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George Bernard Francis Clarke (born 10 October 1951) is an Irish barrister who was Chief Justice of Ireland from July 2017 to October 2021.

Clarke had a successful career as a barrister for many years, with a broad practice in commercial law and public law. He was the chair of the Bar Council of Ireland between 1993 and 1995. He was appointed to the High Court in 2004 and he became a judge of the Supreme Court in February 2012. Following his retirement from the bench, he returned to work as a barrister.

Across his career as a barrister and a judge, he has been involved in many seminal cases in Irish legal history.

Early life and education
Clarke was born on 10 October 1951, in Walkinstown, Dublin. He is the son of a customs officer who died when he was aged eleven; his mother was a secretary. He was educated at Drimnagh Castle Secondary School, a Christian Brothers secondary school in Dublin. He won the Dublin Junior High Jump Championship in 1969. He studied Economics and Maths at undergraduate level in University College Dublin, while he concurrently studied to become a barrister at King's Inns. He was the first of his family to attend third level education and was able to attend university by receiving grants. While attending University College Dublin, he lost an election to Adrian Hardiman to become auditor of the L&H.

He joined Fine Gael after leaving school. He was a speechwriter for Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald and election agent for George Birmingham, he then subsequently, himself, ran for election to Seanad Éireann. He campaigned against the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland in 1983 and in favour of the unsuccessful Tenth Amendment of the Constitution in 1986. He chaired a meeting of family lawyers in 1995 supporting the successful second referendum on divorce.

Legal career
He was called to the Bar in 1973 and to the Inner Bar in 1985. He had a practice in commercial, constitutional and family law. Two years after commencing practice he appeared as junior counsel for the applicant in State (Healy) v Donoghue before the Supreme Court, which established a constitutional right to legal aid in criminal cases.

Clarke represented Michael McGimpsey and his brother Christopher in a challenge against the constitutionality of the Anglo-Irish Agreement, which was ultimately unsuccessful in the Supreme Court in 1988.

He appeared for the plaintiff with Michael McDowell and Gerard Hogan in Cox v Ireland in 1990, where the Supreme Court first introduced proportionality into Irish constitutional law and discovered the right to earn a livelihood. He represented Seán Ardagh and the Oireachtas Subcommittee formed after the death of John Carthy in a constitutional case which limited the powers of investigation of the Oireachtas, which led to the unsuccessful Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution. In an action taken by tobacco companies to challenge the legality of bans on tobacco advertising, he appeared for the State.

Clarke was twice appointed by the Supreme Court for the purpose of Article 26 references. He argued on behalf of the Law Society of Ireland in a referral regarding the Adoption (No. 2) Bill 1987. He was appointed by the Supreme Court to appear to argue on behalf of the rights of the mother in In re Article 26 and the Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Bill 1995. In 1994, President Mary Robinson requested him to provide her with legal advice on the presidential prerogative to refuse to dissolve Dáil Éireann.

He was external counsel to the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse and represented the Flood Tribunal in its case against Liam Lawlor and the State in Charles Haughey's challenge to the legality of the Moriarty Tribunal. He and George Birmingham also appeared for Fine Gael at the Flood Tribunal, and he represented the public interest at the Moriarty Tribunal. He was a legal advisor to an inquiry into Deposit interest retention tax conducted by the Public Accounts Committee, along with future judicial colleagues Paul Gilligan and Mary Irvine.

He was Chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland from 1993 to 1995. Between 1999 and 2004, he acted as chair of Council of King's Inns. He was a professor at the Kings's Inns between 1978 and 1985 and was appointed an adjunct professor at University College Cork in 2014. He has also been an adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin.

Clarke acted as a chair of the Employment Appeals Tribunal while still in practice. He was also a steward of the Turf Club and was the chairman of Leopardstown Racecourse. He was due to take over as senior steward of the Turf Club but did not do so due to his appointment to the High Court.

Clarke was appointed as a High Court judge in 2004. He was appointed to the Supreme Court on the 9 February 2012 and served as Chief Justice from October 2017 until his retirement on 10 October 2021.

Following his retirement from the judiciary, Clarke resumed his practice as a barrister and is currently a member of the Bar of Ireland. Under the rules of the Bar of Ireland, he cannot appear before a court of equal or lesser jurisdiction to that on which he sat as a judge. Given that he was the most senior judge in Ireland, he cannot appear in any court in Ireland. He can appear in the EU courts. However, he has indicated that he intends to focus on mediation and arbitration work.

High Court judge
He was appointed a Judge of the High Court in 2004. He was chairman of the Referendum Commission for the second Lisbon Treaty referendum in 2009. As a High Court judge he gave a ruling, on the Leas Cross nursing home case against RTÉ, that the public interest justified the broadcasting of material that otherwise would have been protected by the right to privacy. He frequently presided over the Commercial Court during his time at the High Court. He was involved in the establishment of two High Court lists in Cork, Chancery and a Non-Jury List.

In the High Court he heard a broad range of civil cases during his eight years serving on the court. He was the judge in cases involving injunctions, personal injuries, judicial review, immigration law, constitutional law, intellectual property law, land law, insolvency law and tax law.

In 2007 he presided over a dispute involving the lease of Bewley's of Grafton Street and unsuccessful claims by Catherine Murphy and Finian McGrath over the composition of electoral constituency boundaries. Beginning in 2009 he oversaw the examinership process of Liam Carroll's Zoe Developments Group and separately an action involving the Irish branch of HSBC related to Bernie Madoff. He sat in a three-judge division of the High Court with Nicholas Kearns and Peter Kelly in 2010 in challenge by Paddy McKillen over the transfer of loans to the National Asset Management Agency. Their decision was overturned in part on appeal to the Supreme Court in Dellway Investment Limited v. NAMA. He presided over hearings arising from an action taken by the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation against Seán Quinn in 2011.

Supreme Court judge
Clarke was first appointed to the Supreme Court in March 2012.

Judgments
Ruadhán Mac Cormaic of The Irish Times said on his appointment as Chief Justice, that Clarke has a "reputation for fair-mindedness and authority, and for judgments that were incisive and clear". He also noted that he tended not to share an "absolute pro-defendant" attitude to criminal law matters with some Supreme Court colleagues, while also having the perception of more liberal positions than other judges on surrogacy and social issues.

The judges of the Supreme Court have frequently relied on Clarke to write judgments for the court in cases involving public law. He delivered the judgments of the court in Kerins v. McGuinness and O'Brien v Clerk of Dail Éireann which clarified the law of parliamentary privilege in Ireland. In 2018 he wrote an opinion on behalf of a seven-judge panel which held that references of "unborn" under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland referred to an unborn child and the rights conferred upon an unborn child were confined to that section. His judgment in Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland "recharacterized" the approach of the Supreme Court to unenumerated rights, instead considering them "derived rights" under the Constitution of Ireland.

He has contributed significantly to the Supreme Court's 2010s jurisprudence on the rights of persons accused of crimes. Clarke wrote the opinion of a unanimous court in a combined judgment of DPP v Gormley and DPP v White, holding that police questioning cannot begin until an accused person has received legal advice. He was part of the majority in DPP v. JC in 2015 where the court departed from its precedent regarding the exclusionary rule in Ireland, with Clarke devising a new test to assess the constitutionality of evidence obtained by Gardaí.

His judgment in Okunade v. Minister for Justice & Others laid down the test for the courts to grant a mandatory injunction. In 2020, John MacMenamin and Clarke co-authored a judgment in University College Cork v. ESB which presented a new authoritative statement regarding liability in negligence in Ireland. His judgment in Morrissey v. HSE developed the law on the standard of care in clinical negligence cases.

Chief Justice of Ireland
On 26 July 2017, it was announced that the Government of Ireland had agreed to nominate Judge Clarke for appointment by the President of Ireland as the next Chief Justice of Ireland, to succeed Susan Denham on the expiry of her term of office. He was the sole name put forward to cabinet for consideration. He applied for the position which included a 500 word application. Upon his appointment, he said it was not "unreasonable" to suggest that he was "socially progressive", while acknowledging his oath of judicial independence. He was appointed in July 2017.

Clarke identified his priorities upon appointment to be to increase access to justice and the legal profession, to improve support and training for judges, and to expand the use of technology in the courts. Some of these priorities were realised with the creation of a Judicial Studies Committee with a High Court judge serving as Director of Judicial Studies and the COVID-19 pandemic causing a substantial increase in the use of technology. He oversaw the first live broadcast of the Supreme Court on television in October 2017. The Supreme Court held sittings in Limerick and NUI Galway in 2018 and 2019, the second and third times hearings took place outside of Dublin.

Clarke serves on a judicial advisory committee for appointments of judges and advocates general to the Court of Justice of the European Union.

In his role as Chief Justice, he was involved in the second inauguration ceremony of President Michael D. Higgins on 11 November 2018 at Dublin Castle. He read out the Declaration of Office for Higgins to sign and then presented the president with his seal of office.

Golfgate
The Supreme Court and Clarke in particular came under significant public scrutiny as a result of the Oireachtas Golf Society scandal ("Golfgate"). In August 2021, Séamus Woulfe attended a dinner organised by the Oireachtas Golf Society in the midst of the COVID–19 pandemic, one month after being appointed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court asked formed Chief Justice Denham to investigate Woulfe's attendance. After the publication of her report, Clarke sought on several occasions to meet with Woulfe. Eventually Clarke published correspondence between himself and Woulfe where he said in his opinion Woulfe should resign. Woulfe did not resign and began hearing cases in February 2021, following Clarke's suggestion to informally resolve the dispute.

Clarke's handling of Golfgate received widespread commentary and mixed reaction. His options to discipline Woulfe were limited as the judicial council legislation was not yet fully commenced. The Director General of the Law Society of Ireland said Clarke's actions were a "misstep" and that "irreparable damage" had occurred.

Retirement
Clarke was required by law to retire on 10 October 2021, his 70th birthday, and in March 2021 the Cabinet began the process of identifying his successor. Donal O'Donnell was selected to replace him. His final day in court was on 8 October 2021, where judges, lawyers and civil servants made a large number of tributes to him. Mary Carolan of The Irish Times said that under his leadership the Supreme Court is "perhaps the most collegial it had been in some time". Following his retirement, he returned to work as a barrister and rejoined the Bar of Ireland, although in line with Bar Council rules, he cannot appear before any court of equal or lesser jurisdiction to the court he sat on, meaning he cannot appear before any Irish court.

In June 2022 he was sworn in as judge of the court of appeal of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts but resigned a few days later following criticism from barrister and Labour Party leader, Ivana Bacik.

Personal life
He has been married to Dr. Jacqueline Hayden since 1977. They sold their house on Sorrento Terrace, facing Dalkey Island, in 2004. They have a son who is a barrister and a daughter who is a carer. He is interested in rugby and horse racing, at one point owning several horses.

References

External links
RTÉ Lisbon Treaty podcast
Irish Times July 30 2009 (subscription required)

1951 births
Living people
Irish barristers
Chief justices of Ireland
Alumni of University College Dublin
High Court judges (Ireland)
People educated at Drimnagh Castle Secondary School
Chairpersons of the Referendum Commission
Alumni of King's Inns


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Protest held to criticize suspension of women's higher education
KABUL (Tolo News): Dozens of women held a protest in Kabul in reaction to the Islamic Emirate's announcement of the suspension of universities for female students.
The protesters called for women's access to education and work, hinting that they would continue protesting until their wishes are fulfilled.
"Based on the statement of the Taliban, which they released yesterday, universities will be closed for an unknown period of time. We are protesting for this and we want to be the voice of the Afghan female students," said Julia Parsi, a protestor.
"We held the protest titled education for all, or education no one," said Basir Hossaini, a protester.
This comes as several religious scholars called on the Islamic Emirate to reopen schools and universities for women and girls.
"From the perspective of Islam, men and women have the right to study, learn and educate. It means they have the right to study and educate," said Ahmad Rahman Alizada, a religious cleric.
"When a human lacks education, how would he know his God? This is education that takes a human out of foolishness and darkness and directs him or her to brightness," said Mohammad Yusuf, a Kabul resident.
The suspension of universities for female students was announced by the Ministry of Higher Education, a decision that sparked widespread reactions at national and international levels.
Only thing all Afghans agree upon is female education: Ghani
Sharia requires you to facilitate girls' education: Sayyaf to Taliban

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package universalcoins.items;

import java.text.DecimalFormat;
import java.util.List;

import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.Side;
import cpw.mods.fml.relauncher.SideOnly;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.texture.IIconRegister;
import net.minecraft.entity.player.EntityPlayer;
import net.minecraft.item.ItemStack;
import net.minecraft.util.ChatComponentText;
import net.minecraft.util.StatCollector;
import net.minecraft.world.World;
import universalcoins.UniversalCoins;
import universalcoins.util.UniversalAccounts;

public class ItemEnderCard extends ItemUCCard {

	public ItemEnderCard() {
		super();
		this.maxStackSize = 1;
		setCreativeTab(UniversalCoins.tabUniversalCoins);
	}

	@SideOnly(Side.CLIENT)
	public void registerIcons(IIconRegister par1IconRegister) {
		this.itemIcon = par1IconRegister
				.registerIcon(UniversalCoins.MODID + ":" + this.getUnlocalizedName().substring(5));
	}

	@Override
	public void addInformation(ItemStack stack, EntityPlayer player, List list, boolean bool) {
		if (stack.stackTagCompound != null) {
			list.add(stack.stackTagCompound.getString("Name"));
			list.add(stack.stackTagCompound.getString("Account"));
		} else {
			list.add(StatCollector.translateToLocal("item.card.warning"));
		}
	}

	@Override
	public boolean onItemUse(ItemStack itemstack, EntityPlayer player, World world, int x, int y, int z, int side,
			float px, float py, float pz) {
		if (world.isRemote)
			return false;
		if (itemstack.getTagCompound() == null) {
			createNBT(itemstack, world, player);
		}
		long accountBalance = UniversalAccounts.getInstance()
				.getAccountBalance(itemstack.getTagCompound().getString("Account"));
		DecimalFormat formatter = new DecimalFormat("#,###,###,###");
		ItemStack[] inventory = player.inventory.mainInventory;
		String accountNumber = itemstack.getTagCompound().getString("Account");
		int coinValue = 0;
		int depositAmount = 0;
		int coinsDeposited = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < inventory.length; i++) {
			ItemStack instack = player.inventory.getStackInSlot(i);
			if (instack != null) {
				switch (instack.getUnlocalizedName()) {
				case "item.iron_coin":
					coinValue = UniversalCoins.coinValues[0];
					break;
				case "item.gold_coin":
					coinValue = UniversalCoins.coinValues[1];
					break;
				case "item.emerald_coin":
					coinValue = UniversalCoins.coinValues[2];
					break;
				case "item.diamond_coin":
					coinValue = UniversalCoins.coinValues[3];
					break;
				case "item.obsidian_coin":
					coinValue = UniversalCoins.coinValues[4];
					break;
				default:
					coinValue = 0;
				}
				if (accountBalance == -1)
					// get out of here if the card is invalid
					return false;
				if (coinValue == 0)
					continue;
				if (Long.MAX_VALUE - accountBalance > coinValue * instack.stackSize) {
					depositAmount = instack.stackSize;
				} else {
					depositAmount = (int) (Long.MAX_VALUE - accountBalance) / coinValue;
				}
				UniversalAccounts.getInstance().creditAccount(accountNumber, coinValue * depositAmount);
				coinsDeposited += coinValue * depositAmount;
				inventory[i].stackSize -= depositAmount;
				if (inventory[i].stackSize == 0) {
					player.inventory.setInventorySlotContents(i, null);
					player.inventoryContainer.detectAndSendChanges();
				}
			}
		}
		if (coinsDeposited > 0) {
			player.addChatMessage(new ChatComponentText(StatCollector.translateToLocal("item.card.deposit")
					+ " " + formatter.format(coinsDeposited) + " " + StatCollector.translateToLocal(
							coinsDeposited > 1 ? "general.currency.multiple" : "general.currency.single")));
		}
		player.addChatMessage(new ChatComponentText(StatCollector.translateToLocal("item.card.balance") + " "
				+ formatter.format(UniversalAccounts.getInstance().getAccountBalance(accountNumber))));
		return false;
	}
}

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Valerie G. Press, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago. Dr. Press earned degrees in medicine and public health from the University of Michigan and completed her residency in the combined Internal medicine-Pediatrics Program at the University of Chicago. She then completed the University of Chicago Hospitalist Scholars Fellowship. Her work primarily focuses on improving patient-centered education for underserved patients with chronic disease and limited health literacy through novel interventions in the community and hospital settings targeted at both patients and clinicians.
During her Hospitalist Scholars fellowship, Dr. Press led the development and implementation of the Chicago Breathe Project that provided inhaler education for 5 Chicago residency programs and 2 community sites serving minority patients with funding from the American College of Physicians Foundation. As part of the Robert Wood Johnson Finding Answers Disparities Research for Change project, she led a systematic review of interventions that aim to improve health disparities and care for minority populations with asthma. Since then, she has built her research program and received additional post-doctoral training through the National Institute of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials fellowship, the Medical Education Research, Innovation, Teaching and Scholarship (MERITS) Program, and the National Institute of Aging Butler-Williams Scholars Program.
Most recently, she completed work funded by an institutional KM1 on the comparative effectiveness of educational strategies (intensive "Teach to Goal" vs. brief in-person or video education) designed to improve hospitalized patients' ability to self-manage their asthma and COPD through promoting correct use of respiratory inhalers. She has since received an NIH K23 to continue this work and expand it to examine the utility of video module education for inhaler use. Dr. Press Co-Directs the University of Chicago COPD Readmissions Reduction Program, is a member of the Society of Hospital Medicine Taskforce for COPD, and is a member of the American Thoracic Society Behavioral Science and Health Services Assembly's planning committee. In addition to her work with lung patients, Dr. Press is also conducting health literacy and vision research, in which she has found that a non-trivial number of patients have poor vision, a risk that is increased in older patients, which also increases risk of worse self-management of chronic disease. Her current work, supported by the Chicago Center for Diabetes Translation Research, is examining the risks of poor vision in patients with diabetes.
Alkureishi MA, Lee WW, Lyons M, Press VG, Imam S, NkansahAmankra A, Werner D, Arora VM. Impact of Electronic Medical Record Use on the Patient-Doctor Relationship and Communication: A Systematic Review. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 May;31(5):548-60. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3582-1. Epub 2016 Jan 19. Review. PubMed PMID: 26786877; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4835363.
Vela MB, Chin MH, Press VG. Advocacy Training as a Complement to Instruction About Health Disparities. Acad Med. 2016 Apr;91(4):449. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001109. PubMed PMID: 27023188; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4817371.
Volerman A, Chin MH, Press VG. Solutions for Asthma Disparities. Pediatrics. 2017 Mar;139(3). pii: e20162546. doi: 10.1542/peds.2016-2546. Epub 2017 Feb 22. PubMed PMID: 28228500; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5330398.
For a more complete list of publications by Valerie Press on the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database, click here.


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This video is about the primary purpose of the passage or, why did the author write the passage? That's essentially the question and what primary purpose means. So let's take a look here at this part that I've exerted from the entire passage. Now, the reason I was able to home in on this, is because the primary purpose is usually located in two places.
It's a combination of what you see in the first paragraph, which is often to give you context. And then most importantly what you find in the last paragraph. And that can oftentimes come at the end of the very last paragraph. What is everything driving towards? So we read the first paragraph which I haven't excerpted here but which essentially says that we've long known that the brain is plastic but it's even more plastic than we maybe thought.
So, we get this part that comes now here at the very end of the last paragraph. To substantiate such a claim about plasticity, researchers must demonstrate more convincingly the relationship between the ability of existing human OD to replace old OD and the speed of myelin generation. Moreover, scientists need to show that myelin regeneration is not the only significant factor to contribute to brain plasticity.
In other words the primary purpose is to evaluate the study and then tell us that they're on the right track but more needs to be done. So to discuss possible findings and ways in which those findings can be made more valid. Now it's really important that I come up with the primary purpose in my own words. The reason it's important is the answer choices are crafted in such a way that they easily distort our thinking.
I oftentimes say don't let the answer choices do the thinking for you. Nowhere is this more true it seems than the primary purpose questions. In which the answer choices are usually pretty vague, where all of a sudden you begin to misinterpret the passage if you read the answer choices without first putting in your own words the point of the passage. But we've done that here.
So, hopefully we could be on guard. Now, before we go there, I want to review really quickly, four things to look for in the wrong answer types on the primary purpose. One is that the answer choice can be too general or vague and that is it it discusses the topic, but then has stuff that is so unrelated or vague. That it's not specific enough to actually tell us why the author wrote the passage in the first place.
Just as something can be too general it can be too specific. Sometimes great trap answers on primary purpose questions are those that are a good primary purpose or summary of just one of the paragraphs. So be careful not to choose something that's too specific or summarizes only one of the three paragraphs of a long passage. Next we have that mentions something that isn't in the passage.
This is one that usually isn't as tricky because it brings in information that wasn't even mentioned. And finally the rotten spot which is a wrong answer choice that we've already gone over is common on the primary purpose. Where everything looks like it's going fine and then they throw in a word or two towards the end that derails everything and makes the answer choice invalid.
So let's take a look here at the primary purpose of the passage followed by five answer choices starting with A. Discuss a new line of research and ways that it can improve our understanding of the way in which the brain functions. I kind of like this, this new line of research, sure, about how the brain is more plastic than we thought.
But let's be on guard. Let's not try to say, oh, I like this about the answer choice, therefore it's correct. Put on our analytical hats and see if we could find what's weak or rotten in this answer choice. Ways that it can improve our understanding of the way in which the brain functions.
Well, that's a little bit too high level. It's probably better in terms of our understanding of the way that myelin regeneration works. And more than that, it's about trying to understand if these researchers were on the right track. The purpose is to say they were, but they need to do more.
And so this, ways it can improve our understanding of the way in which the brain functions, totally misses the point that it evaluated research and figured out or discussed ways that research could be improved. So it is simply too general, too vague towards the end there. B, question the results of the findings of a study by pointing out several oversights on the parts of researchers.
Now, does he question the results of the finding? Sort of, he says they need to go a little bit further. But what are these so called oversights? Does it mention these oversights in the passage? Now you may think, well it doesn't but there must have been some oversights because he doesn't agree with them.
But his purpose is to show or to tell us what these researchers should do in the future to make their findings more valid. But he doesn't actually point out specific oversights. C, evaluate research findings and discuss ways in which these findings are flawed. Does he evaluate research findings? Yes.
Do you stop reading when you get to there? No, you keep reading. Discuss ways in which these findings are flawed. Now to say something is flawed is to say it is wrong. He however or she, the author of the passage says that the findings are tentative, more work needs to be done.
That is not the same as flawed. Therefore we go on to a different answer choice. Because we found that rotten spot, that word flaw. That one word that undid everything. Next discuss a theory and offer up several reservations about the validity of that theory.
Well are they discussing a theory? More or less that the brain is more plastic than we thought. And, then does he offer up several reservation about that theory? Yes. About ways that it can be improved. Now, this doesn't perfectly match up with our answer choice that we thought of originally, but it's not perfect.
And you're going to find this often times on primary purposes that it's not going to be exactly what you were thinking or even that close. It's going to be slightly different, but if it's not wrong, it is often times the best answer. So let's look at E. Is E better than D?
Propose a theory in regards to how the brain is able to grow and regenerate after trauma. Now, this able to grow and regenerate after trauma is very specific to the third paragraph. It's more about the brain's plasticity. And, of course, you could argue the brain's plasticity has, overlaps a lot of that regeneration after trauma.
But wait a second. Propose a theory? He actually evaluates a theory, he doesn't propose a theory. And therefore it confuses evaluating research with the people who actually did the research. So, guess what?


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May 2017 - The description and photos are very accurate. Truthfully, the place was even more beautiful in person! I preferred Unit 5 because the bedroom was in the back, separate from the living quarters, compared to the middle units. Also I loved being on the left side because I think it had a better vantage point. The whole place was fabulous though! Having the kayaks was definitely an added bonus. Everything in the unit worked with no problems so I never had to contact the owner or property manager. During our stay, we went to Caladesi State Park, Botanical Gardens, John's Pass, Pier 60, and played disc golf at Taylor Park. A few of our favorite restaurants were Seabreeze Island Grill, Snappers, Gators, and Sweet Sage Café. So we stayed busy (in a good way) but made it back most every night to get pics of the fabulous sunsets. The landscaping and layout made for some awesome photos. It was so peaceful waking up and stepping outside to take in the views and listen to the ocean waves. Even though most of the units were occupied, everyone was respectful and nice so didn't have to worry about noisy and obnoxious neighbors. I much preferred staying here over a condo or hotel. When I come back, I will definitely stay here!! I have already recommended this place to a few friends/acquaintances. Next time, I will spend more time just relaxing at Bungalow Beach Place but since this was my first true beach vacation/Florida trip, we had to check out multiple things.
March 2017 - The owners did a great job of decorating and furnishing their beach condo. The interior is first-rate (TVs, dishes, linens, etc) and the location on the beach and near restaurants can't be beat. If you can get this unit - do so!


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Xander Bogaerts goes about business in new home
A fan holds up Shane Victorino"s third inning home run ball on top of the Green Monster after he caught it at Fenway Park on Tuesday, August 27, 2013.
By Mark Daniels |
Hours before the Red Sox started their series with the Baltimore Orioles, Xander Bogaerts stepped to the plate at Fenway Park for the first time yesterday. And he did so with a clear mind.
The rookie shortstop didn't think about the high expectations, hitting a pitch off the Green Monster for the first time, or hearing the Fenway faithful chant his name. Bogaerts just dug in and hit the ball over and over again.
"I didn't try to think about it too much," Bogaerts said. "I go to right field normally; that's what I like to do. Just try to be me and not try and stress."
It's that type of attitude that has helped bring the 20-year-old success in his early career. Bogaerts made his major league debut last week during the Red Sox' West Coast trip. He is the third-youngest active major leaguer behind two other phenoms, Washington's Bryce Harper and Texas' Jurickson Profar.
Bogaerts had been in Fenway Park twice before, but never on the field for batting practice like he was yesterday. And though he wasn't in the starting lineup and didn't enter last night's 13-2 rout of the Orioles until he took over at third base in the ninth inning, the promising prospect is ready for anything that comes his way.
"I try not to put any pressure on myself. No expectations. I just go out and play baseball," Bogaerts said. "Try to have fun every moment of it. Once I don't have fun, that's when things start going bad, so just go back and enjoy the game and be me."
Not since the days of Hanley Ramirez has a Red Sox prospect garnered so much attention. After starting this season at Double-A Portland, the shortstop has become a consensus top-five prospect in baseball.
Bogaerts hit .311 in 56 games with Portland and then .284 with nine home runs in 60 games with Triple-A Pawtucket before his promotion to the big leagues. So far, he's started two games with the Sox and appeared in two others as a pinch hitter, hitting .333 (3-for-9).
He said last week was a whirlwind, but exciting.
"It's definitely a lot of differences compared to the minors. I'm really enjoying every moment of it," Bogaerts said. "Thankful that we won a few games. That made it a lot better. I'm just thankful to be here."
Bogaerts said he wasn't disappointed about not being in last night's lineup. His goal is to help and contribute to the team in any way he can. But make no mistake, he isn't planning on going anywhere anytime soon.
He said he wants to make an impact over the last month of the season, and isn't preparing to go home to Aruba until November, after the postseason.
"That's what I'm aiming for," Bogaerts said.
Xander Bogaerts


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Q: search for specific repeats using python an example of the input file:
1  AAcgGGGGGGtacctgt    yes
2  TTcccccctgtAAcgta   no
3  tcgAAAAaatacgacc     no
4  AAcgtataatacctgt   no
...

I want to write a program to scan each sequence and check for monomeric nucleotide repeats (mnr)
example output:
1,AAcgGGGGGGtacctgt,yes
2,TTcccccctgtAAcgta,no

Definition: monomeric nucleotides are: repeats of A,T,C,G(it is not case sensitive)
I'm looking for in a row would be something like this:
AAAAaaAAgtc
or
gtAAAAAAAAAAc
or
aaaaaaAAA
or
aaaaaaaaaa
or
ccccccccccc
or
CCCCCcccCCC
or...
I tried this regular expressions but does not work:
import csv
import re
list=[]
with open('sequences.txt', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f,delimiter="\t")
    seq=re.findall(r'[Aa]{6, }','sequences.txt')
    for line in reader:
        if line.__contains__(seq):
            print(list.append(line))

Any help appreciated.

A: Update: A partial solution using regular expressions has since been proposed. Note that the following solution does not work using regex and instead looks for any sequence of any character of length six or more.
Test data:
number,sequence,status
1,kjhfklashfkldflkhasdfl,0
2,aaaaaljgkldfkjgldkfjgfldj,0
3,bbbbbbjigdfsjgjg,0
4,ccCccCCcjjfijsdfjsdf,0
5,klsjdflsjdfhdddddjnjlkhngjk,0
6,kjkljfhnlasjkdfheeeeeeejjjeeeeeeeeeekjdkljfleeef,0
7,jhfshffFffFFFFffkljjjj908u89,0

Code to find MNR of length 6 or greater:
import csv

def contains_mnr(sequence):
    start_char = "$" # choose a character that is sure not to be in the sequence
    count = 0
    seq_lower = sequence.lower()

    for pos in range(0, len(seq_lower)):
        if seq_lower[pos] == start_char:
            count += 1
        else:
            start_char = seq_lower[pos]
            count = 1
        if count >= 6:
            return True

    return False

with open("input.csv", "r") as input_file:
    with open("output.csv", "w") as output_file:
        reader = csv.DictReader(input_file, dialect=csv.unix_dialect())
        writer = csv.writer(output_file, dialect=csv.unix_dialect())
        writer.writerow(reader.fieldnames)

        for row in reader:
            if contains_mnr(row["sequence"]):
                writer.writerow([
                    row["number"],
                    row["sequence"],
                    row["status"]
                ])

Note that the CSV dialect may have to be adjusted to the system on which the code is running and the data files are generated.
Output given test data above:
"number","sequence","status"
"3","bbbbbbjigdfsjgjg","0"
"4","ccCccCCcjjfijsdfjsdf","0"
"6","kjkljfhnlasjkdfheeeeeeejjjeeeeeeeeeekjdkljfleeef","0"
"7","jhfshffFffFFFFffkljjjj908u89","0"

A: Here you are a compact solution to what you want:
import csv
with open('sequences.txt', 'r') as f:
    reader = csv.reader(f, delimiter=",")
    for line in reader:
        seq_lower = line[1].lower()
        if 'aaaaaa' in seq_lower or 'cccccc' in seq_lower or 'tttttt' in seq_lower or 'gggggg' in seq_lower:
            print(line)

Here I assumed that you are only considering mnrs of a,c,g,t as youre working with a DNA sequence.

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#ifndef BOOST_ICL_TYPE_TRAITS_IS_NUMERIC_HPP_JOFA_100322
#define BOOST_ICL_TYPE_TRAITS_IS_NUMERIC_HPP_JOFA_100322

#include <limits>
#include <complex>
#include <functional>
#include <boost/type_traits/is_floating_point.hpp>
#include <boost/type_traits/is_integral.hpp>

namespace boost{ namespace icl
{

template <class Type> struct is_fixed_numeric
{
    typedef is_fixed_numeric type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, value = (0 < std::numeric_limits<Type>::digits));
};

template <class Type> struct is_std_numeric
{
    typedef is_std_numeric type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool,
        value = (std::numeric_limits<Type>::is_specialized));
};

template <class Type> struct is_std_integral
{
    typedef is_std_integral type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool,
        value = (std::numeric_limits<Type>::is_integer));
};

template <class Type> struct is_numeric
{
    typedef is_numeric type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, value =
        (mpl::or_< is_std_numeric<Type>
                 , boost::is_integral<Type>
                 , is_std_integral<Type> >::value) );
};

template <class Type>
struct is_numeric<std::complex<Type> >
{
    typedef is_numeric type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, value = true);
};

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
template<class Type, class Compare, bool Enable = false>
struct numeric_minimum
{
    static bool is_less_than(Type){ return true; }
    static bool is_less_than_or(Type, bool){ return true; }
};

template<class Type>
struct numeric_minimum<Type, std::less<Type>, true>
{
    static bool is_less_than(Type value)
    { return std::less<Type>()((std::numeric_limits<Type>::min)(), value); }

    static bool is_less_than_or(Type value, bool cond)
    { return cond || is_less_than(value); }
};

template<class Type>
struct numeric_minimum<Type, std::greater<Type>, true>
{
    static bool is_less_than(Type value)
    { return std::greater<Type>()((std::numeric_limits<Type>::max)(), value); }

    static bool is_less_than_or(Type value, bool cond)
    { return cond || is_less_than(value); }
};

//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
template<class Type>
struct is_non_floating_point
{
    typedef is_non_floating_point type;
    BOOST_STATIC_CONSTANT(bool, value =
        (mpl::not_< is_floating_point<Type> >::value));
};

}} // namespace boost icl

#endif


Shanghai is one of the fastest moving metropolises in the world, where thousands of years of Chinese history are swept up into what is now one of today's premiere cultural capitals. Hai Pai, which translates to Shanghai style, speaks to the way the city combines old with the new and east with west. This design concept is perfectly encapsulated at W Shanghai – The Bund which recently opened its doors to unveil an array of electrifying interior designs.
The Welcome Desk features a kaleidoscopic fixture, mirroring the constant flow of guests through the area.
Combine inspiration from Shanghai's historic local life while transporting guests to the future. The result? A perfectly postmodern dreamscape. Here are some of our favorite design elements seen throughout the hotel.
Metal Curtains above the Living Room mimic garments found hanging throughout the local streets of Shanghai.
Eli Sudbrack & Christophe Hamaide-Pierson.
Powder coated aluminum chain, aluminum supports, granite, fiber optic.
For the centerpiece of the W Shanghai's Living Room, colorful metal curtains are draped from the skylight above. For centuries, Shanghai-locals have honored the Lilong tradition, in which wet laundry is hung on lines to dry at varying heights down narrow laneways. This unique art installation offers texture and movement as it plays with light to bring never-ending contrast to the space.
YEN showcases the next evolution of Cantonese dining where traditional dishes are reinterpreted.
Digital LED screen & custom graphic programming.
YEN, W Shanghai's signature Chinese restaurant, offers a modern twist on the fish tanks you see at traditional Chinese restaurants. LED screens flash vibrant displays of color, including a mischievous shark who is a guest favorite.
Sun umbrellas on the WET Deck at W Shanghai.
Graphics printed inside sun umbrellas.
Walking around Shanghai, you'll often see groups of people exercising at the park in a harmonized dance. On W Shanghai's Wet Deck, colorfully illustrated sun umbrellas reflect these and other collective motions of city life. With references to Shanghai glamor of the 1930's, synchronized swimming girls in qipao dress are mixed with geometric patterns to create a timeless poolside ambiance.
The Kitchen Table offers epic views of the Huangpu River and iconic Pudong skyline.
The Hongkou District of Shanghai was known as 'Bamboo Town' in the 1930's when homes were built on wooden stilts along riverbeds to protect from the marshland below. These days, bamboo is still often seen in the scaffolding of the ever-evolving Shanghai skyline. At The Kitchen Table, designers remember the city's humble past while looking to its industrial future with electroplate brass lighting fixtures shaped as bamboo.
Illustration printed on black handmade tiles.
The Kitchen Table is a great place to grab a bite or even just hang out with a cup of coffee as you look out upon the Shanghai skyline. Here the walls are adorned with a vast mural called "Hongkou Tales." The illustrations commemorate legends of the past 100 years of the Hongkou District.
The Kitchen Table is inspired by a modern New York bistro and celebrates the legacy of Shanghai's flourishing trade.
Concrete base plated with gold leaf.
The Kitchen Table is also adorned with gold totems that show off the most iconic elements from the streets of Shanghai, from bike handles to bird cages to traditional soup bowls. You'll also see golden molds of local cuisines like roasted pig and fish. The totems are unique symbols of everyday life in Shanghai and leave guests totally immersed in the city's culture.


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Waterpower
Remembered, forgotten, and remembered again.
Shaun Costello
In the fall of 1976, America's bicentennial year, I was in the midst of moving from my rent controlled apartment in Manhattan's East Twenties to a farm in the tiny hamlet of Krumville, about ninety minutes north of the city. During the first week in September, my girlfriend Harriett, myself, my dog "Miss Coney Island", and our three cats – Spiegel, Fatty, and Rose, all squeezed into the confines of a U-Hall truck, and made the trek to the foothills of the Catskill Mountains. I had made arrangements for our two horses to be shipped from the barn in New Jersey, where we boarded them, and delivered to the farm the following week. Before the unpacking even began, the phone rang. It was Sid Levine from Star Distributors. He needed to see me right away, very important, couldn't wait. So I left the unpacking to Harriett, got in the car, and made the drive back down to the city.
Star Distributors, my main source of income in those days, was the porno unit of the DeCavalcante crime family. In the beginning, I only dealt with Sid Levine, but after three years I had become Star's largest single supplier of feature product and, one by one, the major players revealed themselves to me. Robert (Dibi) DiBernardo, a Capo in the DeCavalcante family, was the boss. Teddy Rothstein and Andrew (Andre) D'Apice worked under him, and each of them handled a different part of the business. I guess, for legal reasons, they were seldom seen together in public, and even had offices in different buildings. Two of these buildings, where Dibi and Andre rented space, were owned by the husband of Geraldine Ferarro, a fact made public when she ran for Vice President. By now, my presence was so familiar that, often when Sid called me down for a meeting, Andre, or even sometimes Dibi himself, would stop by to say hello. These guys were not cowboys. Dibi was a well dressed, soft spoken, polite businessman, and he ran Star that way. When I first found out that I was dealing with the Mafia, I have to admit to a few anxious moments, but my fears evaporated quickly. I was a rare commodity in their world, a completely dependable supplier. They needed me, and acted accordingly. They were not the violent end of the Cosa Nostra, they were businessmen. In all the years I dealt with them there was never a problem. They paid promptly for a product that was delivered on time and on budget. The danger of dealing with gangsters, which both scared me and thrilled me, never really materialized. At least not yet.
Sid was looking grim when I got to his office, and he didn't waste any time. "Look, I'm a grandfather and I'm ashamed to have to ask you this, but they need an enema movie." I didn't want to break the mood so my inner chuckle never surfaced, but it was close. An enema movie????? Sid had been given an audio cassette recording of something called "The Enema Bandit", which had a scene in which an effete Doctor, assisted by an evil nurse, gave an elaborately staged enema to a bound and gagged young girl. On the tape, he announced that he was going to use a device called the Bardex Inflatable Nozzle. So I'm thinking that this just might be the funniest single thing I'd ever heard, but of course I didn't tell this to Sid. Evidently this idea came from a magazine article, alleged to be a true story, about an enema fetishist who went on a cleansing spree on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana, and forcibly administered enemas to coeds. He was convicted on felony assault charges and was presently serving out his sentence at their state penitentiary. Because no actual rape had been involved, only a cleansing procedure, a kind of celebrity status was claimed by the "Enema Bandit's" victims. Hoping to be interviewed by the press, co-eds left their dorm room doors unlocked, in order to make the notorious "Bandit's" enema spree easier for him. After all, it was only water.
"Look, it's a true story", claimed Sid. "You've got to help me here. Dibi thinks a movie about this stuff will make a bundle". Dibi was Sid's boss, and what Dibi wanted, Dibi got. I told Sid not to worry – that I would go through all the material he had given me, and I would come up with something. So cassette and magazine in hand, I headed for the elevator. The door slid open and there stood Dibi, and the conversation went something like: "Hey Shaun, how's it shakin? You speak to Sid?' I nodded yes. "Look, I don't want to know about this thing. You just do whatever Sid tells you. I don't want to see it. I don't want to know about it. I don't want to talk about it. OK? Understand? I don't want anybody to know I was involved in this thing. OK? Got it?" So Sid was ashamed of it, Dibi didn't want to know about it, and I began pre-production on what, until this day, is still considered to be the most outrageous porno film ever made.
The answer print of "Waterpower" was never seen by Sid Levine, Dibi, or anyone else at Star Distributors. I simply described it over the phone to Sid, who whispered, "What do you think? Is it good? Don't let me down now". I told him it was fine. That he was getting what he asked for. So an embarrassed Sid Levine called the lab, and made the release print order, and a film that none of them had ever seen went into distribution.
"Waterpower" opened to empty houses wherever it played. Theater owners were scared of it, and audiences didn't know what to make of it, and I was not surprised by either. I had seen Scorscese's "Taxi Driver" just before Sid asked me to make the picture, and thought that my friend Jamie Gillis would make a great Travis Bickle, only on foot, prowling Manhattan's jungles, looking for evil bitches to cleanse. I used Taxi Driver's diary voice-over narrative, and even some of Bernard Herrmann's music score. Stealing music was one of my specialties, and I never got caught. Dibi had said to me, "Just make the thing", and that's exactly what I did. Since I would be making this movie without parental supervision, I was free to turn it into a parody of itself. I wrote a ludicrous script, hired my favorite actors; Jamie, Marlene Willoughby, and Rob Everett, and went about shooting what I still think is the funniest movie I ever made. Of course, there was always the chance that Dibi and the boys Downtown would catch on to what I was doing, and I would sleep with the fishes, but I didn't think so. I had long-before made a friend of living with risk, and with "Waterpower" I was willing to go the distance.
The edited negative that I delivered to Guffanti Film Labs was 71 minutes long, 70 being the minimum length for a feature film in distribution on the Porn Circuit in those days. I shot the picture on 16MM film, in four days, for a total budget of $16,000. Post production took another six weeks. Delivering a watchable 71 minutes for only $16,000 was impossible, but I was satisfied if I could get away with a scene or two that somehow worked from beginning to end. I had written some deliciously absurd dialogue, and Jamie, Marlene, and Rob did wonders with it. Jamie's reading of the "Bandit's" diary narration may be the best piece of acting he ever did.
After two years in distribution, and not having even recouped its meager negative cost, Waterpower was shelved, until somebody at Star Distributors came up with the questionable idea of re-releasing the picture under a different director's name. While Cosa Nostra families had their differences, sometimes violent, the enormous profits that they shared from organized crime's huge involvement in pornography went smoothly. By 1978 the DeCavalcante family's porn interests had been merged with the Gambino's, creating an international empire of smut. The Colombo family's profits from pictures like "Deep Thoat", and "The Devil in Miss Jones", both made by director Gerry Damiano, were gigantic. It was well-known that Damiano was wholly owned by the Colombo's and did what he was told, and my old friend Dibi, now a Gambino Capo, was certainly aware of the huge profits that Gerry's two movies had made for the Colombo family. This was the era of "Porn Chic" in New York City, and Damiano had made the television talk show circuit, and his name had become known to the public. Robert "Dibi" DiBernardo, representing DeCavalcante/Gambino interests, made the request to the Colombo family to borrow Damiano's name, in order to insert it as the Director's credit, on the re-release of the so-far unsuccessful "Waterpower". Dibi now had a semi-famous director's name for his enema epic, but he didn't stop there. He ordered the people at Star Distributors to dip into the out takes and add 15 minutes to the length of the picture. This was a common practice in those days. If a picture didn't work at 71 minutes, re-release it at 86 minutes, and hope that the increased length will make the difference at the box office. Of course, it didn't. Waterpower was unwatchable at 71 minutes, and was now unthinkable at 86. Scenes that I had left on the editing room floor because the acting was so atrocious were now re-inserted to make the film longer. These guys were not rocket scientists. They thought that Damiano's name, and the new, hideous length would do the trick. It didn't.
After another unsuccessful year in distribution, Gerard Damiano's 86 minute enema epic "Waterpower" was pulled and shelved. Dibi had a partner in many porn projects named Reuben Sturman who, along with associates in Europe, ruled a worldwide porn empire from his headquarters in Cleveland. Sturman took "Waterpower" off Dibi's hands, re-titled it "Schpritz", and opened it in the Netherlands and Germany. Bingo! It was an overnight sensation, and became a worldwide cult hit in Europe, and in Japan. I guess our European cousins must have kinkier tastes in movies. "Waterpower", which had terrified theater owners, and puzzled movie-goers in America, was now the cinematic toast of the Continent, playing to sold-out art houses, and Champagne Openings all over Europe.
Thirty-three years after I made it for Sixteen Thousand Dollars, "Waterpower" has developed a world-wide cult following. Robert "Dibi" Diberdardo was shot in the head in 1986 by Gambino hit man Sammy "Bull" Gravano, and died, as far as I know, never having seen his enema epic. I saw a recent French DVD release of the picture, which was transferred from good source material. The picture quality was acceptable, considering its age and, while unwatchably long, it still had its moments. Marlene Willoughby's engaging habit of raising her left eye brow when making a conversational point was as hilarious as ever, and Rob Everett was as funny as I remembered. And Jamie – well I guess Jamie will always be either cursed, or blessed, as being forever remembered as Burt, the Enema Bandit. As for me, I have to admit to a chuckle or two, while watching some of the dialogue. After all – it's still the funniest movie I ever made.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JK8GiGaF8k
(The above link is Randy Squalor's "Waterpowered" video)
This entry was posted on October 11, 2010 by shauncostello. It was filed under Fiction and non-fiction from Shaun Costello, Uncategorized and was tagged with Directed by Shaun Costello, Films of Shaun Costello, Jamie Gillis, Mafia, Robert Dibi DiBernardo, Schpritz, Shaun Costello, Shaun Costello's Blog, Sid Levine, Taxi Driver, The Gambino Crime Family, Vile Humours, Waterpower.
Amazing story and thanks for sharing it!
By the way: Waterpower is still shown in cinemas in Germany. Next week, a theatrical showing of the German 35mm copy is scheduled in Munich, for example. The movie is everything but forgotten.
shauncostello
Hi Basti. I only now got your comment. Not sure why. What do you know about the 35MM print that played in Munich. Do you know the theater or the name of the distributor?


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The Defense Department announced today that the convening authority, Office of Military Commissions, referred charges to a military commission in the case of "United States v. Abd al Hadi al Iraqi."
The charges allege that Abd al Hadi, as a senior member of al Qaeda, conspired with and led others in a series of unlawful attacks and related offenses in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and elsewhere from 2001 to 2006. These attacks and other offenses allegedly resulted in the deaths of U.S. and coalition service members. Specifically, the charges allege that –
The charges allege that following his tenure as commander of al Qaeda's insurgency in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Abd al Hadi continued to participate as part of al Qaeda leadership and was ultimately assigned by Usama bin Laden to travel to Iraq to assume a position among the leadership of al Qaeda's insurgency there.
Abd al Hadi is also charged with knowingly conspiring and agreeing with Usama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders to commit offenses triable by military commission, to include: terrorism; denying quarter; using treachery or perfidy; murder of protected persons; attacking protected property; attacking civilians; attacking civilian objects; and employing poison or similar weapons.
The convening authority referred the charges to a non-capital military commission. In accordance with military commission rules and procedures, the chief trial judge of the Military Commissions Trial Judiciary will assign a military judge to the case, and Abd al Hadi will be arraigned at Guantanamo within 30 days of service of the referred charges upon him.
The charges are only allegations that the accused has committed offenses punishable under the Military Commissions Act, and the accused is presumed innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
More information, including the relevant charge sheet, is available at the Office of Military Commissions website at http:/www.mc.mil.
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Like, do they disappear after they take effect?
WHAT HOW COULD YOU TYPE SO FAsT? heh heh. Not all caps.
Yes, they do. I use them all the time in the battle subway. Say i have a Zorua with Eject Button. After it attacks, it switches out and once it gets switched in again and attacks, the effect of the eject button won't work because its one time use. Same with red Card. I know this from experience. The Absorb Bulb, i do not use but it says in my bag that it is a one time use.


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it's wicked banter. Happy Sunday. You apps like gronk clapping the end of the week. Whichever one you prefer. How are we all?
Feeling very good. Great to be here wanted to make an apology. Would you say yesterday? Well, I got on the discord. Yeah. And, uh, first of all I mentioned, you know, Brees, psychologists appointment sort of out of school went into details about you know, some domain names and things like that. Okay. Yeah. That's I want to apologise about that. Yeah. Yeah, there should be some sort of privacy there. discord as well. I did mention about one gronk who is currently on the dating scene.
Okay. I mentioned some stuff around that. I mean, I mean, we are All Powerful when helping people find love. Look at tips. Look at the weekend away. He's gonna have with these new flame flame of how many days you've surely on the day count still? Oh man was it was April 11. Okay, so you do the math, or Siri can do the math. It's like, yeah. Whichever one you had it, you had a count up to about 30 days.
Yeah. And then you finished it. Any maths beyond that.
So yesterday, I kind of held off based on wanting to understand at a sort of more granular level, about the weekend away that you're going to week, sorry, one week. One ways seven days, that you're going to have a way with grace when she comes to Melbourne to leave. I mean, you've made some commitments. Are you up for sticking to them? Yeah, and no, this is not great. commitments to rod Yeah, not not definitely, definitely.
I think it's gonna be crowded.
Can you recap what you what you've sought what the deal is that you've closed?
Also in return for staying at rods place there needs to be in Bay. It's not just rods.
Do you know if you got the whole place? Yeah, yeah. Oh my god.
We did I was filming a interview series for a client in Fitzroy and this is someone who I, who I know who organised it. She was the producing person behind it and she I saw her that night. And she said, fuck, I got to this place. And I it's too good to be true. Because I thought I had the whole place. It was a Sherry so and she hadn't said how many people were going to be on this film shoot she told them there's going to be a film shoot in the property. I was like transparent. Yeah. But not to the, to the degree of how many people, people coming and going all day. And the woman was home.
Yeah, that's all good. I've done. You've done what do you mean?
Like the first Airbnb I ever got was in Berlin. And I was with staying with my mate Harry, who's Australian, but he knows how to speak German because he's been over there for a few years. And I was like, Hey, can you get me in a bit mean Hana or over there? Can you get us an Airbnb for the next week? And so he was on the site, and it was like going through the things and like, Yeah, this one looks good. But it was all in German. And we thought was great. How did like a corner balcony was pretty cheap. got there, like rocked up. And the guy was showing us around, and then we like walked in. He's like, walked into the toilet. And there was like this weird picture there. And he's like, oh, one rule. Boys. You have to sit down to weigh
Okay, that is preside.
He can't tell me what to do yet
and I was like, Okay, let's be weird. And then kept showing it like that.
gets the best angle. Bah bah.
no accidents please.
It was fun and then he showed us into our room okay. Pretty good. And then he just went out and just sat on the couch
sitting in the literally just both of us was sitting on the bed for like an hour just going on what we gonna say we're just gonna be like,
who's like took us an hour we literally sat there was like, What do we do? Like we booked in this place for like a week or whatever three nights and three different ways
I think I was awake okay. Yeah and and then to like guy just go ask him so like walked out into laughter just sitting there watching TV.
very bad.
It's a comedy.
And that's what I said. Hey.
So are you How long are you going to be here for are you going You staying here? Yeah, like you've booked that book that room. I was
like oh it's been a bit of a misunderstanding like and then we had we just like when we we can't stay here we're gonna get back to that mates house and we just lost all the money and we were planning on doing the job
was it the piecing sitting down?
just didn't want to stay with a random guy would rather stay with that friend. I've stayed with great great randos yeah
stay with Mike
yesterday's tried Valley and ya know so he showed me around Pixar when he was working there.
Yeah, that's nice. Yeah, no, man no problems but we know but what's your problem with
like no problems and I will have to leave like my you obviously understand that we can stay
with you because we were leaving a friend's house out of like, peloton as well. Okay, I think we're feeling like we've missed that. Welcome. for like a week now. We get one more we can barely and Eric We should go get our own place and no like no don't worry about it stay stay. That's why
you might the book that to be honest if you didn't book it, and I said then so then we got to the Airbnb and we like we've got to go. We're not we're not staying here calling back up. But we come back, came back and stayed stayed in the house for another week. Yeah. Wow. All right. Well, I don't think this is gonna happen to you since this is a whole house. If not this. If anything, there's too much room and there's bunk beds for Josh and I.
Yeah, it's legit bunk beds. So maybe the final the final day, we could come down and help with some drone footage. Right.
We can just take my drone. I don't care if he crafts it.
done the way I set up. Yeah,
yeah, but you would have to repair process now. So what's so what's the sort of comms been with with rod since taking over? I mean with since taking on the deal that he's offered
you I mean, so the deal is in return for staying there. We need to do I need to do a shout out on the show and also produce a bit of content off the place. Yeah, with a bit of content.
What does that what does that actually mean? Well, so this is what's a bit loose.
So I mean, I think it's a it's a variety of like, a couple of photos, a couple of video, like, just just
I don't know, they're all gonna happen on the last night.
You know how your phone like Brody somehow gets into my photos and then presses this button and it makes a movie out of the photos. Like live it's I don't know. It's like a city that has like lights highlights. soundtrack to it. I could do that. Funny. I'll make a deal with you. Okay, because I don't want to disappoint rod No. Sounds like he's an absolute guy. Like I jumped on and saw the price of awakened that joint. Yeah, it's not cheap. It's not cheap at all. How I'll make a video I will edit the video you just need to get the footage I can we do a sit down interview you and I were you telling me about the place
real estate style video so not for this one but I like the idea of the gimbal out that's exactly I reckon rod if you can, so outside of the sibs can do his own deal but what we would like to do is a deal Yeah, he's a will go down and shoot for a day or whatever may stay
one night one night not Yeah.
And we can get Georgie Boy, you can be wearing a suit gimbal the whole thing. But you've also got to like I was watching. Like, that sort of architects digest. Yeah, yeah, just like a couple of nights ago and they go into crazy amounts of detail like you know, the marble. I like The idea of you bullshitting the whole thing materials made up this important sauce fine. Yeah This was all from the Titanic
nothing nothing true. Yeah guys in the visuals that you're seeing Yes. Yeah, I love that I love the idea. I think it'd be great video but in saying that the first video I can make it a part of my TJ daily
series I say what you've done and I think
you just have to think about
what you need to own until a client video becomes a TJ
was willing to pay we got the first 500 if you want to pay 500 bucks for the megaphone you get a video yeah.
thrown in or so you you're looking after the the megaphone you one kill your friend yet
so I'm in control of this bad boy no one touch it.
Because I've already told you often not. Yeah. So when you use it for comic without you using Yeah to be putting the megaphone to the microphone. I definitely will.
But I've never seen nothing comical about what I was made just sort of speaking into it. I will do it later. I yelled at George off mic with it had the impact I needed and I wanted and so the video you've committed to that do you feel that you've over committed
now I just
yeah, I made the Yeah, the video the video stuff. I mean, I I can't film and really edit at all. So you've had you've got an iPhone 11 Yeah. I can do the photos.
Does he want photos? Or does he want content?
Okay, you can do a blog post.
Your price, what's crisis taking? right what's great. You can feel what
you can do and you Every day,
a client video for us I had to go in and fix it. But if you did well, no you did. I think you're
right if there's a story you've created, you can do this stuff.
How about you film do selects and then I'll cut it. Like into one of my videos. I keep
cutting to the music special.
Yeah, I actually think it's a funny video if you just did it from your highlights in yet. I yeah, it's actually not bad. Sometimes. I'm impressed. Could
you do? Could Georgie boy do a hump day Replay of the Week? So if you filmed a bunch of stuff, that is awesome. I mean, how about an integration using some of the so with Sam's not being in the studio rather than the guest, but at the end, you can be like, and he's a highlights package of Sam's. Yeah.
So you need to create I think, Georgie Boy, you need to create a shot list, the sense of the types of content that you want. So I think It's like, slow mo shot of him and grace running on the beach.
Look, that one is actually some stock footage. stock footage vibes from a bay in Bay. That's the series. It's like capital in front, we can write the scenes capital in front of fire drinking red wine without notice.
And so the the
blade gallery like what's their Instagram?
So it's beach house, Blake airy. And I've already he's already put content up on there. Yeah. And it looks dry. It's just looks. Yeah, it looks stunning. So I just yeah, I mean, I'm just cautious about that delivery, because I just want to make sure it's right. upholding the value. Yeah. Well, I mean, I looking to where we could go for our anniversary. Or wedding anniversary. This one is a that would be July time. So wedding anniversary in Georgia was up July. You got married? July. That's right. Yeah. And then August. Yeah.
Do you remember when you were like first in the relationship where you'd count months? And that was anniversary? I remember people get very critical. Yeah, you call it an anniversary it's like our nine month anniversary.
Absolutely not anniversaries once every 12 months. Did you hear that Georgia boy?
Yeah, definitely. I did.
It was a period that was our must Oregon suddenly been in the last five years or something that someone there was some good comms around it not being
I wanted to apologise to George's quickly because my screensaver just came on because I i've criticised Georgie boy a lot about the screensaver I kept my display on but I didn't change my screensaver settings. And so you so you did the whole every month got
me something. Oh, what was I? No, absolutely not a bit older in that relationship. It was more the younger relationships. That you'd be celebrating three months. Yeah, big one, too. The big one wake wake.
I mean serves celebrated his 20th day. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it was. I mean, you've lost count though so there isn't Yeah, that day count that stops
Yeah. Laughter I think we're about 50
We're almost a 50 Oh, that's just doing good. It gets windy there and we're if you know the day the amount of days Yeah,
what's weird is so you're slightly soft on your camera. By the way. It's I know it's focused on the focused on the mic.
That's crispy there. We got someone someone's messed with it. I just didn't fix the setting. This is a this is an interesting one. From the day I've met Amy. There is there is. There's not a day I haven't spoken to her
show, which I think it's probably you to say it sounds poetic, but
trust me, I thought it was You can get it through. I said, From the day I feel from the day from the moment I've met you, I haven't stopped. Stop thinking about you at least once a day. I think I dropped the last bit and you thought
it was real sweet. When was it? Was this a six month mark? Or is this just now two
weeks, two weeks away? stuff it is. It is a weird thing that you meet somebody and you just every fucking day they're in your mind. Kind of cool is cute. I mean, I feel like
like being in the experience he's in right now. What have you learned about love? Just give us a bit some poetry
Hey, something might not have said he loves it. So let's just keep it Have you. Don't let it just happen. But it all just happened. What have you learned about love? Let's just go there. And
it's, I think, I think it's just lovely. Having some it's lovely having someone there. Like I just it's It'll like it's it's, yeah, it's sort of like a bet. It's a best friend that you can just talk about whatever you want to, and you can just hang out with and it doesn't. There's no
there's no risk. Like, you can just pick up the phone and call them in FaceTime anytime. Like, I think I think that's the bit that's the nicest. It's just like, out of the blue. It's like, Ah, what accessibility accessibility. Accessibility is
having access. Right access, isn't it? Like it's fulfilling a need, like, pay me insurance? We'll answer the phone with you.
Yeah, I mean, that's just if that's what you're seeking, that's all I'm saying. On the person on the water
that weight loss.
Yeah. That's fulfilling in Nate. Like if you're looking at what that does for for you. It's like it's you feel wanted which is a lovely when when you actually are wanted how beautiful that is. It's so nice. So what else? What else? What else have you learned about love?
I'll probably learn I'll probably have more of an experience when we get to see each other in person. Yeah,
I guess it's what have you learned about love the fun and start?
Yeah, that's so far. He said she picks up.
So he's got to work.
Surely,
I think all right. It's not physical touch. It's not, you know, energy. Someone is you
it is words of affirmation stuff. Like it's just, I love just being able to talk to her. And just like it's, it's just the best thing. Like, just it's just being able to, you know, talk about whatever or laugh about whatever, it's gone. Yeah.
You've been with Hannah for quite some time. Just
your anniversary.
Yeah, seven, but that's right. Seven years. All right. flown in his hand his grandma's 100th birthday. Yeah, for a couple of days ago. So it looks great. She does and she looks great. Yeah,
my grandma, my great grandmother lived to 102 Yeah,
my grandpa.
You're gonna live over two feet to live to that. 200
Yeah. It is phenomenal. My, like my grandpa's 100th birthday. He was cracking jokes. It was so good. Who died? Eight months later, but yeah, but he was in good Nick like in good Nick for 100 year old but it's like, you can go downhill in fucking two seconds when you're that age. But he was, you know, cheaper and he was made a joke i thought was potentially a bit edgy. But he told this, but he was a great storyteller. I'm so so annoyed because I had an iPhone then. And I didn't film it. And I was going to and I just didn't enjoy it. Did you have like a big party or something? Now that was on the property. 1015 people when my grandson's hundred feels like so many people that
cry for granted and Brandon grin he couldn't decide between grant on end
was granted a grant and things like grand man
like, like so great grandma Great Grandma wasn't your great grandmother though. Yeah, he was. Yeah, the man's mom. But what do you
like Brandon Brennan?
I like it. I love that. I thought you were referring to your grandmother his grandma Yeah, we had she had a huge party. It was like probably like 100 people there really just weighed looking around being like, geez, I don't know any of these people but with some hair related disease. There's like girls there that are like semi trying to pick up
to die.
What do you mean by just like bringing the vibe party came for
me for it. Just trying to look look hot and stuff and just like Pretty sure where it's
too far apart to be a little so
it was sort of almost like a family reunion.
Yeah. And there was just sort of like,
like a sexual tension in the room. Yeah, that was a bit
you projected they were wearing nice dresses and you're like, ah, I can't believe you've you've rocked up Wait a second cuz it's like what?
Now I kept going George This is interesting. Yeah. And it was just it was just a bit weird.
Sorry it was a bit I don't understand the specifics. That so they're obviously doing something which is like a like a flirty nature, just
flirty nature, just like it was like at a house. It was a hundredth birthday. You know, everyone's just like, no one really knows any specific examples. Not just just like acting as if they're at a bar or something like just like flirting with flirting with people.
Now, how do you know if someone's flirting? This is a good combo. I don't know. There's just you just get the vibe could you know some people put off a sexual energy? It's like why would Why would they wear
this manner like that? This is as good as you're saying. It's an icon
and she's leaving the country after that. Yeah, come on that
that we're just putting
out what do you hate about women?
What are you drinking mountain goat whatever.
But on the taking the fifth on that, but just a background and she did. She lived out of a house. Till she was like 102 Wow, maybe till she died. I think it was like
that's solid 100
Yeah, I think she died like hundred and four maybe Oh,
that she the letter from the queen. Yeah, yeah so did add me to get that
Yeah, they'd be honest and as non I got that letter from the crane Queen letter from sky my letters now really just try my best Gladys would you want
to send out a letter? Was this in New South Wales? Yeah. Would you play? Yes. Sydney we did Gladys sent one. No, because I was thinking camera and then I guess
I'm trying to work out where grandma or granddad wanders. I'm Dan Andrews would send one out he probably would. Would you rather one from
Daniel? Dan, Dan. Definitely. Uh, Dan said he. Dan's lost a bit of weight. There's some photos of him. Looking at the paper this morning,
projecting it looking at it. Yes. Yeah
he's definitely good. I mean I want to know what he's done.
He's been making homemade so yes
yeah, I love that yeah he does he's gonna get around it let's get his social manager yeah it's not it's not him mate if you
he official letter thing is fun like the idea of doing official letters IE we do like what would we offer official letters for I mean new job you get a new job we'll send you a letter
or is it just we will be willing to references reference
where your reference even if you've had nothing to do with gronk move along with the patient and he did a very funny remember they got the guy to do a over the phone reference. I called a random dude and said hey,
oh, like I need to quit sorry. Yeah. I said like yeah, prank call and but someone willing to do that. This similar one of this viral video where a guy a guy, so they're setting up a plumber, right? plumber is doing this job at this home and this guy's home and he's speaking to I'm sorry it's the girl said the girls home. So be like, let's use you guys. Let's use
3.0 is this
so? brace home. You're at work the plumbers there. Sure. Bree has her other partner that you don't know about Tyrone hop over Tyrone pops over and then there's a big box in the lounge room like a huge box. It's like almost an appliance that was unloaded and the plumbers working on it like a dishwasher. And then it could be a dishwasher box like a big box. And Brian Tyrone
is a current affair. Oh, well this
is a real video where they are pranking a plumber. Okay, sure. So they're hanging out Tyrone. Bray in the palm is doing his thing and then all of a sudden they realise that the boyfriend Josh, you're coming home, like, Oh my god, oh my god, we're gonna hide and so they get into the big box in the lounge room and the plumber is in there and he's like, and the woman says, Don't Don't say anything, we're not home, we haven't been home. And so they jump in to this box. And the plumber is like, oh my god and so the the what what what you're wondering is is this plumber gonna backup the story that they're not there? And so the guy comes in, he's like, Oh, I just left something. I'm gonna get my jacket. And someone been here until you tell that you know the guy that Josh is you're in because it's all a joke on the phone. And this plumber flat out lies and I haven't seen him. Like just does such
as well. I feel like if you're the plumber,
that's the least resistance, isn't it? Well, he was just like, Nah, I don't know. It's like
right there. But it's like you with the the ceiling at your place you know the the
the new homeowner didn't tell the building inspector the roof when he asked me what's going on are they
different I know that he actually
referenced like I must be there's no more today looks at but there's nothing moist over there so it must be five didn't feel like a question yeah it wasn't what's happened over there buddy because I reckon I would have told anyway this guy's like a hop She must be home now and the end I'm gonna call her and the phone is in the box you know pocket and so he seemed to start to fucking he's the plumbers like on fire now. Somehow they ended up it was in the box and you see Mike get angry that Josh gets angry looking at the plumber thinking she's in the box and he opens up the box and then puts his hands pulls out the phones like I should have their phone in there. And then the guy walks home looks in the box and they're gone. Somehow they turn down this trick where they got the couple out of the box. And so really, he would have would have been going through that. I'm fact. I'm gonna have to watch that video now. Watch it. It's good though because you look at the PAMA, what would you do? If you were the plumber? You'd probably do what what he did? Yeah, I reckon I would do
because the thing is, it's like who who's paying you?
Yeah, sure. Resize.
Now, it's risky. I think
it's quite easy to sort of push somebody into a scenario in that high pressure environment. It's like a missionary honked I feel like watching punked tonight. It's good. I watched one recently you've
had ashy and berries on the couch and she's just not okay.
She wants to watch something funny. You've already agreed she doesn't want to watch master class tonight.
Yeah, not what not watching a movie. We're gonna watch a movie. The guy Watch this um, Jeffrey Epstein the rapist doc doc. Oh, that's a Netflix heavy. No bit heavy. Is it about his death and stuff? Nah, Nah, it's not it's
it's doesn't feel that heavy. rom com.
He thought it was. He was a Sikh Fuck, though. He was one of the sickest. Anyway, as we talk about SIG Fox, let's transition to the microphone, because
I do that all the time as well. And so microphone. I don't know what why do I do that? Why does everyone do that? Fine. I think it's because I don't. I don't actually. So I'm gonna so we have a
megaphone naming rights sponsor, which we want to give them some more love because tomorrow. It's over to Ben for them. Oh, yeah, that's, that's right. Yeah. full week. Paid for a full week paid up front.
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He said Technically, the company bought
Amy. I sent me a message on Instagram saying, What do you think of these? Do you like this? I would love one. It's just a leathery sort of a tan leather. sent it to me and then she wrote back saying bought it. Really? That's quick. That's all I was worried because I was like, do you like that one? Because it wasn't the one that I necessarily I was going I did. I just mentioned your one and said, I'm thinking about getting one of these. But I'm happy they say Oh, great. This was like a nice tan leather. I mean, my card situation is abominable.
It's that. That's all it is. It's all above and I hope you've heard me I said it wrong, mineable. Yeah. I'm gonna try and have a go, Josh. No I don't. Is it George? abysmal. abominable? Yeah, that's a word saves. You said exactly how I said. I don't know if it's a word abomination is a word abominable upon abominable about causing moral revulsion. Yeah, very bad. Terrible. Yeah,
exactly. So you have a go Josh. Yeah. abominable.
I love I love the way you say millions.
Millions and millions
and millions of dollars. Millions. Now, you guys A bunch of fuck when you say millions,
millions, millions. You know you say millions I'm saying millions.
Is that no right million millions? No, but you don't say millions.
What do I say? Millions? millions, millions. Maybe I'm What do you say? Millions? How do you say sandwich sandwich? How do you say garage garage?
I'd say doona. Today
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if such Mario Ben Fordham's megaphone. Yeah, he's again he's taking it over. But if you do want to sort of get in it will be after next week. What's the amount? 150 note we got. So we got on Tuesday. Are we jumping? Yeah, I think it's not jumping. We're going from now. You are
Yeah, you're right, because we have time between where people can get in. And so after. So you can pay right now and secure the next bit for $255. Yes. naming rights sponsor of the what? What if? What if someone secured it tonight?
They get it after, after the week at what price? To 55? It is so it's officially 255. Now the bid. Well, are you saying technically it's at 155? Yeah. So you're saying
you're saying we've got like Sunday today? We've got 160 you could take it out for the following week after bin. But then after the week after Ben it's at 255 Yeah, that's Yeah, we want to do Yeah,
yeah. Okay. Yeah. So
that's bad analysis that
exact scenario. Yeah. So
if you if you make a bid tonight, before midnight, you can get it for $5 more which is $160. And then you will be the name of it. Sponsor after photo, who has taken out all of next week? Yeah. When we from the eighth? Yeah. Because it's a Yeah. And so once once that's done, and we the new price will be 255. Great. Yeah. So that's a bargain. If you haven't yet heard. I mean, getting into it. Realising I wouldn't have done what you've said was a.
Now it's confusion for one day, but it's a bargain for somebody. So we're all about bringing value. I'm also I'm extending the competition that I'm running.
What are you running? $50 gift card?
Yeah, of your choice. Yeah, you just need to integrate the daily talk show into your dating app. So that could be in the chat. After extra points for after 10pm chats. You could put it in your bio as well. Again, apologies to Casey, to Shana to anyone who I mentioned in regards to the discord we
have set up
not for broadcasts Charles Charles is also put it behind an over 18 Plus,
yeah, he had a childhood that he's like 16 he can't see what's on the other end.
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