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Citizens ask for President Lee and GNP to resign over passage of media bills
July 23, 2009 · by Lee Yu Kyung · in Korea. ·
Laborers call for a general strike while citizens say passage of Broadcasting Law shows GNP is more concerned about maintaining party power than public welfare
Laborers in the media industry have joined in with civic and social groups to slam the Grand National Party's (GNP) for railroading through three media-related bills Wednesday, and say the GNP's actions represent "an atrocity and outrage that destroys democracy." The National Union of Media Workers (NUMW) says it will respond with a general strike and engage in a movement to force the Lee Myung-bak administration and the ruling party to resign.
NUMW Chairman Choi Sang-jae says to force through the media bills despite the opposition of the majority of citizens was in essence a parliamentary coup. He says the NUMW will fight to have the ruling party and Lee Myung-bak administration take responsibility and step down from power.
Kim Young-ho of the People's Coalition for Media Reform says the National Assembly cannot make laws that go against the will of the people. Kim also says their actions to rush through these bills was a declaration of war on the citizenry, and in response the coalition will launch a struggle to nullify the laws. In a related manner, the Citizens' Coalition for Democratic Media Joint Chairperson Jeong Yeon-u says the GNP has not represented the will of the people and instead has schemed to hold onto long-term power through party politics.
The Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice (CCEJ) has issued a statement that says criticism of the GNP is now unavoidable. They describe the GNP's attempt to monopolize public opinion by allowing conglomerates and conservative newspapers that represent the party's base of support into broadcasting as serving the party's vested interests over the public's interests. CCEJ demands a complete overhaul of the bills that just passed.
The People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (PSPD) has also issued a statement that says since the GNP has placed priority on forcing through law revisions that allow conglomerates and the Chosun, JoongAng and Dong-A dailies to dominate broadcasting while pushing aside pending issues of public welfare, they should be fired by the public. PSPD are claiming that resistance to the bills' implementation, and also a massive judgment against the ruling party and the current administration, is coming.
source : http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/367403.html
Tags: Call for a general strike in Korea, Grand National Party (GNP), Korea, National Union of Media Workers (NUMW), PSPD
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Energy Companies Face Crude Reality: Better to Leave It in the Ground
Sarah Kent, Bradley Olson and Georgi Kantchev | Wall Street Journal | March 2, 2017
A new era of low crude prices and stricter regulations on climate change is pushing energy companies and resource-rich governments to confront the possibility that some fossil-fuel resources will remain in the ground indefinitely.
In a signal that the prospect is growing more likely, Exxon Mobil Corp. has said that as many as 3.6 billion barrels of oil that it planned to produce in Canada in the next few decades is no longer profitable to extract. A disclosure is expected in the coming week.
The step stems from U.S. regulations that require companies to take oil reserves off their books if they aren't profitable at existing prices or can no longer be included as part of five-year development plans.
The company said it still expects the reserves will be developed and again be added to its totals if prices rise, costs fall or its operations improve. It has stopped short of taking a financial write-down on its Canadian assets.
The acknowledgment by Exxon, after the company spent about $20 billion to put the oil sands at the center of its growth plans, highlights how dramatically the prospects of the region have dimmed.
Once considered a safe bet, Canada's vast deposits are emerging as a prominent case of reserves being stranded by a combination of high costs, low prices and tough new environmental rules.
"For a lot of reasons the oil sands look like a prime candidate for eventual abandonment," said Jim Krane, an energy fellow at Rice University's Baker Institute. "One problem is that costs are persistently higher. The high carbon content only makes it worse."
In addition to the oil sands' high costs, extracting and refining the region's heavy oil or bitumen is on average a more carbon-intensive process than almost any other type of extraction. The Alberta and Canadian governments have introduced new rules, including a cap on emissions and a carbon tax
During most of the past decade, Exxon and other giant oil companies spent billions of dollars in Canada as part of a global quest for new sources of supply, as analysts cautioned about "peak oil," or the idea that production would start declining as resources ran out. Prices surged to $140 a barrel.
Companies worked feverishly to replenish their reserves of oil and gas, especially as investors have traditionally considered reserves a key indicator of future success.
But now, the worry is more about "peak demand." Amid a glut of supply that led to a price collapse in 2014 and a tepid recovery, investors and executives at some of the world's biggest energy producers are considering the possibility that oil demand will top out in the coming decades.
The shift from a preoccupation with future supply to worries about demand has altered investment priorities away from high-cost opportunities in the Arctic, ultradeep waters and the oil sands.
Such projects can require billions of dollars in upfront investment and seven to 10 years, or even more, to bring returns. Now companies are turning to new sources of crude oil, such as shale, that don't require the same massive investment of time and money to bring to production.
"Barring some geopolitical catastrophe that really changes the outlook…all these other projects are going to take the wind out of the oil sands," said Amy Myers Jaffe, executive director for energy and sustainability at the University of California, Davis.
Canada was once thought to hold the world's third-largest trove of crude, enough to meet U.S. demand for almost 30 years, largely due to the oil sands in northern Alberta—giant deposits of crude with the consistency of a hockey puck. Today, only about 20% of those reserves, or about 36.5 billion barrels, are capable of being profitable, according to energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie.
In the decade leading up to the 2014 price collapse, companies spent as much as $200 billion building megaprojects to extract heavy oil in Alberta's boreal forest.
Canada, despite its high costs, was attractive to companies like Exxon for its stability and proximity to the U.S.
For its Kearl oil sands project in Alberta, Exxon invested more than $20 billion, designing a less carbon-intensive process by which the oil could be extracted without the use of a high-emitting plant called an upgrader.
The project was supposed to unlock 4.6 billion barrels of crude over 40 years and produce as much as 300,000 barrels a day. Production came online in 2013 and was expanded significantly two years later. The plant produced an average of about 169,000 barrels a day last year, according to an Exxon subsidiary.
The reserves Exxon is about to take off its book are a casualty of the price collapse that has foiled more than 17 oil sands projects, representing about 2.5 million barrels a day of production, according to ARC Financial Corp.
Global companies such as Statoil ASA and Royal Dutch Shell PLC that raced to build massive industrial projects in Canada have been forced to lower the value of their oil sands investments. Since 2012, the write-downs from those companies and Canadian producers have exceed $20 billion.
Exxon isn't forecasting an oil demand peak through 2040 despite the action it is taking on its reserves.
"Even though we make that transfer, there is no change to our operations or how we manage the business, those assets, going forward," Jeff Woodbury, Exxon's vice president of investor relations, told investors last month.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules require companies to evaluate their prospects based on the average oil price in the previous year—about $43 a barrel in the U.S. for 2016.
Exxon isn't the only company taking steps that underscore the tenuousness of oil reserves. In its annual energy outlook published earlier this year, BP PLC warned that an abundance of already discovered oil resources and slowing demand growth will likely mean some barrels are never recovered.
Exxon Mobil, along with Chevron Corp., is pouring billions into expanding their footprint in shale oil, turning to projects that can ramp up quickly to fill the void left by a lack of larger, costlier developments.
Many of Canada's biggest producers are planning to rein in spending this year, even as spending in parts of the U.S. is starting to rise.
According to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, capital investment in the oil sands fell about 30% in both 2015 and 2016 and is expected to slide another 11% this year.
To be sure, oil output isn't expected to fall in Canada as it has in the U.S. Fully invested oil-sands projects may go forward because the cash cost of producing barrels once a project is up and running is low.
Write to Sarah Kent at sarah.kent@wsj.com, Bradley Olson at Bradley.Olson@wsj.comand Georgi Kantchev at georgi.kantchev@wsj.com

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The Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance invites Southeast dance alumni to participate in the Dance Alumni Celebration - 10 years of the River Campus Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the River Campus of Southeast Missouri State University.
This two-day event features dance alumni teaching master classes, tours of the beautiful River Campus, Spring into Dance 2017 performance, a social gathering for re-connecting, and a panel discussion on dance by successful teachers, performers, choreographers and entrepreneurs. The concert performers and master class alumni teachers include Zak McMahon (2012), Kelcey Matheny (2013), Amy Coyle (2015), Thomas Proctor (2013), and Caitlin Fields (2013).
The event is an opportunity for alumni to enjoy a weekend of dance reconnecting with peers and faculty and witnessing the growth of the Southeast dance program. Alumni will remember the fun times and incredible memories they made with friends who became their 'dance family'.


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Kresna (bułg. Кресна) – miasto w południowej Bułgarii, w obwodzie Błagojewgrad. Jest ośrodkiem administracyjnym gminy Kresna. Według danych Narodowego Instytutu Statystycznego, 31 grudnia 2011 roku miasto liczyło 3640 mieszkańców.

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Miasto Kresna leży na północnym krańcu jaru Kresnenski prołom nad rzeką Struma, u podnóża góry Pirin. Centrum Kresny jest niewielkie, dobrze zagospodarowane, z fontannami. Kresna znajduje się na drodze krajowej E-79, prowadzącej do Sofii.

Historia
Znaleziska archeologiczne dowodzą, że obszar był zamieszkany od czasów starożytnych. W 1878 roku w miejscowości wybuchło powstanie, w wyniku nieuczciwego podziału Bułgarii po berlińskim kongresie. Powstanie było krótkotrwałe i nieskuteczne. Miejscowość otrzymała prawa miejskie w 1978 roku.
W lipcu 1913, w wąwozie Kresna toczono jedne z najbardziej zaciętych walk II wojny bałkańskiej.

Demografia

Zabytki
7 km od miasta znajduje się klasztor Świętego Proroka Eliasza.

Ekonomia
W mieście działają fabryki przemysłu odzieżowego. Ważnym działem gospodarki jest także rolnictwo.

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Linki zewnętrzne
 Geograficzne osobliwości i zabytki w mieście Kresna
 Przewodnik po Bułgarii, miasto Kresna

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Home » Bowhunting Blog » Secretarial Order 3356 Signed to Support Sportsmen & Wildlife Conservation
Secretarial Order 3356 Signed to Support Sportsmen & Wildlife Conservation
Sep 15, 2017 by Bow Staff 2 Comments
With hunter numbers continuing to decline, and the loss of public land access on the rise across the country, it's good to see someone taking action to stop the downward spiral for sportsmen. We'd all like to see something done about the situation, but sometimes it takes someone at the top to cut straight to the heart of the issue.
Hunter opportunity and access are at the forefront of Secretarial Order 3356.
It was announced today that U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, signed Secretarial Order 3356, which will support and expand hunting and fishing, enhance conservation stewardship, improve wildlife management, and increase outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans.
A Win For Conservation, Hunter Access & Recruitment
How big a deal is this? Is it really necessary?
The new order comes days after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a survey that found there are 2.2 million fewer hunters in America now than in 2011. That's a real big deal!
The order seeks to improve wildlife management and conservation, increase access to public lands for hunting, shooting, and fishing, and puts a new and a greater emphasis on recruiting and retaining new sportsmen conservationists, with a focus on engaging youths, veterans, minorities, and other communities that traditionally have low participation in outdoor recreation activities.
"Hunting and fishing is a cornerstone of the American tradition and hunters and fishers of America are the backbone of land and wildlife conservation," said Secretary Zinke. "The more people we can get outdoors, the better things will be for our public lands."
Today's Secretarial Order is the latest example of how the Trump Administration is actively moving to support hunting and other forms of outdoor recreation on public lands.
The Trump administration seems to be hard at work to help hunters and the hunting heritage.
Here's What We Can Expect
Secretarial Order 3356 directs bureaus within the department to:
Within 120 days produce a plan to expand access for hunting and fishing on BLM, USFWS and NPS land.
Amend national monument management plans to ensure the public's right to hunt, fish and target shoot.
Expand educational outreach programs for underrepresented communities such as veterans, minorities, and youth.
In a manner that respects the rights and privacy of the owners of non-public lands, identify lands within their purview where access to Department lands, particularly access for hunting, fishing, recreational shooting, and other forms of outdoor recreation, is currently limited (including areas of Department land that may be impractical or effectively impossible to access via public roads or trails under current conditions, but where there may be an opportunity to gain access through an easement, right-of-way, or acquisition), and provide a report detailing such lands to the Deputy Secretary.
Within 365 days, cooperate, coordinate, create, make available, and continuously update online a single "one stop" Department site database of available opportunities for hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting on Department lands.
Improve wildlife management through collaboration with state, Tribal, territorial, and conservation partners.
"Restoring wildlife habitat and expanding opportunities for hunting, fishing, and other outdoor recreation will help increase wildlife populations and connect millions of Americans with our nation's natural treasures," said Collin O'Mara, President and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation.
"Secretary Zinke's action today follows in the great tradition of President Teddy Roosevelt and recognizes the central role that hunters play in conservation and successful wildlife management," said Lawrence G. Keane, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
"Secretarial Order 3356 represents a renewed commitment to working with our nation's sportsmen and women to ensure that our legacy of hunting and fishing-driven conservation continues to stand the test of time," said Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation President Jeff Crane.
"We support Secretary Zinke's order to expand opportunities for hunters and anglers on BLM, Fish and Wildlife Service and Park Service lands as well as on private lands," said David Allen, President and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
"Generations of Idahoans, including me, have passed on their love of hunting, fishing, and shooting sports to their children and grandchildren," said Senator James Risch, Co-Chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus. "I applaud Secretary Zinke's quick action to protect those fundamental rights and expand access for sportsmen and women across the country."
On his first day in office, Secretary Zinke reversed an order that would have banned lead ammo and tackle on National Wildlife Refuge lands, and he began the process of expanding hunting and fishing opportunities on public lands across the Department.
A tip of the camo cap to those leading the mission to fight for sportsmen, conservation, and the next generation of hunters that come behind us.
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My friends in Tehran had arranged that a friend of them would host the family in Mashhad as the family do not own a computer themselves. At Thursday night I heard that the host had a friend over from… the Netherlands, so she could translate the call for me into Dutch. What a coincedence! I was still searching for a friend to support me here on this side, as I knew there would at least be around 5 people in Mashhad for the Skype call and I didn't want to expercience the call all by myself. Luckily for me, a friend of mine asked if we could have lunch on Friday, so I invited her to come to my place, we had lunch and in the meantime I was preparing myself for the call. I wanted to record it all so I did.
Twenty minutes before the call, I already got a message that they were ready on the other side. HELP, hahaha I needed some more minutes to decide what to wear and then we started the call. As I was calling I got so incredible nervous! If he is my biological dad, this will be THE moment we meet again… virtually that is.
The connection and video call came through.. there they were… First the host introduced himself to me, second his friend introduced herself in Dutch. Then there was silence for a moment while I was watching the father of missing Aghdas. He was right in the centre… looking at me. 'Salaam' he said. With a huge smile I answered; 'Salaam.' Then I got introduced to his son who was sitting next to him, his wife and his daughter-in-law.
I was discovered at the same spot in the beginning of July without any information.
It all makes sense to me to do a DNA test.
So the girl who has translated the call for me will bring the cottonswaps with his DNA to the Netherlands, and I will pick this up when she returns from Iran in about two or three weeks time. So the DNA will be tested here in the Netherlands, and hopefully by the end of May we will receive the results! Inshallah.
Ali Akhbar is 57 years old and retired now, he used to be a farmer. He has one sister and 4 brothers. His dad is still alive at the age of 85, his mother has died. He has 4 sons with his wife and they have four grandchildren, three boys and one girl. He told me that he likes to listen to others and give them support in every way he can.
These are pictures of Ali Akhbar when he was a young man, holding up two melons!
I was shocked by seeing the YouTube photo !!he incredibly looks like u!!
Fijn dat dit ook zo kan met alle skype-mogelijkheden etc.
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AP's latest project, the new Farsons' brewhouse will be inaugurated this evening by President George Abela.
Since its formation 80 years ago, the Simonds Farsons Cisk brewery has sought to use its architecture to communicate its aspirations and corporate character. The new brewhouse seeks to provide an environment suited to the brewing of Farsons' renowned products. The whole building acts as a container for the brewing process, housing its plant, brewing tuns and laboratories, and is wrapped in an unassuming industrial skin, a protective shell accommodating the complex programme while simultaneously assisting the environmental control of the interiors.
Construction work started in July 2010 and was completed in 24 months. The project encompasses a malt handling tower, storage for raw materials, a rain water reservoir, a quality control laboratory, and staff offices.
State-of-the-art technology and automation will improve the current brewing process leading to further improved quality, productive capabilities and cost efficiencies.


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Stop me if you've heard this before, but there was this mute kid who grew up in a broken, loveless home and he was bullied by the local kids until a tragic incident in the town well and he ended up in the asylum, and ten years later he snaps out of his catatonic stupor and escapes and goes back to town to get his revenge - oh, you've heard it. Of course you have. Offerings is Teenslash 101, a horror movie made by people who are desperately hoping you've never seen a horror movie in your life but is quite clearly only ever going to be seen by horror movie watchers.
Yet somehow I can't get that annoyed about Offerings. It's not that it's any good at all - it emphatically isn't - but it's not objectionable enough to get angry about and start throwing things around the room. The characters are fairly cardboard but none of them are obnoxious creeps or leery perverts: when their romantic and/or sexual attentions are turned down they accept the decision and go home. The music score is a semitone away from John Carpenter's Halloween: close enough to remind you but just different enough to placate any copyright lawyers who might sit through it for professional reasons.
Coming from the fag-end of the slasher cycle in 1988, Offerings has its odd little wrinkles: the killer leaving severed body parts on the porch of the girl who was his only childhood friend, the surprise pizza with sausages that don't taste like normal sausages, the college professor who decides to investigate the town well in the middle of the night with a torch that doesn't work properly, the obviously weirdo cemetery attendant with a hatred of earthworms. That's not enough to make it any good, but it just about scrapes a second star.
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As a horror title, you'd think The Demon would be pretty self-explanatory: it's about a demon, in exactly the same way that The Exorcist is about an exorcist and Earthquake is about an earthquake. Except that it isn't: it's about a serial killer who may be many things but doesn't appear to be actually demonic (if it weren't for a couple of moments where he might at least have some kind of teleporting abilities). Worse: if we're looking at truth in movie titles this wouldn't just be called The Serial Killer, it would have to be The Boring Serial Killer. Years ago The Demon was listed in the still-missed zine Shock Xpress as one of the 50 most boring films ever made and it's pretty safe to say that this one does earn its place, because in addition to being more about a serial killer than about a demon, it's even moreso a film about the love lives of a couple of hot primary school teachers while a maniac with a spiked glove occasionally mooches about abducting people for no adequately explored reason.
Far too much of the 1981 film is devoted to this tedious slop in which one of the two girls (they're also cousins) tames the casual lusts of a playboy while the other has a serious relationship with a guy you'd think would turn out to save the day as the hero but doesn't. Their soap opera blather goes on for so long you forget the mad killer is even in it; he's reduced to a walk-on extra role in what is supposedly his own movie. Meanwhile Cameron Mitchell turns up as a psychic who eventually tracks down the killer in his drawings but then gets inexplicably murdered.
It's incredibly dull and the UK DVD has lousy picture quality, though even on a remastered 4K ultra hi-def Blu sourced from the original pristine 35mm master from the vaults it would still be incredibly dull. As it is, the occasional bursts of entirely unnecessary sex and nudity are blurred and indistinct and the murders, which tend to take place is the dark anyway, are just lost in the visual murk. Made in South Africa.
CONTAINS SACHA BARON COHEN, WHICH PROBABLY TELLS YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Sacha Baron Cohen has never been one for restraint. Borat and Bruno were meticulous but unsuccessful attempts at the tightrope of dark, edgy comedy over the crevasse of puerile bad taste, while The Dictator chickened out of pointed satire and sought refuge in tedious offence. It might have lost the faux-documentary schtick but it still couldn't hammer home a weak joke hard enough.
Grimsby actively looks for the weakest possible gags and bludgeons them to a pulp with the biggest and bluntest instrument it can find, and there's none blunter than Cohen himself. Nothing is decreed off limits: poo, fat girls, semen, sweary kids, Aids, scrotums (scrota?), sticking things up bottoms, kiddies in wheelchairs... all combine to thoroughly humiliate a star cast that I refuse to believe are this hard up for work. Not the least of whom is Mark Strong, who has absolutely no excuse for this at all. For 28 years feckless and imbecilic layabout Nobby Butcher (Cohen) has been looking for his brother Sebastian (Strong) after they were separated in the foster system. Now Sebastian is a top MI6 agent on the trail of an international terrorist ring - until Nobby shows up and the two have to jet round the world (Cape Town, Chile) before movie star and tireless health charity fundraiser Rhonda George (Penelope Cruz) can unleash a lethal virus at the World Cup Final....
All of this might be at least tolerable if the film was at least faintly amusing, but, in the established Sacha Baron Cohen tradition, it's half as funny as a repeat of Moneybox Live. I didn't laugh once throughout the entire screening (and nor did anyone else, though admittedly there were only three other people there); rather I found myself increasingly annoyed and bored with the relentless lowbrow grossout humour. It's actually quite surprising how little comedic mileage Sacha Baron Cohen and associates have managed to dredge out of the normally fertile spy spoof genre. But they're not really interested in the spy genre: it's just a thread to link up setpieces where the Butcher Brothers have to hide in an elephant's uterus (don't ask) while the male unleashes gallons of spunk over Mark Strong. Or a scene in which Strong gets a dart in his scrotum and Cohen has to suck the poison out. Oh, the hilarity.
It's like watching a five-year-old repeatedly shouting "poo willy bum bum!" because he thinks it's funny, except that Cohen is now a proper grown-up but still shouting "poo willy bum bum!" because he still thinks it's as funny as it ever was. Me, I thought it was foul, repugnant and tedious: not just to the point where I wished I wasn't watching it, but I started to wish it didn't exist. It's the kind of moronic rubbish that makes you want to not watch films any more.
Labels: Comedy, Film, Rubbish
THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN
CONTAINS SPOILERS AND STUFF
The ongoing quest to restore and remaster every last bit of cheerless grot from the 1980s, to preserve any old nonsense full of bad hair and terrible music for future generations to be thoroughly appalled by, continues with this prime example of the dreaded Teen Sex Comedy from Cannon, legendary purveyors of third-rate dross through the decades. This particular example actually succeeds on two counts: namely that it has teenagers and sex scenes in it, but fails doubly on the third as not only is it mesmerisingly not funny, but it genuinely seems trying not to be. Despite the marketing ploy to bill it as a film in the fine and noble tradition of Porky's, The Last American Virgin is a sour and surprisingly unlikeable item that doesn't do what it promises but attempts something else entirely, and doesn't do it very well.
Essentially it's the same old story as a thousand other Teen Sex Comedies from the 1980s, detailing the efforts of a trio of young thickos to get their end away with pretty much anyone who'll let them. Two of our heroes are immediately attracted to hot newcomer Karen: for awkward virgin Gary it's more emotional and romantic but for his best friend, charmless stud Rick, it's purely a quest to be first up there. In between the love/lust triangle bits there are various gruesome sexual misadventures including an indefatigable Spanish nymphomaniac (which is pure Confessions Of...) and a spectacularly repulsive encounter with the most raddled hooker imaginable.
With its jukebox soundtrack (Quincy Jones, The Commodores, The Cars, Oingo Boingo and Many Many More) The Last American Virgin seems like it's trying to be a new American Graffiti, though it's actually a remake of 1978's Lemon Popsicle, the first of seven Israeli sex comedies, updated from a 1950s setting and relocated to the USA. Some kudos are due for confounding expectations by ending on a staggeringly feelbad note, but the film has absolutely nothing going for it.
Labels: Comedy, DVD, Rubbish, Smut
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR
Maybe I'm just getting old but it sometimes seems the BBFC are getting absurdly lenient these days, to the extent that almost every release feels a category too low. Only last week there was Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, boasting a level of physical violence and CGI monster horror that was clearly unsuitable for twelve-year-olds (or indeed anyone else); a few days later a reissue of Brian Yuzna's gore- and offal-drenched first Re-Animator sequel drops through the door and incredibly it's been downgraded to a 15. Sadly that's the biggest surprise on offer: for all the monster mayhem and wild zombie action Bride Of Re-Animator is ultimately as big a mess and a disappointment as it was back in 1990. Where Stuart Gordon's original was a tightly focussed, stripped down exploitation movie, this follow up veers wildly all over the place and doesn't actually make very much sense.
After the events of the first film, square-jawed Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) and definitive mad scientist Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) have legged it to Peru where they've served as medics for the revolutionary army. For Cain it's presumably a chance to forget his beloved Meg and atone for his part in the Miskatonic Massacre, for West it's easy access to unlimited body parts and fresh corpses for his continuing experiments into life after death. Somehow they manage not just to get back to Arkham but to get staff jobs at the same hospital: West wastes no time in setting up a new laboratory in the basement of the former gravedigger's house at the local cemetery, Cain falls in love with a terminal patient (Kathleen Kinmont) and a local police lieutenant with a personal grudge (Claude Earl Jones) continues to sniff around the case...
The name of the Diodati Cemetery is the big shout-out to Mary Shelley fans: no longer is West merely concerned with bringing the dead back to life, but creating a new (female) life out of assorted body parts bolted together. It's towards the second half of the film that everything goes completely out of control, as the severed head of Dr Hill (David Gale) returns to telepathically control a trio of zombies, this time flapping around with a bat's wings stitched to his temples, and West's mismatched monsters break out of the crypt next door.
No less than six special effects houses contributed gloopy, albeit spectacular, make-up and animatronic effects here including Screaming Mad George, KNB and John Buechler. The key image is Kinmont's rejected Bride ripping her rejected heart from her chest and offering it to Cain: it's a visually terrific moment but it's rather lost in the climactic chaos. The absence of a music budget also reduces Richard Band's score (which retains its "adaptation" of Bernard Herrmann's Psycho theme) to cheap-sounding synthesisers and samples rather than live musicians.
In addition to the usual selection of behind-the-scenes featurettes, Arrow's 2-disc BluRay set offers both the R-rated and unrated versions of the film, which run for exactly the same length although a cursory comparison suggests the R tones down some of the more outre splatter moments and replaces it with cutaway shots. (Given the choice, why would you watch the milder cut anyway?) While it doesn't match up to the classic original, Bride Of Re-Animator (which was pointlessly retitled Re-Animator 2 on its UK video release back in the days of VHS) is still good fun in its gory, surreal craziness, and Combs' utterly demented Herbert West is a delight. Should still be an 18 though!
Labels: Comedy, DVD, Gore, Horror, Sequel, Zzz
CONTAINS SPOILERS AND FOR PITY'S SAKE CALM DOWN AND LIGHTEN UP
Oh, where do you start? Look, we know going on that it's not going to be fun: if you want jokes then there's a Marvel film coming soon and go and see that instead because Marvel do fun and DC don't. Marvel recognise superhero knockabout for what it is: colourful pantomime romps for kids, while DC operate under the delusion that the antics of Superman and Batman are supposed to be taken seriously as examinations of the human condition and psychological studies of mental trauma, so stop laughing at the back. The result of this has been a string of crowd-pleasing popcorn spectaculars from one camp and a series of cheerless, portentous bores from the other: the latter culminating in the head-banging destructo porn of Man Of Steel.
Sadly, Man Of Steel is a Last Of The Summer Wine rerun compared to Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, an incoherent, incomprehensible, joyless bore that goes on for a punishing hundred and fifty minutes, approximately none of which make a blind bit of sense. It runs that long for two reasons: firstly the sheer amount of stuff that needs to be crammed into the plot. Beginning with the apocalyptic finale of Man Of Steel in which Metropolis is all but flattened, Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) develops a sense of rage against the carnage and vows to bring Superman (Henry Cavill) down while at the same time dressing up as Batman so he can track down a Russian mobster called the White Portuguese. Meanwhile political forces (led by Senator Holly Hunter) are in play to bring Superman to Justice for his role in the carnage. Meanwhile Lois Lane (Amy Adams) is investigating some kind of conspiracy wherein the US government is selling arms to terrorists after an incident in Africa in which Superman eventually saved the day, but at the cost of a famous franchise character who isn't actually named until the end credits....
Meanwhile multi-millionaire industrialist Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg) has located a lump of Kryptonite and is planning to weaponise it. But his price for gifting this anti-Supes technology to the government is access to General Zod's spaceship and his body so that, once he's manipulated Superman into killing Batman (by using the Russian mobsters that Batman was taking down two hours earlier to kidnap Ma Kent), he can unleash an uncontrollable seventy-foot human-Kryptonian mutant hellbeast to get rid of Superman. (What he's planning to do with the creature afterwards is not disclosed.)
As a mere sideline, Luthor also has a photograph of one Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) which she's trying to retrieve since it was taken in 1918 and she's therefore Wonder Woman, another immortal superhero even if her costume is closer to Xena Warrior Princess than Supergirl. (She needs to be set up for her own movie as well as the Justice League films which will also feature the briefly teased Aquaman and The Flash because, hey, this sort of thing works so well with Marvel.)
The second reason this has to take ten minutes longer than 2001: A Space Odyssey is that Zack Snyder simply doesn't know when to stop: the word enough is not in his vocabulary. The only time Batman V Superman isn't turned up to eleven is when Snyder turns it down to twelve. Action scenes and monster/hero smackdowns go on for ever, so laden with flashy CGI whizzbang that you literally have no idea what just happened, while Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL's score suborns you by sheer filling-loosening volume. (I saw it in a Dolby Atmos cinema; maybe local multiplexes without such systems would fare better.) Meanwhile the screen is filled with cornea-burning stuff that doesn't need to happen anyway: having put a transmitter on Lex Luthor's truck that contains the Kryptonite fragments, why does Batman need to indulge in a wildly destructive chase instead of just going home and watching the truck's progress on Google Maps? Why do we get to see Bruce Wayne's parents murdered yet again in gloating slo-mo, and Bruce falling into the cave full of bats again?
Why also do we get such a level of physical violence and intense monster horror in a film that's ostensibly for kids? How did it get away with an absurdly lenient 12A certificate from the BBFC? Unlike Man Of Steel, human casualties are largely avoided courtesy of a line of dialogue saying the area is uninhabited, but the Board's usual defence that it's fantasy violence doesn't hold: Superman may be an indestructible alien but Batman is just a human bloke in a rubber suit. It's completely inappropriate for anything lower than a 15 certificate and children really shouldn't be taken.
Disregarding the fact that the fifth (maybe sixth) act only works because of a happy coincidence involving names, the sad truth is that BVS-DOJ is a glum and senseless exercise in anger and destruction in which Batman is a miserable git, Superman is an international figure of hatred and Wonder Woman is barely in it anyway, all shot in Man Of Steel's washed-out colour palette that reduces everything to greys and browns. You can't see what's going on and you can't hear what's going on either. This has cost the studios and production companies a quarter of a billion dollars (IMDb estimate), which is a frankly obscene amount of money to spend on something so relentlessly dark and stupid. For all the entertainment value they've conjured up they might as well have fed the banknotes straight into an office shredder. Or given it to some hospitals and disaster relief funds. No film is really worth that much of corporations' cash, but some of them are at least worth a fiver of mine. This is not one of them.
Labels: Film, Rubbish, Superhero


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Q: How open file in PhpStorm by clicking on backtrace line on error page in browser When occurs error in code, browser displays error page with backtrace:

Is it possible to open file in PhpStorm by clicking on line with error?

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How do I enable logging or debug output for ImageResizer in C#?
Why am I getting a path error when using ImageRezier with my MVC Web Application?
What is the best software to resize multiple image files to custom width and height?
I'm using ImageResizer in C# app. Some of the functionality I want to use does not have an associated property in the Instructions object. The docs say, "Just because a key doesn't have a property wrapper doesn't mean you can't use it. i["key"] = value; isnt' that scary."
However, you can put any nonsense in the Instructions Dictionary and nothing will be reported. This means that if I've done something wrong I'm unlikely to notice my mistake.
How can I view log output that will tell me what ImageResizer is doing so I can catch my mistakes?
So every task is attached to one project. And every project can have an optional parent project. This leads to an hierarchical structure of n levels. Corresponding navigation properties are already in place (Project.ParentProject, Task.Project).
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I need to extract content from UI element of some third-party application (not from my own application). I used WinApi (like FindWindow, EnumWindows, etc.) in the same situations in the past, however it is not the case right now: the only thing i can do with WinApi is to get hWnd of the window. Spy++, WinSpector and etc. couldn't help me.
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HomeLondon Photo DiaryNo Strings Attached
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The London Photography Diary is pleased to collaborate with guest curator Stereoscope magazine at the University of St Andrews for the exhibition No Strings Attached, at Carmel by the Green in East London. This exhibition follows The Physical Fabric of Cities—organized by London Photography Diary and Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror, curated by the New York Photography Diary—and is the third in a year-long program of shows being organized by The Photography Diaries. No Strings Attached is curated by Stereoscope magazine and the head curator for this exhibition is Ivana D'Accico.
287a Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 0EL
Opening reception: 15 December, 6pm – 9pm
drinks provided
Exhibition dates: 15 Dec – 15 Feb
Opening times: Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm
Thursday 8am to 6pm
The American artist Chris Wiley proclaimed: "It is indisputable that we now inhabit a world thoroughly mediatised by and glutted with the photographic image and its digital doppelganger. Everything and everyone on Earth and beyond, it would seem, has been slotted somewhere in a rapacious, ever-expanding Borgesian library of representation that we have built for ourselves."
It is true that a casual, transient and less committed mindset pervades the nature of modern photography, and indeed the wider actions of the millennial generation. The phrase No Strings Attached has become a hallmark of this generation, and this exhibition explores how a flippant attitude within youth culture has translated into its relationship with the camera. In a world where the mechanisms to capture images are so readily available, photography has become dispensable. This theme discusses the notion of whether we are less inclined to enter into a serious relationship with the medium?
Entering its sixth year as a publication, STEREOSCOPE was founded as a means to celebrate the history of photography in St. Andrews by aligning the famous Special Collections of Photography and current St. Andrews photographer's work. Under the theme No Strings Attached the magazine has provided a platform for students in St. Andrews to showcase their work and discuss the current nature of photography.
STEREOSCOPE photographers Kate Engleman, Lallie Doyle, Lauren Santucci, Meleah Moore and Sophie Levine present five idiosyncratic approaches to the physical process surrounding contemporary photography. With settings ranging from rural Kolkata to Los Angeles, this collection of photographs demonstrates the modern romance between today's youth and the camera.
Kate Engleman
I have always been technologically inept. This may be because I just don't understand the technological equipment, or because I choose to not learn how to use the new mediums. I have always valued film photography, shooting on my grandfather's tempestuous Canon AE-1.
As someone who loves constant stimulation, it forces me slow down. With the incredibly clear images phones can now produce, and the endless forums that allow people to share those images instantly, the committed relationship between man and camera has become a thing of the past. My images were taken in Los Angeles, my home city, a place I have always felt very detached from. I have started to shoot more around LA, reconnecting with my city through exploring with my camera. Having recently begun to travel alone, I have found great solace in shooting film. My camera has become my favourite travel companion as it enables me way to connect with the places in a way I wouldn't otherwise be able to.
Lauren Santucci
Photography right now is flexible—we have the luxury to experiment and be relaxed about the medium. I photograph the minor movements and brief moments that illustrate a comparable and relatable human experience. In chaining these instances together, we can remember and celebrate our humility despite the conflicts and structures that estrange and divide us. It would be difficult to distinguish the refugee from the privileged and the free in these photographs. Whichever camera I use, whether it is a clunky DLSR or a £5 disposable camera, I am shy about taking photographs of people. I take photos of the lovers or friends I feel intimate with—but I do not want them to know I am taking their photo. These photographs were taken both in my home town of Detroit and in a refugee camp in Athens where I have worked for the last year. They are casual and unplanned due to my efforts to remain unnoticed and to my treatment of photography as unforced and informal.
Meleah Moore
I was trying to add up the visual sources I have encountered today and got frustrated by the superfluity; hitting and quitting photos on my newsfeed without a second thought. The inquiry as a photographer has become how to make an image more indispensable, to warrant more than a glance. Though this idea has some irony; I photograph glances, quick encounters, short-lived beauty. I like pausing movement because something draws me in, feeding on the energy of observation. It's the subtleties that are alluring, catching people in their element without changing it. This became my approach to my photographs taken during a period working with a sustainable energy company in Kolkata, India. I photographed moments which were brief and unaffected, but stay for a minute and they might reveal more.
Sophie Levine
This series holds its interest in the relationship between nature and the human touch, attempting to deconstruct the normalities of our everyday world. The images obscure, fragment, and isolate—allowing the viewer to assign their own narrative. I look to the medium of photography in a formal way, but am influenced by and seek to evoke a more playful sense of the bizarre. In using analogue photographic processes and originally printing these photographs myself, I was looking to explore a less dispensable and instantaneous side of the medium. The compositions were made from a bit of card and the help of a pair of scissors—no hidden strings or Photoshop. The idea of 'No Strings Attached' manifests in many different ways, but it is the intersection between analogue and the instantaneous that I am interested in exploring—the spontaneity of our generation applied to concentrated processes.
Lallie Doyle
I am in a deeply committed relationship with photography; a relationship that, like my other human relations has had peaks and troughs. Photography is used as a way to cement my stream of consciousness. My works, in general, are staged: they are not constructed in a callous and whimsical manner, but rather meticulously put together to recreate a pre-envisaged narrative. I photographed Brooklyn band The Britanys in Williamsburg this summer: I love to photograph musicians because I find music very visual. While music is meant for the ears, for me music is seen just as strongly through the eyes – it conjures up images of past memories, of colours, of the thrashing of limbs in a dark club to the creeping of light through the blinds in the morning. This series conveys the intersection between music and photography, because, in a post-depression era where the creative drive has become stunted by mounting student loans, it is important to unite the arts. These photographs represent my more old-fashioned relationship with the camera, one that is more carefully considered and planned, rather than the laissez-affair attitude that has come to define modern photography.


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18th century (2)19th century (2)British history (2)View MoreAuthorsDennis, Mike (1)Ponsonby, Margaret (1)Steinert, Johannes-Dieter (1)Ugolini, Laura (1)Wanklyn, Malcolm (1)Year (Issue Date)2002 (2)2004 (1)2005 (1)2006 (1)Types
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Constructing East Germany: Interpretations of GDR History since Unification
Dennis, Mike (2004)
This book: The system transformation after German unification in 1990 constituted an experiment on an unprecedented scale. At no point in history had one state attempted to redesign another without conquest, bloodshed or coercion but by treaties, public policy and bureaucratic processes. Unification was achieved by erasing the eastern political and economic model. However, in the meantime it has become clear that the same cannot be said about social transformation. On the contrary, social and cultural attitudes and differentiation have continued and resulted in deep divisions between West and East Germany. After unification, the injustices of politics seemed to have been replaced, in the eyes of most former GDR citizens, by unexpected injustices in the personal spheres of ordinary people who lost their jobs and faced unknown realities of deprivation and social exclusion. These are the main concerns of the contributors to this volume. Incorporating new research findings and published data, they focus on key aspects of economic, political, and social transformation in eastern Germany and compare, through case studies, each area with developments in the West.
National and International Trade and the Midlands Economy
Wanklyn, Malcolm (Manchester University Press - Melland Schill Studies, 2005)
This book: In recent years, traditional interpretations of the processes of industrialisation in Britain have been superceded by a more subtle, macro-economic, gradualist understanding of industrialisation. In particular, commentators have now come to consider the importance of geography and the notion that historical change occurs in space as well as time. Concentrating on the Midlands, this book, drawing on a wealth of original research by an eminent collection of scholars, seeks to develop a fresh understanding of the complex range of urban industrial activity taking place in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the concomitant urbanisation, it explains how regional urban systems both shaped and responded to processes of industrialisation and how urban systems influenced growth and raised the potential for development in particular locales. (Manchester University Press)
Men, masculinities and menswear advertising, c.1890-1914
Ugolini, Laura (London: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2002)
"A Nation of Shopkeepers" reflects research on retail history and cultures of consumption. The contributors challenge existing ideas about retail development, showing how, for example, large-scale retailers played a far lesser role in the development of the modern city that is generally thought, and how the success of department stores was determined less by "entrepreneurial" spirit and more by the unforseen consequences of legislation. With the growing interest in cultures of consumption, this book should be useful to specialists and students in retail history, human geography and social and cultural history. (I.B. Taurus publishers)
Forming a new concept of home: how consumption of textiles contributed to homemaking between 1760 and 1850
Ponsonby, Margaret (Middlesex University Press, 2002)
THIS BOOK: Textiles form the largest group of designed objects available for study, whether as objects in their own rights, as constituents parts of fashion, furniture and interiors, or as industry - the latter embracing production, trade and working environments and experiences. This anthology demonstrates the range of textile studies through eighteen essays that consider the process of designing and making, the makers and manufacturers, the product itself, or how it is sold, used and perceived. Tackling subjects from prehistory to the 1990s, each has been ed to be of particular interest to students and professionals in design, cultural history, fashion and textiles, but also will be of use to anyone who is interested in the study of objects. Set within the context of interdisciplinary techniques in the study of designed objects, the contributors have been drawn from diverse professional backgrounds in both the United Kingdom and the United States. Their experience encompasses the history of textiles and dress, design and economics, museology, social history, psychoanalytical therapy, artchitecture, sociology and textile practice. Divided into four sections, this volume both demonstrates and explores cross-disciplinary research, while enriching and making acccessible the myriad of ways in which textiles - and objects in general - can be interpreted. The editors are the freelance historian, Mary Schoeser, and Dr Christine Boydell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of History of Art and Material Culture, De Montfort University. Published widely, they previously collaborated on the exhibition and publication The Architect of Floors: modernism, art and Marion Dorn designs (1996). (Middlesex University Press)
Food and the Food Crisis in Post-War Germany, 1945-1948: British Policy and the Role of British NGOs
Steinert, Johannes-Dieter (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Ranging across Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain to Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, this volume explores the political, economic and cultural dynamics that shaped conflicts over food and their legacies. (Palgrave Macmillan)


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Don't equate easy with bad for you. Just because you can get this dinner on your table fast doesn't mean it's the same as fast food. Salmon is high in protein and loaded with good-for-you omega 3 fatty acids. Fast food companies can't say that about their food. Unlike take out, this salmon is both quick and good for you, even if you are trying to lose weight. Especially if you pair it with a quick and healthy side like pre made cauliflower rice, asparagus, a baked sweet potato, or steamed green beans, or edamame.
Any leftover salmon can be added on top of a green salad for lunch the next day. This quick and easy lunch can be both filling and nutritious. The protein from the salmon and the fiber from the salad can be a great way to fill up without a ton of calories. Gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and lap band patients often find that one of the key factors in weight loss is having access to high protein, low calorie, and easy to prepare food. This salmon recipe can be a "go-to" meal for both a dinner and a lunch for lap band, gastric sleeve, and gastric bypass patients.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. While oven is preheating, line pan with aluminum foil. Place salmon skin side down on foil. Season salmon with salt and pepper. Coat top of salmon fillet with teriyaki sauce. Bake for 15 minutes, or until salmon is cooked through. Transfer salmon to a plate. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and chopped scallion and squeeze fresh lemon on top.
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What's More Potent, Testosterone or the Power of Belief?
When most people think of testosterone, words like "aggression," "dominance," and "violence" usually come to mind. Those words are memetically linked with testosterone the way "expensive" is linked with diamonds, and most of us have adopted the linkage without thinking much about it. Collectively, we've adopted a "folk hypothesis" about testosterone–a generalized presupposition grounded in folk wisdom assumed to be correct.
What makes folk hypotheses noteworthy is that they're hard to challenge–not because they are fact-based, but because they are so deeply entrenched in collective thinking. So I was intrigued to come across a study in the journal Nature that takes on the testosterone folk hypothesis directly, and also manages to illustrate something important about the power of belief.
A fair amount of evidence has surfaced that testosterone is a key ingredient in social relations, not by increasing, but by decreasing conflict. With that in mind, researchers wanted to know what would happen if they gave a group of female subjects a sublingual dose of testosterone before playing the ultimatum game (the bargaining game in which one subject must negotiate with another about how to divide a sum of money. If an agreement is reached, both parties get the money as agreed. If an agreement isn't reached, neither get the money). The subjects were not told whether they were receiving a placebo or true testosterone, only that they were getting a dose that could be either.
The folk hypothesis about testosterone predicts that it will increase unfair bargaining by making one of the parties more conflictual and less willing to negotiate. In the ultimatum game, unfair bargaining means offering significantly less than 50% of the sum. Typically if less than 50% is offered, the other party will not agree because he or she would rather that neither party receive the money than accept the indignity of being treated unfairly. If someone with a testosterone boost is experiencing heightened feelings of dominance and aggression, it makes sense that fairness wouldn't be top of mind.
The results, however, were exactly the opposite. Overall, those subjects that actually did receive testosterone were not less fair but significantly more fair in their dealings. So much for the folk hypothesis.
But that result, though compelling, is not the most telling part of this study. After the games were played, researchers asked the subjects if they believed they had received a dose of testosterone or a placebo. Subjects who believed they were receiving a dose of testosterone, whether they actually did or not, acted the part. Thinking they were negotiating under the influence of a notorious hormone, their bargaining behavior followed suit and was significantly less fair than that of those who thought they had only received a placebo.
So as much as this study showed that the folk hypothesis about testosterone is flawed, it also showed that belief is a powerful enough agent to induce effects presumed to be true. It's even more powerful than the infamous chemical in question. Time and time again, belief proves itself the strongest bully on the cognitive block.
Abbott, A. (2009). Testosterone link to aggression may be all in the mind Nature DOI: 10.1038/news.2009.1131
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5 responses to "What's More Potent, Testosterone or the Power of Belief?"
Farnam Street
Great post i linked to it on my blog!
Happy to see everyone linking to each other.
Keep up the great work david.
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Lance Chambers
That's right. Belief is a powerful agent in that if you believed something to be true and feel it in every level of your being then it will manifest. Great post!
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"""Test NAM diagnostics."""
import json

from . import init_integration

from tests.common import load_fixture
from tests.components.diagnostics import get_diagnostics_for_config_entry

async def test_entry_diagnostics(hass, hass_client):
    """Test config entry diagnostics."""
    entry = await init_integration(hass)

    diagnostics_data = json.loads(load_fixture("diagnostics_data.json", "nam"))

    result = await get_diagnostics_for_config_entry(hass, hass_client, entry)

    assert result["info"] == {"host": "10.10.2.3"}
    assert result["data"] == diagnostics_data

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July 31, 2008 by zekezielinski
Toilet humor is older than toilets
I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.
One thing that all humans share is a body. They usually come one to a customer.
And all bodies, at least those that are living, have bodily functions.
Most of which are gross.
What was God thinking when He included waste disposal in the design of mankind?
Then again, perhaps God has a sense of humor. And just knew that humans would find bodily functions to be a real scream.
Toilet humor spans generations that begat generations that begat generations until we plumb run out of begats.
The world's oldest joke dates back to 1900 BC when those laugh-a-minute Sumerians gave birth to toilet humor with this supposed rib-tickler:
"Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap."
Kind of makes you appreciate Jay Leno and David Letterman, doesn't it?
George Carlin must be rolling over in his grave.
Shaken by earthquakes and rattled by cell phones
If we all lived forever, do you realize how difficult it would be to get a decent tee time or dinner reservations at a reasonable hour?
Not to mention that the traffic gridlock would be ungodly.
Which is why the Grim Reaper is always lurking somewhere, gleefully waiting to thin the herd.
Apparently the dark angel in black soon may be working considerable overtime, especially in California.
As you know, sooner or later the "Big One" is going to shake, rattle and roll California more violently than an entire invasion of heavy metal bands.
There was a magnitude-5.4-earthquake near Los Angeles yesterday. And Las Vegas oddsmakers who double as scientists on weekends calculate that California faces a 99.7 percent chance of a magnitude-6.7 quake or larger in the next 30 years.
Hope those folks have good life insurance.
Especially if they use cell phones. An international group of prominent doctors and health officials warns that cell phones may cause brain cancer.
And a healthy brain is a good thing to have unless you're in telemarketing.
So if you live in LA with a cell phone glued to your ear, you damn well may die in LA sooner than you would like.
"The Dark Knight" is so dark you can't see what happened to The Joker
I caught the Batman flick "The Dark Knight" over the weekend and I'm not surprised the Caped Crusader is kicking all-time butt at the box office.
The movie is awash with violence and action as The Joker's MO is using anarchy as a gunpowder to blow up civilized society.
And, yes, the movie is so dark that I felt as if I was watching it through the black sockets of a skull. Which sort of left me with cold, clammy fingers.
Two complaints, however.
One, Batman's voice sounds like a bird trapped inside a tenement building.
Two, what the hell happened to The Joker? There is no visual evidence that he was taken into custody after Batman saves him from plunging to his well-deserved death.
What I didn't see was what Andrew Klavan of The Wall Street Journal saw. He thinks the movie is a tribute to the fortitude and moral courage of George W. Bush in a time of terror and war.
I'm not sure even Dick Cheney would buy that.
A bit premature to hear the whoosh of the Eagles' balloon emptying over Samuel's latest hammy injury
The hamstring injury Asante Samuel, the Eagles' $57 million cornerback who was their prize offseason free-agent acquisition, suffered Saturday during the first practice in full pads at Lehigh hasn't ratcheted up Andy Reid to the screaming point.
Samuel had an MRI this morning and was diagnosed with a mild strain of his right hamstring. He is listed as day-to-day, but then again, aren't we all? Samuel missed a chunk of time during the team workouts last month with a strained left hamstring.
Apparently, Samuel doesn't have a history of trouble with his hammys. But if he does experience chronic problems with them this year, it could open a huge can of hurt. It's tough to play cornerback in the NFL with cranky hamstrings. And the Birds ain't paying him all that money to play croquet.
So it's a good thing that the Eagles couldn't find a team willing to trade for defrocked and disgruntled cornerback Lito Sheppard in the offseason. Sheppard, who wants the Birds to show him more money and more playing time, now is at back at left corner with Samuel out. Upon the latter's return, Sheppard presumably with resume rotating with Sheldon Brown at right corner and all three will be on the field when the Eagles go nickel.
Reid and team president Joe Banner met Saturday with Sheppard and his new agent, the infamous Drew Rosenhaus of T.O. and "Next Question" fame. Reid described the meeting as very positive.
We shall see just how steeped in serenity Sheppard and Rosenhaus will be. Of course, Samuel's aching hamstrings now give Sheppard more of a leg to stand on during his impassioned pleas with the two-headed franchise deity of Reid and Banner.
Chihuahuas make great pets
I don't think I'm barking up the wrong tree when I say that nobody should have a pit bull for a pet.
I know there are some folks who claim if you raise pit bulls properly or neuter them they will have all the fight and bite of goldfish.
The other day a pit bull attacked his owner in Amity Township and wouldn't stop chomping on him even when hit on the head with a shovel, stabbed in the neck and back with a kitchen knife, and shot several times with a stun gun.
The damn dog wouldn't stop munching on the guy until a cop shot the pit bull dead with a rifle.
Trust me, there ain't a poodle in the world who bleeds that much aggression. This dog could have been useful in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Anybody who owns a pit bull and also has kids at home is simply breeding trouble.
So chew on that!
Before gas prices kill us, we need to hire his butt
With the prospects of a harsh winter on the horizon and exploding oil and gas prices, we need a new American hero to save the day.
Of course, with John Wayne dead, Arnold in the governator's office, Stallone now older than the original Chinese fireworks and Batman preoccupied at a movie theater near you, we may have to import our latest hero from Scotland.
Let me introduce you to Mr Methane, the world's only full-time professional performing flatulist.
We as a nation need to employ his services as a human renewable energy source.
Apparently this guy's sphincter, to be polite, can launch nuclear rockets upon demand.
While he may not leave any carbon footprints behind, his behind likely will stain the landscape in another way. Of course, a little fertilizer never hurts.
Camp Happy dawns for the Eagles
It's always nice when they're happy campers, whether they're Boy Scouts or NFL players.
Except for Brian Westbrook and Lito Sheppard, money being the root of all evil, the Philadelphia Eagles should be happy campers this year at Lehigh. Even if it's a perfectly lovely place to melt to death.
The real camp actually starts Thursday when all the vets are supposed to be there, and apparently that will include Westbrook and Sheppard.
But the rookies, young backups and the quarterbacks got to camp last night and Andy Reid was in a mellow mood, especially with all his draft picks signed, sealed and delivered.
Reid, whose campers do more hitting than the Phillies do in batting practice, is giving his thirtysomethings a break this summer and will give them every third morning off during two-a-days.
Reid's blissful state of mind may unravel just a tad after the first ACL pops like a violin string. Especially if one of them belongs to Westbrook or Donovan McNabb or new wealthy cornerback Asante Samuel. Nothing like a major injury to a marquee player to screw up a head coach's serenity beyond repair.
By the way, I always love the eve of training camp when Reid, in tribute to the "Can You Beat Zeke?" contest that I quarterback, sports a Hawaiian shirt. In that outfit, the porcine head coach looks more like a vacationing CPA of casual opulence than the guy you would send out to kill James Bond.
Or dethrone the New York Giants.
Greg Norman still is the leader in the clubhouse of life
I have no idea why the wheels always fall off of Greg Norman during final rounds of majors. I guess Never On Sunday is the story of his otherwise stellar golf career.
Norman's fight to make a liar out of Father Time came unglued yesterday when his improbable run at the British Open proved impossible after all.
He finished in a tie for third behind Padraig — what kind of name is that, by the way? — Harrington and thus now has 30 top-10 finishes in the majors. But only two titles — the British Open in 1986 and 1993 — despite holding the 54-hole lead eight times.
Does Norman choke? That is a difficult question to answer, much like why is navy bean soup seldom on the menu?
I don't think he choked this time, since at age 53 he is older than some of the dirt in the Southport rough. And because he now is a zillionaire walking conglomerate who merely dabbles with his golf clubs because he's preoccupied playing tennis with new bride Chrissie Evert.
Difficult to feel sorry for the guy, I would say.
Will the Reading School Board's arithmetic on its $100 million loan add up?
The Reading School Board voted Tuesday night to borrow $100 million to add seven new schools and make infrastructure upgrades to existing schools in the district.
Usually taking out a loan of that magnitude when the economy is nastier than Amy Winehouse would unleash the cry of the damned, not to mention city taxpayers.
But the board claims it can pay the $5 million annual debt service on the bond without having to raise taxes.
Apparently the district's horizon encompasses a geographic wonderland known as Harrisburg.
The Reading School District evidently is going to receive $10 million more from the state than anticipated. This year the district will receive an estimated $102.4 million in basic education funding from the state.
The district's total cost on the 30-year bonds will be $181 million. The state will pay back another $35.8 million. Of course — if past is prologue — financial storm clouds still could trespass upon the sun seemingly shining on the dawn of a new era in the district.
After all, there is no such thing as fixed costs in major construction. Hence the financials usually are rooted merely in topsoil.
The time to call it a night had long passed
When the eerie early hours of the morning settle over a party like a shroud, it's time to turn out the lights — the party should be over.
As my mother once told me, nothing good happens after midnight. Not at least until you wake up and eat breakfast.
There was a party over the weekend in Muhlenberg Township. About 4:50 a.m., a 22-year-old man was fatally stabbed with a steak knife. A 24-year-old man has been charged with his murder.
You don't have to be carrying around a sack of hate to suddenly do something grotesquely violent if the hour is too late and the revelry is too long.
And now the potential and promise of two young men suddenly have been kicked over a cliff.


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Q: Jar Mismatch while using ActionBarSherlock and FacebookSdk I am working on a project which has ActionBarSherlock and FacebookSdk as dependencies. On adding the libraries to the project,there is a jar mismatch as both contain android-support-v4.jar.
Found 2 versions of android-support-v4.jar in the dependency list,
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] but not all the versions are identical (check is based on SHA-1 only at this time).
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] All versions of the libraries must be the same at this time.
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] Versions found are:
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] Path: /home/privly-android/dependencies/actionbarsherlock/libs/android-support-v4.jar
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android]  Length: 648327
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android]  SHA-1: ded9acc6a9792b8f1afc470f0c9cd36d178914cd
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] Path: /home/privly-android/dependencies/facebook/libs/android-support-v4.jar
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android]  Length: 987314
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android]  SHA-1: 3b20dc871d179ba476082efe543dc1b38db46e30
[2015-02-19 21:57:08 - privly-android] Jar mismatch! Fix your dependencies

A: From your error log All versions of the libraries must be the same at this time. its very clear that both needs to be same.
copy same android-support-v4.jar in both sdk and it would work.


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Vivo Y70s Software Update Tracker: PD2002_A_1.7.23
Vivo has been teasing its latest Y-series phone for quite some time now. Now, the company has finally launched the Vivo Y70s smartphone with 5G support. It is the first smartphone that comes powered with Samsung's latest Exynos 880 chipset.
However, it's not a new case when some of the users haven't received the latest firmware OTA update notification. Meanwhile, some of the Vivo Y70s owners also look for the stock ROM to install mostly. So, if you're also one of them, you can check Vivo Y70s Software Update Tracker.
As mentioned, the firmware OTA updates always rollout in batches to region-wise which also depends on the server and carriers. So, it's one of the common issues to not receive any OTA update notification. Therefore, some of the keen users may also miss out the important or much-awaited updates in some cases. Now, if you also feel the same and have a doubt in mind that you've missed out on any important update or you want to manually install the stock firmware on your Vivo Y70s model, then the update tracker list with the software update guide will help you a lot.
Vivo Y70s Specifications: Overview
Vivo Y70s smartphone has an IPS LCD display. It measures 162 mm x 76.6 mm x 8.4 mm and weighs 190 grams. The screen features a resolution of 1080 x 2340 pixels and 395 PPI pixel density. It's an aspect ratio of 19.5:9 and a screen-to-body ratio of 84.17 %.
Under the hood, it's powered by octa-core Exynos 880 SoC having two Cortex-A77 cores clocked at 2.0GHz and 6 Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz. The processor is paired with Mali-G76 MP5 graphics and 6GB or 8GB of LPPDR4x RAM. The phone runs Funtouch OS 10, supported Android 10.
The phone is provided with triple cameras at the rear, comprising a 48-megapixel primary shooter with f/1.79 aperture, an 8-megapixel ultrawide shooter f/2.2 aperture, and a 2-megapixel depth sensor with f/2.4 aperture. On the front, there's a 16-megapixel hole-punch selfie camera with f/2.0 aperture. You'll use night view, portrait, panorama, dynamic photo, movie, time-lapse, and other modes while using the camera.
Vivo Y70s packs a 4,500mAh battery with support for 18W dual-engine flash charging. It features liquid cooling technology. There's 5G, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, Micro-USB port, and 3.5mm headphone jack for connectivity. Onboard sensors include an accelerometer, ambient light sensor, proximity sensor, gyroscope, and compass. A side-mounted fingerprint sensor has been given for authentication. The size of the phone is 162.07×76.61×8.46mm, and it weighs 190 grams.
Vivo Y70s Software Update Tracker
Whenever a new official firmware update will be available for the Vivo Y70s model, we will keep updating the update tracker list here with the changelog and download links below.
PD2002_A_1.7.23
Download Initial Firmware
How to Check Software Update on Vivo Y70s
Go to the device Settings > System updates. It will search for the software update and you will get notified if a new update is available on your device. Simply grab the firmware version by downloading and installing it.
Additionally, it's recommended to maintain the phone charge at least up to 50%-60% and connect your device to a Wi-Fi for a faster and stable download.
Update Guide: How to Flash Vivo Firmware on your device [Software update guide]
Now, let's assume that you've successfully upgraded your Vivo Y70s device to the latest software version. Facing any issue with the software update guide? Comment below.
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Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase, cytoplasmic is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NARS gene.

Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases are a class of enzymes that charge tRNAs with their cognate amino acids.  Asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase is localized to the cytoplasm and belongs to the class II family of tRNA synthetases.  The N-terminal domain represents the signature sequence for the eukaryotic asparaginyl-tRNA synthetases.

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Ukraine demands Russia return 245 servicemen
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 - 18:21 (EET) Section: Latest news
Ukraine has demanded that Russia ensure the return of 245 Ukrainian servicemen who are on its territory.
Deputy Director of the Policy and Communication Department of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Vasyl Zvarych said this at a briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported.
"Another 245 Ukrainian servicemen, including 50 officers, are still near the Gukovo checkpoint in Rostov region," Zvarych said.
He said that the military were guarded by Russian special units and that the investigative measures and interrogations were being conducted, with methods of moral and psychological pressure being used.
"None of the soldiers have expressed a desire to be granted asylum in the Russian Federation. All of them want to return home as quickly as possible," the diplomat said.
He said that allegations by the Russian authorities and the media about other intentions of Ukrainian servicemen are "nothing but a propaganda gesture that has nothing to do with reality."
Zvarych said that Ukraine had demanded that Russia ensure the return of its servicemen home. "The Ukrainian side is ready to ensure their meeting on the border and safe transportation. We urge the Russian leadership not to delay this and not to try to commit provocations," the diplomat said.