When you are about to become part of a community, you usually choose your very own nickname. This nickname identifies you and is associated with your personality, so you may don't want someone else to use this nickname.
Since IRC by design allows everyone to use any nickname that is currently not in use, we provide a service called NickServ to protect your nick from abuse.
To protect your nickname you need to register it. What you need for that is a valid e-mail address (e.g. me@example.com) and a secure password (e.g. s3cret) only you know.
Keep in mind that a password can't contain whitespaces.
This would register your current nickname with the password "s3cret" to the e-mail address "me@example.com".
Once you registered, you have to verify your e-mail address. So check your email mailbox for a new e-mail.
Once you did that your account will stay until you don't log in for more than 90 days. If you don't verify your account, it expires automatically after 1 day and only provides a limited set of functionality.
When s3cret is your password and yournick your nickname.
But many clients provide an authentification method called SASL. In Hexchat that's the "Password" setting in the network edit window.
In WeeChat you can use the SASL settings for that.
But people can maybe still use your nickname. To prevent this you can use the enforce setting which will automatically rename a user if he or she doesn't identify to your account after 30 seconds. If you want to use these settings you should already setup your client to identify by itself, otherwise, you may annoy other people in channels because your nick is changed after connecting.
This should keep people away from using your nickname.
When you don't want to enforce your nick but join while someone is using yours, you may want to get rid of this person. That's what the commands GHOST and RELEASE are made for.
GHOST kills the other user and forces him or her to reconnect to the network. It's especially useful when you meet a ghost, an old connection for your own client that is still alive. Some clients use this command automatically and free up your nickname this way.
Here applies the same as above.
So another important question is how to get your password back when you lost it.
Since you have a verified e-mail address you can guess where a new password is sent? Right, directly to your email inbox!
So all in all that are the most important commands. But there are more commands to explore and we provide a rich documentation for them.
You should now be able to protect your identity on MadIRC and also get access to all IRC services we provide, like registering channels or getting an individual vhost.
All in all, that's it! See you on MadIRC!


An animal welfare group on Tuesday applauded a court ruling ordering the state of Idaho to pay $260,000 to attorneys for animal rights groups after federal courts said the state's law banning spying at farms, dairies and slaughterhouses violated free speech rights.
"We hope this award sends a strong message that Ag-Gag laws, which are designed to insulate factory farms from public scrutiny, are not only bad policy but illegal as well," said John Seber of Mercy for Animals in a statement to The Associated Press.
The attorney general's office declined comment.
Idaho lawmakers in 2014 passed the law making it a crime to surreptitiously videotape agriculture operations after the state's $2.5 billion dairy industry complained that the videos made public by Mercy For Animals unfairly hurt their businesses.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Idaho's appeal.
U.S. Circuit Judge M. Margaret McKeown wrote that the law "criminalized innocent behavior, was staggeringly overbroad, and that the purpose of the statute was, in large part, targeted at speech and investigative journalists." But the panel also ruled Idaho's law correctly criminalized those who made false statements to either obtain records at an agricultural facility or to obtain employment with the intent to inflict harm.


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Should You Worry About the Global Pursuit for AI Domination?
Posted Sep 05
One thing is for certain: the race to achieve AI supremacy is certainly on. Russian state news organization RT reports that Vladimir Putin believes "artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind." In fact, he went a step further, adding that it comes "with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world."
The state news agency also reports that Putin wouldn't abuse that kind of power. "If we become leaders in this area, we will share this know-how with entire world," he's reported to have said, "the same way we share our nuclear technologies today." You can probably take that part with a pinch of salt.
Meanwhile, China is rather more forward about its own intentions for achieving AI dominance. Earlier this year, the nation's government announced plans to surpass Western nations in the field and grow a machine-learning industry worth $150 billion. (Incidentally, analysis by Goldman Sachs suggests that it's on track.)
All of which, predictably, has AI doomsayer Elon Musk a little flustered. Taking to Twitter, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted his concern: "competition for AI superiority at national level most likely cause of WW3 imo." He later added that conflict "may be initiated not by the country leaders, but one of the AIs, if it decides that a pre-emptive strike is most probable path to victory."
All of which sounds rather ominous. So, the big question here really is: should you worry about AI's existential threat to humankind in the first place? Here are two views from MIT Technology Review: maybe, maybe not.
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Software systems form the foundation of the economic, political, social, cultural and scientific spheres of modern information society. Such systems are, for example, crucial to solving global humanitarian and environmental problems.
Since 1999, I have been a professor in software engineering, which is about developing, maintaining and managing high-quality software systems in a cost-effective and predictable way.
My research is primarily in empirical software engineering, which reflects the fact that software development is basically a human activity carried out in organizations, and consequently, to study it, we need empirical methods, ranging from controlled experiments to case studies and action research to surveys, systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses. My present interest is studies on lean and agile software development. More about my position can be found in an interview in ACM Ubiquity.
The industry should be the lab of software engineering research - position on empirical software engineering.
5 April 2016: Ser butikk i it-flauser. Intervju Dagens Næringsliv.
21 Des. 2015: Bruk av IT-konsulenter i offentlig sektor. Intervju Bergens Tidende.
4 June 2015: Programmering bør være allmennkunnskap. Intervju Dagens Næringsliv.
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25 Oct. 2013: Agile terminology. Interview Computerworld.
5-8 Aug. 2013: Lecturer at ECSE 20th International Summer School, Finland.
18 Des. 2012: Offentlige IT-prosjekter. Intervju Aftenposten.
16 Nov. 2012: Bruk av IT-konsulenter. Intervju Aftenposten.
16 Nov. 2012: Smidig-forskning. Artikkel i Computerworld.
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25 Sep. 2012: Skandalene er kommet for å bli. Intervju Aftenposten.
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13 April 2012: Medlem av komiteen for utdeling av UiOs priser.
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21 June 2010: Keynote at the Software Maintenance Maturity Model.
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Q: php - Function results prints in wrong location
I am working on a small php project.
I have a function to get first image of many. Here it is.
function firstImageThumb($condb, $pid){
    $image2 = mysqli_query($condb, "select * from product_images where pid = '$pid' limit 1" );
    $imgD2 = mysqli_fetch_array($image2);
    //$printImage = '';
    $printImage2 = $imgD2['image_name'];
    echo $printImage2;
}

When a user search something, the following code executes.
$sql = "SELECT pid, product_name, product_code FROM products WHERE product_name LIKE '" . $query . "%' OR product_code LIKE '" . $query . "%'";
    if($result = mysqli_query($condb, $sql)){
    if(mysqli_num_rows($result) > 0){
      echo "

	Product	Product Code

";
           while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
               $img = firstImageThumb($condb, $row['pid']);
               echo "
	".$row['product_name']."	".$row['product_code']."
";
                }
                echo "

";
                // Close result set
                mysqli_free_result($result);

The problem is, the image path returned from my function should print inside the  tag.
But it prints top of the div. Please see the below image.

A: In the function firstImageThumb() it directly echoes out the image name.  This is when the function is called which is why it gets output first.
As you already are expecting the function to pass the name back just change
echo $printImage2;

to
return $printImage2;

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Lovely effect with the clamp dyeing and love your weaving, so even, I am thinking of doing some with dyed fabric as wel,l am enjoying the weaving into cloth.
What I love about how you dye cloth Saskia, is your absolute willingness to use anything to get color and your openness to seeing so many possibilities in color, in design, in stitch and weave.
I would love to spend an afternoon (even a hot one) at your house! look at those results!


Hangout Music Festival has an extremely well-diversed lineup planned for the 2015 experience. Sam Smith, Tove Lo, Gramatik, Krewella, Joey Bada$$ and dozens more are showing up Hangout to participate in the one-of-a-kind vibe that HMF is so famous for.
This week, the HMF team revealed which artists are playing on which day. By far, each day is going to be amazing in it's own way.
A perfect Hangout day starts out arriving on-site and strolling through the vendors varying from hippie gear to monster sandwiches, getting re-acquainted with the environment. Next, you'll most likely hear a dope reggae or indie band in the distance that will draw you into a positive, relaxed crowd whom are completely content with their current atmosphere. The show ends and you notice a little hut with the title "Malibu Beach House," you walk over and hear a DJ dropping sounds you've never come close to hearing before in your life. After a few drinks, a mind-blowing set, and a bit more exploring, a hit rock-song you love catches your attention and makes your brain jump, you and your friends run over and jam to a rock band you've loved for years and had been dying to see. A break is in order, you try out a fully-stuffed burrito from a vendor company with a name you can't pronounce, but with food you won't forget. You finish off the night with an extended set from a legendary artist, like Stevie Wonder or Dave Mathews, holding your friends or loved one close while you sing familiar anthems together until the day ends.
Hangout Music Festival is not only one of the best festivals in the south, but one of the hottest, fastest-rising festival of the decade, this is one experience you don't want to miss.
Check out the full lineup for Hangout Music Festival 2015 and take a look at our review of last year's Hangout here.
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The JFA Cup U-15 Football kicked off at eight different venues across the country on 9th July. 56 districts participated in this tournament splitting into 8 groups.
The tournament is sponsored by the Japan Football Association (JFA) and organized by Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF).
The venues were Naryanganj, Shaiatpur, Kishoreganj, Panchagrah, Rajshahi, Kushtia, Khulna and Feni.
The preliminary round held on knock out basis and the eight group champions took part final round.
Group A-BKSP, Tangail, Kushtia and Khulna.
Group B- Narayanganj, Mohanagr School Akadas, Chittagong and Chapainawabganj.
The last edition of the JFA Cup was held back in 2008. JFA provided a purse of US $ 25000.00 each year.


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If you have PlayStation, good news for you. Sony today announced a series of software sales during the "Days of Play" Sale Campaign which starts from today till 18th June on the PlayStation Store.
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Francesco Traballesi, né à Florence en 1541, mort à Mantoue en 1588, est un peintre et un architecte italien.

Biographie

Il travailla à Rome sous le pontificat de Grégoire XIII puis à Mantoue où il travailla comme architecte pour le duc Vincenzo Gonzaga.

Œuvres

 Rome :
 Église Sant'Atanasio dei Greci, fresques des chapelles latérales, Annonciation à droite et Jésus parmi les docteurs du Temple à gauche ;
 Collège grec Saint-Athanase,  fragments de l'iconostase en bois : Les Apôtres, les Pères de l'Église et  la Crucifixion ;
 Tivoli (anciennement Tibur), dans l'hôtel de ville : deux fresques de La Fondation mythique de Tibur ;
 Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Joueur de clavecin, huile sur bois,  (vers 1562) ;
 Amiens, Musée de Picardie, Portrait de femme avec sa fille, huile sur bois (), vers 1550 ;
 Seattle, Seattle Art Museum : Portrait d'homme (1567) ;
 Collection particulière : Portrait de Jeune homme.

Notes et références

Notes

Références

Peintre italien du XVIe siècle

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Q: calculating total time in sql Is there anyway that I can add these two queries together? Actually I want the overall time with athlete table name attributes.
I have tried Nested Select statement but that's not working as well
These are my tables:
Athlete
Name          Null     Type
------------- -------- ------------
ATHLETE_NO    NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
FIRST_NAME    NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
LAST_NAME     NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
DOB           NOT NULL DATE
ADDRESS_LINE1          CHAR(25)
POSTCODE               CHAR(25)
COUNTRY                CHAR(25)
EMAIL                  VARCHAR2(20)
GENDER                 VARCHAR2(10)

TRIATHLETE_TP
Name             Null     Type
---------------- -------- ------------
TRANSITION_TIME1          VARCHAR2(8)
TRANSITION_TIME2          VARCHAR2(8)
CYCLE_TIME                VARCHAR2(8)
RUN_TIME                  VARCHAR2(8)
SWIM_TIME                 VARCHAR2(8)
RANKING                   NUMBER(38)
ATHLETE_NO       NOT NULL NUMBER(38)
RACE_NAME        NOT NULL VARCHAR2(20)
RACE_DATE        NOT NULL DATE

Queries:
with x AS (
  select Transition_Time1,
         Transition_Time2,
         Cycle_Time,
         Swim_Time,
         Run_Time,

         substr(Transition_Time1,1,2) * 3600 +
         substr(Transition_Time1,4,2) * 60   +
         substr(Transition_Time1,7,2)            as t1_secs,
         substr(Transition_Time2,1,2) * 3600 +
         substr(Transition_Time2,4,2) * 60   +
         substr(Transition_Time2,7,2)            as t2_secs,
         substr(Cycle_Time,1,2) * 3600 +
         substr(Cycle_Time,4,2) * 60   +
         substr(Cycle_Time,7,2)            as C_secs,
         substr(Swim_Time,1,2) * 3600 +
         substr(Swim_Time,4,2) * 60   +
         substr(Swim_Time,7,2)            as S_secs,
         substr(Run_Time,1,2) * 3600 +
         substr(Run_Time,4,2) * 60   +
         substr(Run_Time,7,2)            as R_secs

  from TRIATHLETE_TP
  ),
y as (
  select Transition_Time1,Transition_Time2,Cycle_Time,Swim_Time,Run_Time,
         numtodsinterval(t1_secs + t2_secs + C_secs + S_secs + R_secs,'second') time_intvl
from x
  )
select Transition_Time1 , Transition_Time2 ,Cycle_Time,Swim_Time,Run_Time,
       extract(day from time_intvl) * 24 +
       extract(hour from time_intvl) ||':' ||
       extract(minute from time_intvl) ||':' ||
       extract(second from time_intvl) Overall_Time
from y

OR
select m.FIRST_NAME,m.LAST_NAME,t.Transition_Time1 , t.Transition_Time2 ,t.Cycle_Time,t.Swim_Time,t.Run_Time
from ATHLETE m JOIN TRIATHLETE_TP t
ON (m.ATHLETE_NO = t.ATHLETE_NO)


One of the Bogen amps.
More lab fixtures, a monster transformer, three HP 450A wideband amplifiers, and some junk.
Homebrew power supplies, scope cameras, and a pair of Clevite-Brush chart recorders.
A stack of 5103N scopes.
The scopes were set up for X-Y only with just two 5A15 vertical plugins and no time-base.
Top shelf: Applied Physics Corporation Model 30 Vibrating Reed Electrometer, GR counter, Keithley Model 210 electrometer, Quan-Tech Labs Model 301 AC Microammeter, old army PA speaker.
Table: two X-Y plotters, some TV monitors, something I don't recall, a row of Weston meters, and a row of Keithley Model 200 electrometers.
On the floor, an HP 141T spectrum analyzer mainframe, a Sony TC-560D R-R tape deck, and a pair of overhead projectors.


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military facilities (6)
world war ii (1941-1945) (5)
portrait photographs (3)
All fields: Seated
2002-N-0130 (01) Kalamazoo Sled Company
Factories;
Image of a gentleman seated behind a desk in a rather sparse office space. The signs on the wall behind him read: "Kalamazoo Sled Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan" and "Toddle Line of Play and Educational Toys Manufactured by J. L Weiner Company...
2002-N-0505 (2) Soldier Seated in Barracks
Military Facilities; Soldiers; Military Personnel; Barracks; World War II (1941-1945);
A United States Army Soldier seated on the edge of his bunk in an unidentified barracks buildings located at Fort Custer. Fort Custer is a military facility located on the boarder of Kalamazoo and Calhoun Counties in the state of Michigan. This...
2002-N-0609a (5) Young Girl Seated in Automobile
Automobiles; Children;
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE - A very excited young girl seated in the front driver's side seat of a Oldsmobile Hydramatic four door sedan. The automobile is of late 1930's/ early 1940's vintage.
2002-N-0609h (1) Elderly Couple Seated on Couch
Couples; Aged Persons; Living Rooms;
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE - Unidentified elderly couple (late 60's) seated on a couch in their living room. This image gives a nice view of a standard early 40's living room.
2002-N-0609m (1) Young Couple Seated on Couch
Couples;
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE - Unidentified young couple seated on a sixty's style couch in a family/living room. He is holding a glass on his lap with a napkin for a coaster while she is holding a dog on hers. She is the same young lady that appears in...
2002-N-1441 (02) Emmitt W. Payne
Interior view of the American National Bank and Trust Company of Kalamazoo's Milwood Branch office located at 4109 Portage Street in the Milwood neighborhood. The bank stood on the northeast corner of Portage Street and Golf View. The image shows...
Banks; Fiancial Institutions;
2002-N-1443 Harley-Davidson Servi-Car
Motorcycles; Law Enforcement; Police;
Image of an unidentified Kalamazoo City Police Officer seated on one of the department's brand new ca. 1965 Harley-Davidson Servi-Cars. These three wheel motorcycles were popular among city police departments throughout the country. Unfortunately...
2002-N-0569a (2) Consumers Power Company - Interior
Interior of the brand new Consumers Power Company office building located at 2500 East Cork Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The unidentified receptionist is seated at an information desk just inside the main front doors.
2002-N-0037 (02) Mystic Music Studios Operator
Music; Radio Broadcasting;
Mystic Music Studios operator Mrs. Averill Buck seated at a "Betty Telotone" switchboard. The list of songs on top of the machine states "Just drop a coin and ask Betty to play your favorite selections." Mystic Music Studio was set up so callers...
2002-N-0033 Soldier at Fort Custer
Military Facilities; World War II (1941-1945); Soldiers;
Unidentified soldier seated behind a desk somewhere on the Fort Custer military base. He is wearing the standard "Class B" uniform consisting of the olive drab wool shirt and black tie (note, by late 1942 the black ties would be phased out for the...
2002-N-0040 (04) Cobweb Artist
Art; Artists;
Unidentified gentleman known on the negative envelope simply as "Cobweb Painter." Cobweb painting utilizes spider web or caterpillar silk and was first documented in the 16th Century. It is not a common practice and takes skill and extreme...
2002-N-0076 (02) Club Hollywood
Nightclubs;
Group of women seated around one of the wall booths at the Club Hollywood located at 329 Portage Street just south of downtown Kalamazoo. The three women on the right are wearing the club's "waitress" uniforms while the others appear to be in...
2002-N-0049 (02) Edward D. Taylor
Businesses;
Image of Edward D. Taylor seated inside his residence at 124 West Michigan Avenue. Mr. Taylor was the president of the George W. Taylor Company, Clothing, Shoes and Men's Furnishings located at 137-141 West Michigan Avenue in downtown Kalamazoo. ...
2002-N-0057 (01)
Portrait Photographs;
Image of Mr. Ralph H. Kooi seated in a chair near the fireplace in his home at 422 Parkwood Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mr. Kooi is the treasurer of the George W. Taylor Company, seller of men's clothing, accessories and furniture, located at...
2002-N-0029 Club Hollywood Patrons
Nightclubs; Entertainment;
Three unidentified couples seated around a small table at the Club Hollywood, 329 Portage Street in Kalamazoo, Michigan. On the table are an assortment of Schlitz Beer and 7up bottles. The gentleman in the center is dressed in a khaki United...
2002-N-0113 (01b) Unidentified Nurse
Nurses;
Image of an unidentified nurse writing in a journal titled "Daily Activity Sheet" while seated behind a reception type desk. This appears to be the interior of a doctor's office. The negative envelope which contained this image is labeled First...


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AL poate fi:

 Aluminiu, element chimic cu simbolul Al
 Albania, codul ISO 3166-1 și FIPS 10-4 al acestei țări
 .al, domeniu de internet de nivel superior, pentru Albania
 Alabama, codul poștal al acestui stat SUA
 Alagoas, unitate federativă a Braziliei, codul ISO 3166-2:BR
 Alessandria, provincie în Italia, codul ISO 3166-2:IT
 Ål, o comună în județul Buskerud, Norvegia
 An lumină, (prescurtat a-l sau a.l.) este o unitate de măsură a lungimii
 al-Qaida, organizație teroristă

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Jan 3, 2018, 11:45am EST
No, Mr. President, America's Skies Need Fixing
Oct 4, 2017, 11:45am EDT
Why Delta's Support Of Bombardier Is Hypocritical
Aug 17, 2017, 11:45am EDT
The Crumbling Case Against Gulf Subsidies
Jul 17, 2017, 11:45am EDT
Whatever Happened To Evidence-Based Policy Making?
Jun 12, 2017, 11:30am EDT
How Employment Law Affects Your Airfare
May 16, 2017, 11:47am EDT
US Airlines Should Stop Complaining And Start Competing
Apr 18, 2017, 11:17am EDT
The Solution To United's Misfortunes Is Not What You've Been Told
Apr 10, 2017, 12:00pm EDT
Unions Are Hurting Public Safety
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Dog Days For The SEC
Catherine Foti
Contributor Group
Aug 31, 2015, 02:50pm EDT |
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission buildin in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
This summer has been a hot one for the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). In particular over the past couple of months, the SEC has been busy promoting and defending its rules and practices in front of federal courts across the country, including defending the constitutionality of the Commission's administrative enforcement proceedings in various circuits, while venturing further into the morass of cases grappling with the definition of who is a "whistleblower" entitled to the anti-retaliation protections of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act ("Dodd-Frank Act") by issuing an Interpretive Release on the issue "clarifying" its position. Whether the SEC's positions will ultimately triumph is not clear but the SEC is fighting hard to protect its interpretation of Dodd Frank.
Constitutionality of Administrative Enforcement Proceedings
The Dodd-Frank Act greatly enhanced the SEC's authority to prosecute enforcement cases in an administrative forum and to collect valuable information from whistleblowers to support administrative and federal court enforcement proceedings. However, as the SEC has proceeded to exercise these expanded powers, it has faced increased challenges to the constitutionality of its administrative proceedings, some of which have been successful and have raised significant questions about the SEC's internal practices.
Last week, in a short opinion in Duka v. SEC (referring throughout to an April 2015 decision in the case, which is described in detail by my colleague Richard A. Albert in a blog entitled "Duka v. SEC Redux - SEC Holds Home Court Advantage for Another Round"), Judge Richard M. Berman enjoined the SEC from pursing administrative proceedings against a former Standard & Poor's executive, reasoning that because the ALJs presiding over those proceedings are not appointed by the SEC Commissioners and are not appointed pursuant to Article II, their appointment "is likely unconstitutional in violation of the Appointments Clause." The decision also refers to a decision in June 2015 by Judge Leigh Martin May of the Northern District of Georgia in Hill v. S.E.C., reaching the same conclusion. Significantly, before issuing the injunction, Judge Berman gave the SEC the opportunity to correct what he deemed to be the agency's failure in appointing the ALJs, but the SEC declined to amend its practices. On August 27, the SEC filed a notice of interlocutory appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals seeking to overturn Judge Berman's decision.
Then, in Bebo v. SEC, a former CEO accused by the SEC in administrative cease-and-desist proceedings of violating the federal securities law, filed a suit in federal district court in Illinois – while the administrative proceeding was pending – alleging that the SEC "lacks the constitutional authority to continue the administrative proceeding because certain provisions of the [Dodd-Frank Act] are unconstitutional." As in Duka, Bebo challenged the constitutionality of the SEC's ALJ appointment process and also challenged the provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that permits the SEC to bring administrative proceedings seeking monetary penalties against non-regulated individuals.
In an opinion released on August 24, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Bebo's attempt to halt the pending SEC proceeding and affirmed the district court's ruling that "the administrative review scheme established by Congress stripped it of jurisdiction to hear this type of challenge." The Seventh Circuit noted, however, that if she is "aggrieved by the SEC's final decision, Bebo will be able to raise her constitutional claims in this circuit or in the D.C. Circuit. Both courts are fully capable of addressing her claims." It therefore remains to be seen whether the Seventh Circuit ultimately will side with Judge Berman on the merits.
The Interpretive Release
According to its website, the SEC "occasionally provides guidance on topics of general interest to the business and investment communities by issuing 'interpretive' releases, in which [it] publish[es its] views and interpret the federal securities laws and SEC regulations." The substance of the SEC's Interpretive Release is not news; it previously took the very same position in the adopting release accompanying the rules implementing the whistleblower bounty program and anti-retaliation provisions pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act; in public pronouncements by its high level officials; and in court. What is more interesting is the timing of the Interpretive Release, why the SEC issued it, and whether it will impact the decisions of the federal courts of appeals before which cases implicating this issue are pending.
Despite the SEC's clear position, some courts -- most prominently the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Asadi v. G.E. Energy (U.S.A.), L.L.C. (which I discussed in a previous blog entitled "When is a Whistleblower Not Really a 'Whistleblower'") – have determined that the anti-retaliation provisions protect only individuals who have reported possible misconduct to the SEC. That is because the Dodd-Frank Act (and the SEC rules, which mirror the Act) defines a "whistleblower" as "any individual who provides . . . information relating to a violation of the securities laws to the [SEC], in a manner established, by rule or regulation, by the [SEC]." (emphasis added.) The Fifth Circuit found the statute to be "unambiguous" and rejected an SEC regulation that interprets the statute more broadly.
In the Interpretive Release, the SEC specifically references Asadi and explains that recognizing the ambiguity of the scope of Dodd-Frank's anti-retaliation provisions, it promulgated a "broad Catchall provision" (which, incidentally, is the provision the Fifth Circuit rejected) to include protection against retaliation for individuals reporting certain categories of information, such as disclosures required or protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, "to persons or governmental authorities other than the [SEC]." The Interpretive Release notes that the SEC's position is further supported by the fact that its rules implementing Dodd-Frank state that "[t]he anti-retaliation protections apply whether or not [an individual] satisf[ies] the requirements, procedures and conditions to qualify for an award." The Interpretive Release also explains that the SEC's interpretation "best comports with [its] overall goals in implementing the whistleblower program . . . [because it] avoids a two-tiered structure of employment retaliation protection that might discourage some individuals from first reporting internally in appropriate circumstances and, thus, jeopardize the investor-protection and law-enforcement benefits that can result from internal reporting."
Earlier this summer, the Second and Third Circuit Courts of Appeals heard oral arguments in cases involving whistleblowers terminated as a result of internally reporting suspected misconduct, and in both cases, the SEC advocated on behalf of the whistleblowers in the form of amicus briefs (the briefs amicus curiae are available here and here). In a case pending before the federal district court in the Northern District of California, Wadler v. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., the SEC recently moved for permission to file the same amicus brief. Although the SEC's argument is set forth in more detail in the amicus briefs, they mirror the Interpretive Release.
The Interpretive Release lacks the force of law or a rule, making it even less persuasive than the regulation that the Fifth Circuit previously disregarded in Asadi. Nonetheless, the fact that the SEC found the issue significant enough to issue the Release after Asadi and while the Second and Third Circuits' considerations of the issue are pending, highlights the importance placed on the issue by the SEC. Whether the Second and Third Circuits will defer to the SEC's interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act still is unclear.
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So was all the drama over getting the rare Westveletern 12, the best beer in the world, worth it? In my opinion YES.
Could the LCBO have done a better job at selling this? YES. At this day and age I don't think it's necessary to make people stand outside in cold for hours. Surely there's a better way of doing this. And as some people have suggested perhaps an online lottery system. However, once all the waiting and you're finally in the store, the LCBO was very organized and efficient.
1. My schedule is flexible and didn't have to take time off work/drive kids to school etc.
2. Living in Toronto I could easily get to the handful of LCBOs in town, and even considered driving out of town if necessary.
3. Why wouldn't I at least try, given the flexibility I have? I don't plan on going to Belgium anytime soon, so a local LCBO lineup is more feasible than going to a Belgian Monastery.
4. It comes with 2 glasses – and I love my beer glasses!
5. Now that I have it I can share with friends, family and fellow beer nerds who were unable to get it. And of course I'll cellar some for a few years.
6. The experience was fun! While waiting in line 'strangers' would just come up to you and ask you if they can get you a coffee – Seriously, beer people are awesome. One person made cookies and was handing them out! It was also great to talk to other beer people about beer! And the energy and excitement of the crowd was amazing!!
What I didn't like – some people in line we're talking about how this was their 2nd 6 pack and they were going to try for a 3rd tomorrow (you're limited to 1 pack per person), then sell it to make some money. I don't think this is fair as you're taking the opportunity away for someone (like myself) who just want 1 for themselves. Again some kind of online, lottery, tracking system would prevent/minimize this from happening.
Another thing to note is the price. I heard several people commenting on how expensive this was at $76. Really? 2 glasses = $30, which means each bottle is $7.67 each….price isn't something people should complain about. How much would 3 bottles of good rare wine (equivalent to about 6 beer bottles) sell for that is generally not available outside the country of origin? Surely more than $15/bottle.
So that's my take on it all. Just really happy I can share 4 bottles with others and give other people the opportunity to try the beer. And in the end I get 2 beautiful glasses and cellar a couple for me to enjoy at a future celebratory moment.
Here is the Toronto Star article about the Saga.


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Punctuation is an indispensable element in formal and literary texts as well as everyday writing. Studying punctuation is therefore necessary in order to understand written language. Still, it does not fit easily into descriptions of language as an abstract, given system, composed of lexicon and grammar. Within the framework of Bakhtinian dialogism, however, linguists have started to study languaging as an interactive, situated process, meaningful in concrete, embodied utterances. While many such studies have focused on spoken language, this PhD dissertation is an attempt to study written language from a dialogical perspective. The aim of the study is to explore the functions of punctuation and to integrate the analysis of punctuation into a broader theoretical understanding of written language. This is achieved through qualitative analyses of three contemporary Swedish novels: DIVA by Monika Fagerholm (1998), Förvandling by Eva Adolfsson (2005) and Fadevår, tack för ljuset! by Fredrik Ekelund (2010). In order to discover the rich meaning of specific instances, linguistic details are studied in relation to different aspects of context: the local co-text of the sentence, paragraph, chapter and novel as a whole, relevant intertextual contexts, and, to some extent, contemporary literary movements and technological developments, etc.
In all of the three novels, punctuation is an integrated element of style and characterization, and important thematic aspects of each novel are visible at the level of punctuation. General patterns are also to be seen, the most important of which concern, firstly, how punctuation divides the units of written language, and regulates the relationship between these units, and secondly, how shifts in voice and tone are constructed in the novels with the help of punctuation. Furthermore, punctuation can create visually iconic references. The results have many implications for further research. Punctuation is a necessary and integrated part of written meaning-making and should not be overlooked in text analyses. Moreover, punctuation plays a crucial role in the construction of aspects like viewpoint and discourse presentation, which can no longer be ignored. On the spatial surface of text, writers and readers create complex interplays of voices.


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Consumers are more global, mobile and connected today than ever before, resulting in run-away expectations of products and services. This changes the nature of consumer demand and creates the space for global insurgents with superior solutions to enter local markets and for imitators to spin up local versions of global leaders. This new normal tests the strength of moats and product-level differentiation claimed by local incumbents.
Board rooms at retail groups, banks, super funds, asset managers and media institutions are not worried they are going to be eaten by one of their historic competitors but rather by an outsider whose motives, playbook and investment horizon they do not fully understand. These outsiders arrive with a globally-sized technology budget, marketing strategy and brand halo that are difficult to compete with as a local-only player.<?p>
With buzzwords like IoT, cloud, AI, big data, VR, and AR getting thrown around, it is easy to get distracted from the fact that very simple technologies already at work are going to eat hundreds of billions of market cap on the ASX. Real threats today do not necessitate the adoption of bleeding edge technology. Uber, Netflix and Amazon are relatively well-executed companies with fearsome tech stacks but the underlying technology is not revolutionary.
Where does this leave boards and CEOs? Well, in the face of any threat, new or old, a company still has the same three and a half options – buy, build, invest or do nothing. Buying high-growth businesses is challenging if your company is not itself a high-growth business. The entrepreneurs that build break-through companies tend to be very selective in who they sell to, and will often want buyer's equity as part of the deal.
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Larger, more mature buyers may be perceived as a 'buyer of last resort', competing primarily on price against so-called 'smart money' buyers.
Investing in high-growth businesses can also be fraught. Top-tier entrepreneurs are also very selective in picking investors. Most will reject the constraints imposed by corporate investing, such as trade, audit, strategic, ecosystem, valuation, and investment structure. A CEO may make a great investment or acquisition on paper but because of misaligned incentives and structural issues, they struggle to maximize the value of the investment in the future. It is difficult to find success stories from corporate venture capital due to these dynamics. Furthermore, it is unlikely to move the needle of the long-run prospects of a $50bn company if a $50m corporate venture fund returns even as high as a 10 fold return.
If you're the CEO of a profitable ASX100 company with neutral or modest growth, you don't usually get fired for simply tweaking what you did last year. In contrast, job security can be challenged by pushing an idea that could either catalyze a growth revolution or fail.
So, what can be done? Digging through our Year 10 biology notes, we find some guidance from beyond the grave from Charles Darwin who was apparently moonlighting as a management consultant. Like finches, like business—it is not the strongest who survives but the one that is most willing and able to adapt.
Of course, adaptation is hard. Internal silos, guardrails, legacy systems and processes that have been institutionalized in the well-intended pursuit of scale and corporate governance make it challenging to compete with singularly focused entrepreneurial teams. These inhibitors work against the rapid, iterative processes and culture needed to build transformative products and achieve product-market-fit on a time and cost scale that works.
There is hope. Many of the great corporate product and service innovations have originated from partnerships between industry-leading incumbents and entrepreneurial teams that possess the requisite mindset, agility, structure, freedom, incentives, domain expertise and ecosystem relationships. Importantly, they also had accountability for the new product or service from idea all the way through to launch.
This type of partnership has the power to drive long-term enterprise value growth through quality, speed and cost management. Nestlé's bold move to disrupt its core business with Nespresso, Lego's transition from the world of toys to its empire of entertainment and experience, and GE's transition to a data-driven, analytics and internet industrial company are just a few examples of innovations conceived and executed in partnership with entrepreneurial teams outside of the core organization. Today's outsiders may well be tomorrow's competition but extinction isn't inevitable. Adaptation is possible; by working in partnership with external entrepreneurial teams, mature organizations can build new products and services that compete head-to-head with insurgents, opening a new world of possibilities.
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Ann Coulter Calls Trump a "Disloyal Retard" in Inexplicable Twitter Rant
By shawn	 Last updated May 25, 2020
Conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter has been waffling back and forth between supporting President Trump and bashing him for most of the last couple of years, but not until this weekend have we seen her go this far off the rails in trashing the man she once revered as the savior of America. Coulter has long been disillusioned with Trump in regards to illegal immigration, which she considers to be the most important issue facing the country, but in her unhinged Twitter rant on Sunday, she signaled that she's breaking with the president once and for all.
Coulter was set off by Trump's on-going efforts to help former football coach Tommy Tuberville defeat former Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the Alabama Senate primaries.
"3 years ago, after Jeff Sessions recused himself, the Fraudulent Mueller Scam began. Alabama, do not trust Jeff Sessions. He let our Country down. That's why I endorsed Coach Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville), the true supporter of our #MAGA agenda!" Trump tweeted.
This was all Coulter needed to hear.
"3 years ago, a complete moron of a president told NBC's Lester Holt, 'I was going to fire Comey. … [W]hen I decided to just do it I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story.'' BAM! SPECIAL PROSECUTOR!" Coulter wrote.
"The most disloyal actual retard that has ever set foot in the Oval Office is trying to lose AND take the Senate with him. Another Roy Moore fiasco so he can blame someone else for his own mess," she continued in a second tweet. "Trump didn't build the wall and never had any intention of doing so. The ONE PERSON in the Trump administration who did anything about immigration was Jeff Session. And this lout attacks him."
Still not done, Coulter wrote: "COVID gave Trump a chance to be a decent, compassionate human being (or pretending to be). But he couldn't even do that."
After writing another FIVE redundant, angry tweets (is Jeff Sessions her secret lover??), Coulter finally got around to finishing off her rant.
"I will never apologize for supporting the issues that candidate Trump advocated, but I am deeply sorry for thinking that this shallow and broken man would show even some remote fealty to the promises that got him elected," she concluded.
Yeesh. We know that being stuck inside due to the coronavirus can lead to heightened emotions, crushing boredom, and, perhaps a bit of poor judgment, but this was really off the rails. Every time Coulter goes on one of her anti-Trump screeds, we want to shake her and ask, "Who, exactly, do you think could have done better?" And if the answer is "me," then hell, go throw your hat into the ring and get it done, Ann.
Until then, maybe you ought to relax.
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Houston Texans: Bill O'Brien's Puzzling Trade Changes Complexion of AFC South
Mark Ross
The NFL's new league year hasn't even officially started and the defending AFC South champion Houston Texans already look vastly different. On Monday, general manager/head coach Bill O'Brien agreed to send wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona for running back David Johnson. The Texans also get a second-round pick this year and a fourth-rounder in 2021 while sending the Cardinals their 2020 fourth-round selection, but the big takeaway is the Hopkins-Johnson swap.
To be fair, Johnson, like Hopkins, has been an All-Pro, but for the former that was back in 2016 while the latter has earned that honor each of the past three seasons. Since Johnson led the league in 2016 with 2,118 yards from scrimmage and 20 total touchdowns, he has put up 2,191 yards from scrimmage and 16 scores in the past three seasons combined.
Johnson hasn't been the same player since breaking his wrist in the season opener in 2017. Last season, he ended up losing his job to Kenyan Drake, who the Cardinals acquired from Miami in late October. Drake thrived in his new surroundings, and even though he was set to be a free agent, Arizona placed the transition tag on him, meaning they can match any other team's offer. With Johnson now in Houston, it's pretty much a guarantee that Drake will be back with the Cardinals.
Johnson will get a chance to restart his career in Houston and with Lamar Miller and Carlos Hyde set to enter free agency, there was a need at the position. But subtracting Hopkins to add Johnson seems like a hefty price to pay.
Not just one of the best at his position but one of the best players in the league period, Hopkins has averaged 105 receptions, 1,372 yards, and 10 touchdowns over the past three seasons. That production will not only have to be replaced but what impact will this move have on Deshaun Watson? Hopkins was clearly Watson's favorite and most trusted target. In 2019 alone, Hopkins was responsible for nearly 30 percent of the Texans' targets (150 of 534), receptions (104 of 355), and receiving yards (1,165 of 4,083) while accounting for seven of the 27 touchdown catches.
With Hopkins gone, Watson's top wideouts become Will Fuller and Kenny Stills, and free agent Randall Cobb, who the Texans reportedly agreed to terms with late Monday night.
In the case of Fuller and Stills, both are legitimate deep threats and came up with some big plays for the Texans last season, but neither are in Hopkins' class and Fuller has had trouble staying healthy. He has missed at least five games in each of the past three seasons due to injury. Cobb, meanwhile, was productive in his lone season in Dallas (55 rec., 828 yds., 3 TDs) after spending his first eight years in Green Bay, but he's not filling Hopkins' big shoes either.
Johnson may be able to rediscover his All-Pro form in Houston, but on paper, this trade only appears to make the Texans weaker, which then opens the door for the rest of the AFC South. Houston may have won the division but it was Tennessee that made it all the way to the AFC Championship Game and the Titans have already addressed their two biggest offseason questions by agreeing with quarterback Ryan Tannehill on a contract extension (four years, worth $118 million, $92 million guaranteed) and applying the franchise tag to running back Derrick Henry.
Indianapolis has plenty of cap space to work with and could be in the market for a quarterback (Philip Rivers? Teddy Bridgewater? Tom Brady?), but the Colts' first big move was to acquire second-team All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner from San Francisco for their first-round pick (No. 13 overall). Indianapolis also reportedly agreed to a contract extension that will pay Buckner $21 million annually, making him the second-highest-paid at his position behind Aaron Donald. But between Buckner and re-signing tackle Anthony Castonzo, the Colts have already had a productive offseason as they look to bounce back after going 7-9 in 2019.
Even the Jaguars have been busy, agreeing to trade defensive end Calais Campbell to Baltimore for a fifth-round pick this year. That move certainly doesn't make Jacksonville better but after stumbling to 6-10 last season and with a roster full of questions, no one was expecting the Jags to contend this season.
Houston, on the other hand, has been in win-now mode for several seasons, but especially after O'Brien pulled off another big trade, acquiring left tackle Laremy Tunsil from Miami prior to the start of last season. The deal also brought over Stills and a couple of draft picks (2020 fourth-rounder, 2021 sixth), but it cost the Texans two first-round picks (2020, '21), a second-rounder in 2021, as well as tackle Julie'n Davenport and defensive back Johnson Bademosi. Tunsil is set to become a free agent after the upcoming season, so this deal will likely become even more expensive for O'Brien as he really can't let Tunsil leave after paying so much in draft capital to get him.
And speaking of draft capital, what is really puzzling about this trade is the seemingly minimal return O'Brien got for Hopkins, a perennial All-Pro. Hopkins for Johnson by itself is not a fair trade, so draft picks had to be included, but the teams are basically swapping fourth-rounders (in separate years) and the Texans are getting Arizona's second-round pick (No. 40 overall). Meanwhile, Minnesota agreed to trade wide receiver Stefon Diggs to Buffalo Monday night and the Vikings got back considerably more.
Diggs is a good player, coming off of back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons, but he's not on Hopkins' level. Diggs is signed for four more seasons and with $47.5 million remaining, it's not an unreasonable deal, assuming Diggs is able to stay healthy and remains productive. However, Hopkins is under contract for three more years, set to earn a total of $40 million in base salary. It just doesn't make sense for the Vikings to be able to get so much more for Diggs compared to what O'Brien got for Hopkins.
What does matter, however, is that once this trade becomes official, presumably later this week, Hopkins will no longer be a Texan. And while plenty will change between now and the start of the season, it sure seems like the defending AFC South champions have taken a gigantic step backward. You might even say, "Houston, we have a problem."


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Warburg Pincus and Vista Equity Partners Close Infoblox Transaction
Infoblox will double down on innovating cloud-managed networking and security services for the borderless enterprise
Santa Clara, Calif. — December 1, 2020 — Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, today announced the close of its investment from Warburg Pincus, with Vista Equity Partners ("Vista") continuing as an investor and equal partner.
"As the modern enterprise becomes increasingly dispersed with more connected devices and remote workers, organizations are looking for solutions to simplify and scale an increasingly complex network," said Jesper Andersen, CEO of Infoblox. "Customers need cloud-native networks that stretch securely across multiple clouds and hybrid environments, which our BloxOne DDI and BloxOne Threat Defense platforms were built to deliver."
"This transaction is a major milestone for Infoblox and we're proud of what it says about our business and our employees. I would like to thank Bloxers past and present for their tireless work bringing to market the best DDI and foundational security solutions for customers seeking robust on-premises and cloud-managed services. Infoblox is disrupting how networking and security is delivered and we are delighted to partner with Vista and Warburg Pincus on our next phase of growth — enabling the next-level network experience," added Andersen.
Infoblox delivers the next level network experience with its Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services. As the pioneer in providing the world's most reliable, secure and automated networks, we are relentless in our pursuit of next level network simplicity. A recognized industry leader, Infoblox has more than 8,000 customers, including 350 of the Fortune 500.
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Warburg Pincus LLC is a leading global private equity firm focused on growth investing. The firm has more than $56 billion in private equity assets under management. The firm's active portfolio of more than 190 companies is highly diversified by stage, sector, and geography. Warburg Pincus is an experienced partner to management teams seeking to build durable companies with sustainable value. Founded in 1966, Warburg Pincus has raised 19 private equity funds, which have invested more than $86 billion in over 910 companies in more than 40 countries. The firm is headquartered in New York with offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Berlin, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, Mauritius, San Francisco, São Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore. For more information please visit www.warburgpincus.com.
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Vista is a leading global investment firm with more than $58 billion in cumulative capital commitments. The firm exclusively invests in enterprise software, data and technology-enabled organizations across private equity, credit, public equity and permanent capital strategies, bringing an approach that prioritizes creating enduring market value for the benefit of its global ecosystem of investors, companies, customers and employees. Vista's investments are anchored by a sizable long-term capital base, experience in structuring technology-oriented transactions and proven, flexible management techniques that drive sustainable growth. Vista believes the transformative power of technology is the key to an even better future – a healthier planet, a smarter economy, a diverse and inclusive community and a broader path to prosperity. Further information is available at vistaequitypartners.com. Follow Vista on LinkedIn, @Vista Equity Partners, and on Twitter, @Vista_Equity.
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We are so lucky today to have the sweet and talented Natalie from NatSprat here to do a guest post! I met Natalie in Blogland quite soon after I started this blog. She has been nothing but kind and supportive! She is a total sweetheart! We actually found out we are related through marriage! My husband and Natalie have a common first cousin! It's such a small world!
I am leaving town this afternoon and taking my 5 kids on a trip for Spring Break. I was feeling overwhelmed with needing to come up with blog posts for this week while I was trying to get ready to go so I asked Natalie if she could help me out with a guest post and she graciously agreed! She has an amazing blog called NatSprat and I hope you will run over and see her and become a follower over there if you love her as much as I do!
So, without further ado, I present to you my good friend Natalie and her super cute Easter Eggs!
Hi! I'm Natalie from over at NatSprat! I'm so thrilled to be guest posting here at ReMarkable Home! Emily is one of my favorite people in the world and I'm so happy we've met through Blogland! She requested a tutorial on something Eastery (yes, that's a word) and this is something my kids and I just made this week. We had so much fun making it! (Okay...and even more fun eating it.) It's a tutorial for really cute and really easy Easter Rice Krispies Eggs! So, put on your bunny ears and here we go! :) YOU WILL NEED: 1 bag of marshmallows, 4 cups Rice Krispies, 1 stick of butter, food coloring (I used neon), a measuring cup (1 cup size), plastic Easter eggs (washed with soap and water and dried), no-stick spray, wood spoons, bowls, sprinkles (optional). You are going to make a basic Rice Krispy Treats recipe, but smaller. Melt 3/4 cups marshmallows and 1 Tbsp butter in your pot on low-medium low heat until it's smooth.
Add your food coloring until you reach your desired color.
Stir in 1 cup of Rice Krispies.
Do this process with each color you want, and put them in a greased bowl.
Take your washed and dried plastic eggs, and give them a coating of cooking spray inside.
Now for the fun, creative part! Layer the colored Rice Krispy mixtures however you want inside both halves of the egg.
Squish both sides of the egg together tightly.
Plop out the egg, and you'll end up with this!
Thank you SOOO much Natalie! I am totally taking the supplies for this to the beach and doing this with my kids instead of dying eggs!
Love them, Nat!! So easy and adorable! Unfortunately, both my kiddos got braces put on just yesterday so we'll be skipping all that marshmallow-y goodness this year but will definitely file this away for another year!
Oh my gosh!!! I meant 1 TBS butter, not a tsp! Told you my brain wasn't working right! Hahaha! Could you please change that part for me? Thanks, Emily!
That looks like so much fun! Something to do with this kids this Easter holiday!
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Rape Joke by Patricia Lockwood
Rape Joke
The rape joke is that you were 19 years old.
The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.
The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee.
Imagine the rape joke looking in the mirror, perfectly reflecting back itself, and grooming itself to look more like a rape joke. "Ahhhh," it thinks. "Yes. A goatee."
No offense.
The rape joke is that he was seven years older. The rape joke is that you had known him for years, since you were too young to be interesting to him. You liked that use of the word interesting, as if you were a piece of knowledge that someone could be desperate to acquire, to assimilate, and to spit back out in different form through his goateed mouth.
Then suddenly you were older, but not very old at all.
The rape joke is that you had been drinking wine coolers. Wine coolers! Who drinks wine coolers? People who get raped, according to the rape joke.
The rape joke is he was a bouncer, and kept people out for a living.
Not you!
The rape joke is that he carried a knife, and would show it to you, and would turn it over and over in his hands as if it were a book.
He wasn't threatening you, you understood. He just really liked his knife.
The rape joke is he once almost murdered a dude by throwing him through a plate-glass window. The next day he told you and he was trembling, which you took as evidence of his sensitivity.
How can a piece of knowledge be stupid? But of course you were so stupid.
The rape joke is that sometimes he would tell you you were going on a date and then take you over to his best friend Peewee's house and make you watch wrestling while they all got high.
The rape joke is that his best friend was named Peewee.
OK, the rape joke is that he worshiped The Rock.
Like the dude was completely in love with The Rock. He thought it was so great what he could do with his eyebrow.
The rape joke is he called wrestling "a soap opera for men." Men love drama too, he assured you.
The rape joke is that his bookshelf was just a row of paperbacks about serial killers. You mistook this for an interest in history, and laboring under this misapprehension you once gave him a copy of Günter Grass's My Century, which he never even tried to read.
It gets funnier.
The rape joke is that he kept a diary. I wonder if he wrote about the rape in it.
The rape joke is that you read it once, and he talked about another girl. He called her Miss Geography, and said "he didn't have those urges when he looked at her anymore," not since he met you. Close call, Miss Geography!
The rape joke is that he was your father's high-school student — your father taught World Religion. You helped him clean out his classroom at the end of the year, and he let you take home the most beat-up textbooks.
The rape joke is that he knew you when you were 12 years old. He once helped your family move two states over, and you drove from Cincinnati to St. Louis with him, all by yourselves, and he was kind to you, and you talked the whole way. He had chaw in his mouth the entire time, and you told him he was disgusting and he laughed, and spat the juice through his goatee into a Mountain Dew bottle.
The rape joke is that come on, you should have seen it coming. This rape joke is practically writing itself.
The rape joke is that you were facedown. The rape joke is you were wearing a pretty green necklace that your sister had made for you. Later you cut that necklace up. The mattress felt a specific way, and your mouth felt a specific way open against it, as if you were speaking, but you know you were not. As if your mouth were open ten years into the future, reciting a poem called Rape Joke.
The rape joke is that time is different, becomes more horrible and more habitable, and accommodates your need to go deeper into it.
Just like the body, which more than a concrete form is a capacity.
You know the body of time is elastic, can take almost anything you give it, and heals quickly.
The rape joke is that of course there was blood, which in human beings is so close to the surface.
The rape joke is you went home like nothing happened, and laughed about it the next day and the day after that, and when you told people you laughed, and that was the rape joke.
It was a year before you told your parents, because he was like a son to them. The rape joke is that when you told your father, he made the sign of the cross over you and said, "I absolve you of your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit," which even in its total wrongheadedness, was so completely sweet.
The rape joke is that you were crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn't there, and you were looking down into the center of the earth, which played the same red event perpetually.
The rape joke is that after a while you weren't crazy anymore, but close call, Miss Geography.
The rape joke is that for the next five years all you did was write, and never about yourself, about anything else, about apples on the tree, about islands, dead poets and the worms that aerated them, and there was no warm body in what you wrote, it was elsewhere.
The rape joke is that this is finally artless. The rape joke is that you do not write artlessly.
The rape joke is if you write a poem called Rape Joke, you're asking for it to become the only thing people remember about you.
The rape joke is that you asked why he did it. The rape joke is he said he didn't know, like what else would a rape joke say? The rape joke said YOU were the one who was drunk, and the rape joke said you remembered it wrong, which made you laugh out loud for one long split-open second. The wine coolers weren't Bartles & Jaymes, but it would be funnier for the rape joke if they were. It was some pussy flavor, like Passionate Mango or Destroyed Strawberry, which you drank down without question and trustingly in the heart of Cincinnati Ohio.
Can rape jokes be funny at all, is the question.
Can any part of the rape joke be funny. The part where it ends — haha, just kidding! Though you did dream of killing the rape joke for years, spilling all of its blood out, and telling it that way.
The rape joke cries out for the right to be told.
The rape joke is that this is just how it happened.
The rape joke is that the next day he gave you Pet Sounds. No really. Pet Sounds. He said he was sorry and then he gave you Pet Sounds. Come on, that's a little bit funny.
The Weighing by Jane Hirshfield
Prayers or Oubliettes by Natalie Diaz
Semi-Splendid by Tracy K. Smith
The Monk's Insomnia by Denis Johnson
The Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass
The Thread by Don Paterson
from The Uses of The Body by Deborah Landau
At the Palais Garnier by Richie Hofmann
Horns by Kwame Dawes
Ode to Magic by Bob Hicok
Temptation of the Composer by Airea D. Matthews
Slander by Franz Wright
Waking in the Blue by Robert Lowell
Water Grave by Mai Der Vang
The Visible World by Jorie Graham
Encounter by Czesław Miłosz
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's...
Man Roulette by Brian Blanchfield
Force Visibility by Solmaz Sharif
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Belle Isle, 1949 by Philip Levine
Question by May Swenson
The Thunder Shower by Derek Mahon
The Small Rider by Vona Groarke
My Life by Mark Strand
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as you are nearly a quarter of the way into the new season..
what do you think your chances of survival are, and be honest.
It's a very difficult one to call at this stage of the season. We've played Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea in our first 8 games and have played well in general.
We are creating plently of chances each game which is encouraging - However, the sign of a relegation team is just that.....Creating chances and not sticking them away!
If I am honest, I think we will just stay up....Just! The time to reflect will be after 19 games in to the season. As there is a 2 week break now, we can get some players back fit in time for the Spurs game.
Either way, Forest aint going up!
at the start of the season I was full of optimism and confidently predicting a mid table finish, well, now I think we will stay up but it will be a long hard fight, I think in the final analysis the experience we have will see us through.
I'm afraid to be brutally honest at the moment I can see us going down.
Hateful as the thought is, who are the three teams who are going to finish below us ? Sadly, I just can't see three.
We need a good finisher when the transfer window is open like.....Jonaton Johansson.
We will stay up just, but its going to go down to the wire and it ain't going to be easy.
I still think we'll stay up. If we'd been lucky and got what we could have (say, 3 points vs Saints/Middlesborough, and a point against Chelsea & Liverpool) then we'd be 7th now. We havn't been, which is the problem.
It'll be a real shame to go down after playing so well and matching (with the exception of Man Utd & Villa first 10 mins) the other team.
Exactly. I think we have been extremely unlucky, but not putting the chances away is a sign of a relegation team though. Hopefully that will change and we'll put a few past Spurs ala Leeds.
Scowy, did I miss something? When did we play the Arse.
As for Marlon ask in 6 more games, 3 games ago even you would have said it looks promising, so lets not go overboard about the last 3 games shall we.
Just Keep the Faith lads.
My only hope is Marlon that due to performances like Villa and Fulham happening so early on - we can learn and turn these things around in time. It would be so damaging for the club to be relegated again that I just wonder who may come in if we're in this position come the next transfer window....Dawson perhaps?
its is hard to say!
I think we have about the same chances of survival as when we started hte season. I still think we have a good side and a good manger. We have a good home following and i think we have a good chance. It will be a fight but I think we willl do it. Leeds Wolves and Bolton have arguably looked far worst than us so far this season.
Too be quite honest if we go down it's because unlike most of the teams in the Prem we just don't have enough flair players. Even Muzzy plays to deep for my liking and we aren't scoring enough. On topof that the defense isn't good enough! Howey is a major dissapointment, he is a slower, fatter, not as good version of Elliott! There are some plus points of course, we are a much better side than last year and when we got relegated but every other side has improved dramatically except Spurs!
I genuinely believe we have the squad and depth to scrape survival. The players need to gel more, of course this has to happen pretty soon.
I think that is the key thing - Muzzy playing far too deep. He's doing to much at the moment because Nalis is too slow and gives the ball away far to easily.
Muzzy is most effective in a 5 man midfiled. During the Martin O'Neill period, we had the likes of Lenon and Savage in midfiled which allowed Muzzy to get forward and express his self and get a few goals too.


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