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Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice | The viewer cries for mercy when Affleck & Cavill slug it out
Jason Best Sun, July 31 5:34pm
Ben Affleck and Henry Cavill's superheroes slug it out in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, but it's the poor viewer who's battered into submission.
DC Comics' biggest heroes go head to head in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, director Zach Snyder's follow-up to his 2013 Superman reboot, Man of Steel, but the resulting showdown between the cape-wearing duo is titanically dull.
The film takes its time setting up the epic confrontation of the title. First we get yet another recap of the childhood trauma that led billionaire Bruce Wayne to create his secret vigilante alias of Batman: the death of his parents at the hands of a mugger.
Then we revisit Superman's battle with renegade alien General Zod, climax of the previous film, focusing this time on the immense collateral damage it left in its wake. The cost in human lives has, it appears, turned Ben Affleck's dour Wayne/Batman into the near-psychotic foe of Henry Cavill's brooding Superman.
Meanwhile, genuinely mad baddie Lex Luthor – played by Jesse Eisenberg as a twitchily arrogant geek with more than a touch of The Social Network's Mark Zuckerberg – stokes their enmity with some devious stratagems of his own, wily manoeuvres that pull Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane (Amy Adams) and adoptive mother Martha (Diane Lane) into the fray, as well as Holly Hunter's idealistic US senator.
Eventually, the film gets around to the epic confrontation of the title. At last, Batman and Superman battle it out. But as the pair pound away at each other, it's the hapless viewer who's left begging for mercy, battered into submission by Snyder's overbearing direction and Hans Zimmer's bombastic score.
Faring better than the main stars are a droll Jeremy Irons, taking over butler duties from Michael Caine's Alfred, and fellow newcomer Gal Gadot as the enigmatic Diana Prince, secretly Amazonian warrior goddess Wonder Woman. Both give more spark to their underwritten roles than the script deserves.
The film also supplies fleeting glimpses of fellow DC Comics' heroes the Flash, Aquaman and Cyborg, clearly designed to plant cinematic seed for the DC Comics Universe. Yet most fans will surely wish the filmmakers had spent less effort teeing up the forthcoming Justice League movie and devoted more care to this one.
Certificate 12. Runtime 152 mins. Director Zach Snyder
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Q: Rsyslog - Monitor a custom log file I am using ubuntu 14.04 and I have managed to use rsyslog to push my Apache error logs to Papertrail. I then moved onto monitor another log file and after a restart and commenting out the apache config lines, I still get apache logs being monitored!
Does rsyslog cache config files somewhere? I have restated rsyslog via sudo service rsyslog restart and /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart.
Here is my current config file that seems to be monitoring my apache error.log file even though it is commented out.
$ModLoad imfile
$InputFilePollInterval 10

# Apache Error file:
#$InputFileName /var/log/apache2/error.log
#$InputFileTag apache-error:
#$InputFileStateFile stat-apache-error
#$InputFileSeverity error
#$InputRunFileMonitor

# App Error files:
$InputFileName /var/www/html/application/logs/log.php
$InputFileTag apache-error:
$InputFileStateFile stat-apache-error
$InputFileSeverity error
$InputRunFileMonitor

When I comment out this whole file, the apache errors stop being monitored. I am very confused, any help appreciated.

A: I can't explain the symptom you described, but did notice another problem which may be related. The InputFileStateFile configuration flag is a filename where rsyslog keeps its current position in the target file (InputFileName). The state file (stat-apache-error) is not deleted when rsyslog stops, so rsyslog knows where to start sending.
Using the same state file for 2 different underlying files will probably make rsyslog start at the wrong place, since the offset from /var/log/apache2/error.log won't be correct for /var/www/html/application/logs/log.php. Either use a different state file or remove the stat-apache-error file when you enable the second config.

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I'm reminded of other card decks for business use, such as Roger Von Oech's "Whack on the Side of the Head" deck for creativity from the 1990s. I had one of those for nearly 20 years, before I finally gave it to a friend.
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Welcome to week 4 out of 8! I am going through dog breeds, covering some basic titbits about the breeds. This will be in between other posts too.
This, the fourth, post will cover J-L of dog breeds.
In previous posts, A-C, D-F and G-I have been covered.
Original Use: Small game hunting in the mid-1800's. Originally bred by, and named after, Reverend John Russell. The variation in breeding throughout later years making the breed more diverse – smooth coat, wire coat, long and short legs. The long legged Jack Russell has become known as the Parsons Jack Russell, and was bred to hunt slightly larger animals (such as foxes and badgers) – the longer legs helping them to keep up with the bigger animals they were hunting.
Outstanding Physical Trait: The diversity in the appearance in this little breed, but with key similarities too! Both breed types can be short coated, long coated, smooth coated, wire coated; then long or short legged – whichever combination, the looks can be quite different – but still really adorable!
Original Use: Royal lap dog; companion animal. This breed is quite delicate though, and unsuitable around small children as they can be a bit rough and damage this little dog quite easily. This little breed has been depicted with nobility and royalty in pictures dating back as far as the 17th Century.
Outstanding Physical Trait: Their long, flowing, silky coat gives them a regal look (which would have fitted in with the nobility they were bred for). The long tail fur flows down when the tail is down, in silky waves; when upright, the tail fur spreads out, fanning around the end and flowing over the back of the dog.
Country of Origin: Ireland (County Kerry, in the South-West of the Republic of Ireland; contributing to the breed name) in the 1700's. Brought to Europe and America in the early 1900's.
Original Use: Hunting small game, and retrieving from land and water. Also used for hunting vermin. Used as well for herding sheep and cattle.
Outstanding Physical Trait: Although born black, the coat takes on a blue colouration as the dog matures (contributing to its' name); it is tightly curled and does not shed. The Kerry Blue Terrier has quite lengthily facial fur, coming down around its muzzle like a long beard or a bit of a funky moustache! This is quite a distinguishing feature of the breed.
Original Use: Guarding livestock – with the large size and the strength, it was quite adapt for this role; also having its' big, thick coat to keep it warm whilst guarding out in fields. It has been said to be capable of taking out predators such as wolves and bears, when guarding herds and flocks.
Outstanding Physical Trait: The mega funky fur! The fluffy brushed-out fur or the striking dreadlock look! This dog has amazing fur, but it does take a lot of grooming and up-keep! It looks very similar to the Puli, a smaller breed that also has the dreadlock look (and also from Hungary); this breed colour ranges from light to dark (more often being dark), whereas the Komondor is always of a light colouration. The Puli also has a longer lifespan than the Komondor.
Country of Origin: Canada – the Newfoundland and Labrador regions.
Original Use: The retriever as we know today was originally bred and used for retrieving (big surprise) game; used as gun-dogs to retrieve the small game (often birds) from where they fell after being shot. However, it is said to be derived from a breed used by fisherman for hauling nets – St. John's Dog a.k.a. Lesser Newfoundland. This dog was used to produce retriever-like dogs and is an ancestor to modern day retrievers (Labrador, Golden, Flat-coated, etc).
Outstanding Physical Trait: This breed does not really have anything outstanding about it physically – it has short, smooth fur; slender bodies, legs and tails; floppy ears; and lovely faces.
Original Use: Bred by Tibetan monks as a watch-dog for the monasteries. Kept by the monks and by Tibetan nobility. Now it is kept as a companion dog, and is often shown. They are loyal, friendly dogs when properly trained – however they can be quite iffy with strangers, which is a good attribute for a watch-dog! Lhasa's were not sold, if you wanted one it had to be gifted to you – the spreading out of this breed across the world was in the form of gifts, usually from nobility to nobility.
Outstanding Physical Trait: The long, flowing, silky coat of the Lhasa gives it a look that fits in with nobility. The fur is very straight and needs often grooming to keep it in tip-top condition.
Original Use: Bred by the mayor of Leonberg, in 18040 – Heinrich Essig, to honour the town. Bred purely because Essig wanted to create his own breed. It is a good guard dog, and over the years has often been used a such.
Outstanding Physical Trait: This breed is tall and well built. They have big, expressive faces and a long, thick coat. The coat is so thick it sheds very heavily twice a year, and moderately throughout the rest of the year – so expect fur carpets 😉 if you own this breed!


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5 New Things You Should Know About Pollinators
Bees, bats and butterflies are causing quite a stir in the news. Here are five talking points to keep you in the know.
by Lisa MunniksmaMay 26, 2015
PHOTO: Paul Rollings/Flickr
My "News Hog" folder runneth over with all kinds of pollinator-related items. It makes sense, I suppose, because around this farm, they're starting to show themselves in full force. (The herb garden sounds beautiful right now!) Rather than trying to cleverly tie together all of these news items in a multi-page tome, I offer this week's blog entry as a round-up of all of the good—and less good—news about pollinators:
1. Pollinator In Chief
Last year, President Obama created a Pollinator Health Task Force and tasked them with creating a National Pollinator Health Strategy. They've released that strategy now—all 58 pages of it!—outlining federal actions to achieve three overall goals:
Reduce honeybee colony losses during winter to no more than 15 percent within 10 years.
Increase the eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million butterflies occupying an area of approximately 15 acres in the overwintering grounds in Mexico by 2020.
Restore or improve 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years.
These are large and vague, but the strategy document goes into more detail about public-private partnerships, federal programs broken down by branch (for example, the Department of Defense, USDA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, et cetera), research, educational programs and more. The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition put together a better summary of the report than I could hope to.
And, of course, there are groups, such as the Center for Biological Diversity, that say this strategy doesn't do enough to save our dwindling pollinator populations.
2. Lowe's Befriends Bees
Home-improvement giant Lowe's says it will phase out the sale of neonicotinoid pesticides in its stores as alternatives become commercially available. The move is based on research that points to neonics as being potentially damaging to pollinator health. The wording of the announcement suggests that they're not removing neonicotinoids from their shelves, rather waiting until there's an alternative to each item and only then replacing it within four years. It's a good move, for sure, but it's not the best move. Additionally, Lowe's will ask growers to not use neonics on "bee attractive" plants and will provide consumer and employee education on the topic.
Read the company's full 2014 Social Responsibility Report. The neonicotinoid stuff is on page 27.
3. Bees Are Hooked on Smoking
Neonicotinoid pesticides are derived from nicotine, that darned addictive substance found in tobacco smoke. Just as people get hooked on nicotine, new research shows bees do, too, leading them back to the nectar of plants coated with neonics again and again. The bees—please forgive me for this—get a buzz off the stuff. Just like people who are attracted to that feeling even though they're getting it from a harmful substance, bees in the study returned to the nicotine-laced nectar.
4. White Nose Syndrome Heads West
White nose syndrome, the disease killing bats throughout the eastern U.S., looks like it's coming to Oklahoma. WNS has never been detected in this state, but Perimyotis subflavus, the fungus that causes the disease, has been found on three bats in the eastern part of Oklahoma.
Bats are just as important to us as bees and butterflies. They are also pollinators, and they help reduce insect-pest populations. Check out the spread of WNS from its start in New York in 2006 on this map.
5. Butterflies Have Arrived
Washington State University researchers found that vineyards with nearby, intentionally planned natural habitats have three times the number of butterfly species and four times more butterflies than conventional vineyards. This finding makes sense, sure, but is a nice bonus to the study, which originally set out to promote the reduction of pesticide use in vineyards by attracting parasitic wasps with native plants. The study's author points out that butterflies don't have an economic impact on vineyards, rather it's a positive thing to see their populations increasing as a side-effect of conservation farming.
Freelance writer Lisa Munniksma is the former editor of Hobby Farms magazine and the writer of HobbyFarms.com's "The News Hog." She left the office for the farm in 2011 and is now part of an organic vegetable and livestock farm in Kentucky. During the winter, she travels to warm climates to learn about farming in other parts of the world. Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/freelancefarmerchick

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Although there is no real dictionary definition of the term, the accepted definition of a tin knocker is some one works with HVAC ductwork, a sheet metal worker. Meaning someone who fabricates duct and duct fittings for residential or commercial dwellings. Tin knocker can also be assigned to someone who installs ductwork on a regular basis. However, the term 'duct installer' is more common for the men and women working that job.
My daily job, along with co-owner duties, here at K & E Sheet Metal is HVAC ductwork fabricator or tin knocker. I fabricate the components used for the duct running through your home so heat and air conditioning can get to each of the rooms.
Our main business is fabricating the plenums, duct, elbows and transitions needed to run the trunk line (ductwork) in the basement or attic. Many times the installer will need to run the duct under existing plumbing pipes or around a corner. Whether the piece needed is a standard fitting or a custom section, contractors or customers will call with measurements for what they need to finish the job. I, as an HVAC ductwork fabricator, build the duct to keep the job moving along.
Well, in our shop it's a much simpler process than that of the larger, unionized shops knocking out ductwork for major projects around the world. Our facility takes an order from the customer--no job being too small--where I will either enter the dimensions in our computer system running the CNC plasma machine or start the cutting process by hand. Either with had tools or with our 52" wide shear, which is used to cut larger sections of duct.
After the pieces are cut, I will use our 8' sheet metal brake and other metal bending tools to form the duct fittings and custom sections one flat side at a time. Our ductwork is formed either in half sections or four different sides to create the square or box that will be the duct. This also gives me the chance to run each side through whichever roll forming machine is needed to create the joints necessary for assembling each component.
The assembly process is performed either with a hand held or air hammer, with the air hammer being the quickest form of assembly at our shop. Depending on size or type of fabrication, each piece can take anywhere from 10 minutes to 45 minutes.
Obviously. this is a very quick overview of what I do as an HVAC ductwork fabricator, but you can get a sense of the basic steps needed and where our services are very important to the installation process. In order to keep the air flow and efficiency at peak you need to have the proper sized duct and fittings to move the air. Therefore a good fabricator is a must for anyone who runs an HVAC installation company.
You can equate what I do to a short order cook, who needs to have something done quickly and accurately to keep the line moving. When an order is called in, the time window for me to finish is tight, roughly within 24 hours. With many orders coming through the door, this leaves hours to minutes for getting the fabrication complete, depending on the size of the order. All lead times aren't always a rush, some are weeks or even months down the line. Nevertheless, the majority of what we do in the residential market is a very quick turn around because time frames for many of the homes going up these days is fast.
Other factors that will determine what an HVAC ductwork fabricator produces on a daily basis is the size of his shop, amount of equipment, technological advancement of that equipment and number of employees fabricating ductwork.
The role of the duct fabricator hasn't changed much over the years, but the size of the shops have. There aren't many job shops like ours around these days giving homeowners and smaller companies the ability to get small orders fabricated on demand for a good price.
If anything, understand that an HVAC ductwork fabricator is an integral part of the construction of your home or commercial building.


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WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 - In over 18 hours responding to some 700 questions at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. mostly described a methodical and incremental approach to the law rooted in no particular theory.
But to the extent Judge Alito claimed a judicial philosophy, it aligned him with the court's two most conservative members, Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.
On one of the few occasions Judge Alito spoke about his general approach to the law, he embraced a mode of constitutional interpretation, originalism, often associated with Justices Scalia and Thomas.
"In interpreting the Constitution," Judge Alito said Wednesday, "I think we should look to the text of the Constitution, and we should look to the meaning that someone would have taken from the text of the Constitution at the time of its adoption."
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., by contrast, described a more eclectic and dynamic approach to constitutional interpretation at his confirmation hearings in September. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whom Judge Alito will replace if he is confirmed, has also embraced a variety of approaches.
"Judge Alito sounded less amenable to constitutional evolution than Roberts," said Cass R. Sunstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who studied Judge Alito's dissenting opinions at the request of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, but has taken no position on the nomination. "He is someone who is more likely to vote with Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas than Justice O'Connor."
On more specific constitutional issues, Judge Alito affirmed what Jack M. Balkin, a law professor at Yale, calls the modern catechism necessary for confirmation. Judge Alito said that Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 school desegregation case, was correctly decided. He said the Constitution protected privacy in at least some aspects of procreation, endorsing two decisions giving constitutional protection to the use of contraceptives. And he said the principle of one person one vote is required by the Constitution.
Having agreed with those cases and propositions, though, Judge Alito largely drew the line at saying more, notably about abortion. He justified his approach by saying the first set of cases were unlikely to come before the Supreme Court and that other cases might well be revisited by it.
But he did provide some hints on an array of other issues. He rejected, for instance, the use of foreign legal materials in interpreting the Constitution. He said he had favored allowing cameras in the courtroom in his own court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia.
On Thursday, he said he "can't think of a reason why" Congress could not outlaw employment discrimination against gay men and lesbians. And he said that a diverse student body was an important value in education.
It was the topics Judge Alito failed to discuss that concerned some scholars the most. Some questioned whether he had really drawn a principled line between the cases he viewed as finally settled, and so could discuss, and those he considered still to be in play.
Some of the cases and principles Judge Alito would discuss, said Vikram Amar, a professor at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, could "very easily come up over the next decade in the court, let alone the next three decades." Among the examples Mr. Amar gave were the use of foreign legal materials, a 1952 opinion on presidential power and diversity in education.
What Judge Alito would and would not discuss was telling, said Mark Tushnet, a law professor at Georgetown.
"You can infer from the areas in which he is willing to talk and not willing to talk," said Mr. Tushnet, who opposes Judge Alito's confirmation. "The only inference you can draw is that he doesn't agree with the abortion decisions."
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., Democrat of Delaware, asked Judge Alito on Thursday whether he shared the aggressive views of executive power discussed in a recent book by John Yoo, an architect and forceful advocate of the Bush administration's legal strategy in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Judge Alito said he had not read the book, "The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11." But some of Judge Alito's answers suggested that he would not take as hard a line as Professor Yoo, who now teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Notably, Judge Alito endorsed a 1952 concurring opinion by Justice Robert H. Jackson rejecting President Harry S. Truman's assertion that he had the inherent constitutional authority to seize steel mills during the Korean War. The opinion, in Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company v. Sawyer, set out a three-part sliding scale for considering clashes between presidential power and Congressional authority.
The president's power is at its "lowest ebb," Justice Jackson wrote, when Congress has forbidden a particular action. The administration has conceded that its domestic surveillance program violated the terms of a 1978 law requiring court approval for some intelligence gathering, arguing that it had authority to conduct the surveillance without warrants under both the Constitution and a Sept. 18, 2001, Congressional authorization to use military force.
In an interview Thursday, Professor Yoo said the balancing called for by the Jackson concurrence did not apply to the surveillance program.
"The Jackson concurrence applies to domestic matters which are outside the theater of combat," he said. The surveillance program, by contrast, is partly international, he said, and the theater of combat after the Sept. 11 attacks encompasses the United States.
Noah Feldman, a law professor at New York University, said the differing interpretations of the applicability of the Jackson concurrence were significant.
"It's very striking," Professor Feldman said, "that both Judge Alito and Chief Justice Roberts said they would apply Justice Jackson's concurrence in the steel seizure case, because it reflects a view of presidential power that is not unbounded and is not the strongest version of the unitary executive theory. If you were truly to follow Youngstown, you can't embrace the strongest version of the unitary executive theory."
Judge Alito endorsed a version of the unitary executive theory in a 2000 speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group. The theory can mean, in its weaker form, that the president has full authority over the executive branch. In its stronger form, the theory means that there are areas of executive power into which Congress and the courts are powerless to intrude.
Professor Yoo said that what he called "the robust version" of the theory could conclusively answer the legal controversy over the surveillance program. "If gathering intelligence about the enemy is executive, then it can't be taken away" by Congress or the courts, he said.
At the hearings, Judge Alito embraced the weaker version. For Judge Alito, said Douglas W. Kmiec, a law professor at Pepperdine who served in the Justice Department in the Reagan administration, the unitary executive theory "goes more to the direction of fully executive subordinates than any type of claim of executive supremacy, which Alito has rightly denied."
If anything, Professor Kmiec continued, Judge Alito "has an understanding of executive power that is so well within the mainstream that Alexander Hamilton might think it timid."
Judith Resnik, a law professor at Yale, disagreed.
"He's fabulous at tautology," Professor Resnik said of Judge Alito. "He says the president is not above the law. He says the president can only do what the Constitution allows him to do. But he doesn't say what the Constitution allows."
"One of the absolutely essential questions of American law at the moment is the ability of any human being to call the executive branch to account before the courts," she added, noting that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor had affirmed that principle in a 2004 opinion allowing an American citizen to challenge his detention by the military. "That possibility must be available. What we have not heard from Judge Alito is a commitment to that point of view."
Judge Alito did indicate that he would take a relatively deferential view of Congressional power. "I would certainly approach the question of determining whether an act of Congress is constitutional with a heavy presumption in favor of the constitutionality of what Congress has done," he said on Thursday.
In the end, Judge Alito drew the line in what he would discuss almost exactly where Chief Justice Roberts had in his confirmation hearings in September. The similarity of the two men's positions should not be surprising, Professor Yoo said, as they were both government lawyers when Edwin Meese III served in the White House and the Justice Department in the Reagan administration.
"It shows the fruition," Professor Yoo said, "of the Reagan-Meese approach of grooming young lawyers in the 1980's who could do well at hearings 20 years later."
COURT IN TRANSITION: NEWS ANALYSIS Correction: January 14, 2006, Saturday A front-page news analysis article yesterday about the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. gave an incorrect spelling in some copies for the surname of a Yale law professor who said Judge Alito did not show a commitment to the view that the executive branch can be held accountable before the courts. She is Judith Resnik, not Resnick.


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Open Letter to Attorneys General about Climate Change
By E. Calvin Beisner -- June 15, 2016
"[M]aybe, too—before Congress takes you to the woodshed—you'll decide to back off your potentially felonious conspiracy to 'injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same,' for which you could be fined or imprisoned up to ten years, or both (18 U.S.C. 241)."
Dear Attorneys General,
You're not stupid. Stupid people don't graduate from law school.
Neither are you generally ignorant. You know lots of law.
But the day of the "Renaissance man," vastly learned across all fields of knowledge, is long gone. All intelligent and learned people are ignorant about some things.
So, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch and members of Attorneys General United for Clean Power, take no offense when I tell you that your intent to investigate and potentially prosecute, civilly or criminally, corporations, think tanks, and individuals for fraud, under RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) or otherwise, because they question the causes, magnitude, risks, and benefits of global warming, and the best responses to it, is a dead giveaway that you're ignorant about climate science and related climate and energy policy.
I've thought this ever since you first went public, but an email from Ed Maibach, Professor in the Department of Communications and Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University (GMU), to Jagadish Shukla, Professor of Climate Dynamics and president of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies and the Institute of Global Environment and Society at GMU, dated July 22, 2015, ironically makes the point:
I had breakfast with David Michaels today. He is currently the Director of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (in the US Department of Labor), and a former environmental health colleague of mine at George Washington University. He is an expert in the case against the tobacco industry.
His [sic] feels the odds of the DOJ [Department of Justice] pursuing this case against [the fossil fuel] industry are slim to none, because there are no easily quantifiable [health care] costs that the government can seek reimbursement for.
That said, I have no objection to our sending a letter to the President, our Maryland Senators, and members of Congress …, with a cc to Senator [Sheldon] Whitehouse [D-RI], asking them to support Senator Whitehouse's call for a RICO investigation.
That's ironic because it comes from one of the 20 signers of Shukla's infamous letter to AG Lynch and the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy urging a RICO investigation similar to that against tobacco companies in the 1990s.
The ironies of Maibach's email are obvious enough. He cites an expert who thinks the odds of DOJ's acting "are slim to none," yet signs a letter asking DOJ to do it. He knows why the odds are slim: "because there are no easily quantifiable … costs that the government can seek reimbursement for." Yet he signs a letter saying, "We are now at high risk of seriously destabilizing the Earth's climate and irreparably harming people around the world."
But the chief irony I have in mind is that you, attorneys general—none of whom, presumably, is an expert in climate science or ecological biology or the economics and engineering of energy or any of the many other fields relevant to the controversy—have launched precisely the action Maibach reported Michaels said DOJ wouldn't launch for lack of easily quantifiable costs.
Now, why would Michaels have said there were no easily quantifiable costs?
Because unlike the case of tobacco's health risks, there are innumerable and enormous holes in the case (not for human contribution to global warming but) for manmade global warming dangerous enough to justify spending trillions of dollars reinventing the world's energy system to mitigate it, particularly when competing use of those trillions might bring far greater benefit.
And you, intelligent and learned all, are ignorant of those enormous holes.
It's not entirely your fault. Journalists have been delinquent in reporting them. Climate alarmists have worked hard to deprive dissenters of research funds, jobs, and publication while hiding their own scientific misconduct. And it is ever so much easier to tell a scary story to motivate the public than to unpack the gory details with all their uncertainties.
So here are a few recommendations for you to remedy your ignorance:
Start by getting a grasp of the basic science of climate change by reading former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chairman Sir John Houghton's Global Warming: The Complete Briefing.
Then, to learn some of the reasons for doubting Houghton's somewhat alarmist views, read The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World's Top Climate Scientists, by the equally well-qualified climate scientist Roy W. Spencer.
If you're brave, get into the weeds of why the IPCC said in its Third Assessment Report, "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible" (emphasis added), by reading Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy and Politics of Global Warming, by applied mathematician Christopher Essex and environmental economist and statistician Ross McKitrick. You've probably never heard of the Navier-Stokes equation, but it is unsolved (and a million-dollar prize awaits anyone who solves it), yet accurate long-term prediction of climate requires its solution.
Go beyond journalists' breathless reports based on the biased and unrepresentative Summary for Policymakers and actually read the (mostly very good) thousands of pages of the main texts of the Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC (including Working Group 3, whose predictions indicate that countries poorest today are better off under warmer than cooler scenarios because in their models economic growth fueled by fossil fuels drives the warming). In them you'll discover far more uncertainty than the SPM reveals.
Read the thousands of pages of the competing reports from the Nongovernmental [hence less politicized] International Panel on Climate Change.
Get acquainted with the meaning of "climate sensitivity" and why estimates of it—and consequently of all effects of global warming driven by human emissions of CO2 and other deceptively named "greenhouse gases"—have been declining over the years.
Learn a little about "energy density" and "power density" and how they relate to questions about the engineering and costs of various energy sources from Robert Bryce's Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future and then about the costs of replacing fossil fuels as the source of roughly 85% of all the world's energy with wind, solar, and other "renewable" options.
If you do these things, I don't guarantee you'll become skeptical of dangerous manmade global warming, but I do expect you'll understand—because you're smart—that the issues are far more complex than you thought, and certainly far too complex to be adjudicated in a court of law that needs to find "easily quantifiable costs" to justify a ruling.
You'll also learn that honest people intelligent as yourselves—and maybe better informed—can disagree about the causes, magnitude, risks, and benefits of global warming, and best responses to it, without being mafia bosses. You'll discover that what motivates us is far more our concern not to trap billions of people in poverty by denying them access to the abundant, reliable, affordable energy indispensable to lifting and keeping any society out of poverty.
And then maybe, too—before Congress takes you to the woodshed—you'll decide to back off your potentially felonious conspiracy to "injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person … in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same," for which you could be fined or imprisoned up to ten years, or both (18 U.S.C. 241).
Signed (italics denotes climate scientists; boldface denotes legal experts):
Timothy Ball, Ph.D. (Historical Climatology), University of London, England
Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Founder and National Spokesman, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
Charles Clough, M.S. (Atmospheric Science), Founder and Retired Chief of the US Army Atmospheric Effects Team, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
Colonel John A. Eidsmoe, JD, Senior Counsel, Foundation for Moral Law, Professor of Constitutional Law & Criminal Procedure, Oak Brook College of Law & Government Policy
Christopher Essex, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario
Neil L. Frank, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Director, National Hurricane Center (1974–1987), Chief Meteorologist of KHOU-TV, Houston (1987–2008)
Victor Goldschmidt, Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering, thesis on turbulent flows), Emeritus Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University
Rev. Peter Jones, Ph.D, Director, truthXchange
Madhav Khandekar, Ph.D. (Meteorology), former research scientist, Environment Canada, Expert Reviewer, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report, 2007
Jamieson C. Keister, Ph.D. (Physics), retired research chemist, 3M Company
Kevin Lewis, J.D., Associate Professor of Theology & Law, Biola University
Anthony R. Lupo, Ph.D., Department Chair and Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Missouri
Prof. Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi, LLD, Director, Centre For Human Resource Development, Sam Higginbottom Institute for Agriculture, Technology, and Sciences, Allahabad (UP), India
Tracy Miller, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College
Ben Phillips, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Harvard School of Theological Studies, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Shawn Ritenour, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, Grove City College
Chris Skates, B.S., Environmental Chemist
Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D. (Meteorology), Principal Research Scientist in Climatology, University of Alabama; former Senior Scientist for Climate Studies at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center; U.S. Science Team leader, Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer on NASA's Aqua satellite
Timothy Terrell, Ph.D. (Economics), Associate Professor of Economics, Wofford College
James Wanliss, Ph.D. (Physics), Professor of Physics, Presbyterian College
Anthony Watts, Publisher, WUWT, the world's most viewed website on climate
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Yeah I sold my fair share of those back in the day... Though we tried so hard to tell people OpenOffice exists. Back then though, the docx format was brand new and not well supported by anyone, so there was some merit to buying Office.
... Man... I remember when OpenOffice was made by Sun and called StarOffice. I actually had it bundled with my eMachines eTower 533i.
At that time my parents bought it to work and I remember that they ended up getting the Office because they thought that being made by Microsoft would be the best. At least at the time it was a very ''futuristic'' system aesthetically and everyone was impressed and turned out to be another big factor to buy it.
Does anyone else feel weird about not having a new major Windows OS every few years?
I think it's strange but the Windows Insider updates ended up filling this need for something new at least for me.
First of all, ATS and ETS2 are not totally focused on simulation but rather on a mix to make a pleasant experience for everyone.
All simulation communities in general are undergoing an evolution in the moment and only time will tell if this is good or not. What used to be a niche began to become a hobby for several people in the world and such demand is forcing developers to actually launch something decent but on the scale it is done it takes a lot longer .
Yeezy Boost x Redneck colab 2077, i do not know how he got one but this was in Area 51 a long time ago ... A friend of a friend of mine knows a guy who has a cousin who works there.
Whats that on the back of the trailer.
Is part of the aerodynamic package (I believe it was added in 1.33). It reduces wind drag and improves fuel efficient.
Does it actually do anything in the game?
Can't find simple_parking_doubles "-" in config?
Who here participates in Windows Insider?


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Canadiens score 3 in 2nd period to defeat Kraken
Cole Caufield and Josh Anderson scored seven seconds apart early in the second period to break a tie and lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 4-2 victory over the host Seattle Kraken on Tuesday night.
Johnathan Kovacevic and Rem Pitlick also scored for the Canadiens, who rebounded after blowing a four-goal lead a night earlier in a 7-6 overtime loss in Vancouver. Goaltender Jake Allen made 31 saves.
First-round draft pick Shane Wright scored his first NHL goal and Jared McCann also tallied for the Kraken, who suffered their second straight loss after a franchise-record seven-game winning streak. Martin Jones stopped 12 of 16 shots.
Kovacevic opened the scoring at 12:56 of the first, his shot from the left point deflecting off the shin pad of Seattle's Andre Burakovsky and past Jones.
Wright, fresh off a two-week conditioning stint with Coachella Valley of the American Hockey League, tied it at 1-1 at 15:30 of the first, taking a behind-the-net pass from Oliver Bjorkstrand and going down to one knee to lift the puck over Allen's catching glove.
Wright, who was bypassed by Montreal with the first pick before slipping to Seattle at No. 4 overall, had two other good chances from in close in the opening period, but was stopped by Allen both times.
Caufield broke the tie at 2:05 of the second after teammate Nick Suzuki intercepted a Seattle clearance attempt from its own zone. Suzuki fed Caufield for a one-timer from the left faceoff circle.
Montreal's Christian Dvorak won the ensuing faceoff at center ice and Juraj Slafkovsky, who the Canadiens took with their No. 1 pick, skated over the blue line before making a pass to Anderson in the slot and he lifted a quick wrist shot over a sprawling Jones.
The Canadiens took advantage of another turnover to increase the lead to 4-1 at 18:40 of the period, with Pitlick tapping home the puck from just outside the right post on a three-on-one rush.
McCann scored with less than a second remaining in the period to make it 4-2, but the Canadiens were able to hold on to their lead in a scoreless third.


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Home Article Tea Party Candidates Aren't Actually Rebels.
Tea Party Candidates Aren't Actually Rebels.
Tea Party candidates plan to buck the party leaders once they get to Washington:
Insurgent Republican candidates hoping to win election to the United States Senate have made one thing clear: They are not coming to Washington to make friends. [...]
But, while these potential new members of the Senate defeated establishment-favored GOP contenders in their states' primaries by promising to upset the status quo in Washington, former and current Republican aides aren't expecting a political earthquake. They say they're confident that McConnell will deftly handle the new conservative arrivals by incorporating them — and their ideas — into the larger caucus.
I seriously doubt that Tea Party Republicans will be in any way distinctive from "regular" Republicans. It's not just that they bear a serious similarity to standard-issue Republican politicians but that the Tea Partiers most likely to win are also strong candidates with roots in the local party establishment.
Marco Rubio, for instance, is a longtime member of the Florida House of Representatives; there's no reason to think that he wouldn't be ready to work with party leaders. The same goes for Ken Buck in Colorado (if he wins) and the many GOP House candidates who have used the Tea Party brand to leverage themselves in this year's elections. Every class of "insurgent" Republicans eventually falls in line with the leadership, and this group will do the same.
-- Jamelle Bouie
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Dunkin' Donuts Customer Flips Out Over Receipt [Viral Video]
Dunkin' Donuts Customer Flips Out Over Receipt [Viral Video]
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by Todd Rigney 10 years ago 10 months ago
A Dunkin' Donuts customer recently flipped out on an unsuspecting employee because she didn't get a receipt. She later decided to upload it to YouTube, which would turn out to be a huge mistake.
The girl in the video is upset because she didn't receive a receipt during her last visit. According to store policy, anyone who doesn't get a receipt with their purchase is entitled to a refund. A spokesperson with the company confirmed the policy with The Huffington Post.
Instead of addressing the situation in a civilized manner, the customer goes on an expletive-laden eight-minute rant about the situation. To make matters worse, she takes her anger out on the poor Dunkin' Donuts employee who wasn't working when the mistake took place.
"This girl was so f***ing rude to me and said 'Okay will you can get your order free next time.' So you know what I told her? I said 'I want the whole f***ing menu b****, twice.' A guarantee is a guarantee and I've already called my lawyer and he is already on it," she says at one point during the video.
Although YouTube yanked the original video for violating a YouTube policy "prohibiting content designed to harass, bully or threaten." However, other people have since re-uploaded the video for the world to enjoy.
According to Uproxx, the girl has been identified as Florida resident Taylor Chapman. Apparently she has an assortment of social media accounts, all of which will likely be littered with hateful messages in the next few hours. I'll refrain from linking to any of them here.
The video question is below. There's a plethora of foul language, so proceed with caution.
Kudos to the Dunkin' Donuts employee for keeping his cool against this ill-tempered customer. I can't say that I would have been that level-headed myself.
Posted by Todd Rigney
Todd is a novelist, new media writer and social media enthusiasts. When he isn't busily pouring over information from the web he can be found writing down his own ideas. Todd's most recent work has even been turned into a critically acclaimed independent film. Todd loves cheesy kung fu movies, weird 90's industrial music, and collecting dusty VHS tapes . He's 34, married, and very pale.
Steve Adams says:
JOIN the social discussion? After that video I feel like we have to start it first……… dear lord.
Marie Greenwood says:
well this customer just showed how she has NO MANNERS she is rude, disrespectful and just plan nasty I sure hope she has no children can you imagine what she is teaching them she is just a disgrace to the human race. She was just looking for freebies I wonder how many other tiomes she tried to use this for getting free items all RETAILERS LOOK OUT FOR HER.
iwould have asked her to leave the store because employees DO NOT HAVE TO put up with customers like her adn as or her laywe she is so full of you know what because her laywer would have told her NOt to go back and he would take care of it.
Fred Hunt says:
I think she is on drugs call your laywer bi@#$%^h.
Robyn Byrd says:
Get a life bitch….Just go around harassing people just because you are an asshole.
Sandra Gortman says:
This was just mean and so unnecessary. there was no reason for her to take it this far. She sounds like she's on some type of medication. That poor guy behind the counter. She was just mean and karma will visit her very soon. All this just to get attention. Is this what our future looks like for social media?
Joseph White says:
Actually, I am extremely disappointed with her parents. She is a product of her upbringing. This person just was not raised properly.
Arthur DeMeo says:
this is typical of the kids today who have no character and upbringing. She is a complete asshole. I wouldn't put up with her language and antics for one minute. She should have been escorted out of the store…Her intelligence level is exactly what she shows….FACEBOOK!


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Home News PPP promises to adhere to dual citizenship law regarding MPs
PPP promises to adhere to dual citizenship law regarding MPs
People's Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo has committed to ensure that the laws regarding dual citizenship for Members of Parliament (MPs) are upheld.
While Jagdeo said the PPP has no intentions of returning to the National Assembly, when asked how he hopes to deal with the situation if they had to return, he said, "We will uphold the law."
At present, the PPP has three MPs who have dual citizenship. They are Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira, who is a Canadian citizen; and Adrian Anamayah and Odinga Lumumba who are both US citizens.
However, he said that if there was need to return for the handling of issues relating to the holding of elections, those who want to hold on to their dual citizenship would be recalled and replaced.
He told the press that his Party has not yet decided on who would be the three replacements, but said that such matters could be discussed quickly and decisions could be made in no time.
Jagdeo said that the executive would first have to discuss the matter and if it led to replacements, then they would have to refer to the electoral list.
It is not clear if any of the PPP/C MPs plan to give up their dual citizenship, except for Teixeira who is a long-standing member of the Party and has served in high-level positions such as presidential advisor.
In the meantime, the lone Alliance For Change (AFC) MP who holds dual citizenship is Business Minister Dominic Gaskin. He was born in the United Kingdom, but is a citizen of Guyana by descent.
The AFC has argued that the issue of renouncing citizenship does not apply to Guyanese who were born in another country. It believes that Gaskin could remain an MP because of this.
On the other hand, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) members including Minister of State, Joseph Harmon holds American citizenship and so does Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence. Foreign Affairs Minister Carl Greenidge and Minister of Public Service, Rupert Roopnaraine are also dual citizens. They are citizens of the United Kingdom.
However, none of the APNU members have indicated a willingness to give up their citizenship.
The controversy concerning persons with dual citizenship in the National Assembly surfaced after former Government MP Charrandas Persaud voted in favour of a no-confidence motion, which was tabled by the Opposition and validly passed in the National Assembly.
A private citizen, Compton Reid, challenged the validity of the vote cast by Persaud in the National Assembly on the basis that he breached Article 155 of the Constitution which bars MPs from having dual citizenship.
This argument also formed part of the opinions presented to Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr Barton Scotland in the hopes that he would reverse the ruling – something the Speaker ultimately refused to do.
According to the acting Chief Justice Roxane George, by swearing allegiance to another State, a dual citizen is not qualified to be elected to serve in the National Assembly.
She noted that while Persaud should not have been a sitting parliamentarian because of his dual citizenship, at the time of his vote on the motion, he was a valid MP; hence, his vote was valid.
This issue is not peculiar to Guyana, because most recently the world was made aware of a similar situation in Australia.
That country was pitched into a political crisis in 2018 after a court ruled that a senator was ineligible to sit in Parliament because she had failed to renounce her British citizenship, triggering a spate of MP resignations.
Some 14 parliamentarians have resigned or been ruled ineligible since mid-2017 when renewed scrutiny on a constitutional clause set politicians scrambling to prove they only had Australian citizenship.
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NEW YORK: The World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTCMF) has hired Weber Shandwick to raise awareness during a national outreach tour for its WTC memorial. The foundation will also work with The Interpublic Group (IPG) sister agencies Octagon and Jack Morton Worldwide. WTCMF has raised over $300 million in private funds to date, with $165 million coming in the past six months.


A recently restored architectural treasure on campus opens its doors to the public April 1, providing an opportunity for visitors to see the bold colors and intricate details that have emerged during a four-year, $27 million restoration and renovation.
The public can rediscover the beauty of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies 11 a.m.-5 p.m. April 1, and hear actress, author, playwright, professor and scholar Anna Deavere Smith speak at 7 p.m. in Rackham Auditorium.
Smith is an actress on the NBC series "The West Wing," author of the book "Talk to Me: Travels in Media & Politics," playwright of "Twilight: Los Angeles 1992" and a member of the faculty at New York University.
She will explore the complexities of diversity in America through character performances. Her piece is entitled "Snapshots: Portraits of America in Change." Smith was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship for creating a "new form of theater—a blend of theatrical art, social commentary, journalism and intimate reverie."
The two-day event, which concludes April 2 with Graduate Student Appreciation Day, is titled "Rediscover Rackham: Celebrating a Campus Jewel."
Dean Earl Lewis says Rackham is particularly significant because it was the first building in the United States built specifically for graduate education. Playing host to hundreds of events each year, the copper-roofed limestone building also is a cherished public space. Lewis says Rackham's elegant design prompts many to hail it as one of the most impressive buildings on campus.
"There's a real sense that people identify with the character, the quality of the building," Lewis said. "We see this as an architectural jewel of the campus. The restoration puts the Rackham Graduate School in a better position to serve the University's graduate students and faculty, the community, and the cause of graduate education worldwide."
The first phase of the project started in spring 2000.
Additional information is available at http://www.rackham.umich.edu/Events/redisc.html.


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PLEDGE DRIVE WRAP-UP: We passed $7000!
We passed the $7000 mark for our pledge drive! Thank you to all those who donated and showed their support for WYOU Community Television.
We'd like to also say thanks to all the volunteers who answered phones or who helped out in the studio or on-air, to all the producers who came in to do pledge spots and especially to those producers who came in to do live shows during the pledge drive. A couple of shout outs to Beth Zurkowski and Tony Zirngible for going the extra mile and putting in the long volunteer hours.
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Almost to $7000! Final tally coming soon. Thank you to everyone who showed their support for WYOU Community Television.
The first fundraiser of 2009 for WYOU was March 1–8, but you can still donate.
The pledges are still being tallied each day as the checks continue to come in the mail. If you haven't yet pledged, you still can. $7,000 is within our reach! We are very pleased and thankful for the all community support we have received.
The producers come out in force to show their support for WYOU by going LIVE in the studio all day long!
Between 1:00 to 3:00 pm today, rain or shine, come on down to the parking lot of the WYOU Studios and meet the infamous Bob from Cooking With Bob. Never before seen on camera, Bob makes a special appearance in support of the WYOU March Pledge Drive. Look for the smoking grill at 609 E. Washington Avenue in Madison.
It's a full day of LIVE TV!
COOKING WITH BOB IN THE PARKING LOT!
Bob setting up the shot Bob brought the meat while other folks stopped by at various times to throw things on the grill including a squash, onions, raw pizza dough, leftover pizza, a biscuit, a dinner roll, fish, English Christmas pudding, a sculpture of potatoes, broccoli and shallots held together with toothpicks, and a piñata in the shape of a turkey.
Here we are at the end of Day 7 and so far we've raised a total $5809.00! It's short of the goal, but we are very pleased with the community response. There's one more day left in the pledge drive. If you haven't yet pledged, please consider making one now. $7,000 is within our reach!
WYOU's Pledge Drive gets write up in the 77 Square. Read about Bob from Cooking With Bob, and come down to the WYOU parking lot tomorrow (March 7th) at 1:00 pm to meet him in person (for the first time ever)!
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I just wanted to thank you for all the hard work you do everyday to keep WYOU alive and well. A source of free speech so hard to come by today.
It was so nice to be able to contribute in some small way to that end. Thank you for making that possible.
The world is now your audience thanks to WYOU's streaming video. A major upgrade. Congratulations. A job well done by a group of wonderful hard working folks.
Thank you again for allowing me to be part of WYOU. If I can be of assistance any time in the future, I am at your disposal. God bless you all.
Thanks Jesse for your wonderful support of WYOU Community Television!
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Q: I can assign external links to some different ids (modal) in my page? I can't write a unique javascript that can assign ids to be accessed and displayed by direct links.
On the page I have this gallery of images and captions:

...

But after all my research I only got as far as this and it doesn't work. Also I shouldn't need to despecify the id every time otherwise I fill the page with scripts.

A: There is a much easier way to do this.  The window already has a built-in object called window.location.hash, which will return #id001 if you go to https://example.net/#id001  Here is MDN's documentation about it.
Location: hash

The hash property of the Location interface returns a USVString
containing a '#' followed by the fragment identifier of the URL — the
ID on the page that the URL is trying to target.
The fragment is not percent-decoded. If the URL does not have a
fragment identifier, this property contains an empty string, "".

Here is a working version
Note that I'm manually assigning the ID, but that is alone because I can't get the actual hash from the window.

$(document).ready(function() {
    let id = window.location.hash;
  id = "#id002";

  $(id).css('display', 'block');
});

// Pure JS example
window.addEventListener('load', (event) => {
  let id = window.location.hash.substring(1);
  id = "id001"
  document.getElementById(id).style.display='block';
});
.modal {
  display:none;
}


The meninges cover the brain and spinal cord. When they become infected with a bacteria, a person develops bacterial meningitis. Bacteria that commonly causes meningitis includes streptococcus pneumoniae, which usually leads to ear infections or pneumonia, or neisseria meningitidis, according to MayoClinic.com. The symptoms of the disease are often similar to those of the flu. Since it is a fast moving, potentially deadly disease, if your child exhibits any symptoms, you should take him to the doctor right away.
A stiff neck is a common symptom of bacterial meningitis. According to Merck, the stiff neck is usually extremely painful and more than a simple crick-in-the-neck feeling. Your child may not be able to bring his chin to his chest due to neck pain and stiffness, but he may be able to turn it side to side without trouble. Babies under 1 year of age typically do not get this symptom.
A fever is another common symptom of bacterial meningitis. Unfortunately, it is also a common symptom of a wide range of diseases, such as the flu, so you may not be aware someone has meningitis due to a fever. Typically, the fever rises over the course of a few days and may follow symptoms of a respiratory tract infection, according to Merck.
Bacterial meningitis also typically causes people to feel some sensitivity to bright light, also known as photophobia. Your child may find it difficult to look into lights or may squint his eyes or complain of the light.
Irritability or fussiness commonly occurs in babies who have bacterial meningitis. Your baby may dislike being held; he may squirm and fuss. He may cry a lot and stop feeding as well. Older children and teenagers as well as adults may also become irritable.
Some infants, children and adults with meningitis may experience drowsiness. You may notice that your baby is sleeping an excessive amount. If the disease progresses without treatment, it may become more and more difficult to rouse a person from his drowsiness. In some instances, it may lead to a coma.
Some types of bacterial meningitis cause a rash to form on the lower part of the body, according to Merck. Neisseria meningitidis, also known as meningococcus, usually causes the rash. The bacteria can also spread to other parts of the body, causing meningococcemia. When a patient develops meningococcemia, red or purples rashes form due to bleeding beneath the skin and in the organs, according to Merck.


Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas was pounded by rough weather last night, according to passengers leaving comments, photos and video on the internet.
This week we have been asked questions about rough weather which apparently bounced Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas around. Today I ran across this video about a passenger;s experiences abord the Grandeur.
Just two days ago, the news broke about a wave smashing windows out in the Waldorf Restaurant aboard the Marco Polo cruise ship killing one elderly passenger and injuring a dozen passengers and crew members. Passengers disembarking the 49 year-old former-Russian vessel this morning complained about the poor condition of the cruise ship.
CNN reports that a British cruise passenger was killed during rough weather which struck a ship sailing into the English Channel.
The death occurred aboard the Marco Polo cruise ship.
Two weeks ago, a storm hit Royal Caribbean's Splendor of the Seas, breaking plates, bottles and glasses and causing concern among the passengers.
A former employee of Carnival Cruise Lines sent us two short videos of rough weather striking an unidentified cruise ship.
The first video is from the bridge camera and shows waves striking over the bow.


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THEY ARE one of the biggest bands on the planet and arguably Ireland's greatest ever musical export.
The unprecedented success U2 have enjoyed was always likely to result in a bit of ribbing though, especially when you have Bono as your lead singer and a fella calling himself The Edge on guitar.
And regardless of what you think of the band or their music, there is one thing we can all agree on: some of these U2 jokes are great craic.
Q: What's the difference between Jesus Christ and Bono?
A: Jesus doesn't walk around thinking he's Bono.
Q: What did Bono say to God when he first arrived in heaven?
A: I believe you are sitting in my chair.
Q: Why did Bono fall off the stage?
A: He was too close to The Edge.
Q: What kind of lawyers praise U2?
U2 are playing live when, in between songs, Bono starts solemnly clapping before pronouncing "every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa starves to death".
A wag in the crowd shouts "stop f***ing clapping then!".
Q: How many members of U2 does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. Bono holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.
Q: Did you hear about the family with the U2 Sat Nav?
A: All the streets have no names and they still haven't found what they are looking for.
Q: Why are they called U2?
A: Because everyone knows it's Bono, the Edge and…er…you two.


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explain:

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A: user3526447, depending on context there may be a problem with the expression in the first answer, because from the initial "a" tag, the .+ will potentially run over multiple urls until it hits "example".
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Jul 6, 2020 - Economy & Business
Uber to buy Postmates in $2.65 billion deal
Kia Kokalitcheva
Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Uber has agreed to acquire food delivery company Postmates for $2.65 billion in an all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday.
Why it matters: This is the latest merger for the food delivery space as the sector undergoes an ongoing market consolidation.
After failing to agree on terms with Uber, GrubHub struck a deal to sell to Europe's Just Eat Takeaway last month.
Nearly a year ago, DoorDash acquired Caviar from Square.
The big picture: The Uber-Postmates tie-up would still put the combined businesses' market share behind DoorDash, which has about 45% of the U.S. food delivery market, according to credit card spending tracking companies.
Postmates has raised just over $900 million in total funding, and was last valued at $2.4 billion post-money.
This deal also showcases Postmates' prowess in the Los Angeles and Miami markets, where the company has strong market share.
Between the lines: It's not surprising to see Postmates get acquired. Though it paused its IPO ambitions last year, the company was recently rumored to resume plans to go public and was also looking to raise new funding, as Axios reported.
Uber has also been drastically reshaping its business since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Its ride-share business has significantly suffered, dropping by as much as 70% in April, and it recently offloaded its scooter and bike rental unit. However, its food delivery arm has seen a surge as restaurants turned to delivery to remain afloat.
The pandemic has also made ride-hailing and delivery more costly for the companies across these industries as they've had to provide more resources to drivers, including paid sick leave and cleaning supplies.
What's next: Both Postmates and Uber have opposed a newly effective California labor law that could force the companies to reclassify their drivers from independent contractors to employees. The companies are backing a state ballot measure to change the law in the coming November elections.
Oct 8, 2020 - Economy & Business
The gig economy is on the ballot
Prop 22 is shaping up to be California's most expensive ballot question ever, and its outcome could upend a gig economy business model that's attracted hundreds of billions of investment dollars.
The state of play: Prop 22, supported by such companies as DoorDash and Uber, is favored in most recent polling. But it's no sure bet, due to a large chunk of still undecided voters.


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Radeke v General Dental Council [2015] EWHC 778 (Admin)
Ashleigh Freeman
This case concerned an appeal by Dr Radeke against a determination of the Professional Conduct Committee ("the Panel") of the General Dental Council ("GDC") that his name should be erased from the This case concerned an appeal by Dr Radeke against a determination of the Professional Conduct Committee ("the Panel") of the General Dental Council ("GDC") that his name should be erased from the Dental Register. HHJ Turner offered some interesting comment, obiter, on the issue of whether adverse inferences could be drawn in regulatory proceedings where a registrant fails to provide evidence to the Panel.
The charges against Dr Radeke concerned clinical failings in relation to three patients and also an allegation that he had given a dishonest account of his treatment of one patient who had died following surgery. It was asserted that he had given differing accounts of his pre-operative assessment of the patient's suitability for intravenous sedation to the investigating officer appointed by the Trust and the Coroner.
The Panel accepted medical evidence that Dr Radeke was unfit to attend the disciplinary hearing. Dr Radeke did not therefore give evidence at the disciplinary hearing, nor did he seek to adduce a formal witness statement. The GDC took no issue in respect of Dr Radeke's failure to produce a written statement and no adverse inferences were drawn.
The Panel concluded that Dr Radeke had given a deliberately misleading account to the Coroner on oath and that he had been dishonest. The Panel determined that Dr Radeke should be erased from the Dental Register. Dr Radeke appealed against the findings of fact, impairment and sanction. In considering the appeal, HHJ Turner stated that the level of deference owed to the Panel's determination was diminished in light of the fact that the Panel did not have the advantage of Dr Radeke giving evidence in person, and so, could not assess his demeanour.
HHJ Turner did not accept that Dr Radeke's evidence to the Coroner had been dishonest. The sanction was quashed and the matter remitted to a new panel to consider sanction afresh.
This case raises a couple of interesting points. On the issue of Dr Radeke's failure to submit a written statement, HHJ Turner commented that he could "envisage circumstances in which a practitioner unfit to attend a hearing would nevertheless be capable of providing a witness statement." In his view, in such circumstances, a failure to produce a written statement could result in adverse inferences being drawn in accordance with the civil case of Wiszniewski v Central Manchester HA [1998] Lloyd's Rep. Med. 223. Generally, regulators, with very few exceptions, have not sought to draw adverse inferences from a registrant's failure to attend or provide evidence to a disciplinary hearing, and whether there is an appetite for change remains to be seen. However, given HHJ Turner's comments, that limited deference is owed to the Panel's determination in cases where the registrant did not hear evidence in person, it is plainly in the interest of regulators for a registrant to attend, and there is no doubt that a registrant would be more likely to do so if there was a risk of adverse inferences being drawn otherwise.


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Fall is beginning its descent all across the country. Here in Portland, it's not coming fast enough for me. I'm ready for it to kick into high gear — maybe even wanting to force it a little before its true time.
While we're still ending our days by running the in-window air conditioner to get our room cool enough to sleep in the evening, I have a taste for the crunch of leaves under foot, the orange globes of ripened pumpkin flesh floating in Thai curry and the sweet, silken flavors of rich chestnut and vibrant butternut squash soups served with a crunchy baguette and a creamy shmear of triple cream brie.
Things have been a bit slow on the blog lately. For that, I apologize to you my Groovy Readers. Besides the usual balancing act of running a freelance writing business and the needs of an extremely active and talkative toddler, I've been juggling two major ghostwriting projects due before the end of the year, a visit from the mother-in-law, my son's 4th birthday, the addition of a bit of summer fun and the delicious foodie-focused events (IFBC and FEAST Portland) descending on Portland lately.
All of this has left little time for blogging, hence the wonderful guest post by my dear friend Brad over at Cast Iron Stomach last week. Brad has inspired me to purchase my own canning supplies and make my own fresh jam with the last of summer's berry bounty, crisp homemade pickles and juicy bright flavors of homemade pasta sauce.
In fact, over the course of the next couple months you can expect to see all of these recipes and more as I enter my favorite season for cooking — Fall. Kicking things off in a big way is Oregon's first-ever food culture festival, FEAST Portland: A Celebration of Oregon's bounty.
It's four days (September 20-23, 2012) of foodie bliss that promises to not only set foodie hearts aflutter with the likes of Mark Bittman, Food Editors from Bon Appetit and Portland Monthly and top chefs from around the country giving cooking demonstrations, talks and serving up some the best food Oregon has to offer, but all net proceeds will go to help end childhood hunger in our area. Win, win, WIN!!
Check out my FEAST Preview Post on Oregonlive.com later in the week to plan your schedule of all the action.
As a food blogger (and 1/12 of The Virtual Potluck (VP)) I get to try out new foods, cookbooks and appliances from time to time for free — for a foodie like me, this is some kind of perk! Sometimes those perks are a little better than others and sometimes those perks go a little berserk.
Recently, the VP was approached by Marx Foods who, though based in our soggy sister city to the north –Seattle, I had never run across before. We agreed to let Marx put together a selection of random ingredients for us to try out in our own signature recipes this Thanksgiving. After perusing their site, I was excited to see what they would send us.
Wanna see what the other 11 foodies came up with? Visit our Host Page for this event and follow all the action on Twitter #virtualpotluck!
What I found, when I received the tiny brown box, was a menagerie of seemingly unrelated items, packaged in small quantities. Upon opening the box, I was hit full force by the sweet sensual aroma of dried Madagascar (bourbon) vanilla beans (they sent two small bags — Yay! extra vanilla!) I confess, I couldn't stop sniffing the bags– it was addictive!
Besides the glorious vanilla beans, which made their way into banana smoothies, raspberry thumbprint tea cookies, whipped cream filling in my decadent Mt. Hood cupcakes, and a bevy of other dishes and drinks (watch for them later in the week!) was that my box contained 2 deeply cherry-toned, dried Guajillo chilis, 9 dried fiery Habaneros, a palm full of dried porcini mushrooms, a slightly larger handful of dried Maitake mushrooms, and 1 cup of Italian Vialone Nano Rice — only THE best rice for making a saucy risotto!
While I was excited by the amazing quality of the ingredients (this stuff is top-notch — their quality control must be super sticklers — there was not a bad, crumpled or spotted item in the bunch), I was sort of sad to see that I had so little, in terms of quantity, to work with. We were all creating brand new recipes from scratch here and having so little of each ingredient, meant the ultimate test of cook's skill, I was working without a net — I had to get this recipe right in one-shot! Could I do it? What ingredients should I choose? What wouldn't be a lame cop-out — surely just whipping up some homemade vanilla bean cupcakes was too easy. What to do? What to do? And then it happened ~ all that thinking ~ all that pressure made me pop a spring!
So what did I do?I take that perfectly wonderful perk — and go berserk!
I remembered once seeing a recipe floating around the interwebs for Ostrich Steaks with Mushroom Vanilla Sauce, though I've never tasted, attempted, or known anyone who has tasted or attempted this dish — just knowing that it existed gave me the courage to dive off this recipe's cliff.
We all did NOT get the same ingredients. True — we all got vanilla and the same rice and we all received mushrooms and peppers but the combination of those peppers and mushrooms varied. The ingredients I received really lent themselves well to this dish.
Dice (or process) the shallots, onion and celery. Heat the olive oil in a deep saute pan, adding the shallot, onion and celery mixture. Cook until softened and transparent (about 5 minutes), making sure it doesn't stick. Drain the mushrooms (you can soak them together in hot water for 30 minutes) and reserve the resulting liquor. Chop the mushrooms and add them to your saute pan. Add the liquor to an already simmering saucepan of chicken broth, that is just waiting to be added to the rice, one ladleful at a time.
With gloves or well- oiled hands and proper eye protection, remove the peppers from their water (where they have been rehydrating for the last 30 minutes as well) and slice off their stems, cutting them open to de-seed and remove the ribs (this reduces the heat — if you like more heat, leave them in.) Once the peppers are cleaned, dice these as well and add them to the sauteing mixture. Once it's all been incorporated, mix in your rice, stirring to give it a good coating of flavor and oil.
Begin adding your ladleful of simmering stock to the rice, continually stirring until the stock is absorbed. Then add another ladleful continuing to stir. Continue to do this until your rice is al dente and saucy but not too thick and sticky. You may not need all of the stock, equally, you may need to augment with additional hot water, if your stock runs out before completion.
Mix the scraped vanilla bean, cream, and egg yolk in a small bowl or mug along with the grated parm and pepper. When the risotto done – the rice is no longer chalky but is al dente and the liquid has been absorbed but is not starchy – remove it from the heat and add your vanilla, egg, cream mixture, folding it into the risotto along with the butter and salt, to taste. Taste, adjust the seasoning and serve topped with Parmesan.
Serves 2 to 4 by itself or as a side dish can work for 4 to 8.
I served mine with a simple spinach and brie stuffed chicken breast, seasoned only with sea salt and olive oil, because I wanted the risotto's flavors to be the focus, with the chicken complementing its deep, rich flavors but ideally, you'll serve yours with turkey this Thanksgiving!
Want to win some booty from Marx Foods?
Some of the Virtual Potluck members are giving away ingredient samples. Visit the host page and don't forget to visit ALL of the blogs. There will be some things given away (different items on different sites), some discounts (how about 10% off your Marx Foods purchase, any time between November 21 and 27. Just enter the word POTLUCK into the Coupon Code field at checkout for 10 % off everything.) There's also plenty of great recipes and fun to be had on Twitter–so make sure you check it all out!
Flash forward to today. I am a mom now, of a picky and precocious 3 year old. He is a child who loved his veggies before this last year — though, he was never too much into the green lettucy stuff. He used to love eating such a variety of good-for-him foods like broccoli, carrots, peas, corn, avocados, beans and sweet potatoes.
To top it all off, as much as I want him to eat his veggies, when he finally agrees to eat some (through sheer bribery or threats) I can't stand seeing that look on his face when he's chewing something he really hates. I know it all too well, the feeling like you might just throw up a little in your mouth. It's at this point, I usually whisk the plate away and thank him for at least trying whatever it was.
So imagine my glee, when one of my favorite food bloggers (and one of my Virtual Potluck cohorts) FarmgirlGourmet posted her recipe for Roasted Butternut Squash & Brie Mac & Cheese with Smoky Bacon. It was as if the heavens had opened up and shined their golden butternutty light down upon my pasta. Yes! A new way to sneak a super healthful veg (TRIVIA: though considered veg in cooking, in actuality it's a fruit) into my little one's diet — and it comes on the holy grail of food for him — the noodle!
The dish is sweet, creamy and cheesy and was a big hit at our house. I highly recommend you head on over to her blog for that recipe and the other bountiful ways in which she has been using up the butternut squash from her garden. We ate it for dinner and lunch the next day and it only used up half of a roasted butternut squash and half of the brie and cream cheese I'd purchased, so I decided to use those ingredients again for lunch the following day for soup, baguette with brie, and a wilted kale salad.
This bright idea was great for mom and dad (felt like upscale bistro fare for a weekday lunch) but the kiddo was not buying into the soup (he only likes — you guessed it — noodle soup!) — which is why, I boiled up some more noodles and ladeled on some of the soup, topping it with cheddar cheese for a quick and dirty version of FarmGirl's mac.) We paired this with some fresh strawberries for a well-rounded meal that any toddler will adore.
Saute the onion in butter, caramelizing it lightly. Pour into blender or food processor. Scoop the roasted butternut squash out of it's skin and into the blender, adding enough liquid to allow it to begin blending (you may need to do this in batches depending on blender or processor size.) Add the cream cheese and continue to blend, adding the additional broth as needed until the soup is smooth, creamy and the desired thickness you prefer. Then pour into a deep saucepan heating it on low, as you season to taste with cayenne and salt and pepper.
Makes 4 to 6 heaping bowls of soup. Serve with toasty baguette (we like Trader Joe's parbaked whole grain baguette) and the wilted kale salad below for a warming taste of fall this holiday season.
Clean and destem your kale, patting it dry (with paper towels.) Cut or rip the cleaned kale into bite sized pieces or ribbons. Add olive oil and salt. Next take your freshly washed and dried hands and work the salt into the kale by grabbing handfuls and kneading the kale tightly in your fist. Continuing throughout the entire bowl of kale. After it's all mixed and the kale has significantly reduced in size (a few minutes) add apple cider vinegar to the mix and toss. Then, let it rest for 10 to 20 minutes as you prep other items for your meal, this allows the kale to wilt, softening the leaves for easy eating and toning down the bitterness. Add freshly grated parmesan reggiano and pepper to taste, tossing to mix. Serve topped with more freshly grated parmesan reggiano.
We love this with any kind of soup or as a side dish with chicken or beef. You can also use this recipe and add it to roasted yukon gold or new potatoes tossed with a little tahini and lemon for an out of this world hearty, warm salad.