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Accountability, motherfuckers.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Just a few bad apples.
Wow, I can't imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.
You can't attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.
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If you're fully vaccinated, you can now go mask-less in most settings.
But remember: it's going to take time for everyone who wants to get vaccinated to get their shots, and some vaccinated people prefer masks. So please, if you see someone with a mask, treat them with kindness. pic.twitter.com/IRcYe2El4e
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 15, 2021
I try not to be petty, but if the Biden administration buys Greenland just to make Trump's head explode, I'm here for it. https://t.co/0H6u6tq8Es
— Mig Greengard (@chessninja) May 16, 2021
Wonder if there's any way to know if one of these groups is lying based on any recent history of them lying https://t.co/t0OmcQJE9B
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) May 16, 2021
Almost half of Republicans are saying the quiet part out loud: they'd prefer to ditch this whole democracy thing https://t.co/RIoulOYEbF
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) May 16, 2021
Trump or Biden?? Let me illustrate ?????? pic.twitter.com/DDrjUQRVTJ
— Al? ????????? Criswell? (@Gdad1) May 16, 2021
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Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊
A potpourri of items which recently caught the eye.
1) New study shows 42% of people in the US can't name a single Asian American
2) Eating more fruit and vegetables linked to less stress, study finds
3) "Hey, being responsible for the sunrise each morning takes a lot out of a guy, y'know?"
Biden's America: Democrats see competence, Republicans see chaos
This is an important point. The GOP sells fear
of Dems to its hard core base, but it sells stress to everyone else. When we freak out over something, we're reinforcing the GOP's message.
@rikyrah:
Low Key Swagger
I live in a deep red county in a deep red state. Still quite a bit of mask wearing here, no hard looks toward those with or without. I have to wonder what kind of people feel the need to berate mask wearers? Is it perceived as an attack on them?
That last graphic is genius.
@Low Key Swagger:
Influencer wannabes.
Shocking.
The Sunrise Movement endorses top Sanders ally Nina Turner to fill US House seat in Ohio
Wave of anti-trans bills is 'really alarming,' says transgender motorsport star
I never heard of this person.
@Baud
I wouldn't endorse her to fill a wine glass.
Other MJS
Policy: make it harder to vote.
Idea: Biden stole the election.
Chief Oshkosh
I have to wonder what kind of people feel the need to berate mask wearers? Is it perceived as an attack on them?
Insecure whiny-assed titty baby assholes.
SATSQ.
In Ohio, Boards of Election are composed of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats. You can be an independent, but they never get appointed because Republicans pick Republicans and Democrats pick Democrats. The Republicans on the board interview and appoint a board of elections appointee (and employee) to serve as the "lead" at the bd ofice, and so do the Democrats. The lead then alternates every year- R one year, D another. This is a bd of elections employee with an additional role, as a manager but also a kind of tie-breaker on decisions within the office.
For the first time ever, the Republicans on our county board are refusing to certify the D's chosen lead. They are insisting they get to choose the D employee who is the lead for the Democrats. It goes to the Sec of State and if it isn't resolved at that level the Democrats can sue.
One of the things that stopped a catastrophe after Trump denied losing the election was local and state pols refusing to do his bidding. I think we'll see Republicans at the local level refusing to certify next time.
Geminid
@Baud: Nina Turner's principal opponent seems to be Cayuhoga County Commissioner Shontel Brown. Brown posted a video recently in which she raps out a fundraising message. It's really good.
@Baud: Nina Turner is running some really good ads. It's very disturbing. She might actually win this thing. (I believe she is running for Marcia Fudge's seat.) I was hoping Emilia Sykes would run for it, but it's a crowded field and it's a very gerrymandered but mostly Cleveland district.
Jinchi
@NotMax:
Specifically, they asked if people could name a famous Asian American.
Personally, I'd fail that test no matter which ethnicity you asked about.
@Kay: Disgusting people.
@sab:
She can raise a lot of money. We'll see.
I see that Brooklyn Congresman Hakeem Jeffries has endorsed Maya Wiley for New York City Mayor. I don't know nearly enough about the City's fractious Democratic politics to know how much of an impact Jeffries' endorsement will have. But Jeffries, Democratic House Caucus Chairman, strikes me as a shrewd and practical man, so his endorsement of Wiley tells me that he believes she has a shot at winning the June primary.
@Kay:
Do you think the Democrats will not sue?
@Geminid
A Wiley guyvotey.
@rikyrah: Good morning! How's Peanut after the jab? Any side effects?
@Jinchi: George Takei? Bruce Lee (if not restricted to current living)? Kamala Harris (Indian ancestry)? off the top of my head.
Eternally second.
@Kay: I fear you are right.
The Sec of State refused to accept the head of either party on the Board of Elections in my county because of shenanigans in purging the voting rolls. They didn't do it bipartisan as they are supposed to do. They split the jobs up. The Democrats were in charge of purging the ineligibles, and the purged a bunch of not incarcerated felons who should have been allowed to vote. The Republicans were in charge of purging the deceased, and they only purged those with Ohio coroners death certificates, so all the snowbirds who died out of state were still on the rolls. At least one of those guys voted.
Sec of State LaRose (R) refused to accept reappointment of the Dem and the Rep in charge of the mess. Both appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court (overwhelmingly R). The Dem lost. The R won, so he is back on the local board of elections.
@debbie: Ohio Supreme Court has only one Democrat. All the others are Republicans.
Hmm. Miss Mexico won the Miss Universe title yesterday, crowned at the ceremony in Florida. Dolt 45, a former owner* of the pageant, must be apoplectic.
*Let's not rehash his creepiness thereunto, okay?
germy
In a letter sent from behind bars, a key defendant in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol said he and fellow inmates have bonded in jail, and boasted that those attacking the building could have overthrown the government if they had wanted.
The letter is signed "the 1/6ers" and expresses no remorse for the assault on the Capitol, in which five people died. While no names appeared on it, ProPublica was able to determine, through interviews with his family and a review of his correspondence from jail, that it was penned by Guy Reffitt, a member of the Three Percenter right-wing militant group accused of participating in the riot. The letter said the inmates arrested for their role in the attack regularly recite the Pledge of Allegiance inside the Washington, D.C. jail and sing the national anthem "all in unison, loud and proud most everyday."
"January 6th was nothing short of a satirical way to overthrow a government," said the letter, written by hand on yellow lined paper. "If overthrow was the quest, it would have no doubt been overthrown."
https://www.propublica.org/article/in-exclusive-jailhouse-letter-capital-riot-defendant-explains-motives-remains-boastful
@germy:
Guess what? Putting these guys away for a long time is not satire. It is our quest.
@satby
Also too (aside from some named within the linked article), Connie Chung and Keanu Reeves, among others.
Can someone define "satirical," please? I apparently have no idea what satire really is. //
Fixy fix.
@NotMax: Tiger Woods. Everyone has heard of him.
It really is 😂
@sab
He was cited within the article.
Spanky
@debbie: Beat me to it.
Absolutely ridiculous 😡😡
@Geminid: Shontel Brown is Cuyahoga Council Representative for District 9. She was also Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Democratic Party.
Last summer Nina Turner gave a fiery speech at the organizing convention of the People's Party. The People's Party more or less blew up on the launch pad, and Marcia Fudge's seat opened up, so Turner is now pretending to be a Democrat again. There are several actual Democrats also in the mix, and no runoff. Turner hopes to win a plurality victory. Then she will go on to try and wreck the House Democratic Caucus.
The Rock? Troy Polamalu?
lowtechcyclist
@germy: I noticed from the link that he said he was carrying on 1/6. There's this bullshit claim going around, as part of the "they were only tourists" bullshit, that the insurrectionists weren't armed.
Of course, since nobody was rounding them up and searching them as they left the Capitol grounds (I still don't understand why not, unless they weren't able to get sufficient manpower in place in time to do that), there's no real proof one way or the other. But between the few who were searched at the time, and the occasional unforced admissions like this guy, it's clear that a fair number of them were armed.
And that's also one of the reasons the Capitol police gave for not using their guns when under attack: they figured they were not only outnumbered, but outgunned as well, and if they started shooting, it would go even worse for them than it was already going.
@Geminid:
Wiley has been getting endorsements from people who come with organizations that bring boots on the ground, and who knock on doors.
Funny, would have guessed of the trio of stories the one which elicited the most comment would have been #3.
Just goes to show ya.
@frosty:
Headache that disappeared after taking Tylenol. Arm was still sore on Sunday.
@Geminid: Regarding the NYC mayor's race, the NY Times just endorsed Kathryn Garcia, who has a long career with the sanitation department. Mara Gay was on MSNBC this morning explaining the choice, which she seemed to strongly support. I get the impression that many people admire Maya Wiley and think she might make a good member of congress or something, but you need experience to be able to take control of a huge bureaucracy.
@rikyrah: I am glad to hear that. Wiley seems to be a solid person, and I've heard good things about her.
They'll sue. A lot of elections law cases are along the lines of "deliver X, Y or Z" – just a demand and then an order- because obviously the potential to throw a wrench into the works with partisan "refusals" is always there. There isn't a lot of discretion for judges.
The Democrat I talked to last night said it has "poisoned" the board. They're insulted. Just furious because it should be just housekeeping. Remember all these people know one another, some of them quite well. This isn't Trump issuing a statement. It's one on one, face to face.
Brown had a great ad showing Turner's questionable.'Democratic Party' ties, i.e., pointing out the shyt she has been saying about Democrats, including 46.
Brown was very clear that she has not been disrespectful to 46.
I have been giving Brown donations.
Brown has been getting endorsements from people who provide boots on the ground.
SFAW
Just "locker room talk" from a "tourist," I guess.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: So did people die "satirically"? These traitors need to be put away for a long time. They're gang members.
@PST
Kathryn Garcia, who has a long career with the sanitation department
If there's any candidate who knows where the bodies are buried….
@PST: Well, I do not have so much knowledge of City politics and governance. But I said, Hakeem Jeffries seems to be a shrewd and practical man, and he evidently thinks Wiley is up to the task.
This isn't Trump issuing a statement. It's one on one, face to face.
It's Trump proxies issuing a statement. How long before the Dems realize that comity, etc., are "no longer operational"? I hope not too long, because they should have realized it well before now.
They should be insulted. It is an insult.
@lowtechcyclist: A retired FBI agent friend was surprised by that too. She expected those who entered the capitol to all be herded into one place and arrested as they left.
@Low Key Swagger: I've said, and still believe, that the whole 'attack mask wearers! attack those who force their helpless children to wear masks!' is a Russian op.
It's an attempt at social manipulation and is twofold: one, to make the wingnuts freak out and act out, and two, to get a reaction. It's not expected to get any useful results from attacking liberals. What is EXPECTED is that through doing this, you can get some liberal to freak out and start swinging, or start shooting, and that's the true payload: Russia and the GOP MUST get a reaction it can then parade before its people, telling them, 'you see? The enemy are crazy and violent! It's only self-defence to attack them!'
The danger is that they will lose heart through not being attacked enough, through not enough drama and threat in spite of all their media can do to invoke it. All they can do is earnestly request their people to do outrageous stunts like harassing children in hopes that the parents will flip out and do something newsworthy they can use.
@Baud:
Putting these guys away for a long time
I am hopeful that the meaning of "these guys" is expanded to include TFG, MTG, McQarthy, Hice, Boebert, Graham, and the rest of the insurrectionist-adjacent pols in the Partei of Traitors.
That would be a good article. btw. Not interviews with Trump voters, but interviews with Trumpsters at the local level who have actual roles in elections. They're a threat because they can take action.
If they believe that the election was stolen, and a lot of them do, how does that belief inform their work on local boards of elections? They claim to no longer believe in the legitimacy of the process. Can they function competently and fairly or are we going to see this conspiracy theory expressed thru their actions? Ask them.
Ian R
@NotMax: I tend not to know people's marital statuses, Asian American or otherwise.
God, I just hate these guys.
The Thin Black Duke
@lowtechcyclist: I would say 'imagine if these white assholes were black', but why bother?
@SFAW:
No quarrel here.
They'll simply respond with the tried-and-true "it's those OTHER areas and boards that are corrupt; we're just fine. Except for the Demon-craps, that is."
A number of years ago, some polling was done re: Congressional approval. I know you'll be stunned to hear that while many responders blamed/hated Congress, they thought their own Rep was doing a good job — it was just those other reps. It would not surprise me to learn that the persons who responded that way skewed Rethug, but I have no data to confirm that.
Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) tweeted at 6:48 AM on Mon, May 17, 2021:
Neera Tanden starts working for Big Biden today. Time to grab the surfboard to hang ten on the tidal wave of Berner tears.
(https://twitter.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1394258636973690882?s=03)
@Chris Johnson:
I wish a muthaphucka would step to me about wearing a mask 😷.
It will not end well for them😡
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Realistically, the sheer numbers involved would have overwhelmed any processing facility (as well as putting the much fewer number of arresting officers working amidst a seething throng in peril), not to mention transporting the arrested and maintaining control throughout the procedure. Plus nearly all would be released as there isn't the physical space readily sitting unoccupied for detention of such an influx, and manpower to staff it.
trnc
@sab: Better to have a fraudulent vote or two (especially since they often get caught) than to mistakenly (or purposely) purge eligible voters, so I'm glad the repubs on the board appear to have been careful. I sure hope the dems on that board get their shit together so they don't purge more eligible voters. We're having a bad enough time in the republican states where that seems to be the policy if the voters don't vote for them.
@Jinchi:
I'm with jinchi here. Sure, once you mention the names of these people, I know who they are, but other than Kamala Harris, I just don't think about these people.
The names of Connie Chung, Keanu Reeves, and Bruce Lee haven't crossed my mind in years. I've been aware of Takei more recently, but only because of his second life as a prominent LGBT spokesperson. But on the whole, the world of celebs is completely off my mental map. If you mention their names, I usually have some inkling who they are, but their names aren't floating around my mind to begin with.
I don't think they will deny it. It's a mainstream belief in the GOP now, understandably, as the whole Party leadership has endorsed it.
It wouldn't be hard at all to tip the system into chaos. A couple of local refusals in 2020 would have thrown enough sand into the gears to lead to real unrest.
In 2020 the fragmented and localized nature of elections helped, but it's a double edged sword. It could just as easily be used to overturn. 5 or 6 refusniks in crucial counties and there's a crisis. That's always the push-pull of elections- Democrats generally want to federalize and Republicans generally want to localize. If the Trump ethos has trickled down (and I think it has) you could have hot spots of insurrection all over the country.
@Geminid: I meant, "but like I said…"
My proofreader needs some more coffee this morning.
@trnc: In Ohio it is actually very difficult to determine which felons are eligible, because it's hard to find out who is actually incarcerated. 88 counties each with its own jail, plus state and federal prisons. Nobody is actually responsible for keeping lists current, so the local boards of election have to contact everyone all over the state. I agree they should err on the side of leniency, since it's hard to apply for an absentee ballot from jail or prison.
Soprano2
@Low Key Swagger: I have to wonder what kind of people feel the need to berate mask wearers? Is it perceived as an attack on them?
Assholes who think what you do is a personal affront to them. My bartender Mo told me last night that last week she was accosted by a woman in the Aldi parking lot as she was loading her 1-year-old daughter and some groceries in the car. She was still wearing her mask because it's easier to wait to take it off after you've done all that stuff. She said this woman approached her and said "You know you don't have to wear that thing anymore". Mo said she ignored the woman, but she kept pressing and pushing about how she didn't need to wear it. Mo said she just kept ignoring the woman, who finally got in her car in a huff and drove away. People like that see mask wearing as a personal affront to their views. I think ignoring them is the best approach – they want to fight with you, and if you don't cooperate eventually they'll go away.
@debbie: Can someone define "satirical," please?
SATIRICAL, adj. Of the nature of satire; "It was a satirical statement."
SATIRE, noun. The moment when a person realizes they have done or said something that will put their career in jeopardy, or result in a long prison term; "The insurrectionist said that the beating of the police officer with a 'Blue Lives Matter' flag was satire and the real problem is liberals can't take a joke."
@Kay: I will be curious if Frank LaRose has a political future after this, since he tried so jard to appear fair as Sec of State.
@Kay: This is the truly frightening development.
@lowtechcyclist: There's this bullshit claim going around, as part of the "they were only tourists" bullshit, that the insurrectionists weren't armed.
As you probably know, this lie is being spread by repubs in congress. Most of the rioters probably weren't carrying firearms, but they were clearly armed with other weapons or anything that could be used as weapons (like flagpoles). Also, firearms stashes were found and admitted to during the investigation, and you don't bring weapons somewhere and stash them away if you aren't going to use them.
@lowtechcyclist: But on the whole, the world of celebs is completely off my mental map.
Same here. I think it's partly a side effect of the pandemic. I wasn't going to grocery stores as often, and when I did go I avoided times when there were lines. So I haven't been standing idly in front of the magazine racks with the cover stories about "Barry and Melanie Expecting Twins!" or "Charice Shares Her Diet Tips". Not that I knew who Barry, Melanie, and Charice were anyway, but I was at least exposed to the first names. (And these cover headlines never have last names.)
@Betty:
It was always the real risk. There are thousands of local elections officials. The Big Lie was never quarantined in DC. There's "politics" all over and for the base of the GOP it's all nationalized.
Jeffro
@Low Key Swagger:I have to wonder what kind of people feel the need to berate mask wearers? Is it perceived as an attack on them?
Yes, absolutely.
The orange moron went mask-less for all but about 10 min of his 'presidency'…mask wearing reinforces that something went wrong during that 'presidency'…therefore, mask wearing is a tribal affront to the former guy and by extension his followers.
@SFAW: A number of years ago, some polling was done re: Congressional approval. I know you'll be stunned to hear that while many responders blamed/hated Congress, they thought their own Rep was doing a good job — it was just those other reps. It would not surprise me to learn that the persons who responded that way skewed Rethug, but I have no data to confirm that.
It think this is a pretty universal feeling. People always think it's that other rep or senator who's been there too long, never theirs. Roy Blunt, (R-MO) has been employed in government pretty much his whole life, but until the past year he had the unwavering support of the vast majority of MO Republicans even though he is the very definition of "career politician", something they all claim to just hate. I don't think he's ever had a job where he wasn't paid by the government – his first job was teaching at our local state university.
@Soprano2: I'll say it again, I have not had one person say a thing to me about wearing a mask. I do wear a military cap when I go out and I just want someone to say something.
@Raven
Ditto (sans the cap). But then again, everyone else I see when out is wearing a mask. I do once in a while get a momentary look if I'm hanging out in the parking lot, leaning on the auto without a mask on, but any animus in the passers-by's eyes evaporates when I take a puff on my stogie.
You still a-beachin'? Please leave a few fish for the rest of us.
zhena gogolia
@Raven:
Everyone around here wears masks, and people pretty much mind their own business. Except my dentist, who berated me for wearing a mask (on 4/16).
@Raven: I probably give off a don't fuck with me look, and so have had no issues with respect to mask wearing, I'd bet most of those who accost other people look for "soft" targets. It's bullying at it's core.
@lowtechcyclist: Sure, once you mention the names of these people, I know who they are, but other than Kamala Harris, I just don't think about these people.
Right. I could name you people I work with or know, personally.But if you asked me to name 3 actors in a film as we're watching it, I'd probably fail that, too.
@Kay: It's been fascinating (in a train wreck sense) to watch how the Big Lie is affecting local wingnuts and Republican election officials in my county.
There's one mouthy codger who's been a tireless complainer in the letters to the editor section of the local paper for decades and was prominent in the "Stop the Steal" protests last year. He shared (in a letter to the paper) that after one "stolen election" lament, he was personally contacted by the (Republican!) supervisor of elections and given a tour of the local operation.
He came away from the tour impressed by the operation and mindful of the additional costs and burdens the then-proposed now-enacted voter suppression laws impose, but he reiterated that the laws have to change: "If future generations are to ever regain trust in our voting system, we must lobby our state legislators to pass new legislation that would ensure election integrity." They did pass it, of course.
The election supervisor wasted her time. There's just no getting through to someone like that. If Democrats win, that means the vote was rigged, period.
@Low Key Swagger
Will admit, while looking around while waiting, to glaring daggers at the lady behind me in line last summer when Target was severely limiting occupancy, as she was wearing a Trump 2020 mask.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Baud: I would say they sell fear of everything to their base, as well as fear of Democrats. You talk to a Wingnut and they fear a lot of stupid stuff like paper bags. I get the impression the world is like some zombie flick in their minds and they are some of the last surviving humans. I would offer that never ending, inescapable fear is why so many mass shooting / suicides.
@Betty Cracker:
I hope we get to test that theory.
@Jeffro: Hey Jeffro! Have you and yours been on the water yet?
You may like a D.J. McGuire article posted in Bearing Drift this morning. It's titled, "So…About Glen Youngkin's Trade Deal with Communist China."
McGuire points out that "the only policy outcome of the [Virginia Governor] nominee's record is a policy failure."
Bearing Drift also has a good article by Lynn Mitchell on the landslide at Afton Mountain.
@NotMax: I decided to take a break since we extended our trip for three more days. I tell myself I'll try to sit in the damn chair when I'm surf fishing but I end up fooling with my rigs and lumbering out to cast constantly. This morning I hit on the idea of just taking one rod and a backup reel down this evening. We're going to hit our fav antique store in Panama City while it's cool enough for the pup to be in the van. It's almost the only thing he enjoys other than eating.
@Low Key Swagger: I think you are exactly right.
Falling Diphthong
@Low Key Swagger: I think there are a lot more people trying to draw eyes by filming themselves ranting about how audience members ought to go up to masked people and berate them, than there are people actually following through on this. It's an on-air or online invocation of aspirational truth-telling, a way to imagine getting out from behind a screen and yelling those devastating logical arguments at someone who will humbly acknowledge your rightness. But most have the sense to realize this works much better as a fantasy.
Try it for realsies, a la the Santa Monica middle school protesters, and soon people too young to shave are knifing you with their comebacks while most people roll their eyes and step around you.
Bachelor sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein gave Bill Gates advice on ending his marriage with Melinda after the Microsoft co-founder complained about her during a series of meetings at the money manager's mansion, according to two people familiar with the situation.
Gates used the gatherings at Epstein's $77 million New York townhouse as an escape from what he told Epstein was a "toxic" marriage, a topic both men found humorous, a person who attended the meetings told The Daily Beast.
@Geminid: wassup Geminid! We did not get out there this weekend, had too much going on (including Fro Jr's first stint as a soccer ref yesterday – he did really well!) But we'll get out there soon.
I have a feeling this Youngkin is going to fail to light much of a fire with the GQP faithful. We'll see how it shakes out.
I do want to go read that landslide article as it is affecting a couple of my co-workers' daily drives. Thanks for the tip!
Fair Economist
@zhena gogolia:
Were that me, they'd be my ex-dentist. On the spot.
@germy: There's more reputable places to hang out if you want bad advice about marriage. Didn't Gates ever watch Cheers?
@Jeffro: It's been a little cool so far for kayaking. But the temparature in forecaste to be in the 90s this weekend. Quite a shift.
I've been hoping to try out the fishing on the S. Fork Shenandoah River, at the landing in Elkton. But I can't clear out the time. Fishing seems to be like a mirage that I never can reach.
@Jeffro: I do want to go read that landslide article as it is affecting a couple of my co-workers' daily drives.
Ah, that answers my question — which didn't quite rise to the level of a google search — of what kind of landslide the mostly-political-analysis site was reporting.
Abortion up at the SCT. We'll find out just in time for the election.
Need to be ready early in the morning to drive landlady into town for something. Coming up on 4 a.m. here right now and not the teensiest bit sleepy.
Not gonna be good for nuthin' after we get back on Monday afternoon.
@Ken: The slide happened a week or so ago, and has blocked U.S. 250 at the eastern edge of Rockfish Gap. I-64 is still fine, so it hasn't been a huge problem for the many Shenandoah Valley residents who commute to Charlottesville. The geologists and engineers have surveyed the slide area and are coming up with a plan. They have a lot of rock to move, and may end up blasting more off the mountain to get to a more stable outcome..
Gates used the gatherings at Epstein's $77 million New York townhouse as an escape from what he told Epstein was a "toxic" marriage,
To quote Shakespeare — well, paraphrase him — Christ, what an asshole.
I hated Gates/Microsoft for a long time, mostly but not exclusively when I worked for DEC, because of MS's business practices. Then, when he started his foundation, I softened my stance a bit. Based on the Epstein etc. stories, sounds like my original position was not wrong.
ETA: And while I understand that sometimes it IS the wife who makes a marriage "toxic," that Gates appears to have had at least one affair makes me think that the fault is mostly Bill's.
and boasted that those attacking the building could have overthrown the government if they had wanted.
"We totally could have overthrown the government if we wanted, we just, you know, didn't feel like it. I swear we're not a bunch of fascist thugs who are nowhere near as numerous and powerful as we claim… I'm not crying, you're crying!"
@Ken:
I think there was a story in the Post a week or two ago about how with global warming/climate change we should expect more rockslides. Great. Because there weren't already enough bad consequences…
There was another story published recently about a team in Europe (Sweden? Switzerland) that does rockslide research by…dropping fake boulders. I mean, first they try to estimate where the boulders will end up, then they drop the boulders, then they see how right/wrong they are. If someone had told me as a kid that there was a boulder-dropping job waiting for me somewhere in the world…man… =)
mrmoshpotato
And the asshole who wrote this op-ed must really miss the orange asshole.
@Jeffro:
If someone had told me as a kid that there was a boulder-dropping job waiting for me somewhere in the world…man… =)
Can I suggest that you start with turtles?* Aimed at various persons, including, but not limited to, a two-legged version thereof. Also Murdoch (pere et fils), and a host of others.
* In case it's not obvious, it's a Pratchett reference.
@germy: Jiminy! I hope the zillions was worth it.
Niques
@rikyrah: My prepared reply is "I don't want to be mistaken for a MAGAt". . . but I'm not sure I'd have the nerve.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I hate Microsoft because of the systemic vulnerability of its products at root levels, the ridiculous behavior of its products as update requests are ignored (they seem to freeze after a while), the initialization of TEAMS at startup (the worst virtual meeting environment of all), the fact that they put their best products on an annual subscription, and the useless bloatware "upgrades" which don't do anything I actually want and which impair the things I do want. I deem it all a ridiculous ploy to keep programmers employed at lower wages by a steady flow of bullshit "work".
@Jeffro
Obligatory?
The only way for future generations to trust the process is to hear these assholes acknowledge that they are liars! 🤬
This is the first time that I have looked at any of the articles about the Gates' divorce. I wonder who these sources were at these supposed meetings who would be listening to personal conversations? Epstein household staff? Gates security people.
Otherwise some of this stuff in the Daily Beast look for simple narratives that can trash either Bill Gates or Melinda Gates. I don't know these people or anything about their private life. I'm not sure even whether they have any children or how old they are.
And ultimately, I suppose I will go back to ignoring this story.
@Low Key Swagger: I'd bet most of those who accost other people look for "soft" targets. It's bullying at it's core.
Yep, I've never been approached but a young mother putting her 1-year-old in the car with groceries would appear to be a soft target like this. She wasn't though – they don't know Mo or they wouldn't have even tried to get a rise out of her. I will never understand why these people are so offended by others wearing a mask.
@Fair Economist:
My records have already been sent to another dentist.
@NotMax: two seconds into that YouTube and I'm grinning – good call there! =)
@Brachiator:
Melinda – mid 50's.
Bill – mid 60's.
They have three children. All college age and above.
Melinda has been planning the divorce since 2019.
Another Scott
@Low Key Swagger: It's tribalism. You're not doing what I'm doing, so you're not in my tribe. Therefore, you are bad/stupid/a threat/not human/etc.
So if you're looking for someone to blame, you've got somebody right down the street! That wouldn't have been true in the past.
Scapegoating is an incredibly mammalian thing to do. Why is that? Because it makes you feel better! It's a horrifyingly effective stress-reduction mechanism.
If you have a rat that has just gotten a shock, one of the best ways to decrease its stress hormones is to make it easy for it to turn around and bite another rat. Roughly 50 percent of baboon aggression is "displacement aggression"—somebody taking out their bad day on somebody smaller. It's a defining feature of social organisms in pain.
@Geminid: Yeah, the tricky part isn't so much the rocks that are actually on the road, as making sure that the rocks uphill from them aren't going anywhere.
The Daily Regress has some pretty good pix.
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I hate Microsoft because of the systemic vulnerability of its products at root levels, the ridiculous behavior of its products as update requests are ignored (they seem to freeze after a while), the initialization of TEAMS at startup (the worst virtual meeting environment of all), the fact that they put their best products on an annual subscription, and the useless bloatware "upgrades" which don't do anything I actually want and which impair the things I do want.
Yes. That's how he made his fortune. I struggled with his product for decades in my career. And he didn't really become a philanthropist until his wife initiated it. She's the one with a social conscience.
I usually go along with the "this personal stuff is none of my business" crowd, but I make an exception when it comes to billionaires who affect my own life, and who are held up by the news media as someone to admire. The last interview I saw with him was with Lesley Stahl, who seemed to be in awe of him.
Doug R
@NotMax: And for #1, one of the top answers is Sandra Oh who technically got her US citizenship only a few years ago. She's really Asian-Canadian.
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah, the tricky part isn't so much the rocks that are actually on the road, as making sure that the rocks uphill from them aren't going anywhere.
Spend extra taxpayer funds this year, so you don't have to spend them when the mountain finishes collapsing after the next election? Sounds suspiciously forward-thinking.
@Doug R:
And for #1, one of the top answers is Sandra Oh who technically got her US citizenship only a few years ago. She's really Asian-Canadian.
Really Asian-Canadian? Did the US citizenship not stick?
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I hate Microsoft because of the systemic vulnerability of its products at root levels
Is this going to turn into another Apple vs Microsoft thread?
geg6
Por que los dos?
J R in WV
Regarding famous Asian Americans
What about Tiger Woods? He was kind of well known, wasn't he? Still makes a headline when he wrecks a $160,000 car on a winding residential road at 85…
Spinoza Is My Co-pilot
@NotMax: The NYPD rounded up — on the street — thousands of protesters at our demonstration in Aug '04 against the RNC convention in Manhattan, and detained them in temporary chain link cages outdoors (some kept like that for a couple days). I was there, saw it happen, narrowly avoided getting grabbed up myself (the uniformed and armed fascists rolled out plastic mesh across the streets, trapping people) when I happened to be just on the other side of the their net.
Had the police been prepared for the insurrection crowd at the Capitol on Insurrection Day (as they should have been, it was well-advertised) like the NYPD was for the RNC protest (and there were a half million of us on the streets for that) then they surely could have detained some significant portion of these traitorous assholes. They weren't prepared and didn't bother to even try to detain the insurrectionists for a reason, and it wasn't because they were worried about a firefight. Most cops were and still are sympathetic to the traitors. ACAB.
@Brachiator: Right, it's not like anyone who really knows is going to tell us the truth. However, Gates' relationship with Epstein had come out previously. Melinda attended a dinner once and refused to go thereafter, but Gates kept it up. That all seems pretty well-sourced, and it was made public in 2019 when a lot of other people were also exposed as being Epstein curious even after Epstein's conviction. No idea how that factors into the divorce. Maybe it just got too hard to maintain the facade in public.
@Ken: Fortunately, Virginia's state government is really flush with cash coming out of the pandemic, so it can afford to "fix" Afton Mountain.. I'd like to attribute the surplus to our brilliant Democratic political leadership. But the fact is, a lot of money from 49 other states finds it's way into mine. I'm fine, though, if Terry McAuliffe and company claim credit in this upcoming election. And the Democratic General Assembly is spending money wisely.
@Brachiator: Linux Roolz!!1
@lowtechcyclist:
This! famous what?
I would be able to name many Asian friends I worked with, not-famous highly competent tech workers from China, India, Burma, Indonesia, Peru (lots of Asian communities in Peru!) etc. Most now working in the greater Washington DC area or on the west coast.
But famous? just nah
@Barbara:
Right, it's not like anyone who really knows is going to tell us the truth.
I don't think that anyone really knows, or that anyone's life can be distilled into a simple "truth."
sdhays
@SFAW: I'm with you. Once he left MS and worked on the foundation – and when they announced that their children weren't going to be inheriting the MS billions, I thought that maybe he wasn't as bad as I had thought. But while his foundation's malaria work seems 100% good, his education work is straight out of MS, and outright toxic – pushing technology where it's not needed nor helpful. It's practically a scam.
That he was joking around with Epstein (post conviction!) about his "toxic" relationship with Melinda…now I really wonder if he doesn't have something to be worried about from Ghislaine Maxwell or the Epstein investigation. I think the world would be better off if he's no longer capable of directing his money.
@Another Scott: Careful with stuff like this. Not sure about how this goes around here (can't say I've noticed) but if you make commentary/links like this over on LGM you'll get some shrieking haterz calling you out for engaging in "ev psych" pseudoscience.
I agree with you: I believe there's overwhelming evidence of evolved biological traits like this in humans (as in other animals) and that our ubiquitous predilection for tribalism is one of those; it's in our (biological) nature. Not that we can't mitigate that to some degree because we know about that and have some agency in working past it (we're not simply "doomed" by our nature).
Doesn't matter that I've qualified the notion of tribalism in human societies with that "we're not condemned by our nature, we can do something about it to reduce the negative aspects" outlook, I've been pilloried pretty heavily over there for having the temerity to even bring it up. YMMV and all that, maybe this place isn't like that.
gwangung
Huh. If you asked everyone on this site about a famous black person, I very much doubt anybody would have any problem.
As it is, JACKIE CHAN leads the names….
You need a new dentist, which is the first thing I would have said to someone expressing that sentiment. "So, looks like I need a new Dentist who understands contagious disease spread!"
Fortunately my dental practice has a great understanding of sanitation and prevention, so I'm good. Very professional, no BS about implants, expensive unnecessary stuff, just keeps patients in good oral health!
the initialization of TEAMS at startup
The worst thing they've force-fed us since Clippy, IMO. I finally had to just uninstall the fucking thing and join meetings via the web app. Half the time that doesn't work and I have to call in, but that's preferable to being sandbagged by Teams on 100% of startups.
I know what they're up to with this. They're trying to lock us into their shitty ecosystem by scraping meeting data, etc. It's beyond maddening.
@Spinoza Is My Co-pilot: No doubt there's a lot of woo in psychology, etc.
But the idea that our biology – including our brain biology – doesn't affect our behavior is, er, silly. Is it causal/determinative for everyone, no. And it's hard to know when it turns on (e.g. babies aren't born afraid of falling, they learn it in a particular time during their development), but there's still a vast amount that we don't know about how our brains work. And I personally think that we need to learn a lot more because there are too many nefarious actors out there pushing our lizard-brain buttons and endangering us all…
@Low Key Swagger: What kind of people berate others for wearing masks? The same kind of people who can't stand to have friends who don't use drugs when they do. They interpret contrary practice as a judgment of what they are doing and, deep down, they know that judgment is correct.
@Betty Cracker: I hate TEAMS. Of course, I also hate Zoom, and everyone else seems to hate Webex, which is the one product that I had successfully used for a long time. Microsoft also owns Skype, but seems to have abandoned it for business use when it decided to go all in with Teams. As my husband says, 90% of the time, a conference call still works just fine.
@J R in WV:
And glad to see in your subsequent comment that you have had your records sent to your new dentist. Hope (but doubt) that this is a learning experience for your former dentist, even if just to not mix politics with treatment…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Former President Donald Trump will speak at North Carolina's annual state Republican Party convention next month, party officials announced Monday.
The former president will speak in person at the June 5 convention dinner in Greenville. Trump narrowly carried North Carolina in 2020 and held numerous events in the state toward the end of his campaign.
Trump's speech will be closed to the media, and journalists won't be able to view it via livestream or alternate forms, said Livy Polen, a spokeswoman for the NC GOP.
WestTexan70
@zhena gogolia: You need a new dentist.
Via LGM, read the media with a very critical eye.
According to Axios, "some Democrats" want to make austerity great again.
Here is an exhaustive list of the "Democrats" cited in the article:
1. Larry Summers
2. That is all
He realized I was upset (because I said, "I'm very upset"), so he said, "You've been coming here for 23 years." I said, "Yes, 23 years, and now it's been ruined by Trump. Everything Trump Touches Dies." So I think he got an inkling and wasn't too surprised when a new dentist sent over for my records a week later.
Mike in NC
@germy: So Fat Bastard is holding a hate rally and the media won't be allowed to listen. What's the point?
VeniceRiley
Lesseeee … About a dozen guys I work with.
Stars: Ming-na Wen, Daniel Dae Kim, maybe a dozen to 20 more.
South Asian: I can separate them out and start with our Veep.
Come on people.
Maybe I should have become a casting director. Ha!
@Mike in NC:
He's probably charging them something for it.
The media is the enemy, apparently. His speech is just for the faithful
I imagine they'll be frisking the waiters and other staff, to make sure they're not carrying recording devices.
@germy: NC Republicans will have to make people check their cellphones at the door if they don't want trump's convention speech to be made public. And good luck with that program. People will just hide them.
So why are they so afraid of people hearing what trump has to say?
Body cavity search. Can't be too sure.
@germy: Gates used the gatherings at Epstein's $77 million New York townhouse as an escape from what he told Epstein was a "toxic" marriage, a topic both men found humorous, a person who attended the meetings told The Daily Beast.
I will never understand why these people don't just get a divorce if they're so unhappy. I guess he was worried that he'd only have half of a huge fortune. *rolleyes* Society has changed, the days of being forced by the law to stay in an unhappy marriage are long gone.
@Baud: Plus, always popular with the big donors.
Remember the old MK Brown cartoon?
https://beingsakin.wordpress.com/tag/m-k-brown/
@Soprano2:
Society has changed, the days of being forced by the law to stay in an unhappy marriage are long gone.
I take it you haven't seen the 2024 GOP platform yet.
@Geminid: So why are they so afraid of people hearing what trump has to say?
I think they're afraid of people seeing him, honestly, and hearing him rant and rave incoherently. He's probably more incoherent now than he was before. For God's sake, he called a horse a "junky"! Who does that?
@Baud: ROFLMAO!!! Some of them think they'd like to go back to that, but honestly they just want other people to be forced into it. Like bullshit like "covenant marriage", haven't heard anything about that for awhile.
The horse's parole officer.
As my husband says, 90% of the time, a conference call still works just fine.
Amen. This is my new crusade.
'Now That the Pandemic is Over…' Says Friend Who Thought Racism Ended in 2008
Miss Bianca
@gwangung: Eh, for me it was Margaret Cho. George Takei snuck in there right after. But I was only on my first cup of coffee.
@zhena gogolia: Wow, you actually said "Everything Trump touches dies" to the guy? Kudos.
L85NJGT
Video calls are like super-sonic planes. Forever 1964's technology of the future. The limited use case and real world utility not withstanding.
@Geminid: I think it's probably a combination of things:
Get more people to pay the registration fees and attend in person
Build a buzz
Make it easier for the press to post "leaked" video excerpts and then feign outrage when the do; threaten to sue them; cower future coverage
Stuff like that.
I see that Noem is featured too, as is the state Chief Justice. Kinda giving the plot away there with the last one…
Central Planning
I use WebEx all the time, many times it's for a conference call, but having video is great. I don't like the isolation in my basement.
I also prefer clicking on a link and having WebEx auto-dial me instead of me trying to find the bridge number, tap in the bridge id, and then the password.
Also, I like being able to mute people and/or kick them out of my WebEx. It's the little things…
Name an Asian person? OK, there's my son-in-law, and my granddaughter…
@VeniceRiley:
Chloe Bennett!
@L85NJGT:
Video is fine. You just don't have to use it for everything. If you did conference calls prior to the pandemic you can just keep doing those! Nothing about that changed!
@Miss Bianca: Yeah, not that hard for a lot of folks.
But kinda staggeringly, the majority of Americans couldn't name one or named an Asian.
The community connects this sort of invisibility of anti-Asian violence.
artem1s
you should ignore it. Gates is currently on the outs with the Deplorables – I imagine because he decided to take the giving pledge and not hoard his billions for his spawn. The GQP wants to tie him to Epstein to discredit any Dem candidate who stood next to Bill or Epstein at a fundraiser or foundation function.
Otherwise they would gladly put the blame on the woman every time. Red meat for the media who is desperately trying to replace TFG click bait.
Their personal lives were probably no more or less messy than anyone else's. They just ran in circles with other folks who have high name recognition. I'm fairly sure Bill didn't need Epstein to manage his investments or give him advise of any kind – marital or otherwise. I think the whole story is overblown BS and is much ado about nothing – but I expect to hear it over and over again as the press discovers pictures of Bill standing next to Dem candidate X, Y or Z. Surely this is the FINAL proof that Hillary is running child sex rings – lockherup lockherup lockherup :P
@BruceFromOhio:
John Cho, Dave Bautista.
@Soprano2: I am a little surprised the North Carolina Republicans invited him, and I wonder how it happened. Was this a power play by a faction controlling the convention? It wouldn't be the first time the radicals have used trump as a lever to dislodge the establishment from power. But I know little about North Carolina's internal party poltics.
I can't see an upside to to the speech, and there is plenty of potential downside. The fact trump's speech is being kept private tells me that NC Republicans see the downside as well. But they think they can't win without the trump cult, and they are probably right.
But can the Republicans win with him? North Carolina is a purple state, but the trend has been towards blue, like Virginia was trending 10 years ago. More recently Republican self-identification in Virginia dropped from 31% in December, 2019 to 25% in Feburary of this year.* I don't think Virginia is that much of an outlier. I can see why Republicans work so hard to suppress the Democratic vote. Now they have got to.
*Wason Center polling of registered Virginia voters.
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: One of my weirdest encounters with a wingnut was one telling me organic produce was an attempt by "the left" (this guy never used Republican or Democrat, like I said, weird) to make us spend more money on food because reasons. When I asked him whether he could still buy conventional produce at his grocery store, he said something about leftwing shoppers looking down on him. Like anyone's looking in his grocery cart.
They really are conditioned to believe Democrats are watching everything they do and will target those things every chance they get.
@Bluegirlfromwyo: They really are conditioned to believe Democrats are watching everything they do
They suspect we look down on them, and to a great extent they're right.
Eolirin
@Betty Cracker: Teams auto starting with the OS is a settings toggle, if that's what you're all talking about (not entirely sure that it is). But if it is you can turn it off very easily.
Also pretty much every messaging app does and has done that going back to AIM.
@gwangung: Last I checked Jackie Chan wasn't an American and was currently living all the way up Xi Jinping's ass.
@Bluegirlfromwyo: In this guy's case, it sounds like people probably are looking at him strangely because he's ranting and throwing poop.
"HOW DARE YOU JUDGE ME ON MY POOP??!!?" //
@satby:
@Bluegirlfromwyo:
The other half is doing things (hoping they are watching) that will annoy said leftist just to annoy said leftist, not because they really want to do that thing.
@sdhays: Yuuuuuup. The whole perpetual foreigner thing, where they can't differentiate people in Asian from folks who've lived here for two or three centuries.
(And that energizes the anti-Asian hate thing).
Gravenstone
@Bluegirlfromwyo: Doubtless the same sort who would relish loudly belittling someone daring to use TANF or its predecessors.
@gwangung: Funnily enough, in terms of timing on the issue of Asian-American celebrities and actors, I just watched Crazy Rich Asians last night (another one of those movies that was way, WAY better than the book!), and in the little special featurette they had a lot of the cast and crew talking about how amazing it was to work on such a high-profile movie with an all-Asian cast – they said it was the first one ever for Hollywood, and I was thinking, "Can it be? It can't be!"
I guess it can. Hopefully not the last.
@Another Scott: Oh, I haven't any doubt at all that psychology contains a fair bit of woo, as well as a number of approaches and interpretations of how human behaviors work that have little actual evidence to back them up. Many psychological studies that were heavily promulgated have turned out to be unreplicatable in recent investigations. I don't mean to denigrate the entire field with all this — there is value to be found in psychology — but it is true that a significant amount of psychology is fairly suspect, at least, and ev psych as much or more than most any branch.
It just seems that humans are deeply tribalistic wherever you look, and though some of that is almost certainly learned behavior, it also seems very likely (from our knowledge of biology and evolution) that the fact we always form societies (unlike most animals, but very much like our closest relatives the bonobos and chimpanzees) is something basic to our evolved biological nature. That's not "ev psych".
@sullydish
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The Biden wave. The border is effectively all but open for anyone anywhere in the world.
It's just a lie but he's too lazy to read anything so he probably genuinely doesn't know that.
Just so bad to the whole idea of "merit" that this person has continued to be promoted. He's a moron.
I remember during the ACA debate when hundreds of people would earnestly try to explain "health care" to him. It's just bizarre. He comes to the table with absolutely nothing. It's your job to explain the things he writes about to him.
TomatoQueen
(on a conference call 30 minutes in, at least I don't have to look at them)
Kristi Yamaguchi
Michael Chen
Yo Yo Ma
Siddhartha Mukherjee
@TomatoQueen: Seems like they would have gotten better information if they had said:
Mark the people are you familiar with (mark all that apply) and select the category that applies to what they do (politician, athlete, actor, etc).
@Geminid: Well, now I see in the Raleigh News & Observer that State GOP Chairman Michael Whatley announced trump's convention dinner speech with enthusiasm. And when I read that there would be a reception beforehand, the light went on in my dim brain: the upside to the speech will be the fundraising.
And this is a convention, not a campaign rally, so trump can only do so much damage. It's not like his rallies in Dalton and Valdosta during the Georgia Senate runoffs. Georgia Republican leaders really had their fingers crossed before those. trump did not crash off the rails when he spoke, but he did not pull Loeffler and Perdue into the station either. Democrats were apprehensive that the typical Democratic dropoff from the general election would mean defeat for Ossoff and Warnock. Ossoff was considered considered especially vulnerable. Only the presence of a Libertarian candidate had kept Perdue from winning outright.
When the January 5 runoff vote was counted, Ossoff indeed had a 100,000 vote dropoff from November. But Perdue had a 200,000 vote drop, and Ossoff won a narrow victory. Voting in Warnock's race tracked those of Ossoffs.
Of course, people paid little attention to the details of the January 5 runoff because of what happened in DC the next day.
smedley the uncertain
@NotMax: My job is to reward the sun each afternoon as it sets with a warm hearty toast; glass raised on high. It's working, the sun comes back each day for more. Cheers.
@Barbara: I hate Teams too. It's a pain especially at start up like Betty C said
James E Powell
I don't think NC is quite purple yet. Pretty solid red performance in 2020. Maybe I should move there when I retire, add a drop of indigo.
@James E Powell
Suspect Nikki Haley will find some reason to be out of town. Perhaps really hiking the Adirondacks.
Nikki is from South Carolina, and it was the Appalachian Trail that dickhead walked when he went to S America to visit his mistress, not the Adirondacks in upstate NY.
But, otherwise, yeh, Nikki will avoid the whole scene, I think, also too.
@James E Powell: Well, Democrat Roy Cooper has now been elected Governor two times. He won last year by a decent margin. Cal Cunningham had a clear lead in last year's Senate race until his sex scandle blew up his campaign. donald trump carried North Carolina in 2016 and 2020 with only 49.8% and 49.9% of the vote. And Democrats won two additional House seats last year. These facts tend to make North Carolina purple in my book.
But I have no problem if you don't want to call North Carolina a purple state. It seems a pessimistic view, though
You might like North Carolina as a place to retire. The Piedmont has a fairly temperate climate. There is a lot of it, which tends to buffer land and housing prices. There are several medium sized cities that are more or less progressively minded. And some local jackals who could give you far better information than this Virginian who just drives through The North State from time to time.
@Miss Bianca: Yup. It was.
Hopefully, not the last. But with dumbass Hollywood, who knows? The sequel(s) are very much in doubt. They lowballed the Asian American co-writer of CRA (by an order of magnitude with her white co-writer), the white co-writer has not completed a script for the sequel(s) and the acting talent is finding ways to fill their time, so they might not be available.
@J R in WV
Thanks for the clarification. Memory not what it once was, IIRC.
@Miss Bianca
The Joy Luck Club? Flower Drum Song?
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Il Cappellano maggiore del Regno del Portogallo (in portoghese: Capelão-mor do Rei) aveva le funzioni di cappellano e fidalgo della Real Casa portoghese (a capo del clero palatino) che, in seguito dal 1716 al 1910, assunse il rango patriarcale quando fu creato il Patriarcato di Lisbona, inizialmente distinto dall'arcidiocesi locale, ma di cui poi addirittura assunse tutti i poteri e diritti quando questa fu abolita. Infatti con la cosiddetta "Bolla d'oro" (1716) il territorio diocesano di Lisbona venne diviso tra l'arcidiocesi locale già esistente (che assunse il nome di Lisbona orientale) e il Cappellano maggiore che ottenne nel contempo il rango patriarcale (che fu richiesto per equiparare il cappellano del Re portoghese al Cappellano maggiore del Re di Spagna che all'epoca era titolare del Patriarcato delle Indie occidentali).  Il Patriarcato annesse anche il territorio dell'arcidiocesi, quando questa, vacante da ben trenta anni, fu abolita nel 1740.

Storia
Dall'inizio del XV secolo, il cappellano del re era un chierico di dignità episcopale, di solito un vescovo. A causa delle dignità ecclesiastiche che ricopriva, riusciva ad assistere solo a cerimonie di maggiore importanza, poiché spesso assente dalla corte. Lo stesso fu per l'elemosiniere, gli abati del Monastero di Alcobaça e alcuni dei confessori più rilevanti dei monarchi portoghesi nel XV secolo.

Organizzazione
Alla giurisdizione cappella reale e della sua curia appartenevano anche i cappellani ordinari, quelli personali dei membri della famiglia reale (come l'Infante), nonché i confessori e l'elemosiniere maggiore. Quest'ultima carica era riservata all'abbate del Monastero di Alcobaça.

Cronologia dei cappellani maggiori

 Martim Gonçalves (1387)
 João Lourenço do Porto (1402-1417)
 Lourenço Afonso (1417-29)
 Afonso Anes (1432)
 Umberto de Salinis (1418)
 Aimaro de Aurillac (1438-1444)
 Luís Pires (1444-1448)
 João Manuel (1449-1463)
...

 Luís de Sousa (1669 - 3 gennaio 1702 deceduto)

Dal 1716 al 1910

 Tomás de Almeida † (7 dicembre 1716 - 27 febbraio 1754 deceduto)
 José Manuel da Cámara d'Atalaia † (20 maggio 1754 - 9 luglio 1758 deceduto)
 Francisco de Saldanha da Gama † (28 maggio 1759 - 1º novembre 1776 deceduto)
 Sede vacante (1776-1779)

 Fernando de Sousa e Silva † (1º marzo 1779 - 11 aprile 1786 deceduto)
 José Francisco Miguel António de Mendoça † (10 marzo 1788 - 11 febbraio 1818 deceduto)
 Carlos da Cunha e Menezes † (23 agosto 1819 - 14 dicembre 1825 deceduto)
 Patrício da Silva, O.S.A. † (13 marzo 1826 - 3 gennaio 1840 deceduto)
 Sede vacante (1840-1843)
 Francisco de São Luiz (Manoel Justiniano) Saraiva, O.S.B. † (3 aprile 1843 - 7 maggio 1845 deceduto)
 Guilherme Henriques de Carvalho † (24 novembre 1845 - 15 novembre 1857 deceduto)
 Manuel Bento Rodrigues da Silva, C.R.S.J.E. † (18 marzo 1858 - 26 settembre 1869 deceduto)
 Inácio do Nascimento Morais Cardoso † (25 aprile 1871 - 23 febbraio 1883 deceduto)
 José Sebastião d'Almeida Neto, O.F.M. † (9 agosto 1883 - 7 novembre 1907 dimesso)
 António Mendes Bello † (19 dicembre 1907 - 5 agosto 1929 deceduto)

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Bibliografia

Collegamenti esterni

Regno del Portogallo
Chiesa cattolica in Portogallo

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시내 외곽이자 좁은 골목 사이에 자리한 Dining Table은 건물로 둘러싸여 마치 도시의 한가운데 있는 듯한 협소주택이다. Dining Table이라는 귀여운 이름은 클라이언트가 주거 공간에서 중심이 되어야 한다고 생각하는 장소에서 시작되었다. 클라이언트는 식사하는 공간을 가장 중요하게 생각했고, 사람들을 초대해 함께 식사를 즐기며 이야기할 수 있는 다이닝 공간을 집의 중심에 위치하도록 했다. 여럿이서 공유하는 순간과 공간을 즐기고, 그런 시간을 소중하게 여기자는 것을 테마로 해 대부분의 공간은 친구들과 즐겁게 이야기하며 보낼 수 있는 따뜻한 느낌으로 완성했다. 깔끔하고 심플한 느낌의 화이트 외관을 지나 실내로 들어서면, 외관과 마찬가지로 깨끗하고 정돈된 느낌의 공간을 만나볼 수 있다. 1층에는 개인 시간을 보낼 수 있는 침실과 피아노 연습실이 있다. 공간 곳곳에는 아치형의 문을 만들어 자칫 어두울 수 있는 1층에 자연광이 들 수 있도록 했다. 2층에는 선선한 계절에 창문을 열었을 때 에어컨 없이도 시원하고 상쾌한 생활을 하고 싶었던 클라이언트의 니즈에 맞게 테라스를 설계했다. 빡빡한 도시 숲 한가운데서 하늘과 가까이 닿을 수 있는 공간인 테라스는 자연과 소통하고자 만든 공간으로 언제든 일광욕을 즐길 수 있다. 3층은 이 집의 핵심 공간이자 공용 공간인 주방이 자리해 있다. 앞쪽 창 너머로는 푸른 나무를 심어둔 정원이 보인다. 다이닝 공간은 태양과 가장 가까운 곳이자 푸른 정원을 바라볼 수 있는, 자연과 함께하는 공간으로 조성했다. 이렇게 Dining Table은 창문을 열면 빛과 바람이 자연스럽게 공간으로 유입되며, 도심에서 계절감을 느끼며 지낼 수 있는 건강한 주거 공간으로 완성되었다. Center of the house, was determined and dining table. Corner of downtown, narrow land sandwiched between the alley. Not take the distance from the building next door, because width is narrow, alley is the ravine of the city surrounded by buildings. Of course, by opening the window, they want to make a living that does not rely on air conditioning during nice season. The invite to the house friends, they have to cherish the hospitality space for a meal. They want to ensure in the narrow site, a place to kitchen garden hobby. Be a space that they can spend comfortably enjoy, such a time hand corner is feels cherish has become a theme. Space that is to cook the food that was caught in the kitchen garden, and spend while talking happily with friends. Talking advantage of its characteristics by what grow, kitchen garden, which is dispersed in three places of space. Fruit trees at entrance, kitchen garden on the top floor close to the sun most, and deck terrace on the second floor they can eat at. By opening a window, is taken into the space light and wind, and they spent while feeling the season in the city center. The house will be green garden is conjointly from now, and they will decorate towards the completion of the house.


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CTRL, ALT, DELETE Podcast: #157 Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of 25 novels.
Her books have sold over 15 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into almost 50 languages.
In this episode, we discuss her newest book A Spark Of Light, which centres around women, choice and abortion rights in America. It unravels backwards, with characters held hostage in an abortion centre in Mississippi. As the novel goes on, you start to realise what brought all the different characters there.
Jodi has always centred her novels around important topics. In her novel Nineteen Minutes, she wrote about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town, and it was her first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times best-seller list. Her book Change of Heart, published on March 4, 2008, was her second novel to debut at number 1 on that list. One of the books she might be also best known for is My Sister's Keeper, which was made into a film starring Cameron Diaz. In her book, Small Great Things, she tackled racism and white supremacy.
In 2016, Jodi joined the advisory board of Vida: Women in Literary Arts, which is a "non-profit feminist organization committed to creating transparency around the lack of gender parity in the literary landscape and to amplifying historically-marginalized voices, including people of color; writers with disabilities; and queer, trans and gender nonconforming individuals."
Quotes from the episode:
"When women don't tell their stories, narratives are written for us. And they are narratives of blame and shame."
"Women's rights are universal rights."
"We have to reach across the aisle. We have to speak to people who think differently to us. Instead of judging and talking, you have to sit back and listen, and hope they will give you the grace to do the same thing."

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An Open Letter to My Vagina: Sex, Pain, and Vaginismus
Overcoming the condition that makes sex as painful as the very first time, every single time.
by Madison Griffiths
March 31, 2016, 12:00am
Mietta said I should give you a name this morning—"an identity," so to speak. She's my sex therapist, who's helping me learn to listen to you. Then there's Brooke, a physiotherapist, who affably giggles when I apologize on your behalf during our fortnightly examinations. We started off with one third of a pointer finger and quivering knees. You're somewhat agreeable now, although only on certain days.
We'll celebrate when this is over—dilators and all.
Is naming a vagina like naming a child? I can't recall ever stumbling across an article recounting "1,001 of the Year's Favorite Vagina Names" during my internet trawls. Just as I can't recall a time when you didn't aggressively, perhaps instinctively, ensure the gates were sealed to your unknown chamber. And yet, amidst your intent resistance, here I still am—maintaining a steady gaze, smiling at my frustrated lovers, "It's OK, just keep trying."
According to vaginismus.com (a domain name I'm sure would've been in high demand), vaginismus is a condition caused by the "involuntary tightening of the pelvic floor, especially the pubococcygeus (PC) muscle group." Essentially that means one may experience burning, stinging, and tightness during sex. For some, it makes penetration impossible. Often during sex your breathing will halt and other body muscle groups (such as the legs or the lower back) spasm involuntarily. Tampons and gynecological examinations are a no-go.
What makes vaginismus so unique is that it exists both in the mind and the body. The reaction isn't conscious. Much like blinking, the PC muscles have taught themselves to contract and "flinch" in ways to protect themselves against the anticipated threat. Left untreated, the condition worsens—the contractions have the opportunity to mature. And so they become "stronger" and last longer, with greater intensity. You're like my tiny, troublesome body-builder down there. An iron woman of sorts.
I never told my first love about you. I didn't tell anyone. As a woman amongst women, sex was never discussed in a way that suggested to me that it was physically pleasurable. Emotionally, perhaps. It was flattery, more than anything.
In retrospect, perhaps my first time was the best. I could justify the pain: I was merely losing my virginity, and it was my feminine duty to endure such affliction. He fumbled about my body in a drunken but polite fashion. But I remember jolting when he brazenly inserted the first finger. It was immediate. It was like an electrocution. Everything seized. It felt as if you were fastening yourself around the intrusion—like a painful, dry suction.
We kept at it for eighteen months—you, me, and him. And it's not as if I didn't enjoy the relationship. I loved the feeling of being loved. But I was always aware of your voice—shooting through me, occasionally bejeweling my body in goosebumps. I had to learn to ignore you. Every time my lower back seized, or my legs kicked out, I pretended it was intense pleasure. Because how do you tell somebody you care about and long for at 17 that his love feels like razor blades?
I'm sorry. I thought all cis-gendered, heterosexual women faked it. I thought we'd all subscribed to some hilarious inside joke where, in a parallel universe, we'd laugh over coffee about how, as much as sex hurts, we all wanted it. Pain was just a price we had to pay.
Illustration by the author
I told my second boyfriend 18 months into our relationship. His reaction was exactly why I'd kept my secret for as long as I did: He was frustrated, confused, and robbed of empathy. I talked too much about it, he said. It was a disgusting topic, he chastised. "Oh!" he yelled sarcastically one night between my halted tears. "You have vaginismus?! Really? I had no idea."
I felt constant shame and rejection. It was as though my body was riddled with disease—a body he wanted nothing to do with unless it was fixed, and even then. My broken vagina became more than just that—I began feeling like a broken woman. My body not petite enough. My style not revealing enough. My voice: too loud and obnoxious. My hair: too thick, short, and unruly. My fingernails weren't manicured and kept. If not an attractive woman—if not an attractive, heterosexual, penetrable cis-woman—then what?
When he went overseas, I made it my mission to be "fixed" in time to visit him. That's when I shyly introduced you to Mietta and Brooke. We were diligent, the four of us. I had so much incentive. I falsely envisaged how our relationship would change once I could have penetrative sex. We'd laugh more. We'd see more films. Naturally, that wasn't the case at all. We were reunited after two uncomfortable plane rides, and six months of my telling him penetrative sex wasn't an option until I felt truly comfortable. He insisted we try, and I said yes. Of course I said yes.
It was 4:00 PM, but true to the Scandinavian climate, it was as dark as night. I didn't know what day it was. He looked different, and it had been so long. The attempt was brief. I asked for patience, but perhaps too much patience. He sourly noted that the process was "too medical," sighed, and stopped. Too medical for who?
My wearied, tempered eyes locked with his. It was as if you, my enraged, now suffering self, sent a furious wave through me. It wasn't an electrocution, no, but rather a motivating force. This was the last straw. Never again was I to let him dictate my worth based on a condition he exacerbated. I was done. I didn't see his empty, frustrated pupils, but instead envisioned my painful interactions with dilators, my screams as Brooke attempted to remove a small tampon after one overly ambitious appointment, pretending my spasms were pleasurable responses night after night for so many years. How difficult it was to function for days after sex: the redness, the rawness, the hurt. Too medical for who?
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Back in Melbourne, six months into my treatment, there are some weeks when you and I were ticking boxes I didn't even know existed. Then there are other weeks where you rejected me entirely. I understand that; I rejected you for so long as well.
I truly never meant to be unkind to you. It's just that sex is everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Sex is nothing like sex is. It is perplexing and discomforting. And rather than listening to you, I listened to the flustered giggling of a comrade of schoolgirls who—between porn, real life, and poorly illustrated comics in sex ed books—discussed all things sex. Endlessly. At some point, I started believing sex was meant to hurt, even if just for the first time.
There have been three since. One: a kind person, who laughed as I apologized for my body. My pelvis sighed a hot gulp of air: relief. There was nothing to fear. He won't hurt you. The second: Captivating in every sense. I had met him that night. I was enthralled and forgot for a moment that I sported this ailment. So this is what sex is meant to feel like, I thought, as the morning sun began peeking through his windows.
The third was an eager admirer, who compassionately listened to the clinical description of my vaginismus, but when push came to shove, thought only to address his own pleasure. Sure, it hurt—it stung in all of those familiar, unprepared crevasses. But not like it used to. Never like it used to.
I named you Tori. Tori means winner, conqueror. Mietta thinks it's a fantastic name. I remember my mother telling me she was going to name me Tori, so it seemed fitting. It isn't too delicate. It doesn't remind me of petals and vanilla incense. You're not fragile. You're one tough lover, that's for sure. You are more than a throbbing, aching space to puncture, Tori.
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Posted on Last updated: 15th January 2021 Categories Asia, Food and Drink, Taiwan, Travel
Dining in Taipei: The Best Taiwanese Food to Eat
Taiwan is a hidden gem when it comes to East Asian cuisine. While everyone knows Japanese sushi and ramen, and Chinese food is beloved the world over, Taiwanese food is perhaps the most diverse and delicious in East Asia. Eating the best Taiwanese food means eating the best food, full stop. And that makes finding what to eat in Taipei a necessity.
While you can explore the city yourself, try out the incredible Taipei street food that's a staple of the city, and discover your own favourite local restaurant, a great option is taking a Taipei food tour. If you're wondering what to eat in Taipei, and you want to try the best Taiwanese food available, in the city, consider taking a food tour.
Wondering What to Eat in Taipei?
Our first food tour was in Osaka, Japan. The experience proved to be the most exciting and detailed way of getting to know the culture of the city quickly, and so we have vowed to include a food tour (or a cooking class like the one we did in Seoul) in every new city we visit.
Our latest stop: the food capital of Asia, Taipei. It goes without saying the food in Taipei is fantastic, with night markets to explore and tiny eateries just waiting to be discovered, it's a dream stop on the culinary trail. There are even plenty of options for vegetarians which isn't always easy in Asia.
We were over the moon to have booked a tour with Taipei Eats. Their tours all started when food-obsessed founders Mike Lee and Tina Fong returned to Taiwan (after years living abroad) and rediscovered the culinary masterworks of their homeland. Find out why we loved them, what to eat in Taipei, and some local Taiwanese food spots to visit on your own Taipei trip below. This is how you find the best Taiwanese food around.
They currently offer two tours: the Dadocheng historical tour (which we chose) or the Xinyi tour which explores the backstreets near the more modern area behind the Taipei 101 building.
Explore the historic backstreets
The Best Taiwanese Food in Taipei
The Taipei Eats tour begins at Daqiaotou Station, exit 1. From here you walk for roughly three hours and stop at eight or nine different inconspicuous, bustling Taiwanese restaurants and street food carts to sample the local cuisine.
Your guide (ours was the charming and informative Tina) will do all the talking and provide you with the history of not only the food you eat but also the stores you eat at, and even the areas you wander through.
As a passionate foodie, Tina was so knowledgeable about every dish we tried; how the food in Taiwan is prepared, what nutritional properties it has, and what kinds of people typically enjoy it.
Most of the food you'll sample includes noodles, rice, pork, sauces/spices, and fried things. But the thousand-and-one ways in which these staples of Taiwanese cuisine are prepared and presented will leave your head spinning. The creativity on show in these little backstreets is inspiring, to say the least.
Eat amongst the locals
So many of the stores you'll stop at have stood with doors wide open for generations, many of them having originally opened up to 150 years ago.
The stories of these people are truly fascinating; from the Chinese who migrated to Taiwan and brought their local fish-ball dumplings with them, to the tea shop which originally installed special shutters as a defence against actual pirates in the 19th century.
Pirate door where they'd lower goods to avoid opening the main door.
You'll also wander through the fascinating DiHua Street in the Dadochaeng area. Constructed in the 1850s, it's the oldest street in Taipei, and some sections still exist from the rule of the Dutch during the mid-seventeenth century.
It's an area filled with history, fine Taiwanese foods, and medicine shops which Tina showed us around, filling our heads with fantastic history and trivia. You'll even visit a local Taoist temple and try some of the delicious tea they offer there.
Delicious pot pie. Even more incredible when you ad all the sauces on offer.
A highlight of this particular tour was the (optional) sampling of the betel (pronounced like beetle) nut. These are sold by street vendors so inconspicuous the average traveller would take little notice at all. But, thanks to Tina, we stopped and received a history lesson about the details of these fascinating nuts which originated in Southeast Asia and are chewed like tobacco, providing a similar high and buzz of energy.
Nowadays, they are typically consumed one after another by local taxi drivers, but we opted to try some for ourselves. The sensation is very similar to that of trying your first cigarette.
The Betel Nut, bizarre but they work!
Why take a Taiwanese food tour?
The real selling point of this food tour is a way for tourists and travellers to sample the real Taipei, to eat as the locals eat, to understand what makes up the daily routines and the traditions of so many local people. There's also no better way to discover and experience the best Taiwanese food.
Wandering through a city or town for a few days, just as a ghost would, can be a very hollow experience, but to sit at the side of the street and sample some fresh noodles and bitter tea as any local does on their way home from work is a truly humbling and enlightening experience.
I'm going to be dreaming about these noodles for the rest of my life.
There really is no other way to truly dig deep into a city's culture than through its cuisine. We can take all the photos and visit all the museums we like, but if we spend just a single morning sampling the local delicacies lining its quiet backstreets, we are provided with so much.
The best Taiwanese food is rich in history, flavour, tradition, skill, and method. Much of the food is recognisable as Chinese and sometimes Japanese, but Taiwan has made it their own; like a Greatest Hits of East Asian cuisine.
Delicious fish balls with the most amazing chilli sauce I've ever tried.
My mother used to say that the quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and since I never really understood what she meant by that I'm going to change it: the quickest way to the heart of a country is through its food. And Taiwan has a big, delicious heart; the easiest way to really get to know this heart is with Taipei Eats.
What to Eat in Taipei: Our Top Recommendations
Breakfast in Taipei
Fu Hang Soy Milk 阜杭豆漿 — Both their hou bing (thick bread) and shao bing (flat bread) have cult-like followings making the queue ridiculously long. You can enjoy them stuffed with scrambled eggs and Chinese fried donut stick.
Their soy milk is one of the best in Taipei. You can order it hot or cold, sweet or unsweetened, or savory- with vinegar, dried shrimp peels, cilantro, preserved vegetables, and sesame oil. Also, do not go there without trying the sweet xiao bing- a small, hot, flaky pastry with sugary syrup oozing in the middle.
Be prepared for a long wait, especially in the weekends. Though we find the wait actually gets shorter near closing time around noon. This is absolutely one of the best places to eat in Taipei.
Address: No. 108, Zhongxiao E. Rd., Sec. 1 (Level two of the indoor market right by exit 5)
MRT: Shandao station
Hours: 5:30am-12:30pm, closed on Mondays.
Lunch in Taipei
Ding Tai Fung 鼎泰豐 —The original location.
Now a worldwide institution, this is the original Taiwanese restaurant that sparked the obsession. Although there are multiple locations, people agree the original location is still the tastiest. Head there around 11:30 AM if you want to avoid long lines. It's no secret that Ding Tai Fung represents some of the very best Taiwanese food available.
Address: 106台北市大安區信義路二段194號 // Xinyi Rd. Sec.2, No. 194
MRT: Dongmen Exit 5 (Red/ Yellow line)
Hours: 10am-9pm during the week and 9am-9pm on the weekends
Dinner in Taipei
Make sure you catch one of the local Taiwanese markets for dinner one evening or just for dessert after. For a sit-down meal, we recommend:
Shi Ji Beef Noodles 史記正宗牛肉麵 — We're still dreaming about the beef noodles of Taiwan, Shi Ji are known for their white broth-based beef noodles. The milky broth is achieved by simmering the broth for hours and hours. If you're still searching for the best Taiwanese food, this is it.
Address: 台北市中山區民生東路二段60號 // 104, Taipei City, Zhongshan District, Section 2, Minsheng East Road, 60號
MRT: Xintian Temple station
Hours: 11:30am-3pm, 5:30pm-9pm
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FileUpload
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[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Gargron/fileupload.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Gargron/fileupload)

PHP FileUpload library that supports chunked uploads. Adopted from the
procedural script included with [jQuery-File-Upload][1], designed to work
with that JavaScript plugin, with normal forms, and to be embeddable into
any application/architecture.

[1]: https://github.com/blueimp/jQuery-File-Upload

### Installing

This package is available via Composer:

```json
{
  "require": {
    "gargron/fileupload": "~1.0.*"
  }
}
```

### Status

The unit test suite covers simple uploads, and the library "works on my machine," as it were. You are welcome to contribute.

You can grep the source code for "TODO" to find things you could help
finishing.

### Usage

```php
// Simple validation (max file size 2MB and only two allowed mime types)
$validator = new FileUpload\Validator\Simple(1024 * 1024 * 2, ['image/png', 'image/jpg']);

// Simple path resolver, where uploads will be put
$pathresolver = new FileUpload\PathResolver\Simple('/my/uploads/dir');

// The machine's filesystem
$filesystem = new FileUpload\FileSystem\Simple();

// FileUploader itself
$fileupload = new FileUpload\FileUpload($_FILES['files'], $_SERVER);

// Adding it all together. Note that you can use multiple validators or none at all
$fileupload->setPathResolver($pathresolver);
$fileupload->setFileSystem($filesystem);
$fileupload->addValidator($validator);

// Doing the deed
list($files, $headers) = $fileupload->processAll();

// Outputting it, for example like this
foreach($headers as $header => $value) {
  header($header . ': ' . $value);
}

echo json_encode(array('files' => $files));
```

### Validator

If you want you can use the common human readable format for filesizes like "1M", "1G", just pass the String as the first Argument.

```
$validator = new FileUpload\Validator\Simple("10M", ['image/png', 'image/jpg']);
```

Here is a listing of the possible values (B => B; KB => K; MB => M; GB => G). These values are Binary convention so basing on 1024.

### FileNameGenerator

With the FileNameGenerator you have the possibility to change under witch Filename we uploaded files will be saved.

```
$fileupload = new FileUpload\FileUpload($_FILES['files'], $_SERVER);
$filenamegenerator = new FileUpload\FileNameGenerator\Simple();
$fileupload->setFileNameGenerator($filenamegenerator);
```

We have placed some example generators like md5 who saves the file under the md5 hash of the filename or the random generator witch uses an random string. The default (the simple generator to be more precise) will save the file by its origin name.

### Callbacks

Currently implemented events:

* `completed`

```php
$fileupload->addCallback('completed', function(FileUpload\File $file) {
  // Whoosh!
});
```

### Extending

The reason why the path resolver, the validators and the file system are
abstracted, is so you can write your own, fitting your own needs (and also,
for unit testing). The library is shipped with a bunch of "simple"
implementations which fit the basic needs. You could write a file system
implementation that works with Amazon S3, for example.

### License

Licensed under the MIT license, see `LICENSE` file.

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Thrown between dimensions on his quest to rid the multiverse of deadites, Ash Williams now wages a war against the Black Lantern Corp. as a surly servant of Oa. Word is, on his first week of duty, he was punched out by Batman. Twice.
Numerous Rare Earth Magnets from Gaussboys – embedded in both alt. hands, and in the palm/stock of the gun to aide in holding the shotgun.


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Εκδοτικός Οίκος: Thomas Nelson Inc.
Abigail is just in Moose Creek, Montana for the summer to temporarily care for her great aunt. But a tender-hearted cowboy beckons her to stay. Abigail Jones intends to spend just one summer in middle-of-nowhere Montana with her Aunt Lucy. Time away from her job is just what Abigail needs to reassess her life. The slow pace has her breathing deeply for the first time in years. And the majestic scenery encourages her to get reacquainted with herself ...and God. What she didn't count on was the handsome widowed cowboy who owns the ranch where her aunt lives. When the rancher loses his daughter's nanny, Abigail decides to lend a hand for the summer. Wade Ryan can't help being attracted to Abigail. But he's given up everything to protect his daughter, and he's not about to risk it all on a pretty face. Under Abigail's care, Wade's home and daughter thrive. And with Wade's touch, Abigail's heart feels at home at last. But Abigail knows this elusive rancher is hiding something. Will her own secrets separate her from the cowboy who finally captured her heart?


Like most workplaces we have a number of values that underpin who we are and how we work. Here are a few values that we look for in our team mates.
"The big boss" is Buddy. He is a friendly labrador & ocassionaly comes to "check on the team".
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Businesses of today need to navigate change rapidly. Whether it is the global market and the demands it places, or the disruptions which present themselves suddenly, leadership is more demanding than it ever was. Which is why today's business leaders, as most experts will tell you, need to be flexible, nimble, innovative and ready to adapt to fast-changing conditions. The next generation, which is preparing to take over the reins at their family-owned businesses or even setting up ventures of their own, therefore have their task cut out. It's a whole new world out there, and sitting in the corner room will hardly be easy.
For this year's GenNext special issue, we pick those business leaders who are showing the way in taking their businesses forward, adding their unique stamp to them by way of innovation and sheer entrepreneurial energy. This set of gen-next leaders is just a sample, but a good example of how today's Indian family-owned businesses are grooming the next generation to take charge as the global business environment presents new challenges every day. It is also representative of what Indian enterprise is all about: The ability to navigate the odds and succeed. That's exactly what Laksh Vaaman Sehgal, the son of auto parts billionaire Vivek Chaand Sehgal, did when his father threw him in the deep end of the pool. He took charge at ailing UK-based mirror maker Visiocorp, which their Samvardhana Motherson Group had acquired, and turned it around, changing the fortunes of the group itself as a result. Laksh is a perfect example of the drive and determination which characterise the next generation of Indian business leaders.
But there are many others too—like Tarun and Nikhil Sawhney of the Triveni Group, Avni Biyani of the Future Group (who created a bustling business by way of lifestyle food superstore Foodhall) and Neil Parikh, the son of the late investment expert Parag Parikh—who are taking the family legacy forward by either growing existing businesses or carving out their own niches. Being a part of such business families also comes with an added dimension. As Senior Assistant Editor Salil Panchal, who helmed this issue, writes, it's not just about the talent or passion demonstrated by the next generation. "It is also about the family managing a smooth transition—of business ideas, values, practices and leadership—from the previous generation to the new one," Panchal says.
Coming back to the issue of change and disruption, I would also urge you to take a look at the Forbes list of Global Game Changers. These people, who are changing industries and touching lives, are selected on the basis of how well they are growing and innovating compared to their peers. Sample some names: Larry Fink of BlackRock, Evan Spiegel of Snap and Cheng Wei of Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing. The only Indian on the list: Mukesh Ambani of Reliance Industries Ltd.


I received my B.A. in History from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. I then earned an M.A. in History and Historic Preservation from Middle Tennessee State University. After working as a professional Historic Preservationist for a few years I decided to work towards my Ph.D., which I earned in 2004 from the University of New Hampshire. In addition to the World Civilizations and American History surveys, I will be developing and teaching courses on Colonial America and Revolutionary America as well as electives and seminars on Native American History. In these courses I try to challenge students to explore the vast diversity of peoples, experiences and perspectives in colonial and early America. My research explores intercultural contact in the Hudson River Valley in the 17th century and connects various events in the Hudson Valley such as the Peach War of 1655 and the Esopus Wars of 1658 and 1663 with events removed from the region, such as Bacon's Rebellion, Metacom's War and the Third AngloDutch War in the 1670s. By making these connections, I demonstrate how seemingly localized struggles for power had far reaching consequences including the creation of a new diplomatic landscape of European and Indian affairs that was centered at Albany . In my interpretations of these cross cultural experiences, I maintain a focus on the active roles and motivations of the various American Indian groups who helped to shape the experiences and development of 17th century North America.
"Mohawk Reinvention of the Fort Orange and Albany Courts, 1652-1677," Journal of Early American History 2:1 (2012): 3-31.
"'Such Splendid Country': The Esopus Region, A Multi-Ethnic Colonial Landscape on the Hudson River, 1652-1670," The Historian 73:4 (2011): 705-29.
"Beyond Frontiers: Colonial Cities as 'Indian Territory'," at "Cities in History: Urban Identities Reconsidered," Fordham University, New York, NY, 17 September 2011.
"Multi-Ethnic Geographies: The Mid-Hudson River Valley in the Seventeenth Century," at the 16th Annual Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Conference, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, 12 June 2010.
"Conflict and Compromise in the Struggles over the Control of Land and Space in the 17th Century Hudson River Valley," at Foerderverein fuer Vergleichende Ueberseegeschichte: Perceptions of Land, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 1-3 June 2007.