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Morning Laughfest: The (So-Called) American Conservative on the Triumphs of Obama's Foreign Policy
Alfred W. McCoy, Barack Obama, Conservatism, Foreign Policy, Pat Buchanan, Paul Rahe, The American Conservative
The erudite Paul Rahe's mind boggled when he read, in the September issue of American Conservative, a piece by Alfred W. McCoy, titled "The Quiet Grand Strategy of Barack Obama." According to Mr. McCoy, the current president is a patriot and a far-seeing statesman:
In ways that have eluded Washington pundits and policymakers, President Barack Obama is deploying a subtle geopolitical strategy that, if successful, might give Washington a fighting chance to extend its global hegemony deep into the 21st century. After six years of silent, sometimes secret preparations, the Obama White House has recently unveiled some bold diplomatic initiatives whose sum is nothing less than a tri-continental strategy to check Beijing's rise. As these moves unfold, Obama is revealing himself as one of those rare grandmasters who appear every generation or two with an ability to go beyond mere foreign policy and play that ruthless global game called geopolitics. …
But let's give credit where it's due. Without proclaiming a presumptuously labeled policy such as "triangulation," "the Nixon Doctrine," or even a "freedom agenda," Obama has moved step-by-step to repair the damage caused by a plethora of Washington foreign policy debacles, old and new, and then maneuvered deftly to rebuild America's fading global influence.
So what is this ridiculous hallucinatory liberal tripe doing in a journal of supposedly conservative opinion? Commenter Douglas (sixth comment down) nails it, and nails "The (So-Called) American Conservative" good and proper.
First off, there's often little conservative about The American Conservative. No branch or tradition of conservatism is extolled there. It's not conservative by old Tory standards, it's not conservative by the standards of the old American Right, and it's not conservative by the standards of the modern American Right. It's "conservative" by the standards of people that argue progressivism is really a form of conservatism, and that Barack Obama is the most conservative president in generations. Mainly because he dislikes Israel as much as writers at AmCon do. The only virtues of the place anymore are admonishments to mind our own business and to be distrustful of the GOP.
While I'm sympathetic to much that Pat Buchanan argues, when he created that magazine, he surrounded himself with a bunch of nonsense-peddlers. They occasionally have the excellent article, but mostly are swamped by the nonsense these days.
So, the assertion in the article… that Obama is some kind of uber-wise, next level grandmaster at 3D chess really isn't surprising. It's right in keeping with the kind of stuff AmCon prints lately. The key to understanding most positions AmCon writers will take is "if it screws Israel, praise it, if it helps Israel, damn it".
Pat Buchanan Counsels No Surrender
Debt Ceiling, Federal Budget, Federal Deficit, Federal Spending, Pat Buchanan, Republicans, Taxes, The Mainstream Media
Pat Buchanan left mainstream Conservatism for the Paleocon fever swamps some years ago, and has rarely ever made much sense since, but today the old Pat Buchanan is back and in fine form. In fact, Buchanan identifies precisely the tactics of bluffing and intimidation that the mouthpieces of the establishment are using to try to frighten the Republican leadership (which holds all the cards) into surrendering on tax increases to the impotent, discredited-by-reality, and sinking-daily-in-the-polls democrats. Pat Buchanan is right: the level of shrillness of the MSM commentariat is directly proportionate to their desperation. They know they're losing.
By refusing to accept tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans are behaving like "fanatics," writes David Brooks of The New York Times.
Anti-tax Republicans "have no sense of moral decency," he adds.
They are "willing to stain their nation's honor" to "worship their idol." If this "deal of the century" goes down, as he calls the Barack Obama offer, "Republican fanaticism" will be the cause.
"The GOP has become a cult" that has replaced reason with "feverish" and "cockamamie beliefs," writes Richard Cohen of The Washington Post. The Republican "presidential field (is) a virtual political Jonestown," the Guyana site where more than 900 followers of the Peoples Temple drank the Kool-Aid that Rev. Jim Jones mixed for them.
Does anyone think this an appropriate description of such mild-mannered men as Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty and Jon Huntsman?
"The GOP's Hezbollah Wing Is Now Fully in Control," screams The New Republic over a recent lead editorial.
Other columnists charge the GOP with holding America "hostage" by refusing to accept tax hikes to avert a default on the debt.
What to make of this hysteria?
The Establishment is in a panic. It has been jolted awake to the realization that the GOP House, if it can summon the courage to use it, is holding a weapon that could enable it to bridle forever the federal monster that consumes 25 percent of gross domestic product.
To bully and blackmail the GOP into surrendering the weapon and betraying its principles and signing on to new taxes, that establishment has unleashed rhetoric more befitting a war on terror than a political dispute.
For how, exactly, are Republicans threatening the republic?
The House has not said it will not raise the debt ceiling. It must and will. It has not said it will not accept budget cuts. It has indicated a willingness to accept the budget cuts agreed to in the Biden negotiations.
Where the GOP has stood its ground is on tax increases. …
The Republican Party has not said it will refuse to raise the debt ceiling. It has an obligation to do so, and will.
The House has simply said it will not accept new taxes on a nation whose fiscal crisis comes from overspending.
If the GOP keeps its word, raises the debt ceiling and accepts budget cuts agreed to in the Biden negotiations, the only people who can prevent the debt ceiling's being raised are Senate Democrats or Obama, in which case, they, not the GOP, will have thrown the nation into default.
It is the establishment that is resorting to extortion, saying, in effect, to the House GOP: Give us the new taxes we demand, or Obama will veto the debt ceiling and we will all blame you for the default.
They're bluffing.
The GOP should stand its ground — and fix bayonets.
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Media's Double-Standard & the Candidates
2008 Election, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Pat Buchanan, Sarah Palin, The Elect, The Left, The Mainstream Media
Pat Buchanan talks a little about class warfare.
If one would wish to see the famous liberal double standard on naked display, consider.
Palin's daughter was fair game for a media that refused to look into reports that John Edwards, a Democratic candidate for president, was conducting an illicit affair with a woman said to be carrying his child and cheating on his faithful wife Elizabeth, who has incurable cancer. That was not a legitimate story, but Bristol Palin's pregnancy is?
Why did the selection of Palin cause a suspension of all standards and a near riot among a media that has been so in the tank for Barack even "Saturday Night Live" has satirized the infatuation?
Because she is one of us — and he is one of them.
Barack and Michelle are affirmative action, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard Law. She is public schools and Idaho State. Barack was a Saul Alinsky social worker who rustled up food stamps. Sarah kills her own food.
Michelle has a $300,000-a-year sinecure doing PR for a Chicago hospital. Todd Palin is a union steelworker who augments his income working vacations on the North Slope. Sarah has always been proud to be an American. Michelle was never proud of America — until Barack started winning.
Barack has zero experience as an executive. Sarah ran her own fishing fleet, was mayor for six years and runs the largest state in the union. She belongs to a mainstream Christian church. Barack was, for 15 years, a parishioner at Trinity United and had his daughters baptized by Pastor Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons are saturated in black-power, anti-white racism and anti-Americanism.
Sarah is a rebel. Obama has been a go-along, get-along cog in the Daley machine. She is Middle America. Barack, behind closed doors in San Francisco, mocked Middle Americans as folks left behind by the global economy who cling bitterly to their Bibles, bigotries and guns.
Barack, says the National Journal, has the most left-wing voting record in the Senate, besting Socialist Bernie Sanders. Palin's stances read as though they were lifted from Ronald Reagan's 1980 "no pale pastels" platform. And this is what this media firestorm is all about.
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Buchanan: A Giuliani Victory Would Come at a Price
2008 Election, Pat Buchanan, Rudolph Giuliani
Pat Buchanan on Giuliani.
A McGovernite in 1972, he boasted in the campaign of 1993 that he would "rekindle the Rockefeller, Javits, Lefkowitz tradition" of New York's GOP and "produce the kind of change New York City saw with … John Lindsay." He ran on the Liberal Party line and supported Mario Cuomo in 1994.
Pro-abortion, anti-gun, again and again he strutted up Fifth Avenue in the June Gay Pride parade and turned the Big Apple into a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. While Ward Connerly goes state to state to end reverse discrimination, Rudy is an affirmative-action man.
Gravitating now to Rudy's camp are those inveterate opportunists, the neocons, who see in Giuliani their last hope of redemption for their cakewalk war and their best hope for a "Long War" against "Islamo-fascism."
I will, Rudy promises, nominate Scalias. Only one more may be needed to overturn Roe. And I will keep Hillary out of the White House.
A Giuliani presidency would represent the return and final triumph of the Republicanism that conservatives went into politics to purge from power. A Giuliani presidency would represent repudiation by the party of the moral, social and cultural content that, with anti-communism, once separated it from liberal Democrats and defined it as an institution.
Rudy offers the right the ultimate Faustian bargain: retention of power at the price of one's soul.
Taki's Top Drawer
Paleocons, Pat Buchanan, Taki Theodoracopulos, The Blogosphere
Things are not going so well for Conservatism today. The movement has fragmented here and there. Libertarians like Glenn Reynolds don't want to consider themselves conservatives these days. Former comrades-in-arms, like Andrew Sullivan and John Cole, have jumped the fence to the left. And the inimitable Taki Theodoracopulos has wandered off into the Paleocon fever-swamp where Pat Buchanan got lost.
The New York Post today reports that Taki is starting his own blog, titled Taki's Top Drawer, with a self-described mission "to shake up the world of so-called 'conservative' opinion."
For the past ten years at least, the conservative movement has been dominated by a bunch of pudgy, pasty-faced kids in bow-ties and blue blazers who spent their youths playing Risk in gothic dormitories, while sipping port and smoking their father's stolen cigars. Thanks to the tragedy of September 11—and a compliant and dim-witted president—these kids got the chance to play Risk with real soldiers, with American soldiers. Patriotic men and women are dying over in Iraq for a war that was never in America's interests. And now these spitball gunners, these chicken hawks, want to attack Iran—which is no threat to the U.S. at all.
One thing I can tell you for sure, there may well be some atheists in foxholes—but you'll never find a neocon. They prefer to send blue-collar kids out to die on their behalf, so they get to feel macho—and make up for all the times they got wedgies in prep school. It shall be our considered task to take on the chicken-hawks of this world, and give them wedgies again."
We want to reflect a traditional conservatism that prefers peace with honor to proxy wars, Western civilization to multicultural barbarism, Christendom to the European Union, and Russell Kirk to Leon Trotsky. This will undoubtedly infuriate many in the mainstream 'conservative' movement, who have transferred their loyalties elsewhere. It's time to raise their blood pressure a few points—and help them burn off some of those five-course meals they've been eating down on K Street.
It doesn't look like all this is going to work out well at all. A highly dyspeptic Justin Raimondo is leading off today with an attack on loveable old Rush Limbaugh (!), along with lots of others on the Right. But I've always liked Taki, so I linked it in the Sound Blogs category (for now). We will make a point of giving Taki a chance, before exiling him to join Kos and Andrew Sullivan.
Hat tip to John Brewer.
Revolt of the Over-Privileged
Britain, France, Pat Buchanan, Student Riots, Un Autre Jolie Cadeau de la Revolution Francaise
Pat Buchanan (even a stopped clock is right twice a day) argues that the British strikes and French student riots represent a futile effort to preserve a Welfare State, doomed by world economic competition, which European demographics in any case could not sustain.
Like the U.S. campus riots of the 1960s, the French protests appear to some of us as the Revolt of the Over-Privileged. For what these pampered young people are demanding seems to be some kind of student deferment from the Global Economy.
The striking public employees in Britain and the young in Paris are protesting something unavoidable, like middle age. For what they see slipping away is something they are never going to see again.
What is happening in Britain and France is happening across Europe: the unwinding of the social welfare state. "Are the good times really over for good?" wailed Merle Haggard, decades ago. In Europe, the answer to Merle's question is, "Yes, they are."
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Armchair Analyst: One big question for the Chicago Fire
January 1, 20192:44PM EST
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A Big Question: How much do Dax and Basti have left in the tank?
Truth be told this is probably the question for Chicago. It almost doesn't matter what other signings they make in the next six weeks: If Dax McCarty and Bastian Schweinsteiger both fall off a cliff, or even start a downward trend, there's not a lot of reason to think that this can be a successful year in Bridgeview.
In both cases it's the years and the miles, as McCarty turns 32 and will likely crest 30,000 career minutes this year. Schweinsteiger will hit 35 in August and, for club and country, is already over 50,000 career minutes. Guys at this stage of their careers don't improve; they hang on.
And that is part of what made 2018 so frustrating to watch. A good way of extending an important player's career is to circumscribe the amount of physical energy he has to expend, and the best way to do that is by having the ball. Theoretically any midfield that gets 2,300 minutes of McCarty and 2,700 minutes of Schweinsteiger really should have the ball a whole, whole lot.
But they didn't. Chicago, under Veljko Paunovic, have chopped and changed (personnel, formation, tactical approach) by the game, and have moved Schweinsteiger all over the field, and that's made it impossible to build the type of possession-out-of-midfield approach you'd think would be a natural fit given who this team's best players are. Thus Chicago spent almost all of last year playing back-foot, reactive, losing soccer.
Do the same this year and they'll lose more than games: They'll have lost their chance to build something meaningful around two of the smartest, most technical midfielders in the league.
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The Life and Times of Germaine Greer
By Brannavan Gnanalingam
↳ ARTS, Books	→ New Zealand Festival
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New Zealand International Arts Festival, Wellington | March 12
It's hard to deny the impact that Germaine Greer had in terms of cultural dialogue in the '70s. Today though, after the sensation of 1970's The Female Eunuch, and a number of scene-stealing performances around the world (including being arrested in New Zealand for the public use of the word "bullshit"), it's become an easy argument to make that her take on feminism has outlived its usefulness. To use an equivalent comparison, while the Sex Pistols may have been a culturally significant band back in the '70s, that doesn't mean seeing them live in a stadium now would be particularly interesting. But to Greer's credit, she held a capacity Wellington Town Hall audience captive with a humorous and engaging look back at her life and work. She was assisted in a couple of key ways: patsy and insipid questions, and, an almost bewildering ability to contradict herself cheerfully.
Melbourne-raised Greer started off by running through her childhood: "I think, very early on, I decided I didn't want to be my mother," followed by "I was too tall, pale, flat-footed—I was never seduced into thinking I'd been glam," and lastly, an implied dysfunctional parental relationship. She discussed the lasting impact of being part of a Melbourne University English literature year that "needed to challenge authority, never took anything on trust." She would meet before a seminar with her peers to have an "anti-seminar" in order to work out ways to challenge the lecturers. A subsequent move to Sydney resulted in falling into the "Sydney Push," an intellectual left-wing group that was purportedly based on libertarianism. She claims they were driven by "extreme scepticism [and a] refusal to use morally and emotionally loaded language which was absolute."
But that was precisely what Greer did throughout the seminar. Women were, and are, an absolutist concept that can be generalised. She discussed how The Female Eunuch came about. "Women had been desexualised, not sexualised." "You [women] don't go around asking questions, you pretend you understand the off-side rule." "The book I wrote, all around me, women were thinking." She joked when asked about hunters and gatherers. "Women are gatherers, that's why we leave the house with a handbag, an external uterus. You will not be kidnapped, you will not have to camp for three weeks, you're not going to be able to find your key anyway."
She talked about a visit in the early '70s to Calabria, Italy, where confronted by a bucolic paradise, poor "peasant people" were happy and pitied her ("with all of our demands for luxury and consumer goods, maybe we've missed the boat"), where there was this great "sexual energy—the thing we [in the West] lost was passion" (despite being spat on and stalked in Calabria—apparently a sign of a more raw and more passionate form of sexuality), and where her own "assumed superiority was ridiculous, over-weaning arrogance." Was she merely fetishising poverty, lauding simple peasant folk and their somehow more real, "uncomplicated", sexuality? (No different to the stereotypes used to simplify and colonise the "child-like" "earthy" non-European peoples over the last few hundred years or so.) Her claim that the southern Italians were happy and didn't need the trappings of consumerism ignores the inconvenient issue that most of the Italian immigrants to chase the capitalist dreams promised by the United States and Australia came from the poor, southern parts of Italy.
Greer then moved to discuss issues of indigenous peoples—potentially interesting subject matter if her past controversy is anything to go by. But she was left unchallenged. She claimed New Zealand "is the smartest English-speaking country in the world," but corrected herself by saying "it does not mean you're very smart." She praised Pakeha for apparently acknowledging that "this is a Maori country," and supposedly preserving the foreshore, while criticised Australia as a "country laid waste." She then proceeded to paternalistically lambast indigenous Australians for accepting money from mining companies and who "no matter how much the mining companies throw, are still destroying themselves." (Though curiously, defends her acceptance onto Celebrity Big Brother as "it was a lot of money," and talked about how she still got paid all her money despite walking off after five days as a great achievement.)
Greer concluded by saying that she didn't believe in equality: "I didn't see the situation of men under capitalism as something to aspire to." She made a devastating point about a female member in the armed services in Australia, who was subjected to horrific treatment by her male colleagues and then made herself to apologise publicly. However, she added that according to that logic, women shouldn't occupy boardrooms for the same reason. For a self-professed Marxist, she didn't seem too interested in the concept of hegemony, the ability to change or subvert power structures, or that meaning isn't a fixed idea (after all, she admitted that she didn't carry a handbag). She excoriated contemporary society as "besotted with celebrity culture, [women] terrified of eating anything, fourteen-year-olds with breast augmentation, [having] blonde long hair—there's never been a feminine stereotype more oppressive than this one, a perpetual childhood." (Though, as someone who studied literature, she would clearly have seen this same obsession with youth play out over millennia of stereotypes.) She closed by urging her audience to "resist and to resist and to resist." One immediate standing ovation from the bulk of the audience later, it was all over.
There was talk of feminist groups boycotting Greer's appearance, particularly based around Greer's problematic transphobia. Unfortunately, at least in the public setting, her views weren't put to the test. Instead, we were left with a bunch of contradictory and self-congratulatory statements from her and her interviewer. This is not to deny the importance that Greer has in terms in contemporary feminist discourse, but it's hard not to see why her views—and the views of some of her contemporaries—were quickly overtaken for being patronisingly Eurocentric, crudely essentialist (both biologically and culturally), and unable to account for the plurality of viewpoints on the definitions of gender and sex.
But that was arguably the lasting impression from Greer's conversation. Through her own contradictions, she unwittingly highlighted how laughable and problematic the notion is that gender could exist as a fixed, definable idea. Whether it is perpetuated by the advertisers, "men" in boardrooms, or the pornographers that Greer excoriates, or the approach that she herself took to discussing 'women" and "men", the inability to define what it is to be a woman (and a man, by that same approach) isn't actually that bad a thing. Revel in the contradictions. Revel in the contradictions to the point that terms such as "men" and "women" become meaningless. In fact, that could be the next step—to progress the fight that people like Germaine Greer once had.
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Brannavan Gnanalingam has been writing for The Lumière Reader since 2006. He is also a novelist, with his first two books, Getting Under Sail and You Should Have Come Here When You Were Not Here, released by Wellington publishing collective Lawrence and Gibson. His third novel, Credit in the Straight World, is released May 2015.
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The first round of state funding will start in a few weeks.
The checks from Uncle Sam will soon be in the mail. In fact, school districts might see some of the $100 billion from the economic-stimulus package within a few weeks. The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) will start to release money aimed at restoring cuts as well as funding programs for low-income and special education students by the end of March.
The major chunk for education comes from the $53.6 billion state stabilization fund, and states must submit applications for that money. About $32.5 billion of that amount goes out in this first round, and the applications will be available to governors by the end of March. Once states turn in their applications, they should get their share within two weeks.
Programs for low-income (Title I) and special education students (those served by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) get help even sooner. The $5 billion for Title I and $6 billion for IDEA will go out by the end of the month -- that's half the funds earmarked for those programs under the plan -- and states don't need to turn in applications for this money, the DOE reported over the weekend.
The funds can't come soon enough. In Pontiac, Michigan, for example, the school district is considering laying off all its teachers and then calling back only those needed for the next school year. In the Mesa Public Schools, in Mesa, Arizona, 310 teacher positions could get cut.
The money will flow first to governors. It then goes out to districts as part of their share of state funding for education, based on their state's formulas for K-12 funding; there's no competition for this money.
From there, it's a case of just what each school system needs, and federal officials want districts and states to make plans for the funds as soon as they can. For instance, if a district does not need the money to prevent teacher layoffs, it might use this windfall to hire new staff.
"It's kind of like a Rubik's Cube. It's just going to vary from school district to school district," says Joel Packer, director of education policy and practice with the National Education Association. "It becomes almost like 15,000 sets of decisions, in a way."
To get the first batch of stabilization money, states have to agree to make key education improvements. To get the next round of money, expected between July and September, they have to show they've taken steps to achieving these goals. The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited-English-speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low-performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst-performing schools. (These requirements are already part of the No Child Left Behind Act.)
As with all the money in the economic-stimulus package, the education money comes with reporting requirements: States must publicly report back exactly how they spent the money.
Other details on the release of the education money include the following:
The nearly $5 billion innovation fund will start going out in the fall. The competitive state grants will be awarded in two rounds; the first begins in October. As part of that money, there's also $650 million that districts and nonprofit organizations can win. Applications and details on the grant process will be available later in the spring.
The total that states get now is $44 billion; another $49 billion will start going out in July. But if states find they can't cover the essentials with the first round of money, they can get more money from the second round sooner.
States can use about 18 percent of the stabilization money for line items such as school repairs and modernization, but the DOE wants states to conduct any renovations with an eye toward environmentally friendly construction.
The $650 million for education technology won't be available until the fall.
The money also comes with a warning: It's a onetime cash infusion, so districts shouldn't try to finance programs that require future investments to continue. Education secretary Arne Duncan says officials need to find the "best way to stretch every dollar."
Details About Economic-Stimulus Funds for Education
The U.S. Department of Education put guidelines and timelines for the release of the economic-stimulus money on its Web site. There, you can find details on
how money for programs for low-income students (Title I) will be distributed.
how and when special education (IDEA) money will find its way to schools.
how and when the state stabilization fund will be released to states.


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By Andrea Cheng
Updated: Apr 28, 2016 @ 2:36 pm
America's largest bridal retailer David's Bridal has landed itself another high-fashion collaboration—with Jenny Packham, aka one of Kate Middleton's go-to designers. And brace yourselves, it's unlike anything else in the company's repertoire. That means you won't find any traditional fit-and-flared dresses or tulle ball gowns within her new offering for the brand. The British designer took her signature ready-to-wear designs and successfully translated them into a modern "more fashion-conscious" bridal line-up of slinky beaded numbers for the masses. Oh, and did we mention, they retail for a fraction of the cost.
"The dresses encapsulate the essence of the Jenny Packham brand, which is feminine, elegant, and modern," Packham tells InStyle at The Wonder by Jenny Packham preview. "The trend in bridalwear is very much red carpet-inspired, so you'll see fully beaded dresses and silhouettes that are soft and flowy."
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The collection ($900 to $1,450) does indeed include fluid fabrics, like double-faced satin (a first for David's Bridal) and non-stiff linings, and breezy, skin-skimming cuts. It's an aesthetic that was a non-negotiable for Packham.
"Comfort and fit are a priority," she explains. "It was important to me that the bride could step out and forget she's wearing a dress—that it's not digging into her." And even though some of the gowns looked heavy (the more enthusiastically embellished dresses are embroidered with more than 55,000 beads), the models outfitted in them insisted that they were incredibly lightweight.
"The David's Bridal team has done an amazing job at interpreting my designs," she says. "It's an amazing opportunity for us to take the Jenny Packham brand to a wider audience—one in three girls in America buys a David's dress."
And even though the designer wouldn't say a word about the Duchess, we think that this line would have Middleton's seal of approval. The spring 2016 collection (available online and in stores February 2016) includes nine bridal styles, bridesmaid, mother-of-the bride, and flowergirl designs, along with a selection of accessories. Keep scrolling to see the bridal creations.
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Netflix have renewed "13 Reasons Why" for a third season - but what will happen to the characters and will it continue to tell Hannah's story?
13 Reasons Why has officially been renewed for a third season, it's been confirmed by Netflix and the show's Twitter account. The teen drama series returned for season two on May 18 and judging by the cliffhangers at the end of episode 13, and comments made by the studio and the show-runner, it already looked like a third season was on the cards.
The latest cast member to comment the third season of the show is Hannah Baker the Friendly Ghost herself, Katherine Langford - who will not be returning as Hannah a third time.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she was asked whether she feels like Hannah's storyline is finally over now the lawsuit against the school district is over.
"It was such a wonderful opportunity to tell her story so fully in season one, and I'm really glad to have been asked back and to have been a part of a second season", she told THR.
"I don't know if I can comment on the third season. I don't know if there's going to be a third season. This could have been Hannah's last chapter, but I guess we'll have to wait and officially see."
While there are plenty of other storylines and loose ends left to be explored for season three, 13 Reasons Why without Hannah Baker doesn't quite seem right. And we're sure the studio will be keen to keep the show's biggest star in the show.
So, what could happen in season three and what do we know about the plans for a third season so far? Here's all the info you need to know. WARNING: There are spoilers ahead if you haven't seen all of season two.
-The school district is found not responsible for the Hannah's death and Bryce receives three months probation for sexually assaulting Jessica. Will Bryce face anymore consequences for his actions?
-Chloe finds out that Bryce also raped her but defends him at Hannah's court case. She then discovers that's pregnant. Will she continue to support Bryce and have his child?
-When Clay offers Justin to be adopted by his parents, however, Seth - his mother's abusive partner - is seen watching him. Is he going to do something to Justin? And will Justin go through with the adoption?
-Tyler is beaten up and sexually assaulted by Monty in the men's bathrooms. Will Monty be punished for this?
-Tyler, having been talked out of shooting students at the ball by Clay, escapes in Tony's car. Will Tyler be caught by the police? Where in Tony taking him?
-What happens to Clay? The police are about to arrive at the ball and he's holding Tyler's automatic rifle.
-Jessica & Justin hook up at the ball. Will they get back together?
-Bryce says he transferring out of Liberty High. Will he actually leave?
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, show runner Brain Yorkey said about the possibility of a third season: "I always think there's more story to tell, but I think that depends on viewers and everyone's reaction to it and whether it's important to keep telling the story."
"With the second season, we feel as with the first that we're following the stories of these characters. I do think that our interest in a second season was because we wanted to continue to follow these people," he continued."If there is a future for the show, to me, it's about these characters, and not necessarily a new set of reasons or a new set of tapes. Someone else might do that, but that's not my job to do that."
Has 13 Reasons Why been renewed for season three?
Yes! Netflix have confirmed that the show has been renewed for a third season.
Sonoma West Times & News, a local newspaper in California, has reported that Analy High School, a real school where the scenes at Liberty High are filmed in 13RW, have agreed to allow filming for a third season.
In the piece, they write: "The West Sonoma County Union High School District board on April 11 approved a third licensing agreement with Paramount Pictures that allows the company to film scenes at the Sebastopol High School."
Jeannie Bruneman, the high school district's facilities manager, told the school board that "district staff reported that the filming for both seasons was overall very positive" and that the school could expect approximately $66,000 from the studio to film at the school. Filming would take place between mid-June and end in December. It also reported that the school received $124,000 for season two which included "the rental fee, along with overtime charges and improvements associated with making Analy look like the Liberty High that the show envisioned."
Previously, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Television head Amy Power was asked if the studio would be open to creating a third season and she said: "It's up to [showrunner] Brian [Yorkey]," she said. "We're not going to pressure him to create more seasons if he doesn't feel they are there, but he is already starting to think about what a season three could be."
Things got even more interesting when Brain Yorkey (May 1st) said he felt there was more potential for the characters past season two. "I do think that our interest in a second season was because we wanted to continue to follow these people," he told The Hollywood Reporter.
13 Reasons Why season 3 release date: When would it start?
Considering it took a little over a year between the first and second season, you can expect a third season to drop in spring 2019.
Is there a trailer 13 Reasons Why season 3 yet?
No. Last time, a short teaser dropped about a month after the first season, so you've got a little wait yet.
None of the existing cast have commented on the possibility of season three in any interviews so far but we'd expect all the core cast to return should an offer be made for another run.
Katherine Langford is the only cast member who has confirmed that she will not be returning to the show. In an emotional Instagram post, she said goodbye to Hannah Baker and thanks viewers for their support.


When Joe Buck had a paralyzed vocal chord, nothing was working until he turned to Dr.Erin Shannon.
Energy medicine (EM) combines concepts and procedures from ancient Eastern healing traditions with contemporary scientific understanding of health, wellness and healing. It can be used both as a complementary practice to allopathic (western) medicine and as a health support system in its own right. It is at the cutting edge of both clinical and scientific understanding of the power of the mind body connection and how to better support health and healing, and it reaches into the very heart of being human.
Allopathic (Western) medicine focuses primarily on dis-ease, chemical processes and separate parts of the body. Its primary tools are drugs and surgery. EM focuses on health and wellness and the energetic communications and processes that support the body's chemistry and healing potential. Its primary tools are the client's own energies, the practitioner's healing energies, and ways of assessing how to utilize both for health and healing.
Energy medicine emphasizes self-healing and active support for the healthy flow of one's own energies. Even when used in a clinical setting, energy medicine educates and empowers the client by teaching tools that cultivate and maintain healthy energy habits and vibrant health.
Energy medicine recognizes energy as a vital, living, moving force. EM is both a complement to other approaches to medical and psychological care and a complete system for self-care and self-help. It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders, and it can also promote optimal wellness and peak performance.
Energy medicine at times appears quite simple and Its basic tools are easy to apply. Yet, it is also as complex and delicate as the human body whose health and very functioning depend on the proper flow of energy. Because the methods of EM are so sophisticated that they address dimensions of healing that cannot be engaged by conventional medicine, they provide a powerful set of tools for medical personnel dealing with difficult physical and emotional challenges.
The basics of EM are simple, but very powerful. Energy medicine's fundamental techniques regulate, organize and strengthen a person's energetic foundation. EM is non-invasive, cannot cause harm and empowers people to participate in promoting their own health and supporting their own healing. Energy medicine embodies profound insights about the body's energy system. While incorporating powerful interventions with outcomes can be tacked and evaluated.
In energy medicine, energy is the medicine, and energy is also the patient. EM allows you to heal the body by activating its natural energies; and by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out of balance. Both electromagnetic energies and more subtle energies form the dynamic infrastructure of the physical body and are the most powerful tools for healing available. Please contact Dr. Erin Shannon for more information or to schedule an appointment.
Energy Medicine is simply working with the body's electromagnetic and more subtle energies to promote health and well-being. If the flow is blocked or otherwise disturbed, the body doesn't function as well. In this state, we don't feel as well physically, psychologically or spiritually, and the mind doesn't work as well.
Energy Medicine includes all concepts of energy: light, sound, electro-magnetism, body, mind and spirit. In addition to concepts central to electro-chemical physiology, older traditions of "life force" or "élan vital" are commonly found in the discourses of Energy Medicine. From Taoist alchemy and Chinese Medicine comes the principle of Chi, with its Cosmic and Microcosmic cycles and flows through the channels or meridians in the physical body. From Yogic Hinduism comes the breath or Prana, and the principles of multiple energy vortices in the body - the Chakras, and especially the concepts of multiple bodies beyond the flesh and blood physiological body, conceived in various systems as layers such as the etheric body, the astral body, the emotional body, the mental body, and the spirit bodies.
Many roots and paths have contributed to these ecumenical and syncretic endeavors that are loosely allied around the concept of energy. The psychology of Carl Jung, with his conception of the collective unconscious and especially his emphasis of myth and Kundalini Yoga is a major root. Another main stream is Christian mysticism in its many forms. Christian Science and the spiritual healing practices of both conventional religious denominations and the "New Thought" churches such as Unity and Science of Mind are also threads that underlie various practices in energy medicine. Recent studies on the healing efficacy of prayer are contributing to the resurgence in spiritual healing. Northern European folk healing traditions have come in through Naturopathy and the teachings of skilled healers such as Olga Worral and Hanna Kroeger. On the more intellectual side, the emphasis on Spirit also has roots in American Transcendentalism and from Northern Europe, in German Idealism, which was heavily influenced both by the Hermetic Alchemical tradition coming via the Arabs in the fourteenth century from late Alexandrian Greek culture, and by Chinese Alchemical traditions coming into Continental Europe in the seventeenth century via the Jesuits, such as in the work of Athanasias Kircher. The Hindu Yogic revival in Europe comes in the Nineteenth century such as through the Theosophy of Madam Blavatsky and the later Anthroposophy of Rudolph Steiner, and then again in the second half of the Twentieth century in both Europe and America, as part of the enthusiasm for meditative disciplines and consciousness studies.
The work of Drs. Elmer and Alyce Green in the 1960s with their colleagues at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, pioneered investigations in biofeedback studies and what they preferred to call voluntary control of autonomic physiological processes. The Green's world view and research questions were influenced by their own exposure to traditions of psychic healing in the early Twentieth century and their researches in India in the 1960s, studying the physiology of Yogic adepts and Tibetan Tantric trance meditators.
Recently holistic/energy medicine has come under increasing study by the scientific community. While holistic/energy medicine has existed in various forms for centuries, the current field does not have one absolute definition. The answer to the question "What is holistic/energy medicine?" varies according to the practitioner. There is no standard scientific understanding or precise meaning of these ideas in the Western scientific paradigm, although various explanations are offered for holistic/energy medicine in terms of a vital force or life energy. A new paradigm for researching biology and medicine based on energy information is required to define holistic/energy medicine. (Rubik, 1995) Today, holistic/energy medicine is practiced in many forms. The following is a brief list of holistic/energy medicine specialties.
Guided visualization, deep breathing, focusing on a word or sound, and being mindful of your thoughts are some of the current applications of the ancient arts of meditation and prayer. Some benefits researched by Western scientists include lowered blood pressure, stimulation of the body's immune system, and stress release.
Acupuncture is an ancient form of Chinese medicine. The acupuncturist identifies blockages to the energy flow and opens up the pathways to increase circulation. This is done by inserting small needles into the skin at specific energy points along the meridians. Electro-acupuncture uses the same method with the addition of a regulated low-voltage electric current sent through each needle into the meridians. Acupressure uses no needles, the trained hands of a therapist applies pressure to the nodal points on the meridians.
The movement meditation of Chi Gung sprouted the Western version called, Tai Chi Chaun; this practice is a dance like movement of the hands, body, and feet aligned with breathing techniques. The practitioner focuses on feeling and moving the Chi energy through the meridians of the body. Medical Qi Gong is the root from which many hands-on healing techniques branched out from into the West.
Developed at the Menninger Clinic in Kansas, by Elmer Green, the biofeedback machine operates via electrodes connected to a patient's head and fingers. People learn to control muscle tension, skin temperature, brain wave activity, and blood pressure. A widely used modality and accepted in many medical institutions for it's proven efficacy in treating migraines, high blood pressure and other illness.
Kinesiology interfaces between subtle energy to physical medicine. Basically it is the testing of muscle power at its simplest physical level. Physical therapists and exercise specialists have very detailed manual techniques for evaluating muscle strength. A wide variety of tests may be done ranging from placing an unknown substance in the mouth, to colors, to thoughts that affect the muscle energy.
Flower essences are vibrational preparations which were originally created by Dr. Edward Bach, a British physician, early in the 20th century. Many practitioners believe that the Bach flower remedies or flower essences are among the most popular of the homeopathic approaches. Rescue remedy is perhaps the most popular of all and is said to be of great use in both emotional and physical shocks.
Studies in the application of magnets to the body have reported significant reduction of pain with applications of 11,000 gauss magnets to specific areas of the body. These magnets which have been demonstrated to be of some benefit physiologically and psychologically produce an electromagnetic field which creates a differing electromagnetic response in the area of the body where it is placed. Research has been done with 2500 gauss magnets placed six inches above the top of the head which results in increasing Delta activity deep inside the brain.
Color therapy has scientific evidence to support that application of different colored lights can markedly change chemistry, including oxytocin, prolactin, beta endorphins, etc. Flashing red lights have been used successfully to treat migraine headaches. The Lucia Color Test is a psychological diagnostic based upon one's preferences of up to 156 colors.
The brain can be entrained by sound frequencies just as it can be by light frequencies.The late Robert Monroe has done the best work in this field at his Monroe Institute in Virginia. The Institute has reports of research of marked reduction in pain, as well as many health improvements using pulse frequencies of sound. Music is well documented as an emotional calming agent, as well as can be used in psychotherapy to assist with emotional catharsis.
Another technique was discovered by Reinhold Voll, MD Dr. Voll is a German doctor who found in 1940 that the electrical resistance of the skin decreases dramatically at the acupuncture points when compared to the surrounding skin. This led the Western founders of the current approach to energy medicine. These discoveries created a new field of energy medicine instruments (e.g., Voll Meter, Meridian Stress Analyzer) that have been developed both for assessment and treatment.


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In an effort to simplify the communication, scheduling, and registration process, we will be using TeamSnap for all events. Accordingly, you will be required to create a TeamSnap account if you don't already have one.
If you already have a TeamSnap account, you're good to go.
If you do not have a TeamSnap account, the process is really simple and straightforward. Just click on the registration button for the KAULUKOA event you want to attend. A new page will open and you will be asked to log-in or to create a new account. Create your account. Once the account is created you will be directed to the event registration form. Complete the form. Submit payment. All done.
Also, once you create an account and register for the first time, all subsequent registration will go much faster. In advance, thank you for taking the time to create a TeamSnap account and register for one of our events.
PS – we do not accept in-person payments. All payments must be submitted online. Mahalo.
Use the "Contact Us" link to schedule an appointment.
Koa Keiki is our 11 and under co-ed program that's focused on allowing boys and girls between the ages of 8 and 11 to explore volleyball. The emphasis is on getting kids excited about the game while introducing them to movement, basic skills, and gameplay.
We also consider Koa Keiki our pipeline. Although kids at this age are just exploring the sport, we're committed to building relationships and identifying families that express long-term interest in volleyball. Our long-term vision is to utilize the Koa Keiki program exclusively to create our travel teams that begin at 12 years of age.
The program is run in 3-month cycles (3x a year.) Each Cycle has an open enrollment period of 45 days prior to the start of the coming cycle.
– For each cycle, our goal is to host at least 15 sessions.
– There may be some dates and/or weekends that we don't meet because of gym availability.
– Once you enroll, we will send you a TeamSnap invite. TeamSnap is a platform that helps with communication and scheduling.
– Dates and Times are subject to change.
Classes meet on Saturdays and Sundays at Le Jardin Academy's Wang Gymnasium. Times are TBD.
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The summer series consists of clinics held during summer break. In 2018, we will be hosting the following sessions: Ball Control (serve-receive and defense) and Setters. Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of club, high school, or experience.
All clinic sessions are designed to improve fundamentals and ensure that lots of touches are being delivered to each athlete.
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The 8-week clinic series is held once a year during the summer/fall. This year, we will be hosting the following sessions: Ball Control (serve-receive and defense), Setter, and Boys. The boys' session will cover a variety of skill sets. Everyone is welcome to attend regardless of club, high school, or experience.
Open gym is exactly what it sounds like. We provide a gym, some coaches to facilitate the process, equipment, and a safe environment so that kids from across the island can come in and just play the game they love.
We do provide some structure and guidance, but it's mostly aimed at making sure we provide a safe environment. (SAFETY is our number one concern.) The coaches will start off with a quick warm-up and then they progress into variations of gameplay (3 on 3, 4 on 4, cross-court pepper, 5 on 5 no middles, and/or 6 on 6). Again, our goal is to provide a safe environment and to let the kids play.
WHO CAN ATTEND OPEN GYM?
ANYONE that meets the age and gender requirement. It doesn't matter what school you attend, if you're homeschooled, what club you play for, or who your coaches are…just come to play.
WHY DO YOU GUYS HOST OPEN GYMS?
We started hosting open gyms because we wanted to provide kids with an opportunity to just come together and play. No coaches in their ear. No fear of consequences if they don't perform a technique correctly. No trying to compete for a position or earn play time. Just kids in a gym playing a game they love and having fun!
We also thought it had the potential to help foster relationships amongst the athletes and parents, which might have the side benefit of building a stronger volleyball community. That can only be a good thing.
Schedule to be released soon.


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In this week's parasha, parashat Shemini, we read of the tragic deaths of Aaron's two oldest sons, Nadav and Abihu. The deaths occurred on the greatest day of Aaron's life, the day that the Tabernacle was to be consecrated and Aaron and his sons were to be inducted into the priesthood.
The Torah, in Leviticus 10 states, that the Nadav and Abihu took firepans and placed a "strange fire" on them that G-d did not command. Suddenly, a fire came out from heaven and devoured them both alive before G-d. Moses said to his brother, Aaron,(Leviticus 10:3), "This is what G-d meant when He said that 'I will be sanctified with those who are closest to Me.'" Aaron's response was total silence.
The commentators are perplexed by the statement that, "Your brethren, the entire House of Israel shall bewail the conflagration that G-d ignited." The verse seems to indicate that the entire House of Israel, meaning the Jewish people collectively, has a responsibility and obligation to mourn for the sons of Aaron. The verse does not even seem to set limits. Does "the entire House of Israel" mean that the generation of Nadav and Abihu are supposed to mourn, or that all future generations throughout Jewish history are to mourn?
Many commentators see this as an obligation for all future generations to mourn the death of Aaron's sons. The Netziv, in his commentary on the Bible, Ha'amek Davar, asks how is it possible to expect the People of Israel to mourn for thousands of years for Aaron's sons? After all, there is a great ongoing debate regarding whether, because of their actions, Nadav and Abihu deserved to die a premature death (see Shemini 5776-2016).
The Ha'amek Davar avers that during periods of national mourning and sadness, people may recall their own personal losses and use those moments of national mourning to mourn for them.
The Torah Temimah suggests that the participation of all of Israel in Aaron's pain will make it easier for him to endure, and eventually achieve consolation for his great loss.
Rabbi Shimshon Dovid Pincus in his commentary on the Torah, Tiferet Shimshon, develops these thoughts, poignantly and with great insight.
Rabbi Pincus points to the introduction that is often found in the traditional High Holiday Machzor to the Torah reading on Yom Kippur, which indicates that כָּל בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל , the entire House of Israel, every Jew, until the end of generations, must mourn for the death of Aaron's sons.
Rabbi Pincus points to the traditional custom of giving the mourners their first meal of eggs and lentils, foods that are round-shaped, underscoring that the circle of life is repetitive and that while the sun sets it also rises again. The new generation somehow makes up for the losses suffered in the previous generations. Therefore, one must not overly mourn the losses.
Why then, do the rabbis seem to say regarding Nadav and Abihu that there are to be no limits to the Jewish peoples' mourning?
Rabbi Pincus points out that limits are set for mourning for those who pass away in a normal manner. However, those who pass away prematurely are forever missed because they were unable to achieve their potential or their greatness, and hence become irreplaceable. One who loses a hand, will always feel the loss of that hand.
Rabbi Pincus points out that there are certain types of losses for which mourning is never-ending, such as for the myriad lost in the destructions of the Temples, lives that were uprooted, never to be replaced. Therefore, even though many centuries have passed, mourning will always continue. The small numbers of Jews worldwide is an indication that those who perished for the sanctification of G-d's name can never be replaced.
Some of the losses are not only irreplaceable, they have also unfortunately opened the floodgates of evil against the Jewish People. The mourning for the broken tablets and the burning of the Torah by Apostomus on Shiva Asar B'Tammuz, made the Torah more vulnerable than ever before. The sanctity of the Torah was breached, and the dread of harming it by the enemies of the Torah was much reduced.
Once again, we see eternal lessons that are found in the seemingly insignificant nuances of the Torah text. These lessons are powerful and relevant, and are truly eternal lessons for all ages and for all generations.
Tagged: -The Unending Mourning, 'strange fire', 2017, 5777, Aaaron, destruction of the Temples, House of Israel, Jewish People, Judaism, Nadav and Abihu, national mourning, personal losses, premature death, priesthood, Rabbi Buchwald, Shemini.


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PUBG: the surprise rise of the world's hottest videogame
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Three years ago, Brendan Greene was on welfare in his hometown of Kildare, Ireland, getting an earful from social workers about how he should stop wasting time developing free computer games.
"They were telling me to look for jobs or I'll be cut off,'' says Greene. "I kind of ignored them."
Good call. The ideas he crafted in those days led to what is now the hottest video game in years. Since going on sale in March, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) has sold 13m copies, shattering PC gaming records and surpassing best-sellers like Grand Theft Auto V and Dota 2 in number of users. Giants from Sony to Tencent are clamouring for rights to put the title on consoles and mobile devices.
"It really felt like the universe was looking out for me," says Greene, now 41.
PUBG has arguably risen to be Xbox's most important exclusive for the end of 2017 and that is something that I doubt Microsoft expected
He teamed up with a South Korean game developer called Bluehole to create PUBG, which is like a digital version of The Hunger Games, where 100 players fight until only one remains. The little-known company is now worth 5.2 trillion won (US$4.6bn), up five-fold in just three months, according to 38 Communications, which keeps track of unlisted Korean stocks. Its founder Chang Byung-gyu owns 20% of the company, nearly making him a billionaire — at least on paper.
Chang says his company has had talks with all of the major console companies about bringing PUBG to a broader audience. Microsoft will launch the title exclusively on Xbox later this year. Bluehole is in talks with Sony about introducing a version for the PlayStation after that.
"I don't think anyone in the industry was expecting it," says Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games research at IHS Markit. "PUBG has arguably risen to be Xbox's most important exclusive for the end of 2017 and that is something that I doubt Microsoft expected."
Surprise hit
Surprise hits of such scale are almost unheard of in today's gaming world. The industry is dominated by established developers like Take-Two Interactive Software and Electronic Arts, which crank out predictable updates to franchises like Grand Theft Auto and Madden (in its 29th version). The closest precedent may be Minecraft, the no-frills building game introduced by a solo Swedish developer in 2009.
Greene has had a chaotic career. Trained as a photographer and graphic designer, he married a Brazilian woman and moved to her country in his early 30s. The relationship ended in divorce, leaving Greene unable to pay for a plane ticket home. He lived four hours outside of São Paulo and earned a little more than a thousand reas ($316) a month, designing websites and shooting photos at concerts and weddings.
Brendan Greene
He played computer games to pass time, and, after growing bored of his collection, stumbled into what's known as modding, or tinkering with existing game code to create custom versions. With basic programming skills, he modified military shooter Arma 2 into a survival game inspired by the Japanese film Battle Royale. The premise is simple: 100 players parachute onto an abandoned island, scavenge for crossbows, armour and frying pans, and then kill each other. The last person alive wins. (The plots of Battle Royale and the more popular Hunger Games are very similar.)
Greens's concept took off immediately, and his custom game began attracting thousands of players each week. As is common in modding, Greene didn't charge money to avoid legal conflicts with Arma 2's creators and paid for online servers out of pocket. After eventually moving back to Ireland, he kept tweaking the mod — attracting as many as 70 000 players at peak — until Sony licensed the concept in late 2014 for their own title H1Z1.
I was so happy because I was able to go to the social welfare office and say, 'Look, I don't have to take money anymore'
"I was so happy because I was able to go to the social welfare office and say, 'Look, I don't have to take money anymore,'" Greene says.
Around the same time in Seoul, Bluehole executive producer Kim Chang-han was thinking about survival games and asked Greene to visit Korea. The two hit it off after realising their visions were similar and decided to make a new game from scratch. Development on PUBG began in early 2016 and in March this year an "early access" version went on sale for $30. Despite being ridden with bugs and stability issues, it immediately became a best-selling title on Steam, the world's main PC gaming platform. Players have been hooked by the game's simple concept, realistic design and flexibility.
"It's always different every time," says John Teasdale, an Australian player whose exploits are popular on Twitch. "You can kill people with grenades, melee weapons, different guns. People lay traps for each other. They'll leave stuff in buildings to make it look like they haven't been looted yet. Leave doors open. Use downed teammates as bait. There's just so much room for mind games."
One-hit wonder?
The sudden popularity is no guarantee of long-term success. The industry is littered with one-hit wonders. Plus, Bluehole and Greene have no experience managing games at PUBG's scale and have already botched communication several times. On a Reddit discussion board, nearly 300 000 users share their best plays while bashing Bluehole developers for new bugs.
Copycats are a threat, too. Bluehole this month accused development partner Epic Games of replicating PUBG with the title Fortnite. Ubisoft Entertainment CEO Yves Guillemot said in July his company may pursue similar survival-type games in the future.
In-game footage from PUBG
That hasn't deterred suitors and partners. Console makers like Microsoft will mean a new stream of royalties. Chang has already struck a publishing deal with Kakao Games, affiliated with the maker of South Korea's most popular mobile messenger app.
For China, the world's biggest gaming market, Chang knows he will need local partners. Tencent, the leading game company in the country with League of Legends and Clash Royale, has contacted Bluehole for a publishing agreement and has offered to buy an equity stake. Chang says the talks are promising.
"Tencent can be a very important partner for us," he says, declining to share details.
As for Greene, he's focused on completing work by the end of the year on the final PC version of PUBG, so its fans can upgrade from the early access version. He sees himself working at Bluehole for at least several years and Chang said he wants to offer Greene an equity stake in Bluehole so they have a long-term relationship.
"He's a gypsy turning millionaire overnight," says Chang. — Reported by Yuji Nakamura and Sam Kim, (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP
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import java.util.Arrays;

import com.ait.lienzo.client.core.shape.IPrimitive;
import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.svg.client.shape.view.SVGPrimitive;
import org.kie.workbench.common.stunner.svg.client.shape.view.SVGShapeView;
import org.mockito.Mock;

import static org.mockito.Matchers.anyDouble;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

public abstract class EventViewHandlerTestBase {

    @Mock
    protected SVGShapeView view;

    @Mock
    protected SVGPrimitive child1;

    @Mock
    protected IPrimitive prim1;

    @Mock
    protected SVGPrimitive child2;

    @Mock
    protected IPrimitive prim2;

    public void init() {
        when(view.getChildren()).thenReturn(Arrays.asList(child1, child2));
        when(child1.getId()).thenReturn("child1");
        when(child1.get()).thenReturn(prim1);
        when(child2.getId()).thenReturn("child2");
        when(child2.get()).thenReturn(prim2);
        when(prim1.setAlpha(anyDouble())).thenReturn(prim1);
        when(prim1.setStrokeAlpha(anyDouble())).thenReturn(prim1);
        when(prim1.setFillAlpha(anyDouble())).thenReturn(prim1);
        when(prim2.setAlpha(anyDouble())).thenReturn(prim2);
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My immediate answer was YES!! As much as I love writing novels, there was something really challenging about the discipline of the short story.
This time we invited a couple of newbie writers along as well. We're each responsible for one short story a month. Much easier than the insanity August and I tackled the first time around. The scope of this new project is 4 writers, 12 months, 48 stories. Our only requirement is that it must be speculative fiction of some kind, but under that broad umbrella we'll get to tackle fantasy, sci-fi, and everything in between. We're a month in and I love what the four of us have come up with so far.
Check out my Facebook author page or follow me on twitter for links to all of our stories as they go live each week.


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9/11: Inside the President's War Room es una película documental de 2021 sobre los atentados del 11 de septiembre publicado por Apple TV+ y BBC One. El documental explora las horas inmediatamente posteriores a los ataques desde el ángulo del presidente George W. Bush y quienes lo rodean, y su lanzamiento se programó para que coincidiera con el vigésimo aniversario de los ataques.

El documental incluye entrevistas con el presidente George W. Bush, el vicepresidente Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Andy Card, Dan Bartlett, Deborah Loewer, Joshua Bolten, Ari Fleischer, Karl Rove, el piloto del Air Force One Mark Tillman, Ted Olson y otros.

Recepción crítica
James Jackson escribió para The Times le dio al documental 4 de 5 estrellas al escribir que la presencia del expresidente Bush "por sí sola hizo que este último resumen hora a hora del 11 de septiembre se destaque entre muchos otros, incluso si se siente como la Bush Legacy Foundation relato de su día definitorio ". Jack Seale de The Guardian le dio 5 estrellas y dijo que el documental "da la sensación de estar en la habitación de una manera que pocos documentales han tenido".

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  – official site

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Películas de Apple TV+
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Carl (Karl) Frankenstein was born on February 16, 1905 in Berlin and died on January 22nd, 1990 in Israel. He completed his studies in philosophy and psychology at a Berlin University and the University of Erlangen. During his studies, he was actively involved in Jewish relief organizations. After a period in France, he emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1935. From 1935 to 1965, Frankenstein was a lecturer and faculty member at a number of educational establishments, including the Training School for Social Service in Jerusalem, nursing schools, teaching seminars, Youth Aliyah organizations and the Department of Criminology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1937, he was appointed the first juvenile probation officer in Mandatory Palestine. He served as liaison between the Vaad Leumi and the British Mandate authorities in the field of welfare and education and was also active on behalf of the Vaad Leumi with respect to education and welfare of children from Mizrahi families. At the time of the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948/49, he was appointed head of the Henrietta Szold Institute (National Institute for Research in the Behavioral Sciences) in Jerusalem, which he led until 1953. From 1951 until his retirement in 1969, Frankenstein was a faculty member of the Hebrew University and served as a professor for pedagogy and special education. His principal areas of study were developmental sociology, juvenile delinquency, rehabilitation intelligence, problems in integration of immigrants, ways of thinking, psychology and psychopathy. After retiring from university, he continued with volunteer work, including working as an editor of the journal "Magamot". In 1965, Frankenstein was awarded the Israel Prize in education. Frankenstein's research and thoughts were published in many books, primarily in Hebrew, but also in English and German.
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Micron Announces RealSSD P300, SLC SSD for Enterprise
by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 12, 2010 6:00 AM EST
RealSSD P300
Buying an SSD for your notebook or desktop is nice. You get more consistent performance. Applications launch extremely fast. And if you choose the right SSD, you really curb the painful slowdown of your PC over time. I've argued that an SSD is the single best upgrade you can do for your computer, and I still believe that to be the case. However, at the end of the day, it's a luxury item. It's like saying that buying a Ferrari will help you accelerate quicker. That may be true, but it's not necessary.
In the enterprise world however, SSDs are even more important. Our own Johan de Gelas had his first experience with an SSD in one of his enterprise workloads a year ago. This OLTP test looks at the performance difference between using 15K RPM SAS drives for a database server. Johan experimented with using SAS HDDs vs. SSDs for both data and log drives in the server.
Using a single SSD (Intel's X25-E) for a data drive and a single SSD for a log drive is faster than running eight 15,000RPM SAS drives in RAID 10 plus another two in in RAID 0 as a logging drive.
Not only is performance higher, but total power consumption is much lower. Under full load eight SAS drives use 153W, compared to 2 - 4W for a single Intel X25-E. There are also reliability benefits. While mechanical storage requires redundancy in case of a failed disk, SSDs don't. As long as you've properly matched your controller, NAND and ultimately your capacity to your workload, an SSD should fail predictably.
The overwhelming number of poorly designed SSDs on the market today is one reason most enterprise customers are unwilling to consider SSDs. The high margins available in the enterprise market is the main reason SSD makers are so eager to conquer it.
Micron's Attempt
Just six months ago we were first introduced to Crucial's RealSSD C300. Not only was it the first SSD we tested with a native 6Gbps SATA interface, but it was also one of the first to truly outperform Intel across the board. A few missteps later and we found the C300 to be a good contender, but our second choice behind SandForce based drives like the Corsair Force or OCZ Vertex 2.
Earlier this week Micron, Crucial's parent company, called me up to talk about a new SSD. This drive would only ship under the Micron name as it's aimed squarely at the enterprise market. It's the Micron RealSSD P300.
The biggest difference between the P300 and the C300 is that the former uses SLC (Single Level Cell) NAND Flash instead of MLC NAND. As you may remember from my earlier SSD articles, SLC and MLC NAND are nearly identical - they just store different amounts of data per NAND cell (1 vs. 2).
SLC (left) vs. MLC (right) NAND
The benefits of SLC are higher performance and a longer lifespan. The downside is cost. SLC NAND is at least 2x the price of MLC NAND. You take up the same die area as MLC but you get half the storage. It's also produced in lower quantities so you get at least twice the cost.
SLC NAND flash MLC NAND flash
Random Read 25 µs 50 µs
Erase 2ms per block 2ms per block
Programming 250 µs 900 µs
Micron wouldn't share pricing but it expects drives to be priced under $10/GB. That's actually cheaper than Intel's X25-E, despite being 2 - 3x more than what we pay for consumer MLC drives. Even if we're talking $9/GB that's a bargain for enterprise customers if you can replace a whole stack of 15K RPM HDDs with just one or two of these.
The controller in the P300 is nearly identical to what was in the C300. The main differences are two fold. First, the P300's controller supports ECC/CRC from the controller down into the NAND. Micron was unable to go into any more specifics on what was protected via ECC vs. CRC. Secondly, in order to deal with the faster write speed of SLC NAND, the P300's internal buffers and pathways operate at a quicker rate. Think of the P300's controller as a slightly evolved version of what we have in the C300, with ECC/CRC and SLC NAND support.
The C300
The rest of the controller specs are identical. We still have the massive 256MB external DRAM and unchanged cache size on-die. The Marvell controller still supports 6Gbps SATA although the P300 doesn't have SAS support.
Micron P300 Specifications
50GB 100GB 200GB
Formatted Capacity 46.5GB 93.1GB 186.3GB
NAND Capacity 64GB SLC 128GB SLC 256GB SLC
Endurance (Total Bytes Written) 1 Petabyte 1.5 Petabytes 3.5 Petabytes
MTBF 2 million device hours 2 million device hours 2 million device hours
Power Consumption < 3.8W < 3.8W < 3.8W
The P300 will be available in three capacities: 50GB, 100GB and 200GB. The drives ship with 64GB, 128GB and 256GB of SLC NAND on them by default. Roughly 27% of the drive capacity is designated as spare area for wear leveling and bad block replacement. This is in line with other enterprise drives like the original 50/100/200GB SandForce drives and the Intel X25-E. Micron's P300 datasheet seems to imply that the drive will dynamically use unpartitioned LBAs as spare area. In other words, if you need more capacity or have a heavier workload you can change the ratio of user area to spare area accordingly.
Micron shared some P300 performance data with me:
Micron P300 Performance Specifications
Peak Sustained
4KB Random Read Up to 60K IOPS Up to 44K IOPS
4KB Random Write Up to 45.2K IOPS Up to 16K IOPS
128KB Sequential Read Up to 360MB/s Up to 360MB/s
128KB Sequential Write Up to 275MB/s Up to 255MB/s
The data looks good, but I'm working on our Enterprise SSD test suite right now so I'll hold off any judgment until we get a drive to test. Micron is sampling drives today and expects to begin mass production in October.
fotoguy42 - Saturday, August 14, 2010 - link
Note that all of the read speed tests will not really (at all?) be effected by whether TRIM is supported.
TRIM is there to reset existing sections that have been written to, and then marked as available. Without TRIM, the SSD will have to do that at the same time it is trying to write things down, versus doing it at other times.
vol7ron - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - link
How is it, many years after the fact, that Intel is still one-of (if not "the") best SSD provider?
I don't get why Intel's stock is so low, even though they've had their legal issues. Google's stock goes up/down what Intel's price is on a daily basis.
Intel did the SSD right, straight from the gate. They may have had some glitches and it may have lacked some functionality (like TRIM) or the ability to update the firmware, but their SSDs didn't stutter and they are still top performing in their class.
I am still waiting for the price to drop.
As stated before, my ideal market prices:
256GB SSD at ~$175
5TB HDD at ~$175
andersx - Friday, August 13, 2010 - link
Wait ten years, then add a zero to those capacities.
bok-bok - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - link
Since the dawn of time (or maybe only the Tandy 2000), we have awaited the day when the storage subsystem would cease to be a bottleneck, ruin our marriages, and devour our children.
And once I sat down at a core i5 laptop with an Intel SSD-based RAID 0 array, I felt like that moment had arrived.
I had debated about what I was going to devote upgrade money to in my own laptop, and I was ready to go for more RAM. Then I experienced the performance boost that comes with the price tag, and it stopped being just being a benchmark number on a website.
And now I feel like I was in a state of denial driven by a penny-wise mentality. I mean, we've always known it was the damn disk. Ever since I was a kid playing Hero's Quest on my dad's Tandy, and the game action would halt as the 20mb hard drive started chugging and chirping, loading the next epic encounter, my life has been affected by mechanical storage.
While I appreciate andersx's example, where the capacity needs and related price tag don't scale well, I believe there are countless business/enterprise cases where the expenditure is beyond justified.
I mean, what's your time worth?
Consider your daily business processes; to what extent are they hindered by the various friction you encounter while interfacing with technology? How do you qualify the subconscious effect of all that friction on our well being? And it does have an impact.
Now imagine an office environment where like many organizations, the staff is pushing older workstations - or even newer ones with certain damnably slow antivirus/endpoint protection applications constantly doing read operations on mechanical spindles. I like my A/V app, but I'm still in-f$%*ing-furiated when the startup scan causes my machine to bring time to a halt. Whatever possibly valuable idea I had that motivated me to open my laptop just got away from me when the wave of frustration swept over me. Multiply that by everyone involved in a business process who endures a similar phenomenon.
And of course there's the quantifiable loss of time (your most precious asset and the thing when you run out, you die).
But there's more. It's not a contest against your own price-performance curve; business is a constant competition. Now I'm not suggesting that the lack of an SSD drive is going to topple your empire. But if an organization misses a high-dollar opportunity due to an accumulated competitive disadvantage, then the "will this save me enough time to justify the cost?" question is irrelevant. The fastest horse wins. If you can afford to deploy SSD, then you almost can't afford not to.
I mean, I don't know I found the performance gain to be dramatic enough to justify outfitting every machine in the office with a 40gb SSD drive. Even the 4+ year old ones, even the D310s. I haven't tested the theory yet, but I'm guessing that the oldest computers will probably see the greatest benefit. Provided the caps on the motherboards don't crap out first, that is.
But if they do, just pull the drives out.
After all that it will be the Exchange Server's turn.
It's hard to qualify the psychological impact of friction in our computing environment, but consider how long we've been enduring the storage bottleneck
Iketh - Thursday, August 12, 2010 - link
BRAVO!!!!
LokutusofBorg - Saturday, August 14, 2010 - link
I got my work to agree to a 120GB SSD in my dev workstation and it has proved itself. So I've been pushing really hard lately to start testing PCI-x SSD drives for our DB servers. A single FusionIO drive delivers 6 figure SAN (160 drives) performance. I've been reading lots on this lately, but this article is the one that really got me thinking:
http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2010/03/fusion-io...
Gilbert Osmond - Friday, August 13, 2010 - link
Yes, this year IS the corner around which the storage market is turning. Peak-HDD (a-la Peak Oil) is just about now or has already passed.
The dude over at http://www.storagesearch.com has had the mass-storage market figured out for at least 5 years. Articles he wrote 3 to 6 years ago predicted that SSDs would start to penetrate the mass market around now. His predictions for the next 5 years probably as accurate. No, I'm not a paid shill for his site; I've just read most of what's on it and it's clearly correct.
The widespread adoption of SSDs is underway; spinning HDDs are likely to be extinct within 5 to 7 years, as they themselves made floppy disks extinct in their time. SSD capacities will rise and prices per GB / per TB will only get lower. It's about time.
Necrosaro420 - Friday, August 13, 2010 - link
$600 for 256gb...ill sitck to platters.
Marakai - Saturday, August 14, 2010 - link
I've now been searching for info on this for a while, but can't seem to come up with an answer:
Why is the lack of TRIM not considered an issue for enterprise usage of SSDs?
If the business case outweighs the cost, I'd build an array with RAID10, possibly RAID50.
I lose TRIM. As Anand has demonstrated that leads to big performance drops over time in consumer usage. Why does this not seem to be an issue in enterprise usage - going *purely* by the lack of information on the Intertubes addressing this issue?
Sorry for two comments back to back, but as I'm seriously looking at a pilot project using enterprise level SSDs, these two issues are on the top of my mind:
The second one, besides RAID and TRIM is the question whether we are simply shifting the performance bottleneck when moving to enterprise SSDs in storage arrays.
The storage array most likely will be fibre-channel, or increasingly, trunked giga- or 10giga-Ethernet.
When will that become the bottleneck where the SSD array could deliver the data, but the pipe to the host is too slow? Are we going to go back to DAS? Will Infiniband have its day?


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Q: Splitting pandas dataframe by intervals I have a dataframe containing values for depths in meters looking like this.
  depth   |   value1   |   value2
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1000.11   |   1234     |   1111
1000.23   |   2812     |   1111
1000.37   |   1493     |   2222
1000.91   |   7546     |   2345
1001.01   |   9234     |   3444
1001.12   |   1111     |   1555
1001.26   |   2234     |   4444
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1991.29   |   3333     |   5666

What I would like to do, is to split this dataframe into several smaller dataframes and add them to a list based on the depth column and an inverval of 1 meter(s). So the DataFrame should be split into multiple smaller dataframes where the 1st split would be data where depth column is 1000.11 - 1001.01, 2nd would be 1001.12 - 1002.11 and so on. I managed to come up with a solution that looks like this:
def split_df(df):
    df.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)
    df_list = []
    length = 1
    while not df.empty:
        interval = df.loc[(df['depth'] <= df['depth'][0] + length)]
        end_ind = interval.index.max()
        if not interval.empty:
            df_list.append(interval)
        df = df.drop(df.index[:end_ind+1])
        df = df.reset_index(drop=True)
    return df_list

This solution works as wanted, but I feel like there must be some better way of doing this in pandas. Does anyone have any suggestions to how this can be done differently?

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