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Avatar: The Last Airbender, not just a kids cartoon but a sprawling epic.
thereviewmonster	Review	 December 3, 2017 July 10, 2019 4 Minutes
Unlike most fans of Avatar: The Last Airbender, I did not grow up watching the show.
I knew of it but I never watched it.
In fact, my first exposure to the show was the live action movie and we all know how that turned out.
So, imagine my surprise, when I learnt that a lot of reviewers I listen to considered this to be one of the greatest TV shows of all time.
After hearing this I naturally had to check it out and watch all three seasons of the show.
And you know what?
They were right.
Because Avatar: The Last Airbender is one of the greatest TV shows I have ever seen.
It is right up there with Death Note, Game of Thrones and Westworld, for me.
This surprised me to no end because, before this, I considered the show to be nothing more than a kids cartoon like Spongebob Squarepants.
But Avatar: The Last Airbender is not this.
Instead of your average kids cartoon the show is a sprawling epic, full of likable characters, engaging stories and excellent use of world building.
If I had one criticism of the show, it would be that initially it does not appear to be the epic story that it is.
The first episode did not really grab me like most of my favourite shows' first episodes did.
However, after the first few episodes, the show expands its storytelling, creating a complex world and characters that left me engaged from start to finish.
The plot of the show feels more like an epic tale like Lord of The Rings.
The plot is that the world is divided into four nations, Earth, Water, Air and Fire, and each of these nations is able to control their own individual element.
Map of the four nations seen in the show.
The Avatar is the only one who can control all four elements but he disappeared 100 years ago, allowing the Fire Nation to invade the other nations in an attempt to take over the world.
100 years after the Avatar's disappearance, Water Tribe siblings Katara and Sokka discover the Avatar, a kid named Aang, frozen in ice.
After freeing him the three set out on an adventure to stop the Fire Nation and save the world.
This is a really great premise and it is helped by the show's storytelling, with each episode expanding our knowledge of the show's world and its characters.
In fact, the characters are some of the best out of any show I have ever seen.
Every character stands out, from the heroes to the villains.
Aang is a lovable naive kid with a great moral code, Katara is a motherly figure who stands up for her friends and Sokka may be the comedic relief but he is also incredibly smart and is extremely useful to the group.
Chasing after them is Prince of The Fire Nation Zuko and his uncle Iroh.
These two are easily the best characters in the series, with Iroh coming across as the kind old man who anyone would like to have as their uncle and Zuko has, in my opinion, the greatest character arc of any character I have ever seen.
If you compare Zuko from the start of the show to the end he is a completely different person and watching him make this journey of personal growth across the series was nothing short of enthralling.
And as the show went on even more great characters appeared like Toph, Azula, Suki, Ozai and many more.
I could literally make an entire post about why these characters are so good.
The three main characters Aang, Katara and Sokka along with their pets Appa and Momo.
These great characters mixed with the intriguing story make for some fantastic episodes that are some of the best TV I have seen, like The Storm, The Crossroads of Destiny and The Southern Raiders.
Even the filler episodes are great.
Avatar Day has nothing to do with the main plot, yet it is a great episode because of its intriguing mystery plot and funny moments.
And then there is The Ember Island Players, which is literally the only good recap episode I can remember.
This episode actually did something creative with the idea, turning it completely on its head.
When making a recap episode, The Ember Island Players should be set as the standard for what makes a great one.
The Ember Island players in the only recap episode that ever had me invested.
There were only a few stumbles with episodes like The Great Divide, and Nightmares and Daydreams but these episodes do not detract from the overall greatness of the show.
The show is further improved by its soundtrack, animation and themes, all of which are excellent.
The soundtrack and animation are so unique in their style that if I stumbled across the show on TV I would instantly know I was watching Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The themes of the show are also presented really well covering spirituality and balance.
All of this greatness culminates in the four part series finale Sozin's Comet.
It feels like the creators of the show were holding back on the music and animation until the finale because the music and animation on display in these final four episodes is nothing short of fantastic.
The themes are also best displayed in these episodes and the characters go really well with them, especially Aang, who had a great character arc in these final episodes.
If you watch the final four episodes, I would suggest you watch them all together because it feels like you are watching a movie.
Sozin's Comet was a fantastic way to end the series, which is surprising considering most shows go on for too long or have lackluster finales, while Avatar: The Last Airbender ended its story perfectly.
the four part Sozin's Comet was a fantastic way to end the series
Honestly, I cannot recommend Avatar: The Last Airbender enough.
I loved the show and it left me wanting more so I cannot wait to check out its follow up series The Legend of Korra.
Avatar: The Last Airbender is a fantastic show that deserves recognition for the epic story that it is.
Iroh
Sokka
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Statistics and empathy
An economist may have strong views on the benefits of vaccination, for example, but is still no expert on the subject. And I often cringe when I hear a doctor trying to prove a point by using statistics.
Age of the expert as policymaker is coming to an end | Financial Times
There were some critical comments about this phrase used by Wolfgang Münchau in a FT article. The article is about how 'experts' lose their power as they lose their independence. This is rightly a big story, one that is not going away, and one the universities with their love of mammon and 'impact' seem to wish was otherwise. But there is a more specific point too.
Various commentators argued that because medicine took advantage of statistical ideas that doctors talked sense about statistics. The literature is fairly decisive on this point: most doctors tend to be lousy at statistics, whereas the medical literature may or (frequently) may not be sound on various statistical issues.
Whenever I hear people talk up the need for better 'communication skills' or 'communication training' for our medical students, I question what level of advanced statistical training they are referring to. Blank stares, result. Statistics is hard, communicating statistics even harder. Our students tend to be great at communicating or signalling empathy, but those with an empathy for numbers often end up elsewhere in the university.
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TEF or REF?
Smith was supported by earnings from his professorship at Glasgow, where a university teacher's earnings depended on fees collected directly from students in the class. This contrasted with Oxford, where Smith had spent six unhappy years, and where, he observed, the dons had mostly given up even the pretence of teaching.
But Smith relinquished his professorship in 1763, and the writing of 'Wealth…' and the remainder of his career was financed by the Duke of Buccleuch, who as a young man employed Smith as a tutor.
Is there more to Adam Smith than free markets? | Financial Times
[University] teaching awards seemed to have been added like sticking plasters to organisations whose values lay elsewhere.
Graham Gibbs, Item Number 41, 2016, SEDA
You have to see this stuff…
by reestheskin on 13/02/2019
This is from an article in the THE. Catherine Heymans is a physicist at the University of Edinburgh, who works on "dark energy". She is planning to leave the UK to work in Germany (yes, Brexit). But what caught my eye was this quote describing one of those lightbulb moments (pun intended)
Question: As a physics undergraduate, how did you feel when the theory of dark energy first emerged?
Heymans: 'It was 9am, and I was sat in a lecture theatre waiting for our lecturer to turn up – he was late. Eventually he ran into the room and said: "We're not going to be studying high-energy astrophysics today, because the most amazing paper has just been published – you have to see this stuff." It was new data that showed that the expansion of the universe was getting faster and faster, which could only be explained by extra, unseen "dark energy" in the universe.'
It is an interesting test for whether you believe in the 'research led teaching' trope. Or is it: will this be in the exam?
The frenzy of metrics rolls on
What are metrics good for? Reflections on REF and TEF from Dorothy Bishop
KISS: derm immunology
This was the 'final' video in the edderm101:core concepts video series (link to series).
Skin immunology (KISS!) from jonathan rees on Vimeo.
Always behind
June, July are the busiest time of year for. It is when I update all my teaching material, and I always underestimate how long it will take me. Here is a guide to some of it. But still I need to catch up with some more, as the new students have already started.
Navigating the online resources from jonathan rees on Vimeo.
MacIntyre's lecture and Harré's tutorial were doubly life-changing
The title above and quotes below are from this article by Lincoln Allison. To create teaching machines, you need to make teaching so bad that even the machines can do it. We are almost there.
The most particular annoyance for me was the doubling of seminar size from nine to 18 – allegedly to free up time for research. As if anyone is going to develop the capacity for original thought because they have two or three more hours available in the week! To some of my colleagues, this was merely a technical change, but to me it was the abolition of the real seminar, the thing we should have been most proud of in the English university system.
It was part of a general deprioritising of teaching. I remember a colleague looking at her extremely poor ratings on student "feedback" and remarking gaily: "I'm really not very good at this, am I?" She had just had a book published that was extremely well received, and she couldn't care less that she was failing in her core duties to communicate her ideas within an academic community. Her remark stiffened my resolve to leave – especially once students picked up the vibe about the level of staff interest in teaching and became less challenging and more instrumental.
Much of what I have seen and heard of UK universities in the 14 years since I retired seems to relate to what I would consider proper university teaching about as much as "value" tinned food relates to fresh food. And I think that just as there are people who have never tasted fresh food, there are people who have not experienced real lectures and seminars.
No time for sex at home, please
This article from the Economist is much more nuanced than you might think — especially about all the benefits of attending school that are unrelated to what specifically goes on in the classroom. But if you couple it with a close reading of Bryan Caplan's 'The Case Against Education' then it is hard not to feel that the academy has been guilty of failing to check out their own entrails before passing judgement on everybody else's.
It sounds like a counsel of despair. If every child went to school, millions more would sit in woeful, boring classrooms. But while this sounds awful, it would probably still be good for them, their families and broader society. For, as Justin Sandefur of CGD points out, there is plenty of evidence that even when children do not learn much at school, they still do better for having gone.
Some benefits are economic. Attending school for longer is associated with earning more in later life, in part because those with additional schooling are more likely to get non-agricultural jobs and move to cities. This may indicate that young people are in fact learning something useful at school that is not being picked up by researchers. But it could also be a signalling effect: a shopkeeper may prefer workers who stayed at school for at least five years.
One is simply that if girls are at school they are not having sex at home
Sausages, and 'unprofitable activities' (aka students).
Besides, "university league tables are like sausages: the more you know about how they are made, the less you want to [do with] them".
"Research was structurally unprofitable even if you scored really well in the research excellence framework," he claims. "It's being financed by surpluses on taught master's. I think that's fine because part of the reason people came on the taught programmes was because the place was very highly ranked in research, and they thought they were going to be sitting at the feet of the best economists around. Academics had to understand the dynamic and deliver the teaching because that was what was paying for the research. Yet because of the history of underfunding [undergraduate] students [before the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees in 2012], a kind of mood gained ground in British universities that [all] students were an unprofitable activity.
Paris to London: Howard Davies on the finance sector and universities' common interests | Times Higher Education (THE)
When lectures work
"What were your most memorable moments at university?"
"There was a man called Walter Ullmann who taught medieval critical philosophy at 10am – and there was standing room only. I went every week, regardless of how wasted I'd got the night before, because he was brilliant." THE
Reminds me of people queueing to get into to listen to Isaiah Berlin. Some merit as a metric: standing room only. (Until H&S arrive)
PS. And, for another example, see this from a recent book review of a biography of Enrico Fermi (The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age. By David Schwartz).
[the author]..He interviewed many of Fermi's students and colleagues, shedding light also on Fermi the educator (his lectures were so renowned that even notes taken by his assistants were a bestseller).
TEF that!
I am not a big fan of lectures. The single best piece of advice I received at medical school was not to attend. I therefore skipped lectures for three years (although I got the handouts). It is not that all lectures are bad, they are not. It is just that often they are used for 'content delivery', much as we think about delivery of a takeaway. They are ill suited to this role, now that we can write and distribute text cheaply. Good lectures serve a different purpose, but you don't need too many of them and, in my experience of medicine, there are very few people who lecture well. Lecturing well means choosing those fragments of a domain that lend themselves to this media type. Lectures are (and should be) theatre, but the theatre of the mind needs more.
By chance, I came across the following thoughts from the preface to the Ascent of Man (the TV series and the book). Bronowski understood many things, and I still marvel at how prescient his ideas were.
If television is not used to make these thoughts concrete, it is wasted. The unravelling of ideas is, in any case, an intimate and personal endeavour, and here we come to the common ground between television and the printed book. Unlike a lecture or a cinema show, television is not directed to crowds. It is addressed to two or three people in a room, as a conversation face to face – a one-sided conversation for the most part, as the book is, but homely and Socratic nevertheless. To me, absorbed in the philosophic undercurrents of knowledge, this is the most attractive gift of television, by which it may yet become as persuasive an intellectual force as the book.
The printed book has one added freedom beyond this: it is not remorselessly bound to the forward direction of time, as any spoken discourse is. The reader can do what the viewer and the listener cannot, which is to pause and reflect, turn the pages back and the argument over, compare one fact with another and, in general, appreciate the detail of evidence without being distracted by it.
Then there was PowerPoint and lecture capture.
Tips for teaching
Luis von Ahn, somebody who has changed the world on more than one occasion, has also been awarded a teaching award from his own university. Take his tips seriously 😉
Pick great TAs. Over the years, I've had the most amazing set of TAs, and this teaching award is more than 50% due to them. If you've TA'd for me,I would like to give each of you part of the cash prize associated with this award. Too bad there isn't one.
When you don't know the answer to a question say it's outside the scope of the course.
Teaching evaluations are highly correlated with the grade the students think they will get at the time of filling out the surveys. Make your course easy, then crush them on the final.
Never, under any circumstances, disclose the exact grade cutoffs at the end of the semester. Somebody has to get the highest B, and they won't be happy. "You're lucky you got a B, dude."
Finish lecture 10 minutes early every time – they love this (and they'll never know you love it even more).
Easiest way to get rid of whiners without yielding: "I'll take that into account when calculating your final grade, dude."
Teaching led research, anybody?
There is something about teaching that makes you a better researcher. I know this is very countercultural wisdom, but I believed it all along. Luria, Magasanik, and Levinthal all believed it. Levinthal and Luria both had a very strong influence on me in this regard.
An (old) interview with David Botstein, in PloS genetics. Link
At least we are spared the 'research led teaching' mission statements.
Most lawyers don't make anything except hours.
This was a quote from an article by an ex-lawyer who got into tech and writing about tech. Now some of by best friends are lawyers, but this chimed with something I came across by Benedict Evans on 'why you must pay sales people commissions'. The article is here (the video no longer plays for me).
The opening quote poses a question:
I felt a little odd writing that title [ why you must pay sales people commissions]. It's a little like asking "Why should you give engineers big monitors?" If you have to ask the question, then you probably won't understand the answer. The short answer is: don't, if you don't want good engineers to work for you; and if they still do, they'll be less productive. The same is true for sales people and commissions.
The argument is as follows:
Imagine that you are a great sales person who knows you can sell $10M worth of product in a year. Company A pays commissions and, if you do what you know you can do, you will earn $1M/year. Company B refuses to pay commissions for "cultural reasons" and offers $200K/year. Which job would you take? Now imagine that you are a horrible sales person who would be lucky to sell anything and will get fired in a performance-based commission culture, but may survive in a low-pressure, non-commission culture. Which job would you take?
But the key message for me is:
Speaking of culture, why should the sales culture be different from the engineering culture? To understand that, ask yourself the following: Do your engineers like programming? Might they even do a little programming on the side sometimes for fun? Great. I guarantee your sales people never sell enterprise software for fun. [emphasis mine].
Now why does all this matter? Well personally, it still matters a bit, but it matters less and less. I am towards the end of my career, and for the most part I have loved what I have done. Sure, the NHS is increasingly a nightmare place to work, but it has been in decline most of my life: I would not recommend it unreservedly to anybody. But I have loved my work in a university. Research was so much fun for so long, and the ability to think about how we teach and how we should teach still gives me enormous pleasure: it is, to use the cliche, still what I think about in the shower. The very idea of work-life balance was — when I was young and middle-aged at least — anathema. I viewed my job as a creative one, and building things and making things brought great pleasure. This did not mean that you had to work all the hours God made, although I often did. But it did mean that work brought so much pleasure that the boundary between my inner life and what I got paid to do was more apparent to others than to me. And in large part that is still true.
Now in one sense, this whole question matters less and less to me personally. In the clinical area, many if not most clinicians I know now feel that they resemble those on commission more than the engineers. Only they don't get commission. Most of my med school year who became GPs will have bailed out. And I do not envy the working lives of those who follow me in many other medical specialties in hospital. Similarly, universities were once full of academics who you almost didn't need to pay, such was their love for the job. But modern universities have become more closed and centrally managed, and less tolerant of independence of mind.
In one sense, this might go with the turf — I was 60 last week. Some introspection, perhaps. But I think there really is more going on. I think we will see more and more people bailing out as early as possible (no personal plans, here), and we will need to think and plan for the fact that many of our students will bail out of the front line of medical practice earlier than we are used to. I think you see the early stirrings of this all over: people want to work less than full-time; people limit their NHS work vis a vis private work; some seek administrative roles in order to minimise their face-to-face practice; and even young medics soon after graduation are looking for portfolio careers. And we need to think about how to educate our graduates for this: our obligations are to our students first and foremost.
I do not think any of these responses are necessarily bad. But working primarily in higher education, has one advantage: there are lost of different institutions, and whilst in the UK there is a large degree of groupthink, there is still some diversity of approach. And if you are smart and you fall outwith the clinical guilds / extortion rackets, there is no reason to stay in the UK. For medics, recent graduates, need to think more strategically. The central dilemma is that depending on your specialty, your only choice might appear to be to work for a monopolist, one which seeks to control not so much the patients cradle-to-grave, but those staff who fall under its spell, cradle-to-grave. But there are those making other choices — just not enough, so far.
An aside. Of course, even those who have achieved the most in research do not alway want to work for nothing, post retirement. I heard the following account first hand from one of Fred Sanger's previous post-docs. The onetime post-doc was now a senior Professor, charged with opening and celebrating a new research institution. Sanger — a double Laureate — would be a great catch as a speaker. All seemed will until the man who personally created much of modern biology realised the date chosen was a couple of days after he was due to retire from the LMB. He could not oblige: the [garden] roses need me more!
Incarceration as the educational business model. Medium
Blocking the Ivory tower
This year the University of Edinburgh plans to become one of the first big European universities to launch a blockchain course. Aggelos Kiayias, chair in cyber security and privacy and director of the blockchain technology laboratory at the university, says: "Blockchain technology is a recent development and there is always a bit of a lag as academia catches up."
What interests me is how we think about all the things that universities do first. And why and how we lose that advantage for our students.
Universities add blockchain to course list
Inventing the future
Terrific interview with Alan Kay. Familiar memes, but I do not tire of them.
The business of a university is to help students learn contexts that they were unaware of when they were in high school.
His use of the word context encompasses intellectual creations such as reading, writing, printing etc. His oft quoted quip: a change in context is worth 80 IQ points
Education: no easy answers
Nice piece in 'Science' with the title: 'No easy answers: What does it mean to ask whether a prekindergarten math program "works"?' Geoff Norman, many years ago, used the term RCT in the context of medical education to stand for Randomised, Confounded and Trivial. Research into what works and what does not work in education is hard, and most studies (IMHO) fail to inform. Education isn't a product like a drugs is, and gee it is hard to demonstrate when and where most drugs will work if you do not have an understanding of the biology and large effects to play with and outcomes that need to be measured over the long term.
I think about this a lot, but have no easy rules to guide action. Which is, of course, exactly the problem.
educational fMRI and diagnosing cars with a thermometer over the bonnet
At the risk of raising the ire of many researchers, I should note that I am not basing my assessment on the rapid growth in educational neuroscience. You know, the kind of study where a subject is slid into an fMRI machine and asked to solve math puzzles. Those studies are valuable, but at the present stage, at best they provide at most tentative clues about how people learn, and little specific in terms of how to help people learn. (A good analogy would be trying to diagnose an engine fault in a car by moving a thermometer over the hood.) One day, educational neuroscience may provide a solid basis for education the way, say, the modern theory of genetics advanced medical practice. But not yet.
Keith Devlin, talking sense — again. I want to believe the the rest of the article but, worry it may not be so. But it contains some gems:
Classroom studies invariably end up as studies of the teacher as much as of the students, and often measure the effect of the students' home environment rather than what goes on in the classroom.
This just adds to the problem that Geoff Norman (DOI 10.1007/s10459-016-9705-6) and others have talked about in course evaluations, namely that many studies — even accepting of the limitations outlines above — are riddled with pseudoreplication.
What is missing is any insight into what is actually going on in the student's mind—something that can be very different from what the evidence shows, as was dramatically illustrated for mathematics learning several decades ago
But, like many outwith medicine, I think he puts too much store by the robustness of the RCT approach — even with digital tools to allow large scale measurement. RCT: 'randomised, confounded and trivial', as has been said before (Norman).
ed.derm.101 update and more SoundCloud tracks added
I have been busy updating some teaching stuff. It is never finished but there is time for a little pause. I have completed all the SoundCloud audio answers to the questions in ed.derm.101 (Part C) and there is a 'completed' version of ed.derm.101 Part C half way down the linked page. Not all the links have been checked, and a lot had to be redone because the superb New Zealand Dermnet site changed their design (the best source of dermatology images, IMHO). An example of the sort of audio material is below.
Blisters, molecular glues and pemphigus
Short video on the above topic. There will be supporting material on my teaching page soon under the Skin Biology series (video 8). The Vimeo file is here.
Distance learning and the unbundling of education approaches its 200th birthday
Interesting post from Tony Bates on the history of distance learning, and the University of London External Programme, which started in 1828.
Unfortunately I have no knowledge of the individuals who originally created the University of London External Programme back in 1828. It's a worthy research project for anyone interested in the history of distance education.
I was once (mid-1960s) a correspondence tutor for students taking undergraduate psychology courses in the External Programme. In those days, the university would publish a curriculum (a list of topics) and provide a reading list. Students could sit an exam when they felt they were ready. Students paid tutors such as myself to help them with their studies. I would find old exam papers for the course, and set questions for individual students, and they would send me their answers and I would mark them. Many students were in British Commonwealth countries and it could take weeks after students sent in their essays before my feedback eventually got back to them. Not surprisingly, in those days completion rates in the programme were very low…
But I am fascinated by (and was ignorant of) the following:
Note though that teaching and examining in the original External Programme were disaggregated (those teaching it were different from those examining it), contract tutors were separate from the main faculty were used, and students studied individually and took exams when ready. So many of the 'new' developments in distance education such as disaggregation, self-directed learning, and many of the elements of competency-based learning are in fact over 150 years old.
More updates to ed.derm.101 (Part C v1.45)
I have added some more SoundCloud answers and added and sorted the links in Part C Chapters 5,6,7. Getting there.
Some updates to ed.derm.101
I have posted some new audio SoundCloud answers to questions from the first three chapters of ed.derm.101 Part C.
There is no big Pharma in education
"Investment firm GSV Advisors recently estimated the annual global outlay on education at $5.5 trillion and growing rapidly. Let that number sink in for a second—it's a doozy. The figure is nearly on par with the global health care industry, but there is no Big Pharma yet in education. Most of that money circulates within government bureaucracies."
Wired article on Pearson.
On difficult students
After a spell as a lecturer and reader at the LSE, he returned to his East End roots at the economics department at Queen Mary College, recruiting an impressive roster of academics and students to its venue in a former biscuit factory on Bow Road.
He was known for giving chances to mavericks: if a headteacher warned of a student's "difficult" nature, Peston would normally take them on.
From an obit of Lord Peston FT
This brought to mind something in Craig Venters excellent autobiography, A life decoded. He described how he was so busy doing science — and publishing — as a student, that he failed some mandatory graduate exams. The faculty had to 'invent' an appropriate exam for him — which of course he passed. They obviously didn't have to deal with the QAA or GMC.
Education is not just about means, but about maintaining intellectual diversity. We have to be concerned about variation, too. It is all too easy to concentrate on minimum standards or pass marks, without considering whether what we are doing, harms those who as a society we are most in need of.
A new welcome video for our Edinburgh Medical School dermatology module. Judging by the gesticulation, I must have some Italian blood in me (or so somebody tells me).
Using Keynote to create simple voiceovers
Just because some colleagues asked:
The importance of forgetting and painful retrieval for learning
This is another useful talk from HILT. One problem that bugs me with both undergraduate teaching and learning, and clinical expertise when you are qualified, is the dynamic between measures of competence at a defined time point, and the influence of exposure on the pattern of competence over time. People often assert that because you have some skill at timepoint X, that somehow 'clinical exposure' will maintain that skill over time ( I am not talking about revalidation here, simply because most accept as currently construed revalidation is not credible). However, keeping knowledge accessible is not just a function of formal learning, but a function of how often you encounter particular clinical problems. The dynamics are worth thinking about. To maintain competence for rare disorders, you must encounter them at a certain rate. However, it seems to me possible that 'routine clinical practice' may not allow enough encounters to allow this competence to be maintained at the rate that is required. [So, the rate required to maintain competence, is greater than the rate at which you might routinely encounter the problem]. This is of course why we might use simulation, or attend clinical meetings, or spend much of our life talking about 'cases'. If you want high level competence, you have to control the ratio of mundane to advanced case-mix. This is one of the reasons you need a hierarchy, and why a consultant delivered service, is not compatible with high level clinical competence (yes, I am skipping over a formal proof, here!). Some of this is at least tangentially related to this video by Robert Bjork — he of desirable difficulty). It is not exactly the rugby training mantra of no gain without pain, but something cognate; and that our tacit yesteryear views of competence are being destroyed.
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è un anime prodotto da Madhouse e diretto da Masaaki Yuasa, trasmesso dal canale satellitare WOWOW dall'aprile 2008 al luglio 2008.

La serie ha vinto nel 2008 il premio d'eccellenza nella categoria "Animazione" al Japan Media Arts Festival.

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Nel mondo futuristico di "Kaiba" è stata inventata una tecnologia in grado di estrarre e trasferire i ricordi di una persona in un chip, che può essere poi inserito in un altro corpo. Con questo sistema di corpi intercambiabili la morte fisica è stata privata del suo significato. È inoltre possibile modificare, alterare e addirittura rubare i ricordi.
Questo sistema però è a totale vantaggio dei ricchi: solo loro possono permettersi di acquistare nuovi corpi e cambiarli a piacimento per soddisfare i loro desideri o allungare le loro vite.
Nella decadente società di "Kaiba" è presente infatti una forte disparità sociale dove i ricchi vivono in lussuosi palazzi nella parte alta della città, mentre i poveri sono costretti a vivere con corpi mediocri nei pericolosi bassifondi, arrivando addirittura a vendere i propri corpi o quelli dei famigliari per sopravvivere. A dividere i due mondi una coltre di nuvole elettriche in grado di cancellare i ricordi di chiunque le attraversi.

Il protagonista, Kaiba, si risveglia privo di ricordi in una stanza semidistrutta, con un buco nel petto e uno strano disegno sul ventre. Il suo unico indizio per conoscere la sua identità è un medaglione con la foto sfocata di una ragazza.
Attaccato improvvisamente senza sapere il perché, Kaiba fugge nello spazio e inizia a viaggiare, in cerca della donna e dei suoi ricordi.

Musica
Sigla d'apertura
"Never" di Seira Kagami

Sigla di chiusura
"Carry Me Away" di Seira Kagami

Episodi

Collegamenti esterni

Anime con sceneggiature originali

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Woman Jumps to Death From Interstate 91 Flyover in New Haven
Published August 10, 2015 • Updated on August 10, 2015 at 8:36 pm
Authorities blocked off part of Route 1/Water Street in New Haven after a woman jumped to her death from the Interstate 91 flyover Monday afternoon, according to state police.
Police initially said someone had fallen from the flyover, but investigators later deemed the woman's death a suicide. Her identity has not been released.
Route 1 was closed for hours near the intersection of Chestnut Street while officers from New Haven and the state responded to the scene. The road reopened around 5:30 p.m.
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For many years everything done for the Darryl's chain of restaurants was created by hand, including all of the text in their printed materials. Eventually the copy made the transition to typesetting, but the hand-done headers, subheads and page art continued in later designs.
The dinner menu is 10"x16.25" with a full color cover and two color interior and die-cut into the shape of a beer mug. The book is printed on heavy uncoated cream cover stock and held together by a threaded elastic band.
In addition to the design, I also created the hand-drawn typography and all of the llustrations.


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Murun may refer to:

Places
 Maran Galu (also romanized as Mūrūn), a village in southeastern Iran
 Mörön, administrative center of the Khövsgöl Province in northern Mongolia
 Murun Massif, Olyokma-Chara Plateau, Russia
 Murun (mountain), highest point of the Murun Massif

Other uses
 Murun Buchstansangur, a fictional cartoon character


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Fighting Anti-Semitism In Congress At ZOA Meeting In Queens
On Wednesday evening, September 4, community members gathered at the home of Michael and Gila Rollhaus in Kew Gardens Hills for a Zionist Organization of America meeting focused on fighting anti-Semitism in Congress.
Deborah Peretz, Regional Director of ZOA, welcomed everyone. Then, Mr. Dan Pollak, Director of Government Relations, spoke. "We have a real problem in Congress." He noted that people who say they only hate Israel also hate Jews. He commended Israel for stopping a potentially damaging trip to Israel by the two anti-Semitic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, who would have used this trip to further their anti-Semitic, anti-Israel agenda. They were planning visits to areas that would stir up controversy and propaganda. He said that Tlaib and Omar are crafty activists. Tlaib particularly thinks about everything she does. Omar is in Minnesota, which has a large Jewish population. Sadly, 80 percent supported her. She actually lied before the election, claiming she was against BDS. He spoke about an organization founded in 1998 by Hanan Ashrawi, a former PLO official, called Miftah. Miftah promotes all the old anti-Semitic rhetoric, starting with the Elders of Zion. In 2013, they had an article on their website about President Obama's Passover Seder. It stated that people didn't realize that the real Seder involves the blood of Christian people. This was on their website for three weeks until they took it down and wrote an apology in English, but they never placed an apology in their Arabic version. This organization defended terrorists and supported BDS. It is funded by European governments including Ireland. Canada recently stopped funding it. They say Jews poison Arab wells.
Mr. Pollak noted that, in August, 72 members of Congress, including 42 Democrats, took a trip to Israel. This was a positive. He then spoke about Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland who is behind a resolution decrying hatred of all kinds including anti-Muslim hate. Yet he failed to mention the hatred spewed by Omar and Tlaib.
He shared that today it is hard to push through bills in Congress that used to go through easily in favor of Israel. He mentioned the pay for slay policy of the Palestinian Authority, which pays terrorists' families more money based on the amount of Jews they kill.
The Taylor Force Act, named after an American citizen killed by terrorists in Israel, is a bill that President Trump signed, which would cut some aid to Palestinians until they end stipends for terror convicts and families of slain attackers.
He noted that if children threw rocks at cars in Maryland and caused injury or death, they would be convicted of a crime and incarcerated. So why is there a bill protecting human rights for Palestinian children. Israel is child-centered and bends over backwards to protect the rights of all children.
BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) did not pass the Senate and only Republicans signed to discharge it along with a few Democratic congressmen. This is a bill boycotting Israeli products and focused on harming Israel's economy. It is an act of pure anti-Semitism.
He noted that it is a shame that Lee Zeldin's resolution was not passed. His resolution stated that the entire House of Representatives, all Republicans and all Democrats, must reject the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hatred infiltrating American politics, college campuses, and the halls of Congress. This evil shouldn't be elevated, empowered, echoed, or otherwise embraced. It should be condemned outright! House Democratic leadership should allow an immediate vote on House Resolution 72.
Mr. Pollak then spoke about how we can fight anti-Semitism in Congress. "All of us have the ability to be proactive and get involved in our own political scene." He showed pictures of the size of Israel, which is actually the size of the state of New Jersey. It's a small country. This is why problems on the borders are so concerning. He mentioned recent Hezbollah missile-firings on northern borders with missiles that have a GPS. We have to think about the Israel Defense Forces and what they are fighting. He emphasized, "ZOA opposes any bill that endorses establishing a Palestinian state. The words 'two-state solution' mean establishing a Palestinian terror state. We won't accept anything like this."
Next, Liz Berney, ZOA Director of Special Projects, asked everyone to participate in the ZOA election, which takes place from January 21 to March 11. They elect 145 delegates and they want to shift the vote in Congress from the left.
She spoke about how American campuses are the source of anti-Semitism getting into Congress. Ignorance is tremendous. A student stated that Israel stole the country. We need kids in the campus division of ZOA to step up. "A little knowledge goes a long way."
"All of us have to get involved." Write letters to the editor. Call it out when you see things are not balanced, like NPR having two anti-Israel people debating. She urged everyone to sign up for action alerts on the ZOA's website. Support the Lee Zeldin Resolution.
The Zionist Organization of America is the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States. With offices around the country and in Israel, the ZOA is dedicated to educating the public, elected officials, the media, and college/high school students about the truth of the ongoing and relentless Arab/Islamic war against Israel. The ZOA is also committed to promoting strong US-Israel relations. The ZOA works to protect Jewish college and high school students from intimidation, harassment, and discrimination, and in fighting anti-Semitism in general.
Since its founding in 1897, the Zionist Organization of America has been fighting for the Jewish people and the Land of Israel. Under the leadership of such illustrious presidents as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, and current National President Morton A. Klein, the ZOA has been on the frontlines of Jewish activism.
With a national membership of over 25,000, and chapters throughout the United States (including Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, North Jersey, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, South Jersey, and Washington, DC), the ZOA today works to strengthen US-Israeli relations through educational activities, public affairs programs, working every day on Capitol Hill, and by combating anti-Israel bias in the media, in textbooks, and on campuses.
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Q: Update Props of Component in Array I have a component that has an array of components and it doesn't seem that the component in the array is getting it's props changed.
This is an simplified example of the parent:
const MyParent = () => {
  const [foo, setFoo] = useState();
  const [viewStack, setViewStack] = useState([]);

  const handleDataChange = (newData) => {
    const newData = {
      ...foo,
      newData,
    }

    setFoo(newData);
  }

  const handleNextButton(key) {
    const currentViewStack = viewStack;
    switch(key) {
      (... several other cases here)
      case theValueWeWant:
        currentViewStack.push(<MyChildComponent myData={foo} dataChangeHandler={handleDataChange} />);
        break;
    }

    setViewStack(currentViewStack);
  }

  return ({viewStack[viewStack.length - 1]});

}

This is an simplified example of the child:
const MyChildComponent = (props) => {
  const [bar, setBar] = useState();

  useEffect(() => {
    setBar(props.myData);
  }, [props.myData]);

  return (
    <div>
      {bar}
      <button onClick={() => { props.dataChangeHandler('my new value'); }}>Click me</button>
    </div>
  );
};

It is worthy to note that MyChildComponent does have children, but when I put a useEffect in MyChildComponent, it doesn't fire when the props change. (Also, we are using an array to store our components as the user progresses through a workflow, hence the handleClickNextButton). Here is a code sandbox.
The problem is that when I change the data in the children of MyChildComponent, I pass that new data up to the parent and the state is changed but the child component does not receive new data. I have a hunch as to why, but I don't like the solution and am posting here to see if I'm missing something (and hopefully to find a better solution).
I think the problem is that I expect the props of the child component to be changed since I'm passing in a state variable. The reason it's not changing is because it's in an array (btw, I did try adding key props to the elements in the array and this didn't fix the problem). One solution is to rebuild the array every time this value changes. I don't like this for 2 reasons:

*

*It seems quite ineffecient to rebuild the array on every re-render

*It is counter intuitive. I would expect this to behave sort of like a lambda where I have access to variables in the scope the lambda is defined in (i.e. you get the global variables like foo within the lambda). I guess it makes sense that the values are "set" when the array is built but I was wondering if someone could provide a technical reason why this isn't possible.

Thank you :)

A: You are correct in thinking the issue lies with your array state. As mentioned in this related question, you need to treat react state objects as immutable.  Since, in your code, you are directly modifying the array with .push(), the state object is not being properly updated.
The key here is that, whenever you're updating an object or an array that's stored in React state, you need to create an entirely new object or array before setting that new state.
For example:
// === arrays ===
const [nums, setNums] = useState([])

// ...some code

const newNumToAddToList = 3
setNums([ ...nums, newNumToAddToList ])
// ===============

// === objects ===
const [data, setData] = useState({ initialProp: 3 })

// ...some code

const newDataProperty = 'a string value'
setData({ ...data, newProp: newDataProperty })

// or...
const newInitialPropValue = 29
setData({ initialProp: newInitialPropValue })

As a side note, I would highly recommend that you do not store react components in state.  A cleaner way of accomplishing your objective may be to store the underlying data in state - the labels in your codesandbox example.  Then, you can map these labels into components in the render method.  Here's an example in codesandbox

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As we all know, the practice of law is a standards of practice driven profession with your work being judged by whether you have exercised the skill, prudence and diligence that an ordinary and reasonable lawyer would under the circumstances. If you could plot on a graph all lawyers' approaches to handling a given legal issue, it would most likely look like the bell curve shown above. Stay in the middle range of practices or close to it, and the odds are you have met the "ordinary and reasonable" lawyer standard. Venture outside of that range and you run the risk of committing malpractice.
Standards of practice serve a needed purpose: to assure that all clients receive high quality legal services that are consistent with what an "ordinary and reasonable" lawyer would provide. Standards of practice and our need to stay in the middle of the bell curve does, however, have a significant negative effect when it comes to innovation and the delivery of legal services.
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Behind the Design: Urban Accessories
Urban Accessories products and foundry was established in 1972. They offer made to order standard and site-specific architectural casted elements using recycled metals.
How often do you sketch a site-specific solution that you later find you cannot realize? In our experience, we hear this often and we'd like to share some successes we've realized with Urban Accessories. They just might be the unsuspecting key to realizing your vision using cast metal. They utilize materials such as cast grey iron, cast rust conditioned iron, cast aluminum, cast silicon bronze, and cast nickel bronze. We've even achieved great designs that also incorporate plate steel in combination with cast all while paying close attention to co-efficient of friction…something we leave to the experts at Urban Accessories to evaluate. The process is simple, and the outcomes are grand.
Imaging the possibilities. Here's a couple of our favorites applications that fall outside of the traditional foundry type products such as tree grates and trench grates. The Rotary International plaque pictured below is impressive in size, crafted out of brass with a polished finish.
We're especially fond of the bike racks and benches that are as unique as the site they call home on this Yerba Buena project by CMG Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, CA.
Make big and lasting impressions. The opportunity to develop something special is more tangible than you may think.
The late Merry Haggard, Urban Accessories Co-founder shared words that are as true today as when she originally wrote them.
"Dedication to casting as an art form is what sets Urban Accessories apart from the average utility foundry. The transformation of scrap metals into beautiful, functional, and aesthetically precise objects of art is what "metalmorphosis" is all about. As the molten metal pours out of the ladle and into the mold, it begins the process of becoming its new form. As the metal cools the metalmorphosis is complete. In an age where it is becoming increasingly important to preserve our natural resources, the casting industry will be recognized as an active participant in the environmental movement."
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Show Luo hopes that there will be a sequel to Journey to the West and he looks forward to working with Director Stephen Chow again.
The Taiwanese singer-actor guest starred in Director Stephen Chow's latest movie Journey to the West, which has reportedly done well in box office sales.
While attending a fashion event last week, Show told reporters that he was shocked when Stephen cast him in the movie.
Show plays the role of a "weak gentleman" in Journey to the West. He added that that the role was specially designed for him by Stephen, making him feel extremely honoured. Show also joked that his dark eye circles suit the role very much.
Speculations abound that Show will be acting in a new martial art series adapted from the famous Chinese novel The Little Li Flying Dagger by Gu Long.
He added that he does not mind taking up minor roles in Director Stephen's movies.
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Oil shale debate becomes a 'chicken-or-the-egg' question
The question of "which comes first?" was dominant as oil shale development proponents told a US Senate committee May 15 that regulations need to be developed, and opponents said impacts need to be quantified.
Washington Editor
WASHINGTON, DC, May 19 -- The question of "which comes first?" was dominant as oil shale development proponents told a US Senate committee May 15 that regulations need to be developed, and opponents said impacts need to be quantified.
"It seems to me that there should be a way forward that does not involve premature commercial leasing, that protects the interests of the American people and gives them a fair return on their resources, and that addresses concerns of local citizens but still provides industry with the certainty it needs," Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) said in his opening statement.
Pete V. Domenici (R-NM), the committee's ranking minority member, noted that the 2005 Energy Policy Act (EPACT) contained a provision to facilitate oil shale development. "Unfortunately, last year, without the benefit of full debate and conference as we had in the 2005 energy bill, Congress placed a 1-year moratorium on preparing and publishing the final regulations for a commercial leasing program," he said.
Committee member Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) said he sought the delay because important provisions dealing with oil shale development, which were part of the 2005 energy bill that the Senate initially approved, were stripped out when the measure went to conference with the House. "I believe it was someone named Pombo," he said, referring to then-House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Richard W. Pombo (R-Calif.).
Restore orderly process
Salazar said a bill he introduced on May 14 to amend EPACT "would restore an orderly process for the potential development of oil shale and tar sands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming and mirror the Senate-passed 2005 energy bill." It specifically would provide 1 year for federal completion of a programmatic environmental impact statement (P-EIS), an additional 90 days for governors of the affected states to comment, and 1year for a commercial leasing program to be developed once the P-EIS is complete.
S. 3019 also would require the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to report to Congress on the research and development program authorized under EPACT to identify available technologies for extracting oil from oil shale, proposed lease terms, and other conditions before any commercial leasing occurs. It also would authorize a National Academy of Science study on oil shale production's importance to the US, the status of R&D efforts, and probable environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Finally, it would require full compliance with the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, including a site-specific EIS, before a commercial lease sale and any planned development.
"Colorado already has a huge level of oil and gas development, which is expected to increase twelvefold by 2015. This is why the governor [Bill Ritter Jr., who was a witness] and I want to move forward carefully, particularly in planning something like oil shale development on top of this," Salazar said during the May 15 hearing.
"I think the disagreement today involves the timing for developing the legal framework for leasing. We believe it should happen only when we know the water needs, the water resource impacts, and the energy needed to produce oil from oil shale," Ritter told the committee.
"It's not that we don't want to develop oil shale," Ritter continued. "I recognize that it could provide significant economic and employment opportunities for Colorado. But we believe we need to answer these unanswered questions. Providing certainty for potential developers is important, but only when we understand the impacts," he maintained.
But another witness, C. Stephen Allred, assistant US Interior secretary for lands and minerals management, said that EPACT's existing provision already provides the means for developing an environmentally sound and economically viable oil shale industry to help meet future US energy needs. "Accordingly, I would urge Congress to repeal the current prohibition on finalization of the oil shale regulations," he said.
He noted that EPACT Section 369 uses a three-pronged approach. First, it permits oil shale research development and demonstration projects to ensure that technologies can operate in an economically and environmentally acceptable manner prior to expanding to commercial-size operations. Second, it requires development of the PEIS to identify the most prospective federally-held oil shale areas in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. Third, it develops commercial oil shale regulations so companies can make research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) investment decisions now so that optimal processes are developed when the government is ready to move forward on commercial leasing.
"Each of these steps builds upon the other, and each is executed in an open, public process with full consideration and environmental concerns," Allred said. The moratorium was inserted into the US Department of the Interior's fiscal 2008 budget as part of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act in December. While it keeps BLM from publishing final regulations, the agency plans this summer to publish proposed regulations, which will lay out a potential framework for possible commercial operations, he continued.
'May not invest'
"Absent the certainty that final regulations would bring, the commercial oil shale industry may not be willing to invest the necessary dollars for research, and this vast domestic resource will remain untapped at a time when our nation is searching for ways to further its energy security," Allred warned.
Extending the moratorium "may well have a chilling effect on our efforts to develop this resource in the future," added Terry O'Connor, vice-president for external and regulatory affairs at Shell Exploration & Production Co.'s unconventional oil division in Denver. The unit in 2006 received three 160-acre federal RD&D leases in Colorado's Piceance basin, where it plans to perform pilot tests of separate oil shale processes.
Each 160-acre research tract is surrounded by a preference right lease of about 5,000 acres. The lessee will earn the right to expand the surrounding preference right lease if it is able to show it is capable of producing commercial quantities of shale oil from the lease. This would be subject to payment of an undetermined conversion fee, which regulations presumably would establish, O'Connor said.
He acknowledged that Shell also holds three other large oil shale tracts in northeastern Colorado but said the deposits on two of them are better suited to retort technologies, which the company abandoned years ago, while the third, on which it has done small R&D tests, contains easily accessible but noncommercial deposits. Its current research focuses on groundwater protection, and it is conducting tests to determine if freeze wall technology, which the construction industry has used for years, can be used to help extract oil from oil shale using the in situ conversion process (ICP) it has developed.
'Smartest kind of CCS'
"While we're aware that this ICP technology has a wide range of environmental benefits, it also requires a lot of energy," O'Connor said. "We're looking at a variety of options. Because we're looking at bringing only the light end out and leaving the heavier portion behind, we expect to practice the smartest kind of carbon capture and sequestration."
He told the committee that Shell hopes to know by yearend 2009 or early 2010 if its process is effective. "We're at a point where we need to go into an area where the oil shale is ideally configured to test our ICP technology. We need access to federal land to do that," he said.
O'Connor conceded that no one fully knows what the impacts of commercial oil shale development would be because it has never occurred. But another witness, Steve Smith, assistant regional director of the Wilderness Society in Denver, said that a 2007 Rand Corp. study for the US Department of Energy found that producing 100,000 b/d from oil shale using the currently most advanced in situ heating retort would require 1.2 Gw of dedicated electricity.
"That equates to construction of a dedicated power plant equal in size to the largest coal-fired power plant now operating in Colorado. Such a plant would cost about $3 billion to build and would consume 5 million tons of coal each year, producing 10 million tons of greenhouse gases. A 500,000 b/d industry, the scale projected by some oil shale enthusiasts, would require five such plants generating 6 Gw of new power, an amount equal to that generated from all of Colorado's existing coal-fired power plants," he said in his written testimony.
Smith said that while some of the electricity might be come from gas produced as an in-situ process byproduct, most probably would require using abundant coal supplies in the vicinity. This would prompt additional technological challenges in providing carbon sequestration and controlling particulate air pollution, he indicated.
And then there's water
Water is an additional problem because the area is arid with relatively low annual rainfall and an existing overcommitment of water supplies and facilities, Smith continued. He said that the Rand report cites an estimate by the Office of Technology Assessment (which went out of business when Republicans took control of Congress in early 1995) that traditional oil shale operations could require 2.1-5.2 bbl of water for each bbl of shale oil product.
"While the new in situ processes may require relatively less water, the Rand report notes that 'considerable volumes of water may be required for oil and natural gas extraction, postextraction cooling, products upgrading and refining, environmental control systems, and power production,'" he said.
Local water agencies in the area have estimated that a 500,000 b/d oil shale industry would require 25,000 acre ft/year of water, either from new sources or diverted from existing uses, according to Smith. "Such supplies of water adequate for the newer oil shale technologies might not be available and, even if they are, might not remain available in a changing global climate," he said.
Ritter said Colorado is rapidly approaching its full allocation of Colorado River entitlements and soon will enter a new period of trading and sharing water among different users. "We do not know what the environmental impacts will be on both surface water and groundwater quality due to extraction operations, particularly when considering experimental in situ technologies," he said.
O'Connor responded that Shell will not proceed unless it can demonstrate that it can produce oil from oil shale without threatening Colorado's groundwater. "We've been able to demonstrate that this process works. The question now is whether it will work in a large commercial project. We need regulations and desperately need them now. It's not a coincidence that no one has developed oil shale commercially. The regulations have not been there," he told the committee.


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THE POST-ELECTION SCENARIO: The Times says that ('enigmatic') President Rajoy is 'on the ropes'. Best place for him, is almost certainly the majority view here. Let's hope he fails in his attempts to keep his job and the PP party in government. Right now, the only thing preventing new elections next year is the observation that Rajoy and the PP would be the biggest beneficiaries of this. So, a 'coalition of the losers' seems to be the best bet. But which one? As negotiations proceed, the chances are growing that the PP will dump Rajoy in favour of the ubiquitous female VP known – unaffectionately – as 'The Dwarf'. But semi-officially as La Menina, the Lady-in Waiting. She made a good show of looking unhappy with the election setbacks for the party. Inerestingly, the person being lined up to take over from the leader of the PSOE socialist party is also a woman – the president of utterly corrupt Andalucia. Plus ça change . . .
EL GORDO: As usual, I didn't win anything in yesterday's humungous Xmas lottery draw. But, then again, as usual I didn't buy any tickets for it. BTW - The winning number was 79140 and the prize was a mere €4m. Which I, for one, wouldn't really know what to do with. Except to keep it from ruining my daughters' lives. Possibly by giving most of it away. Surely something that would increase my popularity with them.
A LAUGH FROM THE TAX OFFICE: I've mentioned the horrendous Model 720 law of 2012 which hits foreign residents with property back home – or other assets above €50,000 – even harder than Spanish nationals. In a 3-page letter which tells you which initial fine (of the several) you'll have to pay, much of the text is taken up with the claim that the Tax Office (La Hacienda) went out of its way to publicise this outrageous development. As lies go, this is a pretty big one. The Hacienda did nothing to tell those most likely to be hit by it. A coincidence? I think not. Still, the politicians managed to get away with everything. So, not everyone is in the same doomed boat. I do hope no tax inspectors are reading this.
THE EU: Want to feel both disgusted and impotent?? Read the leader from today's Times at the end of this post. Once again, we're not all in the same boat. And guess who isn't. If this isn't enough for you, try this article on how the EU benefits the far-right in France. And this, about the impact on EU plans/dreams of the Spanish election.
FINALLY . . . NEW WORDS: Anyone know what these mean - streamt and strinkled? Saw them somewhere, as a pair.
And the Facebook foto: Find the future Lady President in this famous Velázquez painting, Las Meninas. She's either a Lady in Waiting or a dwarf. My guess is the latter.
And a welcome to our new Dutch reader(s).
Bureaucratic Bonanza in Brussels
The EU gravy train is back on track and at full throttle
Most European commissioners, officials, staffers and members of parliament are now on holiday until January. They may be hoping that public anger over their profligacy will have died down by then, but by rights it will burn on well into the new year.
At the end of what was supposed to be a two-year pay freeze for Brussels bureaucrats, they have awarded themselves a 2.4 per cent rise, backdated for six months. A further 2.4 per cent rise has already been approved for next year and another, larger, increase is expected for 2017. On retirement, unlike most public and private sector workers the world over, European civil servants retain the rare luxury of final salary pensions.
Ten thousand Brussels officials already earn more than David Cameron when their tax-free expatriate allowances are taken into account. Another 2,000 or so in the next salary band are closing in on the euro equivalent of the prime minister's £142,500 salary. The number of EU judges doubled this year alone. Each is paid £197,000 annually, excluding the backdated Christmas bonus. As the EU workforce expands, so does its footprint: work is proceeding on a £280 million new home for the European council, which will meet there only six times a year.
As a homage to EU insulation and recycling guidelines, this building will restore and re-use thousands of old window frames. It is a monument to double-glazing and, like so much European administration, to double standards. At a time of willed or imposed austerity for most member states, the EU's administrative class is growing in number and self-importance and awarding itself pay rises no other sector of the European economy can afford. No wonder patience among British voters is wearing thin.
In May this year Lefteris Christoforou, a centre-right Cypriot MEP, asked the European Commission what "the so-called Brussels bureaucracy" costs the EU and its member states. Four months later he received an answer that avoided the question except to put the "burden stemming from EU legislation" at £91 billion. In fact annual spending by the seven institutions of the EU has risen to £107 billion despite an undertaking two years ago to cut it by ten billion euros a year. That pledge translated into cuts in regional aid, but was undermined by an inexorable rise in the cost of Europe's civil service and of its MEPs. The European parliament's monthly excursion to Strasbourg costs £150 million a year. It wastes hundreds of thousands of working hours, with no justification except a 1992 treaty clause that France refuses to revise because of a marginal benefit to its economy.
The expansion of the Brussels bureaucracy since 2000 is in part a result of the expansion of the EU to include the bulk of eastern Europe. Defenders of the EU's loose budgetary controls also point to its spending as a 1 per cent share of the bloc's gross income. This is small compared with spending by national governments or the US federal government, but the truth is that there is no valid comparison because there is nothing quite like the EU. No other group of democratic states sets its remit and priorities with so little deference to democracy. Its budget commissioner tells The Times today that she hopes to set up a new public database to bring transparency to EU spending. Good luck to her, but why did it take so long?
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Uvalde massacre was a PLANNED STAND DOWN operation – law enforcement saved their own children while parents were pepper-sprayed and handcuffed
It's now 100% clear that the Uvalde mass shooting was a "stand down operation," meaning law enforcement was deliberately ordered to stand down so that the massacre could take place. The goal? Gun control, of course. "Uvalde police stood outside school while parents urged them to go inside during shooting," declares the title of an […]
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Spanish intelligence services planned and coordinated a terrorist attack in 2017 as a means of influencing the outcome of a referendum on independence for Catalonia, a Turkish news agency reported last week. The attacks were orchestrated by the National Intelligence Center, Jose Manuel Villarejo, a former senior police officer, alleged, adding that a miscalculation led to 16 […]
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Fake police arrested after staging abuse incident in attempt to frame real cops
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Additionally, the person who was driving the car suffered major injuries, and another passenger was slightly injured. Alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.
The deceased victims are believed to have been in their late teens or early 20s and from the Central Valley. They were not wearing seat belts at the time of the collision.
Shortly before 11 p.m., the vehicle was headed southbound on Highway 101 about halfway down the Cuesta Grade when the driver lost control, slammed into a dirt embankment and then hit the concrete center divider, causing the two victims to be thrown from the vehicle.
At least two other vehicles ran over the victims' bodies after they were ejected. Officials have yet to release the identities of the victims.
Carnage on The Central Coast all due to drinking and driving! This and that student run over in SLO. Despite hours of 'anti drinking and driving' education these tragedies keep happening. Grow up! Before its too late.
Such a tragedy! I feel really bad for their families, of course, but also the poor souls who ran them over! A body is not something I expect to suddenly appear when traversing down the grade.
Definitely a tragedy. Although I don't know the exact circumstances here, I honestly I don't think there is any excuse to run over a body in the road if drivers are paying attention like they should. Drivers should be ready to see and avoid any possible roadway hazard: bodies, cargo that fell off a truck, rocks, roadkill, etc. Too many drivers these days are distracted by cellphones, passengers, or just lulled into a false sense of security that nothing unexpected is going to be lurking around the next corner.
Adolescent invincibility can be deadly. I have rarely spoken to a teen who actually knows about this as a phase of development–nor do they know their brain is undergoing synaptic pruning. We rarely explain things to teens–but they deserve this information.
Come on people, wear your seat belts. It's a no brainer.


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Sidewalks have been removed on Sydenham, Montreal and Clergy streets between Princess and Queen. Temporary rubber-matting walkways have been installed.
The southbound lane of Wellington Street is closed until the end of September to accommodate construction of the new Scotiabank building at Wellington and Princess. Motorists can access the Angrove Parking Lot off Wellington.
One lane of John Counter Boulevard will be closed periodically between 9 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. between Portsmouth and Sir John A. Macdonald from Tuesday, Sept. 6 to Friday, Sept. 9 while Utilities Kingston relocates a gas main.
Kingston Mills Road will be closed starting Tuesday, Sept. 6. The fixed bridge and swing bridge on Kingston Mills Road will be closed until mid-May 2017 to allow Parks Canada to replace the fixed bridge and rehabilitate the swing bridge. Want community updates on this project? Email RideauCanal.info@pc.gc.ca.
Pedestrian Crossovers To Be Activated
Pedestrian crossovers will be activated on Wednesday, Sept. 7 on:
Rideau Street in front of Rideaucrest Home (near Raglan Road)
King St. West in front of Kingston General Hospital (between Barrie and George streets)
Motorists and cyclists are being reminded that they must stop for pedestrians at the new pedestrian crossovers and remain stopped until the pedestrians have crossed the entire width of the road.
Event Street Closures And Changes
Queen's University move-in street changes – Sept. 3 to 4:
Collingwood Street will be one-way southbound from King to Union on Sunday, Sept. 4. Overnight parking restrictions will begin 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Cars remaining on the street on Sept. 4 may be towed.
Albert Street will be one-way southbound from Queen's Crescent to King from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Sept 4. Overnight parking restrictions begin 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Cars remaining on the street on Sept. 4 may be towed.
St. Lawrence Avenue from Stuart to King will be one-way southbound from 7 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 4.
Bader Lane will be closed for one-way traffic westbound at 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 3.
Queen's Crescent will be closed at Beverly and Collingwood (local traffic only)
Stuart Street will be one-way westbound from University to Lower Albert starting 7 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 4. Overnight parking restrictions will begin 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 3. Cars remaining on the street on Sept. 4 may be towed.
Arch Street will be closed at Union as of 7 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 4.
George Street will be closed at Stuart as of 7 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 4.
O'Kill Street will be one-way eastbound from George to Barrie as of 7 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 4.
University Avenue will be one-way eastbound from Union to Stuart as of 7 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 4.
University Avenue will be closed from Union to Stuart from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9 for the Queen's University sidewalk sale.
Cummins Road will be closed from Wilton Road to the end of Cummins Road from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 for a Queen's University event.
Court Street will be closed from Barrie to West from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 for a charitable car wash.
Davidson Street will be closed from Ellerbeck to Pembroke from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 for the Livingston/Davidson Neighbourhood picnic.
Ontario Street will be closed from Brock to Market from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 11 for the Kingston Multicultural Arts Festival.
Motorists should expect delays due to construction:
On Centennial Drive between Bath Road and Taylor Kidd Boulevard starting Wednesday, Sept. 7. Crews will be completing asphalt repairs to prepare the roadway for micro surfacing scheduled to begin on Sept. 12. Once the micro surfacing application has begun, motorists will experience delays of up to 10 minutes for approximately five days. Motorists and cyclists should choose an alternate route.
On Sydenham Road from Unity to the city's northern limit beginning Wednesday, Sept. 7 while crews seal the road's surface.
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Buying food is weird especially if you're only cooking for a couple people. Generally when you're buying frozen chicken breasts or frozen fish fillets you end up getting enough to make between 3-7 meals worth of that same meat. While that's not really a problem, only knowing or utilizing one way to prepare a meat makes for some very boring eating. I love the Italian chicken that I make but if that was the only kind of chicken I made I would be so sick of it I wouldn't want to eat it. The same is true for my tilapia fillets.
When I purchase my fillets I usually end up getting the 4lbs bag of them meaning that my wife and I have enough fish to eat for a month! Using the same seasonings and pan searing that I showed you in my How To Prepare A Fish Dinner post over and over would make me sick of the things and nearly did. So off to Google and Pintrest I went to find new ways to fix fish so we could have some variety. Since I loved my Italian Chicken so much, perhaps I would find a way to make Italian Fish... and before too long I found just the thing.
Simply take your fish fillet and drench it in the salad dressing making sure to get a very good covering of dressing over every inch of the fillet.
Once the fillet is covered in dressing place the fillet in the bowl of Italian bread crumbs and make sure that the entire thing is covered in bread crumbs. Leave no exposed raw fish.
6. Cook for 20-22 minutes.
Place in the oven and bake for 20-22 Minutes. My oven does better with 22 minutes especially for large fillets like those pictured here.
During this time prepare some side dishes to go with your fish. I chose garlic bread and broccoli. The garlic bread I prepared following the instructions for my toaster oven, and the broccoli was just a simple microwave bag. You don't need to get all fancy for side dishes. I didn't picture them here because it's so simple to do something like that.
Hopefully this will add a bit of variety to your fish dinners as it has ours. Actually this has become the more preferred method of cooking fish in our house now!
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If you've been to some of Paradise Valley's awesome restaurants such as El Chorro or The Mission, you may have noticed some new wine offerings from Bennett Lane Wines.
According to the Paradise Valley Independent, the town's Randy and Lisa Lynch are to thank for that. They operate a Napa-based winery and some of their selections are making their way to Paradise Valley–and beyond.
"With many wine club members already here, and some of Arizona's top chefs blending Bennett Lane wines with their menus, we want our wines to find a home here just as we did," Lisa Lynch told the newspaper.