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Fur and Gold
Trophy (countermeasure)
A trophy is a tangible, durable reminder of a specific achievement, and serves as recognition or evidence of merit. Trophies are often awarded for sporting events, from youth sports to professional level athletics. In many sports medals (or, in North America, rings) are often given out either as the trophy or along with more traditional trophies.
Originally the word trophy, derived from the Greek tropaion, referred to arms, standards, other property, or human captives and body parts (e.g., headhunting) captured in battle. These war trophies commemorated the military victories of a state, army or individual combatant. In modern warfare trophy taking is discouraged, but this sense of the word is reflected in hunting trophies and human trophy collecting by serial killers.
A slang term for an individual or team's collection of trophies is silverware.
Trophies have marked victories since ancient times. The word trophy coined in English in 1550, was derived from the French trophée in 1513, "a prize of war", from Old French trophee, from Latin trophaeum, monument to victory, variant of tropaeum, which in turn is the latinisation of the Greek τρόπαιον (tropaion), the neuter of τροπαῖος (tropaios), "of defeat" or "for defeat", but generally "of a turning" or "of a change", from τροπή (tropē), "a turn, a change" and that from the verb τρέπω (trepo), "to turn, to alter".
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Fur and Gold is the debut album by English recording artist Bat for Lashes, released on 11 September 2006 by The Echo Label. It was released to critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2007 Mercury Prize. In 2007, the album was re-released through Parlophone. Fur and Gold contains the singles "The Wizard", "Trophy", "Prescilla", and "What's a Girl to Do?" In 2008, "What's a Girl to Do?" was re-released as a 12" with a remix featuring Scroobius Pip and Plaid.
Fur and Gold was generally well received by critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on 15 reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
All songs written and composed by Natasha Khan, except where noted.
Natasha Khan – vocals, keyboards (1, 2, 4, 6, 9, 10); producer, string arrangements (all tracks); percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 10); drums (2, 4, 6); piano (3, 5–9, 11); Hammond organ (5); harmonium (6); autoharp (7); guitar, vibraphone (9); sounds (11); artwork
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Trophy (also known as ASPRO-A, Israel Defense Forces designation מעיל רוח, lit. "Windbreaker") is a military active protection system (APS) for vehicles. It intercepts and destroys incoming missiles and rockets with a shotgun-like blast. Trophy is the product of a ten-year collaborative development project between the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries' Elta Group. Its principal purpose is to supplement the armour of light and heavy armored fighting vehicles.
As of 2012 the system was being integrated onto Israeli Merkava main battle tanks. The design includes the Elta EL/M-2133F/G band fire-control radar with four flat-panel antennas mounted on the vehicle, with a 360-degree field of view. When a projectile is detected, the internal computer calculates an approach vector almost instantly, before it arrives. Once the incoming weapon is fully classified, the computers calculate the optimal time and angle to fire the neutralizers. The response comes from two rotating launchers installed on the sides of the vehicle which fire neutralizing agents, usually small metal pellets like buckshot. The system is designed to have a very small kill zone, so as not to endanger personnel adjacent to the protected vehicle.
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Classic Cuts released: 2008
Classic Cuts
I Feel Good, Put Your Pants On
Slow Flight
Body Heat (vocal mix)
The Devils Dancers
I'm House
Magical Body (vocal version)
So Let It Be House
House Girl (feat. Mystic)
I Am a Vocoder
Trophy released: 2007
How Did You Get This Way
Bury Me
Doing Well
Longer You Leave It
Better Off Alone Again
Toast for the Day
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Trophy, Gretchen
Trophy, Siouxsie And The Banshees
Trophy, Karate
Trophy, Geto Boys
Trophy, Siouxsie & The Banshees
Trophy, Everwaiting Serenade
Trophy, Stephen Speaks
Trophy, Clandestine Blaze
Trophy, Good Riddance
Trophy, Made Out Of Babies
Trophy, Bat For Lashes
Trophy, Siouxie and the Banshees
I see the face your making
You've got to have it your way
so one by one you favor
you put them on display
your trophies left to decay
hey, hey, hey, hey
so where's the love your preaching
so where'es the charity
it's all a mystery to me
it's time to love your neighbor
and love your enemy
lay down your life for the sheep
I pray you'll find
some peace of mind
reflections never lie
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Q: Border-bottom issue (expanding downwards on hover) I'm working on a navigation, and I can't seem to figure out how to make the bottom border increase in size upwards, instead of expanding downwards (which in turn extends my header a few pixels), I could fix the extending header with setting a height, but the the border will still extend downwards instead of upwards.
The CSS:
header {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  width: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  background: #000000;
}
ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  display: block;
  margin: 0 0 0 20px;
  padding: 0;
}
ul li {
  display: inline-block;
  padding: 0;
}
ul li a{
  display: block;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
  font-size: 19px;
}
ul li a:hover{
  border-bottom: 2px solid #fff;
  background: #333;
  font-size: 19px;
}

The HTML:

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The JSFiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/Artsen/EZWvF/

A: So you want to increase the border-bottom to the top, right?
I've actually had to do this for a website recently. There is no other way than to set specific padding, and border properties.
I edited your jsfiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/EZWvF/2/ (changed some properties to make the test case more visible)
The principle is: Swap the pixel values from padding-bottom and border-bottom on hover.
 These are the key lines to your solution:
ul li a {
 border-bottom: 1px solid white;
 padding-bottom: 5px;
}
ul li a:hover {
 border-bottom: 5px solid white;
 padding-bottom: 1px;
}

Note: This only works if you don't add a css-transition. If you unquote the css-transition I put in the fiddle, you'll see that the div still expands to the bottom. If you want a ss-transition you'll need to add a separate div to the li's to mimic a border.

A: As Tyblitz suggested using extra padding value on :hover works great when you don't need a transition.
If you need transition and don't want to introduce an extra div you can do it using the line-height/height approach for controlling the vertical height.
so instead of doing this:
.nav-element a {
  color: gray;
  padding: 25px 15px;
  transition: all ease-in-out 0.2s;
  display: block;
  text-decoration: none;
}

do this:
.nav-element a {
  color: gray;
  padding: 0 15px;
  line-height: 70px;
  height: 70px;
  transition: all ease-in-out 0.2s;
  display: block;
  text-decoration: none;
}

See example where it doesn't work here
and does work (using the line-height/height) here

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I made my fourth trip to Cedar Point on Wednesday, July 16. My sister-in-law, Michele had reserved one of the cottages at Lighthouse Point for three days as a birthday present for my 10 year old nephew, so we made a day trip to meet with them.
We arrived at the park by 8:45 am and met up with them at the Magnum/Resorts entrance in time to enter with our season passes and Joe Cool Club early entry. Our first stop was Dragster, which had been testing. Although it wasn't opened yet, there were only approximately 40 people in line in front of us. Since my son's girlfriend, Donna and Michele and her family, husband Pic, son Aaron, daughter Lauren and a couple young friends had not had a chance to ride Dragster before, we opted to "wait it out".
Several trains were launched with half making it over while others, mostly trains without water dummies, rolled back before it was announced that TTD was down for mechanical reasons with no estimated time. Twenty minutes later, more trains launched, both with water dummies and empty, and successfully made it over the top to cheers of the crowds waiting. Unfortunately, a few more trains didn't make it. I noticed when a train launched, the monitor showed the speed at 125 mph or more, but as the train passed, the monitor showed a slower speed. It seemed the trains were slowing down after the initial launch.
Another announcement was made indicating it could be well over an hour. We were pretty happy sitting in line outside the entrance. It wasn't too hot, and at least outside the queue, we were able to take turns running for drinks and munchies.
We watched as a mechanic worked on the break fins/sensors for a good 30 minutes. It appeared that a break fin was "sticking" both going up and down. Shortly after he finished work, trains were launched again with several successes before an employee got a ride. The first train crept over the top hat, but the second reached the apex and slowly rolled back. The look on the girl's face was priceless. I got the feeling it was that ride ops first rollback. After a few more minutes, she was launched again successfully. Once we noticed the ops starting the fans and misters up, we knew we were golden. It was noon when they opened the queue and there were less than 40 people in line in front of us.
Michele and Pic loaded into the second of the first two trains. The first train launched, and theirs moved into the launch position while I boarded the 3rd train. I no sooner fastened my seatbelt when they announced TTD was down again for mechanical reasons. Those of us in trains (including Michele and Pic in the train waiting to launch) sat in anticipation, but within 10 minutes we heard the launch sequence beginning again.
I thought I'd remembered how intense the launch was from opening day and was prepared, but I was not. It's hard to describe the feeling I get during the launch. It's almost like the breath is being forced out of my body. I had enough sense this time to look around at the top before we spiraled back down and into the break run.
Michele and Pic, in the train before me were ecstatic. Donna, riding in the train directly behind me, and Lauren and her friend in the train behind them were also sufficiently impressed. There was some disappointment when they realized the photo booth wasn't working.
After our TTD ride, Michele decided to head back to the cottage to get burgers and hotdogs for lunch cooking on the grill. We had an hour to kill, so Ian, Donna and I made our way to Raptor only to find a 1.5 hour line and opted to check back later. Millennium Force had a 45 minute wait, so we got into line only to hear the DJ announce MF was temporarily down. Hungry, and not having a lot of time, we opted to come back later and made our way to the cottage with a brief stop so Ian and Donna could ride Witches Wheel.
This is the first time I've gotten a first hand look at the cottages and I'm very impressed. The bunk beds are an especially great idea, and having a small kitchenette, outdoor grill, and the deck area is very appealing.
After lunch and just plain chilling away from the crowds for a bit, Ian, Donna and I went back into the park. We rode Meanstreak, Gemini, Magnum, Corkscrew, Power Tower space shot, Chaos, Disaster Transport, Raptor and Blue Streak.
Mean Streak was especially anemic on this day. I cherish the times when I catch it running faster, but this day was not one of them.
Ian and Donna wanted to ride Magnum in the back. I opted for the middle seat so as not to sit above wheels. It's very true that you get smoother rides when not sitting above wheels.
I spent a few minutes talking with Kara at Corkscrew who was manning the entrance and dealing very well with guests who were trying to hustle food, drink and large items into the queue. She was happy she got to work Magnum last week! She got to do the lift walk and has pictures to prove it. Again, I'm amazed at how much smoother Corkscrew has been this year.
Although my son dislikes Disaster Transport, his girlfriend wanted to ride it since she hadn't before. She got some history of the ride from me and an older couple behind us who I chatted up. We discussed fond memories of CP in the 60's, including Jumbo Jet. The best part was when my son and his girlfriend began staring at me strangely. It seems that my bi-focal contacts made my eyes glow a weird green color under the black lights. Imagine an animal's eyes glowing in the dark, except not quite as bright. I pulled out a mirror and couldn't believe how freaky it looked!
It was 7 pm and we decided to take another break for dinner at the Midway Market. That's where I encountered the only irritants of the day.
The first was a man who was very rude to the hostess. The restaurant was pretty full, and she attempted to seat him and his wife at a table near ours. He complained loudly that he'd already spent hours wandering around in the hot sun, the LAST thing he wanted was to sit at a table in the sun. There were no "shaded" tables that were cleaned and available, so she asked if he'd be willing to wait a little bit while she had a table cleared, and he was upset at having to wait any longer. She ended up seating them at a table for 6.
Then, while waiting in line to get a scoop of ice cream, the woman in front of me pointed to a container and said loudly "that one. ONE (holding a finger up) scoop!" As the girl was scooping out her ice cream, the woman turned to me and said "you have to be so careful with these foreign people they have working all over here, they don't understand a THING." I was so angry I could have burst a blood vessel. After the woman walked away with her ONE scoop, I told the girl working the ice cream counter that I had great respect for employees at CP who had to put up with people like that. Her smile returned and she thanked me.
After dinner we made our way to Wicked Twister. Ian and Donna weren't interested in riding it earlier, and knowing that Donna wanted to let her dinner settle before going on any intense rides, I suggested they hang out in the shade for 30 minutes while I took a spin. Afterwards, they decided Iron Dragon wouldn't be intense enough to upset a full stomach, so we took a ride in the last car. The line for MF was 1.5 hours, so we strolled along Frontier Trail instead and visited the Museum.
Although Ian told Donna the most interesting thing inside was the model of Mean Streak, I had to chuckle when they lingered over some of the historical pictures and items that never seemed to interest Ian before.
We realized it was 9:30, and Donna had never seen the Summer Spectacular so we wandered back down the Frontier Trail to the main midway and found a place to sit. Maybe it's just me, but I preferred the summer spectaculars that were all laser instead of the films they had as part of the show. I grew up with the Peanuts gang and Snoopy, but I feel like they overdid it. Old clips from TV specials filmed up to 35 years ago didn't really add that much to the show, although the live dancing Snoopy was pretty good. Whoever was in that costume certainly had Joe Cools moves down!
Although Ian and Donna would have liked to grab a ride on MF, the line was still over an hour. It was already 10:30 pm, we had a two hour drive ahead of us, and I had to be up at 6 am for work. It was one night where I was glad I take the Route 2 to 280 to 75 way home. As we were approaching Oregon, we heard a report of a massive accident on 75 near the turnpike involving 14 or more cars that had 75 closed down in both directions. We arrived home a little after 1 am and I crawled, exhausted, into bed.


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With a New England accent and penchant for colorful detail delivered. where Schwechheimer said they walked up a ramp to a sea of people — more than he'd ever seen in one place — and a burst of.
Steve Crandlemere has established a dynasty, now in its fifth decade, with a level of sustained excellence that would make New England Patriots green with. by offering transportation and even a.
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They tour relentlessly, travel is in their blood and they never stay in the same place for long. Bandleader Eugene Hütz. he began performing all around New England, establishing his live show among.
The flowers are blooming in dazzling colors, the corn at roadside farm stands is delectably sweet, the lakes are refreshingly cool, and the area's picturesque New England villages are chock-full.
Fittingly, the reading will take place in the Mariners' Museum alongside whaling. said the museum's collection doesn't have many whaling artifacts since that was more of a New England industry, but.


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Ophiocomina nigra, communément appelé Ophiure noire, est une espèce d'ophiures de la famille des Ophiuridae.

Description

Comme la plupart des ophiures, l'ophiure noire est formée d'un disque central mou et aplati autour duquel rayonnent 5 bras allongés et effilés, permettant une reptation rapide.

Le disque central rigide mesure  de diamètre maximum, il est pentagonal et finement granuleux ; il est d'ordinaire d'un noir profond mais peut être décoré de motifs bruns. Les cinq bras sont relativement longs (jusqu'à ), et s'affinent vers la pointe ; ils sont généralement noirs mais parfois eux aussi décorés de brun. Le long des bras, de chaque côté, se trouve une rangée d'écailles qui ont pris la forme de piquants (10 à 14 par segment), et disposés en peigne.

Habitat et répartition
On trouve cette ophiure essentiellement en Europe, en Atlantique du Nord-Est et Méditerranée.

Son habitat de prédilection est dans les fonds détritiques, rocheux, ou sableux-vaseux, à une profondeur variant de la surface à près de  de profondeur. Ophiocomina nigra se trouve le long de la bande littorale, affectionnant les eaux riches en nutriments, turbides ou polluées. On la trouve donc logiquement dans les ports et les embouchures d'égouts, parfois en densités importantes.

Écologie et comportement

Alimentation
L'ophiure est omnivore opportuniste à tendance charognarde, pouvant manger des particules en suspension, des débris organiques, des feutrages bactériens, mais aussi des charognes ou même exercer une chasse à de petits animaux vivants.

Reproduction
La reproduction est gonochorique, et mâles et femelles relâchent leurs gamètes en même temps grâce à un signal phéromonal, en pleine eau, où œufs puis larves (appelées ophiopluteus) vont évoluer parmi le plancton pendant quelques semaines avant de rejoindre le sol.

Notes et références

Liens externes

Espèce d'échinodermes (nom scientifique)
Ophiuroidea

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Score your final 1 rep weight but also put the weight used for your other sets in the comment section for future progression.
Find a HEAVY set of 3. Score your heaviest set.
Spend 5 minutes with the foam roller and/or lacrosse ball. Then take 10 minutes to get mobile and break a sweat.
Take 10 minutes to get mobile and break a sweat.
Take 10 minutes to work on mobility and break a sweat.
REST, HYDRATE, STRETCH AND ENJOY THE WEEKEND!
Take 20 minutes to work on the mechanics of an uncomfortable or unfamiliar lift. Or use this time to PR or a lift of your choice.
GO HEAVY! Score your heaviest push.
Take 10 minutes to run through some mobility movements and break a sweat.
Score heaviest set for each lift.
Take 10 minutes to go through some mobility movements and break a sweat.


Treating patients with vein and circulation problems, Peter uses only the most appropriate and modern treatment options.
The first consultation occurs in our clinic in Dublin (Beaumont Private Clinic) or Drogheda (Mater Private Clinic).
During the first meeting Mr Naughton will carefully complete a history and physical examination to establish the nature of your condition and the best, most appropriate, treatment options for you.


Muslims are a hospitable and generous people, but they can also sometimes be reserved and aloof, especially the older generation. In an effort to showcase the positive traits of our community and to encourage integration in these pressing times, where Muslims are being marginalized, Eid Creations is spearheading an Eid awareness campaign through social media called #GiveEid. We are challenging muslim families to give gifts to their neighbors, coworkers, teachers, or anyone in their surroundings, by making it fun through contests related to gift-giving on Instagram.
This is how the campaign will work.
Take a photo/photos of anything relating to gift giving to people around you. You can give to people you do not know, if you dare, or any non-muslim friend, coworker, acquaintance. You can give homemade sweets or store bought, gift card, etc. There will be prizes awarded for best recipes, (if your momma allows you to share the family's secret recipe), best packaging, or to most original photo or notes. Use your creativity!
Monitor our feed to see all of the great photos, ongoing contests, and winners announced!
Why #GiveEid and why now? Ask around you what Eid means, and you will see that there is no recognition of that term. For that reason and in order to spread the word in the society we live in, we would like your participation in the #GiveEid campaign. Please spread the word. Help us make headline news!
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Female Cop Stereotype
A female officer has to deal with a lot of criticism. There is the female cop stereotype, the pressures of having to prove themselves to their male counterparts, as well as society's expectation of any female who is out in the workforce.
I've seen it first hand, when a female officer joins the department.
If she's attractive but not physically intimidating, guys will roll their eyes or comment that she's inadequate to back them in a physical confrontation with a suspect.
If she is a hulking presence, guys will roll their eyes and comment on the fact that she's a "butch".
Both of these feed into the female cop stereotype. It's unfair but it exists.
Woman police officers also have to deal with society's expectation of their gender role, notwithstanding their chosen career path.
Times are slowly changing, and many agree that family/house work has to be shared between both the male and female.
There is, however, a lingering belief among some people that women should be involved in more of the family life and responsibility. (Please don't hate my guts, I'm not saying this is what I believe, I'm just commenting in general terms on what some of the population still believes.)
Police work involves a hectic shift schedule, and missing birthday parties for kids, holidays,recitals, etc etc.... is a fact of life.
Society may not be very forgiving that a mother would miss these events, yet unfairly, may justify the father for missing the very same events citing their chosen profession and the sacrifices that they must make.
One other thing which the public seems to idiotically perpetuate is calling or referring to a female officer as a "bitch" when she does her job, and uses authority or aggressiveness when doing so.
In this field of work, there will be times when officers will have to use force. Not all suspects can be reasoned with, and what needs to be done, well, gets done. That DOES NOT MAKE A FEMALE COP A BITCH. It's a stupid double standard.
When a male officer investigates using some hardball tactics, it's fine. When a female officer does the same, she gets referred to as a bitch.
It's a policewoman stereotype that's unfair and flat out stupid.
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Q: Need some helps from html and css,Code don't work properly Could anyone help me why the main image, the 1st image of the page, doesn't stretch to the whole page.It only show in the center of the web.I am trying to let the 1st image be the same width of the width of the images below.
Besides I am trying to equal all images in the Portfolio Section to have same height, this one is also not working as I expected. I follow the tutorial from other resources.But I can not figure out what is wrong...
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A: Unless I missed it, it looks like you have specified a width for the image. You could either put width="100%" as an attribute for the image, or give the image a class of say .full-width and set the width to 100% from there.
I would recommend the first, because then you can add that class to any element and it will cause it to resize.


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Biden will receive French President Macron at his first state dinner
WASHINGTON — After a three-year hiatus, the White House will once again host an official state dinner, using the occasion to smooth over differences with America's oldest ally, France.
President Joe Biden will welcome his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, on Thursday night for a pageantry-filled ritual that has been yet another victim of pandemic lockdowns.
The head-to-head diplomacy actually began Wednesday night, when Biden and first lady Jill Biden joined Macron and his wife, Brigitte, for dinner at Fiola Mare, a posh restaurant on the Georgetown waterfront whose specialty is Italian food. A cheep posted on Biden's account showed the two leaders with spoons in hand over what appears to be dessert, seated across from the first ladies at an oval table.
But the formal state dinner is the centerpiece of Macron's visit, a chance for the two men to toast each other and their respective countries and strengthen ties that have frayed amid disputes over trade and national security. They will dine on butter-poached Maine lobster, beef with shallot jam and artisan American cheeses, a menu chosen with scrupulous attention to the palates of the guests.
White House Executive Chef Cris Comerford gave a media preview Wednesday of the state dinner for French President Emmanuel Macron.Andrew Harnik/AP
"Any time you go to dinner at someone's house and they ask you if you have any dietary restrictions, think of a state visit," Rufus Gifford, the US chief of protocol, said in an interview. «That's the case, and something else.»
The dinner is also a chance for Biden to mend a strained relationship of a different kind: Democratic donors and fundraisers have complained that his presidency has largely ignored them. As he looks toward a potential re-election bid, Biden is stepping up his pitches to people who will help finance a 2024 campaign. Among those receiving the coveted dinner invitations are Christopher Korge, chairman of the National Committee's finance committee. Democrat, and Virginia McGregor, national vice president of finance, said people familiar with the guest list.
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, was also invited to attend, according to a person familiar with her schedule.
More of Biden's longtime supporters are expected to attend Macron's arrival ceremony on Thursday morning on the South Lawn of the White House. After greeting his counterpart, Biden will take him to the Oval Office for a meeting where they are expected to discuss Russia's war with Ukraine, threats posed by China and a stubborn set of differences between the United States and its European allies. They will then hold a joint press conference.
"It makes sense for Biden to reach out to the French in this way," said Daniel Fried, a former assistant secretary of state for Europe in the George W. Bush administration. «The Americans and the French can go crazy, but we need each other.»
"The Biden administration rightly understands that to deal with China and Russia, the two authoritarian powers, you need a strong Europe with you," he added. «You need France.»
Then-President Trump hosted French President Macron at a state dinner in 2018. Andrew Harnik/AP
Macron has made clear his dissatisfaction with one of Biden's signature legislative achievements, the Cut Inflation Act, which spends hundreds of billions of dollars to combat climate change. The measure includes a series of subsidies, incentives and requirements aimed at moving the production of electric vehicles and their components to North America. Macron and other world leaders fear the new law will penalize European companies and represent protectionist trade policy. Meeting privately with lawmakers on Wednesday, Macron called the move «super aggressive.» reported Reuters.
It seems doubtful that he will find much sympathy among US lawmakers eager to create more jobs at home.
Rep. Dan Kildee, D.-Mich., said in an interview that "our European partners have long been involved in substantial investments in their own production technologies. And that's a good thing. But the United States cannot being in a position where we have to be consigned to the role of consumer in the global economy. We went too long without investing in our own productive capacity".
Nor does Biden appear to be giving up much ground on this front. Speaking in Michigan on Tuesday, he didn't sound the least bit defensive as he described his efforts to expand manufacturing jobs in the United States, even if it comes at the expense of other nations. He mentioned that both China and Europe are «a little bit upset» but went on to say that the US does not want to be «hostage» to supply chain disruptions that have made it difficult for Americans to buy goods during the pandemic.
"We're going to be the supply chain," he said, sounding a triumphant note. "And the difference will be that we will make that supply chain available to the rest of the world."
One counter-argument the Biden administration is likely to make to Macron is that Europe will benefit from large-scale investments in alternative energy. In response to a question from NBC News, John Kirby, a White House National Security Council spokesman, said Wednesday that «a clean energy transition is a rising tide that really lifts all boats, and that's how we see it.» ".
Another point of disagreement with Macron concerns a submarine deal last year that Biden has acknowledged was «clumsy» in its execution. France was surprised by the US sale of nuclear-powered submarines to Australia. In doing so, the Biden administration cut out France, which it had thought would make the sale.
The state dinner may be the Biden administration's way of apologizing for an unforced error of such magnitude, Fried said.
"That was bad diplomatic practice," he said. After that, we owed the French.
A dish is anticipated for Macron's state dinner. The last State Dinner at the White House was in 2019. Andrew Harnik/AP
State dinners often reflect the personal tastes and political needs of the first family. The tradition of honoring a visiting head of state began when President Ulysses S. Grant hosted King Kalākaua of Hawaii in 1874.
At the last state dinner in 2019 at which then-Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison was the guest of honour, Donald Trump's guests included Lou Dobbs and Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, the conservative network important to Trump's rise.
Trump also invited Macron to a state dinner in 2018, though his tenure was marked by a dismissive approach to European allies that he saw as exploiting American trade practices.
Biden hopes to send a different message, assuring Macron that regardless of the squabbles of the moment, France is a long-lasting partner.
"There have been chapters, some very recently, where we don't necessarily treat our allies with dignity and respect," Gifford said. «This dinner will focus a lot on the historic relationship between France and the United States, but also on the future.»
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Don't miss these hidden gems in Old Town
You know about October Moon and Pablo's, but what about these cool, hidden gems?
Don't miss these hidden gems in Old Town You know about October Moon and Pablo's, but what about these cool, hidden gems? Check out this story on lansingstatejournal.com: http://on.lsj.com/2venb1s
Princess Gabbara, Lansing State Journal Published 10:43 a.m. ET July 28, 2017 | Updated 4:56 p.m. ET July 28, 2017
You might think you know Old Town, but it still has surprises. Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal
The ScrapFest Sculpture Walk starts and ends at the Old Town Commercial Association office on Turner Street.(Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)Buy Photo
I spent an afternoon in Old Town last week.
I'm still relatively new to Lansing, and I was pleasantly surprised by how welcoming the people there were toward strangers.
"Old Town works because of the people here," said Vanessa Shafer, executive director of the Old Town Commercial Association. "A lot of collaboration goes on among the business owners, and everybody wants everybody to succeed."
And whether you've been a Lansing resident for 10 years or 30 days, the neighborhood always has something new to do and see.
You might think you know Old Town, but it still has surprises.
Chances are you've heard about Arctic Corner, Katalyst, October Moon, Turner-Dodge House and many others, but read on to learn about Old Town's hidden gems.
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1. ScrapFest Sculpture Walk
OK, so perhaps gigantic sculptures made from scrap metal aren't exactly "hidden," but you may not be aware that an entire path of these sculptures runs throughout Old Town.
The sculpture walk features pieces from previous ScrapFest competitions that are either donated to or purchased by the Old Town Commercial Association, Shafer said.
ScrapFest calls for participants to repurpose scrap metal into "one-of-a-kind" sculptures in two weeks for a chance to win cash prizes.
During the walk, you'll see a larger-than-life guitar propelled into the air, a piece that looks like it came straight out of a science fiction movie and other scrap metal masterpieces.
To see them, stop by the Old Town Commercial Association office, where the walk starts and ends.
How to go: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Old Town Commercial Association office, 1232 Turner St., Lansing. Maps available. Free. For more about ScrapFest, go to www.oldtownscrapfest.org.
2. Preuss Pets outdoor water garden
The outdoor water garden at Preuss Pets was built by owner Rick Preuss' brother. It features a koi pond. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
In June, Lansing State Journal published an article titled, "6 things every Lansing newcomer must experience." We crowdsourced the list by asking folks for their suggestions.
One place that kept coming up? Preuss Pets.
I thought, "You've got to be kidding me. A pet store?"
Boy, was I wrong. Preuss Pets has to be the coolest pet store I've seen. And the building is huge.
Be prepared to meet a dumerils boa snake, a pet rat named Alfredo and a phyllobates terribilis, also known as the golden poison frog.
Preuss Pets maintains a fish breeding room, not available to the public, where an in-house veterinarian looks after the fish to ensure they are healthy before they are sold to customers. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
"Some people come in and they don't buy a darn thing," said owner Rick Preuss, who has cats named George and Trudy and a dog named Rocko. "They just come in to look around, and that's fine."
But the outdoor water garden Rick's brother built has to be one of the coolest things there. The project took several months to complete — and it features a koi pond. You can feed them for $1.
Although some folks step inside Preuss Pets only to "look around," Rick said he hopes that those same people realize that pets "have the power to transform and enrich the lives of anyone who embraces them."
How to go: Preuss Pets, 1127 N. Cedar St., Lansing. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday and 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. www.preusspets.com
3. Old Town General Store courtyard
Old Town General Store owner Rhea Van Atta said she had no idea there was a courtyard behind the store when she purchased it in 2012. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
Rhea Van Atta had just finished dining at Golden Harvest with friends when she noticed a vacant building up for sale.
That was five summers ago.
Fast forward to 2017 and Old Town General Store nests comfortably along East Grand River Avenue.
Business is good.
Inside, you'll find everything from Michigan-shaped cutting boards and ice cube trays to locally produced craft beer and wine.
But a pleasant surprise awaits you behind the store.
There's a ... courtyard! With vibrant flowers, plants and lavender, parsley, rosemary, sage and other herbs. And it's about the same size of the store.
"I didn't know there was a courtyard when I bought the place," Van Atta said.
With the help of longtime partner, Ben Hassenger of The Ukulele Kings, Van Atta started organizing concerts in the courtyard in 2013 as a way to spotlight local musicians.
"The reflective walls and open roof make for great acoustics," she said.
Part of the proceeds from the concerts benefits Music is the Foundation, which works to keep music programs alive in classrooms and communities across mid-Michigan.
How to go: Every other Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Old Town General Store, 408 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing. $15 per person, $9 for students. For the full schedule, go to www.oldtown-generalstore.com/concerts-in-the-courtyard.
4. Robert P. Busby memorial plaque, garden & sculpture
A bronze plaque praising Busby's legacy is displayed on the south side of the Robert P. Busby Memorial Bridge. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
Robert Busby was dubbed the Mayor of Old Town.
It's been 10 years since Busby was murdered, but his role in revitalizing Old Town will never be forgotten.
In 2015, The Creole Gallery Busby owned on Turner Street was converted into The Creole restaurant. A self-portrait of Busby hangs near the entrance.
"(Robert) was a wonderful, lovely person. He was quiet, but he had this wicked sense of humor," said Jamie Schriner, who owns the building that houses The Creole restaurant.
"So many people came forward after he died saying how he encouraged them to pursue art as a career, or how he purchased their first piece," Schriner said. "He saw beauty and potential in Old Town at a time when not many people did."
A bronze plaque praising Busby's legacy can be spotted on the south side of the Robert P. Busby Memorial Bridge, which spans the Grand River along Grand River Avenue.
In addition, a memorial garden and a sculpture sit along the Lansing River Trail near the Brenke Fish Ladder in Busby's memory.
The Robert P. Busby memorial garden and sculpture sit along the River Trail near the Brenke Fish Ladder. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
5. Brenke Fish Ladder
Brenke Fish Ladder was built in 1981 to allow trout and salmon pass from Lake Michigan through the South Lansing dam. (Photo: Princess Gabbara/Lansing State Journal)
Brenke Fish Ladder is a spot where folks come to relax and unplug for a while.
One of Grand River's six fish ladders, Brenke Fish Ladder was built in 1981 to allow trout and salmon coming from Lake Michigan to circumvent the South Lansing dam.
Lots of folks go to catch smaller specifies of fish, such as carp and catfish, but some insist that the landscaping and waterfall are the true gems.
"So many people have visited Old Town for festivals or to dine and shop without taking the short walk up to the fish ladder," said longtime Lansing resident Karen Stock. "But when they do, they always say, 'I never knew this was here!'"
How to go: Brenke Fish Ladder, 216 E. Grand River Ave., Lansing. Open 24 hours. Free. Fishing within the ladder is not permitted.
Contact Princess Gabbara at pgabbara@lsj.com or 517-377-1006. Follow her on Twitter at @PrincessGabbara.
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If you need to find out the standard deviation, take the square root of the answer. Variance, leave it squared.
Pitfall 1 = Lending or borrowing?
We assume that discount rates are stable during the term of the project.
This assumption implies that all funds are reinvested at the IRR.
This is a false assumption.
With 100 securities, the box is 100 by 100.The variance terms are the diagonal terms, and thus there are 100 variance terms. The rest are the covariance terms. Because the box has(100 × 100) terms altogether, the number of covariance terms is:Number of covariance terms = 1002– 100 = 9,900Half of these terms (i.e., 4,950) are different.
The Y-intercept of the SML is equal to the risk-free interest rate. The slope of the SML is equal to the market risk premium and reflects the risk return trade off at a given time.
The efficient frontier is the set of optimal portfolios that offers the highest expected return for a defined level of risk or the lowest risk for a given level of expected return. Portfolios that lie below the efficient frontier are sub-optimal, because they do not provide enough return for the level of risk.
Capital Rationing - Limit set on the amount of funds available for investment.
Soft Rationing - Limits on available funds imposed by management.
Hard Rationing - Limits on available funds imposed by the unavailability of funds in the capital market.
The opportunity cost of capital is 10.4% and the investment is expected to earn 9.8%. Therefore, the investment has a negative NPV.
If return is 11.2% What is Beta?


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Wild at Heart (French Import)
Review Date August 20th, 2012 by Joshua Zyber
In a series of reviews and blog posts filed under the heading "Auteur Theory," I have made it a project to revisit the career of cult director David Lynch, rewatch his entire feature filmography in sequential order, and chart the progression of this iconoclastic artist through both his highs and lows.
Portions of this article that represent comparable content first appeared in my review of the UK import edition of 'Wild at Heart'.
"Auteur Theory" Article Index
1977: 'Eraserhead' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1977: 'Eraserhead' (Japanese Import Blu-ray)
1980: 'The Elephant Man' (French Import Blu-ray)
1984: 'Dune' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1984: 'Dune – Extended Edition' (German Import Blu-ray)
1986: 'Blue Velvet' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1990: 'Twin Peaks: Pilot Episode' (VUDU)
1990: 'Wild at Heart' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1990: 'Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted' (DVD)
1990: 'American Chronicles' (VHS)
1992: 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1992: 'Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me' (Japanese Import Blu-ray)
1992: 'On the Air' (Laserdisc)
1993: 'Hotel Room' (Laserdisc)
1997: 'Lost Highway' (Japanese Import Blu-ray)
1997: 'Lost Highway' (UK Import Blu-ray)
1999: 'The Straight Story' (Japanese Import Blu-ray)
2001: 'Mulholland Drive' (UK Import Blu-ray)
2006: 'Inland Empire' (UK Import Blu-ray)
'David Lynch: Images' (Book)
'Wild at Heart' Deleted Scenes
'The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer' (Book)
'The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper' (Book)
'Diane… The Twin Peaks Tapes of Agent Cooper' (Audiobook)
BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc
Region B Locked
Release Country:France
French DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles/Captions: French Subtitles
Special Features: Documentary
Movie Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
"The way your head works is God's own private mystery."
Throughout his career, David Lynch has frequently been accused of making movies that are "weird for weird's sake." For the most part, this is a false complaint. In the majority of his films, at least in all of the good ones, even the strangest, most surreal elements serve some point or purpose to the greater whole. Perhaps Lynch's radical shifts in tone may be unconventional, or his use of symbolism may seem impenetrable, but the work usually conveys a sense that it has some meaning buried within it that demands to be interpreted by each viewer. No artist is infallible, however. At the peak of his career, Lynch delivered one of his weakest efforts – the messy, shallow, needlessly violent and mostly pointless 'Wild at Heart'.
By the summer of 1990, David Lynch was on top of the world. His last movie, the controversial 'Blue Velvet', garnered the director an Academy Award nomination and made him a cause célèbre in film circles. That spring, the first season of his television series 'Twin Peaks' debuted to tremendous ratings success and near-universal critical acclaim. For this first time in his career, this idiosyncratic abstract artist, best known previously for making one of the biggest box office bombs of all time ('Dune'), was a bona fide pop culture icon. The name "David Lynch" became a brand associated with all things quirky and strange and cool. Lynch had the power to bring outsider art into the mainstream consciousness, and people loved him for it.
In a burst of creative energy, Lynch left the second season of his TV show in the hands of his collaborators and went off to make another movie. The source of his inspiration was a slim novella called 'Wild at Heart: The Story of Sailor & Lula' by author Barry Gifford, which chronicles the adventures of two white trash kids on a road trip across the seedier parts of the American South as they attempt to escape their checkered pasts and the controlling grasp of the girl's domineering mother. The book is very short and thinly-sketched. It can practically be read in less time than it takes to watch the movie. Lynch chose to use this rough framework as a dumping ground for all manner of digressions, random images and snippets of story ideas that had been percolating in his head with no other outlet. The final product has as much or more David Lynch in it than it does Barry Gifford.
As completed, the film version of 'Wild at Heart' is part road movie, part musical and part crime thriller, all flavored with Lynch's trademark surreal humor. It opens on a scene of almost stomach-churning racism as our presumptive hero Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) savagely beats a black man to death by repeatedly smashing his skull against the wall and floor until there's little left of it but a bloody, squishy pulp. Sailor, you see, is desperately, passionately in love with oversexed bimbo Lula Fortune (Laura Dern). This presents a problem when Lula's psycho-bitch mother Marietta Fortune (Dern's real-life mother Diane Ladd), who isn't so keen on these two kids shacking up together, hires a series of exceedingly eccentric hit men (including said black fella) to track them down, bump off Sailor, and bring Lula back home.
This skeleton of a plot acts as an excuse to string together a series of individual sketches and non sequiturs that seemingly have no relation to one another and serve no narrative purpose. The movie features a mob boss surrounded by topless maids, a crazy Cajun hit-woman with her leg in a brace, flashbacks within flashbacks that directly contradict one another, and countless overbearing references to 'The Wizard of Oz', Hollywood musicals and Elvis.
'Wild at Heart' is an indulgent film, made by an artist eager to live up to his reputation for "weird" material. It certainly fits that description, but almost desperately so, by piling on stranger and stranger affectations until it implodes under its own weight. Nicolas Cage spends the whole movie doing an Elvis drawl, while Diane Ladd pulls a full-bore Wicked Witch of the West routine, her face covered in bright red lipstick as she stares seethingly into the camera. Crispin Glover shows up for two minutes to stick cockroaches in his underwear and obsessively make sandwiches in the middle of the night. Freddie Jones from Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' pops in for a moment to rant about pigeons in a squeaky helium voice. There isn't a scene in the whole film without something perversely strange going on in the background, in the foreground and all around the edges, and little of it adds up to anything of substance. By the time a gaggle of obese naked women prance around in the back of a scene and another character informs Sailor that, "Them are makin' a pornographic movie, Texas style!", it's about the least odd thing that has happened up to that point. Sailor and Lula are basically the only connective tissue between one section of the film and the next, and their presence is almost incidental most of the time.
With that said, 'Wild at Heart' has some saving graces. The film is boldly stylized with vivid colors, striking imagery and beautifully symmetrical widescreen composition. The movie may be a case of style over substance, but what fantastic style it is. Many directors over the years have tried to imitate Lynch, but none has ever captured the real flavor of the original. A David Lynch film is distinctively, uniquely his own. 'Wild at Heart' drips mood and atmosphere, and Lynch finds abstract beauty in the grotesque. He's a filmmaker who can bring the textures of smoke, lipstick, flies on vomit or nylon stretched over a human face to memorable life.
'Wild at Heart' also contains several bravura set-pieces that, outside the context of this movie, are among the best that Lynch has ever directed. Sherilyn Fenn's brief appearance as a car crash victim is wrenchingly powerful, and brings the film some much-needed emotional resonance. As the repugnant Bobby Peru, Willem Dafoe makes one of the sleaziest villains to ever appear on screen. His attempted seduction of Lula is a tour de force of dark eroticism, both terrifying and alluring. By the time the story ambles lackadaisically into its payroll robbery plot in the second half, the movie picks up enough steam to build to a satisfying shootout finale complete with a visual reference to Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo'.
Even if, on the whole, 'Wild at Heart' doesn't amount to much more than a grab-bag of intriguing bits and pieces forced together with little coherent structure or purpose, it burns with real passion and a playful sense that the director had a lot of fun making it. Some viewers will respond to this more than others. That's perhaps the only explanation I can fathom for how the movie managed to win the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
Even though 'Wild at Heart' still awaits Blu-ray distribution in the United States, the film has been released twice already in France, once in 2008 by a studio called BAC Video and then later in 2010 by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Both were issued under the movie's French release title 'Sailor & Lula' on the case packaging. (However, the movie's on-screen opening credits still reflect the original 'Wild at Heart' title.)
The Universal disc comes packaged in a standard Blu-ray keepcase with slipcover, both of which feature a handsome close-up image of Sailor's lighter. Despite the lack of any region-coding indication on the artwork, the disc appears to be locked to Region B playback. I could not get it to function in my American PS3, and I had to manually switch my region-modified OPPO Blu-ray player to Region B in order to play the disc. The bonus features are also encoded in PAL standard-def video.
The older Blu-ray from BAC Video is region-free, but has uglier cover art and no bonus content. It's also burdened by forced French subtitles that cannot be disabled. Even if you want it, this disc is now out of print and difficult to import. Although Amazon France still has a listing for it, the Blu-ray is sold there by a third-party vendor that will not ship to the United States.
Both French Blu-rays contain only the American theatrical cut of 'Wild at Heart'. Previously, the international theatrical cut of the film featured a slightly more graphic death scene for one character. In order to secure an R rating from the MPAA, David Lynch added a smoke effect to obscure the gore in the American version. While some fans may complain about "censorship," having actually seen both versions, I have to say that the smoky version is far more effective. Without it, the gore looks fake and unconvincing. The smoke helps to sell the effect, and also ties in thematically with the many recurring images of smoke, cigarettes and fire throughout the film. In my opinion, the American theatrical cut is the superior version of the movie.
French Subtitles
Universal's French Blu-ray release of 'Wild at Heart' derives from the same source master that the studio would subsequently use for the UK Blu-ray edition in 2012, which I reviewed previously. Like that disc, the French copy looks great in brightly-lit scenes, where it sports a sharp and vibrant image. The slightly-oversaturated colors leave flesh tones looking a little pasty, but that's not a serious complaint.
Unfortunately, the 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 transfer looks really lousy in dark scenes. For some reason, the studio has chosen to crank up the brightness in all nighttime scenes, including the movie's best sequence, the car crash aftermath with Sherilyn Fenn. These scenes now have very elevated, washed out blacks and highly pronounced grain. Whether due to poor digitization or compression, that grain looks astoundingly bad. It pulses and sparkles, and has a very noisy electronic texture. It's a hideous eye sore.
Additionally, Universal has made some further alterations for the French market. Even if you choose to turn off the French subtitles for the movie's dialogue, on-screen text in the film is either forcibly subtitled (the title "Wild at Heart" is subtitled "Sailor et Lula," and "Cape Fear: Somewhere Near the Border Between North and South Carolina" has the further caption "Quelque Part Près de la Frontière Entre la Caroline du Nord et du Sud"), or is replaced altogether ("22 Mois, 18 Jours Plus Tard" rather than "22 Months, 18 Days Later"). This is an annoyance, but luckily the movie doesn't have much text of this sort.
The earlier French Blu-ray from BAC Video has a different video transfer entirely. That disc is a little softer and less vibrant in daylight scenes, but has much better black levels and less ugly noise in dark scenes. All on-screen text appears in the original English. On balance, I marginally prefer the look of the BAC disc. Unfortunately, it's authored with forced French subtitles that cannot be turned off. (Blu-ray players with a subtitle position shift feature may be able to push them down off the screen.)
The audio on Universal's French Blu-ray is encoded in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 format. Aside from the on-screen text problem described above, the optional French subtitles for the movie's dialogue can be disabled.
The first thing to note about this track is that David Lynch has developed a distaste for surround sound over the years. Although technically encoded in 5.1 format, the back channels are completely silent throughout. The soundtrack is essentially a 3.1 mix, with all audio in either the front channels or the subwoofer. This matches the Lynch-approved DVD release from 2004, and is simply the way that the director prefers his movies to sound.
With that said, the 5.1 track on this disc suffers an authoring error that causes dialogue to come from all three front channels. (The DVD did not have this flaw.) Even though this may be barely noticeable in some scenes, others sound hollow or echo-y. On the other hand, the audio has a robust dynamic range that's more pleasing than the stereo mix on the UK Blu-ray. This may be due in part to the dedicated .1 subwoofer channel, and possibly also in part to the accidental duplication (and amplification) of sounds in the left and right speakers. Whatever the reason, whether intentional or not, the 5.1 track has more kick than UK disc's stereo mix, which sounds weaker in comparison. Whether that's worth a trade-off for the dialogue issue is a decision that each viewer will have to decide for him- or herself.
The Universal Blu-ray contains most of the bonus features from MGM's 2004 DVD release. They all have mandatory French subtitles here, though.
Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart (PAL SD, 30 min.) – This documentary is an extremely well put-together overview of not just of this film, but of David Lynch's career and working methods. Many of the original cast and crew are interviewed.
Dell's Lunch Counter (PAL SD, 21 min.) – This section of the disc contains interview excerpts that didn't make the final cut of the documentary, but go into some useful detail about the quirkier aspects of the movie.
Specific Spontaneity: Focus on David Lynch (PAL SD, 7 min.) – In this love-fest for David Lynch, everyone attempts to explain what makes his films unique. It's a little fluffy but interesting.
David Lynch on the DVD (PAL SD, 3 min.) – This brief video introduction was recorded for MGM's DVD release in 2004, and does not apply to the video transfer contained on this Blu-ray disc, which alters the master that Lynch painstakingly approved. Ironically, one of the problems that the director highlights is how much hard work it took to make the nighttime scenes on the DVD look good.
The BAC Video Blu-ray has no supplements.
Even though 'Wild at Heart' may be one of my least favorite of David Lynch's films, I still wish to find a definitive Blu-ray edition of it. Sadly, neither of these French releases can accomplish that goal.
The Universal disc has a decent supplement package that carries over most of the bonus features from the old DVD, including a pretty good half-hour documentary. On the downside, it has the same problematic video transfer as the UK Blu-ray, compounded with the replacement of on-screen text during the movie, and also suffers an audio authoring error.
The out-of-print BAC Video Blu-ray has slightly better video and audio quality, and is region-free, but has forced French subtitles and no bonus features.
Both of these discs are for die-hard David Lynch fans only.


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Intestinal bacteria can be used to predict occurrence of colorectal cancer
By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – Gut microbiota – the population of microbes that live in our intestine – can be used to predict the occurrence of colorectal cancer, the second most common type of cancer in women and the third in men.
Research by an international team of scientists including Brazilians has found a link between colorectal cancer and changes in gut microbiota patterns that do not depend on the dietary habits of the populations studied. The discovery paves the way to the development of non-invasive tests capable of predicting emergence of the disease.
The study was published Monday, April 1, in the journal Nature Medicine. Its first author is Andrew Maltez Thomas, who has a PhD in bioinformatics from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil.
Thomas was supported by FAPESP via a scholarship for a research internship at the University of Trento in Italy.
In one of the largest and most varied surveys ever conducted on the topic, the researchers combined metagenomics, bioinformatics and machine learning (with the use of artificial intelligence) to correlate the occurrence of colorectal cancer with gut microbiota data for 969 people in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United States.
The findings identified groups of microorganisms associated with colorectal cancer in all the populations studied, and signatures in the microbial metabolism (patterns of metabolites produced by microorganisms) that can be used to predict the occurrence of the disease.
The research had two other important outcomes. One is the discovery in the intestines of colorectal cancer patients of a specific species of bacterium which is commonly found in the mouth and airways. The other is a correlation between colorectal cancer and the presence of the gene for a microbial enzyme that degrades choline, an essential vitamin B group nutrient.
The study found higher levels of the bacterial species Fusobacterium nucleatum in colorectal cancer patients than in healthy individuals. This bacterium normally inhabits regions of the mouth, and the acidity of other parts of the gastrointestinal tract was thought to be fatal to it.
"Larger numbers of oral bacteria tend to travel to the intestine in colorectal cancer patients. This migration may cause inflammation in the intestine, giving rise to the tumor," Thomas said. "However, we don't know the actual reason for the migration, only that there's a link between the presence of these bacteria in the intestine and colorectal cancer and that the link deserves to be investigated further."
The other discovery, a significant presence of the gene for the microbial enzyme choline trimethylamine-lyase (cutC) in fecal samples from colorectal cancer patients, reinforces the possibility of a carcinogenic link between gut microbiota and a fatty diet, indicated by previous research.
"When the enzyme cleaves choline, which is abundant in diets containing large amounts of red meat and other fatty foods, it releases acetaldehyde, a well-known carcinogen," Thomas said.
In the study, the researchers used data on the composition and abundance of all bacteria found in 969 fecal samples. To develop a simple method of analysis that can be widely used by clinics and hospitals, they selected the statistically significant bacteria.
"Our results from 16 species of bacteria were comparable to those from analyses using all species. This is an important step in the development of a simple diagnostic tool that dispenses with the need to sequence the entire microbiota yet has the necessary precision," Thomas said.
Association is not causal link
Research on the links between gut microbiota and human health has grown in the last ten years, but the new study innovates by conceiving of bacteria as markers of the development of disease.
"Markers are typically looked for directly in association with tumor cells. We use a different concept. Our analysis is based on changes in a relatively small set of bacteria in a spectrum of hundreds of bacteria that live in the gut and may indicate the presence of a disease," said Emmanuel Dias-Neto, a researcher at A.C. Camargo Cancer Center's International Research Center (CIPE) and a co-author of the article.
Sequencing of DNA obtained from gut microbiota enabled the researchers to identify the bacteria present in each fecal sample, to measure the quantity of each bacterium, and to identify variants in their genomes that may be linked to different outcomes, such as a heightened risk of colorectal cancer.
It should be stressed, however, that the study did not show that alterations in gut microbiota cause colorectal cancer.
"We detected an association, but that doesn't necessarily imply a causal link. The question is whether specific bacteria can cause cancer or cancer creates a different environment in the colorectal duct and thereby favors certain bacteria over others. We don't yet have an answer, which would be fundamental for the results of the research described in the article to help develop therapies to treat colorectal cancer," said João Carlos Setubal, Full Professor in the University of São Paulo's Biochemistry Department, coordinator of the same university's Interunit Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, and also a co-author of the article. Setubal and Dias-Neto supervised Thomas's PhD research.
Computational analysis
According to the researchers, this may be the largest-ever study of colorectal cancer based on data from fecal samples and such diverse populations. The group analyzed data from five public studies and two other studies by researchers at the University of Trento.
With the data from these seven studies they were able to identify enzymes and bacteria, and to work out how gut microbiota can predict the development of colorectal cancer. They used data from two other studies with 200 samples to validate their findings.
"DNA sequencing of the samples, which required distinguishing between microbiota DNA and human DNA, was a means of identifying and quantifying the species of microorganisms and their genes present in the samples," Thomas said. "We extracted DNA from the fecal samples and sequenced it. We then used computational methods to analyze the data. As a result we were able to identify and quantify the species and gene abundance."
Because the data came from different studies, the researchers used sophisticated statistical methods to analyze them as an ensemble.
"We used meta-analytical statistical methods and machine learning techniques to find out how predictive the results were," Thomas said.
The findings were validated by Nicola Segata, a computational biologist at the University of Trento and supervisor abroad for the project, and reinforced by another study performed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany on the links between gut microbiome and cancer. An article on the EMBL study is published in the same issue of Nature Medicine.
"While preparing the articles, we exchanged data and information with the other group in a partnership that proved highly important to reinforce our findings. Although we used machine learning techniques and different statistical methods, we arrived at the same conclusion that the gut microbiome can predict the presence of colorectal cancer in different populations and studies," Thomas said.
The article "Metagenomic analysis of colorectal cancer datasets identifies cross-cohort microbial diagnostic signatures and a link with choline degradation" (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0406-6) by Andrew Maltez Thomas et al. can be retrieved from Nature Medicine at: www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0405-7.
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By Maria Fernanda Ziegler | Agência FAPESP – Gut microbiota – the population of microbes that live in our intestine – can be used to predict the occurrence of colorectal cancer, the second most common type of cancer in women and the third in men. Research by an international team of scientists including Brazilians has found a link between colorectal cancer and changes in gut microbiota patterns that do not depend on the dietary habits of the populations studied. The discovery paves the way to the development of non-invasive tests capable of predicting emergence of the disease. The study was published Monday, April 1, in the journal Nature Medicine. Its first author is Andrew Maltez Thomas, who has a PhD in bioinformatics from the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Thomas was supported by FAPESP via a scholarship for a research internship at the University of Trento in Italy. In one of the largest and most varied surveys ever conducted on the topic, the researchers combined metagenomics, bioinformatics and machine learning (with the use of artificial intelligence) to correlate the occurrence of colorectal cancer with gut microbiota data for 969 people in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan and the United States. The findings identified groups of microorganisms associated with colorectal cancer in all the populations studied, and signatures in the microbial metabolism (patterns of metabolites produced by microorganisms) that can be used to predict the occurrence of the disease. The research had two other important outcomes. One is the discovery in the intestines of colorectal cancer patients of a specific species of bacterium which is commonly found in the mouth and airways. The other is a correlation between colorectal cancer and the presence of the gene for a microbial enzyme that degrades choline, an essential vitamin B group nutrient. The study found higher levels of the bacterial species Fusobacterium nucleatum in colorectal cancer patients than in healthy individuals. This bacterium normally inhabits regions of the mouth, and the acidity of other parts of the gastrointestinal tract was thought to be fatal to it. "Larger numbers of oral bacteria tend to travel to the intestine in colorectal cancer patients. This migration may cause inflammation in the intestine, giving rise to the tumor," Thomas said. "However, we don't know the actual reason for the migration, only that there's a link between the presence of these bacteria in the intestine and colorectal cancer and that the link deserves to be investigated further." The other discovery, a significant presence of the gene for the microbial enzyme choline trimethylamine-lyase (cutC) in fecal samples from colorectal cancer patients, reinforces the possibility of a carcinogenic link between gut microbiota and a fatty diet, indicated by previous research. "When the enzyme cleaves choline, which is abundant in diets containing large amounts of red meat and other fatty foods, it releases acetaldehyde, a well-known carcinogen," Thomas said. In the study, the researchers used data on the composition and abundance of all bacteria found in 969 fecal samples. To develop a simple method of analysis that can be widely used by clinics and hospitals, they selected the statistically significant bacteria. "Our results from 16 species of bacteria were comparable to those from analyses using all species. This is an important step in the development of a simple diagnostic tool that dispenses with the need to sequence the entire microbiota yet has the necessary precision," Thomas said. Association is not causal link Research on the links between gut microbiota and human health has grown in the last ten years, but the new study innovates by conceiving of bacteria as markers of the development of disease. "Markers are typically looked for directly in association with tumor cells. We use a different concept. Our analysis is based on changes in a relatively small set of bacteria in a spectrum of hundreds of bacteria that live in the gut and may indicate the presence of a disease," said Emmanuel Dias-Neto, a researcher at A.C. Camargo Cancer Center's International Research Center (CIPE) and a co-author of the article. Sequencing of DNA obtained from gut microbiota enabled the researchers to identify the bacteria present in each fecal sample, to measure the quantity of each bacterium, and to identify variants in their genomes that may be linked to different outcomes, such as a heightened risk of colorectal cancer. It should be stressed, however, that the study did not show that alterations in gut microbiota cause colorectal cancer. "We detected an association, but that doesn't necessarily imply a causal link. The question is whether specific bacteria can cause cancer or cancer creates a different environment in the colorectal duct and thereby favors certain bacteria over others. We don't yet have an answer, which would be fundamental for the results of the research described in the article to help develop therapies to treat colorectal cancer," said João Carlos Setubal, Full Professor in the University of São Paulo's Biochemistry Department, coordinator of the same university's Interunit Graduate Program in Bioinformatics, and also a co-author of the article. Setubal and Dias-Neto supervised Thomas's PhD research. Computational analysis According to the researchers, this may be the largest-ever study of colorectal cancer based on data from fecal samples and such diverse populations. The group analyzed data from five public studies and two other studies by researchers at the University of Trento. With the data from these seven studies they were able to identify enzymes and bacteria, and to work out how gut microbiota can predict the development of colorectal cancer. They used data from two other studies with 200 samples to validate their findings. "DNA sequencing of the samples, which required distinguishing between microbiota DNA and human DNA, was a means of identifying and quantifying the species of microorganisms and their genes present in the samples," Thomas said. "We extracted DNA from the fecal samples and sequenced it. We then used computational methods to analyze the data. As a result we were able to identify and quantify the species and gene abundance." Because the data came from different studies, the researchers used sophisticated statistical methods to analyze them as an ensemble. "We used meta-analytical statistical methods and machine learning techniques to find out how predictive the results were," Thomas said. The findings were validated by Nicola Segata, a computational biologist at the University of Trento and supervisor abroad for the project, and reinforced by another study performed at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Germany on the links between gut microbiome and cancer. An article on the EMBL study is published in the same issue of Nature Medicine. "While preparing the articles, we exchanged data and information with the other group in a partnership that proved highly important to reinforce our findings. Although we used machine learning techniques and different statistical methods, we arrived at the same conclusion that the gut microbiome can predict the presence of colorectal cancer in different populations and studies," Thomas said. The article "Metagenomic analysis of colorectal cancer datasets identifies cross-cohort microbial diagnostic signatures and a link with choline degradation" (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-019-0406-6) by Andrew Maltez Thomas et al. can be retrieved from Nature Medicine at: www.nature.com/articles/s41591-019-0405-7.
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MS Dhoni's 'golden failure' puts India in a spot of bother in Nagpur ODI
MS Dhoni Was Dismissed For A Golden Duck For The Fifth Time In His Career As India Lost Wickets At Regular Intervals In The Nagpur ODI Against Australia.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Siddharth Vishwanathan | Updated on: 05 Mar 2019, 04:14:03 PM
MS Dhoni was dismissed for a golden duck for the fifth time.
This was the second time he was dismissed for a golden duck against Australia.
MS Dhoni averaged over 100 in ODIs in Nagpur.
Before the start of the second ODI against Australia at the VCA stadium in Jamtha, all eyes were on MS Dhoni and his impressive record at the venue and in the last couple of months. Dhoni has an average of over 130 at the VCA stadium and his first century in ODIs against Australia came at this venue in 2009. In the last couple of months, the cricketing world has seen a resurgence in Dhoni's finishing prowess and his consistency in accumulating runs in the death overs. Heading into the Nagpur ODI, Dhoni had scores of 51,55*,87*,48*,1,59*. His three unbeaten have come when India has been chasing and they have managed to overhaul the target successfully. In the Nagpur ODI, Virat Kohli's magnificent 50th fifty had put India on course for a good score but Australia chipped away with wickets at regular intervals and the former India skipper came to bat in the 33rd over after Kedar Jadhav was dismissed by legspinner Adam Zampa for 11.
However, in the first ball he faced, Dhoni played back to a quicker delivery that skidded through and he looked to steer it to third man but the outside edge was taken by Usman Khawaja resulted in Dhoni being dismissed for a golden duck. The silence and the shock of the crowd in Jamtha spoke about how rare this failure has come for Dhoni at a time when he is enjoying a good run.
The golden duck dismissal for Dhoni was the fifth time that he had suffered this fate in ODIs. His very first instance was on debut against Bangladesh in 2004 at Dhaka when he was run-out with his first ball in international cricket. He has been dismissed for a golden duck twice against Sri Lanka with the first instance coming in 2005 in the Ahmedabad ODI. His next instance came in the 2007 World Cup encounter at Port of Spain in which India lost to Sri Lanka to get eliminated from the tournament.
His fourth instance came in 2010 against Australia in then second ODI in Vizag. In the three-match series in which the first and third ODIs were washed away due to rain, India got one over Australia in the Vizag ODI. Although Dhoni fell for a golden duck, Kohli scored a century as India secured an ODI series win against Australia at home for the first time in 23 years.
Although Dhoni may have fallen cheaply, India still have depth in Ravindra Jadeja and with Kohli on course for a big score, Australia still have an uphill task to restrict India to a total under 250 on a wicket that is assisting the spinners. India are currently leading the five-match series 1-0 after winning the Hyderabad ODI by six wickets.
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Q: Omit the use of the constructor in children in Java I try to write a simple example of the decorator pattern.
I have a Printable interface, a concrete classes for printing and abstract class for decorator:
// for all objects that can be printed
interface Printable {
  public void print();
}

// classes for decorating
class DisplayPrinter implements Printable {
  public void print() {
    System.out.println("Print to the display");
  }
}

class PaperPrinter implements Printable {
  public void print() {
    System.out.println("Print to the paper");
  }
}

// printer decorator for all possible decorators
abstract class PrinterDecorator implements Printable {
  private Printable printer;

  public PrinterDecorator(Printable p) {
    printer = p;
  }

  public void print() {
    if (printer != null)
      printer.print();
  }
}

Note that I use a constructor in abstract PrinterDecorator.
So, then I wrote two concrete decorators for printing header and footer of the base content to be printed. Here the footer decorator is:
class FooterPrinterDecorator extends PrinterDecorator {
  /*public FooterPrinterDecorator(Printable p) {
    super(p);
  }*/

  public void print() {
    super.print();
    System.out.println("Footer");
  }
}

Here I want the PrinterDecorator children not to redeclare the parent constructor. But I get the next error if I run with comments above:
error: constructor FooterPrinterDecorator in class FooterPrinterDecorator cannot be applied to given types;
Printable one = new FooterPrinterDecorator(new DisplayPrinter());
                ^
required: no arguments
found: DisplayPrinter
reason: actual and formal argument lists differ in length

Also I tried to write default constructor in parent decorator manually. In that case the compiler gives me the same error, but in other context (it expect constructor without arguments even if I give the Printable as a parameter. The call to the constructor:
Printable one = new FooterPrinterDecorator(new DisplayPrinter());

So, can I omit the duplication of the parent constructor in its children?

A: You can't; if your parent class has no default constructor, each child has to implement a constructor that calls the parent's. That is to maintain encapsulation, and because constructors are not inherited like method.
What you could do, though, is to have a method instead of a constructor in the PrinterDecorator:
abstract class PrinterDecorator implements Printable {
  private Printable printer;

  public void setDecorator(Printable p) {
    printer = p;
  }

  public void print() {
    if (printer != null)
      printer.print();
  }
}

Now your children don't need to mess with that method, they will inherit as is.

A: Answer is no. Constructors are not inherited in java. You see this error because class FooterPrinterDecorator has only default constructor that takes no arguments (required: no arguments).
See Java Constructor Inheritance


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import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.Arguments;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.provider.MethodSource;

import java.util.stream.Stream;

class Test {

  private Stream<Arguments> parmeters() {
    return null;
  }

  @MethodSource("parm<caret>eters")
  @ParameterizedTest
  void foo(String param) {}
}