne Warde-Aldam of Yorkshire, and Elena, daughter of Mr. Arthur Goulding of Herefordshire and Mrs. Tracey Sumner of West Midlands".
The happy couple announced their engagement in Tuesday's Times of London newspaper.
I was told that during pre-season it looked like I was saying something absolutely out of order, something insane . Martial in the last 20 minutes could have given us the second goal but I couldn't make that change.
Honestly, if you could bottle character and spirit, his would sell worldwide - he is so incredibly positive and full of energy.
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The notice read: "Mr C.W.F. Jopling and Miss E.J. Goulding".
The "Love Me Like You Do" singer made a rather low-key announcement today (August 7).
Still over the moon about her engagement news, Goulding posted a sweet photo on Friday of her and her fiance that showcased her new ring.
According to his LinkedIn page, Jopling, a Harvard graduate, is based in New York City and works in corporate development and strategy at renowned art dealer Sotheby's. "I'm loving my life at the moment".
Things got quiet and Kimmel cut to commercial break. "And actually I quite enjoy when people are mad at me in certain situations". At one point during the long interview, West went on a tear about why he supports the president. "That's what makes Ye".
She explained that if they weren't "being teammates and it's not working, and one man is down, then the other man is down". In May, the reality TV star told Steve Harvey that their relationship was complicated, according to People .
Manigault Newman writes in the book, according to the Guardian , that in late 2016 Trump's team held a conference call to discuss possible responses should the tape be made public.
Schefter also mentioned Gronkowski's restructure from last season. "Sorry, I don't", the coach predictably responded. Washington Redskins rookie running back Derrius Guice is out for the season after tearing the ACL in his left knee.
Ford now runs the Fusion in the NASCAR Cup series, and it has found its way to victory lane nine times. Notably, Ricky Stenhouse Jr won back-to-back driver's championships with the vehicle in 2011 and 2012.
And while Klopp would like that fortune to change he knows there are other factors which are more important. That's the plan, that we really go for it. "We have to be like Rocky".
The Parker Solar Probe will embark on a almost seven-year venture, becoming the first spacecraft to have a direct encounter with a star.
But yesterday, TMZ reports, the tour bus used by Drake's production team was towed from a hotel parking lot in Kansas City. The Drake performance that was scheduled to happen tonight at the Sprint Center has been rescheduled to happen on Sunday.
Messi, who has been at Barcelona since the age of 13, is one of four players to be given new responsibilities by the Catalan club. Messi, who was named Barcelona's second captain in 2015, will now replace Barca's former icon, Andres Iniesta in the role.


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Q: Overlay canvas on a div with css On my website there is a
 with some css styled rings in it. It's like the android unlock pattern. 9 dots which can be connected in different ways. I want to overlay a canvas on this, so that I can measure the drawing the user makes and color in the touched dots accordingly. What's the best way to overlay this?

A: Set { position: relative; } to your div, and { position: absolute; } to your canvas. Make sure your canvas is a child element of your div. Next, give your canvas the same size as your div, and there you have a canvas overlay where you can draw everything.
By the way, canvases have transparent background by default, so it's like putting a transparent plastic paper on top of your div, where you can draw all your graphics ( lines like in android i suppose.
As for the circles, you can style those by css.

A: 2 ways as far as I can see
1) use another nested div with a no background set so its transparent.  Then inherit the parents dimensions in the CSS

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2) or create a seperate, absolutely positioned DIV and use z-index in the CSS to overlay it

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Our first night sleeping on the boat was a success! After a semi-stressful day of lugging all our our belongings onto Asante and trying to create some semblance of it all, we were finally able to tidy up enough to feel like we were home and enjoy a nice dinner al fresco in our cockpit with Uncle Al. We still have a lot of work ahead of us and we've got some adjusting to do in this new space, but it feels pretty good to be right here, right now.
If there was any concern whether or not Isla liked the boat, it was crushed instantly. She was so excited in her new v-berth that she was almost manic. She'd excitedly sprint-crawl from side to side - I'm talking Olympic crawling here - and pull herself up on the shelves to jump and pant with joy with a huge grin on her little face. Her excitement was so severe that I honestly became concerned that she ate something weird and was having some sort of reaction. That is how exuberant she was. But no, she didn't eat anything funny at all, she was just really, really happy. It was awesome.
Being the sleep freak that I am, I was concerned that this obvious "high" she was enjoying combined with new surroundings would kill her pretty great sleep schedule. Lucky for all of us, the worry was for naught. Before we left Chicago we bought a tiny travel pack-n-play contraption off Craigslist and it's going down as one of the wisest purchases we've made. Despite the fact that this child has slept in about fifteen different places in the last five months, she (almost) always goes to sleep for naps and bedtime without a hitch. I attribute this to a) sleep training and b) the fact that her little bed remains the same. No matter where we plop her down, she's in familiar territory: she sleeps on the same blanket, listens to the same little musical sea horse and as soon as I lay her down she knows what to do and does it. Most of the time. She is still a baby, after all.
Anyway, we are here, in our new boat! It is so exhilarating and exciting! Scott leaves next week for Grenada which means Isla and I have a couple weeks to get acquainted with life aboard until we head up to Chicago for a visit. The learning curve will be steep. We'll quickly realize areas that need improvement, we'll slowly and surely figure out the best/most convenient places for things, we'll make lists and notes of projects to do "in the future" that will make life a little easier: a shelf here, a light there, new latch for this, better configuration for that...we'll get there, it's a never ending process when you live on a boat. This is the beginning of many new "firsts" for us as a family. In the meantime, it feels good to be home.
It takes hands to build a boat, but only hearts can build a home.
Have a nice Thanksgiving aboard your new home!


Coot is a Paul Gartside designed 16′ open water rowing skiff (design #115). She is planked in strip plank western red cedar, glass cloth and WEST system epoxy. The interior fitout features Tasmania's beautiful endemic species—huon pine, king billy pine and celery top pine.
The boat was built by Denman Marine for a Port Huon client for river rowing and a spot of salmon fishing under oars.


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A: It's returning a string
return ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Symbols"];

and you need to return List<string>, so you rather want to do this:
var Sym = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Symbols"];

and at the end add:
return Symbols;

it should look like:
public static List<string> Symbols
{
    get
    {
        var sym = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Symbols"];
        return sym.Split(',').Select(x=>x.Trim()).ToList();
    }
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I've made improvement by using Linq to select trimmed values instead of using foreach.
original one (corrected)
public static List<string> Symbols
{
    get
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        string[] sys1 = Sys.Split(',');
        Symbols = new List<string>();
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        {
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        }
        return Symbols;
    }
}

EDIT:
as far as I understand, you want to return one value list like this:
public static List<string> Symbols
{
    get
    {
        var sym = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Symbols"];
        return new List<string>() { sym };
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Mega-Drought / Names & Color Codes
Date Thursday - August 19 2021
HostGeorge Noory
GuestsSteve Quayle, B. P. Greycastle
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In the first half, researcher, author, and documentary film producer Steve Quayle discussed his latest documentary (view trailer) about the drought plaguing the US West and why he thinks it will continue for many years-- impacting major cities and endangering millions of lives. Flying over the west for a previous documentary, he began to notice how places like Lake Mead and Lake Powell (among the largest reservoirs in the US) were at historic low water levels, along with major rivers like the Missouri and the bodies of water that feed into it. Quayle pinned some of the blame for the drought on geoengineering and weather manipulation. Chemtrails, he asserted, have a "particulate aerosolization that's literally sucking the moisture out of the air."
Arizona is planning on water cutbacks or rationing, and we could hear of more and more water restrictions, as well as intermittent power cuts in places that depend on hydroelectric power. This will affect crops, and we'll really start noticing the issue when various products and food items will no longer be available on grocery shelves, he warned. Expect to start seeing this by next month, he added. He recommends that people purchase prepper supplies, especially a portable water filter. Quayle believes we are living through the beginning stages of the prophesied biblical 'Tribulation' period, where the two most precious commodities will be fresh water and edible food. He foresees "water wars," and that fresh water will exceed the cost of oil by the barrel.
B. P. Greycastle has broken down the human character, and color codes deciphering why we think, feel, believe, and act in the ways we do. He contends that the success of many famous people is based primarily on them cultivating character traits of their color-coded names. In the latter half, he explained his theory and how it manifests and shapes people's personalities. There are seven endocrine or energy centers in the body (which correspond to the chakras), he outlined, and these include physical, spiritual, mental, vocal, and emotional centers. Every time someone calls your name, the specific sound gives off a color wavelength vibration that is sent to the energy centers. Over thousands of times, this lays the foundation for your personality and character traits, he continued.
Building on Isaac Newton's alignment of colors to a diatonic scale, Greycastle associates letters with specific colors-- for instance, C, J, Q, and X are red, and D, K, R, and Y are orange. The colors and shades represent different character traits and meanings, both positive and negative, he noted. Around 90% of the winners of the Nobel Prize for physics are what he classifies as "purple spiritual people," with their first or last names starting with B, I, P, or W. Another example he cited was how most of the successful talk show hosts have a J in their names like Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Sally Jesse Raphael. During the last hour, he offered personality readings for callers based on their names.
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Reds Manager Danny Wilson caught up with Barnsley Player ahead of this weekend's season-opener against Crawley Town at Oakwell.
The visit of the Red Devils will be the first meeting of the two sides, as both Club's new-look squads go head-to-head.
"I don't really know what Crawley are like as they've been similar to us," said Wilson. "They've brought in 13 or 14 players. They are trying a new formula. What I do know is that their manager, John Gregory, knows the game inside out.
"He'll have put a few players in who he knows can do the job. I know one or two of the players from working with them before – the likes of Izale McLeod who's a very big goal threat. You have to be very much on your toes with him.
Regarding team news, the only two concerns from last week are goalkeeper Ross Turnbull and midfielder James Bailey, as Wilson continued, "James felt his groin in the warm-up (against Sheffield Wednesday) and the last thing we want is anything happening in a pre-season game. We took the precautionary measure of withdrawing James but he's fine now and has trained all week.
The Barnsley boss was boosted with the news that winger Keith Treacy penned a two-year deal with the Reds on Wednesday night, with Wilson commenting, "Keith Treacy adds a little bit more experience. That extra experience in the final third is a big positive because Keith has a lot to offer the Club.
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ICTY Stanisic and Simatovic Retrial – Serbia's Involvement On Agenda For War Crimes Against Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina
June 18, 2017 by inavukic 1 Comment
Serb war crimes suspects:
Jovica Stanisic (L)
Franko Simatovic (R)
Two former secret police chiefs – Jovica Stanisic, the former head of Serbia's state security, and Franko Simatovic, his deputy, once held to be among the most powerful men in Serbia, went on trial Tuesday 13 June 2017 at The Hague ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) for the second time, accused of running a lethal network of covert operations during the 1992-95 conflict in which Serbia wanted to prevent the break-up of Yugoslavia despite the fact that majority of people in states that made up Yugoslavia, except Serbia, voted to secede from communist Yugoslavia.
The ICTY prosecutors hold that the operations were intended to impose as well as conceal the wartime policies of Slobodan Milosevic, the then Serbian president. The policies that with their intent could perhaps be captured in a sentence uttered by Milosevic in 1989: "Either Serbia will be united or there will be no Serbia!" With this non-Serbs across former Yugoslavia began to tremble.
Stanisic and Simatovic were acquitted of similar charges to those in paragraph above in 2013 after a three-year trial at the ICTY in The Hague. The acquittals shocked legal experts, victims' families and survivors of the wars of Serb aggression in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The wars of Serb aggression in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina during early 1990's meant that special combat units of the Serbian secret police directed Serb paramilitary forces who burned churches and mosques and killed masses and raped civilians in village after village to drive out non-Serbs (Croats and Bosniaks and other non-Serbs). These special combat units often went into action ahead of or alongside Serb military units.
With regards to the 2013 acquittal the ICTY chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz said in an interview: "Take for example, the most recent decisions on Stanisic and Simatovic. That victims cannot be satisfied with this decision is obvious. The judges on one hand have confirmed that Stanisic and Simatovic, as responsible for the Serbian intelligence service in Belgrade during the wartime, were the ones creating those special units (Serb paramilitary groups responsible for atrocities in Bosnia and Croatia), that they were the ones supporting financially those units, and that they de facto also were the ones who had a certain control of those units. To have as a conclusion that they were acquitted because they have not specifically directed their support to a commission of crimes is, of course, a notion very difficult for victims to understand. And even at my office, we considered it as a break from the previous jurisprudence where it was sufficient to prove that somebody who was providing substantial support to a party in the conflict had actual knowledge about the commission of crimes by those groups."
In late 2015, ICTY appeals judges ruled that they had found legal and factual errors in the first trial.
While the judges in the Trial chamber ruled that the defendants had issued no "specific direction" to commit crimes, the appeals judges said no such proof was required to prove a criminal conspiracy or the aiding and abetting of crimes. Given that two of the three original judges had left the chamber, the case could not be sent back the appeals judges issued a decision that not only overturned what had been established by the Trial Chamber back in 2013, but also ordered that Stanisic and Simatovic be retried.
This was/is particularly good news as there has been a consistent, propaganda calibre of an alarming rise of zeal among Serbian nationalist groups, politicians and other public-figure individuals who are rewriting the history of the conflicts in Croatia and Bosia and Herzegovina, denying that Serbs committed any war crimes, pushing the agenda of Serb victimhood including falsely branding the voluntary withdrawal from Croatia of some 200,000 Serbs after Croatia's liberating military operation Storm in August 1995 as forced deportations and ethnic cleansing, banning references to the conflict from schoolbooks and glorifying convicted war criminals.
ICTY chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz, the tribunal's chief prosecutor, told the Security Council on June 7, 2017, that despite the large body of evidence proven in "case after case," the denials and the refusal to accept facts, even by government officials, were "loud and clear." (For Full address click here)
"Genocide is denied. Ethnic cleansing is denied," he said.
"When irresponsible officials use division, discrimination and hate to secure power, conflict and atrocities can gain a logic of their own," Brammertz said. "That was true two decades ago when genocide and ethnic cleansing began, and it remains true today."
On the first day of the new trial on Tuesday 13 June 2017, Douglas Stringer, a prosecutor, portrayed the two former Serbia secret police chiefs, Stanisic and Simatovic, as close to Slbodan Milosevic, who had himself gained control of the institutions and agencies of the federal government of what was then Yugoslavia.
Milosevic entrusted the two men with all the critical aspects of secret police activities leading up to and during the wars, Stringer said.
The men set up clandestine training camps for paramilitary fighters and acted as chief organizers, paymasters and suppliers for those units, he said. The paramilitaries, some of whom were convicts, became notorious for their brutality and, according to ICTY prosecutor Stringer, "looted on an industrial scale."
Far from spontaneous, the prosecutor said, the Serbian state security at first placed their operatives in positions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia that were scheduled for "ethnic cleansing." He said these operatives were known as "doublehatters," at once linked to the Belgrade government and also key players locally who relayed orders to the paramilitaries. All the activities "were covert to conceal the hand of Milosevic," Stringer said.
The fate of Stanisic and Simatovic will be crucial in legally determining the role of the Serbian state in the wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina that killed more than 130,000 people. After two decades of trials at the tribunal in The Hague, no officials of the Belgrade wartime government are serving sentences, only Bosnians and Croats. Should Stanisic and Simatović be found guilty in the retrial, a connection between the Serbian political cadres and the crimes committed in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina would be established, legally sanctioning the direct involvement of the Serbian state in the 1990's wars in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Slobodan Milosevic, considered the war's main architect, was facing a list of charges, including genocide, when he died in a tribunal cell in 2006 shortly before the end of his trial. His chief of staff, Gen. Momcilo Perisic, was convicted and sentenced to 27 years for aiding and abetting war crimes in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, but the verdict was overturned on appeal in 2013 because no "specific direction" to commit crimes had been proved. That ruling also led to disagreements among legal scholars and judges. ICTY is expected to deliver a verdict for Gen. Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, in November 2017. Ina Vukic
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48. INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
February 16, 2010 Gregory J. Smalley (366weirdmovies)	9 Comments
"My response to viewers who are puzzled by the plots is, I don't think you're so puzzled as you may think. We all have a certain amount of intuition, and that is something that can be trusted and should be trusted… And so when you see something that's abstract in a film, and you seem to be getting lost, the thing to do is to start talking to your friends, and they'll say something and you'll find yourself disagreeing with that, and realize that you really had formed opinions, and you had a scenario that made sense in your mind, and that's valid. We know more than we think."—direct advice from David Lynch on understanding his films
DIRECTED BY: David Lynch
FEATURING: Laura Dern
PLOT: INLAND EMPIRE shifts around on a dozen tectonic plates of varying levels of surreality, but the unstable base layer involves Laura Dern as actress Nikki Grace cast in a melodrama based on an unproduced Polish screenplay which was abandoned as cursed after its two leads were murdered. As she acts out the adulterous scenario, Grace becomes confused, coming to believe at times that she is the character in the screenplay. After consummating a relationship with her handsome co-star, that reality slips away and Dern is seen playing several different characters, wandering around in a series of loosely interconnected sketches that involve (among other stories) an abused woman confessing her hatred of men to a psychiatrist, the lives of a gaggle of lip-syncing prostitutes, infidelity dramas, and a sobbing woman watching a room full of bunnies in an absurdist television sitcom.
The film began as a series of individual short films shot on digital video, as Lynch was exploring the new format. After Laura Dern suggested working on a project with the director, Lynch later noticed recurring themes in the shorts he was shooting, and decided to put them together into a feature film.
In his announcement for the movie and in interviews afterward, Lynch has said that he is done shooting on film and will work exclusively with digital video from now on, citing the greater freedom afforded by the format and going so far as to say that the idea of going back to film makes him feel "sick and weak."
Lynch reported that he wrote the film scene by scene, working without a finished script and trusting that connections would appear.
The footage of the rabbits is recycled from a series of short films called "Rabbits" that was exclusively screened on davidlynch.com.
Lynch has said he decided to title the movie INLAND EMPIRE after hearing Dern say that her husband hailed from that Southern California enclave, simply because he liked the sound of the words.
Lynch invested his own money to get the film made. He also distributed the film himself, thus facing no pressure to make cuts to the finished product.
David Lynch himself sings on the soundtrack.
INDELIBLE IMAGE: The nattily-dressed, stiff and deliberately posed bunny-people from the series of short "Rabbit" films, who were so evocative that Lynch decided to give them a new home in INLAND EMPIRE.
WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: INLAND EMPIRE is David Lynch at his most deliberately
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unhinged, experimenting with how far he can stray from linear narrative while still producing a work that feels thematically whole, searching for the minimum number of recurring images and themes needed to stitch a piece together so that it tantalizingly approaches coherence without ever actually resolving.
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BORDERLINE WEIRD: THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (2002)
February 15, 2010 Eric Young	1 Comment
FEATURING: Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Nance, Catherine Coulson
PLOT: A series of six short films spanning director David Lynch's career from the
1960s through the 1990s. We track Lynch from his early years as a highly experimental student to a macabre master of the darkly surreal with these films that show a man who needed to grow and challenge himself as a creative force.
WHY IT'S ON THE BORDERLINE: As collections of short films go, this is one of the most mercurial and hard-to-peg I've ever seen. There's really no denying the odd nature of Lynch's efforts. The first film alone, a minute-long animated loop of six hideous plaster sculptures throwing up, stands as a timeless testament to Lynch's nightmarish creative vision. And the gut-wrenching scope of his silent feature, entitled "The Grandmother", is a window into the mind of a radically different artist than the one Lynch has become. But, honestly, the quality and sheer atmosphere present in most of Lynch's features feels absent here, and there's not enough memorable material to consider this a momentous release.
COMMENTS: Much like a renowned painter or an extremely colorful luchador, a filmmaker's work becomes more lionized as his fame grows, even his mistakes. David Lynch is a very famous filmmaker, so it's only appropriate that this assortment of short subjects should come out to cement his status as an iconic artist and a true visionary in the world of the nightmarish and the utterly bizarre. But those die-hard fans of the man who seek a diamond in the rough here, a Pollack behind the frame of this small cache of movies, will likely find themselves disappointed, or at the very least conflicted.
If short films represent the transformation of a filmmaker as as he/she goes from one project to another, this gathering of shorts spanning Lynch's career is a shadowy, rocky road. Half of these films don't desire to be much more than insubstantial experiments, hokey dumping grounds for ideas that are really just there to try something out. They merely exist in a tangible form for the consumer because of the marketable name of Lynch, not because they actually have some sort of deliciously demented merit and are worth seeing for any length of time. And while the three that are good are indeed very good, it's easy to put this one on the borderline with the vibes I get from the other three.
Let's break it down by feature, shall we?
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I caused hilarity at Book Group last night when I confessed to something I did (accidentally) yesterday afternoon.
One of my sons tends to linger in the car playing on his phone while I dash ahead into the house. I assumed that he'd follow me in eventually – especially as he often goes straight upstairs or into some quiet corner. I was pretty busy and got on with a couple of jobs then made the boys tea, but when I called him to come and eat, there was no reply. I was annoyed, then worried when he was nowhere to be found anywhere in the house. Suddenly I remembered that about ten minutes earlier I'd heard a car horn sound. I looked out of the window to see my son's very annoyed face looking out of the car which was parked in the drive.
He'd played his game till his phone ran out of charge, then realised I must have somehow locked him in the car, maybe by clicking on 'lock' on the key after I got in the house. He hadn't been able to phone me, as he had no power on his phone, so he'd sounded the horn but I hadn't realised it was him. I had no idea that some models of car mean somebody can be locked in so completely, with no obvious means of getting out. It used to be that you could release any locking of a car from the inside. So I've learned something about car locking mechanisms (be warned everyone, even a teenager can get locked in a car if you are absent minded enough), and my son's learned to get in the house, fast.
I was delighted to get the 'fantastic mother' award of the evening.
We discussed 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry' last night. We all loved it, and I now have a question from the entire book group to ask Rachel Joyce when me and my friend Clare go to her talk on Saturday morning at the Chipping Norton Literary Festival.
The postman has just been. I've received my copy of 'Come to the Edge' by Joanna Kavenna, published by Quercus. I'm looking forward to reading it, especially as Kavenna has been voted Granta's 'Best Young British Novelist 2013'.


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"You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. Thats the whole world."
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"You've gotta go for it, and go for it with gusto."
— Elizabeth Mitchell
"Acting is so exciting to me. It's a thrill; otherwise I wouldn't do it. Not to be hokey, but I think life is definitely worth living, whether you're working or not. For an actor, the character is the thing ... it doesn't matter what medium you're in. as long as you have something to do."
"I am very benign-looking. I'm somewhat like a golden retriever: It's not hard to look at me. I'm perfectly fine. It's not like things jut out and make you nervous. But the lovely thing about being so pale and having such pasty features is that I can look like pretty much anything, which is nice."
I was a complete, total nerd ... I loved the idea that the underdog wins more often than not. And I don't know if that happens in life. But I want it to.
"I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good."
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"You have what is right in front of you. You survive and you have your family. That's the whole world."
"I normally eat everything under the sun, but once a year, for a whole month, I eat nothing but fruits, vegetables, nuts, and lean fish, and I feel great!"
"I did theater for 15 years, and I spent a lot of time as an understudy."
I know it's so 'in' to be blase, but that's not going to get you anywhere.
People feel good about doing things with you if you're enthusiastic.
"I'm not big on lying. I don't like that at all."
I've always been incredibly crazy about the fact that I'd have any fans at all. It says to me that the characters that I choose are interesting to people and that's thrilling to me. It really is.
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The site of a proposed Twin Pines Minerals LLC titanium mine in Charlton County, Ga.
Photographer: Bobby Magill/Bloomberg Law
Army Corps' Credibility Seen at Stake in Swamp, Mine Legal Fight
By Bobby Magill
Jan. 24, 2022, 11:00 AM
Trump-era jurisdictional decisions unreliable, Corps says
Okefenokee Swamp at stake in federal waters fight
A titanium mine proposed near Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp is becoming a battleground over whether developers nationwide can trust the Army Corps of Engineers' word that planned developments won't harm federally protected streams and wetlands.
The Corps said last week that developers "can no longer rely" on its official determinations on avoiding protected wetlands under the now-defunct, Trump-era Navigable Waters Protection Rule.
Unreliable Trump-era determinations may upend the long-held practice of giving businesses certainty of relying on Corps determinations for five years to make "good faith" business decisions, said Larry Liebesman, a senior adviser at the environmental and water permitting firm of Dawson & Associates.
A company affected by a rule change could argue in court that it would be penalized if the Corps revisits the project within the five-year window, said Liebesman, a former Justice Department environmental lawyer.
"That could have a real impact on a company that could have a long-range plan," he said. "Once you're in the permit process, it's expensive."
Corps jurisdictional determinations are crucial to applying Clean Water Act protections for waterways and ephemeral wetlands. Its regulations stipulate that determinations are usually good for five years and are based on whatever definition of Waters of the United States, or WOTUS, was in effect at the time.
'Dramatic Change'
The Okefenokee Swamp, part of Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, is one of the highest-profile battlegrounds over the Trump-era rule because it's North America's largest blackwater swamp and a biologically diverse storehouse of carbon. Scientists and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service contend the mine could damage and possibly drain the swamp.
The Trump-era rule was used to determine in 2020 that the Clean Water Act doesn't apply to wetlands near Okefenokee that Twin Pines Minerals LLC is targeting for a titanium mine—a claim the Fish and Wildlife Service and environmentalists dispute following the rule's vacatur.
The Corps said in a Jan. 5 memo that it won't revisit determinations made under the Trump-era rule unless new information about those wetlands comes to light. It also won't "unilaterally" reopen an approved jurisdictional determination based on the Trump-era rule, spokesman Doug Garman said.
Builders consider the Corps' determinations to be final and binding for five years even if a court declares the regulation they're based on illegal, said Michael Mittelholzer, assistant vice president of environmental policy at the National Association of Home Builders.
"If we cannot rely on final jurisdictional determinations—specifically those that don't identify any jurisdictional features—that is a dramatic change, and the agency needs to be clear about that," Mittelholzer said.
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Environmentalists and some federal agencies are pushing the Corps to revisit its jurisdictional determinations made under the Navigable Waters Protection Rule, and the fight over the proposed Twin Pines titanium mine is one of the most high profile cases.
"These wetlands are all the more critical because the loss of these wetlands could irreversibly harm the hydrology of one of our nation's greatest natural resources," said Kelly Moser, senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The mine is now amid a state permitting process, and it is "inappropriate for me to speculate" on how federal regulations affect the mine, Twin Pines president Steve Ingle told Bloomberg Law.
The Navigable Waters Protection Rule lifted Clean Water Act protections for many streams and wetlands across the U.S. But a federal court in Arizona vacated the rule in 2021, and the Biden administration implemented an earlier rule, re-extending the wetlands protections.
At Okefenokee, advocates are hanging their hopes on the Corps policy saying that new information would allow it to revisit the Trump-era jurisdictional determination.
University of Georgia research has provided evidence that the mine could severely damage part of the swamp—new information the Army Corps needs to reopen the case, Moser said.
Fish and Wildlife in December wrote letters to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Corps, saying the corps used a now-overturned and obsolete rule to determine that the titanium mine won't affect federally-protected wetlands that scientists say are irreplaceable.
The corps should "ensure the avoidance and minimization" of harm to Okefenokee, wrote Leopoldo Miranda-Castro, Fish and Wildlife's regional director.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) followed up with a call for the EPA to overrule the Army Corps and declare Okefenokee waters federally protected. Ossoff's office declined to comment about whether the EPA responded to his letter, and the EPA didn't respond to requests for comment this week.
The Corps declined to comment on whether it would revisit the determination.
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Q: Find two matrices $A,B$ such that $AB=0, BA\neq 0$. What can you say about $(BA)(BA)$?
Find two matrices $A,B$ such that $AB=0, BA\neq 0$. What can you say about $(BA)(BA)$?

I found the two matrices, but I found it to be actually not important. If associativity is true, then:
$$(BA)(BA)=B(AB)A=B(0A)=(B0)A=B(0)=0$$
Then if $AB=0, BA\neq 0$, $BABA=0$. Is that it? I don't know what else I could say about $(BA)(BA)$.

A: Try A:
$$\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 0  \\
0 & 1  \\ \end{array}\right)$$
and  B:
$$\left(\begin{array}{ccc}
0 & 1  \\
0 & 0  \\ \end{array}\right)$$


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Wheeler fight with Malkin draws mixed reviews
By: Steve Lyons and Paul Wiecek
Posted: 4:14 PM CST Thursday, Mar. 9, 2017
Steve Lyons
Hey — how's it going? Any thoughts on that hockey game at the downtown rink last night?
I've got a couple — so glad you asked ha ha
I've been trying to come up with the proper adjectives to describe Blake Wheeler's decision to challenge Evgeni Malkin to a fight early in the first period. I've settled on: Dumb and selfish.
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What exactly did that accomplish, other than to get Pens enforcer Tom Sestito riled up to the point that he later breaks Toby Enstrom's face?
All because Wheeler felt the league should have suspended Malkin for the head shot on him a couple weeks ago in Pittsburgh? Or did he feel Malkin deserved to get beaten up because ya know, Malkin is notorious for this type of thing and had to finally be taught a lesson?
So Wheeler's need for revenge causes a teammate some serious pain; he risks breaking his own hand repeatedly punching Malkin's helmet; and Enstrom's injury leaves his team short-handed on defence for the final 47 minutes of the game.
In my opinion, Captain Blake owes his teammates and Enstrom and apology today.
Oh, and I guess we should also mention that Malkin got his revenge by scoring two goals and assisting on another in a Pens' 7-4 win. Sure taught him a lesson.
Paul Wiecek
Holy shmoly. Get off the fence man. What do you really think?
So, I think the popular U.S. sports blog Deadspin best summed up Wednesday's debacle with the headline, 'The Penguins-Jets Grudge Match Was the Perfect NHL Cycle of Stupidity.' Deadspin contended — and I agree — that Wednesday's problems can be traced back to the league's inexplicable decision weeks ago not to sanction Malkin for his gutless hit on Wheeler.
But just because the league is stupid doesn't mean the Jets should be too. That game meant a lot more to the Jets Wednesday night than it did to the Penguins and I thought an injury depleted Pens lineup — literally half their defence was missing, including Kris Letang — was vulnerable. That was a very winnable game for the Jets, I thought, if they'd just played their game.
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Pens coach Mike Sullivan called up Tom Sestito for one purpose on Wednesday.
Now having said all that, if we're apportioning blame for the stupidity Wednesday night I would put Wheeler at the bottom of the list, not the top. I don't have any problem, in fact, with Wheeler taking matters in his own hands early in the game. And I was there Wednesday night — you could feel the lift in the building and see the intensity in the Jets rise after that Wheeler-Malkin scrap. I'd argue you can draw a much clearer line between the captain dropping the gloves and the Jets taking a 3-2 lead into the dressing room after the first period than you can between the Wheeler scrap and Sestito running Enstrom. The person to blame for what happened to Enstrom isn't Wheeler. It's not even Sestito, who is a career idiot. It's the gutless wonder that is Pens coach Mike Sullivan, who called up Sestito on Wednesday for one purpose, thereby setting the tone for the ugliness that was to follow that night while Sullivan's safely ensconced behind the Pittsburgh bench in a $2,500 suit. Of all the people who deserved a beating Wednesday night, Sullivan topped my list. By a mile.
It's all beside the point anyway. The Jets lost that game not because of all the scrapping or even the loss of Enstrom. They lost that game because Connor Hellebuyck gave up three goals in 57 seconds in the second period, five goals in 15 shots and he was pulled for the 10th time in his 71 starts for the Jets, which is ridiculous.
I actually pulled a few punches in my opening salvo. And, I definitely do not agree with you on Wheeler being at the bottom of the blame list. And this whole blame-Hellebuyck thread is such a smokescreen for this team.
Even if the league got it wrong on the Malkin hit a couple of weeks ago — and I don't believe it did by the way; and even if Sullivan was provoking a situation by calling up Sestito, nothing happens if the Jets just go out and play their game like they did against the Sharks instead of Wheeler picking a fight with Malkin and Chris Thorburn picking a fight with Sestito. They did not have a 3-2 lead after the first period because of the fights — they had a lead because Pens goalie Matt Murray had a shaky opening 20 minutes.
Where the league is wrong is it should finally implement a rule that suspends players — or at least ejects them — for staged fights. It's ridiculous already.
And if this team needed Wheeler to scrap Malkin to get a rise in its intensity when they are fighting for their playoff lives and hosting the defending Stanley Cup champs, then they've got big problems.
The only thing that bugs me about Sullivan, is I wish I could afford $2,500 suits.
Hellebuyck was not great, I admit, but I would have been p…ed off being yanked after those three goals. Two were on the power play — one was with his team down two men — and on none of the goals were the Jets d-men anywhere to be seen. And on the 5th Pens goal, Malkin kicked sand in Mark Scheifele's face in front of the net and showed what fight is.
We can agree that we would all be better served by a better brand of suit, particularly in Winnipeg where the average guy's idea of dressing up is turning a filthy T-shirt inside out so you can't see the stains.
Nick Bonino (13) and the Pittsburgh Penguins celebrate Bonino's goal against the Winnipeg Jets in the first period.
We will have to disagree on Hellebuyck's culpability Wednesday night. I will leave this here, however — even Paul Maurice, a man genetically incapable of calling out his players individually, admitted Wednesday night that Hellebuyck has to be better if his team is going to have any chance against a team like the Penguins.
How about this for a stat: The Jets record this season against teams that currently have 80 points or more in the standings is now 5-14-2. And if you subtract Winnipeg's weird 4-1-0 record against Chicago from that list, it's now 1-13-2. That says a lot about where this team is at right now. They're promising and, on some nights, even really good. But they are still boys playing with men.
So, let me put this on a tee for you: I understand that you are not a big fan of the eardrum-bursting levels of music that they play at MTS Centre on game nights, not to mention that really annoying in-game host who spends the entire game shrieking at the paying customers for some reason.
Please, do tell...
I will of course preface these comments by pointing out that I do not have to pay to go to a Jets game, so I'm not sure how much right I have to complain about the 'fan experience' — but man is it loud in the MTS Centre. And at the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man — again — I left last night's game after two periods, went home and rested my eardrums for 45 minutes before even turning on the TV for a bit before bed.
It's loud in the MTS Centre.
Yeah, why does that guy need to yell at everyone between face-offs? If you are trying to engage the younger fans, you don't need to shout — their hearing is still fine.
Last Sunday, the New York Knicks organization decided the first half of a game at Madison Square Garden between the Knicks and the Golden State Warriors would be played without all the manufactured noise. They had an announcement on the scoreboard that read — nobody yelled it at you: The first half of today's game will be presented without music, video or in-game entertainment so you can experience the game in its purest form. Enjoy the sounds of the game. That I actually would pay to experience.
The Warriors' Draymond Green blasted the whole thing calling it pathetic and ridiculous, which tells me normal folks likely enjoyed it.
And while we're on this subject, why do hockey announcers on TV continue to do play-by-play like it's on radio. I can see that Byfuglien passed the puck to Laine — do I need to be told what I am seeing. That's one of the biggest reasons I love watching baseball — the stories that are told while I watch what is happening. I don't need someone to tell me "the pitcher pitched the ball and the hitter swung at it."
Maybe it's my imagination, but I really think they turned up the volume at MTS Centre this year. It just seems louder. Or maybe I'm just an old guy who wishes those kids would get off my lawn.
This reminds me of the season the Montreal Canadiens started playing rock music during stoppages for the first time. Author Mordercai Richler — icon, curmudgeon, diehard Canadiens fan — wrote a column ripping the Habs for interfering with his enjoyment of 'nos glorieux.' Of course, Richler is the same guy who once ripped those "insufferable Inuit throat singers" — which is simultaneously hilarious and true, but also the kind of thing only a national treasure like Richler could get away with saying.
Basketball is stupid, with or without the volume. Any sport in which you achieve your stated scoring objective better than 75 percent of the time is too easy. Make the hoops higher or the players shorter. Right now, the entire sport is just a freak show.
What percentage of the world's seven-footers are in the NBA? One in two? I'm only half joking.
The Internet says — and we all know if it's on the Internet it's true — the probability of, say, an American between 6'6" and 6'8" being an NBA player stands at a mere 0.07%, but it's a staggering 17% for someone 7 feet or taller. It also tells me most estimates suggest there are three 7-foot individuals per 20,000 — around 50,000 total in the world.
The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed a tall guy today — ex-NFL QB Vince Young. Best thing I can say about that is it's getting the CFL some ink in the middle of March.
Like I said — freak show.
MARK TAYLOR / THE CANADIAN PRESS
Vince Young announces his signing with the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders at Mosaic Stadium in Regina Thursday.
And seeing as we're on the subject, that's basically what this Vince Young signing is too. The guy hasn't played football for six years, let alone CFL football. I predict he doesn't get out of training camp, if he survives that long. I love these washed up NFL guys who come up here thinking they'll run roughshod over the league en route to their big comeback, only to get their heads torn off and a very rude awakening — the CFL is no joke.
But it's a gift to TSN, who are basically a majority owner of the CFL at this point and are doing everything they can to pump up interest in a declining property that is one of the few things they have left since they lost the national TV hockey contract. TSN actually went live from Regina on Thursday with the Vince Young press conference, which is hilarious. I can't wait to see what they do if Teague Sherman signs somewhere. At least Sherman actually played last year.
Are you kidding me? Why didn't you tell me the Young signing was live on TV!?
Since we're on the subject of 'media' a bit today — one morning this week I was surfing Twitter and came across a tweet from a fella who works for NHL.com out on the west coast. He was lamenting 'never thought I'd be the only local reporter for a Canadiens practice in Vancouver, especially one with BC boys Price, Weber and Gallagher.'
Couple of things crossed my mind: a) is someone who works for the NHL a 'local reporter'; and b) why does he think the real local media should be out to cover players just because some local boys are in town to play the Canucks? This guy sounds like a publicist, not a journalist.
Back to the Internet for a second, Merriam-Webster defines a reporter as a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or television company to gather and report news.
Listen, I bear no animosity or hard feelings towards the folks who have left the mainstream media to take jobs working for professional sports teams or leagues but I'm not sure those folks should be called reporters. You went to journalism school at Carleton University — what ya think?
I'm old school on this reporter thing: Those who can, do. The rest are hacks and flacks.
You can't blame a guy or gal for trying to make a living, however — particularly given the state of the media industry right now.
It's interesting though — and you're seeing this extending all the way to the current White House — how the vested interests are right now trying to blur the line between real and fake news.
The teams would love it if they could break down that barrier in people's minds and pass off their own self-interested propaganda on team websites as news. But I don't see that happening, simply because the public isn't stupid. They recognize Pravda when they see it.
And so in the end, that makes the market for content on these team and league websites limited to the sheep who will countenance no dissent and want to hear nothing but good news about their favorite team. That's a very small market of the already converted choir and I don't see how you grow your fanbase that way. But the choir needs a preacher too, I guess.
I had a reader call me a couple of weeks ago complaining about one of our Jets game stories — called it a puff piece, comparing it to what he would read on the team website. The Jets had played poorly that night and he wanted us to be critical of what he saw. He agreed that we had some critique of the game, but not enough. I said we didn't have enough space to detail and analyze ALL the mistakes from that game. He chuckled and asked me to keep providing the unbiased reports he relies on us to give him.
So, we've been off on a few grumpy-old-men tangents today. Anything bright and happy to share?
Personally, I'm loving the form Jose Bautista is showing in spring training ;)
CHRIS O'MEARA / ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES
Jose Bautista slides into third base ahead of the tag by Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria with a stolen base during the second inning Sunday.
And if you wanna see some great athletes this weekend folks, the U of M Bisons are hosting the Canada West men's volleyball Final Four. If I wasn't going to the symphony Saturday night, I'd definitely go watch the super spikes.. there's no screaming announcer and blaring music though, so you would have to enjoy watching sports in its purest form.
And speaking of sports in its purest form, it's tough to beat the annual spectacle of ordinary people doing extraordinary things that is the Brier every year.
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Mike McEwen
It's been a very long time since someone other than Jeff Stoughton won a Brier for Manitoba (1995 — Burtnyk, Kerry) but I'm really liking what Mike McEwen is selling this week.
You're off to Nashville and then the Big Apple area with the Jets next week — oh, and then of course another vacation. Safe travels pal.
There are those who would suggest my entire job is a vacation.
Those people need to keep it down.
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Art & Design|With Film Supply Dwindling, a Photographer Known for Huge Polaroid Images Is Retiring
With Film Supply Dwindling, a Photographer Known for Huge Polaroid Images Is Retiring
Elsa Dorfman with a 20-inch-by-24-inch Polaroid self-portrait in her studio in Cambridge, Mass.CreditCreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
By Randy Kennedy
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — To make a good portrait, the photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson once counseled, "you have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt." It would be tricky for any portraitist, but especially daunting for Elsa Dorfman. Her camera is taller than she is, weighs as much as an N.F.L. linebacker and looks, from certain vantage points, like a 1970s liquor cabinet.
And yet for more than three decades, Ms. Dorfman has managed to make one of the world's most unwieldy cameras, and one of the rarest — a 20-inch-by-24-inch Polaroid, one of only five originally made by the company here — into an instrument of such warmth, intimacy and latter-day bohemian spirit that her work has made her into a kind of folk hero in this tightly knit college town.
Elsa Dorfman, a Polaroid Portraitist, Is Retiring at 78
Elsa Dorfman
Hanging on the door of her modest commercial portrait studio in the basement of an office building on Massachusetts Avenue is an embossed resolution from the Cambridge City Council declaring her, more or less, a local landmark. Next to it is Ms. Dorfman's statement of artistic purpose, to the degree she considers herself an artist. "I do not try to probe or illuminate their souls," she writes of the thousands of subjects she has photographed, ordinary and quite extraordinary, unknown and widely known (Julia Child, Allen Ginsberg, Errol Morris, Faye Dunaway, Jonathan Richman.) "They embrace their uneven features and the cowlick that won't stay down. The Japanese have a word for this pose of total naturalness and total attention — 'Sonomama.'"
Over the last several months, Ms. Dorfman has been making it known to friends that she is trying to adopt something like a pose of total acceptance — she doesn't know the Japanese word for it, or whether she'll achieve it — toward retirement, at the age of 78. The main reason is that the film and chemicals she depends upon have not been mass-produced since 2008, when Polaroid, which had gone into bankruptcy years before, stopped making them. And the stockpile to which she has access is diminishing, despite post-Polaroid efforts by enthusiasts to keep the cameras running.
Elsa Dorfman and an image of herself with her family at her framing shop, a converted garage behind her house in Cambridge, Mass., where she is a sort of folk hero.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
"It's dwindling, and I'm dwindling," she said.
But during a recent whirlwind tour of her home, archive, framing shop and the nearby portrait studio — through which more families, newlyweds, babies and recent graduates than she can count have passed — Ms. Dorfman didn't seem like a woman about to take down her shingle. She stopped moving and telling stories only long enough to rifle through files and film. And while she now needs a little help wrestling the prints from her four-wheeled Buick of a camera, she still commands her studio, wearing a black apron and an implacable smile.
"She ran this camera alone for 30 years, which is kind of insane," said Nafis Azad, director of photography for the 20x24 Studio, a privately held company that acquired Polaroid film stock and other materials for the big cameras in 2009. "Typically, two or three people run one of these things," said Mr. Azad, who was in Ms. Dorfman's studio one December afternoon, assisting with prints so large they felt less like photographs and more like sculptures made from photographic paper.
Postcards of Elsa Dorfman's work line the walls inside her studio.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
Ms. Dorfman — who began renting the camera for periods in 1980 and became its sole proprietor mostly, she says, because "I nagged Polaroid and I nagged them and I nagged them" — is among an exclusive group of photographers, including Chuck Close, Mary Ellen Mark, David Levinthal and William Wegman, to spend long periods with the camera, developed by Polaroid's founder, Edwin H. Land, in the late '70s to demonstrate the quality of his large-format film.
She came to photography relatively late, almost in her 30s, after a sheltered Boston upbringing that became what can only be described as a Zelig adulthood: a college year in Paris spent in the same hotel as Susan Sontag; a stint waitressing at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair, where she was propositioned by the photographer Weegee ("I had no idea who he was!" she says); a job as a secretary for Grove Press in New York during the heyday of its obscenity battles and its ascendancy as a haven for Beat poets, who seemed to gravitate toward Ms. Dorfman like a mother soul.
Elsa Dorfman, seen in the ground glass of her 20-inch-by-24-inch Polaroid camera, as she prepares to take a self-portrait.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
It was at Grove that she met Ginsberg, who became a lifelong friend despite the fact that she was almost a teetotaler and he, at the time, a walking pharmacy. Their first encounter was inauspicious. "He went by my desk and asked, 'Where's the can?' And I thought, 'The can? What can?' I'd never heard that before," she recalled, rolling her eyes and chuckling.
Ms. Dorfman found New York a bit overwhelming and went back to Boston, where she taught fifth grade and eventually married (her husband, Harvey Silverglate, a prominent criminal-defense lawyer and civil libertarian, is among her most-photographed subjects, along with their son, Isaac.) But her poetry connections led to something else, when Gary Snyder sent her a camera from Japan in 1967 and she began using it, despite not quite having the temperament she thought a real photographer should have. "Except that I was a starer," she wrote in "Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal," a book of her black-and-white portraits, published in 1974. "I looked at everything and stared at everyone."
Nafis Azadas reveals Elsa Dorfman's self portrait as she looks on.CreditGretchen Ertl for The New York Times
Some of her pictures are in important public collections, like those of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Portrait Gallery. But Ms. Dorfman sees herself less as an artist ("I never really clicked with anybody in the gallery world") and more as a member of a confederation of commercial portraitists stretching back almost to photography's birth. The filmmaker Mr. Morris, a friend and frequent subject, has described her pictures as a "perverse combination of dime store photography and Renaissance portraiture," and, perhaps more to the point, "the opposite of Diane Arbus, who asks us to deal with our potential alienation from her subject."
Debby Goldberg, a nonprofit fund-raiser whose family has been photographed by Ms. Dorfman over almost two decades, growing through marriages and births from a group of seven to a sprawling one of 15, said the portraits together feel "like a living organism," one in which Ms. Dorfman's near egoless presence somehow inheres. "She's definitely a character in the photograph itself, even though she's not visible."
What retirement will look like for her is anyone's guess, though those who know her say it will probably mean only fewer pictures per year. During a recent photo session for this article, she received a call from a belly dancer in her 70s wanting her portrait taken, a request Ms. Dorfman could hardly refuse.
The Polaroid, she said, is like an old friend whom she cannot quite imagine not seeing every week. "I fell in love with it. It's hard to say why. It's like trying to describe why you fell in love with someone. You can list all the qualities, but you can't really say why."
A version of this article appears in print on , Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Polaroid Portraitist Stares at Retirement. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe


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Garcia Places 3rd at Ameris Bank Jacksonville Half Marathon
Victory Pataky, Zach Mains, Eddie Garcia & Austin Steagall, pre-race.
ASICS Greenville Track Club-ELITE's Eddie Garcia returned to his hometown of Jacksonville, FL and placed third in the Ameris Bank Jacksonville Half Marathon. The former University of Florida standout and SEC 10K champion ran 1:07:15 to earn a place on the awards podium. ASICS GTC-ELITE placed three runners among the top eight as Victor Pataky finished seventh with a time of 1:08:35 and Austin Steagall was close behind in eighth at 1:08:58.
The race was run in almost 100% humidity with a slight drizzle at the 7:00 am start, after a night of heavy rainfall. The temperature at the start was 63 degrees--somewhat above the average of 56 degrees for the race's history.
Steagall & Pataky passing 5K.
Garcia passing the 5K mark.
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"""TestCases for distributed transactions.
"""

import os
import unittest

from .test_all import db, test_support, get_new_environment_path, \
        get_new_database_path

from .test_all import verbose

#----------------------------------------------------------------------

class DBTxn_distributed(unittest.TestCase):
    num_txns=1234
    nosync=True
    must_open_db=False
    def _create_env(self, must_open_db) :
        self.dbenv = db.DBEnv()
        self.dbenv.set_tx_max(self.num_txns)
        self.dbenv.set_lk_max_lockers(self.num_txns*2)
        self.dbenv.set_lk_max_locks(self.num_txns*2)
        self.dbenv.set_lk_max_objects(self.num_txns*2)
        if self.nosync :
            self.dbenv.set_flags(db.DB_TXN_NOSYNC,True)
        self.dbenv.open(self.homeDir, db.DB_CREATE | db.DB_THREAD |
                db.DB_RECOVER |
                db.DB_INIT_TXN | db.DB_INIT_LOG | db.DB_INIT_MPOOL |
                db.DB_INIT_LOCK, 0o666)
        self.db = db.DB(self.dbenv)
        self.db.set_re_len(db.DB_GID_SIZE)
        if must_open_db :
            txn=self.dbenv.txn_begin()
            self.db.open(self.filename,
                    db.DB_QUEUE, db.DB_CREATE | db.DB_THREAD, 0o666,
                    txn=txn)
            txn.commit()

    def setUp(self) :
        self.homeDir = get_new_environment_path()
        self.filename = "test"
        return self._create_env(must_open_db=True)

    def _destroy_env(self):
        if self.nosync :
            self.dbenv.log_flush()
        self.db.close()
        self.dbenv.close()

    def tearDown(self):
        self._destroy_env()
        test_support.rmtree(self.homeDir)

    def _recreate_env(self,must_open_db) :
        self._destroy_env()
        self._create_env(must_open_db)

    def test01_distributed_transactions(self) :
        txns=set()
        adapt = lambda x : x
        import sys
        if sys.version_info[0] >= 3 :
            adapt = lambda x : bytes(x, "ascii")
    # Create transactions, "prepare" them, and
    # let them be garbage collected.
        for i in range(self.num_txns) :
            txn = self.dbenv.txn_begin()
            gid = "%%%dd" %db.DB_GID_SIZE
            gid = adapt(gid %i)
            self.db.put(i, gid, txn=txn, flags=db.DB_APPEND)
            txns.add(gid)
            txn.prepare(gid)
        del txn

        self._recreate_env(self.must_open_db)

    # Get "to be recovered" transactions but
    # let them be garbage collected.
        recovered_txns=self.dbenv.txn_recover()
        self.assertEqual(self.num_txns,len(recovered_txns))
        for gid,txn in recovered_txns :
            self.assertTrue(gid in txns)
        del txn
        del recovered_txns

        self._recreate_env(self.must_open_db)

    # Get "to be recovered" transactions. Commit, abort and
    # discard them.
        recovered_txns=self.dbenv.txn_recover()
        self.assertEqual(self.num_txns,len(recovered_txns))
        discard_txns=set()
        committed_txns=set()
        state=0
        for gid,txn in recovered_txns :
            if state==0 or state==1:
                committed_txns.add(gid)
                txn.commit()
            elif state==2 :
                txn.abort()
            elif state==3 :
                txn.discard()
                discard_txns.add(gid)
                state=-1
            state+=1
        del txn
        del recovered_txns

        self._recreate_env(self.must_open_db)

    # Verify the discarded transactions are still
    # around, and dispose them.
        recovered_txns=self.dbenv.txn_recover()
        self.assertEqual(len(discard_txns),len(recovered_txns))
        for gid,txn in recovered_txns :
            txn.abort()
        del txn
        del recovered_txns

        self._recreate_env(must_open_db=True)

    # Be sure there are not pending transactions.
    # Check also database size.
        recovered_txns=self.dbenv.txn_recover()
        self.assertTrue(len(recovered_txns)==0)
        self.assertEqual(len(committed_txns),self.db.stat()["nkeys"])

class DBTxn_distributedSYNC(DBTxn_distributed):
    nosync=False

class DBTxn_distributed_must_open_db(DBTxn_distributed):
    must_open_db=True

class DBTxn_distributedSYNC_must_open_db(DBTxn_distributed):
    nosync=False
    must_open_db=True

#----------------------------------------------------------------------

def test_suite():
    suite = unittest.TestSuite()
    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DBTxn_distributed))
    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DBTxn_distributedSYNC))
    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DBTxn_distributed_must_open_db))
    suite.addTest(unittest.makeSuite(DBTxn_distributedSYNC_must_open_db))
    return suite

if __name__ == '__main__':
    unittest.main(defaultTest='test_suite')