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Justia › US Law › Case Law › Federal Courts › Courts of Appeals › D.C. Circuit › 1966 › George W. Sohm, Appellant, v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury, et al., Appellees
George W. Sohm, Appellant, v. Henry H. Fowler, Secretary of the Treasury, et al., Appellees, 365 F.2d 915 (D.C. Cir. 1966)
US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit - 365 F.2d 915 (D.C. Cir. 1966) Argued February 9, 1966
Decided June 16, 1966
Mr. John J. Moss, Boston, Mass., of the bar of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, pro hac vice, by special leave of court, and Mr. O. John Rogge, Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Lawrence C. Moore, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.
Mr. Robert B. Norris, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Messrs. David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellees. Messrs. Daniel J. McTague and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Attys., also entered appearances for appellees.
Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and DANAHER and WRIGHT, Circuit Judges.
BAZELON, Chief Judge:
Appellant was a lieutenant commander in the United States Coast Guard when he was ordered into retirement. In this suit he challenges the order on a variety of constitutional, statutory and procedural grounds.
Beginning in 1959, appellant was passed over for promotion by three separate Coast Guard selection boards, and by action of the last board he was placed permanently out of line of promotion. The Coast Guard then sought to retire him from active duty under the procedures set forth in 63 Stat. 515 (1949) [then codified as 14 U.S.C. § 235]. Before this action was completed, Congress repealed the authorizing statute and replaced it with a provision allowing the Coast Guard to retire without hearing any lieutenant commander "who has failed of selection for promotion * * * for the second time * * *." 14 U.S.C. § 285 (Supp.V, 1964). On December 26, 1963, appellant was notified that he would be retired under this section as of June 30, 1964.
Appellant then filed a complaint in District Court seeking to enjoin and declare unlawful his forthcoming retirement; he also sought an order in the nature of mandamus to compel his promotion to commander. The District Court denied the motion for a preliminary injunction and granted summary judgment in favor of appellee. Sohm v. Dillon, 231 F. Supp. 973 (D.D.C. 1964); 235 F. Supp. 450 (D.D.C. 1964). This is a consolidated appeal from these judgments.
There is, however, another strand to the history of this case. On October 18, 1961, appellant filed a petition with the Board for Correction of Military Records to have his record corrected and to be placed back in the line of promotion. In February 1964, before the Board rendered a final decision, appellant "heard that its recommended decision was adverse." He then requested and was granted a reopening of the record and later a de novo hearing before a reconstituted Board. Apparently at this point appellant abandoned his remedy before the Board since, so far as the record shows, he has yet to notify them of a hearing date convenient to himself and counsel.
The court first applied the rule for exhaustion of administrative remedies to the Board for Correction of Military Records in Ogden v. Zuckert, 111 U.S.App. D.C. 398, 298 F.2d 312 (1961). There an officer who was protesting the terms of his separation from the Air Force had not sought relief from the Board. After investigating the nature and function of the Board, we stated:
* * * jurisdiction of the [trial] court was not precluded by the omission of plaintiff to seek relief through the Board; but we also conclude that on remand the court may, in its discretion, refrain from exercising jurisdiction to decide the case pending plaintiff's pursuit of relief at the hands of * * * the Board * * *. Id. at 403, 298 F.2d at 317.
Here the District Court relied on Ogden and exercised its discretion by holding that appellant need not exhaust his pending remedy before the Board. We think the court based its exercise of discretion on too broad a view of Ogden. This appears from the following.
1. Unlike the plaintiff in Ogden appellant has affirmatively and successfully invoked the jurisdiction of the Board. There can thus be no fear that the Board will exercise its discretionary jurisdiction by refusing to hear the case. Moreover, it appears that the Board, under its duty to correct errors and remove injustice, has sufficient authority to accord appellant relief.1 Not requiring appellant to exhaust this available remedy raises problems of forum shopping and unnecessary waste of judicial energies and resources. There is danger that appellant's unexplained abandonment of the Board was motivated by his fear of an adverse decision and his desire to find a forum more sympathetic to his claims. More important, we are now placed in the position of rendering what may become, in effect, an advisory opinion. If, for example, we adopt a substantial evidence rule and uphold the Coast Guard's action, appellant would presumably be free to return to the Board, which might review the merits of his case in a more pervasive fashion and grant him the relief he seeks. Nor is appellant prevented from returning to the Board during the pendency of this litigation. In such case, the Board's decision might drastically alter the issues in the case or render unnecessary any further court review.2
2. Holding this suit in abeyance until the Board completes its action would comply with the basic policy of the law that administrative remedies should be exhausted so long as the agency clearly has jurisdiction over the case and so long as resort to the agency is not obviously futile.3 This policy, although subject to the exercise of discretion, has been applied by numerous courts in the context of Boards for Correction of Military Records, and it has evolved to the point where it can be formulated as a rule that the administrative remedy should be exhausted unless the party invoking the court's jurisdiction can demonstrate special circumstances.4 No such circumstances were alleged in this case.
3. Appellant in this suit has challenged the constitutionality of the process by which he was placed out of the line of promotion and retired. He argues that he was deprived of a substantial property right — retention of his rank and promotion — without notice of allegations of his unfitness; a full evidentiary hearing on these charges including rights of representation, confrontation, and cross examination; the right to challenge inadmissible evidence; and an impartial tribunal. These flaws he contends deprived him of due process of law. Since this case would presumably terminate if appellant prevailed before the Board,5 requiring exhaustion of administrative remedies would vindicate the fundamental doctrine that courts should avoid passing on unnecessary constitutional questions.6 This doctrine seems particularly applicable here bcause of the far reaching and difficult nature of the constitutional claims.7 Moreover, it is possible that the full evidentiary hearing which the Board apparently is prepared to accord appellant will itself cure any constitutional defects in the procedures leading to his retirement.8
4. The fact that appellant's contentions in this case raise complicated and somewhat technical issues of fact also militates toward completion of the administrative process. Appellant, for example, argues that at least two of the fitness reports on which the Coast Guard based its action violated various administrative regulations; he claims that an "ex parte" psychiatric report was secretly and improperly sent to all of his duty stations; and he alleges that he was the victim both of mistaken identity and of a conspiracy or vendetta to discredit him because of his criticism of the administration of certain Coast Guard programs. Whether these allegations are true, and if so, whether they tainted or rendered invalid the action of the promotion boards are factual questions most appropriate for the specialized knowledge and experience of an administrative agency. In addition, resolution of these issues turns, in large part, on the interpretation and application of Coast Guard regulations and practice. Not only is the Board better equipped to decide these questions, but also considerations of securing uniformity in interpretation suggest that we first allow the Coast Guard an opportunity to construe their own regulations. Finally, agency consideration of appellant's claims may help to narrow the issues and clarify the remaining questions, thereby assisting the court in its review of the case.9 For example, it may be that the Board's decision would remove all factual problems from the case and reduce the controverted issue to one of law — e. g., whether appellant was denied his constitutional rights or whether the Coast Guard's action was authorized by 14 U.S.C. § 285.10
In light of the foregoing11 we reverse and remand the case to the District Court with directions to stay the case pending hearing and decision by the Board for Correction of Military Records.
DANAHER, Circuit Judge (dissenting).
This appellant by 1959 had twice failed of promotion to the rank of commander. Two successive Selection Boards had passed upon his record. On June 12, 1961, he was notified that for the third time he had failed of promotion. Thus, no less than fifteen different officers acting under oath in the performance of their duty, had considered the possibility of the appellant's entitlement to promotion. All of them in performance of that duty had ruled against him.
The appellant brought suit in the District Court seeking to enjoin the Secretary of the Treasury from retiring the appellant from active duty. Relief was denied. Sohm v. Dillon, 231 F. Supp. 973 (D.D.C. 1964). He asked the District Court to order his retirement declared a nullity and that an order be issued directing his restoration to line of promotion. He asked for summary judgment, obviously thus representing that there was no genuine issue of material fact. The Government sought summary judgment which was granted. Sohm v. Dillon, 235 F. Supp. 450 (D.D.C. 1964). The appellant had failed to set forth specific facts in refutation of the Government's statement which had been filed under District Court Rule 9(h).
From 1961 down to October 1964, the Board for Correction of Military Records had repeatedly advised the appellant that the Board was ready to hear him. He did not appear.1
I suggest that the selection and promotion of officers can not be and should not become judicial functions. When the District Court granted summary judgment for the Government, it was clearly following our established rule.2
My review of this record satisfies me that the District Court correctly interpreted our decisional law, and moreover, the action taken was strictly in accord with the provisions of Fed. R. Civ. P. 56 (e). In my view the judgment of the District Court should, without more, be affirmed.
See,e. g., Caddington v. United States, 147 Ct. Cl. 629, 178 F. Supp. 604 (1959); Egan v. United States, 141 Ct. Cl. 1, 158 F. Supp. 377 (1958); 41 OPS. ATTY. GEN. 94, 97 (1952); Redd, The Board for Correction of Naval Records, 19 JAG J. 9, 11-12 (1964); Williams, The Army Board for Correction of Military Records, 6 MIL.L.REV. 41, 46-54 (1959).
See,e. g., Aircraft & Diesel Equip. Corp. v. Hirsch, 331 U.S. 752, 767, 772-773, 67 S. Ct. 1493, 91 L. Ed. 1796 (1947); Hardy v. Rossell, 135 F. Supp. 260, 265 (S.D.N. Y.1955). That the Board has exercised its discretion and accepted jurisdiction, that it is not the same body which rendered the initial administrative decision, and that resort to the Board was not shown to be futile, distinguish this case from those like Levers v. Anderson, 326 U.S. 219, 66 S. Ct. 72, 90 L. Ed. 26 (1945); United States v. Abilene & S. Ry., 265 U.S. 274, 280-282, 44 S. Ct. 565, 68 L. Ed. 1016 (1924); and Prendergast v. New York Tele. Co., 262 U.S. 43, 48-50, 43 S. Ct. 466, 67 L. Ed. 853 (1923).
See,e. g., Allen v. Grand Central Aircraft Co., 347 U.S. 535, 539-541, 74 S. Ct. 745, 98 L. Ed. 933 (1954); Aircraft & Diesel Equip. Co. v. Hirsch, supra note 2; Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., 303 U.S. 41, 50-52, 58 S. Ct. 459, 82 L. Ed. 638 (1938); 3 DAVIS ADMINISTRATIVE LAW §§ 20.01-.03, 20.07 (1958) [hereafter cited as DAVIS]; Jaffe, The Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies, 12 BUFFALO L.REV. 327 (1963).
See,e. g., Schwartz v. Covington, 341 F.2d 537 (9th Cir. 1965); Reed v. Franke, 297 F.2d 17, 26-27 (4th Cir. 1961); Marshall v. Wyman, 132 F. Supp. 169, 176 (N.D.Calif.1955); Hiett v. United States, 131 Ct. Cl. 585, 130 F. Supp. 338 (1958). Cf. Beard v. Stahr, 370 U.S. 41, 82 S. Ct. 1105, 8 L. Ed. 2d 321 (1962).
Even if appellant were not granted all the relief he initially sought, it is still possible that he would be satisfied with partial success before the Board — e. g., reinstatement to active duty without promotion
See,e. g., Public Util. Comm'n of State of California v. United States, 355 U.S. 534, 539-540, 548-553, 78 S. Ct. 446, 2 L. Ed. 2d 470 (1958) (majority and dissenting opinions); Aircraft & Diesel Equip. Corp. v. Hirsch, supra note 2, 331 U.S. at 772-773, 67 S. Ct. 1493; Reed v. Franke, supra note 4, 297 F.2d at 27; 3 DAVIS § 20.04. Cf. Hardy v. Rossell, supra note 2, 135 F. Supp. at 265-266.
Cf. Beard v. Stahr, supra note 4.
See Reed v. Franke,supra note 4, 297 F.2d at 27.
See,e. g., Allen v. Grand Central Aircraft Co., 347 U.S. 535, 540, 74 S. Ct. 745, 98 L. Ed. 933 (1954); Aircraft & Diesel Equip. Corp. v. Hirsch, supra note 2, 331 U.S. at 767-768, 67 S. Ct. 1493; Hardy v. Rossell, supra note 2, 135 F. Supp. at 265; 3 DAVIS § 20.03; Jaffe, supra note 3, at 327-329, 335-339, 340-341.
These rationales of expertise, uniformity and ripeness also underlie the doctrine of primary jurisdiction. See,e. g., Federal Maritime Board v. Isbrandtsen Co., 356 U.S. 481, 78 S. Ct. 851, 2 L. Ed. 2d 926 (1958); United States v. Western Pac. R.R., 352 U.S. 59, 77 S. Ct. 161, 1 L. Ed. 2d 126 (1956); Far East Conference v. United States, 342 U.S. 570, 72 S. Ct. 492, 96 L. Ed. 576 (1952); Great Northern Ry. v. Merchants' Elevator Co., 259 U.S. 285, 42 S. Ct. 477, 66 L. Ed. 943 (1922); Texas & Pac. Ry. v. American Tie & Timber Co., 234 U.S. 138, 34 S. Ct. 885, 58 L. Ed. 1255 (1914). Thus if the case were analyzed under this rubric rather than that of exhaustion [see, e. g., United States v. Western Pac. R.R., supra at 352 U.S. 63-64, 77 S. Ct. 161; 3 DAVIS § 19.01 and n. 6; Jaffe, Primary Jurisdiction Reconsidered, 102 U. Pa. L. Rev. 577, 579 (1954)], the proper disposition would still be for the court to stay its hand pending resort to the administrative process.
Since no irreparable injury was or could be asserted in the circumstances of this case [see,e. g., Meyers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., supra note 3, at 303 U.S. 50-52, 58 S. Ct. 459; 3 DAVIS §§ 20.02-.03; Jaffe, supra note 3, at 331-334. Compare Beard v. Stahr, supra note 4, 370 U.S. at 44-45, 82 S. Ct. 1105 (dissenting opinion)], this precondition for requiring exhaustion of the administrative remedy was met.
Incidentally, in an affidavit attached to his complaint he represented that he already had exhausted his administrative remedies
Payson v. Franke, 108 U.S.App.D.C. 368, 371, 282 F.2d 851, 854 (1960), cert. denied sub nom. Robinson v. Franke, 365 U.S. 815, 81 S. Ct. 696, 5 L. Ed. 2d 694 (1961).
Said in another connection, but no less apt, the Supreme Court noted: "Orderly government requires that the judiciary be as scrupulous not to interfere with legitimate Army matters as the Army must be scrupulous not to intervene in judicial matters." Orloff v. Willoughby, 345 U.S. 83, 94, 73 S. Ct. 534, 540, 97 L. Ed. 842 (1953).


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Q: Show/Hide div based on drop down value I'm developing a function in javascript that should show/hide div based on selected value in the dropdown.

function hide_show() {
  document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",init);

  function init() {
    document.querySelector('select#b2borprivate').addEventListener('click')=hide_show;
  }
  var zone = document.querySelector('select[name="b2borprivate"]')
  if (zone.value == "osoba_prywatna"){
    alert("test1");

    var x = document.getElementById("private_person");

    if (x.style.display === "none") {
      alert("test2");
      x.style.display = "block";
    } else {
    }
  }
}

    Osoba prywatna / Firma
    <select class="form-control" id="b2borprivate" name="b2borprivate" onchange="hide_show()" required>
      <option value="">Wybierz</option>
      <option value="osoba_prywatna">Osoba prywatna</option>
      <option value="firma">Firma</option>
    </select>

Alert one can be displayed successfully so the first condition works. The issue is about the second condition about display.none. It does not work.

A: When fetching any tag using getElementById, it can't be accessed directly we need to access it using its 0th index.
You should update it to:
var x = document.getElementById("private_person")[0];

A: Thanks, I just fix it with jQuery

A: PrivatePerson  is an array and should be accessed via indices
Example
document.getElementById('private_person')[0]

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package org.kuali.rice.krad.keyvalues;

import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.ConcreteKeyValue;
import org.kuali.rice.core.api.util.KeyValue;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class IndicatorYNNullValuesFinder extends KeyValuesBase {

    @Override
	public List<KeyValue> getKeyValues() {
    	List<KeyValue> activeLabels = new ArrayList<KeyValue>();
        activeLabels.add(new ConcreteKeyValue("", ""));
        activeLabels.add(new ConcreteKeyValue("Yes", "Yes"));
        activeLabels.add(new ConcreteKeyValue("No", "No"));
        return activeLabels;
    }

}

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Q: Symfony2, ERROR: Cannot validate values of type "string" automatically. Please provide a constraint Symfony 2 ERROR: Cannot validate values of type "string" automatically. Please provide a constraint.
I do not understand what constraint and where i have to provide?
I am following example from book "Extending Symfony 2", chapter 4. I try to make custom annotation "ValidateUser" and use it on the Entity User property $phone. I also have "ValidUserListenerCustom" registered as a service, which redirects response of controller action  join4Action. This action is annotated with said custom annotation "@ValidateUser("join_event")". This action should add User to the Event only if User has mobile number in his profile.
C:\Bitnami\wampstack-5.5.30-0\sym_prog\star\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Entity\User.php
/**
 * @ORM\Column(type="string", length=255, name="phone")
 * @Assert\NotBlank(groups={"join_event"})
*/
protected $phone;

C:\Bitnami\wampstack-5.5.30-0\sym_prog\star\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Security\ValidUserListenerCustom.php
<?php

namespace Yoda\UserBundle\Security;

use Doctrine\Common\Annotations\Reader;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Routing\Router;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\RedirectResponse;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Session\Session;
use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\SecurityContext;
use Symfony\Component\DependencyInjection\Container;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Event\FilterControllerEvent;

class ValidUserListenerCustom
{
    private $reader;
    private $annotation_name = 'Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation\ValidateUser';

    private $router;
    private $session;
    private $sc;
    private $container;

    public function __construct(Reader $reader, Router $rou, Session $session, SecurityContext $sc, Container $cont)
    {
        /** @var AnnotationReader $reader */
        $this->reader = $reader;

        $this->router = $rou;
        $this->session = $session;
        $this->sc = $sc; //security.context
        $this->container = $cont; //container
    }

    public function onKernelController(FilterControllerEvent $event)
    {

        $controller = $event->getController();
        if (!is_array($controller)) {
            return;
        }
        $class_name = get_class($event->getController()[0]);
        $method_name = $event->getController()[1];

        dump($class_name); // "Symfony\Bundle\WebProfilerBundle\Controller\ProfilerController"
        dump($method_name);

        $method = new \ReflectionMethod($class_name, $method_name);
        dump('method'); dump($method);

        // Read the annotation
        $annotation = $this->reader->getMethodAnnotation($method, $this->annotation_name);
        dump($annotation);//null

        if (!is_null($annotation)) {
            // Retrieve the validation group from the annotation, and try to
            // validate the user
            $validation_group = $annotation->getValidationGroup();

            dump($validation_group);

            $user = $this->container->get('security.token_storage')->getToken()->getUser();
            dump($user);

            $validator = $this->container->get('validator');
            dump($validator);

            $errors = $validator->validate($user);
            dump($errors);
            //original: $errors = $this->validator->validate($user, $validation_group);

            if (count($errors)) {
                $event->setController(function(){
                    $this->session->getFlashBag()->add('warning', 'You must fill in your phone number before joining a meetup.');
                    return new RedirectResponse($this->router->generate(
                            'user_edit',
                            array ('id' => '1') ) );
                });
            }
        }
    }
}

C:\Bitnami\wampstack-5.5.30-0\sym_prog\star\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation\ValidateUser.php
<?php

namespace Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation;

//  Extending Symfony 2
// annotation itself ...\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation\ValidateUSer.php
// used in class ...src\Yoda\UserBundle\Entity\User.php
// readed/analysed by ...src\Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation\AnnotationServices\AnnotationDriver::loadMetadataForClass

/**
 * @Annotation
 */
class ValidateUser
{
    private $validation_group;

    public function __construct(array $parameters)
    {
        $this->validation_group = $parameters['value'];
    }

    public function getValidationGroup()
    {
        return $this->validation_group;
    }
}

C:\Bitnami\wampstack-5.5.30-0\sym_prog\star\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Resources\config\services.yml
yoda.user.security.valid_user_custom:
    class:      Yoda\UserBundle\Security\ValidUserListenerCustom
    arguments:  [@annotation_reader, @router, @session, @security.context, @service_container]
    tags:
        - { name: kernel.event_listener, event: kernel.controller, method: onKernelController }

Usage of custom annotation "ValidateUser" to check if user, who tries to join the event, has mobile number on his profile.
url: http://127.0.0.1:8000/events/5/join4
C:\Bitnami\wampstack-5.5.30-0\sym_prog\star\src\Yoda\UserBundle\Controller\DefaultController.php
<?php ...
class DefaultController extends Controller
{ ...

    /**
     * @Route("/events/{event_id}/join4")
     * @Template()
     * @ValidateUser("join_event")
     */
public function join4Action($event_id) {

        //Chapter 4
        $reader = $this->get('annotation_reader');
        $method = new \ReflectionMethod(get_class($this), 'join4Action');
        $annotation_name = 'Yoda\UserBundle\Security\Annotation\ValidateUser';
        $annotation = $reader->getMethodAnnotations($method);

        //Chapter 1
        $em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
        $meetup = $em->getRepository('EventBundle:Event')->find($event_id);

        $form = $this->createForm(new JoinEventType(), $meetup, array(
            'action' => '',
            'method' => 'POST',
        ));
        $form->add('submit', 'submit', array('label' => 'Join'));

        $form->handleRequest($this->get('request'));

        //Do not know how to make it to work, chec later
        //$user = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
        $user = $em->getRepository('UserBundle:User')->find('1');

        if ($form->isValid()) {
            $meetup->addAttendee($user);
            $this->get('event_dispatcher')->dispatch(MeetupEvents::MEETUP_JOIN, new MeetupEvent($user, $meetup));
            $em->flush();
        }

        $form = $form->createView();
        return compact('meetup', 'user', 'form');
    }


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Gen Z raiding the '70s wardrobe
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Old School jeans and oversized blazers have made a comeback.
It is the end of the annual school calendar and at a private city school, part of the end-of-year activities is a showcase of the fashion trends of 2022.
Anyone here who was around in the 1990s must be having a feeling of nostalgia. The students, young and largely Gen Z and millennials seem to have borrowed heavily from the 80s.
The 1970s and 80s also seem to have made a major comeback when it comes to Pulsers and fashion this year.
As the emcee calls the participants on the runway, a number of the female students hit it wearing oversize sweaters, jogger pants and platforms. Another group follows. This one has bubble dresses, sexy-fitting tops and checked short skirts.
Making a statement during this show are the cutout mini-dress, sequin tops, oversized shorts, long leather jackets, cargo pants, biker shorts and crew necks, all of which have dominated urban streets throughout the year.
Finally, Gen Z and millennials seem to have taken it up from where Generation X and Y left it. It looks and also feels vintage cool.
"I like the urban 2022 fashion feel. It has allowed millennials to experiment and come out with a fusion of what used to be the big looks of the 70s and 80s. When you see them in these looks, you would get the feeling that they are defying fashion rules, breaking them and coming out with what is strictly their look. It feels like sweet fashion rebellion," says Michelle Mutuma, one of the designers who was showcased during the fashion show.
"I have never in my wild thoughts imagined that the corset would ever make it back, not as an aesthetic piece but a dominant dressing look.
"Even the afros, and loafers as the platforms. College girls are in with the thong-revealing denim and the oversize flare pants are now in. It is like this has the millennials raiding their grandmother's closets and while at it sending designers back on the drawing board," Michelle adds.
According to fashion experts, Gen Z and millennials have zoned towards the 'grandpa look' in their effort to redefine their generation that is more about fun, comfort and vintage as opposed to the systematic way of following fads and trends.
Another theory has it that this new fusion has been fueled by Gen Z and millennials' push to express change for self-expression and adventure as they reflect on their generation. The aesthetic has also been catalysed by the gothic and emo revival that has been a thing on social media lately.
From dark clothes to dramatic eyeliner, the style, popularised on TikTok, has found its way back to the streets, making anyone who listened to bands like Queen, Linkin park and Nirvana in their heyday relive their rebellious teenage.
Gen Z has also taken this style to the workplace. Due to an increasingly accommodating culture, it is now commonplace to see them go to work in jeans and corsets, or incorporate harness belts into what would otherwise be an official look.
According to Njeri Murigi, a retired civil servant, it is interesting to see people go to work in styles that would have been an absolute no go in her day. "Things are so much easier for the younger generation," she says.
"Without the burden of conforming to a style that is not your own, you can find pieces easier and quicker."
At the workplace in many organisations, the policy of dressing has had a major change with some institutions creating new cultures that accommodate Gen Z and millennials. It is no longer about the old polished look of suits and ties, dresses and high heels.
Jeans are a mainstay on the weekday and nobody bothers if you wear what used to be a jacket for the Friday look.
Speaking of fashion, the industry has been moving at a fast pace but new trends haven't really caught on. It is no wonder many people are now seeking familiarity from vintage and retro pieces.
Take for instance the S corsets that were a trend in the early 1900s and ladies could be seen revelling in their femininity, with waists clasped like hornets.
Today, however, girls have changed the corset from a dress-spicing ornament to a daring top that is typically worn with tattered jeans or cargo pants, with tiny sling bags to complete the look.
In the 1920s the flapper style was the in thing and ladies attended balls and functions in ornately beaded dresses with feathery accents and fringe finishes that would not have been complete without jewelled headwear.
Today, the red carpets are awash in these classic looks, and celebrities are leading the way in dashing, breathtaking costumes and outfits that capture the essence of the bygone era.
Looking at men's wear, puffer jackets have also made a comeback while others may argue it was never really gone. The puffer jacket was invented in 1936 and had a breakthrough on the fashion scene in the 1990s.
Today it is one of the best fashion trends we have for both men and women, without forgetting our politicians who have also made this piece an election essential.
Raila Odinga in a puffer jacket.
Have you also noticed the oversized blazer trend? Given how adaptable and simple it was to wear, blazers enjoyed an exploding appeal among working women and men in the 1980s. And today, you will notice that the jutting shoulder pad blazers are trending with a wider colour variety and exquisitely detailed buttons.
And how can we forget bell bottoms? A closet staple that reportedly dates back to 1817 but gained popularity in the 1960s and 1970s.
This trend has been making a slow but steady resurgence in fashion and today, some ladies prefer to call them palazzo pants when they have customised versions produced.
And clothes' are the only thing making a significant comeback, accessories have been having their moment with bucket hats back in, a trend formerly from the 1900s. Bold hair clips from the 1990s, the 1970s platform heels, chain belts and bags all from the twentieth century are also back.
"The faster it comes the faster it goes, I think designs from the past were more real and well thought out and that is why they can surpass the test of time," says Tori Otieno a fashion designer.
Four years into her career in the fashion industry, Tori is convinced that if you do not put in the effort to create something good, you won't receive recommendations or praise for a job well done.
"I think nowadays it is all about the money. It is no longer about creativity and even the consumer can read through that. Pieces from the past were made with a lot of attention, care and less of a desire to increase sales," says Tori.
The fashion business may have declined as a result of fast industrialisation. New styles can no longer make an impact because clothing is so widely available and reasonably priced.
"You know in the past there used to be a dearth of designers and everyone craved a fresh design but today there are a ton of them, not to mention the advent of fast fashion, which replicates all good designs much faster and cheaply," says Tori.
Fast fashion experienced a surge in the late 1990s and early 2000s and since then, fast fashion retailers have dominated the streets, displacing high-street fashion.
This has led to an abundance of cheap clothing that only lasts for a few weeks or months before they go out of "fashion".
"Exclusivity is what makes a design beautiful and fast fashion is eroding that quality. And this is why retro fashion is gaining popularity, you cannot take away that exclusivity from it," says Tori.
Reports by Earth.org state that of the 100 billion garments produced each year, 92 million tonnes end up in landfills. To put things in perspective, this means that the equivalent of a rubbish truck full of clothes ends up on landfill sites every second.
According to the United Nations Environment Programme, the industry is also the second-biggest consumer of water and is responsible for 8 to 10 per cent of global carbon emissions.
As a result, there have been numerous campaigns encouraging fashion companies, enthusiasts and consumers to practice sustainable fashion.
And one way of doing this is recycling clothes; in most cases, these clothes are vintage pieces, which again circles back to why old trends are making a comeback.
Corsets were a trend in the early 1900s have made a comeback.
For Aggrey Ojiambo a contemporary Kenyan photographer and a lover of old stories and retro fashion, the style has more depth and rawness and the Pantone colours just make them worth shooting.
"I think when we have artistes who want to tell forgotten stories then you have to go back in time and if you want to depict that visually then you have to create the atmosphere for it and that is through how we dress," says Aggrey.
This is a trend that has been mastered and perfected by the music band Sauti Sol, who tell modern-day stories in their songs while anchoring their video clips with vintage looks.
Frank Mungai owner of Muma Pix Photography believes people are running to the past to get fresh content and re-do older styles in a much more modern environment.
"I enjoy shooting these looks and people may also be running out of ideas – where else can they look for inspiration if not from the past?" poses Frank.
So, given that we have almost a century's worth of fashion trends to replicate and modernise, is it safe to say retro fashion is here to stay?
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Cellular Retailer Provides Christmas Party, Pledges Donations to Crisis Center Foundation for Second Year
By Jeremy Coumbes on December 5, 2019 at 12:00pm
A local outreach center is benefiting from proceeds provided by consumers who sign up for cell phone service this month.
Freedom Wireless, the parent company that owns the Cricket wireless store in Jacksonville is donating $10.00 from every new service activation to the Crisis Center Foundation of Jacksonville.
Dona Carter Leanard with the Crisis Center says that this is the second year Freedom wireless has provided donations, which all started from the help of a former client.
"I can say this because she has said it publicly before, a former client of ours actually works for Freedom Wireless and she called last year and said she would like to give back somehow now that she is doing well, buy a family some Christmas presents or something like that.
From there it just kind of blossomed into this big thing and her boss who is the owner of Freedom Wireless along with his family decided that they were going to provide a Christmas party for the center clients and their children. They had a meal, Santa Claus came, there were activities for the children, they bought presents for 43 children last year, and they even provided transportation for clients who could not get to where the party was."
The mission of the Crisis Center is to enable victims of domestic violence to regain or develop the skills needed to live without further abuse.
Leanard says that the company also solicited help from other businesses in the area who donated items such as televisions and vacuum cleaners to the center for clients trying to get back on their feet.
She says that last year the center received approximately $2,200.00 from Freedom Wireless in a combination a general donation by the group on top of the $10.00 per service activation pledge.
The donation of funds per each service activation runs from December 1st, through the 24th at local Freedom Wireless Cricket Mobile locations.
Leonard says that the AMVETS Post 100 in Jacksonville has again donated their banquet hall for the Crisis Center Foundation Christmas Party provided by the retailer.
The party is for clients only, but if you would like to make a donation to the Crisis Center Foundation, but are not in the market to change cell service providers at this time, you call call the center at 217-243-4357 to find out how to pledge a monetary donation to the center.
The Crisis Center also at times takes donations of new or gently used items for clients and their families who many times are in the process of rebuilding a home as well as a life.
You can also arrange to make a donation to the center by going to the Crisis Center Foundation Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/crisiscenterfoundation


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How to Treat Chronic Bacterial Prostatitis with Herbal Remedy
By Amanda Chou
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Chronic bacterial prostatitis, or prostatitis syndrome (PS) II, accounts for about 5% - 10% of PS. Its clinical manifestations are usually different, which can be caused by acute bacterial prostatitis or secondary to the infections near to the prostate, just like posterior urethritis, seminal vesiculitis, epididymitis, rectitis, etc.,
Commonly used drugs include antibiotics, α - receptor blockers, plant preparations, and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs. Other medicines, including some herbal plants, also have curative effects on eliminating signs or symptoms and treatment.
Garlic has strong bactericidal power, which can get rid of the bacteria invading the body. Garlic can promote the absorption of vitamin B1, promote the metabolism of sugar to produce energy, do away with fatigue and boost immunity. The lead selenide contained in garlic has an antioxidant effect, so it is considered to be the food to stop prostate cancer.
Argy wormwood leaf
The pharmacological study of modern treatment demonstrates that Argy wormwood leaf
is a broad-spectrum antibacterial and antiviral plant, which can inhibit and remove quite a few bacteria and viruses. Presently, Argy wormwood leaf is processed into many kinds of products, which grows more easy and swift for people to use.
Houttuynia cordata
Houttuynia cordata is termed natural prescription antibiotic. A kind of yellow oily substance is actually extracted from Houttuynia cordata posseses an noticeable inhibitory effects on many kinds of bacterias in vitro and in vivo on different microorganisms (especially yeast and mold), on hemolytic streptococcus and Staphylococcus aureus. It also works on E.coli, Quercetin, quercetin, isoquercetin.
Besides, other flavonoids in Houttuynia cordata also have a significant anti-inflammatory effect, which can significantly inhibit the early stage of inflammation of capillary hyperfunction, so it has a certain preventive effect on prostatitis.
Plantain seed
It is found that the water-soaked with it has different degrees of inhibition on many kinds of bacterial viruses, such as Nocardia stellate, Trichophyton concentric, and so on. And plantain has a certain diuretic effect, which can promote the increase of water excretion and increase the excretion of urea, uric acid, and sodium chloride.
Modern pharmacological research also confirmed that Phellodendron had the functions of killing bacteria, eliminating inflammation, antipyretic and antiviral microorganisms. It can kill and inhibit the common intestinal bacteria such as Escherichia coli, which cause prostatitis.
It really is a traditional Chinese herbal medicine, whose healing value has been noted in different health textbooks. It can be distributed in many areas of our country and it has a trustworthiness of natural antibiotics.
Depending on modern pharmacological experiments, it has a strong bactericidal impact on Staphylococcus aureus and hemolytic streptococcus, good anti-infective effect, the diuretic and purgative effect at the same time. Furthermore, dandelion also contains proteins, carbohydrates, vitamin supplements, microelement, and other nutrition, which has a very good medical impact on prostatitis sufferers.
Scutellaria baicalensis
Scutellaria baicalensis includes a strong antibacterial property, it possesses a excellent effect on a lot of bacteria, for example Escherichia coli. Furthermore, Scutellaria provides the function of sedation, depressurization, and diuresis, which can also protect the liver and gall.
The herbal plants introduced above have a very good protective and enhancing effect on chronic bacterial prostatitis, but it is reminded you that the etiology and pathogenesis of prostatitis tend to be intricate, and the efficacy of a single herb is limited, and long-term use can have particular unwanted side effects on the human body.
In fact, if you want to do away with prostatitis totally, individuals can pick holistic medicine Diuretic and Anti-inflammatory Pill. It contains a lot more than 50 different types of herbal plants, including some of the herbal plants described above with reasonable compatibility, it may achieve a broad-spectrum property, and will not have any side effects on the human body.
It has a lot more than 50 varieties of herbs, including some of the plants defined above with acceptable compatibility, it could achieve a broad-spectrum property, and will not have any negative effects on the human body.
What's more, the most important thing is that there is channel ushering drugs in the formula, which can make the effect reach the affected area directly, avoid the dispersion of the efficacy, and make the treatment more targeted.
For more information, please feel free to refer to www.diureticspill.com/ for details and knowledge.
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2014 Ram 2500 Tradesman EVIC display and TPMS waring light. Demanding 80 psi in the rear tires even if not necessary or optimal.
Oscar sent me a message asking the following TPMS question.
My understanding is that dealers will not, or cannot, adjust TPMS thresholds on a Ram 2500s anymore, supposedly Ram removed their ability to make adjustments to the TPMS. That is what I was told by a local dealership when I asked, and they said the tried (I believe them), a few years ago. Idiotic, but even if dealers could still adjust the TPMS thresholds I'd not be surprised if most refused, given the highly litigious society we've created.
As many late model Dodge Ram 2500 truck owners have discovered, Ram Trucks eliminated the light-load TPMS driver-selectable feature after 2012, and began requiring maximum pressures in the tires regardless of the load to keep the TPMS light off.
That is fine if you are someone who uses your heavy-duty pickup to haul or pull big loads most of the time (the exception), but asinine if you are one of the many who moves big weight infrequently. Maximum pressure is required for safe operation with truly maximum loads, however is not required, and is actually detrimental, for moderate or minimum loads. The recommended and safe maximum pressure is also dependent on the specific tire size, rating, and construction. Tire and Rim Association load inflation charts exist for a reason.
Requiring the maximum PSI (or near max.) for both axles, particularly the rear, when loads are light is ridiculously idiotic and negatively impacts handling, traction, tire wear, and ride quality… but those things seem not to matter any longer; avoiding liability from irresponsible drivers is likely paramount.
My preference for the standard G56, 6-speed manual transmission (lower engine power rating, and discontinued for 2019) behind my Cummins Diesel 6.7L engines means that both of my Ram 2500 trucks—a 2014 crew cab and a 2017 regular cab—are essentially the same as a 3500. The obvious exception being that late-model 2500s have rear coil springs instead of rear leaf springs. However, there is a TPMS system difference as well.
For those that don't want to run maximum tire pressure with minimum loads, a strong argument can be made to choose a Ram 3500 over a 2500, because the 3500 TPMS system is informational, not a nagging nanny, and allows using lower pressures without a TPMS idiot light. At least that was how the 3500s pickups worked up to 2018, I don't know how the 2019 or 2020 models function.


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package com.mock.server;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.junit.*;
import java.net.ServerSocket;

import static org.junit.Assert.*;

/**
 * Tests the DummyServer Class.
 * @author shehab yasser (shehab.yasser@feedzai.com)
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class DummyServerTest {

    /***
     *  The server that we are testing.
     */
    private static DummyServer server;

    /***
     *  Time to sleep.
     */
    private static final  int timeout = (int) Math.pow(10,3);

    /***
     *  The host we are testing.
     */
    private static final String host = "localhost";

    /**
     * The port of the server,  must be hard-coded, because it must be coherent with the port defined for.
     */
    public static final int port = 12345;

    /***
     *  The address we are really testing.
     */
    private static final String address = "http://" + host + ":" + port + "/";

    /***
     * Starts the server.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @BeforeClass
    public static void  init () throws Exception {
        server = new DummyServer ();
        server.startServer ();
    }

    /***
     * Shutdowns the server.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @AfterClass
    public static void end () throws Exception {
        server = new DummyServer ();
        server.shutdownServer ();
    }

    /***
     * Does nothing.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Before
    public void setUpTest () throws Exception {
        // intendedly left empty
    }

    /***
     * Does nothing.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @After
    public void tearDownTest () throws Exception {
        // intendedly left empty
    }

    /***
     * Tests the empty request.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void emptyRequestTest () throws Exception {
        server.emptyRequest();
        // creates the client.
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient ();
        HttpMethod method = new GetMethod (address);

        int response = client.executeMethod (method);
        if (response != 200) {
            fail ();
        }
    }

    /***
     * Tests all the other conditional requests.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void conditionalRequest () throws Exception {
        // I have to start it again after being shutdown by other test, I assume it isn't the best practice though.
        server.startServer();
        server.conditionalRequest();

        String trueReq = "true";
        String falseReq = "false";
        String noneReq = "none";

        // creates the client.
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient ();
        HttpMethod method = new GetMethod (address + trueReq);

        int response = client.executeMethod (method);

        if (response != 200) {
            fail();
        }

        method = new GetMethod (address + falseReq);
        response = client.executeMethod (method);
        if (response != 200) {
            fail();
        }

        method = new GetMethod (address + noneReq);
        response = client.executeMethod (method);
        if (response != 404) {
            fail();
        }
    }

    /***
     * Tests if the server really sleeps for the specified time or not.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void sleepTest () throws Exception {
        long time = System.nanoTime ();
        server.sleep ();
        time = System.nanoTime () - time;
        if (time < timeout) {
            fail ();
        }
    }

    /***
     * Tests if we can start a server on the same port after shutdowning the DummyServer.
     * @throws Exception
     */
    @Test
    public void shutdownServer () throws Exception {
        server.shutdownServer ();
        ServerSocket otherServer = new ServerSocket (port);
        otherServer.close ();
    }

}


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Keanu Reeves is a Canadian actor.
Keanu Reeves is one of the many people on "Ned's List of Laudable Lefties".
"I fell on Aerosmith at Moe's after revealing the secret ingredient of "The Flaming Moe!"."
"Aerosmith sounds like Agent Smith."
"Agent Smith starred in The Matrix with Keanu Reeves."
"Keanu Reeves was in Speed with Dennis Hopper."
"Dennis Hopper has the same name as Hopper from that cartoon A Bug's Life."
"Hopper is a bug that hops, just like Jiminy Cricket!"
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My great-grandmother watched every single Yankees game that was played on television. If you went into her room at any given time, she was watching a game. On her 85th birthday we held a party for her and behind her chair, the centerpiece was an enormous Yankees pennant.
Moving to Philadelphia after living in New York and moving on from being a new York Mets fan, I became a Phillies fan (A Sophisticate is a Phillies Fan). My favorite player being Ryan Howard. It wasn't until the during the World Series Game 4 in 2009 when I discovered where my loyalties lay. By the third game, the Phillies had won one game and the Yankees had won two. If I were to decide whether where my loyalties were it was before Game 4. A friend reminded me where I came from and that my roots were with New York. It was then when I remembered that the Yankees won the year I was born and how close I was with my great-grandmother. It was my connection and love for my great-grandmother that made me finally decide. I ordered a Yankees swarovski crystal Yankees hooded sweatshirt and never looked back. Ironically, Ryan Howard didn't do well in Game 4 and the Yankees won. Not only did they win Game 4 but they won the World Series. For me that was a sign I had made the right choice.
A few of the greatest legends in baseball played for the Yankees including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Maris, Reggie Jackson, Bernie Williams, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, and Derek Jeter.
Yankee baseball fans are pompous, rude, and have an attitude. Yankee baseball fans are also confident. They are confident in the knowledge that the Yankees are always going to win based on their track record for talent. Even during a bad season Yankee baseball fans understand the odds of past history that their team is going to get out of a slump and win. Every year, whether the Yankees are good or bad they are always the team everyone wants to be victorious against and outshine as if the Yankees are symbolic for the best in baseball.


Based on the Bacchus Handmade Series flagship guitar "Surf", Windy is a force to reckon with.
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REVIEW: How to Make It In HBO's Silicon Valley
Middleditch and Brener in the pilot of Silicon Valley.
By James Poniewozik
April 4, 2014 1:00 PM EDT
Silicon Valley, the new software-business comedy (premieres April 6), is hardly the HBO series with the most or raunchiest profanity; that title is still, and may always be, held by Deadwood. But it is probably the HBO show to which the word "asshole" is most important.
As used by the show's titans and would-be Zuckerbergs, the word has myriad meanings to rival the Eskimo lexicon for "snow." It's a term of contempt: Radiohead, we are told, are "assholes" for the band's positions on file-sharing. A programmer more focused on writing great code than monetizing it–a "Steve Wozniak" rather than a "Steve Jobs" in the show's parlance–has "crawled up his own asshole." A company without strong leadership suffers "an asshole vacuum." But above all, in a business that values software over soft power, the word is practically an honorific: "That's why he's a billionaire," a character says of an investor. "He knows how and when to be an asshole."
Silicon Valley is the funniest out-of-the-box pay cable comedy in a good while. (Veep, which returns the same night for its third season, is in the same league, but it took a good year to get there.) But its real strength is that it's built on an idea that, however crude, is universal. Do you need to be an asshole to make it in this business? And if so: which kind?
Those are the questions facing programmer Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) when a sudden business opportunity hits him like an Angry Bird. By day, Richard works on the Ikea-chic campus of software giant Hooli. On his own time, he's bunking and coding in the "Hacker Hostel," a rental house turned "startup incubator" run by the sketchy Erlich (T.J. Miller). In the process of building Pied Piper, an elegant but unsellable music-sharing service, he almost inadvertently creates a data-compression algorithm that could revolutionize the business. Hooli's founder Gavin Belson (Big Love's Matt Ross, in a deliciously arrogant turn) offers to buy him out for $10 million; Gavin's eccentric VC rival, Peter Gregory (Christopher Evan Welch, who died during the series' filming), offers a smaller stake that would let Richard keep the company. Behind Door #1: certain riches and possible crushing regret. Behind Door #2: the chance to be a Zuckerberg or a has-been.
Silicon Valley comes from Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill)–who did a stint as an engineer in the Valley in the late '80s–along with co-creators John Altschuler and Dave Krinskey. It has more in common with Judge's movies than his TV projects. The white-collar humor echoes his cult hit Office Space; its sprawling offices and the garish new-money parties have the calculated, flat ugliness of Idiocracy, which used a deliberate anti-aesthetic to portray a big-boxed future in which taste was dead. Its California landscapes are as plain as Enlightened and Looking's are honeyed and luminous. Judge (who directs half the episodes) gives us the promised land as beige box, designed for functionality.
Richard is the kind of guy Beavis and Butt-Head would laugh at and Hank Hill would drop-kick out of his propane store, a mop-topped brain attached to a few pipe cleaners and a hoodie. But the terrific Middleditch makes him more than an asocial Poindexter–he's fidgety and unconfident, but also empathetic and principled. Pied Piper to him is not just a chance at billions but a chance to be alternative to Gavin (who employs a guru to tell him that hating his enemies is "a tool for great change"). Richard wants to bring the world insanely great things without driving everyone around him insane. But he'll need to handle himself in a shark tank where he suddenly has the smell of money on him, and he'll need to learn to manage his motley startup crew, including sardonic coder Dinesh (Kumail Nanjani), acerbic Satanist Gilfoyle (Martin Starr), and Richard's sweet but untalented best friend Big Head (Josh Brener).
You'll notice all the male names there. Hardware-wise, the show is a definite dongle-fest; the only significant recurring female character in the early going is Peter's head of operations Monica (Amanda Crew). But its very, very male world presents a very, very different take on masculinity from Entourage, whose bros sampled from an endless sushi-conveyor-belt of hot Hollywood women. Silicon Valley's is a culture of man-children, misfits, and macho "brogrammers"; among the apps one entrepreneur creates is NipAlert, for detecting–well, just what you'd think, reminiscent of the actual sexist gag app TitStare unveiled at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference last year. The women aren't subservient so much as they're absent, or isolated. Noting the separation between the sexes at a lavish party, Dinesh notes, "Every party in Silicon Valley ends up like a Hasidic wedding."
The show starts sharp and only gets richer (in an encouraging sign, the pilot was the weakest of five episodes I saw). And it has ideas beyond just being timely. This Valley has lived through several generations in time-lapse. (The opening titles show a landscape of offices and logos rising and falling, as in SimCity–Facebook going up, Napster going down.) It has sudden, vast power, and it knows it. And it sometimes wears that power arrogantly and ridiculously, or both at once, as when Peter gives a sneering TED Talk dismissing college as "snake oil," then drives off in an electric car so absurdly narrow it can slip between two parked ones.
But ridiculous power is power nonetheless, and part of Silicon Valley's strength is in showing how the locus of cultural cred has shifted. The big showbiz dreams of Vincent Chase and pals in Entourage look puny beside the empire-building of Hooli. That's cemented in the opening scene, where Kid Rock entertains a listless crowd at the party for a barely postpubescent host whose start-up just sold to Google for over $200 million. Kid Rock, Erlich says, is just about the poorest guy in the room. To paraphrase The Social Network's Sean Parker, being a millionaire isn't cool. You know what's cool? It's Richard's job to figure that out for himself.
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I'm going to start another Animation called Awaken.
This time its a story about a guy that goes to a planet that has been hidden until 2012. He finds a girl in deep slumber and accidentally awakens her. As the Cavern collapses on them they escape and walk into the city to find a crowd of people surrounding a crater. Which leads to the a crazy things are everywhere ride of Uale's history and in the end and that maybe everything isn't what it truly is.
I'm absolutely Horrible at summaries, but I do have the whole story planned. I'm planning to try to make it fast paced then slow...you know like Cowboy Bebop or Samurai Champloo (both are directed by the same director) But..I thought about and though hmm...yeah that's a bit too hard. But I am thinking about starting to off fast, but it may not go that way. Oops! And I forgot one more thing, Imma try to make this a bit realistic so all the humans will be born with brunette, blonde or black hair. While the people of Uale are born with Silver, Pink and Blue. So any character with brown and pink are either half Ualeian and human or just dyed their hair. I'll probably do something to make it easier for people to recongize who's Uale or not. Like putting their name on their wrists.
My first idea is to make an animation like a show..but now I'm starting to think of making a music video with Captions explaining the story.


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Column: The flag, the military, police shootings, the NFL and Trump get the barbershop treatment at Tolliver's
Lawrence Tolliver trims William Taylor's beard.
(Steve Lopez / Los Angeles Times)
By Steve LopezColumnist
"Do you notice anything different?" Lawrence Tolliver asked Thursday when I walked into his South Los Angeles barbershop.
Yes, as a matter of fact. He's really cleaned the place up.
Tolliver's always had photos of his heroes on the walls, but he's added many more to the collection, turning the clip shop into a museum. There's Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, Muhammad Ali, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr. and many, many more African American athletes and leaders.
And also, the last two chiefs of the LAPD and the current L.A. County sheriff — all of whom are white. Tolliver's son is a police officer, and lots of his customers are in law enforcement too.
So given the whole take-a-knee controversy in the NFL, and President Trump attacking players and the league for dishonoring the country, as he sees it, I figured it was time to drop in on the conversation at Tolliver's.
When I got there, CNN was running a story about the controversy over Trump's phone call to the widow of African American Sgt. La David T. Johnson, one of four U.S. servicemen killed in Niger.
Rep. Frederica S. Wilson (D-Fla.), also African American, had overheard the Trump call. She agreed with the widow that the president's choice of words, in the midst of a wrenching tragedy, was inappropriate.
Before long, Trump was accusing the lawmaker of fabricating her account of his conversation with the widow. He followed that up by claiming, "If you look at President Obama and other presidents, most of them didn't make calls."
That isn't true. But at this point, yet another fabrication from the man who keeps screaming about fake news is not a surprise. And to the regulars at Tolliver's, it wasn't a surprise that Trump had accused a black congressional representative of lying and dragged a black former president into the conversation.
"It's sick," said Drew Palmer, who thinks Trump is obsessed with Obama. "He tries to erase and obliterate every part of history Obama has touched."
If you ask me, personal attacks are part of Trump's nature — and also part of his plan. Maybe kicking sand in people's faces blinds some, momentarily, to the fact his self-proclaimed deal-making powers have not delivered a fraction of the fast-and-furious fixes he promised.
Trump's obsession with Obama goes way back. For years, he led the charge in insisting Obama was not a U.S. citizen. Long after such claims had been dismissed by most people as a crackpot conspiracy, Trump kept insisting the first black president of the U.S. was African.
"And he never apologized," Palmer said.
Carter Paysinger said that when more NFL players began kneeling this season during the national anthem as a statement against injustice in minority communities, the language of Trump's criticism caught his attention. Trump said a player who kneels during the anthem is a "son of a bitch" who should be fired, and the NFL should tell them to stand.
"That brings you back to slavery," said Paysinger, a former high school principal. "Tell them to stand up goes deeper than what it sounds like."
"And we all hear the dog whistle," said Palmer, arguing that Trump seemed more offended by "black people kneeling for a cause" than by white supremacists rallying in Charlottesville, Va.
On the subject of kneeling during the anthem, Tolliver had this to say:
"I would never do it.
"I hold the flag in high regard," said Tolliver, but he would "never let anyone tell me what the American flag represents." He was in ROTC in high school, Tolliver said, and he proudly handled the daily duty of raising and lowering the flag.
"But if they wanna protest, they can do it," Tolliver said. "That's what America is."
The kneeling actually began after a Green Beret convinced former quarterback Colin Kaepernick that kneeling, as soldiers do before fallen comrades, would be more respectful than sitting during the anthem.
"To me, they're not protesting the flag," Palmer said. Nor, in his opinion, are players dishonoring those who served the country.
As he spoke, a story on Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain aired on TV.
"That man there is trying to stick up for what's right," Tolliver said.
"That's a war hero," said Palmer, who brought up that Trump — who did not serve in the military — had taken a shot at McCain for having been captured during the Vietnam War.
McCain, who was tortured, refused to use family connections to win early release, telling his captors he wouldn't leave his crew behind. Trump said during the presidential campaign that McCain wasn't a hero.
"If you're a military person, in my humble opinion, and you support Trump after that statement right there, I have no respect for you," Palmer said.
He cited Rosa Parks and other African Americans who, throughout history and despite the risks, had said enough is enough. You don't have to be the perfect spokesman or most brilliant visionary to take such a stand, Palmer said. You don't even have to be a leader. It's enough to be faithful to your own conscience.
Those who kneel, he said, are drawing attention to social and economic conditions in minority communities and saying they cannot tolerate the loss of black lives in questionable police shootings.
"Being a police officer is a dangerous job," Tolliver said. "I would give a little leeway to officers who may be in a borderline situation. Your life is on the line and you say: 'I wanna get home tonight.' But there are shootings that are completely outrageous."
I asked if it was fair for some to suggest that civil rights leaders and protesters ought to be at least as outraged by all the lives lost to black-on-black crime. Is that not a cause worth kneeling for?
Two different issues, Palmer said.
William Taylor, whose family ran a furniture store in the neighborhood for years, said those losses are tragic, but police officers are public servants whose misdeeds have to be addressed. And yet, prosecutions are relatively rare.
"If you took a bunch of white kids and put them in the same conditions these kids in Chicago have to live in, they'd kill each other too," said Rev. Jerrold Smith of Los Angeles Third Church of Spiritual Living.
"With black-on-black crime, that's bred for centuries and centuries, just like the racist attitudes we're talking about. I'm not excusing it, and I believe we should march and raise hell and protest every time a black man gets killed by a black man, just like we do when a black man is killed by police."
But the focus, Smith said, should be on the conditions that foster the loss of so many lives.
That was another campaign promise, as I recall. Trump was going to bring prosperity and safety to America's inner cities.
If you're waiting on the details of that plan, do not stand, because it could take a while.
Better to take a knee.
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Christopher Steele, who wrote the 35-page dossier that surfaced alleged links between President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign to Russia, has spoken out for the first time.
Without mentioning the president by name, the former British intelligence officer sharply rebuked his style of governing as he showered praise on the American media for speaking "unpalatable truths to power."
"In these strange and troubling times, it is hard to speak unpalatable truths to power, but I believe we all still have a duty to do so," Steele wrote in an email seen by ABC News.
What sparked Steele to speak for the first time since the dossier was published in full by Buzzfeed on Jan. 10, 2017? He was singled out in Vanity Fair's 2018 New Establishment List.
"I salute those on your list, and otherwise, who have had the courage to speak out over the last year – often at great personal cost," he continued in a "thank you" email addressed to the magazine's Editor-in-Chief Radhika Jones. "At a time when governance is so distorted and one-sided – as I believe it currently is in the United States – the media has a key role to play in holding it accountable," Steele added.
Throughout his tenure as president, Trump has branded the media as the "enemy of the people" and dismissed coverage he does not like as "fake news." In turn, his counselor Kellyanne Conway coined the phrase "alternative facts."
Ranking ahead of Steele in the list's top perch is special counsel Robert Mueller, who is heading the Department of Justice's investigation into the alleged links between Trump's campaign and Russia. Jones told CNN that Mueller is "a very important man" who is "commanding of great attention" while also operating "under the radar."
Near the bottom of the list at – No. 99 – is the member of the Trump administration who anonymously wrote the infamous New York Times op-ed titled, "I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration."
"We figured, that way, if anyone in the administration was upset that they weren't on the list, we could always suggest that they could take that space if they wanted to," Jones added.
Jones, who took the helm of Vanity Fair after the longtime editor Graydon Carter stepped down last year, has rarely spoken to the press since. Of her vision for the iconic magazine, she recently explained: "Audiences are hungry for new faces and new voices . . . My goal is to reflect the culture as I see it."


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Meet Harpy Daniels, the US Navy's new drag queen secret weapon
By David Reddish September 1, 2018 at 11:09am
Serving in the Navy can be a drag…and that's not a bad thing.
Joshua Kelley knows how to serve it up to his fellow seamen. The administrative supervisor aboard a ship off the coast of Japan, Kelley has taken on a dual identity, that of Harpy Daniels (no relation to Stormy), a fierce drag queen with a knack for doing the splits. And his fellow sailors love it.
Kelley first made his debut as Harpy as part of a competition sponsored by the Navy's Morale, Welfare and Recreation department. With a $1,000 gift card on the line, Kelly donned a wig and heels as part of a lip-sync competition. A star was born; Kelley's audience loved his athletic choreography and drag performance. Now Harpy Daniels makes frequent appearances to entertain her fellow shipmates, and Kelley performs without fear of being attacked for his sexual orientation, or for being too effeminate.
Who loves Cake in bed????? the flavore looks fishy but it's sweet like a peach! ? thank you @trraceeee for the pic
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"I have many LGBT friends here, and if you can stand at attention properly and speak with proper etiquette, that's what it comes down to in the Navy," he tells NBC News. "No one tells me I'm too feminine. I've not once had a bad experience as a gay man in the military."
Related: This Navy vet is making history as Mississippi's first openly gay candidate in a congressional race
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Kelley grew up in Pennsylvania as half of a set of twins. In high school, he joined the drama department and color guard to nurture his love of performing for an audience, and his knack for fabulousness. He admits that it took his parents some time before they adjusted to his performing in drag, though once they saw him perform, they couldn't resist. "[My dad] cried and said, 'I didn't know what this was," Kelley says. "I didn't know it was all this joy."
Today Kelley, as Harpy Daniels, continues to entertain his shipmates with frequent appearances in lip-sync competitions, sending a message that a can entertain and serve his country…even while wearing heels.
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GayEGO
Wonderful news! I was in the Navy for 4 years as a Navy musician who played the flute and I received some harassment I was careful to keep my personal life separate from my military life, although there were band members who were curious about who I was living with, so I invited my partner as my roommate to a rehearsal. Once I satisfied their curiosity they were OK.
September 1, 2018 at 2:09pm
KevInSD
This is an insult to the approximately 60,000 LGB people on active duty, who don't engage in transvestitism and gender deviance. I hope this story goes viral and the Navy shuts this down.
mark21764
I am a U.S. Army veteran and a gay man. Every other servicemember in my family was in the Navy and I wanted to do something different. I loved the Army. I miss it. I am out with 23 years of service. The Army paid for my education and I have other great benefits, including some great, lifelong friends. Harpy Daniels is tame compared to another naval tradition. All Harpy does is lip synch and dress up like a woman. He makes people laugh (which is good for morale). If sailors object to his shows, they can go to Bible study with the chaplain or take up knitting. No one is forced to attend his shows. They ought to give him a medal for entertaining the sailors. He obviously does his job well and is respected as a sailor or he wouldn't be serving in the Navy or on a ship. His performances are obviously well known in the Navy and I imagine he is friends with other LGBTQ and straight personnel. If you are in the Navy or Marines, you'd be aware of the intense initiation that takes place when sailors (known as Pollywogs) cross the equator for the first time on a ship. Each department on ship has a sailor enter a beauty contest wearing a bikini (transvestitism and gender deviance according to KevinInSD). The Pollywogs have to sing, but not lip synch. Some male members of King Neptune's court wear wigs and are dressed like women. Among other things, they have to lick the Royal Baby's stomach which is coated with Vaseline (the Baby is usually a guy with a hairy gut). Guys get spanked. The men conducting the line-crossing ceremony are known as Shellbacks. Sometimes sailors are thrown overboard into a swimming net as part of their "baptism." In many cases sailors have their heads and bodies shaved. The whole Navy thing is very homoerotic and more "shocking" than Harpy's shows. Also, troops and sailors who put on cross-dressing shows for other servicemembers are known to have done this openly going back to World War l. I recommend that you, KevinInSD, learn a little bit more about military history. If I had known about the line-crossing ceremonies I might have chosen the Navy lol. We (including females) did "blood rank" voluntarily in the Army when receiving Airborne and Air Assault wings, higher rank promotions or medals. We were proud of our hard work and effort. Blood rank involved not placing the clasps on the pins on the rear of the wings, rank or awards and having people in the unit walk by and punch the pins on the wings, awards and rank through the uniform fabric and into the skin. I still have scars from this and it caused bleeding. It was funny and I have no regrets. No one, however, was forced to do this. We didn't do anything like the Navy does in their line-crossing ceremony. This has been a Navy tradition for a long time. Even President Franklin Roosevelt (obviously, before he contracted Polio) was initiated and admitted to the Court of King Neptune as a young sailor. KevinInSD, are you a killjoy Republican hanging out on Queerty or a repressed homosexual? Obviously, if Harpy is performing openly on a Navy ship, then the Skipper and the Navy know about it. They've known about the line-crossing ceremonies for nearly two centuries. The only acts of depravity and deviance I can think of in the U.S. military were the homophobic murders of Army soldier PFC Barry Winchell in 1999 and Sailor Petty Officer Allen R. Schindler in 1992. These men were both 22-years-old and were beat and stomped to death by other members of the service. Allen's body could only be identified by his mother looking at his tattoos; his head was caved in. Allen did do some dumb things, like sending a code to the entire 7th Fleet which said, "IM2QT2BSTR8." Now that gay people can serve openly, gay people must be treated with the same respect as other servicemembers or face punishment under the UCMJ. There haven't been any gaybashings in the services since Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell was discarded as a bad policy. I served at Ft. Campbell, KY with Barry Winchell and went to the courts martial of the killer and the co-conspirator. The killer is serving life with a chance of parole in 30 years. He will be nearly 50 IF he is paroled. He has now been incarcerated for over half of his life at Ft. Leavenworth KS. The co-conspirator served 12 years. The death penalty was an option for the killer, but he was 18 and his immaturity was taken into account. By the way, navies around the world practice some form of the line-crossing ceremony. Even navies in the former Warsaw Pact countries observed this tradition. Sometimes another initiation is celebrated when a sailor crosses the Prime Meridian, too.
September 2, 2018 at 4:09am
Crystix
Why no video? I need to see miss Harpy in action! Bitch bettah WERK
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