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16) reported that 12 of 13 patients with Brown syndrome had AHP and classified the cases as slight, medium, or severe depending on the amount of AHP and the presence of vertical strabismus in the gaze positions.
He said the revelation of "anti Catholic and anti-Christian" messages on the roof "suggests that the Dan Brown syndrome has struck again.
Cowboy suffers from the Craig Brown syndrome the fans don't pick the team, it's my team, you're no' playing.
The surgical treatment of traumatic Brown syndrome.
It's becoming accepted that Labour is suffering from what could be called Craig Brown syndrome.


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EP & Single Releases
Ireland Sings
1965 — Pye NPL 18134 LP
Not a Star from the Flag Shall Fade (Arr. & adptd. D. Beham)
Sodding (Arr. & adptd. Connolly)
Sit Yeh Down and I'll Treat Yeh Decent (Arr. D. Beham)
Fineen O'Driscoll, the Rover (Fineen the Rover) (Arr. D. Beham)
How Ceasar Was Driven from Ireland (Arr. D. Beham)
Dicey Riley (Arr. D. Beham)
Kerry Boatman (Arr. D. Beham)
Trust in Drink (Arr. D. Beham)
Love of My Heart (Arr. W. Stephens)
My Redheaded Mot from Ringsend (Arr. Connolly)
Brown and Yellow Ale (Arr. D. Beham)
Sea Around Us (Trad., Words by Dominic Behan)
Irish Famine (Arr. D. Beham)
Patriot Game (Dominic Behan)
Produced by Len Black
Musical Direction: Steve Benbow
Historically, collectors of folk material, like Sharpe, Herd, Ord, Child etc., have made significant contributions to the preservations of folk-lore. But to imagine — as some people would have us believe at present — that balladry is in itself worthy of study in an abstract art sense, is a foolish and undesirable premise. That everything in relation to folk song must be limited to the purely 'Ethnic', with no allowance for the day to day changes which are a feature of any society is tantamount to asking us for our signature on a death warrant for folk-lore. Above all, it is asking us to sing with an academic tongue in cheek, and, before we bawl our heads off, we must find out why. It is enough to prevent young people from making their own songs …
All this emphasis on 'Folk knowledge', 'Ethnic approach' etc. is hindering the young singer. It is educating him/her into the phoney accent, the idiomatic restrictive and the world where song is no longer something to have on one's lips, but a kind of mysticism related only to the professional and ultra academic. Forget the 'folk pundit'. Open your mouth, and, whatever your voice is like, sing! And to hell with the Ethnicists'. Folk-Song is not the special preserve of the few, but the undeniable heritage of the many.
NOT A STAR FROM THE FLAG SHALL FADE: A really great song about the American Civil War.
THE SODDING: Carry on with the coffin, the corpse can walk.
SIT YEH DOWN AND I'LL TREAT YEH DECENT: Muldoon must have been as well known as Garret Riley or Larry McHales' dog. I first heard this song, or rather bits of it, from a relation of my Father's, my aunt Julia. I next heard the same bits being sung in Paddy and Maureen Donahue's pub in Dublin. I went back the way a bit and wrote the song as you see it now and added a chorus to make it a real drinking song.
FINEEN THE ROVER: People laugh nowadays at Ireland's maritime effort. But there was a time, and not so long ago (archaeologically anyway), when the Irish Rover was a match for five Romans, or twenty if they were English ones. Indeed it's said that the name Nelson was originally O'Neill. Drake of course, comes from the Irish 'O Droicead' meaning of the bridge', while Blithe is 'Blatain' or 'The Little Flower'.
HOW CEASAR WAS DRIVEN FROM IRELAND: When the Irish are short of a foreign oppressor with whom to fight, they sit around the pubs gritting their teeth and inventing Englishmen.
DICEY RILEY: Joyce's 'Nightgown' sequence in 'Ulysses' deals with quite a few of the ladies mentioned in this song. My aunt sings a version about Biddy Riley. What the hell, Biddy, Maggie, or what have you. Some unfortunate now past her labour and ready to give her back a rest.
KERRY BOATMAN: Before my friend, Peter O' Toole, rode a camel in the desert, he sang this song for me at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in Stratford Upon Avon. It had a beginning and an end. I gave it the middle it has now, and I hope, Peter a cara, you approve.
TRUST IN DRINK: Cur preab san ol = put trust in drink. One of the oldest drinking songs in Ireland, very freely translated, cost me nothing, in fact, except the time.
LOVE OF MY HEART: First heard in the Sacra Caor Hotel, Salthill, Galway, half in English, half in Irish. Maybe the proprietor, Eugene Donleavy, knows more about it. I must tell Fintan Connolly to go and ask there sometime.
MY REDHEADED MOT FROM RINGSEND: Raytown, that's what the old people from around Thorncastle Street call Ringsend. My father's people came from there since they left Wexford in 1259. 'Hobbling' is what most of the people worked at down there years ago. You mean cobbling, surely? I mean h-o-b-b-l-i-n-g, hobbling; the little boat going to take the line of the big boat into the harbour, that's hobbling.
BROWN AND YELLOW ALE: Tale of a man who loses his wife because he becomes impotent through too much drinking. Mrs. Costello gives another version of this theme in her collection "Amrain Muige Seola" but here drinking is not held responsible. "Brown and Yellow Ale' was freely translated by the poet, James Stephens.
THE SEA AROUND US: I got the line from my Mother which a friend of hers, Mick Byrne, wrote, together with about forty verses he couldn't remember. The line I got was 'Thank God we're surrounded by water', and I thought it far too good to lose.
'PATRIOT GAME: About the death of Feargal O' Hanlon, killed alongside Sean South, on a raid over the Irish border, January 1st, 1957.
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Clampett ist der Name folgender Personen:

 Bob Clampett (1913–1984), US-amerikanischer Trickfilm-Animator
 Bobby Clampett (* 1960), US-amerikanischer Golfspieler

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 Clampitt (Begriffsklärung)

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The American Chamber Foundation Philippines, Inc. (AmCham Foundation) will hold its annual benefit ScholaRUN on March 3, at SM "By the Bay", SM Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City.
Entitled "8th and Run" – the 8th AmCham Foundation ScholaRUN", the title shows both a play of words of the "8th" edition of the ScholaRUN and "Eat" as our new concept of "Eat and Run!" This new charity fun run concept will highlight Filipinos love for American food. Participating runners will get to taste several American favorites like burgers, pizza and doughnuts upon reaching the pit stop.
In partnership with Chevron Philippines and Emerson, "Eat and Run" concept is the first of its kind running event for charity in the Philippines which shows the vast influence of America on Philippine cuisine.
According to AmCham's Executive Director, Mr. Ebb Hinchliffe, the idea behind the Eat and Run concept was adopted in the United States. "We get better every year, so why not try something new, something different that has not been tried here before," explains Mr. Hinchliffe.
AmCham Foundation Philippines' President, Mr. Edwin Feist emphasizes this year's run for scholars will stand-out from other runs. "We want to make it interesting and exciting for the participants as this unique fun run concept also help fund our scholarship program," said Mr. Feist. The AmCham President adds that this activity is a major part of AmCham Foundation's fundraiser for underprivileged yet deserving scholars.
Mr. Feist believes that the young people of today are the future of tomorrow. Likewise, Mr. Hinchliffe remarks that education is a key to the future.
"That's why whenever you take a step, you know that you're just helping to give a book for a kid or help another kid go to school," shares Mr. Hinchliffe.
Mr. Feist also shares that the foundation involves their scholars to participate in the running event. "Our scholars not only join the run but they are manning booths; they are a big part of the event. It's wonderful," says Mr. Feist.
This new Eat and Run concept race categories are as follows; 200-meter dash, 3K, 5K, and 10K. The event will start at 4 a.m. To join this first of its kind charity running event, visit www.goorahna.com or register at selected Chris Sports branches in SM Mall of Asia, SM North EDSA, SM Megamall, Glorietta, and at Market! Market, BGC, Taguig City! Runners will receive a race shirt, racebib, finisher's medal, and lootbag.


The pdf edition of Issue 8 is pretty much done. I got the entire thing reformatted to 8.5″ x 11″. But I realized that I hadn't properly sized the cover to 8.5 x 11, so I couldn't do the merging of the various pieces (I was at work). I'll do the sizing over the weekend (it doesn't take long) and merge the pieces when I get back to my day job on Monday.
WE NEED SUBMISSIONS! For some reason (probably the Flash Fiction contest), submissions this month are the lowest they've been since around Issue 2. While it's quite possible there are some gems in there (we only just started reading), we'd really like to have a larger pool to draw from. Please get your Alternate History submissions in by Tuesday the 30th!
Speaking of Issue 9 (Alt. Hist), we got back the answers for our interview this morning. It turned out great! Interviews can be a bit dicey – you never know exactly what to expect. Everyone reacts differently to answering questions. But in this case, the interviewee liked the questions (he even commented to that effect), and gave some very insightful (and entertaining!) responses. Couple that interview with the article we've got, and the nonfiction portion of Issue 9 looks terrific.
Also, speaking of the Flash Fiction Contest, there's only 4 days left to vote on your favorite! There have been over 100 votes cast so far, but I think we can do better! C'mon, free flash fiction stories to read! Tell your friends!
To our utter delight, as of right now we've surpassed last month's numbers by just over 47%. With 4 days left, passing 50% seems inevitable. Incredible, and WAY more of a surge than we expected (over the previous few months we'd been seeing 10-25% growth). We actually anticipate a drop-off next month since we won't have the Flash Fiction contest, but that's okay; so long as there's not a drop-off from May's turnout.
Lastly, I wanted to mention: We're trying to put together a Super-Issue for Issue 12 to close out our first year with a bang. The theme genre is LGBTQ, and we're already speaking to potential contributors; we want a wide variety of perspectives to go into this one. We'll still be accepting submissions for the issue, in September: we're planning on the issue being the largest one yet, probably around twice the size of our regular issues! We hope our readers will help spread the word on this one especially, as it's very important to us and we have high hopes the issue will impress and amaze.


Qatar Chamber Vice-Chairman Mohamed bin Twar received a trade team from World Trade Center Accra at the chamber venue headed by Mr. Togbe Afede , the Board Chairman of the Center.
The meeting discussed ways of enhancing mutual relations between Qatari businessmen and their counterparts from Ghana and exploring investment opportunities in both countries.
The mission also introduced both Ghanaian and the Qatari firms to their common markets and prospective partners in the areas of agriculture, aviation, fishing , oil and gas, hydrocarbons, energy, real estate, construction and infrastructure.
Qatar Chamber Vice-Chairman Mohammed bin Ahmed bin Tawar al Kuwari said Qatari businessmen are looking for investment in Ghana's mineral resources. Ghana's reserves of bauxite could feed Qatar's aluminum industry, he said.


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Florida man charged with murder after body parts found in a bay
The incident took place in Tampa, one of Florida's major cities. The Florida man was arrested for murder when police found body parts in a bay. In a statement made by the police on Wednesday, it was stated that the dismembered body was thrown into the bay. A Florida man was detained as the prime suspect in the murder.
Tampa police have arrested 69-year-old Robert Kessler for drug dealing and drug use. Police were also investigating the murder of Stephanie Crone-Overholts. The police, who managed to link the two events, charged Kessler with second-degree murder.
The dismembered body of 47-year-old Crone-Overholts was discovered by a fisherman. While the fisherman was doing his own business, he found the body parts and informed the police. As a result of the investigations, it was learned that the body belonged to a woman from Pennsylvania.
Other parts of the deceased woman's body were discovered in McKay Bay. These body parts consisted of various additional body parts, including a tattooed leg. Police shared a photo of the tattoo at the press conference. The tattoo had the name of the woman's child and three hearts.
Images released by Tampa police went viral on the Internet. When the family of the deceased woman noticed the tattoo, they contacted the police. It was learned that the woman lived with her family in Pennsylvania. In addition, the family had previously reported the woman missing. However, there was no information from the police for a long time.
No connection was initially identified between Kessler, who was arrested for drugs, and the late Crone-Overholts. Police chief Ruben Delgado revealed that the two began living together after meeting at a fast-food restaurant. After this information was discovered, the police expanded their search area.
Tampa police found various bloodstains while investigating Kessler's van and home. The bloodstains were sent to the laboratory for analysis. Laboratory examinations revealed that the blood samples belonged to the deceased Crone-Overholts.
Tampa police were unable to give a clear indication of when Crone-Overhoults was killed. According to the police, it could not even be determined when the body was thrown into the water. No additional information about the murder was shared. Kessler, on the other hand, explained that they met the woman at a restaurant and offered her a place to stay, but that it had nothing to do with the woman's death.
Crone-Overholts' son, Sean Overholts, stated that he was devastated when he learned that his mother had been murdered. He said that what happened was like a nightmare and that he would miss his mother very much. Charged with murder in addition to drug possession, it's unclear whether Kessler has hired any lawyers for his defense.
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1909 Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (d. 1994)
Kotozakura Masakatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 53rd Yokozuna (d. 2007)
Đặng Thùy Trâm, Vietnamese physician and author (d. 1970)
Arjun Rampal, Indian actor
John Parrish, American baseball player
Jackie Trail, American tennis player
Natasha Bedingfield, English singer-songwriter and producer
Stephan Andersen, Danish footballer
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Welcome to the Arklow Bay Hotel Kids Club. The Kids club runs daily during most midterm breaks & school holidays and caters for children from 4 years to 12 years.
We offer you and your children a chance to make some fantastic family memories during your stay with us. Join us in Wicklow for your family stay and explore what Wicklow "the garden of Ireland" has to offer.
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Choose from our local playground, our family nature walk and our leisure centre as well as our very own on-site Lenny the Loin Kids Club which will ensure our younger guests are always well looked after and kept entertained from the moment you arrive.
Pre-booking 24 hours in advance is advised in order to avoid disappointment. One session is charged at €8 per child and camps are suitable for ages 4-12 years.
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Gresham Smith Civil Engineer Levi Sciara, P.E., has authored an article for American Public Works Association Reporter magazine discussing strategies for sustainable stormwater management. In the February 2019 issue, Levi shares a case study on recent renovations at Nashville's Hillsboro High School, highlighting how the project team used low impact development strategies to comply with current stormwater ordinances.
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Once Upon a Time some aikidoists and jujitsukas were having camps at the same time, at the same location.
One day two aikidoists locked themselves out of their room. They were distraught, whatever would they do?
As luck would have it, two jujitsukas were passing by, noticed their distress and listened to they sad story. They took pity on the aikidoists, scaling the building and expertly popping the lock with a butter knife.
The aikidoists, overcome with gratitude, presented on of the jujitsukas with a box of Entenmann's donuts. The donuts remained uneaten by the end of jujitsu camp and came to be honored as a symbol of harmony and kokua.
This fable of the Donuts of Trakas is true. The tradition of the passing of the donuts started in 1984, the second year at Camp Kodenkan Midwest. For many years afterward, one of the black belts attending camp was chosen for this honor.


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Cook declared wanted for stabbing boss to death
The police have declared the Togolese cook of Ope Bademosi wanted for allegedly murdering the popular Lagos chief in his Ikoyi residence, Lagos, on Wednesday, October 31.
Chief Bademosi was the chairman of Credit Switch Limited.
His wife, who found him with multiple stab wounds, said she left her husband at home to carry out some transactions in the bank.
Upon her return, she found him lying in a pool of his blood and the cook, who was employed on Sunday, October 28th, just four days prior, was nowhere to be found.
A homicide investigation officer was quoted as saying: "After committing the act, the guy went to the toilet and pulled off the white uniform meant for cooks he was wearing because it was all stained with blood. He also left the knife he used inside the toilet there. If you see the knife, it's a very strong, long and sharp knife that could only be authorised for military personnel."
The cook reportedly ransacked the apartment and stole valuables such as money, jewellery and a mobile phone.
The police, in a notice issued to declare the cook wanted, said actions have been taken to apprehend him.
The notice read: "At exactly 8:45 am this morning, information got to the police via a phone call that a murder had occurred in an estate.
"Immediately, actions were taken to apprehend the suspect while the remains of Chief Ope Bademosi who was stabbed straight on the heart by the Togolese cook he brought in from Ondo state three days ago.
"The culprit is currently at large, anybody with any useful information should contact the nearest police station."


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Q: VBScript to split a text file into multiple files based on a variables that needs to be set from file contents I am hoping that someone will be able to help me out, basically I have a text file that I need to split based on a variable that will be contained within the file…..
I have added below an example of how the source file would look…
What I need to do is ignore the header and footer and  then split the file in to separate files based on the second delimiter so for the first row this would be "1001"  the files should group all of the matching references into the file and then apply a header and footer.
Header should be a variable (in this example it should be the first delimiter) and the footer should be the count of records, the file then needs to be saved with a variable name (see below)
Source file example:
Header is Here|1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 2
Testcust1|1001|thisis 3
Testcust1|1001|thisis 4
Testcust2|1002|thisis 1
Testcust2|1002|thisis 2
Testcust3|1003|thisis 3
Testcust4|1004|thisis 1
Testcust4|1004|thisis 2
Testcust4|1004|thisis 3
Testcust1|1001|thisis 5
Testcust1|1001|thisis 6
Testcust1|1001|thisis 7
Testcust1|1001|thisis 8
Testcust1|1001|thisis 9
Footer|15

Below is what I would expect the first output file to look like based on the source:
Testcust1|1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 2
Testcust1|1001|thisis 3
Testcust1|1001|thisis 4
Testcust1|1001|thisis 5
Testcust1|1001|thisis 6
Testcust1|1001|thisis 7
Testcust1|1001|thisis 8
Testcust1|1001|thisis 9
Footer|9

This needs to be saved as "C:\Testcust1(Datetime).txt"
Help would be greatly appreciated!

A: Theory:
"Grouping" means "Dictionary" in VBScript. So use a Dictionary to store the file to write to under the key the grouping is based of -  as applied here and here.
Step by Step:
 Dim sLine : sLine = tsIn.ReadLine()
 Read a line like 'Footer|15' or 'Testcust4|1004|thisis 1'
 Dim aLine : aLine = Split(sLine, "|")
 Split it into an array
 If 2 = UBound(aLine) Then
    it's a data line like 'Testcust4|1004|thisis 1'
    If Not dicF.Exists(aLine(1)) Then
       We haven't seen the key, e.g. '1004'
       Dim sFSpec : sFSpec = oFS.BuildPath("..\data", aLine(1) & ".txt")
       build file spec for this key
       Set dicF(aLine(1)) = oFS.CreateTextFile(sFSpec)
       create the file and store it in dicF
       dicF(aLine(1)).WriteLine aLine(0) & "|1"
       write the header
    End If
    dicF(aLine(1)).WriteLine sLine
    write the data line to this key's file
 End If

Practice:
  Dim oFS  : Set oFS  = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
  Dim dicF : Set dicF = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
  Dim tsIn : Set tsIn = oFS.OpenTextFile("..\data\28691670.txt")
  Do Until tsIn.AtEndOfStream
     Dim sLine : sLine = tsIn.ReadLine()
     Dim aLine : aLine = Split(sLine, "|")
     If 2 = UBound(aLine) Then
        If Not dicF.Exists(aLine(1)) Then
           Dim sFSpec : sFSpec = oFS.BuildPath("..\data", aLine(1) & ".txt")
           Set dicF(aLine(1)) = oFS.CreateTextFile(sFSpec)
           dicF(aLine(1)).WriteLine aLine(0) & "|1"
        End If
        dicF(aLine(1)).WriteLine sLine
     End If
  Loop
  tsIn.Close
  Dim tsOut
  For Each tsOut in dicF.Items()
      tsOut.WriteLine "Footer|" & tsOut.Line - 2
      tsOut.Close
  Next

output of 1001.txt
Testcust1|1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 1
Testcust1|1001|thisis 2
Testcust1|1001|thisis 3
Testcust1|1001|thisis 4
Testcust1|1001|thisis 5
Testcust1|1001|thisis 6
Testcust1|1001|thisis 7
Testcust1|1001|thisis 8
Testcust1|1001|thisis 9
Footer|9

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Scones are one of those foods that either you enjoy or you may not eat them because you think they are too dry. Keeping this in mind and experimenting with many different recipes, I have finally have a great recipe that I think is practically perfect.
1 cup of any desired fruit.
Place flour into mixing bowl. Add sugar, salt and baking powder. Grate frozen butter into dry ingredients. Slightly mix the ingredients making sure that the butter in evenly dispersed. Incorporate beaten eggs and cream to the mixing bowl. Stir only until ingredients begin to combine. Place dough onto a floured piece of wax paper. Using a rolling pin, roll dough out into a rectangle around 8" x 14". Place fruit evenly on dough. Fold dough as you would fold a business letter (trifold). Slightly press dough into a log form and cut into 8 triangles.
Place scones onto a slightly greased baking sheet and place in the oven for 22-25 minutes or until slightly golden.
Enjoy fresh from the oven.


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BDSM Full Form
Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Satish Kumar Sharma
BDSM Full Form is bondage and discipline, domination and submission, sadism and masochism.
0.1 About BDSM:
0.2 How Many People Practice BDSM?
0.3 The History of BDSM: Not So New
0.4 Is BDSM Still Considered a Medical Disorder?
0.5 The Psychology of BDSM: Why Are People Drawn to It?
0.6 The Physicality of BDSM: Why Does It Feel Good?
0.7 What does BDSM stand for?
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About BDSM:
BDSM not primarily a clinical term employed by medical or healthcare professionals. Instead, it more often a term employed by people to explain their own sexual practices and sometimes employed by others to denounce or otherwise disapprove of or stigmatize the way others prefer to roll in the hay.
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How Many People Practice BDSM?
Nearly 47 per cent of girls and 60 per cent of men fantasized about dominating someone sexually, while slightly more women and fewer men aroused by the thought of dominated, consistent with a study published online March 3, 2016, within the Journal of Sex Research.
The History of BDSM: Not So New
Explore a touch more and you'll also discover that BDSM is nothing new. Among BDSM's historical high points:
Art and texts from ancient Greece and Rome show physical pain used as an erotic stimulus, per the book An Illustrated History of the Rod, by William M. Cooper, first published in 1868.
The Kama Sutra, the revered Sanskrit text on sexuality written in India about 2,000 years ago, describes six appropriate places to strike an individual with a passion and 4 ways to try to to it. It also has chapters titled "Scratching," "Biting," and "Reversing Roles."
Marquis Sade, a French aristocrat who lives from 1740 to 1814, wrote a spread of erotic novels and short stories involving beaten and beating others. Eventually, the author's name gave rise to the term "sadism."
Is BDSM Still Considered a Medical Disorder?
At just one occasion, psychological state experts were dubious about whether those that practised BDSM were mentally healthy. But the American Psychiatric Association took an enormous step in destigmatizing kink with the discharge of the present Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in 2013. For the primary time ever, the rules drew a transparent distinction between consenting adults who engage in sexual behaviours outside the mainstream; like BDSM and people who force others to interact in those behaviours without consent.
The Psychology of BDSM: Why Are People Drawn to It?
Most of the available evidence shows that the bulk of BDSM enthusiasts are mentally healthy and typical in every respect except that they find traditional ("vanilla") intimacy unfulfilling and need something more intense.
The Physicality of BDSM: Why Does It Feel Good?
Patti Britton, PhD, MPH, cofounder of the credentialing and training institute Sex Coach U; and a past president of the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists, also as other experts; are quick to mean that seeking the pain-pleasure connection isn't unique to the BDSM community. Consider athletes who push past physical comfort to experience a "runner's high," or people that; chase thrills by engaging in dangerous extreme sports, like skydiving. Consider the bliss that aficionados of super spicy food experience when biting into a pepper sets their mouth ablaze; or the push of fear that riding a roller coaster or watching a horror movie can bring.
What does BDSM stand for?
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Q: Freed Memory not reflecting in DF command My system memory was almost full as seen by DF command
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              40G   38G  268M 100% /
udev                  2.0G   84K  2.0G   1% /dev

When I checked I saw one directory consuming 7 GB.
# du -sh /home/testuser/ccmData/
7.0G    /home/testuser/ccmData/

I logged in as "testuser" and freed most of the contents by "rm -rf command" and now only 200 MB data is left.
# du -sh /home/testuser/ccmData/*
199M    /home/testuser/ccmData/neo
4.0K    /home/testuser/ccmData/leo

But the freed memory is not reflected
But du and df commands are still does not reflect the freed 6 .8 GB of memory.
# du -sh /home/testuser/ccmData/
7.0G    /home/testuser/ccmData/

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              40G   38G  268M 100% /
udev                  2.0G   84K  2.0G   1% /dev

I tried rebooting the system but no benefit.
What might be the cause of this?

A: The fact that hidden files are not globbed by default. There are still hidden file objects in /home/testuser/ccmData that have not been erased, hence inspecting only /home/testuser/ccmData/* won't find them.


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Q: jQuery : how to apply effect on a child element instead of re-writing the same function, I want to optimise my code :

How to use the widget

the JS :

This is working just with the div which is called widget and the button called idwidget.
But on this page i have also :

How to eat APPLES

And I want it to be compatible with the code.
I heard about children attribute, do you have an idea how to do that please ?
Thank you

A: Based on your example snippets of HTML, the following should work (it grabs the all .content divs and works backwards to find the associated span):

Edit: I've compacted the code a little (but it now requires jQuery 1.4 for the .text(function) bit).
Edit 2: Ok still more compact than the original, but back to 1.3.X safe code.


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Anning kan syfta på följande platser:

Kina

 Lianran, häradshuvudort, Yunnan,
 Anning Shi (härad i Kina), Yunnan,
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//  SXLaunchImageAdView.h
//  chuangyezhinan
//
//  Created by sunxu on 2017/3/17.
//  Copyright © 2017年 Sun Xu. All rights reserved.
//

#import "BaseView.h"
#import "SDWebImageDownloader.h"

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, AdType) {
    LogoAdType = 0, // Logo 在底部类型广告页
    FullScreenAdType, // 无 logo 全屏幕广告
};

typedef void (^SXAdViewClick) (NSInteger tag);

@interface SXLaunchImageAdView : BaseView

@property (nonatomic, strong) UIImageView *adImgView;
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIWindow *window;
@property (nonatomic, assign) NSInteger adTime; //倒计时总时长,默认6秒
@property (nonatomic, strong) UIButton *skipBtn;

@property (nonatomic, copy) SXAdViewClick clickBlock;

/**
  重写 init 方法,生成广告页
 @param window windoe
 @param type AdType
 @param url imageUrls
 @return self;
 */
- (instancetype)initWithWindow:(UIWindow *)window type:(NSInteger)type imgUrl:(NSString *)url;

@end

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Q: asp.net iis ask login for twice I have an asp.net application host on iis 10. When I login at the login page, sometimes I need to login twice. At first login, it will prompt
https://test.com/SZ/Default.aspx?source=https%3a%2f%2ftest.com%2fSZ%2ftasksearch.aspx

which is still the login page, then I login again, this time it really login and redirect to
https://test.com/SZ/tasksearch.aspx

sometimes I need to login three times, how can I solve this problem?


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package com.google.cloud.compute;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

import com.google.api.services.compute.model.Image;
import com.google.common.base.MoreObjects;

import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * A Google Compute Engine image configuration used to create images from a Google Cloud Storage
 * URL where the disk image is stored.
 */
public class StorageImageConfiguration extends ImageConfiguration {

  private static final long serialVersionUID = 8160447986545005880L;

  private final ContainerType containerType;
  private final String sha1;
  private final String source;

  /**
   * The format used to encode and transmit the block device. The only supported value is
   * {@code TAR}. This is just a container and transmission format, not a runtime format.
   */
  public enum ContainerType {
    TAR
  }

  /**
   * A builder for {@code StorageImageConfiguration} objects.
   */
  public static final class Builder
      extends ImageConfiguration.Builder<StorageImageConfiguration, Builder> {

    private ContainerType containerType;
    private String sha1;
    private String source;

    private Builder() {
      super(Type.STORAGE);
    }

    private Builder(StorageImageConfiguration imageConfiguration) {
      super(imageConfiguration);
      this.containerType = imageConfiguration.containerType;
      this.sha1 = imageConfiguration.sha1;
      this.source = imageConfiguration.source;
    }

    private Builder(Image imagePb) {
      super(Type.STORAGE, imagePb);
      if (imagePb.getRawDisk().getContainerType() != null) {
        this.containerType = ContainerType.valueOf(imagePb.getRawDisk().getContainerType());
      }
      this.sha1 = imagePb.getRawDisk().getSha1Checksum();
      this.source = imagePb.getRawDisk().getSource();
    }

    /**
     * Sets the format used to encode and transmit the block device. The only supported value is
     * {@code TAR}. This is just a container and transmission format, not a runtime format.
     */
    public Builder setContainerType(ContainerType containerType) {
      this.containerType = containerType;
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the SHA1 checksum of the disk image before unpackaging.
     */
    public Builder setSha1(String sha1) {
      this.sha1 = sha1;
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the full Google Cloud Storage URL where the disk image is stored (e.g.
     * {@code gs://bucket/file}).
     */
    public Builder setSource(String source) {
      this.source = checkNotNull(source);
      return this;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a {@code StorageImageConfiguration} object.
     */
    @Override
    public StorageImageConfiguration build() {
      return new StorageImageConfiguration(this);
    }
  }

  private StorageImageConfiguration(Builder builder) {
    super(builder);
    this.source = checkNotNull(builder.source);
    this.containerType = builder.containerType;
    this.sha1 = builder.sha1;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the format used to encode and transmit the block device. This is just a container and
   * transmission format, not a runtime format.
   */
  public ContainerType getContainerType() {
    return containerType;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the SHA1 checksum of the disk image before unpackaging.
   */
  public String getSha1() {
    return sha1;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the full Google Cloud Storage URL where the disk image is stored (e.g.
   * {@code gs://bucket/file}).
   */
  public String getSource() {
    return source;
  }

  @Override
  public Builder toBuilder() {
    return new Builder(this);
  }

  @Override
  MoreObjects.ToStringHelper toStringHelper() {
    return super.toStringHelper()
        .add("source", source)
        .add("containerType", containerType)
        .add("sha1", sha1);
  }

  @Override
  public final int hashCode() {
    return Objects.hash(baseHashCode(), source, containerType, sha1);
  }

  @Override
  public final boolean equals(Object obj) {
    return obj == this
        || obj != null
        && obj.getClass().equals(StorageImageConfiguration.class)
        && Objects.equals(toPb(), ((StorageImageConfiguration) obj).toPb());
  }

  @Override
  StorageImageConfiguration setProjectId(String projectId) {
    return this;
  }

  @Override
  Image toPb() {
    Image.RawDisk rawDiskPb = new Image.RawDisk();
    rawDiskPb.setSource(source);
    rawDiskPb.setSha1Checksum(sha1);
    if (containerType != null) {
      rawDiskPb.setContainerType(containerType.name());
    }
    Image imagePb = super.toPb();
    return imagePb.setRawDisk(rawDiskPb);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a {@code StorageImageConfiguration} builder given the full Google Cloud Storage URL
   * where the disk image is stored.
   */
  public static Builder newBuilder(String source) {
    return new Builder().setSource(source);
  }

  /**
   * Creates a {@code StorageImageConfiguration} object given the full Google Cloud Storage URL
   * where the disk image is stored.
   */
  public static StorageImageConfiguration of(String source) {
    return newBuilder(source).build();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
  static StorageImageConfiguration fromPb(Image imagePb) {
    return new Builder(imagePb).build();
  }
}


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Marion in Montréal
Emily in Paris Marion in Montréal
By Marion Parquet
Have you, like us, binge-watched each season of Emily in Paris? If not, you've likely heard about it! In the latest Netflix hit series, protagonist Emily moves from the US to work in Paris and is trying to navigate the Parisian agency culture. Similarly, a few months back, we welcomed Marion, who is continuing her career in Canada, moving here from France where she worked in various Parisian communications agencies. She made the leap and travelled 5,000 km to experience a new work environment, joining the Montréal team at K&P, which works jointly with our offices in Toronto and Ottawa. With the Season 3 release of the hit show, we wanted to see how much truth there is in the show's portrayal, and ask Marion her opinion on the differences that can exist between two cultures and their approach to work in PR and social media. Welcome to our reverse version of Emily in Paris: Marion in Montréal!
As in the show, have you noticed any differences in terms of workload and how employees are treated? I've noticed that in Canada, working remotely is much more accepted, encouraged and widely democratized. Employers build a real relationship of trust with their employees, which I believe leaves a positive impact on employee loyalty and productivity. I feel that Canadian employers show more care for their employees and their wellbeing. They are more recognized, and their work is really valued. Perhaps this is because the labour market is much more dynamic here, and changing jobs implies less red tape than in France.
What about the social aspect at work? In my opinion, the general atmosphere at work is lighter and warmer in Canada and especially at K&P. This is due to several elements, starting with our main communication tool: the way we talk and address each other. In French (and Roman languages in general), we have two ways to address people: "tu" ("you"), a more informal way to speak with someone and that you use with people you know (family, friends, etc.), or "vous", the more formal way to address people (your boss, stakeholders, and in other professional instances, or simply if you don't know someone and they are your elder). This doesn't really exist in English, and in Québécois French, everyone uses the informal "tu" no matter who you talk to. As a result, conversations can be friendlier here, helping to break down barriers, particularly when it comes to hierarchy in the workplace, which is more pronounced in France.
From my perspective, relationships and communication between employees are simpler and more fluid in Canada. Moreover, interpersonal relationships within the workplace are valued, as can be seen with the afterwork culture which is celebrated in Québec ("5 à 7"). Unfortunately, we don't drink champagne every day during lunch on Parisian terraces as portrayed on Netflix, but it's still common to have a drink with colleagues in France every now and then as we do here in Canada.
Tell us more about how agencies are structured?
From my experience in agencies, the structure and organization of the teams in France and Canada are very different. There are more structured PR agencies in France that deal with specific issues and are often specialized (e.g. lifestyle or even just fashion, tourism-hospitality, finance, etc.) or function more in silos, with their different practices (e.g. PR, influence, events, etc.) often working in separate physical spaces. In Québec, I find there is more collaboration between the different practices, which work hand-in-hand more than in Paris.
Working hours: early risers or late sleepers? From my point of view and from the stories I've heard from people around me, the Québec culture emphasizes respect for schedules and it's not common to see employees working "nocturnes", as we say in France. Even though, I must admit, in French agencies, the day often begins with a coffee break and work starts between 9 and 10 a.m., whereas in Canada, agencies rise earlier. Here, everyone is also encouraged to maintain a healthy work-life balance to prioritize mental health throughout the year, which is appreciated.
Media relations and influencer marketing: differences? I've noticed that the media landscape in Québec is less extended than in France. There are much more media outlets in France, mainly in Paris, since newsrooms are mostly located in the capital. In Québec, we operate with a small network of journalists, which increases the need to create real relationships of trust here. I've also noticed that Québec media seem less politicized and more neutral than in France. As far as social media is concerned, I've noticed that in France, there is a rather balanced distribution between organic and paid content, whereas in Québec, there is more of a preference for paid. The French influencer market is also more experiential and event-driven, which is likely related to Canada experiencing a delayed return to "normalcy" compared to France following the COVID-19 pandemic.
So, in the end: Emily in Paris, or Marion in Montréal? In the end, France and Canada have two completely different work cultures, each with their own unique learning opportunities! From my personal point of view, my work life is more pleasant in Québec. I feel like my work is valued and my wellbeing is taken into account at K&P, which increases my desire to invest in my professional life and help drive the agency's success. That said, I can't wait for season 4 of Emily in Paris!
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Enrique with the staff at Chino Farms, California, October 2015
Enrique Olvera meets the farmers
On his US tour, the Cosme chef hangs out with Californian farmhands, star chefs and the Chez Panisse proprietor
Enrique Olvera understands that, in order to serve good food, you first of all need to have good produce. No place in the US grows better crops than Chino Farm, a family-run agricultural concern just north of San Diego. The 47-acre plot was first cultivated by the Japanese couple Junzo and Hatsuyo Chino after they were released from wartime internment camps following the end of WWII. Today, it is still run by the Chinos' children, who grow and sell high-quality fruit and vegetables, primarily for upmarket restaurants.
Chino farm has been supplying Alice Waters' Chez Panisse restaurant since the 1970s. What's more, its not only the crops that Chino's proprietors care for; the farm has been staffed by workers from a single village in the Mexican state of Oaxaca for decades.
So, when Olvera had finished mixing with the culinary stars on the East Coast, he made sure the first stop on the West Coast leg of his tour was at Chino, where he signed books last Sunday, as part of the local books and food initiative, Good Earth Good Chefs.
Chino has hosted many famous culinary names in the past, including Waters, Sean Brock and Nancy Silverton, yet Enrique was the first visitor whom the workers wanted to meet as much as the book-buying visitors. High praise indeed for their fellow countryman, who had, up until this point, been mixing in very different company.
Enrique with Jordi Roca, New York, October 2015
The Mexican chef's US tour began last Monday at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, where Enrique was in conversation with Kate Krader, restaurant editor for Food & Wine magazine. The following Thursday he teamed up with Jordi Roca – one of the three brothers responsible for El Celler de Can Roca, number one on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list – to prepare a dinner at Enrique's Cosme restaurant, as part of the New York City Food & Wine Festival. Enrique cooked crab tostada and mushroom tamale, among other dishes, while Jordi – Can Roca's pastry chef – served up peaches with roses, as well as ice cream flavoured with vanilla pods sourced the Veracruz region of Mexico.
On Friday, Olvera celebrated his New York restaurant Cosme's first birthday at an off-site party in a swanky private residence in Manhattan, replete with an indoor pool and a series of Keith Haring paintings.
The following day, the chef signed books at the Union Square greenmarket, where he ran into his old friend Alice Waters; Waters and Olvera are collaborating on a series of kitchen gardens for Mexican schools, and both are aware of the social and cultural importance of food in our lives. As Waters told Vogue earlier this year, "Enrique gets it. He's a celebrity chef, and he knows he has ways, through food, of saving his culture."
Enrique Olvera embraces Alice Waters (left) in New York, October 2015
Meanwhile, over the West Coast on Sunday evening Enrique and his chef de cuisine, Daniela Soto-Innes, prepared tacos with chef Trey Forshee at his Galaxy Taco restaurant in San Diego. Enrique prepared lamb barbacoa tacos among other dishes, while Trey's team laid on the churros.
Enrique at Galaxy Taco, October 2015
This morning Enrique has flown on to Los Angeles to film footage for the Spanish-language network Univision. Tomorrow he will be interviewed for the Los Angeles NPR affiliate, KCRW's show Good Food and then it's up to San Francisco, for an engagement at Bar Agricole, before going on to Minneapolis, where Enrique will have a book signing, followed by a ticketed dinner at Cooks of Crocus Hill. The following day Enrique will be a guest on the 20th anniversary live recording of Splendid Table, a radio show aired on 485 stations around the country. The event will take place at the Fitzgerald Theater in St Paul, Minnesota, before an audience of around 900.
To find out more about Enrique's tour go here; and for more recipes and culinary insight from a chef who truly goes from farm to table, get a copy of his book Mexico from the Inside Out here.
Mexico from the Inside Out : Enrique Olvera
"Enrique Olvera is poised to change the way Americans think about Mexican food." -Vogue
"One of the best chefs in the world." -Andoni Aduriz
"Enrique's cooking is a beautiful and delicious interpretation of Mexico's rich culture and traditions. He is both an innovator and a purist: thinking globally, acting locally, and always honoring the farmers and the community that surround him." -Alice Waters
"There was Mexican food before Enrique Olvera, and Mexican food after Enrique Olvera." -Ferran Adrià
"Food is a way of communicating. I think a lot of modern chefs think that cooking is more an art form and about ideas. I don't." -Enrique Olvera in Vogue
"Pujol, even at 15 years old, is as hard to get into as Rapunzel's high tower." -Tamar Adler, Vogue
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Have you ever heard of Shnooks before? Now before this post, I never really came across Shnooks before, but both my daughter and I were excited to find out. When they arrived they immediately grabbed my daughters attention, so much so she was jumping excitedly and couldn't wait to get them out of the box. Now if this is a whole new world to you like it is me, let me tell you a little bit about Shnooks. They come from a magical place where a rainbow meets a waterfall and little Shnooks are born in rainbow bubbles. They magically grow eight times their size from their unique shubble-bubble pack. Born in a bubble, they love to cuddle, Shnooks are your friend so true. With colourful hair, they'll always care, they're here to shnook after you.
Shnooks were first launched back in 2008 and was the first toy to combine plush and hair play and remained a consistent top-selling toy. Now it's available again, ready to capture the imaginations of a new generation with a relaunch of a range of colourful and cute Shnooks. As you can see they arrive in quite a flat box in their bubble and you pop it, shake the Shnook to life then they are ready to play! I really like these cute Shnooks they kind of remind of the troll dolls you could get with the ever changing hair colour, and in no time at all the bubble pack Shnook has grown so much.
We were kindly send over two little Shnooks. Shmiley who always has a smile to share. Rain, hail or shine. Her pearly whites shine bright like diamonds but her friendship is worth more than that. Shine who looks after you with warmth so bright. When skies are grey and it's a boring day shine will light the way. Shine beams like the sun and loves to keep you warm. How adorable are these messages though?
Each Shnook comes with a comb, clips and bands so you can style their hair. They really are the fluffiest little things my littlelady adores them! There are six characters to collect. They come in a variety of colours and each have their own name and own little message, the idea being that not only can you choose the perfect Shnook friend for you. My daughter just loves her two special friends and will spend ages trying to brush, and style their hair. I must confess I have even tried to style their hair, they are just so soft.
*DISCLAIMER* Mimi Rose and Me is a personal blog written and edited by myself only, unless otherwise note my reviews are completely based on my own opinion of the product reviewed. These products were supplied to me as a gift to review from ZURU Toys Inc.
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OSHA fines Goodyear $69,000 for alleged safety violations in Georgia
Rubber & Plastics News Staff
SOCIAL CIRCLE, Ga.—Goodyear said it is following its standard administrative process in addressing citations from the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration alleging safety violations at its facility in Social Circle.
OSHA issued the seven citations, totaling $69,058, on Jan. 19. It gave Goodyear the choice of paying the assessed fines, attending an informal conference with the OSHA area director, or contesting the citations.
"Nothing is more important than the safety of our associates," a Goodyear spokeswoman said.
The company cooperated with OSHA during the investigation, according to the spokeswoman. Goodyear cannot discuss specifics while the case is in progress, she said.
The citations arose from inspections at Social Circle between Aug. 8 and Sept. 20, 2017, OSHA said in the notification document.
The citations, all designated "serious," and the fines are as follows:
Dirty and wet workroom floors, $8,638;
Lack of personal protective equipment in work areas heated to 305-356 degrees Fahrenheit, $10,365;
Lack of clear, specific energy control procedures when employees performed maintenance on flat presses and other equipment, $12,934;
No review of lockout procedures before maintenance of flat press and mill equipment, $12,934;
No clearly marked aisles and passageways to protect employees from being struck by industrial trucks, $6,911;
A powered industrial truck still in service despite obvious disrepair, $6,911; and
Failing to provide proper machine guarding during the removal of heated tire treads, $10,365.
Besides assessing the penalties, OSHA gave Goodyear until Feb. 14 to correct the alleged violations.


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Volunteers also continued work on removing graffiti around the falls. This was a project that was started during our Adopt-a-Crag last spring, and we were thrilled to see that there was no new major graffiti present in the areas that were cleaned last year. Many of the visitors who were hiking in the area were very happy to see this graffiti disappearing and were thankful for the work we were doing. Along with the graffiti on rocks, we also had volunteers working to mask the graffiti that was present on trees. By carefully applying layers of colors to match the bark of the tree, we had incredible success in hiding the bright red, yellow, and blue colors that were sprayed onto trees.
Trash cleanup was also completed around a large portion of the area from the parking lot out past the Big Wall to the train tracks. Volunteers managed to fill over a dozen trash bags with plastic and glass bottles, metal, and some larger items like plastic coolers.
After the workday, volunteers gathered at Camp Buckeye for a delicious cookout with lots of food, desserts, and iced tea and juice all prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Mcpeek! It was exactly what we needed after another successful workday!
A huge thanks goes out to all of our hardworking volunteers, Beach City Crag Stewards Jarod Lawver and Pat Mcpeek, the Ohio Division of Wildlife who granted us permission to host the workday, and Camp Buckeye who provided a great space for our cookout!


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American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture
March 2, 2006 By Fausta
Carnival for the clueless and the Venezuelan space program
It would be funny if it weren't so tragic: Chávez's samba school won the Rio de Janeiro carnival's sambodromo competition.
On the one hand, Hugo has oil money to pay for ads in the NYT touting him as "a-charismatic-leader-helping-the-poor-offering-free-health-care-education-adult-literacy-and-job-training-initiatives-that-help-millions-of-Venezuelans", an image that the UN, along with Chávez's 'banana left' alliance are happy to promote.
Hugo sends US$500,000+ of Venezuelan oil earnings to a Brazilian Samba club, the Vila Isabel group, which won the sambodromo competition (emphasis mine)
Vila Isabel's president, Wilson Moises Alves, thanked Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA, for its funding.
PDVSA will not say how much money was involved, but reports estimate its donation at more than $500,000.
Update: A friend emailed,
pdvsa has acknowledged, or at least failed to deny, that the "donation" is above 1 million. not 500 000, 1 million!!! so what is the BBC up to?
Update 2 Daniel emailed an article from Tal Cual stating that the amount was a whopping $1,500,000
They even had an effigy of Simón Bolívar on one of the floats, in keeping with Hugo's Bolivarian Revolution. The Beeb has a video titled "Chavez uses samba against US: Venezuela's president is promoting Latin American ties by sponsoring a samba school at the Rio carnival."
Don't miss Venezuela News and Views' post on Bolivar Wins In Rio.
Now Hugo's joining the Chinese to launch the Simón Bolívar satellite, the first step on the way to a national space program, at an estimated $500,000,000 (five hundred million US dollars).
Say again? Space program?
I kid you not, folks. Read it and weep: Venezuela kicks off space effort, while China stuffs its gold reserves.
Never mind that this is bad news vis-a-vis Venezuela's close ties with Iran and the Venezuelan nuclear program, which some are starting to notice. Not that he's stopped shopping for weapons, either.
Hugo's also unveiling a South American gas pipeline, which is expected to cost US$20 billion (emphasis mine):
So far it is not clear how the construction costs will be distributed among the contributing governments.
Argentina and Brazil are quietly confident that Venezuela with its oil riches may end up paying more than half of the costs.
China is also looking at building a pipeline from Venezuela through Colombia to a Pacific port.
On the other hand, ponder what $500 million dollars could do for Venezuela's poor. Look at what a hospital in the middle of Caracas is like. Unemployment in Venezuela increased by 4% in one month. Look at the fact that The official projections of Venezuelan gas production for the next decade indicate that the country will have barely enough natural gas to satisfy its domestic needs
In Venezuela poverty runs at more than 80 percent, people die in state hospitals for lack of the most basic help and the unemployment rate is the second-highest in Latin America.
No matter that the poor are complaining, Chávez's 'banana left' alliance continues to support him. Indeed, theirs is a Carnival for the clueless.
Update Some women are not as cluless, though.
Elephants in Academia posts on the newly-elected President of Chile, Michele Bachelet and the frontrunner in next month's presidential election in Peru, Lourdes Flores Nano, who don't want to be associated with Hugo.
Bachelet is not shy about associating with foreign politicians. Two French socialists, particularly Segolene Royale, very visibly joined her in the last week of campaigning before the elections. Bachelet, however, chooses her friends carefully.
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Did you know that you are at risk of respiratory ailments right at this moment? Every year six out of ten people acquires respiratory problems due to poor air quality. To stop this, one must first have a proper air filter installed at home. There are many good quality air filters and purifiers available in the market such as Filtrete air filters and 3M air filters. You also have the option to buy filters that are either disposable or reusable.
How does an air filter work? Air is passed through several times to the filter to catch both large and small particles of allergens that may trigger asthma, skin allergies and pollutants. These are usually installed next to your furnace and should be maintained at least every thirty days. Clean air provides long term health benefits and it is arguably one of the most important factors that we need to look into to promote better health and a better life. If your family has a medical history in asthma, then it is highly recommended to have an air filter to avoid triggering this disease on your children. Research on the best air filter brands before purchasing, buying cheap and imitation ones may do more harm than good.
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If you operate a farm or own rural land that is home to cattle, you need to purchase an electric fence. It's simply the best way to keep those animals where they'll be safe and far from causing harm to others. Fortunately, there's never been a better time to purchase electric fencing due to the numerous options available. Keep reading for some ideas on what your land might need.
One newer option is a solar powered electric fence. It's great for those of you who are working on going green. However, even if decreasing the size of your carbon footprint isn't a priority, it's still a great way to save on the electric bill.
If solar energy isn't something you're interested in, you can still do well with a normal version. You may want to consider an electric fence charger though, in order to keep things running at all times in case of an emergency.
For those of you who are handy, you can probably install your electric fence by yourself. The great thing about electric fencing is it requires so few materials and equipment in order to get the job done. Nonetheless, there are a number of manuals and videos out there that will help you along the way to make sure the setup is done correctly.
By utilizing electric fences you can keep your animals safe at a very affordable cost.
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Building a good foundation for your health can never be too early, taking care of yourself today will make a huge difference tomorrow. While health is usually associated with our food intake and how regular we exercise, we should not forget one of the major reasons why we catch and develop diseases – air. The quality of air we breathe can make or break our health. At home, feeling complaisant that you have good quality air because you do not smoke is a huge mistake. Allergens and air pollutants can be found on your household items, furniture and even your pets. Air conditioner filters can help in sanitizing the air, it removes dust, mold, spores and bacteria. A Honeywell furnace filter can keep the air clean by up to 98%, invest on one to improve your health today.
When we are young, we have the tendency to overlook our health as we feel and look great. While we may not feel anything at the early phase of our lives, it will definitely get back at us as we age. Keeping the air clean will give you a long term benefit as many diseases are carried by it or triggered by poor air quality. Air filters are highly recommended for individuals who have respiratory problems or know someone from their family who had one. This will lower your risks of attacks or developing one such as asthma.
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If you've elected to have a bamboo floor installed in your home, you already know you'll be happy with the results. Bamboo is an extremely fashionably choice that is great for your home's appeal and the environment.
However, there's a misconception that bamboo floors have extremely high durability. This is most likely due to the fact that, in nature, bamboo is the strongest form of vegetarian there is. But bamboo floors go through a lot of processes sing from their original state. While they'll be able to put up a fight against wear and tear, you'll still want to spend time and money on proper bamboo floor care.
For the most part, your flooring will benefit from the same kind of maintenance you would provide a normal hard wood floor. This means regular sweeping it with a soft bristle broom, mopping it and generally keeping an eye out for any areas where wear and tear is threatening to take hold.
Do yourself a favor by placing mats at the entrances and exits of the room so people can wipe their feet before tracking in. this will go a long way in stopping any problems before they start. Also, another form of prevention is putting felt bottoms on any furniture in the room so they don't scratch the floor when they're moved.
While bamboo flooring durability is still better than many conventional options, that's no reason not to provide it with proper care.
When most people think of synthetic lawn turf, they usually imagine an athletic field or putting green used for practice. Few people immediately think of their neighbor's yard. But if the trend continues, soon that's exactly what you'll think of when someone brings up artificial grass. Continue reading to find out why.
One of the main reasons people are switching to fake lawns has to do with the price. For the most part, after you've paid for the turf and its installation, you're done spending money on your lawn. There will still be some maintenance costs to come, but for the most part, your investment is over.
Now compared artificial grass prices to what a real lawn costs. Paying for the grass and having it installed is nothing compared to what you'll be spending every year for as long as you own it.
Real grass constantly needs water, unless it's covered by snow. If you live in a warmer part of the country, your water bill can become astronomical. This is bad for the environment and your budget.
But your lawn also needs to be mowed constantly, weeded and aerated. There goes a huge chunk of your free time. You'll also want to buy a cocktail of chemicals to keep it growing strong and free of vermin and other threats to its health.
When you put the costs next together, there's no competition. Artificial grass makes the most sense.
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Everyone wants to finish their basement at some point. It seems to be one of those projects that perpetually gets put off until "someday." However, if you're ready to begin taking steps towards finally getting it finished once and for all, continue reading for some simple tips.
If money is a concern (like it is for most people), understand what needs to get done and forego the rest for now. For example, you might have closets or even whole rooms in your basement that you use for storage. Don't stress about getting the floors and walls finished, if no one is going to be in there for months at a time.
Likewise, if there are areas of your basement you can finish on your own, this can be an easy way to save money as well. However, only take this project on if you actually have experience. Otherwise, your Chicago home improvement project will turn into a nightmare.
Next, start looking for the best contractor possible. When it comes to basement finishing, Chicago residents have countless options. Ask your friends and family for recommendations first and then begin searching by the ones who have the most experience. After you've narrowed down the list that far, ask each of the remaining candidates to offer a free quote and you should be able to make your final decision after that.
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With winter here, more and more of us will be spending as much time indoors where we're free from the cold. Of course, this isn't always the case. Nothing's worse than coming in from the outdoors and discovering it's not much warmer outside. When this happens, your home isn't properly doing its job. Fortunately, there's a new, easy way to warm your house. Modern science has introduced underfloor heating, a method of actually warming the floors in your home, so each step is another comfortable sensation. Keep reading to learn more.
There are two main ways floors are heated. Radiant floor heat systems use electrical coils beneath conventional materials like ceramic tile. They heat the floor and the occupants feel warm as they walk around their home. The great thing about radiant systems is they're incredibly easy to install. In fact, many homeowners simply handle the process on their own. As a result they get a warm floor and more money in their pocket.
Though it's still a relatively new accommodation, the original way floors were warmed was through a process known as Hydronic heating. This system uses warm water to heat coils which then transfer that warmth to the tile. As you can imagine, however, this system is not one you want to try to install on your own.
Warm floors are a great way to fight off the nasty cold of winter. However, if you're in the market, you should consider the radiant floor option as it's just as effective and far more affordable.
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When looking to renovate a room or simply add a touch of class, the options are limitless. You can paint the walls, replace the floor or add new light fixtures to achieve a desired look. There are a number of simpler ways too. Sometimes just adding a new centerpiece or changing out a piece of furniture can have surprisingly noticeable benefits. However, there's an even simpler method that is sure to draw attention to a very unlikely part of the room: your floor. Continue reading to find out why floor medallions are facing a resurgence in popularity.
Floor medallions are nothing more than geometric shapes that occupy one exclusive section of your floor. Generally, it's about 4×4 ft. the medallion is made up of a circle, with some kind of geometric shape inside. This can be a compass, a starburst or any other design. Some people have even had their initials put in.
The cool thing about medallions is they can be made out of just about any material. Ceramic tile, mosaic, marble, even hard wood can be used to create a floor mosaic. You can choose to match floor materials or change them out. Even mixing and matching is allowed when it comes to mosaics.
If you're sick of how one room looks, it might be time to renovate its appearance. While you have many options to consider, be sure to give some attention to the idea of floor medallions.
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There are many steps that people can take to protect themselves from the flu during the cold winter months. Many people take precautionary steps like getting their flu shots or frequently washing their hands but don't think twice about their HVAC unit. This is a mistake, as the quality and condition of your furnace filter can play a major role in keeping you healthy through the winter.
Flus and viruses are spread through the air – the same air that is circulated throughout a house by the home heating system. Heating and air conditioner filters are meant to help stop the spread of these germs along with dust and other particles that can trigger allergies, asthma and other health problems. However, if you don't regularly monitor, clean and replace your HVAC filters, they won't offer you the protection you need from airborne germs and pollutants.
It's recommended that you replace your HVAC filters three to four times per year. It's especially important for you to check them after long periods where they haven't been used regularly. For example, you'll want to inspect – and likely replace – your air filter as the temperatures start to drop in the winter and you anticipate that you'll be using your heater on a regular basis. Fortunately, it's easy to find affordable furnace filters online. Leading online shops such as Your Filter Connection offer low prices on filters from a wide variety of brands with easy purchase and shipping options.
When considering purchasing furnace filters to help protect your family from the flu, allergies and other health issues, it's important to look at buying high-quality air filters. Check to see what the MERV Rating is of a particular air filter. This will tell you the amount of airborne particulates that are captured by the air filter. The scale goes from one to 16, with a higher number offering more protecting. Companies such as Filtrete offer filters that are specifically designed to filter out allergens and other airborne particulates that can be spread through the HVAC system.
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Observations on Comparative Politics. Exceptionalism, and Party Systems
Steven L. Taylor · Monday, January 28, 2013 · 10 comments
The following, from an interview in Haaretz with Mark Mellman, a US political consultant who worke din the recent Israeli elections with Yair Lapid, is an excellent definition of comparative politics (although that is not the intent):
Q. But people in Israel think that we are unique
A. What would be truly unique is if someone said "no were not unique, we're like everybody else." Saying you are unique is not unique. I worked in Chicago, where people on the South Side say: don't think we're like the North Side, and don't think that anything you know from the North is relevant to the South side. But whether you're working in Hawaii or in California or in New York or in Venezuela or in Albania or in Israel – there are differences, of course, but there are also similarities, and to be able to understand the similarities and the differences is an important part of the job.
This struck me on a couple of levels. First, this is fundamentally what comparative political inquiry is: the systematic understanding of similarities and differences across cases to help produce a broader understanding of the political. Second, it is a good example of how groups of people like to think that they are somehow exceptional or unique when, in fact, they only think that because they don't know all that much about other places. This is a mistake that Americans writ large make all time. Of course, everybody thinks that they, or their group, is exceptional (and maybe sometimes they are), but often our view of how special we are is derived from the fact that we only know one thing and we just assume that it has to be special. This reminds of Seymour Martin Lipset's observation that "…it is impossible to understand a country without seeing how it varies from others. Those who know only one country know no country."
Mellman also makes an interesting observation about party systems (the answer is in the context of comparing elections in Israel, a multiparty system, and the US, a two-party system):
"there is a big strategic difference between a two party system and a multiparty system. In a two party system, when you go negative on your opponent only two things can happen and both of them are good: either people vote for you or decide not to vote at all. In a multiparty system, however, you can drive them to vote for someone else altogether."
It is interesting to consider the way in which the institutional parameters of politics in a given country can significantly effect he incentives for differing types of political behavior.
h/t: Matthew Shugart via FB.
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Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter
Franklin says:
Monday, 28 January 2013 at 12:35
I think back in high school, I read a short comparison of how Americans view Russian history, and how Russians view American history. It was not pretty for either country.
This reminds of Seymour Martin Lipset's observation that "…it is impossible to understand a country without seeing how it varies from others. Those who know only one country know no country."
I am always astounded by people who have no desire to ever leave the US. To me, nothing is more fun than being immersed in a foreign culture. It cuts away so many of one's base assumptions about society. Of course, nothing is more relaxing than returning to my own.
Andre Kenji says:
Exactly. Part of the problem is that very few Americans can read in any language other than English(Even among Academics) so people have very little knowledge about foreign societies.
Ron Beasley says:
@OzarkHillbilly: You are correct, the years I spent in Germany and Japan have certainly impacted my world view.
C. Clavin says:
"…Those who know only one country know no country…"
That short sentence says so much about the American Exceptionalism crowd…you know…the kind of folks who think our Health Care System is the best in the world.
Reminds me of what Obama said about US exceptionalism…which Republicans, for the most part, could not begin to grasp.
Of course things can operate on different scales as well. Someone who has lived their entire life in the same state, maybe even within a 100 mile radius, doesn't have a very good view of even this "one country".
Steven L. Taylor says:
@C. Clavin:
Rafer Janders says:
@Andre Kenji:
Part of the problem is that very few Americans can read in any language other than English(Even among Academics) so people have very little knowledge about foreign societies.
Oh, I don't know. I know two other languages besides English and am studying a third, but I can't read Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Urdu, etc., and yet I still know a bit about those countries and regions. There's simply too many languages, and too many people who speak English as a second language, for it to be profitable to have to learn a foreign language.
@Rafer Janders:
There's simply too many languages, and too many people who speak English as a second language, for it to be profitable to have to learn a foreign language.
I must disagree. I can speak a reasonable facsimile of Spanish, and in mountain villages all over central and south america, I am able to interact with indigenous people who know nothing of english.
(Plus, if I bring my wife….)
KariQ says:
I've always thought the educational ideal would be for every child to learn in a language other than the one they speak at home. If you speak English at home, your education should be in French or Japanese or Russian or Spanish. Of course, this is prohibitively expensive and would never happen even if it wasn't, but I still think it would be a great idea.
Just learning how another language works, even one closely related to English, challenges some of your basic assumptions and forces you to reevaluate things you thought were obvious. Going to another country and learning the culture while speaking in their language is not at all the same thing as learning about it as they translate their thoughts into your language.
Oh, I don't know. I know two other languages besides English and am studying a third, but I can't read Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Italian, Arabic, Urdu, etc., and yet I still know a bit about those countries and regions.
1-) No, you don´t understand a country or a culture if you don´t know their language. There are several nuances that you´ll only note if you read what people writes in their language. There is no neocon that knows any language other than English, that´s why they thought that Iraqis would be welcoming American Troops as liberators. That´s why most Movement Conservatives divides the world between Enemies and Allies, and that´s idiotic.
2-) Some years ago, I was taking the last bus to go home. This bus departs 11:15 PM then it goes around a rural area to reach another city. One day, we´ve found an American, completely drunk and that did not know to speak any word of Portuguese(He was really drunk). Since I was the only person in the whole bus that knew English I tried, unsuccessfully, to understand what the hell he was trying to do(Or where he was trying to go), while two female friends of mine were mocking him, calling him "the gringo".
He got off the bus in the middle of nowhere and I never knew how he got home. Going to other countries believing that you´ll find people that speaks English is even dangerous.
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// Copyright 2007-2011 WebDriver committers
// Copyright 2007-2011 Google Inc.
// Portions copyright 2011 Software Freedom Conservancy
//
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// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.
// </copyright>

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Globalization;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;

namespace OpenQA.Selenium.Safari
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Provides a way of executing Commands using the SafariDriver.
    /// </summary>
    public class SafariDriverCommandExecutor : ICommandExecutor, IDisposable
    {
        private static Random tempFileGenerator = new Random();
        private string temporaryDirectoryPath;
        private string safariExecutableLocation;
        private Process safariProcess;
        private SafariDriverServer server;
        private SafariDriverConnection connection;

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SafariDriverCommandExecutor"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="port">The port on which the executor communicates with the extension.</param>
        public SafariDriverCommandExecutor(int port)
            : this(port, GetDefaultSafariLocation())
        {
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="SafariDriverCommandExecutor"/> class.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="port">The port on which the executor communicates with the extension.</param>
        /// <param name="safariLocation">The location of the Safari executable</param>
        public SafariDriverCommandExecutor(int port, string safariLocation)
        {
            this.server = new SafariDriverServer(port);
            this.safariExecutableLocation = safariLocation;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Starts the command executor.
        /// </summary>
        public void Start()
        {
            this.server.Start();
            string connectFileName = this.PrepareConnectFile();
            this.LaunchSafariProcess(connectFileName);
            this.connection = this.server.WaitForConnection(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(45));
            this.DeleteConnectFile();
            if (this.connection == null)
            {
                throw new WebDriverException("Did not receive a connection from the Safari extension. Please verify that it is properly installed and is the proper version.");
            }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Executes a command
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="commandToExecute">The command you wish to execute</param>
        /// <returns>A response from the browser</returns>
        public Response Execute(Command commandToExecute)
        {
            return this.connection.Send(commandToExecute);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Releases all resources used by the <see cref="SafariDriverCommandExecutor"/>.
        /// </summary>
        public void Dispose()
        {
            this.Dispose(true);
            GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Releases all resources associated with this <see cref="SafariDriverCommandExecutor"/>.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="disposing"><see langword="true"/> if the Dispose method was explicitly called; otherwise, <see langword="false"/>.</param>
        protected virtual void Dispose(bool disposing)
        {
            if (disposing)
            {
                if (this.safariProcess != null)
                {
                    this.CloseSafariProcess();
                    this.safariProcess.Dispose();
                }

                this.server.Dispose();
            }
        }

        private static string GetDefaultSafariLocation()
        {
            string safariPath = string.Empty;
            if (Environment.OSVersion.Platform == PlatformID.Win32NT)
            {
                // Safari remains a 32-bit application. Use a hack to look for it
                // in the 32-bit program files directory. If a 64-bit version of
                // Safari for Windows is released, this needs to be revisited.
                string programFilesDirectory = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.ProgramFiles);
                if (Directory.Exists(programFilesDirectory + " (x86)"))
                {
                    programFilesDirectory += " (x86)";
                }

                safariPath = Path.Combine(programFilesDirectory, Path.Combine("Safari", "safari.exe"));
            }
            else
            {
                safariPath = "/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari";
            }

            return safariPath;
        }

        private void LaunchSafariProcess(string initialPage)
        {
            this.safariProcess = new Process();
            this.safariProcess.StartInfo.FileName = this.safariExecutableLocation;
            this.safariProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = initialPage;
            this.safariProcess.Start();
        }

        private void CloseSafariProcess()
        {
            if (this.safariProcess != null && !this.safariProcess.HasExited)
            {
                this.safariProcess.Kill();
                while (!this.safariProcess.HasExited)
                {
                    Thread.Sleep(250);
                }
            }
        }

        private string PrepareConnectFile()
        {
            string randomNumber = tempFileGenerator.Next().ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);
            string directoryName = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "SafariDriver", randomNumber);
            this.temporaryDirectoryPath = Path.Combine(Path.GetTempPath(), directoryName);
            string tempFileName = Path.Combine(this.temporaryDirectoryPath, "connect.html");
            string contents = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "<!DOCTYPE html><script>window.location = '{0}';</script>", this.server.ServerUri.ToString());
            Directory.CreateDirectory(this.temporaryDirectoryPath);
            using (FileStream stream = File.Create(tempFileName))
            {
                stream.Write(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(contents), 0, Encoding.UTF8.GetByteCount(contents));
            }

            return tempFileName;
        }

        private void DeleteConnectFile()
        {
            Directory.Delete(this.temporaryDirectoryPath, true);
        }
    }
}


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