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Oops! All Astros: David Hensley
David Hensley made his major league debut for the Astros in 2022.
By Kevin Kraczkowski Jan 16, 2023, 12:00pm CST
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David Hensley is the 240th player we've reviewed this offseason in our quest to peek in at all 316 to appear in Houston's system in 2022.
David Hensley is a six-foot-six, 190 lb. right-handed infielder from San Diego, CA. Born on March 28, 1996, he was a 26th round selection of the Astros in 2018, with the 792nd overall choice out of SDSU. Hensley is the first to make the majors after being drafted at that spot, and the 41st to get to the big leagues out of SDSU. That group is led by Tony Gwynn (69.2 WAR).
Hensley agreed to a deal to play with the Astros by signing a contract that included a $1,000 signing bonus. After he signed, he hit .209 in 63 games for the Low-A Quad Cities River Bandits to close out the 2018 season, with four homers and 20 RBI. In 2019, between the Bandits and the then-High-A Fayetteville Woodpeckers, he slashed .260/.319/.379 with six home runs and 46 RBI in 108 games.
In 2021, Hensley played the entire campaign with the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks, and slashed .293/.369/.439 with nine homers and 51 RBI. With improvements to his slashline at each level of the minors, he entered the 2022 campaign with the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys.
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In 104 games for the Cowboys, 31 of which were multiple hit games, Hensley slashed out a .298/.420/.478 line with 10 homers and 57 RBI. He also stole 20 bases in 27 attempt, and drew 80 walks against 103 strikeouts. On May 10, in a 20-1 win against the Albuquerque Isotopes, he came within a double of the cycle, adding a walk and three RBI. On August 19, he completed a doubleheader for the Cowboys, then got promoted to the majors.
It would be a week before Hensley made his first major league action, going 0-for-3 on August 27 in a 3-1 loss to the Baltimore Orioles. The following day, he collected his first big-league hit, a double in a 3-1 win over Baltimore. On August 31, he hit three singles and scored a run in a 5-3 win against the Texas Rangers.
Hensley played in 16 games at baseball's top level for the Astros, going 10-for-29 with five RBI, five walks, six RBI, and a solid 1.027 OPS. Defensively, he was perfect in 43 combined innings between shortstop (18 innings), third base (12 innings), second base (10 innings), and left field (three innings).
In Houston's rampage to their second World Championship, Hensley was two-for-eight in four appearances. He's near the top of a very short list to provide Houston's 2023 bench.


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Bartolomeo Coda (or Codi) flourished about the year 1543. He was called Da Rimini, as was also his elder brother Francesco, who painted in 1533. He was instructed in the art by his father, Benedetto, whom he surpassed. In the church of San Rocco at Pesaro, was a fine picture by this master, bearing the above date; which Lanzi says in every respect bears the character of the golden age of the art. It represents the Virgin and Infant enthroned, with a Choir of beautiful Cherubs, and with St. Roch and St. Sebastian. However, this painting no longer exists. It was painted for the Confraternita San Rocco and San Sebastiano in Pesaro but by 1821 was in the hands of Edward Solly, an art dealer in Berlin. He sold it to the Berlin art gallery (now the Gemäldergalerie) who believe that it was probably destroyed in May 1945 in the control tower of the flak bunker in Berlin's Friedrichshain.

References

SMB-digital Online collections database  http://www.smb-digital.de/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=862798&viewType=detailView
 Iconografia di San Sebastiano nell'arte figurativa italiana     http://www.sansebastiano.com/Scheda.asp?uno=1902

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Year of death unknown
16th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters

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Hindi is one of the main languages of India that is also got recognition as the Official language of the nation. It is spoken predominantly in India but the Indians who reside outside their country, also use this language as their means of communication. For the people of India, we are presenting the best collection of April 2017 Calendar in Hindi. Through the calendar, the people will get to see the dates, days and the months in Hindi font. Now, the people don't have to search for English Calendar as this calendar will serve the purpose of time tracking.
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The Crazy 8s wrapped up last month with it's 15th Gala Screening in extremely successful fashion. Coming off that whirlwind filmmaking experience, we're catching up with the cast and crew as they work on their on going projects around the city. First up, Dial Y for Yesterday's intrepid composer, Red Heartbreaker. Long before she wrote the score for Dial Y, Red got involved with the local burlesque community and is currently performing the weekly show "Space Cruise" at FanClub on the Granville strip. This is the second show of this type for Red who was also involved in the successful run of "Night Circus" at FanClub during DineOut Vancouver which received glowing reviews.
On one hand, these shows keep me hearing different music, and also older music that has maybe fallen off my radar. I get those pieces (the choicest selections) back in my life, and add them to the roster of references. Particularly in films set or inspired by the last 6 or 7 decades, this is the listening that I would do for research, and by referring to those songs with a director, we create a common language to determine what (s)he is looking for. On the other hand, it allows me to exercise (and exorcise)the performer part of me, and keeps my voice working at its peak – they're long shows, and require a HUGE amount of work and focus. When I take time to be in the spotlight in that setting, I am free to return to composing with the film's wellbeing paramount in mind. Lastly, if you spend all of your time in front of a computer, be it composing, writing, or doing anything else that you do frequently in front of the computer (she said with a knowing look) then you'll go crazy. And blind. And forget what it's like to do what you do in the REAL world where people can see you.
If you're interested in hearing Red talk more about composing she also happens to be this week's guest on the Borrowtime Films Podcast where she talks gluten free beer, theme songs, and of course, composing.
No Music festivals or beach days for the Earthlicking Goddess' The Earth has been Licked, Now digestion/gestation!


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The Satanic Temple Asks Netflix to Please Not Use Its Goat Head Deity in Sabrina Remake
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but apparently not according to the real-life satanists from Salem, Massachusetts who are suing Netflix for jacking the look of their goat-headed deity statue in order to make the new Sabrina reboot, I don't know, really spooky or something.
Before you ask, the Satanic Temple does not actually worship Satan and in fact, denounce superstition, according to the non-religious group's FAQ page. The group does, however, appear to believe in copyright infringement and argues that Netflix has done so in The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Or as the Satanic Temple co-founder calls it, that "asinine Satanic Panic fiction."
The Hollywood Reporter published part of the demand letter the Satanic Temple's legal adviser sent to Netflix. It reads:
"By way of background, my client is struggling to overcome centuries of stigma surrounding their religious symbolism," writes [Stuart] de Haan. "My client has expended considerable efforts in the design and creation of their particular expression of Baphomet, the goat-headed deity represented by this monument. This statue is an original work and, until now, has been associated exclusively with The Satanic Temple all around the world. This has deep religious significance to my client's organization."
The goat-headed statues do look pretty similar, down to the hand signals, ears, and beard:
Warner Bros. and Netflix have not yet responded to the allegations. The Satanic Temple wants the statue to stop being used in Sabrina and any other shows and explain how this happened, which honestly sounds more than reasonable to me.
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Update on Nagorno Karabag
Today's war between Armenia and Azerbaijan is unfortunately the result of global powers. When we look into Nagorno Karabag we must include other areas. Yes! Armenia has occupied Azerbaijani lands for 27 years and Azerbaijan is just trying to free its occupied lands.
But this is how it looks. Behind the curtains is this. This conflict is orchestrated by Russia but the game the Russians played has turned against Russia. Russia wants both Armenia and Azerbaijan to be in conflict so that it can manage both sides. What Armenia and Russia did not calculate is that Azerbaijan's military has been modernized and taught by Turkey for the last 25 years. Therefore the Azerbaijan military along with Turkish drones has made it a superior military force. On the other hand, the Armenian military is still using the old Soviet Union mentality and Russian upgraded Soviet military hardware.
Let's talk about the U.S. Just where does the U.S. fit in? First of all, the U.S. no longer considers Turkey a U.S. strategic partner. The U.S. has started partnering with Eastern European nations through NATO; including Bulgaria, Romania, and Czechoslovakia, which are all members of NATO.
So what does the U.S. want? To bring conflict in the Black Sea region. Because the Black Sea region was settled during Soviet times, there is no conflict between the Black Sea consortiums. The maritime border between Russia and Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, and Georgia in Black Sea was settled.
Why is the U.S. angry with Turkey? Because the U.S. needs Turkey, but also wants to control Turkey and is not managing either. The U.S. does not want Turkey to partner with Russia, China, and Iran. So the U.S. already bought ports in Greece including the one in DEDE Agac on the Turkish-Greek border.
The purpose is to control Turkey and Russia. However, the problem is that Turkey bought Russian-made S-400 and that is a problem for the U.S. Ironically, Turkey tested their S-400 last week at the same time Greece tested their Russian-made S-300 system.
How is it then the U.S. looks the other way when Greece tests its S-300 system but is uncomfortable with Turkey testing its Russian-made system? Double standard. The U.S. does not want Turkey be strong and prosperous; it wants Turkey to be just like the Arab Nations so that it controls and secures Israel.
Back to Armenia. Pashinyon is supported by SOROS and the Armenian Diaspora in the U.S. Now Armenia is losing and its armed forces chain of command is broken. Its solders are in retreat. Even the Armenian defense minister in his press conference admitted he does not know the number of soldiers who have died or been captured by the Azerbaijan military.
Pashinyon tries hard to spread conflicts to Turkey and Russia by firing ballistic missiles into Azerbaijan's populated cities including one in the Nahcivan area. Nahcivan is an Ozark province where Turkey and Russia hold security guarantees.
Putin and even the Armenians want Pashinyon to go. Pashinyon is supported by the nationalists and Armenian Diaspora both in the U.S. and in France. There is also a strong Armenian Diaspora in Russia as well. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is an Armenian as well as high-ranking official in Russia.
Pashinyon continues to blame Turkey and frequently fires ballistic missiles into Nahcivan and into the Azerbaijan civilian population. Mind you, this is a war crime and he will be brought to justice by the International War Crimes committee just like the Serbian leader was. If Pashinyon succeeds in bringing Russia and Turkey into this war then stakes are much higher.
Nagorna-Karabag = Mountainy Geography By Behcet Kaya
The Armenian Diaspora has powerful political influence in U.S. politics. They can and do buy U.S. Freshman Congressman and Senators. In other words, by backing these new and uninformed members they use them for their own agenda. Some of the Armenian backed house members include Congressmen Shift and Menendez, as well as many more.
They have done this many times. And not just members of Congress. For example, the Mayor of Glendale, California wanted to lower the U.S. flag half-way for the so-called Armenian Genocide. Of course this made the U.S. veterans angry; flying half-staff is reserved for veterans.
In 2018, the U.S. backed Nikol Pashinyan became the new prime-minister of Armenia. Pashinyon thought he had the full backing of U.S. Yes, the U.S. supported him in his quest to come to power, but that didn't mean the U.S. would support him in international affairs. Clearly Pashinyon is an American puppet.
In the meantime, Russian President Vladimir Putin became uncomfortable with Pashinyon being the prime-minister of Armenia. Putin even warned him. But Pashinyon is half-crazy like all other Armenians and is full of hatred for all Turks.
With the Soviet Union's disintegration, Armenia and Azerbaijan both gained their independence. But Russians have backed Armenians since then. Even today Russia has 5000 troops stationed in Armenia and their borders are protected by Russian military.
In 1994 the Armenian military committed genocide in a place called Hocali. 630 Azerbaijani men, women, and children were killed. The Armenian military, with the help of Russia, then took Nagorma Karabag. A geographical area in Cacasia which is very mountainous.
In reality the Russians turned the other way and let the Armenian military commit genocide and then take Karabag. There have been on and off wars between Azerbaijan and Armenia since then and thirty thousand Azerbaijani have been killed. One million Azerbaijani have been displaced from Karabag and moved to Azerbaijan.
It is crucial to explain the Russian motive in allowing the Armenian military to take the Karabag area. The Russians, even going back as far as the czar times, wanted a buffer zone between Azerbaijan and Turkey so that Turkish influence in the other Turkic republics in Central Asia would be reduced.
Turkey and Azerbaijan are two countries, but one nation.
Pashinyon is not a balanced man. According to him, the entire lands of Turkey are their land. Ironically, the Greeks claim the same area as theirs. Having said that, Pashinyon can easily be managed for proxy wars. Against who? Against Turkey.
So, the U.S. sees Turkish strength in the Mediterranean and that Turkey will not back down from their claim of a marine-seashore. That is why the U.S. supports excluding Turkey in the Mediterranean oil and gas consortium.
The U.S. besieged Turkey by supporting the PKK/YPG in Syria and Iraq. In the Mediterranean Sea and in the Aegean Sea the U.S. has bought Greek ports and established naval bases and port management in Dede Agac, Greece. Also in Bulgaria, Romania through NATO, as well as Georgia in the east, and Ukraine in the North.
Turkey is currently involved in Syria, Iraq, Libya, and now Greece in the Aegean Sea. The U.S. wants to open another front for Turkey in the east – that being Armenia and Azerbaijan, knowing full well that Turkey will stand with Azerbaijan.
The U.S hopes that Turkey will directly engage in war with Armenia, hence Russia will be involved. So the U.S. will kill two birds with one stone because the U.S. is not happy about the Russian/Turkish alliance.
What happened next? On July 12, 2020, Pashinyon attacked Azerbaijan lands in Tovuz where the Baku-Tiflisi Ceyhan oil pipeline, the Azerbaijan -Turkey rail road line, and the TANAP pipeline, which carries natural gas from Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan thorough Turkey to Europe, are all located. Tovuz has strategic importance for Turkey.
The U.S. built a natural gas depot in Bulgaria aiming to sell U.S. LPG gas to Europe and to stop the Azeri/Turkmen natural gas going into Europe.
On September 27, 2020, Armenia attacked Azerbaijan again in a different front and today's war is all we are hearing about. Now why would Armenia attack Azerbaijan again? Armenia's economy is devastated;virtually living off support from the Armenian Diaspora in the U.S. and France. In addition, the Armenian military totally depends on Russia. Armenia's three million people live with virtually no economy. Pashinyon's government was being used for other purposes for U.S. and France.
France is another country that is unhappy about Turkish influence in Libya and Africa.
Azerbaijan has ten million people. Since declaring independence, Turkey has been training Azeri military from the ground up. The two countries cooperate in defense, military, economy, and in every aspect of trade. Since then the Azerbaijani military has become powerful. They have bought Russian made rapid rocket systems and Russian made tanks that have been upgraded by Israelis. They have bought Israeli made Kamikaze drones and Turkish drones and have trained in how to use them effectively.
Now Armenia is spreading misleading information on social media about Turkey sending trained Syrian troops to Azerbaijan. It is not true. Azerbaijan has more than enough troops of their own. Besides, Azerbaijani men lined up to register for the military. In comparison, Armenia settled a million PKK terrorists in Negorna-Karabag since it was taken in 1994. It is no wonder the Azeri military has superiority over Armenia.
Now Pashinyon is desperately looking for help from the U.S. and Russia, all the while lying to international media, and pleading for Turkey to stop giving Turkish drones to Azerbaijan. Russians are aware of the U.S. plans and is not helping the Pashinyon government at the present time. I do hope that both Russia and Turkey do not engage in war over Negorna- Karabag. Azerbaijan will not stop until the Karabag is freed from Armenia.


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package brooklyn.location.docker;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
import static java.lang.String.format;
import static org.apache.brooklyn.util.ssh.BashCommands.sudo;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.google.common.base.Joiner;
import com.google.common.base.Objects.ToStringHelper;
import com.google.common.base.Predicates;
import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
import com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
import com.google.common.collect.Lists;
import com.google.common.collect.Maps;
import com.google.common.net.HostAndPort;

import org.apache.brooklyn.api.entity.Entity;
import org.apache.brooklyn.api.entity.EntityLocal;
import org.apache.brooklyn.api.location.Location;
import org.apache.brooklyn.api.location.PortRange;
import org.apache.brooklyn.core.entity.Attributes;
import org.apache.brooklyn.core.location.HasSubnetHostname;
import org.apache.brooklyn.core.location.SupportsPortForwarding;
import org.apache.brooklyn.core.location.access.PortForwardManager;
import org.apache.brooklyn.core.location.dynamic.DynamicLocation;
import org.apache.brooklyn.location.jclouds.JcloudsSshMachineLocation;
import org.apache.brooklyn.location.jclouds.JcloudsUtil;
import org.apache.brooklyn.location.ssh.SshMachineLocation;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.core.flags.SetFromFlag;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.exceptions.Exceptions;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.net.Cidr;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.net.Protocol;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.ssh.IptablesCommands;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.ssh.IptablesCommands.Chain;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.ssh.IptablesCommands.Policy;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.text.StringEscapes.BashStringEscapes;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.text.Strings;
import org.apache.brooklyn.util.time.Duration;

import brooklyn.entity.container.DockerCallbacks;
import brooklyn.entity.container.DockerUtils;
import brooklyn.entity.container.docker.DockerContainer;
import brooklyn.entity.container.docker.DockerHost;

/**
 * A {@link Location} that wraps a Docker container.
 * <p>
 * The underlying container is presented as an {@link SshMachineLocation} obtained using the jclouds Docker driver.
 */
public class DockerContainerLocation extends SshMachineLocation implements SupportsPortForwarding, HasSubnetHostname, DynamicLocation<DockerContainer, DockerContainerLocation> {

    /** serialVersionUID */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 610389734596906782L;

    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(DockerContainerLocation.class);

    @SetFromFlag("entity")
    private Entity entity;

    @SetFromFlag("machine")
    private JcloudsSshMachineLocation machine;

    @SetFromFlag("owner")
    private DockerContainer dockerContainer;

    @Override
    public void init() {
        super.init();
    }

    @Override
    public DockerContainer getOwner() {
        return dockerContainer;
    }

    public JcloudsSshMachineLocation getMachine() {
        return machine;
    }

    /*
     * Delegate port operations to machine. Note that firewall configuration is
     * fixed after initial provisioning, so updates use iptables to open ports.
     */
    private void addIptablesRule(Integer port) {
        if (getOwner().config().get(DockerHost.OPEN_IPTABLES)) {
            SshMachineLocation host = getOwner().getDockerHost().getDynamicLocation().getMachine();
            LOG.debug("Using iptables to add access for TCP/{} to {}", port, host);
            List<String> commands = ImmutableList.of(
                    sudo("iptables -L INPUT -nv | grep -q 'tcp dpt:"+port+"'"),
                    format("if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then ( %s ); else ( %s ); fi",
                            sudo("iptables -C INPUT -s 0/0 -p tcp --dport "+port+" -j ACCEPT"),
                            IptablesCommands.insertIptablesRule(Chain.INPUT, Protocol.TCP, port, Policy.ACCEPT)));
            int result = host.execCommands(format("Open iptables TCP/%d", port), commands);
            if (result != 0) {
                String msg = format("Error running iptables update for TCP/%d on %s", port, host);
                LOG.error(msg);
                throw new RuntimeException(msg);
            }
        }
    }

    public int getMappedPort(int portNumber) {
        String containerId = getOwner().getContainerId();
        Map<Integer, Integer> mapping = JcloudsUtil.dockerPortMappingsFor(getOwner().getDockerHost().getJcloudsLocation(), containerId);
        Integer publicPort = mapping.get(portNumber);
        if (publicPort == null) {
            LOG.warn("Unable to map port {} for Container {}. Mappings: {}",
                    new Object[]{portNumber, containerId, Joiner.on(", ").withKeyValueSeparator("=").join(mapping)});
            publicPort = -1;
        } else {
            LOG.debug("Docker mapped port {} to {} for Container {}", new Object[]{portNumber, publicPort, containerId});
        }
        return publicPort;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean obtainSpecificPort(int portNumber) {
        boolean result = machine.obtainSpecificPort(portNumber);
        if (result) {
            int targetPort = getMappedPort(portNumber);
            mapPort(targetPort, portNumber);
            addIptablesRule(targetPort);
        }
        return result;
    }

    @Override
    public int obtainPort(PortRange range) {
        int portNumber = machine.obtainPort(range);
        int targetPort = getMappedPort(portNumber);
        mapPort(targetPort, portNumber);
        addIptablesRule(targetPort);
        return portNumber;
    }

    private void mapPort(int hostPort, int containerPort) {
        String dockerHost = getAddress().getHostAddress();
        PortForwardManager portForwardManager = getOwner().getDockerHost().getSubnetTier().getPortForwardManager();
        portForwardManager.recordPublicIpHostname(dockerHost, dockerHost);
        portForwardManager.acquirePublicPortExplicit(dockerHost, hostPort);
        portForwardManager.associate(dockerHost, hostPort, this, containerPort);
        //FIXME portForwardManager.associate(dockerHost, HostAndPort.fromParts(dockerHost, hostPort), this, containerPort);
    }

    @Override
    public HostAndPort getSocketEndpointFor(Cidr accessor, int privatePort) {
        String dockerHost = getAddress().getHostAddress();
        int hostPort = getMappedPort(privatePort);
        return HostAndPort.fromParts(dockerHost, hostPort);
    }

    @Override
    public int execScript(Map<String,?> props, String summaryForLogging, List<String> commands, Map<String,?> env) {
        Iterable<String> filtered = Iterables.filter(commands, DockerCallbacks.FILTER);
        for (String commandString : filtered) {
            parseDockerCallback(commandString);
        }
        if (getOwner().config().get(DockerContainer.DOCKER_USE_SSH)) {
            return super.execScript(props, summaryForLogging, commands, env);
        } else {
            Map<String,?> nonPortProps = Maps.filterKeys(props, Predicates.not(Predicates.containsPattern("port")));
            SshMachineLocation host = getOwner().getDockerHost().getDynamicLocation().getMachine();
            return host.execCommands(nonPortProps, summaryForLogging, getExecScript(commands, env));
        }
    }

    @Override
    public int execCommands(Map<String,?> props, String summaryForLogging, List<String> commands, Map<String,?> env) {
        Iterable<String> filtered = Iterables.filter(commands, DockerCallbacks.FILTER);
        for (String commandString : filtered) {
            parseDockerCallback(commandString);
        }
        if (getOwner().config().get(DockerContainer.DOCKER_USE_SSH)) {
            return super.execCommands(props, summaryForLogging, commands, env);
        } else {
            Map<String,?> nonPortProps = Maps.filterKeys(props, Predicates.not(Predicates.containsPattern("port")));
            SshMachineLocation host = getOwner().getDockerHost().getDynamicLocation().getMachine();
            return host.execCommands(nonPortProps, summaryForLogging, getExecCommands(commands, env));
        }
    }

    private List<String> getExecScript(List<String> commands, Map<String,?> env) {
        StringBuilder target = new StringBuilder("docker exec ")
                .append(dockerContainer.getContainerId())
                .append(" '");
        Joiner.on(";").appendTo(target, Iterables.concat(getEnvVarCommands(env), commands));
        target.append("'");
        return ImmutableList.of(target.toString());
    }

    private List<String> getExecCommands(List<String> commands, Map<String,?> env) {
        List<String> result = Lists.newLinkedList();
        result.addAll(getEnvVarCommands(env));
        String prefix = "docker exec " + dockerContainer.getContainerId() + " ";
        for (String command : commands) {
            result.add(prefix + command);
        }
        return result;
    }

    private List<String> getEnvVarCommands(Map<String,?> env) {
        List<String> result = new LinkedList<String>();
        for (Map.Entry<String, ?> entry : env.entrySet()) {
            String escaped = BashStringEscapes.escapeLiteralForDoubleQuotedBash(entry.getValue().toString());
            result.add("export " + entry.getKey() + "=\"" + escaped + "\"");
        }
        return result;
    }

    private void parseDockerCallback(String commandString) {
        List<String> tokens = DockerCallbacks.PARSER.splitToList(commandString);
        int callback = Iterables.indexOf(tokens, Predicates.equalTo(DockerCallbacks.DOCKER_HOST_CALLBACK));
        if (callback == -1) {
            LOG.warn("Could not find callback token: {}", commandString);
            throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot find callback token in command line");
        }
        String command = tokens.get(callback + 1);
        LOG.info("Executing callback for {}: {}", getOwner(), command);
        if (DockerCallbacks.COMMIT.equalsIgnoreCase(command)) {
            String containerId = getOwner().getContainerId();
            String imageName = getOwner().sensors().get(DockerContainer.IMAGE_NAME);
            String output = getOwner().getDockerHost().runDockerCommandTimeout(
                    format("commit %s %s", containerId, imageName),
                    Duration.minutes(20));
            String imageId = DockerUtils.checkId(output);
            getOwner().getRunningEntity().sensors().set(DockerContainer.IMAGE_ID, imageId);
            getOwner().sensors().set(DockerContainer.IMAGE_ID, imageId);
            getOwner().getDockerHost().getDynamicLocation().markImage(imageName);
        } else if (DockerCallbacks.PUSH.equalsIgnoreCase(command)) {
            String imageName = getOwner().sensors().get(DockerContainer.IMAGE_NAME);
            getOwner().getDockerHost().runDockerCommand(format("push %s", imageName));
        } else {
            LOG.warn("Unknown Docker host command: {}", command);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void releasePort(int portNumber) {
        machine.releasePort(portNumber);
    }

    @Override
    public InetAddress getAddress() {
        return getOwner().getDockerHost().getDynamicLocation().getMachine().getAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public void close() throws IOException {
        LOG.debug("Close called on Docker container {}: {}", machine, this);
        try {
            machine.close();
            if (dockerContainer.sensors().get(DockerContainer.SERVICE_UP)) {
                LOG.info("Stopping Docker container entity for {}: {}", this, dockerContainer);
                dockerContainer.stop();
            }
            LOG.info("Docker container closed: {}", this);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            LOG.warn("Error closing Docker container {}: {}", this, e.getMessage());
            throw Exceptions.propagate(e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public ToStringHelper string() {
        return super.string()
                .add("entity", entity)
                .add("machine", machine)
                .add("owner", dockerContainer);
    }

    @Override
    public String getSubnetHostname() {
        return getSubnetIp();
    }

    @Override
    public String getSubnetIp() {
        String containerAddress = getOwner().sensors().get(Attributes.SUBNET_ADDRESS);
        if (Strings.isEmpty(containerAddress)) {
            String containerId = checkNotNull(getOwner().getContainerId(), "containerId");
            containerAddress = getOwner().getDockerHost()
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LANSING, Mich. – Gov. Rick Snyder today announced 14 appointments and reappointments to multiple boards and committees.
Victoria Enyart of Jackson has over 25 years of assessment administration experience, serving as a city assessor, county equalization director and private-sector property tax agent. She earned her associate degree in assessment administration from Lansing Community College and will represent certified Level IV Assessors and fill a vacancy.
Marcus Abood of Lansing serves as a department analyst for the Michigan Department of Treasury and is a certified general real estate appraiser. He was the owner and president of Abood Appraisal Company for 18 years. Abood earned his bachelor's degree in political science and government from Western Michigan University and a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley School of Law. He will represent real estate appraisers and replace Valerie Lafferty.
Enyart will serve the remainder of a four-year term commencing Nov. 13, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2020. Abood will serve a four-year term commencing Oct. 29, 2018 and expiring June 30, 2022. Their appointment is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
David Marmon will serve as chair at the pleasure of the Governor.
Stephen Bell of Carleton is the president and attending physician at Newport Internal Medicine and is executive director of the Wayne County Osteopathic Medical Association. He serves on the Michigan Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees and previously served on the Michigan Prescription Drug and Opioid Abuse Commission. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, a master's in ancient and medieval history from Western Washington University, as well as a master's in health services administration and a doctorate in osteopathic medicine from Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. He will represent physicians and replace Ronald Bradley.
Kathleen Kudray of Flint is chief medical officer for McLaren Health Plan and a physician for McLaren Medical Group. She serves on the McLaren Health Plan Quality Improvement Committee, the McLaren Health Care Senior Leadership Committee and the Michigan Association of Health Plans Medical Directors Committee. Kudray holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Washington University in Missouri and a doctorate in osteopathy from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine. She will continue to represent physicians.
Members will serve four-year terms expiring Dec. 31, 2022. Their appointments are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
Michael Thompson of Mason retired as the vice president and general manager of the Lansing operations of DuHadaway, Kendall & Associates, Inc. (DK Security). He holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's in education administration from Michigan State University. He will continue to represent purchasers of auto insurance in this state.
Eugene (Gene) Adamczyk of Saugatuck is a district supervisor of Western District of Michigan for Walden Security, Federal Services Division. He previously served as the inspector general for the Michigan Department of Community Health and has served in numerous roles in his 40 years with the Michigan State Police Department. He holds a bachelor's degree from Wayne State University and a master's degree in public administration from Western Michigan University. He will continue to represent purchasers of auto insurance of this state.
Lori Davis of Wixom is a senior claim service consultant and has over 32 years of experience at Allstate Insurance Company. She holds a bachelor's degree in public affairs management from Michigan State University and will continue to represent an auto insurer doing business in the state.
Curtis Caid of Brighton is chief of police for the Livonia Police Department. He began his career in law enforcement in 1979 and has held various positions within the Livonia Police Department, including uniform patrol officer, detective, uniform platoon sergeant, detective sergeant, and officer in charge of the intelligence bureau. Caid earned an associate degree from Schoolcraft College, a bachelor's in criminal justice from Madonna University, and attended law enforcement advance leadership programs at Northwestern University, Central Michigan University, and Michigan State University.
Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue is the director of the Michigan State Police. She began her career with MSP as a trooper in 1987 and was appointed director in January 2011. She holds an associate degree from Kalamazoo Valley College and is a graduate of the 206th Session of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia.
Members will serve four-year terms to expire July 1, 2022. Their appointments are subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.
Melanie Manary of Petoskey is a physician partner for Internal Medicine of Northern Michigan, a hospitalist independent contractor for Apogee Medical Group, medical director for Northern Physicians Organization, and an attending physician at McLaren Northern Michigan Regional Hospital. She currently serves as chair of the McLaren Northern Michigan Hospital Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. Manary holds a bachelor's degree in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University, a master's degree in business from the University of Michigan, and a medical degree from Wayne State University. She will represent physicians and replace Venkat Rao.
Jayne Courts of Caledonia is the executive medical director of internal medicine and geriatrics for Mercy Health Physician Partners. She also serves on staff at Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital and Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital. She holds a bachelor's degree in biology from Hope College and a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School. She will continue to represent physicians.
Andrew Mac of Plymouth is president of AMAC Pharmacy Services and previously served as the vice president of pharmacy operations for Sav-On Drugs, Inc. He holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Wayne State University and will continue to represent pharmacists.
Brian Peltz of Dearborn Heights is a managing principal of government programs and services for MedImpact Healthcare System, Inc, an international pharmacy benefits manager. He previously served as vice president of medicare operations and director of pharmacy for government programs for Henry Ford Health System, HAP Midwest Health Plan. He holds a bachelor's degree in pharmacy and a master's in health system pharmacy administration from Wayne State University. He will continue to represent pharmacists.
Members will serve two-year terms expiring Oct. 1, 2020.


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UPDATE: As of Wednesday, the Supernatural actors' campaign had surpassed $225,000 with a new goal of raising $350,000 by Friday.
The Supernatural family has done it again.
While Hurricane Harvey continues to hit Texas, Supernatural stars have rallied the show's fandom to make a difference. Led by Jensen Ackles' Texas-based company, Family Business Beer Company, and Misha Collins' charity, Random Acts, they launched a fundraising campaign to help with hurricane relief.
Although the campaign's original goal was $50,000, it has reached far past that. As of early Tuesday, the campaign had raised more than $130,000. Ackles and Collins — along with Jared Padalecki, Richard Speight Jr., and other members of the Supernatural family — have continued to promote the campaign, which will remain open through Friday.


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Q: troubleshooting random forests classifier in sci-kit learn I am trying to run the random forests classifier from sci-kit learn and getting suspiciously bad output - less than 1% of predictions are correct.  The model is performing much worse than chance.  I am relatively new to Python, ML, and sci-kit learn (a triple whammy) and my concern is that I am missing something fundamental, rather than needing to fine-tune the parameters. What I'm hoping for is more veteran eyes to look through the code and see if something is wrong with the setup.
I'm trying to predict classes for rows in a spreadsheet based on word occurrences - so the input for each row is an array representing how many times each word appears, e.g. [1 0 0 2 0 ... 1].  I am using sci-kit learn's CountVectorizer for do this processing - I feed it strings containing the words in each row, and it outputs the word occurrence array(s).  If this input isn't suitable for some reason, that is probably where things are going awry, but I haven't found anything online or in the documentation suggesting that's the case.
Right now, the forest is answering correctly about 0.5% of the time.  Using the exact same inputs with an SGD classifier yields close to 80%, which suggests to me that the preprocessing and vectorizing I'm doing is fine - it's something specific to the RF classifier.  My first reaction was to look for overfitting, but even when I run the model on the training data, it still gets almost everything wrong.
I've played around with number of trees and amount of training data but that hasn't seemed to change much for me. I'm trying to only show the relevant code but can post more if that's helpful.  First SO post so all thoughts and feedback appreciated.
#pull in package to create word occurence vectors for each line
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
vectorizer = CountVectorizer(min_df=1,charset_error='ignore')
X_train = vectorizer.fit_transform(train_file)
#convert to dense array, the required input type for random forest classifier
X_train = X_train.todense()

#pull in random forest classifier and train on data
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
clf = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators = 100, compute_importances=True)
clf = clf.fit(X_train, train_targets)

#transform the test data into the vector format
testdata = vectorizer.transform(test_file)
testdata = testdata.todense()

#export
with open('output.csv', 'wb') as csvfile:
    spamwriter = csv.writer(csvfile)
    for item in clf.predict(testdata):
        spamwriter.writerow([item])

A: if with Random Forest (RF) you get so bad on the training set X_train, then something is definitely wrong, because you should get a huge percentage, above 90%.
Try the following (code snippet first):
print "K-means"
clf  = KMeans(n_clusters=len(train_targets), n_init=1000, n_jobs=2)

print "Gaussian Mixtures: full covariance"
covar_type = 'full'    # 'spherical', 'diag', 'tied', 'full'
clf = GMM(n_components=len(train_targets), covariance_type=covar_type, init_params='wc', n_iter=10000)

print "VBGMM: full covariance"
covar_type = 'full'    # 'spherical', 'diag', 'tied', 'full'
clf = VBGMM(n_components=len(train_targets), covariance_type=covar_type, alpha=1.0, random_state=None, thresh=0.01, verbose=False, min_covar=None, n_iter=1000000, params='wc', init_params='wc')

print "Random Forest"
clf = RandomForestClassifier(n_estimators=400, criterion='entropy', n_jobs=2)

print "MultiNomial Logistic Regression"
clf = LogisticRegression(penalty='l2', dual=False, C=1.0, fit_intercept=True, intercept_scaling=1, tol=0.0001)

print "SVM: Gaussian Kernel, infty iterations"
clf = SVC(C=1.0, kernel='rbf', degree=3, gamma=3.0, coef0=1.0, shrinking=True,
probability=False, tol=0.001, cache_size=200, class_weight=None,
verbose=False, max_iter=-1, random_state=None)

*

*different classifiers, the interface in sci-kit learn is basically always the same and see how they behave (maybe RF is not really the best). See code above

*Try to create some randomly generated datasets to give to RF classifier, I strongly suspect something goes wrong in the mapping process that generates the vectorizer objects. Therefore, start creating your X_train and see.

Hope that helps

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Febbre d'amore (The Young and the Restless; letteralmente significa I giovani e gli irrequieti) è una soap opera statunitense ideata dai coniugi William J. Bell e Lee Phillip Bell (in seguito creatori anche di Beautiful) e trasmessa dal 26 marzo 1973 sulla rete televisiva CBS. Dal 1988 è la soap opera più seguita negli Stati Uniti d'America.

In Italia è stata trasmessa a partire dal 7 febbraio 1983 su Italia 1 per poi passare nell'ottobre 1984 su Rete 4; nel giugno del 1995 passò brevemente a Canale 5 (con il nuovo titolo Amarsi) che la trasmise fino al settembre successivo; nell'aprile 1998 la soap è tornata in onda su Rete 4 con il titolo italiano originale, dove è stata trasmessa fino al 30 ottobre 2009 quando la programmazione è stata nuovamente interrotta, a causa degli alti costi per l'acquisto degli episodi.

Trama
Ambientata a Genoa City (immaginaria cittadina del Wisconsin) narra le vicende di alcune famiglie che vi abitano: inizialmente la soap era focalizzata sulla rivalità tra due clan: i ricchi Blair ed i più modesti Foster, in seguito, col passare delle stagioni, a questi se ne sono aggiunti altri: i Chancellor, gli Abbott, i Newman, i Winters ed i Baldwin.

Un punto focale del serial è la rivalità tra le famiglie Abbott e Newman, che competono sia in campo lavorativo (possiedono infatti due potenti aziende del campo cosmetico) sia nella vita privata (con più storie d'amore che hanno avuto luogo, nel corso degli anni, tra i vari membri delle due famiglie); altra storyline centrale della soap è stata per molti anni l'accesa inimicizia tra i personaggi di Katherine Chancellor e Jill Foster.

Personaggi ed interpreti

Personaggi principali attuali

 Jack Abbott (1980-1989, 1989-in corso), interpretato da Peter Bergman ed in precedenza da Terry Lester e da Graham Taylor.
 Victor Newman (1980-in corso), interpretato da Eric Braden.
 Sharon Rosales (1994-in corso), interpretata da Sharon Case ed in precedenza da Monica Potter e da Heidi Mark.
 Nate Hastings (1992-2002, 2011, 2018-in corso), interpretato da Sean Dominic e in precedenza da Christopher Pope, Malcolm Hunter, Bryant Jones, Walter Fauntleroy e da Brooks Darnell.
 Chelsea Lawson (2011-2018, 2019-in corso), interpretata da Melissa Claire Egan.
 Chance Chancellor (1988-2001, 2009-2011, 2019-in corso), interpretato da Conner Floyd e in precedenza da Andrew Clark Rogers, Chuckie e Kenny Gravino, Scott e Shaun Markley, Thomas Dekker, Courtland Mead, Alex D. Linz, Nicholas Pappone, Penn Badgley, John Driscoll, Donny Boaz e da Justin Gaston.

 Daniel Romalotti (1994-1998, 2004-2013, 2016, 2022-in corso), interpretato da Michael Graziadei e in precedenza da Desiree e Hannah Wheel, Michael McElroy, Chase MacKenzie Bebak, Roland Gibbons e da Cam Gigandet.
 Mariah Copeland (2014-in corso), interpretata da Camryn Grimes.
 Adam Newman (1995-1998, 2002, 2008-2016, 2019-in corso), interpretato da Mark Grossman e in precedenza da Hayden Tank, Chris Engen, Michael Muhney e da Justin Hartley.
 Victoria Newman (1982-2003, 2005-in corso), interpretata da Amelia Heinle e in precedenza da Heather Tom.
 Sally Spectra (2020-in corso), interpretata da Courtney Hope.
 Devon Hamilton (2004-in corso), interpretato da Bryton James.
 Lily Winters (1995-1998, 2000, 2002-in corso), interpretata da Christel Khalil e in precedenza da Davetta Sherwood.
 Summer Newman (2006-2016, 2018-2021, 2022-in corso), interpretata da Allison Lanier e in precedenza da Samantha Bailey, Lindsay Bushman e da Hunter King.
 Michael Baldwin (1991-1993, 1997-in corso), interpretato da Christian LeBlanc.
 Esther Valentine (1982-in corso), interpretata da Kate Linder.
 Kyle Abbott (2001-2002, 2004, 2010-2014, 2015-2016, 2018-in corso), interpretato da Michael Mealor e in precedenza da Garrett Ryan, Blake Hood, Hartley Sawyer e da Lachlan Buchanan.
 Nicholas Newman (1988-in corso), interpretato da Joshua Morrow e in precedenza da Marco e Stefan Flores, Griffin Ledner e da John Alden.
 Abby Newman (2000-in corso), interpretata da Melissa Ordway e in precedenza da Morgan e Madison Reinherz, Amanda e Rachel Pace, Darcy Rose Byrnes, Hayley Erin e da Marcy Rylan.
 Elena Dawson (2019-in corso), interpretata da Brytni Sarpy.
 Nikki Newman (1978-in corso), interpretata da Melody Thomas Scott e in precedenza da Erica Hope.
 Phyllis Summers (1994-1998, 2000-2013, 2014-in corso), interpretata da Michelle Stafford e in precedenza da Sandra Nelson e da Gina Tognoni.
 Tucker McCall (2009-2013, 2022-in coso), interpretato da Trevor St. John e in precedenza da William Russ e da Stephen Nichols.
 Billy Abbott (1993-2003, 2006, 2008-in corso), interpretato da Jason Thompson e in precedenza da David Tom, Ryan Brown, Scott Seymour, Billy Miller e da Burgess Jenkins.
 Diane Jenkins (1982-1984, 1986, 1996-2004, 2010-2011, 2022-in coso), interpretata da Susan Walters e in precedenza da Alex Donnelley e da Maura West.

Personaggi ricorrenti attuali

 Anita Lawson (2012-2018, 2019-in corso), interpretata da Catherine Bach.
 Christine Blair Williams (1983-2006, 2007, 2010-in corso), interpretata da Laurale Bell.
 Heather Stevens (1979-1982, 1993-1994, 2007-2012, 2023-in corso), interpretata da Vail Bloom e in precedenza da Eden Riegel e da Jennifer Landon.
 Lauren Fenmore Baldwin (1983-1995, 2000, 2001-in corso), interpretata da Tracey E. Bregman.
 Nina Webster (1986-2001, 2008-2013, 2014, 2020-2021, 2023-in corso), interpretata da Tricia Cast.
 Faith Newman (2009-in corso), interpretata da Reylynn Caster e in precedenza da Lutsky Twins, Madison e Brynn Bowie, da Mckenna Grace e da Alyvia Alyn Lind.
 Danny Romalotti (1981–1998, 2002–2004, 2008, 2012–2013, 2022-in corso), interpretato da Michael Damian.
 Paul Williams (1978-in corso), interpretato da Doug Davidson.
 Ashley Abbott (1982–2012, 2013, 2014-in corso), interpretata da Eileen Davidson e in precedenza da Brenda Epperson e da Shari Shattuck.
 Tessa Porter (2017-in corso), interpretata da Cait Fairbanks.
 Moses Winters (2011-2019, 2021-in corso), interpretato da Jacob Aaron Gaines e in precedenza da Phoenix e Zion Collins, Randall L. Smith e da Dax Randall.
 Noah Newman (1997-in corso), interpretato da Rory Gibson e in precedenza da Hunter Allan, Kevin Schmidt, Luke Kleintank e da Robert Adamson.

 Johnny Abbott (2012-in corso), interpretato da Holden e Ryan Hare.
 Chloe Mitchell (1990-1991, 1994, 2008-2014, 2015, 2016-2017, 2019-in corso), interpretata da Elizabeth Hendrickson e in precedenza da Darla e Sandra Greer e da Danielle Ryah.
 Dr Malone (2022-in corso), interpretata da Anna Khaja.
 Connor Newman (2013-2018, 2019-in corso), interpretato da Judah Mackey e in precedenza da Brady e Cooper Friedman, Elle e Eve Tanz, Michael e Nolan Webb, Owen e Henry Leark, Asher e Brayden McDonell e da Gunner e Ryder Gadbois.
 Traci Abbott (1982–1996, 1999, 2001-in corso), interpretata da Beth Maitland.
 Katie Abbott (2016-in corso), interpretata da Sienna Mercuri.
 Amanda Sinclair (2019-in corso), interpretata da Mishael Morgan e in precedenza da Karla Mosley.
 Lucy Romalotti (2011-2013, 2023-in corso), interpretata da Lily Brooks O'Briant e in precedenza da Monte, James e Viviana e da Abigail e Olivia Moore.
 Kevin Fisher (2003-2018, 2019-in corso), interpretato da Greg Rikaart.
 Imani Benedict (2021-in corso), interpretata da Leigh-Anne Rose.
 Lena Cavett (2021-in corso), interpretata da Dana Sparks.
 Jordan (2020-in corso), interpretata da Madison Thompson.
 Jill Abbott (1973-in corso), interpretata da Jess Walton e in precedenza da Brenda Dickson, Bond Gideon e da Deborah Adair.
 Allie Nguyen (2022-in corso), interpretata da Kelsey Wang.
 Christian Newman (2015-in corso), interpretato da Alex Wilson e in precedenza da Jamie e Alister Tobias.

Cast

Fino al 2019, il membro del cast più longevo della soap era l'attrice Jeanne Cooper, che ha interpretato il ruolo di Katherine Chancellor per ben quarant'anni, dal 1973, anno d'inizio del serial, anche se l'attrice non è stata presente sin dalla prima puntata (entrò in scena nel mese di novembre, cinque mesi dopo la partenza della soap opera), fino alla sua morte, avvenuta l'8 maggio del 2013 a causa di una malattia. I fan della soap hanno chiesto ai produttori di non riassegnare il personaggio di Katherine Chancellor ad un'altra attrice, ma di far morire anch'esso, in segno di rispetto verso la Cooper, che l'ha interpretato per tanti anni, richiesta che è stata accolta dagli sceneggiatori. Nel 2020 il primato della Cooper è stato superato da Melody Thomas Scott, che interpreta il personaggio di Nikki Reed Newman dal 1979.

Unico personaggio rimasto sin dalla prima puntata è invece quello di Jill Foster, interpretato però, nel corso degli anni, da attrici diverse: la prima attrice ad interpretare il ruolo fu Brenda Dickson (che nel 1980 fu temporaneamente sostituita da Bond Gideon, in quanto lei era in maternità) in seguito nel 1982 abbandonò la soap ed il ruolo di Jill venne assegnato a Deborah Adair; la Adair fu poi sostituita a sua volta proprio da Brenda Dickson, che riprese ad interpretare il ruolo nel 1984; a partire dal 1987, la Dickson lasciò nuovamente Febbre d'amore e fu sostituita da Jess Walton, attrice che interpreta il ruolo di Jill Foster ancora oggi, anche se dal 2014 il personaggio è stato declassato da principale a ricorrente.

Messa in onda
Dal 1973 al 1980 le puntate della soap duravano 30 minuti ciascuna; a partire dal 1980 ogni singola puntata dura 40 minuti (pubblicità esclusa).

Nel 1988, anno in cui spodestò il serial della ABC General Hospital, Febbre d'amore divenne la soap opera più seguita negli Stati Uniti; nel 2009, con il raggiungimento del 21º anno consecutivo al primo posto, la soap superò il record precedentemente detenuto da Così gira il mondo (anch'essa trasmessa dalla CBS) che era rimasta la soap più seguita negli States per 20 anni di seguito, dal 1958 al 1978. Tale posizione di primato viene persa, dopo 32 anni, nel 2020, quando durante i mesi primaverili la soap è stata per la prima volta superata negli ascolti da Beautiful, creata anch'essa dai coniugi Bell, anche se in seguito ha poi ripreso la leadership degli ascolti.

Febbre d'amore va in onda, oltre che negli USA, in oltre 100 nazioni. La soap riscuote molta popolarità soprattutto in Francia in cui va in onda su TF1 dal 1989 con il titolo Les feux de l'amour (I fuochi dell'amore). Il successo della soap opera in Francia è analogo a quello che la sister-soap Beautiful ottiene in Italia; infatti nell'autunno 2008, per ringraziare i fan francesi, alcuni episodi di Febbre d'amore hanno avuto come location Parigi.

Febbre d'amore è molto seguita anche in Belgio ed in Canada. In quest'ultima nazione, Paese bilingue, vengono trasmesse sia la versione originale in lingua inglese (in contemporanea con gli Stati Uniti) che quella doppiata in francese, con puntate che hanno un ritardo di otto anni rispetto alla programmazione statunitense.

Programmazione in Italia
In Italia è stata trasmessa a partire da lunedì 7 febbraio 1983 su Italia 1 (a partire dalle puntate statunitensi della stagione 1978/79) nella fascia preserale. Dopo la pausa estiva è stata ricollocata nel primo pomeriggio, in diretta concorrenza con le già affermate soap di Canale 5. Dall'ottobre 1984 è passata su Rete 4 alle ore 18, trovando la sua collocazione ideale per fidelizzare i telespettatori. Nel corso delle successive stagioni è stata programmata tra il tardo pomeriggio e la fascia preserale, ottenendo ascolti molto buoni e toccando share decisamente alti per il canale (in alcuni casi superiori al 20%). Nel 1990 si aggiudicò un Telegatto al Gran premio internazionale della TV come miglior soap opera.

Nel marzo 1991, a causa del grande divario di tempo tra la messa in onda italiana e quella statunitense (ben cinque anni di ritardo), i dirigenti di Rete 4 scelsero incautamente di operare un salto temporale, acquistando puntate più recenti (di un anno e mezzo di distanza) e mozzando circa tre anni di programmazione e di trame cruciali, passando dagli episodi andati in onda in USA nel marzo 1986 a quelli trasmessi negli States nel novembre 1989 con un'unica puntata riassuntiva, mossa che comportò un considerevole calo di audience (perse un terzo del suo pubblico, disorientato dal repentino cambio di scenario narrativo ed anche dal cambio di tre attori di alcuni personaggi centrali ovvero Jack Abbott, Jill Foster ed Ashley Abbott, che negli States non erano avvenuti nello stesso momento). La soap, per un periodo, assunse il titolo Febbre d'amore... tre anni dopo. A partire dall'agosto 1993, a causa degli ascolti non più soddisfacenti per la fascia preserale, è stata spostata in quella della tarda mattinata.

Nell'estate 1995 la Fininvest (divenuta in seguito Mediaset nel 1996) tentò di rilanciare Febbre d'amore, promuovendola da Rete 4 all'ammiraglia Canale 5 e modificandone il titolo in Amarsi. Fu posizionata alle 14,15 dopo la sister-soap Beautiful, strappata nel 1994 a Rai 2. Amarsi andò in onda per tre mesi, in diretta concorrenza con altre due soap statunitensi che già da parecchi anni presidiavano quello slot del palinsesto e molto amate dai telespettatori italiani: Sentieri su Rete 4 e Santa Barbara su Rai 2 e non riuscì quindi a fidelizzare abbastanza pubblico; nel settembre 1995, la soap dunque venne cancellata dal palinsesto di Canale 5 a causa degli ascolti ritenuti non soddisfacenti per la fascia pomeridiana della rete (una media del 18% di share, giudicata bassa rispetto allo share di Beautiful, che era all'epoca il programma più visto del daytime televisivo in Italia, col 34-35%) e sparì dai teleschermi italiani.

Nel 1996 circolò la notizia che la soap sarebbe tornata in onda sulla TMC di Vittorio Cecchi Gori, ma tali voci si rivelarono infondate.

Nell'aprile 1998, a due anni e mezzo dallo stop della programmazione, fu invece Rete 4 a rimetterla in onda, con il suo titolo italiano originale Febbre d'amore, ricollocandola nuovamente a metà mattina. Un mese dopo, esaurite le puntate inedite doppiate anni prima dalla cooperativa CDC Sefit Group di Roma, rimaste in magazzino dopo la sua repentina cancellazione dal pomeriggio di Canale 5, partirono quelle eseguite da una nuova società di doppiaggio, la Videodelta di Torino, mossa che comportò il repentino cambio in blocco di tutte le voci italiane, che causò parecchio malcontento tra il pubblico ed un nuovo calo di audience.

Nel marzo 1999, essendosi venuta di nuovo a creare una grande distanza tra la messa in onda italiana e quella statunitense a causa dei quasi tre anni di stop alla programmazione della soap in Italia, si decise di operare un secondo salto temporale, di ben quattro anni e mezzo, passando dagli episodi trasmessi negli Stati Uniti nel gennaio 1994 a quelli andati in onda nel novembre 1998; memori della debacle di pubblico avvenuta sette anni prima, questo secondo salto temporale avvenne però in maniera più graduale: venne infatti trasmessa un'intera settimana di puntate riassuntive (cinque, della durata di 40 minuti ciascuna) in cui vennero mostrate le vicende principali delle stagioni oggetto di questo secondo salto e presentati i nuovi personaggi entrati in scena nello stesso periodo, traghettando quindi in maniera meno traumatica le vicende a pochissimi mesi di distanza dalla messa in onda degli States, allineando la programmazione a Beautiful. Da quel momento, Febbre d'amore non ha più subito altri salti temporali e ha così potuto crearsi un seguito fedele.

A partire dal febbraio 2005 la soap però ha subito ingenti riduzioni di durata, con lunghi periodi in cui veniva trasmessa poco più di mezza puntata originale al giorno alternati ad altri in cui il formato originale veniva quasi rispettato. Nel 2008 e nel 2009 per diversi mesi le puntate sono state addirittura ridotte a una durata di soli dieci minuti al giorno, quando nel formato originale sarebbero di trentasei minuti netti. I continui cambi di orario nella fascia mattutina e la durata sempre più esigua hanno ulteriormente abbassato lo share della soap, che sino a fine 2007 era sempre stato superiore alla media di rete.

Dal 31 agosto 2009 Rete 4 stabilizzò l'orario di messa in onda; la programmazione venne però di nuovo interrotta venerdì 30 ottobre 2009, con le puntate trasmesse negli Stati Uniti nel gennaio 2007, a causa degli alti costi per l'acquisto degli episodi (circa 4000 € a puntata).

Dal 1º luglio 2011 la soap è tornata in onda in replica su CanalOne a partire dalle puntate andate in onda in Italia dall'agosto 2003 in poi. La soap è andata in onda su questo canale fino al 18 novembre 2011.

Attualmente la soap opera non viene più trasmessa in Italia.

L'edizione italiana è stata curata dapprima da Elena Sansonetti (episodi trasmessi dal 1983 al 2007), poi da Ludovica Bonanome (episodi trasmessi dal 2007 al 2009) per Mediaset.

Sigla

La sigla utilizzata dal 2000 al 2009 in Italia è stato il brano The Extra Mile interpretato da Laura Pausini, già usato come colonna sonora del film Pokémon 2 - La forza di uno. In precedenza la soap ha avuto come sigle italiane: la canzone What Am I Gonna Do di Linda Wesley (dal 1983 al 1984), poi fu adottata la sigla statunitense originale, il brano strumentale Nadia's theme, così chiamato perché originariamente composto in omaggio alla ginnasta rumena Nadia Comaneci (dal 1984 al 1991), in seguito la canzone Fallen di Lauren Wood (dal 1991 al 1993), poi il brano I Don't Wanna Fight di Tina Turner (dal 1993 al 1995) ed in seguito nuovamente la sigla originale statunitense Nadia's theme (nell'estate 1995 durante la breve parentesi Amarsi, e dal 1998 al 2000). Su CanalOne le repliche venivano trasmesse avendo come sigla il brano Nadia's theme.

Puntate in prima serata

Dal giugno all'ottobre 1987, Rete 4 trasmise eccezionalmente Febbre d'amore in prima serata ogni sabato con doppio episodio per la programmazione estiva, in virtù degli ottimi share raggiunti nel daytime. Negli Stati Uniti questo è accaduto due volte, nel 1993 e nel 1995. In questa seconda occasione, l'aitante Don Diamont (Brad Carlton) fu protagonista di una scena piuttosto audace, comparendo nudo sotto la doccia.

Cross-over
Febbre d'amore nel corso degli anni ha legato più volte la sua trama con quella di Beautiful: molti personaggi infatti hanno fatto la spola tra le due soap per lunghi periodi o con almeno una breve apparizione da guest star; le attrici che hanno interpretato lo stesso ruolo in entrambe le soap sono state: Kimberlin Brown (Sheila Carter #1), Tracey E. Bregman (Lauren Fenmore), Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor), Katherine Kelly Lang (Brooke Logan), Susan Flannery (Stephanie Douglas Forrester), Adrienne Frantz (Amber Moore), Andrea Evans (Tawny Moore), Eileen Davidson (Ashley Abbott #1), Beth Maitland (Traci Abbott), Judith Chapman (Gloria Bardwell Abbott #2), Lauralee Bell (Christine "Cricket" Blair), Marilyn Alex (Molly Carter), Darcy Rose Byrnes (Abby Carlton #2), Susan Seaforth Hayes (Joanna Manning), Tonya Lee Williams (Olivia Barber), Lesli Kay (Felicia Forrester #2), Linsey Godfrey (Caroline Spencer Jr.), Kate Linder (Esther Valentine), Sharon Case (Sharon Newman), Courtney Hope (Sally Spectra Jr.) ed Hunter King (Summer Newman). Tra gli attori invece abbiamo Eric Braeden (Victor Newman), John McCook (Eric Forrester), Peter Barton (Scott Grainger), Peter Bergman (Jack Abbott), Ian Buchanan (James Warwick), Aaron Lustig (Dr. Tim Reid), Sean Kanan (Deacon Sharpe), Zack Conroy (Oliver Jones), Jacob Young (Rick Forrester #2) e Darin Brooks (Wyatt Spencer).

Inoltre alcuni attori hanno lavorato in entrambe le soap opera dei coniugi Bell, anche se con due ruoli diversi: Darlene Conley (Rose De Ville e Sally Spectra), John McCook (Lance Prentiss ed Eric Forrester), Katherine Kelly Lang (Gretchen e Brooke Logan), Barbara Crampton (Leanna Love e Maggie Forrester Warwick), Mary Sheldon (Nancy Nolan e Donna Logan #2), Ashley Jones (Megan Dennison e Bridget Forrester #4), Jennifer Gareis (Grace Turner #2 e Donna Logan #3), Heather Tom (Victoria Newman #1 e Katie Logan #2), Andrea Evans (Patty Williams #2 e Tawny Moore), John Castellanos (John Silva e Jeff Talon), Daniel McVicar (un assistente della Newman Enterprises e Clark Garrison), Rick Hearst (Matt Clark #2 e Whip Jones), Michael Tylo (Alexander Bladeson e Sherman Gale), Amanda Pace e Rachel Pace (Abby Carlton #1 ed Hope Logan #2), Eva Longoria (Isabella Braña ed una modella della Forrester), Ricky Paull Goldin (Gary Dawson e Jesse Torres), Peter Brown (Robert Laurence e Blake Hayes), Tracy Melchior (Veronica Landers e Kristen Forrester Dominguez #2), Lauren Koslow (Lindsey Wells e Margot Maclaine Lynley Spencer), Jim Storm (Neil Fenmore e Bill Spencer Sr.), Marla Adams (Dina Mergeron Abbott e Beth Henderson Logan #3), Shari Shattuck (Ashley Abbott #3 ed Heather Thompson), Sean Whalen (impiegato di un motel e Carl Ferret), Justin Baldoni (Ben e Graham Darros), Vincent Irizarry (David Chow e Jordan Armstrong) e Matthew Atkinson (Austin Travers e Thomas Forrester #5).

Un curioso caso è quello che riguarda Don Diamont che per molti anni (dal 1985 al 2009) ha interpretato il personaggio di Brad Carlton in Febbre d'amore, per poi passare a Beautiful nel 2009 nel ruolo di Bill Spencer Jr.: l'attore infatti è apparso in tutte e due le soap con entrambi i ruoli.

Oltre ai numerosi crossover con la sister-soap Beautiful, Febbre d'amore ebbe degli intrecci narrativi con una storica soap della CBS, Così gira il mondo (conclusasi nel 2010). Nel 2005 l'avvocato Michael Baldwin si è recato nella cittadina di Oakdale per assistere Jack Snyder in un processo. La cosa curiosa è che Christian Jules LeBlanc, negli anni ottanta, aveva interpretato per diverso tempo un ruolo differente in quella soap. Nel 2007 Adrienne Frantz diede vita ad un incrocio di ben tre soap opera (infatti Amber Moore, personaggio di Beautiful in quel periodo presente a Febbre d'amore, interagì con Emily Stewart, personaggio di Così gira il mondo).

Nel 1995, Victoria Rowell (Drucilla Winters) propose alla CBS di realizzare una sorta di crossover con il telefilm di cui era coprotagonista, Un detective in corsia. L'attrice, nell'episodio della seconda stagione intitolato Attrice per caso, interpreta quindi sia sé stessa che recita il ruolo di Drucilla, sia il personaggio del telefilm, la dottoressa Amanda Bentley. Il dottor Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) si trova sul set di Febbre d'amore per indagare su dei misteriosi attentati. Eric Braeden, Jeanne Cooper, Lauralee Bell, Doug Davidson, Kristoff St. John, Heather Tom e J. Eddie Peck recitano nella parte di sé stessi. L'episodio, in Italia, è stato trasmesso in prima TV il 27 luglio 1998.

Altro cross-over è quello con la sitcom La tata, nel 24º episodio della quarta stagione, che nella versione italiana è intitolato proprio Febbre d'amore, in cui la protagonista Francesca Cacace (Fran Drescher) si reca nel set della soap, di cui è una fan appassionata, incontrandovi diversi attori (Joshua Morrow, Shemar Moore, Jeanne Cooper, Melody Thomas Scott, Peter Bergman) per andare a trovare l'amica-rivale Heather Biblow (interpretata da Pamela Anderson) che ha appena ottenuto un ruolo nel serial, scatenando l'invidia dell'amica. Anche in molti altri episodi della sitcom, la protagonista cita spesso la soap.

Tematiche
In America le relazioni interrazziali sono state un tabù nelle soap sino agli anni novanta. Anche la breve storia tra Neil Winters e Victoria Newman, nel 1998, non è stata gradita da parte del pubblico e, per questo, troncata dagli autori dopo poco tempo. Tra il 2004 e il 2005, con la relazione tra Damon Porter e Phyllis Summers il vento è mutato e non si è levata la minima protesta. Così, nel 2005, è stata battezzato il primo amore interrazziale versione teen: quello tra Daniel Romalotti e Lily Winters. Nel 2006 si sono sposati.

Nel 1977, Febbre d'amore affrontò il tema della bisessualità. La ricca Katherine Chancellor e la sua assistente Joann, entrambe alle prese con mariti fedifraghi, s'avvicinarono molto, con sentimenti che andavano oltre l'amicizia. Forse i tempi per una trama del genere erano troppo precoci. Il pubblicò infatti, sia non gradendo la storia in sé sia ritenendo che il personaggio di Katherine venisse snaturato, boicottò la soap, che perse ascolto. Così quella trama fu interrotta, con Brock, figlio della donna, che la blocca prima della partenza per un viaggio romantico con l'amica.

Febbre d'amore, negli anni, ha anche affrontato tematiche sociali come le gravidanze dei minorenni, l'aborto, i costi delle compagnie assicurative e delle assicurazioni sanitarie, le molestie sessuali sul lavoro, gli abusi sui minori, la violenza domestica, i minori abbandonati negli istituti per ragazzi difficili, l'analfabetismo, la fecondazione assistita, il tentato suicidio, l'alcolismo (Katherine, Nikki e Neil sono stati alcolisti, anche con ricadute), l'uso e lo spaccio di droga. Molte trame hanno riguardato problematiche legate alla salute: l'AIDS (Jessica, Keesha), il cancro (Olivia, Ashley), l'epilessia (Victor), l'anemia aplastica (Olivia), il diabete (Raul), le malattie veneree (Nikki, Paul, Lily, Kevin), l'impotenza (John, Paul), la depressione (Lillie Bell), l'infarto (John), l'esaurimento nervoso (Ashley).

Impatto culturale

Citazione e parodie
Febbre d'amore è stata citata in diversi film, tra cui Baby Boy - Una vita violenta, Taxi Driver, Mai stata baciata, Mister mamma e in serie TV, tra cui Beverly Hills 90210, Un detective in corsia, La tata, Friends, Willy, il principe di Bel-Air, Ultime dal cielo, The King of Queens, Dawson's Creek, A casa di Fran, Tutti odiano Chris.

Spesso Febbre d'amore utilizza citazioni letterarie. Una volta Michael Baldwin recitò a Phyllis Summers una poesia di Walt Whitman. Nel Natale 2004, invece, lo stesso Michael, redento dopo un passato burrascoso e ormai accettato dai concittadini, venne invitato come ospite al ranch dei Newman. Davanti a tanti ospiti, Michael fu invitato a leggere un passaggio tratto da Canto di Natale di Charles Dickens.

Fenomeno delle supercouples
Negli anni ottanta, nelle soap opera statunitensi ci fu il boom delle cosiddette supercouples. Cioè coppie che vivevano storie d'amore tanto passionali quanto tormentate, che affrontavano ostacoli su ostacoli per poter restare insieme. Non solo ostacoli sentimentali, ma anche avversità di ogni genere, compresi perfidi e folli criminali che minacciavano il mondo. Fondamentale per il riconoscimento del pubblico di una supercouple, oltre alla sceneggiatura solida e brillante, era l'alchimia che si creava tra gli attori interpreti della suddetta coppia. Tra le supercouples più famose ed amate delle varie soap statunitensi abbiamo: per General Hospital (il serial che diede il via al fenomeno) Laura e Luke, Holly e Robert, Felicia e Frisco, Anna e Duke, Brenda e Sonny; per Sentieri Reva e Josh, Nola e Quinton, Beth e Philip, Holly e Roger, Mindy e Rick, Michelle e Danny, Harley e Gus; per Così gira il mondo Lily e Holden; per Il tempo della nostra vita Kayla e Patch, Marlena e John; per La valle dei pini Nina e Cliff, Angie e Jesse; per Beautiful Brooke e Ridge, Macy e Thorne, Steffy e Rick, Katie e Bill, Hope e Liam; per Capitol Julie e Tyler, Kelly e Trey; per Santa Barbara Eden e Cruz.

Per Febbre d'amore la supercouple di maggior successo è quella formata da Nikki e Victor. I due si sono incontrati nel 1981 e, dopo varie vicissitudini, si sposarono per la prima volta nel 1984. Dopo un divorzio ed altri matrimoni, durante i quali la fiamma tra i due non si era mai del tutto spenta, la coppia si è risposata nel 2002. Nel 2007 la coppia ha divorziato per la seconda volta; dopo aver avuto ancora entrambi altre relazioni e vissuto varie vicissitudini, Victor e Nikki sono giunti all'altare per la terza volta con una cerimonia di nozze in grande stile, trasmessa il 26 marzo 2013, in occasione della puntata che festeggiava i 40 anni di messa in onda della soap opera. Altre supercouples di Febbre d'amore sono state: Cricket e Paul, Ashley e Brad, Phyllis e Jack (Ashley e Jack inoltre sono stati a lungo coinvolti, a momenti alterni, in triangoli amorosi assieme a Nikki e Victor), Lauren e Scott, Cassandra e Skip, Drucilla e Neil, Victoria e Ryan, Sharon e Nicholas, Colleen e JT, Lily e Daniel.

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Automation and Remote Control
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Preemptive scheduling of independent jobs on identical parallel machines subject to migration delays
S. V. Sevastyanov
R. A. Sitters
A. V. Fishkin
Multi-Machine and Multi-Stage Scheduling Environments
We present hardness and approximation results for the problem of preemptive scheduling of n independent jobs on m identical parallel machines subject to a migration delay d with the objective to minimize the makespan. We give a sharp threshold on the value of d for which the complexity of the problem changes from polynomial time solvable to NP-hard. Next, we give initial results supporting a conjecture that there always exists an optimal schedule with at most m − 1 job migrations. Finally, we provide a O(n) time (1 + 1/log2 n)-approximation algorithm for m = 2.
Remote Control Completion Time Optimal Schedule Feasible Schedule Communication Delay
Original Russian Text © S.V. Sevastyanov, R.A. Sitters, A.V. Fishkin, 2010, published in Avtomatika i Telemekhanika, 2010, No. 10, pp. 90–99.
This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 08-01-00370.
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My little Speech on Patriotism
by Terry 18 Replies latest jw friends
My July 4, Speech on Patriotism
The last person in my family to serve in the Armed Forces was my Uncle Jack during the Korean War. He suffered a skull injury but fully recovered.
My Dad's side of the family fled Finland to avoid being compelled to fight for Sweden around 1809. They came to America by 1900.
My Mom's father was in the Navy during WWI as a telegraph operator (he was the very first in the U.S.).
Mom and her two sisters joined the Women's Army Corp during WWII.
My parents were Blue Dog Democrats. (They'd vote for a blue dog before they would a Republican.)
I was reared with a strong sense of Patriotism, respect for Government, and a sense of "My Country: right or wrong."
Yeah. You know already.
My best friend, Johnny, derailed all that. Johnny was a Jehovah's Witness.
It was a religious cult - but thought it was about God and teaching my fellow humans how to avoid Armageddon.
That's on me.
It was a slow process of gradual indoctrination - and I didn't give in without a fight. But - I became a Conscientious Objector and I did end up in Federal Prison.
You know that already about me.
AFTER WWII ended
The fight against Communism "by any means necessary" was the beginning of the end of Patriotism because our Government officials began lying to the American people so as to be able to get into wars (thought necessary) and still appear to be a bright beacon of human decency, a shining city on the hill.
JFK was persuaded by his military advisers to invade CUBA.
That was called "The Bay of Pigs" fiasco.
(Our military double-crossed the Cuban insurgents we were invading with and no Air-Cover was provided.)
This drove Castro to seek help from the "other" super power, the U.S.S.R. Soviet Union.
That was called the Cuban Missile Crisis.
I was in the 9th grade.
Simmering on the back burner was VIETNAM.
America was lied to about that for a long, long time by our top leaders.
The "Domino Theory" was behind it all. If you allowed one small Indonesian country to fall to Communism, the whole world would follow.
The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died in the war.
In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war.
America never lost a battle in that war - but - America lost a generation of Patriotic kids.
Now here is my point, read it carefully, please.
IF I HAD NOT MET JOHNNY, I would have gone to Vietnam.
(several of my class mates in High School served. One close friend perished. Bill Borders, may he rest in peace.)
I may or may not have died but I would have done so as a true Patriot.
Unless . . . I became disillusioned by the pointlessness and waste of human life.
I shall never know.
I said all the above to say this:
You can be a PATRIOT and still mistrust your lying government, forked-tongued National Security Agency, politicians, and partisan News outlets.
Yes. How?
Love your country, the fantastic diversity of traditions and nationalities, and the charitable impulse to care for others.
I fully support our young men and women in the armed forces but distinctly disapprove of the wars they are sent to die in.
You can call that dysfunctional patriotism, if you like.
Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia
are foreign countries crawling with American C.I.A. "advisers" and a helluva lot of our troops.
You didn't vote for that and probably know very little that's true about the why and wherefore.
BE PATRIOTIC - just don't be gullible.
End of July 4th speech.
eyeuse2badub
I wonder if the Israelites were patriotic? Aren't JW's proud of their "spiritual nation"?
just saying!
There's all sorts of ways to look at the phenomenon of Patriotism.
There is probably a survival instinct at the bottom of it.
MY TRIBE against the WORLD is an eventual problem, however.
"We" are always right - no matter how wrong.
The logic being: if we don't have our OWN, what do we have?
Animals in Nature certainly maintain solidarity against the "other."
We are (hidden atavistic-ally within us) animals too.
Family first.
Friends before strangers.
Bros before Ho's. (Oh - I think I've gone too far. Sorry.)
stillin
I may not approve of every single thing about this country. I may show some serious opposition to some of the detestable leaders and the things that are being done. But don't EVER tell me that I don't love my country. It's because of my patriotism that I feel the way I do; I hate to see some of this nation's highest principles being trampled on by greedy, self-serving politicians of any party.
Whatever happened to actual dialog between people with opposing views? Informed debate, the highlights being made public. Not this knee-jerk pablum, designed to manipulate an ignorant public.
The truth is out there and if you know what you're doing you can probably find it. But there will be resistance to the re-telling of it.
Thanks for writing, Terry.
Thanks, Terry -- always appreciate. Btw, great painting/style of flag -- who is the artist? I love the Jasper Johns' flag paintings and the one you posted is beautiful.
The Vietnam war was a tragedy, but it helped produce some bloody great music. I have a playlist of Vietnam era songs that I listen to regularly. It's my way of not forgetting, I suppose.
Humphry
I've never been much of a patriot I was 10 years old when JFK was assassinated looking back to that age you might say the public schools indoctrination didn't make that much of a impression on me. Vietnam war I didn't want to go luckily I got reclassified 1H(by the draft lottery) and didn't have to go.
I respect the government that I live under the same as I would if I was from another country but no real deep patriotism. Reading 'Man Without A Country' in 10th grade didn't phase me in the least.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Without_a_Country
I enjoyed your speech, Terry. It seems in this day and age that many people are confusing patriotism with Nationalism. A very slippery slope indeed. Nationalism is a corrosive, collectivistic, polarizing ideology that can destroy a nation. Patriotism builds up the individual and his country but not at the expense of creating and enforcing 'tribalism'.
I can't wait to see&hear Trump's special 4th of July speech to the nation will it unite or confuse ? Will it be from the heart or carefully scripted?
The flag artist is Steven Lester:
https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/steven-lester/artwork/old-glory-steven-lester