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The self-portraits reflect an unusually high degree of self-scrutiny.[233] Often they were intended to mark important periods in his life, for example the mid-1887 Paris series were painted at the point where he became aware of Claude Monet, Paul Cezanne and Signac.[234] In Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat, heavy strains of paint spread outwards across the canvas. It is one of his most renowned self-portraits of that period, "with its highly organized rhythmic brushstrokes, and the novel halo derived from the Neo-impressionist repertoire was what Van Gogh himself called a 'purposeful' canvas".[235]
Van Gogh and Gauguin visited Montpellier in December 1888, where they saw works by Courbet and Delacroix in the Musée Fabre.[135] Their relationship began to deteriorate; Van Gogh admired Gauguin and wanted to be treated as his equal, but Gauguin was arrogant and domineering, which frustrated Van Gogh. They often quarrelled; Van Gogh increasingly feared that Gauguin was going to desert him, and the situation, which Van Gogh described as one of "excessive tension", rapidly headed towards crisis point.[136]
After the altercation with Gauguin, Van Gogh returned to his room, where he was assaulted by voices and severed his left ear with a razor (either wholly or in part; accounts differ),[note 9] causing severe bleeding.[142] He bandaged the wound, wrapped the ear in paper, and delivered the package to a woman at a brothel Van Gogh and Gauguin both frequented.[142] Van Gogh was found unconscious the next morning by a policeman and taken to hospital,[145][146] where Félix Rey, a young doctor still in training, treated him. The ear was delivered to the hospital, but Rey did not attempt to reattach it as too much time had passed.[140]
In the best of all worlds the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't. And then I-- they keep saying we can't have our First Amendment rights abridged and we can't have censorship. Well we had it back in the Hays days [Production Code Administration, headed by 'Will H. Hays', the official Hollywood censor office], in the Johnson office days. And I think they should--maybe the American people might bring it back if things get bad enough.
In preparation for Gauguin's visit, Van Gogh bought two beds on advice from the station's postal supervisor Joseph Roulin, whose portrait he painted. On 17 September he spent his first night in the still sparsely furnished Yellow House.[129] When Gauguin consented to work and live in Arles with him, Van Gogh started to work on the Décoration for the Yellow House, probably the most ambitious effort he ever undertook.[130] He completed two chair paintings: Van Gogh's Chair and Gauguin's Chair.[131]
I must have had this wrong for years. When you find something on CLEARANCE I've always taken that to mean it's an item that the store is no longer going to carry, it's an older model and they are making space for newer or it's flawed in someway. These items have always been cash and carry anywhere I've ever shopped and also generally a non refundable sale which is fine. I was proven wrong on all counts today. Enter the Lansing store, was followed around by a creeper sales associate (which I hate. but just ignored him and headed strait for the department I needed. He followed). I've been looking for a particular item that I just have not been able to find. ECSTATIC that not only did I find what i was looking for but also found the color I was looking for AND BONUS it was on CLEARANCE. Creeper sales associate caught up to us and of course wanted to draw our attention to a full priced item after noticing just what we were looking for. What he showed us was not the right color and not what I wanted. Took him over to the one I wanted to get and that's where things got interesting. Not only was I told I could NOT purchase that item today but was told it would have to be ordered. And the best part of all, it would arrive SOMETIME in February!!!! What???? We looked at ordering it online while in the store and there it was. Available, also at the sale price but again would not arrive until sometime in February and to save the $99.00 to have it sent to our home we would have to return there to pick it up. How is this even classified as clearance then? Needless to say, chock up a very disappointing day. And, said creeper sales associate, bye bye commission on that lost sale. Oh, and if you are going to have a recliner in clearance that the handle is busted and won't even recline then a $249.00 price tag seems a bit excessive. This was not the one we were wanting to get it was a different one. It was reassuring(?) however when the sales associate stated they would get someone onto fixing it. Good luck to the poor customer that gets that one. A zero star rating. Sorry. (It would not let me leave zero stars selected so I guess it gets a sympathy one star.
Van Dyke's start in television was with WDSU-TV New Orleans Channel 6 (NBC), first as a single comedian and later as emcee of a comedy program.[18][19][20] Van Dyke's first network TV appearance was with Dennis James on James' Chance of a Lifetime in 1954. He later appeared in two episodes of The Phil Silvers Show during its 1957–58 season. He also appeared early in his career on ABC's The Pat Boone Chevy Showroom and NBC's The Polly Bergen Show. During this time a friend from the Army was working as an executive for CBS television and recommended Van Dyke to that network. Out of this came a seven-year contract with the network.[21] During an interview on NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! program, Van Dyke said he was the anchorman for the CBS morning show during this period with Walter Cronkite as his newsman.[22]
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Van Dyke took a more dramatic turn in the 1990s. He starred in the popular crime drama Diagnosis Murder alongside his real-life son, Barry Van Dyke. Debuting in 1993, the series featured Van Dyke as Dr. Mark Sloan, a medical professional who helped the police solve crimes. The series ended in 2001, but Van Dyke didn't stay away from the small screen for long. He played another amateur detective in a series of TV movies, beginning with 2006's Murder 101. That same year, the actor appeared in the Ben Stiller comedy Night at the Museum.
Van Dyke had four children with his first wife, Margie. The pair lived separate lives for years, before officially divorcing in 1984. The actor became involved with Michelle Triola, an ex-girlfriend of Lee Marvin, in the late 1970s. Trioia had been working as Van Dyke's agent's secretary when they first met. Van Dyke stayed with Triola for nearly 30 years, until her death in 2009. In March 2012, the 86-year-old actor wed 40-year-old makeup artist Arlene Silver.
Van Gogh painted several landscapes with flowers, including roses, lilacs, irises, and sunflowers. Some reflect his interests in the language of colour, and also in Japanese ukiyo-e.[240] There are two series of dying sunflowers. The first was painted in Paris in 1887 and shows flowers lying on the ground. The second set was completed a year later in Arles, and is of bouquets in a vase positioned in early morning light.[241] Both are built from thickly layered paintwork, which, according to the London National Gallery, evoke the "texture of the seed-heads".[242]
Van Gogh was a serious and thoughtful child.[25] He was taught at home by his mother and a governess, and in 1860 was sent to the village school. In 1864 he was placed in a boarding school at Zevenbergen,[26] where he felt abandoned, and campaigned to come home. Instead, in 1866 his parents sent him to the middle school in Tilburg, where he was deeply unhappy.[27] His interest in art began at a young age. He was encouraged to draw as a child by his mother,[28] and his early drawings are expressive,[26] but do not approach the intensity of his later work.[29] Constant Cornelis Huijsmans, who had been a successful artist in Paris, taught the students at Tilburg. His philosophy was to reject technique in favour of capturing the impressions of things, particularly nature or common objects. Van Gogh's profound unhappiness seems to have overshadowed the lessons, which had little effect.[30] In March 1868 he abruptly returned home. He later wrote that his youth was "austere and cold, and sterile".[31]
Here you will find images of ;Van Gogh drawings, watercolors, graphic works, letter sketches, and Van Gogh's paintings. Discussions and critiques on Van Gogh's Starry Night, Sunflowers, Irises, Poppies, The Bedroom, The Mulberry Tree, Blossoming Almond Tree and The Potato Eaters are just a few of the many pieces which are covered. On the drawings and paintings page, you will find a discussion of a few of Van Gogh's drawings which he also created as paintings. To search a list of his paintings by name, date, current location or museum, visit The Gallery section.
^ The pronunciation of "Van Gogh" varies in both English and Dutch. Especially in British English it is /ˌvæn ˈɡɒx/[2] or sometimes /ˌvæn ˈɡɒf/.[3] American dictionaries list /ˌvæn ˈɡoʊ/, with a silent gh, as the most common pronunciation.[4] In the dialect of Holland, it is [ˈvɪnsɛnt fɑŋˈxɔx] (listen), with a voiceless V. He grew up in Brabant, and used Brabant dialect in his writing; if he pronounced his name with a Brabant accent it would be [vɑɲˈʝɔç], with a voiced V and palatalised G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is [vɑ̃ ɡɔɡᶱ].[5]
Gogh, Vincent van: Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant)Landscape at Saint-Rémy (Enclosed Field with Peasant), oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, 1889; in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. 73.66 × 92.07 cm.Photograph by Jenny O'Donnell. Indianapolis Museum of Art, gift of Mrs James W. Fesler in memory of Daniel W. and Elizabeth C. Marmon, 44.74
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Despite a pessimistic diagnosis, Van Gogh recovered and returned to the Yellow House on 7 January 1889.[155] He spent the following month between hospital and home, suffering from hallucinations and delusions of poisoning.[156] In March, the police closed his house after a petition by 30 townspeople (including the Ginoux family) who described him as "le fou roux" (the redheaded madman);[149] Van Gogh returned to hospital. Paul Signac visited him twice in March;[157] in April Van Gogh moved into rooms owned by Dr Rey after floods damaged paintings in his own home.[158] Two months later, he left Arles and voluntarily entered an asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Around this time, he wrote, "Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant."[159]
Van Dyke received a Grammy Award in 1964, along with Julie Andrews, for his performance on the soundtrack to Mary Poppins.[41] In 1970, he published Faith, Hope and Hilarity: A Child's Eye View of Religion a book of humorous anecdotes based largely on his experiences as a Sunday School teacher.[42] Van Dyke was principal in "KXIV Inc." and owned 1400 AM KXIV in Phoenix (later KSUN) from 1965 to 1985.[citation needed]
Van Dyke publicly endorsed Bernie Sanders as his choice for the Democratic candidate in the 2016 US presidential election. Van Dyke, a New Deal Democrat, had not actively campaigned for a candidate since Eugene McCarthy in 1968.[59] In July 2016, Van Dyke said of Donald Trump, "He has been a magnet to all the racists and xenophobes in the country, I haven't been this scared since the Cuban Missile Crisis. I think the human race is hanging in a delicate balance right now, and I'm just so afraid he will put us in a war. He scares me."[60]
Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother is entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Scottish, German, Swiss-German, and Dutch. Although he'd had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the 1960 musical "Bye-Bye Birdie", for which he won a Tony Award, and, then, later in the movie based on that play, Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He has starred in a number of films throughout the years including Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and Fitzwilly (1967), as well as a number of successful television series which won him no less than four Emmys and three made-for-CBS movies. After separating from his wife, Margie Willett, in the 1970s, Dick later became involved with Michelle Triola. Margie and Dick had four children born during the first ten years of their marriage: Barry Van Dyke; Carrie Beth van Dyke; Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke, all of whom are now in their forties and married themselves. He has seven grandchildren, including Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke, Wes Van Dyke and Taryn Van Dyke (Barry's children) and family members often appear with him on Diagnosis Murder (1993).
The same thing happened at the Church of Belgium: In the winter of 1878, van Gogh volunteered to move to an impoverished coal mine in the south of Belgium, a place where preachers were usually sent as punishment. He preached and ministered to the sick, and also drew pictures of the miners and their families, who called him "Christ of the Coal Mines."
In July 1869 Van Gogh's uncle Cent obtained a position for him at the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague.[32] After completing his training in 1873, he was transferred to Goupil's London branch at Southampton Street, and took lodgings at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell.[33] This was a happy time for Van Gogh; he was successful at work, and at 20 was earning more than his father. Theo's wife later remarked that this was the best year of Vincent's life. He became infatuated with his landlady's daughter, Eugénie Loyer, but was rejected after confessing his feelings; she was secretly engaged to a former lodger. He grew more isolated, and religiously fervent. His father and uncle arranged a transfer to Paris in 1875, where he became resentful of issues such as the degree to which the firm commodified art, and was dismissed a year later.[34]
Van Dyke grew up in Danville, Illinois, with his parents Loren and Hazel and younger brother, Jerry, who also became an actor. "Danville was a town of 30,000 people, and it felt as if most of them were relatives," Van Dyke later wrote in his autobiography, My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. His father, Loren, was often away from the family, working as a traveling salesman for the Sunshine Cookie Company.
Van Dyke was born on December 13, 1925, in West Plains, Missouri,[4] to Hazel Victoria (née McCord; 1896 – 1992), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne "Cookie" Van Dyke (1898–1976), a salesman.[5][6][7] He grew up in Danville, Illinois. He is the older brother of actor Jerry Van Dyke (1931–2018), who is best known for a role on the TV series Coach. Van Dyke has Dutch, English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry,[8] with a family line that traces back to Mayflower passenger John Alden.[9]
The name of van Gogh was virtually unknown when he killed himself: only one article about him had appeared during his lifetime. He had exhibited a few canvases at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris between 1888 and 1890 and in Brussels in 1890; both salons showed small commemorative groups of his work in 1891. One-man shows of his work did not occur until 1892.
Van Dyke is the recipient of five Primetime Emmys, a Tony, and a Grammy Award, and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1995.[1] He received the Screen Actors Guild's highest honor, the SAG Life Achievement Award, in 2013.[2] He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard and has also been recognized as a Disney Legend.[3]
They contain a wide array of physiognomical representations.[230] Van Gogh's mental and physical condition is usually apparent; he may appear unkempt, unshaven or with a neglected beard, with deeply sunken eyes, a weak jaw, or having lost teeth. Some show him with full lips, a long face or prominent skull, or sharpened, alert features. His hair may be the usual red, or at times ash coloured.[230]
The Flowering Orchards (also the Orchards in Blossom) are among the first groups of work completed after Van Gogh's arrival in Arles in February 1888. The 14 paintings are optimistic, joyous and visually expressive of the burgeoning spring. They are delicately sensitive and unpopulated. He painted swiftly, and although he brought to this series a version of Impressionism, a strong sense of personal style began to emerge during this period. The transience of the blossoming trees, and the passing of the season, seemed to align with his sense of impermanence and belief in a new beginning in Arles. During the blossoming of the trees that spring, he found "a world of motifs that could not have been more Japanese".[252] Vincent wrote to Theo on 21 April 1888 that he had 10 orchards and "one big [painting] of a cherry tree, which I've spoiled".[253]
In despair of ever being able to overcome his loneliness or be cured, van Gogh shot himself. He did not die immediately. When found wounded in his bed, he allegedly said, "I shot myself.…I only hope I haven't botched it." That evening, when interrogated by the police, van Gogh refused to answer questions, saying, "What I have done is nobody else's business. I am free to do what I like with my own body."
Limited access to life outside the clinic resulted in a shortage of subject matter. Van Gogh instead worked on interpretations of other artist's paintings, such as Millet's The Sower and Noonday Rest, and variations on his own earlier work. Van Gogh was an admirer of the Realism of Jules Breton, Gustave Courbet and Millet,[164] and he compared his copies to a musician's interpreting Beethoven.[165]
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The album "Songs I Like By Dick Van Dyke" was recorded on Friday, November 22, 1963. Early in the recording session, the artists and orchestra were informed of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. In spite of the tragic news, and a deadline from Command Records that had to be met, the recording session continued to a successful conclusion - albeit in an emotionally-charged atmosphere. He said that he scarcely remembers the session because he was in such a state of shock after hearing the news.
Van Gogh strove to be a painter of rural life and nature,[212] and during his first summer in Arles he used his new palette to paint landscapes and traditional rural life.[213] His belief that a power existed behind the natural led him to try to capture a sense of that power, or the essence of nature in his art, sometimes through the use of symbols.[214] His renditions of the sower, at first copied from Jean-François Millet, reflect Van Gogh's religious beliefs: the sower as Christ sowing life beneath the hot sun.[215] These were themes and motifs he returned to often to rework and develop.[216] His paintings of flowers are filled with symbolism, but rather than use traditional Christian iconography he made up his own, where life is lived under the sun and work is an allegory of life.[217] In Arles, having gained confidence after painting spring blossoms and learning to capture bright sunlight, he was ready to paint The Sower.[208]
"I'm having the best so-called retirement of anyone I know, doing what I love doing," Van Dyke told BroadwayWorld.com in late 2010. "Eventually, I may try something less strenuous." The following year, he published a printed version of his story in My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business. Van Dyke shares his ups and downs in the book—including his struggles with alcoholism—with remarkable optimism and poise.
He incorporated his children and grandchildren into his TV endeavors. Son Barry Van Dyke, grandsons Shane Van Dyke and Carey Van Dyke along with other Van Dyke grandchildren and relatives appeared in various episodes of the long-running series Diagnosis: Murder. Although Stacy Van Dyke was not well known in show business, she made an appearance in the Diagnosis: Murder Christmas episode "Murder in the Family" (season 4) as Carol Sloan Hilton, the estranged daughter of Dr. Mark Sloan.
Van Gogh entered the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum on 8 May 1889, accompanied by his carer, Frédéric Salles, a Protestant clergyman. Saint-Paul was a former monastery in Saint-Rémy, located less than 30 kilometres (19 mi) from Arles, and was run by a former naval doctor, Théophile Peyron. Van Gogh had two cells with barred windows, one of which he used as a studio.[162] The clinic and its garden became the main subjects of his paintings. He made several studies of the hospital's interiors, such as Vestibule of the Asylum and Saint-Rémy (September 1889). Some of his works from this time are characterised by swirls, such as The Starry Night. He was allowed short supervised walks, during which time he painted cypresses and olive trees, including Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background 1889, Cypresses 1889, Cornfield with Cypresses (1889), Country road in Provence by Night (1890). In September 1889 he produced two further versions of Bedroom in Arles.[163]
In Paris in 1901 a large Van Gogh retrospective was held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which excited André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, and contributed to the emergence of Fauvism.[269] Important group exhibitions took place with the Sonderbund artists in Cologne in 1912, the Armory Show, New York in 1913, and Berlin in 1914.[273] Henk Bremmer was instrumental in teaching and talking about Van Gogh,[274] and introduced Helene Kröller-Müller to Van Gogh's art; she became an avid collector of his work.[275] The early figures in German Expressionism such as Emil Nolde acknowledged a debt to Van Gogh's work.[276] Bremmer assisted Jacob Baart de la Faille, whose catalogue raisonné L'Oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh appeared in 1928.[277][note 15]
Van Gogh's stylistic developments are usually linked to the periods he spent living in different places across Europe. He was inclined to immerse himself in local cultures and lighting conditions, although he maintained a highly individual visual outlook throughout. His evolution as an artist was slow, and he was aware of his painterly limitations. He moved home often, perhaps to expose himself to new visual stimuli, and through exposure develop his technical skill.[224] Art historian Melissa McQuillan believes the moves also reflect later stylistic changes, and that Van Gogh used the moves to avoid conflict, and as a coping mechanism for when the idealistic artist was faced with the realities of his then current situation.[225]
After Van Gogh's death, memorial exhibitions were held in Brussels, Paris, The Hague and Antwerp. His work was shown in several high-profile exhibitions, including six works at Les XX; in 1891 there was a retrospective exhibition in Brussels.[265] In 1892 Octave Mirbeau wrote that Van Gogh's suicide was an "infinitely sadder loss for art ... even though the populace has not crowded to a magnificent funeral, and poor Vincent van Gogh, whose demise means the extinction of a beautiful flame of genius, has gone to his death as obscure and neglected as he lived."[263]
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In 1942, Van Dyke enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, and ended up in the special services unit. There, he performed in shows and hosted a radio show. After being discharged from the service in 1945, Van Dyke tried his hand at advertising, but after realizing that the business wasn't a good match for him, he joined novelty lip-synching act the "Merry Mutes" and moved to California.
Van Gogh learned about Fernand Cormon's atelier from Theo.[107] He worked at the studio in April and May 1886,[108] where he frequented the circle of the Australian artist John Peter Russell, who painted his portrait in 1886.[109] Van Gogh also met fellow students Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – who painted a portrait of him in pastel. They met at Julien "Père" Tanguy's paint shop,[108] (which was, at that time, the only place where Paul Cézanne's paintings were displayed). In 1886, two large exhibitions were staged there, showing Pointillism and Neo-impressionism for the first time, and bringing attention to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Theo kept a stock of Impressionist paintings in his gallery on boulevard Montmartre, but Van Gogh was slow to acknowledge the new developments in art.[110]
In January 1879 he took up a post as a missionary at Petit-Wasmes[45] in the coal-mining district of Borinage in Belgium. To show support for his impoverished congregation, he gave up his comfortable lodgings at a bakery to a homeless person, and moved to a small hut where he slept on straw.[46] His squalid living conditions did not endear him to church authorities, who dismissed him for "undermining the dignity of the priesthood". He then walked the 75 kilometres (47 mi) to Brussels,[47] returned briefly to Cuesmes in the Borinage, but gave in to pressure from his parents to return home to Etten. He stayed there until around March 1880,[note 3] which caused concern and frustration for his parents. His father was especially frustrated and advised that his son should be committed to the lunatic asylum at Geel.[49][50][note 4]
Though The Dick Van Dyke Show got off to a slow start, it eventually developed quite a following; Van Dyke won over audiences with his good humor and likeability, and won three Emmy Awards for his work on the series. Decades after the show went off the air, in 1966, it remained a popular program in syndication. Following the show's end in 1966, Van Dyke starred on several other TV series, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show, but none captured the public's heart the way his first sitcom did.
On January 27, 2013, at the age of 87, Van Dyke received the 2013 Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award. During his acceptance speech, Van Dyke reminisced about his work over the years as an entertainer and stated that his career has "been full of surprises and a lot of fun." He also praised actors working in the industry today, calling them "the greatest generation of actors" and telling them, "You've all lifted the art to another place now." He continued with a rhetorical question for his Hollywood colleagues: "Aren't we lucky to have found a line of work that doesn't require growing up? I love that." Van Dyke is the 49th recipient of the SAG Life Achievement Award, following 2012 honoree Mary Tyler Moore.


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Wildest weather videos from California's series of storms
Caltrans crews blow up boulder in South Lake Tahoe
Caltrans blew up a boulder that had blocked Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 2, 2023.
OAKLAND, Calif. - Rain-soaked residents hauled out their paddleboards to surf down city streets in San Francisco and Santa Cruz.
In Oakland, a man bounced down flooded Hegenberger Avenue; he was pulled on a rubber tube by a pickup truck in the torrential downpour.
An SUV nosedived into a massive sinkhole in Daly City.
Emergency crews rescued people floating on the top of their cars in Tustin in Southern California and a disabled man and his wife in Elk Grove, up north near Sacramento.
Caltrans crews blew up boulders, which had rolled onto a highway in South Lake Tahoe.
One driver in Sacramento County was not so fortunate. That person was found dead in their submerged car when the levee breached on Highway 99. A weather phenomenon known as an "atmospheric river" dumped up to 5 inches of rain in the Sacramento region on Saturday, said Eric Kurth, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
These are just some of the wild and dramatic events captured on camera starting from just after Christmas to New Year's, with another round of storms expected to wallop Northern California again on Wednesday on Thursday.
The National Weather Service forecast warned Wednesday's storm in the San Francisco Bay Area could cause widespread flooding and power outages, calling it "truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously."
Rainfall in downtown San Francisco hit 5.46 inches on New Year's Eve, making it the second-wettest day on record, behind a November 1994 deluge, the National Weather Service said.
The upcoming powerful system could bring up to 3.5 inches of rain in the Sacramento Valley and up to 3 feet of snow in the mountains along with wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.
Then another storm is forecasted to hit the area this weekend.
Itsthebay posted an Instagram video of two women surfing in San Francisco street on Dec. 31, 2022.
Caltrans crews blow up a boulder in South Lake Tahoe on Jan. 2, 2023.
Turo_Mobbin posted this video of a man tubing down a street in Oakland. Jan 1, 2023
Levee breech in Sacramento County causing flooding on Highway 99. Video: Cal OES
An SUV gets hoisted out of a Daly City sinkhole. Jan. 3, 2023
Flooding on Highway 99 in Sacramento County.

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Update: I've been told this is also a possible fix for users experiencing upload issues with Three Mobile Broadband.
This has been covered before here: Hacking T-Mobile Web Proxy, indeed I discovered the fix from that page so all credit to lewiz.org.
However, this is such a fundamental issue as far as I'm concerned that I think it needs more publicity. T-mobile are selling mobile broadband packages and as far as I'm concerned that means the ability to view a webpage how it was intended to be viewed. Not as though viewed on a blurry 256 bit screen.
The problem is more threatening on the Mac because there is no apparent way around it at all. In IE on Windows if you hover over an image you see a tooltip explaining how to increase the quality of the image.
The solution is to use Firefox with an extension installed called 'Modify Headers'. You'll need to configure the extension once after its installed. Click Tools and then Modify Headers from the main Firefox menu bar. Then, you'll see at the top of it's window a drop down where you can choose 'Add', 'Modify' or 'Filter'. We want to choose 'Add'. Then in the next text input enter 'Pragma' (without quote marks) and then in the second text input add 'no-cache' (again without quote marks). Click the add button to add this rule. Then you need to add another rule. Again choose 'Add' from the drop down, then enter 'Cache-Control' and 'no-cache' into the two text inputs. Add this rule and make sure they are both enabled, they should have a green dot by them. Thats it. You should be able to surf away as you expect now.
Of course its still regrettable that one can't use Safari. If anyone knows a way to make Safari modify headers please let us know.


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Fisking the MLBP/Topps Renewal Announcement.
Yeah, I know. Long time, no blog. I guess I owe you an explanation for that. See, I've been blogging less and Tweeting more. I figure, if I can get my point across in a series of 140-character Tweets, why wait to post a 500-word blog post. Efficiency.
Want more of my takes? Go give me a follow on Twitter @stalegum. DO IT NOW.
So what brings me back to this decreasingly relevant corner of the Stalegum Media Empire? There are some things that can not be refuted in 140 characters such as the news emanating out of the Las Vegas Industry Ass Slap.
(That's what I call it anyway. The Las Vegas Industry Summit is an excuse for bunch of dealers, distributors, and other industry types to go to Vegas, party like it's 1999 for four days, and slap each other on the ass for such a job well done over the last year.)
The big news was that MLB Properties (MLBP) sentenced collectors to an additional seven years of boring, characterless, gimmick-laden, baseball card products. FEEL THE EXCITEMENT!
To their credit, the PA did give Upper Deck their license back and Panini locked-up Stephen Strasburg to an exclusive autograph deal. But if it's "real" baseball cards you want, you're stuck with Topps until 2020 – like it or not.
But what really bothered me about the extension was MLBP's justifications for granting it.
They are laughable.
So laughable, I'm going to do something I haven't done on this blog in a while – well, other than actually post something – and "Fisk" it.
OBTW, I tried to find the "official" MLBP news release, but could not. I also attempted to find such release on the topps.com website; which now, apparently, has evolved into an e-commerce site selling t-shirts. The closest thing I could find was Beckett's article which I have reprinted (in italics) below.
By Chris Olds | Beckett Baseball Editor
Topps and MLB Properties are extending their exclusive licensing agreement for baseball cards.
Their deal is extended through the year 2020, according to an announcement made by the company today.
First of all, seven years? Isn't that a little, oh I don't know, long? Considering that the current agreement that expires at the end of this calendar year was only for four years, seven seems a bit excessive. Maybe (hopefully?) there's an out clause. I don't know.
This brings me to something Brian Gray from Leaf said this week in Vegas. Official league licenses will soon not matter. Maybe with this news, collectors who previously turned their nose at unlicensed and partially-licensed cards may take a second look. I for one was impressed with the previews for 2012 (ahem) Panini Prizm Baseball. It completely blows away 2013 Finest Baseball. Who knows, maybe they might make their own cards? (Foreshadowing?)
If collectors are willing to take partially-licensed cards as seriously as fully-licensed ones, then Topps may have just over-paid for seven years' worth of fool's gold.
"Since making Topps our exclusive baseball card licensee, they have continually validated that decision by bringing clarity to the marketplace
"Clarity to the marketplace?" I'm curious as to how MLBP defines "clarity."
Does purposefully concealing ALL elements to a card product until AFTER its release "bring clarity?"
Does having 12 different levels of parallels in nearly every product "bring clarity?"
Are they aware that there are THREE different Bryce Harper rookie cards in 2012 Topps Baseball? If so, what's so clear about that?
and reinvigorating the hobby,
"Reinvigorating the hobby?" By what metric?
especially among young people," said Howard Smith, the MLB Senior Vice President, Licensing, in a prepared statement.
"Especially among young people." There's a theme here; we'll be getting back to it soon.
"Generations of baseball fans have grown more attached to the game through collecting baseball cards, and Topps is continually coming up with new and creative ways to reach the next generation."
Reaching "the next generation," how? Oh yeah, that's right, I forgot. Topps Attax! Match Attax was so big with kids in England, so naturally, it HAS to work over here.
Wait, what? You're telling me they don't make Attax anymore? BUT THAT WAS FOR "THE CHILDREN!"
Oh yeah, toppstown.com, how on earth could I have forgotten that?
Huh? They shut that website down a year-and-a-half ago? BUT THAT WAS ALSO FOR "THE CHILDREN!"
So what are they doing now for "The Children?"
The longest-running manufacturer of baseball cards, Topps has made baseball cards since the 1950s and first signed its licensing deal with MLB Properties in 1969. Its current run as an exclusive licensee began in 2010. It will keep exclusivity on "MLB, Jewel Event and Club trademarks, logos and other intellectual property, for use on baseball cards, stickers and certain other product categories."
Topps said it will aims to "improve the retail and collecting experience and make cards increasingly relevant to children" in its statement.
"The Children."
I don't know if anyone at MLBP or Topps knows this, or for that matter cares, but this is not a Hobby for "The Children" anymore. It has been this way for decades. It ceased to be a Hobby for "The Children" back when I was a child, and that was 30 years ago.
This romanticized notion of Wally, Lumpy, Eddie Haskell and The Beaver, all trading and flipping Topps cards in a 1950s-era schoolyard is exactly that; a fictional representation of an era that no longer exists – and probably never did in the first place. Yet by continuing to make appeals to "The Children," this is the notion of collecting MLBP seemingly believes is ideal. (Yes, I realize this is a "straw man" argument; but since no one at MLBP is returning my e-mails, this is all I can assume.)
If you really, really, want to bring "The Children" back into The Hobby, (a tenuous proposition, at best, but I'll play along with the premise for shits and giggles) here's a free bit of advice: Stop pandering to them. Speaking as a former child, if there's one thing children hate, it's being treated like children. That's why Topps Attax failed to translate on this side of the Atlantic and Toppstown was discontinued.
Here's another free bit of advice to get "The Children" collecting again. It may be too late now, but I'm going to give it to you anyway. Give Panini and/or Upper Deck an MLBP license.
Again, citing my previous experience as a former child, I came of age in the 80s, during the great boom in at-home video gaming. When I was in grade school, we seriously debated the qualities and shortcomings of the respective video game systems we owned. Every afternoon at recess it was on: Atari 2600 versus Intellivision. In high school, the debates continued only the systems changed (Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis). Even in my 20s, it continued with PlayStation versus Sega Saturn versus Nintendo 64.
The competition created cliques that were fiercely loyal to their brand. Despite the brand loyalty, we were still intrigued by the other systems. (I mean, what NES kid didn't want to play Sonic?) They got "The Children" talking about video games, which in turn led to sales for all involved.
The same was true in baseball cards. When I was a kid, you were either a "Topps, a "Fleer," or a "Donruss" kid. Having three different card sets to collect got us to talk and debate about cards. More importantly, it got us to COLLECT cards, even those from the brand we weren't loyal to.
If you want "The Children" to collect baseball cards again, you have to engage them on their terms. In other words, don't play down to their level and build brand loyalty.
"Topps has been making baseball cards for over 50 years,
First of all, don't sell yourself short. Topps has been making baseball cards for over SIXTY years. Then again, if you think about it, they really haven't.
The Topps of the Shorin family, Sy Berger and Woody Gelman no longer exists. It ceased to exist in 2007 when the Shorin's sold out to Madison Dearborn and Michael Eisner. Oh sure, MDP and Eisner now own the Topps name and assets, but there is one thing they didn't buy. The soul of Topps.
A couple of months ago someone asked me what one word could best describe 2012 Topps Baseball. I gave it some thought, and the word I replied with was "Soulless." There is no soul left in Topps anymore. The product development teams are stocked with M.B.A.s and marketers instead of collectors and the results have been predictable: bland base sets, useless parallels, meaningless inserts, worthless hits, and dumb gimmicks.
If I could, I'd take half a dozen M.B.A. students and another half a dozen marketing students, lock them in a room and tell them to make a baseball card product. I'm sure the result would be something resembling 2013 Topps Baseball.
and with the ongoing support of MLB, we will continue to produce the most innovative and exciting collectibles in the marketplace," said Doug Kruep, Topps' Vice President and General Manager, U.S. Sports & Entertainment.
Like a Bryce Harper RC that you can't reasonably find in a pack?
Like a gimmick card of a squirrel?
You call that "innovation" and "exciting?" I'll call it what it is: bullshit. And unless Topps makes major changes in their product development, that's exactly what The Hobby is in for the next seven years.
"We value our relationship with MLB and look forward to being in business with them for many years to come."
Ummm, gee thanks.
Chris Olds is the editor of Beckett Baseball magazine. Have a comment, question or idea? Send an email to him at colds@beckett.com. Follow him on Twitter by clicking here.
Yeah, yeah, we know Chris. You don't have to put the same footer into every blog post.
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These Are My Words* | Pop. Life.
I do not have anything of a specific nature to tell you all today, but I am certain that if I sit here and start typing, something is sure to come out of my head and through my fingers and through the internets and then out and then it will finally hit all of your eyeballs out there which when you think about it is kind of gross. My brain is touching your eyeballs!
So today is Harry Potter day. You're probably not even reading this because you're all out there running amok in your Hufflepuff yellow and maroon outfits. (I know, I KNOW it's not Hufflepuff. It's Gryffindor. I was just messing with you. Don't freak out). Regarding all this Harry Potter madness, I have a little confession to make. The confession is not that I hate Harry Potter, nor is it that I am a raving Potter-Head. It is that I like Harry Potter ok. That's all. No love, no hate. He's aa-iiight. As a librarian, I feel strange about this. Like I should have strong feelings about Harry, one way or the other and that I should be able to hotly debate these feelings with anyone who doesn't feel the way I do about him. But I don't. He's like that boy who looks attractive and is nice in every way, who you date occasionally but could never really picture yourself, you know, inviting in to your place at the end of the date, no matter how cute your friends think he is. Is it wrong that I just sort of sexualized Harry Potter? It felt wrong.
In other news, I bought a plane ticket today to go have a weekend of fun with Bio-Girl in foggy San Fran-cheesy!* This is beyond exciting, since I have been feeling all kinds of sad that I am not getting to go on my annual beach trip with my best pals this year. I have such the blues about that, I can't even tell you. So off to San Fran I go to have some fun, by Jehosphat! In addition, this particular trip marks a great moment in history which is the moment, ten years ago, that I walked in to my first day of work at the canoe rental facility (oh my glamorous past) and met Bio-Girl. Ten years! TEN years!* Never mind that the first few weeks that we met I thought she was too princessy and she thought I was practically mute. We got past all that quickly and now I know that she is far from princessy and goddamn it if she thinks I am anything but Blabby Moutherson. It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
FURTHERMORE. When I talked to her on the phone today and I brought up the ten-year-anniversary of our us-ness, Bio-Girl asked me if there was any way we could get away with registering for this event. Sadly, I don't think so. This brings me to one of our favorite topics of conversation: Made-Up Events That We Should Be Able To Register For. See, Bio-Girl and I. We want to register for something. Not necessarily together. We haven't had weddings, we don't have kids. But just because we don't have these things doesn't mean that we don't want to tell people what to buy for us, you know? Why is it that only wedding people and baby people can tell people what to buy for them? Not fair, right? Hmph.
We also discovered that the ten-year anniversary gift is (traditionally) tin/aluminum. First of all, what is with that traditional list? Does anyone really even use that list any more? Are people really celebrating their 7th anniversary by exchanging wool or copper products? Are people expressing ten years of love with aluminum? We need to get rid of that list, people. But, on the other hand, I must confess that tin/aluminum actually did resonate with Bio-Girl and me. Because we have a joke about tin foil. Yes, there is no end to things I have jokes about.
Her: Ten years is aluminum? So what, I'm supposed to buy you some tin foil?
Me: If you did, would you make me get on it?
Her: Get on the tin foil!
Do you think we could register for indecipherable joke commemoration? No?
Rats. I'm going to come up with something. People WILL be buying me presents.
*I'm quoting a movie again. Anyone know which one?
I thought I was alone in my 'eh' attitude towards HP! Last night I was out to dinner sitting on a patio and I watched a slew of people: young and old, short and tall, black and white, etc. etc. etc. walk by with harry potter glasses and some sort of 'golden ticket' that I'm sure secured their place in line at midnight. My friend and I considering going into Barnes and Noble just to see the hubbub but in the end decided to leave it to the true HP fans (although she HAS read all the books up until now). The only question I have is 'does Harry die in this one?'. Answer that and you can call me satisfied!
Just to add, here are some great "tin or aluminium" gift ideas from iVillage.com:Personalised number plate Digital camera Tin of caviar or foie gras Tin toy airplane or carTin sign for his office or studyAluminium watch And if that's not enough, for year 11 we can look forward to STEEL!
Isn't San Francheesie an item on the menu at Denny's?
Those anniversary traditional gifts are whacky and can be quite funny. The Husband and I started following them on our first anniversary. Frankly, because we were bored and thought it would be fun. This year is our 7th and I'm making him wool socks, on our 5th we bought a wooden piece of furniture. The first was paper and he gave me cards, lots of them. They were hidden all of the house. I agree with you on HP. And thanks for the tin foil laugh!
If you register for tin foil, I promise that I will buy it for you guys. 🙂 You will have to promise you share custody between your respective residences, though.
Hi, Fellow Librarian, I'm kinda with you on the Harry Potter thing, although I have read all the books (and am currently zooming through the current one). I think people have gotten just a TRIFLE carried away with the whole phenom. Although who am I to argue with something that gets an incredible number of people excited about books? I enjoy the books but don't think they are the be-all, end-all of the entire genre of bookdom. I do feel compelled to read them so when my elementary students discuss them, they don't have to give me the eyeroll when I don't know what a muggle is. I get quite enough of that, thank you.
I've never read a single Harry Potter book. I saw one of the movies with an ex, and felt kind of like you. It was okay, but it didn't make me run out and start reading them.As far as tin foil goes, how about you exchange hand-made tin foil hats. You know, to keep the aliens away. They're cheap, stylish and comfortable according to http://zapatopi.net/afdb/My brother is a former Atlanta city cop. He had a (crazy) lady who used to call for him to come out to her house every so often because the aliens were after her. One day he made her a tin foil hat to keep them away and she never called him again. For reals.
Aluminum foil! for a registry item is (hilarious, and) genius, indeed. It's SO handy. And anyway, I am of the mind that making your registry shoppers laugh is half the fun. That, and well, the gift part, of course.
ten years is a long time, especially with the distance.you should totally register, at least at Target.
I know the movie! It's "Grosse Pointe Blank" with Joan and John Cusack!


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Rules Of Engagement review
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Rules Of Engagement, somewhat surprisingly, is not a particularly bad movie. Not surprisingly, it's not a particularly groundbreaking movie either. Here, director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) briefly enters what can only be described as the most interesting terrain the seemingly geriatric military/courtroom drama genre has to offer - - namely, exploring the role of the military in the post-Cold War world. When soldiers are ordered to serve as policemen, should we be truly surprised when they behave like soldiers? Can the best-designed - - if theoretical - - "rules of engagement", which meter appropriate responses for dealing with hostile civilians (armed and unarmed), be expected to work in the actual chaos of conflict?
While Friedkin dips his toes in these uncharted waters, he unfortunately gets cold feet all too quickly and beats a hasty retreat to the tired conventions of the military courtroom drama. Once again, the specifics rest on such familiar antics as suppressed courtroom evidence, bureaucrats doing whatever it takes to protect their sagging asses, obligatory stars-and-stripes waving, evil Arab hordes, some truly unabashed product placement and teary-eyed salutes - all delivered with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Friedkin's depiction of battle is captivating enough, but he doesn't come close to Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan benchmark, leaving the movie looking all the more old hat.
Mercifully, any film which features the combination of Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L Jackson can't help but be watchable. And the good news is they're in almost every scene, dominating the screen whenever they appear. And though their final fate is apparent enough to anyone who hasn't recently had a full-frontal lobotomy, their legal battle and deepening friendship remain gripping right to the finish line.
Jackson has the easier job here. His Colonel Childers is a soldier who's repeatedly risked his life for his country only to be set up as a sacrificial lamb and, as such, he builds steadfast empathy. Jones' Colonel Hodges, however, is more complex: a man at the end of a lacklustre career, he's compelled both to repay a wartime debt to Childers and redeem his lost sense of self. Thanks to this winning chemistry, delivered with a knowing wink, you can't help but stay hooked on Rules Of Engagement.
This is a well-spun military courtroom drama, but it fails to break new ground. However, Jones and Jackson bash out powerhouse performances, and their constant on-screen presence makes this more deserving of a decoration than a court-martial.
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Every Thursday, I host a Lunch and Learn chat on Twitter with the hashtag #LunchWithSocamom. During one chat, I shared my best tips for self publishing your book. Here they are… Feel free to share!
I self published my book, Anancy's Family Reunion, and I am happy to share my tips for self publishing your book. Here are my top ten.
Start saving for your book before you even begin writing. You will need the money. When you self publish, there is no big advance, so you'll have to give the big advance to yourself. Come up with a savings plan.
Put together a budget for printing, promotion, book launches, signings, booths, airfare, hotel, transportation, and an EDITOR. You may also need a publicist to help you get the word out about your book, that won't be free.
Have a team of smart friends who believe in your project, but aren't afraid to read and give constructive criticism. Get as many eyes on your book before you go to print. Self published books can be a hard sell. Worse with typos.
Even if your book is a freebie, a giveaway, an ebook for your blog – make sure it is well written and COULD be sold. You never know where your first book could lead. Paid speaking engagements, job opportunities… you never know. Make it good.
Don't count entirely on friends and family to sell your books. Even if it is only a 99 cent download. Reading a book is an investment that goes beyond the cost of the book. Even though it would be nice, your friends and family aren't obligated to invest.
Have you self published before? What tips and tools were helpful to you? We'd love to hear your story in the comments.


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Circumnavigating the island is easy, the only real danger is the intense maritime traffic, especially in high season. There is only one port on the northwest side, Marina Grande and at the Marina di Capri it is possible to moor both on the quay and in buoys. For those who love the coastal inlets, in good conditions of sea and climate, the southern side of the island towards the Faraglioni offers a safe anchor on a shallow seabed and some sandbanks. However, it is particularly exposed to winds in quadrants II and III. If the weather conditions are guaranteed, this is the best place for anchoring. Anchorage is not recommended in all other bays due to the shallow rocky bottom.


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This is an items uploader for Taobao seller, which crawl books or movies from Douban.

> **WARNING**: This tool is outdated. Please use it for study only.

## Usage

### 0. Prepare your environment

    virtualenv env
    source env/bin/active
    pip install -r requirements.txt

### 1. Fill the api info in `settings.py`

    # settings.py
    key = 'TODO/YOUR_APP_KEY'
    sec = 'TODO/YOUR_APP_SEC'
    domain = 'TODO/YOUR_PROXY_DOMAIN'

    # ...

    nick = 'TODO/YOUR_NICK'
    token = 'TODO/YOUR_W2_AUTH_CODE'
    num_iid = 0L # TODO: replace with one of your valid taobao item num_iid

### 2. Get one of your item, to fill other info in `settings.py`

    python ./run.py get-item

    ...
    {
      postage_id: TODO,
      seller_cat: TODO,
      ...
    }

## 3. Use any list link you favor to crawl and upload

    # run.py
    url = "http://www.douban.com/tag/2014/movie?start=15"

    python ./run.py upload-list

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Q: Jsoup web scraping I am trying to use jSoup to scrape a website that has the following.  I am very new to jSoup and am still trying to figure it out.  What I would like to do is be able to take the product name and price and put them into an excel file with the name in column A and the price in column B, the 0.00 can either be ignored or placed in column C whatever is easier.  Any help would be great and just cause I know someone will ask, this is NOT a homework assignment.
Thanks in advance I really appreciate it.

        AAN13097

                                American Antler Dog Chew Large (40-60 lb Dogs)

            <input type="text" name="816:qnty" id="qnty_816" class="inputQuantity">
            <input type="checkbox" name="itemnum" value="816" id="itemnum_816" class="itemnum">

        $9.70
        $0.00

        AAN13096

                                American Antler Dog Chew Medium (20-40 lb Dogs)

            <input type="text" name="815:qnty" id="qnty_815" class="inputQuantity">
            <input type="checkbox" name="itemnum" value="815" id="itemnum_815" class="itemnum">

        $7.15
        $0.00

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Would this be the table element as this is the "table" code before the list, if not what should I be looking for in the html code?

Line
Item description
Quantity
Unit Price
Amount

A: This should do it. However HTML you posted didn't contain table parent for tr, that of course must be in HTML for this code to work, otherwise Jsoup will drop tr/td elements and code won't work.
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html); // html attribute should contain tr elements HTML content
String productName = doc.select("tr .productName").first().text(); // Get name
Element extPriceElement = doc.select("tr td.extPrice").first();
String id = extPriceElement.id().replaceAll("extPrice_", ""); // Get id
String productPrice = doc.select("tr #price_" + id).first().text(); // Get price
String productExtPrice = extPriceElement.text(); // Get ext price
System.out.println("Product name : " + productName);
System.out.println("Price : " + productPrice);
System.out.println("Ext price : " + productExtPrice);

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package com.moon.signaldetector;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.SharedPreferences.Editor;
import android.location.LocationManager;
import android.net.wifi.ScanResult;
import android.net.wifi.WifiManager;
import android.telephony.NeighboringCellInfo;
import android.telephony.TelephonyManager;
import android.util.Log;

import com.google.common.base.Optional;
import com.google.common.eventbus.EventBus;

public class AppContext {

	private static final String TAG = "AppContext";
	private static final boolean D = true;

	private static AppContext sInstance;

	public final Context context;
	private final EventBus mEventBus;
	private final SharedPreferences mPref;

	private AppContext(Context context) {
		if (context == null) {
			Log.e(TAG, "context is null");
			throw new NullPointerException();
		}
		this.context = context;
		this.mEventBus = new EventBus();
		this.mPref = context.getSharedPreferences("settings",
				Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
	}

	public static AppContext getInstance(Context context) {
		if (sInstance == null) {
			sInstance = new AppContext(context.getApplicationContext());
		}
		return sInstance;
	}

	public Optional<LocationManager> getLocationManager() {
		return Optional.fromNullable((LocationManager) context
				.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE));
	}

	public Optional<TelephonyManager> getTelephonyManager() {
		return Optional.fromNullable((TelephonyManager) context
				.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE));
	}

	public Optional<WifiManager> getWifiManager() {
		return Optional.fromNullable((WifiManager) context
				.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE));
	}

	public int getPhoneType() {
		Optional<TelephonyManager> o = getTelephonyManager();
		if (o.isPresent()) {
			return o.get().getPhoneType();
		}
		return TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_NONE;
	}

	public void startScan() {
		Optional<WifiManager> o = getWifiManager();
		if (o.isPresent()) {
			debug("scan wifi ap...");
			o.get().startScan();
		}
	}

	public List<ScanResult> getScanResult() {
		Optional<WifiManager> o = getWifiManager();
		List<ScanResult> res = null;
		if (o.isPresent()) {
			res = o.get().getScanResults();
		}
		return res != null ? res : Collections.<ScanResult> emptyList();
	}

	public Set<RadioData> getOtherCellInfo() {
		Optional<TelephonyManager> o = getTelephonyManager();
		if (o.isPresent()) {
			Set<RadioData> radios = new HashSet<RadioData>();
			TelephonyManager telManager = o.get();
			int phoneType = telManager.getPhoneType();
			List<NeighboringCellInfo> cells = telManager
					.getNeighboringCellInfo();
			// List<CellInfo> cells2 = telManager.getAllCellInfo();

			if (cells != null) {
				for (NeighboringCellInfo c : cells) {

					int dBm = c.getRssi();
					if (phoneType == TelephonyManager.PHONE_TYPE_GSM) {
						dBm = dBm * 2 - 113;
					}
					radios.add(new RadioData(c.getLac(), c.getCid(), c
							.getRssi()));
				}
			}

			return radios;
		}
		return Collections.<RadioData> emptySet();
	}

	public void postEvent(Object event) {
		mEventBus.post(event);
	}

	public void registerEventBus(Object obj) {
		mEventBus.register(obj);
	}

	public void unregisterEventBus(Object obj) {
		mEventBus.unregister(obj);
	}

	public int getNextLogId() {
		Editor editor = mPref.edit();
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Holy Culture Community Forum > Main Discussion Forum > PRAYER REQUESTS > Emergency prayer, please.
View Full Version : Emergency prayer, please.
Thanks to my hectic schedule, I forgot to pay rent.
I received a note on my door today telling me to leave in 3 days. Have you ever tried to cry, with no tears coming out? Yeah, that was my reaction. I couldn't stand, and I'm still shaky.
We should band together to help her. I don't have much, but I can put something in a PayPal account for you on Friday.
Do you need help, sis...or did you just forget? Either way, we got your back. Much love, Ndidi.
d.hyde, thanks so much. I've already raided my savings for this. I've cried, listened to my mom try not to have a heart attack over in Omaha...and I can't study.
See, my dad pays the rent, not me. And I made a stupid mistake to tell him it was due next week.
My mom's sending me some money to cushion the hit this is going to make on my account.
So the money is coming...just very late.
Thanks so much, family. I would have called my rector, but I hate bawling over the phone. I really do.
Just keep me in prayer. For wisdom, direction etc. I know my lease is up, so I have to sign a new one. I'm skipping class tomorrow to get this all settled.
I'm sorry I came in late to this thread but my wife and I live in Lewisville and I can pm you her email if there's anything we need to help you with. Again sorry for the tardiness but I will pray right now!
So I prayed for 30 minutes. Sat in the dark with my booklight, found some Psalms and prayed. It was the most I could do.
8.32. I'm at the office, and it's still locked. I knock, and I tell the receptionist all my woes, and she was like, "That's fine. You can just pay the full rent. The note was just regular protocol we have to do." I was so joyous. I wrote the check, handed it over, and I'll be back in the afternoon to sign my new lease.
sorry i was late but good to hear things are okay.
i don't know how it is in Texas, but over here... they can't immediately kick you out because you missed rent. There's like at least 3 months before they can try to evict you.


"That is what The Australian says an audit by the the US Special Inspector-General for Iraq Reconstruction of the former Coalition Provisional Authority office in Hilla, Iraq, has uncovered. The newspaper says the report details bundles of money stashed in filing cabinets, a US soldier who gambled away thousands of dollars, and stacks of newly minted notes distributed without receipts.
The findings come almost a year after Stuart Bowen, the Inspector-General, found that more than $9 billion of Iraq's oil revenues, which was disbursed in 2004 by the then US-led CPA, could not be accounted for.
The huge sums in cash were paid out with little or no supervision and often without any paperwork, the reconstruction spending audit found. The report found problems with almost 2000 contracts worth $US88.1 million.
The New York Times reports that the new audit found problems "in an area that includes half the land mass in Iraq, with new findings in the southern and central provinces of Anbar, Karbala, Najaf, Wasit, Babil, and Qadisiya."
Some of the misuse details in the report: Agents from the inspector general's office found the living and working quarters of American officials "awash in stacks of $100 bills" known as bricks. In another case, a soldier gambled away $40,000 of reconstruction money when he accompanied the Iraq boxing team to the Philippines. One contractor received more than $100,000 to completely refurbish an Olympic pool but only polished the pumps. In a more tragic case, three people plunged to their deaths in a Hilla hospital elevator that had been rebuilt and improperly certified as safe.
"What's sad about it is that, considering the destruction in the country, with looting and so on, we needed every dollar for reconstruction," said Wayne White, a former State Department official whose responsibilities included Iraq from 2003 to 2005, and who is now at the Middle East Institute, a research organization. Instead, Mr. White said, large amounts of that money may have been wasted or stolen, with strong indications that the chaos in Hilla might have been repeated at other provisional authority outposts.
Others had a similar reaction. "It does not surprise me at all," said a Defense Department official who worked in Hilla and other parts of the country, who spoke anonymously because he said he feared retribution from the Bush administration. He predicted that similar problems would turn up in the major southern city of Basra and elsewhere in the dangerous desert wasteland of Anbar province. "It's a disaster," the official said of problems with contracting in Anbar."


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Lately I'm sounding like a broken record – seems like every recipe is a winner. Five star. This one is no exception. And it's another one of those recipes that has nothing but ordinary food in it. Italian sausage, onion, garlic, canned tomatoes, broth, canned cannellini beans, orzo, then some fresh basil and Parmesan cheese. With the exception of the beans and orzo, it's a lot like spaghetti sauce. But don't forget that anything you make is only as good as the ingredients that go into it. That means, in this case, using good quality Italian sausage. Fresh garlic. Oh yes, there's a bit of bacon in this too.
It doesn't take all that long to prepare this soup, either. The recipe is yet another Phillis Carey one. Wow, that gal is one stupendously good cook. I liked this at the cooking class, and liked it almost more so when I made it myself. I used Niman Ranch no-nitrate/nitrite bacon. I used Italian specialty meat market sausage. I used high quality frozen beef broth and some of Penzey's concentrated pork broth. Trader Joe's canned beans. Muir Glen fire-roasted canned tomatoes. Real Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese. Fresh basil leaves. I made a double batch – made enough for entertaining friends, and two portions for freezing, and some for another meal this week. If you make this as a main course, you probably won't get 8 servings. You'll have no trouble getting rid of it, I guarantee.
NOTES: You can use turkey sausage, but the pork provides a lot more flavor. If you increase the quantity, don't increase the amount of red pepper flakes.
1. Cook chopped bacon in a large pot over medium heat to render out the fat. Add the crumbled sausage and continue cooking and stirring occasionally, until sausage is browned. Add the onions to the pot and cook for 5 minutes. Add the garlic, oregano and red pepper flakes and toss for 30 seconds.
2. Stir in bay leaf, tomatoes and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 10 minutes. Add the orzo and cook for 5 minutes. Add the beans and simmer until heated through and orzo is tender, about 8 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the fresh basil just before serving. Ladle into bowls and sprinkle top with cheese.
Per Serving: 456 Calories; 21g Fat (38.8% calories from fat); 31g Protein; 45g Carbohydrate; 10g Dietary Fiber; 45mg Cholesterol; 490mg Sodium.
It does sound really good! Broken record or not, love to visit your blog.


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In praise of swearing
Rafaela Cortez , Editorial Manager
For better or for worse, swear words are powerful. They tell us a lot about ourselves, about how our brains and societies work. Discover how inside.
He just blurted it out, seemingly out of nowhere, after Ohio representative Tim Ryan challenged him on his knowledge of Medicare for All, a comprehensive plan to transition the US to a healthcare system where a single government-run plan provides insurance coverage to all Americans.
"But you don't know that. You don't know that Bernie."
"I do know, I wrote the damn bill!"
The audience exploded with laughs and cheers. It's not the first time a politician uses "damn" or other foul language to drive the argument home, and like many times before, it worked wonderfully.
I'm no stranger to swear words. I come from the north of Portugal, a place where you're bound to hear a "foda-se" or two. It's not that my household was a veritable banquet of profanity — it wasn't —, and I certainly don't want to imply that everyone in the north of Portugal is swearing their way out of everything — they're not —, but we tend to resort to cursing a bit more frequently than our neighbours to the south.
We use it to express a variety of emotions: pain, frustration, even the occasional display of affection. But even so, must of us, as children, are taught that these are dirty words. That cursing is inappropriate, a refuge of the lazy and uncultured, the reflection of a low class upbringing.
I'm not sure if parents really believe this, or if they're just hoping to avoid the social awkwardness of an impromptu trip to school because their three-year-old child just blurted "fuck" in the middle of the cafeteria. Nevertheless, the fact that swearing is taboo is precisely why we like it.
Not all swear words are alike, as Timothy Jay, a professor of psychology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, explains in an article published on the Association for Psychological Science. They can be sexual references (fuck), profanity or blasphemy (goddamn), ancestral allusions (bastard), substandard vulgar terms and offensive slang.
"Taboo words can be mildly offensive to extremely offensive, and people will often use a more mild euphemism to replace a swear word when in mixed (or unknown) company," he wrote.
It's all politics
While it's true that most of us tend to soften our speech whenever we don't know the present company, some research suggests that swearing in public can actually help you win over people. For example, this 2005 study that revealed that using the word damn in a speech about lowering college tuitions increased the persuasiveness of the speech. Or this 2014 experimental study showing that a politician's use of swear words increased the general impression by the voters.
That wasn't always the case, though. The most popular research on the subject during the 70s, 80s or 90s shows that swearers are perceived as untrustworthy or incompetent. But as four-letter words become more prevalent in the songs we hear, books we read, TV shows we watch, and even among our representatives, they become more commonplace and acceptable in our culture.
Politicians don't have a devil-may-care approach to language. On the contrary — they study their speeches and talking points, word by word. So if they're swearing, there's a good reason for it. Cursing acts as a speech intensifier, it establishes an informal, even friendly relationship with the receiver. By talking like everyday men and women, without the pomposity and pretension of "proper English", it's easier to sound, and appear, more relatable.
President Donald Trump is certainly known for the inflammatory expletives on his statements: "Would I approve waterboarding? You bet your ass I'd approve it." And they're always very well received by his audience, who are mostly blue-collar, low to middle class workers, who finally feel heard. And swearing is not just heard from the red side of the isle. Democrats are also fond of salty language, like when Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told an audience in Las Vegas that Trump "doesn't give a shit about health care."
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But this goes beyond politics.
Swearing can actually be good for us, claims Emma Byrne, who wrote a book on the subject. Emma is a robot scientist, whose interest in neuroscience led her to dive into the science behind salty language. Using peer reviewed studies, she emphasises, "I argue that swearing is likely to have been one of the first forms of language that we developed, and it's been helping us to deal with pain, work together, manage our emotions and improve our minds."
She defends that humans have long realized that making certain alarming sounds could prevent physical altercations, signal threats or certain emotional states, and make others laugh. For example, in the workplace. "From the factory floor to the operating theatre, scientists have shown that teams who share a vulgar lexicon tend to work more effectively together, feel closer and be more productive than those who don't," Byrne wrote.
And research backs it up. Psychologists have found that swearing in the workplace can have very positive effects, "including stress-relief, communication-enrichment and socialization-enhancement." In other words, assuming you're not throwing around vulgar language related to someone's gender, race, religion or sexual orientation (which, thankfully, we're a lot more sensitive to), or singling-out Gary from Accounting, a harmless "goddamn" here and there can actually build a sense of camaraderie.
But even more interesting, Byrne notes that women sometimes resort to vulgar language to assert their position in male-dominated offices, to "fit in".
"Being a woman in a male dominated field, I rely on it to camouflage myself as one of the guys. Calling some equipment a fucking piece of shit is often a necessary rite of passage when I join a new team."
Thanks to a long and sexist history, Byrne was told, swearing is still seen as a gender transgressive act. "It's a hallmark of being one of the boys, especially if you're a girl." I've been told, in multiple occasions, that swearing "is just not ladylike." That it's "ugly, coming from such a pretty girl." Women are not supposed to curse. They're supposed to be gracious, ladylike, and accept each adversity and toe stub with the utmost elegance. Seen, not heard. And so, in a way, swearing really is an act of rebellion.
That fucking hurts
Vulgar words can also increase your ability to withstand pain, as Richard Stephens discovered. Stephens is a senior lecturer in Psychology at Keele University, and in 2012, he conducted an experiment where subjects would submerge their hands in ice water while repeating either swear words, or neutral words. He found that subjects using swear words could keep their hands submerged almost 50% longer than the other subjects, and the pain they described wasn't as intense. I've never A/B tested this experiment, but when my toe finds its way into all kinds of corners, barking a curse does feel satisfying.
Swearing comes from a specific part of the brain, according to linguist Benjamin Bergen, who also wrote a book about it. He found that offensive slurs and obscenities don't come from areas that govern normal speech — Broca's area, which produces words, and Wernicke's area, which has more to do with the comprehension of language. He's seen that patients who have damage in these two regions often develop aphasia, and can have trouble talking, reading, and writing. Surprisingly, they can still swear just like the rest of us — swearing isn't processed in the left-hemisphere like the rest of our speech. Plenty of scientists suggest that swearing is processed in lower — spatially speaking —, more primal regions of the brain, typically associated with emotion, instinct, and impulse control, like the limbic system, and the basal ganglia.
Berger also debunked the idea that profanity harms our children's development. We keep telling ourselves, and our kids, that these words are dirty, but the irony is that swearing is our own creation. These words are only powerful because we make them. We tell our kids they're bad, and instead of curing them of their afflictions, we're just making them interesting.
There's a reason why, every time we travel abroad to a country whose language we don't speak, ordering food and cursing are always the first words we want to learn. For better or for worse, swear words are powerful. They tell us a lot about ourselves, about how our brains and societies work. And, in Bernie Sander's case, they can always be of use to snub someone who, in retrospect, would have been better off if he'd stayed quiet.
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Portugal's beauty is subtle and understated - the magic here is witnessed only when you slow down. Portugal's beauty is lived + experienced.
The area were heading to is called Coastal Alentejo, and you probably haven't heard of it (that's a good thing). It's far removed from the coastal tourist culture of the rest of Europe. The beaches are windswept and untouched. As you move inland, golden rolling hillsides give way to a rugged coastline, traditional whitewashed villages, and enchanting medieval towns.
Traditional farming here is a way of life. Cork production still continues. Even at our property, the eggs come from our chickens, the cheese from our neighbors sheep, and olives from an olive grower down the road. The birds here are magnificent, and the walking paths, like the Costa Vicentina, are world renowned.
The world is (finally) catching on to Alentejo. Get there before it does.
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Cocoon is a 275 acre farm and dedicated retreat center on the Atlantic Coast of Portugal, offering inspiration + community for the modern traveller. It's also pure magic, where between the oversized hammocks and the freshwater lake, you'll start to lose track of time. The kind of place where each morning is a celebration, practicing under the canopy of old growth pines, but so is each evening, with incredible farm-to-table meals and elevated dinner conversation.
Cocoon is situated on the breathtaking Atlantic coast of Portugal, near the charming fishing village of Vila Nova de Milfontes, in the Alentejo region, which is known for its long stretches of untouched coastline and charming white-washed villages. From Lisbon, its roughly two hours drive south, entirely dependent on how many espressos you've had. (from Faro, we're slightly closer) The ocean, with bluffs, trails, and sandy coves, is a 10 minute drive away.
Cocoon has 11 bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. The maximum capacity for this program is 25 students.
There are two yoga shalas at Cocoon. The pine shala is nestled under the canopy of old growth pines, with the occasional sheep or goat roaming around nearby. The pine shala is especially dreamy in the later afternoons, as the sunlight sifts through the trees. The indoor shala is lightfilled and fresh, with high ceilings and traditional hand-made Santa Catarina tiles, which are a joy to practice on. We most often practice in the indoor shala.
Expect three healthy, lovingly-prepared meals each day. Strong coffee and herbal teas are available throughout the day. For breakfast, expect homemade granola, greek yogurt, local honey, homemade jam, frittata, oats, fresh local fruit, and slow-rise breads. Lunch is typically lighter, like a bowl of ancient grains. Dinner is served family style, expect things like curry, beetroot hummus ancient grains, salads, and soups. Our menu is always changing, depending on what's available.
The rooms are clean, bright, and simple. There's different options for different budgets. You'll have your own bed in either a shared double or triple room, your preference. You can have a room with an en-suite bathroom, or share a bathroom between two rooms.
Check out this gorgeous 90 second video of Cocoon, which was filmed during one of our past trainings!
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Q: Hazard Rate Probability HW Question I am working on a homework problem below from Pitman's Probability book:
Suppose the failure rate is $\lambda$($t$) = $at$ $+$ $b$ for $t$ $\geq 0$.
The problem asks to find the formula for the survival function, the density function and the mean lifetime, all which I have done. The final piece if finding the SD of the lifetime. I know that I want to find the $\operatorname{Var}(T)$ since the standard deviation is the square root of the variance. This would involve finding the expectation of the square of $T$ wherein lies my problem.
The expectation of the square of $T$ is given by the following integral $2\int_0^\infty tG(t) \,dt$. With my acquired survival function $G(t) = \exp(-at^2/2+bt$). I'm trying to evaluate
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2\int_0^\infty t \cdot \exp(-at^2/2+bt)\, dt.
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With this seemingly dead end, I attempted to find $E(T^2)$ using the density function. That is, $E(T^2) = \int_0^\infty t^2 \cdot f(t)\,dt$ where $f(t)=(at+b) \cdot \exp(-at^2/2+bt)$. This integral, in my observation, would be easy to evaluate if the exponent matched the product term, but I can't seem to find a way to make this so without over complicating the problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I did the best that I could in conveying my progress so to affirm that I am not looking for the answer, but a much needed hint/guide. Thanks


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