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Defenders of the Free Market
October 24, 2014 Austerity, Free MarketsPeter Dombi
Yesterday a post was made on the website of the Centre for Policy Studies*, a right-wing think-tank that was set-up by Keith Joseph in 1974 to promote 'Economic Liberalism' – now more frequently called neo-Liberalism or Free Market Capitalism. Also counting Margaret Thatcher as one of its protagonists, this group of course proved to be very successful, and its policies were subsequently adopted by most Western governments and political parties. For many years, from Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979 until the Banking Crash of 2008, these economic doctrines were pretty much unquestioned – I myself was an advocate of free markets during that time.
Margaret Thatcher was Deputy Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies. Picture © US Govt
However the crash of 2008 changed all that, and many people saw that free markets, far from benefiting everyone, only actually benefit the narrow elite at the top. The privileged few use corporate structures to ensure the wealth that capitalism generates does not trickle down, but instead remains in their hands, which also means that 'competition' only really exists at the bottom of society, where workers have to compete for who will work for the lowest wage. Any attempt by the government to redress this wealth imbalance is thwarted by tax avoidance, and in particular hiding money offshore in tax havens. The result is endless grinding poverty at the bottom and ever-increasing wealth at the top. Privatisation of public services of course accelerates the process, and then when you add into the mix the inevitable economic crises (as the financial sector takes greater risks to increase its wealth even further) and the subsequent government bailouts (state funds being use to support private industry) we get to see that, remarkably, Socialism is still alive and well – but only for the wealthy and the world of business. Paid for by yet harsher Austerity, these bailouts serve to accelerate the transfer of wealth from poor to rich, and lead to an ever-more unequal society (hence 500,000 people are now using foodbanks while at the same time Executive Pay soars higher than ever.)
So, to get back to the post from the Centre for Policy Studies, Matthew Rees was commenting on the recent Occupy protests in Parliament Square, and said that if the protestors really were interested in Civil Liberties they should be supporting Free Trade, not opposing it, and highlighted the forthcoming TTIP treaty as an example of this. This was an extraordinary statement. The TTIP treaty, if it goes through, will allow corporations to sue governments over anything which causes them financial loss. The possibilities here are terrifying. The government wants to stop the use of genetically modified food? Biochemical companies could sue them for potential 'lost trade'. We decide we don't want to take the environmental risk of fracking? Fracking companies could sue us for lost business. The government proposes changes to the NHS? Health companies could sue if they think that will cost them money. The government wants to encourage people to cut down on smoking? Tobacco companies could sue for lost revenue. The welfare of ordinary people will come second to the profits of multinationals, and all these disputes will be settled behind closed doors, with only lawyers and corporate cronies having a say in the outcome.
If Matthew truly does believe that such legislation serves democracy, civil liberties, and the will of the people (and if he is not being paid to say such things by the corporations who will benefit) then I can only say that he must be so blinded by his own ideology, that he is unable to accept the evidence of how badly society now operates for millions of ordinary people.
* http://www.cps.org.uk/blog/q/date/2014/10/23/occupy-london-giving-civil-liberties-a-bad-name/
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Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a rare undifferentiated pleomorphic type of sarcoma, most commonly arising in the lower and upper extremities and the abdomen. Imaging studies and biopsy with histopathological examination of the tumor are required to confirm the diagnosis.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is primarily encountered in late adulthood and in the teenage population [1]. The clinical presentation depends on the site of its occurrence, and the upper and lower limbs are the predominant sites where this tumor arises [2]. Both distal and proximal femur, proximal tibia and the proximal humerus are the most common sites [1], but the abdomen, retroperitoneum, the breast, the lungs, the head and neck and scrotum have all been described in literature as potential locations as well [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. The main symptom of MFH regardless of the site, however, is localized pain and swelling, and patients often report a rapidly enlarging mass [1]. In 20% of cases with limb involvement, pathological fractures may occur [1]. Abdominal pain, low-grade fever, weight loss, anorexia, and malaise are the main symptoms of hepatic MFH, apart from local pain and swelling [3]. Scrotal tumors present as gradual and painless (or sometimes painful) swelling of the scrotum, similar to breast MFH, in which a solitary painless mass is palpated on the breast (more commonly found on the left), with a mean diameter of 7.9 cm [4]. Manifestations of pulmonary MFH include cough, hemoptysis, dyspnea and fever [5].
Entire Body System
The tumour was well localised within the spleen and the patient remains alive and well 34 months after splenectomy without any adjuvant therapy. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Localized Pain
Abdominal pain, low-grade fever, weight loss, anorexia, and malaise are the main symptoms of hepatic MFH, apart from local pain and swelling. [symptoma.com]
Inguinal Mass
An 80-year old male presented with a 2-week history of a right inguinal mass, with mild pain in the same region. Ultrasonography and computed tomography showed a mass arising from the right spermatic cord. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
However, deep venous thrombosis developed, resulting in left foot ischemia and toe gangrene, necessitating left below-the-knee amputation. Disseminated metastasis occurred 3 months after tumor resection. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Respiratoric
A 66-year-old man with a history of asymptomatic bilateral swelling of the axillary lymph nodes was admitted with hoarseness and pain of the right knee. Computed tomography showed a large pseudoaneurysm deriving from descending aorta. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Laryngoscopy detected two grossly different tumors in the hypopharynx: a malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) in the postcricoid area and a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in the posterior pharyngeal wall. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
We herein report a rare case of primary splenic MFH in a 30-year-old Indian male who presented with abdominal pain with a history of recurrent hydatid cyst of liver and spleen. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
A 22-year-old man underwent an FDG PET/CT scan to evaluate possible malignancy due to melena and fever for 1 month. The images demonstrated intense FDG activity with an SUVmax of 24.6 in a large mass in the fundus of the stomach. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Odynophagia
The patient presented with a 1-year history of a muffled voice and mild odynophagia. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Liver, Gall & Pancreas
Major clinical presentation (78.4%) was abdominal pain or discomfort, accompanied with some other non-specific symptoms such as malaise, anorexia, weight loss, jaundice and fever, and small cases (14.9%) were asymptomatic. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Thigh Pain
The patient remained well until 4 months later, when left thigh pain returned with fever and leukocytosis (white blood cell count as high as 20.7 10(9)/L, 80% neutrophils). No source of infection was localized. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Face, Head & Neck
Facial Swelling
Occasionally a similar presentation may be due to a malignant tumor, and oral clinicians must always bear this possibility in mind with facial swellings that do not respond to conventional therapy Malignant fibrous histiocytoma is a high-grade aggressive [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
A 43-year-old man presented with dysuria for 12 months. Serum prostate-specific antigen level was normal. T2-weighted MR images showed a well-circumscribed tumor with inhomogeneous intensity in the prostate. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Scrotal tumors present as gradual and painless (or sometimes painful) swelling of the scrotum, similar to breast MFH, in which a solitary painless mass is palpated on the breast (more commonly found on the left), with a mean diameter of 7.9 cm. [symptoma.com]
Workup
The diagnostic workup has to start with a detailed patient history that will note the onset and course of symptoms, as well as preexisting events that may have increased the risk for MFH, including radiation, surgery, fractures, osteonecrosis, Paget's disease or fibrous dysplasia [1]. A thorough physical examination should follow, during which detection of a palpable mass will support the need for imaging studies to determine its additional features. In the setting of skeletal lesions, an aggressive soft tissue mass with peripheral calcifications (and sometimes cortical erosion) can be observed by plain radiography [1]. Ultrasonography may be useful for initial evaluation of a mass in the abdomen and the breast, and a solitary heterogenous low-density mass is usually seen [2] [3], while multinodular appearance is very rare [3]. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), however, are superior methods compared to radiography and ultrasonography, as they can depict the extension of the lesion into adjacent tissues and aid in staging of the tumor [2] [3]. Bone scanning may also be useful in the setting of MFH [1]. To distinguish MFH from dozens of other sarcomas, a biopsy, and subsequent histopathological examination is mandatory, and five subtypes have been recognized [6]. The mixture of spindle and polygonal or rounded cells arranged in a storiform pattern, presence of multinucleated giant cells, nuclear pleomorphism, abundant mitotic activity and marked cellularity are main features of the storiform-pleomorphic subtype, encompassing 70% of all cases, while myxoid, giant cell, inflammatory and angiomatoid are other subtypes of MFH [1]. Furthermore, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy (where available) should be used as adjunctive procedures [4] [6].
Mediastinal Mass
We may encounter with the major airway obstruction in the endoluminal or extraluminal lung and mediastinal masses or those with both components together. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Left Pleural Effusion
During the immediate postoperative evolution, the patient presented left pleural effusion for 2 weeks. The patient was referred to Oncology Service for complementary treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Ovarian Mass
A 46-year-old woman presented with whole abdominal discomfort, and imaging revealed a 3-cm-sized ill-defined ovarian mass with extensive peritoneal carcinomatosis. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
After treatment of childhood ALL, reported cases of secondary MFH is extremely rare in the literature. Herein we present a case of MFH/UPS that developed as a secondary cancer 6 years after the end of ALL treatment. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
PURPOSE: To review the experience in transarterial neoadjuvant chemotherapy of malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) in soft tissue and to analyze the factors related to prognosis of MFH in soft tissue. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Although its etiology is not clearly known, radiotherapy, chemical agents, previous history of surgery, trauma and fracture, and Hodgkin lymphoma have been blamed. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The etiology of this tumor is unknown, but seems to be multifactorial. [jdrntruhs.org]
[…] histiocytoma Hereditary bone dysplasia with malignant change Atlas_Id 10056 Note DMS-MFH is an hereditary bone dysplasia / cancer syndrome Inheritance autosomal dominant; rare hereditary cancer syndrome with only four families identified worldwide; etiology [atlasgeneticsoncology.org]
(Etiology) The exact cause and mechanism of formation of Pleomorphic Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of Heart is unknown. However, extra-cardiac tumors have shown genetic involvement. [dovemed.com]
Etiology The site of origin is thought to be a histiocyte or fibroblast, it is most likely a primitive mesenchymal cell with divergent differentiation that expresses fibroblastic, histiocytic, and myofibroblastic phenotypes. [eyewiki.aao.org]
PATIENTS AND METHODS: Subjects with a diagnosis of DFSP, MFH, KS, or SC between 1990 and 2006 were identified in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program database. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
It is relatively uncommon in the head and neck (about 5 percent of the total), but when it does occur, it is usually in soft tissue or, rarely, in the mandible, said Erich Sturgis, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Head and Neck Surgery and Epidemiology [enttoday.org]
Medical Center, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, China 3 Institute/Department of Dermatology, No.1 Hospital, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China 4 Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King's College London, London, UK 5 Department of Epidemiology [ard.bmj.com]
High expression levels of AMPD2 have been shown to correlate with poor patient outcome and a proliferative tumor phenotype in UPS. [4] Epidemiology [ edit ] UPS is regarded as the most common soft-tissue sarcoma of late adult life. [en.wikipedia.org]
Pathophysiology MFH has variable pathophysiology and many subtypes. [enttoday.org]
TLR2 and TLR4, which are expressed on the cell surface, are the only TLRs known to be responsive to microbial ligands. 36 TLR4 and TLR2 pathways are the key pathways in sepsis pathophysiology. 37 Unlike TLR4 and TLR3, TLR2 is associated with deleterious [nature.com]
Cancer care at Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona Mayo Clinic experts in Arizona discuss the new facility, which allows them to create a seamless experience for patients by integrating all cancer services from prevention to survivorship. [medprofvideos.mayoclinic.org]
By retaining the phosphatase complex PP2A into the cytoplasm, prevents the dephosphorylation of the AP-1 subunit JUN which is required for proper activation of the transcription factor (PubMed:28609714). [ghr.nlm.nih.gov]
Protein coding - A0A1B0GSG4 - 5' truncation in transcript evidence prevents annotation of the start of the CDS. CDS 5' incomplete Transcript Support Level 1, when transcripts are supported by at least one non-suspect mRNA. [asia.ensembl.org]
Prevention Because the causes of MFHs are not known, there is no known prevention. Special concerns Repeat surgery may be necessary for MFHs because these tumors sometimes redevelop. Careful monitoring by the medical team will be required. [encyclopedia.com]
Pobirci DD, Bogdan F, Pobirci O, Petcu CA, Roşca E. Study of malignant fibrous histiocytoma: clinical, statistic and histopatological interrelation. Rom J Morphol Embryol. 2011;52(1):385-388.
Guo J, Zhou S, Rao NP, Pez GH. Pleomorphic malignant fibrous histiocytoma/undifferentiated high-grade pleomorphic sarcoma of the scrotum in a patient presenting as fournier gangrene: a case report. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2010;18(5):473-478.
Li YR, Akbari E, Tretiakova MS, et al. Primary hepatic malignant fibrous histiocytoma: clinicopathologic characteristics and prognostic value of ezrin expression. Am J Surg Pathol. 2008;32(8):1144-1158.
Qiu S-Q, Wei X-L, Huang W-H, et al. Diagnostic and therapeutic strategy and the most efficient prognostic factors of breast malignant fibrous histiocytoma. Scientific Reports. 2013;3:2529.
Huang C, Xin L, Cui Y, Qi D. Primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of the lung: a report of 20 cases [Article in Chinese]. Zhongguo Fei Ai Za Zhi. 2011;14(5):414-417.
Matushansky I, Charytonowicz E, Mills J, Siddiqi S, Hricik T, Cordon-Cardo C. MFH classification: differentiating undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma in the 21st Century. Expert Rev Anticancer Ther. 2009;9(8):1135-1144.


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Stalking the Dark
I can still remember walking into my usual haunt, the Pocket Change arcade in the Fox River Mall in Appleton, Wisconsin, expecting my usual rounds of Street Fighter II, when I saw a new fighting game from Capcom. It was like SF2, but faster, funnier, and…it was full of monsters. Darkstalkers had arrived, and unbeknownst to me, it was about to rocket up my personal favorite game chart with a silver bullet, and stay there to this day.
I like fighting games — as I mentioned, I was a Street Fighter II player, and I also liked Virtua Fighter and dabbled in Mortal Kombat a bit. But I also happen to LOVE monsters — especially the classic monster movie archetypes of the vampires, mummies, reanimated corpses, fish-men, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. Add in the over-the-top cartoon graphics and wacky humor, laid over the solid groundwork of Capcom's continually-refined 2D fighting game style, and Darkstalkers was an easy sell to me in 1994.
At some point, I suddenly recalled that my buddy Howie had gone to Japan as a foreign exchange student, and he had told me about this monster fighting game he got hooked on over there called Vampire. It dawned on me that this was the same game, and I was crazy about it too.
There didn't seem to be a lot of other Darkstalkers players at the arcade, though — everybody continued to gravitate toward the other, more popular fighting games, even though, in my mind, Darkstalkers was far and away the best of them. But that was fine with me, because I got the game to myself quite often. Probably because of that, the arcade never did get Night Warriors (Vampire Hunter in Japan), the follow-up to Darkstalkers, so I didn't get to play it right away — but that would soon change.
A bit of panic set in when it was announced that Darkstalkers was coming home on the PlayStation, because I didn't have one yet — however, I did own the Sega Saturn, and quickly found out that Night Warriors was heading to that console. As it turned out, the PS version of Darkstalkers was a bit sub-par, but Night Warriors on the Saturn was nearly arcade-perfect, so the Saturn ended up being the winning bet in the Darkstalkers race. And man, did I play that into the ground when that came out! My friend Dave and I used to fire it up and play for hours, and our sessions always started off with the same two matches: First was my Rikuo vs his Talbain, and second was my Felicia vs his Lord Raptor. After that, it was anything goes, as we switched up characters constantly until we had each played every character several times, and we were actually fairly good with most of them. We were very evenly matched, but it really didn't matter who won. To outside watchers, our matches were lightning-fast blurs of incomprehensible chaos, and we laughed hysterically the whole time.
Then, Vampire Savior (aka Darkstalkers: Jedah's Damnation, aka Darkstalkers 3) came to my attention via a copy of Gamest magazine I picked up from the bookstore at Yaohan (now Mitsuwa) in the Chicago area. Not only that, I also learned about Vampire Hunter 2 and Vampire Savior 2 — and it took me a little while to learn exactly what that was all about. So naturally, when I found out that Vampire Savior was coming to the Saturn in Japan, I practically threw my money at NCS (where I got all my imports).
When Vampire Savior finally arrived, it really took the series to the next level. I loved everything about it — the new characters of Q.Bee, B.B.Hood, Lilith, and Jedah, and most of all, the "Down" system, where instead of resetting both characters' health meters at the end of each match, the next round just starts instantly with the loser's health regenerated and the winners' health remaining where it is. This made for faster matches, and more bragging rights if you can defeat your opponent without a loss.
One of the things I love about Darkstalkers is the fact that it seems so much faster than any other fighting game. In other fighting games, if I whiff a move or my opponent blocks and retaliates, I don't have a lot of patience for the time it takes for my character to recover. With Darkstalkers, it's almost an instantaneous stream of consciousness: if you get hit or comboed on, yeah, you take the damage and hit the ground, but you're right back up with a fighting chance in an instant. No time to reflect on your mistake or even get mad about it, just keep fighting.
And speaking of combos, I've personally always found it much easier and more satisfying to string together multi-hit combos in Darkstalkers than any other Capcom fighting game. For a genre that eventually became all about combos, Darkstalkers made me feel like I finally "got it." Of course, I've also studied Darkstalkers strategy more than any other fighting game.
Some of the guides in my collection that have helped me greatly along the way
After Vampire Savior, unfortunately, the Darkstalkers game series went nowhere. Although there have been a few re-releases and compilations, such as Vampire Collection on PS2 (JP only), Vampire Chronicle on Dreamcast and PSP, and Darkstalkers Resurrection on PS3 and X360, the last new game in the series was technically Vampire Savior in 1997.
I and the rest of the Darkstalkers cult obviously feel that this is a travesty. Capcom has released other 2D fighters that never became franchises, such as Cyberbots and Red Earth, but Darkstalkers is still very popular among fans. Its characters appeared in all of the Marvel vs Capcom and Capcom vs SNK games, as well as Puzzle Fighter and Tatsunoko vs Capcom, and Street Fighter V features some alternate Darkstalkers costumes as DLC. There were comic books, art books, a terrible American animated cartoon, and a great 4-part anime OAV.
Morrigan, in particular, contintues to be an extremely popular character when it comes to fan art, collectible figures, and cosplay.
Cosplayer Linda Le, aka Vampy, one of the most well-known Morrigan cosplayers
So why not a new game, Capcom? Rumors of a Darkstalkers 4 come and go over the years, so who knows if they'll ever amount to anything. (Don't be fooled by the many fan-fictional descriptions of a D4 that can be found online.) I'm not sure that the current 2.5D style of Street Fighter IV and V would work for the frenetic pace of Darkstalkers, though — it might, but I would actually love to see it in a high-resolution 2D anime style, similar to Guilty Gear or BlazBlue, with gorgeously illustrated backgrounds. But honestly, at this point, I would take just about anything Capcom wanted to give us.
While that's my basic history with Darkstalkers, it's almost impossible to talk about the series without delving a little bit into its famous cast of characters. So out of them all, who's my favorite? While Morrigan is the most well-known of the Darkstalkers and the waifu of many a ronery gamer nerd, the considerably less popular Rikuo/Aulbath is my main when it comes to actually playing the game.
He's looking for love and he probably smells like tuna, but he will whoop your ass
I feel like I've mastered him quite well, while Felicia and Lord Raptor are probably tied for the characters I'm second-best with.
But when I decided to add a Darkstalkers tattoo to my videogame-themed right leg, I ultimately went with Morrigan, as she is unquestionably the most iconic representative of the Darkstalkers franchise — plus, she just makes a super cool tattoo. (Besides, I already had plans for a Creature from the Black Lagoon tattoo — which I eventually got — and I didn't want Rikuo confused for the original Gillman.)
Forgive her age, she was done 15 years ago
While I am a decent Morrigan player, I feel like I never fully got a good handle on her more complex maneuvers. But overall, Darkstalkers is the one fighting game where I actually feel fairly competent with most of the characters, and maybe that's another reason why it's my favorite.
For some crazy high-level play, here's the Vampire Savior Top 4 from EVO 2019:
That's it for this year's October 31st post — hope you have a happy and safe Halloween, and may Capcom drop Darkstalkers 4 in our trick-or-treat bag one of these days!
Holy crap, I really like Darkstalkers
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"Paleo" has become synonymous with "meat," but carbs aren't always the enemy. (Photo: JackJelly/iStock)
A recent report in the Quarterly Journal of Biology argues that, not only were carbohydrates part of our paleolithic diet, they were an essential part, fueling our fast- growing brains. The study went viral, picked up in the New York Times and many other outlets, prompting frowning emoji from paleo devotees everywhere. That's because "paleo" has become synonymous with "meat," and "carb" remains a much-maligned four-letter word.
The authors of the study based their conclusions on a few key factors: (1) the development, sometime "less than 1 million years ago," of a digestive enzyme called amylase, which helps breakdown starchy foods; (2) the proliferation of cooking, which the authors pin to around 800,000 to 500,000 years ago (some anthropologists suggest cooking began as far back as 1.8 million years); and (3) the subsequent increase in brain size, which is thought to be concurrent with the evolution of cooking. These insights suggest that humans consumed carbohydrates, along with meat, because cooking suddenly made so much more food available, and, presumably, tasty.
That carbs were part of our ancestral diet isn't exactly a new discovery. Loren Cordain, author of The Paleo Diet, the book that launched a diet craze and inadvertently created millions of bacon-tarians, suggested that carbs made up anywhere from 30 to 70 percent of our paleolithic staples. Back in those days, carb intake often depended on geography, season, and availability. One of the specific carb sources identified in the QJB study is ancient tubers, distant cousins to our modern-day sweet potatoes and other spuds, which, when cooked, provided a rich source of untapped nutrients (raw foodests, take note). But this is not a reason to start super-sizing your fries again.
The optimum human diet remains a hotly debated topic, but one thing has become clear: it varies by individual. "Some people can really benefit from a carb-restricted, ketogenic (fat-burning) diet," says Robb Wolf, author of The Paleo Solution. "But others can do fine on carbohydrate. The key is to eat whole, unprocessed foods."
Joe Friel, author of The Paleo Diet for Athletes, is adamant that carbohydrate is a necessary part of any high-performance diet, since they are an important fuel for high-intensity activities.
The QJB study landed like some kind of a revelation, but it wasn't. Despite what your CrossFit friends may tell you, carbs aren't the enemy; they've been an important part of our diet for a very long time. It's our abuse of modern carbohydrates—primarily refined grains and sugars—that has become an issue of epidemic proportion, explains Wolf. Meat-laden diets are one way to combat this. But so is a balance diet, supported by plenty of activity and a better understanding of our nutritional needs.
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Bonus: Brenda Lopez Romero on Being Among the First and the Few in Georgia | Ep. 18, Part 2
"One of the things that I would say was very important for me to run [for US Congress] was because...the reality is that no one else is going to come tell me what that experience is like. It's one of those things that you really have to do, to really understand what it takes [and] what's necessary. One of the things that I learned is what I still need to do to potentially be successful the next time that I may run, or may quite frankly, do anything else. " - Brenda Lopez Romero
In this second of two episodes, we welcome again Brenda Lopez Romero. In this part of the conversation, Brenda talks about the changing demographics in Georgia, her Latina identity including lingering issues within our own Latino community. She also reveals some critical lessons learned about what it takes to run for US Congress in Georgia - a recent process she says she could only learn from by trying it for herself.
In case you missed it, be sure to listen to the first episode where Brenda shares about her early life and how it feels to be among the first and the few Latina-elected officials in Georgia. She also talks about what we can do to offer young people exposure to the places where decisions are made - helping to build experience in the future leaders of our community.
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"I always say, if you have a brain, if have a body...you have a voice and you can be a leader. And we are all influential in our own networks. - Gigi Pedraza, Founding Executive Director of Latino Community Fund of Georgia Gigi Pedraza is founding Executive Director of the nonprofit, Latino Community Fund of Georgia. In part two of our conversation, Gigi shares what she loves about living in South including the increasing diversity of people in the region. She also shares more about the challenges facing nonprofits - from the way the work is perceived to having to face society's most complex challenges with limited resources. Gigi invites all of us to become leaders in our own spaces and support the organizations doing impactful work in the Latinx community. * Find out more about Latinos for Democracy redistricting work, Un Mapa Para Todos. * Connect with Latino Community Fund of Georgia and support their work: @lcf_georgia. * If you missed Part 1 of our conversation, you can listen here: https://bit.ly/GigiPedraza Thank you for supporting Latina South podcast! Please share the show with a friend or drop us a line: hola@latinasouth.com. Podcast Music: "The OGS Present Higher" Written by Divinity Roxx, Marcie Chapa, Katty Rodriguez, Nikki Glaspie, Tia Fuller Published by Hot Tottie Music (ASCAP), Wambui Publishing Company, I M A Funkateer (BMI) Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Gigi Pedraza on Finding Her Power as a Voice for the Latino Community in GA | Ep. 25
"The most important thing that someone can have, if they don't understand something, is _curiosity_. [If] people just ask why, I think we have already common ground. - Gigi Pedraza, Latino Community Fund of Georgia Gigi Pedraza is the founding Executive Director of the nonprofit, Latino Community Fund of Georgia and one of the most influential Latinas in the state. In the first of two parts of our conversation, Gigi shares with us the catalytic moments which fueled her journey to become both a social entrepreneur and vocal advocate for the Latino Community in Georgia. Gigi also shares her thoughts on philanthropy and her approach to both creating awareness and securing resources for the organizations tackling the most complex issues for the Latino community Georgia. Stay tuned and be sure to listen to part two of this episode where Gigi reveals more about living in the South, nonprofit challenges and critical issues impacting the community. Thank you for supporting Latina South podcast! Please share the show with a friend or drop us a line: hola@latinasouth.com. Podcast Music: "The OGS Present Higher" Written by Divinity Roxx, Marcie Chapa, Katty Rodriguez, Nikki Glaspie, Tia Fuller Published by Hot Tottie Music (ASCAP), Wambui Publishing Company, I M A Funkateer (BMI) Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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"It's important that you network with other leaders, directors - not necessarily just executives - so that they are advocating for you as well. It's not just a one of one, it's one of many conversations that you have to have to build that network and for others to also be able to envision how you can be part of that leadership team." - Ana Baskharone Ana Baskharone is a Director in a large utilities company headquartered in Houston, Texas. After 30 years of working hard, Ana began to feel stuck in her career - so she hired a coach. That move, among others, helped her to land a new position when she began to advocate for herself and share her story as a leader. Ana talks about her Latina identity and her journey as a first generation college student to corporate director. She describes her love of golf and its parallels to life. She also shares her passion for early childhood education as a Board member of nonprofit, Collaborative for Children. Thank you for supporting Latina South podcast! Please share the show with a friend or drop us a line: hola@latinasouth.com. Podcast Music: "The OGS Present Higher" Written by Divinity Roxx, Marcie Chapa, Katty Rodriguez, Nikki Glaspie, Tia Fuller Published by Hot Tottie Music (ASCAP), Wambui Publishing Company, I M A Funkateer (BMI) Used by permission. All rights reserved.


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Kohl's Will Soon Accept Amazon Returns for Free and the Stock Soared
Teresa Rivas
Updated April 24, 2019 9:10 am ET / Original April 23, 2019 2:47 pm ET
Photograph by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
Kohl's stock soared Tuesday on news that the department store is expanding its partnership with Amazon.com by accepting free returns in its stores.
The back story. Kohl's stock (ticker: KSS) has been a bright spot in retailing in general, and in the department-store industry. The shares are up 12.5% year to date, not quite matching the broader market's rally, but ahead of the SPDR S&P Retail ETF's (XRT) return. Kohl's has gained more than 24% in the past 12 months. By contrast, both Macy's (M) and Nordstrom (JWN) are in the red, both for 2019 and the past 12 months.
The stock wobbled at the start of the year, after Kohl's reported preliminary figures on holiday sales, but analysts have been upbeat. The company delivered an upbeat fourth-quarter earnings report in March, and raised its dividend.
What's new. Amazon may be retreating from its own branded bricks-and-mortar stores, but that doesn't mean it is pulling back from having a physical presence altogether. Along with its fleet of Whole Foods outlets, Amazon will now have an indirect network of stores via Kohl's.
The two companies said Tuesday morning that all U.S. Kohl's stores will now accept Amazon returns for free, beginning in July. Amazon now has the right to purchase almost 1.8 million shares of Kohl's via a warrant that expires in April 2026.
Kohl's stock closed up 11.9% on Tuesday, to $75.48 per share. It was still rising Wednesday, up about 1.1% in pre-market trading.
Looking ahead. The deal between Kohl's and Amazon isn't new, but builds on an agreement from the fall of 2017, in which the department store agreed to accept Amazon returns at a limited number of its stores. Amazon certainly isn't the only positive factor for Kohl's, which has long looked less vulnerable than its peers, but the partnership has provided a buffer against concern about the death of the department store.
Citigroup's Paul Lejuez writes that while Kohl's hasn't provided performance figures for the stores already accepting returns, the chain must be benefiting in terms of sales or traffic, or it wouldn't have agreed to expand the program.
He expects the new deal will bring in traffic, especially because the rollout should be complete before the back-to-school shopping season begins in earnest. Still there is a tradeoff, in the sense that Kohl's will bear the cost of packaging and shipping returns to Amazon.
Lejuez reiterated a Neutral rating on Kohl's, although he said it looks better positioned than its mall-based competitors.
Write to Teresa Rivas at teresa.rivas@barrons.com
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Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum
Built in 1826, the Chartres Street house is named after two of its most famous former occupants: Confederate General Pierre Gustave Toutant (P.G.T.) Beuregard and American author Frances Parkinson Keyes. However, over several generations, many other notable Americans also lived in this historic house, including a world chess champion and a Swiss consul. Additionally, the house was at various points used for a liquor business (during which a famous murder occurred), a home for homeless men, and Alcoholics Anonymous. With its rich and diverse history, the home tells an interesting story of New Orleans.
Front of the Bureaugard-Keyes house, which served many functions over the years.
The Beauregard-Keyes House circa 1900s. Uncredited photographer for Detroit Publishing Company. Detroit Publishing Co. photo via Library of Congress
General P. G. T. Beauregard. Taken during the Civil War
Frances Parkinson Keyes in 1921. Courtesy of the National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)
The Chartres St. house was built in 1826 by Francois Correjolles, one of the first native-born Americans to gain success as an architect. He built the house for Joseph Le Carpentier.
It was Joseph Le Carpentier's grandson, Paul Morphy, who became the main character of future occupant's, Frances Parkinson Keye's, book The Chess Players: A Novel of New Orleans. In 1857, Paul Morphy was more than the champion of the Grand Tournament at the First American Chess Congress--he dominated, winning ninety-seven out of one hundred games! While the fictional account makes Morphy a Confederate spy during the Civil War, there is no evidence to suggest any reality in this piece of the story.
Le Carpentier sold the house to John Ami Merle in 1833. Merle then became the first Consul of Switzerland to New Orleans in 1838. However, due to financial troubles, the Parish Court for the City of New Orleans ordered the sale of much of Merle's assets, including the house.
Thus the house passed into a new family's hands, who would carry the house through the civil war. Widow Josephine Laveau Trudeau purchased the house in 1841. The house passed from Mrs. Trudeau to her daughter and then to her daughter's daughter, who lived in the house during the civil war.
General P.G.T. Bureaugard never owned the Chartres St. house, but he did honeymoon there with this second wife, Caroline Deslonde Bureaugard, while he and his sons rented the house.
The house continued to pass hands until in 1904, it was purchased by Corroda Giacona. The Giacona's operated a wholesale liquor store, which made headlines, when a murder occurred in its back gallery.
During the first half of the 20th century, the house suffered severe disrepair and neglect. Not yet treasured for its unique history and architecture, the house served as a homeless shelter at one point and later for Alcoholics Anonymous.
Finally, Frances Parkinson Keyes purchased the house in 1945 and began attempting to restore it to reflect the era in which Bureaugard and his sons would have rented the house. She then wrote her famous book on Paul Morphy, previous occupant and champion chess player.
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Jackson Square to the French Market and Old Mint
This historic walking tour starts with the highlights of Jackson Square before heading into the heart of the French Quarter. The tour includes well-known landmarks such as the St. Louis Cathedral and the Cabildo, as well as lesser-known landmarks related to music, mysticism, and open markets.
French Quarter Literary History Walking Tour
Starting at the statue of Ignatius J. Reily and Hotel Monteleone, the infamous hangout of many New Orleans writers, this short walk includes a pair of museums and several landmarks including the former homes of Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner. Be sure to also use Clio to see other New Orleans literary landmarks such as the George Washington Cable House.


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Spurs: Fabio Paratici hit the jackpot on Dejan Kulusevski
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3 minute read 15/9/2022 | 09:10am
Despite having only joined Tottenham Hostpur from Juventus on an initial 18-month loan deal costing £8.3m back in January – with the Premier League side having an obligation to buy the 22-year-old for £29.2m if certain criteria are met – Dejan Kulusevski has already become an integral part of Antonio Conte's first team squad in north London.
Indeed, over his 18 Premier League appearances last season, the winger made an immediate impact at Spurs, scoring five goals, registering eight assists and creating six big chances for his teammates, in addition to taking an average of 1.4 shots, making 1.4 key passes and completing 1.4 dribbles per game.
How well do you know Spurs manager Antonio Conte? Question 1. During his playing days, in which position did Conte typically operate?
These returns saw the £110k-per-week talent average an extremely impressive SofaScore match rating of 7.21, not only ranking him as Tottenham's fourth-best performer in the league but also as the 25th-best player in the English top flight as a whole last time out.
The 6 foot 1 dynamo, who journalist Raj Chohan claimed is "unreal in transitions" and whose "fit for Conte-ball has been immense", has also impressed over his six Premier League fixtures in the current campaign, having already bagged one goal, provided two assists and created one big chance, as well as taking an average of 1.3 shots, making 1.8 key passes and completing one dribble per game.
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As such, when taking into account the fact that, should Kulusevski go on to meet the criteria that will force Tottenham into splashing £29.2m to make the Sweden international's loan move a permanent deal, the forward will have set chairman Daniel Levy back just £37.5m – £40.5m less than the 22-year-old's current market valuation of £78m – it is evident that Paratici really did hit the jackpot when sealing a deal for the attacker last January.
Indeed, it is difficult to argue with Greg Jenner's claim that the Swede looks to have been "a hell of a bargain" for the north London side, as not only is Kulusevski already one of the most exciting talents in the Premier League, but, at such a young age, he also appears to have the scope for exponential growth in the future – something that will certainly be an incredibly exciting prospect for Conte and Spurs supporters alike.


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Devi's Falls is a popular tourist place. The best way to visit Devi's Falls is on mountain bikes, which are ubiquitous at Lakeside. If the weather is pleasant then you can also walk up to Devi's Falls, it is hardly 3km away from Lakeside.
Patale Chhango or Devi's Falls is one of the deepest caves in Asia. This waterfall was first explored in 1970 by the B.K.R.E Himalaya, and later explorations were made in 1980 and 1982 by D.Gebauer (Atlas of the Great Caves of the World). According to the book the Patale Chhango measures 48 metres deep and 1479 metres long.
The gushing waters of Fewa Lake travel through roughly 1 kilometer long tunnel to converge with the Phusre Khola (river). Speleologists like D.Gebauer discovered that Patale Chhango created the Gupteswor Cave some 5 to 6 hundred years ago.
During the monsoon season, the water level in Patale Chhango rises to an amazing height and its turbulent water engulfs the mouth of the falls. The increasing water level attracts local people and foreigners. The onlookers watch the swirling and roaring of the water that take giant leaps and show its uncontrollable might.
Devi's Falls is also locally known as Patale Chhango. This is the most fascinating waterfall in Pokhara and the first of its kind in Nepal. It lies at 2 kms south-west of downtown Pokhara. During the monsoon season, in the summer, the waterfall turns frightening and ferocious. Its furious torrents gush through rocks and underground tunnels.
This huge waterfall should be watched during the rainy season from June to September. In winter the strength of the water dies down and only a stream of water runs down the rocks from Fewa Lake and falls at Patale Chhango. Beneath the waterfall is a huge cavern with walls covered in limestone deposits.
Patale Chhango is located to the south of the Pokhara-Tansen road. Visitors can get microbus service from all major places in the Pokhara valley to this waterfall and cave. Taxi, motor bike or bicycle can also be hired to get there. As Patale Chhango is barely 3 to 4 kms from Lake Side. One can also reach here with a gentle pace of walking.
The thought of cave exploration arouses curiosity. Caving has become one of the most thrilling underground explorations. Each turn in a cave unfolds nature's wonder before the cavers. This makes caving more exciting and interesting but it is also challenging. Caving is always a difficult venture. The caves in Pokhara are fascinating and forever interesting.
Naturally created caves are highly unpredictable, eerie, and full of adventure. The visitors have found caving in Pokhara an extra added adventure which guarantees excitement, thrills, and a sense of achievement.
Every one of us wants to know how Patale Chhango got the name Devi's Falls. The story of Devi's Falls conjure up a tragedy that had taken place on 31st July 1961.
A Swiss couple was on a sight-seeing of Pokhara and they happened to visit Patale Chhango. On seeing the crystal clear water, the couple could not resist taking a swim in the river. While swimming they were unaware of the impending danger. All of a sudden an unexpected surge of water changed the calm river into a furious torrent that showed no mercy on the couple.
They fought for their lives but to no avail. Some people watched them helplessly as no-one could dare to rescue them from the raging torrents. Mrs. Devi made much effort to save her life but finally she fell into the pit and died, while her husband miraculously survived unscathed. Three days later her body was found in the Phusre Khola (river).
Police informed her father who immediately rushed to Pokhara. Devi's father loved her daughter very much and he wanted to make her daughter immortal in the memory. He donated a sum of money to the City Development Committee Kaski in 1961 to construct a park around Patale Chhango, and requested to change the name of Patale Chhango to Devi's Falls, the committee agreed.
In 1978 a committee was formed at the suggestion of Shree Higher Secondary School, Pokhara and, at present, the school management is in sole charge of Devi's Fall. The school is responsible for the protection and development of the falls. The area of Devi's Falls covers around 10 ropanis of land. The waterfall and surrounding area are a popular place in all seasons.
The school management committee began to charge an entrance fee from 1978. The visitors can enter from early in the morning until 6 pm.
The beauty of Patale Chhango is truly awesome. Its gushing waters are ferocious, amazing and ruthless. Its turbulent currents roar like an angry lion. Its formidable currents leap up to a great height and plunge down into a 200 feet deep pit; just the sight of Patale Chhango is enough to send a shiver down one's spine.
Despite such a notorious reputation, in the year 2000 a foreigner weighing 120 kgs, fell into Patale Chhango but came out without a scratch. It really sounds incredible and those people who have felt the ground-shaking tremors of Patale Chhango would not believe anyone could escape from such a fall.
The legend has it that one fine morning a foreigner who was fascinated by the breath-taking beauty of Patale Chhango was engrossed in taking snap shots from every possible angle when, all of a sudden, he lost his balance and fell into 200 ft. deep Patale Chhango.
But the man was extremely lucky and, before he was dashed against the sharp rocks at the bottom, he fell onto a small ledge about half-way down. He shouted for help for a long time as his voice could hardly be heard above the roar of the water. Luckily, a visitor eventually heard his desperate cries and finally the roly-poly man was rescued unharmed.


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Q: How do I pad a number in the absence of a minus sign with string.Format()? I am overriding the ToString() method of a matrix class so I can copy the contents from the watch window into a text editor to perform further analysis.
The idea is that ToString() should return something like this:
[M11:-1.00 M12: 0.00 M13: 0.00 M14: 0.00]
[M21: 0.00 M22: 0.00 M23:-1.00 M24: 0.00]
[M31: 0.00 M32:-1.00 M33: 0.00 M34: 0.00]
[M41: 0.00 M42: 0.00 M43: 0.00 M44: 1.00]

Notice how positive numbers have an extra padding space to compensate for the space the minus sign consumes on negative numbers.
Currently, I am doing this:
    public override string ToString()
    {
        return string.Format("[M11:{0:0.00} M12:{1:0.00} M13:{2:0.00} M14:{3:0.00}]\n[M21:{4:0.00} M22:{5:0.00} M23:{6:0.00} M24:{7:0.00}]\n[M31:{8:0.00} M32:{9:0.00} M33:{10:0.00} M34:{11:0.00}]\n[M41:{12:0.00} M42:{13:0.00} M43:{14:0.00} M44:{15:0.00}]",
            M11, M12, M13, M14, M21, M22, M23, M24, M31, M32, M33, M34, M41, M42, M43, M44);
    }

This outputs the following:
[M11:-1.00 M12:0.00 M13:0.00 M14:0.00]
[M21:0.00 M22:0.00 M23:-1.00 M24:0.00]
[M31:0.00 M32:-1.00 M33:0.00 M34:0.00]
[M41:0.00 M42:0.00 M43:0.00 M44:1.00]

I would like to add padding spaces to positive numbers so they all line up nice, therefore making my debugging tasks easier.
Unfortunately, there seems to be no placeholder for the sign in string.Format().
I guess I could use .ToString() on each element, use Pad() and then assemble them all, but I still think there may be a way to achieve this without having to manually assemble the numbers and creating a lot of garbage in the meantime.
Is it possible to do this inside ToString()? or do I need to manually pad each number so the periods align nicely.

A: You can use a format similar to:
    [M11:{0: 0.00;-0.00} M12:{0: 0.00;-0.00}...

Look at the section headed The ";" Section Separator in the MSDN article you linked.

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Q: View Profile page as another user in django So I have a my user profile view you can see as a logged in user. I wanted to add a second view so other logged in users can visit profile pages as well, but I'm not really sure I'm doing it the right way
urls.py
url(r'^accounts/profile/', main_views.uprofile, name='uprofile'), #the page you see as my profile
    url(r'^profile/(?P<pk>\d+)/$', main_views.oprofile, name='oprofile'), # the page i use so other users can view the profile page
    url(r'^accounts/update/(?P<pk>\d+)/', User_Profile_views.edit_user, name='edit_user'), #Custom update profile page

main_views.py
@login_required(login_url='/accounts/login/')
def uprofile (request):

    context = locals()
    template = 'profile.html'
    return render (request, template, context)

def oprofile (request, pk):
    user = User.objects.get(pk=pk)

    context = locals()
    template = 'profile.html'
    return render (request, template, context)

A: From product point of view, you would want to keep same url for both uprofile and oprofile. One simple reason being, when I visit my profile and if I want to share it with someone else, I'd just copy-paste the url.
How to do that?
In your view, pass a flag that helps your template to render the right elements. For instance, if the user is same as the profile being visited, pass a flag, say editable, and use it to show edit buttons. And instead of two views, you can have single view.
Also, instead of id, people tend to remember their username/handle. So it's better to have username. However, make sure you have unique username for all users.
urls.py
url(r'^profile/(?P<username>[\w\-]+)/$', main_views.profile, name='profile'),

views.py
def profile (request, username):
    # If no such user exists raise 404
    try:
        user = User.objects.get(username=username)
    except:
        raise Http404

    # Flag that determines if we should show editable elements in template
    editable = False
    # Handling non authenticated user for obvious reasons
    if request.user.is_authenticated() and request.user == user:
        editable = True

    context = locals()
    template = 'profile.html'
    return render (request, template, context)


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City water, sewer, and natural gas available. Curb cut for driveway, Woods at the back of the lot. Adjacent lot is also available. Newer homes across the street. Nice that not much traffic because of the street dead ends.
City utilities are available including natural gas. Woods at rear of lot. Newer homes across the street. Dead end street.


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Annie Ernaux's Getting Lost Is an Antidote to the Boring Moralism of Contemporary Writing
Alice Blackhurst
Annie Ernaux's recently translated book, Getting Lost , chronicles her passionate love affair with a married man. What makes Ernaux's reflections so refreshing is her rejection of the idea that literature's job is to provide readers with moral instruction.
Annie Ernaux speaking to the press after winning the 2022 Nobel Literature Prize in Paris, France, on October 6, 2022. (Julien de Rosa / AFP via Getty Images)
Review of Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories Press, 2022)
At a 2021 study day devoted to her work at the National Library of France, an audience member in the packed auditorium asked Annie Ernaux — the author of over a dozen mainly autobiographical books — what had made her write her radically frank account of a consuming love affair, Simple Passion (1991). Her answer combined the straightforwardness and vulnerability which defines her style: "Well, passion," Ernaux responded, with a casual shrug of her shoulders. She offered no further explanation. Getting Lost, published in French in 2001 but translated into English earlier this year, is a series of diary entries and the source material for Simple Passion.
Ernaux, who at the beginning of October was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, has always maintained a rigorous anti-pretentiousness with regards to her long, increasingly esteemed, writing career. Born to working-class parents in a humble town in Normandy in 1940, the aim of her writing has been to record lives rarely represented in bourgeois literary culture. Her books, which she refuses to label as either fiction or nonfiction, take as their subject the lives of ordinary people as they unfold in supermarkets, on commuter trains, and in doctors' waiting rooms rather than the upper-middle-class cafés of Paris-Saint-Germain.
In another respect, too, Ernaux's work has violated some of the conventions of her contemporaries (the "new novelists" Nathalie Sarraute and Marguerite Duras): she has attempted to make her writing useful to her reader — an unusual concern in a French literary world dominated by aesthetes obsessed with the idea of art for art's sake. Instead, her writing is a tool to help readers feel less alienated by attempting to describe class and sex in ways that hold together structure and subjective experience.
Ernaux had originally kept the diary entries which became Getting Lost to record, savor, and "kill time" between meetings with her lover (a younger, married Russian diplomat assigned to Paris in the late 1980s, here called "S."). The result is a stylistic departure from the laser-cut prose with which the author established her voice in works such A Man's Place (1983) and A Woman's Story (1988). Getting Lost expands upon the original recounting of the affair in Simple Passion, an aphoristic, eighty-page account which was largely mocked by critics in France as "chick-lit" or as "a little girl's grocery list."
'I don't write with my uterus,' she once famously said, fatigued by always being termed a 'woman writer,' 'I write with my brain.'
Leaving aside the patronizing tone of the French publishing industry, even the most ardent Ernaux reader might debate the author's choice to publish the digressive, possibly repetitive, and steeply self-exposing Getting Lost. Yet this is neither the decision of a willful exhibitionist nor a provocateur — in the style of Georges Bataille or the Marquis de Sade — eager to antagonize the establishment at whatever price.
For Ernaux, turning to the minutiae of everyday experience is a way of avoiding the preciousness of a detached writerly persona that seeks to speak in universal tones about its subject or pass moral judgement on the world. Her work, depicting complex topics like abortion, caring for an ailing parent, and maternal ambivalence, has consistently shown that neither stance is consistently sustainable.
In publishing her diaries, she writes that she "neither altered or removed any part of the original text while typing it into the computer. For me, words set down on paper to capture the thoughts and sensations of a given moment are as irreversible as time." Left unaltered in the raw materials of the initial notebooks are a number of unsavory pronouncements which do not show the author at her most saintly. She expresses frustration at the "boredom" of "exclusively female gatherings" and in an offhand, harshly judgmental aside describes lesbian women as "[choosing] the path of least resistance." These comments chafe uncomfortably against Ernaux's crowning, especially in the Anglophone literary sphere, as a feminist author first and foremost, and again raise the question of what the goals of such unflattering self-depictions are.
Ernaux's primary allegiance as a writer — even to the point, she admits, of "danger," "risk," and all-consuming "obsession" — is to sentences of uncompromising and forensic truth, rather than to "politics" per se, especially of the identity-forming kind. Within the nonliterary world, Ernaux has been a committed partisan, both of the Yellow Vests movement and of Jean-Luc Mélenchon. She sees no contradiction being willing to think in a serious unconstrained way about the complexities of interpersonal relationships and standing unequivocally behind the oppressed.
Accordingly, she has bristled at attempts by readers and critics to reduce her work to a simple expression of some kind of political identity. "I don't write with my uterus," she once famously said, fatigued by always being termed a "woman writer," "I write with my brain." The purpose of Getting Lost's exposure of her most uncensored thinking is to affirm her radical commitment to honesty, however coarse.
Another of her work's ambitions is to insist on the idea that moral judgements about the complexities of human lives are inherently ideological. In this respect, Ernaux's amoralism is part and parcel of her contempt of elite culture, which smuggles in its partisan judgements about the world under intellectual guises. In a striking passage midway through the work, she makes clear her contempt for high-blown theorizing:
I don't like so-called intellectual conversations, which in fact are so full of ideology and beliefs that they are infinitely more false than simple banter […] everything connected to feelings and experience.
Ernaux's project could be summed as moving from the abstract ideological world of intellectual moralizing, masquerading as culture, to the physical concreteness of "feelings and experience." These may end up being ugly or unfashionable, but this is a risk Ernaux is willing to take for the sake of their documentation.
I tell myself I've wasted a year of my life, and money, on a man who asks as he is leaving if he can take the open pack of Marlboros.
On a trip to London, eschewing theaters and museums, she states even more explicitly: "I'm not a culture hound. The only thing that matters to me is to seize life and time, understand, and take pleasure." This frankness — a combination of a lack of pretentiousness and awareness of the banality of most human experience — often leads to comic observations. In another passage she remarks, "I tell myself I've wasted a year of my life, and money, on a man who asks as he is leaving if he can take the open pack of Marlboros."
In the English-speaking world, Ernaux's Nobel appointment on October 6 was met with euphoria, reflected in the staggering numbers which turned out — and queued — to see the author read at Albertine bookshop in Manhattan on a recent trip to the United States. Yet in France, her achievement has not been so unequivocally endorsed. It has instead prompted snideness and displays of the unbearable snobberies of France's literary elite for which Ernaux has had little patience throughout her career.
Many commentators thought that it was Michel Houellebecq's time to be awarded the accolade, or, alternatively, given his recent tragic circumstances, Salman Rushdie's. Even the French radio station France Inter, on whose programs Ernaux was invited multiple times the week of her historic win, chose to introduce her as "Annie Ernaux, the 16th French author to receive the Nobel," when the much more obvious headline would have been, "Annie Ernaux, the first French woman author to receive the Nobel." Although Ernaux has declared herself against "ghettoizing" writers, to bypass this monumental detail felt neglectful at best and derisory at worst.
Neither interested in depicting herself or other people as "good" or "bad" (a hobby of much "left-wing writing,") nor in art purely as stylistic exercise, Ernaux's literary project is — for one who has written so much on the decisive force of social placements — strikingly unplaceable. Getting Lost, more starkly than her other books, prompts the thorny question: How is Ernaux teaching us to read, if not for moral instruction? Her (French) detractors have decried her as subserviently woke in her fierce support of reproductive rights and the gilets jaunes. Yet the cruder pronouncements of Getting Lost reveal a writer clearly unafraid of potential "cancellation."
In its copious descriptions of sexual positions and encounters, it is tempting to assign the book as an unabashed portrait of sensual hedonism. Yet the terms "self-annihilation" and "self-abasement" appear too frequently for it to be a purely carnal celebration of erotic joy. Unlike the "engaged literature" of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, which strived to make novels political manifestos, Getting Lost portrays the pleasure of dissolving personal and partisan identity in the name of more objective, universal truths. In her desire to accurately "seize" experience, Ernaux gets straight to the point. In so doing, she captures the complexities of human life without apology or shame.
Alice Blackhurst is a writer whose work has appeared in the the Washington Post , the Guardian and the Paris Review , amongst other venues.
At a 2021 study day devoted to her work at the National Library of France, an audience member in the packed auditorium asked Annie Ernaux — the author of over a dozen mainly autobiographical books — what had made her write her radically frank account of a consuming love affair, Simple Passion (1991). Her answer […]
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Q: Loadrunner 12.53, Fiori, Web HTTP Html protocol execution slow i am debugging script in vugen with 12.53 version of loadrunner ( designed with web http/html)protocol. Issue is that the execution takes long long time! may be greateer than 30 minutes which isn not the case when checked the applocation manually. I am exeucting this script on a remote VM with windows 2012 R2 OS.
Any clue, appreciated
Thank you.


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unset NOW2 FONTS_DIR1 FONTS_DIR2 FONT_NAME FONT_BUNDLE_URL FONT_BUNDLE_NAME
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
  case "$1" in
    --fn*|-f*)
      if [[ "$1" != *=* ]]; then shift; fi # if no value then 'DroidSansMono'. Other values: SourceCodePro, Noto)
      _FONT_NAME="${1#*=}"
      ;;
    --help|-h)
      printf "Install NerdFonts."
      exit 0
      ;;
    *)
      >&2 printf "Error: Invalid argument: '$1' \n"
      exit 1
      ;;
  esac
  shift
done

NOW2=$(date +"%y%m%d.%H%M%S")
FONTS_DIR1="${HOME}/.fonts"                   # legacy
FONTS_DIR2="${HOME}/.local/share/fonts"       # new
if [ -d "${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano" ]; then
  printf "\n==> There are fonts in '${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano/'. Backing up it.\n\n"
  tar -zcvf "${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcanofonts.${NOW2}" "${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano"
  rm -rf ${FONTS_DIR2}/chilcano/
fi
mkdir -p ${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano/ ${FONTS_DIR2}/chilcano/
printf "\n"

## Ref: https://github.com/diogocavilha/fancy-git
printf "==> Installing 'SourceCode+Powerline+Awesome+Regular' fonts. \n"
wget -q https://github.com/diogocavilha/fancy-git/raw/master/fonts/SourceCodePro%2BPowerline%2BAwesome%2BRegular.ttf
mv "SourceCodePro+Powerline+Awesome+Regular.ttf" ${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano/
printf "Fonts updated/installed. \n\n"

## Ref: https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts#option-2-release-archive-download
FONT_NAME="${_FONT_NAME:-DroidSansMono}"
printf "==> Installing '${FONT_NAME}' fonts. \n"
FONT_BUNDLE_URL=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/latest | jq -r -M '.assets[].browser_download_url' | grep $FONT_NAME)
FONT_BUNDLE_NAME="${FONT_BUNDLE_URL##*/}"
if [ -f "${FONT_BUNDLE_NAME}" ]; then
    printf ">> The $FONT_BUNDLE_NAME file exists. Nothing to download. \n"
else
    printf ">> The file doesn't exist. Downloading the $FONT_BUNDLE_NAME file. \n"
    wget -q $FONT_BUNDLE_URL
fi
unzip -q ${FONT_BUNDLE_NAME} -d ${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano/${FONT_NAME}
printf "Fonts ${FONT_NAME} updated/installed. \n\n"

### Copy fonts to FONTS_DIR2
cp -r ${FONTS_DIR1}/chilcano/ ${FONTS_DIR2}/

sudo apt install -y gnome-tweaks
printf "==> Now with Gnome-Tweaks select the patched font to use. \n\n"

printf "==> Font caching and cleaning up."
fc-cache -fv ${FONTS_DIR1}
fc-cache -fv ${FONTS_DIR2}

printf "\n"

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