Pakistan's new PM announced Pakistan's willingness to improve ties with India and declared that if India takes one step towards Pakistan, the latter would take two. It appeared to be an excellent note from the new Pak PM. Every reasonable person would want peace. One could have welcomed such a statement but for what he added in his twitter. He mentioned, "Right now it is one-sided where India is constantly blaming us." He also said that the Kashmir is the core issue. These reveal his real thinking on the subject. Was he not speaking the language of the Pak Army?
The moot question is whether Imran Khan can really change the policy even if he is sincere. It is well known that the Pak Army determines the India and Afghanistan policy. Moreover, Imran's influence in Pakistan is very limited. It is also well known that whenever any PM tried to move away from the policy of the Pak Army, he or she was removed from the position. For a deeper analysis, a look at the issues influencing Pak approach towards India is needed.
Pakistan since Independence has used Islam and the Islamic identity as its core narrative and has justified the use of Jihadi elements and militant outfits against India. Most contemporary writings on Pakistan acknowledge the presence of Jihadi and conservative ideology within Pakistan and significant influence on the Pak Army. They also point out the fact that the Pak establishment is dominated by the Pak Army, which is not willing to change its anti –India policy. Perhaps it would not be wrong to say that it cannot afford to change its policy towards India. Stephen Cohen, an American scholar who is considered an authority on Pakistan, in his book entitled "The Idea of Pakistan" has attributed Pakistan's fixation with Kashmir as the driving force that sets the agenda of an unfinished dream of Jinnah- a perception that has been sold to Pakistanis since 1947 and that stimulates passion and religious frenzy amongst majority of Pakistani citizens. This has enabled the Pakistan Army to dictate the national security narrative and the formation of Bangladesh is portrayed as a testimony of India's alleged hegemonistic designs.
Successive military dictators as also PMs have used glorification of the idea of Pakistan and India as an enemy state to remain in power. Another writer, Christophe Jaffrelot in his book entitled "The Pakistan Paradox" has pointed out that the use of Islamic symbolism helped the Muslim leaders to garner popular support that helped in grooming the newly acquired 'Land of Pure'. In the process, Islamism gained predominance in Pak polity. Today, the Pak Army projects itself as the defender of not only Pak physical boundary but also the Pak ideology. It perceives India as a 'Hindu nation" opposed to the Pak ideology. Hence, the Pak Army considers it important to resist India's rise and primary tool for this is 'Jihad' under the expanding nuclear umbrella. Even Pak authors point this out. Jalal Ayesha in her book, "The Struggle for Pakistan" has explained that most political parties and Pak Army used the religious card to cover their failures to meet the aspirations of the Pakistanis and banked upon the Islamic ideology as the binding force. This was considered necessary as observed by another Pak author Hussain Haqqani in his book, "Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military". He has highlighted the absence of the notion of nationhood amongst Pakistanis on account of diversity in ethno-linguistic, religious, cultural and traditional arenas.
In Pakistan Army's perception, 'Jihad' is a means to achieve its strategic objectives. Hence it is not possible to do away with the various militant groups which are considered important assets. The tolerant Sufi/Barelvi society has been marginalised and the hard-line right-wing version of Deobandi and Ahle Hadith ideology has become the dominant force.
In the history of Pakistan's Islamization, General Zia occupies an important position. He had embarked on a Sunnization programme to keep himself in power. Zia carried out a systematic and well-planned review of the judicial system and ensured the appointment of judges who were pro-Army and pro-Zia. Those who could create problems were sent as Governors. He introduced Sharia benches in the High Courts and seats of these benches were reserved for trained ulema lawyers. He also created Federal Sharia court as a special branch of Pakistan's Supreme Court called the Appellate Bench. The prosecution of the non-Muslims and minorities was carried out. He introduced the draconian Blasphemy laws. He made efforts to convert the Pak Army into an Islamized force. His change of Pak Army's motto from 'Ittehad, Yaqeen aur Tanzeem' (Unity, Faith and Discipline) to 'Iman, Taqwa, Jihad-fisibillah' (Faith, Obedience to God, Struggle in the path of Allah) was aimed in this direction. He also permitted Jamait-e Islami (JI) literature to be distributed amongst the Pak Army officers and enlisted men. Zia also started recruiting Maulvis into the Pak Army and gradually their status was raised. He also created the Directorate of Religious Instructions with the aim of educating the officer cadre of the Pak Army into the virtues of Islam.
Thus a new generation of Pak Army is in position which considers that it is justified to employ Jihadi elements as a part of strategy. It would be difficult to change their approach towards India. The Pak Army has allowed Hafiz Sayeed to float a political party, who is openly sharing platforms with Pak politicians and Ministers. The Pak Army maintains very close links with militant outfits, who spew venom against India. It would not be wrong to say that the militant outfits are the unofficial army of Pakistan.
Imran Khan is in no position to take decisions on this issue. He could only read the script prepared by the Pak Army. Beyond this, it would be unrealistic to expect from the Pak PM who has come to power not on his own but on the crutches of the Pak Army. The Pak Army had supported Imran's street protests and manipulated removal of Nawaz through the judiciary. The Pak Army had carefully divided conservative votes by engineering participation of extremist groups. Imran has not obtained majority and therefore would be more willing than his predecessors to placate the Pak Army.
Imran in the past, had made unpalatable statements against the Indian PM Modi. In view of the foregoing, India should remain prepared for continued support to terrorists from across the border. It has been our experience that whenever we make a move to improve relations, it is followed by bold terrorist attacks. We should not ignore our past experience. Any hope of improving relations, without the change in the Pak Army's approach towards India, would be wishful thinking.


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A Brief History of Posthumous Literature
By Gilbert Cruz Tuesday, Mar. 10, 2009
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Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain
The villains of Lisey's Story, Stephen King's 2006 book about a famous novelist's widow, are dubbed Incunks — crazed academics and collectors who want nothing more than to obtain a dead writer's every last piece of prose and memorabilia — their incunabula. A more learned version of Misery's Annie Wilkes ("I'm your number one fan"), the Incunks speak in part to a writer's fear of having their unfinished, unpolished work stripped from their cold, dead hands (metaphorically, of course) and thrust out into the world.
But fans' curiosity, desire for completeness and appetite for more works from a silent pen are often no match for a writer's desire for privacy — especially when he or she isn't around anymore to argue. Next week will see the release of a previously unpublished story by Mark Twain, almost a century dead; it will be followed by next month's Who is Mark Twain, a collection of 24 formerly unseen essays and short stories. Long-lost novels by Jack Kerouac, David Foster Wallace and Vladimir Nabokov are scheduled to see the light of day in coming years.
If a writer lives long enough, and gets famous enough, then they eventually start to consider what will happen to all the story nuggets, novel fragments and character sketches tucked away in their hard drives and desk drawers. Some destroy their work themselves; others ask family members to do so; still others designate literary executors to handle their papers and dole them out to universities or libraries. (One hopes that the recently deceased and uncommonly prolific John Updike may have taken the last route.) But such wishes aren't always carried out to the letter. Emily Dickinson, who saw fewer than a dozen poems published during her lifetime, instructed her sisters to burn all of her correspondence and verse — orders that were only half followed. Franz Kafka's directive to his friend Max Brod to destroy all of his work was completely ignored. Such literary insubordination gave us The Trial, The Castle and Amerika.
These practices date all the way back to Machiavelli's 16th Century The Prince, (and likely before) which wasn't published widely until four or so years after his death. Three centuries later, a trio of Jane Austen novels — Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Love and Friendship — were released after the Pride and Prejudice author's death in 1817. Charles Dicken's final novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, remains unfinished; readers will never know what happened to its vanished main character. For a while, a mini-cottage industry arose around posthumous books by Ernest Hemingway — bullfighting tome The Dangerous Summer, Parisian memoir A Moveable Feast and novels Islands in the Stream and The Garden of Eden. Papa Hemingway's pal F. Scott Fitzergald's The Last Tycoon hit bookstores about a year after his death, while a seemingly endless list of Middle Earth tales, starting with The Silmarillion have been apportioned out over the past thirty years by J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher.
Perhaps it's a cold truth, but sometimes death burnishes an author's reputation. It was only after she committed suicide that Sylvia Plath's most affecting, well-known works came out, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Collected Poems. John Kennedy Toole's Southern gothic tragicomedy A Confederacy of Dunces was unpublished and gathering dust until Toole's mother put it in the hands of Walker Percy years after her son's suicide. The 2008 publication in English of Stieg Larsson's critically acclaimed The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo came four years after he passed on. And let's not even talk about Roberto Bolano, whose 2666 was all the rage late last year — his 2003 death prominently mentioned in every piece and review.
And while it's unfair to compare Bolano to Vladimir Nabokov — the author of Lolita, one of the English language's greatest novels — it is fair to say that a similar response will greet the publication of Nabokov's The Original of Laura, should it come out this November as expected. The problem is that Nabokov never wanted the book to be released in the first place; in his will, he'd instructed his son and executor Dmitri to destroy the manuscript. Dmitiri does not seem to be inclined to obey, setting off a debate over which is more important — an author's last wishes or the pull of literary posterity. Will next year's tentative release of David Foster Wallace's novel The Pale King, for example — just a year and a half after the writer's suicide last September — ensure his spot in the pantheon of great 20th century authors? Or will it simply prove to be exactly what it is — an imperfect, unfinished work? Still, at least Wallace has his editor, and his agent, and his wife to care for his interests.
Who's going to look out for poor old Mark Twain?
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When you buy local agricultural products your purchase supports the local economy and helps create jobs in our region!
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Per month, about how much does your household spend on food that is described as "local" from the grocery store or supermarket?
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I would not want to be the Damned fool that tries to intimidate James Woods by kicking in the door to his house.
Badass James Woods has a message for Antifa activists that think it's just fine to harass people that they disagree with politically.
They'd better not try it with him.
Yesterday, ClashDaily reported that Antifa thugs protested on Tucker Carlson's lawn chanting, 'Tucker Carlson, we will fight! We know where you sleep at night!' and 'Racist Scumbag, leave town', along with threats of a pipe bomb, posting his home adress online, and damaged his front door.
The anti-fascists group chanted "Tucker Carlson, we will fight." outside of Tucker's D.C. home. Carlson's wife was home alone and called police.
Many states have laws that protect the rights of citizens to use lethal force if they feel that their lives or those of their family are threatened while inside their homes. It's commonly referred to as 'Castle Doctrine'.
Woods was clear with his warning — those trespassing on his property are taking their lives into their hands.
Somehow I get the feeling he's not making an idle threat.


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Last Modified Date: December 21, 2020
A crime of violence is a violation of the law in which physical harm is inflicted on one person by another. In some cases, the act of violence itself is the crime, such as assault. In other cases, though, the violence, or its threat, is used in the commission of another crime, such as robbery. Different countries have different definitions and standards for the definition of a crime of violence, making comparisons of statistics among various countries difficult.
Clearance of a crime simply means that an arrest has been made.
In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considers four offenses to be violent crimes: aggravated assault, robbery, forcible rape, and murder (including non-negligent manslaughter). Crimes of violence account for around 12½% of all crimes committed in the United States, but it should be noted that since the early 1990s, the crime rate for all crimes in the United States has been steadily declining. In 1991, the crime rate was 5,897.8 (crimes annually per 100,000 population); of those, 758.1 were violent. By 2000, the overall crime rate had fallen to 4,124.8, of which 506.5 were violent. In fact, despite a population increase of almost 30 million, not only had the rate fallen, but the absolute number of crimes of all types had declined as well.
Crimes of violence can be perpetrated against children.
Crimes of violence often accompany other crimes as well. For example, kidnapping is not considered a crime of violence in the United States, but when kidnappers employ force in the commission of their crime, they're generally charged with that violent crime, as well as with kidnapping. In addition, the threat of violence is often employed in the commission of a crime. Extortion, for example, is defined as the unlawful taking of money or services of property by coercion, which often involves physical violence.
About half of the violent crimes in the United States are "cleared." Clearance of a crime doesn't necessarily mean that the crime has been solved and the offender found guilty in court, but simply that an arrest has been made. About 12% of the cleared violent crimes involved only juveniles; in these cases, arrests generally aren't made, but the juvenile is cited to appear in juvenile or family court.
The term "crime of violence" means different things in different countries. Canada, for example, recognizes the American-defined violent crimes and also includes abduction, sexual offenses, and attempted murder. England and Wales simply define any violence at all against a person as a violent crime. Some nations also recognize property damage as a crime of violence. This is why it's so difficult to compare rates of violent crime among different nations.
One type of comparison is available: the homicide rate. The basic definition of homicide — the killing of a human by another human — is essentially the same worldwide. Statistics show that the region with the lowest homicide rate is Western and Central Europe, with 1.5 per 100,000 population; the rate for the entire European continent is 5.4. The continent with the highest murder rate is Africa, with 20, and Asia is the lowest at 3.2. North America's homicide rate is 6.5.
Examination and analysis of violent crime rates is important for many reasons. Governments may make decisions about the allocation of law enforcement funding based on comparative crime statistics, and individuals may consider crime rates when relocating. Insurance companies also take crime rates into account when setting some premium rates.
A violent crime involves the infliction of physical harm on one person by another.
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State definitions of violence are often nonsensical compared to sociological ones (perhaps, in part, attributable to the fact that the former is defined by its monopoly on the legitimate use of).
Such state definitions often render long-held and consistent beliefs such as pacifism unintelligible. For centuries, pacifists have not even believed in the validity of self-defense, let alone kidnapping, theft, or vandalism. But suddenly we have the WHO defining violence according to outcomes and intentions rather than objective standards of action.
The fact that these whimsical definitions thrive speaks of the unfortunate linguistic careless of the population of our post-1984 world.


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IW Engine – Maker of 'Call of Duty' franchise
Posted by M. Saqib | Updated Jan 24, 2021 | Blog |
IW Engine is a next-generation game engine employed in the highly successful series of Call of Duty. The engine is developed in C/C++ and Python language. It targets the platforms of Microsoft Windows, OSX, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Wii U. It was developed by Video Game Companies Infinity Ward Inc. and Treyarch. The engine was originally based on id Tech 3 game engine. The first version IW 2.0 was developed in 2005.
IW engine is a subsidiary company of Activatision Inc. IW engine is a proprietary engine. It was established in 2002 Vince Zampella, Grant Collier, and Jason West. All the team members of this organization had been previously working in 2005 Inc. (A video Game company which developed successful game Medal of Honor: Allied Assault, published by EA).
Until now eight versions of the engine has been released with almost thirteen successful games. The first game of Call of Duty was developed in 2003 for Microsoft Windows. This game was a modified version of id Tech 3. The first version IW 2.0 was highly altered from id Tech 3 and was used in Call of Duty 2 that used advanced graphics. IW 3.0 featured bullet penetration, Particle systems, Improved AI and many more in Call of Duty 4 and 007: Quantum of Solace. IW 4.0 and 5.0 was employed in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 respectively in which Audio and Lighting engines were introduced along with improved AI and texture streaming.
IW 6.0 was used to develop Call of Duty: Ghosts that featured HDR lighting, Fluid Dynamics, Displacement mapping and Dynamic mapping. IW 7.0 was used in Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare that introduced Zero-Gravity Simulation, Improved NPC (Non Player Characters) behavior and Dynamic movements etc. The latest version IW 8.0 released in 2019 that features new lighting and sound engine, Ray tracking and improved physics.
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No matter what, malicious viruses somehow find its way into your computer. Antivirus software industry is also hard at work finding ways to stop malware attacks. The software virtualization is now dominated by VMware.
A Sunnyvale, California based startup, Bromium, is testing a new technology to stop malware attacking your computer. Each time you open an e-mail attachment, a browser tab or another application, Bromium's unique technology creates a temporary, virtual compartment to house that task. If malware try to get into your computer through Adobe Reader holes, the Bromium will dissolve the compartment protecting your computer from malware stealing your key strokes. This is unique because your computer anticipates an attack each time you click on an application.
Another unique feature of Bromium is that it contains only about 100,000 lines compared to traditional antivirus which contains 100 million lines of code. Smaller size allows it to easily harden and secure your PC.
One of the main partners of the technology is Intel. Intel chip technology includes stronger barrier against malware. Bromium manages this function in new Intel chips.
Bromium is expected to come into the market at the end of 2012.


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Q: Add Attribute (System.Attribute variety) to .aspx page - not the code-behind I am creating a custom Attribute (extending System.Attribute).  I know I can put it on another class easily enough by doing the following.
[MattsAttribute]
public class SomeClassWhichIsACodeBehind {

However, I need to be able to test this attribute easily, and putting it in the code-behind would cause a lot of extra effort to get it deployed to an environment which would respond to the behavior of attribute.
What I would like to do:  declaratively apply this attribute to the .aspx page itself (which is really just another class that inherits from the code-behind).  Is this possible?  If so, what is the proper syntax for doing this?

A: Check out this post from ScottGu:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/02/421405.aspx
You'll have to extend Page, but it looks about the closest you can come to doing what you want without putting something in a CodeBehind.

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If you've got a Bank of America card and some spare time on the first weekend of any month, you can take advantage of free admission to any of 120 participating museums, zoos, aquariums, and other cultural and educational institutions.
After 12 years, the Museums on Us program has expanded its reach to 74 cities in 27 states. It's useful whether you're staying around town or on vacation, and is good for general admission at places like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago.
The first weekend of the new season of the program is May 2 and 3. I'm already planning my free museum day.


If the next Mega Man game shipped with box art as grim and epic as the boss mountain depicted on Gustavo Valencia's deviantART account, Capcom certainly wouldn't lose any fans based on appearances. The Colombian artist shade dramatic weight into most of his video game and anime-based work, though Pikachu really gets put through the ringer, being stuffed into small glass tubes and mutated into a Pokémon/Elec Man hybrid.
The Yoda and Neon Genesis Evangelion poses that Valencia slings around are nothing to scoff at either. He's got keen sense of color and knows just how to keep a 2-D portrait low on elements and high on tension.
Still not convinced? Well, try on his in-progress Harley Quinn for size, and take a look at how his lines and color strokes come together. The guy's got some big-time digital skills, and if he's going to use them for anything, it might as well be characters like these.


Catholic Bibles: Haydock Bible Giveaway!
The folks at Catholic365.com are having a giveaway for a Douay-Rheims Haydock Bible. You can follow this link to enter.
This giveaway will run from September 8 through October 13, 2014 at 12 AM EST. Entries will be verified. Winners will be notified via email – winner will have 48 hours to respond and claim prize or another winner will be selected. This giveaway is in no way endorsed, affiliated or associated with Facebook, Twitter or any other Social Media Networking Site.
The Douay-Rheims Bible was the original translation of Scripture for English speaking Catholics. The New Testament was first published in 1582 by the English College of Rheims, France, while the Old Testament was published in 1610 when the University moved to Douay, another city of France. Translated from Saint Jerome's Latin Vulgate, it contains the most pure and most genuine passages expressed in eloquent English common during the 16th and 17th centuries. This same text is used during the Liturgy of the Word in the Latin Tridentine Mass. Among the various translations of the Bible, the Douay-Rheims is ideal for those searching for a deeper understanding of Holy Scripture.
First published in 1884 and digitally reproduced in order to ensure an exact duplication of the original text, this new edition in hardback includes the Illustrated Bible Dictionary and a history of the books of the Bible in one volume.
The cover uses the pattern which appeared on the original 1884 edition - a gold cross with rich Catholic symbols patterning the entire front of the cover stamped on burgundy color leather.


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Two arrested after fleeing deputies
Two suspects were arrested by San Luis Obispo Sheriff's deputies on Saturday after attempting to flee. According to the sheriff's office, at approximately 11:50 A.M., a deputy conducted a traffic
Attempted Robbery at Panda Express
The San Luis Obispo Police Department are searching for a suspect who attempted to rob Panda Express last Friday afternoon. According to SLOPD, they received a 911-call around 2:10 p.m.
Two nailed for armed robbery
Juan Carlos Garcia Ayala and Sasha Marie Fritton The Paso Robles Police arrested a male-and-female duo for allegedly robbing a male victim early Tuesday morning. According to PRPD, they received
Two suspects arrested for identity theft
Vincent Buddy Tessandori and Destiny Maye Anderson The Paso Robles Police arrested two suspects for their alleged involvement in an identity-theft operation. The two were arrested on Wednesday. According to
Meth Ring Shut Down
The San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office has shut down a methamphetamine ring after a three-month investigation. The ring operated in the north part of San Luis Obispo County. The investigation
Man Arrested for Exposing Self
Courtney Luther Miles The San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office arrested a man for allegedly exposing himself to two female victims at different times. The sheriff's office first learned of the
Xanax, cocaine, and MDMA discovered during traffic stop
The Paso Robles Police arrested a male and female for possession of various illegal narcotics on Tuesday. According to PRPD, officers conducted a traffic stop near the intersection of Melody
Traffic stop yields heroin, meth, stolen property
Joseph Armas The Paso Robles Police arrested a man for possession of narcotics and stolen property last Tuesday. According to PRPD, officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle around
Nearly 6,000 Pot Plants Discovered
Seized marijuana grow (courtesy SLOSD) The San Luis Sheriff's Office discovered almost 6,000 marijuana plants on Thursday. According to the Sheriff's office, the plants were found on the east side
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Ulises Penalopez A Templeton CHP officer was recently involved in a high-speed chase that involved three motorcycles. According to CHP, around 4 p.m. on Saturday the officer observed three motorcyclists


BATAC CITY (Nov. 10) – In what believed to be a freak accident, a 23-year-old man died instantly when a jeep he was riding in accidentally turned to its side and pinned him to death.
Police identified the victim as Arjay Agdigos, a resident of Brgy. Dariwdiw, this city, while the driver was identified as Marlon Manglanlan of same barangay.
Initial investigation showed that victim was sitted at the front seat together with the driver's son.
Report said that while traversing a curve lane, the driver lost control of the wheel. The vehicle turned to its side and threw out the victim.


Ecstasy—the street name of the chemical 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, shortened as MDMA—is a synthetic, psychoactive (mind-altering) drug with hallucinogenic and amphetamine-like properties. Its chemical structure is similar to two other synthetic drugs, DA, and methamphetamine, which are known to cause brain damage.
Ecstasy is also known as Molly, Adam, Xtc, X, Hug, Go, Hug Drug, Beans, and Love Drug.
Ecstasy was originally developed as a diet aid but was also used experimentally during counseling because of its ability to remove an individual's inhibitions.
Although some clandestine labs have been discovered operating inside the United States, most of the MDMA sold in the U.S. is manufactured in Canada and smuggled into the U.S. A small percentage of Ecstasy in the U.S. is manufactured in the Netherlands.
Ecstasy comes in a tablet form that is often imprinted with graphic designs or commercial logos. It is usually swallowed as a pill but it can also be crushed and snorted, injected, or used in suppository form.
Ecstasy is popular among middle-class adolescents and young adults. It is sold at bars, underground nightclubs, and at raves, which are all-night parties.
It is known for its energizing effect, as well as distortions in time and perception and enhanced enjoyment from physical experiences. The effect, per use, lasts from three to four hours. Its popularity grew in the late 1980s in the rave and club scenes and on college campuses because of its reputation for producing high energy and a trusting and opened effect among those who take it.
These medical consequences can be serious and potentially life-threatening.
The physical side effects that occur while taking it can last for weeks. Users often experience muscle tension, involuntary teeth-clenching, nausea, blurred vision, rapid eye movement, faintness, and chills or sweating. MDMA is very dangerous if you live with circulatory or heart disease because the drug increases heart rate and blood pressure.
Almost 60 percent of people who use MDMA report withdrawal symptoms, including fatigue, loss of appetite, depressed feelings, and trouble concentrating. Some users may require treatment for drug abuse.
Combining or using drugs with MDMA, including marijuana and alcohol, is dangerous and will put users at higher physical risk.
In a study using monkeys, exposure to Ecstasy for four days caused brain damage to serotonin nerve terminals that could still be seen up to seven years later, providing evidence that people who take Ecstasy may be risking permanent brain damage.
Research has shown that MDMA can damage serotonin-containing neurons, which may lead to long-lasting mood changes as well as potentially affecting attention, memory, and other cognitive functions.
The parent drug to Ecstasy is MDA, an amphetamine-like drug that has a similar chemical structure to MDMA. PMA (paramethoxyamphetamine, associated with fatalities in the U.S. and Australia) is also sometimes sold as MDMA.
National Institute on Drug Abuse. "MDMA (Ecstasy/Molly)." September 2013.


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Q: How to transpose an HTML table? Is there a way (I don't know the right word for it) to twist a table with jQuery? With a function or something?
For example I have an table like this:

And I want it like this:

A: try this code

        Heading1
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        Heading3

        data
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Do it.

don't forgot to link necessary (jquery1.6) file  and appropriate html tags.
try give link http://jsfiddle.net/CsgK9/2/
see this link for original view
https://stackoverflow.com/a/6298066


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Evertz Showcases Gamification of the Fan Experience at NAB 2022
By Jack Fredrick
Platform makes it simple for broadcasters to synchronize their live moments with interactive graphics
Burlington, Ontario – As the broadcast, media and entertainment industries prepare for largest tech event of the year a number of Canadian innovators will be on display at this year's show in Las Vegas. The 2022 NAB Show will run April 23–27 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Evertz, a Canadian leader in broadcast software and hardware, will be highlighting new interactive graphic solutions to help live sports, live events, and broadcast customers deliver unique experiences and personalized features to millions of users across multiple platforms. Evertz will showcase Ease Live, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based interactive graphics platform as part of its Direct-To-Consumer (DTC) solutions.
The company will demonstrate how content providers are using edge-rendered graphics to engage audiences and create new revenue streams by adding interactive experiences to existing Over-The-Top (OTT) services and Apps. Used by sports leagues, broadcasters and content providers around the world, the Ease Live platform creates, builds and distributes overlays to end users on connected devices in real time.
At NAB, Evertz is set to highlight the engagement and monetization potential of Ease Live's interactive graphics platform, which delivers personalized polls, trivia, and sponsored betting within Apps and live streams.
Ease Live drives engagement and monetization opportunities by the gamification of the viewer and fan experience. Ease Live overlays graphical content onto live streams, which allows the viewer to interact with in-game live statistics, watch parties, polls and trivia, and sponsored betting and wagers without having to leave the event. With interactive graphics, content and rights owners can customize the user experience to increase both the level of user engagement and the length of time of engagement. This will provide revenue and ad opportunities that may not have previously been available.
"As the cost of being a content rights holder becomes even more expensive and the competition for audience eyeballs grows, our customers are looking for new ways to drive fan engagement and monetize their content.
Kjetil Horneland, CEO of Ease Live
In addition to the existing support for mobile and web-based touch devices, Ease Live will be launching at NAB new interactive experiences developed for Connected TV devices that allow the viewer to engage with content using their television's remote control device
Ease Live's CEO, Kjetil Horneland, said they will be showcasing how Evertz is engaging with the interactive fan using three modes – stats, watch and play. "Ease Live makes it easy for content providers to quickly launch additional layers of 'value added content' that can help offset costs. Everything is published through the cloud, which reduces the need for app level changes and shortens time to market for new innovative features."
NAB has announced that more than 900 companies, including about 160 first-time exhibitors, will be debuting new products and offering first looks at trailblazing technologies through interactive exhibits and live demonstrations.


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La Meilleraie () is an indoor sporting arena located in the city of Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France.  The arena is part of a larger expo and events center called Le Parc des Expositions de la Meilleraie, which is divided into several sections. The sports arena constitutes the "Red Zone" of the complex.

The capacity of the arena is 5,191 people.  It is currently home to the Cholet Basket basketball team. The building opened in 1987 and was renovated in 2009 at a cost of €250,000.

External links
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With iOS 11 you can record your iPhone or iPad screen to share with someone via iMessage, Facebook or even uploaded to YouTube.
Even if you don't need to record your games, this can be a very handy way to show someone what they need to do to fix a problem on their iPhone.
The next time someone asks you for help, instead of walking them through it on the phone, just record the steps and send it to them so they can follow along on their iPhone or iPad.


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Q: What is this bird nest for and why does it glow? I've recently picked up Far Cry Primal and have been exploring the huge map. While running around, I found this bird nest that was shimmering and glowing like it's and interactable object in the game.

What is the point of it? It didn't give me the option to interact with it, yet it glows like any other object in the world you can interact with (the white shimmer is visible on the left side of the nest, it was difficult to capture a screenshot of it completely).
The nest can be found in the lower portion of the map. It was past a waterfall that you walk under. I've included a screenshot of the exact location on the world map below:

Also, setting the nest on fire did nothing, which is why it looks burnt in the picture, and the nest was empty when I found it.

A: It's part of a quest to gather eagle feathers for one of your tribesmen, and becomes interactive at that time. You first need to progress in the game and trigger the quest.


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Senior Android Engineer
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https://boards.greenhouse.io/honey/jobs/1706346?gh_jid=1706346&gh_src=hkpbqxg01
Honey is a fast-growing startup based in Los Angeles. Our online shopping platform offers users a smarter way to shop. Through a simple browser extension, we open up instant access to exclusive savings, deals, rewards and discovery, all powered by the collective knowledge of Honey's community of online shoppers. We are helping millions save when they shop online, and we're hiring! We are actively seeking Mobile Engineers to join the Engineering Team in our Boulder office.
As a Mobile Engineer at Honey, you will:
Take product requirements from spec to production
Design, build and maintain Honey applications for the Android platform
Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
Identify and correct bottlenecks and fix bugs
Help maintain code quality, best practices, proper organization, and automation
You've been part of a team that has written and delivered an app successfully to one, ideally multiple, of the Android app stores
Experience building applications using Java and/or Kotlin
Experience with Git
Experience with offline storage, threading, or performance tuning in an Android app
Experience leveraging GraphQL APIs in an Android App
Experience with cloud message APIs and push notifications (through Firebase or similar)
Experience with application monitoring tools and services like Sentry
Experience in writing code, deployment, and debugging your applications in production
Self-motivated to build and iterate in quick cycles
Honey is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law.
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Our office is centrally located in Downtown Boulder right on Pearl Street! We are steps away from the world-famous Pearl Street Mall.
An Insider's view of Honey
What are some social events your company does?
We have a regular company all-hands that gives everybody from different teams a chance to catch up with each other, quarterly recreational tournaments (usually ping-pong or competitive video games), board game nights, and a lot of the time just hanging out at whatever local events may be going on.
How do you collaborate with other teams in the company?
Cross-team collaboration plays a big role in ensuring deploys go smoothly. Sync ups between Engineering, Product, Design, and beyond, occur on a daily basis. Whether it's a drop-in at someone's desk, a Slack message to update a spec/status of a ticket, or a full on meeting--the communication never stops, to ensure that we're all on the same page.
How has your career grown since starting at the company?
I started at Honey when there were only 10 people in the company and today we have over 160 employees. In the past 2 years, we've seen tremendous growth both internally and externally which has allowed me the opportunity to build out a team underneath me, work across departments and provide input for the product and company's future.
Sr. Director of Partnerships
How do you make yourself accessible to the rest of the team?
We have a completely open culture at the company, from seating to communication. Every Friday we do a company-wide stand-up where we are as transparent as possible. The only way we can hit our objectives is if everybody is operating with the same information.
What are some things you learned at the company?
Being flexible and stepping out of my comfort zone. At Honey, several times I'm given the opportunities I've never had prior to working here. For example, I've had to schedule, plan and drive meetings. I've also had to get used to constantly presenting my work to my peers. It's really great because it's taught me how to be a better communicator.
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Free Daily Meals
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Do You Need to Know Your Doctor's Religion?
The site Big Questions exists for precisely this kind of query: "Should doctors," asks Heather Wax, "have to disclose their religious beliefs (or lack thereof)?" Well, why should they? Clive Seale, a professor of medical sociology at the University of London, attempts to answer and in the process outlines, at the very least, the reasons for asking the question.
Seale has done a study looking at "the role of doctors' religious faith and ethnicity in taking ethically controversial decisions during end-of-life care," a hot topic right now. Apparently, "both religious beliefs and atheist beliefs" can have an effect on medical treatment.
It is probable that not all doctors are aware that their own decisions are influenced by this. If I were a patient facing a period of end-of-life care, I would want to know if my doctor had strong convictions either way, quite independently of whether the doctor thought he or she could put aside their convictions and put my interests first.


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I'm sitting here in my art studio, sipping the last cup of coffee from this morning's pot, savoring it, and just thinking about creativity's ebb and flows.
It's a battered old thing, this pot. Near as I can figure, with a bit of help from Google and Etsy, it's going on 60 some years old. Nearly as old as I am, and both of us dinged up a bit, but still going strong.
Some years ago, as we packed up Dad's home, I rescued this poor baby from the pots and pans' cupboard, beneath the built in stove. I hadn't seen it used in years; Mom, then Dad had moved onto its more modern relatives, but being the Depression babies that they were, had hung onto it, "just in case."
I carried it home to Virginia, not really thinking I'd being making coffee from up, and for a long time, it just sat in my kitchen, making me smile with the memories of the past.
Just for grins and giggles, as he says, Phil decided to experiment with it one day, and it's been pressed into service ever since. If we're not in a hurry, it's put to work. There's something about watching the brown liquid begin to perk and bubble with a sound all its own. A rich aroma works its way through the kitchen and up the stairs, telling me as one of the grands puts it, that it's sunny time.
Maybe it's my imagination, but the coffee is richer and deeper somehow, and if I'm not careful the first sip or two can scald my tongue.
I've been in some sort of creative funk lately. It's not that I don't have ideas; I do, and there are lots of them. But my energy went missing, and other than perusing the net, and getting lost in its rabbit holes, I've simply been reading the kinds of books that don't make you think, or playing Suduku and Solitare.
Yesterday, I decided that enough was enough, and I pushed myself to pick up the paintbrush, acknowledge the crankies, and just get started, not putting any great importance on the outcome.
I've never been a believer of making my journals just pretty images, of somehow sending out the message that everything is just hunky dory. And, I figured that maybe if I acknowledged it...not bemoaning or wailing about it...just simple acknowledgement, that I could move past this bit.
I can't really describe just how good and right it felt to play with the paint colors, images from magazines, and to just cut and glue. Therapy, indeed.
I had to laugh when I found the image of the girl; she's just so perfect. If I had gone looking for her, she never would have appeared. I just started putting down marks, paint, etc. letting the page become what it needed to be. I altered the cut out images, making them more my own. I didn't fret about wonky letters. I just kept going, and the more I did, the better I felt.
To, make a bad pun, more than the coffee is perking. Ideas are stirring, stories asking to be written, a photography class to be planned.
Sometimes, I just need to begin. The rest usually follows.
And, yes, the rain still falls from the sky. It drops gently, drizzles, pours, tumbles from the sky.
A few hours of sunshine get tucked in here and there, just enough to tease of better days to come.
And, my poor pots, wait for their next coat of paint. It's been nearly two weeks since I began breathing some new life into them. I think they'll still be waiting another few days.
The pots began as a way to bring in color to our tiny garden, splashes of color that just aren't found in extremely shady yards.
Color, it seems, needs sunshine, and truth be told, so do I.
I seem to go into some sort of lethargic trance on these gray gloomy days; not overly sad, not even a little sad, just utterly lazy.
I tend to nestle under my covers, cup of coffee or tea on my bedside table, and devour light hearted mysteries; you know the kind - the ones set in coffee shops, bakeries, etc. Predictable, comfortable mysteries that don't require me to think much.
In between chapters of who done its, I mentally write, lists of words that tease and delight me. Childhood memories. Crazy and/or imaginative things the twits - aka, grandsons - have done. Thoughts about farmers' markets and lunches with friends. The craziness of subbing.
All of these, written in my mind; but, I've struggled to discipline myself to sit at this keyboard.
I believe, I know that anything takes practice, whether it's my writing, my photography, or my art. Creativity requires me to show up and do the work; it's as simple as that.
I know this, but I still struggle to establish the habit, to find my rhythm.
So, I've made myself a promise, and that's to write something each day. I suspect most of it will be mundane, but out of all of it just might come a few gems. And, even if the gems remain buried for the time being, I'll be strengthening some rusting skills. I'm aiming to do it each and every day, hoping for 500 words or more.
These 500 words might come in one fell swoop (and now my mind is wondering how that expression originated...Google, here I come!) or they might come in bits and pieces. I started to type that I just need them to come, but I realize it's more that I need to write them. They won't magically appear on this screen or on paper by themselves.
The funny thing is, that once I get myself to this keyboard, I love it. I love the process; I love playing with words. I'm a bit of a nerd that way. I love a good dictionary, a good thesaurus. I love to mind map my thoughts and see where they take me.
We all have so many untold stories, and I think I worry, as do a lot of people, that I need an "exciting" topic. It's just another excuse, I'm realizing, because as I wander through blogs on any given day, it's the small and ordinary lives of online friends that delight me.
Not the " I have a perfect life" stories, but the stories of people tending sheep, figuring out how to keep a wedding theirs. They're stories of gardening triumphs, crazy border collies, and people adjust to new financial realities, but managing to keep the joy in their lives, no matter what. They're stories of dairy farmers, cats that appear on pot holders, and more.
It's time to write - here, I go!
P.S. To all my Creative Bedlam Farm group friends, please nag me if I begin to slack off, okay? I'm thinking I need some accountability here.


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Our first festival saw children from Copnor Primary School, Corpus Christi RC Primary School and Stamshaw Infant School join together in song.
On an excitable Wednesday morning, children from Medina Primary School, Portsdown Primary School and St. Paul's Catholic Primary School visit Beacon View Primary School to showcase their talents.
Southsea Infant School welcomed other children from Cumberland Infant School, Devonshire Infant School and Moorings Way Infant School to celebrate this year's theme My Dream Job.
Mayfield School played host for another amazing festival joined by Northern Parade Infant School, Weyford Primary School and College Park Infant School.
Cottage Grove Primary School, St Swithun's Catholic Primary School, Court Lane Infant School and Ark Ayrton Primary Academy sang together at the third festival of the week.
Ark Dickens Primary Academy were joined by St. John's Cathedral Catholic Primary School for a rousing sing-song to mark the end of this year's triumphant festival week.


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AHA Awards & Grants Past Recipients Littleton-Griswold Prize Recipients
In 1960, the Littleton-Griswold Fund Committee discussed the initiation of a prize worth $500 to be awarded biennially for the best article on legal history. A year later the committee created the Littleton-Griswold Prize for studies in the legal history of the American colonies and of the United States prior to 1900. The prize was not awarded, however, until 1966, and was abolished the following year. In 1985, Council revived the prize as an annual award of $1,000 for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society. The revived prize is administered by a joint committee of the American Historical Association and the American Society for Legal History.
Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Douglas J. Flowe, Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Sarah Seo, Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Harvard Univ. Press)
Martha S. Jones, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Tera Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press)
Risa Goluboff, Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s (Oxford Univ. Press)
Deborah Rosen, Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood (Harvard Univ. Press)
Cornelia Dayton and Sharon Salinger, Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial Boston (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)
Michele Landis Dauber, The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State (Univ. of Chicago Press)
John Witt, Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press)
Serena Mayeri, Reasoning from Race: Feminism, Law and the Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard Univ. Press)
Pauline Maier, Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-88 (Simon & Schuster)
Catherine Fisk, Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Lisa Ford, Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 (Harvard Univ. Press)
Laura Edwards, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Rebecca McLennan, The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Dalia Tsuk Mitchell, Architect of Justice: Felix S. Cohen and the Founding of American Legal Pluralism (Cornell Univ. Press)
Daniel Hulsebosch, Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Mary Bilder, The Transatlantic Constitution: Colonial Legal Culture and the Empire (Harvard Univ. Press)
Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton Univ. Press)
Bruce Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of Amercian Independence (Harvard Univ. Press)
Barbara Welke, Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Karl Jacoby, Crimes against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation (Univ. of California Press)
Gail O'Brien, The Color of the Law: Race, Violence, and Justice in the Post-World War II South (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Linda Kerber, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill and Wang)
Barry Cushman, Rethinking the New Deal Court. The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (Oxford Univ. Press)
William Novak, The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in 19th-Century America (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Daniel Ernst, Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Univ. of Illinois Press)
Morton Keller, Regulating a New Society: Public Policy and Social Change in America, 1900-33 (Harvard Univ. Press)
G. Edward White, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: Law and the Inner Self (Oxford Univ. Press)
Christopher Tomlins, Law, Labor, and Ideology in the Early American Republic (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937 (Harvard Univ. Press)
Laura Kalman, Abe Fortas (Yale Univ. Press)
Allen Steinberg, The Transformation of Criminal Justice: Philadelphia, 1800-1880 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
William Nelson, The Fourteenth Amendment: From Political Rhetoric to Judicial Doctrine (Harvard Univ. Press)
Arthur McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and the Law in California Fisheries, 1850-1980 (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Mark Tushnet, The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
Michael Grossberg, Governing the Hearth: Law and Family in Nineteenth Century America (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
R. Kent Newmyer, Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story: Statesman of the Old Republic (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller Zobel, The Legal Papers of John Adams (Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press)
2022 Littleton-Griswold Prize
Kate Masur, Northwestern University
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction (W. W. Norton & Co.)
Until Justice Be Done shines a clear and powerful light on the often-overlooked antebellum civil rights movement to reveal the essential role of Black activists and their white allies in shaping the political and legal conditions of possibility for the 14th Amendment and racial equality. Ranging expertly over multiple archives and subfields, Kate Masur shows that the Reconstruction laws were not Congress's hastily improvised response to southern efforts to return freedpeople to the condition of slavery, as most historians have assumed. Rather, they had deep roots in free Black communities' response to the enactment of racist laws in the northern states, decades before the Civil War. As engrossing as it is exigent, Until Justice Be Done is a tour de force.


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Studiò per merito dell'industriale conserviero Gino Pagani, che lo affidò ad Annibale Pizzarelli e poi gli consentì di continuare al Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Il 15 agosto 1946 debuttò come Alfredo Germont ne La traviata di Verdi all'Arena del Sole di Roccabianca. Subito dopo vinse il concorso nazionale di canto della RAI. Dal 1948 al 1962 si esibì in molte opere liriche per le sedi RAI di Torino, Milano, Roma e Napoli.

Nel 1949 iniziò la carriera al Teatro municipale Romolo Valli di Reggio Emilia, cui sono seguiti quelli di Brescia, Catania, Genova, Venezia (La Fenice, 3 stagioni), Torino, Palermo (Teatro Massimo, stagioni 1951, 1954, 1968), Napoli (San Carlo dal 1952 al 1960), Roma (Teatro dell'Opera, 2 stagioni), Milano (Teatro alla Scala), Trieste (Teatro Verdi, tra il 1955 e il 1960), Parma (Teatro Regio, dal 1951 per 20 anni) e all'estero: al Cairo, Alessandria d'Egitto, Berna, Nizza, Barcellona, Oviedo, Malta e Wiesbaden.

Nel 1954 ha cantato al Teatro alla Scala con Maria Callas nell'opera Alceste di Gluck, con registrazione in diretta.

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Glamourland was een Nederlands televisieprogramma van Gert-Jan Dröge, dat onder meer door de AVRO en SBS6 werd uitgezonden.

Aanvankelijk maakte Dröge societyreportages voor het VPRO-televisieprogramma Gasthof zum Postmodernen (1987-1988), waarin hij onder andere verslag deed van de opening van een gloednieuwe nachtclub in Amsterdam. Eind 1990 begon hij met Glamourland voor de AVRO, met als ondertitel Society volgens Dröge. Het is een programma met reportages over feestjes, premières, jachtpartijen en vernissages, waarbij hij de kijker aanvankelijk een blik gunt in de wereld van het 'oud geld'. Wanneer hij in die kringen al snel niet meer welkom is, richt hij zijn pijlen op een aanzienlijk gretiger doelgroep: de Nederlandse nouveau riche.

Op 21 oktober 2005, tijdens het Televizier-Ring Gala, werd er nog een korte aflevering van Glamourland uitgezonden.

Alle muziek van het programma komt uit de overture van de musicalfilm Pal Joey uit 1957. Een uitzondering hierop is de muziek die wordt gebruikt bij de afleveringen die voornamelijk werden gemaakt voor Glamourland International, waarin (bijvoorbeeld voor de afleveringen in Palm Beach) muziek van Chatsjatoerjan wordt gebruikt (de Masquerade Suite) en de muziek van de serie van Dynasty.

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Erik James aka Erik the Hungry Traveller is a Human Resource Ninja and at the same time a travel & food blogger.
He uses his passion for the arts particularly with painting and photography to add more fun and color to his social media pages.
He loves extreme adventures and does not back out on any food challenge.
His passion for food and travelling started during his childhood years where he would accompany his parents to business trips around the Philippines.
He currently focuses on writing blogs on solo travelling and trying out restaurants that are not your usual run of the mill places.
To counter his extreme love for travelling and FOOD he also enjoys swimming and mix martial arts so that he can stay "relatively" fit and healthy.


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Unsanitized: The United States Is a Second-Rate Power—and That's the Good News
The bad news would be if we fail to fix it. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for July 9, 2020.
by David Dayen
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Food aid is distributed to needy residents in Apopka, Florida.
I try to tune out the latest Trump outrage but the latest one apparently involves reopening the schools in the fall. Someone obviously told Trump that no in-person schools means no way for parents to go back to the office, and a breakdown in the economy, and we can't have such things. So he's demanded that the CDC change their guidelines (they won't) and threatened to cut off funding for schools that don't reopen, even though he has no mechanism for doing that but it hasn't stopped him before.
If nothing else—and nothing else—Trump at least started a debate over schools, which is depressingly focused on how parents can get the little rugrats out of their hair than the impact of lost schooling on the entire lives of the children. But this seems like the ultimate first-world problem right now, and we are not a first-world country.
Other countries reopened schools without threatening further outbreaks because they suppressed the virus. We've done no such thing. Cases are at a new record high. Deaths continue to be well below levels from April and essentially flat week over week, but more people are dying at home in Houston; as I've said consistently that the numbers are at best suggestive. Hospitals in surge areas are nearing capacity, and even triage levels. My home county, Los Angeles, is scaling back testing to only those showing symptoms, meaning we will know less about infections soon.
And we're talking about reopening the schools? We should be hermetically sealed at home and have all necessities delivered by drones through chimneys or open windows!
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We don't get to talk about schools opening. We don't get to talk about sports coming back either. "Sports are like the reward of a functioning society," said Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle. "We just opened back up for Memorial Day. We decided we're done with it."
These things are not going to happen because we live in a second-rate power. We have a complete idiot running the executive branch like a mob capo, we have nobody of conviction around him and precious few in positions of authority. Half the country is in a death cult that sees any imposition on their essential selfishness as something to take up arms against.
As a result we're going to flip the odometer on deaths to "hundreds of thousands" rather than "hundred thousand," and those are just the ones we're willing to concede to. The economy will suffer far more from the stops and starts than from taking the time to actually suppress the virus. First-time unemployment claims were never above 1 million in history and now they've been for 16 straight weeks. The Household Pulse survey, which David Silberman described for us at the Prospect as a true measure of family strain, is flashing red. We're going to have 1 million-plus jobs lost in next month's report. We're about to prematurely stop the unemployment insurance boost that the economy is subsisting on, and the eviction moratorium keeping people from sleeping in their cars.
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The one thing America had on the world was a university infrastructure that attracted foreign talent and kept our knowledge base high. So of course we're engaging in a xenophobic action to kick foreign students out of the country and permanently end that one piece of comparative advantage. We produce nothing and know we won't think of things to produce, either.
We are second-rate. This is our second system failure in twelve years. We came into this crisis as a Potemkin village, a series of movie backdrops pretending to stand in for a society. And the virus just pushed them over like a mild wind, revealing all the cracks, all the faults that we preferred not to see while tuning into game shows and superhero reboots.
But this is the good news, actually. These faults are exposed, and everyone sees them. The political leadership is on track to be wiped out in the elections in the most humiliating way possible. And nobody can deny the level of catastrophic failure.
Read through the Unity Task Force Recommendations between the Biden and Sanders campaigns. Pick a page, and read it. Focus on the problems it describes in clear language: the burning planet, the economic deprivation for the broad middle and below, the affordable housing crisis, the childcare crisis, the mass incarceration crisis, the racism crisis, the social mobility crisis, the corporate power crisis, the worker's rights crisis, the infrastructure crisis. We aren't exceptional and we now know it. And once that's internalized, work can be done to fix it. That's the promise of another wave that has the desire for real change behind it.
The only peril would be to squander the opportunity. Joe Biden is giving a speech on the economy today which will apparently counsel a go-slow approach. (on criminal justice, even the aspirational task force report is muted.) That would be a terrible mistake. The pillars of the plan—manufacturing, clean energy, care work, and racial equity—aren't even that bad. It's the fetish of moderation, of incrementalism, against the backdrop of severe need, that's completely misplaced.
Abdul El-Sayed was right yesterday about progress over regress. But you don't get many moments as a second-rate power to elevate. We have to make this one count.
I was on Rising with Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti talking about Nancy Pelosi and the crisis. Watch here.
I was on Rising Up (seeing a pattern?) with Sonali Kolhatkar talking about the PPP. Watch here.
Days Without a Bailout Oversight Chair
Bed Bath and Beyond closing 200 stores; United warning 36,000 employees they could lose their jobs. (CNBC)
Nathan Tankus on the catastrophe that would be cutting unemployment insurance. (Notes on the Crises)
There's a backstory not in this piece about syringe manufacturers that puts a very different spin on this news. I covered it back in 2015. (Los Angeles Times)
The mayor of Houston managed to cancel a Republican convention that could have spread the city's dire problem statewide. (TPM)
PetSmart, a private equity-owned firm, not giving workers proper protective gear, workers say. (Wall Street Journal)
Josh Barro on the commercial real estate market. (New York Magazine)
Treasury claims the mistakes on the PPP spreadsheet are the lenders' fault. (Axios)
Another lending program being run through indifferent banks, having trouble. (Washington Post)
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Season 2 Episode 3 of Westworld titled 'Virtù e Fortuna' is a bit of a change of pace for the series, there is still a bit of jumping around in terms of characters but this episode largely hinges around one key moment which sees a number of characters involved. This is the first episode of the season in which we haven't gotten any new content with William, and Ed Harris' absence is felt as his journey is the most intriguing right now. But this episode also marks the first large scale action sequence of the series taking place at Fort Forlorn Hope.
This episode had a surprise opening where we are greeted by a new Delos park that isn't Westworld and still not the much anticipated Shogun World. We are dropped right into a world bearing an environment indicative of colonial India where it looks like the main draw to this park is hunting in the exotic jungle. We are immediately introduced to two new guests, Grace and Nicholas played by Katja Herbers and Neil Jackson respectively. We first get a fun little scene in which we see the moment these two guests try to make sure that they're each dealing with another real person. It's good to see some people in this world still care about interacting with real people. But their exotic getaway doesn't last long as the hosts' revolution catches up to them resulting in the swift death of Nicholas. This confirms that the hosts are revolting across all of Delos' parks and not just Westworld and also it confirms the exact time period we are looking at.
After Grace escapes a confrontation with a host she happens upon a Bengal tiger which chases her beyond the park's border. The tiger lunges at Grace sending both of them plunging into the water where they later wash ashore in Westworld. The tiger doesn't survive the journey as we know from seeing its dead body in the season 2 premiere but Grace does survive and climbs onto the beach. She very quickly runs into three members of Ghost Nation and it's unclear what happened to her next. The biggest question that arises from Grace's scenes is what exactly is she hunting for? It's clear she's not in Raj World just hunting the wildlife and I'm sure we'll learn more in the coming episodes.
What I'm also thinking is maybe we see Grace come across Stubbs (Luke Hemsworth) at some point and that's how he escapes the clutches of Ghost Nation. I guess we'll have to wait and see if this is how it plays out.
We spend a short amount of time in the present with Strand (Gustaf Skarsgård) and Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) where they make there way into the management area of the park. It is here we get confirmation that Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) has survived the two weeks since the host revolution but has still not been able to secure Peter Abernathy (Louis Herthum). She seems to be slightly skeptical of Bernard as if she's questioning which side he's on so it'll be interesting to see what has happened between them in the past.
Back with Bernard and Charlotte on their search for Peter Abernathy they find him being held captive by Rebus (Steven Ogg) alongside some guests. They devise a plan which sees Bernard capture and reprogram Rebus to be incredibly compassionate and thus he goes and frees all the captives allowing Bernard and Charlotte to take Peter. I really hope we get more compassionate Rebus in this season. But their escape doesn't last long as the Confederados take Bernard and Peter prisoner whilst Charlotte escapes on horseback.
Now this is going to be covering a large chunk of the episode because a lot goes down at Fort Forlorn Hope concerning Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood), Bernard, Charlotte, Peter, and Teddy (James Marsden). Dolores marches on the fort and joins forces with the Confederados simply by offering them the humans' automatic weapons. Looks like she's now got herself quite the army. Next up we get ourselves two character reunions when it turns out that the Confederados who captured Bernard and Peter bought them to Fort Forlorn Hope. I like that Dolores still has retained some of her farmers daughter persona and isn't entirely the murderous Wyatt she's been showing in recent episodes. She tries to have a heartfelt conversation with her dad but he seems to be bouncing between a number of different narratives from his normal loop to one in which he is trying to get on the train out of Westworld. Dolores reunites with Bernard who she also now understands is designed off of Arnold as she is now 'awake'. She wants Bernard to help fix her father's brain… if anything Bernard's brain is the one that needs fixing. Bernard manages to decrypt the locked information that Peter was holding and he seems pretty shook by the revelation.
Outside the fort Dolores and the Confederados are preparing for war and then a smallish army of soldiers attack. It's a pretty engaging action sequence although the only thing that would've made it better is if there were some major characters in the line of fire but there's no way any of them would be dying this early into the season. Whilst the two sides are going at it at the front of the fort Charlotte is leading a small group of soldiers through the back of the fort which allows them to sneak in and capture Peter. Interestingly Bernard chose to hide when the soldiers came to take Peter, is it because he didn't see that they were on his side or because of what he saw in Peter's code? He tries to escape moments later but is knocked out by Clementine (Angela Sarafyan). But then Dolores notices that her father is being taken and jumps into action taking out a couple of soldiers but not before Charlotte can get away with Peter. She announces her plan to go to Sweetwater next as there seems to be something there that she needs.
Meanwhile in the battle Dolores is up to her backstabbing ways as she locks the Confederados out of the fort using them as bait to draw the Delos soldiers closer. When they get close enough she orders Angela (Talulah Riley) to set off the dynamite which seemingly wipes out all of the Delos soldiers. And with that Dolores wins her first major battle, but there's a war coming. After the battle Teddy is ordered by Dolores to execute the remaining Confederados but in a change of heart he disobeys her orders and lets them go. This is the first moment that Dolores seems genuinely disappointed that Teddy isn't adopting her murderous methods and it leads me to believe that maybe Dolores is the one who is responsible for Teddy's eventual death.
Maeve (Thandie Newton) is very much still focused on finding her daughter throughout this episode with the help of Lee (Simon Quarterman) and Hector (Rodrigo Santoro), and on they way she comes across the Ghost Nation. After she realises they are out of her control she makes a run for it, retreating underground. Lee has a cool moment with Hector where whilst he is professing his love for Maeve, Lee is able to predict exactly what Hector is about to say indicating that he may not be as independent as he thinks he is, still resorting back to his programmed dialogue. Maeve continues building her search party by bringing Armistice (Ingrid Bolsø Berdal), Felix (Leonardo Nam), and Sylvester (Ptolemy Slocum) into the fray, all of whom we are seeing for the first time this season.
The end of the episode provides one of the more exciting moments of the season so far which sees Maeve and co. venture to the outskirts of the park where it seems to be snowing. Lee digs through some snow to uncover the decapitated head of a samurai clearly belonging to Shogun World. Right before the episode cuts to credits a sword-wielding enemy sprints towards Maeve and probably gets shot by someone. But we'll have to wait for next week to find that out.
This episode is still a great one as it gave us a glimpse at two more of Delos' six parks and introduced us to an intriguing new character in Grace but the heavy focus on this battle at Fort Forlorn Hope is a drastic change of pace. I liked the majority of everything revolving around Dolores and the big battle but it wasn't quite as epic as I hoped it'd be. I am a little worried about where Dolores' story is heading in the short term because we know her main goal is to eventually get to the valley beyond and that's cool. But right now I'm starting to lose a bit of interest in her character because her murderous behaviour might start to get a little repetitive. If she spends every moment marching on bases, killing, and moving on it might end up coming across as filler whilst we wait for her to get to her destination. I have all the hope in the world that Westworld will throw something into the mix to keep her story engaging but we're just going to have to wait. I do hope we get a lot of Ed Harris' William in the next episode because his journey is definitely the biggest thing this season has going for it aside from the new parks.


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While Building Bridges allowed me a helicopter view of the research-policy interface, my subsequent involvement with a case study on the influence of research on policy changes in the Dutch disability insurance act (WAO) allowed me to look at the issue from a micro perspective.
Our team produced a working paper and an article in the International Social Science Journal on the case study and I am still amazed how closely the case study fit my overall understanding of how the research-policy interface works in general.Context proved to be of primary importance: we found very limited instrumental use of research results, some conceptual use, but primarily of the kind that supported the current policy agenda or underwrote a shift of perspective that was already 'in the air', rather than being agenda-setting was part of our conclusion. Another review of 25 years of WAO trends, research and policy (Dutch only) came to a very similar conclusion: Research offers policy-makers hardly any tangible hold. Policy development is dependent upon political choices and the practical intuition of the policy-maker, not upon scientific understanding (p.197).
But beyond that general insight, Building Bridges had argued that it makes sense to seriously look at many different aspects of the container term context, in other words, go beyond general conclusions like "it's politics not science". And it had argued for switching perspectives, i.c. not framing the interface in terms of "utilization" but in terms of "relationships". Applying this to the case study resulted in an understanding of the Dutch welfare state as including experts and research as lubricants of the system. This – for want of a better term – 'systemic' role of research is not easy to pin down. But it does generate interesting new questions like "do close ties between research and policy make for more gradual, flexible and rational adaptations of (aspects of) welfare regimes or are they associated with a curbing of intellectually independent fundamental research and a concomitant neglect of the social science potential"?
Without a comparative understanding of the institutional infrastructure at the interface of social science and social and economic policy, hypotheses about their consequences for the performance and adaptability of social policy cannot be formulated. We suggested a framework for such comparisons based on literature on national 'styles' of policy-making and implementation. Maybe our particular suggestion wasn't convincing enough? Anyway, I'm not aware of any follow up. Sure, the suggested line of research would not directly further our understanding of the factors that facilitate or obstruct the use of individual research efforts. However, it does promise to further our understanding of the meaning of the whole research production on a particular issue for a whole policy arena. Now that's interesting enough isn't it?
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you'll have to wait a bit until i'm there. "interesting" is always in the eye of the beholder. i'ld say that your welsh cottage time travel beats our move from one chaotic city to another!


Well, that's a whole year gone by and we've clocked up around 85,000 views since I started recording the stats! This time last year I was furiously coding LARP Guide v1.0 and getting everything ready to launch. It was nothing more than an ambition a year ago, to bring the UK LARP community a resource for making better games.
I knew I could do it because I have some of the most talented friends around. Leah from Mandala Studios jumped on board with me at an early stage, moving her regular blogging here. In all honesty it's Leah that picks up the slack around these parts because over the last year university has got so busy for me that I've barely had time to think.
Then a load more friends began to write for me, too many to name individually. And most recently Vicki from Armoured Brownies has started thinking about content for LARP Guide too. While Vicki mostly makes Cosplay related videos, the techniques she uses in her prosthetic sculpts are applicable for anyone wanting to have a go. And I suspect in the summer when she's out and about at Empire LRP and the Lorien Trust we'll see lots of LARP videos from here.
I'm really very grateful to everyone that pitches in around here, but there's always room for more! If you think you have something worth saying on this site, please do drop us a line and lets have a chat.
But without further ado, here's our top five posts for 2015 here at LARP Guide. I can't wait to see what takes off in 2016 – leave us a message on this page if there's anything you'd love to see covered!
With 2,290 views Kiera and Bill's big drake build from Empire LRP is in fifth place. With the War Rhino the year before and the Drake this year, who knows that Keira, Bill, and the rest of the team will make next. Whatever it is, I can't want to photograph it up close!
There were a fair few discussions surrounding sexism in LARP last winter, so I took the time to pen a few thoughts about how women are perceived sometimes at LARP and it's been viewed a little over 3,000 times. It's the one post that I continually get messages about and see shared about on Facebook so it must have said something that a few people can relate to. If you have time you should also watch Ann Erikson's video that I linked on that page – it's a great exploration of women's roles at LARP from the Nordic LARP Conference that happens yearly.
Occasionally I manage to convince Matt Pennington to say a few words. I say a 'few' words, Matt famously can't manage to keep to a word limit to save his life. This one isn't too long at 1600, but I have a few mammoth posts in my inbox from him that I need to chop down to 'essay' length rather than 'war and peace'… anyway… Anyway, this one is about roleplaying characters that aren't the good guys – his own personal speciality. And it's been read over 3,500 times this year.
Callum ran his first LARP game this year. Fortunately The World Went Dark went off without a hitch but while planning it out he quickly became irritated and people telling him that his event was too expensive – despite it selling out in less than 48 hours. His post about how much events actually cost to run has attracted almost 6,000 viewers and a whole host of shares on social media. The World Went Dark thankfully wasn't too expensive for some, and it's running it's second more expensive event in the summer of 2016 (which also sold out almost straight away).
Still can't believe that this one went viral with over 11,000 views this year. I wonder if it'll get that many in 2016? The post stemmed from the fact I used to put things on mannequins and photograph them for a living, so I decided to try it out with some LARP Garb from my Odyssey NPC. I'm planning to do loads more of these in the future, in addition to the one I did of a set of Carthage kit.
Well, that's it for 2015's roundup. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens around these parts in 2016! Don't forget to always let us know what you're making the games you're planning, we'd love to hear about it for LARP Guide.