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DOC'S JOURNEY INTO UNIVERSAL HORROR 2:MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE / THE OLD DARK HOUSE
August 3, 2011 Dr Lenera Columns, Comedy, Doc's Journey Into Universal Horror, Horror, Monster 0
Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Old Dark House (1932)
Directed by: James Whale, Robert Florey
Written by: Edgar Allan Poe, J.B. Priestley
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Leon Ames, Melvyn Douglas, Sidney Fox
In 19th century Paris, Pierre Dupin, a young medical student, his fiancée Camille L'Espanaye, and two friends are visiting carnival sideshows including one by a certain Dr. Mirakle, who is exhibiting Erik. Erik is an intelligent gorilla who Mirakle understands and can hold conversations [I'm not making this up] with. When both man and ape show an interest in Camille, the group leaves. That night Mirakle kidnaps a prostitute but she is unsuitable for his purposes so he kills her, making it obvious that he is responsible for a series of murders of young women in the city. Mirakle wants to mate Erik with a human but none of the candidates have been suitable….until now….
When one thinks of Universal Horror, it's usually the films featuring Dracula, Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, and the Mummy that come to mind. The studio did make a few films not featuring these classic characters though, which are largely forgotten now but are worth looking at. The first was this sometimes interesting but awkward movie. Now I love these films, but you can't get away from the fact that, after Dracula and Frankenstein, Murders In The Rue Morgue, based on an Edgar Allan Poe story that has been filmed several times since, it is a considerable disappointment. As we shall see though, this was not entirely the studio's fault. This was a film I had never seen until last week and watching it is rather a strange experience. It's sometimes unintentionally funny [something the first two films manage to avoid even when seen these days], is sometimes a bit dull, and makes little sense, but has some striking scenes and is at least great to look at. A classic it certainly isn't though, and I can understand why it's not a film that is much talked of or seen nowadays.
After being replaced on Frankenstein by James Whale, director Robert Florey was offered Murders In The Rue Morgue. Similarly, Bela Lugosi, who of course didn't end up as the Frankenstein Monster, was given to chance to star in what was something of a complimentary package for director and star. The Poe story the film was based on was the first of three stories by the author to feature C.Auguste Lupin, a detective who was something of a precursor to Sherlock Holmes, and in fact this one would make such a great Holmes tale that I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted into one yet. Florey though ignored much of Poe's story and only really used the setting, the murderous ape, his master and a hero [though not an actual detective] called Lupin, with the result that the film bears little resemblance to it. The production began in late 1931 and went smoothly but post-production certainly did not. Despite the fact that this was just before the Hays Code came into being [well, it was already around, but only in 1934 did it became ludicrously repressive and very strictly enforced], Murders In The Rue Morgue lost about twenty minutes from the censors [soon afterwards, Freaks would lose even more!]. Now exact details of the cuts seem to be unavailable, but I'll wager that you originally saw Mirakle kidnap and kill more of his victims, and I would also imagine that his intent to mate Erik with a human woman was more obvious – in the film as it stands, all they mention is 'mixing blood'. I'm wondering if the film was just considered too long as well, as bits of other scenes seem missing and the movie as a whole is very choppy.
Murders In The Rue Morgue certainly doesn't begin very promisingly, even with the title sequence that replays Swan Lake again and has the same images behind the words as Frankenstein's titles. Lupin and his three companions are going round the carnival sideshows, and soon find Mirakle and Erik. He claims that he and Erik can communicate, and communicate they do, in a hilarious bit where the ape is seen to whisper growls into Mirakle's eye and he translates what the gorilla is saying in English. Even in 1932, audiences must have fell about laughing. Then Mirakle gives a daft speech, which almost seems directed at the film audience, about how apes and humans are more similar than you may imagine. Things then progress in reasonable fashion until we suddenly cut into a fight between two men over a woman in a beautifully fog shrouded street. I reckon that the first part of this scene was cut, and I believe that it probably explained that the woman was a prostitute and the two men were either clients fighting over her or a client and her pimp. This now very random sequence ends with Lugosi finding the woman, and he really is quite menacing here, since so far you don't know exactly what he intends to do with her. Then we cut to her tied to a cross and injected with something, and though this scene is obviously very censored, the Sadean imagery here is quite strong.
Sadly after this the film becomes none too interesting for a while. Leon Ames is a very dull male lead, and though he's not really playing Poe's detective, he still has a loft where he has lots of beakers and early forensic stuff. There's quite a bit of comedy, which climaxes in a scene [which is actually from Poe] where several people are trying to get their point across but are all speaking different languages, but much of it seems like padding. As I've said before, I would imagine the original cut had far more of Mirakle and his ape. Things eventually build to a climax with the ape turning on Mirakle for no apparent reason and a rather exciting final reel with Erik leaping about the rooftops of Paris carrying Camille. Watching this scene, it becomes apparent that the model of this film was actually the silent The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, and this extends partially to the sets and the whole look of the film. When the script is often very poor, there is almost always something interesting to look at. The sets are full of beams in the 'wrong' places but it's Karl Freund's photography that is truly remarkable. He uses things like forced perspective and odd angles to create a feeling of a nightmare on screen, tools that are rarely used nowadays because everything can be done with CGI. Of course fog is abundant outside and, though you never feel like you're in Paris, you do feel like you're in a kind of alternate reality, with the same sensibility that has influenced many modern day directors, especially Tim Burton.
Erik is played by Charles Gemora, a guy who seems to have spent most of his career in gorilla suits, and who even repeated this role in a 1953 remake of Murders In The Rue Morgue. Even by 1932 he had the way gorillas move down to a tee, and the ape suit looks reasonably realistic, but his scenes are mainly from a distance, so we don't see his face very clearly. They are actually rather effective this way, but unfortunately, it was deemed fit to cut in shots of a real gorilla's face, and these shots don't match the others very well at all, especially considering this gorilla looks rather cuddly and cute and not the monstrous menace he's supposed to be. One bit during the climax interestingly uses some stop motion, and it's a bit jerky but not bad really. I wonder why they employed this time consuming technique for just a minute or so's worth of footage? Perhaps this scene was originally a great deal longer. Sadly it was this film [and of course next year's King Kong] that cemented gorillas as evil menaces, and the creatures would rarely be portrayed in a good light for ages afterwards. Jack Pierce again did the makeup but unfortunately it seems to have gone astray. Whilst Lugosi looks nicely evil with his curly hair, obviously bright lips and his bushy eyebrows that merge into one, his makeup is inconsistent. Sometimes one eyebrow is far higher up then other occasions! Lugosi is terrific though. His performance may be over the top by today's standards and the way he says some English words be very strange indeed, but in a way that makes him more scary than many villains you get today. There's something almost other-worldly about him, as if he's from a different race than us, and he suggests extreme perversity without showing us anything [well, at least in the released version].
Florey, to be honest, doesn't show much of an affinity for Gothic horror and it's little wonder that he only directed one other horror movie [1953's The Beast With Five Fingers], but does use the camera in some inventive ways. One must remember that it hadn't been long since films had become 'sound' and had become very static because of the limited recording devices that were available, therefore things like having the camera on the swing that the person that it's photographing is swinging on would have seemed quite innovative. The girl being photographed is Sidney Fox, who is top billed in the picture. She was a diminutive, very attractive lass who was a solid actress and seemed on the verge of stardom around this time but it never happened, with rumours of affairs with head of Universal Carl Laemmle and his son all but ruining her career. Noble Johnson also makes a strong impression as the assistant of Mirakle who is obviously intended to remind us of Fritz in Frankenstein. I can't deny that Murders In The Rue Morgue has some good things in it and there are some fans of old-time horror movies that claim it's an unheralded classic. I disagree with this though, the film often seeming to alternate good with bad, and is something of a mess. I do have a feeling though that the original, uncut version may have been very good indeed. We will never know……..
On a stormy night in Wales, Philip and Margaret Waverton and their friend Penderel seek refuge in a gloomy house off the road. The denizens of the house appear to be Horace Femm, a hysteric, his sister Rebecca, a religious fanatic, and Morgan, their scarred, brutish butler, who is a mute. At dinner, Horace confides that sometime in the past, their sister Rachel died in a mysterious fashion. Then two more people seek shelter – William Porterhouse and his girlfriend Gladys Perkins. As the evening progresses, it becomes apparent that there are two more strange inhabitants of the house – the Femms' 102-year-old father, and someone locked away and as yet unnamed….
For reasons I shall explain in a minute, The Old Dark House, though it's reasonably well known due to it being the second of the four Universal horror movies directed by James Whale, is one of the least seen of these films and wasn't usually included in seasons of these movies when shown on TV. This is a shame, because it's a highly enjoyable, clever film, though in my opinion not quite the masterpiece some critics claim. Very much like a stage play, with most of its running time packed with dialogue, it will disappoint those looking for lots of Gothic chills and does seem to stop as soon as it really gets going, but it's pretty funny [as soon as you appreciate dryer-than-dry humour], with Whale more interested in making a parody than a serious film. It's sometimes said that he was never especially interested in horror, which is why his three chillers after the almost entirely serious Frankenstein are very comedic, with the films often mocking horror cliches, though still at times managing to be quite frightening. Of course what Universal really wanted was a sequel to Frankenstein, but Whale was able to hold them off….for a while.
With Murders Of The Rue Morgue almost ready, the first two months of 1932 saw other studios jumping on the horror bandwagon. MGM began Freaks and The Mask Of Fu Manchu [starring Karloff], Warner Bros announced Dr X and Mystery Of The Wax Museum, Paramount prepared Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde and Island Of Lost Souls, RKO started The Most Dangerous Game, White Zombie, and planned a certain film about a giant ape. With all this going on, Whale was given carte blanche to make what he wanted, especially as it would probably feature Boris Karloff, and chose a novel called Benighted by J.B.Priestley as the basis for his next film. Priestley's book was serious and highly symbolic, with the odd inhabitants of the house representing various forms of post-First World War pessimism. The credits were packed with British talent Whale knew from the London stage, including a script by playwright Benn W.Levy, though this was later amended by R.C. Sheriff, who was also busy writing a script based on H.G.Wells' The Invisable Man. The cast was also mainly British with Raymond Massey and Charles Laughton making their US debuts. The Old Dark House, like Murders Of The Rue Morgue, only did average business, though in the UK it was huge and led to the somewhat similar The Ghoul, which would also star Thesiger and the extremely busy Karloff. For some reason Universal lost the rights to the film in 1957 which meant it never featured in seasons of the movies when they were shown on TV, then in 1963 a [mediocre] remake saw the original withdrawn from circulation until a print was discovered in 1967. Sadly, this print was of poor quality so the film has never undergone the restoration many of the other Universal horror films have.
The opening storm is vividly depicted, with a really impressive shot of a small landslide. Yes, you can see where a portion of the collapsing model work is being pushed in front of the model car, but it looks more realistic than a lot of CG you see now. Anyway, the film wastes little time in getting its stranded travellers into the house, where the pace suddenly slows right down and the film becomes extremely heavy with talk. Fortunately, the lack of action doesn't matter because the dialogue is often amusing and delivered so brilliantly by the cast. "Beds, beds, they'll have no beds" screams Eva Moore as Rebecca, surely the definition of an old hag, while Ernest Thesiger [in a dry run for his incredible performance as Dr Praetorius in Bride Of Frankenstein] as Horace makes repetition of the simple "have a potato" into something hilarious. On paper, the lines in this movie probably wouldn't seem that great, but the delivery turns many of them into gems. Of course suspense does start to build with the knowledge of two hidden members of the household that we have not yet seen, though it sometimes gives way to pure strangeness. The 102 year old man is played by a woman and no attempt is made to hide the fact! The possibly deadly Saul is built up to be a scary menace and there's a brilliant shot of his hand appearing at the top of the stairwell and remaining there while Morgan is the one who actually comes down the stairs. When he finally appears properly he seems the nicest and most normal person in the family. Well, at first!
The climax involves a fair bit of brawling and a fire which mysteriously has disappeared the next morning. I suppose that they didn't want to show the laborious clearing up, but honestly there's no evidence that there had been a fire at all. The ending is a bit happier than that of the book, which had an extra death, but the film does bring in a bit of pathos with Morgan cradling another character's body. We actually care about all these eccentrics, as bizarre as they might be. The five normal characters are interesting too though, these are no dullards, from Penderal singing songs mocking their plight in the back of the car to the possibly homosexual William. Considering Whale and Laughton were both gay, I'm sure I didn't pick up on things that weren't actually there, including a back story that seems to miss vital details, and isn't it odd how his 'girlfriend' throws herself at Penderal as soon as she sees him. I haven't seen such a depiction of a woman totally 'gagging for it' in a really old film [well, any film] in ages! The whole background of the family, some of which is told to us, has a perverse element that one can't really describe, but it's there, yet we still like these people, which is a good example of the genius of Whale. Whilst Frankenstein is by far the better film, The Old Dark House seems to be a much more personal project for him.
Even though not much actually goes on for the first two thirds, the atmosphere on this film is terrific. Of course there's the rain and thunder which never stops for a minute until the last scene, and in fact its constant presence becomes a little amusing after a while, but then this film is a borderline-comedy anyway. The interiors of the house are nowhere near as unusual as the inside of Frankenstein's tower, or indeed Dracula's castle, but Arthur Edison's cinematography still employs some strange angles, though actually it's the people that are photographed especially oddly here. Rebecca is seen looking distorted through a mirror, but there are many cuts involving the members of the Femm family which are very strange, such as two shots following on from each other of the same face which are almost, but not quite, the same. Clarence Kolster's editing is really quite avant garde, with some scenes ending suddenly and cutting into the middle of other scenes, and it seems totally intended rather than being accidentally created through heavy cutting like Murders Of The Rue Morgue. I don't know why this element of the film hasn't been more talked about then it is.
It's a shame that Karloff, for his second horror role for Universal, and one in which he was top billed, was again not allowed to speak. To be honest, it's not too interesting a part and one that would have seemed a cliche even in 1932, but Karloff is able to give Morgan some sympathy whilst doing very little, and is also being a little frightening whilst drunk. Fortunately his next part would be a great deal more interesting. Aside from the wonderful Thesiger and Eva Moore, I also love Laughton, with his almost imcomprehensible Northern accent, and it's fascinating to see Gloria Stewart, elderly Rose from Titanic, as a young woman. The more I think about The Old Dark House, I realise what an odd little gem it is. It's a piece of fluff, insubstantial and innocuous, but made by people with great intelligence clearly having great fun. It's nowhere near one of my favourite Universal horrors, but it has considerable charm, with no other movie in the series being quite like it.
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Zhang, J.; Liu, X. Dispersion Performance of Carbon Nanotubes on Ultra-Light Foamed Concrete. Processes 2018, 6, 194.
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Prototype your own USB devices with the new mbed NXP LPC11U24!
Apparently, Angry Birds is played for 300 million minutes a day. With that amount of dedication, isn't it about time it became a real sport?!
To make Angry Birds a real sport, we need real equipment. So the idea for this hack was to build a real slingshot as a USB peripheral to play Angry Birds.
The resulting hack means fusing electronics, microcontrollers, software and, umm..., carpentry!
The slingshot emulates a USB mouse, so it really is a plug 'n' play. It translates the physical use of the slingshot in to appropriate mouse controls.
That is the input, but to play Angry Birds, you actually click on the bird, then drag to the launch angle and strength you want, then release. This means we have to translate the real slingshot movements in to a series of different mouse movements.
It is packaged in a DIP prototyping form-factor, uses the NXP LPC11U24 MCU based on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core, and includes I2C, SPI, UART and ADC interfaces. It is supported by the mbed online development tools and developer website, mbed C/C++ SDK, and a full set of USB libraries; USB Mouse, Keyboard, HID, Serial, MIDI, MSC and Audio classes, that make reliably creating a new USB device a matter of a few lines of code!
This is great as it makes emulating the mouse nice and easy!
In order to test if the project was possible, a first prototype was made on breadboard.
The software to test the feasibility is kept simple; the objective is to observe all different elements of the project working together.
So we have proven control! Next step is to make it in to a real slinghot!
The slingshot was crafted by Chris Jarratt, from a branch found in Epping Forest, London! This is the structure in to which we embedded all the electronics.
The wiring is exactly the same as the first prototype, just that the mbed will be embedded in to the real slingshot this time.
Finally, combining all different parts we get our mbed USB Slingshot!
The first question concerns the USBMouse. The options are an absolute or relative mouse. The answer is quite simple because the mbed doesn't know the absolute position of the bird on the screen, so the natural solution is a relative mouse (like a normal mouse) - position the cursor over the mouse, then the slingshot takes over and moves relative to the starting point based on interpreting the manipulations of the slingshot.
The angle of the slingshot is the main thing we need to calculate the direction of the vector to apply to the mouse position.
We simply use the fact that we know gravity is causing a 1G force on the accelerometer, and use that to calculate the angle of the slingshot with some simple trigonometry.
The mouse position is then calculated based on the vector offset calculated using the angle of the slingshot, and the stretch sensor reading.
Because we send relative movements, we actually calculate the desired position, then work out the difference from where we know we are and send that.
At this point we release the mouse button, then return the mouse back to the starting position, ready for the next throw!
To use it, simply position the mouse cursor over the bird, and then start using the slingshot!
Turns out it works! Here it is in action!
So now you can kill pigs with a real USB Slingshot, by combining the two totally different worlds of carpentry and embedded systems!
Hopefully this gives you all the instructions you need to build your own, or any other USB devices you need to design!
Thanks to everyone who helped us to make this possible!
The LPC11U24 is one of the new ultra-low-cost 32-bit ARM microcontrollers entering the market that open up all sorts of opportunities for building USB devices. The times of requiring in-depth knowledge of the USB protocol, fiddling with complex software stacks and fighting 8 or 16-bit MCUs is over. Or being constrained by USB bridge chips. These chips only cost $1-2 in volume!
Using the mbed tools and the set of USB libraries, prototyping these devices should be really fast too!
/handbook/USBSerial - Create a virtual serial port over the USB port. Great to easily communicate with a computer.
/handbook/USBAudio - Create a USBAudio device able to receive audio stream from a computer over USB.
These pages should show how easy it is to prototype low-cost USB devices, so you can concentrate on inventing the applications. Looking forward to seeing what devices you develop!


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After cases of violence, Highway Police directors will study in the U.S.
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The federal government dismissed the executive director of the Federal Highway Police (PRF), Jean Coelho, and the PRF intelligence director Allan da Mota Rebello, in ordinances published on Tuesday. The layoffs come days after PRF agents killed a man in a makeshift "gas chamber" in the state of Sergipe and took part in an operation in a Rio de Janeiro favela that left at least 23 dead.
Officially, the dismissals have nothing to do with these cases, which have caused a big commotion. The two men had already been nominated on May 17 for a two-year stint in the U.S. They will serve at the Inter-American Defense College in Washington, an academic institution that prepares officers for leadership roles.
The representative of the UN Human Rights Office for South America, Jan Jarab, said that the recurrence of cases of police brutality is "worrying." The institution is being called upon to reinstate human rights disciplines for agents to avoid new cases.
On Monday, President Jair Bolsonaro said that he "very much regrets what happened," but added that it is not possible to "generalize everything that happens in Brazil."

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Tom Vs. The Flash : Tom vs. the Flash #109 - Return of the Mirror-Master!/Secert of the Sunken Satellite!
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Clothes Are Getting Smarter
Soon, we may be able to wear smart clothing—shirts and pants that use technology to help our bodies work better.
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The 1993 film The Wrong Trousers inspired scientists to invent a pair of pants that helps people move more easily.
Smart technology is all over the place. Humans can ask Alexa to play a favorite song, program a robot to vacuum a room, or send a drone to deliver a package. And soon, we may be able to wear robotic clothing—shirts and pants with smart technology.
Scientists, computer programmers, and clothing designers are teaming up to create smart clothing with a variety of capabilities. The idea is that, rather than just keep us warm, clothing could help our bodies work better.
In 2018, for example, a group of scientists invented a pair of pants with electrical pumps rooted in the fabric. The technology monitors the movement of the wearer to determine when to go into action. The pumps send air into small tubes to help the wearer—possibly someone who is elderly or disabled—do things like get up from a chair.
Jonathan Rossiter, a professor of robotics at the University of Bristol in England, helped develop the technology. "We have developed [pants with] lightweight bubble artificial muscles, which could help people to stand up or to lift objects," Rossiter told The Guardian.
In Australia, researchers recently developed another smart textile (fabric). In this case, robotic threads were knitted into regular cloth. The threads, which contain fluid-filled tubes, can be programmed to move and even lift wearers who are up to 192 times their weight. The technology has a lot of potential uses, but some scientists envision creating "smart suits" that could be worn to help improve a person's strength and mobility.
"Like the Iron Man suit or Spiderman suit," said lead scientist Thanh Nho Do, comparing such a suit to costumes worn by Marvel Comics superheroes.
These developments are only the beginning, scientists say. They expect to develop a variety of smart clothing to improve mobility, track people's vital signs, and more.
Will smart clothing ever make superheroes out of ordinary people? Stay tuned.
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Computers and robotics didn't exist back in the Middle Ages. But in Europe, at least one type of clothing was brilliantly designed to protect the wearer.
Knights and other military men wore a form of body armor called chain mail, or just mail. It was made up of small iron rings that were interlaced and then welded or riveted shut. Knights could cover themselves from head to toe with chain mail, which was intended to provide some protection from injury during sword fights. But chain mail was still flexible enough to allow the wearer to move and do knight-like things, such as riding horses. Knights sometimes wore chain mail under a suit of plate armor. The plate armor provided additional protection while the chain mail helped protect spots where there were gaps in the armor.
In 2021, scientists from the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory developed a more modern form of chain mail. This new material is made of plastic or aluminum particles that interlock. It's soft enough that it can be molded into different shapes, but it contains technology that enables it to go from soft to rigid on command. The material could be used as body armor in the military, as a body suit to help people walk, or as a cast that could become less stiff as a patient heals.
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This material, developed by engineers at the California Institute of Technology and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is inspired by chain mail.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren launches 2020 presidential exploratory committee
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., announced Monday that she had formally launched an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential bid.
The former Harvard professor made the announcement in a video emailed to supporters. In the four-minute video, Warren trumpeted a message of economic fairness.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price received a phone call from Warren herself on Monday and the two discussed a visit to the Hawkeye state, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Warren did not commit to a specific date but did say she was planning on making the trip "soon."
Elizabeth Warren launches 2020 presidential exploratory committee
The former Harvard professor made the announcement in a video emailed to supporters. In the four-minute video, Warren promoted a message of economic fairness, while targeting corruption and racial inequity.
"Our government is supposed to work for all of us, but instead, it has become a tool for the wealthy and well-connected," Warren said in the video.
She said corruption is "poisoning our democracy," warned that "America's middle class is under attack" and cited the obstacles facing minority groups.
"Families of color face a path that is steeper and rockier, a path made even harder by the impact of generations of discrimination," she said.
Like Trump, Warren wants new trade policies
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Warren is among the first Democrats to take a formal step for the party's nomination to take on President Donald Trump in 2020. The field is expected to grow in the coming weeks as other Democrats enter what will likely become a crowded and expensive primary contest.
Warren is already planning to travel to the early caucus and primary states, including Iowa, in the coming weeks, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price received a phone call from Warren herself on Monday and the two discussed a visit to the Hawkeye state, according to a person familiar with the conversation. Warren did not commit to a specific date but did say she was planning on making the trip "soon." A political operative within the state who spoke on the condition of anonymity said Warren could make it out to the key caucus state as early as next week.
Further, Warren's advisors had already begun reaching out to potential staffers in the primary state of South Carolina, including as recently as last week, a party operative from the Palmetto State told CNBC on the condition of anonymity.
A person close to the Massachusetts Senator says she's looking to get a head start to "build an apparatus, identify and hire staff, build out operations, and plan for early states."
Prior to her announcement, Warren reportedly deployed members of her team to the early primary states and other key electoral states such as Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan to meet with possible field organizers. Now that she's announced her exploratory committee, Warren can go to these same states to personally meet those who may work for her.
Some progressive groups rallied around the news. In a statement, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which ran the original "Draft Elizabeth Warren for Senate" campaign in 2011, called Warren "the most electable among many potential contenders with progressive positions."
"If she runs, she will be best equipped to defeat Trump because voters want someone instinctively on the side of working people and willing to challenge power -- from Wall Street banks, Big Pharma, and big polluters to systemic racism and gender inequity," said the group's co-founders, Stephanie Taylor and Adam Green.
In an early poll of the 2020 race conducted by the progressive organization MoveOn.org, Warren was among the top contenders with 6.4 percent of the vote.
She trailed Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Beto O'Rourke, D-Texas, who received the most votes at 15.6 percent. The group endorsed Sanders in 2016.
The Massachusetts Democrat, a prominent voice in the party's liberal wing, has vowed to go after major banks and protect consumers from predatory practices. She is credited with drafting, as an academic, the original plans for a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Warren, whose announcement was widely expected, has come under fire in recent months for her decision to release a DNA test earlier this year that showed small amounts of Native American heritage in her ancestry.
The move was criticized by Native American groups and mocked by Trump, who derisively refers to the senator as "Pocahontas" at rallies and on social media.
In November, she was re-elected to her U.S. Senate seat with 60 percent of the vote.
Several of Warren's senate colleagues are thought to be weighing presidential bids of their own, including Harris and Sanders, as well as Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.
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Forget the Cubs Offense, How About Joe Maddon's Bullpen Offenses?
Jeff BurdickSeptember 14, 2018
So who wants to be a playoff closer for the Cubs under Joe Maddon?
Pedro Strop had been auditioning until Thursday's calamity reminded him just how grueling the job requirements can be. They include throwing upwards of 35 to 40 pitches over multiple innings, taxing your arm and – we now know – hamstrings, and most probably not returning to the team the following season.
Aroldis Chapman put up with a partial season and the World Series run after being acquired in 2016. Wade Davis did survive a full season and one exhausting postseason before opting out for Colorado. Placed under Maddon's playoff-like pressure, Strop could manage only 21 pitches and barely half of a 2.1-inning save before going on the DL.
Strop was in that position because Brandon Morrow made it through barely a third of the 2018 season before his first of two DL visits. Though Morrow has a history of injuries, Maddon still threw him three consecutive days once and three times in four days thrice. No surprise, a few days after Morrow's three-consecutive-game stretch, he landed on the DL.
Basically, Maddon goes through relievers like James Bond does lead actresses. Or Spinal Tap through drummers. Or Donald Trump through Directors of Communications. For all the talk this year about the up-and-down offense and disappointing starting rotation, Thursday's game underscored how Maddon's bullpen management will be just as much of a challenge come the playoffs.
The Cubs manager called on a whopping nine pitchers to cover 10 innings Thursday, including five who threw partial innings. This came a day after he threw eight pitchers in a nine-inning loss. And that followed not too far behind Saturday's double-defeat doubleheader that required (more understandably) 11 pitchers.
This stretch of bullpen overuse has actually come in a period of fine starting pitching performances. Thursday, however, Mike Montgomery was pulled after just four innings and 62 pitches of two-run baseball. The day before, Maddon handled Kyle Hendricks as if it were Game 7 of the 2016 World Series all over again, allowing him just 77 pitches over five innings of two-run baseball.
Watching Maddon pilot through the final 12 outs of a must-win game is like watching winter construction of a mountain highway. Both require slow, circuitous work that sees personnel changed out at quick, regular intervals.
Maddon's one recent nod to bullpen conservation involved not forcing Steve Cishek to pitch both ends of Saturday's doubleheader. This was, in fact, the first time in four doubleheaders this season Cishek has not pitched in both games.
And yet, Cishek remains on pace to log 80 appearances this year, 11 more than his career high set as a 27-year-old. And if Maddon hadn't noticed, he's just about pulled his 32-year-old Stretch Armstrong past his snapping point. Cishek has posted a 5.40 ERA over his last 13 appearances and has surrendered a run in half of his last 10 appearances.
I half want Cishek to fake a hamstring strain just to get 10 days off and give his arm a chance to rebound for the playoffs.
For all of his strong regular-season managerial qualities, the sad truth is Maddon seldom has a plan for how to hold leads in the short run without robbing from the long. Take Thursday's game, in which he burned through five relievers to bridge to Pedro Strop for a multi-inning save attempt. The strategy/hope here apparently was for the offense to score to avoid a long extra-inning game.
It's like Maddon thought the team still had Eddie Butler in the bullpen to bail them out of similar jam created just two games into the 2018 season.
I once predicted the relief corps' early success would dip in the second half. The cause would be Maddon's scorched-pen approach and partly due to the starting rotation's inability to go deep into games. That this didn't happen until this month is due largely to the surprising success of the Iowa Shuttle of minor league arms.
As I noted last month, those nine minor leaguers handled more than a quarter of the bullpen innings with an ERA in the 3.60's. That's not good enough for playoff ball, but to get that from a platoon of essentially 4A relievers was a major godsend for the rest of the bullpen. It also hid a raft of poor bullpen management decisions that has finally washed up in a quite battered form.
And Maddon's tactical bullpen challenges only deepen in the playoffs when he shrinks the number of trusted relievers he'll use to just two, shortens his leash on starting pitchers, and over-relies on long relief appearances – like the one attempted Thursday with Strop.
He got away with this in 2016, partly because he didn't have to go into gonzo over-use mode with Chapman until the World Series. But he wasn't so fortunate in 2017, needing to deploy Davis this way in the first round. In fact, if not for numerous bonehead decisions by Nationals manager Dusty Baker, Maddon's Cubs don't even get out of the first round.
This year the NL Central may not be decided until the final week or games of the season. So it's possible Maddon will be forced to move his pyromaniac bullpen approach forward into the stretch run. This could leave the bullpen as sapped in the first round as it was last year in the second round against the Dodgers.
I imagine this has the front office pulling its hair out. You can understandably hear them saying, "Joe, we keep finding you new bullpen resources. Would you please slow down how quickly you destroy them?"
To be sure, Maddon wasn't handed the ideal bullpen to begin this season. The team merely swapped out Morrow for Davis and Cishek for Hector Rondon. The rest of the unit featured the same cast Maddon either didn't trust with a playoff lead last year (Strop, Justin Wilson, Brian Duensing) or who weren't ready for prime time when pressed for duty (Carl Edwards Jr.)
This postseason, Maddon's late-inning challenges should only increase. In 2016, his rotation averaged 5½ innings per start in the first two rounds. Last year, this dipped to 5.0 exactly. And this year, with a rotation not as strong as the past two years, the workload on the bullpen may increase further. Unless, that is, Maddon alters his strategy for how quickly he pulls starters and how he uses so many relievers in very brief stints.
With 16 games left in the regular season, perhaps we will get an indication as to whether Maddon is an old dog capable of learning a new trick. Morrow will soon come off the DL but will be limited early on, as will Strop after a couple weeks of hamstring rest. Who knows, maybe these constraints will finally force Maddon to adjust his bullpen strategy.


In others, he allegedly wrote, "God is going to burn them into the desert for me," "Go to hell, Swift," and, "Enjoy the brain aneurysms and death".
Hoover isn't Taylor's only stalker; Mohammed Jaffar was arrested in March (17) on stalking and burglary charges for allegedly loitering outside her New York home multiple times and making nuisance calls to her management company. He pleaded not guilty but was committed to a psychiatric facility after being deemed unfit for trial.


Following the success of last year's Superhero Series, the only sports series dedicated to the UK's 13.3 million people with disabilities and long-term injuries, event partner npower has launched an innovative new service to enable even more families to participate in the inspirational Superhero Tri at Dorney Lake on 18 August, 2018.
The new 'npower support squad' will provide support dinghies and volunteers to give participants even more confidence to enter the swim section and enjoy the rewarding experience. In addition to providing assistance in the water, the support squad will be fully involved on land from leading participants in the warm-up to cheering them across the finish line.
Professor Greg Whyte OBE, best known for coaching David Walliams to swim the Thames and helping Eddie Izzard, Davina McCall and Zoe Ball to conquer Sport Relief challenges, has been so inspired by the Everyday Superheroes taking part in the Superhero Tri that he has signed up as a swimming 'Sidekick' to support families by towing the dinghies and Superheroes.
Professor Whyte will lead the npower support squad in the water and has already set about recruiting members of the Wycombe Swim Squad to join him on the day.
"I'm really excited about attending this wonderful event," said Professor Whyte. "There are so many inspirational families and participants involved in the Superhero Tri and I can't wait to meet them and cheer them on during their sporting challenge.
Jayne Hughes and her team are one of 10 families who signed up to the new support dinghies within 24 hours of the announcement. The family are travelling to Windsor from Ireland and can't wait to take on the Superhero Tri challenge again.
"The npower support squad is such a brilliant idea," she said: "Our twin sons Callistus and Caleb have very limited ability to enjoy independent movement and they both hugely enjoyed taking part in all three elements of Superhero Tri in 2017 involving water, cycling and running.
"We were so pleased to hear about the additional support of dinghies and volunteers for the water section – knowing support is on hand to help our boys and families in a similar position to complete the swim in open water will provide a golden opportunity for all children to experience the excitement of the water stage.
Sophia Warner, Paralympian and founder of the Superhero Series, added: "We have seen a fantastic response to the launch of npower's support squad. It's brilliant that npower has come up with a fun and powerful way to further support families by providing dinghies and volunteers.
Over 2,000 participants have already signed up to tackle the swim, bike and push/run at Dorney Lake. If you would like to join the fun and request access to an npower support dinghy during the swim, contact hello@superheroseries.co.uk or call 01306 627301.
The Superhero Tri which is supported by 30 Celebrity Team Captains including Team npower captain Jonnie Peacock, Adam Hills, JJ Chalmers, David Weir, Freya Levy and Susie Rodgers, will be broadcast on Channel 4 on 1 September just after lunchtime, and will be advertised ahead of time to raise its profile with Channel 4 viewers.
Founded by Paralympian Sophia Warner, who has been involved in disability sport for 25 years, the third event in the series will be on Saturday 18 August, 2018 at Dorney Lake, Windsor.
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July 16, 2013 started like any other day. Our area of the city responds to many medical emergencies, trauma and calls for service. In District 68 where we are located, we responded to more than 17,000 calls in 2012 alone. We have 5 Advanced Life Support Units and 9 Basic Life Support Units along with each Engine and Ladder serving as a first responder.
On that day, we had a scheduled public relations event where four Houston Texans players and cheerleaders presented awards to our District Station. The event was short-lived as Ladder Co. 68 responded to a choking call. While the awards were being admired, a cardiac arrest at the same location came in over the station speakers for Ambulance 68, Squad 68 and Supervisor 82. Ladder Co. 68 was the initial first responder and I was the initial Advanced Life Support Provider on the scene. What we found on arrival was a pulseless boy who appeared to have a dragon fruit seed in his mouth which had possibly lodged in his airway. We quickly moved into action carrying the lifeless child to the Ladder Co. parked out front. The crew did an excellent job working like a NASCAR Pit Crew performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation measures and creating an opening which provided lifesaving oxygen until the Advanced Life Support crews arrived. After a quick reassessment, we placed the patient in the ambulance because of the Houston heat at that time of day (97 degrees). To our surprise, the patient miraculously regained pulses, albeit slowly by our medical standards. As we were in the ambulance on the way to Texas Children's Hospital, I made the command decision to get the little boy intubated. Thankfully his heart rate increased and our patient started having spontaneous respiration.
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Q: How to change text color of preference category in Android? The textColor attribute isn't working. Here's my XML:
<PreferenceCategory
        android:title="Title"
        android:textColor="#00FF00">

Any ideas?

A: Other way around will be mention the theme in your AppTheme, application level
    <style name="AppBaseTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
        .....//your other items
        <item name="preferenceTheme">@style/PrefTheme</item>
    </style>

    <style name="PrefTheme" parent="@style/PreferenceThemeOverlay">
        <item name="preferenceCategoryStyle">@style/CategoryStyle</item>
    </style>

    <style name="CategoryStyle" parent="Preference.Category">
        <item name="android:layout">@layout/pref_category_view</item>
    </style>

XML : pref_category_view
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TextView android:id="@android:id/title"
          style="?android:attr/listSeparatorTextViewStyle"
          xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
          android:layout_width="match_parent"
          android:textColor="@color/red"
          android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    />

For more customization visit v7 Preferences res
Important: I am using PreferenceFragmentCompat from lib v7 Preference.

A: Using Material Theme, you just have to override the following property :
<style name="YourTheme" parent="@style/Theme.MaterialComponents">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/your_custom_color</item>
</style>

A: use this customize PreferenceCategory class :
public class MyPreferenceCategory extends PreferenceCategory {
    public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs,
            int defStyle) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onBindView(View view) {
        super.onBindView(view);
        TextView titleView = (TextView) view.findViewById(android.R.id.title);
        titleView.setTextColor(Color.RED);
    }
}

and add this at your Pref.xml file :
<ali.UI.Customize.MyPreferenceCategory android:title="@string/pref_server" />

A: An easy way to do this is to set the custom layout for the preferenceCategory here:
<PreferenceCategory
    android:layout="@layout/preferences_category"
    android:title="Privacy" >

Then set your code inside your preferences_category layout file:

<TextView
    android:id="@android:id/title"
    android:textColor="@color/deep_orange_500"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:textSize="16sp"
    android:textStyle="bold"
    android:textAllCaps="true"/>

A: One solution is to make a theme for your PreferenceScreen.
So in your themes.xml or styles.xml (better to put it in themes.xml) :
<style name="PreferenceScreen" parent="YourApplicationThemeOrNone">
    <item name="android:textColor">@color/yourCategoryTitleColor</item>
</style>

then in your AndroidManifest.xml :
<activity
      android:name="MyPreferenceActivity"
      ...
      android:theme="@style/PreferenceScreen" >
</activity>

It worked perfectly for me.

A: public class MyPreferenceCategory extends PreferenceCategory {

 public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context) {
    super(context);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
  }
 public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
  }
 public MyPreferenceCategory(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
    super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
  }

 @Override
 protected View onCreateView(ViewGroup parent) {
    // It's just a TextView!
 TextView categoryTitle =  (TextView)super.onCreateView(parent);
 categoryTitle.setTextColor(parent.getResources().getColor(R.color.orange));

    return categoryTitle;
  }
}

And in your prefs.xml:
<com.your.packagename.MyPreferenceCategory android:title="General">
.
.
.
</com.your.packagename.MyPreferenceCategory>

Or you can also use this answer

A: Define your own PreferenceTheme and override colors.
<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/colorPrimary</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/colorPrimaryDark</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorAccent</item>
    <item name="preferenceTheme">@style/AppTheme.PreferenceTheme</item>
</style>

<style name="AppTheme.PreferenceTheme" parent="PreferenceThemeOverlay.v14.Material">
    <item name="colorAccent">`#color_value`</item>
</style>

A: To change text color of preference category only set a theme to your PreferenceActivity in your Android Manifest and make sure that colorAccent item exists. This color is taken by your PreferenceCategory.

A: Actually just found out that preference category text using colorAccent. If your app didn't using style of colorAccent, you can go to styles.xml and find <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>, and change the color as you want.

A: Inspired by @AliSh answer, but I needed to only change the colour of one Preference text item. So, for all the Kotlin guys out there:
class TextColorPreference : Preference {

    constructor(context: Context) : super(context)

    constructor(context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet) : super(context, attrs)

    constructor(
        context: Context, attrs: AttributeSet,
        defStyle: Int
    ) : super(context, attrs, defStyle)

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: PreferenceViewHolder?) {
        super.onBindViewHolder(holder)

        context?.let {
            (holder?.findViewById(android.R.id.title) as? TextView)?.setTextColor(
                ContextCompat.getColor(
                    it,
                    R.color.colorPrimary
                )
            )
        }
    }
}

And then put it in your xml/prefs.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<PreferenceScreen xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">

    <this.should.be.your.package.TextColorPreference
        android:id="@+id/settings_logout"
        android:key="@string/prefs_key_logout"
        android:title="@string/settings_logout" />
</PreferenceScreen>

A: For androidx preference library you can extend PreferenceCategory or Preference class like this:
class DangerPreference(
    context: Context?,
    attrs: AttributeSet?,
): Preference(context, attrs) {

    override fun onBindViewHolder(holder: PreferenceViewHolder?) {
        super.onBindViewHolder(holder)
        holder?.itemView?.findViewById<TextView>(android.R.id.title)?.setTextColor(Color.RED)
    }
}

then use it normally in your PreferenceScreen:
<com.github.anastr.myscore.util.pref.DangerPreference
    app:key="deleteServerData"
    app:title="@string/delete_server_data"
    app:iconSpaceReserved="false" />

A: A lot of the other answers didn't work for my case. I'm using a PreferenceFragmentCompat and I didn't want to have actual code doing this. So I simply made a copy of the preference category xml file and changed the textColor field. The file goes under the Apache license, Version 2.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!--
  ~ Copyright (C) 2015 The Android Open Source Project
  ~
  ~ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  ~ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
  ~ You may obtain a copy of the License at
  ~
  ~      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  ~
  ~ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
  ~ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
  ~ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
  ~ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
  ~ limitations under the License -->

  <LinearLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingLeft"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <TextView
      android:id="@android:id/title"
      android:layout_width="match_parent"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
      android:paddingEnd="?android:attr/listPreferredItemPaddingRight"
      android:textAlignment="viewStart"
      android:textColor="@color/app_accent"
      android:textStyle="bold"
      tools:ignore="RtlSymmetry"/>
    <TextView
      android:id="@android:id/summary"
      android:layout_width="wrap_content"
      android:layout_height="wrap_content"
      android:ellipsize="end"
      android:singleLine="true"
      android:textColor="?android:attr/textColorSecondary"/>
  </LinearLayout>

And imported it in my .xml layout for the Preference fragment:
 <PreferenceCategory
    android:layout="@layout/preference_category_companion"
    android:key="my_preference_title"
    android:title="@string/my_preference_title">

A: This worked for me,
In your AndroidManifest.xml, add the following style:
    <activity
        android:theme="@style/PreferenceScreen"
        android:name="com.yourapp.id"
        android:label="About"
        android:exported="true">
    </activity>

Then go to your styles.xml and add the following:
<style name="PreferenceScreen" parent="Theme.MaterialComponents.Light.DarkActionBar">
    <item name="android:background">#333333</item>          <!--Change color in Preference background-->
    <item name="android:colorAccent">#FFFFFF</item>         <!--Change color in PreferenceCategory title-->
    <item name="android:textColorPrimary">#FFFFFF</item>    <!--Change color in PreferenceCategory->Preference->app:title -->
    <item name="android:textColorSecondary">#BDBDBD</item>  <!--Change color in PreferenceCategory->Preference->app:summary -->
</style>

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Check Out This Great 'Shawshank Redemption' Reunion In Honor Of Its 20th Anniversary
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Not many movies have been as lauded and influential as The Shawshank Redemption. Pretty much everyone has seen it — if you haven't, just channel surf your way to AMC this weekend, it'll probably be on all day. Not only does it have one of the best screenplays in the history of film, it also has Morgan Freeman doing his thing. Enough said. Even though there's no shortage of places to re-watch director Frank Darabont's classic, it's crazy to think that the film debuted 20 years ago.
The cast, including Freeman, Darabont and Tim Robbins reunited this week to celebrate that milestone anniversary and to share some little known facts about the film. According to Darabont, who adapted a Stephen King novella to bring Shawshank to life, the bromance of Andy Dufresne and Ellis Boyd Redding would have never happened if he hadn't been afraid of doing another horror story:
I wanted to do The Mist. I never wanted to be compared with George Romero and David Cronenberg. I thought I'd try something off of that track, and if it worked out, I'd do The Mist later and not just be 'the horror guy.'"
Darabont also revealed that the ending of the story was originally a bit less satisfying:
The original script ended with Red on the bus, uncertain but hopeful about the future; that's the way the [King] story ended. But [studio executives told me], 'After two-plus hours of hell, you might owe them that reunion.'"
I guess we should've offered a spoiler warning, but what the hell. One thing I will warn you about is Robbins' gross story about his "escape" from prison. The scene is when Robbins' character flees the prison through the sewers, crawling through miles and miles of sh*t towards freedom. The actor recalls that it wasn't all movie magic, with plenty of actual wading through feces taking place for that particular part of the movie:
It was cow country, enough said. It wasn't actually human shit; it was cow shit. It was pretty toxic."
Check out the rest of the reunion here and if you haven't seen the movie, go take some time and watch it. One of the best.
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Conventions Matter
By: Melissa Lantsman
Political Convention [puh-lit-i-kuh l kuh n-ven-shuh n] noun
A meeting or formal assembly of delegates for discussion on particular matters of common concern related to a political party.
A weekend of drinking in a Canadian city (and if you're a conservative) that is not Toronto with old friends who believe generally in lower taxes and are passionate about an issue you've never heard of.
The biggest challenge any organization (in this case a political party) faces is when its most passionate advocates become quiet.
Any way you look at it, a convention is where a party is unified and energized – and is fundamental to setting direction. It's where party faithful spend a couple days telling its leadership where to go and how to get there.
Conventions are where political parties develop their value proposition. In some cases, it's a test for party leaders to ensure they have the confidence of grassroots supporters, it's where its executive lay leadership is elected and it is always a place where the next party leader is discussed even if there is no formal race at that time. Always.
This year is special for the upcoming Conservative Convention in May. First, I'll be there. Second, it's in Vancouver which will afford you an additional three hours of drin…conventioning when coming from Toronto. And most importantly, it's a crucial time for the Conservative Party of Canada – after a crushing defeat in the last election where Canadians soundly rejected a more conservative policy direction (arguable, but let's placate here for a moment) – the Conservative Party needs to have a tough and candid conversation about what went wrong and how they're (we're) going to fix it.
The Party will elect a new leader next year – but I suspect there may even be one or two conversations at the convention about that. The next campaign will be two years after that – and if you don't think that's a long time – you're probably living in a world outside politics, because in politics – it is an eternity.
In short, this is a policy convention, where many resolutions – some more welcomed than others will be vigorously debated on the convention floor. It will be one of the most watched in our party's history. Some of those resolutions will be really interesting, some very procedural and some very boring for spectators of this sport (that is the standard disclaimer in case you are disappointed).
Here's the important part: as a young person involved in politics, conventions are an opportunity to shape our future with much more than a vote in a general election. They are an opportunity to bring forward the issues that matter most, enshrine them in our party's constitution and make them party policy. With that we hold our leader to account to espouse the direction the party sets.
Melissa Lantsman was part of CJPAC's first cohort of Fellows. She is a recovering political staffer working and living in Toronto.


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La mammella (IPA: //) è un organo ghiandolare che nelle femmine di mammifero secerne il latte dopo il parto di uno o più neonati.

Si tratta di una struttura caratterizzante la classe dei mammiferi, in particolare gli euteri, l'unico gruppo con evidenti mammelle esterne, presenti peraltro anche nei metateri all'interno della sacca marsupiale.

Nel genere umano l'organo femminile, oltre che strumento di nutrizione, a seguito dello sviluppo nel telarca, è anche una caratteristica sessuale secondaria nella donna e può essere visto anche nella sua valenza simbolica. In italiano, tale organo viene comunemente e meno precisamente chiamato seno.

Filogenesi

La presenza della ghiandola mammaria secernente latte distingue la classe dei mammiferi. Fu ereditata dai cinodonti della fine del triassico. Nei mammiferi euplacentati, o euteri, queste ghiandole sono organizzate a formare le mammelle propriamente dette, mentre nei marsupiali la forma assume aspetti caratteristici per nutrire un piccolo con un grado di sviluppo ancora arretrato. Le mammelle sono un organo pari e simmetrico, da due come in genere nei primati, fino a 20. I monotremi non possiedono mammelle organizzate, ma il latte, proveniente da ghiandole tubolari, viene sorbito dai cuccioli nella zona cutanea sovrastante lo sbocco dei dotti galattiferi. L'assenza di labbra e vestibolo boccale non permetterebbe in ogni caso la suzione da un eventuale capezzolo. Nei marsupiali i capezzoli sono presenti all'interno del marsupio.

La mammella in diversi ordini
Nei teri le ghiandole mammarie sono tubulari-acinose e si differenziano lungo due direttrici, dette linee del latte, sul lato ventrale del feto in sviluppo. Tali linee procedono dalle ascelle all'inguine, ed in tutta la zona, di formazione di parenchima mammario, si potranno sviluppare, nell'individuo adulto le mammelle. La zona di localizzazione può essere tutta la linea, con elevato numero di mammelle come in molti insettivori (Soricomorpha), roditori, suiformi, carnivori. Possono altresì essere localizzate, inguinali in molti ungulati, ascellari nei chirotteri, pettorali nei sirenii, proboscidati e primati.
Il numero e la posizione delle ghiandole mammarie, complesse o semplici varia quindi notevolmente nei diversi mammiferi ed è, in genere, proporzionato al numero dei neonati che ciascuna specie può partorire. I capezzoli e ghiandole possono svilupparsi ovunque, per ogni singola specie, lungo le linee di latte e in generale la maggior parte dei mammiferi sviluppano le ghiandole mammarie a coppie lungo queste linee. Il numero di capezzoli varia da 2 nella maggior parte dei primati e nei proboscidati a 16 nei suiformi. L'Opossum della Virginia ne ha 13, uno dei pochi mammiferi con un numero dispari.

Anatomia comparata

Una forma particolare di mammella è quella che presenta una componente prevalente di tessuto adiposo rispetto alla controparte ghiandolare. Tale tipo di mammella si individua nei mammiferi acquatici quali i cetacei e i focidi. Anche l'uomo presenta una mammella di tal fatta: secondo studi evoluzionistici, pare che l'uomo rientri in questi casi differenziandosi, quindi, da altri primati. Oltre che per la mammella, anche l'assenza della pelliccia, viene considerato altro segno particolare di evoluzione nell'habitat acquatico. .
I seni costantemente sporgenti della donna, insolitamente grandi rispetto alle dimensioni del corpo, sono un unico sviluppo evolutivo il cui scopo non è ancora completamente noto, se non per l'aspetto relativo all'evoluzione in ambiente acquatico. Altri mammiferi tendono ad avere ghiandole mammarie meno cospicue che sporgono solo quando effettivamente è in atto il riempimento col latte.

Anatomia umana
La mammella umana è un rilievo cutaneo pari (essendocene due) e simmetrico, una destra ed una sinistra, posto nella regione anteriore del torace, ai lati della linea mediana, localizzate tra la terza e la settima costa. L'organo è costituito in parte da tessuto adiposo, in parte da strutture ghiandolari che costituiscono la ghiandola mammaria. La mammella poggia su due strutture muscolari: muscolo grande pettorale e muscolo dentato anteriore (infero-lateralmente).

Fino al periodo della pubertà, le mammelle sono poco sviluppate in entrambi i sessi. Nella pubertà lo sviluppo della mammella maschile si interrompe, mentre la mammella femminile, sotto l'influsso degli estrogeni, subisce un notevole sviluppo, sia nella componente adiposa che in quella ghiandolare. La dimensione e la forma dell'organo femminile sono molto variabili, ciò è principalmente dovuto alla quantità di tessuto adiposo presente e alla sua localizzazione.

Sinonimi
Con il termine "seno" ci si riferisce allo spazio compreso tra le mammelle. Nel linguaggio comune, questo termine viene spesso usato in riferimento all'organo stesso. Va però precisato che tale termine, in riferimento alla mammella femminile, risulta essere errato, poiché il termine indica una concavità (come si può intuire da espressioni come in seno a, oppure insenatura, le quali indicano entrambe qualcosa che sta dentro, all'interno); il lemma deriva infatti dal latino sinus, -us cioè sinuosità, in particolare la sinuosità concava formata dalle pieghe di una veste. Parimenti il termine "petto", utilizzato come sinonimo di mammella nel linguaggio comune, indica il torace nel suo insieme.

La mammella femminile
La mammella femminile può essere idealmente suddivisa in quattro quadranti, costituiti da due linee perpendicolari che si intersecano presso il capezzolo.

Struttura

Più nel dettaglio, il tessuto mammario è composto da:
 una componente ghiandolare, (15-20 lobi), ognuno dei quali ha uno sbocco verso il capezzolo attraverso un dotto galattoforo;
 una componente adiposa, in cui sono inserite ed immerse le strutture ghiandolari;
 una componente fibrosa di sostegno, che genera suddivisioni tra le diverse appendici ghiandolari.

Presso l'apice della mammella si trova il capezzolo, sporgenza esterna di forma conica, nella cui regione apicale presenta 15-20 forellini (pori lattiferi) che costituiscono lo sbocco dei dotti galattofori. Il capezzolo è circondato dall'areola, una regione circolare pigmentata avente diametro medio che varia dai 3 agli 8 cm. L'areola è caratterizzata da piccole sporgenze (tubercoli di Montgomery), dovute alla presenza sottostante di ghiandole sebacee, dette anche ghiandole areolari, esse sono considerate ghiandole mammarie rudimentali. Sia il capezzolo che l'areola sono dotati di fibre muscolari lisce, disposte sia circolarmente che radialmente, che ne permettono la contrazione, formano strutture che prendono il nome di muscoli areolari. La contrazione genera l'erezione del capezzolo ed il corrugamento dell'areola, nonché la contrazione dei dotti galattofori. Ciò permette, nel periodo dell'allattamento, un agevole deflusso del latte. Il latte è il nutrimento che, in seguito al parto, la madre fornisce al neonato. Il secreto della ghiandola mammaria è, nei primi giorni, una sostanza amarognola povera di grassi ma particolarmente ricca di proteine e immunoglobuline, detta colostro. Il colostro quindi trasferisce al lattante una sorta di immunità passiva, ha anche proprietà lassative. Successivamente ha inizio la secrezione di latte vero e proprio.

I fasci fibrosi della mammella, talvolta detti retinacoli, si portano in profondità e dividono il parenchima ghiandolare in lobi e lobuli.

Ogni lobulo comprende gli alveoli che fungono da unità secernenti. Gli alveoli sono rivestiti da epitelio semplice poggiante su una membrana basale in cui sono intercalate cellule mioepiteliali che favoriscono la progressione del secreto attraverso dotti di calibro progressivamente crescente. Si comincia con i dotti alveolari per continuare in quelli lobulari ed arrivare ai dotti galattofori. Ogni lobulo ha il suo dotto galattoforo che sbocca lateralmente al capezzolo in un'ampolla, che prende il nome di seno galattoforo, questa ha la capacità di accumulare il secreto prodotto. L'epitelio da cubico semplice dei dotti alveolari diventa pluristratificato non cheratinizzato nei dotti galattofori.

Vasi sanguigni e linfatici
L'arteria mammaria esterna (o toracica laterale), ramo dell'arteria ascellare, è responsabile della vascolarizzazione della regione superficiale della mammella e dei quadranti laterali (supero-laterale ed infero-laterale) della ghiandola mammaria.
Le regioni profonde ed i quadranti mediali (supero-mediale ed infero-mediale) della ghiandola mammaria sono vascolarizzati da rami perforanti dell'arteria mammaria interna (o toracica interna), ramo dell'arteria succlavia.
La mammella è inoltre raggiunta da rami mammari laterali delle arterie intercostali posteriori da II a VI.

Le vene fanno capo alle vene cefalica, giugulare esterna, mammaria interna e intercostali.

I linfatici posteriori e laterali fanno capo ai linfonodi ascellari, quelli mediali drenano nei linfonodi mammari interni. Si hanno inoltre anastomosi fra i linfatici delle due mammelle e con i linfatici addominali. Il drenaggio della linfa si deve inoltre ai linfonodi interpettorali di Rotter.

Modificazioni fisiologiche della mammella

La mammella subisce notevoli modificazioni durante la gravidanza. Durante la prima metà della gravidanza la secrezione di estrogeni e progestinici induce ipertrofia alveolare e sviluppo di tutti i componenti della mammella, fatta eccezione del tessuto adiposo interstiziale, la cui massa diminuisce. L'areola, infatti, assume una colorazione più scura ed aumenta di diametro. Ciò è legato essenzialmente all'azione degli ormoni gonadotropi e, successivamente, dalla prolattina. La consistenza, poi, aumenta notevolmente in seguito al parto, dove l'ossitocina prodotta dall'ipotalamo induce la contrazione delle cellule mioepiteliali e quindi la secrezione di latte durante il periodo dell'allattamento.

Le mammelle divengono più turgide durante il periodo mestruale e, in maniera più o meno evidente, in seguito all'eccitazione femminile. L'invecchiamento porta invece ad un progressivo calo di volume della mammella con riduzione della ghiandola e aumento del tessuto adiposo.

La mammella maschile
L'organo maschile è decisamente meno sviluppato di quello femminile. Nel maschio la mammella è costituita da un piccolo rilievo, con una piccola areola ed un piccolo capezzolo (silloide). La struttura ghiandolare sottostante è composta da un numero ridotto di strutture alveolari prive di lume. Esistono dotti lattiferi, ma sono brevi e privi di vere e proprie ramificazioni. Durante l'adolescenza, in ogni caso, può esserci un aumento anche delle dimensioni della mammella maschile (ginecomastia puberale). Tale aumento, in realtà, è seguito solitamente da una regressione in un tempo breve (uno-due anni).

Patologia umana

Anomalie e patologie della mammella

Tra le patologie che colpiscono la mammella figurano patologie genetiche e patologie legate allo sviluppo.

Tra le patologie genetiche figurano la politelia (la presenza di un soprannumero di capezzoli) o la polimastia (soprannumero di ghiandole mammarie). Sono in genere formazioni poco evidenti, non secernenti, che possono essere confuse con un lipoma se si tratta di ghiandola o con macchie cutanee o nei in caso di capezzoli rudimentali. Hanno la caratteristica di presentarsi costantemente lungo una linea ideale che va dalla cavità ascellare alla radice interna della coscia, la cosiddetta linea del latte, milk line degli autori anglosassoni e che coincide con quella presente in alcuni mammiferi.

Tra le patologie legate allo sviluppo, si può verificare nei maschi uno sviluppo volumetrico mono o bilaterale, detto ginecomastia. La mammella femminile, invece, nel corso dello sviluppo può andare incontro ad un numero maggiore di anomalie, tra cui:
 il mancato sviluppo nel periodo della pubertà, solitamente legato a casi di agenesia delle ovaie o di deficienza ovarica;
 l'ingrossamento prematuro dell'organo, spesso correlato ad una sindrome di pubertà precoce;
 l'ipertrofia dell'organo (detta anche macromastia).
Possono anche verificarsi casi in cui una o entrambe le mammelle siano mancanti (amastia), sebbene anomalie di questo tipo siano spesso correlate a malformazioni sistemiche ben più gravi, generalmente incompatibili con la vita.

In ogni caso, le patologie vere e proprie sono legate a problemi nel delicato equilibrio degli ormoni provenienti essenzialmente da surrene e, soprattutto, ipofisi. Altri fattori determinanti lo sviluppo di patologie sono eventuali lesioni traumatiche a cui la mammella viene sottoposta o processi infiammatori cronici, che possono sfociare o complicare le forme tumorali (vedi mastopatia).

Una patologia infiammatoria dovuta a traumi o iatrogena è la malattia di Mondor.

Indizi e sintomi nella storia della patologia della mammella
Della patologia delle mammelle si parla nel più antico documento medico dell'umanità in nostro possesso, ossia il papiro egizio di Edwin Smith. In questo papiro a contenuto prevalentemente chirurgico, vi sono otto riferimenti alle malattie delle mammelle e, in particolare, nel caso 45 descrive per la prima volta nella storia della medicina un tumore della mammella. La presentazione dei casi presentava uno schema ben definito. Alcuni casi esposti nel papiro si riferiscono ad ascessi, traumi e ferite infette, probabilmente dovute piuttosto ad infezioni della parete toracica.

È documentata un'autopsia fatta negli anni sessanta su una mummia egiziana su cui è stata riscontrata la presenza di una formazione mammaria che potrebbe essere riconducibile ad un adenoma calcifico. Ippocrate scrive poco sui tumori. Fu il primo ad abbozzare una generica distinzione fra tumori duri e tumori molli, inoltre egli si rivelò scettico sul loro trattamento:" è meglio evitare ogni trattamento; poiché se trattato il paziente morirà presto, se lasciato solo può perdurare per un lungo tempo"

Riferendosi specificatamente al tumore alla mammella, Ippocrate descrive un emblematico caso clinico:"in una donna, ad Abdera, si produsse un carcinoma alla mammella; si presenta così: dal capezzolo scorreva un licore sanguinolento; una volta cessato lo scorrimento ella morì". A parte i sintomi generali di una malattia avanzata, i dati clinici di rilievo del tumore sono la consistenza dura, l'assenza di fenomeni infiammatori e, nel caso della donna di Abdera, la secrezione ematica.

M. Porcio Catone nel De re rustica parla del cancro distinguendone tre varietà: il cancro nero, quello bianco detto anche purulento e quello fistoloso. Una distinzione che non facilita molto la diagnosi, almeno quella di una possibile malignità. Per tutte le forme di cancro, soprattutto nella mammella, Catone consiglia applicazioni esterne di cavolo; a suo dire era una vera panacea.

A livello diagnostico il significato del termine cancro fu coniato da Galeno di Pergamo asserendo che "essi provengono dalla bile nera, ma da una specie di bile nera che non bolle: se questo umore presenta un eccesso di acidità, si formano dei carcinomi ulcerati: per questa ragione sono di colorito più nero che i prodotti flogistici, e non sono caldi: su questi tumori le vene sono ancora piene e più tese che sui tumori infiammatori: questi vasi non sono già più rossi, come nell'infiammazione, ma il loro colore corrisponde a quello dell'umore donde i carcinomi hanno origine. Per la densità di questo umore, il cancro è incurabile, perocché esso umore non può essere né deviato né tolto via, non cede ai purganti generali, si ride dei medicamenti più o meno dolci che si possono applicare, mentre sotto l'influenza dei rimedi più attivi subisce a volte delle esacerbazioni".

Secondo Ambroise Paré: "Tra le specie di cancri ve ne sono due principali, ossia uno non ulcerato, volgarmente chiamato apostematoso e quasi da tutti gli antichi cancro occulto o larvato, l'altro ulcerato e manifesto. Infine vi sono dei cancri che hanno sede nelle parti interne, come intestini, mesentere, matrice, retto ed altre parti interiori. Le femmine ne sono affette più degli uomini. Ogni cancro è quasi incurabile, o difficilissimo da guarirsi. Quando ha sede nella mammella, apporta spesso infiammazione sotto le ascelle o tumefazione delle ghiandole di questa regione."

Egli fu il primo ad aver riconosciuto la relazione tra il tumore primitivo e la sua diffusione ai linfonodi.
Una più accurata distinzione fra tumori benigni e tumori maligni della mammella si deve a Marco Aurelio Severino che nella sua opera descrive il primo adenoma che chiama Glandula. Ritiene, inoltre, che l'asportazione dei tumori benigni può prevenire una loro possibile trasformazione maligna.

Dopo una prima fase antica della medicina, quasi interamente ipotetica dal punto di vista patogenetico, subentra una fase di transizione, rinascimentale, in cui i metodi di osservazione sono ancora embrionali, ma in cui si sviluppano modificazioni essenziali per la conoscenza pratica delle malattie e sulla loro interpretazione teorica. Anche la diagnosi fa piccoli, ma costanti progressi. Giovanni Battista Morgagni descrive alcuni tumori benigni della mammella che manifestano dolori e sintomi congestizi nel periodo mestruale e un tumore comprendente un piccolo pezzo di osso.

Chirurgia plastica del seno

La chirurgia plastica è in grado di rimodellare il seno, a scopo di miglioramento estetico oppure per riparare i danni indotti da interventi quali l'asportazione di un tumore. Di frequente, vengono utilizzate protesi in silicone o altro.

Tali protesi però presentano aspetti controversi, in parte discussi ed esaminati nelle relative voci.

La mammella come alimento
L'uso alimentare delle mammelle era in passato diffuso ed è per esempio testimoniato in libri di cucina romani quali il celebre De re coquinaria (L'arte culinaria) di Marco Gavio Apicio. Ai tempi dei romani le mammelle di scrofa, denominate sumen, erano molto apprezzate e venivano in genere sbollentate e poi grigliate, oppure farcite in vari modi.

Attualmente nella macellazione degli animali di allevamento le mammelle vengono invece spesso considerate un sottoprodotto e asportate prima della scuoiatura; esse possono poi essere smaltite come rifiuti oppure utilizzate nella preparazione di mangimi per animali o di fertilizzanti.

Esistono comunque ancora aree dove vengono prodotti alimenti a base di mammella bovina destinati all'alimentazione umana come il salume valdostano teteun o la tétine fumée, oggi tipica del cantone di Friburgo ma che un tempo era molto più diffusa almeno nell'ambito della Svizzera.

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Voci correlate

 Areola
 Autoesame della mammella
 Capezzolo
 Chirurgia della mammella
 Chirurgia plastica ricostruttiva della mammella
 Ecografia mammaria
 Gigantomastia
 Ipogalattia
 Mastectomia
 Mastoplastica
 Neoplasia intraepiteliale lobulare
 Polimastia
 Ptosi mammaria
 Reggiseno
 Solco intermammario
 Teteun
 Tumore della mammella

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Anatomia comparata

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BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi FINISHED – Congress Confirms…
Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) on Thursday became the 20th Democrat House member to announce that they would not run for re-election, further threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)'s majority after the midterm elections.
"Just as every journey has a beginning, so too does it have an end. I am announcing today that I will not be running for reelection to Congress in 2022," Lowenthal said in a statement. "It is time to pass the baton. It is time to rest and surround myself with the benefits of a life well lived and earned honorably in the service of my fellow citizens."
Lowenthal is 80 and had been in politics for about 30 years, in the House for eight.
He has voted with Pelosi 98% of the time during this House term, ProPublica records showed.
"House Democrats' retirement crisis has reached fever pitch," Congressional Leadership Fund communications director Calvin Moore said. "Democrats can't convince anyone to run again because they know their record of higher prices, higher crime, and higher taxes will be impossible to defend back home."


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you are a special person.
Precious, cherished and most of all—loved.
because He has created joy.
than weaknesses- because He sees good in you.
to learn something new each day.
His created world is amazing.
because He keeps His promises.
of wonder alive in you.
the creator of the universe lives in newness.
for He knows all things for your good.
for He has redeemed your soul.
for He walks each step of the way with you.
He designed only one you.
His world is new each dawn.
and find your riches in Him.
He loves you and gave His Son for you.
I pray that you KNOW you are a special person.
His love is ever present and wider than the universe.
Resources for further training and ideas.
Water, Come Down! The Day You Were Baptized.


PARIS (Reuters) - France has concluded after analysing "reliable intelligence" and open sources that a chemical attack on Douma on April 7 was carried out by Syrian government forces, a declassified intelligence report showed on Saturday.
"On the intelligence collected by our services, and in the absence to date of chemical samples analysed by our own laboratories, France considers, beyond possible doubt, a chemical attack was carried out against civilians at Douma ... and that there is no plausible scenario other than that of an attack by Syrian armed forces," the report said.
It was released after coordinated air strikes by Britain, France and the United States on Syrian government targets overnight.
"After examining the videos and images of victims published online, they (intelligence services) were able to conclude with a high degree of confidence that the vast majority are recent and not fabricated," the report said.
It said no deaths from mechanical injuries were visible and all symptoms were characteristic of a chemical weapons attack, particularly choking agents and organophosphorus agents or hydrocyanic acid.
"Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7," it said. It gave no other details on the intelligence.
The report, which provided a broad outline of the Syrian government-backed offensive supported by Russia on the eastern Ghouta region over recent months, also said French services had assessed that not all Syrian government chemical stockpiles and capacities had been declared to the U.N.
Syria had omitted to declare many of the activities of its Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), the report said.
It said Syria had not answered questions on matters including possible remaining stocks of yperite (mustard gas) and DF (a sarin precursor), undeclared chemical weapons of small calibre and signs VX and sarin on production and loading sites.