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The influence of age, comorbidity and frailty on treatment with surgery and systemic therapy in older women with operable triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in England: A population-based cohort study
Yasmin Jauhari*, David Dodwell, Melissa Ruth Gannon, Kieran Horgan, Karen Baker, Jibby Medina, David Alan Cromwell
HI: QA Midlands and East Region
Background: Surgery and chemotherapy use were studied among older women with early stage triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in a population-based cohort. Methods: Women aged ≥50 years with unilateral early (stage 1-3a) TNBC diagnosed in 2014–2017 were identified from English cancer registration data. Information on surgery and chemotherapy was from linked Hospital Episode Statistics and Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy datasets, respectively. Logistic regression was used to investigate the influences of patient age, comorbidity and frailty on uptake of surgery and chemotherapy. Results: There were 7094 women with early stage TNBC. Overall rate of surgery was 94%, which only decreased among women aged ≥85 years (74%) and among the most frail. Among the 6681 women receiving surgery, 16% had neoadjuvant and 42% had adjuvant chemotherapy; the use of both decreased with age. More comorbidities and greater frailty were associated with lower rates of chemotherapy. There were differences in the uptake of chemotherapy across geographical regions and in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy regimens between age groups. Conclusion: Majority of older women with early TNBC had surgery, although some physically fit older women did not. Chemotherapy use varied by age and fitness.
David Dodwell also receives funding from Cancer Research UK (grant C8225/A21133 ), a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom .
This study was undertaken as part of the work by the National Audit of Breast Cancer in Older Patients. The Audit is commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme, and funded by NHS England and the Welsh Government ( www.hqip.org.uk/national-programmes ). Neither HQIP nor the funders had any involvement in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication. The authors had full independence from the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership.
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Jauhari, Y., Dodwell, D., Gannon, M. R., Horgan, K., Baker, K., Medina, J., & Cromwell, D. A. (2021). The influence of age, comorbidity and frailty on treatment with surgery and systemic therapy in older women with operable triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in England: A population-based cohort study. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 47(2), 251-260. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2020.09.022
Jauhari, Yasmin ; Dodwell, David ; Gannon, Melissa Ruth et al. / The influence of age, comorbidity and frailty on treatment with surgery and systemic therapy in older women with operable triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in England : A population-based cohort study. In: European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2021 ; Vol. 47, No. 2. pp. 251-260.
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In: European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Vol. 47, No. 2, 02.2021, p. 251-260.
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N2 - Background: Surgery and chemotherapy use were studied among older women with early stage triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in a population-based cohort. Methods: Women aged ≥50 years with unilateral early (stage 1-3a) TNBC diagnosed in 2014–2017 were identified from English cancer registration data. Information on surgery and chemotherapy was from linked Hospital Episode Statistics and Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy datasets, respectively. Logistic regression was used to investigate the influences of patient age, comorbidity and frailty on uptake of surgery and chemotherapy. Results: There were 7094 women with early stage TNBC. Overall rate of surgery was 94%, which only decreased among women aged ≥85 years (74%) and among the most frail. Among the 6681 women receiving surgery, 16% had neoadjuvant and 42% had adjuvant chemotherapy; the use of both decreased with age. More comorbidities and greater frailty were associated with lower rates of chemotherapy. There were differences in the uptake of chemotherapy across geographical regions and in the neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy regimens between age groups. Conclusion: Majority of older women with early TNBC had surgery, although some physically fit older women did not. Chemotherapy use varied by age and fitness.
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Jauhari Y, Dodwell D, Gannon MR, Horgan K, Baker K, Medina J et al. The influence of age, comorbidity and frailty on treatment with surgery and systemic therapy in older women with operable triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) in England: A population-based cohort study. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2021 Feb;47(2):251-260. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2020.09.022


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'I've never known it so bad': Pothole busters tackling huge Shropshire backlog
By Dominic Robertson | Transport | Published: Apr 28, 2018
Special lorries are being sent out to tackle the county's potholes, as a councillor said he was determined to fix Shropshire's roads having "never known things to be so bad".
With the Roadmaster vehicles at the Longden Road depot in Shrewsbury are John Link, from Kier, Councillor Steve Davenport and Lucy Bailey and Gavin Andrew, from Kier
Two special lorries are now being used in an effort to repair the damage done to the county's roads over the winter.
The council said its new highways contractor Kier is working "flat-out" to clear the backlog of potholes.
To make headway in its effort, the company currently has 35 teams treating and repairing potholes across the county – supported by eight traffic management teams, who control traffic while work is carried out.
Steve Davenport, Shropshire Council's cabinet member for highways and transport, expressed his frustration at the state of the roads and said the authority is determined to bring them up to scratch.
He said: "Believe it or not, I hate potholes as much as anyone and share people's anger and frustration.
"I've never known things to be so bad, and many of our roads have been in a terrible state over the past few months following the severe winter weather.
"But we're determined to sort things as soon as we can and, working with Kier, we're working flat out to treat the exceptionally high number of potholes that have appeared this year.
"Kier have high numbers of people out across the county every day, repairing hundreds of potholes.
"And the arrival of the Roadmasters will make a huge difference and help us to repair potholes more quickly, and with a better quality of repair.
"We're confident that we'll soon have tackled the backlog of potholes – but people can still help us by reporting any that they come across."
The newly-refurbished Roadmaster vehicles are currently in the Shrewsbury area but will be used across the county in the coming days and weeks.
The vehicles use compressed air to blow water or dirt out of a pothole that needs repairing and then fill it with hot bitumen and chippings.
The repair is compacted by a roller and sealed with a layer of surface dressing – meaning a better quality of repair.
Councillor Davenport said that since April 5 Kier has carried out a total of 508 permanent repair 'jobs' across the county.
A 'job' generally involves treating and repairing a large number of potholes.
This includes 241 emergency jobs. Councillor Davenport said that at this time of year it expects 60 to 100 over the same period.
In the past two weeks Kier has used 20 tonnes of pothole repair material to make potholes safe. And in just four days the company has used 160 tonnes of hot rolled asphalt to make permanent first-time fixes.
People can report potholes at shropshire.gov.uk/potholes or by calling 0345 678 9006.
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By Dominic Robertson
@DRobertson_Star
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Back in June, I was busy studying for a big exam and had almost no free time to sew or really do anything enjoyable. After a couple of weeks, I started going a little stir crazy and decided that I would let myself work on a baby quilt for a friend.
I spent an afternoon picking a fairly straightforward pattern and laying out a couple of charm packs and some scraps from my "light neutral" drawer. From then on, I let myself make one block per day until I had a finished quilt top.
Trying to avoid adding yet another WIP to the pile, I whipped up the world's simplest backing from stash and basted it in early September. I spent a few weeks trying to figure out howto quilt it before finally opting to stick with boring old Stitch-in-the-Ditch.
Although it's not too exciting I think the quilting actually highlights the blocks quite nicely. The quilting and scrappy low volume background prints minimize the secondary square-diamond-square pattern between the the blocks that I was trying to avoid. The Dream Wool batting I used gave this quilt just the right amount of puff.
I used a remnant strip of pink voile to make a bias tape label and bound it with another print of Acacia yardage that I was hording.
I think my favourite part of this quilt is the fact that the squirrel print on the back is perfectly centered and symmetrical on the back of the quilt. Definitely not planned but a welcome surprise after I trimmed up the quilt top.
Fabric: Two Tula Pink Acacia charm packs and various low volume scraps.
Pattern: Baby Love by Camille Roskelley in her book Simply Retro (with an extra row of blocks since I'm not a fan of square quilts).
Our lobster-dog wishes you a safe and happy Halloween!
Adorable quilt. Love the backing fabric as well. SID suited this quilt well as the quilting does not take away from the fabrics in the quilt.
I like it! And I know all about not having much time but itching to be creative any ways. It worked out very well for you!
I really like the scrappy look of this! Nicely done.
Cute lobster dog - what a good sport :-) Your way of making a label is unique to me - I might just have to try that. lovely quilt, too!!


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The Word on Noise
Connecting the Bible and Noise.
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Posted on 2019-03-23 by reppiks
The existential power of noise.
by Dave Skipper
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"Two records. Four sides of guitar feedback ending with a locked groove. Subtle references to speed on the jacket sleeve. This is the legendary Lou Reed album Metal Machine Music. When first released back in 1975, people were outraged and/or confused that Lou released such a 'thing' on the heels of the best-selling albums, Sally Can't Dance and Rock'n'Roll Animal. Amazingly enough, it sold 100,000 copies anyway. The rumors flew – some believed that Lou was trying to break his contract with RCA, which others thought he just flipped out. Meanwhile a smaller number of people enjoyed it, purely for its soft dissonance or for its place in the history of minimalism. And there are those that just admired Metal Machine Music for its sheer audacity."
– Browbeat, a zine 'dedicated to dissonance in all its glory'
"Metal Machine Music is an enigma; no one has ever really been sure what to make of it. Was it art? Or a jab at the record company? Or a joke? Whatever it was, the album is one of the most polarizing releases ever by a major artist. Essentially four sides of processed guitar feedback, Metal Machine Music will test the patience of all but the most die hard fans."
– from https://www.rarerecords.net/store/lou-reed-metal-machine-music-rare-1975-quadraphonic-2-lp-set/
I can't remember how or when I first heard about Metal Machine Music (hereafter MMM). I was just starting to discover the world of extreme noise music, specifically Japanese harsh noise, and must have read something about MMM being a seminal album in the backstory of noise music, and that it was understandably controversial in its reception. At the time I was still peering over the edge into noisedom, and was definitely fascinated but not as yet converted. The idea of listening to a full hour of unrelenting guitar feedback didn't especially appeal to me, but I was really intrigued by the concept and the fact that someone would bother to record and release such a project back in the mid-70s before modern noise music à la Japanoise etc had yet been born.
Lou Reed made his name in the late 60s as the driving force behind the highly influential (though at the time largely ignored) American rock band The Velvet Underground, before embarking on a long solo career. Although theories have varied wildly as to Lou Reed's intention behind MMM's concept (but see the next section for his own answer to that question) and its placement and influence within such disparate strands of music history as pop, rock, industrial, avant-garde, and pure noise, there was and is no doubt my mind that in retrospect MMM was markedly prescient of the preoccupation (for whatever reasons) with fully distilled noise that characterises, defines, and propels the works of Merzbow et al from the 1980s onward. At the same time, it would be not only simplistic but incorrect to give MMM the status of necessity in the trajectory of noise music's development: if there had been no MMM there would still have been Merzbow, Japanoise, and the numerous other noise-related musics before and since. There has never been a singular influence behind the explorations and innovations of noise music. MMM's uniqueness lies largely in its being released into the mainstream on an unsuspecting public, as opposed to being a niche project in the hidden underground at one end of the non-mainstream spectrum or a high-brow art statement of the avant-garde at the other.
"This record is not for parties/dancing/background romance. This is what I meant by 'real' rock, about 'real' things. No one I know has listened to it all the way through including myself. It is not meant to be. Start any place you like. Symmetry, mathematical precision, obsessive and detailed accuracy and the vast advantage one has over 'modern electronic composers.' They, with neither sense of time, melody or emotion, manipulated or no. It's for a certain time and place of mind."
– Lou Reed, liner notes to Metal Machine Music
"No, it's not the truth. I wouldn't put out a record I don't like just to get out of a contract. That's ridiculous but it is a great story. It's almost a shame to say it's not true. But in fact it's not true. I made it because I liked it, not to get out of a contract… It was great, great fun. I was trying to do the ultimate guitar solo. And I didn't want to be locked into a particular drum beat, or pattern or a particular key or beat that was the idea. Just guitars, guitars, guitars."
– Lou Reed interviewed in Metal Machine Music Revisited, by John Doran in Quietus
"Anyone who gets to Side 4 is dumber than I am."
– Lou Reed
Reaction to MMM
Here are a bunch of great quotes about MMM from various music critics and artists.
"…an act of provocation, a jab of contempt… In its droning, shapeless indifference, Metal Machine Music is hopelessly old-fashioned. After a decade of aesthetic outrages, four sides of what sounds like the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator just aren't going to inflame the bourgeoisie (whoever they are) or repel his fans (since they'll just shrug and wait for the next collection). Lou Reed is disdainfully unveiling the black hole in his personal universe, but the question is, who's supposed to flinch?"
– James Wolcott, Rolling Stone, August 14 1975
"Recommended cuts: NONE"
– Billboard
"…it shows integrity – a sick, twisted, dunced-out, malevolent, perverted, psychopathic integrity, but integrity nevertheless… It is the greatest record ever made in the history of the human eardrum… If you ever thought feedback was the greatest thing that ever happened to the guitar, well, Lou just got rid of the guitars."
– Lester Bangs, CREEM, 1976
"Metal Machine Music is an hour's worth of the equivalent of a dentist's drill drilling into an infected tooth, a jackhammer riveting into your skull.Except it's perhaps less melodic than that. You know the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard? This is worse – a lot worse."
– Andy Whitman, music critic
"…the most extreme statement any popular music artist has ever made (given the context right after his most popular album)… his crowning achievement."
– Phil Milstein, musician
"It's the most positive negative record."
– Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
"It's really great. Beautiful. Refreshing. I'd like to do a cover. I thought it came from 100 years in the future and yet ancient, too."
– Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms)
"It was the most ecstatic music when I first heard it, and I still feel that way."
– Hoppy Kamiyama (Optical 8)
"It is the origin of pure noise."
– Akifumi Nakajima (Aube)
"I did listen to that whole record through, many, many times and I remember wondering what the big deal was, like the disappointment of not being shocked by a highly anticipated horror movie. The fact that he somehow made us all listen to this hour of feedback over and over, literally crawling into the speakers, trying to catch a glimpse of the hidden Evil, the outspoken cruelty of such a venture and the redeeming quality of living through it, while Lou obviously didn't care about us or this release, proves in retrospect what a tremendous impact the man had on me."
– Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten), No Sell Out (The Wire, Nov. 2013)
"…an intense collision of surreal object, hate letter, emotional outburst, poetic assault, bubblegum serialism, artistic bombshell, infected ambition, celebrity breakdown, creative exhaustion, sinister confession, nervous tension, practical joke, artistic tantrum and psychedelic documentary."
– Paul Morley, The Guardian, 2010
"Metal Machine Music was released the same week — twenty years ago — as Discreet Music [Brian Eno album]. Discreet Music is soft, calm, melodic and reassuringly repetitive, without a single sound other than tape hiss about 1500 Hz, whereas MMM is as abrasive and unmelodic as possible, with almost nothing below — and yet they occupy two ends of what was at the time a pretty new axis — music as immersion, as sonic experience in which you float. 'The roots of Ambient.'"
– Brian Eno, A Year with Swollen Appendices, 1995
Many of these quotes were compiled in the same Browbeat zine that I quoted at the very start of this article. The zine also included a fascinating interview with Lou Reed in which he described the recording process and techniques utilised in the creation of MMM. The article scans can be seen here.
My Experience of Listening to MMM
Somehow or other I got hold of a recording of MMM, I forget when. I was determined to give it my full attention. I knew it would be a serious test of endurance, but I felt that it was a necessary rite of passage in my desire to interact with and appreciate the world of noise. I wanted to truly and deeply listen to the whole thing in one go. Undistracted, headphones on. Focussed.
I imagine that some people who claim to have listened to MMM have done so in one of these ways:
Listened to snippets here and there, skipping forward several times;
Listened to a few minutes then given up;
Listened to it one section at a time (being divided neatly into four sections each of 16:01 length);
Had it on in the background while doing something else (working, driving, cooking, sleeping…);
Not listened to it at all.
And so I waited for the right opportunity. It came while staying with my in-laws in Finland one summer. I went for a walk in the beautiful unspoilt Finnish forest at dusk, and I must say that was the perfectly serene and eerie time and location for the job!
What followed was absolutely pivotal for me. Bear in mind that this was all from my first listen and that these were my immediate thoughts and impressions of that experience. Arguably the sonic importance of MMM is overrated due to its particular circumstances; the train of thought that MMM instigated in me could have come from any one of many other noise records. But in my own journey into noise MMM opened up doors of questioning that were actually the genesis of this whole blog project. It has taken a number of years for me to finally get to writing this all out at last, but the seeds and possibilities of the kind of deep thinking about noise that I engage in were crucially watered by MMM.
Part I: Ok. The sounds are ok. Interesting, layered, boring, annoying, soothing… ok. 10, 15 minutes in I'm starting to have enough of it. It's pretty directionless, monotonous, grating. I'd like to stop listening. Stop! I don't really see the point of carrying on with more of the same. But I decided that I will go through the whole thing. Will power. I just need to continue to decide to keep listening…
Part II: This is tough going now. The noise is beating me, in both senses. It's beating me down, wearing me down, crushing me. It's beating me in the stakes, it's winning. Does noise always win? The noise always wins. I'm persevering by pure effort of will. So my will has power over the noise? But no, I'm compelled to continue against my will. I'm being battered into submission. My will has no say in it, no power. Which is it, does my will have power or no power? I can't tell, but the noise is winning.
Part III: Ok, now I'm over halfway, it's a little easier to filter the noise. I'm still undistracted externally, it's just the noise and my mind. My thoughts. Deep thinking is advancing, I can wrestle with the existentialism of it all. Clarity? Not quite, but there is hope. I had given up as to how worthwhile this experience could be. It was not constructive. But now it is constructive, I'm getting somewhere with unravelling the power and paradox of noise. Maybe.
Part IV: It's all downhill from here. The end is in sight. It's not too hard to keep going now. I can do this. I'm gonna do this! Now I can clearly feel my will and control are over the noise. I've broken through the stifling control that the noise seemed to hold over me. Into the last three minutes of listening, and oh what's this? A loop! Some semblance of structure, of order! Only some, but some nevertheless! The loop is apparently interesting, an oasis after the preceding endless barren waste. Humanity is imposed on the piece for the first time. So this is my reward for listening all the way through? Hurrah!
I'm exhausted but elated. I did it! And it was worth it! And I never need to listen to it again, haha!
I must confess that at that point time, musically I found MMM to be a turged, barren, almost completely meaningless exercise. But philosophically and spiritually it ultimately proved both fascinating and fruitful. I will explain why and how in greater detail in the next article where I will describe fragments of the thoughts I had during that experience. These are themes that I continue to mull over, and they provide a springboard for a number of angles, intersections, orbits, and trajectories for further exploration and distillation in this ongoing Noise. Life. Death. article series.
Update: Listening to MMM Anew
Years later, my ears and tastes have shifted significantly such that the idea of listening to long stints of sheer noise is no longer in itself off-putting (depending on what the noise is), and I have for a long time now been enamoured of noise music, especially the harsher varieties. It turns out that MMM was a portal for me into the beauty of noise – one portal amongst others – albeit a portal of suffering at the time!
I thought to myself while typing up the above notes that if I were to listen to the whole thing again today I would doubtless have a very different set of thoughts and reactions. My listening approach and perceptions of noise have altered and developed radically in the intervening years, such that I now enjoy noise immersion and the analysis of excessive timbres. I have better ears for perceiving the kinds of subtle shifts and complex layers that MMM exemplifies. So finally I sat down to listen to MMM in its entirely once again. As expected this was indeed a notably different experience.
Part I: Disappointing. Significantly less 'feedbacky' than I had remembered, and significantly more rhythmic (largely via tremolo-induced pulsings) and melodic (albeit atonally) than I had remembered. I'm now more conscious, however, of the almost constant movement at the micro-level, and how that contrasts to the overall directionless virtual non-structure at the macro level.
Part II: Almost bassy at the start of this section: a flicker of hope! Up to now it's all been mids, upper-mids, and highs. But the hope was short-lived – the lower sounds dissipate after just a few seconds, and we're back in the spiralling morass again. I'm strongly aware of the stereo field, as different segments and layers have been distinctly recorded in opposite channels. Thankfully this stereo enhancement does not yield double pain but actually makes the dissonance more bearable and even interesting as the ears are pulled in different directions to pay attention to the evolving details.
Part III: I sound more excited than I was in Part 2. This is boring. Compared with the pummelling barrage of Japanese harsh noise that I've grown accustomed to, MMM now feels very tame. There are some occasional almost arpeggio-esque atonal runs in the background that make for pseudo-repeating motifs, and these curtail the boredom slightly, but they have insufficient appeal to excite me at all.
Part IV: Another bassy fragment at the start (only about 5 seconds?) – hope revisited momentarily, before being extinguished again. But knowing this is the final part has now brought a different kind of hope: not the hope of good music on the way, but the hope that this miserable music will surely come to an end! Oh, some comparatively satisfying low blasts at the very end, that was nice.
Headphones off. Back into the real world. I feel alive alert with ears pricked up now that I am out the other side of that torpid stupor. Fresh air!
General observations. I was able to listen to MMM a lot more objectively this time around. In fact, I found it to be nowhere near noisy enough for me(!). It was a much easier listen; still unpleasant, but in a disappointing way this time. The first listen was incredibly overwhelming. This second listen was incredibly underwhelming. I felt markedly disaffected, with no compulsion to stop at any point.
Having no low end is a major con for me. The couple of brief interjections of 'bass' were actually just lower mids, but it's just that they felt like bass frequencies compared to the full 60+min with nothing at all in or below the low-mids.
There are momentary ebbs and flows in the overall amplitude and dynamics. Well, I should actually say that there are only a few momentary ebbs that give some measure of relief against a vaguely uniform backdrop of unimpeded directionless flow. Why were these ebbs enjoyable? For respite, or for the dynamic variation that they provide, or for their timbral minimalism/focus? Interestingly, those ebbing moments were all comprised of feedback tones, which ironically end up as the least noisy components of the entire composition! They also serve to slow the pace right down, as the franticity (sic) disintegrates, quickly reassembling before you get too used to the change of scenery.
The same noise, the same music. Yet the mode and impact of the noise shifted for me, from an assault that presented a crisis of the will, to a drab unpleasantness that nevertheless revealed greater nuance. Different kinds of endurance, different feelings evoked, different pockets of philosophy encountered. Did the noise become music to my ears? Strangely it seems that I leapfrogged MMM during the gap between listens. From too noisy, to not noisy enough. From too extreme, to not extreme enough. It is as though I have wormholed from one point in space to entirely another, proferring monumentally different emotions and preferences and evaluations.
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Conclusion: Beyond MMM
Noise music is so diverse than no single album can ever hope to represent the whole. Nevertheless, as just one example of an archetypal noise record MMM delivers the goods. It was a jumping-off point for me to start attempting to formulate a uniquely Christian perspective on noise and noise music (as you will see in the next article), and it was as good an album as any for diving into the notions of extremity and excess which noise music naturally excels at.
My observations, thought processes, and lines of reasoning that I will outline in the next article represent solely my own ideas and experience that listening to MMM catalysed. I don't for a moment imagine that Lou Reed would endorse my 'interpretation' as I have had no thought of filtering my opinions through his intentions or ideology. But then the artistic abstractness of noise certainly welcomes a myriad of readings (listenings).
What MMM exemplifies and invites in its portrayal of 'noise as music' is the open conversation about just what noise and noise music entails, evokes, elicits, and explains. Or what noise does not entail, evoke, elicit, or explain. I am not concerned with 'reviewing' MMM. I honestly haven't even thought about evaluating it as good/bad or recommended/not recommended. Whether I 'like' it or not is completely irrelevant. Similarly I have not tried to discover what MMM 'means'. Considered purely in its prime domain as a bold and provocative artistic statement, MMM is exciting, daring, raw, and essentially simple in its scope and primal effect. That it has subsequently garnered such criticism and praise, and such wide-ranging discussion and analysis proves as much about the fundamental connection/disconnection to noise that we all have as much as anything else. The aesthetics of MMM seem to me to be secondary or tertiary in value alongside the depth of abstract/concrete reflection that it stimulates. The discussion hasn't stopped yet.
Next time, I will provide a window into my attempt to dissect my reactions to MMM.
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Das Weltforum für die Harmonisierung von Fahrzeugvorschriften (World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations) ist eine Arbeitsgruppe (WP.29) des Inland Transport Committee (ITC) der Wirtschaftskommission der Vereinten Nationen für Europa (UNECE). Es hat die Aufgabe, ein einheitliches Regelsystem, die "UN-Regelungen", für den Fahrzeugbau zu schaffen, um den internationalen Handel zu erleichtern. Ziel ist es, Maßnahmen zur weltweiten Harmonisierung oder Weiterentwicklung von technischen Vorschriften für Fahrzeuge zu initiieren und zu verfolgen. Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Tätigkeit der WP.29 sind drei multilaterale Übereinkommen aus den Jahren 1958, 1997 und 1998.

WP.29 wurde am 6. Juni 1952 als "Arbeitsgruppe für den Fahrzeugbau" (Working Party on the Construction of Vehicles) gegründet, während der heutige Name im März 2000 angenommen wurde.

Das Forum befasst sich mit den Vorschriften für Fahrzeugsicherheit, Umweltschutz, Energieeffizienz und Diebstahlsicherheit.

Zusammensetzung
Jedes Land kann an der WP.29 teilnehmen. Dies gilt auch für NGOs, wie beispielsweise Automobilclubs und Verbraucherschutzorgansationen. Auch die USA gehören zu den Teilnehmern. Stimmberechtigt sind die Delegierten der Unterzeichner von 1958, wenn eine Vorschrift von ihnen unterzeichnet war. Außerdem arbeiten der WP.29 Facharbeitsgruppen zu.

Übereinkommen von 1958 und 1995
Der Kern der Arbeit des Forums stützt sich auf das "Übereinkommen von 1958" mit dem formellen Titel "Übereinkommen über die Annahme einheitlicher technischer Vorschriften für Radfahrzeuge, Ausrüstungen und Teile, die an Radfahrzeugen angebracht und / oder verwendet werden können, und die Bedingungen für die gegenseitige Anerkennung der auf der Grundlage dieser Vorschriften erteilten Genehmigungen" (E/ECE/TRANS/505/Rev.2, geändert am 16. Oktober 1995). Dies bildet einen rechtlichen Rahmen, in dem sich die teilnehmenden Länder (Vertragsparteien) auf einen gemeinsamen Satz technischer Vorschriften und Protokolle für die Typgenehmigung von Fahrzeugen und Komponenten einigen. Diese wurden früher als "UNECE-Regelungen" oder, noch weniger formell, als "ECE-Regelungen" in Bezug auf die Wirtschaftskommission für Europa bezeichnet. Da jedoch viele außereuropäische Länder jetzt Vertragsparteien des Übereinkommens von 1958 sind, werden die Verordnungen offiziell als "UN-Regelungen" bezeichnet. Die Typgenehmigungen jedes Vertragspartners werden von allen anderen Vertragspartnern anerkannt.

Ursprünglich teilnehmende Länder
Zu den ersten Unterzeichnern des Abkommens von 1958 gehören Italien (28. März), Niederlande (30. März), Deutschland (19. Juni), Frankreich (26. Juni), Ungarn (30. Juni), Schweden und Belgien.

Erweiterung 1995

Ursprünglich erlaubte die Vereinbarung nur die Teilnahme von ECE-Mitgliedsländern, aber 1995 wurde die Vereinbarung überarbeitet, um Nicht-ECE-Mitgliedern die Teilnahme zu ermöglichen. Zu den derzeitigen Teilnehmern gehören die Europäische Union und ihre Mitgliedsländer sowie Nicht-EU-UNECE-Mitglieder wie Norwegen, Russland, Ukraine, Serbien, Belarus, Kasachstan, Türkei, Aserbaidschan und Tunesien und sogar abgelegene Gebiete wie Südafrika, Australien, Neuseeland, Japan, Südkorea, Thailand und Malaysia.

Teilnehmerstaaten des Übereinkommens seit 1958:

Die meisten Länder, auch wenn sie nicht formell am Abkommen von 1958 teilnehmen, erkennen die UN-Regelungen an und spiegeln entweder den Inhalt der UN-Regelungen in ihren eigenen nationalen Anforderungen wider oder erlauben die Einfuhr, Registrierung und Verwendung von UN-zugelassenen Fahrzeugen oder beides. Die Vereinigten Staaten und Kanada sind die beiden wesentlichen Ausnahmen. Die UN-Vorschriften werden dort im Allgemeinen nicht anerkannt und UN-konforme Fahrzeuge und Ausrüstung sind nicht für den Import, Verkauf oder Gebrauch in den beiden Regionen zugelassen, es sei denn, sie wurden getestet, um den Sicherheitsvorschriften der Region zu entsprechen oder für begrenzte nicht fahrende Verwendung.

Typgenehmigung

Das Abkommen von 1958 beruht auf den Grundsätzen der Typgenehmigung und der gegenseitigen Anerkennung. Jedes Land, das dem Abkommen von 1958 beitritt, ist befugt, das Design eines Herstellers eines regulierten Produkts zu prüfen und zu genehmigen, unabhängig davon, in welchem Land dieses Bauteil hergestellt wurde. Jedes individuelle Design von jedem einzelnen Hersteller wird als ein einzelner Typ gezählt. Sobald ein beitretendes Land eine Typgenehmigung erteilt, ist jedes andere beitretende Land verpflichtet, diese Typgenehmigung anzuerkennen und dieses Fahrzeug oder diese Kraftfahrzeugausrüstung als für die Einfuhr, den Verkauf und die Verwendung legal zu betrachten. Gegenstände, die nach einer UN-Verordnung typgenehmigt sind, sind mit einem E und einer Nummer innerhalb eines Kreises gekennzeichnet (ECE-Prüfzeichen). Die Nummer gibt an, welches Land den Gegenstand genehmigt hat, und andere umgebende Buchstaben und Ziffern geben die genaue Version der getroffenen Regelung bzw. die Typgenehmigungsnummer an.

Obwohl alle Typgenehmigungen aller Länder rechtlich gleichwertig sind, gibt es tatsächliche und wahrgenommene Unterschiede in der Strenge, mit der die Vorschriften und Protokolle von verschiedenen nationalen Typgenehmigungsbehörden angewendet werden. Einige Länder haben ihre eigenen nationalen Normen für die Erteilung von Typgenehmigungen, die strenger sein können, als die UN-Vorschriften selbst fordern. In der Automobilzulieferindustrie gilt beispielsweise eine deutsche (E1) Typzulassung als sichere Maßnahme gegen den Verdacht auf schlechte Qualität oder eine unverdiente Typzulassung.

UN-Regelungen

Derzeit (2021-12-31) gibt es 163 UN-Regelungen, die dem Abkommen von 1958 beigefügt sind; die meisten Vorschriften decken eine einzelne Fahrzeugkomponente oder -technologie ab. Zu folgenden Themengebieten existieren Vorschriften:
 Beleuchtung
 Scheinwerfer
 Instrumentierung/Kontrolle
 Crash-Verhalten
 Umweltverträglichkeit
 Reifen & Räder

Nordamerika
Der bemerkenswerteste Nichtunterzeichner des Abkommens von 1958 sind die Vereinigten Staaten, die ihre eigenen Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards haben und keine UN-Typgenehmigungen anerkennen. Allerdings sind sowohl die Vereinigten Staaten als auch Kanada Vertragsparteien des Übereinkommens von 1998. UN-spezifizierte Fahrzeuge und Komponenten, die nicht den US-Vorschriften entsprechen, können daher nicht ohne umfangreiche Modifikationen in die USA importiert werden. Kanada hat seine eigenen Kanadischen Kraftfahrzeugsicherheitsstandards, die im Großen und Ganzen denen der FMVSS in den USA entsprechen. Kanada akzeptiert jedoch auch UN-konforme Scheinwerfer und Stoßfänger. Es sollte jedoch beachtet werden, dass das bevorstehende umfassende Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen zwischen Kanada und der Europäischen Union Kanada mehr UN-Regelungen als akzeptable Alternative zu den kanadischen Regelungen anerkennen lassen könnte. Kanada wendet derzeit 14 der 17 ECE-Hauptnormen als zulässige Alternativen an – die Ausnahmen betreffen zu diesem Zeitpunkt Motorradsteuerungen und -anzeigen, Motorradspiegel und die elektronische Stabilitätskontrolle für Personenkraftwagen. Diese drei verbleibenden Gruppen werden bis zum Zeitpunkt der Ratifizierung des Handelsabkommens in Kanada zugelassen.

Selbstzertifizierung
Die US-amerikanischen und kanadischen Auto-Sicherheitsvorschriften arbeiten nicht nach einem UN-ähnlichen System von Typgenehmigungen, sondern nach dem Prinzip der Selbstzertifizierung, wobei der Hersteller oder Importeur eines Fahrzeugs oder einer Kraftfahrzeugausrüstung dies bescheinigt, d. h. behauptet und verspricht, dass das Fahrzeug oder die Ausrüstung allen anwendbaren Vorschriften für Bundes- und Kanadische Kraftfahrzeugsicherheit, Stoßfänger und Diebstahlsicherungen entspricht.

Eine staatliche Behörde oder eine autorisierte Prüfstelle benötigt keine vorherige Überprüfung, bevor das Fahrzeug oder die Ausrüstung importiert, verkauft oder verwendet werden kann. Wenn Grund zu der Annahme besteht, dass die Zertifizierung falsch oder unkorrekt ist – d. h., dass das Fahrzeug oder die Ausrüstung tatsächlich nicht übereinstimmt –, können die Behörden Tests durchführen und, falls eine Nichteinhaltung festgestellt wird, einen Rückruf und / oder andere Korrektur- und / oder Strafmaßnahmen anordnen. Fahrzeug- und Ausrüstungshersteller dürfen solche Strafen anfechten, aber dies ist schwierig. Verstöße, die nachweislich keine Auswirkungen auf die Sicherheit im Straßenverkehr haben, können beantragt werden, um die Rückruf- (Abhilfe- und Benachrichtigungs-) Anforderungen für bereits hergestellte Fahrzeuge zu überspringen.

Regulatorische Unterschiede
Historisch gesehen war einer der auffälligsten Unterschiede zwischen UN- und US-Vorschriften das Design und die Leistung von Scheinwerfern. Der hier gezeigte Citroën DS zeigt die großen Unterschiede bei den Scheinwerfern während der Ära 1940–1983, als die US-Vorschriften Sealed-Beam-Scheinwerfer erforderten. Im Jahr 2014 war es nicht möglich, ein einzelnes Fahrzeugdesign zu produzieren, das gleichzeitig den Anforderungen der UN und der USA entspricht, aber es wird einfacher, wenn sich die Technologie und beide Regelwerke entwickeln. Angesichts der Größe des US-amerikanischen Fahrzeugmarktes und der unterschiedlichen Vermarktungsstrategien in Nordamerika im Vergleich zum Rest der Welt produzieren viele Hersteller Fahrzeuge in drei Versionen: Nordamerika, Rest der Welt Rechtslenker (RHD) und Rest der Welt Linkslenker (LHD).

Transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft 2013 (Vorschlag)
Im Rahmen der Verhandlungen über die transatlantische Handels- und Investitionspartnerschaft (TTIP) wurden die Probleme divergierender Standards in der Automobilregulierung untersucht. Die TTIP-Unterhändler versuchten Wege zu finden, um die regulatorischen Unterschiede zu verringern, möglicherweise die Kosten zu senken und zusätzlichen Handel mit Fahrzeugen anzuregen.

Übereinkommen von 1998
Die "Vereinbarung über die Festlegung globaler technischer Vorschriften für Radfahrzeuge, Ausrüstung und Teile, die an Radfahrzeugen angebracht und / oder verwendet werden können", oder Vereinbarung von 1998, ist eine spätere Vereinbarung. Nach ihrer Mission zur Harmonisierung der Fahrzeugvorschriften löste die UNECE die Hauptprobleme (Verwaltungsbestimmungen für die Typgenehmigung gegen Selbstzertifizierung und gegenseitige Anerkennung von Typgenehmigungen), um nicht unterzeichnende Länder des Übereinkommens von 1958 daran zu hindern, sich uneingeschränkt an ihren Aktivitäten zu beteiligen.

Die Vereinbarung von 1998 wurde erlassen, um Metarichtlinien mit dem Titel Globale technische Vorschriften (Global Technical Regulation, GTR) ohne Verwaltungsverfahren für die Typgenehmigung und ohne das Prinzip der gegenseitigen Anerkennung von Typgenehmigungen zu erstellen. Das Abkommen von 1998 sieht vor, dass die Vertragsparteien die globalen technischen Vorschriften der Vereinten Nationen (UN GTRs) im Konsensverfahren in einem UN Global Register festlegen. Die UN-GTR enthalten global harmonisierte Leistungsanforderungen und Testverfahren. Jede UN GTR enthält ausführliche Hinweise zu seiner Entwicklung. Der Text enthält eine Aufzeichnung der technischen Gründe, der verwendeten Forschungsquellen, Überlegungen zu Kosten und Nutzen sowie Verweise auf konsultierte Daten. Die Vertragsparteien verwenden bei der Umsetzung der UN-GTR in nationales Recht ihre national festgelegten Regelsetzungsprozesse. Das Abkommen von 1998 umfasste Anfang 2014 dreiunddreißig Vertragsparteien und 20 UN-GTR, die in das Globalregister der Vereinten Nationen aufgenommen wurden.

OICA
Die Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (OICA) hostet auf ihrer Website Arbeitsdokumente verschiedener Expertengruppen der Vereinten Nationen, darunter das Weltforum für die Harmonisierung von Fahrzeugvorschriften.

Siehe auch
 Worldwide harmonized Light vehicles Test Procedures
 DOT-Nummer
 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

Weblinks
 UN Regulations
 World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) – How It Works, How to Join It
 World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations FAQ

Einzelnachweise

Organisation (Fahrzeugsicherheit)
Wirtschaftskommission für Europa
Gegründet 1952
Internationales Straßenverkehrsrecht
Organisation (Kraftfahrzeug)

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df['art_kennz'] = df.apply(lambda x:myFunction(x.art_kennz), axis=1)

However, here I have hard coded the column name art_kennz on both places: df['art_kennz'] and x.art_kennz. Now, I want to modify the script such that I have a list of column names and the df.apply runs for all those columns. So I tried this:
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because of x.col_name. Here, col_name is supposed to be the element from the for loop. What would be the correct syntax for this?

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Explanation: You can access the Serie using attribute syntax e.g x.art_kennz, but since col_name is a variable containing a string that represent the attribute, bracket syntax is the correct way.

A: In this case x.art_kennz you use string but in for-loop you have variables you can not use .variables.
try this: (In this approach you iterate row by row)
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If you want to iterate columns by columns you can try this:
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She's Just a Shadow (2019)
Film is a powerful medium but it's also one where it seems an infinite number of people are ready and willing to debase themselves just to be part of a production, just like there seems to be an infinite amount of people ready and willing to use their perch as filmmaker to exploit, particularly, young women that normally wouldn't give them the time of day. I don't dislike exploitation cinema on its face. I enjoy crazy movies, bad movies, and movies replete with sex, drugs, and violence as much as the next guy. The problem is when the exploitation is for its own shallow sake. Such is the case with the repellent She's Just a Shadow from writer/director/producer Adam Sherman, whose scuzzy aim seems to be a lower-rent Harmony Korine, who is a lower-rent Larry Clark, all face down in the trough of skeevy exploitation cinema runoff. This may be the kind of movie only a disaffected 12-year-old kid would love but you wouldn't want to get to know that child.
Set amid the glamour and grime of Tokyo, we follow Irene (Tao Okamoto, The Wolverine), who informs us in her opening narration, "It was kind of confusing how I took over the black market and sex trade of the whole city." So, off to a good start. She's married to Red Hot (Kentez Asaka) who is looking to gain new turf for his drug empire and stomp the competition, which happens to be a grade school friend of Irene's that causes him intense jealousy. Gaven (J-pop star Kihiro) is tired of his rich gangster playboy life and torn between his feelings for two prostitutes, Tanya (Karuka Abe, Kiss Me First) and Beth (Mercedes Maxwell, Marfa Girl). He wants to run away with Tanya but just can't leave his cushy lifestyle. Really, the plot of this movie is: whatever character does copious amount of some drug while naked women cavort in foreground or background. Plus there's a serial killer. That's it.
The opening sequence sets the tone for this repulsive TWO-HOUR experience. A woman is hogtied, naked, and laid onto train tracks. Her abductor records her panicked muffled cries as one of Japan's bullet trains approaches. Yes, it's a twenty-first century film where a villain straps women to railroad tracks. However, that's not edgy enough, so the abductor proceeds to masturbate to the woman's terror and climaxes on her, which we see, before she gets smacked by a train. It's a gross, sleazy, and gratuitous opening, and it sets the tone for a movie that never challenges itself to be anything more than the world's most boring exploitation film.
You can clearly see Sherman's interests in exploitation film staples and Japanese culture, but getting to play with your kinks and getting dozens of women naked does not a movie make. It feels like I'm watching some strange and off-putting project that's a combination of a rambling, incoherent student film and personal pornography. I'm a red-blooded heterosexual male who enjoys nudity but She's Just a Shadow is excessive to the point of boredom. The movie is almost two hours and I can literally count on my two hands the number of minutes that did not include some naked woman. Scene to scene, naked women will just bounce around, or sometimes they just lay around while other characters talk, serving as literal scene decorations. There's a big glitter orgy and visuals of writhing, tawny nude bodies. There's a full-frontal photo shoot that just goes on and on. There are multiple trips to a strip club. The gang of prostitutes are dressed in chunky Alice in Wonderland-style Gothic dresses and wigs and jewels glued to their faces. I looked it up and several of the minor Japanese actresses are real porn stars (no judgement). The objectification of the women is just so overpowering. It's not that you can't tell a compelling story with sex workers as the primary stars/perspectives. Sherman has not provided them the material because they aren't characters; they're barely people (more on that below) in this realm. They're disposable fetish figurines meant for posing. This is like some horny teenage boy's fantasy of having enough power to get a bunch of women to frolic to his specific demands. I counted the number of actresses listed under "prostitute" in the end credits and it's 32!
Exploitation movies trade in base behavior, memorably outrageous characters, and fans celebrate them for it, but they still need to provide an entry point for an audience. She's Just a Shadow is trying so hard to be edgy in every scene that it reeks of tragic desperation. It's unrepentantly misogynistic and trashy and ugly and cruel for its own stupid sake. There are no characters of interest, no recognizable people to follow and empathize with, and Sherman's idea of a Strong Woman amounts to an abused woman forced to do awful things to fit in or rise above awful people. Crime movies and exploitation cinema is rife with immoral characters but the filmmakers know well enough to make them worth watching. With She's Just a Shadow, one of the biggest character's entire arc is that he keeps saying, "Man, I can't party anymore." He has a life of empty luxury and he says he can't handle it any longer, and yet he stays. The lead characters are supposed to be ferocious criminal leaders but they act like self-involved morons or cartoons. They have (nick?) names like Red Hot, Knockout, and the competing gangster, Blue Sky. There is one moment that is so incomprehensible in its insane nihilism that I was gob smacked. In the span of ten seconds, a character roundhouse kicks a kid in a wheelchair across his face, then punts his dog over a fence, and then gets plowed into by a speeding truck. If you needed confirmation, here it is that Sherman has contempt for his unfortunate characters.
The heavy-handed nihilism is so tiresome and is its only trick. Sherman is forced to resort to repetitive shock theatrics to jolt life into his movie because it's such a floundering story. There's one scene where Tanya is eating an ice cream cone, digresses about how her drunk father was so poor he could not even afford an ice cream cone, then discusses how she was possibly molested and raped by that same father, and now he's dead, mom too, and then she smears the vanilla ice creams over her face and asks, "Will you lick the ice cream off my face?" Then there are close-ups of Gavin's tongue lapping every morsel. What the hell is this scene even doing?
The lingering serial killer is the biggest symptom of this diseased thinking. The "Train Track Killer" is seen murdering a half a dozen naked women in his signature over-the-top style, and why do we need to see this half a dozen times? Are we gaining any further insights about this man? The police can't seem to determine the identity of the culprit, but in this universe not a single train employee or passenger records evidence of a weird man standing beside a dead body. The serial killer poses as a cop but most of his screen time is spent spying on Irene's prostitutes, and hacking into their electronic devices, and masturbating furiously. I suppose there's a mystery of whom he is, not that his identity matters, but it does matter to Irene and her girls who are at risk. Halfway through the movie, Irene knows who this guy is and… she… does… nothing. Why? Eventually, at the very end of the movie, she does take a stand, but why didn't she take the initiative an hour earlier? There are more women dead because she chose not to act. The "Train Track Killer" adds nothing of genuine value to this story. He's a slipshod antagonist kept along the periphery, called upon to do something horrible at random times, yet his actions have no impact on the characters he targets. Under Sherman's guise, the women are all disposable. This is a stupid character that has nothing to do except provide work for the newscasters (who report with the same microphone and obliviously within feet of speeding trains). Let this terrible man's spiteful ejaculation in the opening scene serve as a metaphor for the entire enterprise.
She's Just a Shadow has so many bizarre, ineffective, and pathetic examples of headache-inducing dialogue that I had to assemble my favorites. I asked my friends on social media what the best-worst example of dialogue is, and by a close margin they went with the first selection. The candidates for Worst Line of Movie Dialogue of 2019 are the following:
1) "Women! No matter how human they seem, they are just shadows. But on the other hand, aren't we all?"
2) "This sandwich is cold and raw AND SO ARE YOU!" *hangs up phone*
3) "There's two kinds of love: strawberry love and Twinkie love. A Twinkie can sit there for decades and still be sweet. A strawberry is juicy and sweet but if you leave it out it will rot in just a couple of days."
"Only a prostitute would say that."
4) "Everything goes away in the end. Love goes away in the middle."
"Love is a thing with feathers."
5) "You're a man whore. A prosti-dude."
The production has some merit when it comes to its Grand Guignol primary-color drenched photography, but anything of technical value is quickly extinguished by Sherman's unrestrained penchant for gratuity. Even if you enjoy some of the visual arrangements, there will be scenes where it feels like they were running out of time and just threw a camera onto a tripod and got the first take. Even if you like some of the style, Sherman will indulge to the point of self-parody. There's one moment where Irene's girl gang and a rival gang standoff and Sherman has 14 seconds of shots of characters just drawing their guns (I actually counted) and no seconds of watching the actual shootout (the camera frustratingly pans away to hear the off-screen gunfire). Let that be an example of Sherman's predilections and priorities, featuring women posturing in his fetish gear but, when it comes time for there to be stakes and story significance, the movie cowardly retreats. I haven't even talked about the numerous other awkward moments. Red Hot rapes Irene twice, once after spanking her/beating her with a laptop, and a second time after stabbing her in the thigh. Gaven badgers a dying and profusely bleeding prostitute (it's like the floor is painted in gory gallons) about whether or not she can see God in her final moments, and she requests a kiss that is followed through with a string of bloody saliva between their lips. The earlier shot didn't even have this string of saliva, but then Sherman shows another take immediately after, because he definitely wants this string of saliva seen and processed. It means something. Or nothing.
To say She's Just a Shadow is in bad taste or a waste of anyone's time is an obvious understatement. This is a bottom-scraping bad time of a movie, soaked in various bodily fluids, gruesome for the sake of being cool, smothered by its wanton excess, and supported by one-dimensional ideas of characters that are really just opposable bodies miming the exploitation influences for Sherman. He feels disdain for all of these characters but especially the women who are fetishized, objectified, abused and harassed, and made to sadistically suffer. I felt bad for every person, especially the women, involved in what feels like Sherman's student film project where he gets to tickle every personal fetish he's ever had. Even watching the stream of flesh and violence grows utterly tiresome without variance or reasons. At one point, a call girl stumbles into a double suicide, blood splattered against the walls, and seems to be talking directly to the audience when she huffs, "This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever seen." You said it, sister.
Nate's Grade: D
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Retail promotions and perceptions of R.J. Reynolds' novel dissolvable tobacco in a US test market
Harm Reduct J. 2011 May 15;8:10. doi: 10.1186/1477-7517-8-10.
Laura M Romito 1 , M Kim Saxton, Lorinda L Coan, Arden G Christen
1 Oral Biology Department, Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. lromitoc@iupui.edu.
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-8-10
Background: With declining cigarette sales, tobacco manufacturers have been developing and marketing new smokeless products, such as R. J. Reynolds' dissolvable tobacco, Camel Sticks, Strips and Orbs. This study assessed the availability, price and point-of-purchase promotional strategies for Camel Dissolvables, and investigated consumer awareness, interest and perception of these products in the Indiana test market.
Methods: An exploratory retail audit of point-of-purchase promotions was conducted in a random sample of retailers from 6 store categories (n = 81) in the test market area. Data included: store type, location, product placement, forms/flavors carried, price, types and locations of advertisements and promotions, and ad messages. An Awareness-Attitude-Usage (AAU) survey was used to gauge consumer awareness and knowledge of tobacco products including Camel Dissolvables. Respondents were shown promotional materials from a package onsert and perceptions and interest in the Camel Dissolvables were assessed. An Intended Target Survey (ITS) compared subjects' perceptions of ad targets for several non-tobacco products, as well as Camel Snus, Camel No. 9 and Camel Dissolvables. Respondents were asked to identify each ad's intended target category, perceived targetedness, and purchase intent.
Results: The products were carried by 46% of stores, most frequently gas stations (100%) and convenience stores (75%). They were shelved near smokeless tobacco (70%), cigarettes (25%) or candy (5%). Prices ranged from $3.59 -$4.19 per package; most stores carried at least 1 promotional item. Ad messages included: "Dissolvable Tobacco" (60%). "Free Trial" (24%), "Special Price" (24%), "What's Your Style?" (22%). At 14% of stores, free trial packs of Camel Dissolvables were offered with another Camel purchase. Awareness was reported by 42% of respondents (n = 243), and trial by 3%. Consumer interest was very low, but younger respondents (< 40 years) were more familiar with Camel Dissolvables (60% vs. 45% for those > 40 years, p < .01). Males, as well as current and former smokers had higher rates of interest and trial; only 1% of never smokers reported trial. In the ITS, only for the 3 tobacco product ads, was perceived targetedness for smokers significantly higher than for non-smokers. Smokers and nonsmokers perceived that the ads targeted smokers.
Conclusions: Current retail promotional strategies for Camel Sticks, Strips & Orbs appear to be targeting a select audience, primarily current smokers. Overall, consumer awareness, interest and trial were low.


Don't expect the Walt Disney Co. to reacquire Universal Orlando's Marvel theme-park rights any time soon, according to an analyst with UBS Securities. The analyst says the licenses are "attractive" for all parties involved.
Man is it me or is the Sentinel on top of the Orlando theme park happenings.


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Why Northern Virginia Dominates the Data Center Market – Who's Building and Where?
11 Oct 2018 by Bart Dorst
Data center growth continues to increase across the country. However, there are certain areas that stand out from the rest, sometimes significantly so. For many years now, that has been Northern Virginia, particularly the area near the cities of Ashburn and Sterling, which has been dubbed "Data Center Alley" due to the immense density of providers here. What's driving this growth? What companies are already there, and who is breaking ground?
Factors Influencing Growth
We'll start with a look at what's fueling the growth of data centers in the area in the first place. There are actually quite a few factors, and we'll break those down for easier consumption and understanding.
Proximity to Washington
One of the single most important reasons for northern Virginia's domination of the data center market is that it's right on the doorstep of Washington D.C., without actually being in the city. Ashburn can be found just north of Dulles International Airport, meaning that it's within a short distance of the national centers of power. Of course, it's not just convenient access to Washington that's drawing data centers here.
Fiber Connectivity
Looking around the nation, you'll find that fiber connectivity has rolled out in quite a few markets, but it remains relatively limited. Northern Virginia is one market where fiber connectivity is widely available. Of course, there are many other regions where that is the case, so why aren't data centers flocking to areas like Miami or Los Angeles? Tax incentives and energy costs are other factors.
When an area wants to attract new businesses, what is one of the first things it does? Leaders in the area attempt to make it as ideal an environment as possible and that usually means providing the means for the company to keep more of its profit through tax incentives. You'll find that this is the case in northern Virginia.
Another reason that northern Virginia is a better choice for data centers than other regions around the country is the fact that electricity costs less here. Data centers require vast amounts of power to operate, and increasing density needs mean that those costs are only going to increase. With cheaper power than many areas, northern Virginia stands out as a prime destination for energy-hungry data centers that want to save money without sacrificing access to power.
Plentiful (and Cheap) Labor: Ashburn and the rest of Data Center Alley have access to a pool of skilled, affordable labor that makes running a data center simpler and more affordable. Most of the workers in the area have college educations and are looking for long-term employment.
Land Costs
Yet another piece of the puzzle can be found in land costs. While a company might pay $16 million per acre for land in California, it might pay as little as $1 or $2 million per acre in northern Virginia, and those are just the recent highest prices. Plus, the land here is seismically stable, so data centers don't need to worry about the construction requirements to deal with earthquakes.
As you can see, there are plenty of reasons that Northern Virginia is a very attractive market for data centers. There are other motivators, too, such as accessibility to other tech companies, accessibility to other data centers, and proximity to well-developed and maintained transportation arteries.
Who's in the Market?
So, who's in the northern Virginia market? It might be more apt to ask who's not there yet. Equinix, the largest colocation data center provider in the world, has 10 data centers in the area. Infomart Data Centers has a presence in the area, and there's the Iron Mountain data center. Other names of note include RagingWire, CyrusOne, Zayo (zColo), Digital Realty, Vantage Data Centers, QTS, CoreSite, EdgeCore and more. You'll also find them spread out around Ashburn, with Manassas, Fairfax, and Sterling all being hot areas.
Bart Dorst
Bart Dorst is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the data center, colocation, and IT hardware industry. Bart specializes in assisting clients with their data center infrastructure strategy, cloud strategy, and hybrid IT environments.
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Magaluf's party strip will reopen bars and restaurants this week - but dancing is banned
By Helen Johnson
Updated Monday, 12th October 2020, 11:38 am
Magaluf's popular party strip is due to reopen this week (Photo: Clara Margais/Getty Images)
Magaluf's popular party strip is due to reopen this week after it closed in July due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and anti-social behaviour from holidaymakers.
The Punta Ballena area of the Spanish resort town will be able to reopen shops, bars and restaurants selling alcohol on 15 October, after closing on 15 July. However, nightclubs will remain closed and a ban on dancing will be in place.
Punta Ballena reopens bars, restaurants and shops
Pubs, bars and restaurants temporarily closed down in July due to numerous incidents with misbehaving tourists, which the Spanish government considered as hindering measures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Two party strips in Palma have already been able to reopen, after also closing due to fears of the spread of Covid-19.
Outbreaks of coronavirus in the areas which have temporarily closed hospitality venues temporarily are said to have dropped considerably. However, the Balearic government is expected to continue its attempts to curb scenes of drunken behaviour by maintaining the ban on pub crawls, party boats and offers on cheap drinks.
The Punta Ballena party strip will still have to adhere to the general coronavirus safety rules, with all pubs and bars having to close at 1am, and no new customers being allowed in after midnight.
What is the current travel advice for Spain?
The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) advises "against all non-essential travel to Spain, including the Balearic and Canary Islands, based on the current assessment of Covid-19 risks in the country."
This advice is based on evidence of increases in cases of COVID-19 across Spain.
However, the FCDO is not advising those already travelling in Spain to leave at this time. Instead, tourists should follow the advice of the local authorities on how best to protect themselves and others, including any measures that they bring in to control the virus.
If you are coming back from Spain you will be required to self-isolate for a period of 14 days on your return to the UK.
You should also contact your tour operator or airline if you have any questions about your return journey.


Davco launches six new Easy Grout colours to match, complement or contrast any tiling project. Easy Grout guarantees no efflorescence and maximum colour consistency, making it the safest and surest choice.
Davco Easy Grout is for tilers and DIYers who want to work smarter, not harder. Thanks to its innovative formulation, Easy Grout is ready to go the minute you open the pail. Forget about messy mixing and excess grout. Instead, enjoy zero waste, smooth application and fast clean up. Easy Grout is a premium, pre-mixed, wall and floor tile grout suitable for interior and undercover exterior tiling applications. Unlike cement-based grouts, Easy Grout requires no mixing, resulting in a consistent colour and finish every time. Easy Grout provides maximum resistant to stains, mould and bacteria, making the grout easy to maintain and clean. Easy Grout guarantees no efflorescence and maximum colour consistency. Easy Grout is also reusable, just close the lid of the pail and store it out of direct sunlight and heat and it is ready to use at your next job. To make grouting even easier, Easy Grout requires no sealing ever.
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We left Costa Rico at 7 am this morning. It was smooth flight with a little summer tropical rain and a bit of head wind that made the flight longer. Weather permitting; we will leave Venezuela tomorrow, early morning, for a 1130 mile flight to Miami .


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Since being here Visit Colorado doing Iron Horse Bicycle Classic and Elephant Rock it was imperative to explore the camping in the Western Slope of Colorado. Back in the spring at Sedona MTB Festival I met Billy Beyhan, who invited me to come visit what he and his family have been doing the past 5 years at Dolores River Campground and now I can sincerely testify that they KNOW what they are doing!!!
Activities-wise there are heaps and heaps of things to do hiking, mountain biking, fly fishing (saw a guest catch a nice trout while there), boating at McPhee Reservoir Colorado and touring the historical pueblo ancestral dwellings when you Visit Mesa Verde National Park.
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One of my greatest joys since joining our Cyclelogical team are the opportunities we get to create. I can not articulate how REFRESHING it is to be in an atmosphere that encourages being "unique, different, sarcastic, giddy and just plain silly" when it comes to hatching ideas for our apparel designs. Inspiration can come from conversations with others over coffee early in the morning or adult beverages late at night, doodles sketched on napkins, conversations with customers/new friends at events or my favourite ideas from things we experience and see while riding out in nature or around town. **See photos of some Tshirts that were "birthed" during rides in our national parks!!!
Collaborations are even MORE FUN…not only among our team at Cyclelogical headquarters but also with friends that are "all about what we do and join the process" of creating designs. Two such people that are a delight to bounce ideas off of are Syd Schulz and Macky Franklin, who agreed to be our first "brand ambassadors" during our 10th Anniversary celebrating Cyclelogical's existence.
SOOOO…as a direct result of that funny exchange on a miserable day in a Tucson dealership we just came out with a Tshirt as part of our "Syd&Macky collection" called Bike & Burrito Hauler that brings in tandem our mutual love for burritos and #vanlife (http://www.cyclelogicalgear.com/bike-burrito-hauler-ms-grey-syd-macky-collection/). Then to further support our dedication to #vanlife we did one inspired by how they pack up their vans while traveling and competing called "Van Capacity" (http://www.cyclelogicalgear.com/van-capacity-ws-purple-syd-macky-collection/).
You need to check these exclusive designs and prints we offer online based on conversations with Syd&Macky and order them…fun Tshirts worth riding in. BE MORE AWESOME check them out and enjoy your weekend!!
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So if I asked you, "what are some circumstances you fear most?" What would be your reply? Loosing your job? Getting a letter from the IRS that you are being audited?
This past month I found myself feeling absolutely horrible and after "dragging my feet" since I could not be bothered to stop working and pay attention to the progressing signs of diabetes (fatigue, blurred vision, nausea, dry mouth, frequent urination, etc…) I FINALLY went to the hospital. After more than a week of excellent care and education on my situation, I was released and started my new "adventure" of pedaling through the "sweet life" as a newly diagnosed diabetic.
What does life look like now?! For me it's absolutely NOT sleeping in. I get to bed at a decent hour and get up early to make SURE I have time to meditate and exercise first thing. I make NO MORE EXCUSES about riding or at least walking a couple times a day. I eat regularly throughout the day, concentrating on a plate that's 2/3rds raw veggies, fresh fruit along with lean protein & healthy fats. I always have little bags of nuts somewhere nearby in the Sprintervan or in my bike's transformer frame bag to snack on in case grabbing a meal is not an option. I have cut back HUGE on my drinking (my only temptation since I have never had a "sweet tooth") and refuse to eat past 6pm…ice water helps take away those "late night cravings" that are pretty much just pangs of "boredom" and a bad habit that will hopefully disappear eventually.
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However, the most ANNOYING thing about getting home to the Airstream are my "li'l spider friends" who use my absence as an opportunity to "expand their kingdoms" throughout. Around the window on my plants, especially in the kitchenette area and in the bathroom (like in photos). The worst is going for a shower or sitting down on "the throne" and getting wrapped up in cobwebs…YUCK!!!
As Spring is now here that got me thinking about "spring cleaning" and the need to clear out the cobwebs and junk in my own life. Here's what I like to take time to do…not just every Spring but at least monthly, if not weekly!
Last, I encourage you to take time to "share your story" with someone. Like the cobwebs in my Airstream, as annoying as they are…they remind me that we are all interconnected. We all are apart of a bigger web…a larger story from those who have gone behind us to those who come after us, it's healthy to share that story. Just this weekend at San Diego's GranFondo, I had an amazing opportunity to get to know a young cyclist and photographer to hear his story and share mine. There is something healthy and spring-like in doing that…helps clear out the clutter of bad things I need to "let go of" and actively practice gratefulness for the joys, experiences and lessons learned.
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When I started working with my college buddy, JD, who started Cyclelogical…I was not terribly familiar with the "Mountain Biking World." Sure, I had gone out occasionally with him and others on some "not so threatening" trails in Cali, AZ and UT but just to "have fun" (i.e. get a few bruises and scrapes) not a whole lot beyond that. Then as I traveled to events like the Kamikaze Bike Games up at Mammoth Mountain my eyes started to open to what you MTB athletes go through and I was extremely impressed!
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Watercolors done by Ida and Muriel Perrin taken from three sketchbooks they filled with scenes of their trips abroad taken between 1907 and 1928. The Perrins produced lustre ware for William de Morgan. Part of a current auction at Tooveys' Auctions from whose website these images are taken.
sarahbguestperry	Art book/folio, Arts and Crafts, British, Watercolor	 June 20, 2020 June 20, 2020 1 Minute
Watercolor. Image © Tooveys Auctions, West Sussex. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/421137/sketchbooks-a-group-of-three-sketchbooks-containing-watercolours
Watercolor. Fair use license. Image © Tooveys Auctions, West Sussex. Fair use license. via https://www.tooveys.com/lots/421137/sketchbooks-a-group-of-three-sketchbooks-containing-watercolours
Unfortunately the location is not given on the scanned images that are on the website. Looks to me like they are all of places in Italy, though.
Ida Perrin
Muriel Perrin
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    public void setEname(String ename) {
        this.ename = ename;
    }
    private double salary;
    private String deg;

    @ManyToOne
    private Department department;

    public Employee(Long eid, String ename, double salary, String deg) {
        super();
        this.id  = eid;
        this.ename = ename;
        this.salary = salary;
        this.deg = deg;
    }

    public double getSalary() {
        return salary;
    }

    public void setSalary(double salary) {
        this.salary = salary;
    }

    public String getDeg() {
        return deg;
    }

    public void setDeg(String deg) {
        this.deg = deg;
    }

    public Department getDepartment() {
        return department;
    }

    public void setDepartment(Department department) {
        this.department = department;
    }

    public Employee() {
        super();
    }

    public Long getId() {
        return id;
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        int hash = 0;
        hash += (id != null ? id.hashCode() : 0);
        return hash;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object object) {
        // TODO: Warning - this method won't work in the case the id fields are not set
        if (!(object instanceof Employee)) {
            return false;
        }
        Employee other = (Employee) object;
        if ((this.id == null && other.id != null) || (this.id != null && !this.id.equals(other.id))) {
            return false;
        }
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "george.manytoonerelation.entity.Employee[ id=" + id + " ]";
    }

}


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Q: Error 400 when doing .SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete I'm stuck with this part of my code and just can't get passed it:
'Sort Active Sheet By Property Case Number
Sheet2.Range("A1:AQ" & Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Sort Key1:=Sheet2.Range("Z1"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlYes

'Remove Duplicate Property Case Number
Sheet2.Range("A1:AQ" & Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count).RemoveDuplicates Columns:=26, Header:=xlYes

'Add Formula To Detect blank rows. This is a fix for the mistery blank rows that appear at this point
If Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count > 1 Then
Sheet2.Range("AR1").Value = "Temp"
Sheet2.Range("AR2").Formula = "=IF(COUNTA(A2:AQ2)<>0,""Not Empty"","""")"       '"=IF(COUNTA(A2:AQ2)=0,""Not Empty"","""")"
Sheet2.Range("AR2").AutoFill Destination:=Sheet2.Range("AR2:AR" & Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count), Type:=xlFillSeries
Sheet2.Columns("AR").Copy
Sheet2.Columns("AR").PasteSpecial Paste:=xlPasteValues
Sheet2.Range("A1:AR" & Sheet2.UsedRange.Rows.Count).Sort Key1:=Sheet2.Range("AR1"), Order1:=xlAscending, Header:=xlYes

Sheet2.Columns("AR").SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete
Sheet2.Columns("AR:AR").Delete
End If

The problem here is when the code executes ".RemoveDuplicates Columns:=26, Header:=xlYes" it removes the duplicate rows but those rows are still included in the sheet1.usedrange.rows.count as if they have invisible contents or something.
So now I had to add a code to remove those invisible rows and exclude them from usedrange count. I tried doing a ".SpecialCells(xlCellTypeBlanks).EntireRow.Delete" but I keep getting a ERROR 400 and I can't see any problems with my code for me to be getting that error. By the way, I am the kind of programmer who prefers not to use looping codes that checks rows one by one, I want to make a program that runs as fast as possible.


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