Recognizing emotional abuse is not always easy and as a result it has often times been overlooked because we have been programmed to focus on physical abuse. However, before physical abuse takes place a person or the parties involved have been emotionally abusing themselves and each other for some time. The emotional abuse is what happens first, then the verbal abuse, and then the physical abuse. While all three kinds of abuse are unacceptable the worst of all these abuse is the emotional abuse because it has to be solidly in effect in order for the other two to occur and to have any effect. A relationship either has two emotionally healthy individuals or two emotionally unhealthy individuals. A combination of one healthy person and one unhealthy person does not exist in a relationship. We have also been programmed to think that not only are men the ones who are the abusers but also if they are abusing their partner, then they are the scum of the earth, cruel and that their partner is the victim. However, that is not accurate. Women have also been the ones abusing men. Sadly, they are both victims. In light of recent events in the news regarding two well-known celebrities, domestic violence is once again in the limelight. Unfortunately, the two individuals involved are too young to understand the impact their childhood has had on them. This is why it is important as adults to grow ourselves internally before we begin to have children. Growing up around any kind of abuse results in children becoming abusive themselves whether to themselves or to others. It is especially worse if the children themselves suffered sexual abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse and physical abuse. The abusive behavior stems from low self-esteem, feelings of unworthiness and a deep self-hatred. With all the toxic emotions churning around inside, left unresolved it will result in individuals either falling into a catatonic state of depression or they lash out to anyone. Instead of judging people who behave in a particular way, learn to understand that they maybe dealing with emotional turmoil, which they do not know how to handle. Unfortunately, it is difficult to know the extent of the effects until one is involved in a love relationship.
In the Western world, deep emotional wounds are not given much priority. The conception is that if it's not visible then it's not relevant nor does it exists. I remember being told to get over it because it's done and gone. As a result a large number of men and women are walking around with deep untended emotional wounds. What results are two people who are emotionally damaged and who do not know how to ask for help coming together in a relationship. They bring their damaged self into the relationship and because neither of them is addressing their deep emotional issues they take out their anger and frustrations on each other. Anger and frustration has many faces. They are not necessarily expressed in the preconceived notion of what we may think anger and frustration looks like. Someone with deep unresolved anger and deep self-hatred may be very manipulative. He or she will go out of his or her way to get back at someone. They can also be extremely convincing even when they are clearly in the wrong. The partner who is on the receiving end is also suffering from deep self-hatred and that is how they were both called into each other's life. It is important to note that both individuals in the relationship can be manipulative. Another behavior is where one party deliberately holds back from doing something because he or she wants the other to come after them or in other words-chase after them. This would in effect prove that you care. Although this behavior is also manipulative it is stemming from feelings of insecurity. After the emotional behavior has the expected effect, the verbal abuse begins. When one partner is verbally abusive and is always getting loud and verbose, it is common for the other person to want to do everything in his or her power not to be the source of the upset. They know that anything can set this person off. When a relationship gets to this point, physical abuse is just around the corner. If you feel the need to slash tires, break windows on cars and scratch someone's car with a key or sleep with her girlfriend or his best friend and deliberately let her/him find out, having other women calling your house or you calling other women in front of your partner, then know and understand this – you are involved in an emotionally abusive relationship and is getting ready to upgrade to a verbal and physically abusive relationship.
If you feel that your partner is exhibiting abusive behaviours whether it's emotional, verbal or physical, what's happening is that you are looking into your own personalized mirror. This person is showing you your real self. Before you get angry, understand that while you may not exhibit the external behaviours of your partner the deep emotional issues that fuel his external behaviours are also your internal issues. Criticizing your partner will not help the situation because you will be inherently criticizing yourself. It is possible to avoid these situations or to get out of these situations. If you are already in a relationship and some of the issues are being presented, you first you have to be committed to working on yourself. Getting out cold turkey will not work. Matter-of-fact, if you have not made the commitment to work on yourself, you will not be strong enough to leave the situation. Unfortunately, the situation will only escalate. Keep this in mind and it should motivate you to begin working on you. Regardless of the type of relationship you are in, it is imperative to take time for yourself. Do not be completely dependent on your partner. Develop your own unique individuality before you enter into a relationship. There are times when we slip up and become consumed with our relationship. That is fine as long as you are aware of it.
How do you begin to work on yourself? Know that when you decide to change yourself from the inside, things, people and events will appear as if out of the blue to help you on your journey to a new and emotionally healthier you. You will start reading books and talking to other individuals who were once in your position. Begin by acknowledging the part you played in your relationship. Taking responsibility for your role not only eases the pain, but it is also the first step in becoming a mature adult. It will help you to become strong enough to take some time for yourself either by leaving the relationship or to begin addressing the issues with your partner. Any relationship can be turned around. Stop assigning blame. Both parties went into the relationship willingly. Seek to understand each other's background and that would help you in realizing why your partner behaved the way he or she did.
Understanding your background will also help you to understand how it contributed to your emotions and it would explain why and how you got involved with this individual in the first place. Practice doing loving things for you one step at a time. The first and most imperative loving thing to do is to forgive yourself. This is a must as you embark on the journey to self-healing. When you forgive yourself first you will be able to forgive the other person, because now you understand how the past has created the present for each of you. You can now choose to move ahead together or separately into adulthood.
In order for the healing process to begin you would need to tackle your emotional issues layer by layer. However, dealing with deep-rooted toxic emotions takes extreme patience, self-care, self-love and large doses of understanding. It will be difficult and sometimes overwhelming, but if you understand that it's a process and toxic emotions have to rise to the surface before you can begin to fill up on positive and healthy emotions then you will be able to weather the roller-coaster ride. You will get through it. It is best to take some time for yourself in order to begin your self-healing. Only when you are good and ready should you go back into that particular relationship with that individual. Bear in mind that your partner should also make a commitment to working on himself and they have taken the time to begin their healing journey. If during your healing process you have come to learn that you really did not have anything else in common with your partner except a wounded soul then by all means move on by yourself or into a new relationship.
Self-awareness is the key to handling any situation that you are involved it. It means to be aware of the issues you have and how they may be blocking you from having a healthy relationship. If you or anyone that you know is in a physically abusive relationship or you and your partner are physically abusing each other please seek some outside help because at that point you are not emotionally healthy enough to do it on your own. Love is the ingredient that makes you and your relationship healthy. If you are lacking love, your partner is also lacking it and therefore is unable to give you the correct dosage that you require. Becoming your own pharmacy. Prescribe your own dosage of love and take it every hour on the hour for the period of a lifetime and that will be the amount that comes back to you.
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Greenwood was born and raised in Toronto. She studied dance in school and is also well-versed in martial arts. She attended several voice and musical theater schools in Canada. She began acting training at multiple schools including the "Professional Actors Lab", "Jason Fraser Studios", "Etobicoke School of the Arts" and also at "University Settlement Drama Group". She attained a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto in 2006. Her first role onscreen was in a low-budget Canadian movie called Pinkville. She made her first television debut on an episode of The Listener. She made many guest appearances on television such as Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Being Erica, Covert Affairs, Lost Girl and Saving Hope. She has also appeared in minor roles in short-movies such as Little Phoenix and the Fists of Fury and as Jen in The Exit which she feels was her favorite role. She was also cast in This Movie Is Broken. Her career took off in 2011 when she was cast in a recurring role as Sonya on the hit CW's, Nikita. After the success of season 2 of Nikita, she was retained for season 3 and season 4. In August 2013, she was cast in a recurring role on FOX's, Sleepy Hollow. In January 2014, she was promoted to series regular for season 2.
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The α7S II and α7R II are compatible with Sony's growing line-up of α -mount lenses, which now totals 64 different models including 13 native 'FE' full frame lenses. Sony aims to expand its line-up of α E-mount lenses supporting 35 mm full-frame sensors to over twenty in 2016.


Habit Restaurants Inc. (Nasdaq: HABT) in Irvine will test breakfast menu items and develop a digital mobile app and a kiosk ordering system.
Chief Executive Russ Bendel said the fast-casual burger chain so far has served breakfast at franchised sites in airports and on college campuses, including one that opened at University of California-Riverside last year.
Breakfast items will sell at six drive-thru location in the second quarter citing the convenience-focus of those customers. Habit has 215 locations.
Fast food chains—including Irvine-based Taco Bell Corp., in a national breakfast battle with McDonald's Corp.—have added breakfast items in recent years.
Other restaurant groups—including Irvine-based Yogurtland—have looked at the meal segment as well, as a way to get more customers through the door while morning-intensive chains such as Starbucks Corp. made a mirror-image bid to bring customers back for lunch.
Bendel also told analysts the burger house will develop a mobile app to "allow our customers to skip the line and place their order from their mobile phones or tablets," in a move that also brings Habit in-line with other chains.
The app will launch and the kiosks will be tested in the second half of the year.


Marketing, communication, and retention all play a role in the development and continued success of a navigation program.
Oncology nurse navigators (ONNs) have a key role in the cancer care continuum. As patients transition to each stage along the cancer continuum — suspicious finding to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship — navigators help them understand their disease, weigh their treatment options, overcome barriers, and follow through with their care. "Navigation increased rates of treatment initiation among patients who typically failed to begin treatment within 90 days," explained Judy B. Koutlas, RN, MS, OCN®, in a presentation at the 2018 Oncology Nurse Advisor (ONA) Navigation Summit.
Navigator programs are driven by a triennial community needs assessment established to address healthcare disparities and barriers to cancer care. As such, not all navigator programs are the same. Koutlas and Jean Sellers, RN, MSN, described the key development steps in building a navigation program.
An important first step is the community needs assessment that identifies the patient population and collects data on system issues and gap analysis (current practices, cancer tumor registry volume, patient and community needs). This information helps identify the overall goals for a navigation program. Determine stakeholder perspective and concerns and seek out stakeholder engagement early. Get the whole range of care providers involved in the program. Navigation will be among and between all stakeholders, Koutlas and Sellers pointed out.
Write a description of the role that also defines the responsibilities of the navigator. If this is a professional (eg, oncology nurse navigators, social workers, nurses) navigation program, consider the ideal educational background for potential candidates. Although lay navigator programs may be implemented by volunteers or nonclinical staff, Seller pointed out that they have to have training, support, and oversight by/engagement with clinical staff. An important component of the role and responsibilities is to identify the reporting relationship. Who is your navigator reporting to: a supervisor, a manager, or a nurse manager?
Marketing, internally as well as externally, is essential to getting a navigation program off to a good start. Before reaching out to the community, doctors and staff within the facility need to know the referral/consultation process and are educated on who should be referred to navigation services. Community outreach can be printed informational booklets for oncologists to give patients, as well as awareness activities and screening clinics.
Use available orientation and training resources such as the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) nurse navigator core competencies, developed in 2013 and recently updated, or the GW Cancer Institute core competencies for nonclinically licensed patient navigators, a free online program, was developed in 2014.


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DENNIS LEHANE AT ECKERD
My fellow Eckerd alum Richard (regular readers of this blog know him as "Hunk Oman") tipped me off to this past Sunday's commencement address at the old alma mater. It was delivered by none other than Dennis Lehane, Class of 1988.
Lehane is easily EC's most famous graduate — probably the school's only famous grad (excluding myself, of course). He's the author of "Mystic River", which was adapted into a much-acclaimed movie. Lehane's often spoken highly of his time on campus, so it's no surprise that he'd come back to visit.
According to Rich, the commencement remarks got some attending parents hot under the collar, to the point where there was much gesticulating and general huff-and-puffing. I'm guessing these choice passages did the trick:
There is an angry, loud and unfortunately popular contingent in this country that will have you believe empathy and mercy are for cowards. No, callousness and apathy are for cowards; empathy and mercy are the province of the brave. And even though this contingent's loudest mouths all came from wealth, and the only bootstraps they ever pulled up were made of imported Italian leather, they will have you believe that the future of our country lies in the lack of a helping hand and the striking motion of an angry fist. This contingent has made themselves popular by feeding off our innate need for anger. They offer no solutions with the exception of placing more wealth in the hands of those who don't need it. (To put it another way, I need another tax break like Brad Pitt needs help with dating.) Meanwhile they assail everything that's good and intrinsically American and pure in this country - the right to free speech, the right to love whomever you choose, the privilege of helping others less fortunate than you, of educating our children, of ensuring a good life for our elderly, of caring for our sick. They want to privatize education and privatize Medicare and privatize Social Security and privatize you right out of the very things that make this country great. I know another word for "privatize" but I can't use it because I'm in polite company. Make no mistake about it, these are the same people whose ancestors and ideological compatriots from eighty years ago were against Social Security, workers comp, disability insurance, affordable health care, pensions, the eight hour day, the forty hour week, the weekend, women's right to vote, blacks' right to vote, integration, and special benefits for veterans… all the while wrapping themselves in the flag and telling us what America is…
So the next time someone pulls the "libel-by-label" card and trots out tired, stale cliches about "the bleeding hearts," ask them what they stand for. Not what they stand against. What they stand for. And if all they can come up with is some lame BS about a "family-values" world where the family is white and wealthy and the values are something you decree while driving your Hummer to the golf course, then ask them to please keep driving that Hummer over the Mexican border and out of our country because they, my friends, are un-American, not us. And if you ever think about demanding that someone pull himself up by his bootstraps? Ask yourself if you did. Or did you - maybe - have some help? From your parents? From friends? From this great institution?
I doubt many parentals took the advice on that road trip to Mexico (unless they already had reservations in Cabo). But if such direct language makes them that upset, it probably speaks more clearly to their true nature than anything else can.
Aside from the foregoing, I particularly liked Lehane's comments on the nature of honor:
Honor isn't Mother Theresa in Calcutta. That's sainthood. Honor's a day-to-to-day thing, a small gut-check. Honor is not doing what's easy if doing so hurts a single soul. It's the affirmative answer to one simple question you ask of yourself every day: Did I behave with dignity and respect toward all living things? That is the measure of honor and the measure of a human being.
If you're cynical, you'll say, "I wasn't honorable today because the world was dishonorable toward me and I had to fight back." Sorry. Wrong answer. The measure of a person lies not in what the world does to him, but rather in how he responds to the world. When someone says, oh-so-jadedly, "The world is thus," you must reply: "No. Thus, have we made the world." Put another way, hell is not a pit of fire with horned demons jabbing at you or poor Kenny from South Park. Hell is not, as Sartre said, other people. Hell is you, after you've sold off your soul and realized it doesn't have a twin.
Well crafted. Makes me wish I had met him while we were both campus-dwellers (Lehane graduated the year before I got there as a freshman).
If there really was any unusual amount of discord over these remarks, they weren't noticable enough to warrant mention in the local paper's account, which was more focused on the presence of the President of Liberia at the event.
An esteemed novelist and a foreign head of state at little old Eckerd's graduation party. I don't think my commencement, a dozen years ago, had that kind of star power.
- Costa Tsiokos, Fri 05/27/2005 08:06:01 PM
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TRITON TRINKET
The above pin button won't mean anything to you unless you happened to attend a certain liberal arts college located in St. Petersburg, circa the early 1990s. I particularly like the "Absolut Eckerd" bottle.
Perhaps the alumni association would like this artifact for their archives. If so, give me a hollah.
I'm kinda hoping Dean Sorochty comes across this. It was a thrilling three years, Roger.
- Costa Tsiokos, Wed 02/23/2005 07:09:02 PM
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GATORS VS. TRITONS??
I wouldn't have believed it, had I not gotten a notification from my alumni association in the mail today. The Eckerd College men's basketball team is going to Gainesville in a couple of weeks to take on the nationally-ranked University of Florida!
Never thought I'd see the day.
Okay, okay. It's just an exhibition game, a meaningless tuneup for both squads (although I'd bet it's more meaningful for EC). It would never happen during the regular season, not least because Eckerd is Division II and not worth the Gators' time.
Still, it's significant. Athletics has never been high-profile at Eckerd; they never even merited full scholarships. But the school's new president apparently sees sports as a way to boost the national profile, and so he's finagled a limited number of scholarships in all programs. I imagine this game is designed to get some exposure, only the first step for such efforts.
I'm not a hoops fan. Still, I'm tempted to take the trip to UF for this. It's on November 9th, the day after the deadline for my current all-consuming project, so the schedule's clear. And while the idea of a long bus trip normally would repel me, the college component would make it fun. The key would be having some familiar alum along for the ride. If there's a decent group going, I'm there.
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SECOND-CHANCE AQUARIUM SCHOOL
Got a kid that's flunking out of school? If you're in the vicinity of Mystic, Connecticut, the Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration has a program that gives students an alternative learning environment, while they mess with the fishes.
Although it's not the intent, I'm guessing this program is grooming several budding marine biology majors. Which brings to mind my alma mater, which is known for its marine science program.
More to the point, it reminds me of the comically high attrition rate that Eckerd's marine science program has. When I was attending, something like a third of incoming freshmen came to the school to study dolphins and other cute aquatic life. Then, they'd get a first-semester dose of daily four-hour lab sessions in microbiology and the like. By the end of the year, the chaffe had been separated from the wheat, and bunches of formerly aspiring Jacques Cousteaus had turned their interests to economics or psychology. An early lesson in Darwinian principle.
- Costa Tsiokos, Mon 10/25/2004 10:13:02 PM
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REUNION, ALL I EVER WANTED
The reunion weekend rolls on, with a big dinner tonight at Leverocks on St. Pete Beach. (I had seafood for lunch, so I'm wondering what I should get tonight at this seafood joint.)
There'll be about 25 of us, plus kiddies. And I'll pretty much know most of them, excluding some spouses. It'll be fun to catch up. I know it's been at least a couple of years since I've seen many of them, and in some cases, more like five-plus.
I can't imagine this being a late night. Most everyone is married, and anyone who's not won't be the partying type. For that matter, I'm not sure I'm up for much either. I'm coming into the office tomorrow to wrap up a bunch of things, so the smart move would be to go to dinner, have a couple of hours of fun, then come home, wind down and hit the sheets.
Not that I'm known for making the smart move.
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NICKNAMES FOR THE LADIES
My little rundown of college nicknames was, as R* pointed out, devoid of women.
For the most part, that's the way it was. Regularly-used nicknames seemed to be more a guy thing at my school (and for that matter, at my high school as well). If anything, nicknames hung on girls tended to be intentionally and wholly derogatory, and so weren't something you'd say to their faces. Example: I recall one girl at Eckerd getting the nickname "Hummer", and it didn't refer to her choice of vehicle.
That said, after digging into my memory banks, I have come up with a few female classmates who regularly went by colorful nicknames:
"Yen" - Jennifer Thoreson. Gained from some English Language Students (ELS) who lived adjacent to her dorm during Freshman year; most were Latin, and tended to pronounce "Jen" as "Yen". Especially since there were so many other Jennifers on campus, the nickname quickly gained currency.
Kind of an odd duck. Very bright and personable, but could be off-putting. When I last ran into her, about five years ago, she had just gotten married and was on her way to Philadelphia.
"Cricket" - Barbara Small (I think). Don't know the origin of the nickname, although I think she had it long before college.
Really a friend of a friend of a friend. Casual acquaintence. Partied with her a few times, but never really hung out.
"Angel" - Angela, don't remember last name. Shortening of the first name, also had it before college.
A weird girl. Petite, kind of crude, not particularly pretty, but had certain… assets that made her desirable. Mainly got to know her for a brief period during which she was going out/sleeping with a friend of mine during Freshman year, and somehow we maintained a relationship through the rest of college.
Yup, that's it. If I think of any more notable nicknames, male or female, I suppose I'll post. I don't want to overplay this, though.
- Costa Tsiokos, Thu 10/14/2004 11:38:26 PM
ECKERD COLLEGE WOODY'S REUNION
As previously mentioned, earlier tonight I made my way to Woody's on St. Pete Beach for an informal kickoff to this college reunion weekend.
It was a small gathering. There were about 10 of us total (plus some offspring). I knew about half of the alums: Rich and Mary Anderson, Jesse and Myla Turtle, Anne Chapin (who's now married, but I don't remember her married name). There were a couple of people there who graduated my freshman year, and if I ever knew them, I'm afraid I'd long since forgotten them. They seemed like a nice group.
I was the only Class of '93 representative, so I felt a little stranded. Not that it wasn't fun to chat with everyone who was there, but it would have been nice to see some former classmates, not to mention roommates. But there'll be opportunity for that in the next couple of days.
Aside from that, I enjoyed the brief gathering. It was nicely low-key, and left me with a true feeling of camaraderie. This, despite none of the people at Woody's being among my closest Eckerd friends. Just having the shared experience at the same school was enough, and I guess that's the point of these reunions.
Jesse provided a nice touch: He wore an old Blakely House t-shirt, some 10 years old, that had some kind of mock code of conduct on the back. I was amazed he still had any old t-shirts from his college days; I know I disposed of mine long ago (although I do have one concert shirt from back then still in my closet). I should have snapped a picture of it; if he wears it again, I definitely will.
NICKNAMES, THE COLLEGE YEARS
For some reason, work conversation this morning turned to nicknames acquired in college. Combined with my impending reunion, it got me to thinking of all the nicknames my friends and acquaintences in college had.
My college nickname? I'm afraid those records are classified.*
I'm going strictly by memory, and given that it's 10 to 15 years in the past, there's bound to be gaps, misspellings and less-than-accurate recollections. If I've excluded anyone, or gotten anything wrong, it's not intentional. Any Eckerd alums coming across this can feel free to chime in.
I'm also going to (mostly) exclude nicknames that are just diminutives of the full names, just because they aren't as colorful. So I'm not forgetting J.C., JayRay, Neeck, Gordo, Jimbo and the like, but I am overlooking them here.
In no particular order, with nickname, real name, origin story, and impressions:
"Deuce" - Rick Neverdousky. A shortened portion of his last name.
Not a close friend, but we usually managed to be in the same places at the same times. One of the cheesiest individuals I'd ever met, and the amount of tail he scored despite (or perhaps because of?) that just absolutely killed me.
"Schmu" - Christopher Casey. Shortened from "Shamu", as in the killer whale. Bestowed in the aftermath of a canoe race where he and his rowing partner managed to flip their craft about 10 seconds after starting, and remained waterlogged the whole rest of the way. (The partner was granted the nickname "Flipper", of which there's more below.)
One of my oldest friends, former roommate during and after college. Now lives in Washington, DC, so communication is more sporadic.
"Flipper" - Jason Bauer. See the origin of "Schmu", above. Not to be confused with "Flip", another campus regular (more below). I believe Jason once mentioned to me that he would have preferred getting "Schmu" instead, but what can you do…
Former college roommate. Fun guy, good friend, tended to be a lousy drunk to have around. I spent many a Mobile Mardi Gras at his family home during the '90s. We've drifted apart over the past few years.
"Adge" - A.J. Joseph. A shortening/mashing of A.J. (which would tend to give you something pronounced "age", but that would be stupid, so this was the solution).
Former roommate, right out of college. Good guy, full of confidence, a bit on the goofy side. He was living in town and working at Eckerd until recently; I've heard he's since moved to Colorado.
"Slim" - Real name unknown. Origin of nickname unknown, although since he was pretty thin, I assume the name just fit.
A dormmate during my first semester in my freshman year. I never knew him particularly well, but for some reason I remember him. He was part of a group of guys in the dorm who left in the middle of that school year, under a mysterious cloud. I seem to recall something about drug dealing. My mentions of him over the next couple of years to mutual acquaintences would always elicit remarks of, "Slim? That dog."; never sought an expansion on that.
"Weasel" - Don't remember real name, something Hispanic. Had kind of a little-guy weasel look about him, not as much so personality-wise.
I never knew him very well, but we had mutual friends. He graduated after my Sophomore year. Seemed like a nice enough guy.
"Bear" - Mark Bonfiglio. Derived mainly from his hirsute nature. I heard at one point that he wanted to have "Fig" as his nickname, but it never stuck.
Good guy, always very inclusive in social gatherings. I remember his room as the focal point of dorm activity. He married Kat, his college sweetheart, and moved to Colorado and Ohio after graduation. We've traded infrequent emails since.
"Woody" - Chris Bell. The story I was given was that during a party, he and Kat (above) were dancing, when Kat pulled away, giggling, and declared, "He's got a woody! He's got a woody!". The presence of other Chrises in the social group also led to the necessity of a nickname.
Funny fellow. He was Bear's roommate, so we hung out a lot in his room, playing Nintendo and wasting time. The last I heard, years ago, was that he was living in Atlanta.
"Flip" - Don't remember real name, maybe John-something. I think inspired by the beach visors, with the flipped-up lids, that he often wore.
Never knew him particularly well. He was part of the regular volleyball-playing crew that always congregated behind the dorms or at the beach. He went out for a long stretch with a girl named Danyelle, on whom I had a running low-level crush (I remember her being almost ideal, physically, with dark tan, long brown hair and a slim figure); and so, I was jealous of him.
"Rambo" - David Downing. His military family background, involvement in ROTC and general fondness of militaria got him the name.
Nice enough guy. I don't think he was ever completely comfortable in his own skin. He was always the responsible one, in that while the rest of us got trashed, he'd be relied upon to get us home in one piece. He relished the role, but I always felt like we took advantage of that. I think he went overseas after graduation; we met up again a few years ago, but I don't remember what he had been up to.
"Jazzy" - Jeff, don't remember his last name. No specific origin for the nickname, other than a love for hip-hop.
My next-door neighbor during my freshman year. Another active volleyballer. He was from the Florida Panhandle, a real cracker, but immersed in black culture. Usually very low-key, but a bit more excitable when drunk. I believe I heard he moved to Tennessee to work at FedEx after graduation, and got married to his college girlfriend.
"Floyd" - John Briggs. Shorthand for "Pretty Boy Floyd", bestowed to him after he was caught preening too long in front of a mirror. Also got a secondary nickname, "Pedro", after he walked around the dorm one night wearing a Mexican-style poncho.
Roommate of Jazzy's, and thus also my dorm neighbor my first year. New Yorker, bodybuilder. Nice guy, although I can't say much else about him stands out now. I ran into him shortly after I graduated, here in St. Pete, but I lost touch soon thereafter.
"Suds" - Greg Suddath. Derived from his last name, and from his copious beer guzzling (not that he was unique in that).
Never knew him too well, but he was a fixture at parties, and always noticable. Lived in Hiaassen House, pretty much a jock dorm, and the neighboring male dorm in my complex during my freshman year.
"Heckler" - Justin, don't remember last name. Reflective of his wise-ass personality. He originally got "Flounder" hung on him, derived from the Animal House character; he somehow managed to drop it. However, I couldn't seem to let go of it for a long while afterward, and even now sometimes refer to him as "Flounder".
A born prankster. Jersey kid, slightly rich, something of a ladies' man. I would run into him every so often after graduation, and I think he still lives a few miles away from me, but I haven't seen him in a couple of years now.
"Puppet" - Greg, don't remember last name. Don't remember how he got the name, although I guess he sort of had a puppet-like countenance.
Sort of casual acquaintence throughout college. Most memorable moment with him was sharing a 24-hour van drive north from St. Petersburg to New York, where I was dropped off while he and another guy kept going into New England. Lost track after graduation.
"Oaf" - John O'Flanagan. Shortened fragment of his last name; not so much his personality.
Boston native, with the accompanying accent. Part of a neighboring clique, hung out at parties and such. His sister, Jennie, was a heartbreaker.
"Mel" - Richard, don't remember last name. Given to him due to a passing resemblance to a young Mel Gibson.
Nice guy, never knew him particularly well. Part of the extended group we all hung out in.
"Goose" - Don't remember real name. Don't remember the origin, although I have a feeling it was based off his real name somehow.
Truthfully, I barely remember him now. We were dormmates my Sophomore year, and he often hung out in the halls. I think he might have been a computers major.
"Ears" - Erin Kelly. Due to his noticably big ears, also partially off his first name.
Bombastic guy, fun at parties. I actually got an apartment with him and his girlfriend, Margaret, the summer between my Sophomore and Junior years. I think he went to med school after graduation, but I lost track after that.
"Zooey" - Dave Branigan. Not sure how he acquired the nickname; may have been related to his party-animal behavior (animal suggesting zoo).
A guy in my Freshman orientation class/Western Heritage class. Pretty much treated college life as a playground, and dropped out after his first year. I always had a suspicion that he would come back our Senior year, but he never did.
*Actually, I didn't have a nickname in college. My name's unique enough.


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One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence
By KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.], 1777
Geschichte der Kriege in und ausser Europa vom Anfange des Ausstandes der brittischen Kolonien in Nordamerika an.
Travel & Voyages
Author: KORN, Christoph Heinrich [attr.]
Publication place: Nuremberg
Publisher: Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe
Publication date: 1776–7.
Physical description: Three 4to volumes, first two volumes 205 by 160 mm each, third volume 215 by 170 mm, work in 12 parts, 12 engraved titles, containing 11 maps and plans in total, six folding, four coloured, eight engraved portraits of Revolutionary war figures, original blue paper binding, manuscript titles to spines.
One of the earliest European chronicles of the American War of Independence.
Christoph Heinrich Korn (1726–1783) was a German army officer and writer; 'Geschichte der Kriege' is attributed to him by Howes. In total it contains thirty parts, but the first 12 present here deal with recent warfare in America. Part one brings the reader up to date on events to 1755. It contains a black and white plan of Boston, showing the batteries and powder store, and a folding coloured plan of North America with French nomenclature. Part two is preceded by a view of Quebec and the St Lawrence River, and covers the period from the French and Indian War to the American War of Independence. Parts three to twelve begin with the Declaration of Independence and conclude at the end of 1777 (part ten also contains an index to the previous parts). Part three is preceded by a plan of Quebec; part four is preceded by a plan of Fort Crown Point, constructed near the ruins of Fort Saint-Frédéric on Lake Champlain and captured by Revolutionary forces in 1775; part five contains a folding map of the island of Montreal after Nicolas Bellin, with an inset view of the city, and a folding coloured map of New England, New York and Pennsylvania. Montreal was captured by the British in 1763, a blow to French colonial authority in the area and providing economic stimulus through the fur trade, and fell to Revolutionary forces in 1775.
Part six is preceded by a plan of Pennsylvania, showing the grid system, and contains a folding coloured map of the island of New York after William Faden, showing Fort Washington and the positions of attack during the Battle of Fort Washington in 1776, which resulted in the British capture of New York. Part eight also contains a coloured folding map showing New York, this time the area covered by the Battle of White Plains in 1776. These two plans are amongst the very few battle plans showing New York from the Revolutionary War.
Part ten contains a folding map of Philadelphia and the Delaware, where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution was drawn up.
The work also contains eight portraits of key Revolutionary figures: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Rogers, John Hancock, Esek Hopkins, Israel Putnam and Charles Lee.
The number of parts of 'Geschichte der Kriege' offered for sale vary, but we have been able to trace three copies of 12 parts at auction: at Ketterer Kunst Doerling in 2016 for €3,360; at Otto Lange in 1938 for $10; at Otto Lange in 1929 for $120.
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Trademark Reveals Next Total War Game Is The Trojan War
Julian Benson in Technology
Last updated 3:34 PM, Friday August 09 2019 GMT+1
Thanks to a trademark filing for a Total War Saga: Troy, we know that developer Creative Assembly's next game is going to focus on the Trojan War.
Back in 2017 Creative Assembly announced a new branch of Total War games. Alongside the full-blooded Total War games - such as Rome, Three Kingdoms, and Medieval - and its Total War: Warhammer series, the studio would make Total War Sagas. These one-shot games would focus on a particular battle or period, covering it in greater detail than the standard broad strokes of its grand strategy series.
A game all about giving the brits a bruising
As Creative Assembly described it at the time "Total War Saga games will be standalone spin-off titles focusing on exciting pivotal moments in history rather than whole historical eras".
"There are these key, pivotal points in history which don't necessarily revolve around a single character, and only lasted a few months or few decades at most," game director Jack Lusted explained. "Such moments also tend to be constrained to a tight geographic area as well.
"These moments are perfect fuel for Total War. They're a powder keg, where anything can happen and history could have gone in any direction. Sagas are epic stories, and we felt that name described those moments well, and allows us to go into the kind of individual detail we love."
The first Total War: Saga was Thrones of Brittania took place entirely in Britain has the different factions warred for land on the British Isles.
The only thing we know about this new Total War for sure is its name: Total War Saga: Troy. But that still opens up a lot of possibilities. It may, for instance, lean heavily into the mythological account of the war. The Total War: Warhammer series and the recent Three Kingdoms game both feature hero units, which would work perfectly for a game that brought to life Achilles, Ajax, Hector, and Paris. If they go the more historical route, that could be interesting as there's a lot of debate over what actually happened. Various ancient historians claim that it did occur, though not on the same scale as it does in Homer's poem.
Also worth considering is how much of the game would simply be a siege battle. Total War games are rarely about just one battle, just one city. So how will that tally with a story about the siege of Troy?
Though, most importantly, will we be able to make giant hollow horses?
Hopefully we'll learn more soon.
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The city filed their notice on Dec. 17, four days after officials of Haikou city announced that it would seize eight tracts of land that belonged to Evergrande, which is suffering from a liquidity crisis.
The plots the Chengdu authorities confiscated totalled to more than 358,797 square yards. They said Evergrande has not used these lands for any projects after holding them for more than 10 years, making it legal for them to seize the assets.
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Compare the voting records of Thomas Suozzi and Marcia L. Fudge in 2017-18.
Thomas Suozzi
Represented New York's 3rd Congressional District. This is his 1st term in the House.
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Represented Ohio's 11th Congressional District. This is her 6th term in the House.
Thomas Suozzi and Marcia L. Fudge are from the same party and agreed on 89 percent of votes in the 115th Congress (2017-18).
But they didn't always agree. Out of 1120 votes in the 115th Congress, they disagreed on 124 votes, including 51 major votes.
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April 11, 2018 — Stress Test Improvement Act
March 15, 2018 — Regulation At Improvement Act of 2017
March 14, 2018 — Taking Account of Institutions with Low Operation Risk Act of 2017 or the TAILOR Act of 2017
March 6, 2018 — Comprehensive Regulatory Review Act
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Feb. 14, 2018 — Protecting Consumers' Access to Credit Act of 2017
Jan. 17, 2018 — World Bank Accountability Act of 2017
Dec. 20, 2017 — Corporate Governance Reform and Transparency Act
Dec. 14, 2017 — Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Act
Dec. 1, 2017 — Preserving Access to Manufactured Housing Act
Sept. 28, 2017 — Control Unlawful Fugitive Felons Act of 2017
March 1, 2017 — OIRA Insight, Reform, and Accountability Act
March 1, 2017 — SCRUB Act
Jan. 12, 2017 — Commodity End-User Relief Act
Jan. 12, 2017 — SEC Regulatory Accountability Act
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Sept. 14, 2017 — Ellison of Minnesota Amendment No. 200
Sept. 7, 2017 — Yoho of Florida Part B Amendment No. 110
Sept. 7, 2017 — Hunter of California Part B Amendment No. 77
Sept. 7, 2017 — Roybal-Allard of California Part B Amendment No. 74
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Orchimont is een dorpje in de Belgische provincie Namen en een deelgemeente van Vresse-sur-Semois. Het dorpje ligt een tweetal kilometer ten noorden van het centrum van Vresse en de rivier de Semois, in een bosrijke omgeving tegen de Franse grens. Nabij de Franse grens ligt het gehuchtje Hérisson. Tot 1 januari 1977 was het een zelfstandige gemeente.

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De naam Orchimont zou etymologisch Mont-des-Ours betekenen. Het plaatsje was in de middeleeuwen een stadje, met omwallingen en een versterkte burcht. In 1635 viel het leger van Lodewijk XIII de Spaanse Nederlanden binnen. Op 11 mei viel Orchimont; het kasteel werd vernield en niet meer heropgericht. Bij de aanleg van een weg in 1878 vernietigde verder de historische site.

Demografische ontwikkeling

Bronnen:NIS, Opm:1831 tot en met 1970=volkstellingen, 1976= inwoneraantal op 31 december

Bezienswaardigheden
 De Église Saint-Martin
 De Moulin d'Orchimont, een watermolen op de bovenloop van het riviertje de Vresse.
 Le Camp du Maquis des Blaireaux, een overblijfsel van een verzetskamp uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog, gelegen in de bossen rond Orchimont.

Plaats in Namen (provincie)
Vresse-sur-Semois

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My superhero film different from 'Krrish': Tiger Shroff
Tiger Shroff Will Be Seen In A Superhero Avatar For The First Time In His Upcoming Film "A Flying Jatt', And The Actor Says His Character Is Different From Any Of The Indian Movies Made In That Genre So Far.
PTI | Updated on: 12 May 2016, 11:29:06 AM
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Tiger Shroff will be seen in a superhero avatar for the first time in his upcoming film "A Flying Jatt", and the actor says his character is different from any of the Indian movies made in that genre so far.
Directed by Remo D'Souza, "A Flying Jatt" stars the "Heropanti" actor as a superhero, while Jacqueline Fernandez plays his love interest.
When asked how different the film will be from "Drona" or Hrithik Roshan-starrer "Krrish", Tiger told PTI, "It is a different kind of action, he is a different kind of superhero. It will be too early to talk about the film now."
"But my character, his powers are not like those you have seen. I am also a lot younger than both Drona and Krrish." The film, which also stars professional wrestler Nathan Jones in a negative role, is scheduled to release on August 25.
Tiger, 26, has become a sought-after actor in action films post "Heropanti" and "Baaghi". He says it is his ability to do action differently that has clicked with the audience.
"Action hero is sort of an identity that I have made. 'Heropanti' was a family drama, 'Baagi' is a love story, but because I do action differently from other people, it has become a highlight. That stands out and people take it back after the movie gets over," he said.
The actor, however, says he is comfortable trying other genres as well. "I am comfortable doing anything, it really depends on the emotional content in the script. Even when it comes to action films, if there is a motivation behind all the action, I would love to do it," he said.
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Lebanese musician, Bader Nana, has released his second studio album titled "Anthology" which features 8 new songs offering a fresh take on Bader's experimental song writing.
"Anthology" is the follow-up to 2010's debut album, "Wormwood" and took over a year in the making process. Bader Nana states:
"The making of Anthology has truly been a learning experience for me as a musician. I really wanted the album to have a specific sound and feel; I feel like it picks up where Wormwood left off and evolves into something fresh and steps into new boundaries"
Bader cites Neal Morse, Dream Theater, and Symphony X as his main influences coming into the writing / production of this record.
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Artémis, cœur d'artichaut (, "Artemis, artichoke heart") is a 2013 French comedy film directed by , starring Frédérique Barré and Noémie Rosset. Set in contemporary Normandy, it is about the goddess Artemis who lives as a student and goes on a road trip with her friend Kalie. The film is in black-and-white and stylistically influenced by the French New Wave.

Plot
In an introduction, the film's director explains that the main character was chosen by drawing names from a hat. The name that came up was Artemis, a goddess from Greek mythology. The director introduces himself as the story's omniscient narrator, and throughout the film sometimes intervenes to make characters act in certain ways.

Artemis, the daughter of Zeus and twin sister of Apollo, is a 23-year-old literature student at the University of Caen Normandy. She meets Kalie Steaux (pronounced like Callisto), an exuberant student of performing arts who is looking for a roommate, and Artemis invites her to live in her apartment. Artemis is misanthropic and reluctant about meeting boys, which is in stark contrast to Kalie.

After knowing each other for a few weeks they go on a road trip together. They are nearly arrested for illegally camping on a beach, but Artemis uses a pendant to summon lightning which scares away the policemen. Fernando, a young man Artemis approached after pressure from Kalie, invites them to a concert at a bar and a party in Cherbourg. Artemis tries to converse with Fernando but excuses herself and stays in the bathroom for two hours; when Fernando tries to seduce her, she transforms him into a stag.

Artemis returns home alone and watches a film on her laptop. The narrator explains that she is a virgin and that she admires the women in the films of Howard Hawks, the subject of her thesis, because they use charm as a weapon against men. Kalie returns and slips into bed with Artemis.

Cast
 Frédérique Barré as Artemis
 Noémie Rosset as Kalie Steaux
 Lelio Naccari as Fernando
 Hubert Viel as the omniscient narrator
 Gregaldur as Gregaldur
 Djahiz Gil as the singer

Production
The closing credits name the hymns of Callimachus as the film's source material. Viel was inspired by the fluctuant nature of ancient mythology and drew liberally from the stories of Callisto and Actaeon. An inspiration for the approach to mythology was Carl Jung's idea that the unconscious mind contains archaic myths which people carry with them. Viel has mentioned the directors Éric Rohmer and Hayao Miyazaki as influences for the offbeat and dreamlike storytelling he wanted to achieve. The film Orpheus by Jean Cocteau was also a reference point. Artémis, cœur d'artichaut was shot on Super 8 film and is mostly in black-and-white. Viel said that Super 8 suits it because it is an anachronistic format which he associates with childhood films.

Reception
Artémis, cœur d'artichaut was released in French cinemas on 25 September 2013. Several critics commented on its stylistic debt to the French New Wave. Jérémie Couston of Télérama wrote that the film is full of "Truffautian joy" and described the main characters as "more sassy Rohmer heroines". Amélie Dubois of Les Inrockuptibles placed Viel in a group of new filmmakers influenced by the New Wave, together with Guillaume Brac,  and Valérie Donzelli; Dubois wrote that Artémis, cœur d'artichaut is set apart by its playful narrative mode and mythological element, but wrote that this has led its creators to include decorative plot elements that fail to add to the cinematic whole. The performances of the two leading actresses—their first major roles—were generally praised, as was the interplay between the main characters. Dubois wrote that the actresses were a "good surprise" with "undeniable charm". Le Monde'''s Sandrine Marques wrote that their chemistry and the contrast between the two characters have a seductive effect, and praised the film's sense of humour, spontaneity and union of different genres: buddy film, fantastique'', road movie, sentimental comedy and portrait of a generation.

See also
 Hawksian woman
 List of films based on Greco-Roman mythology

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2013 comedy films
2013 films
French comedy road movies
French female buddy films
2010s comedy road movies
2010s female buddy films
Films based on classical mythology
Films about deities
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We knew this already, Green Tea and Red Wine and Dark Chocolate provide a degree of protection against coronary heart disease. But it also improves cognitive function.
Those who consumed chocolate, wine, or tea had significantly better mean test scores and lower prevalence of poor cognitive performance than those who did not.
But take care, more research would be needed to prove that it was flavonoids, rather than some other aspect of the foods studied, that made the difference. Moreover, to much of any of those might cause other health problems.


A Measurement of Excess Antenna Temperature at 4080 Mc/s.
Penzias, A. A.; Wilson, R. W.
Measurements of the effective zenith noise temperature of the 20-foot horn-reflector antenna (Crawford, Hogg, and Hunt 1961) at the Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, New Jersey, at 4080 Mc/s have yielded a value of about 3.5 K higher than expected. This excess temperature is, within the limits of our observations, isotropic, unpolarized, and free from seasonal variations (July, 1964 - April, 1965). A possible explanation for the observed excess noise temperature is the one given by Dicke, Peebles, Roll, and Wilkinson (1965) in a companion letter in this issue.


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Movie Logic vs Real Logic
Posted by Diego Crespo | Mar 5, 2015 | Someone Has to Say It | 1 |
Whether it relates to the plot, characters, or the world a movie inhabits, "It just wasn't realistic" is a complaint I hear far too often when it comes to movies. I talk about it on a constant basis both online and in real life, but there's a certain toxicity to the idea that a movie needs to adhere to our version of reality. As movie lovers, we should never tell a movie what to do. We can discuss whether or not elements of the final product came together in a cohesive manner, but there's a reason why our site exists. We talk movies. There's no reason to pigeonhole an entire medium into any category we deem worthy. Granted, if a movie wants to strive for strict rules of our reality, more power to it. But what qualifies as realistic? Sometimes life itself doesn't feel "real" on our own terms.
I've also discussed on multiple occasions why The Dark Knight is a pretty good movie and none of it has to do with "it's grounded!" because it's totally not. It only feels grounded. We believe in this world, these characters, and expositional speeches because Christopher Nolan believes it. He brings as much spectacle to characters like Steven Spielberg brings a sense of wonder to his movies (See: Spielberg filmography).
It works wonders for a movie if you can learn to care about a character before the apex of the movie's story begins. Last year's John Wick is an example as good as any. The opening of the movie shows John burying his wife, who happens to be the reason he left a life of crime. Her final act in this world is to leave John with a puppy so he can move on with his life once she's gone. When the dog is beaten to death by Theon Greyjoy and his goons, John springs into action because they took more than just his dog, they took his future. It's a simple, economic setup for sleek action movie that is sure to entertain. That's not to say it's perfect (last 20 minutes sort of drop the ball) but the issues do not correlate to how it represents real life.
One of the biggest issues with the finale of John Wick is that it doesn't make sense for the character to throw down fisticuffs after having spent the previous hour plugging people full of bullets. It feels unjust, after his character also ends Theon's life mid-sentence with a bullet to the head. If he was willing to do that for the initial primary villain of the movie, why not extend that same courtesy to the final showdown? It doesn't fit the character motivations. And that's where I think movie logic comes in.
Mud is a lovely little movie. It happens to take place in our reality but it doesn't need to strictly adhere to it because that's not what the movie is about. It's a small coming-of-age tale in the vein of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn stories (with way less racism). It wouldn't have made sense if the finale involved Mud being saved by an alien spaceship to become king of the planet of the apes. If the story was more science fiction heavy with an exclamation on random plot assessment, we might have gotten something like that.
Every movie should be a different experience or exercise. I'll even take a franchise with entries of varying quality if it means the tone and aesthetic change to a varying degree, as long as the character work and such is in the right place. Yes, I'm talking about the Alien franchise again. No, I'm not sorry.
For more modern purposes, Marvel Studios productions seem to just be getting it right. Iron Man comes from traditional superhero franchise, Captain America is an old-fashioned adventure hero, Thor is a fantasy warrior, Hulk is a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde story, Guardians of the Galaxy stem from space opera. Iron Man and Captain America were lucky enough to evolve into wholly different genres with their last movies, Iron Man 3 is an 80s action comedy and Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a 70s political thriller. None of these movies are in any shape realistic and it doesn't stop them from being great movies (fully acknowledging there are a few duds, the series is a consistently good time at the movies).
Guardians of the Galaxy in particular makes no attempt to bind itself to our Earthly tethers on a physical sense. It uses our relationship to Earth through Peter Quill to invoke an emotional response. There was a craze on the internet last year to determine how: a) Quill survived in the vacuum of space with only a mask on b) where did he get batteries for his Walkman? The answer is: because it's a movie. Neither of those criticisms have anything to do with thematic core of the movie itself. It's surface texture that adds some flavor to the proceedings.
Let's take it back to the past one more time by looking back at any of the great science fiction movies: many of them take place in a far off future or a galaxy far, far away. Blade Runner takes place in Los Angeles of 2019. Star Wars apparently takes place in the past. Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is a superhuman who spawned from the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s. None of these things actually occurred. That doesn't make the movies any less impressive in their accomplishments.
And finally, let's talk about coincidences in movies. Often times in film, the random course of the universe sets a group of characters on a collision course with one another to create a conflict. Not every movie does this but it helps kickstart a plot for our characters to follow. As long as they remain in character with their decisions, what's the problem here? Something as wondrous as Jurassic Park can still receive a bad rap for a minor quibble such as, "You're telling me he just decided to steal the dinosaur DNA at the exact moment when everyone was busy exploring the park?" Well, yes. There's usually a simple answer to these things like "Dennis just used it as a distraction so he could escape before getting himself eaten" but the simpler truth is without this, there would be no movie. It's that easy.
If a movie needs to be on your particular spectrum of reality so you can determine its worth, that's not a problem with the movie, it's a problem with you. I'm not saying that is an inherently bad thing, I'm not saying it's not. I'm only suggesting movies and the people behind them have enough to accomplish on their own terms. Whether you spend time wondering the logistics of space travel in Star Wars or marvel at the quiet moments of Short Term 12, there's no logic a movie should follow beyond its own.
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UPDATE FROM THE COURTROOM: PLEASE KEEP PRAYING
God has given favor in our trial over the state government's violating the constitutional and civil rights of veteran law enforcement officer Captain Kevin Fiedor—but there's a long way to go!
Please continue to pray for justice for Capt. Fiedor and for millions of Americans who will be affected by the outcomes of this case.
The facts are decisively in our favor, but we're up against one of the most powerful offices of the Florida state government—and they're fighting us every inch of the way.
At the center of this case, the Department of Financial Services (DFS) investigated, punished, and made an example of Capt. Fiedor. . . just because of his faith in Jesus Christ.
DFS falsely claims they had/have no policy prohibiting religious expression in the workplace. In reality, while DFS doesn't have such a written policy, they DO have a policy in fact—and it still affects Capt. Fiedor.
And their mistreatment of a Christian law enforcement veteran who served in the Florida State Fire Marshal's Office, Bureau of Fire and Arson Investigations with twenty-two years of excellent performance reviews proves they violated his First Amendment rights of religious speech and free exercise.
The government hunted, shamed, and silenced Capt. Fiedor, unjustly interrogating him on his views on homosexuality and other moral issues.
DFS illegally muzzled Capt. Fiedor and required colleagues of his to monitor his conversations and report if he spoke about the Gospel or used the employee bulletin board to include any information related to his church or his faith.
Please pray for favor as we prove Capt. Fiedor was wrongly persecuted for LEGALLY sharing his faith and inviting his colleagues to community events at his church (events several had gladly attended in previous years). Please keep praying, and we'll update you as we're able.
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The source indicated that the government would still control the distribution of cannabis to stores and manage online sales.
A spokesman for the Ontario Ministry of Finance wouldn't comment on the details but said the province will be ready by the time cannabis becomes legal in October.
To the editing staff: You should be aware that the lead photo to this article is of the FEDERAL Parliament Houses of the Canadian Government in Ottawa, NOT the Ontario Provincial Capital buildings in Queens Park, Toronto.
This is, after all, a Toronto, ON story.
As a Canadian, I have come to expect these types of errors from American sourced articles * sigh!
Cutting it a little close.


During the last few years we talk about the "C++ Renaissance". We have to admit that Microsoft was a major part of this movement, I remember this video where Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen talked about it.
In 2011 Microsoft announced in many articles the comeback of C++, and Microsoft C++ experts like Herb Sutter did many conferences to explain why C++ was back and mostly recommended the use of Modern C++. At the same time the standard C++11 was approved and we began to talk about C++ as a new language.
By 2011, C++ had been in use for more than 30 years. It was not easy to convince developers that the new C++ actually simplified many frustrating facets of C++ usage, and that there was a new modern way to improve the C++ Code.
Let's take the memory management as example, which is maybe the most criticized mechanism in C++. For many years the object allocation was done by the new keyword, and the developer must never forget to invoke delete somewhere in the code. The "Modern C++" resolved this issue and promotes the use of a shared pointer.
When c++0x was announced a few years ago, I thought that it would not impact the C++ language, but I was wrong. Take a look at this code snippet from Folly. It looks like it's developed using a new language.
The same situation occurs in almost all the folly source code; its implementation looks very different to c++03 source code.
How to prevent the big impact of the C++ past?
There's no magic solution. We can hope that C++ compilers could help us by emitting some warnings related to the deprecated usage, like the old string manipulation (strcpy,strcat,…). But this solution will not have a big impact. The modern C++ is more new idioms to learn and practice.
Another solution would be to consider that a new language named "Modern C++" should be created. Let's do the same search on the web as before, but this time we search for "Modern C++" object allocation, the first link will talk about smart pointers.
The better approach to discover the power of MC++ is to explore the source code of a mature project using its features. Folly from facebook is a very good candidate.
Using the auto keyword allows you to spend less time having to write out things the compiler already knows.
In the Folly source code all null pointers are represented by the new keyword nullptr, there 's no place where the constant 0 is used.
Smart pointer is not a new concept, many libraries implemented it many years ago. The popular one is boost::shared_ptr. What's new is its standardization and no further use of an external library to work with smart pointers.
Folly uses the standardized shared pointer extensively, only a few raw pointers remain in its source code.
C++11 introduces the enum class keywords. They no longer export their enumerators in the surrounding scope. Moreover we can also now inherit from an enum.
If a function cannot throw an exception or if the program isn't written to handle exceptions thrown by a function, that function can be declared noexcept.
C++11 has introduced the concept of rvalue references (specified with &&) to differentiate a reference to an lvalue or an rvalue. An lvalue is an object that has a name, while an rvalue is an object that does not have a name (a temporary object). The move semantics allow modifying of rvalues.
For that C++11 introduces two new special member functions: the move constructor and the move assignment operator.
Here's a good document that better explains better the benefits of move semantics.
C++11 provides the ability to create anonymous functions, called lambda functions, you can refer here for more details about this new feature.
In C++03, the compiler provides, for classes that do not provide them for themselves, a default constructor, a copy constructor, a copy assignment operator (operator=), and a destructor. The programmer can override these defaults by defining custom versions.
However, there is very little control over the creation of these defaults. Making a class inherently non-copyable, for example, requires declaring a private copy constructor and copy assignment operator and not defining them.
In C++11, certain features can be explicitly disabled. For example, the following type is non-copyable, which makes the code more simple and clean.
In C++03, it is possible to accidentally create a new virtual function, when one intended to override a base class function.
The override special identifier means that the compiler will check the base class(es) to see if there is a virtual function with this exact signature, and if there is not, the compiler will indicate an error.
A thread class (std::thread) is provided which takes a function object — and an optional series of arguments to pass to it — to run in the new thread.
Some advice to new C++ developers: consider that C++ has changed its name, and make sur all your search inquiries on the web always use "Modern C++" instead of C++. The results will be very different and using C++ will mostly give you the past practices.
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