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Obamacare remains deeply unpopular among Americans. According to a recent New York Times / CBS News poll, two-thirds of Americans want the Supreme Court to overturn at least some part of the healthcare law.
Today, arguments opened at the Supreme Court regarding the Affordable Care Act. In six hours of hearings over three days (the longest in forty-five years), the Court will hear oral arguments on four separate issues with the Act. Ezra Klein does an excellent job of outlining the four issues and what each side is likely to argue. Most importantly, the Court will hear arguments on the least popular aspect of the bill, the individual mandate requiring Americans to purchase healthcare insurance, tomorrow.
In my opinion, this provision of the law has the highest probability of actually lowering costs. It does so by expanding the overall insurance risk pool. Without it, the insurance industry would have to contend with the classic economics problem of adverse selection, in which only the unhealthiest people sign up for healthcare coverage. Without the individual mandate, the law is dead on arrival.
The only wrinkle is that a law mandating that Americans purchase a product may stand on dubious constitutionality. In my view, I think pragmatism ought to prevail in this case. In other words, the problem of bringing down the spiraling costs of healthcare justifies the individual mandate.
Either way, the Court will decide the law's constitutionality in the near future. It should be interesting to watch.
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In my opinion, this provision of the law has the highest probability of actually lowering costs.
1. Allowing insurance to be purchased across state lines?
2. Separating corporate funded insurance from tax deducted compensation?
3. Increasing the number of people who can perform medical procedures? Either growing more doctors or allowing non-doctors to perform commoditized procedures?
1. A more fundamental need than medical care is food. And we allow the food market to function more appropriately than we allow the medical care delivery market to function. And food is cheap.
2. Juts because it's convenient doesn't mean we just pitch liberty.
I'm with Pino. Obamacare is an offense to liberty, unjustifiable, whether it reduces costs or not.
Apropos, have you heard the latest? Apparently it won't reduce costs, either. Like so many big-government schemes, it was offered with lots of promises and (presumably) the best of intentions, but it ends up costing more than projected, and still not accomplishing the stated goals that were (presumably) the whole reason for enacting it in the first place.
If there's any product that this kind of law makes sense for, it's health th insurance. We pay more than 2x the OECD average for health care, without notably better results. In some measure because we have far more uninsured. A large, large part of our long term debt problem is continuing health care cost growth.
What's more: Congress has the power to pass a law taxing all income earned over $1000 at 91%. But we have a representative government. So. they didn't do that. The whole "law to force feed you broccoli" thing is designed to make people angry & fearful, to run away from the existing question.
The whole "law to force feed you broccoli" thing is designed to make people angry & fearful, to run away from the existing question.
But until just recently, like tonight, I haven't heard the PYM guys admit that the government COULD mandate broccoli. You know it. And I know it. And the whole nation knows it. That the United States government Ought not be able to mandate the purchase of broccoli.
But by allowing this law, the government could if it wanted.
The government could decide to mint dollar bills that are pink with pictures of Pee Wee Herman on them. The government could decide to make Interstate speed limits 5 MPH. The government could decide that the drinking age should be 50 if you want to get highway funds. See why that line of argument is so off base – it doesn't deal with reality, just with fantasy. I don't see any reason to say the government ought not be able to do those things above — being able to make laws makes those things possible. Yet in a democracy, it's not going to happen.
Don't think that they could, as broccoli is a consumable, unlike health care, and isn't projected to be responsible for like 95% of federal spending by mid-century.
Don't care, though, either, for the reasons Scott Erb points out. We have a representative government. They could tax income earned over 75 cents at 99%, too. But they don't. The Constitution is a framework with some specifics, not an all-purpose "don't do things that make me feel mad" backstop.
A consumable? As opposed to the pill? Or blood pressure medication?
The Constitution is a framework with some specifics, not an all-purpose "don't do things that make me feel mad" backstop.
And you remain unable to tell me where the limit of government mandates is.
It was a serious question asked by a sitting Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
Rather, people who say that restricting Liberty because they approve of the charity involved are running away from the question.
Does broccoli decrease in price through increased market participation by spreading risk? Is there moral hazard associated with the purchase of broccoli? Is broccoli responsible for the bulk of the US's long-term debt problem?
Health insurance is distinguishable on many grounds that are obvious to folks who think about it for 45 seconds or so.
The whole "law to force feed you broccoli" thing is designed to make whites angry & fearful, to run away from the existing question. To wit: does the Commerce Clause power reach the country's biggest long-term economic problem? If the ACA is unconstitutional, what should be our policy response to our 2x OECD average health care costs?
Those are policy-related questions, though. So there's no answer from the Republican Party, which is solely & entirely devoted to the production and sacoring of fear, resentment, and anger.
Does broccoli decrease in price through increased market participation by spreading risk?
Eating more broccoli has a direct and measurable impact on the health of people. Same as blueberries.
Is there moral hazard associated with the purchase of broccoli?
Is that the test for constitutionality?
Is broccoli responsible for the bulk of the US's long-term debt problem?
I think this law is a really 'effin good idea.
which is solely & entirely devoted to the production and sacoring of fear, resentment, and anger.
You've jumped the shark on this meme. What started out as a debate that had merit and even required me to reassess some thoughts has devolved into a screech that is better ignored.
Also, it's misplaced. The issue is not what government can mandate, it's what the federal government can mandate. No one doubts that states can mandate health insurance, states could constitutionally mandate broccoli consumption.
But whenever you argue about fantasies of what could happen, it becomes more about emotion than reason. It's legitimate to question what the limits of the constitutional right to mandate are, but that's a technical question. To twist it into "fear of tyranny" makes no sense — again, states already have that power!
I'm with you Sean. Very rational indeed.
Only if you assume insurance is a must. But insurance is not healthcare in most modern countries.
Insurance(A) is not total healthcare costs(C).
Insurance(A) does not provide total healthcare costs(C).
Insurance(A) is simply a way to pool money to buy healthcare costs(B).
Insurance(A) cannot lower healthcare costs(B) but it can only lower total healthcare costs(C) through the mandate.
Why not get rid of the insurance(A) companies to lower total healthcare costs(C)?
Like they do in the rest of the world.


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Q: Understand RFID credit card protection case My parents bought credit card case which protects against RFID sniffing (aluminium foil but only on one side of the case), i was skeptical because i thought it would work only on one side.
So i got my RFID reader and surprisingly (for me), i could not read the card while it was in the case (on one side or the other), can you help me understand why?
Thank you.

A: Any flat metal such as aluminum or copper sheet up against the credit card will de-tune the antenna, as Brian Drummond mentioned in his comment. I made my own by cutting a piece of raw PCB, 15 mils thick with copper on both sides, and trimmed it to fit into my wallet.
I used a slot behind my credit card so the metal would not scratch the card. It works just fine, even with a card reader one foot away.
It works because of the capacitive loading of so much metal close to the antenna. This both de-tunes the antenna and blocks the signal. An RFID chip must receive a strong signal to wake up and answer back, so this metal 'barrier' prevents both reception and transmission of the signal.
Note that this does not include use of custom built RFID sniffers that are far more powerful in transmission of RF and extra sensitive to RF. However such a person would still have to be almost touching you to get close enough to overcome a metal shield.
Such closeness would only be common in shopping lines or transit lines. Beware of strangers who want to get very close to you for no particular reason. Sometimes they want to see you type in your PIN code.
I had thought of building a RFID sniffer detector, but it would be triggered by going through any store that has detectors by their doors.

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In light of the seemingly endless onslaught of sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein, Judd has teamed up with Teen Vogue to share an insightful video.
The Hollywood star sat down with the publication, armed with an arsenal of tools to combat some everyday sexual harassment scenarios.
"Inappropriate and unwelcome is probably my most favorite way of disrupting harassment as it's happening," she opens the video. Judd then gives viewers an example of what she means by reenacting an imagined (but very real) scenario in which she addresses street hecklers. "Inappropriate and unwelcome!" she shouts, while turning to address the harassers.
During a particularly moving segment, Judd also discussed how Weinstein "had a reputation. Let's put it that way. He just really had a reputation," she said. The award-winning star also gave delved into her personal account of Weinstein's alleged assault while relating it back to her tips.
Judd then launched into series of verbal responses to uncomfortable behavior. The video is a chilling reminder to just how normalized sexual harassment is for a number of women and men.
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Brutal moment a jaguar kills an ocelot at a watering hole in Guatemala in 'over-competition' for water caused by climate change
A camera trap in a wildlife reserve captured the moment the larger cat attacked
Such scenes are rare - this is the first direct evidence of a jaguar-ocelot kill
Researchers believe it was caused by 'over-competition' for water
Guatemala was experiencing a drought when the attack occurred
Jaguars ambush their prey, biting through their skull with their powerful jaws
By Dan Avery For Dailymail.com
Published: 17:32 EST, 6 January 2021 | Updated: 18:19 EST, 6 January 2021
A deadly animal attack in the Guatemalan rainforest is being blamed on climate change that is causing animals to compete for water.
A camera trap set up at an isolated watering hole was triggered when a male jaguar attacked and killed an ocelot.
Such predator-on-predator attacks are rare, researchers say, and could be caused by abnormally fierce competition for water.
The attack happened in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in March 2019, when northern Guatemala was experiencing a severe drought.
In fact the jaguar let a large tapir, potentially a tasty meal, pass by unmolested before pounding on the ocelot as soon as it stopped to drink.
A camera trap captured the first known evidence of a jaguar killing an ocelot. Scientists believe the savage attack was the result of 'over-competition' for water during a drought exacerbated by climate change
Daniel Thornton, a professor at Washington State University's School of Environment, says 'over-competition' for water could easily make a jaguar attack another cat.
'People don't often think of tropical systems as being dry, but in many parts of the world, tropical rains are quite seasonal,' said Thornton, co-author of a report on the incident published in the journal Biotropica.
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'With climate change, some of these tropical ecosystems are expected to become even more seasonal. The more isolated and rare water resources become, the more they're going to become hotspots of activity.'
Jaguars, the largest cat species in the New World, can tip the scales at over 200 pounds.
Typically loners, jaguars usually avoid places their peers habituate. But the camera trap recorded seven different jaguars at the same waterhole, including a fight between two cats
Typically loners, jaguars stalk and ambush smaller prey like wild pigs, deer, tapir and even caiman — biting through their skull with their powerful jaws to deliver a fatal blow.
Ocelots are considerably smaller, about 20 to 40 pounds, and dine on rodents, birds, reptiles and insects.
It's not uncommon for the two wild cats to bump into each other, especially at twilight, but such savage attacks are extremely unusual.
Researchers placed cameras at more than 40 watering holes in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. During the 2019 dry season, only half had water and none were within six miles of the spot where the attack occurred
In fact, while researchers have noted signs of ocelot in jaguar feces before, this is the first direct evidence of a jaguar killing an ocelot.
'These dramatic camera trap images clearly show the fierce competition wildlife face for precious resources like water,' said co-author Rony García-Anleu of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Guatemala Program.
'Unfortunately, climate change and associated droughts are predicted to worsen, which means tough times are ahead for wildlife that depend on watering holes for their survival.'
The kill was recorded as part of a larger project aimed at monitoring human impact on animals in northern Guatemala.
Researchers placed cameras at more than 40 watering holes in the region.
At more than 200 pounds, the jaguar is the largest cat species in the New World. Ocelots are considerably smaller, only 20 and 40 pounds. It's not uncommon for the two species to cross paths in the rainforest, but attacks are exceedingly rare
During the 2019 dry season, only half the holes had water in them and none were within six miles of the spot where the attack occurred.
Jaguars usually avoid places their peers habituate, but the camera trap recorded seven different jaguars at the location, including a fight between two cats.
'In these beautiful, green forests, we may not be aware that water flow is a serious issue,' said lead author Lucy Perera-Romero, a WSU doctoral student. 'It could be another source of mortality — apart from deforestation, from hunting, and from everything else that we do.'
Covering over 8,000 square miles, or a fifth of the country's total land mass, the Maya Biosphere Reserve in the Petén region of northern Guatemala is a critical haven for a diverse group of fauna including jaguars, Morelet's crocodiles and ocellated turkeys.
Located in the Petén region of northern Guatemala, the Maya Biosphere Reserve is a critical haven for a diverse group of animals. But it's been negatively impacted by human activity, including poaching and illegal ranching, logging and farming
It's been managed by Guatemala's National Council of Protected Areas since 1990, but the animals who live there are still under threat by human activities, including poaching and illegal ranching, logging and farming in restricted areas.
The reserve's forest area has shrunk by 13 percent over the last two decades, according to the non-profit Rainforest Alliance, thanks in large part to illegal cattle ranches established by drug traffickers to launder money.
Jaguar savagely killing ocelot at a watering hole in Guatemala could be sign of climate change
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Gone Cosmic: Infinite possibilities
Saturday 05th, May 2018 / 12:00
By Christine Leonard
Kiss your comfort-zone goodbye. Gone Cosmic swings for the outer fences.
Photo by Mario Montes
CALGARY – The satisfaction that arises out of mixing familiar elements to create a unique sensory experience is easily appreciated. Awakening the ears and seducing souls with an addictive pairing of folk-blues and psych-rock, Calgary's Gone Cosmic is a band that thrives on the mix of complementary and contrasting traits that each member brings to the party. Founded by guitarist Devin "Darty" Purdy and bassist Brett Whittingham, who are both active with local band Chron Goblin; along with percussionist Marcello Castronuovo (Witchstone, Funkensheist), the heavy but agile ensemble has struck golden stardust with the acquisition of vocalist Abbie Thurgood, formerly of The Torchettes.
"I've done the writing and singer-songwriter thing since I was 14," reports Thurgood. "I recorded my first album down in Nashville and did some work with that. So, I guess The Torchettes was my introduction to full band performances and rosters. It was very collaborative and I learned how to work in a team environment when it comes to the arts."
A far cry from the choreographed moves of that glamourous group, Gone Cosmic found its legs as a basement project, spinning off into a galactic undertaking.
"We met Marcello because he recorded our first Chron Goblin EP like eight years ago; it was the most ridiculous deal ever and he's been a friend ever since," says Darty. "We'd always get drunk and have these long, spaced-out, psychedelic, late-night jam sessions, but we never put anything together. Eventually, we were like, 'Let's write songs for once!' "
With Castronuovo ensconced behind the drum kit, his fellow percussionist Whittingham was able to move over and pick up the bass, bestowing Gone Cosmic with a solid yet hyperflexible backbone that few rhythm sections can approximate.
"I've played bass since I was 14 or 15," Whittingham confirms. "Before Chon Goblin, Darty and I used to play in a heavy metal band, Titan, together where I played bass. I've always loved to play bass and guitar and jam Sabbath with these guys and it's nice to get back into it seriously. I like working with Cello, cuz he's got some nice jazzy touches to his playing and he has great dynamics and a good deep funk pocket. It's so fun to lock in on bass with a kick and snare."
"I like to try to tie in those elements when I can and help establish the groove of the song once it's written," Castronuovo concurs. "The hazy improvised sections showcase our natural chemistry and Abbie is capable of matching our intensity, too. She'll come out and be the icing on the cake at the climax of a technical section to push us over the edge."
The electromagnetic energy generated when Thurgood's soaring vocals and passionate lyrical narratives are added to the compelling riffs and hypnotic pulses of the band's instrumentation is a stunning and stimulating force to behold. Effortlessly navigating celestial highs and primordial lows in the course of one gravity-defying track, Gone Cosmic is primed to launch an arsenal of mindblowing, solar-powered anthems that will land the quartet in the OCL Studios later this year.
"Coming into Gone Cosmic it was a really cool transition to step out of my comfort-zone and write lyrics to these wicked tracks from a different world," Thurgood says. "I loved it. I had never met any of the guys and as soon as I heard these songs I realized they aren't formulaic. You think these tunes are going one way and they take a complete left turn. And to follow that adventure it's awesome. I'm so excited to have found a new fam, it's otherworldly, man."
Gone Cosmic performs May 12 at The Palomino Smokehouse and Social Club (Calgary)
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PhD in Social Sciences (with a specialization in Political Sociology) by the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon). MSc in 'Communication, Culture and Information Technologies' (ISCTE-IUL). BA in 'Sociology' (ISCTE-IUL). Lecturer in the MA in 'Communication, Culture and Information Technologies' (ISCTE-IUL), in the PG in 'Industries and Creative Cultures: Management and Strategies' (ESCS-IPL), in the BA in 'Audiovisual and Multimedia' (ESCS -IPL), and in the BA in 'Public Relations and Business Communication' (ESCS-IPL).Former lecturer in the PhD in 'Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society' (FCT), in the MA in 'Entrepreneurship and Studies of Culture' (ISCTE-IUL), in the MA in 'Audiovisual and Multimedia' (ESCS-IPL), and in the PG in 'Musical Marketing' (ISCSP-UL).He is an Associate Researcher at CIES-IUL, Center for Research and Studies in Sociology.He was Director of ICML, Institute of Communication and Media of Lisbon.Currently part of COST Action CA17135 - Constitution-making and deliberative democracy. He represented Portugal in the ... [ver mais]
Licenciate in Sociologia, ISCTE-IUL, in 2002
M.Sc. in Comunicação, Cultura e Tecnologias da Informação, ISCTE-IUL, in 2007
PhD in Doutoramento em Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, in 2012
Communication Theory, Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Media, Political Sociology, Public Opinion, Social Research Methods, Cultural and Creative Industries, Privacy and Surveillance, Sociology of Culture
Content Analysis of News in the Portuguese Radio
Content Analysis of Surveys' Publication in the Media
The Politics of Open Access. The Changing Face of Science in the Network Society
The Health in the Information Age: Doctors, Users and Media
World Internet Project - A Comparison of Portugal in the Global Arena
The Impact of the Internet on the Mass Media in Portugal
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Neto, P. P. (2011). Definindo a agenda dos agenda-setters: estratégias, oportunidades e constrangimentos ao agendamento mediático na era das Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação. Observatorio (OBS*). 5 (2), 241-269
Neto, P. (2010). «Shock and awe»: a ordem interna no prime-time noticioso. In Telejornais no início do Século XXI. Lisboa: Colibri.
Cardoso, G. & Neto, P. (2010). A Mediação do Serviço Público: Notícias e Telejornal da RTP. In Analise de telejornais 2003-2006. Lisboa: IPL.
Neto, P. (2012). Comunicação e Informação: entre eufemismos e determinismos. V Encontro de Comunicação e Design Multimédia.


We knew it was only a matter of time before Porsche's latest supercar project, the Porsche 918 Spyder, would be spotted testing on the Nurburgring.
For those of you who may have exiled yourself to the crenulated ruins of a medieval German castle, the 918 is Porsche's V8 Hybrid successor to the amazing Carrera GT. The plug-in drivetrain will let the car get amazing fuel mileage, claimed to max out around 75 MPG, while still being insanely fast.
Even though it has some eco pretensions, it sounds absolutely incredible under full throttle. This thing will eat Prii up like muesli while wearing Martini livery.


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Credit Card News End Of The 'rate Tart Phenomenon' Says USwitch 17169536
End of the 'rate tart phenomenon', says uSwitch
American Express has announced that, from this week onwards, it has decided to stop offering new customers special balance transfer rates.
The move is a significant one, according to price comparison website uSwitch.com, as it means that it could be the first nail in the coffin for rate-chasing credit card consumers.
Nick White, head of personal finance for uSwitch, said: "American Express' decision to stop offering balance transfers to new customers is a major development, which could signal the beginning of the end of the rate tart phenomenon that has dominated the credit cards landscape for the last two years.
"Two of the balance transfer offers that are being withdrawn for new customers – the Nectar Amex 5.9 per cent life of balance and the Blue Amex 6.9 per cent life of balance – typified the type of offer that consumers have become used to seeing from the major credit card issuers over the last couple of years as they have fought for market share."
Mr White said part of the reason was the Office of Fair Trading report that called on card providers to reduce their default charges and that the move to scrap the low-rate offers was a cost-cutting measure.
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Q: Methods to wrap getenv() and similar without leaks or race conditions in C The pointer returned by getenv should not be stored, as future calls to getenv could change it (or calls to setenv, etc). I am attempting to write a convenience wrapper around getenv which returns a default value if the environment variable is not found. I would prefer to not leak memory.
Options I've thought of:
Have the wrapper function copy the string getenv returns, either using malloc and strcpy or strdup (this is on a POSIX-compliant system). This works and allows error handling, but requires the caller to remember to free the pointer. That creates room for a memory leak.
Don't bother trying to cache the value, have each caller do that instead. This makes it easy to leave the race condition in.
Use a global variable to store a copy of the string getenv returns. This would avoid the need for callers to free the memory, but would risk race conditions just like getenv alone unless I add some sort of locking/atomic updates.
Use a static variable in the function to cache the value. This is probably the best option, as it reuses the memory for subsequent calls, but can lead to race conditions.
I'm reasonably certain I'm missing something.

A: This is not true:

The pointer returned by getenv should not be stored, as future calls to getenv could change it

The following is:

(or calls to setenv, etc...

However, the conclusion here is just that you can't use setenv (or anything that modifies the environment) in a multithreaded process. Doing so also renders thread-unsafe any standard function which uses the environment.
So, go ahead using getenv and treat the strings its return values point to as immutable.


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Last of the Mo-Ricans – 'Carlito's Way'
Movie Adaptations
Brian De Palma's 1993 crime drama Carlito's Way, based on the 1975-set novel of the same name and its companion piece After Hours, written by Edwin Torres, a former New York State Supreme Judge, and the first person of Puerto Rican background to hold such a position, is about a man trying to escape the myth of the past, for a phantasmic future with the woman he loves. Al Pacino plays the titular Puerto Rican brigand Carlito Brigante, a former legendary heroin dealer in the NY underworld. Just when he thought he was out, to paraphrase Pacino's Michael Corleone from 1990's The Godfather Pt III, Carlito's slimy lawyer Dave Kleinfeld (Sean Penn), a wannabe player, drags him back in to get the Italian mob off his coked-up ass. Carlito sees himself as a man adrift after five years inside, released thanks to Kleinfeld on a technicality. The story begins in media res, or more strictly speaking, after the action – we know ego-pricked humiliated player Benny Blanco "from the Bronx" (John Leguizamo) shoots Carlito just as he is about to board the night train to Florida with reconnected dancer girlfriend Gail (Penelope Ann Miller) at NY Grand Central Station. De Palma and the scriptwriter David Koepp use this to create a "whydunnit", and so begins a ruminative, fatalistic present tense narration from Carlito (that will continue to elide through the film's run-time on his poor choices and awareness of the shifting sands beneath his feet), as a woozy black-and-white floating shot shows him being rushed to medical aid. He is, as he wryly puts it to himself later, the "Last of the Mo-Ricans", a (literally) dying breed. There's always somebody who wants to take out the King. "Benny's gotta go down. And if I don't do it, they're gonna say: 'Carlito, he's flaky, man. Slacked-out. A used-to-be bad guy. Joint got to Carlito.' The street is watchin'. She is watchin' all the time."
If that sounds pessimistic, Carlito dies knowing he did his best to go straight, did his best to do right by Gail, the woman he had cut off in five years of jail time to survive unencumbered (he passes her the thick wad of notes he retrieved from his in-debt club partner who ripped him off) and helps her at least embody their future together in spirit (she's pregnant with their child, off to their dream of a life in the tropics). "The dream don't come no closer by itself. We gotta run after it now." The film is a romance as much as a drama, that line the Mo-Rican's equivalent of Daniel Day-Lewis' "Stay alive! No matter what happens. I will find you," from Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans.
Carlito's Way is also oft-compared to a previous De Palma/Pacino collaboration, Scarface, the two films sharing other overlapping actors, though obviously not characters. We get some idea of how successful a criminal Carlito was, but not how ruthless. He doesn't seem like the animal Tony Montana was, consumed by his own appetites. Carlito tells Gail, from growing up in a rapidly segregated city, "Guys went down, yeah, but it ain't like, you know, you just decide one day and that's it. No. You just do what you gotta do to survive. Somehow, you know, you just end up where you are." Carlito is more reflective than Montana, but that's with several years on a hard road behind him. The Godfather Pt III was stymied by the slow pace and mannered style of its classier forebears and its 1970's setting seems barely noticeable. By contrast, Carlito's Way, apart from the tension of a once venerated relic being squeezed by tough choices and misjudged loyalties, pops and crackles off the screen, the 1970s brought to vibrant life, from the poor but colorfulneighborhood barbershops and groceries and pool halls, to the chic, debauched country house and club disco party scenes (even if some of the classic songs weren't released in 1975, the vibe is real). All shot with De Palma's trademark swirling and zooming freeform camera. "Dick (Richard Sylbert) is a great art director," says Brian De Palma. "If you have a great art director, you give him your ideas, and he gives you back ideas that are better. I wanted a two-level club, and I conceived the ground-floor space to accommodate these long, sinuous tracking shots so you could use a Louma crane to go up and down and follow them around. I showed the drawing to Dick, and he designed the club along the lines I had created. When we looked at the exterior, he said to me, 'This building looks like a boat. We should make the inside of the club look like a boat that they're trying to sail away in and can't.' I said it was a great idea, and that's exactly what he did."
The action sequences are naturally suspenseful, and equally lovingly mapped-out. Early in the film Carlito reluctantly accompanies his star-struck young cousin on a money drop-off. Carlito's eye is drawn to the suspicious crack of light behind the door of the "out of order" restroom in a backroom pool hall. Carlito sets up a trick shot, the camera and his eye catching little details, marking out the players, where a weapon is, who to hit first, and so on, all underscored by the diegetic music of Ray Barretto'sEl Watusi. The painted red brick walls and Carlito's silhouette framed in the darkened restroom suggest a descent into hell. As he enters to a now deserted room, his young cousin's throat sliced open, he takes the money, voice-over reflecting sadly, "Oh, Jesus. Jesus Christ, look at you. You said they were friends, Guajiro. But there ain't no friends in this shit business."
Lesser remarked upon than his other railway station shoot-out in The Untouchables is the cat and mouse back and forth, first through Carlito's club, then the subway, and along the concourse and elevators of Grand Central Station, the set-piece a ticking clock maneuvering to evade vengeful mob members who want Carlito for unwillingly abetting Kleinfeld's offing of their Riker's escaping boss, and the framing tragedy of Carlito's demise. De Palma uses train platforms, pillars, escalators, even a floating bunch of balloons to drag out the tension of who sees whom when. Almost unnoticed by the viewer is a rushing figure past Carlito down the platform, Bennie in disguise.
Sylbert told Biskind, "Brian is a movement director, like Bertolucci. Writing with the camera. It's very good for this movie because of all these big spaces. Grand Central and Times Square. He really appreciates this set, dreams about it. He walked in the first day, looked at me, said, 'I'm gonna shoot every inch of this fucking thing.'"
David Koepp said "one common misperception people have with the word romantic, is that it ends with two people walking away on a beach together. The whole idea of something being truly romantic is that it's about loss. And that's what so many of Brian's movies are about: loss of innocence, loss of love, loss of life. What's truly romantic is to find something that's truly ideal for you; that which seemed unobtainable in life, and then to find out that it is." On one level Carlito might seem to be undone by his need to get even with Dave, visiting him in the hospital, giving the mob and Benny time to catch him at the train station whilst Gail frets. Although he doesn't kill Dave, he leaves with a warning ("You ain't a lawyer no more, Dave. You're a gangster now. You're on the other side. Whole new ball game. You can't learn about it at school, and you can't have a late start.") and in a brilliant kiss-off, when the disguised hood comes in to kill him, Dave finds his revolver is empty – cut to Carlito tumbling the bullets in slow-motion into a trash-can. Similarly, Robert De Niro's Neil McAuley in Michael Mann's Heat seems to be clear away with Eady (Amy Brenneman) but can't resist stopping to get even with Kevin Gage's Waingro.
The film ends with Carlito's eyes closing on the holiday poster high above him, "Island Paradise" with the silhouette of a dancing woman, a tourist, and young islanders coming to life, a boy among them, gaily dancing with abandon, as if Gail has made it. All to the reprise of Joe Cocker's You Are So Beautiful, first heard as an entranced Carlito spies from across the street on Gail at her dance class, lost in the moment. The "Way" of the title not so much Carlito's moral code, or reputation, but as Matt Zoller Seitz eloquently put it, a passing on through a state of grace: "Carlito has been magically transformed just as that billboard was transformed, and that his essence was passed on. Against all odds, De Palma gives us a happy ending. But not out of nowhere: the entire film is borne aloft by hope, a sense that nothing is fixed, that anything is possible in life. As Carlito details his past mistakes and delusions, the film is suffused with a warmth that comes from knowing that despite the pain of existence, it's better to be alive than dead. Cocker's song speaks simultaneously in two directions: it expresses the movie's love for its transformed hero, and Carlito's love for life itself."
Screenwriter must-read: David Koepp's screenplay for Carlito's Way [PDF.(NOTE: For educational and research purposes only). The DVD/Blu-ray of the film is available at Amazon and other online retailers. Absolutely our highest recommendation.
Carlito's Way screenplay by David Koepp
Brian De Palma interview on CARLITO'S WAY
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Brian de Palma with Jimmy Carter "Carlitos Way"
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Prolog: In November of 2009 the Long Island Paranormal Investigators received a request to investigate a personal residence in Miller Place, New York.
Private Home in Miller Place, NY.
The homeowner has claimed that he was pulled into the above ground pool, when he was checking the temperature of the water. The daughter had claimed that the apparition of a face appeared on her window, staring at her.
The husband reports having twice been pulled into the pool from the deck by an unseen force.
A common claim among all of the people in the house has been seeing a gentleman dressed in modern clothes wearing a baseball cap. Friends of the family have also reported seeing this figure, and in one instance, having a conversation with it.
The following Long Island Paranormal Investigators members were present on the investigation of the house: Lead investigators Michael Cardinuto and Robert Levine oversaw the investigation, Specialist and Case Management Department member Carolyn Braband and investigator in training and Tech Chris Vickers. Investigator Peter Ferraro was present and assisted the investigation with both equipment analysis and empathic duties.
The LIPI team setting up for the investigation.
Investigator Chris Vickers in the daughter's bedroom.
The investigation was scheduled to run from 9pm till 1am the following morning. Investigating members split into two teams. Michael Cardinuto led one team with Robert Levine, and Carolyn Braband and Peter Ferraro led the other team with chris Vickers. The teams alternated between investigating the floors and backyard of the house. The teams investigated the entire house including the backyard, where DVR cameras were placed in areas with the most paranormal claims. There were also thermometers placed around the residence.
View of the DVR cameras setup for the investigation.
Team 1, which consisted of Mike Cardinuto, Robert Levine, and Carolyn Braband started their investigation downstairs and then worked their way to the back yard. Team 2, which consisted of Peter Ferraro and Chris Vickers started their investigation on the upstairs floor; checking the claims of the bedrooms.
Carolyn Braband takes radiation readings and EVP recordings by the pool.
in the backyard near the swimming pool.
about the investigation in the downstairs living room.
Typically while actively investigating the teams would use their equipment throughout the rooms, checking for an increase or jump on their meters. Teams swept the house for electro-magnetic fields, temperature changes, drafts, poor wiring, loose floorboards, and an array of different possibilities.
Antonio Bolfo taking photographs in the upstairs den.
Investigator Chris Vickers investigating in the upstairs hallway.
Audio: Nothing conclusively paranormal was collected.
Photographs and Video: No paranormal activity was captured on photographs or video.
EMF: There were some minimal EMF spikes throughout the house. However, generally they were traced back to non-paranormal sources such as an alarm clock in the daughters room.
Temperature: Temperature readings inside the residence were viewed as normal readings.
Personal Experiences: No personal experiences were reported.
Empathic Report Empathic Specialist Peter Ferraro: When I arrived at the residence I sensed something undetermined of an energy somewhere in the backyard of the residence. After interviewing the owners wife she validated that this is where she believes the activity began. It was reported that her husband was pushed in the pool in rear of the home by some unknown force.
I also sensed something in the daughters room unknown energy. It was later told upon the interview after the walk through and validated by the family.
The image I received was that of a bearded man with a cap or some other kind of hat. This spirit is known to the family as Fred. I cannot confirm nor deny any presence in the home, as this may be a clairvoyant image of the possible activity rather than a presence during the investigation.
Conclusion: Long Island Paranormal Investigators was unable to confirm or debunk the presence of paranormal activity in the home. LIPI will remain in contact with the family and will return for further investigation if necessary.


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The 1960 NAIA Soccer Championship was the second annual tournament held by the NAIA to determine the national champion of men's college soccer among its members in the United States.

Elizabethtown and Newark Engineering (now NJIT) played to a 2–2 tie (called due to darkness after four overtime periods) and shared the NAIA national title; it was the first championship for either the Blue Jays or the Highlanders. The final was played at Slippery Rock State College in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania.

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See also
 1960 NCAA Soccer Championship

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Гексафторосиликат калия — неорганическое соединение, комплексное соединение, соль металла калия и кремнефтористоводородной кислоты с формулой K[SiF], бесцветные кристаллы, мало растворимые в воде.

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Hillary Clinton Opens a Jar of Pickles on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' to Prove She's Strong Enough for Presidency
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Hillary Clinton literally lifted the lid on the recent claims that she's in bad health when she appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, August 22, and popped open a jar of pickles.
In a bid to prove she's strong enough for presidency, the Democratic candidate mocked Donald Trump's "wacky" failing health conspiracies about her, before taking on a tough challenge from the late night host.
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Host Jimmy Kimmel opened up the discussion by asking Clinton, 68, about the rumors most recently raised by Rudy Giuliani, a close adviser to the 70-year-old Republican nominee; "Are you in good health?" he asked.
She responded by cheekily getting Kimmel to take her pulse.
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"Make sure I'm alive," she joked before continuing. "I don't know why they are saying this. I think on the one hand it's part of the wacky strategy, just say all these crazy things and maybe you can get people to believe you. On the other hand it just absolutely makes no sense. I don't go around questioning Donald Trump's health. As far as I can tell, he's as healthy as a horse."
Jimmy Kimmel takes Hillary Clinton's pulse during her appearance on his show on Monday August 22 Jimmy Kimmel Live/ABC
He then dared the former secretary of state to open a jar of pickles to show just how strong she is.
Pulling an exaggerated face and pretending to exert great effort she popped it open as the audience and Kimmel laughed.
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"I do feel sometimes that this campaign had entered into an alternative universe," she commented after acing the challenge.
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When studying the temporal structure of a sport, the first factor to analyse is the total volume of workload activity it entails. This information is usually found in sport games by measuring the total time of the activity. This analysis is complete if we relate the activity's total workload volume to the real workload volume by means of real time. That is, the time span during which the player is moving. The relationship between total and real playing time gives rise to a coefficient which relates real and total workload, or work and pause intervals. These elements are temporal parameters which represent the duration of play and the time span existing between two plays. Moreover, they provide us with information about the average effort and recovery from the match. This study is aimed at establishing the differences that exist between male and female badminton players and also teams that play at national or international levels (Spanish and top world players respectively.) After the collection and quantitative analysis of the sample, it was found that values were higher in men's badminton singles. Except for the World Championships, this fact could be explained by the different scoring systems used in men's and women's games. However, in the lower level competitions that were considered in this study, the mean playing time in men's singles was higher than that of the women's singles (the difference being more than one second.) The mean time in men's singles was 7.3 ± 1.3 seconds and in the case of women's singles it was 6± 1.3 seconds. According to data related to the temporal structure of matches, and taking into account the volume and intensity of actions in play, it can be stated that badminton is based on explosive movements and implies an important function of the alactic anaerobic system which surpasses that of lactic anaerobic metabolism. Nevertheless, this predominance depends on the number of plays and their duration. Finally, we can say that the temporal structure of the game is usually higher in men's singles than in women's singles in the case of national competitions while no significant differences are found between the play in the case of the highest level international competitions.
KEY WORDS: Badminton, temporal structure, total time, playing time
Facultad de Ciencias de la EducaciónFacultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del DeporteUniversidad de Granada
L.J. Chirosa, I. J. Chirosa, B. Requena, B. Feriche, P. Padial, Effect of different training methods.for improving the performance in vertical jump force , European Journal of Human Movement: Vol. 8 (2002): June 2002
L. J. Chirosa, I. J. Chirosa, P. Padial, A. Pozo, Effects of the creatine oral supplement in handball players to improve jump , European Journal of Human Movement: Vol. 5 (1999): June 1999
I. J. Chirosa, L. J. Chirosa, P. Padial, Effect of an integrated method on the improvement of impulsive forces in a jump shoot in handball , European Journal of Human Movement: Vol. 6 (2000): June 2000


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As I listen to writers in a memoir workshop I'm leading about writing difficult subjects, I think how we share this in common. We're on a journey of self-exploration … survivors who seek transformation and willingness to embark on the quest. Who am I? Deep diving allows us to become another creature of sorts.
We talk about secrets; how we avoid revealing our deepest secrets out of dread that, "If people knew that about me, they wouldn't like me."
We talk about feminist author Carolyn G. Heilbrun who wrote "what has been forbidden to women is anger" ... our trepidation that writing stories of action and accomplishment will be branded "unwomanly."
We talk about myths. The little girl believed the myths―you fall in love with Prince Charming and live happily-ever-after; you suffer in silence, your reality and pain stored in the hold of the conscious and unconscious mind.
We talk about poetry. And then we write.
"I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes. The words are maps. I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail …." Rich writes. And now: it is easy to forget what I came for among so many who have always lived here swaying their crenellated fans between the reefs and besides you breathe differently down here.
I look up crenellated. Hard, embattled ... like me and many I have known. Building a wall, stone gray battlements as unyielding as the buildings at West Point John wrote about in his memoir.
I am a woman alone, surviving the memory of the night his mother threatened to kill whoever entered his ghostly hospital room and cross her unholy path ... the night he died and I wasn't by his side. A secret I haven't shared until now.
I write about the wreck … the cancer … "I wish I'd never met you …" my life not how I imagined. "The thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck… the thing itself and not the myth," Rich writes.
I come for the woman alone, to support and succor her … hoping to demolish the wreck. Old age beckons its bony finger. As one of our writers puts it, aging alone after the death of a husband comes with a tinge, sharper at times than others … a blade slicing through flesh, leaving the wound of depression.
Some might say I have it easy, indeed, they have even told me this as though owning a lovely home, Lily by my side is more than any woman should want or expect. After all, I'm not swabbing campsite bathrooms as some in their mid-seventies must do ... they have no savings to speak of, and so they appear on the front page of the Washington Post in a story about the "new reality of old age in America."
I do not ascribe a value to the idea that one person's pain is deeper or worse than another's. Pain is pain and it immerses us―sooner or later. And that's where writing comes in. It eases the burden of the wreck … the myths that wreaked havoc … the secrets that led to the many defenses and contradictions. The trepidation we will be branded unwomanly.
Write it as memoir. Write it as fiction. Just write it. I think of my father who wore a mask of composure until the day he died. "We don't air our dirty laundry." His face stares back at me, a mirror image of my own repression. Then I gather with a group of writers and with their words, reflections and insights, I discover the courage and the freedom to write and take my place among them.
I came looking for ways to establish a "writers' life" and left understanding more fully that the key is in sharing our humanity in authentic ways.
I came into the Writing Circle today filled with trepidation. The thought of exposing my vulnerabilities to strangers filled me with dread. I left with a sense of expectation and confidence because I found exposing my vulnerabilities to daring fellow strugglers was so encouraging.
I really enjoyed the workshop. Hearing other women's stories and the courage of them sharing, encourage me to write and share my stories too. I never imagined that I would write stories or share them. The Women's Writing Circle has made it possible for me to open up.
I brought pain and hope for different perspectives and resolution on my grief. What I took away? Pain is a universal truth that we all share and we are all hiding with our secrets and wear masks to cover our true authentic selves … and when we delve into our deepest, darkest parts and unravel and reveal the pain that has held us back forever and ever, it is then that we become free because we realize we are no different from anyone else … we all have secrets that make us human.


Network available from April 18, covering 95% of Vietnam's population.
The military-run mobile carrier Viettel officially launched its 4G network on April 18, announcing that it covers 95 per cent of Vietnam's population with an average download speed of 30-50 Mbps.
According to Mr. Hoang Son, Deputy General Director of Viettel, it is the first network operator in the world to have 4G coverage nationwide.
"UK's Vodafone (the world's second-largest) has offered 4G since 2013 but only covers 88 per cent of the UK's population," he said. "Meanwhile, Viettel's 4G will cover 95 per cent of the population within six months, with 36,000 stations," he said.
The 4G broadcast stations use 4T4R antenna technology to extend coverage 1.4 times, double compared to 2T2R technology. Therefore, Viettel commits to an average download speed in its 4G network of 30-50 Mbps, or 7-10 times higher than the 3G network.
It also committed that its 4G will be 40-60 per cent cheaper than 3G. More importantly, it will offer 4G mobile phones at a price of VND1.3 million ($57).
At the end of last year, Viettel provided free 4G SIM cards to its users ahead of the launch of its 4G network.
Viettel has said its infrastructure is in place for the launch of 4G services, which will allow users to watch HD videos, stream videos, and download and upload quickly. The 4G service will be compatible with all types of mobile phones in the market.
Viettel is not the first operator in Vietnam to provide commercial 4G services. Vietnam National Post and Telecommunications (VNPT) launched the first 4G network last November, but it only covers Phu Quoc Island in the Mekong Delta's Kien Giang province.
Viettel is estimated to have earned VND226.5 trillion ($10.15 billion) in revenue in 2016, equal to 100 per cent of its annual plan, while pre-tax profit was VND43.2 trillion ($1.93 billion), or 101 per cent of its annual plan.
It also contributed VND40.4 trillion ($1.8 billion) to the State budget. Compared with 2015, 2016 revenue increased VND3.8 trillion ($170 million) while profit fell VND2.6 trillion ($116 million). Return on equity was 34.1 per cent, equal to 100.4 per cent of the annual plan.
The military-run company had 7.4 million new subscribers as at the end of 2016, bringing its total to 90 million, including 62.3 million domestic subscribers and 27.7 million overseas subscribers.
The group's nine international markets, in which it has operated for over three years, have earned profits. Peru and Burundi recorded profits after two years of operations, while Cameroon and Tanzania are yet to record profits after one and two years.


The following is an overview of the conference program, subject to minor changes. Detailed session information can be found by clicking on individual program components (English paper sessions, China Forum sessions, PDWs and Caucuses, and Keynote Panels). If you wish to search your role in the entire program, please download the overall schedule excel file and search sessions under your last names. Thank you!
Click here for the detail list of general sessions.
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Click here for overall schedule excel file.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 3B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 3C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 3D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 3E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 3F.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 5B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 5C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 5D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 5E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 5F.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 5G.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 8B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 8C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 8D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 8E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 8F.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 9B.
Voice or Silence, What Matters the Most?
B1/Function Room 6 Session 9C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 9D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 9E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 9F.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 9G.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 10B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 10C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 10D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 10E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 10F.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 13B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 13C.
B1/ Function Room 1 Session 13D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 13E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 13F.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 14B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 14C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 14D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 14E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 14F.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 14G.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 15B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 15C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 15D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 15E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 15F.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 16B.
B1/Function room 6 Session 16C.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 16D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 16E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 16F.
B1/Function Room 1 Session 18B.
B1/Function Room 6 Session 18C.
B1/Function Room 5 Session 18D.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 18E.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 18F.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 18H.
10:30-12:30 (cont. 18A) (cont. 18B) (cont. 18C) (cont. 18D) (cont. 18E) Session 18G.
B1/Function Room 5 (cont. 18B) Session 19B.
B1/Function Room 4 Session 19C.
B1/Function Room 2 Session 19D.
B1/Function Room 7 Session 19E.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 19I.
B1/Function Room 6 (cont. 19B) (cont. 19C) (cont. 19D) Session 19G.
B1/Function Room 3 Session 19H.


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Home » News » PUJs May be Allowed to Operate by End June—LTFRB
PUJs May be Allowed to Operate by End June—LTFRB
by Rhea
The king of the road will soon be plying the streets of the country again, as the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) eyes allowing the return of public utility jeepneys by the end of June.
LTFRB Chairman Martin Delgra said that they are looking at this possibility as they have already identified at least 100 to 104 rationalized jeepney routes that will be opened upon lifting of community quarantine measures.
On June 1, the entire Metro Manila, along with several cities and provinces in the country, shifted from enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) to a more relaxed general community quarantine (GCQ).
Under the GCQ, businesses are allowed to operate, and more workers resumed reporting in their workplaces. To enable the mobility of the workers, public transportations in the form of permitted trains and buses, taxis, transport network vehicle service (TNVS), point-to-point buses, shuttle services, and bicycles were allowed to operate.
However, PUJs were only allowed in areas where a modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) is prevailing.
PUJ operations in Metro Manila remain suspended amidst cry for public transportations.
A transport group said that around 90 percent of jeepney drivers and operators were left 'starving and dying' because of loss of income.
The Federation of Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association of the Philippines (FEJODAP) called for the lifting of the government ban on PUJs. It said that they are willing to fully comply with the public health protocols to fight off the spread of coronavirus (COVID) disease such as physical distancing, wearing of facemasks, and putting barriers between passengers.
Enhanced community quarantine
Earlier on, all modes of public transportations were suspended as the entire Luzon, including the National Capital Region, was placed under a strict lockdown measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Businesses were ordered to stop operations, and work was suspended for more than two months, as the public was advised to stay at home.
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I was trying to renew my SSL by letsencrypt renew with Certbot v0.28.0. However, the SSL crashed after the renewal.
I even tried revoke and delete my current certificate, and re-fetch it again, and the message look like it succeed, but I still can not use HTTPS for some reason.
I also checked my Nginx configuration, but didn't find anything incorrect.
It produced this output: See description above.
If you haven't already, try re-opening your browser tab that contains the website. Some browsers have a bad habit of keeping around stale SSL errors.
I can connect to http://dev.dagoutime.com/ and https://dev.dagoutime.com/ using IPv4.
IPv6 results in "Connection refused" because the server blocks don't have "listen [::]:80;" or "listen [::]:443 ssl;".
That needs to be fixed, but most clients will work anyway (possibly slowly).
the SSL crashed after the renewal.
I've never seen that used anywhere.
"ssl on;" is deprecated and can be removed – the modern way to do it is with the ssl parameter on the listen directive, which the configuration here is also using – but it's not doing any harm.
Or did you stop nginx at some point?
Yes, I did, I also cleared all my caches.
Thank you for all your replies. Yes, I did all I could, like clear the browser caches, try different browsers, run ipconfig /flushdns, restart nginx or even reboot the server, but all couldn't help.
I found a tricky thing just now. I connected to my VPN by a chance, and visited the domain, it worked!!! That is magic!!! But with my own network, it never works. So, my curious is, will my problem be something with my network provider?
I transfered my website to a fresh new server and setup the certificate with Certbot this afternoon, but with no luck. Transferred it back now.
Is there any further step I could take?
So, my curious is, will my problem be something with my network provider?
Probably, since it works for everyone else.


Bronwyn Rogers has made a plea to Whanganui district councillors to help crackdown on mobile traders.
A legal advocate has labelled mobile traders "thieves in the night" harming vulnerable Whanganui people and local businesses.
Bronwyn Rogers from Community Legal Advice Whanganui (CLAW) has urged Whanganui District Council to support any crackdown on the industry.
At council's public forum, Rogers said CLAW were aware of at least eight truck shops or door-to-door sales outfits operating in Whanganui and she and community budget advisers were dealing with the fallout.
Mobile traders often sell households items such as electronics, whiteware and furniture on credit.
"The one thing in common amongst all of them is that they're selling poor quality goods at heavily inflated prices," she said.
"I've had clients tell me that they've pushed their way in the door, they're ignoring 'do not knock stickers' ... they feel like they're under duress to sign contracts which they know they can't afford."
Rogers said the customers that did pay were often revisited within a short space of time which caused an "endless debt cycle".
"Vulnerable people are being hammered on a daily basis in ways most of us wouldn't be able to tolerate."
Rogers has been with CLAW for 15 years and said 35 per cent of the work with its 5000-6000 annual clients was around finance and consumer matters.
"So I've seen this landscape change and grow and I see the number of contracts that come in and they are extremely onerous, set up to fail ..."
Rogers made a "conservative" estimate that $1.65 million was being spent with mobile traders in Whanganui.
"There's economic harm to the vulnerable ... but there's also economic discrimination to existing businesses who have committed to Whanganui," she said.
"They're putting back, they're paying their rates, they're contributing to the economic growth of Whanganui.
"(But) these sales teams that come in, they're like thieves in the night. They come in, they get signatures on contracts and they leave.
"They're not from Whanganui, they're faceless."
The Government is looking at changes to the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act and a Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment discussion paper was released earlier this year.
"This community needs help and what I'm asking you is; what can you as a council do to support the current consumer reforms ... and address the harm and support local businesses?
"The time is right. All the stars are aligned. Central government is open, we've got a Minister of Consumer Affairs who is very concerned about vulnerable people and he's doing massive consultation around consumer and credit."
Councillors voted to refer the issue to council's strategy and finance committee.


The group elected Joseph A. Engelhard, editor of the Wilmington Journal and chief instigator of the new organization, as its first president. One of the NCPA's early initiatives was to impose regulations on advertising, as the claims of some Victorian-era patent medicine companies had become a point of contention among newspaper professionals.
Throughout its history, NCPA has strived to protect the public's right to know by pushing for open government and by defending First Amendment freedoms. The association has also promoted the business interests of Tar Heel newspapers, recognized achievement in the industry through awards and scholarships and effectively supported public improvement projects such as better roads and schools.
For decades up decades, NCPA's members have convened annually to discuss important issues facing the press, including privacy, access to government meetings, court photography, political advertising and libel laws.
Today, the organization's members include daily and community newspapers, as well as special-interest and online news publications, and companies that provide equipment, supplies, growth opportunities and materials to the newspaper industry.


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James & Bobby Purify were an R&B singing duo, whose biggest hit was "I'm Your Puppet" in 1966, which reached number 6 in the U.S. and number 12 in the UK.
James Purify was born on May 12, 1944, in Pensacola, Florida. "Bobby Purify" was actually two different singers. The first was James's cousin, Robert Lee Dickey (born September 2, 1939, in Tallahassee, Florida), who adopted the Purify name for performing, and sang on their early records. The second Bobby was vocalist Ben Moore, who replaced Dickey when he suffered health problems. ("I'm Your Puppet" was written and produced by Dan Penn, who introduced Purify to Moore.
The duo continued into the 1980s, with no other big hits, but remained popular on the tour circuit. When James Purify faced legal problems (not career-related), Moore went solo, though still using the name "Bobby Purify" occasionally. In 1983, he was nominated for a Grammy Award, for a gospel recording.
BLAME ME 1967
DO UNTO ME 1967
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY 1967
GOODNESS GRACIOUS 1967
HELLO THERE 1967
HELP YOURSELF TO ALL OF MY LOVIN' 1967
HITCH HIKE 1967
I CAN'T REMEMBER 1967
I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO WAIT 1967
I TAKE WHAT I WANT 1967
I WAS BORN TO LOSE 1967
I'M YOUR PUPPET 1967
I'VE GOT EVERYTHING 1967
KEEP PUSHIN' ME 1967
KNOCK ON WOOD 1967
LAST PIECE OF LOVE 1967
LET LOVE COME BETWEEN US 1967
SHAKE A TAIL FEATHER 1967
SIXTEEN TONS 1967
SO MANY REASONS 1967
SOMETHING WRONG 1967
SOOTHE ME 1967
UNTIE ME 1967
WE'RE FINALLY GONNA MAKE IT 1967
WISH YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO GO 1967
YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING 1967


Last year's top Hearing Economics post listed some US patents granted in the hearing industry. The list may have stimulated readership, so another cherry-picked list of recent patents will show up in next week's post and will be updated every few months. In the meantime, today's post looks at the exciting afterlife of patents in biotechnology.
Not everyone got Christmas gifts in December. Two of the Big 6 global hearing aid manufacturers got lumps of coal in their stockings. They were punished for patent infringement, which serves as a reminder that the patent process is "overwhelmingly" expensive, not only on the front-end, but also in the proverbial back-end where there's always a competitor ready to bite even the most vigilant, litigious, and gigantic.
Biotechnology patent infringement lawsuits are "horrifically expensive," but they are common because the stakes are so high. The patent winner can gain monopoly-like rights in the market place, attract investors, and leverage its negotiating position by using its patents as bargaining chips.
If you're provincial, like me, you may wonder who/what ETG is. It's a family-owned Chinese shipping company that's been in business since the 1890s. It diversified into electronics, software and biotechnology (among other things) in the 1980s. They're not publicly traded, so no telling how big they are, but I'm guessing they are absolutely huge.
ETG won a lawsuit against Sonic Innovations in 2011 for patent infringement. Part of that judgment was subsequently reversed, but the part having to do with '850 patent was upheld. That seems to be the back story on the current judgment, though I do not know how Widex fits into the picture. (Readers will doubtless recall that I am an audiologist and budding economist, NOT a patent attorney).
Them's fightin' words out West and in the US Court of Appeals. The jury didn't go for Dowling's howling, instead noting that the defendants' "… accused product performs substantially the same function in substantially the same way with substantially the same result" as claimed in the original patent.
Red faced liar or not, last man standing is the one who holds the most and oldest patents.
Tune in next week for a list of recent, interesting biotechnology patents for hearing and hearing devices. As you'd expect, it's Game Up among all the players, big and little.


A Flutter package for using Jalali (Shamsi, Solar or Persian) date. You can convert Jalali and Georgian dates to each other.
Calendar conversion is based on the algorithm provided by Kazimierz M. Borkowski and has a very good performance.
Added date formatter for custom printing of date objects.
Please make an issue on Github so I can see your request.
You can convert Jalali date to Gregorian by using toGregorian() method and convert Gregorian to Jalali date by using toJalali() method.
You can check Jalali date validity by isValid() method. And find month length by monthLength getter. And check if the year is a leap year by isLeapYear() method.
And convert Jalali and Gregorian to DateTime by using toDateTime() method. And you can get Jalali and Gregorian dates for now by using now() factory.
You can get week day number of Jalali and Gregorian by using weekDay getter. Week days range from 1 to 7. Jalali week starts with shanbe and Gregorian week starts with monday.
And use it like before.
You can get Date formatter by using formatter getter on Jalali and Gregorian date objects. Simply cash this formatter in a final value and then use string interpolation (as we have shown in examples) for making your desired output. This way of formatting is more powerful (and arguably easier) than using templates.
Jalali and Gregorian classes are Comparable so you can compare them using compareTo method. You can also use comparison operators to compare them. They also support equals and hashCode functions.