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Deputies: Salinas woman busted for smuggling drugs into jail
Updated: 4:32 PM PDT Jun 8, 2017
MCSO SOURCE: MCSO
A Salinas woman who deputies described as a "Norteno gang associate" was arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling drugs into jail. Virginia Meza was arrested at an apartment complex on the 100 block of Rossi Street. Deputies said they found 1/4 of a pound of crystal methamphetamine in her possession.Meza is one of several Salinas gang members who has been arrested by the Monterey County Sheriff's Office over the past few weeks on suspicion of operating a drug smuggling ring.Monterey County Jail inmates were receiving drugs inside packages mailed to them through the U.S. Postal Service.
SALINAS, Calif. —
A Salinas woman who deputies described as a "Norteno gang associate" was arrested Thursday on suspicion of smuggling drugs into jail.
Virginia Meza was arrested at an apartment complex on the 100 block of Rossi Street. Deputies said they found 1/4 of a pound of crystal methamphetamine in her possession.
Drug smuggling ring busted in Monterey County Jail
Meza is one of several Salinas gang members who has been arrested by the Monterey County Sheriff's Office over the past few weeks on suspicion of operating a drug smuggling ring.
Monterey County Jail inmates were receiving drugs inside packages mailed to them through the U.S. Postal Service.


The game should feature characters such as Lanky Kong, Geno, Bio Rex, Porky etc.
Maybe even make this as Waluigi's first stand alone game and have him discover these characters along the way.
Make it an open world sandbox action rpg with a level up system and karma.
Wasn't that what Captain Rainbow was?
If I need to restore my Darkness Power... I'll need the powerful of a Smash Ball! Then... the world will be mine!
Make the main character an ex-super hero/actor. Who goes to an island to grant his wish to be popular again and helps the residents of the island to fulfil their own wishes.
Call it something like... Captain Rainbow.
Accept Madoka as your new God.
Koopa Kid needs to be in Captain Rainbow 2.
"What is a Board? A miserable little pile of chaos!"
That game had f***in Famicom Wars infantry and DRAKE REDCREST!
Also, Captain Rainbow totally needs to be a series and localized over here.
Not a game per say, but I have been saying Wart and Tatanga should be added to a Tennis/Double Dash game as partners, under the idea that they're both forgotten villains.
Caring for those with hearts that are breaking.


The largest laboratory building, belonging to the Alcadno, in Magatia.
Magatia is located in the Nihal Desert, north of Ariant. It also has a night time theme like Formosa's Night Market. It is a medieval themed town, with elements of both powerful new technologies and secret monsters created by Alchemy. Inside the town lies two underground Laboratories, one for each group, one filled with robotic and electronic monsters, and the other with biological monsters that seem to have been created by accident. Many quests are available from the NPCs in the town of Magatia. The city's primary source of income comes from the manufacturing of Lithium stones, created from rare ores found in the desert. These refined gems are shipped to Orbis to help keep the city afloat. The ores can also be seen on the ship that travels from Victoria to Orbis. Where the knowledge of Alchemy comes from is still a mystery, though there are rumors that the Black Magician has had some influence.
The town's residents are from one of two groups: The Alcadno and the Zenumists. The Zenumists practice Life Alchemy, and live in the old medieval style buildings on one side of the town. The Alcadno, on the other hand, use advanced technology in conjunction with Alchemy and created robots on their side of the town. Basically, Zenumists attempt to use Life particles and Alcando use Machinery. The groups are not on friendly terms, and don't allow members of their group to interact with the others. The ultimate example of this is the "Romeo and Juliet" Party Quest, where players must team up to reunite the forbidden lovers from each of the two factions. To learn more, a visitor will be forced to join sides, though it is possible to join both by simply picking up both introductory quests before completing one of them.
Right before Magatia, you will be in the Sahel Desert region of the Sunset Road, which is counted as a part of Magatia. Here, you will encounter Sand Rats, Scorpions, and Dark Sand Dwarves.
The cube slimes in the Zenumist Laboratory.
Inside this Laboratory, accessed from the far left of town, there are many books and Library-type areas, which have been invaded by monsters. Several of the monsters look to have been created in experiments. Most of the monsters are deformed biological creatures. The first map is occupied by animated plants in bottles, given mobility by alchemical procedures. Later on, the monsters only become more and more grotesque, remnants of failed experiments and attempts to create a human. Finally the strongest species of monster in the area is found, Homunscullo. Romeo can also be found here.
The Roids in the Alcadno Laboratory.
The other laboratory, accessed from the giant building pictured above, belongs to the technological group, the Alcadno. These maps have a much colder and more modern feel to them. Most monsters here are robot-like monsters. The first monsters encountered here are the Iron Mutae and Reinforced Iron Mutae, possessed pieces of metal. Further on, there are even stronger metals that have been possessed, like Mithril Mutae and Reinforced Mithril Mutae. As a character progresses through the laboratory, they will encounter the Roids, a line of robotic monsters created by the Alcadno. Deeper in the laboratories are the D. Roys, the strongest robots. Juliet can be found here. The boss monster Chimera also recently began spawning in the area between the institutes, in a secret path.
Between the Zenumist and Alcadno Laboratories, there is a secret passage connecting the two. The Black Mage's laboratory is accessible via this passage. Chimera can also be found here.
Magatia: Zenumist Society Leader of the Zenumists. Part of several quests.
Sunset Road: Magatia Gives quests.
Sunset Road: Magatia Sells potions and items.
Magatia: Alcadno - Hidden Room You can reach Juliet from Magatia: Alcadno Society.
Magatia: Alcadno Society Leader of the Alcadnos. Part of several quests.
Sunset Road: Magatia Same NPC as found in Kerning City. Requires 30 Horny Mushrooms for a Proof of Love. If you complete the requirement in Kerning City and lose the Proof of Love, this NPC can give you a new one.
Magatia: Zenumist - Hidden Room You can reach Romeo from Magatia: Zenumist Society.
Sunset Road: Magatia Storage keeper.
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On the 17th of April 2019 at 14:00 Ludza Town Library invites all interested to OPEN LESSON "Easter fuss". The lesson will take place on the 2nd floor of Ludza Town Library (in the Children's Department), Stacijas Street 41, Ludza. Language of the lessons – Latvian. In the poster you can see also dates of other lessons planned for April 2019.


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Shawn Patterson
Composer & Songwriter
Academy Award, Grammy, and Emmy Award nominee
As a songwriter, Shawn strives to find the heart of the story; to seek out the emotional journey and write to that.
Patterson loves creating songs so deeply connected to the characters and story it becomes an inseparable extension of the project. When Shawn was approached to write the song, "Everything Is Awesome" (for The Lego Movie), he dug into the narrative to find the deepest emotional layers of the story. The end result was The Lego Movie franchise (and even theme parks) forever branded with a song so distinct and memorable, it earned him both the Academy Award® and Grammy® Award nominations.
Shawn loves writing songs that run an uncommonly wide range of genres, tones and moods: bombastic rock to emotional ballads to indie pop and even over-the-top show tunes.
For full credits, visit IMDb
© 2023 Hamhock Studios
Music, lyrics and text © 2023 Shawn Patterson / ASCAP / Drohnend Publishing.
Photography by Innis Casey Photography

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Government boosts life-saving coronavirus messaging using WhatsApp
by Jonathan Owen March 26, 2020
The Government has partnered WhatsApp to boost the reach of life-saving information
The Government has teamed up with WhatsApp, one of the world's biggest messaging platforms, to reach millions of Britons with information about Covid-19
Yesterday's launch of the GOV.UK Coronavirus Information Service on WhatsApp means people can get "official, trustworthy and timely information and advice about coronavirus", according to the Government's announcement.
Officials hope the new comms tool will help combat the spread of coronavirus misinformation and ensure people stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.
The automated 'chatbot' service will enable people to get answers to commonly asked questions and provide information on subjects such as coronavirus prevention and symptoms, the latest number of cases in the UK, advice on staying at home, travel advice, and mythbusting.
The government will be able to send messages via the service, which people can join by adding 07860 064422 in their phone contacts and sending the word 'hi' in a WhatsApp message to get started.
Users can then choose from various options and be sent relevant guidance from GOV.UK pages, as well as links to further information.
Professor Yvonne Doyle, medical director of Public Health England, said: "This service will help us ensure the public has a trusted source for the right information about coronavirus, updated with the latest public health guidance and providing assurance that they are not misled by any of the false information circulating."
And Matt Idema, chief operating officer at WhatsApp, commented: "At difficult times like these, people are using WhatsApp more than ever to connect with and support their friends, family and communities."
He added: "We are pleased to be able to provide the UK Government with the communications tools to help them answer the public's questions about the virus with reliable, timely health advice, in order to keep people safe."
The new WhatsApp service comes days after the Government texted millions of people across the UK to inform them of the lockdown announced by the Prime Minister on Monday.
Government / Non-profit Media / Entertainment Brands Digital brands Technology brands Social media Advertising Marketing Media Digital media Public Relations
NHS introduces vivid imagery from front line of crisis in latest ad
Performance can boost sales but by itself can't save a brand
How are you balancing work with having your kids around?
Channel 4 and 39 advertisers show support for NHS with ad break takeover
Radio and specialist mags enjoy boost as nation confined to homes
Should Google delay plans to kill off third-party cookies?
Why we need brands to be as active as ever
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I am still enthusiastically adapting my recipes to my new very helpful friend InstaPot. And I am very happy with the results! The dishes come out full of flavour, and in fraction of time.
Yesterday, I picked up a large package of Wild caught Atlantic Cod at Costco to make my Dad's secret fish stew. The rest of the ingredients came, mostly, from Costco as well.
Today, I was inspired to adapt the recipe to the InstaPot!
One of my kids adores this dish and we all enjoy it as well.
And the secret ingredient…. is… well… it's ketchup. Yep. My Dad uses ketchup as the sauce base and the stew comes out absolutely delicious.
Costco does not carry healthier versions of ketchup that I would otherwise get and I did not want to run any more errands.
As a result, I ended up adapting the recipe to tomato paste, organic sugar, and organic apple cider vinegar combination base and the dish still got an approval from the kids!
It was a perfect dish for a snowy day inside, watching How to Train Your Dragon 1 and later 2, and discovering Scratch programming language; among other things, like drawing dragons, running around pretending we are dragons, ordering books from the library about dragons, wondering if we could have pet dragons in D&D (Dungeons and Dragons) or if that would be OP (over powering).
And later, after the delicious stew lunch, we had popcorn, and apples with nut/seed butter for snack.
1. Place 2 cups of rice and 4 cups of water in a regular pot. Add olive oil and kombu.
2. Once the water boils on high heat, mix the rice well, cover with a lid and let simmer on low for 15 minutes.
3. Set InstaPot on Sauté and add 1 tbsp of Coconut Oil to let it heat up for about a minute.
4. Slice onions and add to the heated oil to start sautéing, mixing often.
5. Clean and grate all the carrots, add to the onions and add some salt. Keep sautéing, mixing often.
6. Cut the fish up into smaller pieces and cover with flour and a bit of salt mixture on both sides.
7. Heat 2tbsp of coconut oil in a pan and once hot, fry the fish on both sides, about a minute each, to get a bit of colour.
8. In a bowl, whisk together tomato paste, water, apple cider vinegar and sugar. Add the mixture to the onions and carrots, mix well.
9. Place the fish carefully on top of onions and carrots in the InstaPot.
10. Close the lid and manually set pressure on low for 3 minutes.
11. Once done, manually, release the pressure.
12. Serve over rice with garnishing of choice.
Let me know how it goes and what you think!


Buy A Print, Save A Starving Artist.
I've submitted a few of my vectors as prints. If there's something you would like to buy as a print leave me a note.
I'm holding a Kiriban for anyone who can catch my 14,000th view. I'll draw any one character/animal/thing you want.
An interview in which I talk about my influences.
Please order your commission via note. I check my DA notes frequently and can get back to you swiftly that way.
Once the details are finalized, payment needs to be swift.
Give me a clear and accurate representation of your character upfront. Their clothing style, favorite colors, likes/dislikes, things they wouldn't wear, etc. The more detailed you are, the more accurate my drawing will be.
If for some reason, you do not want me to use any artistic license within your commission, please state upfront.
I do not offer WIPs or 'do overs'. I work a full-time 9-5 job. With that said, I don't have time to get your input on my sketches or draw it over again if you hate it. Consider my commission to be like a Secret Santa trade. Outside of your initial input, the end result will be a fun surprise!
Good news guys! I finally bought that desktop computer I've been talking about.
Now I can work faster!
I've owe :iconIiwi: and :iconp-soldiers: vectors and I'm going to deliver! I've been putting it off because I have a clear idea of what I want to do. But I know my computer won't be able to handle the complex files I have in mind. Not with it giving me save errors and semi-over heating when it's been on all day.
Once my new machine gets here I can finish those loose ends. And also get to work on personal projects.
Commissions will be open soon!
I need to revamp my commissions sheet. Potentially post it in the forums.
Get at me if you're interested in commissions.
Happy Hunting & Good Luck!
She loves sweets and is a coffee/tea kinda person. Brightly colored clothing with crazy patterns are her thing.
Use any medium/style you feel comfortable with.
Create a new outfit for her. Put her in a unique setting. Draw her with your own characters.
Whatever you need to do to enjoy it.
I'm not a picky artist, so no pressure!
iMac or Mac Mini?I've Been Living Underneath A Rock.
My journal entry from January is a constant reminder of how lazy I am.
My sister just bought an iMac a month ago and reminded me of the gloriousness of Bootcamp and the idea of partitioning (she's a Sims fanatic...).
And now I feel incredibly stupid.
People have been asking me why I don't splurge on a Mac and silly me forgot about that feature (which makes the PC version of my Adobe software and non-issue).
So now my issue is deciding if I want the iMac or the Mac Mini. I use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver for my Graphic Design/Illustration the most.
1) Get some form of self promotion printed so I can start freelance work.
2) Go to a ADCMW networking event.
3) Draw something for Deviantart every month.
4) Go to some meetups so I can actually be social.
5) Get some artwork into juried shows.
7) Get out of production design and find a graphic design job that pays decently.
This year I've been spending time developing my style.
not attached to anything at the moment!
Full disclosure on the left side of my page. Prices may be lowered if I get the sense that they are too high. I will be open indefinitely until something prompts me to temporarily close (i.e. - Deviantart's annual Christmas Secret Santa things or my requisite Christmas/New Year/Birthday trifecta where I fall off the face of the planet "me" time).
I have other pages online if you want to follow/stalk/ignore/make a list of the worst artists in history.
I've Been Featured @ SomethingWeLike.comSomethingWeLike.com is a pretty awesome website. It features interviews with various artists across the globe, that is a Q&A of sorts that delves into their influences, medium and thoughts about the industry.
I was approached to do an interview after my last DD (thanks again :icondomism:!) for Take It To The 80s. Which was an awesome opportunity (thanks SWL staff!)!
To be honest I was a little nervous about it, because there are always instances in everyday life where I say entirely the wrong thing. So I really had to boil down my answers to the necessities of what I wanted to say.


I work as the Head of the Department in a private engineering college. The Principal is asking me to force one of the staff members to resign because of the indiscipline created by the students in the class. Later I found out that the Principal's son has a personal grudge against the teacher and hence the decision of the Principal. What should be done by me to balance this situation?


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New York City, Seen Through Its Bodegas
the bodega project
This summer, ten authors will explore their changing neighborhoods for The Bodega Project
Electric Literature
Introducing The Bodega Project, a new summer-long series from Electric Literature, in partnership with the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Each week, one of ten authors from across the five boroughs will reflect on their community through that most relied-on and overlooked of New York institutions, the bodega.
For a city that prides itself on never sleeping and never shutting down, it was an unfamiliar and disorienting sight, on a Thursday in February, to find so many metal shutters closed on street corners all over New York. A week prior, President Trump had signed an executive order effectively denying anyone from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen entry into the United States. Now, helicopters wavered above Cadman Plaza in downtown Brooklyn, while on the steps of Borough Hall a boisterous crowd chanted "USA! Yemen!" and blew into vuvuzelas. For the first time in history New York City's bodegas were collectively on strike. Across the five boroughs, it was suddenly impossible not to be aware of their absence, and impossible to accept the idea of a city without them.
These ubiquitous corner stores have been open and operating, in one form or another, for almost as long as there's been a city to host them. In the past there were Lower Manhattan's numerous Jewish delis, the Italian alimentari on Mott Street, and the greengrocers that established themselves north of Union Square. After World War II — following an influx of immigrants from the Caribbean, particularly from Puerto Rico — the shop's modern iteration came into being. It was then given the nickname that most New Yorkers know it by today, regardless of the neighborhood, the ethnicity of its owners, or the signage that looks out to the street.
At its most essential, the bodega is the shop on the corner that stays open late and sells whatever you need — the place where you go in a pinch to pick up milk, a can of Bustelo, an egg and cheese on a roll, or a scratch card when you're feeling lucky. For the average New Yorker it's something that goes beyond mere capitalism: it is the beating heart of the neighborhood, a place of ethnic and economic diversity, the center of cultural rather than just monetary exchange.
Wrapped up as they are, no contemporary history of the city would be complete without an examination of the bodega. In Justo A. Martí's photographs from the 1950s, of Latin American bodegas in New York's Puerto Rican barrios, it's possible to see a larger reflection of the new metropolis that was then taking shape. In the bad old days of the seventies and eighties — when heatwaves and blackouts marred the summers, crime rates spiked, and panicked suburban "white flight" kicked off in earnest — the city's bodegas were a lifeline, struggling to keep produce coming in and bread stocked on the shelves. The earliest hip-hop could be heard busting from speakers outside corner delis in the Bronx, at the same time as The Ramones were fueling up on Slim Jim's, plantains, and Miller beer from a shop on Bowery and East 4th. It's not just New York's history either. To look at any of the contemporary forces shaping the city — whether it's gentrification, immigration, or economic inequality — one often doesn't have to go further than to the shop on the corner.
In New York, neighborhoods can practically be defined by their bodegas. Whether the windows are decorated with international calling cards, saints cards, Knicks gear, or cured meats will tell you something about who the locals are and how they live. Bodegas are where almost all paths in a neighborhood cross, where you can hear almost any language, a place that is romantically unromantic. Open all the time and always reliable, they tend to go unnoticed, until — as on that Thursday in February — you experience the city in their absence.
Over the course of the summer Electric Literature will be bringing you ten essays over ten weeks on bodegas and communities from across the city — brand new writing by New York lifers, transplants, immigrants, and exiles — published each Friday starting today. For some of these authors the bodega will serve as a backdrop; for others it will be the key to finding their place in this city. They'll talk to store workers and regulars, plumb memories, chart changes in the neighborhood, and be privy to stories. Some names and sites will be familiar to you, others will be new. In the end we hope to give you a snapshot of a city that is always evolving and always open.
Welcome to The Bodega Project.
— Anu Jindal and Dwyer Murphy, Electric Literature
Read the first installment of The Bodega Project here, an essay by Charlie Vázquez on his childhood community of Pelham Parkway in the Bronx.
A Cultural Oasis Inside a Bronx Bodega
Photographs by Anu Jindal
Electric Literature is a nonprofit publication committed to making literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive.
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Jun 2	- Ted Wilson	Read
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From crying on the subway to Montauk summers, Greg Mania recommends books about coming of age in the city
Aug 25 - Greg Mania
7 Books About New York City's Drastic Economic Divide
Stories about the wealthy and the working class who share a city
Jul 7 - Lee Conell
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For readers who miss visiting these beloved cultural institutions in person
Jun 9 - Preety Sidhu


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Thread starter Rory
@Rory i''m sentencing you to a year in jail. (and not because you said the grass is green)
econ41 said:
They should have said "safe enough for the purpose"
Okay, so if they'd said that in the beginning and then later said "it's still safe enough for purpose even though we've now identified a few additional rare but potentially serious side effects" is that not the same as saying: "it's not quite as safe as we initially thought"?
@Rory i'm sentencing you to a year in jail (and not because you said the grass is green)
Rory said:
Sure. But the pragmatics of marketing to a diverse audience IMO outweigh any need to satisfy a few highly experienced and pedantic nit-pickers on an Internet Forum. I would allow them a bit of"slack" out there in the real world.
And - so far - she hasn't charged me with excessive pedantry nor stating the bleeding obvious.
Okay, that's all I was saying (back in post #55) and what I've been explaining since.
we could just ask this guy if he is still giving astra zeneca boosters to his teenage/young adult children or grand children. Then we would know if his definition of safe has changed.
"We've had absolute confidence in the efficacy of the vaccine, but I think seeing this data now, I hope gives others increased confidence that this is a very effective and safe vaccine," said Menelas Pangalos, AstraZeneca's executive vice president of biopharmaceuticals research and development.
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/03/22/astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-safe-all-ages-us-data/4796060001/
we could just ask this guy if he is still giving astra zeneca boosters
Side line issue but yesterday my wife booked both of us in for "boosters" mid January. We are both AZ recipients - got the vax around the time of the breaking news of the blood clots issue. I haven't a clue as to the AU Federal Health agency's position on AZ nor have either of us asked about which vax we will get.
see? you've got more in common with the vaccine holdouts than you'd like to think.. you all have that "eh. it won't happen to me" mentality
Remember to ask for aspiration.
From the same article, we find yet another definition of safe:
Interim results on the 32,000-person trial showed the vaccine met Food and Drug Administration guidelines for safety and effectiveness.
"safe" := "meets FDA safety guidelines".
The FDA never approved it, and I don't know why.
But the Health Authorities in Great Britain did, on December 30th, 2020, and that hasn't been revoked, so they thought it was safe then, and is safe now.
Nobody's arguing that. What you're arguing is that AstraZeneca feels its level of safety is exactly what it always was even after new information about its potentially lethal side effects has come to light.
I'll take that as a joke tho given the confusion in this thread that could be a risky choice. The possibly less than fully professional part of my reasoning is that - given the overall low level of risk of catching COVID in AU and even lower where I am in a rural area - the AZ blood clots issue is more significant now than it was 6 months ago when I had no priority access to alternate vaccines. Then, the counterside - which I won't even try to quantify - but now that blood clots is known I understand that both prophylactic and curative measures are improved. And, if I'm wrong it might be best if you leave me in my ignorance. I'll live with it and prove your point. Maybe I'm a closet anti-vaxer?????
Actually when the risks are in the order of one in several million anyone objecting should never cross a trafficked street.
If we go with the top definition from the top dictionary (the OED) safe is defined as: "Free from hurt or damage; unharmed."
But if we scroll down we get the definition "11. Secured, kept in custody; unable to escape.", and what's that got to do with the price of eggs in China? It's just as relevant as definition 1. Namely not at all. The vaccines are evidently not safe - none are - they will be attacked and broken down by the body they are injected into. That's quite a lot of damage, it's destruction.
The usage in question is neither 1 nor 11 but 8:
a. Presenting no risk of physical harm; posing no threat, not dangerous.
b. Of a course of action, plan, etc.: not attended by risk of failure; without disadvantages, prudent.
What you're arguing is
What I am arguing is indeed that the safety of the AZ vaccine never changed (because neither the vaccine nor the dosage or the manufacturing process changed), we simply know more about what that level of safety is than we did initially.
Even with the new knowledge, calling the vaccine "safe" is still as justified today as it was in December, both by comparing it to a placebo therapy, and by applying legal standards.
No vaccine was ever "safe" by the "no risk of physical harm" standard. (It has that in common with peanut butter sandwiches.)
ok. now you're getting sentenced for pedantry
What I am arguing is indeed that the safety of the AZ vaccine never changed, we simply know more about what that level of safety is than we did initially.
Well then, that sounds the same as what I said in the beginning.
Go on then @Mendel, at the risk of having my sentence increased by Judge Deirdre please explain how:
the safety of the AZ vaccine never changed, we simply know more about what that level of safety is than we did initially
is different from:
not quite as safe as AstraZeneca assured told us [previously]
Your statement suggests that AZ said something that is no longer true, my statement does not.
As far as I know, everything AZ said (with one of my interpretations of "safe", either 1) compared to placebo, or 2) per government regulations) is still true.
If you'd like me to accept that AZ said "no serious side effects" and not merely "no evidence of SAEs", please point out a quote that proves this point.
That quote is from Monday, and that's where we still are.
Gotcha. So we're basically splitting hairs and arguing over something completely inconsequential. Well at least I'm finally clear on that.
Well, one is accusing AZ of making false claims, and the other is not; to me, that's a consequence of honor and integrity.
Yes. And some posts are still not defining which definition of "safe" is being discussed. It inherently requires a probability-based definition in the style of "safe enough".
Well, one is accusing AZ of making false claims
(PS If a mod is here I wouldn't think it improper to split everything including and following the last sentence in post #57 to Rambles.)
Astra Zeneca trial doctors said:
Conclusion: AZD1222 was safe, with low incidences of serious and medically attended adverse events and adverse events of special interest; the incidences were similar to those observed in the placebo group.
That sounds like you're saying: a) you have honour and integrity; b) you have more honour and integrity than me; and c) because you have honour and integrity the things you say are bound to be accurate.
Is that what you're saying?
is "AZ" like your nickname or something?
Nah, AZ = AstraZeneca.
you accused Astra Zeneca of making false claims? i missed have missed that part.
Report: "23 die in Norway after receiving Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine" (NY Post)
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Claim: U.S. Covid-19 Deaths are being Artificially Inflated
Vaccine compensations do not prove that vaccines are dangerous
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Q: JQuery cloned element I am stuck on this problem. I am coding a task platform app. Whenever I try to save, the task clones itself. After each "Save Changes," there are more and more clones. I have rewritten the code so many times. But still, I am not successful. Please help me to find the error.
$("#taskSave").click(() => {
    const task = {
        id: Date.now(),
        imageUrl: $("#imageInput").val(),
        title: $("#titleInput").val(),
        description: $("#descriptionInput").val(),
        type: $("#typeInput").val(),
    };

    $("#overlay").hide();
    todos.push(task);
    saveStorage(todos);

    // reset input values
    $("#imageInput").val("");
    $("#titleInput").val("");
    $("#descriptionInput").val("");
    $("#typeInput").val("");
});

function saveStorage(todos) {
    localStorage.setItem("todos", JSON.stringify(todos));
    display(todos);
};

function display(todos) {
    $("#taskBoard").innerHTML = "";
    // .html("");

    todos.forEach(item => {
        let c = document.createElement("div");
        c.setAttribute("class", "card");
        c.setAttribute('id', item.id);
        c.innerHTML = `

${item.title}

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        `;

        $("#taskBoard").append(c);
        // end
    });
};

A: I've created a minimal working example, and the problem is in the cleanup of the HTML. You cannot use innerHTML on the JQuery object, or you use its html function or you need to retrieve the javascript object with $("#taskBoard")[0].
    // You can use:

    $("#taskBoard").html("");
    // or
    // document.getElementById("taskBoard").innerHTML  = "";
    // or
    // $("#taskBoard")[0].innerHTML = "";

    // But not:
    // $("#taskBoard").innerHTML = "";

The working example here on JSFiddle (on SO dont work localStorage)

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Six new Harvard Overseers elected
Seven receive honorary degrees
Harvard Alumni Association President Susan Novick '85 at the Afternoon Program. The HAA holds its annual meeting following the University's Commencement.
Alumni Association also votes in six new directors
Date May 24, 2018 May 24, 2018
The myriad moments of Commencement
Hillary Clinton receives Radcliffe Medal
Facing the future, Lewis and Faust see reason for hope
Letter from a father to his graduating daughter
Kasich urges grads to seek a deeper purpose
Six new officers have been elected to Harvard University's Board of Overseers, and another half dozen as directors of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA).
The HAA announced the election results Thursday at the group's annual meeting following the University's 367th Commencement.
The six new Overseers are:
Geraldine Acuña-Sunshine, Boston
A.B. '92 cum laude, M.P.P. '96
President, Sunshine Care Foundation for Neurological Care and Research
Philip Hart Cullom, Gaithersburg, Md.
M.B.A. '88, with distinction
Vice admiral (retired), U.S. Navy
Meredith "Max" Hodges, Boston
A.B. '03 cum laude, M.B.A. '10 with distinction
Executive director, Boston Ballet
Marilyn Holifield, Miami
J.D. '72
Partner, Holland & Knight LLP
Diego A. Rodriguez, Palo Alto, Calif.
M.B.A. '01 with distinction
Executive vice president, chief product and design officer, Intuit Inc.
Yvette Roubideaux, Washington, D.C.
A.B. '85 cum laude, M.D. '89, M.P.H. '97
Director, Policy Research Center, National Congress of American Indians
Five of the new Overseers were elected for six-year terms. The sixth-place finisher, Diego Rodriguez, will serve the final two years of the unexpired term of Jane Lubchenco, who has stepped down due to professional obligations. The new Overseers were elected from a slate of eight candidates who were nominated by an HAA committee as prescribed by the election rules. Harvard degree holders cast 26,765 ballots in the election.
The primary function of the Board of Overseers is to encourage the University to maintain the highest attainable standards as a place of learning. Drawing on the diverse experience and expertise of its members, the board exerts broad influence over the University's strategic direction, provides essential counsel to the University's leadership on priorities and plans, has the power of consent to certain actions (such as election of members of the Harvard Corporation), and directs the visitation process by which a broad array of Harvard Schools and departments are periodically reviewed.
In addition, the six newly elected HAA directors are:
Collette Creppell, New Orleans
A.B. '82 cum laude, M.Arch. '90 with distinction
University architect, Brown University
Sid Espinosa, Palo Alto, Calif.
M.P.P. '00
Director of philanthropy and civic engagement, Microsoft
Natosha Reid Rice, Atlanta
A.B. '93 cum laude, J.D. '97
Associate general counsel, real estate and finance, Habitat for Humanity International; Associate pastor, Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church
Krishnan Namboodiri Subrahmanian, Minneapolis
A.B. '03 magna cum laude
Attending pediatrician, Hennepin County Medical Center and the University of Minnesota; Maternal child health specialist, Partners in Health (COPE Program)
Bella T. Wong, Weston, Mass.
A.B. '82, Ed.M. '91
Superintendent/Principal, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Rashid Muhammed Yasin, Nashville, Tenn.
S.B. '12 cum laude
Ph.D. student, Vanderbilt University
The new directors were each elected for three-year terms. They were chosen from a slate of nine candidates, who were nominated by an HAA committee as prescribed by the election rules. Harvard degree holders cast 27,537 ballots in the election.
The HAA board of directors is an advisory body that guides the fostering of alumni community-building and creating University citizens of alumni and alumni volunteers. The main work of the board of directors focuses on developing volunteer leadership, increasing and deepening alumni engagement through an array of programs that support alumni communities worldwide.
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18 years of fun: Happy Birthday PlayStation
By Adam Hartley, James Rivington 2012-12-04T12:00:00.338Z
The console that defined a generation comes of age
Celebrating 18 years of Sony-powered fun
Amazingly, the Sony PlayStation is 18 years old this week.
The console that defined a generation has come of age - a fact which, aside from being a sharp reminder of how old we've all got, has many of us donning our rose-tinted nostalgia specs and remembering the fun times it's given us.
And it is in honour of those years of Sony-powered fun that TechRadar has compiled this definitive history of PlayStation home consoles through the years. The highs and lows. The favourite games that kept us awake till 5am. And what the games industry itself remembers of each era of enjoyment.
Back in 1994, the original PlayStation was widely ridiculed by gamers at its Japanese launch, mainly because it bucked the dominant tech trend for home consoles set by the likes of Nintendo and Sega in the late 1980s.
The games came on a CD (of all things!) and not on a chunky plug-in cartridge. Yet while Nintendo and Sega (and Amiga and ST) fanboys scoffed at Sony's upstart, the sales figures soon began to speak for themselves. This was a game-changer.
Sony's early designs for the now famous PlayStation logo
Through various improvements, iterations and re-launches over the past 18 years, PlayStation has unquestioningly become the brand that is synonymous with gaming on the TV in the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s.
While overall video game hardware sales are down this year, Sony has sold 70 million PlayStation 3 consoles worldwide since 2006 and announced the 70 millionth sale last month.
Sony sold an incredible 269.7 million PlayStation consoles over the first 15 years of PlayStation (140.7 million of which were PS2s, 27 million of which were PS3s) and an astounding 2.632 billion PlayStation games. So that means total PlayStation sales are somewhere in the region of 313 million consoles.
There are now 3,590 PS3 games available, which amounts to 595 million games sold worldwide.
PlayStation Network, the PS3's free online service, is now available in 59 countries worldwide, while the PlayStation Move controller, which adds motion control similar to the Nintendo Wii, has sold more than 15 million units.
The announcement sees Sony catching up to the Xbox 360, which reached the 70 million total unit sales milestone at the end of September.
While Sony and Microsoft battle it out in the console race, they're fighting for second place. Nintendo announced in September that the Wii reached 97.2 million sales since its launch.
Eyes are now turning toward the next generation of gaming hardware, which begins this month as the Wii U launches worldwide.
New consoles from Sony and Microsoft are also in the works, commonly referred to as the PS4 and Xbox 720, though details are scarce on either system.
Rumors peg the new systems for release sometime toward the end of 2013, or even falling back into 2014, so Sony still has some life to squeeze out of the PS3.
As you'll see from our history of the console, a new PS3 model, dubbed "super slim", launched just a few months ago, so it seems Sony still has a few tricks up its sleeve before it passes the torch on to the PS4. Let's take a trip down memory lane.
Sony PlayStation / PSone
Launched: December 1994 / October 2000
Cost: £300 / £80 on UK release
Spec: 32-bit, 5th generation games console
Distinguishing features: CD-based games, CD player, Triangle/Square/Circle/Cross on controller
Main competitors: Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64
Biggest titles: Gran Turismo, Ridge Racer, WipEout
Lifespan: 11 years
Aaah, the original PlayStation. Where do we start? The real and deeply visceral future-shock of playing Ridge Racer on our TV at home is perhaps what we remember most vividly. The graphics! There genuinely had not been such a superbly realised and deeply immersive driving experience up to that point outside of your local seaside arcade.
Playing Ridge Racer on the first PlayStation (that we bought second-hand for around a hundred quid from Loot back in 1996) was a revelation. It immediately made the lounge a far more exciting place to be.
"Without shadow of a doubt, my favourite PlayStation game was WipEout," says Bethesda Games UK's PR Manager, Alistair Hatch. "There were a lot of games which I played to death on the PlayStation including the likes of FFVII, Ridge Racer, Time Crisis, Gran Turismo, and Tony Hawk: Pro Skater, but WipEout was revolutionary in so many ways that it stands as my favourite game on PlayStation."
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Our Austrian correspondent AMT sent us a tip for the following article about the Islamic Religious Community in Austria, which found itself in a spot of bother over a schoolteacher who had connections with the Syrian jihad or somesuch — you know, one of those trivial, inconsequential incidents that infidels blow all out of proportion and get so upset about.
This is an interesting story about a "radical" teacher preaching basic Islamic tenets to his students and who was consequently sacked by the Islamic Faith Community, which purports to speak for all Muslims in Austria but in reality only represents around 1,000 registered Muslims.
The Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGiÖ) has withdrawn permission to teach from one of its religious teachers. He had published Islamist propaganda videos for the Syrian civil war on the internet.
Last Friday, through a report in the Tyrolean Daily News, a broader public was exposed to a video in which teacher Hisham A. interviews a Syrian rebel, who has in the meantime been killed. Things moved swiftly after that. On Monday, there was a statement from the Viennese school council that the IGGiÖ had been asked to withdraw teaching permission. And the IGGiÖ announced Monday that all necessary steps had been taken.
Statements like those of Hisham A. in the internet video were insupportable for the religious community, Carla Amina Baghajati, IGGiÖ press officer and special inspector for religious instruction in the elementary schools , said to ORF.at. Hisham A. — presently at his own request on a year's unpaid leave — would definitely not return to teaching.
In any case, termination of the professional relationship, said the IGGiÖ, was the province of the school council. Like other recognized churches and religious societies, the IGGiÖ only proposes the teachers. They are hired by the state. The school council told ORF.at on Monday, that the legal situation in the case of Hisham A. was presently being investigated. Hisham A. would definitely not be teaching classes again.
"His now known activities as media representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the armed conflict in Syria make his return to teaching impossible," said Baghajati. No one would any longer be hired who did not clearly pledge to follow the religious community's policy.
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Posted November 30, 2012 by Paula Hammond - Features Editor in C
The Colditz Story
By – Steve Lillie – The Colditz Story is a classic British war film. Arguably one of the classic British war films.
Steve Lillie
The Colditz Story is a classic
British war film. Arguably one of the classic British war films. But
it's more than just a good film. It's based on a true story which, according to
the documentary on the DVD, is quite faithful to the real events. Making The
Colditz Story all the more remarkable.
Second World War defined a generation. A generation that have become almost
mythic in their stoic heroism against the evil of National Socialist Germany.
It's important that films such as this are preserved and watched, not just
because they are great films but because they are a documentary record of that
time, made not long after the event. In the case of The Colditz Story, just 15
years separate the film from the real events. What's more Pat Reid (played in the film by John Mills) wrote the book that inspired the screenplay, was an
actual Colditz escapee.
British have always done war stories very well. Stories like The Great Escape, Ice Cold In Alex, The
Cruel Sea, and The Damn Busters
to name but a few. Often these films stand in sharp contrast to the flag-waving
propaganda vehicles produced by other countries (who shall remain nameless).
British war films rarely stoop to bloodthirsty gung-ho-ism. Instead they are
content to tell the intimate 'little stories' of the more human side of the war
effort; the personalities and stiff- upper-lip resilience that never
surrendered to Nazi aggression.
this is certainly true of the characters that drive The Colditz Story. Although
they're all combatants, their status as prisoners of war (POWs) means that they
are no longer part of some big faceless war-machine. They're just human beings
with very human faults and foibles. The story of Colditz Castle is the ultimate
tale of man against the system. In this case men under-fed, stir crazy, desperate,
and bundled together in the ultimate "escape-proof" stronghold.
not originally designed to hold POWs, the German military machine did their
utmost to make Colditz Castle escape-proof. Every inch was covered by armed
guards, machine gun towers and extra wire fences to augment the already
daunting walls. In fact the guards actually out numbered the prisoners.
this, from the very beginning, the POWs had only one thought: ESCAPE! It was not only their duty but also
their driving passion. So begins the deadly cat and mouse game between guards
and their captives. As you'd expect from over a hundred men with nothing else
to do, they come up with some ingenious escape schemes, often facilitated by
the nature of the castle itself.
But there is more to The Colditz Story than escape attempts and plucky
backchat. The story is told through the eyes of the British inmates, naturally,
although they cooperate with all the nationalities who found themselves cooped
up in Coldtiz Castle. And this gives us some of the best bits in the film. The
Gallic gall of the French, the pluck of the Poles, the daring of the Dutch.
Filmic shorthand may mean that every nationality is sketched out with a broad
brush-stroke but they never become fantastical stereotypes. This is a tale that
rings true because it is true.
would be easy to imagine how anyone in this situation would be kowtowed by the
oppressive regime of Colditz Caste, but the defiant banter and goon baiting
never eases up for a moment. In the end you can only watch in wonder at the
tenacity, ingenuity, and bravery of these men.
may be almost 70 years since the first real escape from Colditz but thanks to
the power of film, this is a story that will never lose its power to enthrall
or inspire.
Circus's new HD restoration of The Colditz Story, in lush widescreen, is out
this week, accompanied by a pleasing array of extras including a must-watch documentary
about the men behind the real Colditz story.
Paula Hammond - Features Editor
Paula Hammond is a full-time, freelance journalist. She regularly writes for more magazines than is healthy and has over 25 books to her credit. When not frantically scribbling, she can be found indulging her passions for film, theatre, cult TV, sci-fi and real ale. If you should spot her in the pub, after five rounds rapid, she'll be the one in the corner mumbling Ghostbusters quotes and waiting for the transporter to lock on to her signal… Email: writerpaula@icloud.com
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Oregon public health officials announced on Wednesday that a travel-related Zika virus case has been confirmed in the state.
This is the first Zika case found in Oregon in 2016, but across the country 35 Zika cases were confirmed as of Feb. 3, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Oregon woman had traveled to a country where Zika is in circulation, and was experiencing symptoms of the illness when she was tested, Oregon public health physician Dr. Richard Leman said.
Leman declined to say where in Oregon the woman is from and where she traveled.
Possible symptoms of Zika include fever, rash, conjunctivitis and joint pain.
WHO declares global emergency over Zika virus spread
Providers have been notified that the CDC would test specimens from people who recently traveled where Zika is in transmission and are showing at least two symptoms suggesting Zika infection, Leman said.
The woman has since recovered, and the public is not in danger.
Before this case, Oregon recorded three travel-associated Zika cases from 2014.
Zika virus is mainly spread through two species of mosquitoes and is active in Central and South America, as well as the Pacific islands.
Leman noted that Zika virus in general is not a serious infection — most people never show symptoms, and those who do rarely need to be hospitalized. The alarm regarding Zika virus currently is the possibility that it could harm unborn babies in pregnant women.
The virus has been connected to a birth defect causing babies to be born with underdeveloped brains and small heads.
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Q: DC/OS ssh connection refused on port 22 - preflight Hi I am trying to setup DC/OS in Debian 8 Jessie, I got working ssh connection with the ssh key, I am able to login without password to all masters and agents (they are running CentOS 7). Strange thing is it's not working when running --preflight, it will say connection refused for all nodes.

TASK:
/usr/bin/ssh -oConnectTimeout=10 -oStrictHostKeyChecking=no -oUserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -oBatchMode=yes -oPasswordAuthentication=no -p22 -i genconf/ssh_key -tt root@192.168.122.131 sudo rm -rf /opt/dcos_install_tmp
     STDERR:
          ssh: connect to host 192.168.122.131 port 22: Connection refused
     STDOUT:

If I try to run this command in terminal, it works just fine. So it does not work only when running it via bash dcos_generate_config.sh --prefligh. Any idea what could be wrong please?

A: In bash -- denotes the end of command-line options, so what you need to probably do is:
bash dcos_generate_config.sh -- --prefligh


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BU eager for repeat performance
JOHNNY CAMPOS
If history holds true, the Bradley soccer team already has done enough to earn a return trip to the NCAA tournament.
But BU coach Jim DeRose doesn't want to leave anything to chance at this week's Missouri Valley Conference tournament.
Last year, Bradley earned an automatic bid to the postseason by winning the event at Shea Stadium.
This year, the Braves (13-4-2) open defense of their MVC tournament title at 6 p.m. Wednesday against Southern Illinois-Edwardsville at Morrison Stadium on the Creighton campus. Fourth-seeded Drake and No. 5 Central Arkansas open the event with a 3 p.m. contest.
"We're happy with where we are in the at-large pool, but we don't want to leave it in other people's hands," DeRose said. "We've had a very strong year, have a very good resume, and our body of work has been pretty good, top to bottom."
The Braves, ranked 19th nationally, went 4-2 in the Valley, good enough for a No. 3 seed in the tournament.
It's the fourth time in program history BU has won 13 regular-season matches.
Bradley has advanced to the NCAA tournament in each of the last four seasons it won at least 12 regular-season games.
Last year, the Braves and SIUE played to a double-overtime scoreless tie in the MVC tournament title game. Bradley, which was seeded fifth, won the tournament crown with a 4-3 edge in penalty kicks.
"SIUE has played us tough," DeRose said. "Last year they beat us in the regular season, and we needed penalty kicks in overtime to beat them in the conference championship game.
"They are a very talented team in terms of playing skill. We're going to have to keep doing what we've been doing and limit them in their attack."
The winner of the match will advance to Friday's semifinals against the host Bluejays, who are seeded second.
Creighton and top-seeded Missouri State both earned first-round byes after tying at 5-1 for the regular-season league title.
"It would have been nice to have a bye," DeRose said, "But Creighton and Missouri State got one more win that we did."
The televised final match of the tournament is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday.
Johnny Campos can be reached at 686-3214 or at jcampos@pjstar.com.


MAROS KRIVY (1981) will open his personal exhibition New Coat of Paint in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on March 20th, 2013. Within the exhibition, two events will also take place: lecture "Bright colours in Estonian architecture: between 1970s and today" by Andres Kure, held at 5pm on March 22nd; and debate with young architects who design new facades for panel buildings, with the participation of Kadri Reinumägi, Karel Kask and others, chaired by Maros Krivy – that will take place at 6pm on March 25th.
The exhibition presents author's art-research project New Coat of Paint. It brings together older works, selection from ongoing works, and new works prepared specifically for the show. The overall theme is the use of colour in architecture and urban spaces under the post-socialist condition; the specific focus is on the process of refurbishing prefabricated appartment houses in Central and Eastern European housing estates. The refurbishment is usually analysed, discussed and represented in pragmatic terms of what brings the most substantial savings on energy: the practice of insulation, whereby concrete panels are laid over with layers of polystyrene, polyurethane, and mineral wool. Yet, the interest of the New Coat of Paint project lies in the politics of colourful facades added on top of the insulating layer. During the last decade, housing estates in Central and Eastern Europe have been covered in a flamboyant and patchworked mixture of yellow, orange, pink, violet and green colours.
But how is this colour boom governed and regulated and what does it say about the ongoing, postsocialist, social and urban transformations?
The contrast between grey and colourful is of a particular interest here. In everyday language of the post-Soviet era, housing estates and prefabs have been described as 'grey'. The meaning of 'greyness' bears implicit negative connotations – anonymity, boredom and desolation. In such context, colourful facades embody a promise of happiness, which is to be found in the ideals of architectural variety, diversity and singularity. But is today's utopia nothing more than the undoing of the utopia of modernist and post-war times, the colours undoing the greys, the ideals of singularity undoing the ideals of collectivity?
Ultimately, therefore, the introduction of colourful variations on prefabricated panel buildings leads to a fundamental question: what is the status of architectural object under the post-socialist condition?
The colourful facades express the architectural ideals of difference, variability and diversity, but they even more express the refusal of the former ideals of equality, homogeneity, and universality. To paraphrase Jean Baudrillard, the repainting of panel facades with flamboyant colours suggest an ideal of architecture as a singular object. In our case, the ideal is to make a unique panel house with limited means and to differentiate it from its urban context, defined by similar panel houses.
At the exhibition, the author's strategy is never to show the new colourful facades 'directly'. The experience shows that such encounter is usually met with an immediate aesthetic judgment: how beautiful! how ridiculous! Thus, the new facades are represented 'indirectly': they are reproduced in black and white and the names of colours are listed on the side, the colour patterns are redrawn on a millimeter paper, or the colour maps of housing estates are produced.
Two events will be held during the exhibition – lecture "Bright colours in Estonian architecture: between 1970s and today" by Andres Kurg and debate with young architects who design new facades for panel buildings. Together with these events, the exhibition aims at making a step towards a more contextual urbanistic, architectural and sociological understanding of the phenomena.
Exhibition will be open until April 1th, 2013.


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On Wednesday, October 10th, the Lauren and Bobby Turner Social Impact Executive Speaker Series hosted Evan Longoria. In years past, Bobby Turner (a Wharton alum) has hosted basketball star Magic Johnson, tennis player Andre Agassi, and rapper Ludacris. But, that night in Irvine Auditorium, Turner sat down with the 37 year old Texas native to talk about her experience growing up, her transition into fame, and her various philanthropic endeavors.
Contrary to what you might think, Eva felt like an ugly duckling during her childhood. The youngest of four sisters, she described feeling like the odd one out, and decided that in order to make up for her shortcomings that she would be "really smart and really funny." She defined herself as the American Dream because she essentially started from nothing, worked super hard, and became the successful businesswoman she is today.
She spoke passionately about her dedication to the Latino community and proudly spoke about her support for President Obama's re-election campaign. When asked if she ever thought her personal views would alienate her fan base, she respectfully stated that her dedication to philanthropy and politics is more important than any upcoming movie.
After her talk with Bobby Turner, Eva answered a few questions from the audience during a Q-A session, in which many Penn student graciously thanked Eva for taking the time out to come to campus but also inquiring about work-life balance, body image and self-confidence, among other intriguing topics.
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Gay marriage isn't the problem
Gay marriage isn't the problem, from a reactionary point of view — any marriage for love is the problem:
Before the twelfth century, in Europe, love between men and women was not regarded as heroic; it was instead considered a sign of weakness, the preoccupation of a person without character.
Why this change? Since the twelfth century, lovers have been consistently considered heroic in Western countries. The plot of the story of Lancelot and Guinevere written about 1170 and the plot of the famous movie Casablanca (1942) — perhaps the most admired Hollywood film of all time — are virtually the same. Why have heroic visions of love endured through all these centuries?
This is not just a question of literary images, because there is plentiful evidence that millions of people have experienced their love in this way.
During the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, it was thought that, when people were freed to pursue their desires without hindrance or moral condemnation, romantic love would fade out. The illusions and idealizations of love would no longer be needed to assuage feelings of guilt or selfishness. But the opposite occurred. Since the 1980s, romantic love has regained its old salience. It may be more important now than it ever was.
Love now dominates the institution of marriage as never before. In recent years, Hollywood has been pouring out wedding movies, while the average cost of real weddings climbs higher every year — now over $25,000 in the U.S., over 10,000 pounds in the U.K., over 10,000 Euros in France. (Just paying for the wedding is becoming a "heroic" act today.) High divorce rates likewise reflect the belief that, if love goes, the marriage must end. Why this surprising aftermath to the sexual revolution?
Outside of Western industrialized countries, there is little evidence of love heroism.
Romantic love is the single greatest energy system in the Western psyche.
In our culture it has supplanted religion as the arena in which men and women seek meaning, transcendence, wholeness, and ecstasy…We are so accustomed to living with the beliefs and assumptions of romantic love that we think it is the only form of "love" on which marriage or love relationships can be based. We think it is the only "true love". But there is much that we can learn from the East about this. In Eastern countries, like those of India and Japan, we find that married couples love each other with great warmth, often with a stability and devotion that puts us to shame. But their love is not "romantic love" as we know it. They don't impose the same ideals on their relationships, nor do they impose such impossible demands and expectations on each other as we do.
Romantic love has existed throughout history in many cultures. We find it in the literature of ancient Greece, the Roman empire, ancient Persia, and feudal Japan. But our modern Western society is the only culture in history that has experienced romantic love as a mass phenomenon. We are the only society that makes romance the basis of our marriages and love relationships and the cultural ideal of "true love".
One of the greatest paradoxes in romantic love is that it never produces human relationships as long as it stays romantic. It produces drama, daring adventures, wondrous, intense love scenes, jealousies, and betrayal; but people never seem to settle into relationship with each other as flesh-and-blood human beings until they are out of the romantic love stage, until they love each other instead of "being in love".
Romance, in its purest form, seeks only one thing — passion. It is willing to sacrifice everything else — every duty, obligation, relationship, or commitment — in order to have passion.
In imperial Rome, patrician men sometimes found themselves falling deeply in love with the slaves they met in brothels.
This love was a release from the oppressive obligations and rivalries found in arranged marriages and in the intrigues of public life. Roman poets idealized their beloved slave prostitutes as domina, literally reversing the role of master and slave.
… In other societies the dangers of sexual servitude were avoided by expediently guaranteeing the chastity of romantic relationships. The best-known examples are the Medieval Troubadours, who, in a transformation of the cult of the Virgin Mary, renounced physical contact with the women they worshipped.
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David Foster says:
Surely, romantic love is more prevalent and important in societies organized around nuclear families as opposed to extended families?
See this post. Also, the new book America 3.0 has much to say about the importance of family structure in the evolution of societies.
Isegoria says:
I suppose societies built on extended families and arranged marriages would look at our society's attitude toward romantic love the way we'd look at a society that sang the praises of eating whatever you want. Sure, you want your food to taste good, but listen to your mother: you need to eat healthy food, not junk.
Michel Chevalier, a French engineer who visited the US circa 1833, had some interesting comments. He observed that Americans were the most money-obsessed people he had ever met..but that, paradoxically, this obsession allowed them to be much more romantic than the Frenchman or Frenchwoman when it came to marriage:
"I ought to do the Americans justice on another point. I have said that with them everything was an affair of money; yet there is one thing which among us, a people of lively affections, prone to love and generous by nature, takes the mercantile character very decidedly and which among them has nothing of this character; I mean marriage. We buy a woman with our fortune or we sell ourselves to her for her dowry. The American chooses her, or rather offers himself to her, for her beauty, her intelligence, or her amiable qualities and asks no other portion. Thus, while we make a traffic of what is most sacred, these shopkeepers exhibit a delicacy and loftiness of feeling which would have done honor to the most perfect models of chivalry."
Michel Chevalier sounds like an interesting individual:
In 1830, after the July Revolution, he became a Saint-Simonian, and edited their paper Le Globe. The paper was banned in 1832, when the "Simonian sect" was found to be prejudicial to the social order, and Chevalier, as its editor, was sentenced to six months imprisonment.
After his release, Minister of the Interior Adolphe Thiers sent him on a mission to the United States and Mexico, to observe the state of industrial and financial affairs in the Americas. In Mexico he exchanged ideas with the mineralogist and politician Andrés Manuel del Río. It was during this trip that he also developed the idea that the Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking parts of the Americas shared a cultural or racial affinity with all the European peoples with a Romance culture. Chevalier postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a "Latin race," which could be a natural ally of "Latin Europe" in its struggle with "Teutonic Europe," "Anglo-Saxon America" and "Slavic Europe."[1] The idea was later taken up by French and Latin American intellectuals and political leaders of the mid- and late nineteenth century, who no longer looked to Spain or Portugal as cultural models, but rather to France, and who coined the term "Latin America."
Wobbly says:
"Prejudicial to the social order" sounds like quite a crime.
There is some evidence that women are subconsciously attracted to men who have immune systems complementary to their own, and that this has advantages in that any resulting children are likely to have stronger immune systems than if the mating had been between a couple with more similar systems.
If this is true and the effect is reasonably strong (there are thousands of articles and blog posts on this, but it seems one would have to dig out the original research to get any idea of the strength of the effect), then societies which permit female choice would have a biological advantage over those with strictly arranged marriages.
This reminds me how little I know about 19th-century France. Let's see, they close out the 18th century with the Revolution and Napoleon's rise to power. Then Napoleon falls, and… then the French "paper tiger" loses a quick war to the Germans, and then… they fight World War I to a standstill. Oh, and somewhere in there a number of "republics" come and go. I'm sure I'm missing a few things.
I think the analogy to diet is a strong one, because our body has strong instincts that have been useful in the past, but which sometimes backfire in our civilized setting.
Our "civilized setting" can change pretty quickly, though. For example, having a strong immune system might not have mattered so much among the upper middle classes in a European city in 1938, given clean water and dwellings, availability of medical attention, etc. but mattered a great deal 5 years later amid the wreckage.
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But is there any evidence that arranged-marriage cultures have less life expectancy? Of course it is also possible that the life expectancy that mattered in the past was the first years of children. So that would imply what women wanted was a good immune system for the children and not necessarily of an adult.


After two days at home, with me, Liam grudgingly went back to school today. He was very tired, but we all were. Nobody slept well last night, except Meg. Liam couldn't sleep because of his coughing. cindy and I couldn't sleep because of the coughing.
Liam skipped P.E. and had a breathing treatment (and brief nap) in Nurse Cindy's office. She snapped a quick photo to remember the event. Hopefully we all do better tonight. And tomorrow.
We can all use a return to normalacy.


More than one-third of Americans (35%) carry a credit card that gives them travel rewards for spending, but almost half (44%) overestimate the value of those rewards, thinking a point or mile is worth 5 cents or more, according to a recent NerdWallet study. Points and miles are actually worth around 1 cent each, on average. But they're still highly valuable — if you use them effectively.
A point is a point is a point … or is it? While some travel credit cards have a single redemption option — such as credit against travel purchases — others offer multiple options, but they may not all provide the same value. For example, a travel card might let you redeem rewards for travel at 1 cent per point. That same card may also offer you a gift card redemption option at 0.6 cent per point.
A difference of four-tenths of a cent in value may not seem meaningful, but it adds up quickly when you're redeeming thousands of points. Say your annual spending earns you 30,000 points per year. The difference between using the travel redemption option and the gift card redemption option in this scenario would be $120 per year, or $600 over the course of 5 years.
When asked what they would do if they accumulated 50,000 travel rewards points or miles, just over half of Americans (55%) said they'd use them for flights or nonflight travel expenses. However, about 1 in 8 (13%) say they'd continue to save them. That could be a big mistake.
The value of a travel point isn't static. Three major ways points can lose value are through devaluation, expiration and inflation.
Devaluation is common in the frequent flyer world. When a program increases the number of points you need to redeem for free travel, the value of each individual point goes down.
Expiration policies vary by issuer, but after a certain amount of time — or even if you don't use your card for a while — some or all of your rewards could expire.
Inflation is inevitable, even if your points never expire and aren't devalued. As time goes on, today's dollar becomes less valuable, dragging the value of a point down with it.
Don't assume your rewards will hold their value. Save up enough to cover your next trip, then book it.
Pick the right card for you. Getting good value out of a credit card starts with choosing the card that works best for you. This means evaluating the rewards, benefits and costs based on how much you spend and what you spend it on, the perks that you'll actually use, and your tolerance for fees. The ideal card for you as a consumer isn't necessarily the flashiest option. It's the one that best suits your lifestyle.
Earn the sign-up bonus. Many rewards credit cards — particularly travel cards — have sizable sign-up bonuses, a pile of points you earn all at once for spending a certain amount in a specified period of time. If you choose a card with a sign-up bonus, know how much you'll need to spend and when you'll need to do it by. However, don't spend more than you can afford just to earn a bonus. Before applying for a card, assess whether the spending requirement for the bonus is realistic.
Avoid interest. It may be tempting to spend more than you otherwise would to rack up rewards, but you can't win that game. Credit card debt is one of the most expensive types of debt, and interest will quickly outweigh any rewards you earn on your spending. Limit your charges to what you can afford to pay off by the due date.
Earning and redeeming travel rewards doesn't have to be complicated. But knowing what you have and what it's worth will take you farther.


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Who Can Become a Bellman
Original title Ki more bit zvončar
The bellmen (zvončari) of the Kastav region are colorful Carnival characters that fill TV-screens with report segments when they start on their parades every year. For 12 years a parade of traditional Carnival groups has been taking place in Matulji on Lent Saturday, when almost all bellmen groups from the Kastav region come together. And everything is hunky-dory, everything is clear. But two bellmen groups have been quite adamant about staying away from the Matulji parade – the ones from Rukavac and Zvoneće. Unlike all other bellmen groups who travel to events around the country and the world, these two refuse to go anywhere. Their motives give rise to some fundamental questions pertaining to the modern purpose of traditional customs and appropriate modes for their modern incarnations, a topic on which not even ethnologists agree. At the same time, around Kastav new groups are appearing all the time and the bellmenship is gaining momentum, but it is increasingly integrating new occurrences that cultural globalization continuously and mercilessly brings in its wake.
Author/s Ivo Kuzmanić
IVO KUZMANIC Born on 19th July of 1966 in Zagreb. – author and co-director (with Tihomir Beritic) of the feature film, Dimnjacarska simfonija (The Chimney-Sweeper's Symphony) (1992), which was shown at the Croatian Film Festival (Dani Hrvatskog filma) and at the film festival in Imola, Italy. – directed Zemlja na dlanu (Earth in the Palm of the Hand), a television series about ecology for the Croatian state television company, HRT (29 half-hour shows) – co-author (with Darko Vernic Bundi), cammerman, and actor in a number of experimental films, including Put do sreće (The Road to Happiness) and Na dnu I, II (At the Bottom I, II) – co-directed (with Darko Vernic Bundi) Animavizija ("Animavision"), the first television show about animated film – director, chronicles of the World Festival of Animated Film, which takes place in Zagreb every two years – directed three music videos and a number of live music shows – director, chronicles of the annual International Folk Festival – directed a documentary film, Kirvaj u Kupini (The Patron Saint's Day Festival in Kupina), about traditions in Slavonija – created the television series Tragom bastine (In Search of Heritage) (1998) – director and screenwriter, thirty-minute documentary films for the television series Tragom bastine (In Search of Heritage), with Tomislav Pletenac, ph.d. (narrator, screenwriter), Department of Ethnology And Cultural Anthropology, University of Zagreb. The most recent film in this series, Bederske price (Tales from Beder), was awarded a prize at the International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 2003 – director & co-writer of Maskori z' Turcisca (The Turcisce Carnival), 46-minute documentary, awarded with the Grand Prix of The International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro 2004; award of Slavonia Heart Festival, Djakovo, Croatia, 2010 – director of Prilepski meckari (The Bear Men From Prilep), 30-minute documentary, awarded at The International Ethnological Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia 2006, as the best foreign film – director of Ki more bit zvoncar (Who Can Become a Bellman), 55- minute documentary, awarded with Mayor Prize at Etnofilm festival 2008, Čadca, Slovakia, and with the Best foreign film prize and the Best script special recognition at XVII International ethnological film festival 2008.
Research Lidija Nikočević
Photography Tvrtko Mršić, Ivo Kuzmanić, Dean Krapić, Boris Vehar
Sound Krunoslav Ljubanović, Vlado Ilijaš, Predrag Grubić
Editing Davorka Feller


Alright, I have a little more time and energy tonight but my throat is still sore so who knows what it will sound like. I've spent the last week taking care of sick kids and a sick wife so I have had little time to stream. boo Damian. But, tonight is the night for some great music.
My buddy Keith came over and took some pics for instagram so now I have some content for that. Stay tuned for some awesome and funny shots. I found it taking alot of time to manually add each song to the below playlist so I just took a screen shot from Ultimate Guitar. Click 'Playlist' below to see the tabs for the songs I am playing. Leeeet's do it.


11" x 14" - 30" x 15"
The client and Elizabeth Whelan discuss the painting and the first sitting.
At the first sitting Elizabeth gets to know the portrait subject.
She observes gestures, makes sketches, and takes photos.
Approach and composition are developed from this reference material.
Next, a small color study is painted and mailed to the client for approval.
Painting the portrait can take from two to six months from start to finish.
Varnishing is discussed and the painting is allowed to dry.
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Delivery is in person on Martha's Vineyard.
An unveiling or event is the perfect time to reveal the portrait!