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Q: How can I make this more scalable for large list of items? So I'm trying to make a large list containing all the elements I need, as seen in the output of the following code:
set = [1, 5, 15, 30, 60, 240, 360, 720, 1440, 10080]
ShortEMASet = []
LongEMASet = []
MACDSet = []
SignalSet = []

SetofSets = [ShortEMASet, LongEMASet, MACDSet, SignalSet]

for x in set:
    ShortEMASet.append("ShortEMA" + str(x))
    LongEMASet.append("LongEMASet" + str(x))
    MACDSet.append("MACDSet" + str(x))
    SignalSet.append("SignalSet" + str(x))

SetofSets

This returns the output
[['ShortEMA1',
  'ShortEMA5',
  'ShortEMA15',
  'ShortEMA30',
  'ShortEMA60',
  'ShortEMA240',
  'ShortEMA360',
  'ShortEMA720',
  'ShortEMA1440',
  'ShortEMA10080'],
 ['LongEMASet1',
  'LongEMASet5',
  'LongEMASet15',
  'LongEMASet30',
  'LongEMASet60',
  'LongEMASet240',
  'LongEMASet360',
  'LongEMASet720',
  'LongEMASet1440',
  'LongEMASet10080'],
 ['MACDSet1',
  'MACDSet5',
  'MACDSet15',
  'MACDSet30',
  'MACDSet60',
  'MACDSet240',
  'MACDSet360',
  'MACDSet720',
  'MACDSet1440',
  'MACDSet10080'],
 ['SignalSet1',
  'SignalSet5',
  'SignalSet15',
  'SignalSet30',
  'SignalSet60',
  'SignalSet240',
  'SignalSet360',
  'SignalSet720',
  'SignalSet1440',
  'SignalSet10080']]

However the problem is, if my variable SetofSets contained 100+ lists inside it, then it would be SUPER tedious to write this out 100+ times, how can I make it more scalable?
I tried the following:
set = [1, 5, 15, 30, 60, 240, 360, 720, 1440, 10080]
ShortEMASet = []
LongEMASet = []
MACDSet = []
SignalSet = []

SetofSets = [ShortEMASet, LongEMASet, MACDSet, SignalSet]
for x in set:
    for i in SetofSets:
        SetofSets[i].append(str(SetofSets[i]) + str(x))
SetofSets

Which fails due to this error:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-641-81831a6939e2> in <module>
      8 for x in set:
      9     for i in SetofSets:
---> 10         SetofSets[i].append(str(SetofSets[i]) + str(x))
     11 SetofSets

TypeError: list indices must be integers or slices, not list

A: You can do nested for-loop:
lst = [1, 5, 15, 30, 60, 240, 360, 720, 1440, 10080]
names = ["ShortEMASet", "LongEMASet", "MACDSet", "SignalSet"]

out = []
for n in names:
    out.append([])
    for l in lst:
        out[-1].append(n + str(l))

print(out)

Prints:
[
    [
        "ShortEMASet1",
        "ShortEMASet5",
        "ShortEMASet15",
        "ShortEMASet30",
        "ShortEMASet60",
        "ShortEMASet240",
        "ShortEMASet360",
        "ShortEMASet720",
        "ShortEMASet1440",
        "ShortEMASet10080",
    ],
    [
        "LongEMASet1",
        "LongEMASet5",
        "LongEMASet15",
        "LongEMASet30",
        "LongEMASet60",
        "LongEMASet240",
        "LongEMASet360",
        "LongEMASet720",
        "LongEMASet1440",
        "LongEMASet10080",
    ],
    [
        "MACDSet1",
        "MACDSet5",
        "MACDSet15",
        "MACDSet30",
        "MACDSet60",
        "MACDSet240",
        "MACDSet360",
        "MACDSet720",
        "MACDSet1440",
        "MACDSet10080",
    ],
    [
        "SignalSet1",
        "SignalSet5",
        "SignalSet15",
        "SignalSet30",
        "SignalSet60",
        "SignalSet240",
        "SignalSet360",
        "SignalSet720",
        "SignalSet1440",
        "SignalSet10080",
    ],
]

Or list-comprehension:
out = [[n + str(l) for l in lst] for n in names]
print(out)

EDIT: You can create a dictionary instead of a list:
lst = [1, 5, 15, 30, 60, 240, 360, 720, 1440, 10080]
names = ["ShortEMASet", "LongEMASet", "MACDSet", "SignalSet"]

out = {}
for n in names:
    for l in lst:
        out.setdefault(n, []).append(n + str(l))

print(out)

Prints:
{
    "ShortEMASet": [
        "ShortEMASet1",
        "ShortEMASet5",
        "ShortEMASet15",
        "ShortEMASet30",
        "ShortEMASet60",
        "ShortEMASet240",
        "ShortEMASet360",
        "ShortEMASet720",
        "ShortEMASet1440",
        "ShortEMASet10080",
    ],
    "LongEMASet": [
        "LongEMASet1",
        "LongEMASet5",
        "LongEMASet15",
        "LongEMASet30",
        "LongEMASet60",
        "LongEMASet240",
        "LongEMASet360",
        "LongEMASet720",
        "LongEMASet1440",
        "LongEMASet10080",
    ],
    "MACDSet": [
        "MACDSet1",
        "MACDSet5",
        "MACDSet15",
        "MACDSet30",
        "MACDSet60",
        "MACDSet240",
        "MACDSet360",
        "MACDSet720",
        "MACDSet1440",
        "MACDSet10080",
    ],
    "SignalSet": [
        "SignalSet1",
        "SignalSet5",
        "SignalSet15",
        "SignalSet30",
        "SignalSet60",
        "SignalSet240",
        "SignalSet360",
        "SignalSet720",
        "SignalSet1440",
        "SignalSet10080",
    ],
}

Then you can call:
print(out["ShortEMASet"])

to print:
[
    "ShortEMASet1",
    "ShortEMASet5",
    "ShortEMASet15",
    "ShortEMASet30",
    "ShortEMASet60",
    "ShortEMASet240",
    "ShortEMASet360",
    "ShortEMASet720",
    "ShortEMASet1440",
    "ShortEMASet10080",
]

A: Just a small mistake:
for x in set:
    for i in SetofSets:
        SetofSets[i].append(str(SetofSets[i]) + str(x))

should be
for x in set:
    for i in SetofSets:
        i.append(str(SetofSets[i]) + str(x))

P.S. Off-top, but generally I'd advice you to avoid calling a variable with a built-in type (set is a built-in type, I probably noticed the `set is highlighted differently) and follow the PEP-8 formatting.


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Things you should never say on a flight as international travel reopens
As international travel kicks off again, passengers are being warned to avoid uttering two words to flight attendants.
Caroline McGuire
November 8, 2021 - 7:45AM
There are plenty of words you should never say to a flight attendant - any mention of bombs, terrorists, guns, knives or wanting to open the door mid-flight will get you into big trouble.
But there's also a more harmless phrase that you probably use in everyday life, that can attract unwanted attention, The Sun reported.
According to Willis Orlando, senior product operations specialist at the insider-intel platform Scott's Cheap Flights, you really don't want to tell cabin crew, "I'm drunk".
"Certainly a lot of us get very convivial with flight attendants and we want to pal around with them and make these kinds of jokes and we feel light-hearted—and maybe we make a joke about being intoxicated," he told Yahoo.
But according to Mr Orlando, flight attendants have the right to kick you off a plane if you're drunk.
By telling them you aren't sober, "they have to make a decision whether you're safe to stay on board".
"There are also things that they can do to penalise you," he said.
"They could put you on a list of problem passengers—and this could all be misunderstanding if you make a simple joke."
Avoid getting drunk on a plane. Picture: iStock
Airlines are cracking down on boozy travellers – here is everything you need to know about the rules of alcohol on flights.
How much alcohol can you take on a plane?
Passengers can take up to 5L of alcohol on the plane, when it i purchased at Duty-Free.
The alcohol must be between 24 and 70 per cent alcohol content.
Alcohol under 24 per cent isn't limited, while any booze over 70 per cent is completely banned.
Is it illegal to be drunk on a flight?
It is a criminal offence to be drunk on an aircraft. It's also prohibited to drink any of your own alcohol – including any Duty Free bottles – that you've brought onto the flight.
Cabin crew have the right to refuse to serve any passenger at their discretion.
But if things get out of hand, offenders can receive a maximum sentence of two years' imprisonment according to the Civil Aviation Authority, or fines up to $145,000.
Airlines can also refuse to allow passengers on board if they believe they pose a risk to the plane, with that including being drunk.
Some airlines have even stopped selling alcohol on their flights, including Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.
Ryanair, one of Europe's biggest budget airlines, has warned passengers travelling on flights to Spain that they cannot take any alcohol into the cabin with them, and that bags will be searched.
Ryanair checks passengers for alcohol on certain legs. Picture: Paul Faith/AFP
Do people get more drunk while in the air?
Dr Clare Morrison, a doctor at MedExpress in the UK, said people can be more affected by alcohol while flying than they would when on land.
"When on a plane, the barometric pressure in the cabin of a plane is lower than it normally is," she told Huffington Post UK.
"This decreased pressure means that the body finds it harder to absorb oxygen – this can produce light-headedness or hypoxia.
"In other words, the lower level of oxygen in your blood means that you may seem more drunk in the air than you would on the ground after consuming the same amount of alcohol.
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"As well as this, you could become dehydrated very quickly as the air in an aircraft is very dry, so you may become dehydrated faster than you would on the ground."
This article originally appeared on The Sun and has been republished here with permission.

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Harvey is a friendly and culturally diverse community with a small and growing International Student Program. Currently, approximately 5% of our Upper School students are international.
In addition to the standard application requirements, which include transcripts from their current school, students must submit at least two recommendation letters (one from an English teacher), and an interview. International students are required to submit their TOEFL scores (75 or above is strongly desired), and a written statement on how they would benefit from a Harvey education.
The Harvey School encourages English proficient students in grades 9-12 from all over the world to consider joining our thriving student body.
Please note that we require all entering international students to complete an English reading/writing workshop during their first and second enrolled year, as we do not offer traditional ESL instruction.


The St. Benedict Chair in Liturgy was established on May 26, 2015 by the monks of St. Benedict's Abbey. Your investment to the St. Benedict Chair in Liturgy builds a lasting endowment in support of teaching, research and publishing; liturgical conversations; and promoting good liturgy, expressing our mission of prayer and scholarship.
Support the St. Benedict's Abbey Chair in Liturgy.
Father Daniel McCarthy has been named the first chair holder. This will enable him to continue teaching liturgy at the Master's level at the Liturgy Institute, London, and to continue writing on liturgy, the Latin language and church architecture. He has authored over 270 articles and co-authored or edited three books, with other books in press. Some of Fr. Daniel's work is available in our shop.
Father Daniel has been appointed to teach Liturgy at the Pontifical Institute of Liturgy located at the Benedictine house of studies in Rome. He will begin teaching in February 2016. During his initial course students will consider the Latin expression and theological content of the opening prayers of Mass of the Lent and Easter seasons. His master's and doctoral level students will come from all over the world, many of whom will become instructors in their local seminaries.
You are invited to invest with the Abbey and Father Daniel by your donation to the St. Benedict Chair in Liturgy to establish a lasting endowment, whose funds will support teaching, research and publishing as well as liturgical conversations and promoting good liturgy. As such, the chair expresses the mission of St. Benedict's Abbey to support prayer and scholarship. The Abbey is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Your donation may be tax deductible in the United States.


Aspen Insurance UK has bolstered its stable of analysts and underwriters with new hires from AIG and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC).
Sam Ouin (pictured) joins as senior underwriter and will report into Carolyn Thomas, global head of credit and political risk.
Ouin moves to Aspen from AIG where he had served as UK head of political risk since 2017.
Meanwhile, Frank Cibej has taken on a role of credit analyst, bringing 10 years of experience as a credit officer on project finance and structured trade finance. Cibej will also report to Thomas.
Cibej moves to Aspen from ICBC where he served for just under two years as a credit analyst. Prior to ICBC, Cibej held roles at Wilmington Trust, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and RBS.
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Tatterson Park is a 48 hectare park located on Cheltenham Road in Keysborough, and includes Springers Leisure Centre. The park has a 20 hectare woodland in the centre, three sportsgrounds, a regional playground, and extensive wetlands and walking tracks.
Tatterson Park's regional playground, a World of Insects features ladybugs, ants, beehives and a giant magnifying glass. The design for the playground was chosen by the community for the community. The themed playground has a strong environmental focus which will build on the natural feel of Tatterson Park.
The Tatterson Park Master Plan was completed in 2006. The key vision of the master plan is that Tatterson Park shall be a regional, multi-purpose park, that provides for a broad range of passive and active recreational pursuits, that is well utilised, that meets the needs of the diverse community within the City of Greater Dandenong and that is recognised by the community as one of the best parks in Melbourne to visit.
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May 9, 2017 March 7, 2019 Alicia Sakal
Gallery 25 Cooperative Relocates to Historic New Milford Train Station
A group of artists is banking on the old New Milford Train Station to boost business.
Gallery 25's doors just officially reopened and its prominent new home is nestled inside the historic railroad depot.
Located at 11 Railroad St., in the town's bustling historic district, this fine art gallery cooperative for professional and emerging artists of northwestern Connecticut is now in the center of the action.
The move, from 25 Church St. to its new location, was over a year in the making and both properties are town-owned.
Diane Dubreuil, gallery director and former chairman of the Commission on the Arts, credits the Commission, the gallery's sponsor, along with Mayor David Gronbach and economic development director Kevin Bielmeier, for helping to make the move a reality.
"We approached the Commission and Gallery last year about a move to a more central location downtown," Dubreuil said. "One of the members suggested the railroad station space and we became very excited about the possibilities."
"The railroad station is in such a central location that it would bring much more foot traffic into the Gallery, while attracting new people to the shops and restaurants on Bank and Railroad streets," said Gronbach.
Added Dubreuil, a New Milford resident, "I think everyone involved in this project loves the idea that a historic building is being repurposed for use as an art gallery."
Back in the day, the 1,800-square-foot station building was built by the Housatonic Railroad Co. in 1886 and it served passengers until 1970. The new gallery occupies 1,300 of the square feet and the Greater New Milford Chamber of Commerce occupies the remaining 500 square feet.
"With wood paneling and floors, high vaulted ceilings, large and numerous windows, and spot lighting, you would think the Railroad Station was made for art," said Gronbach. Moving the Gallery there allows the space to be used more frequently and to better effect as a reprisal of its original role, a hub for social and economic activity."
Gallery 25 artists Adele Moros and Steven Tanenbaum said they are impressed with the new space because the traffic has already improved a lot and the building offers much character, which better highlights their artwork.
On display are beautiful collections by artists who specialize in oil, pastel, watercolor, water media, collage, graphics, jewelry, pottery, fused glass, fine art photography, sculpture, woodturning and woodcarving.
Established in October 2013, Gallery 25 is run by 18 artists who all volunteer time to keep the gallery open for business. "We need 25 artists to make it comfortably functioning," said Moros, a Bethel resident who has several of her acrylic, watercolor, ink and pastel paintings of still-lifes, landscapes and animals on display.
Moros values Gallery 25 because it helps her to "continue to create," which motivates her to "paint more to keep filling the walls of the gallery."
Tanenbaum, who has many abstract acrylics on display in the new space, said, "the gallery gives me a chance to show my art in my hometown. It has given me a platform to do shows, like charities and the hospice show."
As an added benefit, Dubreuil said the Gallery will also serve as an unofficial information center for visitors. "The space will be open many hours over many weeks for people who live here and for people visiting New Milford. Our gallery artists are happy to speak with gallery visitors and share information about what is going on throughout the area," she said.
Gallery 25 is open on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. and by appointment. For details, call 860-355-6009.
Articles and photos are by Alicia Sakal. This feature originally appeared online in the Arts and on the Accent front page in the May 5, 2017 edition of Republican-American, a regional daily newspaper in Connecticut.
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The repairs to my 64 are coming along nicely. I am getting close to bonding in the new rear panel and then I will be making repairs to the floor panels.
I am wondering though what tool or technique is best for properly attaching factory style rivets. I have to rivet in little metal attachments to the rear tail light panel and I will also be riveting in various seat belt anchors and seat mounting plates in the floor boards under the seats.
I saw a tool in one of the catalogs but it wasn't very clear how it works or how well it works for that matter. I don't want seat belts ripping out of the floor during some minor t/c.
And while I'm at it, what do you guys think of using some bonding adhesive under the plates and anchors as I install the rivets?
I've never done factory-correct rivets. In most non-critical locations I've used stainless steel pop rivets along with adhesive to hold things together.
I've heard that getting factory correct rivets is critical. The newer ones aren't made from the right kind of aluminum so they don't mushroom very well. If you give it a try you'll have to post your experiences - I'm curious.
As for the bonding adhesive I can't see how it would help provided the part's your joining aren't supposed to be able to move around relative to each other.
Okay, got some advice that I'm gonna try. Apparently, I need very soft rivets and Paragon sells 100 for only a few dollars so I can practice first.
I picked up an air hammer (14 bucks at Harbor Freight) and it came with lots of bits. One guy advised cutting the end off a chisel bit and then hollowing out the stub a little so that it would produce a nice rounded rivet head afterward. I read a corvette magazine article about it and they said it's super easy with this set up as long as someone is holding a large object (like a 3 lb sledge) on the other side to keep it from moving.
Gonna try it Saturday so I'll post the results. I hope to get the anchors set on the tail panel. Got a whole list of stuff to do on the car for that matter. If this is as easy as they claim, I'm gonna remove all riveted stuff as I go so I can bead blast them, plate them, and then re-attach them with the right rivets.
Curious to hear how this works for you. Keep us posted.
Well I tried it out and it worked pretty well. I didn't have any extra rivets after all so I didn't get to practice like I wanted. The rivet heads came out looking decent but not perfect. The anchors are nice and tight so I guess I should be happy with that. I think with more practice, my technique will improve. Since I was doing the tail light panel before I attach it, I was able to hold it without help. It's a bit of a pain though so I think I will have a helper next time on the other side.
Basically, The hammer came with nine attachments so I cut one down and hollowed out the end with a die grinder. It wasn't too difficult and I sanded and polished it smooth afterward. I might just break down and buy the correct bit to see if it comes out even nicer.
One thing I noticed is that if your parts are too thick, the rivet shank is a little short. It still mushrooms nicely but you end up with a smaller mushroom since the bit bottoms out before you finish it the way you'd like.
I will be ordering 100 long ones from Paragon so I can trim them down if needed.
One other thing is the hammer I bought has a knob to control the pressure. It works great.
Even with the soft rivets, it takes patience. The article I read said not to use standard hard rivets. I can only image how difficult that would have been.
1) I got good informational 'how to' stuff off a Corvette magazine article and the writer claims the factory used the same soft rivets throughout the car but used differeent lengths here and there depending on what they were doing.
2) I would think the strength of even these soft rivets is still considerably better than the strength of the panels themselves.
3) Most of the anchor plates are on the opposite side of where they are being pulled. For the seat belt anchors, the plate is riveted to the underside so the belt would have to rip the entire hunk of metal through the fiberglass when it fails. If that happens, I doubt the rivet strength is much of a factor.
The over analyzing part of me though has been wondering just how safe these seat belt anchors really are since they rely on the fiberglass panel to not fail. So, I have been thinking of installing a cable back-up underneath to fix it to the frame. I saw Paragon has a nice set of these with diagrams. It seems it was standard on later C2's. My car will not be a trailer queen so I see no reason I shouldn't retrofit this saftey upgrade to my car.
In addition, the 66-67 models had optional shoulder belts in the convertibles. I picked up the anchors and will be installing these in my car very soon. I see the value in adding shoulder belts for safety even if it is not correct for my year. I have seen what happens to a person who is in a collision wearing only a lap belt - not pretty.


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Possessed by General Motors, Buick is among numerous earliest brands, having a wealthy tradition of innovation that goes back towards the turn from the century. Though lengthy noted for catering to retirement-age clients using its full-size sedans, the automaker's selection now includes Sports utility vehicles and sport sedans made to bring more youthful purchasers in to the showrooms of Buick sellers.
Once corporate identity and search issues were acceptable solved, Buick began concentrating on vehicle-engine development. The emphasis Buick placed on his work would soon repay, the genesis from the overhead valve engine getting introduced the organization an ample quantity of acclaim.
Durant did not be satisfied with just making certain the prosperity of the Buick logo and went farther to overcome racing grounds too. His team, created of Louis Chevrolet and Wild Bob Burman (amongst others), grabbed as many as 500 trophies only between 1908 and 1910. The main reason to why Buick had a lot success was that by 1908 it was subsequently the nation's leading automobile producer with 8,820 cars created. As though this wasn't enough, the brand new model 10 had capped the rest of the company's sales, with 4,002 models created. The success registered through the Buick title increased enough to supply Durant using the cause for breeding a sizable holding company. Thus, Vehicle was created.
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Dunbar, then a sophomore at De La Salle High School on St. Charles Avenue, left New Orleans that day, ahead of the approaching Hurricane Katrina.
In so many ways, that Lance Dunbar never returned.
Ten years later, Dunbar is in his fourth professional season, fighting for a starting running back job with the Dallas Cowboys.
"That day we left, I was actually looking forward to the trip," Dunbar said at the Cowboys' camp in Oxnard, Calif. "It was something we always did. We figured we would be back in a day or two and nothing would happen.
From their Terrytown neighborhood on the city's West Bank, Dunbar's mother, Patricia Jones, joined the crawl of vehicles headed toward Mississippi. Three weeks later, New Orleans was still in chaos and Jones had secured FEMA lodging at a motel in north Fort Worth.
Getting the kids back into school and Lance back into football helped to re-anchor the family. By midseason Dunbar was carrying the football often for the Haltom varsity.
If you grew up in New Orleans in the '60s or '70s, the idea of a hurricane evacuation was as tangible as a trip to the moon. Hurricane preparation only meant nailing plywood boards to the windows and a trip to Schwegmann's grocery on Airline Highway.
As Katrina neared, my 92-year-old Aunt Helen — known as "Doo-Doo" by the family — performed the only hurricane evacuation she had ever known: She walked next door to her neighbors' home, taking her plastic-wrapped packet of pills and vital papers with her.
Monitoring the storm, 500 miles away, my first sign of Katrina's deadly impact came in the middle of the night. WWL Radio, the clear-channel voice that unites native New Orleanians east of the Rockies, had been knocked off the air.
The next day, as the first reports of levee failures and flooding came in, we found ourselves scrambling to locate loved ones. Thousands of Orleanians had, in fact, not evacuated, and the ones in the poorest sections near downtown, the housing projects, had fled to the Louisiana Superdome and the Convention Center, neither of which was meant to be an emergency shelter.
My Aunt Helen finally surfaced in Tyler after being handed off from one caring friend to another. The memory of the phone call — "I think we have your aunt here" — still brings tears to my eyes.
One by one, our family found each other. Two of my dearest cousins, Gerri and Sid, lost their Slidell homes.
Will Clark, the former Rangers first baseman and a fellow Jesuit High alum, emailed me photos of him riding in a boat down Carrollton Avenue.
Eventually, though, the brackish flood waters subsided. The schools reopened. Neighborhoods were rebuilt. Ten years later, there are more restaurants in New Orleans than before Katrina. Oak trees have been replanted, and the old golf course at City Park has reopened.
Commissioner Paul Tagliabue helped to save the beloved Saints, and then quarterback Drew Brees finished the miracle by winning Super Bowl XLIV, just four years after the storm.
In the end, football helped to reunite and rebuild New Orleans as much as anything.
The Superdome reopened, better than ever. With a gift from then-Saints running back Reggie Bush, the city's historic Tad Gormley Stadium reopened for the high schools.
Lance Dunbar took advantage of his new life in Texas and went from Haltom to North Texas to a place in the NFL.
Our Aunt Helen passed away in 2009. She was 95.
A good Catholic town like New Orleans tends to see a godly hand in everything. Maybe Katrina was meant to be.
It gave us that one month with Aunt Helen. It brought Drew Brees to New Orleans. It steered Lance Dunbar to the NFL.
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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester on fighting hunger with Feeding America
By Maureen Lee Lenker
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In EW's column Act With Me, stars share their personal stories about giving back. This week, Gossip Girl favorite Leighton Meester speaks about Feeding America, which fights hunger in the U.S. via increasing food security for families, educating the public about nutrition and the problem of hunger, and providing food to over 60,000 food pantries and meal programs nationwide.
WHY I TOOK ACTION
Meester knows what it's like to be faced with tough decisions about being able to afford to eat. As a kid, there were times when her family faced this exact dilemma. "It was deciding between eating or being able to pay the light bill," she says. Feeding America first contacted Meester in 2016, and she was eager to get involved, which she has done twice so far this year. Her participation opened her eyes to how prevalent hunger in America is. "I love cooking," she says, "I love making meals with and for my family and for fun, and you think about what a joyful experience it is to be able to have a meal and feel secure on that level — the fact that there's so many people who don't, that was jarring."
WHAT THE FOUNDATION DOES
"Feeding America is an organization that helps to bring awareness and to relieve hunger nationwide," explains Meester. The actress has seen their efforts firsthand volunteering at the Los Angeles Downtown Women's Center and Para Los Niños Charter School. At the Women's Center, she helped serve food to women who come to the center for housing, food, medical care, and more. Meester also participated in Feeding America's summer hunger campaign with husband Adam Brody at Para Los Niños Charter School. There, they helped serve kids lunch (school-age children are at higher risk of going hungry during the summer when they don't have access to the National School Lunch Program that provides lunches during the school year). Meester also played healthy food games with the students, encouraging them to understand the importance of nutrition and a well-rounded diet, and went with them to a farmer's market where the students could select fruits and vegetables to bring home. "You help to serve a meal, so you help to prepare and serve and get to really interact with the people face to face that you're there to help," explains Meester.
"Food and security is something that affects a lot of people in the United States," says Meester. "A lot of people don't realize it's not that far away. It's less than a step away to have that kind of challenge on a day-to-day basis. And these people are human beings — smart, centered, awesome people, who this is affecting, and it's not far away, it's right here." In addition to providing meals for individuals in need, Feeding America's primary objective is to raise awareness of hunger in America. "This particular issue is something that affects people who you might not even realize it's affecting — your neighbor, your friend, your co-worker, your schoolmate — they might go home at night and not be able to put food on the table or their parents can't afford to make three meals a day."
Meester joyfully describes the individuals she's met while volunteering — the women and staff at the Women's Center and the children she encountered while volunteering with the Summer Hunger Awareness Campaign. On the Women's Center, she says, "It's troubling and illuminating to meet women, in particular, who are like you, who don't have food security, and they do need to go to a place like the Women's Center." She speaks admiringly of the kids she met at Para Los Niños — arm-wrestling with them, playing games, and being in awe of their awareness of the importance of a healthy diet which Feeding America has helped impart. "On a personal level, being a mother, and having my own family, being faced with such a troubling issue, it would be heartbreaking," she says. "It's really important to be able to know your child is eating. It's such a human feeling — that's why it struck a chord with me."
You can donate to Feeding America to help sustain the cost of food and their programs or you can spread awareness of the issue on social media or in person. Most importantly, you can volunteer and serve just like Meester. "It's amazing to be actually face to face with people who are doing good and people who are benefitting from it," she says.


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It's almost time to hit the slopes.
The top of the Flyer Express Quad at Jay Peak Resort in Vermont. Brian Irwin/The Boston Globe
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With the first snowfall of the season last Friday, and more on the horizon later this week, you may be starting to dream about hitting the slopes.
New England has one of the 30 best ski resorts in the U.S. and Canada, according to Conde Nast Traveler
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Many ski areas across New England are open for season, including Wachusett Mountain in Massachusetts which kicked off the ski and snowboard season last weekend.
If you are a dedicated season pass holder or just looking forward to a long weekend of fresh powder and groomed trails, we want to know the ski area you are most looking forward to visiting this season.
Are you planning to ski the trails at Mount Snow in Vermont? Two and a half hours from Boston, the mountain was recently named one of the 30 best ski resorts in North America by Conde Nast Traveler. The travel publication called it a "family-favorite" ski resort, but also offers terrain parks and tree skiing for the more advanced skiers and riders.
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Lockheed Martin set to launch U.S. Navy satellite
Lockheed Martin plans to launch the U.S. Navy's third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite in January.
MUOS will improve secure mobile satellite communications for battle conditions.
"MUOS is a game changer in communications for our warfighters and will allow them to have high-fidelity voice conversations, networked team calls and data exchange, including video, with anyone connected to a secure terminal around the world," said Iris Bombelyn, vice president of narrowband communications at Lockheed Martin. "The launch of MUOS-3 will increase our network coverage to about three-quarters of the globe."
The MUOS system carries two payloads for UHF narrowband communications, advanced wideband code access and a new waveform to provide priority-based capacity.
MUOS is replacing the legacy Ultra High Frequency Follow-On system and will provide 16 times the capacity of the legacy communications satellite system.
MUOS operates like a smart phone network and features on-demand, beyond line-of-sight capability to transmit and receive voice and mission data on a high-speed Internet Protocol-based system.
The first two MUOS satellites were launched in 2012 and 2013. Muos-4 is scheduled for a late-2015 launch.
Lockheed Martin serves as the MUOS prime contractor and system integrator for the U.S. Navy.
The launch is scheduled for the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Arup Mitra is a professor of Economics at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His research interest includes issues in the area of urban development, labour and welfare, industrial growth and productivity and gender inequality. He has published in a number of international and national journals. He worked as a senior researcher at ILO (Geneva), was offered visiting fellowship at Institute of Developing Economies (Tokyo) and held the Indian Economy Chair at Sciences Po. (Paris). The Indian Econometric Society offered him the Mahalanobis Award for his outstanding contribution in the field of quantitative economics. His work has been cited in the Hand Book of Regional and Urban Economics and he has also contributed in the Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) and Mathematical Models in Economics (Ed. Zhang, W.), developed under the auspices of the UNESCO.


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Q: Date picker don't show proper date i am new to iPhone application development. i am creating simple application with using of datepicker. i have a date picker and a button. simply i want to print selected date and time when i click on button. bellow is my code.
- (IBAction)showSelectedDate:(id)sender {
    NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar autoupdatingCurrentCalendar];
    NSDate *pickerDate = [m_datePicker date];

    NSLog(@"%@", pickerDate);
}

In log date is print but it is wrong. i am select "2012-03-28 03:26 PM" this date from picker and in log i get the date "2012-03-28 09:50".
Thanks in adv....

A: Try this code... It may work fine for you.
- (IBAction)showSelectedDate:(id)sender
{
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Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court
Knifeman dad-of-three left in intensive care after being knocked out with own baseball bat in a row over dogs off leads
Nathan West left his victim with a cut
Matt JacksonSenior Live News Reporter
Nathan West (Image: Stoke Sentinel)
Knifeman Nathan West was left in intensive care after being attacked with his own baseball bat when a row erupted over dogs being on leads in a North Staffordshire park.
The 32-year-old's partner was walking through a Newcastle park when she became involved in an argument with another woman and a man about dogs being unleashed.
West, of Orme Road in Newcastle, was at home when he was told what happened.
Armed with a Bowie knife and a baseball bat, West then went to the park to confront the man - who snatched the weapon and used it to attack him putting him in hospital for three weeks.
West went on to plead guilty to affray, possessing a bladed article, and possessing an offensive weapon at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court.
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Prosecutor Tim Ashmore said: "On June 23 last year in a park in Newcastle there was an argument between two women and a man. The woman was known to the defendant.
"He attended and he had a bat and a Bowie knife. He began waving it around and making threats but the man managed to retrieve the bat.
"West pulled out the knife and caused a slight injury to the man - who then hit the defendant with the bat knocking him out.
"This put him in intensive care for three weeks."
Barry White, representing West, told the court his client still has regular headaches after the attack.
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He said: "He was at home when his son told him his partner was in a head lock. It was about dogs being off leads and he reacted understandably but in the wrong way.
"He has already paid the price for this and accepts his should not have taken the knife out."
Mr White told the court dad-of-three West had no explanation as to why he owned a hunting knife.
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Judge David Fletcher handed West a 16-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months,
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"But back in June 2018, upon being told your partner was in difficulty, your response was not to ring the police or go to see what was happening but instead you picked up a baseball bat and Bowie knife - a fierce weapon.
"The knife was used and cut the man. The bat was taken off you and utilised to hit you about the head and that resulted in quite serious circumstances."
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Are Jair Bolsonaro and Donald John Trump a Menace to the Planet?
By Jan Lundius (IPS)
Credit: Amazonian Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information
HAVANA TIMES – We live in different worlds. The ones of friends, family and work colleagues. Worlds which are overshadowed by other, much bigger ones. Global spheres of international finance, politics, climate change, etc., contexts that might threaten our smaller circle of relationships; our family, our income, our general wellbeing, in short – our entire existence.
However, even at those levels there exist small circles of acquaintances and associates able to make decisions that affect the entire humankind. Let me take one example – the regimes of U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Brazilian President Jair Messias Bolsonaro, which are menacing our global natural habitat.
Ten years ago, I flew across the Amazon Jungle, amazed by its immensity though also alarmed by scares where thick greenery had been cleared away and substituted by dismal remains of dead trees, or dry cattle pastures and soy plantations. Logging and mining are the greatest dangers to Amazonia since its exposed soil is generally old, weathered, acidic, infertile, and subject to compaction from intense solar radiation.
Within the framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) thousands of scientists and other experts write and review reports informing the work of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an endevor involving the governments of more than 120 countries. The IPCC, which in 2007 was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize, was established in 1988. The U.S. Government was the main force for making the IPCC an autonomous intergovernmental body supporting a consensus between the participating nations.
At regular intervals, the IPCC presents comprehensive assessments on climate change and its impact on ecology, human society, and food production. In 2013, one of its reports declared that:
Climate change is occurring, it is caused largely by human activities and poses significant risks for – and in many cases is already affecting – a broad range of human and natural systems. […] Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia. Atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide have increased to levels unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. Human influence on the climate system is clear. 1
Nevertheless, several influential world leaders and their sycophants refuse to accept unequivocal findings and warnings issued by the IPCC, among them the U.S. president, who continues to make badly informed, even mind-numbing statements, like:
My uncle was a great professor at MIT for many years, Dr. John Trump, and I didn't talk to him about this particular subject [climate change], but I have a natural instinct for science, and I will say that you have scientists on both sides of the picture. […] Everything I want and everything I have is clean. Clean is very important — water, air. I want absolutely crystal clear water and I want the cleanest air on the planet and our air now is cleaner than it's ever been. Very important to me. What I'm not willing to do is sacrifice the economic well-being of our country for something that nobody really knows. 2
While speaking about any scientific issue he does not know much about it is common that President Trump refers to "Uncle John", to whom he quite obviously did not speak about climate change, since Dr. Trump was a professor of engineering at a time when the phenomenon was hardly spoken of outside limited expert groups. 3 Donald Trump likes to refer to John Trump, who died in 1985, arguing that "Dr John Trump at MIT, good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart". The current U.S. president assumes he has superior genes as well:
I'm speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain, my primary consultant is myself and I have a good instinct for this stuff. […] I'm a gene believer. Do you believe in the gene thing? I mean I do. I have great genes and all that stuff, which I'm a believer in. 4
On 8 August this year, the IPCC launched a 1,200-page Special Report of Climate Change and Land, highlighting that human activities directly affect more than 70 percent of earth´s ice-free land. A quarter of this land is already severely degraded. Five hundred million people are currently living in areas experiencing desertification, while agriculture continous to use 70 percent of the earth´s freshwater. Our planet´s vegetation currently absorbs 30 percent of CO2 emissions, which contribute to global warming, but the ongoing clearing of forests increases average world temperature at an alarming speed, while access to freshwater is constantly decreasing. During the last decades, the average temperature has increased by 1,53 oC. 5 This critical situation could probably be reversed if agricultural and forestry methods are drastically changed from a present state of overexploitation, characterized by excessive use of pesticides, nitrogenous fertilizers, mechanization, wasteful irrigation and other harmful practicies favoured by large-scale agricultural producers.
Let me return to Jair Messias Bolsonaro and his acolytes. The world's largest tropical rainforest is currently under a lethal threat from President Bolsonaro, a powerful supporter of large-scale agribusiness he is complaining about foreign pressure to safeguard Amazonia.
Bolsonaro is following in Trump´s footsteps, for example by threatening to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. His Minister of Foreign Affairs has called global warming a plot by "cultural Marxists", while Bolsonaro declares that "Amazonas is ours and ours alone", accusing "foreign NGOs" of intending to steal natural resources of its rainforest from Brazil and hand it over to European exploiters.
Furthermore, he accuses indigenous groups of keeping Amazonia away from the Brazilian people, trying to maintain it "at a prehistoric level". Accordingly, Bolsonaro has withdrawn governmental support to FUNAI, the National Indian Foundation, which up until now has carried out policies related to indigenous people. He has also eliminated the Climate Change Division of the Ministry of Environment, as well as two departments that dealt with climate change mitigation and deforestation.
On 6 August this year, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) reported that 4,700 km2 of the jungle had been cleared since Bolsonaro´s inauguration on January 1st and in June alone, deforestation had been 278 percent more than for the same month in 2018. Bolsonaro immediately fired INPE´s director, Ricardo Galvao, accusing him of being in the service of "some NGO´s" and that he himself would not fall victim to any "environmental psychosis". 6
Bolsonaro appears to belong to the same breed as President Trump. He behaves like a narcissist obsessed by his own worth and righteousness. Bolsonaro´s regime is already after half a year threatening not only Brazil with a moral and ecological meltdown, but the entire world as well. On March 28th The Economist described Bolsanero´s government as being in a state of monumental confusion. Apart from the economic team, it is a warring assortment of retired generals, mid-ranking politicians, evangelical Protestants and far right ideologues. "Nobody knows where he´s going, what´s the course he´s setting," says Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president, of Mr Bolsanaro. "He goes forward then back, all the time." 7
Despots like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong have proved that a single man and his acolytes can bring death, hardship, and devastation to millions of people. Remembering men like those and learning about the views, aspirations, and actions of people like Trump and Bolsonaro make it imperative for all of us to become aware of the craziness of these two leaders and the fatal consequences of their actions. All humanity must now join forces to support national and global efforts to save our planet.
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How life has changed for the mentally ill
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Elderly people often speak of the "good old days", when they were young and life was not so fast paced. While I remember them well, and many things were better, there was also a dark side to them. This is a view of several of them that I will never forget.
Being born in the mid-l940's, I have always been proud to be part of one of the largest groups in history..a babyboomer! World War II had just ended and life in the United States was exceptionally good. My father owned and operated his own clothing store in the heart of our small city, Sheboygan, WI. And... being the youngest of two children, I was never wanting for anything.
Like life itself, my school years seemed to fly by. Not being ready to leave the comforts of home, I attended a local college to pursue a degree in social work. It was during that time I landed my first job…as an attendant in a large 3-story complex which housed the mentally ill, operated by the county.
This would be the most eye-opening job of my entire career, and one which changed me forever! Looking back, I am totally appalled at the lack of humanity and dignity shown to the mentally challenged back in the l960's. I also realize, with a shudder, how dangerous it was to work there! Had some of the patients not "covered my back" I would have suffered serious injury when the occasional patient would come up behind me with a chair. Back then there were no pagers to wear or any quick way to alert staff to an incident.
My schedule consisted of going to school during the day and working full time on swing shift at the home for the mentally ill. Each floor housed 80 residents (40 woman on one wing and 40 men on the other wing.) After my 3-day training was completed, I would be alone on the women's floor with the door locked. It was scary.
The treatment for mental illness at that time consisted mainly of medicine. Heavy doses of strong, mind-altering drugs were handed out per doctors orders. Being alone on the floor, it was my job to assemble the med cart with it's plastic cups full of multi-colored pills. When all was ready, I would holler "Med Time!" and station myself by the cart while patients, many already in a stupor, slowly made their way to swallow yet more pills.
Showering of these 40 patients were another atrocity. In my naivety, I didn't question my job at the time, but I certainly do now. Three nights a week, just after supper, my forty charges lined up at the hallway door which led to the showers in the basement, towel and washcloth in hand. Down the stairs we would troop until we arrived at the huge, one-room shower filled with large, industrial sized shower heads attached to the ceiling. Everyone showered together at the same time. There was no such thing as privacy.
The only form of entertainment these people enjoyed was an occasional movie night, held in the dreary basement of the complex. I find it sad to realize how absent physical activity was. To basically do nothing but sit, watch television, sleep, or knit, as some of people could, seriously had a negative effect on them. We often hear the adage, "Use it or lose it!" Nothing rings more true than a hospital filled with mental patients who have nothing to do!
Having been a social worker in Michigan for five years, I longed for a change. I was elated when I learned of a local house for sale that was being used as a home for the aged or mentally challenged. I anxiously made an appointment to see the house and meet the residents.
Three women lived in this house…three scared women because they knew that their caregiver for the past ten years was selling her house and moving away! The residents who lived here were a bed-ridden, but very alert woman in her 90's, a pleasant "grandma" type lady in her 50's and one younger woman in her 30's who was still quite mobile. She was the mother of two sons but because of her mental illness, she was incapable of caring for them.
The price of the house was quite low, so I quickly bought it and moved in. I thoroughly enjoyed the ability to stay home and work at the same time. The pay I received for these women was ridiculously low, even when compared to the wage scale back then, but it meant I could enjoy a more relaxing, laid-back life and allowed me more time for the one love of my life.. writing! The women and I came to know each other quickly and we were all the picture of one happy family.
A neighbor lady was found who would occasionally take over for me when I needed to be gone, and all was well…until a year later, a code inspector paid us a visit. After thoroughly checking the house, he determined it needed changes and additions that would amount to way more than I could ever afford. I felt numb after he left. Fighting "city hall" has always been synonymous with "losing!"
Even though I was being paid by the Department of Social Services to care for these women, I was told it was "my house" and "my burden" to get the changes made or they would simply move the women to another house. No thought for how these women might feel about it all. No thought about rocking their security. I was angry and broken-hearted at the same time.
In the end, they were all moved against their will, and I was left with a house I could no longer afford to keep up because I no longer had an income. Not knowing what to do, the Army recruiter who I had been dating, had no trouble convincing me to join the Army and "see the world"…which I did from August 1974 to August of 1977.
On the mental health scene, nothing is the same any longer. Everything is better! The old county hospitals that were used to warehouse the mentally ill are history! Humanity has finally caught up to realizing the mentally ill are people who need full and productive lives, as much as is possible.
Group homes do still exist but overall, they are well run at standards set by the government, with adequate supervision and plenty of activity for those who live there. For the loving families of those who are mentally challenged and cannot live alone, they would heartily agree that for them, this will be known as the era of the "good old days!"
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Suspension of Disbelief: Iron Man 3
Cat Strickson — May 7, 2013
Welcome to suspension of disbelief, a weekly segment where we review movies, books, games and anything that takes our fancy. In this edition, Tony Stark returns and Robert Downey-Jr almost makes up for the implausibility of the whole movie with his charm. Also Mark Ruffalo's in it. What do you mean you didn't wait for the post-credits scene?
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
It's hard not to like RDJ as Iron Man. His performance as Tony Stark is consistently fantastic, and despite the character's flaws (of which there are many), you find yourself rooting for him so much that he overshadowed Captain America in Joss Whedon's Avengers. This movie really plays to those strengths. The dialogue was incredible, it was funny in all the right places, moving when it had to be, and though the question at the beginning of the movie: 'how did you get out of the wormhole?' was never answered, I found his character arc satisfying as hell.
The problem with this however, is that because the character moment were done so well, the plot suffers. It's not that a terrorist threat isn't a viable option for a superhero movie, but it's just a few moments like this:
1. After Tony Stark and War Machine/Iron Patriot escape from the extremis headquarters, how do they know exactly where to go to find the villain, who is in the middle of the ocean on an oil tanker?
2. Tony tells War Machine that none of his suits would support him, and yet they can support his girlfriend and the main villain?
3. In the same vein, how is it that War Machine's suit supports a super powered mercenary and the president?
4. The way the villain is defeated and his plans are thwarted could have been done very easily at the beginning, if at all possible. Also, it makes his presence in the suit redundant, and pretty much makes him the most powerful man in the planet, which leads me on to…
5. Why did he destroy the very thing that saved the day? It was a powerful character moment, but it didn't make much sense in the grand scheme of things, especially considering how apparently easy it is to blow up his house without anyone noticing.
6. How did he stop the formula everyone else has been working on for all their lives (and off-screen nonetheless)? Seriously, there was no explanation given, and if completed, that formula would get rid of the need for medicine altogether.
That said, the Stan Lee cameo was hilarious, every scene between RDJ and Gwyneth Paltrow was priceless, and the opening sequence was both cheesy enough to feel like a comic and short enough to not harm the story (as well as setting up the real villain for later). I imagine there are a lot of complaints about the way the movie handled The Mandarin, but given that the villain in the comics was pretty much a racist stereotype I didn't have a problem with it. I also didn't have a problem with the re-branding of War Machine as Iron Patriot, although when I heard IP would be in the movie I was hoping for some Norman Osborn action. In the end I think that might have even been a better plot, although using the Green Goblin for anything other than a Spider-Man movie might not only confuse people, but cause some legal issues.
So yeah, I had a few problems with the plot. Please tell me if there are some straight answers to these that makes sense, because I really want to give this film a higher rating. It was fun, I was smiling all the way through, but there were so many plot holes that I really can't give it more than 3 and a half RDJ goatees out of 5.
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Re: Number 2 on your list: I thought Tony was just lying to goad War Machine. That seems like a thing Iron Man would do. (Also, I'm with Tony. Iron Patriot? Ugh.)
One thing that bugged me was the fact that Tony was clearly suffering from PTSD, but there was really no attempt to explore it. Or if they did it was too subtle to overcome the very unsubtle explosions. I thought there would be a lot more exploration of Tony's mind-space than there actually was, and that was a little disappointing.
That said, OMG I really liked this movie. Also, yay for a not-annoying Pepper Potts! Finally!
Also? Where the hell is my gawd damn Hulk movie? Where is it, Marvel? WHERE IS IT?
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I hope there's some sort of deleted scene with that subplot in it, because that was really annoying. Also, I heard from someone that a new one's in the works, but apparently the Avengers-movie-hulk is a continuation of The Incredible Hulk, but with a different actor 🙂
Right after The Avengers I heard rumors of a new Ruffalo Hulk movie was tentatively planned for 2015, but then I heard that it wasn't going to happen and I died a little inside. Someone should make a change.org petition. This is very important stuff.
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Re 2: My interpretation as I watched the movie (yes, this occurred to me in the moment), was that only the newest suit, Mk. 42, was designed to support different people. This is the one that Pepper wore earlier on, and that Tony forced onto the villain at the end. Also recall that this suit showed up late – it wasn't present when Tony made his statement that none of the suits could hold IP.
That makes sense. Cheers.


A U.S. trade judge on Tuesday recommended Qualcomm Inc be granted a request for an import ban on some iPhones sold by Apple Inc – though the judge's initial determination was not binding and will be reviewed by the agency. The final ruling may come as early as this afternoon (5PM Eastern), according to Reuters.
Yet according to patent analyst Florian Mueller, Apple has already defeated Qualcomm's first ITC complaint with a workaround in iOS 12.1 and later, blessed by Qualcomm's CTO. But of course it's not always that simple and you should check out Mueller's full report here for a full analysis of this latest development.
A final (apart from a possible appeal) Commission decision just came down at 5 PM Eastern Time in the investigation of Qualcomm's first ITC complaint against Apple. The final ruling is that there is no violation.
Apple's petition for a review of the infringement holding had been granted in December, while Qualcomm's petition for review had been denied.
As a result of the ITC finding that the sole remaining patent-in-suit being invalid, any further public-interest analysis has became unnecessary.
The ruling is noted in the Scribd document below.
For more analysis on this case, be sure to check out Florian Mueller's full report here.


Imitation is a key part of the way humans learn. We can pick up new skills by observing others: how to tie shoelaces or hold a pencil in school, how to hit a tennis serve or swing a putter down the country club, or how to hunt and fish when left to fend in the wilderness. Throughout human history, the capacity to learn through imitation may have helped our species thrive.
At the same time, imitation appears to act as a form of "social glue": we tend to like those who imitate us, and unconsciously imitate the people we like. Studies suggest that this can have surprising effects on our social interactions. Being imitated can increase the trust you have in a total stranger, prompt you to give more to charity, and see you leaving a bigger tip at the end of your meal.
Imitating others seems easy. Young children can learn how to play a game by watching their peers. As adults, we can readily copy the gestures locals use in a foreign country. But the ease with which we can copy each other hides the complexities involved in translating the actions we see into actions we can do ourselves.
Consider the challenge posed by imitating someone's facial expression when we return a smile. To communicate the right message, we need to match a facial expression that is "seen-but-unfelt" (their smile) with a corresponding action that is "felt-but-unseen" (our smile). Getting this translation wrong – for instance, returning a smile with a frown – could have unintended social consequences. Scientists therefore consider imitation to be a sophisticated cognitive achievement, and for many years thought that the capacity to do it was unique to humans and other great apes.
So where does this ability to imitate come from? In an influential series of experiments conducted in the 70s and 80s, renowned developmental psychologists Andrew Meltzoff and M Keith Moore presented newborn infants – many just a few hours old – with adult models protruding their tongues and making different types of facial gestures, and recorded how often the babies reproduced each movement.
Infants appeared to produce more of a particular gesture when it matched the one being performed by the model – as if the infants were copying what they saw. Since newborns have no opportunity to learn about the appearance of their expressions, these findings suggested a remarkable possibility: we may be born with an innate neural circuit that allows us to translate observed actions into the motor commands we need to replicate them. Natural selection may have "hardwired" imitation into our genes. Similar experiments have since been attempted with other primate species.
Reports of neonatal imitation took the scientific community by storm, gaining widespread media coverage. As well as prompting much excitement, however, the results were also the source of huge controversy. For decades, sceptics have argued that studies only prove one thing for certain: that infants tend to stick out their tongues more when an adult model protrudes their tongue. But infants also stick out their tongue when engaged and excited – by music, tactile stimulation and colourful displays – making this behaviour notoriously difficult to interpret.
A recent study published in Current Biology by psychologist Janine Oostenbroek and colleagues describes the most rigorous, systematic test of newborns' imitation reported to date. Their results provide decisive evidence against the idea that newborns are born with the ability to imitate.
The researchers exposed 106 infants, each in their first week of life, to a wide range of actions made by adults such as mouth opening, happy and sad expressions, or the extension of an index finger. Across all the actions, the researchers found no evidence that infants produced matching actions more often than non-matching ones. Once again, infants did stick out their tongues when they saw an adult doing so, but they did so at a similar rate when observing an opening mouth or a sad face, highlighting how easy it is to mistake this behaviour for imitation.
Rather than being born with an innate ability to imitate, it therefore appears that human infants actually learn to imitate.
And our parents may start teaching us to imitate long before we encounter mirrors. While newborns may not imitate their caregivers, caregivers often imitate newborns. This behaviour is often so natural and intuitive that adults often fail to realise they're doing it. These early episodes of correlated "doing" and "seeing", where infants see someone else perform the same action they're producing, may help them learn the correspondences needed for imitation.
Later in life, many of our social rituals – dancing together, team sports, sharing meals – may serve to ingrain imitative behaviours further, giving us more correlated experience of performing an action and seeing the same movements performed by others.
So it appears that imitation is a product of the way we interact with one another. This raises the possibility that other species may be able to acquire the capacity for imitation given the right kind of social environment. Startling support for this view came from experiments in the early 1990s by Michael Tomasello, who observed that chimpanzees raised in the wild are unable to imitate, while those reared by humans often acquire this ability. Controlled experiments confirm that several other species, including dogs, can also learn to imitate in environments rich in regular, matching feedback provided by humans.
Learning that an important human trait is not genetically hardwired shouldn't cause concern. Instead, the new findings of Oostenbroek and colleagues suggest that cultural forces can profoundly shape our psychology. Many of the abilities that define us may not reside in our DNA, but may instead have their roots in the societies around us.


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Prior to the excellent "Hail Poetry! The Magic and Madness of Gilbert & Sullivan," Eli Villanueva of Opera A La Carte spoke a bit. It was a terrific show. Wonderful primer on G&S. And Soka U was a great place to see a show.
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He didn't need to call himself "Joe Six-Pack" or make any references to hockey moms. But by the end of the night, everyone in attendance knew Tom Crean was a regular guy.
Bringing back a school tradition untouched since the days of Bob Knight, Crean delivered an enthusiastic lecture to the IU student body Monday night inside the IU Auditorium.
A self-described "42-year-old man with a fair amount of energy and passion," Crean spoke to about the 600 in attendance before taking a wide-variety of questions from the audience in an event presented by the Union Board.
Illuminated by a lone spotlight and a cream-colored "IU" symbol on the curtain behind him, Crean took center stage to talk about his team.
He opened by telling the audience he didn't want to talk too much about the past but rather what the team faces ahead. He became animated when he talked about IU's proud tradition, listing off a who's who of Hoosier legends.
He told fans he'd been following the Hoosiers since he was 10 and counts the 1987 NCAA Final Four as one of the greatest IU games he's ever seen.
The coach, who is famous for speaking a mile a minute, told the audience he loves to listen to stories about IU basketball, and that they, too, would have their own stories one day when they return to Bloomington.
Then Crean told his own story, one currently filled with challenges and adversity. He spoke candidly when discussing the problems the men's basketball program faces.
Crean stressed patience to the Hoosier fan base.
Many students asked Crean if he would support a unified student section, which has been long-held student goal.
He asked the audience if they would like the student section to be unified, and the crowd erupted.
The question-and-answer session concluded when a student asked about Crean's wardrobe plans. The student noted that IU's last coach was famous for a shirt-and-tie combination and a previous one was famous for his red sweater.
Would IU's 28th men's basketball coach have his own trademark article? The student asked if a candystriped jacket or a full crimson suit was in the realm of possibility.


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Cannabidiol (CBD) has become the new buzzword in the holistic health industry. The substance has become increasingly popular in the health community since it became legal to buy and sell in all 50 states. According to a study, the American market for CBD is projected to reach $22 billion by 2020. The non-psychoactive compound has been attributed to possessing anti-anxiety, anti-seizure, and anti-inflammation effects. While different forms of CBD range from topicals, pills, salves and isolates, inhalation may be the quickest way to reap the benefits.
Here is what you need to know about vaping CBD oil and its therapeutic effects.
Also known as cannabidiol, CBD is extracted from the buds, stalks and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. Unlike its psychoactive counterpart THC, CBD does not contain any mind-altering effects. In other words, it will not produce the "high" that marijuana is commonly known for. CBD oil sold on the market must contain no (or only trace amounts of) THC to be considered legal.
It is believed that the cannabinoids that are found in CBD interact with the endocannabinoid system in the body. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a network of receptors throughout the body and brain, responsible for maintaining homeostasis. CBD's cannabinoids are thought to bind to the receptors in the ECS to increase the production of the body's natural cannabinoids, also known as endocannabinoids. These endocannabinoids regulate functions like mood, memory, sleep and appetite.
Studies have shown that CBD has produced therapeutic benefits for users. While there are a few different ways of administering CBD oil, vaping is the most instantaneous.
Vaporization enters the lungs and travels directly to the bloodstream, which is why users are quicker to feel the effects. Typically, those who use oral or sublingual forms of CBD have to wait around 20 to 30 minutes to feel any effect. Known as the "first-pass effect," users who ingest CBD need to wait until the compound passes through the liver and gut. The first-pass effect will also dictate the amount of CBD that gets absorbed into the bloodstream. Most of the CBD is chemically broken down by liver enzymes. For example, when users ingest CBD, the first-pass effect actively reduces the amount of CBD during the transition through the liver.
CBD-infused gummies and capsules come in a pre-measured dosage. Unlike pre-measured forms of CBD, vaping allows the user to customize the amount of oil they vape at certain times of the day. Users can also purchase the oils in different potencies depending on the milligram (mg) amount they prefer. The the mg of cannabinoid for these oils usually range from 50mg to 3,000mg. If you someone looking for a subtle relaxing effect, a smaller dosage may be a good option for you. On the other hand, if you are looking for a product to alleviate chronic pain and inflammation, opt for a higher mg amount.
By doing a few calculations, vaping allows you to decide how much CBD your body needs, while not constricting you to a pre-measured daily dose.
While research is still in the early stages of definitely understanding how this compound interacts with the body, here are a few of the known benefits you can expect from vaping CBD oil.
According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, anxiety is the most common mental illness in the U.S., and only around 36 percent of people receive treatment. Common treatments for anxiety include prescription drugs, which can lead to negative side effects including drowsiness, insomnia and headache.
CBD oil may be a natural alternative to these prescription treatments, as it has shown in studies to relieve symptoms of anxiety. In one study, 24 people who suffered from a social anxiety disorder received 600 mg of CBD or a placebo before a giving a public speaking test. Those who received the CBD experienced less overall anxiety and cognitive impairment during their speech.
The cannabinoids that bind to the receptors in the body are believed to act on serotonin, the neurotransmitter that regulates social behavior and mood.
One of the biggest reasons CBD oil is being used to help treat those with certain medical conditions is its ability to reduce inflammation and chronic pain in the body. CBD reduces inflammation by impacting the receptor activity in the endocannabinoid system. There have been studies linking the use of CBD to Parkinson's Disease (PD), Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and forms of arthritis.
In a study done on rats, CBD injections showed to reduce the pain related to surgical incisions. While more research may be necessary to understand the full effects of CBD as it relates to treating medical conditions, evidence looks promising for using CBD reduce chronic pain and inflammation.
CBD oil is well-tolerated considered safe for use but may interact with existing medications. In some studies, CBD oil caused side effects including fatigue and changes in appetite. Results may vary depending on the individual user.
When it comes to vaping CBD, the vapor is gentle on the lungs because it does not include the same harmful toxins and irritants that smoking causes. Vaporizers heat the CBD to its vaporization point, producing clean clouds of CBD.
Since CBD oil has become more popular since its legalization in all 50 states, many companies and merchants are trying to cash in on the craze. There is little regulation from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for CBD products, which makes in vital to ensure you are purchasing from a reputable vendor. There have been instances of deceptions in the packaging and ingredients from less reputable companies.
If you are considering buying CBD vape oil, ensure you do your research to find a company with good reviews that also have the mg amount labeled on the product. Speak with your healthcare practitioner before introducing a new supplement into your regimen.


Buying a home is within everyone's reach. Attitude and discipline will assist in reaching your goal. First time home buyers are creative people. You can grow a down payment within the means you are living with now. Home ownership will benefit your financial bottom line. You may be paying higher rent than a future mortgage payment calculates.
Review your expenditures. For one week, write down every cent you spend including gum, candy, coffee, soft drinks, movies, drive-thru and impulse purchases. If you are buying $5.00 per day, for on- the- go coffee or soft drinks during a work week, it totals to $1,300.00 per year.
Toll road fees appear to be incidental to save 15 minutes of commute time. If the toll is $3.00 each way to work, five days a week – a one year total is $1,560.00.
How bad do you really want your own home?
Quit eating out. For the cost of a chef salad in your local restaurant, you can purchase salad ingredients at your local market for a few days of salad at home. Salads do not require a lot of "cooking" expertise. Learn how to cook your favorite eateries' entree. Your down payment fund will grow exponentially. Create events such as picnics for a new view instead of the golden arches. Barbecuing in your new back yard can be a dream come true.
Do you own a boat, motorcycle, ski-doo, snowmobile, RV or classic car being stored? How often do you utilize these fabulous grown-up indulgences? Sell these items. Add up how much you will save in insurance, maintenance, storage fees and running costs. Grow your down payment. Buy your home. Buy another fancy schmancy fun extravagance to store in your new garage.
Eliminate debt, starting with the smallest balance first. Observe the amount of monthly interest you are being charged on the account. Paying off each bill will allow that dollar amount to be saved toward your goal of home ownership.
One person's junk is another person's treasure. Consider a garage sale or selling unused items on Ebay, Craigslist or other auction sites. If the motivation is to own your own home, think of getting rid of "things" as less to move when you switch to your new house. Less stuff to move will also lessen the moving expense. Your down payment will grow with each deposit from the sale of possessions you no longer want or need. Do not buy anything you do not actually need until your down payment goal is met. Weigh the difference between "want" and "need".
Each of these suggestions will take fortitude, tenacity and the extreme desire to reach your down payment goal. Increasing your income with a second job can expedite the process. It is still possible to make the dream of home ownership a reality in your near future.
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