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Daniel Bernoulli published his masterpiece Hydrodynamica in 1738 only to see it plagiarized by his own jealous father. Bernoulli explained how the speed of a fluid affects its pressure – the Bernoulli Effect explains how an airplane's wings generate lift. Bernoulli's kinetic theory anticipated James Clerk Maxwell's by more than a century, and Bernoulli carried out ground-breaking work on the theory of risk, utilized in areas as diverse as economics and evolution.
FULL NAME : Daniel Bernoulli
FAMOUS AS : Mathematician
NATIONALITY : Swiss
BORN ON : 08 February 1700 AD
BIRTHDAY : 8th February
DIED AT AGE : 82
SUN SIGN : Aquarius
PLACE OF BIRTH : Groningen, Dutch Republic
DIED ON : 17 March 1782 AD
PLACE OF DEATH : Basel
His most remarkable work was the 'Bernoulli's theorem', related to the field of hydrodynamics. It states, in effect, that the total mechanical energy of the flowing fluid, comprising the energy associated with fluid pressure, the gravitational potential energy of elevation, and the kinetic energy of fluid motion, remains constant. The theorem still forms the basis of many engineering applications, such as aircraft wing design.
He also established the basis for the kinetic theory of gases and heat by demonstrating that the impact of molecules on a surface would explain pressure and that, assuming the constant, random motion of molecules, pressure and motion increase with temperature.
Daniel Bernoulli was a Swiss mathematician born on 29th January 1700 in Groningen, Netherlands. He belonged to a family of mathematicians. His father Johann Bernoulli was one of the first developers of calculus and his uncle and older brother are known as 'by far the ablest of the younger Harpers'. At the age of 7, Daniel expressed his desire to study mathematics but his father encouraged him to study business instead. Daniel agreed on the condition that his father would tutor him in mathematics. His relation with his father was sour due to the shame that he felt after coming in the same place in a scientific contest in the University of Paris. He went as far as using plagiarism. Despite Daniel's efforts of reconciliation, his father did not end the grudge till he died. In 1724, Daniel went to St. Petersburg to fill the post as Professor of Mathematics. He was, however, not satisfied there thus resulting in his resignation in 1733. He went back to the University of Basel. He was also selected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1750.
In 1723-24, he published one of his earliest mathematical works titled 'Exercitationes quaedam Mathematicae' (Mathematical Exercises). It focused on differential equations and the physics of flowing water.
In 1724, he was appointed the professor of mathematics at St. Petersburg academy of sciences, a post he served in for eight years. In 1733, after a temporary illness, he resigned from his post and returned to Basel.
In 1732, he became a professor of botany and anatomy at the University of Basel and later, accepted a post in physiology in 1743.
In 1738, he discussed the basis of the kinetic theory of gases in his work 'Hydrodynamica', which dealt with the properties of basic importance in fluid flow, particularly pressure, density, and velocity, and emphasized on their fundamental relationship.
Subsequently, he came out with his most important work called 'Bernoulli's principle', which states that the pressure in a fluid decreases as its velocity increases.In 1750, after being appointed to the chair of physics at the University; he served as the professor of physics for the next 26 years.
He also published numerous papers dealing with mechanics which mainly focused on the problems connected with vibrating strings. He worked with Euler on elasticity as well as on the development of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation.
He also authored the 'Specimen theoriae novae de mensura sortis (Exposition of a New Theory on the Measurement of Risk)' which is the basis of economic theory of risk aversion, risk premium and utility.
His later works comprised of statistics and probability. His last work involved the application of probability theory to various practical matters, such as inoculation and relative proportion of male and female births.
Daniel Bernoulli was honored during his life for his immense contributions to mathematics and physics. He was an elected member of the leading scientific societies of that time such as those in St. Petersburg, Berlin, Bologna, Paris, London, Bern Zurich, Turin and Mannheim. Daniel had lost his interest in the field mainly due to his strife with his father which had remained unresolved till his death. Daniel died on 17th March 1782 when he was 82 years of age.
Between 1725 and 1749, he received 10 prizes from the Paris Academy of Sciences for his contributions in the field of astronomy, gravity, tides, magnetism, ocean currents, and the behavior of ships at sea.
In May 1750, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Quotes and Sayings by Daniel Bernoulli
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
Nature always tends to act in the simplest way.
Some Unknown Facts About Daniel Bernoulli
He is mostly remembered for his claims of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his ground-breaking work in probability and statistics.
Bernoulli's name is celebrated in the Bernoulli principle, a specific example of the conservation of energy, which describes the mathematics of the mechanism basic the operation of two important technologies used in the 20th century: the carburetor and the airplane wing.
His earliest mathematical work was the Exercitationes or mathematical exercises which were published in 1724 with the help of Goldbach.
Two years later he pointed out for the first time the recurrent appeal of resolving a compound motion into motions of translation and a motion of rotation.
His chief work is Hydrodynamica, which he published in 1738; it resembles Joseph Louis Lagrange's Mécanique Analytique because it was arranged so that all the results are consequences of a single principle, mostly the conservation of energy.
This was trailed by a memoir on the theory of the tides, to which, resembled the memoirs by Euler and Colin Maclaurin.
Bernoulli and Euler tried to discover more about the flow of fluids.
They mostly wanted to know about the relationship between the speed at which blood flows and its pressure.
To explore this, Daniel experimented by puncturing the wall of a pipe with a small open ended straw and noticed that the height to which the fluid rose up the straw was related to fluid's pressure in the pipe.
Physicians all over Europe were soon measuring patients' blood pressure by sticking point-ended glass tubes directly into their veins.
It was not until almost 170 years later in 1896 that an Italian doctor discovered a less painful method which is still used today.
Bernoulli's method of gaging pressure is still used today in modern aircraft to measure the speed of the air passing the plane; that is its air speed.
To take his discoveries further, Daniel Bernoulli returned to his earlier work on Conservation of Energy.
It was known that a moving body exchanges its kinetic energy for potential energy when it increases height. Bernoulli realized in a similar way that a moving fluid exchanges its kinetic energy for pressure.
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Join us for the 2012 Annual Celebration at 5:30PM in the George Washington Room of The Yorktowne Hotel for a pre dinner cocktail hour with drinks and hors d'oeuvres, followed by a buffet dinner at 6:45. Remarks will be made by president Dave Komar, including a review of the 2012 year of YYP, election results, and a charity presentation. There will also be live music and door prizes.
Please view the calendar to RSVP to this event.
Volunteers are needed for Plaza Palooza!
Plaza Palooza is a family-friendly program series featuring interactive activities, games, crafts, music, inflatable play equipment, ice skating, and more for families with children age 12 and under.
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The Annual Home Tour is a yearly event that has been the keystone of YYP's existence since 1999. Each year, the Home Tour Committee works with urban homeowners and developers to showcase city living at its finest.
In 2011, 450 people attended the event and after party, held at the historic York Water Company. It was catered by the Yorktowne Hotel and local brewer Liquid Hero.


Madonna MADONNA: Will a painting of her hang in the Saatchi Gallery?
Hello everybody, Have a look at the painting I did of Madonna as she was visiting Estonia on her tour in August. It was to be the official gift to her from the organizers of the concert, but at the last moment her management declined all gifts (the gift from our First Lady was reportedly discovered in the trash can at the airport), so the painting stayed home. I entered it in the Saatschi Gallery online competition Showdown, and it fared surprisingly well - either because I am a good painter or because of the activity of the Madonna fans. Now it's gone to the finals, and in order to succeed and beat the other finalist, needs your full support. So please take 10 seconds to vote for the painting, so Madonna could be displayed at the prestigeous Saatchi Gallery in London!
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JUST Committee Meeting
Meetings (JUST)
Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights (JUST)
Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 11:05 a.m. to 1:04 p.m.
Room 415, Wellington Building, 197 Sparks Street
Iqra Khalid, Chair (Liberal)
Iqra Khalid
Ramesh Sangha
Philip Lawrence
Larry Maguire
Acting Members present
• Pam Damoff for Arif Virani (Liberal)
• Alistair MacGregor for Randall Garrison (NDP)
• Jag Sahota for Hon. Rob Moore (Conservative)
Associate Members present
• Raquel Dancho (Conservative)
• Isabelle D'Souza, Legislative Counsel
• Émilie Thivierge, Legislative Clerk
• Julia Nicol, Analyst
• Lyne Casavant, Analyst
Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code
Appearing
• Hon. David Lametti, P.C., M.P., Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada
National Judicial Institute
• Hon. Madam Justice Adèle Kent, Chief Judicial Officer
Canadian Judicial Council
• Hon. J. Michael MacDonald, Acting Executive Director and Senior General Counsel
• Nancy Othmer, Assistant Deputy Minister
• Stephen Zaluski, General Counsel and Director, Judicial Affairs, Courts and Tribunal Policy, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector
Pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, February 19, 2020, the committee commenced consideration of Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code.
The Hon. J. Michael MacDonald and the Hon. Adèle Kent made statements and answered questions.
The Minister made a statement and, with the other witnesses, answered questions.
At 1:03 p.m., the sitting resumed in camera.
Committee Business
The committee proceeded to the consideration of matters related to committee business.
It was agreed, — That a proposed budget in the amount of $14,300, for the study of Bill C-5, An Act to amend the Judges Act and the Criminal Code, be adopted.
It was agreed, — That the members of the committee submit to the clerk all of their proposed amendments to Bill C-5 no later than 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2020.
At 1:04 p.m., the Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair.
Marc-Olivier Girard

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Sometimes, the simple recipes are the best ones. We love the taste of this Sticky Gingerbread Bread, because of how easy it is to put together and how much our family loves it. The toffee sauce adds an extra luscious touch, and don't forget about the whipped cream on top!
Place the dates in a heatproof bowl and add the boiled water and baking soda. Stir and set aside for 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Grease a 9 inch (23 centimetre) springform pan. Line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper and grease the paper. Set aside.
In a large bowl whisk together the flour, baking powder, spices and salt.
In a separate bowl using an electric mixer, beat together the Mirage margarine and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Beat in the eggs one at a time, followed by the molasses and fresh ginger.
Fold in the flour mixture in two additions.
Using a potato masher, or a fork, slightly mash the dates with the water; fold into the batter.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top. Bake until a cake tester inserted in the centre emerges with a few crumbs attached; 35 to 40 minutes.
Remove cake from oven and allow to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Meanwhile, make the toffee sauce.
Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan and set over medium heat, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil for 3 minutes.
Poke the cake all over, with a skewer. Pour half the warm toffee sauce overtop the cake and allow to soak for 15 minutes.
Remove cake from pan and serve warm with the remaining sauce on the side.
If well wrapped, Sticky Gingerbread Cake will keep in the refrigerator for up to one week.
This cake pairs well with unsweetened whipped cream.


An overturned lorry caused a bit of a traffic jam today.
A massive clean-up operation is underway after the lorry overturned in Co Antrim .
Hundreds of jam, peanut butter and marmalade jars were left scattered across Dundrod Road at Nutts Corner on Friday afternoon.
Police were forced to close the road as work got underway to clean up the mess.
The lorry overturned at the roundabout and the heavy jars broke through the roof, spilling out across the road with many breaking.


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Partido Riojano (PR+) es un partido político español de centro progresista, riojanista y europeísta de La Rioja. Ocupaba habitualmente desde su creación dos escaños en el Parlamento de La Rioja, siendo la tercera fuerza política de la comunidad, hasta las elecciones de 2015, en las que no logró representación parlamentaria. Además ostenta un total de 9 alcaldías y 43 concejalías en distintos municipios. En 2019, concurrió a las elecciones generales, autonómicas y municipales.

Tras el congreso celebrado el 24 de marzo de 2012, al consolidarse la fusión con el partido Ciudadanos de Logroño continuó con su denominación aunque incorporando a sus siglas la leyenda «+riojanos» (PR+). Su primera denominación fue Partido Riojano Progresista (PRP).

Ideología

La ideología del Partido Riojano se nutre del liberalismo progresista y del socialismo democrático. De esta manera, promueve una  forma de hacer política que defiende el interés general de los ciudadanos de un territorio, pero evitando encorsetamientos ideológicos. Su ideología se basa en principios renovadores y reformistas.

Se define como un partido profundamente riojanista e integrador al mismo tiempo, de modo que consideran que su línea de actuación debe superar las fronteras administrativas de la región, que debe pertenecer al conjunto de España. Además, defienden que La Rioja natural es mucho más extensa que la delimitación actual, lo que acarrea muchos de los problemas por los que luchan, como el efecto frontera, que provoca que las empresas se instalen en las regiones limítrofes, País Vasco y Navarra por las ventajas fiscales o la imposibilidad de regular en cabecera muchos ríos riojanos.

El modelo de Estado que promueve el Partido Riojano es el autonomismo constitucional, que avanza hacia un federalismo integrador. Además, es un partido europeísta, que cree en el concepto de una Europa unida en una misma organización político administrativa. Asimismo, consideran necesario recuperar el entusiasmo en la organización y en los valores y principios que inspiraron su construcción.

El Partido Riojano se sostiene además en los principios del interclasismo, el pacifismo y la sostenibilidad.

Historia
El 6 de diciembre de 1982 se formalizó en Logroño el acta de constitución del Partido Riojano Progresista (PRP), inscribiéndose en el Registro de Asociaciones Políticas del Ministerio del Interior el 2 de febrero de 1983. Fue creado al amparo del Grupo Parlamentario Progresista y liderado entonces por el primer Presidente de la recién nacida Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja, Luis Javier Rodríguez Moroy, miembro de Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) hasta su desaparición, y del Partido Social Demócrata anteriormente.

El Partido Riojano se definió desde su creación, como un partido político regionalista riojano, democrático, aconfesional y europeísta.

En mayo de 1983 se presenta por primera vez a unas elecciones autonómicas y municipales, obteniendo 2 diputados del Parlamento de La Rioja, Luis Javier Rodríguez Moroy y Francisco Díaz Yubero, y 19 alcaldes y 99 concejales.

El PRP celebra el I Congreso el 4 de febrero de 1984, siendo elegido presidente del partido Rubén García Marañón y secretario general Modesto Espinar Lafuente. En septiembre de ese mismo año, Miguel González de Legarra fundó Jóvenes Riojanos Progresistas, siendo elegido presidente de la asociación juvenil del PRP. Posteriormente la rama juvenil del partido pasó a denominarse Juventudes del Partido Riojano y a partir de mayo de 2009 se llamaron Juventudes Riojanas.

De cara a las elecciones generales de 1986 el Partido Riojano participó en la Partido Reformista Democrático promovido por Miquel Roca, volviendo a recuperar su autonomía tras la disolución de dicho proyecto.

En las elecciones autonómicas y locales celebradas en el 1987, son elegidos 2 diputados del PRP nuevamente, Luis Javier Rodríguez Moroy y Leopoldo Virosta Garoz. Son elegidos también 11 alcaldes y 55 concejales. El II Congreso del PRP se celebró el 2 de diciembre del mismo año y en él se eligió a Luis Javier Rodríguez Moroy como presidente y a Leopoldo Virosta Garoz como secretario general.

El III Congreso se celebró el 23 de junio de 1990 y en él se decide el cambio de nombre por el de Partido Riojano (PR). El congreso considera que el partido no necesita "más apellidos", lo que reforzaba su concepto de partido abierto. El rojo corporativo utilizado hasta entonces, se cambia por el color verde, porque lo creyeron ideológicamente más neutro y que identificaba mejor a la Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja. En dicho Congreso Leopoldo Virosta Garoz es designado Presidente y Federico Pérez Soria, secretario general.

En las elecciones autonómicas y municipales de 1991 (26 de mayo) el Partido Riojano vuelve a obtener 2 diputados, Leopoldo Virosta Garoz y Miguel Ángel Ropero Sáez. Al no obtener ni PSOE ni PP mayoría absoluta propicia que el Partido Riojano entre el Gobierno de La Rioja junto con el PSOE, responsabilizándose de la gestión de tres Consejerías del Gobierno: la Vicepresidencia, ocupada por Elvira Borondo Mora, la de Obras Públicas por Pedro Marín Gil y la de Educación y Cultura por Miguel Ángel Ropero Sáez, lo que motiva la renuncia de su escaño en el Parlamento que es ocupado en el mes de junio de ese mismo año por Miguel González de Legarra. Asimismo, también obtuvo 25 alcaldías y 70 concejales.

Tras las elecciones autonómicas y municipales celebradas el 28 de mayo de 1995, son elegidos diputados Leopoldo Virosta Garoz y Miguel González de Legarra y se obtienen 19 alcaldes y 103 concejales.

Las elecciones autonómicas y municipales celebradas el 13 de junio de 1999 dieron como resultado la elección de Miguel González de Legarra y José Toledo Sobrón como diputados del Parlamento de La Rioja, y se obtuvieron 10 alcaldes y 50 concejales.

En las elecciones autonómicas y municipales celebradas el 25 de mayo de 2003, el Partido Riojano obtuvo 9 alcaldes y 56 concejales, siendo nuevamente elegidos Miguel González de Legarra y José Toledo Sobrón como diputados del Parlamento de La Rioja.

En las elecciones autonómicas y municipales del 27 de mayo de 2007 el Partido Riojano vuelve a consolidarse como la tercera fuerza política de La Rioja manteniendo sus 2 diputados en el Parlamento de La Rioja, consigue 7 alcaldías y 36 concejalías, y entra a formar gobierno en varios municipios destacando el de la capital, Logroño, donde por primera vez en su historia pasa a formar gobierno de coalición junto al PSOE por medio de sus dos concejales.

El 9 de mayo de 2009 se celebra su XII Congreso con carácter extraordinario. En este Congreso se decide renovar la estructura del Partido Riojano, creando la figura del Vicepresidente y sustituyendo al Comité Ejecutivo por la "Comisión Permanente" y al Consejo Regional por un "Consejo Ejecutivo".

En las elecciones autonómicas y municipales de 2011 se mantienen los 2 diputados autonómicos y se logran 6 alcaldías y 56 concejalías.

Asimismo, ese mismo año, se anunció que el Partido Riojano se presentaría a las elecciones generales junto al Partido Regionalista de Cantabria (PRC). Finalmente decidió no presentarse.

Resultados electorales

Congresos

a Unión con Ciudadanos de Logroño y cambio de su denominación a Unión por La Rioja-Partido Riojano (UPR-Riojanos); sin embargo este nombre no sería aceptado por el Registro del Ministerio del Interior y continuó con la denominación de Partido Riojano, incorporando a sus siglas la leyeda "+ riojanos" (Pr+).

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Página oficial del Partido Riojano
 Composición del Parlamento de La Rioja

Partidos políticos de España posteriores a la Transición
Partidos regionalistas de La Rioja (España)
Partidos regionalistas riojanos (España)
Partidos políticos fundados en 1982

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Foul play is suspected in the disappearance of Kamloops man Troy Gold, Kamloops RCMP said today (Oct. 5, 2018).
Cpl. Jodie Shelkie said investigation and information received by the Serious Crimes Unit indicates foul play is a factor in Gold's disappearance on Monday, Oct. 1.
She said police are pursuing various investigative avenues in numerous locations around Kamloops. Today, Kamloops RCMP and Kamloops Search and Rescue are searching various areas in hopes of finding Gold.
If you have any information about the disappearance of Troy Gold, contact Kamloops RCMP at 250-828-3000. If you wish to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.


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MICHELLE RIAL – Carving Out a Job as an Artist
by Jenni | Jul 13, 2018 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
What comes to mind when Michelle hears "Type A"
How damaging perfectionism makes you feel when you put things that you have created out into the world
Michelle's personal background and her first introduction to art
Her professional background & how she got started doing what she is doing
The idea of making "the thing" before you get paid for it — when to do it & when not to
What she has learned about watermarking her work
Her transition from "Real Life Charts to "Michelle Rial"
How she spends her time & how she makes a living for herself
A long struggle with chronic pain related to computer work and how that caused her to shift her work
Where Michelle gets the inspiration for her work
Her fear of creating something similar to someone else's work without knowing
The last thing she created that delighted her
What Michelle would name her left brain
The importance of not resting on your laurels
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Adam J Kurtz Video : Storytime: I made a brand pay me fairly for my work???
Maslow's Hierarchy on Instagram Bragging
Buzzfeed Liz Lemon & Lululemon Collaboration
About Michelle:
Michelle Rial was born in Santa Cruz, CA to a Spaniard and a Venezuelan who really loved The Beatles song "Michelle." She's worked in media as a writer/illustrator, a photographer, a producer, and a graphic designer. Her chart obsession began while freelancing as a production assistant at NYMag in 2008, but it took her until 2011 to get her first chart published on Glamour.com. Since then, her work has been featured by USA TODAY, Kottke.org, designboom, Fast Company Co.Design, Vox, Vulture, Mental Floss, A.V. Club, and more. In her recent series of "real life charts," she uses objects in place of lines, and experiences in place of data. She's currently working on a new collection of charts, graphs, and life questions for Chronicle Books, out in 2019.
Connect with Michelle:
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About The Type A Creative Podcast:
The Type A Creative is for those of us who feel like walking juxtapositions. You know who you are. You can balance spreadsheets just as easily as you can design a logo. Sometimes it's a little disorienting because you're a left-brain / right-brain blend that doesn't always fit into the labels of "artist" or "numbers person."
On the show we bring in fellow bosses, painters, creative directors, film makers, entrepreneurs, and writers — together we're having conversations about what it is to be both Type A and Creative.
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The Movie Industry Is Brutalizin' Me Case File #187: Run, Ronnie, Run
Nathan Rabin
Somewhere, a 19-year-old is getting ready to watch a television show for the first time. This person is relatively pop-culture savvy. He likes comedy even if he would never consider himself a comedy nerd. Maybe he even reads The A.V. Club. So he's heard about this show that is supposed to be absolutely fucking amazing, like, one of the best television shows of all time. So this young person pops in the first DVD of the show's first season and it all looks so cheap. The production values are practically public-access level. That wall looks like it's about to fall down. So yeah, it's funny and weird and geeky and dense in a way that would lend itself to obsession or whatever, but it's not the transformative experience it was advertised as being. So the young person in this scenario takes the DVD out of the player and wonders why in the hell people got so worked up about this Mr. Show thing in the first place.
I will now devote this column to articulating why in the hell people got so worked up about this Mr. Show thing in the first place. For comedy geeks of my generation, it was the fountainhead, the place where it all began. From it sprang the comedy gods of the future, your Patton Oswalts and Sarah Silvermans and Jack Blacks and Paul F. Tompkinses. So when it was announced that Mr. Show creators and stars Bob Odenkirk and David Cross were going to make a movie, it incited the kind of fevered anticipation that greeted the arrival of the first Star Wars prequel. To my generation, Mr. Show mattered as much as any television comedy can. We viewed it the way an earlier generation viewed the first four seasons of Saturday Night Live: as an event. This was appointment television. This was worth getting together with friends to watch.
Accordingly, when I think about Mr. Show, I think as much, if not more, about the ritual of watching the show as the show itself. My mind flashes back to the apartment my editor Keith Phipps and I shared in Madison where we'd get together with colleagues from our sister publication The Onion, drink a bit, and watch it. Like The Onion, Mr. Show was something not everyone got. That was part of its appeal. And if you got Mr. Show or The Onion, then you were duty-bound as a pop-culture geek to disseminate news of Mr. Show's glory far and wide. If you weren't bringing new members into the fold, then you didn't deserve to call yourself a Mr. Show fan. If you were an Onion fan, you loved Mr. Show. If you loved Mr. Show, you also loved The Onion. That's just how it worked.
If you loved The Onion back then, you sent copies of the print edition to your buddies at other colleges, just like if you were into Mr. Show, you would send your friends well-worn videotapes of seasons past. There's something about the physical nature of that transaction that gives it additional power. Today, anyone can send you a link. But to make a videotape of Mr. Show and then spend $4 mailing it to a friend required commitment and dedication. Mr. Show was incredibly important to the people who loved it. It played a big role in defining not just their sense of humor but themselves. I felt an immediate kinship every time I saw somebody with a Mr. Show shirt. It was almost a religious thing: They were a member of the same Church Of Bob And David.
Why did Mr. Show resonate so strongly with my generation? Was it the alchemy between Bob Odenkirk's just-barely suppressed Midwestern WASP rage and David Cross' free-flowing Southern vitriol? Was it the conceptual ambition of having every sketch flow into the next, sometimes seamlessly, sometimes less so? Or was it because Mr. Show captured the comic sensibility of Generation X so perfectly? In that respect it was like The Ben Stiller Show with better writing and less hip grunge-rock attitude. Another factor working in Mr. Show's favor: It's really fucking good.
I hold Mr. Show in such reverence that the idea of writing about the feature film Run, Ronnie, Run, its sole creative failure, feels borderline heretical. To Mr. Show fans, each new episode was a gift, but that's not how the movie industry saw its creators. To studios, they were semi-obscure writer-directors with a cheap show on pay cable that young people seemed to like. To the faithful, a Mr. Show movie radiated infinite potential. Sure, it would be a film based on a sketch-comedy show, but this wasn't just any comedy show. This was Mr. Show. Cross and Odenkirk held themselves to impossibly high standards. Anything that sprang from their fertile imaginations had to be genius. They would not disappoint their devoted following with an It's Pat: The Movie! or The Ladies Man. They couldn't. A Mr. Show movie had to be great. It had to be. We wouldn't accept anything less.
We had high hopes for a Mr. Show movie the way Evangelicals are pretty psyched about Christ's return. For true fans, it was a matter of roughly equivalent importance. Mr. Show had given us so much. It had enriched our lives. Now it was going to give us its greatest gift of all. Mr. Show wouldn't longer be our little secret any longer. We would now have to share it with the world. But that was okay. It was just the price we'd have to pay.
That was the dream. Here's the reality: What should have been Mr. Show And The Holy Grail instead sat on the shelves for years before being released as the second DVD you had to buy along with The Real Cancun in order to receive a $5 rebate from the good folks over at New Line. The movie that was going to break Mr. Show wide open became a movie New Line thought the idiots who enjoyed The Real Cancun so much they fucking bought it might also enjoy. It was the final insult. Run, Ronnie, Run wasn't just treated like disposable product. It was treated like trash.
The road from inception to the second half of a DVD double feature with The Real Cancun was long and heartbreaking for everyone involved, especially the fans. In an interview with The A.V. Club before the film's release, compiled in Tenacity Of The Cockroach, Cross uttered words circumstances would soon render deeply ironic. In the interview, Cross assured fans, "We've got our creative freedom, which is paramount."
Run, Ronnie, Run opens with an animated sequence riffing on the "Let's All Go To The Lobby!" ads that once ran before movies. The opening takes anthropomorphization to its comic extreme by making everything in the movie-going experience an adorable Disney-style creature, even urinals and toilets. The concept is strong, as is the animation, but the jokes are strangely absent. It's more amusing than funny, more conceptually clever than laugh-out-loud funny.
Run, Ronnie, Run is filled with bitter ironies, none more bitter than this: It opens with a sequence specifically designed for the theatrical run it would never receive. It's an ambitious, unusual way to begin a movie that's followed by an even stranger way to begin a movie. Once we've returned from our metaphorical trips to the concession stand, we're confronted with the stern, glowering image of the self-professed "film valedictorian of Hollywood," a dour man of a certain age who informs us that what we're about to see is a movie and consequently not real, so we shouldn't go around imitating it like a bunch of jackasses.
The screenwriters threw down the gauntlet by opening with two scenes that have nothing to do with the narrative about to unfold. They've decided to make up the rules as they go along and toss audiences into deep water with weird, conceptual comedy. That's the message the filmmakers wanted to send. Instead, the openings announce to the world that what you are about to see is not really a movie, but rather an assemblage of loosely affiliated comic conceits, some genius, some less so.
Run, Ronnie, Run devotes a lot of its running time to throat-clearing. It opens with two fake-outs, then ushers us gently into what is ostensibly the real movie via David Koechner's cornpone narrator, who hails the film's title character (Cross) as "a true gentleman of Southern distinction." He is, in other words, a redneck. The character of Ronnie Dobbs was introduced in a Mr. Show sketch about a cameraman (Odenkirk) for a COPS-like reality show who becomes obsessed with one of the criminals he filmed fleeing the police. The cameraman makes the drunken idiot his muse and writes a musical positing him as the apogee of proletarian dignity, only to grow disillusioned with his discovery/protégé once he loses his hunger for doing the drunken dumb shit that made him famous. This all transpires over the course of several minutes in the show.
In true Mr. Show fashion, the sketch rapidly cycles through a series of rich comic conceits. At its core, it's a riff on the Warholian concept of being famous for being famous or, in its current incarnation, being famous for being infamous, a doofus revered for his sub-human penchant for getting into trouble. Leading the police on a high-speed chase is the character's true art form. It's what he's good at. That's a very Mr. Show conceit, but if you're a film executive, it's not a solid foundation for a commercial comedy. It's not enough simply to have a man who becomes famous for running from the cops. That just sounds absurd and absurd tests poorly with women and older men. We must know more. Who is this man? What are his hopes? What are his dreams? Where does he come from? Does he have a girlfriend? A mother? What hardships has this man overcome? Through what trials has his character been formed?
Run, Ronnie, Run then goes about answering those questions in a way that betrays the filmmakers' profound disinterest in them. We survey the trailer that is Cross' castle. We meet Jill Talley, the dispirited mother of his children. We meet his moppets. We perambulate about the small town where he lives and are introduced to our narrator, roughly around the time he is encouraging a mangy old dog to eat its own vomit.
It would be hard to root for a man devoid of redeeming characteristics, so Run, Ronnie, Run tries to make its protagonist palatable to mainstream audiences by turning him into a nice guy. He scores a free game for a fat kid. He announces his intention to ask the mother of his children to marry him a third time. He stands up to a menacing sheriff. He's half redneck joke, half Southern-fried Wayne Campbell.
Every great hero needs an origin story. So it isn't long until Cross' well-intentioned shit-kicker is on television uttering his quasi-catchphrase, "Y'all are brutalizing me!" Run, Ronnie, Run sometimes feels suspiciously like the pandering, sentimental dreck it's parodying. It's not too much of a leap from the mindless uplift of Mr. Show's mock-inspirational movie about a man raised by mentally challenged parents to Talley looking soulfully at Cross in his prison uniform and telling him, "Everybody has some kind of talent. You just gotta find out what yours is and you gotta make something of yourself" while strings swell majestically in the distance.
On HBO, Mr. Show could talk up to its audience. But movie studios think people are stupid and should be communicated with as one would a small child: Everything must be made clear at all times. So it's not enough that Cross is so entertaining at being arrested it's become his livelihood and art form. We must then see the police officers laughing while they are arresting Cross, followed by shots of television production employees erupting into an orgy of ecstatic laughter at his antics. Similarly, the scene where Odenkirk's pompous British boob introduces himself to Cross is one long gay-panic joke, as Cross looks suspiciously at Odenkirk while he falls all over himself saying things like, "I'm here to proposition you" and "I want to be the man behind the man. I realized I'm coming all over you here but it's been building up inside me for weeks and I can't control myself."
Run, Ronnie, Run has a moment of undiminished triumph that illustrates what a Mr. Show movie could and should have been. Not coincidentally, it's also largely borrowed from the show. In it, Odenkirk's impetuous impresario oversees a musical based on the title character's life and watches as Mandy Patinkin, looking every bit the hillbilly in his overalls, unleashes a heart-stoppingly beautiful rendition of what I like to think of as Ronnie Dobbs' theme song, pouring every last iota of talent he possesses into lyrics like, "Can't a man not control his wife with violence? Can't a man not crudely lie and scream?"
There is nothing noble about the life of Ronnie Dobbs, but when Patinkin softly, sadly, tenderly sings, "Y'all are brutalizing me," it has a certain battered dignity. It's funny and pointed in its satire of the way Broadway romanticizes working-class despair for the smart set, but it's also weirdly powerful in the same way watching Paul Robeson perform "Ol' Man River" is powerful.
There are moments of genius scattered throughout Run, Ronnie, Run, from an exuberantly profane Mary Poppins parody featuring Jack Black to a Three Times One Minus One music video to a sequence exposing the precise nature of the international gay conspiracy. But they're all tethered to a central narrative Cross and Odenkirk clearly don't care about and don't expect the audience to care about either. They're handcuffed by the need to deliver the kind of cheap emotional moments they relentlessly mocked on Mr. Show. When Talley tells Cross about how "God's magical light beams" might be leading him in the right direction, it's unclear whether the line is meant to be sincere or a parody of maudlin crap.
A decade on, here are the facts: There was a show called Mr. Show that was important to a lot of people. These people were sad when it ended. These fans poured their considerable hopes and dreams and insane, intense comedy-geek energy into pining for a Mr. Show movie that would continue the show's legacy the way the Monty Python films have expanded the troupe's universe in exciting ways.
It now seems much less significant in retrospect than it once did. At the time, it felt like a great injustice had been done not just to Mr. Show but to comedy as a whole. It's now apparent that it ultimately didn't matter whether Run, Ronnie, Run received a theatrical release or even if Bob and David were able to release their preferred cut of the film. As a clearly exhausted Odenkirk observed in his Tenacity Of The Cockroach interview, "I'm no longer arguing for a movie I don't really like, for a cut that's a little better but still isn't very good." That sums up the sad, strange saga of Run, Ronnie, Run. Odenkirk and Cross and Mr. Show fans all fought for a sometimes funny, sometimes painful little comedy that ultimately proved not worth the fight.
Failure, Fiasco or Secret Success: Fiasco


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The Long Term Impact of Adolescent Risky Behaviors and Family Environment. B. Regression Analysis
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B. Regression Analysis
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These cross-tabulations do not hold anything constant, including the effect of the other adolescent behaviors on each adult outcome. The anomalies observed may reflect some other factor correlated with late initiation or delinquent behavior. To hold constant other factors that influence these adult outcomes, we estimate a set of regressions. These regressions take the general form
y = f(B,F,X)+ g,
where y is one of the ten outcomes of interest, B represents the five adolescent risky behaviors, F represents the three family environment variables, X represents all the other control variables and is a random error term.
The other control variables include sex, race/ethnicity, educational attainment, and Rosenberg's measure of self-esteem (measured in 1980).15 The regressions are estimated unweighted and each regression includes all the behaviors, family environmental variables, and control variables. The regressions allow us to examine the relationship of the adolescent risky behaviors, family structure, parents' education, and parental alcoholism to the adult outcomes while holding each set of variables constant. The regressions also allow us to control for participation in all five adolescent risky behaviors so that the impact of any particular behavior can be identified separately from the others. We might expect, similar to Newcomb and Bentler's (1988) findings, that each adolescent behavior may show a unique pattern of influence on adult outcomes. We now examine sequentially the relationship of the four sets of adolescent factors to the adult outcomes. The full set of regressions with all variables is shown in Appendix B.
2. The Relationship of Adolescent Risky Behaviors to Adult Outcomes
With ten regressions, examining the impact of five different adolescent risky behaviors with four different age categories each can be daunting. Seeming inconsistencies must be considered in the broad scheme; many of these are due to small cell sizes. We interpret the findings with an eye toward the big picture. To draw conclusions, we look at patterns of relationships across the different outcome domains. Most of the findings we cite in this report have p-values of 0.1 or less, a conventional level of statistical significance. However, while we consider statistical significance important, we do not rely on statistical significance alone. Because this study is exploratory in nature, we use p-values of 0.1 as a guideline.
Our techniques generally compare outcomes for three age of initiation groups (or numbers of delinquent/criminal acts) with a reference group (ages 11-15 or 9 or more acts). We base our judgments on whether a set of odds ratios or marginal effects generally go in the same direction when compared with the reference group, i.e. if the outcomes for each group are all better or worse than the reference group. Generally, if all the values are going in the same direction, then if the comparison for at least one of the other groups achieves significance we consider the relationship to hold. In the economic domain, where there are multiple outcomes, we see common relationships across the different outcome variables. When they all are nearly the same, we consider this confirming evidence of a relationship for the entire domain. We attempt to notify the reader when we are describing a general pattern, but where statistical significance does not always hold. It is important to note that all estimated relationships are associations between variables; nothing should be construed as a causal relationship. To understand causality would require an extensive model of behavior with many more measures than are available to us.
Despite some occasional oddities, a clear picture emerges as to the relationship of these five behaviors to the various outcomes. We report our findings by looking at the relationship of various adolescent risky behaviors to each adult outcome.
Adolescent alcohol usage. As seen in Figure 1, age of initiation into alcohol consumption is very much associated with having an alcohol abuse or dependence problem as an adult in the past year. To interpret Figure 1, recall that ages 11-15 are the reference group. Their odds ratio is set equal to one. Odds ratios for other age groups are relative to those who initiated between ages 11-15. Thus, those who initiated at ages 16-17 are only 88 percent as likely to have an adult alcohol abuse or dependence problem compared with those who initiated between ages 11=15. Those who initiated at ages 18-19 are only 56 percent as likely, and those who had not initiated by age 19 are only 23 percent as likely.
It is not too surprising to find such a strong relationship since adolescent use of alcohol is clearly the most closely related behavior to the possible consequence. Quite clearly, the earlier one initiates into alcohol use, the more likely one has an alcohol problem as an adult. This result is consistent with other research that has found a link between early alcohol initiation and adult alcohol problems (Chou and Pickering, 1992; Grant and Dawson, 1997).
Figure 1.Odds Ratios for Age of Alcohol Initiation As it Relates to Alcohol Abuse or Dependence
The use of alcohol and drugs are different behaviors among adolescents. Adolescents consuming alcohol may never use drugs. Although early adolescent alcohol use may increase the likelihood of an adult alcohol problem, it may imply nothing about adult drug problems. In our findings, there are no real differences in the likelihood of an adult drug problem among the three lower age groups. However, not using alcohol by age 19 is associated with much lower likelihood of having a drug problem as an adult. Thus those who do not engage in alcohol use as teenagers are those most likely to avoid both long-term alcohol and long-term drug problems.
Although alcohol consumption in adolescence is associated with negative health outcomes, it generally is not associated with bad economic, family formation, or incarceration outcomes. Compared with all the other behaviors we study, adolescent alcohol usage has the least association with long-term outcomes. These findings together with those from Newcomb and Bentler (1988) point to the idea that the impact of early alcohol use may portend less serious adult consequences than does engaging in other forms of risky behavior as an adolescent. On the other hand, we have measured only the direct effects of adolescent alcohol initiation. If early alcohol use increases the likelihood of other risky behaviors such as sexual activity, then there may be an indirect relationship with adult outcomes.
Adolescent marijuana usage. Like adolescent alcohol use, engaging in marijuana use as an adolescent has a strong relationship with the adult outcome of most direct consequence. That is, earlier use of marijuana implies a greater likelihood of using drugs as an adult. As seen in Figure 2, those who initiate marijuana usage at ages 16-17 are 76 percent as likely to use drugs as an adult compared with those who initiated before age 16. Those who initiated at ages 18-19 are 88 percent16 as likely and those who did not initiate by age 19 are only 28 percent as likely.
Figure 2. Odds Ratios for Age of Marijuana Initiation As it Relates to Past Month Drug Use at Age 30
Initiation as a teenager implies greater likelihood of adult alcohol abuse or dependence, but within the teenage years there is little distinction. Unlike alcohol, engaging in marijuana use as an adolescent is generally associated with bad economic outcomes. For example, Figure 3 shows the relationship between age of marijuana initiation and the likelihood of being in poverty between ages 25-29.
Figure 3. Odds Ratios for Age of Marijuana Initiation as it Relates to Ever Being in Poverty Between Ages 25-29
Those who initiate in the 18-19 age group are 79 percent as likely to be in poverty as those who initiate between ages 11-15. This age group is consistently less prone to incur bad outcomes for the other economic measures than those who initiate earlier. Oddly, those who have had not initiated by age 19 are statistically no different than the earliest initiators. This is true nearly always across the economic outcomes. We do not have an explanation for this. Since late initiators are combined with those who never initiate, there may be some impact of late initiation that is pulling down the average outcome for this group. Late initiation is likely a different phenomenon than early initiation, perhaps resulting from bad economic circumstances rather than preceding them.17
The pattern for the likelihood of spending time in jail, however, is consistent; the earlier one initiates marijuana use, the more likely they spend time in jail.
For the relationship between age of initiation into marijuana use and adult family formation, only one odds ratio achieves a reasonable level of statistical significance. Overall this implies that the relationship is the same regardless of age of initiation.
Adolescent cocaine usage. Many young people experiment with both alcohol and marijuana, but cocaine use is rarer (see Table 2). Its usage also tends to begin at later ages. As a result some of the cell sizes in our estimations are small. However, a clear pattern emerges showing that those who begin using cocaine as teenagers have worse economic, health, and incarceration outcomes. It is more difficult to interpret the results for family formation. Teenage cocaine users are no more likely than non-users to end up as single parents or divorced. However, it is clear that they are the most likely to end up as never having married without children and least likely to end up married with children. This implies that teenage cocaine users do not have non-marital births or get divorced primarily because they are least likely to be able to form solid relationships in the first place. Overall they are the least likely to marry and the least likely to have children (regardless of marital status) than those who do not use cocaine as teenagers.
Adolescent sexual activity. Age of initiation into sexual intercourse is perhaps the most consistent predictor of poor adult outcomes across nearly every domain. Unlike any other behavior studied, the results have near perfect consistency with no anomalies. Not only is engaging in sex as a teenager associated with bad outcomes in general, earlier ages of initiation are consistently increasingly associated with poorer outcomes. This is true for all six measures of economic success and for the probability of spending time in jail. Similarly, early sex initiators have poorer family formation outcomes. The predicted probabilities of each outcome for each age group are shown in Figure 4. The earlier a youth begins engaging in sexual activity, the more likely he or she ends up never married with a child. Specifically, we predict 11.2 percent of those who initiated sex between ages 11-15 to be never married with children at age 33. Of those who initiate at ages 16-17, we predict 8.7 percent will be never married with children at age 33; 7.5 percent of those who initiate at ages 18-19 and 4.2 percent of those who do not initiate by age 19. In general, early sex initiators are more likely to marry by age 33 than are those who wait. Over 79 percent of those who initiated by age 17 had married while about 76 percent of those who initiated at ages 18-19 and 67.4 percent of those who had not initiated by age 19 had married by age 33. Of those who marry by age 33, divorce rates are predicted to be higher the earlier there had been sex initiation. 36.2 percent of those who initiated between ages 11-15, 31.1 percent of those who initiated at ages 16-17, 23.5 percent of those who initiated at ages 18-19, and 14.2 percent of those who had not initiated by age 19 are predicted to be divorced by age 33.18 Not surprisingly, those who initiated sex earlier are predicted to be more likely to have children by age 33, regardless of their marital history. By age 33, 77.1 percent of those who initiated sex between ages 11-15 are predicted to have children; 72.6 percent of those who initiated at ages 16-17; 67.4 percent of those who initiated at ages 18-19; and 53.3 percent of those who had not initiated by age 19.
Figure 4. Predicted Probabilities of Marriage-Fertility Outcomes At Age 33 as They Relate to Age of Sex Initiation
The health domain as measured by adult alcohol and drug problems is least related to early sexual activity. Those who do not engage in sex as teenagers are less likely to have an adult alcohol problem, but there is no distinction in the likelihood across the teenage years. Those who initiate after age 17 are less likely to use drugs as an adult; those who initiate after 19 are least likely. There is no distinction for those who initiate before age 18. Although there isn't as strong a relationship between age of sex initiation and the two health measures, it is still the case that teenage sex initiators are more likely to have adult alcohol and drug problems.
Adolescent delinquency. Committing delinquent and criminal acts as an adolescent is associated with mostly bad adult outcomes. As expected, the more delinquent acts committed, the more likely the youth spends time in jail by age 33. A similar result is found for the likelihood of having an adult alcohol or drug problem. These results are comparable with Windle's (1990) where, even when controlling for early substance use, early delinquency was predictive of later substance use. These three adult outcomes have consistent results across the levels of delinquency.
Some of the other results bounce around a bit, possibly a consequence of noise in our measure. However, isolating those who committed nine or more delinquent or criminal acts shows they definitely have worse economic outcomes than do others. This holds true across all six economic measures. One of the stronger relationships is with the likelihood of ever being on welfare between ages 21-33, shown in Figure 5. Those who did not commit any delinquent acts are 69 percent as likely to ever be on welfare during those ages compared to those who committed nine or more delinquent acts; those who committed one or two delinquent acts are 80 percent as likely; and those who committed 3-8 delinquent acts are 83 percent as likely. All three differences are statistically significant at the 90 percent confidence level or higher. Past research on the connection between delinquency and economic outcomes has been mixed. After controlling for education and other background variables, Monk-Turner (1989) could find no relationship between delinquency and adult occupational status. In our study, when holding education and other variables constant, we were able to observe a significant impact of delinquency on a variety of economic measures.
Figure 5. Odds Ratios for Number of Delinquent Acts as it Relates to Ever Being on Welfare Between Ages 21-33
In terms of family formation, there are some consistent results. The more delinquent acts performed, the more likely the person ends up never married with a child and the least likely they are to end up married with children. In general, they are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce if they marry.
To summarize, we have examined the relationship between five adolescent risky behaviors and ten adult outcomes. There is a fairly consistent pattern that engaging
in risky behaviors as a teenager is associated with less successful adult outcomes. For many, the relationship is such that the earlier one engages in the behavior, the more likely they face a bad outcome as an adult. The most consistent predictor of a bad adult outcome is age of initiation into sexual activity. Alcohol usage, on the other hand, is perhaps the one teenage behavior least associated with bad adult outcomes. Age of initiation into alcohol usage is, however, associated with adult alcohol abuse or dependence. These relationships should not be interpreted as causal, but only as associations. Other factors that are not controlled for may influence these outcomes. Age of initiation may be capturing unmeasured adolescent characteristics or circumstances that are related to the transition into adulthood. The summary below provides a more detailed description of the findings in this section.
Age of initiation into adolescent alcohol use is associated with adult alcohol disorders and teenage use is associated with adult drug usage. However, there is no relationship between adolescent alcohol use and adult economic, family, or incarceration outcomes.
Age of initiation into marijuana use is associated with adult drug usage, bad adult economic and incarceration outcomes. Teenage usage is associated with adult alcohol disorders but adolescent marijuana use is not associated with any specific adult family formation outcomes.
Teenage cocaine use is associated with worse economic, health, and incarceration outcomes. They are the least likely to marry or have children by age 33.
Age of initiation into sexual intercourse is the most consistent predictor of poor adult outcomes across nearly every domain, especially economic and incarceration outcomes. They are the most likely to have never married but have a child by age 33. Those who marry by age 33 are the most likely to divorce.
Committing more delinquent acts is associated with bad adult alcohol, drug, and incarceration outcomes. Committing nine or more delinquent acts is associated with worse economic outcomes. Those committing nine or more delinquent acts are also the least likely to marry, the most likely to divorce, and the most likely to have never married but have a child at age 33.
3. The Relationship of Adolescent Family Structure to Adult Outcomes
In the previous section we found that engaging in adolescent risky behaviors generally is associated with diminished adult outcomes; the earlier the initiation, the worse the outcome. In this section we examine the role played by adolescent family structure in the relationship to the adult outcomes. As noted in Chapter II, much of the research on family structure has focused on the association between family structure and adolescent risky behaviors where participating in the behavior is the outcome. Few other outcomes have been studied. Those that have been tend to be adolescent outcomes such as high school graduation. Very little has been examined with regard to long-term adult outcomes. We estimate the relationship of adolescent family structure to long-term adult outcomes, holding constant the adolescent's engagement in risky behaviors.
Family structure may have impacts on children that follow them well into adulthood and perhaps their entire lives. The reduced economic circumstances following a divorce can reduce the resources available to invest in the child's future. Acrimony between divorced parents, the divorce itself, changes in living arrangements, or the death of a parent may contribute to psychological problems for the children. Re-marriages may improve economic conditions, but create additional stress on family relationships.
Living in an intact family (two biological parents) is almost universally associated with having a better chance at economic success, and our results are no exception. In general, we find that living in an intact family at age 14 is associated with better outcomes in the economic domain. This is consistently true across all six economic measures. For example, Figure 6 shows the relative likelihood of being in poverty between ages 25-29 for each family type. Those living with both biological parents at age 14 have the lowest probability of being in poverty between ages 25-29. The odds ratios for other family types range between 1.12 for those living with their father and a stepmother to 2.73 for those living in single father families. Individuals living with a single mother at age 14 are 32 percent more likely to spend time in poverty between ages 25-29 than individuals in intact families.
Two biological parent households also see their children with the lowest probability of spending time in jail. There is not much of a clear pattern for either the health or family formation measures. Intact families are neither the best nor worst at preventing poor outcomes in these domains. However, they are generally neutral, not having strong effects either way. For example, they have neither the highest nor lowest rates of marriage, divorce, or childbearing.
Single mother households, the second most common type of family structure, fare worse on the economic outcomes. Compared with intact families, those who lived only with their mother at age 14 do not do as well in the labor market and are more likely to spend time in poverty and on welfare. This is not surprising given that single mother households typically have lower income than intact families. Therefore the likelihood of not achieving economic success as an adult is probably more a function of fewer resources than it is a function of single motherhood per se. This general pattern of the negative relationship between single-mother families and successful economic outcomes is consistent with past research (Amato, 1999; McLanahan, 1999). Even when holding school dropout constant, McLanahan (1999) found higher labor market detachment rates among men from single-parent homes as compared to those from intact homes.
As with intact families, there is not much of a pattern in adult family formation for adolescents living in single mother families. However, those who lived with a single mother (or single father) at age 14 are less likely to have married by age 33 when compared with those who lived in either intact or re-married households. Adolescents in single mother households at age 14 are no more likely than adolescents in intact families to spend time in jail or use drugs as an adult. Interestingly, they are only 71 percent as likely to have an alcohol problem as an adult. These results imply that single mothers may lack the income of intact families, but are still capable of raising children who do not end up as alcoholics, drug users, or in jail.
Because of small cell sizes, we do not emphasize the results for other family types. However, certain findings are worth noting. Adolescents with the least likelihood of having an alcohol or drug problem as an adult are those who live with their father and stepmother at age 14 (42 percent as likely as those in intact families). They are also the most likely to be married, the most likely to be married with children, and the least likely to have divorced at age 33. Paradoxically, they are also the most likely to spend time in jail, spend the most years on welfare, and take the longest to find a steady job.
Those living in a single father household at age 14 are less likely than those in intact families to have adult alcohol or drug problems. They are the least likely to marry and the most likely to not be married but have a child at age 33. They have the highest likelihood of being in poverty, spend the most years in poverty, are the most likely to spend time on welfare, and take the longest to find a steady job. They also have a higher likelihood of spending time in jail than those in intact or single mother households.
In summary, like most literature we find that growing up in an intact family leads to the best outcomes overall, particularly in the economic domain. Growing up in a single mother household makes children more vulnerable to poor economic outcomes, but does not increase the likelihood of other bad outcomes. Those who grow up in either single mother or single father households have the least likelihood of marrying by age 33. In general, it appears that fathers are important for children avoiding adult alcohol and drug problems. But outside intact families, living with a biological father is associated with worse economic, family formation, and incarceration outcomes. One should be cautious about drawing conclusions from these associations. Children are not distributed across different family types randomly. In particular, adolescent behavior may influence reasons for living with a father but not a mother, rather than the other way around. The summary below provides a more detailed description of the findings in this section.
Adolescents living in intact families at age 14 have the best adult economic outcomes and are the least likely to spend time in jail. However, intact families are generally neutral in the adult health and family formation outcomes as the adolescents from these families have neither the best or worst outcomes in these domains.
Adolescents living in single mother families at age 14 have worse adult economic outcomes than those in intact families, but show no difference in adult drug usage or likelihood of spending time in jail. Adolescents from single mother families have lower likelihood of an adult alcohol disorder than adolescents from intact families.
Adolescents living with a single mother or single father at age 14 are less likely to have married by age 33 compared with those who lived in either intact or re-married households.
The presence of a biological father in the household at age 14 is associated with lower levels of adult alcohol disorders or drug usage.
4. The Relationship of Parents' Education (SES) to Adult Outcomes
Parents' socioeconomic status (SES) can play a major role in a variety of ways. Higher income, higher education, and increased access to resources allow parents to invest more in their children's future. They have more access to information about education, jobs, and other opportunities. Furthermore, higher SES parents likely have better information and better access to means of preventing negative consequences such as counseling, drug rehabilitation programs, or good lawyers.
Socioeconomic status is a combination of various attributes including education, occupation, and income. We proxy for SES by using parents' education. While data limitations motivate our choice of education as the variable to study, education is highly correlated with the other attributes and should proxy well for general SES. It should be recognized, though, that our results are specific to parents' education. Had measures of other dimensions of SES been available, we might have obtained different results.
The relationship between parents' education and adult outcomes is fuzzy, but basically follows expected patterns. Mothers' and fathers' education has similar effects for most outcomes, but contradictory for some. They are particularly contradictory for the health outcomes. Higher levels of mother's education are associated with lower likelihood of adult alcohol problems (Figure 7a). For example, those with college graduate mothers are only 69 percent as likely to have an adult alcohol abuse or dependence problem compared with those whose mothers are high school dropouts. Conversely, higher levels of fathers' education are actually associated with greater likelihood of an adult alcohol problem (Figure 7b). For example those with college graduate fathers are 33 percent more likely to have an alcohol abuse or dependence problem compared with those whose fathers are high school dropouts.
Figure 7a
Figure 7b
While mothers' education has a negative relationship with adult alcohol abuse or dependence, it has a somewhat positive relationship with the likelihood of adult drug usage. Fathers' education has no relationship with adult drug usage. Conversely, while no relationship exists between mother's education and the likelihood of going to jail, higher levels of fathers' education are associated with a lower probability of spending time in jail.
The two parents' education levels have more similar associations in the economic domain. More education for either parent is generally associated with better economic outcomes, though there are some minor inconsistencies. It is clear that those with mothers who are high school dropouts nearly always fare worst and those with college graduate mothers typically fare best. For example, adolescents with mothers who are high school graduates are 71 percent as likely to be in poverty between ages 25-29 (Figure 8) compared to those whose mothers are high school dropouts; those with mothers who are college graduates are only 55 percent as likely. For fathers, whenever significance is achieved, there is a positive association between fathers' education and the economic outcome.
Few associations between either parent's education and the marriage/fertility outcomes achieve statistical significance. One notable exception shows children of college graduate mothers are less likely to be never married with children at age 33. Although generally not statistically significant, we see a consistent relationship between higher levels of parents' education and delayed childbearing. Although children of more educated parents are no less likely to have married by age 33, they are more likely to be never married without children. Children of more educated mothers show higher rates of being married without children, though this relationship does not show up for fathers' education. Individuals with more education typically show rates of later marriage and childbearing. Since there is a positive correlation between an individual's education and his/her parents' education, we are capturing a similar relationship.
Higher levels of mothers' education are associated with fewer adult alcohol disorders and better economic outcomes, but more adult drug usage. There is little relationship with either incarceration or adult family formation.
Higher levels of fathers' education are associated with good economic and incarceration outcomes, but more adult alcohol disorders. There is little relationship between fathers' education and adult drug use or family formation.
5. The Relationship of Parental Alcohol Problems to Adult Outcomes
As noted earlier, parent's alcoholism is unlikely to have positive effects on a child's development. The regressions bear this out strongly. Compared with individuals who do not grow up with an alcoholic parent, a child of an alcoholic parent is 33 percent more likely to have an adult alcohol problem, 21 percent more likely to use drugs as an adult, and 32 percent more likely to spend time in jail. They do not fare any better on the economic front. They are 22 percent more likely to spend time in poverty and 41 percent more likely to receive welfare at some point. Although they do not have lower percent time employed, they take nearly ten months longer to find a steady job. The p-values indicate that these results have relatively low probabilities of occurring by chance.
On the other hand, few relationships between parental alcohol use and marriage/fertility outcomes are significant. There is no difference in the likelihood of being married at age 33.19 However, consistent with the literature, we find that ACOAs are more likely to divorce (Parker and Harford 1988). In fact, the only category that achieves statistical significance is married and divorced with children. About 30 percent of those who marry are divorced by age 33, while about 27 percent of those without an alcoholic parent who marry are divorced.
Compared with individuals who do not grow up with an alcoholic parent, a child of an alcoholic parent is more likely to have an adult alcohol problem, is more likely to use drugs as an adult, and is more likely to spend time in jail.
Adult children of alcoholics are more likely to spend time in poverty and are more likely to receive welfare at some point. Although they do not have lower percent time employed, they take longer to find a steady job.
Few relationships between parental alcohol use and marriage/fertility outcomes are significant; however, adult children of alcoholics are more likely to divorce.
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Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival 2023
Where: Cinematheque, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
When: Annually in July.
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Tel Aviv International Children's Film Festival started in 2005 and since it raises quality movies for children and youth. The unique festival program includes act films, documentaries and short films.
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Model Forests: territories for sustainable development
The region has about 28 examples of this Model Forest land use and tenure mosaic. The IAMFN plays a fundamental role
A Model Forest is a territory where the people are organized and they manage their forests and other natural resources together to pursue sustainable development. Model Forests contribute to achieving global objectives for poverty reduction, climate change, halting desertification and millennium goals.
In a Model Forest, forest resources are the starting point around which participatory processes are organized in a territory that also includes other ecosystems. Model Forests have a mosaic of land uses and tenancy, where the lives of their residents are combined with various activities, ranging from agriculture, livestock production, forestry, tourism and conservation.
Each Model Forest is unique in its characteristics, resources and mechanisms for participation, but it responds to/addresses six basic principles that allow them to ensure their impact and integration with other Model Forests of the world. More than 31 million hectares in 14 countries of Ibero-America are part of the 28 Model Forests in this region.
Stakeholders seek to advance sustainable land management of the territory in a collaborative and coordinated way, so there is a local leadership structure that coordinates actions on matters such as protected areas, biological corridors, forest management, sustainable agriculture, rural tourism, microcredit, organic production, watershed management, certified forests and more.
The Model Forest concept emerged in the 1990s, after the Government of Canada found an alternative to an ongoing conflict between forest concession companies and the communities living in forested areas for the management and use of natural resources. In Latin America the first Model Forest was Chiloé in southern Chile, founded in 1996.
The IAMFN: linking Ibero-America's Model Forest
The Ibero-American Model Forest Network (IAMFN) links areas where initiatives are promoted for good forest and natural resource management. The IAMFN is one of six regional networks of the International Model Forest Network along with the Mediterranean, African, Asian, Circumboreal and Canadian Model Forest Networks.
The IAMFN is a voluntary partnership between Model Forests backed by governmental representatives from each member country, and it is adhered to the Secretariat of the International Model Forest Network (IMFNS).
It is the first regional, voluntary organization that groups 14 countries in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain to manage knowledge and exchange experiences about the Model Forests in Ibero-America.
The IAMFN has international support and it focuses its management on promoting good governance of natural resources, linking the territories to promote initiatives for the sustainable production and conservation of the natural resources and forests of the member countries.
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Promoting international cooperation and exchange of ideas related to the concept of active sustainable management of forests and natural resources.
Supporting international cooperation in the fundamental aspects of forestry and social science that underlie the search for new models of forest and landscape management.
Supporting the international debate on the criteria and principles of sustainable development.
The IAMFN groups 14 countries of Central and South America, the Caribbean and Spain to manage knowledge and exchange experiences about the Model Forests in Ibero-America.
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19 hot and hunky male celebs that are actually above 50
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The celebrities who prove that age is just a number
by Terri Kue / May 21, 2022
Credit: Instagram/@chuando_chuandoandfrey, @tonyleung_official, @007
Some men are like wine – they simply get better with age. There's just something about a mature, attractive older man that makes us feel hot under the collar no matter how old they are. Best of all, you can start following many of these "DILFs" on Instagram right now. You can thank us later! Click through the gallery to see which of these hunky ones will redefine your concept of older men:
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https://www.herworld.com/gallery/life/entertainment/hunky-sexy-men-above-50/
Tony Leung, 60
We all know Tony Leung. Most of us grew up with him, and if not, then his appearance on Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings has definitely put him on everyone's radar once more. At 59 years old (60 this year), Leung aged the way most of us wish we would.
With forearms and shoulders to die for, it's no wonder many are overlooking Shang-Chi for his villainous father. His Instagram is also filled with many magazine-cover shots of him, so there's no lack of eye candy from this 59-year-old actor.
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Daniel Craig, 54
It is crazy to think that Daniel Craig played James Bond up till his 50s, but here we are! We are all no strangers to his physique, what with the number of steamy scenes he has delivered over the years. The best part? His trainer has revealed that his body was built to ensure he could be mobile for his scenes and not just for aesthetic purposes.
Now that's what we call an ideal body.
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Lee Jung-Jae, 50
Lee Jung-Jae entered our lives like a wrecking ball in 2021 with Squid Game, but that's not all that he is known for. Labelled as one of the most successful actors in South Korea, the to-be 50-year-old (in December 2022) was also a former actor. Don't be fooled by his character in the Netflix hit-show though – Lee Jung-Jae is widely known for his topless photographs where he sports chiselled muscles and a toned chest.
He definitely took his transformation for Squid Game seriously, that's all we can say!
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Zheng Ge Ping, 59
Local actor and executive producer, Zheng Ge Ping is best known in the local industry for his leading roles in dramas like Like Father, Like Daughter and Love Blossoms. And while he has a fair share of experiences over the years, the local star has proven to us that age is really just a number. This year, he turns 58 in May and we can't help but admire how ageless he looks.
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Christopher Lee, 51
Let's face it — this list wouldn't be complete without the one and only Christopher Lee. He has probably looked the same in the past decade or two, so it's hard to believe that the actor is turning 50 this year.
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Edmund Chen, 61
Edmund Chen is a household name in our little country, and the local celeb took the pandemic as an opportunity to get fit and bulk up. After taking a break from showbiz, the well-loved actor is back on screens once more in a once-in-a-lifetime chance to act with his whole family.
We are looking forward to having him in the spotlight once more, and hopefully, he keeps the topless photos coming because we are enjoying the view.
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Lee Byung-Hun, 52
From the same show as Lee Jung-Jae is Lee Byung-Hun who plays The Front Man. In his younger days, he was well-known for his chocolate abs, but his build is not too shabby at 51. His Instagram boasts many selfies, but it's the full-body pictures that really shows how well he fills up his shirts and arm sleeves.
Just a side note: he favours pants that end right above the ankle and that rises up when he sits. And, well, we are all for a peek at those ankles.
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Nathan Fillion, 51
Remember The Detachable Kid from Suicide Squad? It's played by Nathan Fillion, who is also currently starring in The Rookie. Due to the active nature of his works, it's no wonder the 50-year-old boasts killer biceps and a fine body shape.
Judging from this photo, he knows he looks good.
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Hugh Jackman, 54
When Hugh Jackman was playing Wolverine, he had the best body by miles. Now, many years later, we say that he still has it. Just look at him flexing while getting his booster shot; it has to be unfair to look so good while getting jabbed!
However, with how he is getting ready to hit Broadway in February, he definitely can't be slacking off if he wants to debut those dance moves and that voice on the big stage. All we know is that we can't wait to see him in action!
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Daniel Dae Kim, 54
Standing at 1.75 metres tall and with broad shoulders to boot, Daniel Dae Kim is not someone you'd miss. The 53-year-old has three decades' worth of acting experience under his belt so he may not be a new face to some of us. Even through his shirt, it's easy to see that he has a well-built body and a muscular chest.
With his distinct features and undeniably sharp jawline, he is on our list to look out for any time, anywhere.
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ChuanDo Tan, 56
This man blew up two years back, and it's not hard to see why! ChuanDo is a fine specimen for his age and we still can't believe he's 55 years old. In fact, if you do a quick search of his name, one of the questions under "People also ask" happens to be 'Is Chuando Tan really 55?'.
The hottie is a photographer from Singapore, and one half of photography duo ChuanDo&Frey. Better known as CD to his friends and within fashion circles, he is guaranteed to make your boyfriend or husband extremely jealous. He is also the founder of Ave Management, a modelling agency, so he definitely knows a thing or two about looking his best.
His Instagram is also full of drool-worthy pictures showing his sculpted chest and very prominent muscles. Eye candy status: confirmed.
A post shared by CHUANDO TAN 陈传多 (@chuando_chuandoandfrey)
Aiden Brady, 56
This British fox is giving us grey hair envy with his flowing silver locks. Aiden Brady is a modelling industry veteran having lent his good looks to fashion shows, glossy magazines and more with his majestic beard.
He is no stranger to showing off his physique, and we can only hope that he continues to model for many years to come.
A post shared by Aiden Brady (@mr_aidenbrady)
Anthony Varrecchia, 55
Through his work as a model, this rugged, scruffy New Yorker proves that beauty has no age limit. His followers on Instagram agree, as he has amassed more than 190,000 pairs of eyes that swoon over every pic he posts. From gym selfies to cups of coffee in bed, they can't get enough of Anthony Varrecchia, and neither can we.
Instagram/anthony.varrecchia
Philippe Dumas, 67
Philippe Dumas, who lives in Paris, made a last-ditch attempt to achieve his dream of modelling through Reddit of all places. In late 2015, he uploaded a bunch of photos to the social news website, asking Reddit if he had what it takes to become a model. Thankfully, the Redditors all agreed that he did, and he started modelling for designer ad campaigns just six months later!
Now, he continues to live his dream and show us that even unruly silver beards can look good on the right person.
A post shared by Philippe Dumas. Paris. France (@dumphil)
Milind Soman, 56
If you're a fan of Bollywood, then Milind Soman will be no stranger to you. Milind's dedication to fitness is clear, judging by how well he's aged due to watching his diet and taking good care of his body. In an interview with India Today, the star said, "I am sure that if anyone starts now, then at 55 they will also manage. This can actually be a great time to adopt certain habits and to prioritize your life because health and fitness are important. Over a period of time, one can achieve any level of fitness that one wants. I've been doing it for the past 50 years. Ever since I was 6-7 years old, I started swimming and, for 50 years, I've been fit because I am consistent. Whether I have two minutes, 20 minutes, or two hours, I'll do something that is challenging. It's not about how fast you are or how much weight you're losing. The key is to keep moving."
A post shared by Milind Usha Soman (@milindrunning)
Nick Wooster, 62
Notoriously street-style snapped and regularly seen sporting edgy sunglasses, tailored clothing, some enviable pairs of shoes and his signature quiff haircut and perfectly-groomed beard, Nick Wooster oozes all things fashionable. He's social media savvy too with close to 900,000 followers on Instagram.
Despite his age, he is a model of modern times. He goes against stereotypes and has posted pictures of himself in skirts during Men's fashion week. A hunky man who isn't afraid to dress however he likes? That's a yes from us!
A post shared by Nickelson Wooster (@nickwooster)
Ron Jack Foley, in his 50s
Ron Jack Foley is another male model who has truly magnificent facial hair. As if that wasn't enough, he's also blessed with beautiful eyes and perfect bone structure. His age isn't anywhere to be found on the internet but nobody really cares. All we know is that he's rocking that hair flip better than any of us (or our partners) can.
Wang Deshun, 86
Dubbed "China's hottest grandpa" by netizens, 85-year-old Wang Deshun became a worldwide sensation when he was seen on the runway at Beijing's 798 Art Zone during fashion week in 2016. But Mr Wang is no stranger to modelling, having taught catwalking some 30 years ago in one of the first modelling schools in China.
While he is getting on in years, it definitely doesn't show on him. He walks the runway like a man in his youth and the confidence is so attractive on him.
Gianluca Viachhi, 55
The impeccably toned Italian is a businessman and not only is he macho and mature, but he's also a millionaire. He's quite the playboy though so it's best to just look and not touch.
This article was first published in The Singapore Women's Weekly. Additional reporting: Natalya Molok and Terri Kue.
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Q: Character class subtraction, converting from Java syntax to RegexBuddy Which regular expression engine does Java uses?
In a tool like RegexBuddy if I use
[a-z&&[^bc]]

that expression in Java is good but in RegexBuddy it has not been understood.
In fact it reports:

Match a single character present in
  the list below [a-z&&[^bc]

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*A character in the range between a and z : a-z

*One of the characters &[^bc : &&[^bc

*Match the character ] literally : ]

but i want to match a character between a and z intersected with a character that is not b or c

A: Java uses its own regular expression engine, which behaviour is defined in the Pattern class.
You can test it with an Eclipse plugin or online.

A: Like most regex flavors, java.util.regex.Pattern has its own specific features with syntax that may not be fully compatible with others; this includes character class union, intersection and subtraction:

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*[a-d[m-p]] : a through d, or m through p: [a-dm-p] (union)

*[a-z&&[def]] : d, e, or f (intersection)

*[a-z&&[^bc]] : a through z, except for b and c: [ad-z] (subtraction)

The most important "caveat" of Java regex is that matches attempts to match a pattern against the whole string. This is atypical of most engines, and can be a source of confusion at times.
See also

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*regular-expressions.info/Flavor Comparison and Java Flavor Notes

On character class subtraction
Subtraction allows you to define for example "all consonants" in Java as [a-z&&[^aeiou]].
This syntax is specific to Java. In XML Schema, .NET, JGSoft and RegexBuddy, it's [a-z-[aeiou]]. Other flavors may not support this feature at all.
References

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*regular-expressions.info/Character Classes in XML Regular Expressions

*MSDN - Regular Expression Character Classes - Subtraction
Related questions

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*What is the point behind character class intersections in Java's Regex?

A: RegexBuddy does not yet support the character class union, intersection, and subtraction syntax that is unique to the Java regular expression flavor.  This is the only part of the Java regex syntax that RegexBuddy does not yet support.  We're planning to implement this in a future version of RegexBuddy.  The reason this has been postponed is because no other regular expression flavor supports this syntax.
P.S.: If you have a question about RegexBuddy in particular, please add the "regexbuddy" tag to your question.  Then the question automatically shows up in my RSS reader.  I don't follow the "regex" tag because far too many questions use that tag, and most are already answered by the time I see them.

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