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LEGO Ideas 40335 Space Rocket Ride review
Review: 40335 Space Rocket Ride
Posted by Huw, 29 May 2019 14:00
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Next month's gift with purchase at shop.LEGO.com is the rather cool 40335 Space Rocket Ride. It's based on the winning entry of a LEGO Ideas competition Moments in Space, where the brief was to "Use your imagination to create the ultimate space model".
Mjsmiley's competition submission is colourful, original and even has a neat play feature, so it's no wonder it caught the judge's eye.
We don't know what the purchase threshold is to acquire it but after you've checked out our photos after the break you'll probably want to spend whatever's needed!
The box is of the tape sealed variety but is made from sturdier cardboard stock than usual. It bears the LEGO Ideas logo in the corner.
The 154-piece model doesn't take long to construct and when finished looks resplendent in its yellow, red and dark blue colour scheme.
It's a coin operated ride so, naturally, it comes with coins in which to feed into the slot on the left. Interestingly, these printed tiles were introduced first in a Friends set, 41058 Heartlake Shopping Mall, in 2014, and can be purchased for less than face value on BrickLink!
In relation to the minifigure the ride absolutely huge, about the height of a double-decker bus!
Rotating the axle at the back operates a clever internal mechanism that rocks the rocket back and forth.
The minifigure is attired in a suitably space-themed torso, which first appeared in 2016, in 60134 People Pack - Fun in the Park.
Overall then, despite the scale problem, which is of course not unique to this set, it's a very attractive model and a desirable gift with purchase. Thankfully there'll be loads of new sets available at the beginning of June with which to acquire it.
Thanks to LEGO for providing the set for review. All opinions expressed are my own.
31 comments on this article
By DarthRaved in United States, 29 May 2019 14:02
cool review! nice to see inside the mechanism.
a question though- was this model modified by the lego group in any way?
By alyxavior in France, 29 May 2019 14:03
This looks like a fun set to have!
By Turbulence in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 14:05
This looks great! will look great in the theme park
By dRevan in Canada, 29 May 2019 14:09
I'm going to modify it to put some of the star wars microfighters maybe the falcon with Han and Chewie. Also its probably a GWP over $75.
By Boettner Builds in United States, 29 May 2019 14:10
@dRevan awesome idea!!!
By LegoHobbitFan in United States, 29 May 2019 14:16
Looks pretty neat! I'll be going to the Lego store in June and plan to buy lots of pick-a-brick cups, so I'll probably end up with 1 or 2.
By Your future president in United States, 29 May 2019 14:23
^ Hey quick tip for pick-a-brick (although you probably already know this—if so then discard)
If you know what type of pieces you need a head of time then you aren't limited to what is on the wall. Simply ask for the specific piece you need and they probably have boxes full of that one piece. Or maybe even call ahead to make sure they have it so you don't waste a trip (of course though, no trip to the lego store is wasted ;-)) In my experience with this subject, the lego store employees (as usual) were extremely helpful and accommodating. She brought out about 8 boxes for me to explore based on what I said I needed. It was great.
Back on topic, this set is pretty interesting, and seems like it would go well next to the 31095 creator fairground carousel.
By Lewis97 in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 14:40
Brilliant GWP. I'd be over the Moon if there were a moderately large space-themed set being released imminently...!
By Profbrick489 in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 14:52
good review
By Mister-Jonny in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 15:04
Nice set! It'd probably be pretty simple to swap out the rocket with something else, like one of the Star Wars microfighters...
By Phathead in United States, 29 May 2019 15:04
I can appreciate the uniqueness of this set, but since the scale is so far off there's no way it's going into my city. It's also too small to display on a shelf without disappearing behind other models. Additionally, there's absolutely nothing exclusive to this set (minifigure, printed parts, etc) and I'm quite sure that I already have the parts to build it. It's cute overall but I have zero intent on pursuing this.
By tomahawker in United States, 29 May 2019 15:04
@DarthRaved, if you go to the Ideas page linked in the article, you can see pictures of the original submission. The version released is substantially modified from the original. It's longer and has more detailing, including the steps at the back.
By leetshoe in United States, 29 May 2019 15:38
It has been a while since l bought from [email protected], this is a great GWP that will finally get me to buy something.
By tamamahm in United States, 29 May 2019 15:40
I have been waiting on a purchase to specifically get this.
By LegoSolo77 in United States, 29 May 2019 15:57
This little rocket ride looks like a blast! The only issue I see (no real problem w/the scale for me) is that upon climbing the stairs the kid would be banging his head on the rear wing, and then would have to carefully shimmy over to the cockpit before attempting a treacherous climb. My planned future amusement park area will be a built-up island, so the guts of this thing could go in ground, w/just the rocket at the surface. The steps could then lead directly into the cockpit. Wait, where was I? Sorry, daydreaming again. Anyways, great little set and hopefully by June I'll be allowed to buy a Stranger Thing to get this for free.
By Davejack82 in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 16:18
My work bonus comes at the end of the week, and I know what I'm buying! (Don't tell my wife)
By randomly_generated in United States, 29 May 2019 16:28
This set looks really cute, but what bothers me is that there is nothing unique about it. No special printed pieces. No special minifigure. Every thing can be purchased on Bricklink or Bricks and Pieces for standard price. Kinda takes the fun out of a GWP. I'm probably not going to get it, but we'll see!
By Rogue10 in United States, 29 May 2019 16:31
@LegoSolo77,
It looks like it wouldn't be hard to swap the stairs and the coin box. I think that would be a bit better then, since it looks like the front of the cockpit sits about there. If they had just put on one more step, it would be perfect.
It looks like it still has a pretty big seating area to accommodate Friends like in the original submission. I wonder if by moving or removing the seat you could fit in two figs, like a lot of rides like this have. Especially given that kid figs have short legs that don't bend--I would think it would be easy to fit one in the back.
By MeganL in United States, 29 May 2019 16:31
Looks terrific! This is the GWP I've been most excited about for a while. Can't wait to get it.
By Alatariel in Sweden, 29 May 2019 17:03
I think the blue tail fin in the original submission looked much better, but it's a neat little set. Might try to get it.
By LegoSonicBoy in Singapore, 29 May 2019 17:07
If I do end up getting this (it really depends on the purchase criteria), I'm putting it in my city precisely because the scale is hilarious in true LEGO fashion.
By brickdevil in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 17:24
Presently the listing on UK [email protected] has it 'priced' at £11.99 and a qualifier that states: "FREE Exclusive Space Rocket Ride with purchases over $99.*"
@Davejack82 Tesco by any chance!? ;)
By KyloRen0806 in Denmark, 29 May 2019 18:32
Whoa, that's pretty nice.
Regarding the free gifts, anyone who knows about the second Captain Marvel poster?
By mr_skinny in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 20:07
I'd like this set but it's available from the 5th and the Lunar Lander is available from the 1st with a VIP gift on day 1 - It's nice when GWPs stack but more often than not it never works out for me :-D
By darkstonegrey in United States, 29 May 2019 21:29
Rocket's too long now, it's lost a bit of it's original charm.
Blue tail fin from original submission is a much better choice - unfortunate that it's no longer produced in dark blue.
Hope this can be easily removed form the base like in the original submission plans.
Planning to make enough purchases in June to qualify for this GWP, so won't begrudge getting it despite my misgivings over the changes.
By Lordmoral in Puerto Rico, 29 May 2019 22:07
I love it, my entry didn't make it pass the entrance as it was apperantly voliolating a rule that no Build Mode from LDD could entwr but my entry was made with physical bricks.
By Bricklunch in United Kingdom, 29 May 2019 22:49
A nice looking set but oddly missing a crank handle to operate it, much like 40293-1: Christmas Carousel was.
^ This was also pointed out by just2good but I think given the relatively low base, a hand crank would have been difficult to operate that close to the ground.
By chefkaspa in Germany, 30 May 2019 08:20
From pictures (back cut-off and the one above it) I doubt that the external axle can move the spaceship at all. Rather I would expect it to drive the blue liftarm.
By Michel W in United Kingdom, 30 May 2019 17:31
The Shop @ UK page (https://shop.lego.com/en-GB/product/Space-Rocket-Ride-40335) says it's free with purchase of $159 (AU) / $179 (NZ) / £85 / 85 € / 2210 Kc / 100 CHF / 635 kr. (DK) / 810 kr (NO) / 880 kr (SE) / 375 zl / 27775 Ft. in the period 5-18 June. Apparently can also be bought for £12 as brickdevil mentioned.
By garethsmith72 in United Kingdom, 30 May 2019 18:53
£85 seems a little step for this as a GWP
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Just leaving their cell phones behind for a week might seem tough enough, but 17 teenagers from Ashley Hall in Charleston, a private school for girls, spent a week at sea hoisting sails and navigating by stars aboard the tall ship, "Liberty Clipper". Most had never sailed before. The trip is part of the school's annual Offshore Leadership Program.
This is the 11th year students have sailed. Anne Weston, the school's assistant head, has been on the voyage twice.
Listen: Families reunite with teenagers who spent a week at sea as part of a school leadership program at Ashley Hall in Charleston.
Families welcome home Ashley Hall students in Charleston who have been at sea a week.
Families gathered on a dock one Saturday morning in late October to welcome the teenagers home at the Charleston Maritime Center. They waved and cheered as the four-ton tall ship pulled in. The young women, ages 15 to 18 years-old, looked tired and tan, yet talkative, and excited to see their parents and siblings again. They sailed 400 miles from Portsmouth, Va., around Cape Hatteras to Charleston.
"Definitely at the beginning, we were not good at any of this," said Celia Smith, a senior at the school. "I think the crew members were like what are ya'll doing?"
Celia's been up since 2 a.m. Night watches and around the clock work have left her weary. Shipmates share similar stories of exhaustion and in some cases, sea sickness.
So why put teenage girls who have never sailed before on a tall ship in the Atlantic Ocean? School officials say the idea is to create confidence and resilience that will transform the girls into leaders in life.
They point to studies that show self-esteem in young women can begin to take a nose dive at puberty; as they try to fit in, fear failure, or become self-critical. They cite a new national survey of 1,300 girls published in The Atlantic this fall that found confidence declining 30 percent in middle school girls.
Dr. Roscoe Davis is the head of the Offshore Leadership Program. He on board with the girls and says every year he sees a transformation, even with his own daughter, now 22 years-old, who took a similar trip.
Student and shipmate Riley Turner agrees.
Celia Smith grins when asked to share the lessons she learned.
"Really it teaches me that I love being outside my comfort zone. That it's awesome to embrace all the new things that it's through your way, as long you're really committed to taking them all in," Smith said.
The young women learned, much like navigating the seas of life, they may not have been able to control the waves or wind. But they could adjust their sails, and overcome their fears.
The teenagers will take what they've learned as leaders and mentor third graders at Charleston's Meeting Street Academy. They'll help the kids with reading and even teach some to swim.
Kitty Goldman says she's really looking forward to that part of the journey, helping girls younger than herself build their sea legs for life. What advice would she most like to give them?
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7 Warmhearted Animal Organizations In The American Southeast
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As stewards of the Earth, it's on us to protect and care for our animal friends. Whether they live in the wild or snuggle up to us at night, a lot of effort is required to make sure these creatures are safe. The following organizations do meaningful work in their communities to strengthen the bond between people and animals, offering vital services with compassion and kindness. This video was made with Ezvid Wikimaker.
7 Caring Animal Organizations in the South
SAFE Haven for Cats Raleigh, NC No-kill shelter serving 15 counties, with feral vaccination program and pantry offering free pet food
Save the Manatee Club Maitland, FL Works to protect manatees and their aquatic ecosystems through education and advocacy
SPCA of Wake County Raleigh, NC Finds homes and offers spay/neuter services for dogs, cats, bunnies, guinea pigs, chinchillas, and other small animals, and runs pet loss support groups for owners
Paws4People Foundation Wilmington, NC Trains and provides service dogs for children, adolescents, veterans, and service members with disabilities, and operates Paws4Prisons program for inmates to participate in training
SPCA Tampa Bay Largo, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, and Palm Harbor, FL Operates multiple sites caring for a wide variety of animals with adoptions, veterinary services, and behavioral training
Furkids Atlanta & Alpharetta, GA Gives shelter and care to cats and dogs while helping them find forever homes, including cats diagnosed with feline immunodeficiency virus
Humane Society of Charlotte Charlotte, NC Adoption, microchipping, vaccinations, and spay/neuter services, as well as behavioral counseling
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Pet Statistics for the United States
Percentage of households with at least one pet: 49%
Households with a dog: 60.2 million
Households with a cat: 47.1 million
Households with freshwater fish: 12.5 million
Annual cost of pet food (average): $235
Annual cost of routine vet visits: Dogs: $257 Cats: $182
Number of animals that enter shelters each year: 6.5 million
Number adopted: 3.2 million
Number euthanized: 1.5 million
Estimated stray animal population: 70 million
SAFE Haven for Cats on What To Do if You Find a Stray Cat
Humans and animals have lived among each other since time immemorial. For many people, one of life's greatest joys comes from the companionship of a pet. With so many of these creatures both inside our homes and outdoors, it's no surprise that a whole industry exists dedicated solely to their care. If you are interested in discovering more about the work being done to help our furry friends, then here are, in no particular order, seven warmhearted animal organizations in the American Southeast.
At #1 is Safe Haven for Cats, founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1994. From its humble beginnings in the garage of founder Pam Miller, the no-kill animal shelter today serves over fifteen counties in the state. It has orchestrated the adoption of over 10,000 cats and spayed or neutered more than 30,000 felines at its own low-cost clinic, which also offers microchipping services.
Safe Haven provides additional options for local feline lovers, including a trap-neuter-vaccinate-release program for feral cats and numerous services for strays. Furthermore, pet owners who are struggling to make ends meet can avail themselves of Safe Haven's Pet Food Pantry, which gives free cat food to anyone in need. If you are interested in supporting Safe Haven, you can volunteer your time, sign up to foster a cat, or even attend one of its many events, like its annual Casino Royale fundraiser or Kitten Palooza.
Safe Haven provides additional options for local feline lovers, including a trap-neuter-vaccinate-release program for feral cats and numerous services for strays.
Coming in at #2 is Save the Manatee Club, established in 1981 by singer Jimmy Buffett and politician Bob Graham. Based in Florida, this nonprofit aims to recover and protect manatees, the state's official marine mammal, and their aquatic ecosystems in Florida and other parts of the world. Beyond promoting habitat restoration, the organization seeks to minimize harassment, injuries, and deaths of manatees caused by humans and to advocate for laws and regulations that protect these animals and their environments.
Save the Manatee Club's website features a variety of resources for lovers of these aquatic mammals, including detailed information on how to report an injured manatee and a collection of public awareness materials and tips for divers and swimmers. Those who are interested in supporting the organization can make direct donations online, purchase apparel from the website's shop, or sign up for its Adopt-A-Manatee program.
In the #3 spot is the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals of Wake County, located in Raleigh, North Carolina and founded in 1967. With the mission of creating a more humane world through protection, care, and education, SPCA of Wake County strives to ensure that every adoptable animal finds a suitable home. Each year, the organization re-homes over 3,700 animals through its programs.
Each year, the organization re-homes over 3,700 animals through its programs.
In support of its mission, SPCA of Wake County, which works with cats, dogs, bunnies, and other small animals, runs a range of programs in addition to adoption services. Its Saving Lives Spay-Neuter Clinic has performed procedures on more than 62,000 animals, while its community initiatives offer resources for owners dealing with pet behavioral problems. It also hosts a Pet Loss Support Group for grieving owners. If you wish to support SPCA of Wake County, consider shopping for pet supplies at its retail store or attending its annual Fur Ball Gala.
At #4 is Paws4People Foundation, based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded by Kyria Henry in 1999, Paws4People connects assistance dogs with children, adolescents, veterans, and service members with disabilities. To date, the nonprofit, a full member of both Assistance Dogs International and Animal Assisted Intervention International, has placed over 500 dogs with one or more certifications in twenty-six states.
Each Paws4People dog goes through a rigorous training process that lasts over two years, and 93% of dogs enrolled end up graduating. Other programs that the foundation runs include the Paws4Education initiative, which provides educational animal-assisted instruction in schools, and Paws4Prisons, where inmates, many of whom suffer from PTSD or CPTSD, participate in the training, managing, and supervising of assistance dogs. If you want to lend a hand to this canine nonprofit, you can apply for one of its volunteering opportunities or sign up to receive updates from its eNewsletter.
Each Paws4People dog goes through a rigorous training process that lasts over two years, and 93% of dogs enrolled end up graduating.
In the #5 spot is SPCA Tampa Bay. A non-profit animal welfare agency, SPCA Tampa Bay operates a variety of sites in the area, including a shelter in Largo, a veterinary center in St. Petersburg, a behaviorial center in Clearwater, and a resource center in Palm Harbor. Founded in 1940, the organization cares for more than 8,000 surrendered animals each year.
SPCA Tampa Bay works with a large number of animals, like cats, dogs, goats, pigs, and exotic birds. Its veterinary center, for instance, offers comprehensive medical care, from routine vaccinations and examinations to acupuncture. Meanwhile, the New Dawn Animal Behavior Center hosts private training sessions and a six-week puppy preschool. Those who are interested in contributing to SPCA Tampa Bay's efforts can donate items from the organization's wish list, sign up for a "Whiskers at Work" playdate, or attend the fundraising Pet Walk.
At #6 is Furkids, founded by Samantha Shelton. With headquarters in Atlanta, Furkids gives rescued animals medical care and a temporary place to live while helping them find a permanent home. A no-kill shelter, the nonprofit has rescued more than 35,000 animals since it opened doors. In 2018 alone, it succeeded in releasing 98.2% of its animals alive.
In 2018 alone, it succeeded in releasing 98.2% of its animals alive.
Running the largest no-kill, no-cage cat shelter in the Southeast, Furkids specializes in cats diagnosed with feline immunodeficiency virus, and is one of the only facilities in the area dedicated to their care. In the interest of strengthening the bond between animals and young people, Furkids is the only animal shelter in the Atlanta area that allows children of all ages to volunteer. If you are interested in supporting this organization, you can sign up to receive its newsletter, shop at or donate to its thrift store, or attend one of its events, like the Paws for Cocktails fundraiser.
Last but not least, at #7, is the Humane Society of Charlotte. Founded in 1978, this nonprofit with a no-kill philosophy strives to strengthen the bond between companion animals and the people who care for them. HSC offers several services for both pets and strays, including a trap-neuter-return program for outdoor cats in the community and microchipping and vaccinations at its low-cost Critter Care Wellness Clinic.
Beyond these services, the Humane Society of Charlotte also boasts a robust educational program. Its pet behavior-enrichment program ensures the proper training and socialization of animals waiting for their forever homes, and the organization has published numerous informational articles on common behavioral issues for cats and dogs. If you want to learn more about the Humane Society of Charlotte or contribute to its efforts, you can check its website to find opportunities about fostering an animal or you can make a gift online.
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One of the reasons we always pick the East of England Arena in Peterborough as the venue for our annual Makit LQ&N Fair is its central location. This year, we have visitors to the Fair from as far a field as the very far north of Scotland, West Cornwall, Wales and Northern Ireland.
It's such a complement to the fair and all the traders who take part to know that there are visitors willing to travel the length and breadth of the country to be with us.
It's always been important to us to be more than a regional fair. Visitors are able to buy textile craft tools, fabrics, threads, kits and accessories from specialist suppliers that are otherwise only available online.
Our visitors love the energy and friendly atmosphere of the Makit Fairs. Each one is a great social occasion for fellow textile crafters and packed full of inspiration for the next creative project.
Peterborough can be easily reached from A1 and A47. The East of England Arena is a 12-minute taxi journey from Peterborough station, which is located on the East Coast Main Line that runs from London King's Cross to Edinburgh. Buses and coaches regularly run between Peterborough bus station and the East of England Arena.
As a reminder the Makit Fair is at the East of England Arena in Peterborough from 10am to 4pm on Sunday 13th May 2018.
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Q: How do I multiply dictionary elements and get a sum flow = {('I0','O0'): 2,
        ('I0','O1'): 3,
        ('I0','O2'): 2,
        ('I0','O3'): 3,
        ('I1','O0'): 2,
        ('I1','O1'): 1,
        ('I1','O2'): 4,
        ('I1','O3'): 2,
        ('I2','O0'): 3,
        ('I2','O1'): 4,
        ('I2','O2'): 2,
        ('I2','O3'): 1,
        ('I3','O0'): 3,
        ('I3','O1'): 2,
        ('I3','O2'): 2,
        ('I3','O3'): 4
}

x=[1,3]

cost_of_assignment= flow(('Ix','O0')*0+('Ix','O1')*1+('Ix','02')*2+('Ix','03')*3)

how to write a loop so that it cycles through values of x from 1-3. I've tried the algo I wrote above and the error it gives me:

TypeError: 'dict' object is not callable

A: It's not entirely clear what you're looking for, but you could do something like this:
for lhs in ('I0', 'I1', 'I2', 'I3'):
  print(flow[(lhs, 'O0')] * 0 +
        flow[(lhs, 'O1')] * 1 +
        flow[(lhs, 'O2')] * 2 +
        flow[(lhs, 'O3')] * 3)

Which outputs:
16
15
11
18

A: Seems like an odd requirement, but eval should get what you want:
flow = {('I0','O0'): 2,
        ('I0','O1'): 3,
        ('I0','O2'): 2,
        ('I0','O3'): 3,
        ('I1','O0'): 2,
        ('I1','O1'): 1,
        ('I1','O2'): 4,
        ('I1','O3'): 2,
        ('I2','O0'): 3,
        ('I2','O1'): 4,
        ('I2','O2'): 2,
        ('I2','O3'): 1,
        ('I3','O0'): 3,
        ('I3','O1'): 2,
        ('I3','O2'): 2,
        ('I3','O3'): 4
}

costlst = [eval("flow[('I"+str(x)+"', 'O0')]*0+flow[('I"+str(x)+"', 'O1')]*1+flow[('I"+str(x)+"', 'O2')]*2+flow[('I"+str(x)+"', 'O3')]*3") for x in [0,1,2,3]]

print(costlst)

Output
[16, 15, 11, 18]

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Holly Willoughby pays tribute to 'funny and kind' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson
The socialite's passing was announced yesterday.
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This Morning's Holly Willoughby paid tribute to original 'it-girl' Tara Palmer-Tomkinson earlier today, following the news yesterday (8 February) that the 45-year-old had passed away.
At the start of the show, she and co-host Phillip Schofield spoke to Ivan Massow, a close friend of Palmer-Tomkinson's, about her life, with Holly also speaking with affection and emotion about the times she shared with the socialite.
'She had an incredible energy,' revealed Holly. 'I was lucky enough to know her and she was very good friends with a close friend of mine and she just had that special energy about her.'
Praising Palmer-Tomskin's vivacious personality, Holly added: 'She was just so funny, she was a funny girl and incredibly kind. I always remember that she was very generous with her time but with her spirit also.'
Sharing an anecdote of how the two unlikely friends first met, Holly hinted at how carefree and generous Palmer-Tomkinson was:
'The first time I met her, and I think this sums up that "childlike" character and fun that she had… I was having dinner and she came over to my table and said, "You know a very good friend of mine" and we started chatting chatting, chatting and, as she's talking to me, she's gesticulating with her hands and I noticed this diamond bling, gorgeous ring – and I'm like watching her hand like a magpie and said "your ring is beautiful", and she said "oh this, this is just a bit of toot from Chanel" and she dropped it in my champagne class and went "it's yours!"... I said "no, I can't take that!" and she replied, "if you don't take it, I'll throw it across the restaurant".
Holly then revealed that she had tried to return the ring but that Palmer-Tomkinson wasn't interested: 'So the next morning I wake up and I had this incredible ring on my hand, which I did say to her the next morning 'I've got your ring' and she said 'I don't want it back'...' she said.
She then went on to reveal that Palmer-Tomkinson had helped boost her confidence when getting ready for an event right after the birth of her second child, Belle:
'I'd just had Bella two months beforehand and had this event to go to and I was feeling quite big and dumpy because I was still breastfeeding and I was massive – and bearing in mind she was a size 6 and I was about a size 16 to 20 by that point, she said "come back to mine" and we went into her wardrobe and she must've spent hours with me trying on all of her clothes and she fully kitted me out in heels, she gave me her handbag, she dressed me up and sent me off on my way to this party...
'But she was a real girl's' girl. She was a lovely person,' added Holly.
Other celebrities, including her godfather Prince Charles, have expressed their sadness at Palmer-Tomkinson's unexpected death since it was announced yesterday (8 February).
The coroner is now investigating Palmer-Tomkinson's cause of death, however it is not being treated as suspicious. Her passing comes just three months after she revealed she had been diagnosed with a brain tumour and auto-immune disease.
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On February 23rd, Linda Hanson, Spokesperson for the Muncie/Delaware League of Women Voters, gave an informative lecture on the current status of Redistricting Reform bills in the Indiana Statehouse. Linda suggested messages to send our elected officials regarding the particular bills which may still advance a fairer process for defining districts. Afterward, she answered questions from those present.
SB105, Senator Greg Walker's bill to create a set of redistricting standards, barely passed the Indiana Senate by a vote of 26-23. That's a big change from last year, when the identical bill passed 42-6. Since just about all of the discussion about this bill took place behind closed doors in the Senate Republican caucus it's hard to say why the bill garnered so much opposition this year.
One argument members of the lobbying team kept hearing from legislators opposed to SB105 was that having standards in statute would encourage lawsuits over maps drawn in 2021. That is not the case. It is extremely unlikely that anyone would file a challenge to Indiana legislative or Congressional maps in state court over state standards when a much stronger argument could be made in federal court over constitutional issues. Further, redistricting reform advocates understand that the Indiana Supreme Court takes the Indiana Constitution's separation of powers clause seriously and is extremely unlikely to entertain any challenge to legislative drawn maps.
Perhaps a more important reason for the large increase in no votes is that SB105 contains language prohibiting maps from being drawn to accommodate incumbents and a new round of redistricting is just around the corner. Something motivated our opponents inside the Senate majority caucus to step up their efforts to kill the bill. Whatever the reason, the close Senate vote could be used as a reason to deny SB105 a hearing in the House. So, we've got work to do on redistricting reform in Indiana.
SB105 finally had its first reading in the Indiana House and was referred to the Committee on Elections and Apportionment. The Chair, Timothy Wesco, has not promised to hear the bill in committee.
–> Please contact Rep. Wesco to say you want the bill to have a fair hearing.
–> Let Speaker Brian Bosma know that we expect redistricting reform legislation this 2019 General Assembly session. He knows there is citizen support for it. Ask him to insist that Rep. Tim Wesco give it a fair hearing.
–> It is critically important that all members of the House hear from their constituents about SB105 as well. (See below) Contact your representative today!


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#ifndef MethodOfGettingAValueProfile_h
#define MethodOfGettingAValueProfile_h

#include <wtf/Platform.h>

// This is guarded by ENABLE_DFG_JIT only because it uses some value profiles
// that are currently only used if the DFG is enabled (i.e. they are not
// available in the profile-only configuration). Hopefully someday all of
// these #if's will disappear...
#if ENABLE(DFG_JIT)

#include "JSValue.h"

namespace JSC {

class CodeBlock;
class LazyOperandValueProfileKey;
struct ValueProfile;

class MethodOfGettingAValueProfile {
public:
    MethodOfGettingAValueProfile()
        : m_kind(None)
    {
    }

    explicit MethodOfGettingAValueProfile(ValueProfile* profile)
    {
        if (profile) {
            m_kind = Ready;
            u.profile = profile;
        } else
            m_kind = None;
    }

    static MethodOfGettingAValueProfile fromLazyOperand(
        CodeBlock*, const LazyOperandValueProfileKey&);

    bool operator!() const { return m_kind == None; }

    // This logically has a pointer to a "There exists X such that
    // ValueProfileBase<X>". But since C++ does not have existential
    // templates, I cannot return it. So instead, for any methods that
    // users of this class would like to call, we'll just have to provide
    // a method here that does it through an indirection. Or we could
    // possibly just make ValueProfile less template-based. But last I
    // tried that, it felt more yucky than this class.

    EncodedJSValue* getSpecFailBucket(unsigned index) const;

private:
    enum Kind {
        None,
        Ready,
        LazyOperand
    };

    Kind m_kind;
    union {
        ValueProfile* profile;
        struct {
            CodeBlock* codeBlock;
            unsigned bytecodeOffset;
            int operand;
        } lazyOperand;
    } u;
};

} // namespace JSC

#endif // ENABLE(DFG_JIT)

#endif // MethodOfGettingAValueProfile_h

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Polytheism is theism, monotheism is atheism.
IIRC, in the original Greco-Roman sense, abstaining from worshiping the Gods was seen as atheism, thus Jews/Xtians were considered atheists.
Yes, this is one part of it: Xtians were called atheos because *there were Gods they denied*.
This is the ancient logic—polytheists didn't deny the existence of other people's Gods.
Going deeper, though, there is an issue here about the nature of religious experience. Experience is primarily positive in character, including theophanic experience.
Hence I can experience a God, even a God who is all things; but I cannot *experience* that this is the only God.
Monotheism thus reveals itself as primarily a negative moment of disqualifying or modifying an experience.
This movement of negation, if followed through, results in atheism via a process of reasoning such as Hegelian absolute idealism.
Hence I would argue that even the theism of Abrahamics ultimately requires the acknowledgement of the possibility of polytheism.
I see the construct of monotheism as a Faustian bargain these faiths have made; not to say I imagine them backing out of it!
What did they win? What did they lose?


Privatization plan holds promise but gives big carriers too much clout.
Airline passengers have been told for years to expect a dramatic new air traffic control system that would use advanced GPS technology to replace the radar that has been used to guide aircraft over the U.S. since World War II. The system, known as "NextGen," holds the promise of shaving time off flights in crowded corridors.
But, as with many government projects, the Federal Aviation Administration's effort to implement NextGen is over budget and behind schedule. Another example of Washington doing a poor job of something a private company could do better?
Maybe. The airlines have been agitating for 30 years to convert the nation's air traffic control system into a private, nonprofit corporation that they say would work better than a government agency, especially when making big structural changes the government has bungled. A House committee recently approved legislation to do that, and the spinoff plan is off to an uncertain ride through Congress.
It's an intriguing idea. Perhaps a private, nonprofit corporation with access to the capital markets and free from the crazy, stop-and-start funding imposed by a dysfunctional Congress could do a better job of getting NextGen and future projects up and running. (Safety functions would remain at the FAA.) Backers note that countries such as Canada and Britain have privatized their air traffic control systems, and they argue that Canada's impressive progress with satellite-based air traffic control is proof that private works better than public.
But the price supporters want is a high one, and worth a hard look. The major airlines have long sought control of the U.S. air traffic system, and the legislation would largely give it to them at the expense of public input that now helps resolve disputes over noise, air traffic routes over homes and businesses and air service to rural areas.
The big airlines would have the largest bloc of seats on the 13-member board that would run the new system. Representatives of the public might, or might not, get the two seats set aside for appointment by the secretary of transportation.
Though the air traffic controllers' union supports the plan, not all major air carriers do. Delta opposes it and left the industry group Airlines for America last year, charging among other things that the experience in Canada and Britain shows private air traffic control raises costs to the public. There are also worthwhile questions about how much disruption NextGen, which finally appears to be making progress, would endure while its parent transformed from a government agency to a private corporation.
Despite these concerns, if a spinoff could improve the system without costing passengers more or silencing the public's voice in air traffic control, it would be worth doing. At a minimum, Congress should find a way to provide steadier, more predictable funding not just for big air traffic control projects but also for critical day-to-day operations that should never be threatened by the sort of delays, shutdowns or sequesters Congress seems unable to avoid.


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Spurs & Man United pair up top for England… boss' plans on show
Harry Kane could be set for his England debut this weekend against Lithuania… if leaked pictures of Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson's tactics are to be believed. The Spurs star is currently the Premier League's highest scoring Englishman with 19 goals and is enjoying, by some distance, the best season of his young career.
At the start of the campaign the 21-year-old was a fringe player at Spurs, but his form in the Europa League and domestic cups forced Mauricio Pochettino to select him, and he's since flourished. Hodgson would have been hard-pressed to ignore his form over the past few months, and duly picked him for his squad for the upcoming EURO 2016 qualifier and the friendly with Italy.
And it looks like he could get his full debut on Friday, with images having surfaced the England's gaffer's training notes, which clearly partner Kane and Rooney up front. Although these are not concrete proof, with the Man United man likely to start given his role as captain, it makes little sense to train so close to the game with a player he won't feature alongside!
Is Roy Hodgson gearing up to start Harry Kane with Wayne Rooney for England? http://t.co/AhP6GuJJ2P pic.twitter.com/yQahMi89ge
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Delphi Masterworks of Richard Wagner (Illustrated)
Peter Russell & Richard Wagner
The operas of the German composer Richard Wagner had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his works. He went on to revolutionise the music form through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art), by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He achieved these ideas most fully in his epic cycle of operas 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', notable for complex textures, rich harmonies and the elaborate use of leitmotifs. Delphi's Great Composers Series offers concise illustrated guides to the life and works of our greatest composers. Analysing the masterworks of each composer, these interactive eBooks include links to popular streaming services, allowing you to listen to the pieces of music you are reading about. Evaluating the masterworks of each composer, you will explore the development of their works, tracing how they changed the course of music history. Whether a classical novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this series offers an intriguing overview of the world's most famous and iconic compositions. This volume presents Wagner's masterworks in succinct detail, with informative introductions, accompanying illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus features. (Version 1)
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DAVID LEE ROTH's Shares New Artwork Featuring References To SAMMY HAGAR
David Lee Roth has shared a brand new piece of artwork in which he makes several references to his replacement in VAN HALEN, Sammy Hagar. As he has done before, Roth styled the image in the form of a newspaper called The Daily Catastrophe and he incuded several front-page headlines that mention Hagar: "Concrete Flowers For Sam," "Sam The Man Not Only Will Be Giving His Life For Rock And Roll, But Plans To Be Buried In His Recently Acquired Jet!" and "Red Rocker Refuses To Fly 55 In Afterlife", the latter of which is a reference to Sammy's nickname and Hagar's hit single "I Can't Drive 55".
Hagar replaced Roth in VAN HALEN in 1985 and recorded four studio albums with the band — "5150", "OU812", "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" and "Balance" — all of which topped the U.S. chart. The highest-charting Roth-led VAN HALEN album was a No. 2, and it took until "1984" to achieve that. (2012's "A Different Kind Of Truth" also landed at No. 2.)
Asked about his so-called "rivalry" with Roth, Hagar told Planet Rock magazine: "It wasn't even a blip on my radar.
"I don't respect Dave's artistry, but I do think he's clever and a great showman and what he did with VAN HALEN in the early days was fantastic. VAN HALEN couldn't have made it without him.
"God bless Dave, but he refuses to acknowledge that VAN HALEN with me was even more successful than VAN HALEN with him, and that's very stupid of him. That'd be like me not acknowledging what he did for the band before I joined: that would be stupid, wouldn't it?"
Hagar, Alex Van Halen, Eddie Van Halen and bassist Michael Anthony last teamed up in 2004 for a U.S. summer tour. In exchange for taking part in the tour, Anthony reportedly had to agree to take a pay cut and sign away his rights to the band name and logo.
Early last year, rumors were rampant that the classic-era lineup of VAN HALEN would reunite for the first time since 1984. It has since been revealed that a health setback involving guitarist Eddie was responsible for the tour not materializing.
The rumors originally started with Roth, who hinted to Vulture that VAN HALEN would be playing stadiums with Anthony back in the lineup.
VAN HALEN and Anthony had not been on good terms for more than a decade, with Anthony not invited to join the reunion with Roth that began in 2007. The subsequent two tours and studio album, "A Different Kind Of Truth", featured Eddie's son Wolfgang on bass.
Eddie died on October 6 at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California. The iconic VAN HALEN axeman died from complications due to cancer, his son confirmed.
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Cake Jam returning to Adamson Square
Local band Cake Jam will be performing on the rooftop of Nama Asian Fusion from 10:30 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. on Oct. 31.
The band consists of four Georgia born members: singer and manager Justin Matthew, guitarist Austin Arasmith, bassist Trey Paul, and drummer Henry Abshire. The Indie-rock band has been in action since May 2018 but the band really started growing this past summer once their hit single, Some Feelin', was released on iTunes.
"We're really excited to be back at Nama for another show. The atmosphere was awesome and everybody in the crowd was super involved and we loved it," said Trey Paul. "We're hoping to see a lot of returning fans and some new ones at this concert and we've really stepped up our setlist so hopefully, people won't be disappointed!"
The setlist for this show mostly consists of a mixture of indie-rock originals and a wide variety of popular covers, so there's something for everyone to enjoy. Their setlist includes everything from indie-rock originals to John Mayer covers.
"We always try to keep our setlist very broad so everyone in the crowd can hear something that they're into," says Paul. "Everybody loves the classics, so we always include a lot of those, but we also throw in some originals, like Crab Cakes, Some Feelin', and Sin."
Cake Jam's new single, Sin, is a song the band has been working on for a few months and is about to have its debut on Spotify and Apple Music, as well as their new EP that should be making its way there in a few months.
Nama Asian Fusion ia an Asian blend restaurant on Carrollton's Adamson Square. Nama is not only known for their great food, but also the drink selection at the bar and the atmosphere. Nama has quickly become one of the most popular bars in Adamson Square because of their rooftop seating area, the games and activities provided at the second-floor bar such as shuffleboard and video games, and the live music they play on Friday nights.
Before heading the rooftop to hear Cake Jam's set, people can head down to Nama's full-service dining area from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and grab a bite of the food. During the concert there will be a full-service bar on the second floor and a rooftop bar during the concert. The rooftop is filled with seating for everyone to come out and enjoy the live music from Cake Jam.
"We met a lot of great people in the crowd from our last show at Nama, and the energy was great. Although it was mostly college-age kids, there were people of every age in the crowd. We got a lot of great feedback and we hope to bring even better energy this time around," says Paul. "Nama is definitely one of our favorite venues to play at so far, and I hope we'll be back after this concert."
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SFPD: 79 arrested, 5 cops wounded in ugly protest over Ferguson
Bay Area // Crime
Vivian Ho, Kale Williams
Dec. 1, 2014 Updated: Dec. 1, 2014 7:34 p.m.
1of15Police Chief Greg Suhr references a board with photos of an injured officer as he detailed arrests, vandalism, and assaults against police during Black Friday protests during a press conference at SFPD headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, December 1, 2014.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of15Items including a chain and padlock and stolen electronics that were logged in as evidence by SFPD after arrests for vandalism and assaults against police during Black Friday protests during a press conference at SFPD headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, December 1, 2014.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
3of15Caution tape covers the smashed window of a Macy's Store on O'Farrell Street following a protest in Union Square in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, November 28, 2014 shining light on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
5of15Protestors skirmish with police during a march to call attention to the shooting of Michael Brown and Ferguson, MO in the Mission on November 28, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.Pete Kiehart / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
6of15Police detain a man near 5th and Market during a march to call attention to the shooting of Michael Brown and Ferguson, MO on November 28, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif.Pete Kiehart / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
7of15Mark Wolfe, a district manager with Radio Shack, gingerly opens a broken door at a store on Mission Street in San Francisco on Friday, November 28, 2014. The store was looted when protesters took to the streets on Black Friday, several days after a grand jury on Nov. 24 decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Three employees hid in a back room while the store was looted.Terray Sylvester/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
8of15A police officer investigates a Radio Shack on Mission Street in San Francisco that was looted during protests on Friday, November 28, 2014. The protesters took to the streets on Black Friday, several days after a grand jury on Nov. 24 decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. At the Radio Shack, three employees hid in a back room while looters ransacked the store, stealing tablets and headphones, among other items.Terray Sylvester / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
9of15A window at Sterling Bank and Trust on Mission Street in San Francisco was broken during protests on Friday, November 28, 2014. The protesters took to the streets on Black Friday, several days after a grand jury on Nov. 24 decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Terray Sylvester / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
10of15Employees huddle in the Apple Store near Union Square in San Francisco during Ferguson protests on Friday, Nov. 28, 2014.Jill Tucker/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
11of15A protesters confronts police on at the intersection of Market and Fifth streets in San Francisco on Friday, November 28, 2014. The protesters took to the streets after a grand jury on Nov. 24 decided not to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Terray Sylvester / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
12of15Police officers block the entrance of the Mission Police Station on 17th and Valencia streets following a protest in San Francisco, Calif. Friday, November 28, 2014 shining light on the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.Jessica Christian / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
13of15A pipe wrench, rocks and bricks entered into evidence as Police Chief Greg Suhr gave details about arrests for looting, vandalism, and assaults against police during Black Friday protests during a press conference at SFPD headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, December 1, 2014.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
14of15Police Chief Greg Suhr points to a board with the names and cities of origin of people arrested for looting, vandalism, and assaults against police during Black Friday protests during a press conference at SFPD headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, December 1, 2014.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
15of15Police Chief Greg Suhr detailed arrests, vandalism, and assaults against police during Black Friday protests at a press conference at SFPD headquarters in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, December 1, 2014.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Seventy-nine people, including six juveniles, were arrested and five police officers were injured during the violent downtown protests in San Francisco on Friday night, Police Chief Greg Suhr said at a Monday news conference.
Of those arrested in the demonstration — which sought to oppose Black Friday shopping and express outrage over the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — 23 people were San Francisco residents, Suhr said, with 56 coming from other California cities or from out of state.
Four people were booked into San Francisco County Jail — one on suspicion of assaulting an officer, two over outstanding warrants, and one on suspicion of possessing goods that police said were taken from a looted RadioShack.
Hundreds took to the streets to march in solidarity with protesters in Ferguson and around the country who believe a grand jury should have indicted Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot and killed Brown, an unarmed black teenager, on Aug. 9. Wilson said he acted in self-defense after he was attacked.
The San Francisco protest started peacefully Friday, with about 30 people gathering in Union Square around 5 p.m. with plans to march through the downtown area, which was full of Black Friday shoppers.
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The crowd had grown to a few hundred as a group that had marched from the Ferry Building joined those at Union Square. Shopkeepers lowered entry gates to avoid vandalism and families scurried behind police lines.
Suhr said officers had set up barricades to keep the protesters from an annual Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, but that the demonstrators broke through.
"At this point in time, breaking through the barricades, this was no longer a First Amendment march," Suhr said Monday. "This march, if it ever was a First Amendment march, was hijacked by a criminal fringe element bent on destruction and criminal conduct. Were it not for the efforts of the officers and the leadership on the ground, it could have been far worse."
Several windows were broken and objects, including a traffic sign, were thrown at police. The event was captured on video (warning: explicit language). A female sergeant who was struck by the sign — as well as a male lieutenant who came to her aid — were two of the five officers wounded in the protest, Suhr said.
Three more officers were wounded after the march continued downtown along Market Street and into the Mission District. Suhr said rocks and bottles were thrown at officers at 24th and Alabama streets.
An officer responding to reports of vandals breaking windows at 24th and Mission streets was injured, Suhr said, when a person threw a Tequila bottle through his car window, hitting him in the face.
"Only time will tell if this officer is permanently disfigured or requires further surgery to put him back to the way that he was," Suhr said. "His partner was struck with a large rock and also suffered abrasions. Both officers are recovering."
The majority of arrests took place on Liberty Street between Mission and Valencia streets, Suhr said. Freelance reporter Ryan Heuser, 28, was one of the people cited for failing to obey an officer and being in the street. He asked Suhr about the arrests at the news conference, and he said some officers ordered the crowd to get off the roadway while others ordered them to get off the sidewalk.
"I think that the cops used an illegal trick to get us off the street," he said. "We were given conflicting orders and then arrested when we didn't comply."
Suhr invited Heuser to speak to him in his office after the news conference.
"Are you going to help me identify who hit my cop in the face with a bottle?" Suhr asked him.
Heuser told him he didn't know who threw the bottle, but he further asserted that the group on Liberty Street was nonviolent and people were arrested after police gave them conflicting orders.
"I'm not going to argue with you," Suhr said. "You traveled with that group for hours. You're going to have a position as to what happened on Liberty Street.
"By my officers, who went through a lot that night, everybody on Liberty Street, as far as I'm concerned, were engaged in criminal conduct because that was what was relayed to me," Suhr continued. "I'm not trying to make you a bad guy or anything. I'm just saying it is what it is."
Heuser then asked, "Don't you think a conflicting order is impossible to comply with?"
Suhr responded: "You're making a very lucid defense, but I'm wearing the wrong outfit — you got to get someone wearing the robes (in court)," he said. "I will tell you in the future that if people are smashing police officers and windows and committing burglaries and they all run to Liberty Street, that may be a good group not to be with."
When Suhr was pressed on the possibility that his officers issued conflicting orders, he said, "There's a whole jail upstairs of people saying it was all a mistake."
"My officers were doing the best they could," he told Heuser. "And I think you were too."
Vivian Ho and Kale Williams are San Francisco Chronicle staff writers. E-mail: vho@sfchronicle.com, kwilliams@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @VivianHo, @sfkale
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Vivian Ho has worked for the San Francisco Chronicle since 2011, covering crime and breaking news as a Go Team reporter with a desk in the Hall of Justice. She reported on Black Lives Matter demonstrations, the Occupy movement, the Napa earthquake, the Rim Fire and the World Series riots as well as on homicides, criminal street gangs, sexual assaults, domestic violence cases and police personnel matters. She also writes for Chronicle Watch, a weekly column exploring stubborn issues in the Bay Area. Before she joined The Chronicle, Vivian reported for the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram and Gazette. Vivian spent most of her life in the frozen tundra that is New England and has a hard time understanding weather stories in California.
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Kale Williams is an Oakland native who writes about crime, catastrophes and cat videos, among other things. He joined The Chronicle as a general assignment reporter in 2013 after serving as the editor-in-chief of the Golden Gate Xpress, the student newspaper at San Francisco State University, where he got his journalism degree. His coverage of the feline community once prompted the Marin Humane Society to name a cat after him.


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Havana Journal
Written in 1993 for Forbes-FYI magazine
Here's a popular Cuban joke. A mother asks, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Her son answers, "A tourist."
Here's another, concerning Pepito, an archetypal Havana boy. Fidel sends Pepito to the U.S. to report on the situation. He comes back and says, "Miami was remarkable, Fidel. Just like life here in Cuba. If you don't have dollars, you can't buy anything."
Having missed Berlin, having missed Moscow, I was determined to see Havana while it was still under Fidel—before it became both "legal" and chic for Americans to go. I was damned if I was going to wait for Washington to okay it; besides, no visitor's ever been prosecuted. The secret is to go first to Mexico or Nassau, Jamaica or Canada. So I went via (pick one of the above).
Havana, with its long shoreline curving into an enormous harbor, is a revelation. The vast Old City, in terrible condition, is still exquisite, all columns and arches and balconies, baroque and lavish in its contours. No city in the Americas can equal its grandeur; I would put it, even in decay and disrepair, beside Paris as one of the most beautiful in the world, the ultimate triumph of architecture over politics.
My hotel, the Inglaterra, by the Parque Central and the elaborate icing of the Teatro Nacional, was built circa 1880: colonial lobby, rattan chairs, flowering tiles. Expecting the worst—I've come armored with soap and candles—I'm surprised to find my room equipped with a new a/c, telephone, and shiny bathroom with toilet paper, which few Cubans have had for years. A large Soviet TV is showing the National League playoffs live.
Walking the Prado I find the coffee-scented Centro Andaluz (1919). A few men in rocking chairs smoke fragrant cigars and ponder the warm afternoon light filtering through shutters. At tables in back, overweight old men in long many-pocketed shirts are playing dominos quietly. Rattle and click of the tiles.
Outside, hundreds stand in the soft dusk waiting hours for crowded red buses to take them home. Dollars-only taxis are the sole vehicles moving. As I admire a blue '53 Dodge, a young man chortles, "That was brought over by Christopher Columbus."
To the Tropicana, while most of Havana endures its nightly four-hour power cut. My taxi hurries through darkened neighborhoods, a sad city of ghosts wandering on lampless, gearless bicycles.
"Ladies and gentlemen, damas y caballeros, welcome to the most fabulous nightclub in the world!" In a clearing of long tables and immense trees, on catwalks high up in the forest, it's suddenly the 1950s again: swirls of light, pulsating staircases, imperious girls in sumptuous capes and spangled bikinis, backed by a hot big band with a shouting horn section. Long-legged, marauding Venuses, six feet tall, parade miles of fishnet mulatto flesh; black giantesses drip pearls, in garter belts and thigh-high boots, with lit-up chandeliers on their heads. The male crooners in white and gold suits are a soothing respite from the female onslaught, though the show is surprisingly proper.
At one a.m., when the Tropicana becomes an all-night disco, I find myself by a striking young woman with streaked brown hair. In a short, stylish dark dress, she's standing, not suggestively dancing like the obviously available women. She guesses I'm a periodista, perhaps because every other foreigner in Havana these days seems a journalist. She's twenty-five, a lab technician. Maria has only derisive remarks about the black girls in skin-tight spandex, bumping and grinding for foreign men. "Putas negras."
She introduces me to friends: Eduardo, an usher for the show, and Lydia, a pretty blonde law student. It seems possible that Eduardo's offering me both Maria and Lydia, though no one's dignity has yet been broken by the mention of money. They speak surprisingly frankly. They know, from Radio Martí, about the two Cuban air force pilots who defected in MIGs. They're pretty free with criticism of Fidel. They never say his name, but pull on imaginary beards. A century from now, perhaps, the gesture will survive as signifying some huge difficulty one cannot identify.
Stories of deprivation here seem almost apocryphal. No cats because people are eating them; for that matter, few dogs either. And almost nothing to buy: never have I seen so few shops on such busy streets. (In the old days the Woolworth's had a counter stacked with voodoo charms.) Shoes are for sale for, say, six months' wages. Old pharmacies are apothecary museums, the shelves with only a few many-hued bottles. People buy their daily bread roll at a counter below arched windows and washing-festooned balconies, beneath plants in clay pots and women gossiping.
Always there are glorious glimpses into tiled hallways, up marble staircases. On O'Reilly Street a marmoreal building has National City Bank of New York engraved above stone columns; a small sign on the glass front door says: Banco Nacional de Cuba. Gleaming, immobile old Plymouths and Chevys, starved for fuel.
A ration shop, gloomy and empty, is dispensing plantains—"one bunch per customer," is scrawled on a chalkboard. Dutifully checked off from the ration book everyone carries. An old man explains the present schedule: four eggs a month, perhaps a chicken, a bottle of rum. No milk for adults. Rice, beans. No beef, ever.
On Obispo, in the Ambos Mundos Hotel I go up in a cage elevator, along white corridors, past 1930s ironwork furniture, to Room 511, Hemingway's room for years. "As he left it," according to a twittering Carmen who accompanies me. A fake kitsch marlin head stares from one wall. For Whom the Bell Tolls in Spanish is on the dresser; he wrote much of it in this room. An expansive view of the city, plenty of sunlight. Carmen points out the low carved bed, probably Hemingway's, and an ancient black typewriter that's probably not, since it'd be worth as much as the hotel.
The Cinema Cervantes is showing Little Shop of Horrors.
In a wing of the Habana Libre (formerly the Havana Hilton) where tourist shops once flourished, there are now "easy shopping" dollar stores, where Cubans with legalized hard currency can buy Guy Laroche and Yves St. Laurent and the rest. Across the street a dollars bookstore sells yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, and the Herald Tribune. And Spanish paperbacks, Asimov to Vidal, a literary selection. Graham Greene's Batista-era Our Man In Havana is mysteriously banned, as is any serious criticism of the Cuban Revolution, and notably the novels of the exile G. Cabrera Infante, that portray with Joycean wordplay and Dickensian detail the magic and fervor of an un-castrated Havana.
Fidel's strong literacy campaign resulted in a nation of people who could all read what little they were permitted. Now that some restrictions have been lifted (writers once persecuted and now dead are safely praised) the problem is how few people can afford books. It's become difficult to get a copy of the daily official newspaper, and there's been no Havana phone book since 1979. Unfortunately, many copies got used as toilet paper.
I find Maria's apartment nearby without too much trouble. She is slowly paying off 34,000 pesos to a lawyer for the tiny flat, a bracket-shaped box carved out of a larger apartment next door. The bed folds into the wall; there's a tiny kitchen and bathroom, a fridge, an ancient water heater that doesn't work, one chair, an immense Soviet TV which nearly everyone has. She earns 320 pesos a month, under $5 and sinking. So the flat will cost Maria a decade's salary. She says she's lucky to have it.
Maria adds, "We haven't had cooking oil, shampoo, soap, or detergent for months. The power's off four, six hours a day. The water too." She smiles. "I lost twenty pounds when I moved to Havana."
She shows me her little red Communist Party book (she's obliged to be a member) listing her monthly contribution: four pesos. It's on the honor system; I point out that she hasn't contributed since April. She promptly signs it five times.
She also shows me her master's thesis, 200 bound pages of complex biological text and graphs. I leave her a little money, several candles and mosquito coils, and six bars of soap.
A trio sings at lunch in the bar of La Bodeguita del Medio (a half-century of patrons' signatures on the venerable walls). The drummer is a local Queequeg, his dark bald skull dense with geometric tattoos, a feathered earring dangling. He clasps my hand and presses it to his brow. Over the bar, a framed note:
My mojito in La Bodeguita / My daiquiri in El Floridita
Cuba for Hem was fishing, drinking, and whoring, and he cared little about the island's refined or folk art, much less his fellow writers here—greats like Alejo Carpentier, Jos Lezama Lima, Virgilio Pinera. Nor is there any sign he favored the revolution, though the government has made him a Cuban hero. His villa-estate near Havana, the popular Finca Vigia, mostly as he left it, is closed these days for restoration.
Ava Gardner used to swim naked in the pool.
Fragrance of the streets: mingled scents of boiling sugar, urine, coffee, a vanilla breeze, and dusty tedium of afternoon.
This city like a hot, fierce tropical dream of Spain. The women's lazy, flaunting walk. Skin like different kinds of honey.
In the modern city the strangest building is undoubtedly the U.S. Interests Section, seaside on the Malecon like a giant, run-down a/c unit. From a facing billboard a cartoon Uncle Sam growls ("Grrr!") across the water at an island guerrilla who proclaims: "Imperialist gentlemen! We have absolutely no fear of you!"
I ask a young man who drives an illegal taxi if there's much resentment still for those Cubans who'd gone to Miami. "They did the right thing," he says. "Good for them. I would have, too."
A couple of blocks away, in the Partagas cigar factory, Canadians and Europeans line up to buy box after bargain box of Cochibas, Monte Cristos, holy smokes. In the inner sanctum, a man reads aloud (newspaper in the morning, novel in the afternoon) to while away the hours for the patient rollers of tobacco leaves.
An evening daiquiri at the Floridita, the bar that invented it: ice, lemon juice, sugar, a little maraschino liqueur, and a light Cuban rum. A bar of carved mahogany with gold columns flank a painting of 18th century Havana. White stools, red half-moon tables; an art deco feel and Cuba's strongest air conditioning; an ugly bust of Hemingway. The secret to a daiquiri, the waiter explains, is the ice: "Must be absolutely frapp
I ask a fellow outside what he thinks of the $6 Floridita daiquiri. He shrugs. "This makes people very angry. I can't go out and get a drink, because all the best places are only for tourists or tourist money. So I feel degraded in my own country."
Anyone reading up on Cuba is deluged with statistics. I've been keeping my own. Greene wrote that Havana "turned out human beauty on a conveyor-belt"; I've decided that every second woman is pretty, every third woman is gorgeous, every fourth woman is available, already even approaching you. In this the Revolution failed, for the idea was to eliminate the exploitation of women. It's more than machismo, or an impossible economic situation; the erotic impulse here is simply as overwhelming as the architecture.
Not surprisingly, men come to Cuba to find beautiful wives. A successful, dapper Mexican businessman has been trying for months to get his eighteen-year-old wife out. "You can't imagine how complicated it is marrying a Cuban girl. To call her you have to buy her a cellular phone. Then you end up providing money for the entire family to buy groceries on the black market. Plus, these people have no Catholicism anymore. Instead they have this weird Santeria business. Cuban voodoo. My wife actually thinks I have a dead man inside me just because some Santeria priestess told her so. And of course you must pay the government so your wife can leave. They make you suffer. First it's $1,000 for her passport. Then it's 'Oh, there's one more thing, it might take a month or two. Maybe we can speed up the process, but that'll cost another $400.' They always come up with something. If they only said at the start, 'Give us $3,000 and she can leave tomorrow morning,' it would be more humane. Still, it's worth it. I figure, by helping a beautiful girl leave Cuba I'm guaranteed an entry into Heaven."
The 18th-century Plaza de Cathedral is compact, magnificent; by the time I arrive mass is already over, but many are still within, like the young teak-colored man in his best clothes intoning a prayer softly to himself. In the plaza an orchestra begins to play program music. Artists in the narrow streets sell paintings: Chagall, West Africa, and Picasso, in mambo tones.
The glorious Casa de la Obrapia (stone arches, a fading yellow courtyard) has two rooms dedicated to Alejo Carpentier. They have his desk from Paris, his raincoat, his books, photos of him and his wife, photocopies of several manuscript pages. They also have, in its own room, his blue Volkswagen Bug, brought from France with license plates intact, and the car papers, framed.
After several magnificent museums devoted to the splendors of colonial-era Havana, a glimpse into the Museo de la Revolucion—formerly the Presidential Palace. The Granma (the boat that beached Fidel & Co. in the Historic Landing) can be seen outside in a glass showroom. Upstairs, a wax model of "El Che," as 20th Century Fox called him, strides heroically through the jungle. Past him are too many rooms of knives, guns, ammo, blood-soaked uniforms, radios, photos of Fidel, his dinner menus, even the typewriter to which his famous "History Will Absolve Me" was dictated. History may look kindly upon years of improved social conditions, but it doesn't forgive eight-hour speeches.
Much-needed fresh air along the Malecon, the broad arcing boulevard by the sea, famous for plainclothes cops, a view of El Morro fortress and amorous couples at all hours. ("The shortest line between two points is the curve of the Malecon."—G. Cabrera Infante.) A few men swim or fish from rocks below the sea-wall. Boys play baseball on a small stretch of grass. A long honor-guard of glorious buildings whose lower floors are all abandoned, the paint eroded by thirty-five years of sea-spray and neglect.
Here's a final Cuban joke: What are the three greatest triumphs of the Revolution? Easy! Education, medicine, sports.
What are the three greatest disasters? Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
After sugar, tourism is the island's largest source of hard currency. Many hotels have been renovated, like the Sevilla (much of Greene's novel takes place in its bar) or the Nacional, sixty years old this year, which once boasted a grand casino and was the finest, largest hotel in the Caribbean. Past the royal palms the cannons still confront the Gulf of Mexico, a fountain plays, and the gardens are full of South American, European and Japanese businessmen, many steps ahead of all the hypothetical Americans who aren't allowed by their own government to visit or invest.
Now that I've actually visited, talk in the U.S. press about "Fidel's Last Days" (logic: first Eastern Europe, now Cuba) seems preposterous. Havana may percolate with dismay and fatigue, but hardly revolutionary discontent. After all, over half Cuba's 10.4 millions are children of this once extremely popular revolution.
As a rare American, I've felt welcome. Though few Cubans I speak to put the blame for living conditions on U.S. shoulders, the economic blockade is still highly unpopular. Why should proud people in a country you're doing your best to strangle want to do the bidding of the strangler? The best move politically for the U.S. would be to airdrop, say, 100,000 tubes of toothpaste into Cuba, cushioned in toilet paper. It would be a friendly gesture.
Esther worked in tourism; before, she was a university professor for five years. At thirty she's refined, with a halo of dark hair and a lively, quick beauty. I neglect to tell her I'm a journalist. She agrees to lunch to practice her errorless and unbelievably accentless English, for she's never been abroad.
Esther, her husband, and her son and daughter, share the old family apartment with her parents, her brother, and her sister. "We have no hope for our own home," she says, "no hope at all." She speaks with humor, an amused acceptance of the cards life has dealt. I find it hard to reconcile her amazing English with her literary tastes (Stephen King and Harold Robbins). It doesn't seem to bother her that I'm spending a month's wages on her meal: a dismal salad, beef in spicy tomato sauce, coffee like jet fuel. She earns 148 pesos a month ($2 now), plus about $20 in tips from tourists. As a professor there'd been no hope of hard currency.
I ask her if she'd leave if she could. "Two years ago we had a chance to go to Canada, if we really tried," she says. "And then perhaps to America. But the crime in the States worries us. And for the moment this still feels like our home. So we stay."
As we walk she speaks of how the dollar economy is about to swallow the peso economy—in six months, she predicts, there'll only be hard currency. No one can imagine what happens then. How can it be, I ask, that Cuba can't feed itself? And yet, though not an ideologue, she's still in favor of the Revolution, and believes Fidel has good intentions but is surrounded by people who achieved their positions through politics, not expertise.
I give her a roll of toilet paper from the hotel, Friday's International Herald Tribune, six bars of soap, $5 for her children—this takes a bit of arguing—and my copy of Our Man In Havana.
Over half a million tourists come to Cuba annually—more than twice as many as in the best years before Castro. The irony cannot be lost on Fidel that tourists and foreign currency are brought in by colonial-era Havana and the emblems of pre-Castro Cuba: the beaches, the women, the daiquiris, a vague scent of something illicit. With casinos the circle would be complete.
Before leaving Miami, I'd asked a Cuban friend what I could bring back from Havana for her. She reflected a moment, then smiled sadly. "The air, darling," she said. "Only the air."
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After completing its purchase of IBM's low-end server business, Lenovo plans to relocate the unit's local employees to the former corporate campus of Sony Ericsson in Research Triangle Park.
Gerry Smith, who leads Lenovo's Americas group, announced the pending move in an email to employees that was obtained by The News & Observer. Lenovo will occupy both office buildings on the old Ericsson campus, which combined contain 450,000 square feet.
Lenovo also plans to build an additional 30,000 square feet of office space, according to Smith's email. The campus will be home to Lenovo's Enterprise Business Group.
The deal is a major win for Rubenstein Partners, the Philadelphia-based real estate firm that acquired the Ericsson buildings and the 67-acre campus on which the buildings sit for $26 million in December.
About 7,500 IBM employees are expected to shift to Lenovo when the PC maker completes its $2.3 billion acquisition of a line of servers from IBM.
Lenovo is already the largest tenant in Perimeter Park, the Duke Realty office park in Morrisville where it has 2,200 employees and leases 468,000 square feet. Lenovo, which has about 2,500 employees in North Carolina, has said its presence in the state will nearly double as a result of the IBM acquisition.
Lenovo said in January when the IBM deal was announced that it expects it to be completed in six to nine months, pending regulatory approval.
The company is restructuring itself as a result of the IBM deal. The new structure replaces the company's two existing business groups with four: PC, Mobile, Enterprise, and Ecosystem and Cloud Services.
The Enterprise group will be led by Smith and will include IBM's x86 server business as well as data storage devices.


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Unter Stoffwechselwegen () versteht man die Auf-/Ab- und Umbauprozesse in den Zellen. Bei Stoffwechselwegen handelt es sich um die definierte Abfolge biochemischer Reaktionen, meist von Enzymen katalysiert. Ein Stoffwechselweg entspricht einem einfachen biologischen Prozess, wobei die Abgrenzung zu diesem Begriff fließend ist. 1995 vereinigte Donald Nicholson alle bis dahin bekannten Stoffwechselwege in seinem . Die Abfolge der zeitlichen Aktivität der Gene für die an den einzelnen aufeinander folgenden biochemischen Umsetzungen im Stoffwechselweg beteiligten Enzyme, welche eine Art "Enzymkaskade" bilden, wird als Genwirkkette bezeichnet. Sie ist ein Ergebnis der Genregulation. Ein Beispiel für eine solche Genwirkkette ist die Blutgerinnung.

Stoffwechselwege, geordnet nach Funktion

Wege der Zellatmung

 Fettsäureoxidationen (z. B. α- oder β-Oxidation)
 Cori-Zyklus
 Glykolyse (formale Umkehr: Gluconeogenese)
 Anaerobe Atmung
 Citratzyklus
 Glyoxylatzyklus
 Atmungskette (Oxidative Phosphorylierung)
 Q-Zyklus

Andere Wege
 Cholesterinbiosynthese
 Pentosephosphatweg
 Porphyrinsynthese (oder Hämsynthese)
 Harnstoffzyklus
 Fettsäuresynthese

Biochemische Zyklen

Stoffwechselwege sind Reaktionsfolgen, in die Metabolite eintreten und denen solche entnommen werden können. Oftmals verlaufen Stoffwechselwege zyklisch, das Anfangsprodukt des Stoffwechselwegs ist dann auch das Endprodukt. Der Ringschluss erfolgt durch Regenerierung oder Nachlieferung des Startmoleküls. Bekanntestes Beispiel: Citratzyklus, die "Drehscheibe des Stoffwechsels", in dem anabole und katabole Wege der Kohlenhydrate, Proteine und Fette zusammenlaufen. Viele dieser Zyklen wurden nach ihren Entdeckern benannt (Namensreaktionen) und repräsentieren damit ein Stück Biochemie-Geschichte.

Calvin-Zyklus
 lichtunabhängige Reaktion (Dunkelreaktion) der Photosynthese, in der aus fünf Molekülen einer C3-Verbindung (3-Phosphoglycerat) drei Moleküle des CO2-Akzeptors Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphat, regeneriert werden

Citratzyklus
 Endabbau einer C2-Verbindung (aktivierte Essigsäure = Acetyl-CoA) unter Bildung von CO2 und GTP sowie den Reduktionsäquivalenten NADH,H+ und FADH2, die in der Atmungskette unter Bildung von H2O oxidiert werden

Cori-Zyklus
 Wege des Glukose-Metabolismus unter Beteiligung von Leber und Skelettmuskel

Harnstoff-Zyklus
 Ammoniak-Entgiftung in der Leber durch einen Metabolite-Zyklus zwischen Mitochondrien und Cytosol

Hatch-Slack-Zyklus
 C4-Dicarboxylatweg über zwei Zelltypen der C4-Pflanzen

Lynen-Zyklus (Syn. HMG-CoA-Zyklus)
 Bildung von Ketonkörpern (Acetacetat und Folgeprodukte) bei Hunger und vermehrt bei gestörtem Kohlenhydratstoffwechsel (z. B. Diabetes mellitus)

Pentosephosphatzyklus
 Auf- und Abbau von Pentosephosphaten und Bildung von NADPH. Der Pentosephosphatzyklus spielt in den roten Blutkörperchen eine wichtige Rolle.

Q-Zyklus
 zyklischer Elektronenfluss am Komplex III der Atmungskette; Verdopplung der Energieausbeute

Substratzyklus
 Leerlaufzyklus durch wiederholte Phosphorylierung/Dephosphorylierung eines Metaboliten. Regulatorische Funktion; mögliche Bedeutung bei Wärmeerzeugung

Genwirkkette

Für die Bildung jedes Enzyms durch Proteinbiosynthese ist ein bestimmtes Gen verantwortlich. Die Abfolge der Umsetzungsschritte durch die substratspezifischen Enzyme entspricht der zugrundeliegenden Genwirkkette. Falls bei einem Gen ein Gendefekt vorliegt und das Enzym nicht synthetisiert werden kann, fällt der betreffende Stoffwechselschritt aus. Auch die daran anschließenden biochemischen Umsetzungen können nicht stattfinden, da für sie das erforderliche Substrat nicht bereitgestellt wird. Einigen Erbkrankheiten des Stoffwechsels liegen solche Gendefekte zugrunde, bei denen die von den Enzymen bewerkstelligten biochemischen Umsetzungen infolge eines Gendefekts nicht möglich sind. Bekannte Beispiele sind die Phenylketonurie und die Bluterkrankheit. Wenn ein Gen durch Vorschaltung vor ein anderes Gen dessen Wirksamkeit beeinflussen kann, bezeichnet man das als Epistase.

Weblinks
Im WWW sind etliche elektronische Datenbanken mit Stoffwechseldaten frei verfügbar. Eine der wichtigsten ist KEGG:
 KEGG PATHWAY Database
 WikiPathways – Wiki der Wissenschaftsgemeinde zur Archivierung und Verbesserung von Stoffwechselwegen

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I recently came across an intriguing script while trying to find a fix for a CSS bug. It's called IE7.js, and it claims "to make Microsoft Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser," and to fix PNG transparency in IE5 and IE6 to boot.
Are you just a couple of scripts away from never again having to find a workaround for an IE CSS bug? Probably not. I haven't had the time to test the script extensively, but the test pages look promising. It will make things a lot easier for you, but I doubt it will magically make everything work flawlessly in IE.
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