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Q: Errbot: getting yapsy error when trying to configure plugins via command line interface My goal is to utilize puppet to initialize an instance of errbot, as well as pre-configure plugins via a script.
I followed their user guide found here:
http://errbot.io/en/latest/user_guide/provisioning.html#reading-stored-values
However I keep getting this error : "rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'"
Here is my output(I do have my log variable in my config.py set to DEBUG):
        /opt/errbot$ /opt/errbot/bin/errbot --storage-get core
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage', '/opt/errbot/extra/devops', '/opt/errbot/extra/weatherbot'}
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.py)
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma     DevOpsReactions  (/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.py)
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma     WeatherBot  (/opt/errbot/extra/weatherbot/weatherBot.py)
    05:30:46 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Memory'
    Description: This is the storage plugin for an in-memory store (non-persistent).
    05:30:46 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/shelf.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
    05:30:46 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
    05:30:46 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/extra/weatherbot/weatherbot.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'

{}

What I have tried:
I have tried using both the 'shelf', and 'memory' storage types
I have run in both python2.7 and 3.4
I have searched through all errbot related questions on this forum, I have searched through the github repo, as well as googled the error I am getting.
I have not been able to find anything that helps me resolve the issue.
I am not sure is this is more of an issue with the errbot module, or if it is how it is being run in my python environment.  Any push in the right direction would be appreciated.
********** EDIT****************
Per @gbin's advice I followed his process exactly:
    vagrant@ops-hq-tools-chatops-app1:/opt/errbot/data$ sudo /opt/errbot/bin/errbot -c /opt/errbot/config.py -T
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.cli                Selected backend 'Text'.
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.cli                Checking for '/opt/errbot/data'...
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage', '/opt/errbot/extra/devops'}
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma     DevOpsReactions  (/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Refilter the plugins...
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Load the one remaining...
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Class to load ShelfStoragePlugin
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage            Opening storage 'repomgr'
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage.shelf      Open shelf storage /opt/errbot/data/repomgr.db
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage            Opening storage 'core'
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage.shelf      Open shelf storage /opt/errbot/data/core.db
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma backends search paths {'/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends'}
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma           Test  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/test.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma        Graphic  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/graphic.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma           Text  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/text.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma       Telegram  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/telegram_messenger.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma           XMPP  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/xmpp.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Slack  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/slack.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma        Hipchat  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/hipchat.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma           Null  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/null.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma            IRC  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/irc.py)
06:56:38 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Backend plugin: 'Text'
                        Description: This is the text backend for Err.
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Refilter the plugins...
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/test.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/graphic.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/telegram_messenger.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/xmpp.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/slack.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/hipchat.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/null.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/backends/irc.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Load the one remaining...
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.specific_plugin_ma Class to load TextBackend
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.core               ErrBot init.
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.backends.base      Backend init.
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.core               created a thread pool of size 10.
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.backends.text      Text Backend Init.
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.smart_strong".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.smart_strong.SmartEmphasisExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.fenced_code".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.fenced_code.FencedCodeExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.footnotes".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.footnotes.FootnoteExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.attr_list".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.attr_list.AttrListExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.def_list".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.def_list.DefListExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.tables".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.tables.TableExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfuly imported extension module "markdown.extensions.abbr".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.abbr.AbbrExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "markdown.extensions.extra.ExtraExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    MARKDOWN                  Successfully loaded extension "errbot.rendering.ansiext.AnsiExtension".
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.core               Initializing backend storage
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage            Opening storage 'text_backend'
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.storage.shelf      Open shelf storage /opt/errbot/data/text_backend.db
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     All plugin roots:
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     -> /opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/core_plugins
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     Add /opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/core_plugins to sys.path
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     -> /opt/errbot/extra/devops
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     /opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/core_plugins has no requirements.txt file
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.plugin_manager     /opt/errbot/extra/devops has no requirements.txt file
06:56:38 INFO     errbot                    webhooks:  Flag to bind /echo to echo
06:56:38 DEBUG    errbot.bootstrap          Start serving commands from the text backend

 >>> !plugin config Webserver
Default configuration for this plugin (you can copy and paste this directly as a command):
 !plugin config Webserver
{'HOST': '0.0.0.0',
 'PORT': 3141,
 'SSL': {'certificate': '',
         'enabled': False,
         'host': '0.0.0.0',
         'key': '',
         'port': 3142}}

 Current configuration:
 !plugin config Webserver
{'HOST': '0.0.0.0',
 'PORT': 3141,
 'SSL': {'certificate': '',
         'enabled': False,
         'host': '0.0.0.0',
         'key': '',
         'port': 3142}}

 >>> !plugin config Webserver {'HOST': '0.0.0.0', 'PORT': 3141, 'SSL': {'certificate': '', 'enabled': False, 'host': '0.0.0.0', 'key': '',  'port': 3142}}
Plugin configuration done.

So far so good, then I make sure to issue the following command with sudo:
/opt/errbot/bin/errbot -c /opt/errbot/config.py --storage-get core
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/opt/errbot/extra/devops', '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage'}
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma     DevOpsReactions  (/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.py)
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.py)
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
07:01:19 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
07:01:19 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
07:01:19 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
{'configs': {'Webserver': {'PORT': 3141, 'HOST': '0.0.0.0', 'SSL': {'host': '0.0.0.0', 'key': '', 'enabled': False, 'port': 3142, 'certificate': ''}}, 'giphy': {'API_KEY': 'test'}, 'WeatherBot': None}}

So the --storage-get function is working as expected. However, when I try --storage-set/merge:
sudo echo "{'configs': {'Webserver': {'PORT': 9999}}}" | /opt/errbot/bin/errbot -c /opt/errbot/config.py --storage-merge core
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage', '/opt/errbot/extra/devops'}
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.py)
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma     DevOpsReactions  (/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.py)
07:02:46 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
07:02:46 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/lib/python3.4/site-packages/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
07:02:46 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/opt/errbot/extra/devops/devops.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
Storage does not appear to have been opened yet

I get this error "Storage does not appear to be open yet.
I found this link by googling the error:
http://errbot.io/en/latest/_modules/errbot/storage.html
but I am having trouble understanding what I need to change so that I can merge, or set config values.

A: rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator' is a misleading warning from yapsy saying that a plugin is not what it is looking at the moment while looping over all the plugins, it is a normal behavior.
The entry you are getting for core is {}, empty. Simply your Errbot instance has not store anything yet there.
For example check out this session:
(errbot)mymachine ➜  errbot (master) errbot -T
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.cli                Selected backend 'Text'.
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.cli                Checking for '../errbot-data'...
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage'}
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.py)
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
08:36:27 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma backends search paths {'/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/backends'}
[...]
08:36:27 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Backend plugin: 'Text'
                                                Description: This is the text backend for Err.
08:36:27 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/backends/irc.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
[...]

 >>> !plugin config Webserver
Default configuration for this plugin (you can copy and paste this directly as a command):
 !plugin config Webserver
{'HOST': '0.0.0.0',
 'PORT': 3141,
 'SSL': {'certificate': '',
         'enabled': False,
         'host': '0.0.0.0',
         'key': '',
         'port': 3142}}

 >>> !plugin config Webserver {'HOST': '0.0.0.0', 'PORT': 3141, 'SSL': {'certificate': '', 'enabled': False, 'host': '0.0.0.0', 'key': '',  'port': 3142}}
Plugin configuration done.

 >>> ^C

This has stored a config for the plugin "Webserver", then you can see it when you dump all the configs back from the command line with:
(errbot)mymachine ➜  errbot (master) errbot --storage-get core
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage'}
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.py)
08:37:54 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
08:37:54 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'

{'configs': {'Webserver': {'PORT': 3141, 'SSL': {'enabled': False, 'port': 3142, 'key': '', 'host': '0.0.0.0', 'certificate': ''}, 'HOST': '0.0.0.0'}}}

A: I did exactly what you did and it works for me.
Is there anything special in your config ?
(errbot)mymachine ➜  errbot (master) echo "{'configs': {'Webserver': {'PORT': 9999}}}" | errbot --storage-merge core                                                                                <<<
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage'}
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.py)
14:22:12 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
14:22:12 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'

(errbot)mymachine ➜  errbot (master) errbot --storage-get core
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.cli                Config check passed...
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma storage search paths {'/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage'}
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma Found those plugings available:
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma          Shelf  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/shelf.py)
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.specific_plugin_ma         Memory  (/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.py)
14:22:57 INFO     errbot.bootstrap          Found Storage plugin: 'Shelf'
Description: This is the storage plugin for the traditional shelf store for errbot.
14:22:57 WARNING  yapsy                     Plugin candidate '/home/gbinet/projects/errbot/errbot/storage/memory.plug'  rejected by strategy 'SpecificBackendLocator'
{'configs': {'Webserver': {'PORT': 9999}}}

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25 October 2021 The military leadership in Sudan has carried out a coup this morning, supported by the forces of the counter-revolution and the remnants of Al-Bashir's dictatorial regime, to end the democratic transition. It began with launching a campaign of arrests of political and civil leaders and the suppression of popular demonstrations against the putschists and declaring a state of emergency. This coup represents the culmination of internal and external conspiracies to circumvent the slogans of the Sudanese people's Revolution in December 2018 and deal a blow to its gains, the latest of which was the coup attempt carried out by a group of the military last month. It comes nearly two years after the formation of the transitional power structures in Sudan, a deepening economic crisis, and against the background of curtailing freedoms, violating rights and maintaining laws restricting them. This was coupled with attempts to empty the slogans of the December Revolution from their content and usurp the means to achieve change that are represented by the Legislative Council and local popular government. In addition, no steps were taken to achieve justice and retribution for the martyrs and to investigate of the massacre of dispersing a peaceful sit-in that took place in Khartoum in June 2019, as well as hindering the trial of leading figures of the former regime. The demands of the forces of Revolution for the establishment of a transitional authority to address urgent issues within a period not exceeding four years were denied. These demands include the formation of the Legislative Council as an important step in the path of consolidating full civilian authority, setting the principles of a permanent constitution, holding free and fair elections and consolidating the principle of peaceful transfer of power, in order to build a national democratic state based on the principle of citizenship and the rule of law. While declaring its strong condemnation of this military coup, the Iraqi Communist Party affirms its full solidarity with the Sudanese people and their democratic civil forces, foremost of which is the Sudanese Communist Party. We call for intensifying international solidarity with their courageous resistance to defeat the coup, and call for an end to repression, the immediate release of all detainees, the abolition of the state of emergency, and submission to the will of the Sudanese people expressed by the December Revolution and its goals of freedom, peace and justice. All solidarity with the Sudanese people and their democratic civil forces Political Bureau Iraqi Communist Party
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« Video of March 23, 2017 by Donald Wessels at Pohakuloa
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Live-Fire update for Pohakuloa
Published by jalbertini on March 28th, 2017 in Hawaii Independence, Military, Pohakuloa, Radiation.
Aloha Kakou,
I talked by phone today (Tuesday, March 28, 2017) to both the West Hawaii Governor's liaison, Susan Kim, and also Lt. Col. Charles Anthony, State of Hawaii Dept. of Defense Public Affairs officer.
Ms. Kim confirmed there will be field artillery 155mm live- high explosive rounds fired on Wednesday, March 29th at Pohakuloa. She also said there would be parachute jumps on March 28 and 29 into the Keamuku area of Pohakuloa. Lt.Col. Anthony said there would be no live-fire involving the Hawaii Air National Guard fighter jets and jets from 5 other states — California, Arizona, Montana, Missouri, and Utah, that are currently doing aircraft training in and around Hawaii as part of "Sentry Aloha Exercises" taking place this week and next. Col Anthony said: "There are no scenarios within this iteration of Sentry Aloha that call for any type of ordnance (live or inert) to be dropped at Pohakuloa Training Area."
So it appears there will be live-fire at Pohakuloa on Wed but from artillery, not fighter jets. High explosive Live-fire desecrates the aina, burns DU metal creating DU oxide particles, and spreads DU oxide particles in the winds.
Solidarity for protecting Pohakuloa and Stopping live-fire. See you at the protest –Pohakuloa main gate Wednesday, March 29th 10AM-2PM.
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Eurofins Opens New UK Analytical Testing Facility
BioPharm International Editors
Eurofins Scientific has opened a £4-million (US$5-million) pharmaceutical chemistry and microbiology facility in Livingston, Scotland, to support the company's product and water testing businesses in the UK.
On Sep. 29, 2017, Eurofins Scientific, a life sciences company specializing in analytical testing, opened a previously announced pharmaceutical chemistry and microbiology facility in Livingston, Scotland, following a £4-million (US$5-million) investment.
The 5800m2-facility, which will move to Livingston from its current site in Newbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, will provide greater capacity for the company's biopharmaceutical product testing business. The site will also facilitate new laboratories for the company's water testing business, which provide analysis to assess the safety of water in cooling towers, hot and cold water systems, closed systems, and recreational waters such as swimming pools and spas.
The company's product testing business will look to expand on finished product and raw materials testing. According to the company, employee numbers are anticipated to double to more than 100 in the next few years, with an increased number of technical specialists being added to work on method development and validation.
Additionally, the site will focus on GMP microbiology contract testing, with equipment being added to improve inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry testing. The company will also invest in liquid chromatography equipment, which is expected to increase efficiency by 40%.
The investment follows the company's acquisition of Exova's pharmaceutical, food, and water testing business in the UK & Ireland in July 2016, and the subsequent purchase of ILS's pharmaceutical business in October 2016.
In related news, the company announced an agreement to acquire EAG Laboratories, a scientific services company specializing in analytical and testing services to the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, from Odyssey Investment Partners, in September 2017. The transaction is expected to close within a few months following this announcement, subject to customary closing conditions.
Source: Eurofins
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Inför säsongen 2015 värvades Karlsson av damallsvenska Kristianstads DFF. Inför säsongen 2017 återvände hon till Växjö DFF. I november 2021 värvades Karlsson av Linköpings FC, där hon skrev på ett tvåårskontrakt.

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Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Ringina. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1939 door Vernon Victor Hickman.

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Q: javascript function return "undefine" from jsp page i have a jsp page and call a JS function which is in some abc.js file from this JSP page.
i have included this js file to jsp page.
JSP JavaScript Code:-
function doFinish(tableId, col, field)
{
   var oldselectedCells = "";
   var selItemHandle = "";
   var selRightItemHandle = "";
   var left = -1;
   var right = -1;
   // Get the table (tBody) section
   var tBody = document.getElementById(tableId);
   // get field in which selected columns are stored
   var selectedCellsFld = document.getElementById(tableId + datatableSelectedCells);

   selectedCellsFld.value = oldselectedCells;
   for (var r = 0; r < tBody.rows.length; r++)
   {
      var row = tBody.rows[r];
      if (row.cells[col].childNodes[0].checked == true)
      {
         selectedCellsFld.value = oldselectedCells +
                                 row.cells[col].childNodes[0].id;
         selItemHandle = row.cells[col].childNodes[0].value

         oldselectedCells =  selectedCellsFld.value + datatableOnLoadDivider;

         left = selItemHandle.indexOf("=");
         right = selItemHandle.length;
         selRightItemHandle = selItemHandle.substring(left+1,right);
         var index=getColumnIndex(tBody,"Name");
         if(index!=null)
         {
            if(field == 1)
            {
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.eds_asbactionscfg_item_handle_child_physpart.value = selRightItemHandle;
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.ChildPhysicalPart.value = row.cells[index].childNodes[0].innerHTML;
            }
            else if (field == 2)
            {
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.eds_asbactionscfg_dev_doc_item_handle_name.value = selRightItemHandle;
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.DeviationObject.value = row.cells[index].childNodes[0].innerHTML;
            }
            else if (field == 3)
            {
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.eds_asbactionscfg_dev_doc_item_handle_name.value = selRightItemHandle;
               window.opener.document.TemplateForm.DeviationObject.value = row.cells[index].childNodes[0].innerHTML;
            }
         }

      }
   }

   window.close();
}

JS Code:-
function getColumnIndex(tBody,columnName)
 {
    var cells = tBody.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('th');
    for (var i=0;i<cells.length; i++)
    {
       if(cells[i].hasChildNodes())
       {
          if(cells[i].childNodes[0].innerHTML.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm ,"").trim() == columnName)
          {
             return i;
          }
       }
    }
 }

i had debug this code with firebug & calling getColumnIndex(tBody,columnName) function works fine but when it return to caller the var index=getColumnIndex(tBody,"Name"); the index value is "undefine".
suggest some solution.

A: getColumnIndex(tBody,columnName) function works fine.
as if it matches this if condition
 if(cells[i].childNodes[0].innerHTML.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm ,"").trim() == columnName)
          {
             return i;
          }

so that it returns something.
but when you replace this
var index=getColumnIndex(tBody,"Name"); so that coulmnName would be "Name" in String.
And it doesn't match with any columnName so that your condition going to be wrong and function doesn't return anything.
var index=getColumnIndex(tBody,"Name"); the index value is "undefine".
suggestion is put some else condition on that and return some error message like this :
 if(cells[i].childNodes[0].innerHTML.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm ,"").trim() == columnName)
          {
             return i;
          } else{
       // put some error message
       // return null
}

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i had debug this code with firebug & calling getColumnIndex(tBody,columnName) function works fine

From this, I'm assuming that there isn't anything wrong with the implementation of your getColumnIndex function, so your issue with getting an undefined value must have to do with when this function is returning a value.

but when it return to caller the var index=getColumnIndex(tBody,"Name"); the index value is "undefine".

This leads me to assume that your tBody variable is not being set correctly, given that the "function works fine".
I'm assuming there is a case in your code where the conditions of your getColumnIndex function is not met.
function getColumnIndex(tBody,columnName)
 {
    var cells = tBody.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('th');
    for (var i=0;i<cells.length; i++)
    {
       if(cells[i].hasChildNodes())
       {
          if(cells[i].childNodes[0].innerHTML.replace(/(\r\n|\n|\r)/gm ,"").trim() == columnName)
          {
             return i;
          }
       }
    }
    // If your code reaches this point, then the prior conditions have not been met
    // You can choose to do something else here for return false/undefined etc.
    return undefined;
 }


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Q: tensorflow use image path as training input Is there any way to use a list containing the relative path to all the training image files as an input when running model.fit?
For example if the array is like:
['images/00001.png', 'images/00002.png', ... 'images/9999.png']

How can I use this as the input to train my model?
All the images are grayscale and I don't want to convert the image into an array as that results in a memory error.

A: Try storing your images in a tuple. It works well with Tensorflow, and can hold lots of data when needed.
thistuple = ("images/00001.png", "images/00002.png", "images/9999.png")
print(thistuple)

EDIT
Create a ImageDataGenerator in Keras
#create a data generator
datagen = ImageDataGenerator()

Then use that generator to load in the images
#load and iterate training dataset
train_it = datagen.flow_from_directory('data/train/', class_mode='binary',
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Penna changed Jamaican football after independence – 'Skill' Cole
Published:Thursday | August 6, 2020 | 12:22 AMLivingston Scott/Gleaner Writer
Jamaica footballer, Asher Welch (centre), signs a contract to play professional football with the Baltimore Football Club while club representative Deryck Tomlinson (right) and Jorge Penna, Jamaica national football coach look on.
Jamaican football legend Allan 'Skill' Cole credits Brazilian coach Jorge Penna for revolutionising the national team after his arrival in 1962.
Penna's appointment coincided with Jamaica's independence, and the South American is considered to be the coach who freed the country's ambitions in international football, bringing a strong sense of discipline and organisation to the Jamaican game.
"When foreign teams came here in the early days, they used to beat us and give us football lessons. We had talent, but we could not sustain for the duration of the game because we couldn't handle the pace. They would destroy us, but we could play. We could match them for a half hour, but because we weren't properly prepared, we would fade away late in the game," Cole said.
"Our football really started getting modernised when Penna came here just after Independence. He came here in 1962, and that lifted our football a notch. People involved in football started to realise that to compete at the top level, players had to be properly prepared, and they had to eat right and all that.
"When Penna came, it was the first footballers started going into camp, started eating better and started training like how footballers were supposed to train. Penna brought discipline to the team, and he brought professionalism to the minds of the players and the administrators. So Penna brought an awakening to our football, and that is when our football really started to ascend," Cole shared.
Cole made his debut under Penna and was part of the Brazilian's Jamaican team that came one step away from qualifying for the 1966 World Cup in England.
In the preliminary round, Jamaica was grouped with Cuba and the Netherland Antilles. Jamaica beat Cuba 2-0 in their first game at the National Stadium and scored an identical win over the Netherland Antilles. In the away games, Jamaica was held to a goalless draw by the Netherland Antilles and suffered a 2–1 defeat to Cuba.
However, Jamaica advanced to the final group of three, with Costa Rica and Mexico, with the winner set to go on to represent Concacaf at the finals. Jamaica lost 3-2 at home to Mexico in the first game and 8-0 in the return leg. They also lost 7–0 to Costa Rica in their first encounter but held them to a 1–1 tie in the return game at home.
Jamaica, of course, went on to qualify for the 1998 World Cup in France.
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Trolling Level: Hayate no Gotoku! – Most Notable Trolling Moments of the Characters Part 1
We are reading a butler comedy manga, and we are supposed to have some – or many – good laughs. To make us laugh, someone has to give us something to laugh at. Pulling pranks on other characters is one good way of giving us laughs, so no matter how good-natured the characters are, they have to make fun of each other from time to time, for the good of this series.
"Trolling" is the word I choose for this kind of behavior. The characters might not be doing this because they had a twisted mind, but sometimes they – like many other young people – wanted some fun out of their friends, sometimes they were being stupid, and sometimes… well, they had a twisted mind.
I intended to compile a list in one single article to have a look at some of the trolling moments – from the victims' point of view – of the main cast, but the "article" turns out to be too long, so I have to cut "it" into several pieces. I have no idea yet how many pieces would there be, but most probably there would be 3 to 4.
Do note that outright evil acts and thoughts are not considered "trolling" in this project, so never ask why the likes of Mikado are not on this list, otherwise Doughnut Gunso would come and troll you. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED…
So, this week we have Part 1: Hayate, Nagi, Maria, Hinagiku and Athena!
Victim No. 1: Gilbert
Rule No. 1 of Hayate's Code of Indecency is that, he would treat anyone who threatened Nagi's safety very badly. Robots would be destroyed, people would be beaten up, and ghosts would be exorcised – it would be safe to say this applies to Hayate's own grandmother as well, should she try harder to harm Nagi.
The person who would find Hayate most trolling, therefore, would be the one who kept on and on trying to take away the wealth of the Sanzen'in Household from Nagi: Gilbert. Maria once commented that Hayate
In fact, Gilbert had been defeated by Hayate so often that, he actually demanded Hayate to go easier on him. After all, if he was killed, the astronomic wealth Sanzen'in Household would mean nothing to him.
Victim No. 2: Kotetsu
Hayate and Kotetsu had been in a love-hate relationship: Kotetsu loved Hayate, but Hayate hated Kotetsu (for loving him). Things did not go well for Kotetsu as he acted like a perverted or even a troll (see section Kotetsu), and Hayate was so annoyed that he chose to troll at Kotetsu as well.
Insulting, beating, fooling, drowning… each and every move he took on Kotetsu had been hostile at least. His annoyance with Kotetsu was of course understandable, but what he did to him was sometimes a bit too much – let us not forget that he probably intended to cause Kotetsu harm.
Indeed, the fact that Kotetsu stayed alive after so much abuse (?) from Hayate is proof that he was indeed a very strong butler.
Victim No. 3: Hinagiku
Fact No. 1: Hinagiku got angry at Hayate very often. Fact No. 2: Hayate thought that Hinagiku was "a very nice person". The conclusion is that, for a very nice girl to get angry very often at you, you must have done something very horrible to her.
Indeed, Hayate had been treating Hinagiku not very nicely. He set her up to face her greatest fear (height) in the Freedom Marathon race. He had almost forgotten about her birthday. He tricked her (and everyone else, to be fair to him) to join the beach volleyball match. He fooled her to live with him at the Violet Mansion. He opened her door deliberately to reveal a changing Hinagiku to Nagi and Kayura…
Some of the above were examples of his lack of sensitivity, and similar things had happened to other girls as well. But the last example is so far a special treatment for Hinagiku – should you disagree, please name an example of Hayate deliberately revealing a changing Nagi/Maria/Athena/Izumi/… to a third party.
Victim No. 1: Hayate
Make no mistake. Nagi loved Hayate so much that she willingly gave up her right to inheritance, just because Hayate was troubled whether to destroy his King's Jewel or not. She wanted him to be safe and happy, but it doesn't mean that she wouldn't pull one or two pranks on her butler.
Let us forget about the (slightly) unreasonable demands, as you should forgive a 13-year-old for being curious about new but perhaps ridiculous things. What really amounts to "trolling" was her numerous requests for Hayate to cross-dress.
It was crystal clear that Hayate did not like cross-dressing, and he had made countless complaints to his lady on this – you seldom see Hayate complaining about Nagi's demands, but cross-dressing was clearly one of them. Yet Nagi kept on demanding him to cross-dress, and in the most recent case she wanted the act to give her inspiration on her doujinshi. This caused Chiharu to think that Nagi was looking for NTR elements.
It has been suggested that Nagi could be suffering from Oedipus Complex: she wanted Hayate to dress like a girl because he looked like her mother, Yukariko. Although it could justify her desire to have her butler cross-dressed, it also proves that Nagi had been trolling Hayate.
Nagi said it herself: "I have [lectured] all kidnappers who kidnapped me before!" As kidnappers were definitely not being nice to her, we don't see why Nagi had to be nice with them.
As such, Nagi trolled Kotetsu to our pleasure. She demanded coffee from him, and scolded him for giving her the wrong type of coffee. She lectured him on how to be a good butler, and cited Hayate as a better example for him. She advised Kotetsu to love Hayate in a "correct" manner, but knocked him out when he did what she had told him…
It was an extremely funny scene, and nobody would hate Nagi for what she had done. However, to Kotetsu, Nagi had been a nightmare.
Victim No. 1: Makimura
To a certain extent, Maria-Makimura relationship was rather similar to Hayate-Kotetsu relationship: one party showed (not really healthy) affection, while the other party showed disapproval. If it was natural for Hayate to troll Kotetsu, then it was also natural for Maria to troll Makimura… right?
When compared to what Hayate had done to Kotetsu, we could see that Maria was actually much more "peaceful". The most notable thing she had done to Makimura was smashing her recorder and video camera. It seems like Maria was trolling the machines rather than the person.
The smile on her face when she warned that she might break machines again was the real trolling part on Makimura. For someone who loved machines as much as Makimura did, such a "warning" was indeed very scary…
Victim No. 2: Nagi
Maria had suggested in Episode 10 of the First Season Anime that her role was to be the voice of sanity in this (sometimes) insane world. If someone was going out of line, Maria would not hesitate to knock him or her back to the real world – even if she had to be a bit… harsh.
When Maria first met Nagi, the little mistress was very confident – or indeed a bit arrogant – of her cleverness. She thought that nobody would be capable enough to be her teacher – and there came Maria, who challenged her to a chess game.
As we could see, Maria smiled brightly (or darkly) as she watched a sobbing Nagi making her moves. This was a torture for Nagi – the complete defeat was one thing, but the smiling face was the real trolling part.
Hinagiku
Victim No. 1: Isumi
"Ha?!" could be your response when you see Isumi's name here. After all, Hinagiku and Isumi did not meet too often, and they were not really very good friends, so you have to wonder why Isumi was a victim of Hinagiku's trolling.
Then again, Hinagiku took Wooden Masamune, the Saginomiya family treasure, from Isumi without really returning it to her. She told Nagi and Wataru that the sword was a gift from an angel, which caused Isumi to break the fourth wall and say she did not gift it to her. Later in the series, Hinagiku almost used the Wooden Masamune to attack a Saginomiya family member: Isumi herself.
Isumi also found it very hard to communicate with Hinagiku. She wanted Hinagiku to stay away from the Tiger's Den, but Hinagiku was determined to go into it no matter what Isumi tried to tell her. Hinagiku misinterpreted the letter Isumi wrote and gave to her, and did not pay attention to the very desperate Isumi, who was trying to tell her the truth.
It is no wonder that Isumi considered Hinagiku as troublesome as Nagi.
While the section Hayate above suggested that Hayate had been trolling Hinagiku, curiously it was Hinagiku who started all the trolling things between them.
For some reason, Hinagiku found a shy Hayate a good victim for a tease, and she made fun of him when he showed embarrassment towards her. She said that Hayate was emotionally an elementary school student, and she actually toyed him to death in the Old School Campus. As we could see from both incidents, Hayate was completely defeated, and he did not look very happy about it.
It seemed a bit odd for a girl to toy this much with her "love at first sight". Maybe it was the way the (once) tomboy Hinagiku showed her affection for Hayate? Or was it her definition of "flirting"?
If we take out the things Athena had done in Athens (see the reason stated at the beginning of this post), then Athena was really trolling only one person: Hinagiku.
The most notable trolling moment was of course the blackmailing – that she would keep Hinagiku's feelings towards Hayate a secret if she lived with her at Violet Mansion. It came at a timing too perfect for herself but too poor for Hinagiku. The problem for the latter was that, there was still a huge risk that Athena could let Hayate know Hinagiku's secret, simply for a slip of the tongue.
We could see that Athena wasn't exactly respectful towards her "mother". She revealed Hinagiku's not-so-decent sleeping behaviors to the others, and she actually teased Hinagiku for that. It might not be trolling, but it could be a mischievous act.
Really, Hinagiku had no reason to love her "daughter".
By Doughnut Gunso • Posted in Featured Articles • Tagged Hayate the Combat Butler
10 comments on "Trolling Level: Hayate no Gotoku! – Most Notable Trolling Moments of the Characters Part 1"
kinghearts
XDXDXD this article is freaking funny now i wonder how is the biggest troll in the series its hard to decide XDXDXD LOL
It really is hard, so I have decided not to rank the characters' trolling level!
Bigges troll? Hata Kenjiro-sensei.
Ah well, for the purpose of this project, Hata doesn't count. 😉
The "trolled" is usually the funniest character in a comedy manga over the "troll". What's great about characters who get trolled is that they don't have to be the straight man or the idiot…. just people who didn't see it coming, as in, no one is immune to trolling.
Maria would be my favourite troll. Whether she'd be smiling brightly or darkly, who could complain about her smile? You rarely see other characters get mad at her for trolling them if she's smiling…. then again, they could be just scared of the sadistic aura behind her smile.
I think your last point hits home…
normal world vs exceptional world trolling… interesting topic for april fool's day
which is which i wonder for each character.
happy trollolol day
Wow, I haven't been thinking about exceptional or normal when writing this. Thanks for pointing it out, it could be an interesting perspective.
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I just remembered our convo in twitter about Trolls. Never thought you would write an article about it… with Hayate no Gotoku in it.
We were talking about reader trolling, now it is character trolling. 😛


This is Part 7 of a series I'm writing on capital campaign readiness. In Part 6 we talked about how internal readiness is assessed during a study. In this installment we'll discuss how the external readiness for a campaign is assessed.
This is Part 5 of a series I'm writing on capital campaign readiness. In Part 4, I introduced you to the case for support and how it fits into your capital campaign. In today's article I will talk about how to prepare the case statement, how to involve donors, and how to translate the case into the various campaign documents that will be needed to convey your campaign message to the constituents.
This is Part 4 of a multiweek series on capital campaign readiness by Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE. In today's installment. She covers the case for support.
This is Part 3 of a multiweek series on capital campaign readiness by Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE. In this installment, Linda discusses capital campaign human resources: board members, volunteers, and donors.
This is Part 2 of a multiweek series on capital campaigns by Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE. In this installment, Linda discusses organizational infrastructure to support the campaign.


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Motorhead: Sound And Fury
Kali Kotoski
Ya gotta envy the car guys. Corvettes, Mustangs, Challengers, Camaros and others have plenty of room to hide huge, elaborate exhaust systems and the electronics to control them. The result is genuine performance and legal, soul-satisfying sounds motorcycles can't hope to match. Part of the problem for V-Twins stems from the "shorty" syndrome – the notion, etched into H-D fans' brains for decades, that small, straight-through mufflers are good for performance. Damn the noise, full speed ahead!
Only, it doesn't really work that way these days.
Honestly, most of us just want our V-twins to sound good. An incidental increase in power is only a fringe benefit. With 80 decibels for a noise emission standard and disproportionately small mufflers to meet that standard, it's understandable. We tend to think of noise and power as synonymous. They aren't.
This surprising test was performed by Cone Engineering some years back. The company makes reverse-cone megaphones and its own baffles to suit. The test, performed on an 865cc Triumph Bonneville, was for peak power, not a 'powerband' as such, but it illustrates the importance of mufflers and baffles, in that order. The stock head pipes alone are obviously not tuned and the best peak power resulted from using a baffle. The baffled 18-inch meg hit 99Db on the sound meter. Too loud, yet the quietest of the bunch. Voluminous muffler bodies and low-restriction baffles in same would likely beat these results and give better mid-range, to boot.
Noise created by an engine does not come from the explosion in the cylinder. Sound, being the result of air waves, cannot travel from an enclosed space. What you hear is the opening of the exhaust valve, at pressures considerably above that of the atmosphere. This sets up air pressure waves of indeterminate form and frequency, but well within the audible range of human hearing. One of the first difficulties encountered in a scientific approach to silencing without power losses is dealing with the pressure at this stage. Depending on engine specs, these waves exit at widely varying pressures, from as low as four or five psi to well over 100, and the intensity of the sound produced varies in more or less direct proportion.
If the gases escape directly into the air, they cause massive noise. Even a small gutted muffler fitted to a head pipe offers little interference in velocity, and still produces considerable impact with the air (noise) at the muffler outlet. To meet noise standards, the usual practice is to adopt some means of preventing this kind of direct outflow altogether by causing the gases to change the direction of flow and reducing their velocity so the sound produced is appropriately reduced. Basically, this means large-capacity mufflers, the volume of which should be no less than five times the capacity of the cylinder. (Read that again and think of 'shorty' mufflers.)
Baffles Are Baffling
Another method is to introduce cylindrical baffles with a multiplicity of holes, which break up the flow of the gases and in some cases promote expansion in stages. Typical examples have a continuous pipe through the center of the muffler, but the middle portion is plugged, and the adjacent regions perforated, so gases must first pass at right angles through the holes in the pipe, into the muffler shell and back into the outlet. Absorbent packing materials are often fitted to silencers, increasing their sound-absorbing efficiency by diffusing the gases and retarding their velocity. Plenty of variations exist, but there is no form of baffling that can entirely avoid setting up a certain amount of back pressure, and it's damn difficult to convince racers that power output does not necessarily suffer when baffles are used.
Noisy Silencers?
Fitting a silencer/muffler, far from reducing noise, may actually increase it or make it more prominently audible. This is due to the effect of resonance in the exhaust system (nearly always present to a certain extent) in tubular and cylindrical passages, which have properties comparable to organ pipes in amplifying and modifying sound. The effects of this resonance are complex, and include not only the vibrations set up in the gas column but also those due to the natural frequency of the metal, superimposed on the cyclic frequency of the exhaust beats within audible range.
The shape of the exit of a muffler also has a definite effect on excessive exhaust noise, and this is most evident in the case of megaphones, reverse cones megs, fishtails, slash-cuts, shortys and so on. None of which, incidentally, have much internal space. It need not be this way.
Given all that, here's a near perfect one-off exhaust system: Legal noise levels with a great, deep tone and more power-generating capability than any other because of the header set-up and the huge ugly muffler. Tradition dies hard, but usually at the hand of performance. If you doubt that huge efficient exhausts are here to stay, just take a look at the one on the FXDR 114 and stick those shortys on the shelf!
Big Pipe, Big Noise
The common belief that muffler/pipe outlet area should be not less than the area of the exhaust port is a fallacy. The opening period of the exhaust valve is only about 1/4 to 1/2 of the engine cycle. During this period the progressive opening and closing reduces effective area to no more than half that of the full port. Moreover, the temperature of the gases, and therefore their pressure/volume, is falling rapidly in their passage through the exhaust system. Smaller outlet diameters affect noise, not power.
Total Exhaust-ion 101
Head pipes: Individual head pipes need to be correct diameter, equal length and proper length. (Stockers usually aren't.) So-called balance or cross-over pipes can do a lot to correct deficiencies in basic head pipe configurations. Siamese (2-into-1) headers need proper lengths and diameters of tubing as well as a collector with correct diameter and convergent angles. Tuned headpipes are responsible for power generation.
Mufflers: Should be large-diameter, long, high cubic-volume 'cans.' Shortys, megs, reverse cones, fish-tails and such, are not. Mufflers are responsible for power 'spread' and reasonable, humanly audible noise levels. For example, stainless steel is acoustically dull compared to steel. Sheer noise may be equal but tone is not. (Decibel meters do not register sound qualities, only sound levels.)
Baffles: Should redirect and slow pressure waves as well as attenuate sound waves to achieve the best sound and overall power. The best designs are adjustable to suit conditions. So-called 'back pressure' is bad – period! Pulse tuning, on the other hand, is good but difficult. Anything you can see through will be loud. Something you can't see through is still able to make more power with less noise.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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[66-72 Lafayette Street- The Merchants Association of New York.]
[Corner of Mott and Canal Streets.]
Ships, Canal, Harlem Ship Canal Opening.
[Evening Post Building, Broadway, S.W. corner of Fulton Street]
[New Year's Eve at Rector's.]
Trustees of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund
Employees Association of Morse Dry Dock and Repair Co. [Womens St. Patrick's lunch.]
423-29 Canal Street at Varick Street, S.E. corner.
[Man at an altar.]
New York City views. Open plaza toward midtown at Canal Street taken on bridge.
Dinner, to Mark Twain in Honor of his 70th Birthday at Delmonico's on December 5, 1905.
[254-260 Canal Street building at the southwest corner of Lafayette Street.]
[Christmas Display, R.C.A. Bldg. & Rockefeller Center from S.E. Corner of Garden.]
Thanksgiving Reception at Grand Central palace given under the auspices of the Officers and Men of the U.S.F.S. Alabama in token of their regard, to Admiral C.H. Davis U.S.N., Nineteen Hundred & Six.
[Festivities marking the opening of the Merchant's Association Building at the corner of Mott & Canal Streets.]
Accession number X2010.11.3811
Dated ca. 1950
Canal Street (New York, N.Y.)
Chinatown (New York, N.Y.)
Merchants Association of New York
Mott Street (New York, N.Y.)


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Join us Sunday evening February 24, 2019 at 7:00 CST!
You can also tune in to Stephen Burke's KLRB, 89.9 FM Christian Radio as he broadcasts our show live, straight from Stuart Oklahoma every Sunday with exception of the 3rd (Sunday) each month.
There's only a few weeks to go before our Inaugural Rally in Oklahoma City slated for March 14th and powerful line up of impactful speakers on Public Corruption. This rally is all about Wrongful Convictions; Inmate Abuse, Excessive Sentencing,The 85% Rule, and Reform.
Leigha Glossip, wife of Richard Glossip; whose execution has been pending is known to be a tragic and flawed series of events that keep this innocent man where he does not belong. Leigha will update us in regard to the status of this high-profile case of " murder-for hire". More information about this story can be found in the link below.
https://spotlightonlaw2.wordpress.com/sorry-susan-sarandon-richard-glossip-is-guilty/ stead-fast collaboration of efforts are making headway- at least they are beginning to listen.
Vince Wilmoth, a returning guest, will also share his most recent court dates and the outcome after more than two years of prosecutorial abuse; denial of a speedy trial, and having yet to be allowed to face his accusers in court. Vince has been wrongfully charged, in prison two times without formal charges- and survived some of the worst imaginable inmate abuse.
Both Leigha Glossip and Vince Wilmoth are on the line up to speak at the "Journeys To Justice"Rally next month. This grass-roots strong and growing stronger effort with dedication and promise to correct; will provide the ultimate proof of the core of the problem in each sector of government involved agencies from CPS to private prisons in Oklahoma, that seemingly more often than not- tragically continue to devastate and destroy.
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Ellen Dolga Dormie Williams1
Ellen Dolga Dormie Williams was born on 14 November 1891.1 She was the daughter of Sir Arthur Osmund Williams, 1st Bt. and Frances Evelyn Greaves.1 She married Captain Robert Gordon Beazley, son of Robert Clover Beazley and Harriet Gertrude Williams, on 3 June 1915.2
From 3 June 1915, her married name became Beazley.
[S264] David Gardiner, online unknown url, David Gardiner (unknown location), downloaded 5 March 2007.
George Henry Booker1
George Henry Booker lived at Mayfair, London, England.1
Child of George Henry Booker
Benitha Mary Booker+1 d. 7 Jun 2003
Augustus Henry Reid1
M, #220653, d. before 1881
Augustus Henry Reid married Angharad Wynn Williams, daughter of David Williams and Anne Louisa Loveday Williams, in 1872 at Llandilofawr, WalesG.2 He died before 1881.2
Children of Augustus Henry Reid and Angharad Wynn Williams
Dora Augusta Reid2 b. c 1874
Cecil Hunter Reid2 b. c 1877
Beatrice Ingham-Clark1
Last Edited=7 Mar 2007
Beatrice Ingham-Clark is the daughter of Tom Ingham-Clark and Sarah Evelyn Impey.1
[S1497] Georgia Chenevix Trench, "re: Trench Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 October 2005. Hereinafter cited as "re: Trench Family."
Marie Clotilde de la Fontaine
F, #220655, d. 31 January 1872
Marie Clotilde de la Fontaine was the daughter of Benoit Monttet de la Fontaine, Baron fieffé de St. Corneille.1 She married Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Bt., son of Sir Henry Russell, 1st Bt. and Anna Barbara Whitworth, on 13 November 1816.1 She died on 31 January 1872.1
From 13 November 1816, her married name became Russell.
Children of Marie Clotilde de la Fontaine and Sir Henry Russell, 2nd Bt.
Mary Russell2 d. 17 Apr 1894
Priscilla Russell2 d. 22 Nov 1924
unknown daughter Russell1
Henry Russell2 b. 9 Jun 1819, d. 20 Jan 1847
Sir Charles Russell, 3rd Bt., V.C.2 b. 22 Jun 1826, d. 14 Apr 1883
Sir George Russell, 4th Bt.+2 b. 23 Aug 1828, d. 7 Mar 1898
Sir Ernest da la Rue1
M, #220656, d. 18 August 1929
Sir Ernest da la Rue was born at Lower Hare Park, Cambridgeshire, England.1 He married Florence Gay Octavia Williams, daughter of David Williams and Anne Louisa Loveday Williams, in 1882 at Festiniog, Gwynedd, WalesG.2 He died on 18 August 1929.
He was appointed Knight Commander, Royal Victorian Order (K.C.V.O.)1 He held the office of Justice of the Peace (J.P.)1
Child of Sir Ernest da la Rue
Irene de la Rue+1 d. 29 May 1943
Percival Currey1
M, #220657, b. circa 1851
Percival Currey was born circa 1851 at Lewisham, Kent, EnglandG.1
Children of Percival Currey and Blanche Winefred Wynn Williams
Winifred Wynn Currey1 b. c 1876
Harold Wynn Currey1 b. c 1878
Olive Currey1 b. c 1880
Edith J. Currey1 b. 1881
St. Vladimir I, Grand Duke of Kiev1
M, #220658, b. 956, d. 1015
St. Vladimir I, Grand Duke of Kiev was born illegitimately in 956.2 He was the son of Svyatolslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev and Malushka (?)1,2 He married Anna (?), daughter of Romanus II, Emperor of Constantinople and Theophano (?).3 He married Rogneda von Polotsk.4 He died in 1015 at Beresyx, RussiaG.1,2
He succeeded as the Grand Duke St. Vladimir I of Kiev in 978.1
Children of St. Vladimir I, Grand Duke of Kiev and Anna (?)
Boris of Kiev3 d. 1015
Gleb of Kiev3 d. 1015
St. Romanus (?)2
St. David (?)2
Children of St. Vladimir I, Grand Duke of Kiev
Yaroslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev+1 d. 1054
Svyatopolk I, Grand Duke of Kiev1 d. 1019
unknown (?)+1
Dobronega Maria of Kiev+5 b. c 1011, d. 1087
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 167. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
[S444] Catholic Online, online http://www.catholic.org/saints. Hereinafter cited as Catholic Online.
[S262] Russia, online http://www.friesian.com/russia.htm. Hereinafter cited as Russia.
[S1916] Tim Boyle, "re: Boyle Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 September 2006. Hereinafter cited as "re: Boyle Family."
[S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 132. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
Alice Le Poer Fullerton1
F, #220659, b. 1860, d. December 1948
Alice Le Poer Fullerton was born in 1860.1 She was the daughter of David Fullerton and Susan Jane Mott.1 She married Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams, son of David Williams and Anne Louisa Loveday Williams, on 30 April 1895 at St. George Hanover Square, London, EnglandG.1 She died in December 1948.2
From 30 April 1895, her married name became Williams.1
Svyatolslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev1
M, #220660, d. 972
Svyatolslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev was the son of Igor I, Grand Duke of Kiev and St. Olga (?)1,2 He died in 972.1
He succeeded as the Grand Duke Svyatolslav I of Kiev in 945.1
Children of Svyatolslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev
Yaropolk I, Grand Duke of Kiev1 d. 978
Oleg (?)2
Child of Svyatolslav I, Grand Duke of Kiev and Malushka (?)
St. Vladimir I, Grand Duke of Kiev+1 b. 956, d. 1015


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Murdered MP's brother threatened 3 years after death
February 20, 2014 By World Watch Monitor Pakistan Blasphemy, Paul Bhatti, Shahbaz Bhatti
Shahbaz Bhatti died after an attack on the car in which he was travelling near his home in Islamabad.
Waseem Khan
Almost three years have passed since the murder of Shahbaz Bhatti, a Pakistani MP who lobbied against the country's controversial blasphemy laws. Now, his elder brother's life is under threat.
Paul Bhatti was living in Italy when his brother was murdered on March 2, 2011, but he soon returned to Pakistan to take over the chairmanship of the All-Pakistan Minorities' Alliance, which his brother founded.
He says his desire is to speak on behalf of the country's marginalised and oppressed, to fight for improved education and opportunities for the poor and for those facing discrimination – and, in Pakistan, this often means Christians, who comprise around 2.4 % of the population.
But after the court summoned him to testify at the ongoing trial of those accused of his brother's murder, both he and other family members received death threats.
These threats have led him to delay his return from a pre-arranged visit to Italy and to demand police protection for his family.
Bhatti failed to appear as a witness at court on Feb. 19, instead sending his lawyer to provide evidence of the threats against him. However, he told World Watch Monitor that he sees little point in testifying.
"According to my point of view, they don't need even our witness," he said by phone from Italy. "They can just charge them because they have confessed. We have not filed a case against them, because we didn't see these people, so we don't know really if they are the real criminals or not."
Paul Bhatti.
Medici con l'Africa Cuamm / Flickr / Creative Commons
Bhatti said he plans to return to Pakistan in around a week's time, although he is first seeking assurances of security from the police.
When asked whether he could continue his work from abroad, Bhatti insisted he must return home.
"You have to stay with your own people and most of these people need our support," he said. "It's not only me or my organisation [in danger]. Every day there is bomb blast; there are lot of innocent lives lost every day."
And Bhatti, a Catholic, says he is particularly concerned with protecting Christians, who he says are the most vulnerable group.
"In this situation of instability in Pakistan the minorities suffer more, especially the Christian minority, which belongs to the most poor sector of Pakistan," he said. "The country is burning, and in this case the weak people, the oppressed, marginalised people, suffer more. Firstly, they are easy victims; secondly they are victims of discrimination due to their faith, and there is caste discrimination too."
Bhatti said he could not predict how long it would be before his brother's murderers are brought to justice, but he said that he plans to return in time for the third anniversary of his death.
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Чемпионат Шотландии по волейболу среди мужчин — ежегодное соревнование мужских волейбольных команд Шотландии. Проводится в рамках Национальной волейбольной лиги с сезона 1968/69.

Соревнования проходят в трёх дивизионах — Премьер-лиге, 1-й и 2-й лигах.

Формула соревнований (Премьер-лига)
В сезоне 2021/2022 соревнования в Премьер-лиге включали два этапа — предварительный и плей-офф. На предварительной стадии 8 команд провели однокруговой турнир. Все вышли в плей-офф и далее по системе с выбыванием определили финалистов, разыгравших первенство. Во всех стадиях плей-офф соперники проводили между собой по одному матчу.

За победы со счётом 3:0 и 3:1 команды получали по 3 очка, 3:2 — 2, за поражения 2:3 — 1 очко, за поражения 0:3 и 1:3 очки не начислялись.

В чемпионате 2021/22 в Премьер-лиге играли 8 команд: «Сити оф Эдинбург», «Глазго Рагацци» (Глазго), «Юнивёрсити оф Эдинбург», NUVOC (Эдинбург), «Данди», «Эдинбург Джетс», «Саут Эршир» (Прествик/Эр), «Абердин». Чемпионский титул выиграл «Сити оф Эдинбург», победивший в финале «Глазго Рагацци».

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 Чемпионат Шотландии по волейболу среди женщин

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 Волейбольная ассоциация Шотландии

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Biology, Chemistry, Environment, Life, Physics, Psychology, Space, Time
Can Ayahuasca Feed Your Spirit?
September 28, 2017 QuarX
Spirit Molecule
Scientists found early evidence that Ayahuasca, a ceremonial psychedelic brew used by Amazon tribes for centuries, could help treat eating disorders.
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive plant-based tea originally used by indigenous Amazonian groups for medicinal and spiritual purposes.
A growing body of research points to its promise in the healing of various mental health issues.
A pot containing the ingredients to make Ayahuasca. Source: ABC Australia
Ayahuasca contains the powerful psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine (DMT).
The brew is made from the Amazonian vine Banisteriopsis caapi, along with additional plants. Most commonly, the Psychotria viridis bush are used in the preparation.
B. caapi contains some alkaloids with mild psycho-pharmacological antidepressant effects.
The active compound in P. viridis is the psychoactive alkaloid dimethyltryptamine.
DMT is "the spirit molecule".
The "Businessman's Trip"
In 1960s United States, the drug was known as the "businessman's trip", granting the user with a full-depth psychedelic experience, in considerably less time compared to substances like LSD or "magic" mushrooms.
Its action has a relatively short duration. But the effects are intense and have a rapid onset.
DMT can produce vivid mystical experiences, involving feelings of euphoria, hallucinations of geometric shapes, perceptions of a higher intelligence, extraterrestrials, "Machine Elves". Even God.
A hallucinogenic experience where the user feels able to "communicate with other intelligent life-forms".
Although DMT is illegal in most countries, there has been growing interest in its medicinal and therapeutic potential.
Reported Therapeuthic Value
Ayahuasca had previously been studied in the context of addictions.
People who drink ayahuasca experience powerful visions, often mystical or transcendental in nature. Their minds may interpret these as offering self-revelatory insights leading to positive behavioural changes.
On this occasion, the researchers from Canada wanted to find about ayahuasca's potential as a therapy for other treatment-resistant disorders, like eating disorders.
The study, "Nourishing the Spirit: Exploratory Research on Ayahuasca Experiences along the Continuum of Recovery from Eating Disorders", co-authored by clinical psychologists Dr. Adèle Lafrance, Anja Loizaga-Velder, Jenna Fletcher, Marika Renelli, Natasha Files and Kenneth W. Tupper, was published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs.
Dr Lafrance and her team interviewed 16 North Americans who had eating disorders and had consumed ayahuasca in ceremonial contexts.
Ten participants had been diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. The other six had been diagnosed with bulimia nervosa.
Eleven of them reported that their experience with ayahuasca led to reductions in eating disorder symptoms.
Most participants reported changes in how they perceived themselves.
Fourteen said that ayahuasca had made them better able to regulate their emotional state, also frequently reporting the drug altered the perception of their physical bodies.
Unexplored Potential
"Under the right circumstances, with the right kind of preparation and aftercare, the ceremonial use of ayahuasca shows promise as a potential adjunct to treatment for eating disorders," said Lafrance.
However, strong conclusions cannot be drawn from those findings.
The study merely points to the need for more research, and fewer restrictions to carry out such research.
Meantime, before deciding to sport your best shaman hat and trying to contact the spiritual world…
Remember Ayahuasca use is NOT legal.
In fact, it's a Class A / Schedule I drug.
And even more importantly, it may be entirely inappropriate based on your medical status or history.
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How Blade Changed Superhero Movies And No One Noticed
By Andrew Ihla/Updated: Jan. 27, 2023 7:40 pm EST
The Marvel Cinematic Universe celebrated its tenth year — and its 20th film — in 2018. From Iron Man to Ant-Man and the Wasp and every crossover in between, Marvel Studios has become an unstoppable juggernaut by bringing their vast world of heroes and villains to the screen. Of course, the story of Marvel's journey to the movies stretches back much further than the MCU, as many of their most popular comic book icons were signed away to bigger studios long before they took matters into their own gauntlets. Sony had already spun Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, and Fox was the home of the X-Men, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four.
Even before those efforts, though, the first truly successful Marvel movie arrived in an unexpected form: Blade. Director Stephen Norrington's 1998 feature from New Line Pictures cast Wesley Snipes as the vampire hunter created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan for Marvel's Tomb of Dracula comics in the 1970s. Not only was Blade a surprise hit, its influence can be found in some surprising places. To honor that legacy, we're looking at how Blade changed superhero movies... even if you didn't notice.
Marvel's first movie success
It didn't take long for Marvel to become a mighty smash on the small screen — their characters were Saturday morning staples as early as The Marvel Super Heroes show in 1966, The Incredible Hulk became a TV icon of the '70s, and if you haven't seen the Japanese Spider-Man series, you're missing out. Theatrical conquest, however, remained just out of reach for decades.
The first feature film to leap from the pages of Marvel was, strangely enough, 1986's Howard the Duck, an infamous flop despite being something of a passion project for producer George Lucas. The Punisher and Captain America both had movie adaptations at the turn of the '90s that ended up as low-grade direct-to-video fodder. Blade finally showed that Marvel properties could make their money back at the box office. In this age when so many of the most profitable films of all time star at least one Avenger, it's good to remember the vampire hunter who first sliced open the path.
Back from bankruptcy
Like a phoenix (or maybe a Dark Phoenix) rising from the ashes, Marvel Entertainment has conquered the world after seeming to be at the end of its life, in a resurrection story worthy of even the strangest X-Men adventure. It's easy to overlook now, but the company filed for bankruptcy in 1996, after the "Speculative Boom" and a series of failed multimedia ventures left them in hock to all sorts of creditors (including, ironically, the Walt Disney Company). One of their strategies for crawling back from this brink was the movie licensing initiative that led to X-Men, Spider-Man, and, of course, Blade.
This run of features (coupled with some bold reinventions on the publishing side of things, like the introduction of the Ultimate Universe) served as a reminder of the value of Marvel's beloved characters. It also got Marvel executives thinking about how much more money they could be making if they didn't have to share so much of those ticket sales with the studios (of Blade's $70 million total, for example, the company pocketed a measly $25,000). Producer and agent David Maisel pitched the idea of a self-financed slate of interconnected Marvel movies, and the rest was history. Blade may not have single-handedly saved Marvel, but it certainly marked the beginning of one of the most incredible comebacks in media history.
A writer's turning point
The name David S. Goyer may not be quite as instantly recognizable to fans of comic book moves as Stan Lee or Joss Whedon. Nevertheless, he's been a major force in shaping the genre as we know it, with writing credits on the entire Dark Knight Trilogy, Man of Steel, and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice. But there's a good chance he wouldn't be where he is now without Blade.
Goyer rose to prominence throughout the '90s with writing gigs on action movies like Death Warrant and Kickboxer 2. He first touched on comic book material with The Crow: City of Angels in 1996, but Blade brought him to a whole new level. "Blade was the first time I was writing what I wanted to write," he would later recall. He went on to pen both of the film's sequels, and even directed Blade: Trinity, during which he made headlines by clashing with Wesley Snipes.
A new goth craze
Gloomy vibes. Night creatures. Black leather. The goth trends of the 1980s more or less gave way to both the casual styles of grunge and the bright colors and excess of '90s pop and hip-hop cultures. By the end of the decade, however, a new generation of spooky kids was ready to rise from the crypt. Who better to serve as a herald for this revival among action films than Marvel's vampire hunter?
A coven of similar blockbuster movies with a creepy twist followed in the years immediately after Blade. Even some that weren't specifically based on comic books picked up on Blade's blending of supernatural with superhero. One doesn't need heightened senses to notice the direct line from Blade to the zombie action of Resident Evil or the vampire vs. werewolf battles of the Underworld franchise. Even The Matrix follows in Snipes' leather-clad footsteps, both in its shiny black aesthetic and in its ideas of an underworld waging a war that humans can't see.
A grounded take
It may seem strange to refer to a movie about a half-vampire who hunts other vampires as "grounded," but the case can definitely be made that Blade brought comic book movies down from their flights of fantasy. Despite its supernatural world-building and the occasional over-the-top flourish (blood rave, anyone?), the movie brings a gritty sense of realism to its storytelling, at least when compared to its predecessors. The pun-laden neon silliness of Batman and Robin, for instance, had come just a year earlier.
Blade's action is also much tighter and smaller than previous comic book movies, with street-level vampire fights and quick-cut hand-to-hand combat replacing the grandiose set pieces and dazzling stunts of Batman or Superman. This more sober approach would continue to flourish into Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight movies and Marvel's modern slate of Netflix original series. Look again at Daredevil's hard-hitting punches, and you might spot a resemblance to Blade's bloodsucking melees.
Plucked from obscurity
The tagline for the 1978 Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve boldly declared, "You'll believe a man can fly." It was a simple pitch, but it remains iconic of an era when even the most basic facets of superhero adventures were being revived anew for a generation of grown-up moviegoers. Superman was remarkable because it was the first time a beloved comic book icon had been brought to life on the big screen on such a grandiose scale. It also set a precedent that would largely be upheld through the '90s: the secret to a successful comic book movie was to play on the audience's nostalgia and affection for classic characters.
Fast forward to the present, when movies like Guardians of the Galaxy have made stars out of characters that were obscure even among diehard comics fans. How did we get here? Tony Stark may have been a fairly minor figure in the public consciousness before Iron Man kick-started the MCU, but a decade before that, there was Blade. The character did have a certain cult following from his '70s debut, but remained niche, to say the least, outside of Marvel enthusiasts. The film's success ushered in a new world in which studios didn't have to prioritize recognition over quality adaptations.
Not just for kids anymore
News outlets have declared that "comics aren't just for kids anymore" so many times over the years that it's become something of a running joke for readers. Superhero movies took their own long and winding route to being seen as adult entertainment. In the '70s and '80s, there were R- or X-rated movies based on comic books, but only when the source material was the kind of counterculture cartoon very much for mature readers, such as with Fritz the Cat, Heavy Metal, and Akira.
Movie superheroes remained in the realm of all-ages fare until the '90s, when dark avengers and antiheroes like Judge Dredd, Tank Girl, and The Crow started taking screens by storm. But Blade was the first character from the "Big Two" publishers, Marvel and DC, to arrive in American theaters with an R rating. The success of its harder edge marked the opening of a floodgate, and now there are several comic book films every year produced specifically for the over-17 crowd. Blade gave permission for Deadpool, Logan, and the Marvel Netflix universe to be their own bloody selves.