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Here's who will get $1,400 stimulus checks as Biden signs $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill into law
By Victor Reklaitis
There has been a change in who will get stimulus checks in Washington's next big relief package, as President Joe Biden has agreed to new income limits .
The shift came on March 3 after moderate Democratic senators voiced concerns about money going to people who aren't in dire need. The Senate then voted 50-49 in favor of its $1.9 trillion relief legislation on March 6 , and the House of Representatives approved the Senate version of the aid bill this past Wednesday . Biden signed the sweeping measure into law on Thursday .
So who looks set to receive the upcoming direct payments of $1,400?
Individuals making $75,000 or less a year and their dependents each would receive checks totaling that full amount. The payments decrease gradually for individuals earning above $75,000 — and they phase out completely for individuals making $80,000 or more. That's a change from a prior income cap of $100,000.
Couples who file taxes jointly and earn $150,000 or less a year and their dependents each will get full payments of $1,400. The checks become gradually smaller for joint filers making above $150,000, and they phase out entirely at $160,000. That's a change from a prior income cap of $200,000 for couples.
"Head of household" filers, such as single parents, would see a phase-out starting above an income level of $112,500 and no payments at $120,000 vs. a previous cap of $150,000.
Related: Fewer Americans will get a stimulus check this time around
And see: 'Wasteful,' 'poorly targeted' — critics rip stimulus bill's price tag, contents
With these guidelines, a married couple with two children would receive up to $5,600, and a single parent with two kids would get up to $4,200. To determine income levels, the federal government will look at adjusted gross income (AGI) from 2020 tax returns, or when they aren't filed yet it will rely on 2019 returns.
Read more: Is your income just over the threshold for the $1,400 stimulus check? Tax preparers give tips to help you qualify
Plus: Biden's name won't appear on stimulus checks, White House says
The third round of stimulus checks comes after $1,200 checks last spring and $600 payments in December .
The upcoming $1,400 payment on top of $600 just a few months ago means most Americans will get a total of $2,000, an amount that Biden and other Democrats promised to deliver while campaigning.
See: Biden says Democratic wins in Georgia's runoffs will lead to $2,000 stimulus checks
Also: 'I need my stimmy!' This is what it feels like waiting for Wells Fargo to deposit your stimulus check
One other change in this upcoming "stimmy" round is a household's adult dependents, such as college students, will receive payments, after previously not being eligible.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Thursday that people can "expect to start seeing direct deposits hit their bank accounts as early as this weekend."
Read more: When will you get your $1,400 stimulus check? White House says some payments will arrive 'as early as this weekend'
Biden and the Democratic-run Senate and House worked toward enacting their "American Rescue Plan" legislation this week before several pandemic-related jobless programs were due to expire.
U.S. stocks mostly looked on track for losses on Friday, but remained on pace for weekly gains after the the Dow Jones Industrial Average /zigman2/quotes/210598065/realtime DJIA -0.56% and S&P 500 /zigman2/quotes/210599714/realtime SPX +0.08% scored record closes on Thursday .
This report was first published on March 9, 2021.


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Court Services Officer Career in Pennington County, South Dakota
With 101,000 residents, Pennington County is the second most populous county in the state of South Dakota and the home of its second largest city, Rapid City. The probationers in this county are supervised by Court Services Officers assigned to the Seventh Circuit Court. Currently there are 21 CSOs, with four support staff, a Deputy Chief Court Services Officer and a Chief Court Services Officer.
In 2011, there were 586 new misdemeanor probation cases in the Seventh District with 815 active cases by the end of the year. During this period, almost $230,255 was collected in restitution and 89 pre-sentencing reports resulted in misdemeanor probation sentences. Almost 400 new felony probation cases were added during the year, with a year-end total of 892 felony cases. More than 800 pretrial investigations were completed that resulted in felony probation sentences, and almost $342,000 was collected in restitution from all felony offenders.
Within the Seventh Circuit Court's jurisdiction, Court Services Officers supervise adult felony and misdemeanor probationers, adult Intensive Supervision cases, juvenile probationers and juvenile intensive cases. During the course of performing these duties, CSOs may collect DNA samples, urine or hair samples for drug testing, conduct pre-sentencing or pre-dispositional investigations, make sentencing recommendations, utilize electronic monitoring devices and collect restitution or supervision fees. In assessing the risk and needs of offenders, CSOs also utilize a validated assessment system that identifies criminogenic factors.
Requirements for Probation Officer Jobs in Pennington County, South Dakota
To obtain a position as a Court Services Officer in Pennington County, candidates must possess at least a bachelor's degree, preferably in a field of human science, e.g. psychology, sociology, social work. Two years of experience in a job that employs human behavior management is also required, but, in some instances, it may be possible to substitute an advanced degree like a Master of Social Work in place of professional experience.
Candidates interested in learning how to become probation officers in Pennington County should also possess the following qualifications:
Be a U.S. citizen
Possess a valid driver's license
Have access to a motor vehicle
Good distance vision in at least one eye without correction
Ability to read normal print
Near normal hearing
Be between 21 and 37 years of age
Job Orientation Program for Pennington County Probation Officers
After submitting an application, candidates must submit to a background investigation, medical examination and psychological evaluation. A drug test will also be administered.
Upon hiring, new officers must complete the 28-hour job orientation program, following which they will be certified as South Dakota Court Services Officers. The Seventh Circuit Department of Court Services also provides additional on-the-job training throughout the first year, and provides rigorous oversight of new officers during this probationary period. CSOs must complete at least 16 hours of additional training following the first year in order to maintain this accreditation.
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Smell you later! The surprising reason we shake hands
You consciously do the grip and grin. But you may unconsciously perform the shake and sniff.
March 4, 2015, 5:27 PM UTC / Source: TODAY
By Linda Carroll
After pumping a person's hand during a greeting, some people take that moment of body-language reading to a deeper level, absentmindedly trying to detect traces of information from the scents left on their palms, new science suggests.
Israeli researchers watched as people used the first moments after a handshake to get a good whiff of the person they just met, lifting their right hands to their noses multiple times, according to the study published in the journal eLife.
After a handshake, "people had their hands at their noses 22 percent of the time," said coauthor Noam Sobel, a professor and chair of the department of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.
"That is crazy!" Sobel added. "You look at the videos of people and wonder: how did we not notice this before?"
These common greetings may leave a tell-tale scent, scientists say.Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Sobel and colleagues first checked to see if a handshake could actually transfer the kinds of specialized chemicals that are known to spark a response in the nose. Experimenters with latex gloves shook hands with study volunteers and, sure enough, when the gloves were examined, they had easily detectible amounts of the chemicals.
In another experiment, 153 volunteers—unaware researchers had them on hidden camera—were greeted as they sat waiting for the study to begin. Half got a handshake, the rest did not. The researchers secretly filmed the volunteers before, during and after the greeting. After that hello shake, there was a lot of hand sniffing, or at least a lot of hands being raised to the nose.
To verify that people were actually smelling their hands, the researchers fitted another 33 volunteers with nasal catheters to measure breathing. To disguise the purpose of that experiment, the volunteers also were equipped with electrodes from an EEG device. The nasal catheters told the whole story: when a hand was close to the nose, airflow through the nostrils doubled.
The behavior is such an unconscious act that even when the researchers revealed the purpose of the study, many volunteers denied they were sniffing their hands.
"Everyone was blown away when we showed them their own videos," Sobel said. "It was universal. Nobody was aware of this behavior."
Sobel suspects that over time hand sniffing evolved as a surreptitious and socially acceptable way to evaluate others.
In the animal world, overt sniffing is a way of scoping out newbies. Humanity, on the other hand, has evolved to find ways to cover up our scents.
"The bottom line," Sobel said, "is that like all mammals, we communicate using chemosignals. Other mammals—rats, mice, dogs and cats—very overtly sniff each other. That's not acceptable with strangers in our culture. So we've evolved a mechanism to obtain the information in an acceptable way."
The new research is "very creative and very, very interesting," said Helen Fisher, a senior research fellow at the Kinsey Institute. "This article is really showing that a lot of olfactory signals are still being sent and people are, in spite of themselves, picking up on them and responding."
Thus sniffing remained important since humans evolved: figuring out whether the person in front of you is friend or foe, Fisher said.
"You learn a lot from touching a hand," she added. "Is it clammy? Maybe it's not a real solid handshake. We instantly notice those things because we're trying to size this person up. We feel someone is rude if they don't stick out their hands and shake ours. Maybe that's not just about social disinterest, but also that they are not allowing us to collect data on who they are and what their intensions are."
While it's not clear yet what kind of information people are extracting from smelling hands post-greeting, there's no question we are constantly processing smells, said Pamela Dalton, an olfactory researcher at the Monell Chemical Senses Center.
Studies at Monell have shown that people can actually "smell" stress. Researchers there introduced volunteers to a cleaned up version of sweat that came from someone who was stressed. "It affected how they felt and how they made judgments about other people," Dalton said. "It had no smell and they weren't aware they were smelling anything."
Linda Carroll is a regular contributor to NBCNews.com and TODAY.com. She is co-author of "The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic" and the recently published "Duel for the Crown: Affirmed, Alydar, and Racing's Greatest Rivalry"


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Paris 1900 est un film documentaire français de Nicole Vedrès réalisé en 1946 et sorti en France en 1948.

Synopsis
Le documentaire retrace la vie à Paris entre 1900 et 1914. Ce film a utilisé de vrais documents d'époque, et des extraits de plus de sept cents films d'actualités, de reportages, mais aussi des séquences privées. Le montage et le texte qui accompagne les images ont été appréciés par la critique : ce film est devenu une référence.

« Le cinéma est une machine à retrouver le temps pour mieux le perdre. Paris 1900 marque la naissance de la tragédie proprement cinématographique : celle du Temps ». (André Bazin, «  À la recherche du temps perdu », in Ecran français 1947)

Des extraits de ce documentaire apparaissent dans Level Five (1996) de Chris Marker.

Fiche technique
 Réalisation : Nicole Vedrès
 Assistant réalisateur : Alain Resnais
 Scénario : Nicole Vedrès, sur une idée de Pierre Braunberger
 Production : Arthur Mayer et Edward Kingsley
 Producteur exécutif : Pierre Braunberger
 Directeur de production : Claude Hauser
 Assistant : Alain Resnais
 Son : Jacques Carrère (non crédité)
 Montage : Myriam Borsoutsky et Yannick Bellon
 Conseillers : Henri Langlois, Sacha Guitry, Jacques Damiot
 Musique : Guy Bernard
 Documentaliste : Alain Resnais (non crédité)
 Affichiste : Raymond Peynet
 Société de production : Panthéon Productions,
 Distribution : Les Films de la Pléiade
 Format : Mono - Noir et Blanc - 35 mm - 1.37 : 1
 Pays d'origine :
 Langue : français
 Durée : 82 minutes (France) ou 74 minutes (USA)
 Genre : Film de montage (ou dit "d'archive")
 Dates de sortie :
 Présenté au Festival de Cannes 1947
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Distribution
 Narrateur : Claude Dauphin
 Narrateur version anglaise : Monty Woolley
 Documents d'époques
 Extrait de sept cents films

Récompenses et distinctions
 Prix Louis-Delluc 1947
 Sélection officielle en compétition au Festival de Cannes 1947

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
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Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1948
Film documentaire français
Film documentaire sur l'histoire de France
Film documentaire sur Paris
Film produit par Pierre Braunberger
Prix Louis-Delluc
Film français en noir et blanc

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Q: Only of the four images appearing in navigation I am in the beginning stages of learning web development. I think of layouts and try to come up with a code for it.
I want to set up social media navigation on the top right of the website. I came up with the following html.

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McCafffrey and his family will be honored on Feb. 25, 2016, at the annual Paul Hornung Award Banquet presented by KentuckyOne Health at the Galt House Hotel in downtown Louisville.
A fleet-footed and rock-solid athlete from Castle Rock, Colo., McCaffrey was named Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year, MVP in the conference championship game, CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America and finalist for the Heisman Trophy, The Doak Walker Award, the Maxwell Award and the Walter Camp Award. He also earned All-Pac-12 First Team as a running back and return specialist.
One of college football's most dynamic players on offense and special teams, for the season McCaffrey amassed 3,496 all-purpose yards with 1,847 rushing, 540 receiving and 1,109 return, breaking Barry Sanders record of 3,250 set in 1988. McCaffrey scored eight touchdowns rushing, four receiving, one on a kickoff return and threw two touchdown passes.
McCaffrey recorded 200+ all-purpose yards in four games (Arizona, Colorado, Oregon, Notre Dame), 300+ all-purpose yards in four games (Oregon State, UCLA, Washington, Cal) and had a career night in the conference championship win over the Trojans: a school record 461 all-purpose yards on 207 rushing, 105 receiving, 120 in kick returns and 29 in punt returns; and accounted for a touchdown rushing, receiving and passing. For the season, McCaffrey set a Stanford record with 10 consecutive games of 100+ rushing yards and set a single-game record with 243 rushing yards on 25 carries versus UCLA. In two games he recorded 100+ yards both rushing and receiving, and he is the only player in the FBS to lead his team in both receiving and rushing yards.
The Cardinal finished the year 11-2, won the Pac-12 North and the conference championship and are headed to the Rose Bowl to face Big Ten West winner Iowa on Jan. 1.
McCaffrey was chosen as Paul Hornung Award winner from among four finalists by a 16-member national selection committee comprised of sports journalists, coaches and retired NFL players; online fan voting accounted for a 17th vote. All votes were independently tabulated by regional accounting firm Dean Dorton, one of the largest accounting and advisory firms in Kentucky, with offices in Louisville and Lexington.
The other 2015 Paul Hornung Award finalists were: Adoree' Jackson (Southern Cal); Robert Nkemdiche (Ole Miss); and Jabrill Peppers (Michigan).
Owen Marecic of Stanford, a two-way starter and All-Pac-10 performer at fullback and linebacker, won the inaugural Paul Hornung Award in 2010; Brandon Boykin of Georgia won the award in 2011 after excelling on defense, offense and special teams; Tavon Austin of West Virginia won the award in 2012 as one of two players in the nation with more than 500 yards in three different categories (rushing, receiving and kick returns); Odell Beckham Jr. of LSU won the award in 2013 after finishing the season ranked second in the nation and first in the Southeastern Conference with 2,222 all-purpose yards and 185.2 average yards per game; and Shaq Thompson won in 2014 earning first team All-America at linebacker, finishing the season as the Huskies' second leading rusher with 456 yards and scoring four touchdowns on defense and two on offense.
Past winners and finalists who have made their mark in the NFL include Boykin (Philadelphia /Pittsburgh), Austin (St. Louis Rams), Beckham Jr. (New York Giants), Thompson (Carolina Panthers), Nebraska's Ameer Abdullah (Detroit Lions), Stanford's Ty Montgomery (Green Bay Packers), Missouri's Marcus Murphy (New Orleans Saints), Western Kentucky's Antonio Andrews (Tennessee Titans), Texas A&M's Johnny Manziel (Cleveland Browns), Arizona State's Marion Grice (Arizona Cardinals), Kentucky's Randall Cobb (Green Bay Packers), Oregon's LaMichael James (Miami Dolphins) and TCU's Jeremy Kerley (New York Jets).


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Club
Dopo gli inizi nell', nel 2012 passa al , con cui esordisce in Bundesliga nel 2014. In quattro stagioni con questa maglia colleziona 81 presenze e 18 gol totali tra prima e seconda serie tedesca.

Il 7 giugno 2017 passa a titolo definitivo al Borussia Dortmund per 20 milioni di euro più bonus.

Il 9 agosto 2019 viene acquistato per 20 milioni di euro dalla .

Il 1º luglio del 2021, dopo un anno passato in prestito, venne acquistato dal Wolfsburg per 7 milioni di euro.

Nazionale
Nell'estate 2017 trionfa agli Europei Under-21 con la Nazionale tedesca.

Statistiche

Presenze e reti nei club
Statistiche aggiornate al 5 ottobre 2020.

Palmarès

Club

Competizioni nazionali

Borussia Dortmund: 2019

Friburgo: 2015-2016

Nazionale

Polonia 2017

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Collegamenti esterni


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Winfried Pielow (* 19. Mai 1924 in Tungerloh-Pröbsting, Gescher; † 12. April 2018 in Nordwalde, Kr. Steinfurt) war ein deutscher Literaturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Hörspielautor.

Leben und Werk
Winfried Pielow wurde 1924 in Tungerloh-Pröbsting, einer kleinen Bauerschaft der Gemeinde Gescher, als Sohn des Volksschullehrers August Pielow geboren. Durch die Versetzung seines Vaters nach Marienwerder in Westpreußen erlangte Pielow im Jahr 1942 an der dortigen Oberschule sein Kriegsabitur. Danach folgten Reichsarbeitsdienst im Münsterland und im Dezember 1942 der Einzug zur Wehrmacht. Nach eigenen Angaben kam er zur Ostfront und wurde im Sommer 1944 an der Beresina verwundet. Als Überlebender des Kurland-Kessels geriet er nach der Evakuierung über die Ostsee am 8. Mai 1945 in Schleswig-Holstein in britische Gefangenschaft.

Zurück aus Gefangenschaft absolvierte Pielow 1947 eine Ausbildung zum Volksschullehrer an der gerade wieder eröffneten Pädagogischen Akademie in Emsdetten. Anschließend studierte er in Münster Germanistik, Anglistik und Pädagogik und promovierte 1951 zum Dr. phil. mit der Dissertation zum Thema Die Erziehergestalten der großen deutschen Bildungsromane von Goethe bis zur Gegenwart bei Benno von Wiese. Darauf folgte im Jahr 1954 die Aufnahme einer Assistentenstelle an der Pädagogischen Hochschule in Alfeld, wo er als Dozent für historische Pädagogik, später für Literaturwissenschaft und Literaturdidaktik arbeitete. 1960 erhielt Pielow einen Ruf zurück an die Pädagogischen Hochschulen in Münster und 1963 eine Professur für Didaktik der Deutschen Sprache und Literatur. Mit seiner Emeritierung im Jahr 1989 endete seine wissenschaftliche Tätigkeit an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, die 1980 die Pädagogischen Hochschulen übernommen hatte.

Mit seinen fachbezogenen Werken Dichtung und Didaktik (1963) und Das Gedicht im Unterricht (1965), die mehrmals neu aufgelegt wurden, beteiligte sich Pielow an der Wissenschaftsdiskussion zur Deutschdidaktik. Einen weiteren Schwerpunkt legte er auf die Theaterpädagogik. Bereits 1960 übernahm er die Leitung der Studiobühne an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Münster und verfasste Theaterstücke für Schul- und Jugendtheater. Als Mitglied des Wissenschaftsrats war er 1970 an den Empfehlungen zum Ausbau des Bildungswesens im Hochschulbereich beteiligt. Seit den 1980er Jahren verfasste Pielow Gedichte, Erzählungen, Romane, Theaterstücke und Hörspiele.

Winfried Pielow war in erster Ehe (⚭ 1956) mit Elisabeth Pielow, geb. Rolinck (1922–2016) verheiratet. Dieser Ehe entstammen seine drei Söhne Johann-Christian Pielow (* 1957), Stefan Pielow (* 1959) und Martin Pielow (1961–1992). Mit seiner zweiten Ehefrau Hedda Elverfeld-Pielow (⚭ 1977) lebte er lange Zeit und bis zuletzt in Laer.

Ehrungen
Im Jahr 2012 erhielt Pielow für seine erzählerische Leistung den Kulturpreis des Kreises Steinfurt. Die Begründung der Jury lautete: Pielow sei einer der bedeutendsten und originärsten Erzähler Westfalens.

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Sachbuch
 Dichtung und Didaktik. Kamp, Bochum [1963].
 Das Gedicht im Unterricht. Wirkungen, Chancen, Zugänge. Kösel, München 1965
 Theorie und Praxis im Deutschunterricht. Kösel, München 1975. ISBN 3-466-30132-7.
 Schreiben und Alltagskultur. Voraussetzungen u. Haltungen d. Schreibens in Schule, Hochsch. u. in ausserschul. Bereichen von Winfried Pielow und Helmut H. Koch. Pädagogischer Verlag Burgbücherei Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1984. ISBN 3-87116-434-8.

Hörspiel
 Das weiße Haus auf der Lichtung. WDR, Köln 1990.
 Die lange Weile der Briefe danach. WDR, Köln 1992.
 Der Schnitt. WDR, Köln 1995.
 Der Hochton. WDR, Köln 1996.

Lyrik
 Verhältniswörter. Bläschke, Darmstadt [1975]. ISBN 3-87561-201-9.

Prosa
 Deutscher Schwindel. 11 Flucht- und Heimkehrgeschichten. Tende, Münster 1982. ISBN 3-88633-040-0.
 Erbschaften oder das Glück der Schrift. Tende, Dülmen-Hiddingsel 1989. ISBN 3-88633-012-5.
 Das Alphabet. Ein Brief. Jenior und Pressler, Kassel 1993. ISBN 3-928172-15-8.
 Die Utopie des Landlebens. Erzählungen. Laumann, Dülmen 1996. ISBN 3-87466-254-3.
 Der Zeitzeuge. Monsenstein und Vannerdat, Münster 2003. ISBN 3-935363-91-5.
 Pantasma. Sieben Erzählungen. Laumann, Dülmen 2006. ISBN 978-3-89960-268-5.
 Der Zeitzeuge. [Autobiographischer Roman]. Prospero, Münster 2011. ISBN 978-3-941688-07-0.
 Verschenktes Land. Monsenstein und Vannerdat, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-86991-646-0.

Theater
 Hallo David, hau ab, David!. Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim (Bergstraße) [1973]
 Gift, Profit und Antiane. Deutscher Theaterverlag, Weinheim (Bergstraße) [1973]

Literatur
 Jürgen Hein, H.- H. Koch, E. Liebs (Hrsg.): Das ICH als Schrift. Über privates und öffentliches Schreiben heute. Winfried Pielow zum 60. Geburtstag. Schneider, Baltmannsweiler 1984, ISBN 978-3-87116-436-1.
 Pielow, Winfried. In Andreas Klimt (Red.): Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender 2004/2005. 64. Jahrgang. Band II: P – Z. K. G. Saur, München 2005, ISBN 3-598-23588-7, S. 873.

Weblinks

 Winfried Pielow auf der Webseite NRW Literatur im Netz (Archivlink vom 11. Dezember 2014)

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6 Terribly Tragic Things You Didn't Know About Marilyn Monroe
By M.J. Pack Updated March 3, 2019
Instagram, marilynsforever1926
I knew how third rate I was, I could actually feel my lack of talent as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my god, how I wanted to learn! To change, to improve! I didn't want anything else. Not men, not money, not love, but the ability to act. With the arc lights on me and the camera pointed at me, I suddenly knew myself. How clumsy, empty, uncluttered I was! A sullen orphan with a goose egg for a head. But I would change… I spent my salary on dramatic lessons, on dancing lessons, and singing lessons. I bought books to read. I sneaked scripts off the set and sat up alone in my room reading them out loud in front of the mirror. And an odd thing happen to me. I fell in love with myself- not how I was but how I was going to be. #MarilynMonroe
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She's immortal. She's legendary. She's beautiful. And you don't know the first thing about her.
"She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important—you know?" — Marilyn Monroe
That's my favorite quote of Marilyn Monroe's — and yes, she actually said it. She was referencing the character of Sadie Thompson from the play "RAIN", a role she wanted to play desperately. I find the quote powerful because it's not only something that resonates with me personally, but one must wonder if Marilyn was revealing something about herself as well… whether she knew it or not.
Marilyn is an icon. A goddess worshipped via Tumblr posts and collectible memorabilia. Yet I find it fascinating that someone so much a part of American culture is so misunderstood. Nearly everything you've heard about her is likely misrepresented, exaggerated, or a flat-out lie.
You know those quotes plastered across t-shirts, coffee mugs, Facebook pages? She didn't say half of them. Was she ever considered "plus-sized"? Nope, her supposed size 16 was in UK sizing, making her a size 8 at her heaviest. But she was a dumb blonde, right? Please. She was extremely well-read and owned a huge collection of literary works, you jerk.
As someone who's spent many years learning about Norma Jeane Baker, I wanted to share with you some of the more tragic facts about the woman who called herself Marilyn Monroe.
Her Mother Was Mentally Ill
The reason a lot of people aren't aware of Marilyn's mother, Gladys Baker, is pretty simple: her agent didn't want anyone to know. Upon making it big in Hollywood, Marilyn was told not to speak of her institutionalized mother because it would cast her in a bad light. Instead, if asked about her mother, she was supposed to say she was dead.
Norma Jeane spent her childhood transitioning from foster homes and orphanages as Gladys was simply unfit to take care of her. When she was 7 and living with a couple called the Bolenders, Gladys showed up one day to "take her home". Ida Bolender refused, knowing Gladys was out of her mind, and tried to keep Norma Jeane away from her. But Gladys moved fast, dragging Ida into the front yard and locking her out of her own house.
She then proceeded to shove 7 year old Norma Jeane into a military duffel bag and just strolled out the door to leave — because you know, there was no way THAT plan wouldn't work.
The Bolenders got Norma Jeane back and Gladys disappeared for a while. When she returned, she seemed more stable and had purchased a house, so Norma Jeane went to live with her mom again. Back and forth, back and forth. Poor kid.
Marilyn said she treasured the time she had with her mother but it ended abruptly and violently; in 1934, after a series of psychological tests that really did no good — basically, they said "You're insane, sorry about that, get out" — Gladys was found on the ground by her best friend Grace McKee. Grace recalled, "She was lying on her back, staring up the staircase and saying, 'Somebody's coming down those steps to kill me.'"
In her memoir, Marilyn remembers her mother "screaming, laughing" as the police came and took her to yet another mental hospital. She was finally diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and committed indefinitely at age 32. She would spend most of her life institutionalized, and Marilyn would spend most of hers desperately craving approval from a mother who couldn't even recognize her.
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High atop Mt. Hope Cemetery once stood a towering structure known as The Fandango, rising above the treeline to offer visitors a breathtaking view of our city and the Genesee winding its way out to Lake Ontario. On a bright clear day, April 16th of 1871, early visitors to the tower marvelled at the unusual vision it afforded them: the landscape North of Main Street appeared as though it had radically changed overnight. As word spread throughout the day, it became clear to the thousands who gathered there to witness the spectacle that they were indeed not seeing Rochester at all, but instead found themselves able to make out the opposite shore of Lake Ontario in vivid detail. Lakes, forests, and Canadian landmarks were all somehow made easily identifiable to the naked eye despite their actual distance of over 50 miles away.
The phenomenon lasted for one day, and to this day the spectacle of the Rochester Mirage remains unexplained. However, one possible and plausible explanation is that of Fata Morgana, an optical illusion caused by extreme atmospheric temperature inversion, which as part of its effect is known for bending light in such a way as to make objects far beyond the horizon line appear both visible and magnified.
A similar event to The Rochester Mirage occurred in Buffalo on August 18, 1894. The city of Toronto's harbor became visible to the naked eye, in vivid enough detail to make out church spires, despite an actual distance of over 110 miles away. A steamer traveling from Rochester to Toronto, beyond the horizon, was also reported as being made visible during the course of this mirage.
Though there are few major recorded instances of this phenomenon occurring in Western New York, if Fata Morgana is the culprit, then with the right conditions this spectacle could grace us again any day.
Great Lakes Newspaper Transcriptions Search: 'Mirage' - revealing many instances of similar phenomena throughout Lake Ontario's history.


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The Bar(rier) Exam: Privilege, Mental Health, and the UBE
Kavya Parsa and Maya Furukawa
Kavya Parsa, a soon-to-be-law clerk and applicant to the Iowa Bar, and Maya Furukawa, a middle school English teacher at a private school in Silver Spring, MD for students with language-based learning differences, discuss Kavya's journey to be admitted to practice law and the obstacles that have stood in her way throughout the process...
The Uniform Bar Examination is always given on the last Tuesday and Wednesday in July, even, it turns out, in the midst of a pandemic.
On July 27, the date of the bar exam, 1,126 lives were lost to COVID-19. Despite this, today almost 200 future lawyers — myself included — sat in-person for the first half of Iowa's administration of the two-day bar exam. Thousands of other law graduates did the same across the 15 states that refused to move online, postpone the exam, offer alternative dates, or institute diploma privileges.
If risking your life to pass an exam does not seem absurd enough, consider that the bar exam is merely the purported last obstacle in a legal steeplechase that never truly ends.
Obtaining the right to take the Bar Exam is a financially cataclysmic and exhausting event in itself. Like most graduate school students, my University of Virginia law degree cost me more than a moderately sized house. With my degree, I could apply to take the bar exam, but this was only one of the many requirements for entry.
The financial path to the bar can sound like a MasterCard advertisement:
Bar Exam: $800
Bar Exam Prep Course: $860 (a steal, because I got the public service discount)
The right to type essays on the exam, rather than hand write them: $122
Law School: $230,000+
The privilege of being able to afford these things: Priceless
Of the 1.3 million lawyers in the United States in 2015, 75% worked in private law firms, where the average lawyer's salary is upwards of $120,000 annually. For these privileged businesspeople, the foregoing numbers are simply a rational investment. For some of us, however, the bar can be insurmountable.
And it's not just about the money.
Paying for the bar exam is just one of a series of hurdles one might be asked to clear. To prove my character and fitness, I submitted 49 pages of paperwork, three letters of reference, and a detailed description of every address and job I have held since the age of 18.
On page 22, the Iowa bar application requested that applicants list every judicial or administrative proceeding to which they have been a party. I disclosed an "Emergency Hospitalization Order Pursuant to 229.22(2) and (3)" from November 21, 2017.
On November 20, 2017, I attempted suicide by antidepressant overdose. My parents took me to the hospital, and I was put on a seizure watch. The next day, the hospital sent a psychologist to evaluate me, and I refused to speak to him. He recommended I be committed to the care of a hospital in Des Moines, and a magistrate signed the order. It was my third hospitalization for depression with suicidal ideations. The only difference was the first two times I signed the paperwork myself.
On June 2, 2020, the Iowa Board of Law Examiners held a hearing to evaluate my fitness to sit for the July bar exam. I provided letters from two psychologists confirming my current mental health. I described my mental health history to them in more detail than one ever should. I recounted my treatment regimen in detail and promised to continue taking antidepressants and seeing a psychologist. I laid myself bare before six strangers and an acquaintance.
Six days later, I received an email confirming that yes, I would be permitted to take that exam for which I had studied, paid, and emotionally flagellated myself.
My story is emblematic of a larger problem. One of discrimination on the basis of finances and mental health, and the misconceptions therein. But it's also more than that.
COVID-19 is shedding light on inequity, including a small movement to enact diploma privileges for bar entry in lieu of the bar exam. Unfortunately, we in the legal profession are insulated from change by our own privilege. Those of us who would advocate for the rights of others are limiting our own rights for fear of retaliation from the powerful institution we seek to join. Maybe it is time instead to reflect and change so that the legal profession can truly be a vehicle of justice instead of a bar to it.
On the morning of day two of the exam, I woke up unable to concentrate on my exam for worrying about the possible response to this piece. I wondered whether some might read it and condemn me for belittling a sacred tradition. Worse, I feared some might read about my mental health and conclude that I am in fact unfit to be a lawyer. To those people, I offer the following: 1. Like the 18% of examinees on average each year, I may have failed the bar exam. 2. It's not about me. For everyone who was lucky enough to take the bar exam, there may be ten others who were denied due to a criminal conviction, psychiatric disorder, academic violation, or anything else. There are assuredly thousands of others who, for whatever reason, simply never made it this far. Of those thousands of people, are we truly willing to believe that only the people who passed the bar exam are good enough to be lawyers? 3. It is very hard to commit fraud on the bar. Before we could take the multiple-choice exam, the National Council of Bar Examiners requires all examinees to provide a handwriting sample. If anyone doubts my identity, they may refer to the back of my MBE scantron form. Like every other examinee's form, it reads "Old ways won't open new doors."
Kavya Parsa, J.D. will be clerking beginning August 3rd. She has been interning in the legal field since 2016. She is a former Law Intern for the Southern District of Iowa, Americorps Legal Intern at Iowa Legal Aid, Extern at Al Otro Lado, Intern at Iowa Attorney General's Office, and Extern at Animal Welfare Institute. She holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in Literary Studies from Beloit College.
Maya Furukawa, M.S. is a middle school English teacher at a private school for students with language-based learning differences. She is the former Managing Editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal and has a short story forthcoming in The Bangalore Review. She holds an MS in Secondary Education from Johns Hopkins University and a double-BA in Creative Writing and Literary Studies from Beloit College.
Suggested citation: Kavya Parsa and Maya Furukawa, The Bar(rier) Exam: Privilege, Mental Health, and the UBE, JURIST – Student Commentary, July 31, 2020, https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2020/07/parsa-furukawa-bar-exam-mental-health/.


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Not that there's anything wrong with that...
It serves him right for hanging around with Madonna:
BOSTON - Stating that someone is homosexual does not libel or slander them, particularly in light of new court decisions granting gays more rights, a federal judge has ruled.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner came as she threw out a lawsuit by a former boyfriend of pop singer Madonna who claimed he was libeled because his name appeared in a photo caption in a book about Madonna - under a picture of Madonna walking with a gay man.
I'd be amused if some gay group sued this guy for defamation because he said calling him gay was defamatory.
Know your place
Mark's Bitch Letter Generator for women, and Mark's Apology Note Generator
Pictures and profiles of Al Qaeda suspects
Right here, via The Corner.
Stem cells - why can't the ESCR proponents be honest?
Call me a Cro-Magnon if you want, but sometimes the only response some people deserve is a good old-fashioned bust in the mouth. And these lying conniving embryonic stem cell advocates are heading rapidly for that territory. I've been sitting on this post for a few days gradually sucking out venom and haven't fully succeeded.
See this by Eric Cohen on National Review Online. First the general:
The promise of embryonic-stem-cell research is very real but wholly speculative. No human therapies of any kind have yet been developed or tested, and none are on the horizon. And the notion that embryonic stem cells will cure "cancer" and "heart disease," broad categories of disease that encompass a complex array of particular ailments, is unsupported by even informed conjectures.
Now more specific:
"There are estimated to be more than 400,000 IVF embryos, which are currently frozen and will likely be destroyed if not donated, with informed consent of the couple, for research." This implies that while the Bush policy funds research on only a few dozen lines, hundreds of thousands of embryos are out there for scientific use. But this is simply false. The same 2003 study that arrived at the 400,000 number made it clear that only about three percent of these frozen embryos are actually available for research — the others remain in the custody of the parents who created them, and are specifically designated for future use in initiating a pregnancy. Whether the parents really plan to implant them or not — some parents simply cannot bear to let them go — these embryos are not public property. The study further did the math, and concluded that if all available frozen embryos were used only for embryonic-stem-cell research, they would yield about 275 lines of stem cells. Not thousands, let alone hundreds of thousands, but 275 is all scientists can expect to get from frozen IVF embryos.
This points to a serious question about the intentions of embryonic-stem-cell advocates. In the May issue of Scientific American, prominent embryonic-stem-cell researchers Robert Lanza and Nadia Rosenthal wrote that the actual therapeutic use of embryonic stem cells would be hampered by immune-rejection problems that could only be overcome by cell treatments compatible with the immune system of patients. "Hundreds of thousands of ES-cell lines might be needed to establish a bank of cells with immune matches for most potential patients," they wrote, and "creating that many lines could require millions of discarded embryos from IVF clinics."
We will likely never have "millions of discarded embryos," and nothing the president can do could change that. Moreover, the article suggests how far we might be from any workable treatments using embryonic stem cells. Does the House letter mean to call for a national project whose end is millions of embryos created for research? How many of the 206 signers understood that this might be necessary? And while it is true that many scientists believe we can find cures with fewer embryos, what will they do if Lanza and Rosenthal are right?
B-b-but we only have a few lines to work with!:
Finally, the letter offers no evidence that the number of available lines has already proven to be a barrier to any particular researcher's specific work at this point. No other advocate or scientist has offered such evidence either. It is certainly true that more money for more lines could mean more work would get done. But that is not the same as saying that ongoing work has hit a wall because of the limited number of lines now available for federal funding, or that it will soon hit such a wall.
But here's the part that really chaps me:
Stepping back, a pattern of facts emerges. Embryonic-stem-cell research is promising but so far purely speculative; the federal government in no way limits such research in the private sector; supporters of the research believe they can obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in private funding in the next few years, as the creation of new stem-cell institutes at Harvard, Stanford, and the University of Wisconsin demonstrates; and yet, despite the ethical objections of a very substantial portion of the public, stem-cell advocates insist that Congress should compel every American to support the research with tax dollars, and to make that happen they inflate the promise and distort the facts surrounding the research.
We have obscenely rich individuals like Ted Turner (giving a $billion in stock to the UN? He would have done better with Enron) and George Soros who fund fashionable lefty causes - why don't they pony up for this rather than roping in all of us? Obviously this isn't about human health, it's about getting their way and forcing the rest of us to participate - they can have what they want without involving the govt and they choose not to.
Enough - I'm not disgustingly rich, so if I know what's good for me I'll have to drop this now. Just read it all, and then ask yourself why it's more important for the govt to pay than it is to get the work done.
"For more than a decade I believed that the first President Bush made a massive mistake in leaving Saddam Hussein in power in 1991. I almost voted against him for this wobbliness in 1992. But the longer the fight drags on in Iraq today, the more I thank God that the first Gulf War stopped with the liberation of Kuwait."
Criminalizing policy disputes
Carl Bernstein has drunk the Kool-Aid. Whatsamatter Carl, been second banana to Bob Woodward for too long?
Today, the issue may not be high crimes and misdemeanors, but rather Bush's failure, or inability, to lead competently and honestly.
Yeah, I like the idea of a President leading competently and honestly, but unlike Bernstein I think we have that now. To hint at impeachment is far beyond the pale of even rabid partisanship.
Elsewhere in the article Bernstein rants about Abu Ghraib prison, going so far as to speak of an American Gulag. That's rich, because the original Gulags in the Soviet Union were often used for people guilty of "thought crime". You know, people who disagreed with the Establishment. Working from the wrong set of principles, such people obviously could not be competent or honest, so they had to be locked up.
And if Bernstein keeps this nonsense up maybe he should be confined himself. Not to a gulag, but an old-fashioned mental hospital.
Right answer, wrong reason
Back in engineering school it wasn't enough just to get the right answer. The staff went over the supporting work, and if they didn't like it you'd still get marked wrong. It cost me letter grades more than once when I was a little too terse for somebody's taste.
But I wanted to be an engineer. If I were willing to settle for lower standards I would have been a green.
That's not to say that greens can't come up with the right answer sometimes. Looky here:'Only nuclear power can now halt global warming':
Global warming is now advancing so swiftly that only a massive expansion of nuclear power as the world's main energy source can prevent it overwhelming civilisation, the scientist and celebrated Green guru, James Lovelock, says.
His call will cause huge disquiet for the environmental movement. It has long considered the 84-year-old radical thinker among its greatest heroes, and sees climate change as the most important issue facing the world, but it has always regarded opposition to nuclear power as an article of faith. Last night the leaders of both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth rejected his call.
Professor Lovelock, who achieved international fame as the author of the Gaia hypothesis, the theory that the Earth keeps itself fit for life by the actions of living things themselves, was among the first researchers to sound the alarm about the threat from the greenhouse effect.
We've learned a lot since the last generation of nuclear power plants was built. They've performed well in terms of safety and reliability, and the next generation will be even better. And whether you buy Lovelock's beliefs about global warning or not, you have to recognize the correlation between the availability of energy and economic capacity.
So under the circumstances, I'll give Lovelock full credit for getting the right answer.
In recognition of a recent travesty at Cannes, I present "The Man without a Country".
News cycles
That journalistic paragon Matt Drudge's front page currently contains this: "President fell off bike Saturday.. Kerry told reporters in front of cameras, 'Did the training wheels fall off?'... Reporters are debating whether to treat it is as on or off the record... Developing... " Yep, that's our diplomat - Indymedia or DU couldn't have said it any better.
Yep, President Bush had a spill:
President Bush suffered cuts and bruises early Saturday afternoon when he fell while mountain biking on his ranch, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said.
Bush was on the 16th mile of a 17-mile ride when he fell, Duffy said. He was riding with a military aide, members of the Secret Service and his personal physician, Dr. Richard Tubb.
"He had minor abrasions and scratches on his chin, upper lip, nose, right hand and both knees," Duffy said. "Dr. Tubb, who was with him, cleaned his scratches, said he was fine. The Secret Service offered to drive him back to the house. He declined and finished his ride."
Bush was wearing his bike helmet and a mouth guard when the mishap occurred. Duffy said he didn't know exactly how the accident happened.
"It's been raining a lot and the topsoil is loose," the spokesman said. "You know this president. He likes to go all out. Suffice it to say he wasn't whistling show tunes."
Of course Kerry had his own little spill a while back. No mountain biker, he fell when he hit a patch of sand. He wasn't riding a mountain bike, but all the same it's that much less reason to be speaking of someone else's "training wheels".
Heads and tails
: "It has been reported that when the remains of Japanese soldiers were repatriated from the Mariana Islands in 1984, sixty percent were missing their skulls.'" Follow that link to get an idea of what kind of pictures were published in Life magazine during WWII.
Link stolen from Colby Cosh. The link that follows includes one of those prison pictures that looks like a Massachusetts bachelor party, so it may be NSFW, but he has much to say about the Abu Ghraib prison affair here. (Arse gratia artis? - oh stop it!).


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A date for your diary. The Athletics East AGM is on Friday, 23 October 2015 with the venue to be confirmed. A short AGM will commence the evenings proceedings with the annual presentations reflecting and celebrating the 2014/2015 season and athletes performances to follow.


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How to Survive 2 Review
Halo Wars 2 Review
by Gary Bailey on February 16, 2017
PlatformPCXbox One
DeveloperCreative Assembly
PublisherMicrosoft Studios
Reviewed OnXbox One
The Halo franchise is an odd one. The original trilogy was loved by the fans, be it for the hugely entertaining multiplayer content (Halo 2 is arguably the reason why Xbox Live initially succeeded) or for the immense depth of its bonkers story, there is no denying the quality on offer. Halo 3's ODST spin-off was also full of great moments, even introducing the co-op brilliance of Firefight, and boasted a cast that reunited a few of the Firefly cast – Nathan Fillion's character even went on to play a starring role in Halo 5. But once Bungie took its final bow in 2010 with Halo: Reach, leaving both Microsoft and Halo behind, many thought the franchise would be lost. When 343 Industries stepped in and Halo 4 eventually arrived (a game I personally loved), fans were quite heavily split, and when Halo 5: Guardians arrived in 2015, things weren't exactly looking great for Microsoft's flagship series.
Amidst all this, Ensemble Studios, the studio behind Age of Empires, released Halo Wars in 2009, a real time strategy game set in the Halo Universe. It was fairly well received and was certainly well made, especially as the RTS formula rarely translates well to consoles, but this meant that it was largely overlooked by a Halo audience used to simply shooting its way through any problem. That's not a dig at the fans by any means; hell, I fall neatly into their ranks myself, but that reason is precisely why Halo Wars could have done much better – if I could play and enjoy it, any other Halo player could too. Perhaps that's why Microsoft decided to take a chance and give Halo Wars another chance to shine.
With lessons learned, and another veteran RTS developer at the helm in Creative Assembly (known for the terrific Total War series on PC), Halo Wars 2 finally arrives on Xbox One. Picking up 28 years after the end of the first Halo Wars, with the UNSC ship Spirit of Fire adrift in space, the crew's cryo sleep has ended due to an anomaly in an uncharted sector. Taking place after the events of Halo 5, this old crew finds itself in a new era of warfare, stumbling across a world inhabited by a new and deadly enemy: Atriox, a Brute warlord who defied the Covenant and declared war on…well, everyone. Including the Covenant. We learn this via a stunningly detailed cinematic created by Blur, the team behind the gorgeous cinematics in Halo 2 Anniversary.
Now, jumping straight into one of the main game modes isn't likely to be the best idea, not when there are a handful of short tutorial missions on offer from the start. Sure, the lure of Halo Wars 2's campaign will be strong, but these simple-but-comprehensive tutorials will teach you both the basics and some more advanced techniques that will serve you well during your time with the Spirit of Fire. There are three in total, the first two talking you through general controls and unit-selection techniques, etc. The third tutorial talks you through the new Blitz game mode, a multiplayer point-capturing mode that employs a card system that seemingly evolved from Halo 5's Req packs.
Blitz is played much like any other mode in the game, but the strength of your army lies in your deck of cards. You will periodically use these cards, earned through in-game actions and levelling up in your career, but packs are also available to buy through the Xbox Store. Of course, there are always worries that this kind of thing promotes a "pay to win" mechanic, but money is no substitute for good tactics. A good player will likely annihilate an amateur trying to buy their way to wins.
The main game itself offers a similar mechanic to Blitz, but instead of cards, ground troops can be aided by the orbiting Spirit of Fire, via Leader abilities. A quick tap of the left trigger brings up a radial menu, revealing a number of options that can bring in special units like ODST squads, or call down devastating airstrikes to take down tough enemies or to hold off large groups. All these options have cooldown times though, so there will be no ability spamming here. In later missions, careful and strategic use of Leader abilities can be the difference between success and failure. On more than one occasion, an airstrike saved my bacon. This is just one of the things that Halo Wars 2 gets absolutely right, helping to keep things manageable without the use of a mouse and keyboard.
Using a controller works extremely well, actually. RTS games often suffer on consoles because the control schemes just don't fit, or developers haven't configured them to meet the pace of the gameplay, but Creative Assembly has used its own expertise from developing countless PC RTS games, not to mention taking cues from the very successful Starcraft II, to bring an incredibly accessible game to Xbox One. There are still a few issues when things get hectic, but tapping the d-pad's directions can quickly cycle the camera between bases, or instantly move to units that are under fire. Holding the right trigger and using the d-pad also assigns your selected units to groups, allowing you to create tailored squads for defensive or offensive purposes, or to simply protect multiple map sectors more easily. You can even use the right bumper to select all units on screen, or double tap it to select every unit you have, for when you want to crush that final enemy. Or go out in a blaze of glory.
It's not always a straight fight, though. Building your base is often a big part of keeping your forces equipped for the battles ahead. Unlike most games in the RTS genre, you can't just build a base anywhere you fancy, there are set plots for them. Once your base building is ready, it unlocks a handful of building plots beside it for adding generators and supply pads (both producing power and supplies that act as currency to train/build new units), as well as other buildings that will allow you to bring special units into the fray. Each building can be upgraded too, including the main base itself, which is often vital due to the addition of turret spots that allow you to add an extra line of defence. Some missions offer extra bases too, usually with limited spaces, that simply offer more local reinforcements for when you're well away from your main base.
Not that Halo Wars 2 is all about base building. Far from it, actually. Its best missions give you more limited options, leaving you to rely on the heroes and various other specialist units. In one particular mission, you're restricted to using snipers to scout out enemies, in order for the new Kodiac artillery tanks (think Starcraft II's Siege Tanks) to bombard them with devastating cannon blasts from afar. It's this variety that constantly keeps the game fresh, as every mission feels different. The hero units help with that too, especially because they're Spartans. There are only a few of these assigned to the Spirit of Fire, going back to Halo's beginnings, when Spartans were far less common and far tougher to kill. These hero units can deal out (and take) way more punishment than almost every other unit at your disposal, and can even commandeer enemy Wraith tanks, among other things. Let's face it, Spartans are supposed to be cool, and damn, everything they do looks cool in Halo Wars 2. And these awesome, heroic feats happen as you play, not just in cinematics. Watching a Spartan take control of a Wraith never gets old.
That's not to say that cinematics aren't sometimes the place for amazing heroics, and Halo Wars 2 certainly isn't lacking on that front. The in-game cinematics are cool enough most of the time, but Blur's CG scenes are on another level, even by Halo's high standards. The way the game transitions seamlessly from gameplay to CG cut-scenes is fantastic, meaning that the story never really stops, and the story really does hold its own in the Halo universe. Atriox and his Banished army are a formidable force, and Cutter's UNSC crew is great to witness, especially the Spartan squad and Isabel, the new AI. The only real drawback to Halo Wars 2's story is that it sometimes feels like a setup for another story, and its ending is incredibly abrupt. The game itself doesn't end abruptly, the final mission feels like the climactic battle it should be, but when the credits rolled I was left feeling much like I was at the end of Halo 2.
The presentation of Halo Wars 2's story is spectacular however, and this presentation extends to every part of the game. Despite Marty O'Donnell leaving the Halo franchise after Reach alongside Bungie, his legacy lives on with a stunning score that incorporates the iconic Halo theme and brings in a new flavour of orchestral goodness. The menu theme alone is beautiful. The sound design as a whole is pure Halo, with great banter between marines (they even comment on seeing Spartans in action, up close) and meaty explosions, only Halo Wars 2 goes even further due to the sheer scale of the battles happening on screen. Those battles look glorious too. Units may not have the extensive detail of Halo 5's Spartans, but they have a slightly more stylised look to suit the smaller scale of RTS characters, and the animation is sublime. The maps are beautifully lit, with realistic lighting that casts shadows across the ground, and everything looks like a Halo game should. Even the metallic Forerunner areas manage to look stunning, despite being comprised mostly of expanses of drab silver. There's a certain character to every environment.
All Halo games are known for their multiplayer aspect, and RTS games are no different these days, so Halo Wars 2 doesn't skimp on those options either. You can fight with up to five other players in a number of game modes, from a straight deathmatch to Strongholds (in which you attempt to take down the other players' bases) and Dominion (hold set points for as long as possible, first to a set score wins), and then there's the Blitz mode I mentioned earlier. These modes are all fun and can even be played against the AI – Blitz even has a co-op Firefight mode, in which you attempt to survive against increasingly difficult waves of enemies, using your card decks to help bolster your ranks. Time will tell if the matchmaking helps to keep things fair, so that players of my meagre ability aren't matched against pros, but there's a lot of potential here, especially in the new Blitz mode.
I know I've mentioned Starcraft II a couple of times in this review, but it's certainly the yardstick by which most RTS games are measured and this one is no different. There are obvious comparisons to be drawn between both games and Creative Assembly certainly wears its influences proudly, but Halo Wars 2 never strays into clone territory. It stands well on its own, creating an experience that combines cinematic storytelling with varied and interesting strategic gameplay, as well as throwing in a few explosions for which Halo is often known. And best of all, it manages to be accessible enough that even a blunt object like myself can finish the campaign.
Accessible gameplay, but depth is there for veterans of RTS games
Story is great, for both fans and newcomers alike
Looks and sounds gorgeous
Blitz mode is a unique multiplayer addition
Skirmish modes against AI offer almost infinite replayability
Controls can still be an issue when things get hectic
Story sometimes feels like a setup for another game
SCORE OUT OF TEN
With its intuitive controls and accessible nature, Halo Wars 2 could finally be the RTS to break the console market, and may even be able to take on the mighty Starcraft II.
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Film-makers and actors from around the globe are expected to sign a petition calling for the release of the dissident Iranian director Jafar Panahi. An Iranian court yesterday sentenced the 50-year-old to six years in prison, his lawyer said, and banned him from directing or producing films for 20 years.
The petition was drawn up by a group of European film organisations, including the Cannes film festival and the magazine Cahiers du Cinema. It invites signatures from writers, film-makers and actors, "as well as every man and woman who loves freedom and for whom human rights are fundamental".
Panahi, a critic of the Ahmadinejad regime who supported the protests that followed 2009's disputed Iranian elections, was convicted of "propaganda against the system". In his plea to the court, he said: "My imprisonment and that of those I work with symbolises the kidnapping by those in power of all artists in the country." Panahi will be jailed alongside another film-maker, Mohammad Rasoulof.
Panahi won the Camera d'Or award at the 1995 Cannes film festival for The White Balloon and the Golden Lion prize at the 2000 Venice festival for The Circle. His other pictures include Offside and Crimson Gold.
The director was initially arrested at his home in March, when he was accused of making an "anti-regime" documentary about the green uprising. His incarceration sparked protests from the likes of Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee and Steven Spielberg, while Juliette Binoche used the stage at last May's Cannes film festival to call for Panahi's release.


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Week 11: Saturday Recap
TFG 39.9 - 17.1 70.0 44 - 13 77.2
RBA 40.0 - 17.0 70.1 41 - 16 71.9
Oregon Ducks 53, Stanford Cardinal 30; 166 plays
(4) Stanford 38, (6) Oregon 33 (59.7%); 173 plays
Oregon didn't so much win this one as Stanford handed it to them on a silver platter. The Ducks got 7 points off an interception, another 15 off a pair of turnovers that gave them the ball inside the Cardinal 20, and 14 points off three freak long plays of nearly 60 yards apiece (which Stanford has never done so far). That's 22 directly from turnovers, and 14 from improbably bad defense. On the flip side, Stanford's average starting position on their four touchdown drives was their own 26, and they didn't get much help from Oregon's two turnovers. The Ducks walk out of Palo Alto as the presumed Pac-12 champions, but in the process kill any chances of a Pac-12 reappearance in this year's national title game.
RBA said this would be a coin flip. The Ducks won by 23. However, if you watched it, you could start to see where this game was closer than that. The Cardinal committed an uncharacteristic five turnovers, including one pick six after the ball hit a Stanford receiver right in the hands. On the other hand, Oregon scored touchdowns on 4th and 7 and 4th and 1 plays. As Ken Massey said, the weaker team wins 30% of the time, and this is likely one of those times.
Unstoppable Force/Immovable Object Game
Alabama Crimson Tide 24, Mississippi State Bulldogs 7; 155 plays
(1) Alabama 31, (29) Mississippi St. 13 (95.3%); 159 plays
This game was close throughout the night, but it was never really competitive. The Bulldogs were held scoreless until the 4th quarter, and Alabama ground out the clock with Trent Richardson. RBA predicted an 18-point Crimson Tide victory. In practice, they won by 17. I consider that an accurate accessment.
The only two numbers you need to know are "386" and "131"; those are the number of yards Alabama and Mississippi State tallied, respectively. For Alabama this game was a relative sprint, totaling 155 plays. And two can play the "did I guess the spread right" game; I had the Crimson Tide by 16. Mission Accomplished.
Unstoppable Force 7, Immovable Object 3
Shootout of the Week
Oklahoma State Cowboys 66, Texas Tech Red Raiders 6; 179 plays
(11) Oklahoma St. 43, (60) Texas Tech 33 (77.1%); 182 plays
This game came in four points below what I thought the combined score would be. The bad news for Texas Tech is that I underestimated the Cowboys by 23 and overestimated the Red Raiders by 27. The good news for Oklahoma State is that this finally showed that they could play some defense when it counted, which is going to come in handy when they face off against Oklahoma.
(7) Oklahoma St. 42, (56) Texas Tech 28 (78.4%); 176 plays
Well, we found our shootout. Oklahoma State scored at will until pulling the starters and then scored some more. I suggested that Texas Tech's high variance strategy could keep them in the game. Unfortunately, it can also do the opposite. In this case, the fast-paced Texas Tech passing game was ineffective, giving the Cowboys more possessions, leading to many more scores.
Coin Toss Game of the Week
Michigan State Spartans 37, Iowa Hawkeyes 21; 182 plays
(23) Iowa 24, (22) Michigan St. 21 (69.5%); 165 plays
Well, I missed this one. Michigan State lead 31-7 at the half, and it was never close. Meh, it happens.
(22) Michigan St. 31, (33) Iowa 29 (57.3%); 162 plays
Also not much to say about this game in and of itself. However it does have implications for the Big Ten championship, as we appear to be headed for a Michigan State-Wisconsin rematch. Wisconsin has to be Illinois on the road (doable) and then Penn State at home (also doable). If that happens then we could be treated to Hail Mary, Part II. And frankly that sounds much more interesting than replaying that other recent big game of note.
Coin Toss Record: TFG 5, RBA 4.
TFG 405.5 - 141.5 74.1 401 - 146 73.3
RBA 401.7 - 145.3 73.4 393 - 154 71.8
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Codex Althaeban Malik otherwise known as The Book of Aberrations is an intermediary volume between Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Book of the Black Dragon. The premise for this intermediary volume entails orientating the sorcerer to the Proklosis Ring, this being the horizon of the Black Dragon. Extrapolating aspects mentioned in Volume 1, Codex Althaeban Malik uncovers the philosophy informing the overall Ëœwork as it has so far been presented. Addressing the positing of the sorcerer in relation to the Black Dragon, the Codex explores the idea of designators, signifiers and the signified, and explains that when these are understood conduits open which connect the contemporary practitioner to the first sorcerer of the Ophidian current Azi-Dahaka. It does not end there though, because as the author explains, it is not only Azi-Dahaka which is acknowledged as having a vital role in developing telluric sorcery, but his shadow: the Tenebrae Walker Althaeban Malik, who having been engulfed by distortions emanates qualities that emulate the negativity of the Black Dragon.
Galvanising form from negative existence allows the Codex to analyse and describe how the Proklosis Ring is to be used as an orientating device, even while the ritual precinct remains exposed. Accompanying this philosophical exposition of the Black Dragon, the Codex addresses, in some depth, a ritual procedure which involves the inscribing of each letter of I-Azi-Dahaka upon the earthen floor. The purpose of this rite is to draw in the extent of the Proklosis Ring without needing to contain. Each letter operates as a portal, together they portend the awakening of the sorcerous self. Additional layers of meaning are consequently added, thus exposing metaphysical associations to non-being that have up until now been hidden by the mantle of Otherness. Incorporating emanations from the Black Dragon, including the daemon emissaries and djinn from Volume 1, along with a retinue of familiar spirits not previously mentioned are thereby conveyed for the strict purpose of provisioning the sorcerer with a corpus of referential allegiances.
The Codex has accordingly been designed to provide a complimentary meta-narrative to the first volume of Book of the Black Dragon. Expounding further possibilities and deviations for those who walk the dirt track road, the Codex Althaeban Malik brings cognition to the fore, along with a phenomenological appetite for understanding what lies between words and places. In the light of this approach Althaeban Malik and the Black Dragon prepares the practitioner for what is yet to come from out of the telluric domain.


Merits, Judgment, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 63 (Nov. 19, 1999); Inter Joint Concurring Opinion of Judges A.A. Cancado Trinidade & A. Abreu-Burelli, Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. (ser. C) No. 63 (Nov. 19, 1999).
The Commission submitted the case to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, claiming that Guatemala had violated Articles 1 (Obligation to Respect Rights), 4 (Right to Life), 5 (Right to Humane Treatment), 7 (Right to Personal Liberty), 8 (Right to a Fair Trial), Article 19 (Rights of the Child), and 25 (Right to Judicial Protection) of the American Convention on Human Rights. The Commission also cited Articles 1, 6 and 8 of the Inter-American Convention to Prevent and Punish Torture.
The Court found the state in violation of Art. 4 (right to life) of the American Convention on Human Rights. The Court recognized the right to life is a fundamental human right, essential for the exercise of other human rights, and whose restriction is "inadmissible." The Court reiterated that States have the obligation to guarantee "the conditions required" to prevent violations of the right to life.
The Court held that the state had violated Art. 5 (right to humane treatment) based on the "ill-treatment and physical and psychological torture" received by the victims from state agents and, particularly, national police force. Also, the Court found that incommunicado detention as a violation of the right to humane treatment because of the moral and psychological suffering inflicted on the person detained.
"The right to life is a fundamental human right, and the exercise of this right is essential for the exercise of all other human rights. If it is not respected, all rights lack meaning. Owing to the fundamental nature of the right to life, restrictive approaches to it are inadmissible. In essence, the fundamental right to life includes, not only the right of every human being not to be deprived of his life arbitrarily, but also the right that he will not be prevented from having access to the conditions that guarantee a dignified existence. States have the obligation to guarantee the creation of the conditions required in order that violations of this basic right do not occur and, in particular, the duty to prevent its agents from violating it." para. 144.
"The Court wishes to indicate the particular gravity of the instant case since the victims were youths, three of them children, and because the conduct of the State not only violated the express provision of Article 4 of the American Convention, but also numerous international instruments, that devolve to the State the obligation to adopt special measures of protection and assistance for the children within its jurisdiction." para. 146.
"[O]ne of the reasons that incommunicado detention is considered to be an exceptional instrument is the grave effects it has on the detained person. Indeed, isolation from the outside world produces moral and psychological suffering in any person, places him in a particularly vulnerable position, and increases the risk of aggression and arbitrary acts in prisons." para. 164.
"creating a threatening situation or threatening an individual with torture may, at least in some circumstances, constitute inhuman treatment." para. 165.
"[P]ersons who is unlawfully detained […] is in an exacerbated situation of vulnerability creating a real risk that his other rights, such as the right to humane treatment and to be treated with dignity, will be violated." para. 166.
"[W]e should recall the presumption established by the European Court when considering that the State is responsible for ill-treatment exhibited by a person who has been in the custody of State agents, if the authorities are incapable of demonstrating that those agents did not incur in such behavior." (Citing Aksoy v. Turkey (1996), Ribitsch v. Austria (1995), and Tomasi v. France (1992)). para. 170.
"There can no longer be any doubt that the fundamental right to life belongs to the domain of jus cogens." Cançado & Abreu Concurring Opinion, para. 2.
"[T]he right to life as belonging, at the same time, to the domain of civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights, thus illustrating the interrelation and indivisibility of all human rights." Cançado & Abreu Concurring Opinion, para. 4.
"The needs of protection of the weaker, - such as the children in the streets, - require definitively an interpretation of the right to life so as to comprise the minimum conditions of life with dignity." Cançado & Abreu Concurring Opinion, para. 7.


Founded by John James Frost in 1790, Frost Brothers Ltd of 340/342 Commercial Rd was managed by his grandson – also John James Frost – in 1905, when these photographs were taken. In 1926, the company was amalgamated to become part of British Ropes and now only this modest publication on the shelf in the Bishopsgate Institute bears testimony to the long-lost industry of rope making and yarn spinning in the East End, from which Cable St takes its name.
The First Process in Spinning Manila - The women are shown feeding Hemp up to the spreading machines, taken from the bales as they come from the Philippines. These three machines are capable of manipulating one hundred and twenty bales a day.
The middle section of a machine capable of making rope from three inches up to seven inches in circumference, any length without a splice. It is thirty-two feet in height and driven by an electric motor.
One of our Motors by Crompton 40 BHP - These Manila Ropes have been running eight years and are still in first class condition.
In the last generation's memory, ropemakers lived in the caves outside Castleton in Yorkshire. My mum nursed one of them when she was a new nurse in Sheffield, at the Hallamshire I think.
Years later, when I was little, we went to the ropemakers' caves, where the last ropemaker was still working – though more for tourists than 'real' trade. He was the one my mum had nursed, they remembered each other and he gave us a rope.
I was quite small, so don't remember much. But the cave was dry and wide and I remember the machine, which looked like the one in the second picture.
I have been researching my family tree and have found that many generations of one branch of my family (Spillman – spelt in various ways) were twine and rope makers in the East End of London.
Seeing theses images has given me a greater feel and empathy with how life must have been for them all. Perhaps they are even IN some of these photographs!
I found the photos and information very interesting. I have been researching my ancestors among them, Spillman, Day, Pope, Edwards. So many of them were involved in rope making in Camberwell and thereabouts. So pleased I found this site, very informative. Thanks.
Wow thank you.My great great grandfather was a rope maker around Bermondsey so very helpful .
very interesting. My mother and grandmother both worked in the British Rope Works in Charlton in the 1940s. Although this was later than the period shown in your photos, it has given me a good idea of the process involved. How I wish I had spoken to these ladies about the place and the work.


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Moving plants indoors for winter? Ease them into it gently
Dean Fosdick
Moving houseplants indoors with the onset of cold weather is not your typical furniture-shifting exercise. It requires planning, since houseplants for the most part are tender tropicals and need time to acclimate to a changed growing environment.
"Bring them in over a two-week period," said Kate Karam, editorial director for Monrovia Nursery Co. in Azuza, California. "Some people move them from full sun to full shade (outdoors) to simulate the reduction in indoor lighting. I bring mine in at night and take them out again in the morning. And then eventually I just keep them in."
Houseplants freak out if you simply run them inside and plunk them down on a windowsill, she said. Such haste frequently results in plant shock and leaf drop.
"A little bit of patience will save you a lot of heartbreak," Karam said.
Check closely for such leaf-sucking pests as aphids, mealy bugs and spider mites. Deal with them outdoors if the plants are infested.
"I hose them (plants) down and then give them a good treatment of neem oil," Karam said. Neem oil is an organic pesticide, a byproduct of seeds from the neem tree.
"It's good at killing things that crawl," she said. "Use it at half strength from a spray bottle. It's a helpful thing to have in your arsenal for houseplants."
Quarantine houseplants for a time after bringing them indoors, said Diana Alfuth, an Extension horticulture educator with the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"Sitting outside, there may be all kinds of things living in them," Alfuth said. "One year I brought in my plants and very shortly found a little frog hopping across my dining room floor."
Indoor gardening with tropicals like hibiscus, bougainvillea, mandevilla and palms can get complicated. Tasks to manage include lighting, water, temperature, humidity and nutrition, and they're all inter-related.
"Lighting and watering are the most important," Alfuth said. "Watering is related to how much light there is."
Try placing houseplants in the sunniest areas of the house. Windows filter out the sun, somewhat hampering photosynthesis, the process that creates the sugars and carbohydrates needed for plants to grow.
It also gets cloudier in winter, so consider taking measures to elevate light levels. Keep the windows clean, remove the screens and add supplemental lighting.
Overwatering houseplants is one of the most common mistakes in gardening. It suffocates the roots and allows root fungi to settle in, Alfuth said.
Water only when the plants need it. "Dig your finger into the surface of the soil and if it's dry one-half inch deep, then it's time to water," she said.
Bring plants indoors to avoid chill injury when overnight lows dip consistently into the mid-40s. Most houseplants prefer days between 65 and 75 degrees, with nights about 10 degrees colder, Alfuth said.
Keep plants away from heat vents and out of entryways where drafts can become too dry or too cold.
"There's little active growth in most houseplants in winter so they don't need any fertilizer," said David Trinklein, an Extension horticulturist with the University of Missouri.
"In most cases, overwintering tropical plants not only saves money but also results in larger, more impressive plants the next year," Trinklein said.
For more on overwintering houseplants, see this University of Missouri Extension fact sheet at https://extension2.missouri.edu/g6510.


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Q: Where should I setup a staging environment in Amazon VPC? And testing? I setup the production environment for my service in an Amazon VPC in Oregon:

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*2 availability zones

*1 public subnet (including bastion, nat, and ELBs) and 3 private subnets (database, web servers and configuration/supervision) in each availability zone.

*11 security groups

There are about 25 VMs, for now, and hopefully it will grow.
Now I'm going to setup the staging environment, but I'm not sure where to put it:

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*should I simply put the staging instances next to the production instances? Basically, simply reuse the same Amazon region, the same availability zones, the same subnets and the same security groups?  I would just need to create new ELBs pointing to staging instances, and that's it. Simple.

*or should I put the staging instances in their own subnets, but still in the same region/availability zones?  The public subnets would have to be the same though, because you cannot have two public subnets in a single availability zone.  Having separate subnets might make it easier to manage things, and I could have dedicated routing rules, to go through different nat instances and possibly a different bastion as well.  More complex, but tighter security.  I think I might not need to double the security groups though, because I could have a single overall network ACL forbidding traffic between production and staging subnets.

*or should I duplicate the whole setup in a different VPC?  Since I can only have one VPC per Amazon Region, I would have to do this in a separate region.

The whole point of the staging environment is to be identical to the production environment (or as close as possible).  So setting up staging environment in a different Amazon Region just feels wrong: this rules out option 3, doesn't it?
Option 1 is closest to the target of being as close to production as possible.  But having staging and production environments in the same subnets feels a bit like a potential security issue, right?  So I'm somewhat leaning towards option 2, but I wonder if the potential security  issues are serious enough to justify having twice as many subnets to manage?
And what about the testing environment?  It should resemble production as well, but it does not need to match it as closely: everything can fit on a few instances, no need for ELBs and everything.  Perhaps this environment could all fit in a single dedicated subnet in the same VPC?  Being in the same VPC, it would have simple access to the git repository and chef server and supervision tools and openvpn access, etc.
I'm sure many people have been through these considerations?  What's your take on this?
Thanks.

A: I would say option 3 is best isolation level and prevent your production environment being affected by changes in the staging environment. Also your assumption of one VPC per region seems to be wrong. You can create multiple VPCs within a region as far as I know.
"Since I can only have one VPC per Amazon Region, I would have to do this in a separate region."

A: I would suggest go with Option 2. As your AWS infra grows, you will need Directory Services (Name Servers, User Directory, VM Directory, Lookup services etc.). If you have two VPCs, sharing the Directory Services will not be easy. Also if you need Code Repository (e.g. GitHub) or Build tools (e.g. Jenkins) having three separate VPCs for DEV, Staging and Production will make things really complicated.

A: I would suggest a separate vpc for each environment. All the shared resources can be placed in a shared vpc and have peering between each of the environments to the shared vpc