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Betting and games
Betting Markets
Betting rules
Acceptance and Validation of Bets
Esports Rules
Tournament Winner
You are betting on the team to win the tournament.
Results will be determined and settled according to the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API, if available.
You are betting on who will win the match. Matches could be a single map, or will be the best of several maps (Best of 3, Best of 5, etc.)
If there is a change in the statutory number of maps or games played bets placed on this market will stand. Where the match finishes in a draw but the draw selection was not offered, bets will be cancelled. If any map is not played or is awarded to one player or team by walkover or default without play having commenced, all bets on that map and on the matchup as a whole will be cancelled.
Map Advantage
You are betting on the winner of the match after the stated advantage has been applied.
On advantage markets where the draw isn't offered if scores are tied after the stated advantage is applied, bets will be cancelled. On occasion, where the full number of maps are not completed (i.e 4 maps are played in a BO5) any results undetermined will be cancelled.
Total Maps
You are betting on whether the total number of maps played in the match will be over or under the stated total.
On occasion, where the full number of maps are not completed (i.e 4 maps are played in a BO5) any results undetermined will be cancelled.
Team Number of Maps Won
You are betting on the total number of maps won by the stated team.
On occasion, where the full number of maps are not completed (i.e 4 maps are played in a BO5) any results undetermined will be cancelled. If any map is not played or is awarded to one player or team by walkover or default without play having commenced, all bets will be cancelled.
You are betting on the map scoreline of the match, e.g. Team A 2-1 in a Best of Three format, Team B 3-0 in a Best of Five format etc.
If there is a change in the statutory number of maps or games played bets placed on this market will be cancelled. If any map is not played or is awarded to one player or team by walkover or default without play having commenced, all bets will be cancelled.
Team to win at least one map
You are betting on the team to win at least one map in the match.
On occasion, where the full number of maps are not completed (i.e 4 maps are played in a BO5) any results undetermined will be cancelled. If any map is not played or is awarded to one player or team by walkover or default without play having commenced, it will not be counted for bet settlement purposes.
Total Maps Odd/Even
You are betting on whether the total number of maps will be odd or even.
Round Winner
You are betting on who will win the round.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On the occasion, where the stated round was not completed, all bets will be cancelled.
Round Advantage
You are betting on which team will win the most rounds after the stated advantage has been applied.
In the event of an abandoned map or disqualification bets will be cancelled. Overtime is included for bet settlement purposes unless otherwise stated.
Total Rounds Odd/Even
You are betting on whether the total number of rounds will be odd or even.
Total Rounds
You are betting on whether the total number of rounds will be over or under the stated total.
You are betting whether an Overtime will be played on the stated map.
In the event of an abandoned and not completed map or disqualification, bets will be cancelled. On occasions, where a Draw is declared before any Overtime rounds having been played, all bets will be cancelled.
First To X Rounds
You are betting on the first team to reach the stated number of rounds.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On the occasion of neither player reaching the number of rounds required, all bets will be cancelled.
Map Winner
You аre betting on the team to win the map.
If any map is not played or is awarded to one player or team by walkover or default without play having commenced, all bets on that map will be cancelled. For maps where one team surrenders, the winning team is the team that did not surrender.
You are betting on the total number of kills scored.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Team Total Kills
You are betting on the total number of kills scored by the stated team.
Kills Advantage
You are betting on which team will score the most kills after the stated advantage has been applied.
Total Kills Odd/Even
You are betting on the total number of kills scored being odd or even.
First To X kills
You are betting on the first team to reach the stated number of kills.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes. On the occasion of neither player reaching the number of kills required, all bets will be cancelled.
Team to Score Kill X
You are betting on the team to score the stated kill.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes. Where the game is over before the stated kill has been scored, all bets will be cancelled.
Damage Advantage
You are betting on which team will do more damage to opposing Hero after the stated advantage has been applied.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On davantage markets where the draw isn't offered if scores are tied after the stated advantage is applied, bets will be cancelled.
You are betting on whether the total played time in the map will be over or under the stated total.
Results will be settled on the in-game clock of the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. The period before creeps spawn is not included for bet settlement purposes.
You are betting on the team to score the first kill.
Time of First Blood
You are betting on the time the first kill is scored.
Results will be settled on the in-game clock of the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Time of First Tower Destroyed
You are betting on the time the first tower is destroyed.
Results will be settled on the in-game clock of the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Hero created 'Structures' do not count as Towers for settlement purposes.
Team to Slay Roshan X
You are betting on the team to slay the stated roshan.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Where there is no 'Neither' or 'Draw' selection available and this selection is the Winner, all bets will be cancelled.
Total Roshan Kills
You are betting on whether the total number of roshans slain will be over or under the stated total.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available.
Team To Destroy Tower X
You are betting on the team to destroy the stated tower.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Hero created 'Structures' do not count as Towers for settlement purposes. Where the game is over before the stated Tower has been destroyed, all bets will be cancelled.
Team To Destroy Barrack X
You are betting on the team to destroy the stated barrack.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Hero created 'Structures' do not count as Barracks for settlement purposes. Where the game is over before the stated Barrack has been destroyed, all bets will be cancelled.
Gold Advantage
You are betting on which team will accumulate more gold after the stated advantage has been applied.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On advantage markets where the draw isn't offered if scores are tied after the stated advantage is applied, bets will be cancelled.
Total Gold
You are betting on total accumulated gold being over or under the stated total.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available.
Highest Killing Spree
You are betting on whether the highest killing spree in the match will be over or under the stated total.
You are betting whether a player on a team will register a triple kill.
For a multi-kill to register as a triple kill it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Godlike Streak
You are betting whether a player on a team will register a godlike streak (9 consecutive kills without dying).
For a multi-kill to register as a godlike streak it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Largest Multi Kill
You are betting on the number of the largest multi kill registered by a player on either team.
For a multi-kill to be registered it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Hero counts as a kill. For example, where a Hero is killed by tower or creep damage without the involvement of an enemy Hero this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
You are betting on the team to score the most kills.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes. Where there is no 'Neither' or 'Draw' selection available and this selection is the Winner, all bets will be cancelled.
The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes. On the occasion of neither player reaching the number of kills required, all bets will be cancelled.
You are betting on which team will accumulate more gold after the stated handicap has been applied.
You are betting on which team will do more damage to opposing Champions after the stated advantage has been applied.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On advantage markets where the draw isn't offered if scores are tied after the stated advantage is applied, bets will be cancelled.
Total Barons Slain
You are betting on the total number of barons slain.
Total Dragons Slain
You are betting on the total number of dragons slain.
Total Inhibitors Destroyed
You are betting on the total number of inhibitors destroyed.
Each of the six inhibitors counts only once, even if it is destroyed, respawns and is destroyed again.
Both Teams To Destroy An Inhibitor
You are betting on whether both teams will destroy an inhibitor.
Both Teams To Slay A Baron
You are betting on whether both teams will slay a baron.
Both Teams To Slay A Dragon
You аre betting on whether both teams will slay a dragon.
Team to Destroy Inhibitor X
You are betting on the team to destroy the stated inhibitor.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Where the game is over before the stated Inhibitor has been destroyed, all bets will be cancelled.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Champion created 'Structures' do not count as Towers for settlement purposes. Where the game is over before the stated Tower has been destroyed, all bets will be cancelled.
Team To Slay Baron X
You are betting on the team to slay the stated baron.
Team To Slay Dragon X
You are betting on the team to slay the stated dragon.
Results will be settled on the in-game clock of the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Results will be settled on the in-game clock of the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Champion created 'Structures' do not count as Towers for settlement purposes.
Total Towers Destroyed
You are betting on the total number of towers destroyed.
Results will be settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. Champion created 'Structures' do not count as Towers for settlement purposes. In the event of a surrender this market will be settled as the total number of towers destroyed at the time of surrender plus the minimum number of extra towers needed for the victorious team to secure the win.
Penta Kill
You are betting on whether a player on a team will register a Penta Kill.
For a multi-kill to register as a Quadra Kill it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
Quadra Kill
You are betting on whether a player on a team will register a Quadra Kill.
For a multi-kill to register as a triple kill it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
For a multi-kill to be registered it must be announced as such during the match or listed in the official match history. The official broadcast, or game API if available, is definitive in determining whether the death of a Champion counts as a kill. For example, where a Champion is killed by tower or minion damage without the involvement of an enemy Champion this may not be registered as a kill on the broadcast, in which case it does not count as a kill for bet settlement purposes.
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First to X Points
You are betting on the first team to reach the stated number of points.
Results will be determined and settled on the official broadcast of the game by the publisher or event organiser, or game API if available. On the occasion of neither team reaching the number of points required, all bets will be cancelled.
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Ram Viswas Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh
[Criminal Appeal No. 2048 of 2012 arising out of S.L.P. (CRL.) No. 2689 of 2012]
P. Sathasivam,J.
2. This appeal is directed against the judgment and order dated 07.05.2009 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh in Criminal Appeal No. 884 of 2000 whereby the Division Bench of the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the appellant herein.
3. Brief facts:
a. This case relates to one Maladeep, resident of village Semaria, District Rewa, Madhya Pradesh, who was burnt to death by her husband-Ram Viswas, the appellant herein by pouring kerosene oil.
b. Maladeep (the deceased) and Ram Viswas were married to each other but were not in good terms. The appellant herein was not happy with his married life and often used to quarrel with Maladeep. He was actually forcing his wife to leave her matrimonial home which was not agreeable to her.
c. In order to get rid of her, on 03.02.1998, in the midnight, the appellant herein poured kerosene oil on Maladeep and set her on fire. On hearing her cries, a number of persons gathered on the spot and tried to extinguish the fire. The appellant herein also tried to douse the fire and got his hands burnt.
d. Maladeep was taken to the G.M. Hospital, Rewa and a First Information Report (FIR) being No. 10/98 was registered against the appellant herein with the Police Station Semaria. On 04.02.1998, the CMO, G.M. Hospital Rewa, opined that she had sustained 100% burn injuries and at about 03:05 p.m., the statement of Maladeep was recorded wherein while narrating the whole story, she named her husband-the appellant herein for the overt act. On 07.02.1998, she succumbed to her injuries.
e. After filing of the charge sheet, the case was committed to the Court of Sessions Judge, Rewa, (M.P.) and numbered as Session Case No. 80/98. The trial Court, by order dated 22.04.1999, convicted the appellant under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short 'the IPC') and sentenced him to suffer RI for life along with a fine of Rs. 100/-, in default, to further undergo RI for 1 month.
f. Being aggrieved, the appellant herein preferred Criminal Appeal No. 884 of 2000 before the High Court. By judgment and order dated 07.05.2009, the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the appellant herein. Questioning the same, the appellant has filed this appeal by way of special leave before this Court.
4. Heard Mr. S.C. Patel, learned counsel for the appellant-accused and Ms. Vibha Dutta Makhija, learned counsel for the respondent-State.
5. Learned counsel for the appellant, after taking us through the entire material relied on by the prosecution, reasoning of the trial Court and the High Court submitted that there are material omissions in the dying declaration - Exh. P-11 which also differ from the contents of the First Information Report (Exh. P-4), hence, the courts below ought not to have accepted the prosecution case. He further submitted that in the absence of smell of kerosene from the bed sheet, quilt and the pillow, the entire statement in the form of dying declaration is to be rejected. He finally submitted that even if the case of the prosecution is acceptable, in view of the fact that the appellant tried to extinguish the fire and by such conduct at the most, he would be punishable only under Section 304 Part II IPC and not under Section 302.
On the other hand, Ms. Vibha Dutta Makhija, learned counsel for the State submitted that the very same contentions were raised by the accused before the trial Court and the High Court and taking note of the statement of the deceased in the form of dying declaration, all other relevant materials and compliance of all the formalities, the said objections were rejected, hence, there is no valid and acceptable ground for interference with the concurrent findings of the courts below by exercising jurisdiction under Article 136 of the Constitution of India.
6. We have carefully considered the rival submissions and perused all the relevant materials.
7. As rightly pointed out by the counsel for the State, it is seen from the FIR (Exh.P-4) that the accused was not happy with his married life and they had frequent quarrels. A perusal of the FIR further shows that on 03.02.1998, in the midnight, when the accused and the deceased alone were in the house, the accused poured kerosene oil on the deceased and set her on fire. It is further seen that on hearing the cry of the deceased, a number of persons entered into the room when the accused himself opened the door from inside and a report was made to the police. No doubt, a perusal of the FIR shows that her husband, the present appellant also tried to extinguish the fire.
8. In the light of the contents of the FIR (Ex.P-4), now we have to consider the dying declaration which is Exh.P-11 made by the deceased recorded by Rajendra Tiwari, Naib Tahsildar, (PW-11) wherein it was stated that her husband abused her and compelled her to go away from his house. She further stated that on the fateful night, when they were sleeping together, he poured kerosene oil on her and set fire. She further narrated that when she shouted for help, neighbours came in and she was taken to G.M.Hospital, Rewa. The above statement was recorded at 3.25 p.m. on 04.02.1998.
9. Before recording the above statement, the doctor concerned certified that she was fit for giving a statement. The doctor also certified that the patient was conscious while giving the dying declaration. Inasmuch as the Tahsildar (PW-11) recorded her statement after fulfilling all the formalities and her condition was also specified as seen from the certificate of the doctor, there is no reason to reject the same, on the other hand, as rightly accepted by the trial Court and the High Court, we are also of the view that the prosecution is fully justified in relying on the same. No doubt, in her statement as stated in the FIR (Exh. P-4) that her husband tried to save her was not stated in the dying declaration. Inasmuch as the dying declaration satisfied all the prescribed conditions and procedure, we are not inclined to accept the stand taken by learned counsel for the appellant.
10. As rightly observed by the trial Court and the High Court, merely because there was no sign of smell of kerosene oil from the bed sheet, quilt and pillow, the case of the prosecution cannot be thrown out. Since the dying declaration (Exh.P-11) is proved beyond doubt, as discussed above, we reject the argument of the counsel for the appellant. For the same reasons, the appellant cannot be convicted only under Section 304 Part II IPC.
11. It is clear from the prosecution case that the accused was the only person inside the room at the time of the incident along with his wife. Even if it is accepted that in the course of the said incident he sustained some burn injuries, it is not a ground for exonerating his guilt. We have already observed that Dr. Manish Kaushal (PW-8) has stated that on 04.02.1998 he examined the injured - Maladeep and found her conscious and fit to make a statement. The said report has also been marked as Exh.P-11 and the statement of the deceased was recorded by the Executive Magistrate in his presence.
12. In the light of the above discussion and on going through the entire material relied on by the prosecution and the defence, we are unable to agree with the argument of the counsel for the appellant, on the other hand, we concur with the conclusion arrived at by the courts below. Consequently, the appeal fails and the same is dismissed.
13. Learned counsel for the appellant by pointing out the fact that the appellant had served more than 14 years in prison, prayed for appropriate direction for his release as per Jail Manual. Without expressing any opinion on the merits of his claim, inasmuch as we dispose of his appeal, the State is free to consider the same in accordance with the Rules/Instructions/Jail Manual applicable to the appellant.
With the above observation, the appeal is dismissed.
.......................................J. (P. SATHASIVAM)
.......................................J. (RANJAN GOGOI)

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Q: How to append to an existing CSV file? As an example, when the below code is run, each time the previous test.csv file is overwritten with a new one. How to append to test.csv instead of overwriting it?
extern crate csv;

use std::error::Error;
use std::process;

fn run() -> Result<(), Box<Error>> {
    let file_path = std::path::Path::new("test.csv");
    let mut wtr = csv::Writer::from_path(file_path).unwrap();

    wtr.write_record(&["City", "State", "Population", "Latitude", "Longitude"])?;
    wtr.write_record(&["Davidsons Landing", "AK", "", "65.2419444", "-165.2716667"])?;
    wtr.write_record(&["Kenai", "AK", "7610", "60.5544444", "-151.2583333"])?;
    wtr.write_record(&["Oakman", "AL", "", "33.7133333", "-87.3886111"])?;

    wtr.flush()?;
    Ok(())
}

fn main() {
    if let Err(err) = run() {
        println!("{}", err);
        process::exit(1);
    }
}

Will the append solution work if the file does not yet exist?

A: The csv crate provides Writer::from_writer so you can use anything, which implements Write. When using File, this answer from What is the best variant for appending a new line in a text file? shows a solution:

Using OpenOptions::append is the clearest way to append to a file

let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
    .write(true)
    .append(true)
    .open("test.csv")
    .unwrap();
let mut wtr = csv::Writer::from_writer(file);

Will the append solution work if the file does not yet exist?

Just add create(true) to the OpenOptions:
let mut file = OpenOptions::new()
    .write(true)
    .create(true)
    .append(true)
    .open("test.csv")
    .unwrap();
let mut wtr = csv::Writer::from_writer(file);

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BATON ROUGE — Former LSU football player Drake Davis' criminal record continues to lengthen.
The junior wide receiver from Baton Rouge was kicked off the team last fall after a Aug. 17 arrest on multiple felony charges that he punched and grabbed a female LSU student by the throat during the spring and summer of 2017.
Davis' latest arrest occurred Wednesday when LSU Police charged him with a felony violation of a protective order against the same woman, whom he was allegedly verbally abusive to over a cellular phone, according to the LSU Police report.
Davis, 22, is in the East Baton Rouge Parish jail as of Thursday morning.
With the help of another woman, the LSU student detailed to LSU Police last summer that Davis grabbed her by the throat and punched her in the side last April, punched her in the stomach last May, and grabbed her by the throat and punched her in the stomach last June. She gave LSU Police pictures of bruises and marks on her.
Davis was formally charged early this month.
One of LSU's top signees out of IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida, via The Dunham School in Baton Rouge in 2016, Davis caught one pass for 19 yards in his freshman season in 2016. He caught three passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns in 2017.


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Ghazala Javed: Victim Of Taliban?s War On Women?
By Palash R. Ghosh @Gooch700
Ghazala Javed, who sang in her native Pashto language, was gunned down in the northwestern city of Peshawar, along with her father. http://www.ghazalajaved.webs.c
The Taliban's deadly war on women may have taken a high-profile victim with the murder of a popular Pakistani singer.
Ghazala Javed, who sang in her native Pashto language, was gunned down in the northwestern city of Peshawar, along with her father. Accounts of the killings differ, with some reports claiming the deaths arose from a family dispute, while others suggest she might have been murdered by Taliban members who objected to her singing and dancing.
Javed's sister told reporters that Ghazala and her father were shot and killed by armed men who broke into their house. But other reports claim she was killed on the street by gunmen on a motorcycle.
Reportedly hit with six bullets, Ghazala was pronounced dead at a hospital in Peshawar.
Meanwhile, Peshawar police believe Ghazala's ex-husband may have been behind the killing.
Two men on a motorbike sprayed bullets and fled leaving them in a pool of blood, senior police officer Dilawar Bangash told Agence France Presse.
We have registered a case and launched an investigation. The murder seems to be result of some internal [family] dispute."
Ghazala Javed, who was only 24 years old, fled her native Swat valley three years ago when Pakistan's military waged a violent campaign against Taliban militants in the remote region near the Afghanistan border. Taliban warriors had targeted singers, dancers and other entertainers during their brutal occupation of Swat.
Ghazala, who released more than two dozen albums during her short career, was hugely popular across the Pashto-speaking communities in Pakistan, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Fearing the Taliban's edicts against music, she recorded many of her albums in Dubai.
Her bold decision to divorce her husband may also have offended some in deeply conservative Pakistan.
From 2007 to 2009, the Swat valley was essentially controlled by Taliban fighters under the leadership of radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah, who terrorized the local people, particularly women, with murders, beheadings and attacks on girls' schools and stores that sold music.
Thousands of people fled Swat during the Taliban's reign of terror and subsequent military campaign against the militant group.
During its presence in Swat, the Taliban waged an unremitting campaign of terror and violence against girls and women in the area. Among other atrocities, Taliban militants blew up hundreds of girl's schools, jeopardizing the education of tens of thousands of young female students and the jobs of thousands of women teachers.
Interestingly, Swat, renowned for its natural beauty, has a long history of women singing and dancing.
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Q: Adding Azure Key Vault connected service inside visual studio will keep showing "Verifying that your application will have access to the key vault" I want to add a key vault connected service inside visual studio, but when i do so i keep receiving this screen:-

and nothing will be added to my project? any advice?

A: Make sure you have added your user account logged in VS to the Access policy of the azure keyvault, if not, follow this link to add it.
If it still not work, navigate to the azure keyvault in the portal -> Access control (IAM) -> add an RBAC role e.g. Contributor to your user account, follow this link(your user account logged in azure portal need to be the Owner/User Access administrator to do this operation).

A: I had the same issue. My VS account had the "Owner" Azure role assigned to the Key Vault, so I thought it is sufficient. However, VS was stuck on the "Dependency configuration progress" window when adding the Key Vault as a connected service.
I have added the "Key Vault Secrets User" role to my account, and the configuration has been successful. You apparently need a "secrets/key user" role to effectively use KV. For my Managed Identity I also had to add the "Key Vault Reader" role, but VS connected services do not seem to need that one.


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Australia's Tame Impala hit the US festival circuit -- god, I love the fact that there IS a US festival circuit -- this past summer to promote the release of their highly-anticipated sophomore album, Lonerism.
I saw them at this year's Outside Lands Festival and was totally blown away. For sheer face-melting rock, Tame Impala outdid much bigger bands that weekend, including Metallica.
The YouTube video playlist above includes most of Tame Impala's set at this year's Lollapalooza, everything but "Solitude Is Bliss," and "Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?"
If you're a fan, I recommend checking out Tame Impala's 2011 live performance at KEXP's studio while you're at it.
I'll be seeing Tame Impala at The Fillmore in San Francisco this week. Can't wait.
Bonus: here is New York City's PS22 covering "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards." Awesome. Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan for the tip.


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In Europe 19th July 2016
Brexit Talks Could Run Till 2020
The next general election in the United Kingdom will take place in 2020. If the Article 50 notice is served in 2017, it is possible that the process of UK withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will not be concluded before the election. That might allow the UK electorate to take a second look at their decision on June 23 to leave the EU.
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Cameron decides to play with fire and risks being burnt
Although there is still no date set for the referendum on whether the UK withdraws or not from the European Union, it's looking very much like this could take place in October 2016. Prime Minister David Cameron has said his intention is not to abandon the EU, but rather reshape its ties with Britain. But key analysts think his strategy could be risky and, in the end, go against him and jeopardise his political future.


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Q: Computing a product of values based on another vector bit values using SIMD I have two vectors. A vector of doubles a of size N and a vector of unsigned characters b of size ceil(N/8). The goal is to compute of product of some of the values of a. b is to be read on a bit-by-bit basis, where each bit indicate whether given double from a is to be considered in the product.
  // Let's create some data
  unsigned nbBits  = 1e7;
  unsigned nbBytes = nbBits / 8;
  unsigned char nbBitsInLastByte = nbBits % 8;
  assert(nbBits == nbBytes * 8 + nbBitsInLastByte);
  std::vector<double> a(nbBits, 0.999999);   // In practice a values will vary. It is just an easy to build example I am showing here
  std::vector<unsigned char> b(nbBytes, false); // I am not using `vector<bool>` nor `bitset`. I've got my reasons!
  assert(a.size() == b.size() * 8);

  // Set a few bits to true
  for (unsigned byte = 0 ; byte < (nbBytes-1) ; byte+=2)
  {
    b[byte] |= 1 << 2; // set second (zero-based counting) bit to 'true'
    b[byte] |= 1 << 7; // set last bit to 'true'
                //  ^ This is the bit index
  }

As explained above, my goal is to compute a product of the values in a whenever b is true. It can be achieved with
  // Initialize the variable we want to compute
  double product = 1.0;

  // Product for the first nbByts-1 bytes
  for (unsigned byte = 0 ; byte < (nbBytes-1) ; ++byte)
  {
    for (unsigned bit = 0 ; bit < 8 ; ++bit) // inner loop could be manually unrolled
    {
      if((b[byte] >> bit) & 1) // gets the bit value
        product *= a[byte*8+bit];
    }
  }

  // Product for the last byte
  for (unsigned bit = 0 ; bit < nbBitsInLastByte ; ++bit)
  {
    if((b[nbBytes-1] >> bit) & 1) // gets the bit value
      product *= a[(nbBytes-1)*8+bit];
  }

This product computation is the slow part of my code. I am wondering whether explicitly vectorizing (SIMD) the process can be of help here. I have been looking at the functions provided in the 'xmmintrin.h' but I don't know much about SIMD and I failed to find something that would be of help. Can you help me?

A: If you don't care about multiplication order, it's easy. The key is _mm_blendv_pd instruction from SSE 4.1 set. This allows you to go completely branchless.
// Load 2 double values from source pointer, and conditionally multiply with the product.
// Returns the new product.
template<int startIdx>
inline __m128d product2( const double* pSource, __m128i mask, __m128d oldProduct )
{
    // Multiply values unconditionally
    const __m128d source = _mm_loadu_pd( pSource + startIdx );
    const __m128d newProduct = _mm_mul_pd( source, oldProduct );

    // We only calling product2 with 4 different template arguments.
    // There are 16 vector registers in total, enough for all 4 different `maskAndBits` values.
    constexpr int64_t bit1 = 1 << startIdx;
    constexpr int64_t bit2 = 1 << ( startIdx + 1 );
    const __m128i maskAndBits = _mm_setr_epi64x( bit1, bit2 );
    mask = _mm_and_si128( mask, maskAndBits );

    // NAN if the mask is 0 after the above AND i.e. the bit was not set, 0.0 if the bit was set
    const __m128d maskDouble = _mm_castsi128_pd( _mm_cmpeq_epi64( mask, _mm_setzero_si128() ) );

    // This instruction actually does the masking, it's from SSE 4.1
    return _mm_blendv_pd( newProduct, oldProduct, maskDouble );
}

double conditionalProducts( const double* ptr, const uint8_t* masks, size_t size )
{
    // Round down the size of your input vector, and multiply last couple values the old way.
    assert( 0 == size % 8 );
    __m128d prod = _mm_set1_pd( 1.0 );
    const double* const end = ptr + size;
    while( ptr < end )
    {
        // Broadcast the mask byte into 64-bit integer lanes
        const __m128i mask = _mm_set1_epi64x( *masks );
        // Compute the conditional products of 8 values
        prod = product2<0>( ptr, mask, prod );
        prod = product2<2>( ptr, mask, prod );
        prod = product2<4>( ptr, mask, prod );
        prod = product2<6>( ptr, mask, prod );
        // Advance the pointers
        ptr += 8;
        masks++;
    }
    // Multiply two lanes together
    prod = _mm_mul_sd( prod, _mm_shuffle_pd( prod, prod, 0b11 ) );
    return _mm_cvtsd_f64( prod );
}


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Mom of boy held in stabbing speaks out
Adopted son has 'difficulty controlling his anger' because of fetal alcohol syndrome
By Dana Littlefield
View the Video 10-year-old stabbing with Dana Littlefield
Jan. 16, 2012. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Three boys were enjoying a day off from school in East County when playtime turned to tragedy. They were playing in a mobile home park, teaming up for a mock battle with Nerf swords, when one of the kids was left without a partner.
He was angry and ran to tell his 10-year-old playmate's mother, Julie, who was in the living room of her house. She was close enough to hear the children playing, but not so close to see them.
When the boy reached her front door, she sent him home to defuse the conflict. He retreated down the driveway.
Julie, the adoptive mother of a boy who suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, at an gym in El Cajon where she and her son enjoyed working out. — Earnie Grafton
Ryan Carter, 12, was stabbed to death at his friend's home on Royal Road in El Cajon. The 10-year-old friend is accused in the killing.
Her own son passed the other boy as he left. Julie scolded her son gently, saying it sounded like he wasn't playing nice. That was all it took to set off his anger, she said, recalling the incident. She had taken the other boy's side.
In a matter of seconds, her son was in the kitchen and had grabbed a steak knife.
"I saw that he had it in his hand," Julie said.
Ryan Carter, a 12-year-old who had been playing with the other two boys, was standing nearby. Julie told him to get to other side of the wrought-iron gate that enclosed her property. She tried to corner her son near the garage, but he slipped past her over the side fence.
She chased after him, caught him by the shirt and he dropped the knife.
"I thought we were done. I thought we were good," Julie said.
She followed her son back into the house, but he picked up a second knife and sprinted for the open front gate.
Ryan stepped in front of him, Julie said. She figured he was trying to stop her son from getting out of the yard and getting into more trouble. Suddenly, she heard Ryan say, "I'm hit."
He ran into the house and collapsed on the couch. She called 911, then pulled Ryan to the floor to start administering CPR.
"At the time, he had a heartbeat," said Julie, who has emergency medical training. "I had my thumb over the wound. It was just a little thumb-sized wound."
Ryan died at a hospital. Later that week, Julie's son was charged with murder. He was one of the youngest defendants ever charged in San Diego County, and for the year and a half he spent in Juvenile Hall, the youngest in county custody.
Until now, she hasn't spoken to the news media about the stabbing and how it shattered the lives of two families. Julie talked to U-T San Diego but asked that her last name not be used to protect the identity of her son, who still faces charges in Juvenile Court.
Trouble controlling anger
A day after the stabbing, Glen and Lisa Carter spoke publicly about losing their only child, a straight-A student who liked to build rockets and play with his pet tortoise, Tut. The couple sold their house in La Mesa when Ryan was born and moved to the mobile home park in unincorporated El Cajon to save for his education. They had tried for a decade to conceive him.
Julie's home shares a fence line with the Knolls Mobile Estates on Royal Road.
"He was a great kid," she said, adding that Ryan would spend the night at her house a couple of times a month. "He had a big heart. He had a lot of patience."
Julie, a 52-year-old single mother and special education teacher, said she spoke with the Carters about a week after the stabbing but not since.
For months, she declined to give interviews about what she witnessed at her home but changed her mind recently — after her son, whom she adopted when he was 5 months old, was found mentally incompetent to stand trial.
"Part of me wanted to just let everything die. Just let it go," she said. "But part of me wants people to know that things didn't happen the way they think they happened."
She has also become active in promoting awareness about the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome, which her son suffers from (his birth mother drank excessively during her pregnancy). The condition can cause a host of problems, including mental retardation, learning disorders and behavioral problems.
Although she described her son as "sweet" and "very loving" most of the time, Julie said he can be prone to fits of anger, a problem that got worse when he was prescribed a new anti-anxiety medication about a month before Ryan's stabbing.
"Under normal circumstances, he would have swore, he would have cussed, he might have thrown a ball (at his playmate). … I never even thought he would go get a knife," she said.
Special needs baby
As a second-grader, Julie stood on a piano bench in her family's living room and declared she would never give birth because too many children in the world needed families.
At 39, she made a decision.
"God hadn't sent me a husband yet," she said with a chuckle. "I don't want to grow old alone. I kinda want to leave a legacy."
She consulted a social worker, filled out an application, and completed the required screenings and classes. Nearly a year later, she was matched with her son.
She learned he was one of four siblings, all of whom had been in foster care, and that he was born to a mother who used drugs and alcohol while she was pregnant.
When she saw his photo, she noticed his small, wide-set eyes, thin upper lip and "flat mid-face." She remembered thinking: "Wow, he's kinda peculiar looking, but cute."
What she didn't know then was that his features were indicators of fetal alcohol syndrome, which can cause physical deformities.
In August 2001, Julie went to meet the baby at a foster home in Chula Vista. Over the next few days, she held him, fed him, bathed him and walked him in his stroller. On the third day, she took him to lunch so her family could meet him. When she dropped him off again, she cried all the way home.
"It just hurt so much to leave him," Julie said, choking up at the memory. "The next morning, I picked him up for good."
Julie went back to work later that summer. Family members helped with child care and emotional support, including her mother, sister and sister-in-law. A teacher came to the house to help with her son's educational needs. He was lagging developmentally, but no one suspected cognitive impairment.
But Julie knew her boy was different.
The light and noise of a shopping mall or grocery store could trigger "meltdowns," when he would collapse and cry. He refused to sleep anywhere but his own bed and couldn't go anywhere without a blanket to comfort him.
"If he didn't have a blankie, he wouldn't stop crying and it was a scream cry. It was painful. … As he got older, I baby-proofed the house, but I didn't need to because he wouldn't explore. He wouldn't leave me," Julie said.
He threw tantrums at school, kicking his shoes off and hiding under tables. He stopped speaking entirely in preschool, and then in kindergarten would speak only in one-word sentences.
He had been evaluated at Children's Hospital when he was 6 months old, an appointment set up by the foster family. Julie took him back when he was 6.
"I didn't know what to do," the mother said. "He was out of control, and (the doctor) couldn't get us out of her office fast enough."
But Julie never gave up on him. "He's my child," she said. "Even now, that's not an option. He's my son."
After the stabbing, an attorney arranged for Julie's son to be seen by Dr. Kenneth Lyons Jones, a renowned pediatrician and researcher who identified fetal alcohol syndrome with Dr. David W. Smith in 1973. In Juvenile Hall, he diagnosed the boy with the condition.
Jones is now a professor at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and chief of its Division of Dysmorphology/Teratology, which focuses on birth defects. He urges women to stop drinking alcohol entirely while they are pregnant, but recognizes that some resist that idea.
"I really do not think that there is any study that has ever shown that there is a safe amount of alcohol for a woman to take during pregnancy," Jones said.
He said fetal alcohol spectrum disorders affect one percent of the U.S. population.
Dr. Edward Riley, a San Diego State University professor who studies alcohol-related birth defects, said children exposed to alcohol in the womb tend to have smaller brains and trouble with communication and social interaction. Their behavioral problems are often misinterpreted as the result of bad parenting.
"This is a brain-based disorder and we need to think about it in those terms," Riley said.
Julie said her son has had teachers, coaches and trainers who were good at dealing with his behavior issues. But her eyes welled with tears when she recalled disapproving looks she got at football games, tae kwon do practices or her son's only boxing exhibition.
At 9 years old, he entered the ring with a much larger boy, who kneed him in the groin.
"What your average kid would do is go after the kid harder," Julie said. "(My son) stopped fighting, started screaming, cussed and ran out of the ring."
She said people called her son a brat under their breath, which she believed was unfair. Some adults didn't understand or agree with her parenting style, calling her too accommodating, too lenient with her son.
"We always used to say to each other, 'People don't get us, but that's OK. We get each other,' " she said.
A 'misfire' in the brain
Ryan "got" her son, Julie said. The sixth-grader was one of her boy's closest friends.
Ryan has been described as a bright and well-liked preteen, with an eagerness to help others, especially those less fortunate than himself. It was what he had been taught by his parents.
"It's the saddest time in our lives," said Glen Carter, of losing his son to violence.
He spoke during a brief telephone conversation but declined a longer interview because one of Ryan's grandparents had recently died. But as he and his wife have done several times since their son's death, Carter offered a few words of compassion for Julie and her son.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with them," he said.
Julie said Ryan was among many neighborhood children who would come to her house to play video games or jump on the trampolines in the yard. Older children tended to understand her boy better. They adapted to his rules.
"I always had to be close because he would get upset and he would try to hit somebody, and I would try to intervene," Julie said. "I could hear him. He had a war cry."
Her son started causing damage around the house at age 7 or 8, the mother said. He kicked in the doors of her car and busted out the wooden lattice on their patio with a basketball. About a month and a half before the stabbing, he started taking an antidepressant called Anaphranil, and his personality changed, she said.
"He got much more aggressive. … He punched me in the face twice," Julie said. "He'd never done that before. He bit my arms and left big marks. So that's when I started emailing the doctor, going, 'This isn't right. This is very wrong.' "
But he had never gone after anyone with a knife, she said. Julie insists the stabbing was an accident, caused by a misfire in her son's brain.
The District Attorney's Office charged the 10-year-old with murder and assault with a deadly weapon. After months of court hearings, a judge ruled in August 2012 that the child would be sent to a residential treatment facility until his competency is restored.
Ryan's mother told U-T San Diego last year that she was relieved to hear that the boy would receive psychiatric care in a place where he would have regular access to his mother. The location has not been disclosed.
"We're thankful that he will get help," Lisa Carter said at the time. "The only way this tragedy could be made worse is if (Julie) were going through what we're going through."
She said she hoped the boy would someday lead a normal life.
Since the stabbing, Julie has become vice president of the local chapter of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She has been sharing her story with parents, doctors and people working in juvenile justice.
She said she hopes that someday her son, now 12, will be able to leave the facility, where he's been since June. But she's also realistic.
It is possible that her boy may never be deemed competent for trial, which would mean that he understood the court proceedings and could assist in his own defense. The Juvenile Court system would lose jurisdiction over him at age 21.
"He doesn't understand why he can't come home, but he has difficulty controlling his anger and he does need to be there," Julie said. "If you took this all away, he would still need to be there."
• The term "fetal alcohol spectrum disorder" describes a range of effects that can occur in a person whose mother drank alcohol during pregnancy. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is at the severe end of the spectrum.
• A person with this type of disorder may exhibit a mix of symptoms, including abnormal facial features, learning disabilities and behavioral problems.
• Although there is ongoing debate on the issue, many doctors and researchers say there is no known amount of alcohol that is safe to drink while pregnant.
• There is no cure, but early treatment — such as medication and behavior therapy — can improve a child's development.
• For more information, contact the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at nofas.org.
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Involving people in European pheriperies
by: Sergi Bimbela, Berta Batllori, Emma Chimeno, Anna Díez, Carla Ruiz, Lucas vander Linden, Lucas Rekelhof, Thijmen Visser, Hugo Bicker, Brechtje Fase, Carolina Inácio, Maria Ramos, Raquel Teixeira.
Established in an old garage, The World of Food is a multi-cultural food hall in Amsterdam SouthEast, The Netherlands. 32 restaurants with food from all over the world, brign people of nationalities together. It is interesting to see how a relatively new place can connect different cultures in the same direction: the love of having a meal in a more contemporary and enjoyable way.
Picture: World of Food
What we call "artistic square" in Lisbon, is a cultural centre in the middle of Carnide. There are different cultural places such as Teatro Infantil and Casa do Artista (Artist's House). They work in an integrated way to promote, dignify and motivate the art and culture for people from all generations in Carnide. More than a retirement village, Artist's House is a space of inclusion and support for people of all generations that want to be artists with the slogan "Here it is not allowed to grow old".
The Ateneu del Raval in Barcelona is a community cultural center, independent, intersectional, transfeminist, animalist; free of racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia and xenophobia. The main objective is to strengthen the social fabric of the neighborhood and turn its multiculturalism into interculturalism.
Picture: Ateneu del Raval
The similarities we find between Zuidoost and Carnide are cultural diversity in the sense that both places offer space to the coexistence of various ethnicities and cultures. Although they are out of the city, both are very accessible and attractive both for tourists and for locals.
Carnide and Raval both have infrastructures that work in promoting culture and interpersonal solidarity and a variety of activities mostly for those who would not have the capacity to do so, unifying the community.
Even though all of them are peripheric, the polycentric view of all the three cities show that good transport connections and cultural diversity both makes it easy for people to go there to get involved in activities.
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It feels like it's been ages since we've seen any Mat Zo headlines that don't have to do with his epic Twitter tirade, and his publicists certainly don't seem willing to put him all the way back in the spotlight just yet (we know, we tried). His latest release doesn't appear to have been his own doing, though – his long-awaited remix of Arty's "Stronger" has surfaced, and now everybody's talking about him again.
Where the original's anthemic vocal was met with a surging, main stage-igniting synth lead, funky orchestral elements add an element of nu-disco nostalgia to Mat Zo's rendition. Given that the two artists collaborated on such seminal trance hits as "Mozart" and "Rebound" for the Anjunabeats label, the change in direction perhaps speaks more to Mat Zo's "musical ADHD" than anything, as it doesn't quite do the monumental energy of the original justice.
Nonetheless, it's good to contribute to a conversation about Mat Zo that actually has to do with his music for the first time in a while. While great deliberation goes into the timing of an artist's releases, perhaps the leak will have turned out to happen the way it did for a reason.
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Home » Plastic Surgery, Suzanne Somers, Certainty, Variety and Your Career
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By Harrison Barnes Jan 20,2023
One of the more interesting things about our lives is we're continually seeking two diametrically opposed things. On the one hand, we seek the security and certainty we find in keeping things the way they are. On the other hand, we seek growth and progress, which change the way things are.
The outcome of change is almost always uncertain, and how you manage the elements of certainty and uncertainty can greatly affect your life. In some aspects, certainty and uncertainty have come to control virtually every waking moment of our lives.
No matter who you are, you probably have at least some interest in controlling your life and environment to an extent–i.e., you are seeking certainty. If you have an apartment or a place to which you come home every night, you have found one way of controlling your environment. If you have a job, or have had jobs in the past, this is a way to gain some security in your life. If you have friends or a mate, you have found yet another way to feel certain in your life. This craving for certainty and security is a driving factor in most of our lives:
We save money.
We stay in touch with those we like and love.
We do whatever we can to maintain things the way they are.
Some people use products or undergo procedures in an attempt to avoid appearing or growing older.
I saw one of the most incredible things on Thursday night. I was returning from dinner in Malibu with my wife and a couple of friends, and there was a small traffic jam on Pacific Coast Highway at 8:45 in the evening. This seemed unusual, given the hour. I looked to the right side of the road and realized everyone in the traffic jam was pulling into a small medical center that was on the side of the road. There were people in uniforms helping to redirect traffic and it was a huge scene.
"What's going on?" I asked my wife.
"Oh we should have gone to this," she told me. "My Pilates teacher told me about this and invited me to it. There is a new plastic surgery center/day spa opening there and this is their opening party. We should have gone. We would have been able to see a lot of famous people."
I couldn't believe the opening of a plastic surgery center could create such a ruckus. Where I am from, Detroit, people used to be ashamed of things like plastic surgery and they would probably sneak in the back door of a clinic. Here, in Malibu, the opening of a local plastic surgery clinic is cause for a giant party.
Youth and looks are what are valued most in Hollywood, so work and money typically flows to the people who look the best and the youngest. Accordingly, anything that will help people maintain the "certainty" of a young age and so forth is highly valued. People want to stay young because this seems to be where all the love, money, and fame come from.
When you look at people's lives around the world, you often see the same story, just different problems. People value different things and all have their own means of going after what they want. In Los Angeles, good looks and youthfulness may be most highly valued. In a different part of the world, age may be valued. In other parts of the world, the biggest value may be religious fundamentalism. We all simply have different values that motivate and define us. When we define ourselves, we seem to become fixed in one place, which heightens our sense of certainty.
On Friday evening, we were at another restaurant in Santa Monica and I was seated directly next to a guy who is a big time Internet entrepreneur. He told me he charges plastic surgeons $6,000 a year to list themselves in his online directory of doctors who perform breast implants. He was a very nice guy and I enjoyed the dinner conversation. However, I couldn't help but thinking that everywhere I turn people seemed to be talking about plastic surgery.
As we drove home, I asked my wife about the party that had clogged the freeway on Thursday night in Malibu.
"Did you ask your Pilates teacher about the plastic surgeon's party on Thursday?" I asked.
"Yeah, she told me the only famous person there was Suzanne Somers. It wasn't as good as it seemed to be."
My wife and I then proceeded to discuss Suzanne Somers and her career. Somers is someone who had an extremely interesting career in all respects. In fact, she is a perfect example of that continual tension between certainty and uncertainty, which exists in everyone's lives.
Currently, Somers is promoting human growth hormone therapy in a book and all over the place, to help people stay young. As someone who became famous and whose career was in large part based on her looks, it's not surprising the actress wants to stay young and keep things the way they are. However, Somers's career, and the main role she became famous for, was anything but certain.
As many may remember, Somers played "Chrissy Snow" on the show Three's Company, an extremely popular sitcom that ran in the United States from 1977 to 1984. In the show, Somers played a "dumb blonde," who continually did things that weren't very intelligent. For example, in one episode when a police officer came to investigate a robbery at the residence he stated "Who would leave an envelope marked 'rent' with money in it in plain sight? No one is that stupid," to which Chrissy replied, "But we are!" The entire series and Somers's entire character was based on her continually misunderstanding simple things and being extremely gullible. Her roommates, Jack Tripper (played by John Ritter) and Janet Wood (played by Joyce DeWitt), were continually having to protect Snow from her vulnerability, which came as a result of her being so ditzy and adorable. You never knew what Snow was going to do on the show, and her stupid antics created a great deal of uncertainty, which helped make the show extremely entertaining and successful.
How many of us have known characters like Chrissy Snow? I've known people who always forget this or that, often fall prey to easily avoidable circumstances, and constantly make one mistake after another.
So many of us chase "certainty" and consistency in our lives; however, certainty isn't really what comprises the world, nor does it hold our attention. For many of us, when things get too stable, we seek to shake things up. That is, we try to make a situation more interesting by injecting uncertainty into it.
If you were to put two people of equal weight on a teeter totter, how long would they choose to sit there, staying balanced? They might stay balanced for a short time; however, for lack and want of motion they will eventually start the teeter totter bouncing up and down. People may claim and act as if they want things to remain steady and consistent; however, as the teeter totter example shows, when it comes right down to it we want motion and uncertainty. We value the uncertainty as much as we think we value certainty. Watching sports games or other entertainment, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, dealing with unpredictable people, having affairs, and so forth–are all methods we've used at one time or another to make life more interesting to us.
In every organization I've ever been a part of, there have been people who become easily bored by the status quo. They may attempt to stir the pot by creating rumors, or finding other ways to make things difficult for those around them. They may make stupid mistakes intentionally. The majority of people need some kind of uncertainty in order to be happy, and they will do whatever they can to create it.
Suzanne Somers was born to an alcoholic father and overall, had a very difficult life growing up. She often had to hide in the closet when her father was drunk and on a rampage. She's dyslexic, and was once expelled from school. She left college after her sophomore year, when she became unexpectedly pregnant. In 1971 her son was hit by a car and was severely injured.
There's no doubt that getting a starring role in 1977 in Three's Company was the greatest thing that had ever happened to Ms. Somers. Within a short time, Somers was a very famous actress, having become a household name. She was earning a great deal of money and had a career that was on track in all respects. However, at the beginning of the fifth season, Somers demanded a raise from $30,000 to $150,000 an episode, plus 10% ownership of the show's profits. ABC denied the request and Somers boycotted the second and fourth shows of the season. Her contract wasn't renewed after the season ended and she was replaced.
After this incident, Somers became somewhat of a pariah in Hollywood, and didn't land any new substantive acting roles. The demands she'd put on the show for more money and a percentage of the profits made people afraid to work with her. What I find interesting is that Somers had struggled for so many years, and had finally put herself in a situation where she had an amazingly steady job, and all the certainty that came with it. However, as I've discussed above, many people get bored with certainty and end up sabotaging it in some way. In this case, Somers sabotaged her own acting career, consequentially injecting a great deal of uncertainty into her life.
I've personally seen an incredible number of people do this in their careers. They have good careers and suddenly end up losing job after job by injecting uncertainty into the usual routine. This is something I'm sure you've done, just as it's something most other people have done. This is often one of the biggest mistakes you can make in your career and life.
What I'm about to tell you could help you in an incredibly significant way. It might even end up changing your life.
My grandfather was a very well-known newspaper writer. When my father got out of college, he also wanted to be a writer. While he was interested in writing fiction, he was also quite interested in editorial and other sorts of writing. He got a job at the same paper where my grandfather had been working for over 40 years, The Detroit News. My father is a good writer and I'm sure he could have had an outstanding career at this paper just as his father had. Nevertheless, after some time working in the routine, my father got into a conflict with his boss over some very fundamental issues, which ended up getting him fired. He ended up getting a job doing something very different, working at the Yellow Pages as a manager, which he did for the rest of his career. I believe my father's need for uncertainty in the face of certainty was largely responsible.
About a year ago, our company had a cadre of 10 or so people who made videos for us, all about how to find jobs. One of the broadcasters was particularly exceptional at her job. She walked into her boss's office one day and demanded that the company quadruple her salary. She was denied, and ended up losing her job because she refused to work for less than four times her current salary. I know other people around Los Angeles who employ multiple broadcasters, many of whom have routinely had similar incidents.
I'm not creating an issue out of someone asking for a raise, because there's nothing wrong with this. The issue here is that people in stable positions often create conflict and uncertainty because they want something different. They will find fault with their existing job and create problems out of thin air for no apparent reason. Hence, they may place outlandish and unrealistic demands on their employers.
I did this in my legal career. I got bored with the status quo at the first law firm I worked for, and I made up a myriad of reasons why I didn't like the firm. I ended up leaving. This is something that, in retrospect, makes no sense, but I can now attest that it was probably born out of my need for uncertainty and variety.
Because Somers became largely shunned by Hollywood, she ended up becoming a Las Vegas performer and a spokeswoman for various products. For example, she became the spokeswoman for the Thighmaster, a piece of exercise equipment. Somers has since started lifestyle related companies ELO Somers and Port Carling, Inc. With these companies, Somers has branded hundreds of diet, beauty, fashion, and exercise products. In the summer of 2005, Somers also performed a one woman show on Broadway, The Blonde in the Thunderbird. Ultimately, when you examine Somers's career, you see that it has been punctuated by a vast amount of uncertainty and variety. She has acted, she has written, and she has sold numerous different products. Ms. Somers has ultimately been extremely successful, and I'm sure it was due at least in large part to her need for variety.
However, as Somers has aged, she is also seeking to keep certainty in her career and life. Somers is a big supporter of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). She wrote a book, Ageless, which interviews numerous people about the practice. (See Wikipedia article about BHRT)
What about you? What do you need? If you're like most people, you're also struggling with certainty and uncertainty in your career and life. Our need for uncertainty, however, can do us a tremendous amount of harm in our careers. We continually create pain in our careers and find reasons to be unhappy, even when it might not be the most appropriate response or the best thing for us. We may even end up knowingly undermining our careers.
Everyone needs to find a certain balance they need in order to be happy. It lies somewhere between mundane certainty and chaotic variety. You need to ensure that you, too, have this balance in your own career. The career of Somers is an example of how a person was able to find this desired balance in her career. Your own needs are similar. You need to be in a job and hone in on a career that gives you this balance. If you find yourself continually sabotaging your jobs or relationships, I would urge you to work harder at creating situations that meet your natural need for balance. Only in this manner will you find the career and life that give you the satisfaction you want.
People always seek the diametrically opposed goals of security and improvement. Security and stability necessitates keeping things the way they currently are, while growth and progress necessarily mean changing the status quo. Change always leads to uncertain outcomes. Balancing elements of certainty and uncertainty will greatly affect your life. You must find a balance in your life between certainty and uncertainty.
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"The flames were chasing us all the way to the water," said one victim.
Hundreds of firefighters have been battling the flames, which have been fanned by winds of up to 60mph (100km/h) and have devastated the seaside village of Mati, engulfing homes and vehicles.
"We were driving along the road going into smoke, then all-of-a-sudden the flames were at the side of the car," he said, adding: "All the houses on the hill beside the highway were completely burnt out."
Dimitri Piros, director of medical services for Ekav, Greece's nationwide ambulance service, told the BBC that people had suffered horrific injuries because of the speed of the fire.
It is Greece's worst fire disaster since 2007, when dozens of people were killed in the southern Peloponnese peninsula.


The picture and story are here (http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/2007/07/royal-marines-get-fast-stealth-boat.html).
This new secret superboat is the latest British weapon to help fight the war on terror.
The stealth boat, to be used by the Royal Marines, is thought to be capable of reaching speeds of about 70mph.
The vessel will be used in various roles including the insertion of troops in enemy territory and the hunting of drugs smugglers.
Experts believe the dull-grey boat will have been designed using stealth technology to help it avoid radar detection.
It is described as extremely quite and having a very low wake. No comments on outrunning the Iranian navy.
Maybe they should try some of that "strong language" that appears to work for the Aussie Navy.


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The Bosque River Valley Chapter, NSDAR, organized on February 2, 2013. The name of our chapter was chosen because the Bosque River valley runs through Bosque County, a beautiful area displaying an array of stately trees, hills, valleys, rivers, creeks, lakes, and pastureland. The chapter meets monthly September through May on the third Sunday of the month with the exception of the December Christmas event.
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