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Trust management (TM) is a promising approach for authorization and access control in distributed systems, based on signed distributed policy statements expressed in a policy language. Although several TM languages are semantically equivalent to subsets of Datalog, Datalog is not su#ciently expressive for fine-grained control of structured resources. We define the class of linearly decomposable unary constraint domains, prove that Datalog extended with constraints in any combination of such constraint domains is tractable, and show that permissions associated with structured resources fall into this class. We also present a concrete declarative TM language, RT 1 , based on constraint Datalog, and use constraint Datalog to analyze another TM system, KeyNote, which turns out to be less expressive than RT 1 in significant respects, yet less tractable in the worst case. Although constraint Datalog has been studied in the context of constraint databases, TM applications involve di#erent kinds of constraint domains and have different computational complexity requirements.
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Today there are time for changes on the farm. A beautiful, sunny day, with temperatures in the 50's, it is the perfect time to implement a few changes we have discussed, but not had time to do, for months.
The pen for the laying hens is one of the oldest, and hence the most difficult to move, of all of the pens on the property. Our solution has been to move the girls every few days, along with a feathernet fence, a system that is said to be easy to move but in fact is not at all. It is really a hassle, requires more than one person, is bulky and difficult to get tight against the ground unless your land is level and has no grass. Not a description of our property.
So the girls are split up today. The oldest ones into one pen, the Arucana's into another, and the youngest, just laying and about to be laying girls into another. The pecking order must be reestablished, and the girls go a little wonky when this happens..they run and poke at each other, egg production goes down a bit, and for a few days it feels chaotic. Then things settle back down, but today it is a little heightened around here..


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The Highs and Lows of Diego Maradona's Career
Ryan Bailey@ryanjaybaileyTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistOctober 30, 2015
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Exactly one week after we wished Pele a happy 75th birthday, it's time to celebrate a milestone of his biggest frenemy: Diego Maradona.
The Argentinian legend turned 55 on Oct. 30, giving us the opportunity to celebrate a career that has had more ups, downs, thrills, spills and crescendos than a particularly erratic roller coaster.
In lieu of a cake for El Diego's special day, we've recounted the highs and lows of his career, which features trophies, glory, fights, drugs, guns, the mafia and much more.
High: Club and International Debuts (1976 and 1977)
After coming through the youth ranks at Argentinos Juniors, Maradona made his professional debut for the club on October 20, 1976, a full 10 days before his 16th birthday. He wore the No. 16 shirt and a rather large haircut.
Just four months later, he made his full debut for the Argentina national team in a game against Hungary.
He was left out of the 1978 World Cup squad that won the tournament on home soil but participated in the 1979 World Youth Championship and was a star of the side that won the tournament.
That same summer, he bagged his first international goal for the Albiceleste in a 3-1 win over Scotland at Hampden Park.
High: The World Cup Spotlight (1982)
After a Metropolitano-winning campaign with Boca Juniors in 1981, Maradona was a key player in Argentina's World Cup title defence in 1982. He played in all five of the Albieleste's matches but was shown a red card for violent conduct in a loss to fierce rivals Brazil in the second round.
Shortly after the tournament, his status and reputation as one of the best players in the world was enhanced by a world-record transfer to Barcelona.
He dazzled only fleetingly in his two seasons with Barca, but he joined a very short list of players to be applauded off the field by rival fans in a Clasico.
Low: The End of His Barcelona Career (1984)
Maradona's Barcelona career concluded when he was at the centre of a massive brawl following the 1984 Copa del Rey final against Athletic Club.
Just look at how visciously he is fighting in the video above and try to imagine a modern player getting away with it!
It was deemed that the Argentinian was exacting revenge on Andoni "The Butcher of Bilbao" Goikoetxea for a nasty challenge earlier in the season. Maradona had to apologise for the incident to the King of Spain, who was in attendance at the Bernabeu that day.
High: His Move to Italy (1984)
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In the summer of 1984, 75,000 Napoli fans filled the Stadio San Paolo to witness the presentation of their new saviour, who was brought in for another world-record fee.
Maradona arguably reached the peak of his career with the Partenopei, leading them to their first Scudetto in 1987 and another in 1990.
In August 2000, Napoli retired his No. 10 jersey. On his returns to the city—which have been sporadic because of tax issues that will be outlined later—he is still mobbed at the airport.
Low: Trouble in Naples (1984-1991)
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Maradona's time in Italy was by no means trouble-free.
His addiction to cocaine blossomed while at Napoli, and the BBC is among those to have noted he became "inextricably linked" to the Camorra crime syndicate.
He also received large fines for missing training and became the subject of a paternity law suit.
High/Low: The 1986 World Cup
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The 1986 World Cup was undoubtedly the high point of Maradona's international career, as he captained the Albiceleste to World Cup victory with a win over West Germany in the final.
The dichotomy of his genius and dishonour was most overt in the politically charged quarter-final against England at around 8,000 feet above sea level in Mexico's Estadio Azteca.
Maradona broke the deadlock in extremely controversial circumstances in the 51st minute with his infamous Hand of God goal.
Referee Ali Bin Nasser saw nothing wrong with the 5'5" Argentinean beating 6'0" goalkeeper Peter Shilton in the air, so one of football's greatest examples of gamesmanship was rewarded with a goal.
Four minutes later, El Diego rubbed salt in the wound by scoring one of the most incredible goals ever seen. Around 10 metres inside his own half, Maradona sprinted past four English players before dribbling around Shilton to score.
It was a breathtaking performance that ensured he would be loved and hated in equal measure for decades to come.
Low: His 1st Drug-Test Failure (1991)
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The 1990s—when Maradona entered his 30s—appeared to signify the downturn in his fortunes.
Soon after a very disappointing outing at the 1990 World Cup, Maradona was banned from the game for 15 months after his penchant for cocaine led to a failed drugs test.
He left Italy in disgrace and resurfaced at Sevilla, where he stayed for a season.
Sadly, he was never the same player again.
Low: Tax Evasion (1984 to 1991)
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Recollections of Maradona's time in Italy have since also been blighted by allegations about unpaid taxes.
In 2013, Italian authorities claimed his unpaid bill stood at €39 million, having seized Rolex watches and earrings from him during subsequent visits to the country.
Low: His 2nd Drug-Test Failure (1994)
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Keen to make a better impression on the world stage than at Italia 90, Maradona lined up for Argentina at USA '94.
However, he lasted only two games before he was banned from the tournament for substance abuse. Officially, it was the ephedrine in his system that ruled him out, although he tried to blame the drug-test failure on a sports drink he was given.
He was banned for another 15 months and the curtain came down on his international career—as a player, at least.
High: Inspiring His Own Religion (1998)
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Such was the mania surrounding Maradona in his home country that he inspired his own religion.
In October 30, 1998, the date of his 38th birthday, the Iglesia Maradoniana (Church of Maradona) was founded.
Ten years later, the Guardian claimed the church had 120,000 practising members.
Low: The Incident with the Air Rifle (1994)
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In 1998, a year after he had played his final club game with Boca Juniors, Maradona was given a suspended prison sentence of two years and 10 months. The reason? He was filmed firing at reporters with an air rifle outside his Buenos Aires home in 1994.
He probably should have left the shooting behind on the field.
A 37-year-old Maradona played no part in the 1998 World Cup, his first complete absence from the tournament since 1978.
High: His Player of the Century Award (2000)
It's hard to believe a poll carried out by FIFA could result in controversy, but that is exactly what occurred when Maradona was voted Player of the Century by an online vote in 2000.
However, FIFA also scrambled together an equivalent trophy for Pele, effectively giving the two players equal honours.
Diego wasn't too happy about this situation, claiming that Pele's award "isn't worth s--t."
High: Getting the Argentina Managerial Gig (2008)
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Despite his obvious folly and perceived disdain for authority, Maradona took over the Argentina national team in 2008.
The Albiceleste narrowly qualified for the 2010 World Cup, at which point Diego told doubting journalists to "suck it," per Goal.
At the tournament in South Africa—during which he cut an animated figure on the sidelines, wearing sharp suits and a luxury watch on each wrist—his side tumbled out of the quarter-finals following a schooling from Germany.
His contract was not renewed.
Happy birthday, Diego!
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Q: Fade divs in on click I'm creating in the process of creating a mobile nav bar and currently have it set up so that when the menu is clicked, it appears above it - this all works. But I'd like to add a nice little feature to it so that once clicked, I would like each li to fade (or slide in). No errors in the console, but the fade in isn't working. Thanks in advance.

var menu = document.getElementById("mobile-menu-link");
var mobileNav = document.getElementById("mobile-nav");
var mobileNavContent = document.getElementById("mobile-nav-content");

$(document).ready(function() {
  menu.addEventListener("click", function() {
    if (mobileNav.style.height == "0px") {
      mobileNav.style.paddingTop = "15px";
      mobileNav.style.height = "130px";
      $("#mobile-nav li").each(function(i) {
        $(this).delay(100 * i).fadeIn(500);
      });
    } else {
      mobileNav.style.height = "0px";
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A: It doesn't work because fadeIn means that it shows a hidden element. Your li are not hidden. They just don't show up because of the overflow-hidden and height of the menu. fadeIn will overwrite the display:none property with display:list-item and animates the opacity from 0 to 100 in the specified interval.
So you need to hide them first ( you can use display:none in css ) and after you show them, hide them again ( you can in jQuery ) when you hide the menu,

var menu = document.getElementById("mobile-menu-link");
var mobileNav = document.getElementById("mobile-nav");
var mobileNavContent = document.getElementById("mobile-nav-content");

$(document).ready(function() {

  menu.addEventListener("click", function() {
    if (mobileNav.style.height == "0px") {
      mobileNav.style.paddingTop = "15px";
      mobileNav.style.height = "130px";
      $("#mobile-nav li").each(function(i) {
        $(this).delay(100 * i).fadeIn(500);
      });
    } else {
      mobileNav.style.height = "0px";
       $("#mobile-nav li").hide();

    }
  });
});
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body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  font-size: 21px;
  min-width: 400px;
}

div {
  display: block;
}

ul {
  list-style: none;
  list-style-image: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}

a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: inherit;
}

#desktop-navbar {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  width: 100%;
  height: 90px;
  height: 13vh;
  position: fixed;
  z-index: 1;
}

#desktop-nav-wrapper {
  height: inherit;
  padding: 0 45px;
}

#desktop-nav-wrapper nav ul {
  float: right;
  padding-top: 35px;
  font-size: 66%;
}

#desktop-nav-wrapper nav li {
  position: relative;
  display: inline-block;
  padding-left: 25px;
  color: #000000;
  font-family: Questrial;
  font-weight: 700;
}

#mobile-nav {
  overflow: hidden;
  text-align: right;
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  display: block;
  width: 100%;
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}

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Observation – Pick a piece of interactive technology in public, used by multiple people. Write down your assumptions as to how it's used, and describe the context in which it's being used. Watch people use it, preferably without them knowing they're being observed. Take notes on how they use it, what they do differently, what appear to be the difficulties, what appear to be the easiest parts. Record what takes the longest, what takes the least amount of time, and how long the whole transaction takes. Consider how the readings from Norman and Crawford reflect on what you see.
I observed two elevators that settled in Tisch building, and they are also the daily commute technology for getting students to different floors.
My assumptions: 1. it will be used by people who want to go up or down stairs, and the floor they want to go might higher than 2 floor. Another context might be either the elevator won't take too long to wait or the people who want to use it are not in a hurry.
Difficulties: 1. might be push buttons are not that easy to touch, some people will look twice or more time to push it and look if the light are up or not.
2. see the door to recognize whether it is arrived or not.
3. when they at the first floor, they will just see the numbers on the top of the elevator to decide whether use it or not (the waiting time).
I would say the time consuming will be the part that when people are waiting in front of the elevators, and it is also the longest part of the transaction.
I tested out the photosensor with Arduino, this experience really confused me at the very beginning.
After reconnecting the circuit, it's still won't work. So I just tried to read the analog of the photosensor.
There are two ways that I can make it work: 1. change the resistor which connected to the photosensor 2. change the point that I set in the Arduino application.


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Each year, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' Youth Advocates of the Year Awards Gala honors the accomplishments of outstanding young leaders and tobacco control champions making a difference in the United States and around the world.
Join us on May 23, 2019, for an evening of fun and celebration as we reflect on 2018 – the challenges, the triumphs and the inspirational stories of those pushing our movement forward – and look ahead to continued progress in the fight to protect kids and save lives.
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Malia M. Cohen is a strong advocate for social justice and inclusion. She is known to champion policies and programs that benefit all Californians, including initiatives to protect public health. As a Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, she was the driving force behind the City's first-in-the-nation law prohibiting the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, flavored cigars and flavored e-cigarettes.
In 2017, she introduced the ordinance to ban flavored tobacco products, built a strong coalition to support it and steered the measure to unanimous passage by the Board of Supervisors. When the Reynolds American tobacco company mounted a nearly $12 million ballot campaign to overturn the ordinance, then-Supervisor Cohen led the effort to uphold it, resulting in a resounding 69 percent victory in June 2018.
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Atal Behari Vajpayee once said he was a poet by instinct and a politician by accident. It was his natural instinct for words that, of course, made him the great orator he was—but, in many ways, it also formed the politician. His political method was more flexible because his ideas moved in the fluid space of language, not in the rigid diktats of party lines. India's right wing owes a large part of its acceptability, and its mainstreaming, to him—a fact it could pause to mull over in this day when a conciliatory tone is seen as a sign of weakness.
It was because Vajpayee worked a fuzzier politics than his peers—especially his long-time fellow traveller L.K. Advani—that he rose above the rest to emerge as the biggest consensus-builder of his era. His National Democratic Alliance (NDA) can be called the first fully functional experiment in unity in ideological diversity. Although the various Janata avatars, including the United Front of the 1990s, can be credited with inaugurating coalition politics, it was Vajpayee's style of persuasion, rather than coercion, that made the difference.
No one expected the fractious coalition of 1999 to last, not even those within the BJP, especially after the earlier 13-day and 13-month-long failed stints. However, it did last the whole term. Credit it not just to his charisma and easy charm, but his personal rapport with smaller parties. Vajpayee's success lay precisely in the fact that he never made the smaller parties feel small.
At the same time, his non-coercive style helped cool occasional flashes of anger and soften the intransigence of unpredictable allies like Mamata Banerjee, the late J. Jayalalitha and M. Karunanidhi—all of that with dignity, grace and humour. He landed at DMK leader Murasoli Maran's funeral in 2003, surprising everyone, when the BJP's relationship with that party was particularly tense. This is how Vajpayee was. His ego was never an obstacle—never unable, always enabling.
He handled the toughest of crises with self-deprecatory humour. His speeches in Parliament are some of the most memorable ever, appreciated across party lines. He had a way with even combative words that made him get away by saying things that would have sounded hurtful coming from a lesser leader. As a young MP, he mischievously told Nehru that his personality had both Churchill and Chamberlain in it. Nehru took it in his stride. In fact, he presciently introduced Vajpayee to a foreign dignitary as a "future prime minister". Indian politics possessed a quality then of which Vajpayee was as much an exemplar as Nehru was.
His approach to contentious issues was that they be referred to the collective wisdom of people. He managed to disarm even the Kashmiri separatist leadership, as he voiced his desire for a solution under "Kashmiriyat, Insaniyat and Jamhuriyat". After four years in power, and blowing hot and cold over Kashmir, even Prime Minister Narendra Modi was forced to acknowledge in his I-Day address that those three words enunciated by Vajpayee expressed the best solution.
Till date, Kashmir's politicians say they saw the best chance for peace in Vajpayee's days. They trusted his inclusivity, where that very tendency in others was often seen suspiciously. Many in the strategic circles also believe India had the best chance of reaching some kind of a peace agreement with Pakistan under Vajpayee. The countries did come close to it when Vajpayee invited Pervez Musharraf for a summit in Agra in July 2001. He would have liked to define his years in power with a grand gesture of peacemaking. However, on the verge of making history, Vajpayee preferred to show a streak of firmness and go with Advani's hard bargaining—though doubt lingers over who was harder or softer. Vajpayee's foreign policy had that dual quality. He could go ahead with nuclear tests, and then move swiftly to mend ties with a red-faced US, prompting a visit by Bill Clinton in 2000.
Within the BJP, he was considered the moderate face—the "mukhota"—of a party closer in line to his polar opposite, hardliner Advani. This, though, had elements of a simulated conflict that both played in full awareness of the benefits in displaying this polarity in public. As PM, Vajpayee appointed Advani as his deputy PM and home minister, with almost complete charge of the domestic agenda. Advani has said the two shared a friendship that does not exist in politics anymore.
These signs of a self-secure leader showed even in the functional leeway he gave to his cabinet colleagues. Vajpayee favoured approval of FDI in print media. However, he gave time for debate to prepare the climate for the decision. He left the details to Sushma Swaraj and took the final decision at the right time. Fine talent filled his cabinet, and he never tried to loom over them.
He always conceded that the Ayodhya temple was a universal demand, but never made a real push for it, seeking a solution with the goodwill of all concerned. The human face of Hindu nationalism was, therefore, never a favourite of the RSS. He was not "Hindu enough" for the Sangh, who didn't quite approve of his lifestyle too. But in retrospect, it would only be a cussed RSS strategist who would deny the role Vajpayee played in their coming centrestage—or in the wider affairs of the nation.


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Serial 9Z/B – The Cannabis
An Alternative Program Guide by Ewen Campion-Clarke
Entry in the EC Unauthorized Guide O' Mechanical Munchies!
Serial 9Z/B – The Cannabis -
The TARDIS materializes on a soggy stretch of beach on the planet Epsilon, famous for being a one-biome planetoid – some planets are nothing but desert, some are nothing but jungle, still more are endless gravel quarries... but Epsilon is unique in the universe for being nothing but uninteresting shoreline. How this can be baffles me, maybe it's subdivided by lakes or something. I dunno.
The air of this world smells like old car batteries and the Doctor and Lucie decide the best thing to do, all things considered, is pull up a deck-chair and get high off the hydrogen sulfide fumes. Smelly Ed, being sentient gas himself, considers this a highly distasteful act of cannibalism by his companions and storms off over the hill.
"See you in two episodes' time," Lucie calls.
Parte the First
Smelly Ed is wandering over the hills looking for something to do when he is suddenly attacked by a gang of androids with Sarf Landan accents. Like any Gelth in a gorilla outfit, Smelly Ed responds by snatching up a pump-action shotgun and blowing the motherfuckers away.
After being chased around for a bit, the androids capture Smelly Ed, beat the living snot out of him and then drag him below ground to a secret underground complex of tunnels, caverns and the occasional Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Smelly Ed is tied to a chair with copious amounts of sticky tape as the creator of the androids arrives – a gormless geriatric in a wheelchair called Sir Alistair Miles. This 21st century mad scientist is the sort of loser that couldn't even get a bit part in The Avengers; indeed, he was so out of touch that he assumed that cyber-crime was just armed robbery only with robots. Thus, he created a fully-functioning android killing machine...
...AND USED IT TO ROB THE LOCAL POST OFFICE!
It is monumental stupidity like that which has lead to Sir Alistair Miles being paralyzed from the neck down and reliant on one of Lavros' old cyberthrones to get around the place. Indeed, given his terrifying cybernetic genius and even more terrifying stupidity, the Time Lords of Rassilon did dump Sir Alistair Miles on Epsilon at the Vulgar End of Time where he could do no harm to anyone but himself.
After six years alone, Sir Alistair Miles has gone slightly peculiar. Despite constantly inviting people to his underground lair for some fine wine and cheesy nibbles party, he keeps slaughtering them all when they disagree with his claims of being "the smartest living being in the cosmos" and NOT being a third-rate Bond villain with an army of androids he regularly has sex with.
In fact, the only reason a passing Dravidian warship hasn't nuked the tiny planet of Epsilon from orbit is... actually, we never DO find out how the hell Sir Alistair Miles has escaped death so far now you come to mention it. I just guess no one thought him memorable enough to be atomized before now.
Smelly Ed takes an instant dislike to Sir Alistair Miles, but when the crippled megalomaniac demands people call him "Sir Algol", that just causes something to snap and the Gelth vows to blow the mad scientist's head off at the earliest opportunity.
For his part, Sir Alistair Miles cannot wrap his amazing brain around the idea that people might find a homicidal android-building moron less-than-ideal company and begins ranting in a Hitler-like fashion about everyone else is a freaking luddite who would doom the entire universe to ignorance and superstition.
Smelly Ed replies in the ancient verbal combat of "I know you are, but what am I?" and, unable to think up any kind of witty rejoinder, Sir Alistair Miles has one of his cyborg-android-flunkies take Smelly Ed to a cell, brutally beat him up over and over again, and finally give him "a good old Southern-style poking".
At that point there is a familiar wheezing groaning sound and an art deco wardrobe materializes, and emerging from it is none other than THE RANI HERSELF! Yes, with the Temporal Difference of Opinion tearing apart time, space, life and reality, the Rani has decided she needs some generic android servants to keep her numerous slave planets neat and tidy so the Dustbins don't use their lethal Shake'n'Vac to sterilize whole solar systems.
Sir Alistair Miles knew the Rani long ago when she was known as Jo Grant and he wasn't. He's devastated to discover her new Time Lady status means she has absolutely no interest in sleeping with his fragile and puny body, and when she DOES agree to sit on his knee she breaks his leg in five places.
Grimly, Sir Alistair Miles decides to stop trying to put the moves on the Rani before he loses any more pints of blood and offers to sell the Time Lady his androids in return for a pension plan, immunity from prosecution, and also maybe some kind of Time Lord maguffin that will restore his youth and vigor or somesuch bullshit like that.
Sir Alistair Miles bigs up his army of androids who aren't so much "indestructible" but more sort of "explode at the slightest provocation", and can only be controlled by shouting commands through a handy loudspeaker. In fact, in the fight with Smelly Ed alone, half his force of droids were torn apart and he's now down to half-a-dozen. However, Sir Alistair Miles is insanely overconfident and has incredibly high hopes for his new creation, an indestructible tin man who looks a bit like Gort from "The Day The Earth Stood Still".
This ultimate robot is called "Gabor" after a certain Hungarian beauty queen and screen actress from the early 20th century. Who got married nine times. Who appeared in The Naked Gun, The Beverly Hillbillies and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Who is called Zsa-Zsa Gabor. It's a kind of in-joke. Sort of. Funny. Yeah.
To demonstrate how badass Gabor is, Sir Alistair Miles has it Greco-Roman-wrestle one of his normal androids, which immediately explodes. The Rani points out he'd probably have more androids if he didn't keep deliberately destroying them.
"Oh yeah?" Sir Alistair Miles croaks. "If I'm so stupid, if I'm so senile, answer me this then: how come I wired up a hidden neutron bomb inside Gabor that will explode and destroy the entire planet if I die?"
The Rani admits she has absolutely no idea why he did this.
"Oh, that's a pity, I'd hoped YOU could tell me..."
Leaving Sir Alistair Miles to puzzle over his own suicidal insanity, the Rani pops down to the cell to discuss with Smelly Ed his imminent demise and just why oh why a cloud of sentient pink gas in a gorilla-gram outfit is fighting androids on a planet composed entirely of wet English shoreline?
It then strikes the Rani that she doesn't really care and so she strides off to leave Smelly Ed to get gutted like a pig by the android guard with a sharp knife...
Parte the Second
The outlook is bleak for Smelly Ed – beaten half to death in an inescapable cell in the heart of an underground complex teaming with walking death machines and an android about to fillet him like a Taiwanese fishmonger on acid...
How can our olfactory companion got out of THIS one?!
Well... basically he just grabs the android's head, rips it off its shoulders, tugs out its innards, constructs a crude electromagnetic picklock that breaks out of the cell and then wanders off since all the other androids are on a tea-break or something.
Bit of a letdown, all things considered.
In Sir Alistair Miles' bachelor pad, the clever cripple and the wretched Rani watch this on the super-futuristic widescreen plasma TV screen. The sudden reversal in fortunes and the fact that Smelly Ed is now wandering the underground base with a very large knife after blood can only mean one thing:
Sir Alistair Miles is completely and utterly screwed!
Like any mad scientist with a persecution complex, Sir Alistair Miles automatically fills his colostomy bag and announces it is time to send his last remaining cyborg android thingies to hunt down Smelly Ed! True, the wheelchair-bound genius loves his robots a lot, but he loves not being gutted with a knife even more.
Smelly Ed effortlessly destroys the two of them with a random wooden plank that happened to by lying around the place.
Clearly, the time has come for even MORE extreme measures than before and so Sir Alistair Miles decides he must ACTIVATE GABOR! Well, activate him a bit more than he is already, since Gabor spends all his free time standing on rocky promontories staring out to see and brooding that he is unable to get stoned.
Alas, the Doctor and Lucie have stumbled across this unstoppable death machine and have been patting him on the back and making sympathetic noises about the poor sod lacking a chip that allows him to get high.
This humiliating sight is the last straw and the Rani decides she's had enough of this drivel. Ducking into her art deco wardrobe TARDIS, she returns to the front lines of the Temporal Difference of Opinion where things aren't quite so silly.
Left alone to face the music, Sir Alistair Miles decides his number one priority is... to have a nice long soak in his en suite Olympic swimming pool, nibble on a cucumber sandwich, drink some lemonade, do some Sudoku and then have a quick nap.
This seems to be complete and suicidal insanity until Smelly Ed enters the control room and discovers that Sir Alistair Miles has Uzi sub machine guns fitted to his wheelchair, and he opens fire on our pungent hero the moment he steps through the door!
Alas, Sir Alistair Miles is a monumentally awful shot and only manages to succeed in blowing his widescreen TV before his wheelchair-machine-bazookoids jam completely.
After a rather long and awkward pause, Smelly Ed decides to cut the crap and decides to cold-bloodedly-drown a helpless cripple and then decides that, on the logic that if the CREATOR of the unstoppable death machine can drown, so can his evil creation!
Using the handy quadraphonic sound system, Smelly Ed orders Gabor to jump on a cliff into the water and die. Amazingly enough, this easily-confused, non-water-proof android decides to do just that rather than pose on rocky promontories for the rest of eternity.
The Doctor and Lucie watch Gabor sink like a stone as Smelly Ed cackles insanely over the communications net about how he went totally Bruce Lee on a defenseless old man. Who couldn't walk.
"Doctor?"
"Yeah Lucie?"
"I think it might be best for us to NEVER piss Smelly Ed off ever."
"Good call, Lucie."
Next Time...
"Out of all my achievements in this incarnation, I think destroying the Church of Scientology is the most impressive!"
"Our strangely-adorable Geiger Counter is too cute to lie!"
"They're silly rubber spiders. Without wishing to boast I think we can outwit them."
"Fish in a barrel-time, Mr. Travolta!"
"Our cute novelty Geiger Counter is always trustworthy!"
"These are SO going straight onto eBay!"
"Don't be a fool! Our feedback would plummet!"
"Burn this sucker!"
"Cute Geiger Counter, how I love your little face... how you glow red in the presence of veta particles... oh, they shall write slash-fics about our love..."
"BOOYA! How do you like the story arc NOW, bitches?!"
...The Eight Years...
Doctor Who: Man of Iron, Spliff of Steel
Dr Who Discovers Cybernetic Autonomous Machines ON DRUGS!!
"Do Androids Get High On Electric Mary-Jane?" by Dick K. Phillips
Fluffs – Paul McGann seemed to be mellow yellow peril in this story.
"Call me... ALGOR!"
"Al Gore? The man who single-handedly invented the internet?"
"Um. No. I was punning on ALGOL. You know. The language computers spoke back in the 1980s?"
"...That is fucking lame."
Not content with wiring up a beach full of speakers, wiping out his entire cyborg army, and attaching neutron bombs to random objects, and then flirting with the Rani even though he KNOWS what a backstabbing psycho he is, Sir Alistair Miles can't even care and maintain a couple of machine guns?! He's supposed to be a genius!
More evidence that this "evil genius" was in fact a "mildly annoying non-functional retard", why did he build the ultimate robot complete with laser-reflection, inbuilt neutron bombs and go faster stripes but NOT water-proof the bastard?! Or any of Asimnov's basics like "don't dive into water since you can't actually float"?
Gabor's neutron bomb, set to "Earth-Shattering-Kaboom" levels, produces a mild spout of water when it detonates. A few litres of sea water can hold back a gigantic neutronic explosion? I mean, I've heard of 'heavy water', but come on...
Smelly Ed intends to kill Sir Alistair Miles with a pump-action shotgun. But can't, because his hand is a bit sore. He CAN, however, do an Olympic gymnastic routine to leap across a swimming pool, spinning the cripple in his wheelchair and throwing him into the pool, diving into the pool afterwards, drowning AND snapping his neck simultaneously. But not using a shotgun. That would require TWO hands.
The Rani's nose stud, fur-lined Wellington boots and crotchless leather spiked underpants on the outside of her dressing gown.
Gabor threatens to "R3VARS3 TEH WE3D OF DA N3UTRON FLOW" at one point.
The Doctor's repeated screams of "INHALE!" are a direct shout-out to one of his earliest adventures, The Stoned of Venice (Serial 8B).
The Rani's wacky adventures since Romp with the Rani (Serial 7D) included setting up an underage brothel for Tetraps, becoming Vice-Chancellor of the New World University, and guest-starring in a 1993 charity telethon for Children in Need.
The full-length original 'Companions of Dr. Who' novel "Smelly Ed: A Terrible Odour", read by Billy Connelly.
Dialogue Disasters –
Lucie: A gigantic android death machine is God's way of saying you're making too much money.
Sir Alistair Miles: I was never blessed - or cursed - with much of a sense of humor when my life is at stake. Or indeed when my life is not at stake. This is, I believe, a major part of my failure to make it as a stand-up comedian.
Rani: That and the fact you're in a wheelchair.
Sir Alistair Miles: I don't get it.
Rani: You're a cripple. You can't stand up. To be a stand-up comedian.
Sir Alistair Miles: Oh. Yeah. That's true.
(three hours later)
Sir Alistair Miles: Hah! Stand up! Hah! I get it!
Doctor: For once in your life, Eddie, you're the main character in a Big Finish story, so make the most of it. This once is the only chance you'll ever get.
Smelly Ed: Hah! I got a hell of a lot more screen-time under RTD than YOU ever did, ya gonad!
Gabor: The organic has unorthodox protrusions here... and here...
Lucie: Ooh! You're a lot more good at foreplay than my last boyfriend!
Smelly Ed: You're a dead man - whoever you are!
Sir Alistair Miles: My name is Sir Alistair Miles.
Smelly Ed: I don't have to know your name to kill you!
Sir Alistair Miles: Drat. I hadn't considered that possibility.
Sir Alistair Miles: You came to kill ME??
Smelly Ed: Well, since you ask... yeah.
Sir Alistair Miles: B-but that, that's IMMORAL! Barbaric! My intelligence is indispensable to the human race! Are you prepared to destroy anyone who invents anything you do not approve of? Would you kill Copernicus because you don't like telescopes? I suspect, that if a man's leg should be gangrenous, your remedy would be to cut off his head! YOU ARE AN IMBECILE!
Smelly Ed: I'm not the one provoking my assassin with insults am I?
Sir Alistair Miles: Fuck! You've got me there!
Doctor: Nothing which gives people hope is stupid. Except religion. HAH! DAMN IT, I JUST LOVE DOING RICHARD DAWKINS IMPERSONATIONS!!
Rani: It is a privilege to wait on genius. Provided one does not have to wait too long. And that the genius isn't a total retard with the IQ of a used teabag who builds robots out of used toilet rolls and sticky-back plastic. Now I come to think of it, this isn't really that much of a privilege, is it?
Gabor: Bong water is your ally.
Sir Alistair Miles: What do you know about robotic engineering?
Smelly Ed: know that at one time, you were considered a genius.
Sir Alistair Miles: I *AM* a genius!!
Smelly Ed: An EVIL genius.
Sir Alistair Miles: That must, surely, depend upon your point of view?
Smelly Ed: No it doesn't.
Sir Alistair Miles: Doesn't it? SHIT!
Smelly Ed: I can take drugs, or I can leave them. But they don't really get me high if I leave them, so it's just more efficient to take them, when you think about it.
Lucie: I've never had any trouble with drugs, but I do have trouble with people who take drugs. Like customs men, for example.
Doctor: Drugs aren't habit-forming, Lucie. And I should know, I've been addicted to them for millennia!
Smelly Ed: Sir Alistair Miles is almost certain to release Gabor. That's his perfect creation, his indestructible robot. You'll have to keep Gabor out of my way.
Doctor: And how are we supposed to do we do that? What with him being "indestructible" and all.
Smelly Ed: That's your problem. I have other things on my mind.
Lucie: You don't have ANY suggestions, then?
Smelly Ed: You can try waving a white flag and pray you got the right religion. Ciao!
Sir Alistair: Now! Now you shall see my masterpiece as I demonstrate Gabor's power, power that will soon be yours! All right, you may not have seen one test of Gabor's powers - you are about to see a different one... once he stops singing about dope. And soon, very soon, you will see his power! Any minute now. Yes. Any minute...
Lucie: Have you thought of what to do?
Doctor: Yes, Lucie, I have. When this Gabor creature appears, we must offer it the joint.
Lucie: ...go on!
Doctor: That's it. It's very simple. We let Gabor see us, and then we offer it a puff and hope it doesn't kill us.
Lucie: Is that the best idea you can come up with?
Doctor: [takes a drag] Baby, it's the ONLY idea I can come up with! I have yet to meet the man - or machine-made man - that I can't get completely blitzed on drugs!
Lucie: I think you're about to!
Sir Alistair Miles' famous last words -
"No, wait! WAIT! Don't kill me! Mind you, I can't but admire your single mindedness. Or Simple mindedness, perhaps I should say! Hahah! Oh... my god! OH MY GOD! No! NOOO!!!"
Smelly Ed: Yes! YES! Oh, let me taste your tears, Sir Alistair! Mmm! Your tears are so yummy and sweet! Oh, the tears of UNFATHOMABLE sadness! Mmm! Yummy! Hahah! I drowned him in his own bath! HAHAHA! His hard drives have been defragmented beyond recognition!
Sir Alistair Miles: I'll say just one word - fuck!
"Legalizing marijuana was a great move! Productivity is up, crime is down and the ratings for Doctor Who are through the roof!"
– Brian Griffin (2009)
"I needed aspirin." – Kathryn Anderson (2000)
"I was able to foresee just about every plot development across the two episodes and the story's resolution was particularly unsurprising, though at the end of the day this did not bother me all that much given the fact that I was the one that wrote it." – Paul Darrow (2010)
"So... the files were contiguous... thus providing more efficient
disk performance? I find this very difficult to believe."
– IT support hotline operative (2009)
"I love this McGann season waaaaay more than the previous ones."
– some ungrateful bastard who takes McGann for granted (2012)
"The Doctor has Human Genetic Content, does he? That's going to open up a can of worms. Let's not open that can, the worms will get everywhere. I hate worms. That's why I keep them in cans."
– Rebecca Bullman (2009)
"I love characters with no redeeming features, which is why I'm such a fan of Lucie Miller. This is her last proper story. It's almost like all the candles and chanting have finally appeased all of the dark lords of Ashgotoroth and my wishes have been granted. Or it could just be a freaky coincidence."
"Ah, The Cannabis. You know, on the Sid & Nancy Scale, I'd rate this story one Cheap BBC Special Effect Of An Exploding Android. So a lot better than that one Mark Gatiss wrote, right fandom?"
Sheridan Smith Speaks!
"This story is so out there, it's almost entirely escapism. It's a kind of therapy, this job. Not very successful therapy, of course, but it keeps you lot off the streets for a few hours."
Eddie Hitler Speaks!
"Oh, for crying out loud, let's talk about something that ISN'T actually Doctor fucking Who for a change! JUST FOR ONCE! Is that too much to ask? IS IT? OH GOD!!!"
This story is the least memorable of all Eighth Doctor stories. Indeed, it was so forgettable that when the Outpost Gallifrey Poll for Least Memorable Eighth Doctor Story was cast, no one remembered it enough to make it one of the choices.
First there was The Stoned of Venice, then The Rhyme of the Dustbins, The Actual Mystery of Beer, Faith Dealer, Sail Away, Tell Me Lies and The Skull of Sobriety. And now, continuing the decade long repeated meme of the Eighth Doctor and his companions finding new and experimental recreational drug use on a variety of carbon-based life forms reached its natural conclusion: STONER ROBOTS!!!
The Cannabis continues the excellent eclecticism of the season, following the gruesome bizarreness of The Space Goat with a story SO barking, SO wasted, SO over-the-counter-in-Amsterdam, that I for one get the munchies just THINKING about it!
Some stories it is hard to really take a firm view on, and The
Cannabis is now certainly amongst their number. In fact, this wacky tale of drug-dealing robots is so unlike most of Big Finish's Doctor Who output that it is hard to weigh it against its peers on a like-for-like basis. But, what the hell, let's do it anyway!
It was halfway through the production of Season 35 that it came to the attention of the production team that they actually had a new companion in the form of Smelly Ed, the lobotomized sentient pink cloud introduced in The Vengeance of Moby and prophesized to be there at the end of the Eighth Doctor's life as depicted in 2005's "Ruse" by RTD.
Eddie Hitler and Paul McGann had been so utterly pissed during production, they'd completely forgotten about this development and assumed that Alexander Siddig was in every story because he couldn't find his way out of the recording booth. But in 2009 a letter to Big Finish set them right:
i really liked Smelly Ed. an interesting and thoroughly likable character. lots of potential. i think he'd be a perfect secondary companion for 8 and Lucie. it would tweak their dynamic enough to
keep things fresh, without changing it so much that its ruined.
actually, i'm surprised BF haven't conceived a gaseous companion yet.
a lot easier to have a robotic main character on audio than tv.
Doctor, go back and get Smelly Ed!!!!
yours sincerely Alex Siddig's agent
Thus, Eddie Hitler decided the time had come for a story to truly showcase the character of Smelly Ed rather than having him be a random deadpan snarker in a monkey outfit wandering around the story throwing up terrifying quantities of witty ripostes as if he's spent an evening fellating Don Rickles.
However, both Hitler and McGann were entirely out of ideas for the season and wracked their brains for up to minutes at a time before hitting on the ancient formula that in times gone past great writers have always turned to for comfort:
...they nicked an unmade TV script in the public domain and lied through their teeth about it forever more. Well, it was either that or a script by Ron Mallet, so let's be grateful for small mercies.
The script nicked was a never-made 1981 script for Blake's 7 by Paul Darrow entitled "Man of Iron", which was long rumored to discuss the sex life of Orac the computer. Ironically, Orac never appears in the script and the story's main plot twist is about an impotent android longing passionately for electronic Viagra to make it "harder than a quadratic equation".
In the landscape of 1980s British science fiction, this was forward-looking and intelligent. In 2009 it was just plain weird and a little bit naughty. Thus, McGann suggested they stick to the drug angle of so many Eighth Doctor audios and it was all sorted.
One thing that I can say for certain though is that The Cannabis is nothing if not a Doctor Who story, a Doctor Who story based on such a retarded premise and laden with such wit and absurdity that the two episodes are sure to bore those who are not usually willing to entertain stories that are pegged this far towards the extreme end of the series' format. This is major-league fucked-up and no mistake.
Hell, it ends with a robot singing about marijuana for Cliff's sake!
"I WISH I CUD GET HIGH!!11!1 LOL" by 5a-5a Gabor
I fight in time wars and break all the laws
The ultimate killing machine
I can rip off arms using just my charms
And I despise every human being
But when I get some peace I can't find release
To chill out my circuitry
So I turned to stuff organics huff and puff
But it does absolutely nothing for me
I snort and sniff every grain and whiff
Of every kind of stuff in my databanks!
I smoke marijuana and old bananas
Mixed up in some crude oil tanks!
I can chew it! But no matter how I do it
I can't reboot my mind!
It isn't fair I'm still aware...
DAMMIT life is so unkind.
I'm so despised I've been ostracized
So I've turned to Time Lords
Is there anyone who can turn me on?
And stop me being so bored?
Well the Doctor came to me, said he'd guarantee
He could fuck me up in a day!
Well he did his best but now I'm all depressed
Coz he made me feel kind of... gay!
I wish I could get high! I can't do it although I try!
No matter what I roll, I still can't lose control!
No matter what I've used, I just don't get confused!
Why can't I take that trip so folks will say I'm hip?
I tried sniffing coke but the bubbles get up my nose!
Oh why oh why can't I get high?!


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Bands / Music	 May 20, 2019 June 8, 2019
[Touring] For A Good Time, Call Polish Club
Polish Club's new album, Iguana, doubles as Berocca for the ears, and a time machine. It wakes you up with rhythmic vibes that pulse through you and transport you back to those first nights out you ever had – filled with teen angst, adrenaline, and illegal substances [allegedly – Bossman Al] .
Whilst the duo's second album is vastly different to its predecessor, you can still hear the jagged and distinctive vocals of David Novak, having that typical 'Polish Club sound', but this time they are accompanied by a funkier, incandescent sound from drummer John-Henry Pajak.
The new album, set for release on 7 June, is a buffet of 12 new songs that feel more like stories. If they were paintings, they'd be neon green. Inspired in part by the infamous Kings Cross nightclub, Iguana, the album takes you back in time to a place which was a haven of wild nights in the hopes to remind all that 'growing up doesn't necessarily mean growing out of the music you loved when you were young'. Speaking with front man David Novak, he said the theme for the album came from a revelation that it was a night time album.
"All of the songs are relating to that big night out where you have a lot on your mind and you try and work through that mentally, but also in that process do a lot of stupid shit physically when you're out and making mistakes. It was kind of a nostalgic thing for our previous younger, more ill-advised selves," says Novak.
The album is the second for the duo, and Novak comments on how the process was much harder than they expected.
"I wanted to push my vocals as hard as I could so every song is me trying to go at the top of my range or as loud as I can or as tricky as I can be within my skill set," Novak reveals. "It was tough making that feel cohesive and real but it was a process that I think needed to happen. It was a lot of trial and error and I think you throw as much shit at the wall as you can and some of it's going to stick and hopefully stick in a really good way. Eventually a year and a half later, I feel like it did."
When reminiscing on the music Novak used to listen to when he was younger, he was grateful for his older sister's musical influence and its positive affect on his career, and in particular this album.
"If it wasn't for my sister who is six years older than me I would not be in a band, and if I was, I would be in the world's worst band," Novak admits. "When I was 12, she was 18 listening to Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Blind Melon and all those cool bands of the time. So I took that all in by osmosis.
"At the same time, I was a dumb kid who enjoyed listening to Destiny's Child, Blackstreet, Mase and stuff like that [Nothing wrong with that, mate – Bossman Al]. In terms of my personal song writing, it's very much manifested itself in a way that's combined those two things and somehow that kind of grungy, hard rock melded with the sometimes awful, sometimes amazing '90s R&B and pop.
"I think that's where I get the melodic sensibility and catchiness from but also being able to do that on a guitar that's super loud and distorted somehow works."
Novak reflects on how the nostalgia of this album is exacerbated by the fact that Kings Cross is a shadow of it's former self ever since the implementation of the lock out laws in 2014.
"We don't see the same community spirit amongst musicians and music goers in Sydney and NSW as a whole," Novak laments. "It's sad, but it's all peaks and troughs and it's bound to come back. I think as long as people are free to keep making music, we need to encourage more people of all walks of life and genders to be making music, and I think that's the first step to resurrecting the dying nightlife and music scene."
In the album bio, John-Henry Pajak comments on how the album was just as much inspired by nights alone as nights out, and how life on tour can be an isolated journey. When asking Novak if he also felt this way he said:
"It's times like this (at home) when you're sitting around and killing time to the next interview or trying to figure out the next social media post that you get caught up in your own head. I don't really worry about the tour stuff, I kind of look forward to it. It's the pinnacle of what we all do this for."
With that in mind, Polish Club are just about to hit the road on their Meet Me At The Iguana Tour, hosted by triple j. With a new range of synth sounds, light shows, 12 new songs to play, and an honorary third band member in bass player and producer Wade Keighran coming on the road, Novak says they feel like a whole new outfit.
The shows themselves won't disappoint as they want them to be more of an experience. Says Novak: "Especially because this album is kind of like 'a night out' so we want to get that atmosphere in a live setting."
With their 18-show tour beginning on June 8, you can look forward to them returning to Canberra, playing at UC Hub on 14 June. Get your tix here.
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Justia Dockets & Filings Fourth Circuit North Carolina Western District Wagoner v. Thornton Filing 4
Wagoner v. Thornton
ORDER denying re 2 MOTION (Sealed - Participants) to Proceed in forma pauperis; denying and dismissing 1 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus. The Court declines to issue a certificate of appealability. Signed by Chief Judge Frank D. Whitney on 7/2/14. (Pro se litigant served by US Mail.)(smj)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA STATESVILLE DIVISION 5:14-cv-108-FDW MANLEY FRANKLIN WAGONER, ) ) Petitioner, ) vs. ) ) ) CYNTHIA THORNTON, ) Superintendent, Harnett Correctional ) Institution, ) ) Respondent. ) ______________________________________ ) ORDER THIS MATTER comes before the Court on initial review of pro se Petitioner Manley Franklin Wagoner's 28 U.S.C. § 2254 Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus, (Doc. No. 1), and on Petitioner's Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperis, (Doc. No. 2). For the following reasons, Petitioner's Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperis will be denied, and the petition will be dismissed as untimely. I. BACKGROUND Pro se Petitioner is a North Carolina state court inmate currently incarcerated at Harnett Correctional Institution in Lillington, North Carolina. On August 2, 1995, Petitioner pled guilty in Wilkes County Superior Court to first-degree sexual offense and aiding and abetting firstdegree rape. Petitioner was sentenced to life imprisonment for the first-degree sexual offense, and to a consecutive term of 240 to 297 months of imprisonment for the offense of aiding and abetting first-degree rape. Petitioner did not appeal. Petitioner filed a motion for appropriate relief ("MAR") in Wilkes County Superior Court on November 18, 2013, which motion was denied on November 25, 2013. See (Doc No 1-1 at 1 10). On December 12, 2013, Petitioner filed a motion for reconsideration of the denial of the MAR, which motion was denied on December 16, 2013. See (Id.). Petitioner then filed a petition for writ of certiorari in the North Carolina Court of Appeals on March 28, 2014, which petition was denied on April 17, 2014. (Id. at 1). Petitioner placed the instant petition in the prison system for mailing on June 4, 2014, and it was stamp-filed in this Court on June 6, 2014. In the habeas petition, Petitioner contends that his due process rights were violated because his guilty plea was involuntary and unknowing; his sentence was grossly disproportionate and not graduated to the offense; he received ineffective assistance of counsel based on trial counsel's failure to investigate the elements of the crime and to object to the aggravated and consecutive sentences; and his constitutional right to equal protection was violated because he was denied retroactivity of North Carolina's new sentencing laws. The Court first considers Petitioner's Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperis. A petition for a writ of habeas corpus requires a filing fee of $5.00. A review of the pleadings reveals that as of May 26, 2014, Petitioner had $8.77 in his inmate trust account. See (Doc. No. 3 at 2). Based on these figures, the Court finds that Petitioner has sufficient assets with which to pay the $5.00 filing fee. Accordingly, the Court will deny his motion to proceed in forma pauperis. II. STANDARD OF REVIEW The Court is guided by Rule 4 of the Rules Governing Section 2254 Cases, which directs habeas courts to examine habeas petitions promptly. Rule 4, 28 U.S.C.A. foll. § 2254. When it plainly appears from any such petition and any attached exhibits that the petitioner is not entitled to relief, the reviewing court must dismiss the motion. Id. After reviewing the record in this case, the Court finds that no response from the government is necessary. 2 III. DISCUSSION Under the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 ("AEDPA"), Pub. L. No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214, a petition for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a state court must be filed within one year of the latest of: (A) the date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review; (B) the date on which the impediment to filing an application created by State action in violation of the Constitution or laws of the United States is removed, if the applicant was prevented from filing by such State action; (C) the date on which the constitutional right asserted was initially recognized by the Supreme Court, if the right has been newly recognized by the Supreme Court and made retroactively applicable to cases on collateral review; or (D) the date on which the factual predicate of the claim or claims presented could have been discovered through the exercise of due diligence. 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(1). Furthermore, for convictions that became final before the AEDPA's effective date, the limitations period began to run on April 24, 1996, the effective date of the Act. See Harris v. Hutchinson, 209 F.3d 325, 328 (4th Cir. 2000). Finally, the one-year limitations period is tolled during pendency of a properly filed state post-conviction proceeding. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d)(2). However, the filing of any motions after the one-year limitations period has already run do not revive the already expired one-year limitations period. See Minter v. Beck, 230 F.3d 663, 665 (4th Cir. 2000) (concluding that the Section 2254 petition was "clearly time-barred," where the petitioner had moved for post-conviction relief in state court only after the time limitation had expired). Because Petitioner pled guilty and did not appeal, his conviction became final when 3 judgment was entered on August 2, 1995.1 See Gladney v. Hall, No. 1:12cv3, 2013 WL 6633718, at *3 (M.D.N.C. Dec. 17, 2013) (because defendants in North Carolina have a limited right to appeal after a guilty plea, a conviction after a guilty plea will usually become final when judgment is entered). Because Petitioner's conviction became final before AEDPA became effective, he had until April 24, 1997, to file a timely petition. Because Petitioner did not place the instant petition in the prison system for mailing until June 4, 2014, the petition is clearly time-barred. Furthermore, any motions filed after the limitations period expired did not revive the limitations period. See Minter v. Beck, 230 F.3d at 665. In Section 18 of the petition addressing timeliness, Petitioner contends that the one-year limitations period does not bar his petition because he claims actual innocence as well as ineffective assistance of counsel, and he invokes the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions in Trevino v. Thaler, 133 S. Ct. 1911 (2013), and McQuiggins v. Perkins, 133 S. Ct. 1924 (2013). Neither of these cases allows Petitioner to avoid the limitations period, nor does either case warrant the application of equitable tolling. In McQuiggins, the Supreme Court stated that "[a] petitioner does not meet the threshold requirement [for establishing actual innocence and, thus, avoiding the statute of limitations bar] unless he persuades the district court that, in light of new evidence, no juror, acting reasonably, would have voted to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt." Id. at 1928. Petitioner has simply not met the burden for showing actual innocence under McQuiggins. Nor has Petitioner shown that he can avoid the limitations period in light of Trevino v. Thaler. In Trevino, the Supreme Court held that where a state's procedural framework, by 1 Even assuming Petitioner had the right to appeal, his conviction would have become final when his time to serve notice of appeal expired. See N.C. R. APP. P. 4(a)(2). This extra time would have made no difference because the petition would still be time-barred. 4 reason of its design and operation, makes it highly unlikely in typical case that a defendant will have a meaningful opportunity to raise a claim of ineffective assistance of trial counsel on direct appeal, a petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claim on habeas review will not be barred by procedural default where there was no counsel or counsel was ineffective in the initial-review collateral proceeding. 133 S. Ct. at 1921. To the extent that Petitioner is contending that the petition is timely in light of Trevino pursuant to § 2244(d)(1)(C), Trevino is not a new rule of constitutional law made retroactive to cases on collateral review and, even if it were, its holding does not apply to Petitioner's claims. See Pagan-San Miguel v. United States, 736 F.3d 44 (1st Cir. 2013). Finally, to be entitled to equitable tolling, a petitioner must show that he has been pursuing his rights diligently and that some extraordinary circumstances stood in the way of him filing the petition in a timely manner. Pace v. DiGuglielmo, 544 U.S. 408, 418 (2005). Here, Petitioner has not shown that he was diligent in pursuing his right to file his § 2254 petition, nor has he shown that an extraordinary circumstance prevented him from filing the petition in a timely manner. In sum, the petition will be dismissed as untimely. IV. CONCLUSION For the reasons stated herein, Petitioner's § 2254 motion is untimely, and the petition will therefore be dismissed.2 IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that: 2 The Court is aware of the Fourth Circuit's directive in Hill v. Braxton, 277 F.3d 701, 706 (4th Cir. 2002), that a court must warn a petitioner that his case is subject to dismissal before dismissing a petition as untimely filed when justice requires it. Here, however, such warning is not necessary because, in his Section 2254 petition, Petitioner addressed the statute of limitations issue, and Petitioner's explanation indicates no confusion over the timeliness issue. 5 1. Petitioner's § 2254 motion, (Doc. No. 1), is DENIED and the petition is DISMISSED. 2. Petitioner's Motion to Proceed in Forma Pauperis, (Doc. No. 2), is DENIED. 3. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that pursuant to Rule 11(a) of the Rules Governing Section 2255 Cases, this Court declines to issue a certificate of appealability as Petitioner has not made a substantial showing of a denial of a constitutional right. 28 U.S.C. § 2253(c)(2); Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322, 336-38 (2003) (in order to satisfy § 2253(c), a petitioner must demonstrate that reasonable jurists would find the district court's assessment of the constitutional claims debatable or wrong); Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 474, 484 (2000) (holding that when relief is denied on procedural grounds, a petitioner must establish both that the correctness of the dispositive procedural ruling is debatable, and that the petition states a debatably valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right). Signed: July 2, 2014 6 7


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Ангерер () — немецкая фамилия. Известные носители:
 Ангерер, Диц (1904 — ??) — австрийский яхтсмен, участник летних Олимпийских игр 1936 года.
 Ангерер, Карл (род. 1979) — бобслеист, пилот, выступающий за сборную Германии с 2003 года.
 Ангерер, Надин (род. 1978) — немецкая профессиональная футболистка, вратарь.
 Ангерер, Петер (род. 1959) — биатлонист, олимпийский чемпион 1984 года в индивидуальной гонке на 20 км.
 Ангерер, Тобиас (род. 1977) — лыжник, многократный призёр Олимпийских игр и чемпионатов мира.


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"A heavier load of chemicals than you'd find in industrial New Jersey"
RTI researcher Edo Pellizzari and his colleagues had been studying the causes and effects of indoor air pollution since their days at Love Canal in the late 1970s. By 1984, "sick building syndrome" was recognized as a potentially serious health issue. The energy crisis of the 1970s had prompted the development of more tightly sealed and heavily insulated structures to conserve energy. These new homes and office buildings, however, limited the exchange of outdoor air with indoor air, allowing potentially dangerous levels of chemicals to accumulate.
"The air inside [affected buildings] could carry a heavier load of chemicals than you'd find outdoors in industrial areas of New Jersey," Pellizzari noted at the time. The culprits included new carpeting, freshly waxed floors, recently painted walls, gas-fired ovens, and even thin films of cleaning solution left on kitchen counters.
In a year-long project for the EPA, RTI monitored seven categories of air contaminants at four locations–a new office building, a school, and two homes for the elderly. The contaminants included volatile organic compounds, formaldehyde, pesticides, nitrogen dioxide, respirable particulates, trace metals, and carbon monoxide, samples of which were collected from carpets, drapes, furniture, and waxes for evaluation at Yale University.
The data revealed very high concentrations of methyl chloroform, a volatile organic compound, following the immediate completion of a building. RTI's findings argued for increased ventilation in the first six months of a new building's occupancy. Additional contracts on indoor air pollution followed; for example, the vexing problem of toxic chemicals in indoor air later reared its head again, with the discovery of high levels of formaldehyde inside mobile homes occupied by victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Acid rain was another burgeoning area of research for RTI in the 1980s. Pollutants spewed by power plants, factories, and automobiles formed gases and particles in the atmosphere, which mixed and fell to the ground in rain, snow, sleet, or dry form and became acidic upon contact with water. RTI scientists linked these acidic pollutants to dying lakes and forests, as well as the depletion of insect and aquatic life, but more research was needed before costly regulations could be proposed.
The EPA subsequently retained RTI for a five-year study of the effects of acidic deposits on different materials. At a monitoring site on the RTI campus, researchers examined samples of stone, metal, and painted surfaces exposed to rainfall and dry acidic deposition for physical and chemical changes. Their findings resulted in national regulations requiring gas-desulfurization processes at coal-burning power plants, in order to reduce sulfur emissions.


The leaves are used to help lower the level of blood sugar in diabetics. It can help reduce inflammation and it is used as a garble and as a mouthwash. The fruits are used to help prevent diarrhea and they also help with visual acuity.
Fruits: sugars, fats, organic acids, phenolic acids, flavonoids (hyperin, quercitrin), proanthocyanidins, flavonols (catechin, epicatechin), anthocyanins. Leaves: phenolic acids, flavonoids, quinolizidine alkaloids (trace elements), proanthocyanidins, catechin, hydrochinon, arbutin.


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About Benny Benasi
The dirty and cool, sweaty and smooth electro sound of DJ/producer Benny Benassi scored worldwide success with "Satisfaction" in 2002. With his cousin, the producer and musician Alle Benassi, things just got better and better.
The album "Hypnotica", the side project "Benassi Bros" and the album "Rock n Rave" and a series of remixes including, in 2009, tracks for Flo Rida, Madonna, Shakira, Kid Cudi and many others. Benny has won tons of prizes and awards around the world and continues to tour the five continents with his unique style. In 2008 Benny and Alle won a Grammy Award for the remix of Public Enemy's "Bring The Noise."
His new single, featuring Kelis, App and Jean Baptiste, produced by Basic Studio, Benny and Alle's new company, is due for release on Ultra Records worldwide, soon to be followed by an album.
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The project will be conducted on a working cattle ranch in eastern Wyoming. Conditions in the camp are primitive, but certainly livable. You will be sleeping in your own tent. Bring a sturdy one with a low wind profile. You will need a sleeping bag adequate for temperatures down to freezing at night, and a good sleeping pad. A camp trailer can be accommodated if arrangements are made in advance, as there are a limited number of pull-through sites with connections. The camp station has running water and electricity, men's and women's shower and restroom facilities, a central kitchen and an outdoor meeting area and workspace.
We work in teams to rotate through tasks such as preparing breakfast and dinner, and supplying food to make individual lunches. Monday through Friday we work in the field, and Saturday and Sunday are for rest or for excursions to the many interesting sights in the area.
Southwestern Adventist University has applied for and been granted approval for four years, to manage and conduct research and excavation of the principal site, and to open exploratory quarries at several satellite locations. The site management specifies that participants be students or teachers who are interested in a Christian approach and open to considering ideas of origin other than the traditional evolutionary paradigm. We welcome teachers and college students meeting these criteria who are interested in participating in this type of a program.
Dinosaurs are a focus of great interest and controversy from preschoolers to scientists. These animals ranged in size from smaller than a chicken to the largest creatures that ever lived on land. Bones of the last dinosaurs to walk the earth are found in the Lance Formation in Eastern Wyoming.. A thin layer of rock containing an excess of the transitional element iridium signals the upper boundary of Cretaceous rocks and the last recorded living dinosaurs. Speculation by some scientists and the popular media is that this layer represents fallout from the collision of a giant meteorite with the earth. The meteorite is presumed to have been responsible for the extermination of the last dinosaurs.
Other theories for the extinction of the dinosaurs abound. These theories all have one thing in common: a great deal of speculation about the catastrophic termination of the dinosaurs seen in these Upper Cretaceous rocks.
A new approach is needed that will allow us to find answers to some of the remaining questions. Why are there no dinosaurs above the Cretaceous/Paleocene boundary? Why are there no mass destruction deposits associated with a meteoric impact event purported to have sent a wall of water hundreds of meters high across the North American continent? What evidence is there that these beds were accumulated in a fluvial environment? Why are the dinosaurs in the Upper Lance Formation present in bonebeds? What are the geometry and extent of these beds, and what kinds of dinosaurs are found in the deposits? What is the taphonomic condition of the bones? These answers may be crucial to the unraveling of the mystery of the demise of the dinosaurs and other questions about this important period in the history of our planet.
To find answers to these questions, paleontologist Dr. Lee Spencer of the Earth History Research Center, sedimentologist Dr. Art Chadwick and astrophysicist Dr. Larry Turner of Southwestern Adventist University have begun work on one of the richest Upper Cretaceous bonebeds in the world. This site in the Lance Formation in Eastern Wyoming contains the remains of hundreds and perhaps thousands of dinosaurs. The bones are in excellent condition, and their removal from the mudstone matrix is facilitated by the unconsolidated nature of the sediments. This fact underscores the importance of the work from another perspective. The sediments containing the bones are presently eroding away at a significant rate, and the bones are near the surface. Each year, precious information slips away without record.
To ensure that no information is lost, Drs. Chadwick and Turner have developed new mapping techniques that enables the location of each bone to be recorded permanently in a 3 dimensional computer matrix, using high-resolution GPS technology with an accuracy of less than 1 cm. The precise outline, position and attitude of a 3D photographic image of the actual bone can be viewed and manipulated in the computer even after the bone is removed from the site. The net effect is that after the quarry is excavated, the bones can be seen in the computer as though the mudstone had been removed from the quarry site, leaving only the bones visible. The precise relationship of the parts of various dinosaurs can be compared for taphonomic purposes. Sedimentary analysis can be performed in the computer on the orientation and distribution of the long bones. The shape, extent and thickness of the bonebed can be easily mapped and reconstructed and its origin can be considered.
4. the procedures for preserving the remains after excavation. Evening lectures will cover the basics of geology, the fundamentals of vertebrate anatomy and philosophical and scientific issues concerning origins. Lectures by Drs. Spencer, Chadwick and Turner will present a variety of perspectives on issues ranging from the origin of the universe to the geology of the Lance Formation. We will be giving consideration to the nature of scientific data and the significance of the research being carried out on the site. The faculty will also present talks on other related research projects they are involved in. Before you have finished, you will be able to identify basic rock and bone types and to find your way around the geologic column. You will have a new appreciation for the issues surrounding the history of the earth revealed through the eyes of geology. A final exam will provide additional incentive for study and an opportunity for you to express your educational outcomes.
The work this season in Wyoming will be challenging, hot or cold, windy or calm and wet or dry, but always exciting and rewarding. You will learn field techniques of vertebrate paleontology to locate, uncover and preserve the fragile fossil material. You will participate in the excavation and recovery of vertebrate remains at one of several active localities at the site. You and your team will rotate between activities concerned with site construction, excavation and conservation, data collection and mapping, and screen washing ot the fine sediments derived from quarrying. Every day will be a new adventure.
This program is intended for college students and high school teachers. Those desiring college credit may register for GEOL 211: Field Methods in Vertebrate Paleontology for four hours of lower division college science credit. The tuition for this course is $392 if you register through Southwestern Adventist University (1/4 normal tuition). Teachers working towards their masters in elementary education in the sciences at Southwestern Adventist University may take the class EESE 504 Geology from Basics. Those teachers who wish to earn CEU for their participation may do so for three hours of credit, where approved.
The program will be offered in June/July. Classes in the field are organized around research activities. Participants will depart from Keene (where convenient) on June 3, and return July 13. The CEU class (three hours) will be taught twice, one session beginning June 3 and one session beginning June24. Teachers with special time problems may contact Dr. Chadwick regarding other options. Those indicating an interest in participating will be kept informed of the plans as we progress.
We can accommodate up to 20 participants for this field season. Estimated cost to each participant in addition to tuition and registration fees is $550. This amount includes the site fee paid to the research facility, all food (except for days in transit), transportation from Keene to the field station and transportation in the field. Participants will be accommodated on a first come basis. A deposit of $100 will be required to hold your place. Please make your checks payable to Southwestern Adventist University, and send them to Dr. Chadwick at the address below.
Participants will provide evidence of coverage by a comprehensive health insurance plan, show documentation of current tetanus booster, and provide documentation of health problems and allergies. Smoking is prohibited; possession/consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited. Participants must also sign a statement agreeing to abide by the rules and limiting liability. Participants must wear eye protection while working in the quarry. Eye protection and a complete working toolkit will be provided (checked out) to participants. Each participant will be required to purchase a field notebook ($5).
Phone: 1-800-433-2240 ext 277 (toll-free U.S) or 1-817-556-4718.


I recently co-wrote a short report for UK Trans Info with CN Lester. Entitled 'Gender recognition: where next?', it reports upon the findings of a short survey about possible replacements for the Gender Recognition Act. The survey was created in response to calls for reform of the Gender Recognition Act 2004, in the wake of a Transgender Equality Inquiry conducted by the UK Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee.
There is strong support for some form of legal gender recognition grounded in self-declaration – comparable perhaps to creating a statutory declaration or deed poll – as opposed to the current system of applying to a 'Gender Recognition Panel' with huge amounts of evidence and hoping for the best.
We asked what respondents were not prepared to compromise on in any change of law; a considerable majority stated that they regarded non-binary recognition as a red line in any negotiation. This will no doubt be very difficult to achieve due to the lack of any precedent in law for the recognition of non-binary gender identities, but it's vital that trans advocates make the effort to push for this over coming months, for the sake of solidarity and inclusion.
Several individuals have been working hard over the past couple of weeks to put together an international statement supporting trans inclusion in the struggle for women's rights. The publication of this statement comes as the inclusion of trans people within feminist and womanist groups is once again under question, and as trans concerns gain an increasingly public profile.
I was honoured to be asked to sign this statement. I feel it provides a timely response to the aforementioned issues, as well as a recent radical feminist statement on trans exclusion, and the forthcoming publication of Sheila Jeffreys' new book.
I stand fully behind the statement, and am also heartened by its international scope. As I write this post, the statement has been signed by 150 individuals and 8 organizations — from 13 countries.
However, I feel it is worth noting the anglo-centric nature of the statement. That is somewhat inevitable given that this is a debate happening largely within the English-speaking world. Still, it would have been good to see signatories from the United States and United Kingdom note their country of origin; at present, I feel that signatories from outside these countries are singled out as unusual through the highlighting of their national location. I hope that this disparity and US/UK-centrism might be addressed in future efforts.
I have reproduced the statement below, and encourage others to disseminate it further.
Update: After this post was written, Press For Change began to campaign openly for a fully trans-inclusive Equality Bill. Fair play to them. I originally wrote the title of this post in anger, but now feel that PFC have demonstrated that – unlike groups such as Stonewall and the HRC – they are prepared to listen to others and revise their position.
Contrasting somewhat with the approach of the Scottish Transgender Alliance and Gender Spectrum (see previous post) is that taken by Press For Change, the UK's most high-profile trans rights group. As an "insider" group, they're in the privileged position of being able to prepare a briefing for the Equality Bill Select Committee.
That doesn't guarantee that the briefing's proposals will be taken forward by the government or even individual politicans who wish to take on the cause, but it's one of the most influential things any part of the trans community can contribute at the moment. Unfortunately, there are a couple of serious issues with this document.
This would mean that those trans people who are unable to transition or are discriminated against because of a non-binary identity would continue to recieve no recognition or protection: exactly the problem that providing protection on the grounds of "gender identity" is meant to overcome!
This is horribly reminiscent of the approach of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the USA. That supposed LGBT rights group received heavy criticism from those trans people it was meant to be representing after supporting a trans-exclusive version of ENDA.


Kobe Bryant's last NBA game will soon be upon us. April 13th has been dubbed "MAMBA DAY", marking the five-time champion's final NBA battle after two history making decades. Right at tip-off, Nike will celebrate Kobe's incredible career with the "MAMBA DAY" design option on NIKEiD which features gold/black graphics which illustrate his career achievements since he started his career in 1996. The Kobe 11 Mamba Day iD will be available for a limited time just after tip-off on Wednesday's game between Lakers and Jazz.
The design includes a graphic element highlighting 8 of Kobe's notable stats which include the dates of his first and last games (11.01.96 and 4.13.16), five world championships, four All-star MVP awards, 18 All-Star appearances, 81 points scored in a game, 20 years played in the league and 24 for his jersey number.
Here's a look at the Mamba Day iD.