The 70th Annual Tony Awards "By the Numbers"
New York, NY (June 10, 2016) – Before Broadway's biggest night this Sunday, June 12th, 36 productions will have opened on Broadway in the 2015-16 season. Of those productions, 18 are nominated for Tony Awards this year, and 94 of the actors and creative teams in those productions will walk the red carpet on Sunday as nominees.
As previously announced, the star-studded evening will also feature appearances by Uzo Aduba, Cate Blanchett, Christian Borle, Claire Danes, Common, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Glenn Close, Josh Groban, Jake Gyllenhaal, Neil Patrick Harris, Sean Hayes, Nikki M. James, James Earl Jones, Daniel Dae Kim, Carole King, Diane Lane, Nathan Lane, Angela Lansbury, Lucy Liu, Audra McDonald, Marlee Matlin, Patina Miller, Bebe Neuwirth, Andrew Rannells, Chita Rivera, Saoirse Ronan, Keri Russell, Meg Ryan, Barbra Streisand, Aaron Tveit, Blair Underwood, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Oprah Winfrey, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and 2016 Tony Nominees Steve Martin and Edie Brickell.
The high-energy evening will feature performances from the 2016 Tony-nominated Best Musical and Best Revival of a Musical shows, including Tony nominees Brandon Victor Dixon and Adrienne Warren and the cast of Shuffle Along, Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed; Tony nominees Laura Benanti, Zachary Levi and Jane Krakowski and the cast of She Loves Me; Tony nominee Alex Brightman and the cast of School of Rock; Tony nominee Danny Burstein and the cast of Fiddler on the Roof; Tony nominees Danielle Brooks and Cynthia Erivo and the cast of The Color Purple; Tony nominees Lin-Manuel Miranda, Phillipa Soo, Leslie Odom Jr., Renée Elise Goldsberry, Christopher Jackson and Daveed Diggs and the cast of Hamilton; Tony nominees Sara Bareilles, Christopher Fitzgerald and Jessie Mueller and the cast of Waitress; Tony nominee Carmen Cusack and the cast of Bright Star; and the cast of Spring Awakening. The Tony Awards upholds a valued tradition of recognizing the excellence of the entire Broadway season each year. The telecast will also feature a not-to-be missed performance by Gloria Estefan and the cast of On Your Feet!
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In a partnership with the Library of Congress, the Great Lakes Colleges Association invites proposals from faculty of its member colleges – and from the extended network of institutions participating in the Global Liberal Arts Alliance – to participate in a faculty/student collaborative research program drawing on the resources of the world's most comprehensive research library. The program, called the GLCA-Library of Congress Faculty-Student Research Initiative, offers a unique opportunity for undergraduate students and faculty mentors to receive direct support for scholarly research from designated Library of Congress research librarians – a level of research support generally accorded to advanced scholars.
The seminar will begin on Monday, July 8, 2019 at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC; the on-site research segment at the Library concludes at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. The program pays the travel, lodging, and food costs of the faculty leader during the ten days at the Library of Congress. The GLCA also helps to offset the costs that students incur who participate in the program through a modest research stipend and provision of housing in Washington, D.C. A full description of this and other elements of the program can be found in the program's Request for Proposals. The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday, February 4, 2019 for the 2019 summer program. Decisions will be announced by Monday, March 4, 2019.
To read a full Request for Proposals for the GLCA-Library of Congress Faculty-Student Research Program, click here.
To access a list of all previous research teams, their faculty leaders, and project titles, click here.
To read an account of the 2018 research teams and a fuller description of the program, click here.
For an account of an international research team from the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts in Slovakia, click here.


A group comes on PTV and all college girls go crazy watching these 80s Hunks.
Vital Signs,oh man the lead singer is to die for?
Then comes Goray Rang ka zamana. And all Fair looking girls thinking he sang that song for one of them.
That's for me he is singing for..
He was an absolute Heart-throb for many of us .The group became famous and so did Junaid Jamshed Individually .
The unforgettable Days of College life and the cassettes of Vital Signs in our Van,at Home,in Car and yes the concerts.
Wow to my memory lane.
Then His marriage was announced and so he broke all our hearts.
Must be a pretty girl?
Oh why he is marrying?
Talk talk talk And Junaid Jamshed tied the knot and looked so happy.
So we moved on sulking and feeling so jealous..
Then suddenly the group broke up and Junaid becomes a Maulana shocking for a lot of liberal lot.Most of us were actually saddened but he didn't care..
He did what he thought was the right decision for him.
People gossiped but He kept his head high.
Became a Successful Business man and all we know instead of buying his cassettes we started buying his cloths for us and later the Meat one shop where we would buy our weekly meat in a more professional way for the family.
Just like buying a cassette to buying a kurta for hubby to buying meat for kids ..
An icon which itself is a success.
And those innocent selfies which some made controversial and one Khitab which made life miserable for him,few extremist lot pushed him,abused him and misbehaved with him at the Airport while others only looked and condemned.
That was the last I saw of him on a show crying and couldn't control his emotions but yes he moved on again and now today the news of Junaid Jamshed as one of the passenger on that Chitral bound plane which crashed.
Today He is dead and no more with us.
I salute you for doing what you wanted to do..
You Will remain my last & forever memory of Junaid Jamshed.


Winner will be drawn on Valentine's Day morning by random number generator. GOOD LUCK! Share with your friends so one of you can get kissable lips.
I love the song "I get a kick out of you" by Dwele. It is a smooth jazz/r&b type of song & it is our song as a couple.
Our four year anniversary is on Valentine's Day, so new lip gloss would make it extra sweet!
"all my days" by alexi murdoch. completely swoon-worthy!
I like your facebook and I follow you on twitter. yes... I am your biggest mc stalker :) feel loved.
One of my favorite songs is Flightless Bird, American Mouth by Iron & Wine.
Colbie Cailet "I never told you"
I love Everything by Michael Buble...it was our first dance as husband and wife! Still gives me butterflies when I hear it!
I couldn't narrow down a favorite - but anything old school r&b works for me!
Anchor by Osker... for many different reasons, especially since my name is in it.
Gavin DeGraw "more than anyone" and I love this!!
I Like Just B on Facebook!
I follow/stalk you on Twitter!
My email address is katiekavulla@gmail.com and my fave love song is "You are my sunshine..." as sang by Janie and Meg.
Al Greene, Here I am baby.
Thanks for your blog--LOVE it!


Why there is no "places bar" on left side of Open Project on Windows?
Problem: When I'm opening project, there is no "places bar" on left side of dialog, although it is standard in Swing and native Windows applications. Also there are no items of local disks and other important places in top combo box, so navigation is not easy. How could I make them appear?
Force enabling of places bar by putting "nb.FileChooser.useShellFolder=true" into your netbeans.conf. Note however that this may result in performance problems.
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Celebrating Strength
Stagnaro Sees Strong Women, Not Victims
Kelley Stagnaro grew up within the giant swath of Georgia that makes up metro Atlanta, but she rarely ventured into the city. There were too many unknowns.
As an adult, Stagnaro now proudly calls Atlanta home. What is more, she sees the city's massive sex-trafficking problem for the blight that it is and offers hope, healing, and restoration to its victims.
In 2012 Stagnaro co-founded BeLoved Atlanta. BeLoved provides housing and a long-term restoration program for women over 18 who seek freedom from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction. BeLoved's house has four beds and is the only residential program in Atlanta for women wanting to leave the sex industry.
As the issue of sex trafficking gains more attention throughout Georgia, Stagnate and Quinn work to help those in power see the issues clearly while also helping women find freedom.
In addition, BeLoved connects women with a range of resources. By identifying the trauma each woman has suffered, BeLoved provides counseling and connects them with the rehab services they need.
BeLoved also helps women get the tools necessary to live independently in an environment where they won't feel the need to return to prostitution or substance abuse. Staff members help women develop plans for completing their education and obtaining employment. They also assist them in securing safe, affordable housing.
A Dark Urban Reality
The work of BeLoved is critical in a region struggling with a massive underground sex economy. While sex trafficking affects every community, Atlanta has the highest sex-economy income in the United States, $290 million per year.
As convention centers and hotels have expanded, the sex trade has grown with it. State legislators and law-enforcement officials realize the problem and are trying to stiffen penalties against pimps and johns, but countless children and women are still victims.
Friends on a Mission
The idea of BeLoved began as a dream for Stagnaro and friend Amelia Quinn. The two met through mutual friends and connected over a shared passion for helping women gain freedom and restoration from the imprisoning life of the sex trade.
Quinn was profoundly impacted by a trip to Costa Rica with Light-Force International, a ministry to women involved in the legal sex trade in Costa Rica. Quinn saw firsthand, and later shared with Stagnaro, how women enslaved in prostitution were baffled by someone giving them food and wanting to listen to their stories. After a life where every interaction is a transaction, the prostitutes were mystified that someone wanted to give them something without asking anything in return.
God used Quinn's time in Costa Rica to move her to consider ministering to women in Atlanta. As she shared her experiences with Stagnaro, the two began to dream of working together to fulfill an unmet need: long-term restoration for adult women.
Stagnaro and Quinn began renting BeLoved's current house in 2013, and in fall 2015 they began raising funds to open a second house with room for four additional women.
Stagnaro and Quinn hope to obtain even more property. They dream of owning several houses for women in the program and also
offering affordable housing to women who have completed the program and are continuing their healing journeys.
As more women gain freedom from the dark life of prostitution and addiction, Stagnaro and Quinn want them to be able to encourage others along the way.
Starting a ministry with a dear friend might sound ideal, and Quinn and Stagnaro both see what a blessing it is to labor alongside each other, but the struggles of work and life wear on them. They have had to set boundaries to keep work, life, and friendship in balance.
"I love that I know Kelley's heart and how passionate she is about this issue and wants to glorify the Lord through her work," Quinn said. "She cares about the residents, and she knows exactly how to encourage me. And I can do the same for her."
Stagnaro and Quinn also gain strength from the two other women who round out the BeLoved staff: program director Michelle Hoeft and case manager Lindsay Johnson.
Seeing and Celebrating Survivors
Stagnaro said for most women, knowing that they are valued and trustworthy is a great gift. And as the virtual voice of BeLoved, Stagnaro crafts BeLoved's message for the blog and website and shares the vision with donors. She also designed the organization's logo and branding.
"From the beginning of BeLoved, we knew we wanted the survivors in our program to be seen for who they truly are: incredible, strong, and brave women," Stagnaro said. "We see them as leaders in our community and believe Atlanta is at a disservice when we view them as criminals or as unable to contribute to society."
As she invests in BeLoved's residents, Stagnaro said the stereotypes fade and real, complex, multidimensional people emerge. Each woman comes into the program with different wounds, and recovery looks different for each woman.
As the issue of sex trafficking gains more attention throughout Georgia, Stagnaro and Quinn work to help those in power see the issues clearly while also helping women find freedom.
And each woman who graduates from the program is a victory to be celebrated — a woman created in God's image and valuable to Him and to BeLoved. Stagnaro wants those women to be valuable to Atlanta, too.
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Q: Regex to tokenize and then get arbitrary tokens I am not very familiar with regular expressions and ran into a problem which is beyond me. I would like help with coming up with an expression which tokenizes a string and then gets me everything BUT arbitrary tokens counting from the end.
For example, I would like to get everything BUT P037-077 from the following string
http://www.wayfair.com/George-Kovacs-by-Minka-Bling-Bling-1-Light-Wall-Sconce-P037-077-GKV1032.html
One approach to do this is to start counting tokens backwards with the delimiter being "-" (there is no guarantee of how many tokens there are to the left of the required part of the string) and get the 2nd and 3rd token and then get everything BUT that.
I got 90% of the expression which is -([^-]*-[^-]*)-[^-]*$ This returns P037-077 but I need to get the complement of that.
I don't know if I've explained very well. I will be happy to explain again if anything is unclear.
I know this can be done easily by tokenizing in any language but unfortunately I do not have the freedom to do that as the tool I am using takes only regex as an input. It uses the Java syntax.

A: This will remove the 2nd and 3rd last tokens when using a dash as the separator:
String cleaned = str.replaceAll("(-[^-]+){2}(?=-[^-]*$)", "");

Here's some test code:
String str = "http://www.wayfair.com/George-Kovacs-by-Minka-Bling-Bling-1-Light-Wall-Sconce-P037-077-GKV1032.html";
String cleaned = str.replaceAll("(-[^-]+){2}(?=-[^-]*$)", "");
System.out.println(cleaned);

Output:

http://www.wayfair.com/George-Kovacs-by-Minka-Bling-Bling-1-Light-Wall-Sconce-GKV1032.html

A: Use Groups
^(.*)-[^-]*-[^-]*(-[^-]*)$

$1$2 get's what you want

String input="http://www.wayfair.com/George-Kovacs-by-Minka-Bling-Bling-1-Light-Wall-Sconce-P037-077-GKV1032.html";
Matcher m=Pattern.compile("^(.*)-[^-]*-[^-]*(-[^-]*)$").matcher(input);
if(m.find())
{
     String output=m.group(1)+""+m.group(2);
}

A: The thing you are looking for are "non-capturing groups".  A group is anything enclosed in ().  Every group will be used in matching and will also be included in the result.  A non-capturing group is anything eclosed in (?:) (the first three chars serve as the opening brace).  A non-capturing group will be used in matching but will not be included in the result.  Example:
^(match_me)(?:but_not_me)$

If you aplly it to say:
1: match_me
2: match_mebut_not_me

it will not match the first strinng since the second part is not present.  But it will match the second string but exclude the but_not_me from the match.
See "What is a non-capturing group? What does a question mark followed by a colon (?:) mean?" for an example which involves url's.

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Physiatry is the medical specialty responsible for overseeing the treatment of patients with a wide range of disabilities. Dr. Ed Harrison, a physiatrist, is the Director of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Charlottetown, where the Provincial Rehabilitation Unit (Unit 7) is located. This unit is a specialized, 20-bed unit, staffed by an interdisciplinary team including nursing, physicians, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, prosthetic & orthotic services, dietitian, volunteer services, social work and psychology. Other services available in the Physical Medicine Department include a Seating Clinic and Wound Care Clinic.
The daily routine on Unit 7 is geared towards helping the patient develop maximum independence in everyday tasks. The physiatrist and attending physician work with the interdisciplinary team to ensure the patient receives comprehensive coordinated care including medical care, therapy services, and other services necessary to enhance rehabilitation and recovery. Rehabilitation nursing provides 24-hour comprehensive nursing care. Nursing works closely with patients and their support system/families to help them achieve a maximum level of independence. Patients with SCI will often be re-learning daily activities such as dressing and bathing, managing bladder and bowel routines, and learning how to care for their skin. Physiotherapists work with a patient with SCI on a range of exercises and activities designed to improve strength, balance, and range of motion. Occupational Therapists focus on assisting patients with SCI to relearn or modify life skills such as self-care activities, homemaking routines, and leisure/ community activities. Dietitians assess nutritional needs, plan for appropriate foods, and teach patients and their families/caregivers how to make changes to their diet. Social work, an essential part of the team-based approach to healing, provides patients and their families with counseling and assistance with practical problems. Recovery is often not the absence of illness, but the ability to cope with it.
During the stay on Unit 7, patients may have various pieces of equipment assigned/loaned to them for the length of their stay. Depending on the needs of the patient this may include, for example, manual or power wheelchairs. The Occupational Therapist and/or Physiotherapist will recommend the type of equipment patients will need once they are discharged, and along with the social worker advocate for funding of the equipment. If further therapy is needed after discharge the therapist will make arrangements with patients to obtain services through outpatient or community-based services.
Patients may be referred to out of province services when specific needs are identified for specialized services by the interdisciplinary team in consultation/collaboration with the patient/family or team. Examples are the IWK & Nova Scotia Rehab Centre in Halifax, the Stan Cassidy Rehabilitation Centre in Fredericton, or Lyndhurst Rehabilitation Centre in Toronto.
Once a patient leaves the QEH, they and their families they and their families may continue to need counseling to move forward with the significant adjustments to their lifestyle. Couples can experience anxiety, depression, anger, fear, and other emotions as they try to adapt to the changes in their relationship and expectations. Youth with mobility impairment can feel cut off from friends and former activities. Community Mental Health has five locations across the Island, including the Richmond Centre located at 1 Rochford Street in Charlottetown. They have free counseling services available. The mental health teams are established under a multi-disciplinary model with professionals from the disciplines of Nursing, Psychology, Social Work, and Psychiatry providing services at the Centre.


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Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Women's Suffrage and the First Vote
by Dawn C. Adiletta
Description: 112 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Rosen/PowerPlus Books
Includes bibliographical references (p. 106) and index.
Contents: Childhood and education -- Seneca Falls -- The history of women's rights -- Subject: > Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
> Juvenile literature
> Feminists
> Biography
> Suffragists
> Women's rights
American women were first allowed to vote in 1920. The quest to secure that right began in 1848, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and others held the Seneca Falls Convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Over the decades that followed, Stanton tirelessly wrote, petitioned, and lectured on behalf of securing not just the ballot, but also equality for women in the workplace, in schools, and within America's legal system.
New biography series using extensive primary resources as it brings American history to life. Through a chronological narrative, enriched with diary entries, letters, and other primary documents, readers will learn about the various stages of our nation's development and history from the perspective of both individuals and society.
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Women pondering hormone-replacement therapy also should consider regular exercise.
A study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign suggests that being physically fit offsets cognitive declines attributed to long-term therapy.
By using magnetic resonance imaging and voxel-based morphometry ( VBM ), researchers documented the combined effects on specific areas of the brain based on fitness of short- and long-term users of hormone therapy.
Researchers also looked at how well 54 postmenopausal women performed on a computerized version of the Wisconsin Card Sort Test, in which constantly changing rules challenge memory, inhibition and task-switching abilities known as executive functions. The women were divided into groups based on use or non-use and duration of hormone therapy and existing fitness levels.
" We found that higher fitness levels enhance the effects of shorter durations of hormone treatment and offset the declines associated with long-term use," said Arthur F. Kramer, a Beckman researcher. " It may be that a combination of HRT and exercise boosts both cognition and brain structure of older women."
Participants ranged in age from 58 to 80, with a mean age of 70. Hormone status and duration of use were assessed based on their self-reports, and aerobic fitness was measured by monitoring respiration, heart rate and blood pressure during a treadmill test.
MRI images of the participants' brains were taken, segmented into 3-D maps and analyzed by VBM, which allows for high spatial resolution of the volume of gray and white matter. The women also were screened for duration of hormone use, aerobic fitness levels, age, education, socioeconomic status, age at menopause and for dementia.
VBM analysis revealed that four regions of gray matter -- left and right prefrontal cortex, left parahippocampal gyrus and left subgenual cortex -- varied with duration of hormone treatment. Longer hormone usage resulted in significantly less tissue volume in these areas.
However, higher fitness scores were tied to greater tissue volume.
While there were no significant effects of the interaction of hormone duration and fitness on white matter in general, higher fitness levels were tied to greater prefrontal white matter regions and in the genu of the corpus callosum, a key area that interconnects frontal areas of the brain.
" Critically, the tissue volume measures in all four gray matter regions revealed that high fitness levels were associated with a more modest decline in regional brain volume than low fitness levels with increasing durations of hormone therapy," the researchers wrote. " High fitness levels also were associated with a significant sparing of the neural tissue of women not receiving hormone replacement therapy."
Durations of therapy of less than 10 years showed enhanced tissue volume compared with all other groups, and the decline in tissue volume only began after 11 to 15 years of hormone-replacement therapy.
Erickson and Kramer noted that their findings in women were in line with previous animal studies that have found that estrogen and fitness have similar mechanisms in the brain. Estrogen and fitness both stimulate brain-derived neurotropic factor, a molecule tied to the production of capillaries, plasticity and neurons.
These preliminary findings are based on only a small sampling of women and need to be considered in a much broader clinical setting, Kramer said. However, the findings mirror similar studies in his lab that are continuing to show the benefits of physical fitness in older people.


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Amanda Lohrey
A Matter of Context
Tony Abbott, 23 March 2011. © Alan Porritt/AAP
Gillard and the press gallery
Thank you very much, Deputy Speaker, and I rise to oppose the motion moved by the Leader of the Opposition. And in so doing I say … I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. I will not. And the government will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man. Not now, not ever.
Julia Gillard, 9 October 2012
Has there ever been a month when the mainstream media looked to be so out of touch with the zeitgeist? First the Alan Jones debacle and then the pundits' response to Julia Gillard's galvanising speech in the House of Representatives, in which she took Tony Abbott to task on the question of sexism. If I wanted to encapsulate the disconnect in a single anecdote, I would tell the story of my 21-year-old niece who, the morning after Gillard's speech, was alerted to it on Facebook by friends. This directed her to the video on YouTube. She thought it was "awesome". By the time we met for dinner she was far ahead of me on the issue because I had read only the newspapers. These either played it down with minimal coverage or offered hostile commentary. I showed my niece Peter Hartcher's column in the Sydney Morning Herald, which deplored Gillard's speech as a tactical defence of disgraced speaker Peter Slipper, and she read it with bafflement. "I don't get what he's saying," she said. "But, then, I don't read newspapers."
I do, and I didn't get what Hartcher was saying either. Gillard's performance went viral and was saluted on sites such as the New Yorker's, the Spectator's and Salon.com. But the headline on Hartcher's piece ran: 'We Expected More of Gillard'. Well, who is "we"? Frankly, I expected more of Hartcher and his colleagues in the mainstream media when they opted to interpret Slipper's resignation from the speakership as a symptom of Gillard's supposed lack of moral fibre, while ignoring both the substance and the force of her critique of Abbott. Michelle Grattan dismissed Gillard's speech as "desperate". Hartcher accused the PM of abandoning principle in favour of power. "The moment Gillard rose to defend Slipper and keep him in office," he wrote, "she chose to defend the indefensible." But listen to Gillard's speech. Where in it does she defend Slipper? What she did, citing chapter and verse, was attack the hypocrisy of an Opposition leader who had made sexist statements in the past only to shed pious crocodile tears over the repugnant text messages of the speaker, material put forward as evidence in a still unresolved court case. Gillard, who has had to endure unprecedented sexism since assuming the prime ministership, knew this to be a political ploy and she called it. Hartcher was unmoved. "The government had spent a month vilifying Tony Abbott for having a 'problem with women'," he wrote. "But when one of the bulwarks of the government was exposed as having a problem with women, it was suddenly acceptable." Really? Vilifying? Wasn't Gillard quoting Abbott's own words? Then there was Hartcher's claim that as a woman Gillard should be more than "just another politician", the inference being that women are not there to exercise political skills but to act as God's Police, refined creatures who can be counted on to bring some gentility to a man's world of realpolitik. This is breathtakingly tendentious journalism.
If Hartcher's posture was more in sorrow than in anger, his Herald colleague Paul Sheehan opted for a rug-chewing rant. Gillard "came out snarling", wrote Sheehan, as if to illustrate Senator Christine Milne's point that if a woman makes a strong speech she is 'emotional', whereas a male politician making the same speech is credited with decisive leadership. On this occasion, however, the broadsheets came too late because Gillard's speech had already been received with massive approval by those using social media. People watched it online and judged for themselves (1.9 million viewings at the time of writing). Suddenly the disconnect between the pundits and their supposed audience was glaring. The Canberra press gallery had been used to setting the agenda but now it had been caught out in a major credibility gap. Fairfax's Jacqueline Maley, among others, went into damage control. Under the headline, 'Did We Get it Wrong?' she wrote: "The bubble of the Canberra press gallery has been decisively popped this week." So far so good, but she then went on to declare defensively: "It is not the job of the press gallery to laud a speech." But hadn't they "lauded" Kevin Rudd's apology to the stolen generation, for instance? "It is the job of journalists," continued Maley, "to place events in context, supply background and nuance". But where was the context in commentary like Hartcher's, namely Abbott's long history of sexist remarks and the provocation of his echoing of Jones's widely deplored "dying of shame" insult? Where was the nuance in Sheehan's abusive diatribe?
But wait, there's more. Over at the Weekend Australian, the ever-predictable editor-in-chief let slip his dogs of war: the prime minister's speech was variously "demonisation" (Paul Kelly), "grubby" (Dennis Shanahan), "an irrelevant hissy fit" (an unnamed Shanahan source), "a big, massive offence-fest" (Brendan O'Neill), "a major mistake" (Chris Kenny), "hypocrisy writ large" (Peter van Onselen), "matinee theatre" (Tom Dusevic) and "government by soap opera" (Christopher Pearson).
Meanwhile, back at the SMH that same Saturday, Maley and Phillip Coorey were running with the point of view of Rudd supporters in the ALP caucus who, unsurprisingly, were critical of Gillard. Elsewhere in the same edition, Lenore Taylor was backtracking to some degree. Gillard's diversionary tactic was now a "great speech", but delivered "in the wrong context, at the wrong time".
Did it occur to Taylor, I wondered, that in making this statement she was, for many women, striking the wrong gong? How often have women been made to feel they are out of place, or have spoken out of turn, i.e. "at the wrong time"? What might have been the right time to have responded to Abbott's disgraceful echoing of Jones's "shame" insult? A nice reunion dinner for veterans of the Women's Electoral Lobby, well out of sight of the mainstream? Taylor repeated Maley's point that it was all about context. It was the job of the press gallery to explain to the bunnies out in punterland that Gillard's speech had been "part of a plan" to derail Abbott's campaign to look woman-friendly. It was "raw politics". Well, yes, we got that, but we also got the larger context that the gallery apparently missed, a context articulated by Julia Baird when she wrote that "sexism has been placed on the political agenda in a new and unprecedented way".
Gillard's speech will endure long after the messy politics of the Slipper affair have been forgotten, not least on YouTube. Many of us who are over 40 have been inclined to disparage social media as shallow and narcissistic but here's a thought: without it we would not have had early and independent access to Gillard's counter-attack. Within a hectic few weeks social media has demonstrated its power across several fronts, a power that goes way beyond the lazy 'liking' of a cause on Facebook or signing an online petition for GetUp! For the first time in Australia, social media is beginning to look as if it is ahead of the mainstream in the political game. A shock jock who had once seemed impregnable is now damaged goods. Advertisers on Alan Jones's program may or may not have been genuinely dismayed by his comments about Gillard but they are smart enough to know that if they continue to use him, they take a risk. The dust may settle but then again it may not; some will return but others will consider their options. No doubt Jones will be invited to address more Liberal and rugby-club dinners but never has the musty fug of the antique settled more suddenly on a public figure than it did in this past month, when Jones, with his ageing demographic, was made to look like a wooden prop in a museum display of old media. Social media has pierced his seemingly invincible aura in a way that a biography by Chris Masters or a Walkley-winning broadsheet profile were unable to.
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Postfix Users - How do I best get SMTP statements logged ?
How do I best get SMTP statements logged ?
Is it by using debug? How do I set it best to get the smtp statements and their responses?
Re: How do I best get SMTP statements logged ?
adversary to fill your file system with garbage.
Postfix debug logging is for debugging and produces even more output.
That's a way of saying "do not complain about Postfix performance"
if you turn on debug logging.
Nginx can do that for you.
SV: Re: How do I best get SMTP statements logged ?
I will only activate it for our outgoing send array, not for incoming. I know it will take up space, but our customers have expressed some wishes about more knowlegde of the smtp transaction, and apparently can't Seattle for the postfix error messages.
Setting up 10 nginx just for that seem exsessive.
Re: SV: Re: How do I best get SMTP statements logged ?
> and apparently can't Seattle for the postfix error messages.
> Setting up 10 nginx just for that seem exsessive.
the enhanded status code, and the text. Is that not sufficient?
ground. (only one -v option).
flag by changing the source.
> for the postfix error messages.
you can temporarily set debug_peer_list to list of peers you want to debug.
>>adversary to fill your file system with garbage.
>>Postfix debug logging is for debugging and produces even more output.
>>That's a way of saying "do not complain about Postfix performance"
>>if you turn on debug logging.
I think that it has to be all receipients.
Could I add debug for all receipients? Or just turn up the loglevel to verbose so it includes smtp commands?
> difficult to 'prove' if we don't have smtp actions in the log as well.
"status=sent (250 2.0.0 OK 1539769875 s18-v6si13395678wrm.42 - gsmtp)"
I think you are right, that should be enough. What we've seen is some receipients sort of 'goes dark', and they just timeout on the SMTP connection, and the troubleling for us is that it's not 'small companies' that does this.
And getting through to some of the larger mail companies with less than absolute proof is very hard because their first reaction is always 'we don't have a problem', and then our customers think that we have a problem, and so far we've been able to show high likeliness of it not being us, also because there is no change after restart of postfix / server etc. But all of the sudden the problem disappears, sometime after we contact the receipient company, and ask if they have problems.
What should I set to get these extra lines shown?
... What we've seen is some recipients sort of 'goes dark', and they just timeout on the SMTP connection, and the troubling for us is that it's not 'small companies' that does this.... But all of the sudden the problem disappears, sometime after we contact the recipient company, and ask if they have problems.
Could be their servers are banning your servers for a time e.g. fail2ban? Is it possible some of your users are sending what gets classed as spam, or to non-existent recipients?


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The second story, "Vacation Frustrations", is also having its debut in the USA. Goofy wants to get away from it all for the summer, but finds out that it's not as easy as he thinks! This one has cameos from other Disney characters and is drawn in a very loose style. Once again, fun reading for kids, who will hoot at some of the situations!


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Subjects Acid rain--United States. ; Peroxides--Analysis.
The aqueous-phase reactions of O3 with a number of species have been studied in an effort to identify pathways leading to the production of hydrogen peroxide in solution. The aqueous-phase systems studied included the decomposition of O3 in pure water and the interaction of O3 with (1) NO2, (2) PAN, (3) ethylene, (4) formic acid, (5) formaldehyde and (6) formaldehyde in the presence of NO2. Except for the O3-ethylene reaction, peroxide was not found as a reaction product. From the results obtained, it is concluded that the reactions studied in this research effort are not significant with respect to atmospheric peroxide formation.
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Q: I (think) I'm getting objects returned when I expect my array to have just 2 properties available Probably the worst way to ask a question, but I'm new and trying my best to explain my problem.
I'm implementing a Ruby Blackjack game. You can see the repo / source for what I have here: https://bitbucket.org/subem81/blackjack
This is the particular section of concern (kept in the "Hand" module which is included in the Dealer and Player classes using what I think are mixins):
def show_hand
    if self.class.to_s == 'Dealer'
        self.hand.each do |card|
            card.show_card
        end
    elsif self.class.to_s == 'Player'

    else
        puts "A Random person is showing their hand."
    end

end

Which calls the show_card() method for each Card object. Or so I thought. I keep getting no method errors on the card objects. Here is that error:
$ ruby blackjack.rb
Welcome to Mike's Blackjack.
blackjack.rb:35:in `block in show_hand': undefined method `show_card' for
[# <Card:0x007fe504110918 @suit="Spades", @card_type="King">]:Array (NoMethodError)
from blackjack.rb:34:in `each'
from blackjack.rb:34:in `show_hand'
from blackjack.rb:21:in `setup_players'
from blackjack.rb:6:in `initialize'
from blackjack.rb:116:in `new'
from blackjack.rb:116:in `<main>'

A: in Deck.give_card you are returning cards_sent via pop with an argument.   This returns an array.  So the dealer and player hands will be an array of arrays of cards.  (pop without an argument returns a single item.)
From your error:

undefined method `show_card' for [# ]:Array

You can change:
            @dealer.hand << @deck.give_card
            @player.hand << @deck.give_card
            @dealer.hand << @deck.give_card
            @player.hand << @deck.give_card

to:
            @dealer.hand += @deck.give_card
            @player.hand += @deck.give_card
            @dealer.hand += @deck.give_card
            @player.hand += @deck.give_card

Or rename your give_card to give_cards and add a new give_card:
    def give_card
      @cards.pop
    end


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Governor Christie betrays people of NJ again
Nicholas E. Purpura
One has to wonder if the people of New Jersey will ever wake up from of their zombie stupor. Governor Chris Christie once again proves he is no better than any wacko liberal Democrat. In fact he gives new meaning to the term RINO. Blunderbuss is all over the place! He's Conservative, liberal, progressive, and environmentalist, anything for a vote. In fact he's New Jersey's own Al Gore, inventing new ways to destroy the fabric of New Jersey.
Governor Christie breaks a campaign promise
Have you ever attended a Republican Club meeting and listened to Christie's establishment stooges? Notice that, when the topic of judicial activism comes up, they tell you the governor is try to change the courts to return sanity to the judicial process. He hopes to end the judicial activism of judges legislating from the bench.
I remember his campaign promise:
I'll nominate well-qualified New Jersey Supreme Court judges who will rule without prejudice.
If you believe that mantra, you'll believe that Obama is a Conservative Tea Party activist that stands for God, Family, and Country.
The Bruce Harris appointment
Once again "Blunderbuss" betrayed the people of New Jersey, not only those Republicans that voted for him, but Democrats and Independents that hold for traditional family values as well as adherence to Constitutional law. This brings me to his nomination for New Jersey's Highest Court, of Mr. Bruce Harris.
This coming Thursday, May 31 at 10: o'clock AM the NJ Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Blunderbuss' candidate Bruce Harris to the Supreme Court of New Jersey. The hearing will take place in Committee Room 4, 1st floor, State House Annex. Trenton. Let every organization, church, synagogue, and mosque know. Come if you can. Tell the Senate that such a candidate is unacceptable, and not merely because he is a homosexual.
If ever a candidate were unqualified, Bruce Harris would be. He doesn't understand the Constitution, and holds a prejudice that conflicts with the views of most people in New Jersey and for that matter the nation.
Why Bruce Harris would make a poor Justice
I don't care about Mr. Harris' lifestyle. I care much more about his openly homosexual activism and his avowed prejudice against religious freedom and traditional marriage. He mistakenly holds that anyone deprived of the "right to marry" a "partner" of the same sex, has lost his civil rights. He compares his homosexual stands to interracial marriage, slavery and segregation, and the subservience of women. Such views clearly show that he could not adhere to or understand our laws, statutes, or the U.S. Constitution.
Mr. Harris' political ideas show how little he understands the First Amendment. Like many progressives he has a distorted view of what "separation of church and state" means. Can he show us where in the Constitution, or any essay or letter by our Founders, where these words even appear? (With one exception: Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the Danbury Baptists. And Jefferson was talking about why they would not want the federal government to prefer one church to another.)
Obviously he abhors the religious teachings of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. This would surely and profoundly influence how he would decide a case about the First Amendment and individual and collective rights in respect of religious freedom.
What was "Blunderbuss" thinking? Harris has no experience that would qualify him for New Jersey's highest Court, He never served as judge even on the lowest level. Nor did he teach law at any College or University. In fact, even in private employment, no law firm he ever worked for ever took him into partnership.
Christie shows lack of judgment
Chris Christie holds a town hall meeting in Hillsborough, NJ, on March 2, 2011. Photo: Bob Jagendorf, CC BY 2.0 Generic License
Yet, Governor "Blunderbuss'" appointment of Mr. Harris shows, once more, that he is out of touch with the American people. He panders to another section of the populace for future votes. This is not the first time "Blunderbuss" has shown such lack of judgment. He made another gaffe when he appointed Suhail Mohammed, a clown who believes we should adhere to Sharia law, to the Superior Court. Christie has made other questionable appointments, to appease the New Jersey Democrat Party. The Democrat-controlled legislature in New Jersey couldn't have asked for a better choice for Governor if Christie had been the Democratic candidate himself.
Sadly, the enthusiastic "Anorexia Annie" (Ann Coulter) will continue to tout Christie as a Constitutional Conservative that ought to run for Vice President. These two remind me of Laurel and Hardy. In fact the joke was on all of us. In the words of Ollie:
This is another fine mess you've got us into, Stanley.
According the "Anorexia Annie," Governor Christie is the reincarnation of Ronald Reagan. Also, this country needs Mitt Romney to pick Christie for his Vice President. Boy, what a cruel joke on the American people! (Editor's note: not so long ago, Ann Coulter wanted Chris Christie to run for President, to stop Mitt Romney.)
If the American people knew Blunderbuss' true record, that knowledge would shock them. I guess Christie, with his big ego, enjoys New Jersey's title as number one in the nation for the most activist state courts. He believes being number one is good, whatever you are number one at. On an upbeat note, the people of New Jersey would be happy to see him go. I'll save his record for another story.
Call "Blunderbuss' office and sound off – 609 292 6000. Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee members:
Nicholas P. Scutari, Chair
Nia H. Gill, Vice-Chair
Christopher Bateman
Gerald Cardinale
Michael J. Doherty
Joseph M. Kyrillos (running for the U.S. Senate – let them know a vote for Harris will be a no vote for them in 2013).
Raymond J. Lesniak
Kevin J. O'Toole
Nellie Pou
Paul A. Sarlo
Brian P. Stack
Loretta Weinberg
If you live in their District contact their office. Tell them you will not vote for them again if they let another activist judge sit on the bench.
Same sex marriage: empty veto?
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Fantastic article. It's about time someone told the truth about our fake, phony, fraud governor. We continue down the path of progressive politics….and Christie is compliant. What a scam and a shame that the GOP STILL does not get it. From local level….to national level we are being fed the fantasy that these people really care. And all awhile they care only about themselves, their next higher position and the next pay day……on our dime. Nothing changes…and nothing will, until the people wake up and see the truth.
Nathan Bickel
Christie has clearly shown himself to be a RINO. Rather than being a Conservative, Christie amounts to being no better than than a two timing Republican political whore. He should be over and done with it, and switch political parties. At least he could be somewhat honest, like Arlene Specter was………
Nathan M. Bickel
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rpeh
Observe the "Christian" mentality in action. This article is nothing more than a set of ad hominem remarks and undisguised bigotry. "Blunderbuss"? "Anorexia Annie"?
Then we get "I care much more about his openly homosexual activism" when most of the rest of the article is an assault on Harris' homosexuality, along with Purpura's usual inability to understand the law.
At least Purpura didn't say "Some of my best friends are gay".
Reply to rpeh
Do you admit, then, that to be homosexual is to seek special privileges for homosexuals? And to uphold the choice of homosexuality and recruit new members into that lifestyle?
Reply to Terry A. Hurlbut
To be homosexual doesn't mandate that one automatically seeks special privileges under the law. It does mean that as a United States citizen, one expects to receive equal treatment under the law rather than be subject to discriminatory action from others based on religious principles that have no basis in civil law.
You can talk about "preserving traditions that have stood for thousands of years" all you want, but racism and slavery were also in that category, and we've thankfully moved past that as well.
I agree with rpeh that while Mr. Purpura is entitled to express his opinion, the name-calling (seriously – "Anorexic Annie?") and assumption that a judicial nominee can't separate their own backgrounds from the deliberations they need to make are pretty poor in style & substance.
Might has well have assumed that Clarence Thomas would likely have been an activist judge in race issues, or that female nominees would likely be activist judges on gender issues. That's just argument by stereotype.
The better arguments Mr. Purpura put forward had to do with Harris' professional qualifications. This is entirely relevant, and I'll be looking into his background further. Trust me, I'm no fan of Christie either, and I question many of his motivations.
That depends on whether or not you define equal rights as a "special privilege."
Homosexuals tend to believe that people are born that way, incidentally (and the evidence tends to agree,) so they're not generally interested in "recruiting."
Reply to Fergus Mason
Homosexuality is a choice.
And marriage is another natural-law institution that no act of positive law can change.
"Marriage" in this context is a legal status conferred on couples by the governments they live under. If the adherents of a given religion do not want to perform or recognize same-sex marriages they are free to do so, but that should not prevent couples from going to city hall, getting a marriage license, and enjoying all of the legal benefits of that civil status.
If you're equating "Natural Law" with Judeo-Christian tradition, consider this. Adultery is explicitly forbidden by God as one of the Ten Commandments, which were upheld by Jesus as well, and yet it's not illegal. Christians have no problem allowing their governments to issue marriage licenses to people for their second, third and fourth marriages without regard to the circumstances. Basically, it's no one's business, but to claim that "Christian values" demand that a civil government deny the legal status of "married" to couples because it offends their religious values is just hypocrisy.
"Homosexuality is a choice"
Being actively homosexual is a choice. Having homosexual inclinations appears not to be.
What Dinsdale said.
Appearances can be deceiving, especially to them who deliberately deceive themselves.
To anyone having homosexual inclinations, I say:
Straighten up and fly right!
To which I reply, "How is someone else's sex life any business of yours?" It's all about freedom, Terry – a concept which, not being European, you can clearly have no understanding of.
They make it my business when they demand the considerations due a married couple, that they have not earned and can never earn. They also make it my business when they complain that they are somehow "stuck" with their orientation. That I cannot and will not accept.
Obviously your idea of freedom is "free as in beer." My idea of freedom is "free as in speech, thought, action, and (non)association."
"They make it my business when they demand the considerations due a married couple"
Why does that make it your business? It would be your business if they were trying to reduce your rights, but they're not.
"They also make it my business when they complain that they are somehow "stuck" with their orientation. That I cannot and will not accept."
Again, how does that make it your business?
"My idea of freedom is "free as in speech, thought, action, and (non)association.""
As far as I can tell, the only freedoms you have that I don't are to sing the Englandlied in public while giving a Nazi salute and to build a model Bf109 with a Swastika decal on the tail. Personally I'd rather have a health care system.
And what makes you think they don't want to reduce my rights? Say if someone were to lay a probate claim against a relative's estate, claiming to be more than a mere roommate? And the proper environment for child-rearing is everyone's business.
It is also my business when someone tells a lie in order to lay a claim to a government benefit, or to secure, by means of the government, a weakening of a natural institution.
"Born gay" is a lie. Anyone has a choice, either to remain inverted or perverted, or to seek treatment to straighten out. They don't have the right to expect me to regard them as straight and myself as perverse.
"And what makes you think they don't want to reduce my rights?"
The fact that none of them have ever made any attempt to do so or said that they'd like to?
"claiming to be more than a mere roommate?"
If I lived with my girlfriend would she be more than a mere roommate or not? I only ask because I've had lots of male roommates and I consider her to be much more to me than any of them.
"And the proper environment for child-rearing is everyone's business."
Unless the subject under discussion is homeskooling, right?
""Born gay" is a lie."
The evidence says otherwise. In any case, even if people CHOOSE to be gay it would be none of your business. What next? Do you want to ban sex between couples who're not married, or pass a law that says "missionary position only"?
"They don't have the right to expect me to regard them as straight and myself as perverse."
They're not asking you to. They want everyone to be regarded as people who're following their own sexuality. I have no problem with that and I really don't see why you do.
You conveniently ignore incrementalism, according to which: "Let's see how far we can push it this year, and the push it a little more next year, and a little more next year, and…"
"You conveniently ignore incrementalism,"
And you conveniently ignore every actual point I made. Come on Terry: what actual rights do you think gay people want to take away from you?
Inheritance rights, for one thing. To solemnize same-sex roommate relationships would be to destroy probate law as we know it.
And though this would not affect me, it would affect a certain class of persons for whom no one else will speak but me: children. Potentially adopted children.
"To solemnize same-sex roommate relationships would be to destroy probate law as we know it."
Oh rubbish. It would no more destroy it than giving inheritance rights to wives did. If a gay couple are married then their assets would be treated exactly teh same way as a straight married couple's. If not, then not.
"a certain class of persons for whom no one else will speak but me: children."
Modesty becomes you, Terry.
I don't see anyone else doing it.
Then you should broaden your reading. The world is full of agencies, charities and individuals who speak out in defence of the rights of children.
Not that I see how these rights would in any way be harmed by allowing gay marriage.
Let me re-phrase: I don't see anybody else telling the truth about how this threatens children.
"I don't see anybody else telling the truth about how this threatens children."
OK then. How does equal rights for gays threaten children?
By making children subject to adoption by same-sex roommates sharing bed, to be raised to be same-sex roommates sharing bed themselves.
Did you know that the prevalence and incidence of homosexuality in any society varies directly as the toleration of homosexuality by that society? In ancient Greece, homosexuality rates hit fifty percent in both sexes.
Now I know that you don't give a rat's tail about that, but I, for one, would like to keep a lid on it.
I assume that translates to "allowing gay couples to adopt." Does that affect your right to adopt? Because, you know, I really don't think it does.
"Did you know that the prevalence and incidence of homosexuality in any society varies directly as the toleration of homosexuality by that society?"
No, and in fact I seriously doubt it. I suspect that the visibility of homosexuality varies in direct proportion to the tolerance of it, but the prevalence of it? No, I really don't think so. There is plenty of homosexuality in Islamic countries, for example: it's just deeply hidden.
"Now I know that you don't give a rat's tail about that"
Not really. If 50% of men were gay it would just mean I'd face much less competition for the girlies. Why would I be bothered about that?
"but I, for one, would like to keep a lid on it."
I don't doubt that for a minute, although I admit it baffles me. As you're not gay yourself, how is it any of your business what other consenting adults choose to do in bed? Freedom, Terry. Remember it. It's a good European word.
That abrogates the child's right to the most basic of education: in what's normal, and what's nuts.
And I see that you did not get a classical education. Or you would have known that a lot of Greek men got their education in rhetoric from older men who demanded sexual favors of them in return for that education.
And I find this supremely ironic: you hold forth for the freedom to be nuts, and to teach that nuttiness to the next generation. Yet you want to confiscate firearms.
Nuts in your opinion. I admit that the idea of a gay couple adopting a child seems odd to me, but the evidence suggests that children do better, and are more likely to develop normally, undeer the care of a gay couple than in local authority care.
"a lot of Greek men got their education in rhetoric from older men who demanded sexual favors of them in return for that education."
In some cities, yes. So what? That was 2,500 years ago.
"Yet you want to confiscate firearms."
That's complete fertiliser, Terry and you know it. How many times do I have to tell you that I support private gun ownership before you stop dishonestly repeating this tripe?
No. Don't be ridiculous. The campaign is for equality, not special privileges, and you can no more recruit people into homosexuality than you can recruit people into being black.
Um… no they don't. Whether or not two people love each other and want to formalise that relationship has nothing to do with you and your petty bigotry.
Why can't you understand that granting people the same rights that you enjoy does in no way diminish your own rights?
Tell me, why aren't you so upset about people divorcing? Or husbands who abuse their wives? Surely that is a bigger affront to the sanctity of marriage than people who love each other wanting to spend their lives together.
"That I cannot and will not accept."
You are probably the second most close-minded person I have ever met. In addition, your refusal to accept reality, does not make reality wrong.
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Who said that I tolerate divorce? At least that does not fundamentally change the definition of marriage.
And if two people want to be perpetual roommates, that is their affair. But when they demand certain privileges and immunities of marriage, that makes it my affair. Among other things, these same-sex-roommates-sharing-bed pairs demand the right to:
Adopt children.
Declare that neither roommate may testify against another in a criminal matter.
Pay taxes as a "married filing jointly" couple and not as two roommates, each of whom files as "single."
This is in reply to Terry's comments on 5/29/2012 at 11:05 am:
Who said that I tolerate divorce?
Your tolerance is by inaction, and it shows an underlying hypocrisy. The instructions of both God and Jesus-as-God are very clear about the acceptability of divorce and remarriage, and you raise no public objections to civil laws that allow unlimited remarriage after divorce. For someone concerned about "defending the institution of marriage" you have no problem being tolerant of the ease at which marriages can be dissolved and re-entered in serial fashion. With the failure rate for marriage at about 50%, you'd think you'd be more concerned with the issue of why just over 1 million "traditional" marriages fail each year than in keeping a relative handful of law-abiding citizens from accessing the same rights you can.
Okay, we get it. Homosexuality offends you deeply. Lots of things other citizens do offend me deeply too, but here's the key – the fact that two strangers choose to get married, regardless of their faith, race, gender, politics, etc. cannot hurt you or your life in any direct way
As for the privileges of marriage that "make this your affair":
Talk about a ridiculous concern. Virtually all gay and lesbian people today grew up in "traditional" marital households, including prominent conservative families like the Cheneys and Reagans. Condemning a child to spend one more day in an orphanage or foster care because two adults who love each other and want to offer a caring, stable home happen to be of the same gender is petty and cruel.
This is outright prejudice on your part. Unmarried couples can be just as committed, or even more so, than married couples (remember that 50% divorce rate?). The only thing that adds immunity to that relationship is civil marriage license – no religious sanction required. Denying this right to couples based on gender alone is denying them equal protection under the law. Civil law, not religious.
Same as the last point. When you get into subjects like taxation where you are "rendering unto Caesar", this is about civil law, and all citizens should be treated equally under that law. Personally, it bothers me that many churches have become more involved with promoting political agendas than faith, but I'm not trying to deny the their special tax status under the law because I disagree with them.
I've yet to have anyone demonstrate that permitting marriage equality would have a have a direct, materially adverse impact on their freedom or well-being without it being baseless or a double-standard of some sort. You're zero-for-three with these points, but feel free to try again.
Well you publish articles written by a divorcee…
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Conservatives will use those from groups they denigrate when convenient. I'm sure Terry doesn't have problems with gays if they're talking about the earth being 6,000 years old. It's a lot like being on Conservapedia. You can be a Moonie/Mormon/atheist/gay as long as you only chime in if and when you support the party line, and keep quiet when it's your turn to be the outcast du jour. It's the same doublethink that's pervasive in conservative thought.
States rights! Except when another state wants to trump them for reasons I happen agree with.
Constitutional rights! Except when they're of Mexican heritage.
Small government! Until you want our legislature to govern a woman's body.
^ What he said.
"Obviously he abhors the religious teachings of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam."
Come to think of it, I believe Jesus was extremely clear about the subject of divorce. If we're so concerned about having tradition and Biblical values guide civil law, why is divorce allowed for reasons other than adultery, and why are divorced people allowed to remarry?
Pretty selective application of "tradition" and "Christian values" to apply one standard to one class of people, and a different standard to another, wouldn't you say?
Marriage equality is nothing more than a wedge issue used to fire up certain segments of the population and get them to the polls. Fundamentalist Christians have no problem turning to serial adulterers (Gingrich) or people they'd consider a cultist or heretic (Romney) when it's convenient to do so.
Ace McWicked
What has always confused me is that if indeed homosexuality is a choice why on earth would anyone choose to be homosexual?
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Why, don't you know? Or don't your friends know?
Surely your feminist friends know. I quote William S. Gilbert:
Each newly-made aspirant to the clan
Must repudiate the tyrant known as man.
They mark him and they flout him
For they do not care about him
And they're going to do without him
If they can!
And if that doesn't convince you, then maybe this reference will:
Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. 1976.
Feminist friends? I don't have any feminist friends.
And what are you trying to say with your poem? That men choose to be gay because of feminism?
Why, in your opinion Terry, would anyone choose to be homosexual?
Those were lyrics from Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida. William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan anticipated modern feminism and its anti-male attitudes.
Yeah, so? Why, in your opinion Terry, would anyone choose to be homosexual?
A woman would choose to be a homosexual ("Lesbian," from Lesbos, a Greek island and home of Sappho, high priestess of homosexuality in women in ancient Greece) as a rebel against men. That's what I meant by "They're going to do without him/if they can."
A man would choose to be homosexual out of sheer laziness. He does not want to do the manly things—the virtues. For that is what virtue originally meant: "manly art."
Homosexual men and women represent the anti-ideals of namby-pamby non-men and modern Amazon warriors.
So you are suggesting then there woman who are lesbians and men are homosexual's who feel no sexual attraction to the same sex.
No. Instead, they will themselves to have that attraction.
Tell me what a man or woman finds sexually attractive and I will tell you that person's entire philosophy of life. Show me the person with whom he or she shares bed and I will tell you that person's opinion of him/herself.
And I suggest that a homosexual man necessarily has a low opinion of himself.
And a homosexual woman is full of herself, and full of Uber-Womanhood. And eager to share her misguided sense of the superior intellect and military prowess of women with the rest of the world.
"A man would choose to be homosexual out of sheer laziness. He does not want to do the manly things—the virtues."
Ever heard of Lt Col Robert Blair "Paddy" Mayne, four times winner of the Distinguished Service Order for heroism under enemy fire? He was an Irish Rugby international with a reputation for extreme violence, and later a founding member of the SAS. On one SAS raid, when he ran out of bombs he disabled a German bomber by ripping the instrument panel out with his bare hands.
Let's just say that he never married and had many close male friends…
Well, the fact that you aren't writing columns on divorce and wailing that it's infringing your rights, would imply that you are in favour of divorce. And what definition are you talking about – I recall there's a bit about "those that have been joined in the eyes of God" and "let no man put asunder."
"And if two people want to be perpetual roommates, that is their affair. But when they demand certain privileges and immunities of marriage, that makes it my affair."
Once again. No it doesn't. How they pay tax, how they testify has nothing to do with you. Just like how your neighbours pay tax has nothing to do with you. And as for adopting, are you seriously saying that it's worse for children to be raised by a loving gay couple (I'll treat your words for it with the contempt they deserve) than for them to grow up in abusive straight household?
oh wait, I forgot. You conservatives only care about the unborn child. Once its born you don't care what happens to it.
Actually, in every state except Florida it's legal for a single gay parent to adopt a child, so the overwhelming majority of this nation has no issue and sees no threat. That makes the idea of a 2-parent home being worse than a single-parent home, just because the two parents are a same-sex couple, even more ludicrous.
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No wonder the end-times prophecies are galloping toward us.
Yawn. The fact is that for the vast majority of human beings, life has never been better and is likely to keep improving for a few centuries yet. Keep your "end times" rubbish if it makes you happy, but rubbish is what it is. We'll go extinct sooner or later, but it'll probably be because some evolution-denying idiot messes about with antibiotics and creates a resistant bacteria that kills us all. Then God's true chosen people – the rats – will resume their stewardship of Earth until the Sun swells up 5 billion years from now and vapourises the oceans.
Life has never been better? You jest, of course.
Worse yet, humanity is not evolving at all. It is devolving. In a few more generations, humanity would become extinct. Or it would, except that God is getting ready to come back. He has His own plans, and they don't include the total extinction of humanity.
Oh, not at all. Most people are healthier, more comfortable and better fed than at any time in human history. Life expectancy keeps rising. Wealth keeps increasing. Technology makes our lives easier.
"Worse yet, humanity is not evolving at all. It is devolving."
Devolving? Not a concept I recognise, really. Humans in industrialised countries are adapting to a new environment. Those adaptations may not be good for us in the long run, but evolution doesn't plan ahead.
"In a few more generations, humanity would become extinct."
Quite possibly. Or then again, quite possibly not. Who knows?
The more accutate statement would be, "The less a society persecutes people simply for being homosexual, the larger the number of homosexual people who can openly acknowedge their orientation".
And comparing ancient cultures to 21st century norms is a joke.
It should be, but nobody's laughing. Bear in mind that there are lunatics in this world – today – who won't eat shrimps because Iron Age desert nomads hadn't invented refrigeration.
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Matias Creimer is a Los Angeles based architecture designer and professor of architecture.
He has over 14 years of experience working for architecture design firms including his own studio. He has worked extensively on projects that range from single family homes to billion dollar, mixed-use developments in the US and abroad.
This year we picked a site in Downtown LA at the corner of 7th and Brodway surrounded by historical buildings.
The new building was meant to serve as the headquarters for the City of Los Angeles Historical Society. There's more than one historical society in Southern California and the idea was to combine them all in a single entity with a stronger urban presence.
Borrowing language from roller coasters, the "Architectural Fun Ride" is a block-long, program-less building made up of interlocking segments that are connected by a continuous interior path.
Each student was responsible for his/her segment with a goal of ensuring that users would remain motivated to walk through the entire structure.
This semester we worked in Downtown LA at the corner of Broadway and 3rd, across the street from the Bradbury Building.
The program was a fictitious "Los Angeles School of Arts and Crafts" with some complexity in terms of the different user groups and how they all access and utilize the building.
This year's Architectural Fun Ride is a 1/4" scale, 4-story structure made up of interlocking segments designed by different students.
Like pieces of a Tetris puzzle, all the pieces have the same size but different shapes. A continuous path runs along the entire structure.
The site this year was in the heart of Venice Beach on Winward Avenue This is one of the blocks that once had a continuous colonnade resembling Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy. Even though most of the block was demolished many decades ago, the "book-end" building at both corners are still standing.
This is an extensive remodel of a 1928 cabin in Eagle Rock.
All exterior walls were demolished and replaced. Some interior walls were reconfigured to improve the flow of the floor plan.
A combination of corrugated zinc and cement board panels was used to clad the exterior walls.
Wooden decks on the front and rear yards help to connect the house with the outdoors.
This was an extensive 1,500 sf. remodeling job in Los Angeles that included a new sun room, new redwood deck, new kitchen and various upgrades throughout the house.
The existing house was from 1947 and the challenge was to integrate the new and the old.
Alraha Gardens is a project I worked on as Project Designer at 5+Design in Hollywood.
It is a mixed-use development with retail and entertainment districts, and multi-family housing. It has a total of 1,200 residential units with amenities, parking, theaters and a shopping mall.
It was conceived as an alternative lifestyle and commercial destination within the Abu Dhabi region.
I was in charge of 6 midrise towers (6 to 14 stories).
Ensenada, Mexico La Plaza is a project I developed with Eduardo Cespedes and Sergio Zeballos at the Jerde Partnership in Venice, Ca.
It is a 10,000 m2 retail center with a 4,400 m2 Multiplex cinema located on the Southern end of Ensenada in Baja California, Mexico. It consists of an outdoor retail street and a centralized Plaza with easy parking accessible through the front and back of the property.
Mexico City Santa Fe is a mixed use project that I worked on at the Jerde Partnership with Jeff Walker and John Simones.
It is a collection of 10 residential towers connected by a podium of retail, parking and residential units facing the opposite side.
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Warner Center This is a project I worked on as Project Designer with Mike Walden at Nadel Architects in Los Angeles. It is a residential development with 750 units, parking and amenities.
DOCKABLE DWELLING is a factory assembled modular system designed to build houses with minimum on-site work.
It is a modular kit of parts based on NASA's approach to space station modular docking.
Variation is achieved through different combinations of a limited but expandable amount of modules types.
This is a design/ build class that I taught at PCC to 24 students working in groups of 3. Each group was expected to design a segment of a larger, linear structure. Each segment had to have a wall, a floor, a roof and a window opening.
The work was published in JAE in Nov '06 and later in a book by Lukas Freireiss called SPACECRAFT.
This is the work produced in a class that I taught at PCC on Materials and Methods. The students were required to work in groups of 3 to design and build a wooden structure that reflected the content of the lectures.
I encouraged them to build whatever they wanted but build it according to Type V framing standards.
The work was published in JAE in Nov '06.
This is a house on Howland Canal, in the historic neighborhood of Abbott Kinney's "Venice of America".
The program is divided in two and arranged in two separate blocks connected by a bridge.
This is the second I house I designed for Abramson Architects in the late nineties. It sits on a beach front lot in Newport Beach, CA.
This is a house I designed while consulting for Abramson Architects in Culver City. It is an extensive remodel of an older bungalow.
The original plan is based on a 9 square grid and we brought natural light to the central module by creating a 2 story atrium with a massive skylight on top.
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For me, the 70's was about blowing vessels and trying to master the art of casting. The blown work ran the gamut from organic expressionistic forms to formal decorated surfaces. The major influence on my work at that time was the German artist Erwin Eisch. I first came across Erwin's work while working with Prof. Littleton at the U. of Wisconsin. Erwin's work had an expressionistic quality that I found most appealing and, in my own way, I attempted to emulate the style through my own interpretation. I did not, at the time, find the transparency of glass appealing. Most of my work was blown from milk glass and a black glass.
The castings were an extension of the work I had been doing in clay. During the late 60's, I had made sculptures in clay that were very political in nature and expressed my feelings about the war in Viet Nam.
In May of 1970, the Ohio National Guard shot and killed four students during anti-war demonstrations at Kent State University, the campus where I was teaching. I was on the commons that day and the glass casting series originally grew from my personal feelings and eventually progressed into other areas of my artistic expression. Most, if not all my castings, were metaphorical in nature. It should be noted that, to my knowledge, there was no one doing any glass casting at the time that I began these sculptures and I had to develop the process on my own. The technology that I developed in order to realize the castings grew from my knowledge of constructing molds for bronze casting. In the mid 80's I became very aware of the castings being produced by Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova and was honored to work with them at Pilchuck and later in their studio in the Czech Republic.
Some of these works are still in my possession and are for sale. If you're interested go to my contact page and send an email.
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Mavis Staples announces new album We Get By, shares "Change"
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Renowned gospel and blues artist Mavis Staples has announced her twelfth studio album. It's called We Get By, and it's due out May 10 via ANTI-. Where her last album If All I Was Was Black, saw her linking with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, this one will feature songwriting and production from Ben Harper. The lead single is a resilient number called "Change" that stares down our current political climate with fearlessness. Check it out below.
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Mandatory Minimum Sentencing and Federalism
A recent poll showed that almost 80% of Americans are in favor of getting rid of mandatory minimum sentencing for non-violent offenders. These are found in the federal government and a number of states, mostly for drug offenses. Perhaps the most famous of these mandatory minimum sentencing laws is California's "Three Strikes" law that resulted in 25 years-to-life for stealing golf clubs and a slice of pizza, respectively.
Federalism and Sentencing
Many of these laws were enacted by the federal government in an effort to stem the violent crime associated with crack in the 80s. This lead to asinine laws led to laws like the "100-to-1" ratio that deemed possessing one gram of crack-cocaine to be as serious as possessing 100 grams of cocaine. Both drugs are identical — the only difference is the method of administration (smoking vs. snorting).
At issue here is whether judges should have the discretion to apply individual standards to each individual case. The problem is that many states follow the lead of the federal government when it comes to sentencing. The federal government also has a hand in "encouraging" states to toughen up certain laws by threatening to withhold federal money from states if they don't follow suit. Therefore states feel compelled to enact their own draconian sentencing laws in an effort appear "tough on crime."
The truth is that sentencing should be kept at the judicial level. These judges know the law and know how to apply it to individual cases. They are certainly no infallible, but they are far more knowledgeable than Washington bureaucrats. But when Washington controls the purse strings, Federalism suffers. The government should not exert undue influence over the states and should instead allow them to be experiments in democracy. This way, we the people can examine what works and what doesn't and make policy decisions accordingly. This is how Federalism is supposed to work.
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That Economist ad is what made me want to get into advertising in the first place.
Economist is genius, er no, that's Guinness.
John W, I think you'll find that Guinness is 'Pure' genius. Or was at least.
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