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Tag Archives: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
Introducing the NHS Improvement Directory (NHS Improvement)
Summary NHS Improvement have compiled an online directory listing a wide variety of websites and online resources which supply online improvement tools, case studies or networks to support innovation and quality improvement in health and social care. Full Text Link … Continue reading →
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Statistics on Prescriptions Dispensed in the Community Between 2005 and 2015 (BBC News / HSCIC)
Posted on July 10, 2016	by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary A Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) statistical summary of the prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists, appliance contractors and dispensing doctors in England indicates significant trends between 2005 and 2015. Prescriptions for antidepressants (costing the NHS £780,000 per … Continue reading →
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Reviewing the Current – and Likely Future – State of the NHS (NAO / Dods)
Summary The National Audit Office (NAO) has published a "Short Guide to the Department of Health" as one of their collection of short guides about different government departments. This guide includes a wealth of statistical information in summary form, concerning … Continue reading →
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Benefits of Alteplase Outweigh Risks (BBC News / MHRA)
Summary The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) review into the safety of alteplase, the thrombolytic (clot-busting) drug for the treatment of strokes, has concluded that alteplase is "safe and effective". The expert working group of the UK's Commission … Continue reading →
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International Meeting of Regulators on Challenges of Dementia Research and Drug Development (MHRA / Department of Health)
Posted on May 26, 2015	by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) took part in an international workshop with other regulators, and has released a statement of intent about how to support the development of drugs for dementia. This work is in support … Continue reading →
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Towards Harm-Free Care: Modifiable Hospitalisation Risk Factors (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society / HSCIC / BBC News / National Health Executive / NHS England)
Posted on May 7, 2015	by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary A recent study in the USA found 41% of patients over the age of 70 years who were hospitalised with acute conditions were discharged with lower levels of function compared with when they were admitted to hospital. A number … Continue reading →
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Personalised Health and Care 2020 Report / Framework (National Information Board / Department of Health / NHS England / BBC News)
Posted on January 23, 2015	by Dementia and Elderly Care News
Summary The National Information Board's Personalised Health and Care 2020 framework, which was published in November / December 2014, presents plans to transform health care and improve services by use of information / digital technology. The aim is to harness … Continue reading →
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Did you know that Falls of Clyde was saved from being scuttled in Ketchikan, Alaska? William Wendall Mitchell, Jr., whose grandfather was a Scottish sea captain and a shipbuilder in the 1800s in Puget Sound, was a lover of ships. He heard of Falls of Clyde at the end of her career as a bunker vessel for the fishing fleet and that she was to be scuttled. He bought the ship and brought her to Seattle with the hope of restoring her. Unfortunately he was unable to do so, which eventually led to the opportunity of Bob Krauss and John Wright to bring he to Honolulu. A debt is owed to Mr. Mitchell.
Did you know that often words of wisdom you are looking for come from others? Recently this came to us about Falls of Clyde from an article in the Star Advertiser (7/11/15) by Dr. Ira Zunin titled "Crew members develop familial bond with Hokule`a."
In the article, he said "Seafarers do not think of their vessels simply as floating objects that provide transportation. They give them names as though they are people to reflect the intimate and complex relationship they experience." For those who have ever been aboard Falls of Clyde and felt her mana, this is easy to understand. Vessels of any age can generate thoughts of what people over the ages have experienced at sea. As an island state, Hawai`i relies heavily on the vessels coming in and out of our harbors and have done so from the time of vessels like Hokule`a through the long era of sailing ships like Falls of Clyde to the modern vessels of today like Matson's RJ Pfeiffer. Think of all the bonding that has gone over the entire period of maritime history in Hawai`i.
Did you know that research does not always produce accurate information? As reported in the Ship's Log, a recent visitor was Hamish Russell, the great grandson of one of the owners of the company that built Falls of Clyde. Hamish purchased a copy of Bob Krauss' book on the history of the ship and discovered an error. The name of his ancestor who was running the shipyard, Russell & Co., at the time Falls was built was Joseph Russell and not John Scott Russell as reported in the book. Hamish related that Russell & Co. was founded in 1874 by Joseph Russell, Anderson Rodger, and William Lithgow. Joseph was the senior partner having invested £5,000. Always nice to find a personal detail like this.
Did You Know 11?
Did you know that the plan Friends of Falls of Clyde has for restoration of Falls of Clyde that we want to initiate is similar to the one Bishop Museum used. As stated in "The Falls of Clyde—Highlight of a Museum," which Bishop Museum had printed from a Hawaii Business article: "Work has thus concentrated on such basics as cleaning and painting the hull…Once the current work is complete, the reconstruction effort will shift from the basic structure to a project-by-project approach to individual areas of the boat that can be worked on while people are aboard." We believe that this approach worked once and can be done again.
Did you know that there is a Scottish Country dance written for Falls of Clyde? Mary Brandon, a Scottish Country Dance teacher and founder of the Hawaii Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS), devised the dance, Falls of Clyde, in honor of the ship. The dance is a medley, meaning it has two types of dance form—a reel (fast dance) and a strathspey (slow dance). The dance was written in the early 1980s and has been danced aboard the ship and on the pier on two different occasions. RSCDS Hawaii is looking forward to again dance aboard the ship at some point in the near future.
Did you know that although built as a four-masted vessel in the British medium clipper model, Falls of Clyde was down-rigged twice to a bark for part of her sailing career, which is a three-masted vessel. However, clearly her splendor is as her original rigging, which is where Friends of Falls of Clyde intends to take her with the restoration.
Did you know that during years 1898-1899, Falls of Clyde sailed under three flags? She arrived in San Francisco under the British Union Jack. There she was sold to Captain William Matson and she sailed to Hawaii under the Hawaiian flag. Finally, she was reflagged again and flew the U.S. flag from then on.

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https://www.ourmidland.com/business/article/Cole-appointed-to-role-with-State-Bar-11111267.php
Cole appointed to role with State Bar
The Midland Daily News
Published 8:23 am EDT, Monday, May 1, 2017
Angela M. Cole, of Sanford, probate and juvenile referee for the 42nd Circuit Court - Family Division has been appointed to serve on the Drafting Committee of the State Bar of Michigan Representative Assembly under Chairperson Martin J. Hillard.
Established in 1972 by the Supreme Court of Michigan, the Representative Assembly is the final policy-making body of the State Bar of Michigan. The State Board of Commissioners then implements policy adopted by the Assembly. The Representative Assembly meets at least twice a year and has 150 members that represent the entire State's judicial districts. Cole was originally appointed to the Assembly for the April 30, 2016 meeting and then elected by members for a three-year term which ends Sept. 30, 2019.
"It is an honor to be appointed to one of the Assembly's highly sought after committee positions." Cole said. "Committee work is an important part of the operation of the Assembly that directly impacts attorneys, their clients and ultimately results in advancement of our justice system. I am pleased to be working with other highly dedicated, committed and professional members of the State Bar."
Cole joined the County of Midland in November of 2014 after serving as a corporate attorney at Dow Corning with global responsibilities, private practice attorney and as a judicial law clerk. In addition to her role as attorney referee conducting neglect and abuse and delinquency hearings, she is also the deputy court administrator for the Family Division and a magistrate for the 75th District Court.
She is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Michigan and is past president of the Midland County Bar Association.


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Stor bambulemur (Prolemur simus) är ett hotat djur i familjen lemurer och den enda arten i sitt släkte. Den räknades tidigare till släktet halvmakier (Hapalemur). Inga underarter finns listade.

Kännetecken

Stor bambulemur når en kroppslängd mellan 40 och 42 centimeter samt en svanslängd mellan 45 och 48 centimeter. Vikten ligger mellan 2,2 och 2,5 kilogram. Den korta och täta pälsen har huvudsakligen en gråbrun färg med olivgrön skugga, undersidan är vanligen lite ljusare. Huvudet, skuldrorna och övre armarna är mera rödaktiga. Det avrundade huvudet kännetecknas av en kort och bred nos.

Påfallande är artens vitgråa tofsar på öronen. Populationen som förekommer i bergstrakten Andringitra kännetecknas däremot av en rödaktig päls och genom avsaknaden av tofsar.

Utbredning och habitat

Arten förekommer liksom alla andra lemurer bara på Madagaskar. Utbredningsområdet sträcker sig över ett mindre område i östra delen av ön. Djuret lever i nationalparken Ranomafana samt i bergstrakten Andringitra. 2007 upptäcktes ytterligare en population i våtmarken Torotorofotsy, även den på öns östra sida. Habitatet utgörs av regnskogar med bambuväxter från låglandet till 1 600 meter över havet.

Levnadssätt

Dessa primater är huvudsakligen aktiva på dagen men ibland är de nattaktiva. De har förmåga att klättra på lodrätta stammar och hoppar bra. Stora bambulemurer bildar grupper av fyra till sju (sällan upp till elva) individer. Flocken består av en hane, en eller två honor och deras ungar. Varje grupp vistas i en region som är 40 till 60 hektar stor.

Födan utgörs nästan uteslutande av unga skott av bambustjälkar eller bambublad. Djuret äter till 95% bambu av arten Cathariostachys madagascariensis.

Efter dräktigheten som varar i 140 till 150 dagar föder honan i oktober eller november en unge, sällan fler. Ungen dias sju till åtta månader. Efter tre till fyra år lämnar ungdjuret föräldrarnas grupp.

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Upphittade fossil visar att arten tidigare levde på öns norra och nordvästra delar samt att utbredningsområdet i öst var mycket större. Dagens utbredning utgör bara 1 till 4 procent av den ursprungliga regionen. Det största hotet är förstöringen av levnadsområdet genom skogsavverkning och svedjebruk. Undersökningar som utfördes under de senaste 20 åren hittade bara 12 grupper med tillsammans mindre än 100 individer. IUCN listar arten som akut hotad (critically endangered).

Systematik

Tidigare räknades arten till släktet halvmakier (Hapalemur). På grund av differenser i storleken, i skelettets byggnad och i levnadssättet listas stor bambulemur idag i ett eget släkte.

Referenser

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Tryckta källor
 Thomas Geissmann: Vergleichende Primatologie, Springer-Verlag 2002,
 Nick Garbutt: Mammals of Madagascar. A Complete Guide. Yale University Press, New Haven & London 2007,

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Däggdjur i etiopiska regionen

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You stay classy Oscar telecast
You have the world's most captive film loving audience, and what do you do with it? You refuse to market films to them during a three plus hour telecast. Well film fans, not anymore. This year's Oscars will be different.
The Oscars, who had previously banned film advertisements and trailers during their telecast for both fairness and class reasons, are now changing their tune...but not without stipulations of course. A number of spots are now allowed for movies that will not open until the last week of April at the earliest in an effort to avoid any current Oscar contenders from advertising. Also ads for prequels or sequels to films in contention are not allowed, and each studio is only allowed one 30 or 60 second spot each. Said spot must also have not run anywhere else prior to the Oscar telecast, and the spot cannot use the word 'Oscar' or 'Academy Award' in it's marketing. Each spot may only promote one film, and there will only be allowed one movie spot per commercial break during the proposed three hour program.
That means we will be getting new and exciting spots for the summer's tentpole flicks, and might actually be waiting with baited breath for the commercial breaks like so many do during the Superbowl. Although seeing an actor win for a holocaust movie, followed quickly for a Transformers: Rise of the Fallen trailer might make the telecast seem a little less classy, but what was that guy wasting his time with the holocaust for when there were movies being made about fighting robots? Bring on film promotion, if anything it will make the telecast more enjoyable to watch.
sell outs!!! i don't like this. they could do psa's or something but not trailers. it's tacky.
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Кассій Фелікс, Cassius Felix (), також Cassius Felix of Cirta — давньоримський медик, ймовірно, уродженець Константіна у Алжирі. Він відомий, за латиномовною роботою під назвою «De Medicina». Книга є довідником для практичного використання, в якому він хоче, щоб інші могли скористатися досвідом автора як лікаря. Ця праця кореспондується з грецькими медичними джерелами, як це було поширено у африканській школі медицини.

Християнин за вірою, він може бути людиною, згаданою у анонімному «De Miraculis Sancti Stephani», — роботі, написаній між 418 і 427 роками, де певного Фелікса називають як високого медичного знавця, або головного доктора своєї громади.

Його роботи вперше було опубліковано в 1879 році у випуску Teubner, відредагованого німецьким антикознавцем Валентином Роузом.

Ім'я Кассій Фелікс іноді також застосовується до більш раннього грецького медичного письменника (2-го або 3 століття н. е.), відомий лише як автор 84 або 85 «Quaestiones Medicae et prectionata nature»()..

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Інтернет-ресурси
 Cassius Felix, ed. Rose 1879
 Cassius Iatrosophista, ed. Ideler 1841
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A Party at Napoli's and Big Papi's farewell are among today's Topps Now baseball cards.
The lineup includes 18 cards available for only 24 hours via Topps' online card program. David Ortiz's autographs along with Mike Napoli's marks the first time there are two autographs available on the same day — and they aren't the only cards.
One of the biggest moments of the Chicago Cubs' season will hopefully make a big impact for the team's charities.
A number of game-used items from Jake Arrieta's no-hitter on April 21 are currently on the auction block via MLB.com to benefit Cubs Charities.


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Jan Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel (* 13. Februar 1820 in Leiden; † 12. Juli 1878 ebenda) war ein niederländischer Zeichner und Genremaler der Haager Schule.

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Jan Hendrik van Rossum du Chattel, am 13. Februar 1820 in Leiden geboren, studierte zuerst an der Königlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Den Haag und danach bei Alexander Hugo Bakker Korff, einem bekannten niederländischen Genremaler.

Sein Sohn war der bekannte Landschaftsmaler Fredericus Jacobus van Rossum du Chattel.

Ausstellungen
Von 1843 bis 1853 hatte er Ausstellungen in Den Haag und Amsterdam.

Weblinks
 De kunstschilders, vader en zoon, Jan Hendrik en Frederik Jacobus van ROSSUM du CHATTEL in morra.net
 Biografisch portaal von nederland
  Fredericus Jacobus van Rossum du Chattel im Rijksmuseum

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Niederländer
Geboren 1820
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With other national food favourites such as pizza, sushi, pretzels, burritos and croissants already boasting well-established emoji status, producers of Scotland's national dish are now calling for the same recognition.
In what has been designated 'The Year of Haggis' and with Burn's Night merely days away, haggis makers, McCaskie Butchers, have launched a campaign and called on Scots all over the UK to lend their support.
Nigel Ovens, owner of McCaskie Butchers said: "In the run up to Burn's Night, and indeed at other times of year, I want to be able to share my enthusiasm via text message and on social media and so I hunted for a haggis emoji – without success! I really believe a haggis emoji would be well used as a great way to celebrate Scotland's famous dish but also as a great way to celebrate Scotland as a whole.
"I hope that members of the public, chefs, politicians, foodies, tourists and anyone with a passion for Scotland or a love of haggis supports this campaign, as well as enjoying a tasty haggis meal on Burn's Night! Don't forget that vegetarian haggis is also available.
Graeme Sharp, marketing executive with Quality Meat Scotland (QMS), said: "Scotland is internationally renowned for its iconic national dish so what better way to spread the word and inspire people to buy haggis this Burn's Night than a haggis emoji?!


Person-to-person lending or peer-to-peer lending is lending done between individuals circumventing the bank's traditional role in this process.
Community lending had the advantage that people's interpersonal relationships fostered increased fiscal responsibility. The risk was that without the benefit of diversification, when something went awry the entire community could suffer.
Lending through banks has benefited from scale and diversity. By pooling the available money supply and lending it out again, the impact of any one default would be trivial in light of the timely payment of the vast majority of the notes. The downside to this model is that it has introduced greater transaction overhead and removed community loyalty from the equation.
New ventures are seeking to blend traditional practices with new scale economies via online marketplaces. The marketplace serves many functions. Most notably it facilitates bringing borrowers and lenders together. Furthermore, it simplifies what might otherwise be a cumbersome process to properly document and service the resulting loans.
It is hoped not only that these new markets will be more efficient by removing the bank as middleman, but that factors leading to default can be mitigated by reintroducing a social component to the mix.
I have been following a number of P2P discussions with great interest. Between the arrival of Zopa in six US credit unions, the growing number of P2P players entering the North American lending space and the disingenous marketing tactics of some of these players, there is a forboding feeling that P2P lending is not a flash in the pan.
How does P2P lending affect your credit union? I believe it will have a huge impact in the not-too-distant future. You need to understand it and develop strategies to embrace it. It should not be ignored.
This feels like déjà vu. The emergence of P2P lending is eerily reminiscent of the early peer-to-peer music sharing days. Out of nowhere, a very young Shawn Fanning introduced Napster and the recording industry was changed forever.
Replace the young Shawn Fanning with the older, wiser and richer, Richard Branson, replace music with money and replace illegal with above board and you get the picture of the potential impact that P2P lending will have in the financial services world.
The music industry's answer was to use the law to take down Napster, use digital rights management to throttle the inevitable tidal wave of file sharing and litigate against the common man in hopes of striking fear into the general public.
This took the music industry's eye off the ball as legitimate players like Apple's iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic and Amazon swept in to fill the void. The ultimate victor in this bloodbath is the consumer with ease of use and instantly available legitimate access to music. Mega record stores are soon to be a thing of the past.
What can we learn from this parallel musical universe? Where will your credit union be after the P2P lending music gets cranked up to 10?


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Dumbass Mom Reportedly Dangled Toddler Over Cheetah Pit Before Fall
Hudson Hongo · 04/12/15 01:45PM
Offering another clear example of why we can't have nice (probably unethical) things, the mother of a two-year-old who fell into a zoo's cheetah enclosure yesterday is accused of dangling the boy over the exhibit beforehand.
Is This The Worst Person On The Internet?
Danny Gold · 02/27/12 11:40PM
I'm going to go with a resounding YES. I don't have the energy to fact check the entire thing, but something tells me this line at 1:52 might not actually be true: "When your obese brothers and sisters get stuck on the stairway on 9/11 preventing fit people from getting through and surviving you make it part of my business."
The Neo-Nazis of Hipster Brooklyn
It was bad enough living next to a superfund site with limited subway access, but now these neo-Nazis prowling the streets are really making life in Greenpoint unappealing. Right next to the vegan bakeries and rockabilly barbers, wafting in like the stench of rotten pirogis, a group of misguided Polish youth are embodying the worst stereotypes of their homeland.
Vice Co-Founder Shane Smith to Fight Mark Wahlberg
Hopefully, people. Hopefully.
Don't Touch Your Handgun When Driving on the Highway
Jeff Neumann · 08/18/11 05:41AM
A young man in Tennessee is facing criminal charges after he had to be Lifeflighted off the highway for treatment of gunshot wounds. No, he wasn't involved in a road rage shootout. 23-year-old Justin Newberry accidentally shot himself in both legs after his handgun, The Judge, slid out from under his seat while he was driving. Newberry grabbed The Judge by its trigger. Oh, and cops found weed, paraphernalia and fake IDs in the car. Ahh... there's nothing quite like being 23, high as fuck, armed and driving.
When Making It Rain Goes Wrong
A 43-year-old dentist from the Chicago area, William Anthony Howe is recovering in the hospital after he crashed head-on into another car on the interstate last Saturday. Howe was going the wrong way and the two people in the car he crashed into are dead. And it gets worse: A witnesses told the Chicago Tribune that Howe "was rifling around his passenger seat and picked up a handful of cash and threw it out the window." Several cars pulled over to grab the money. Shockingly, Howe was driving a red Porsche. So, why would some dickhead in a Porsche make it rain while driving the wrong way on the interstate? This could have something to do with it:
Man Proves Why Murder Suspects Shouldn't Go on Dating Shows
A Chinese man possibly named Wu Gang was arrested after someone recognized him as a murder suspect competing on a popular dating show called Happy League. He was wanted for a stabbing a man 13 years ago. Oops. [AP]
BP's Man in Washington Loses Light Bulb Fight
While the rest of Washington squabbles over the debt ceiling, one man has been fighting for your right to buy real lightbulbs. Republican Congressman Joe Barton — of BP "shakedown" fame — has been trying to overturn the 2007 law that requires lightbulbs to operate 30 percent more efficiently by 2012. Barton lost last night after failing to get two-thirds support in the House.
Watch This Idiot Accidentally Shoot Himself In the Leg
Here is video of some guy practicing his quick draw on a menacing target. "I just fucking shot myself!" The slow motion replay is particularly good.
Court Frowns on Maker of Homemade Electric Chair
An old man named Andrew Castle was sentenced to 10 years in jail for admitting he tried to kill his wife with a homemade electric chair after she asked for a divorce. From the Guardian:
Look Around Before Hotboxing in a McDonald's Drive-Thru
There are very few instances when eating anything at all from McDonald's deserves a pass. Post-joint/blunt/bong rip/whatever is one of them. But when you're getting high in public it pays to be at least somewhat vigilant (when possible). Just ask flagrant 21-year-old Jose Barrera of Elgin, Illinois:
Report: Feds Regret Selling Guns to Drug Cartels
The Los Angeles Times has read the congressional report on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation called Fast and Furious during which federal agents sold 1,765 guns to Mexican smugglers (and then drug cartels), and guess what? It was a really bad idea.
Cops Catching On To the Drugs-in-the-Vagina Trick
People are constantly coming up with new and occasionally ingenious ways to smuggle contraband into jail. There's the butt trick, the prosthetic leg stuff, the penis tuck, and of course, vaginas. Lots of vaginas. And last week, when a woman in Iowa was pulled over for driving drunk and hotboxing, she went with the vagina — a mistake that could cost her money and extra jail time. From the Press-Citizen:
Pretending You're a Nazi Will Get You Banned from Cannes
Danish director Lars von Trier probably thought saying "I'm a Nazi," and other stupid, unfunny things at the Cannes film festival was funny. The festival's board didn't, and today declared him "a persona non grata," and gave him the boot.
Teacher Suspended for Mocking Muslim Student After Bin Laden's Death
Jim Newell · 05/04/11 12:41PM
A Houston teacher of the ancient Islamic discipline "Algebra" has been suspended for making fun of a ninth grade Muslim student, in front of the whole class, following Osama bin Laden's death. The PC Police strike again! As they should, because this guy sounds like a priceless moron.
Chet Haze Is Drunk on Patriotism, and Maybe Booze
Hamilton Nolan · 05/02/11 02:58PM
Chet "CHET HAZE" Hanks is not just a rapping Northwestern University fraternity member and A-list movie star scion; he is also true American patriot. On this peerless day in American history, Chet took to Twitter to patriotize your bitch ass.
Don't Get a Crime Scene Tattooed on Your Chest
What's dumber than getting a tattoo on your ass of the Tasmanian Devil chugging a beer while peeling out in a hot rod? Getting a full chest piece that recreates that murder you committed outside of a liquor store several years back, that's what.
Why Booze and Gun Shows Don't Mix
What's dumber than a gun show? A gun show that allows people to bring their own weapons. Especially when someone decides they're going to bring a .45 caliber handgun after they've been drinking, load said handgun, and then accidentally shoot an old man and a teenager. According to the AP, 30-year-old Joshua Wilkinson went to the Tri-State Gun and Knife Show on Saturday in Evansville, Indiana, where:
International Border Confuses Texas Governor
Texas governor Rick Perry yesterday went on a tirade about border control and Mexico, asking "How many more American citizens are going to have to die?" He then said, "Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America." Oops. [Politico; via Daily Intel]
Tiger Suit-Wearing Congressman Explains Himself
The Oregon Congressman who sent bizarre emails and pictures to his staff, David Wu, spoke with the AP about his rather odd behavior and it seems we have a culprit: The guy is a total pill head.


Learned chess rules while I was a kid, used to play at novice level (< 900) with my cousin who was also a novice. Used to think that Rook+King vs. King is a draw because my cousin's king could always escape. None of us used to exchange queens even if that was a good move.
Anyway, now I am 27 years old. In the beginning of 2003 I saw someone playing chess on Yahoo! and gave it a try, I was at 1100 level. But I found myself tremendously attracted to the game, as I like logical things. Maths (especially Probability and Number Theory) , Logic and Philosophy is what I'm attracted to, and I think Chess poses questions at (and perhaps holds secrets answers to) all of these levels. Have been regularly playing chess since then.
My current rating at Yahoo! is at 1700+, the maximum I reached was about 1850. I have no idea where my plataeu would be, but I have motivation to learn a lot more. But Yahoo Blitz ratings should not be directly compared with ELO ratings.
I also played 2 seasons in German district level, first season I got initial rating of around 1750, also next year I did only the same performance although I thought I had improved. A bad weekend tournament with 5 games brought my rating under 1700.
Last month we had a rapid chess tournament (25 min. per side) in our city where many 2000+ participated and I was pleasantly surprised with my result. I had 3 draws against 2100, 2190, and 2310, and in all 3 I had material advantage but slight time pressure, so I offered draws which they accepted. I won against 2090, 2080, 1400 and 1100, and lost the rest 4 games.
So from all this I can only gather that my rating is rather transient at the moment (and depends if I am feeling like a tiger :-)), and hope to start circle training and vision training soon following your suggestions.
it suffices to say for now that I am totally addicted to chess since 2 years, I often find myself daydreaming about it (analysing tactics in my head). I am also committed to improving my game, so I spend some evenings solving chess puzzles (and many more evenings playing on the net).
What prompted me to make my own blog was seeing a group of chess oriented blogs. hope I would be a budding Knight Errant too and share my experiences with the royal game with you.


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Gold Rush Season 5 Episode 18
The Hoffmans' sluicebox is frozen; Tony tries to run his dredge, but discovers a lost part of his bucket line; equipment issues hinder Parker.
Serie: Gold Rush
Episode Title: Frozen Gold
After landing from a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers of Montego Air Flight 828 discover five years have passed in what seemed like a few hours. As…
When the powers of a single hero are not enough to save the world, the world's greatest heroes—Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Hulk, Ant-Man/Giant Man and Wasp—assemble to form…
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Family, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Laws of love
The story of two lawyers specializing in family law, Ricardo and Alejandra, that despite coming from two disappointments and being in a world where it seems that love loses strength,…
A dark psychological crime drama starring Idris Elba as Luther, a man struggling with his own terrible demons, who might be as dangerous as the depraved murderers he hunts. MoviesJoy…
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, the series follows three…
As her 16th birthday nears, Sabrina must choose between the witch world of her family and the human world of her friends. Based on the Archie comic. MoviesJoy Review: I…
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court. MoviesJoy Review: Reign – brilliant TV series, one of the best of its…
An action-packed adventure series following a fun-loving, hard living trio of interplanetary bounty hunters (a.k.a. Killjoys) sworn to remain impartial as they chase deadly warrants around the Quad, a system…
Husband Kody Brown, along with his four wives (only one of which is legally married to Kody) and their combined 18 children, attempts to navigate life as a "normal" family…
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This Crime series follows Matt Passmore as Jim, a Chicago cop who gets kicked off the force after being shot and wrongfully accused by his ex-captain of having an affair…
Awkward.
An irreverent look at the conflict, chaos and humor that defines teenage life through the eyes of 15-year-old Jenna Hamilton whose life begins to change when a simple accident becomes…
Pickers like Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz are on a mission to recycle America, even if it means diving into countless piles of grimy junk or getting chased off a…
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Remember when Nick Swisher was going to sit so that the thoroughly mediocre Xavier Nady could play? I thought you would. The Yankees' baseball men make some very smart decisions, but like all of us the are sometimes vulnerable to valuing something incorrectly because it somehow looks better than it is. In my life I call this The Cindy Syndrome, also known as First Girlfriend Disease. I was lucky enough to break the spell, just as the Yankees were fortunate in that the Benevolent Deity deprived them of Nady long enough for them to discover their errors. It didn't have to be that way — some of us marry our first girlfriend, and some teams play bad players all season long. In both cases all chance for a heroic October is lost.
Mariano Rivera has had two one-two-three innings this year, one on April 9, the other on April 15. Since then, he's allowed 11 hits in 6.2 innings, including two home runs, along with no walks and 10 strikeouts. Not drawing any conclusions here, just sayin', though one does wonder if the occasional five-day layoffs he's had are too long to keep him sharp.
That sounds critical, but it's not meant that way — well, mostly not. I'd really like to know.
Rays 13, Red Sox 0: About the best thing that's happened to the Rays all year. Of course, if you listen to the Joba-to-the-pen fetishists, anyone like Matt Garza who throws a near-perfect game as a starter would be more valuable in the bullpen. That way lies madness. Now all they really need is a few players beyond Evan Longoria and Jason Bartlett to feel like hitting. Pat Burrell one home run? B.J. Upton .177/.320/.226? Speaking of the latter, there's a guy whose career we're still going to be scratching our heads over 20 years from now.
A's 4, Rangers 2: Dallas Braden keeps pitching well, but as a scary fly ball guy without great control or a terrifying strikeout rate it's not clear that he can keep it up. Given how thin the A's are, they desperately need him to keep it up. For gosh sakes, Landon Powell had to play first base last night. That reminds me to check on Daric Barton's progress at Triple-A: .149/.274/.209 in 20 games. Farewell, shooting star.
Royals 8, Blue Jays 6: Credit the Jays for this: after a second consecutive thrashing of Brian Burres, they seem to have come to the enlightened point of view that they're ahead, they may never be ahead again, so they might as well try to win the race with pitchers who have an upside. As such, they demoted three pitchers, including Burres, and called up two of their top prospects, Brett Cecil and Robert Ray, as well as veteran minor league reliever Brian Wolfe. Maybe it was the sight of John Buck pounding balls all over the yard that dropped the scales. All things are possible when the deity is rolling his infinite-sided die, but yeesh, you'd think the outfielders would have had to suffer a spontaneous kidney stone attack for that particular combo to assert itself. Anyway, good move by the Jays going with their best hopes for the future instead of trying some Ponsonian nightmare form the past… Last 11 games for Billy Butler, .333/.458/.564, three doubles, two home runs, nine walks. The nine walks are more than a quarter of the free passes he took all of last year.
Brewers 4, Diamondbacks 1: One of the best starts of Matt Scherzer's young career gets tossed aside so that Flash Gordon can "pitch" at 41. Must have seemed like a good idea at the time. I wonder if that girl that loved him still does — she must be in grad school by now, or married with two kids. At some point, we put childish things away. Then again, I still read comic books, so what do I know? On the other side, The Brewers get a rare good start from Jeff Suppan, and Trevor Hoffman resumes his quest to put the saves record out of Rivera's reach.
Florida 8, Cubs 2: In 10 innings, no less. Groundballer Chris Volstad allowed back to back shots, but otherwise was without blemish in seven innings. The Cubs were fine until they turned things over to Aaron Heilman, who didn't get an out. It used to be you could see that kind of show here in New York almost any day of the week. Milton Bradley hit one of those two home runs, which was the one good thing the Cubs got out of the game — a sign that Bradley is ready to come to work.
Dodgers 8, Padres 5: All I have to say is, "Four scoreless innings from Jeff Weaver? I just swallowed my gum." With this loss, the Padres hit .500. Next stop, basement level: luggage, lingerie, Padres.
Can Nick Swisher play now? Can Joe Girardi say, as Lincoln did of Grant, "I can't spare this man — he fights"? A reader recently wrote me to say that I had been quiet about Xavier Nady outperforming Swisher during Spring Training, and it would be more fair to Girardi to admit that Nady had legitimately won the job. My answer here is that it depends on how you define "legitimate." Making decisions on the basis of 40-60 Spring Training at-bats against highly variable competition is nonsensical, particularly when you have a track record of a couple of thousand at-bats on which to base your evaluation. If those 60 wind-blown at-bats are going to outweigh 2,000 regular-season turns at the plate, there had better be some extenuating circumstances.
Now, in this case I think there were some extenuating circumstances, and I said so: As much as I think Spring Training stats are overblown, given that Swisher came off a .210 season, he had to show the Yankees something to prove that his inconsistency was a fluke. He did not do this, and so he's going to have to prove himself, start by start.
That said, there is still no reason to believe that Nady is the .328 hitter he was in Spring Training, and only slightly more reason to believe that Swisher is only capable of the .222 he hit. We should also note that Swisher led the spring squad in walks with 13 (Nady took only two), and that he hit the same number of home runs as Nady, one. The difference between them comes down to a few hits.
In short, did Nady really win the job, or were the Yankees guilty of a selective review of the evidence? We'll see as the rest of the season plays out. Note that Swisher is in the lineup again today, and Nady is not: The competition is not yet over, and with another good showing from Swish Nicker today (a home run off of Kyle Farnsworth? Nah — anyone can do that) it may be that the issue will remain open.
What a senseless loss. Trying to grasp for a silver lining, the one thing I can think of is that if you asked most pitchers how they might like to go, perhaps they would choose to exit right after a strong start. It is small consolation that the police nabbed the perpetrator, a drunken driver, and charged him with "felony drunk driving, felony hit and run, three counts of murder, three counts of vehicular manslaughter and four counts of committing bodily injury during a crime." There is no circle of hell low enough for drunk drivers, and it is to be hoped that the Orange County District Attorney does not reach for any kind of settlement but prosecutes to the full extent of the law, such that the murderer will never see the light of day again.
Parenthetically, I would be this emphatic were we not talking about a professional ballplayer and his friends but any three victims. There are few more selfish acts than getting behind the wheel of a car when one is inebriated. I don't think much of drinking to the point of intoxication — I have never done so — but I don't begrudge others the right to pickle their brains if they so choose. However, if you drive at that point, you are extending an invitation for involuntary audience participation in your potential suicide. The murders committed under the influence are crimes of simple, selfish negligence and deserve not the least bit of sympathy.
As baseball fans, our loss pales beside that of Adenhart's Angels teammates, his friends and his family, but we do feel it. We did not know Adenhart well, and beyond our basic human sadness at a young life snuffed out is the lost opportunity for Adenhart and for ourselves. When Thurman Munson lost his life, we could, as fans, look back on a long career and a familiar personality. The interruption was sudden, tragic, shocking, but the legacy was there for us to hold on to. Adenhart was just beginning. His legacy is the tragedy of not getting to have a legacy. Baseball is all about history, and we've been deprived of one here.
2008 GOAL, AS STATED HERE: Win another MVP award, and try to avoid offending easily irked Yankees fans and media.
DID HE GET THERE? Pretty much whiffed on all counts, though his season wasn't bad by any means.
2009 GOAL: Quickly return to hip-health despite having foregone, for now, the complete hip reconstruction procedure; hit more like 2007 than 2008, in the process putting questions about steroid-fueled production behind him.
CHANCE OF MAKING THAT GOAL: Seems like a mighty tall order.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: It won't last much longer than A-Rod's DL stay, but with two more home runs, Derek Jeter will pass Rodriguez on the Yankees' career home run list.
ANOTHER THING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: Rodriguez warps the fabric of space-time with his personality, creating dangerous singularities that will be the subject of a forthcoming series of science fiction films starring Seth Rogen. Sir Anthony Hopkins will portray A-Rod.
2008 GOAL, AS STATED HERE: Stay healthy, get some life back in those legs, recover defensive value.
DID HE GET THERE? Not really. He played through a hand injury that ruined his production, hit into a career-high 24 double plays, and his defensive range wasn't any better than usual.
2009 GOAL: Stay healthy, get some life back in those legs, recover offensive and defensive value.
CHANCE OF MAKING THAT GOAL: Last season's production was strong in the context of league shortstops, weak in the context of Jeter's own career, not to mention league-average production. If that was only attributable to the injury, then he has a good chance of hitting well this year. He did bat .344/.406/.434 in August-September of last year. Even then, though, he was lacking some customary pop — there were 65 hits in that period, but the only extra-base hits were two doubles and five home runs.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: When are we not thinking about Jeter?
ANOTHER THING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: Lou Gehrig. Jeter should pass him to become the Yankees' all-time hits leader in September.
2009 GOAL: Fill in for Alex Rodriguez without killing the team, then remain on the roster as a utility infielder.
CHANCE OF MAKING THAT GOAL: Not great, actually. While Ransom's 1-for-10 showing in the first three games is nothing to get exercised about, there is a reason that he has spent most of his career (going back to 1998) in the Minor Leagues. While his career 162 homers in the sticks attest to some nice pop for a guy who has primarily been a shortstop, his .242 batting average argues that he lacks the hitting consistency to succeed in any sustained way. Last fall's exciting 13-for-43 with four home runs was a spectacular fluke.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: Ransom was drafted by the Giants in the ninth round in 1998. Another future Major Leaguer taken in that round was Mark Teixeira, selected by the Red Sox 13 picks in front of Ransom. He didn't sign. The Yankees picked one in front of the Giants and selected a college outfielder named Claude Greene, who didn't make it.
he Marlins' Ross easily leads the Codies in all statistical categories.
2009 GOAL: Avoid being overexposed, simultaneously giving the Yankees a reason to retain him on the roster once A-Rod comes back.
CHANCE OF MAKING THAT GOAL: Not good given that he has yet to play at Triple A; the Yankees almost certainly plan on getting him some Scranton time this year. He's a career .258/.316/.319 hitter in the Minors, so he has plenty of work to do if he wants to have a career greater than quickie injury cameos.
SOMETHING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: When Pena appeared at shortstop on Thursday, he became the 21st player to appear at the position during the Jeter era, not including Jeter. He is now entitled to attend a once a year luncheon with Enrique Wilson, Felix Escalona and Alex Arias.
ANOTHER THING YOU MIGHT NOT BE THINKING ABOUT: Though we'll hear a great deal about Pena's speed whenever he's asked to pinch-run, he was not a basestealer in the Minors, nabbing just 28 bases in 43 tries over 334 games.
? I was going to comment yesterday that few pitchers can burn though 100 pitches faster than Scott Kazmir, but had I done so it would have been a grave disservice to Oliver Perez of the Mets, who got there in 4.1 innings on Thursday thanks to five hits, five walks and seven strikeouts. When the Deity modeled hard-throwing lefties, he included wildness in the young'uns, which explains Kazmir, still only 25. Perez is 27 and still has some shelf-life, but it doesn't seem as though he'll get that walk rate down under four per nine. Just think: Somewhere there's a parallel universe where the Mets have Perez and Kazmir in the same rotation. Perhaps in that universe they also built their new park with the stairs behind the seats instead of in front of them.
? The Rays held on to beat the Red Sox yesterday, but not before Troy Percival gave up a solo homer to Jason Varitek in the ninth. I imagine a sequence for the Rays in which Percival is replaced by Jason Isringhausen, and then Isringhausen is replaced by a player to be named later at the trade deadline. Percival doesn't allow many hits, but too many of his mistakes reach escape velocity.
? Who would have suspected that Chris Carpenter had another start in him like Thursday's against the Pirates (7/1/1/0/2/7)? Heartening to see, given the fellow's many, many (many) injuries … Ross Ohlendorf had a good start in the game too, though not good enough. Nor were the Pirates helped by their Adam LaRoche-free lineup.
? No doubt you have already seen and perhaps celebrated Carl Pavano's long Thursday: 1/6/9/9/3/1 with two home runs allowed. He failed to retire a batter in the second. Andruw Jones played and went 3-for-5.
? Staying away from Kyle Farnsworth helped the Royals get to 2-1. If not for the whole Kyle debacle the boys in powder blue would actually be undefeated right now. They got seven innings of three-hit, eight-strikeout shutout baseball from their other Kyle, Kyle Davies. I don't know if that was really Davies taking a major step forward or simply a White Sox lineup that looks a bit light in the lumber. Center fielder Dewayne Wise is now 0-for-10 on the season with four strikeouts, and Ozzie Guillen dropped him from the leadoff slot yesterday, then pinch-hit for him late in the game. The next step in that sequence is Melky Cabrera.
? The Padres got away with one, walking seven Dodgers but still holding them to three runs. San Diego is an improbable 2-2.
? Horrible moment in the Brewers-Giants game when Giants pitcher Joe Martinez took a Mike Cameron line drive off of his forehead. Martinez popped right up, then fell again, his head bleeding. He walked off under his own power and seems to have gotten away with nothing worse than a concussion (though those are bad enough). Best wishes to the rookie for a speedy recovery … The Giants got great pitching from Matt Cain in that game, as well as fine hitting from Randy Winn, Fred Lewis and Bengie Molina. The Dodgers should win the NL West pretty easily, but the Giants have enough pitching to make it interesting. They probably don't have the offense or the defense either, but if you're going to have one out of three, having Tim Lincecum and Matt Cain isn't a bad option.
I recently missed a media appearance due basically to negligence on my part. I apologize to those involved for what was a purely unintentional oversight.
On Thursday I was on Fox News' Situation Room with my Baseball Prospectus pal Jay Jaffe. In the linked excerpt, we talk about the "pressure" on Joe Girardi. This was, by the way, a fun format. As the show's description states, "There is no script, no commercials, just great panelists and conversation on the biggest topics in today's news. Viewers are a big part of the program, as our hosts read fan emails throughout the show often sparking more conversation." They're on eight hours a day online, and do sports each Thursday from 1-2 p.m.
Hey, I did allow for the possibility of a placebo effect, which takes care of your "physical, mental, and record-based" factors (what's a record-based factor, anyway?). The point remains that small lineup changes, and maybe even big lineup changes, are more about psychological than real-world benefits. Many studies have been done of this subject, and the results consistently show that the difference between the least-optimal lineup (leadoff with the pitcher or Jose Molina or someone like that) and the best is only a few wins. The difference between the optimal lineup and the second-most optimal lineup or the third-most optimal lineup is nonexistent. As I said yesterday, it's always possible that someone muscles up and hits .350, and when that happens, you or someone like you will write in and say, "See? It's all because of the lineup change!" But you won't really know. Given all this, swapping Jeter and Damon isn't a significant move at all.
What is not nonexistent, however, is the impact on the bottom line, wins and losses, created by the manager's decision to play one player over another. At his 2006-2007 best, Swisher's offense and defense combined to make him a six-win player. At Nady's normal rate of production–that is his whole career except for the first 89 games of 2008, he was a one-win player. This is anything but a minor difference.
That was kind of my point. Flipping one lineup spot is about as infinitesimal a change as you can make… Also: A-Rod is a cookbook.
You raise some fair points, budboy (as did the others who raised them), and all of them may mean something to the bottom line this year, but what value in terms of wins and losses do you want to assign to them? I will concede that many small things can add up to a big thing, so perhaps Joe Girardi has made a move that will pay off in some way, but a lot of dominoes would have to fall in precisely the optimum way for it to mean very much at all.
As for Swisher in center field, sure, some of the time, if the Yankees are smart about it. When CC Sabathia is pitching, probably not, when Chien-Ming Wang is pitching, sure, and with the other three guys you check which way the wind is blowing before making a decision.
Just wondering, how suicidal would it be to platoon Nady and Gardner? Now before you jump down my throat thinking I want X in center, stop and breathe. Against righties, run Gardner in center and Swisher in right. Against lefties, Swisher roams center for six innings giving way to Gardner and Nady starts in right until Swisher slides over (assuming a lead.) The preponderance of right-handers would mean, what, 35 partial games in center for Swisher?? I think this set would be the team's strongest getting the most PAs for the best on-base guy and Nady shots vs. lefties. –Greg D.
It makes sense to me, but Joe Girardi may not want to think that much. See also the adjustments for the starting pitching made above–Sabathia is more of a fly ball pitcher, so you might want your best ballhawk on the field for his starts, regardless of the opposition's hander. Of course, that would be Gardner and Swisher regardless, but the world ain't logical or we wouldn't be talking about this.


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Planning some Halloween shenanigans? Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy was known for getting herself into—and out of—a fix, so she'd fully approve. Borrow her comedic chops and signature look with our All Speckle Halter Underwire Swimsuit paired with a polka-dot skirt. Top them off with a flaming red wig, a swipe of red lipstick, pearl earrings and black ballet flats, and then get ready to ham for cameras.


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West Indies 1830–1910
By 1830, all that remained of the Spanish territories in the West Indies were Puerto Rico and Cuba. Spain was confronted with rebellious colonies in the early 19th century and tried to pacify Cuba and Puerto Rico by giving them representation in the Spanish parliament in Madrid. This was reversed in 1837 and this, along with the 1865 emancipation of the slaves in the US, led to revolts in these two slave-owning colonies. Although a rebellion in Puerto Rico was suppressed, the Cuban wars took place from 1868–78. The US supported Cuba and in 1898, after the cessation of hostilities, Spain ceded Cuba to the US to oversee its independence. Although crops like nutmeg, cocoa and limes were important to the West Indian economies, sugar had been its mainstay. By 1910 the sugar market had begun to collapse in the Caribbean, with European beet-sugar acting as a cheaper alternative.
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Southern Colonies c. 1664–1735
American Colonies c. 1660
Discontent in the Colonies on the eve of war 1764–76
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The Eastern Mediterranean at the time of Pericles 461–431 BCE
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"JR Ewing alcoholic and drug addict. Dead of Throat cancer"
NY Post nov 2012
Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most renowned villains in the amoral oilman JR Ewing of Dallas, died on Friday, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was 81.
Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his battle with throat cancer, the newspaper said, quoting a statement from his family. He had suffered from liver cancer and cirrhosis of the liver in the 1990s after decades of drinking.
Hagman became a star in 1965 on I Dream of Jeannie, a popular television sitcom in which he played Major Anthony Nelson, an astronaut who discovers a beautiful genie in a bottle.
Dallas, which made its premiere on the CBS network in 1978, made Hagman a superstar. The show quickly became one of the network's top-rated programs, built an international following and inspired a spin-off, imitators and a revival in 2012.
Dallas was the night-time soap-opera story of a Texas family, fabulously wealthy from oil and cattle, and its plot brimmed with back-stabbing, double-dealing, family feuds, violence, adultery and other bad behaviour.
In the middle of it all stood Hagman's black-hearted JR Ewing – grinning wickedly in a broad cowboy hat and boots, plotting how to cheat his business competitors and cheat on his wife. He was the villain TV viewers loved to despise during the show's 356-episode run from 1978 to 1991.
"I really can't remember half of the people I've slept with, stabbed in the back or driven to suicide," Hagman said of his character in Time magazine.
In his autobiography, Hello Darlin': Tall (and Absolutely True) Tales About My Life, Hagman wrote that JR originally was not to be the focus of Dallas but that changed when he began ad-libbing on the set to make his character more outrageous and compelling.
To conclude its second season, the Dallas producers put together one of US television's most memorable episodes in which Ewing was shot by an unseen assailant. That gave fans months to fret over whether JR would survive and who had pulled the trigger. In the show's opening the following season, it was revealed that JR's sister-in-law, Kristin, with whom he had been having an affair, was behind the gun.
Hagman said an international publisher offered him $250,000 to reveal who had shot JR and he considered giving the wrong information and taking the money, but in the end, "I decided not to be so like JR in real life."
The popularity of Dallas made Hagman one of the best-paid actors in television and earned him a fortune that even a Ewing would have coveted. He lost some of it, however, in bad oil investments before turning to real estate.
Hagman had a wide eccentric streak. When he first met actress Lauren Bacall, he licked her arm because he had been told she did not like to be touched and he was known for leading parades on the Malibu beach and showing up at a grocery store in a gorilla suit. Above his Malibu home flew a flag with the credo 'Vita Celebratio Est (Life Is a Celebration)' and he lived hard for many years.
In 1967, rock musician David Crosby turned him on to LSD, which Hagman said took away his fear of death, and Jack Nicholson introduced him to marijuana because Nicholson thought he was drinking too much.
Hagman had started drinking as a teenager and said he did not stop until the moment in 1992 when his doctor told him he had cirrhosis of the liver and could die within six months. Hagman wrote that for the past 15 years he had been drinking about four bottles of champagne a day, including while on the Dallas set.
In July 1995, he was diagnosed with liver cancer, which led him to quit smoking, and a month later he underwent a liver transplant. After giving up his vices, Hagman said he did not lose his zest for life. "It's the same old Larry Hagman," he told a reporter. "He's just a littler sober-er."
Hagman was born on 21 September, 1931, in Weatherford, Texas, and his father was a lawyer who dealt with the Texas oil barons Hagman would later come to portray. He was still a boy when his parents divorced and he went to Los Angeles with his mother Mary Martin, who would become a Broadway and Hollywood musical star.
Hagman eventually landed in New York to pursue acting, making his stage debut there in The Taming of the Shrew. In New York, he married Maj Axelsson in 1954 while they were in a production of South Pacific. The marriage produced two children, Heidi and Preston.
In his later years, Hagman became an advocate for organ transplants and an anti-smoking campaigner. He also was devoted to solar energy, telling the New York Times he had a $750,000 solar panel system at his Ojai estate, and made a commercial in which he portrayed a JR Ewing who had forsaken oil for solar power. He was a longtime member of the Peace and Freedom Party, a minor leftist organization in California.
Hagman told the Times that after death he wanted his remains to be "spread over a field and have marijuana and wheat planted and harvest it in a couple of years and then have a big marijuana cake, enough for 200 to 300 people. People would eat a little of Larry."


Finished up another painted gourd. This one just in time for Halloween. She/he came off friendlier than I anticipated, but someone said she looks total evil, ready to eat you. I believe my sister Juli grew this gourd in her garden. I have some I have planted but I'm too far north for them to ripen reliably. Right now the fruits are just beginning to develop.


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Q: Monotouch - Correcting upside down image rotation I have been using mono for a short while and one of the issues I came upon was that loading an image into a CGImage object would end up with the image being flipped vertically. This was the code I was using originally:
public static CGImage LoadJPEG (string sImagePath, bool bSmoothImage)
{
    return CGImage.FromJPEG (
        new CGDataProvider (sImagePath), null, bSmoothImage,
        CGColorRenderingIntent.Default);
}

There's a PNG version to that where you simply use CGImage.FromPNG instead, but if you use the wrong format with the wrong file type then you'll get an exception. As I always know what my file types are I didn't put any catches/checks to prevent that exception.
You'll notice just using this code will flip the image vertically, I can't explain why mono does this and having a look at some of the solutions I wasn't looking forward to fixing it.
So how to flip it back? Well, luckily I can answer that myself, but I can't vouch for it being the "correct" way to do it!

A: Bare in mind that this is simply a quick fix for the image loading upside down. I think the code is about as simple as it can get while getting the job done.
public static CGImage RotateImage (CGImage oImage)
{
    CGContext oContext;
    UIImage oRotatedImage;
    RectangleF oImageBounds;
    //
    oImageBounds = new RectangleF (0, 0, oImage.Width, oImage.Height);
    //
    UIGraphics.BeginImageContext (oImageBounds.Size);
    oContext = UIGraphics.GetCurrentContext ();
    //
    oContext.DrawImage (oImageBounds, oImage);
    oRotatedImage = UIGraphics.GetImageFromCurrentImageContext ();
    UIGraphics.EndImageContext ();
    //
    return oRotatedImage.CGImage;
}

I stumbled upon this solution while playing around with the code in this question and thought, hey that works and I don't need it to do anything else :D So I hope this helps you!
Also, if anyone can explain the reasons for all this then please, I'd be interested to know what's actually going on. My only previous experience of working with 2D graphics is from using the XNA framework.

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More than 35 years ago I "discovered" Acadia National Park after being encouraged by college friends to work for the summer in Bar Harbor, a place most of them had been visiting regularly since childhood.
Until then my experience in exploring the outdoors in Maine had been centered on the mid-coast, in places such as Pemaquid Point or Camden Hills and, to a lesser degree during my forestry studies, the deep woods and lakes of eastern Washington County. All are beautiful areas to be sure. But from my first bike ride on the carriage roads–back then rutted, washed out, and rough–at a time when doing the "Around Mountain Loop" was a true adventure, and from my exhilarating first hike up the North Ridge of Champlain Mountain, I was hooked. Mount Desert Island captured my heart.
I returned to school in the fall, completed some degree work, and in spring headed to MDI to look for a job. Some people find places to live based on careers. Others move for romance or love. Inspired by an incredible spirit and sense of community I had never experienced anyplace else, I moved to the island with no grander plan than to make it my home for the rest of my life.
Fortunately, in retrospect, considering the youthful naiveté of that approach, and in no small measure thanks to extraordinary good fortune, it turned out to be exactly the right decision. An early job gardening on the Colket Estate allowed me to establish a beachhead. Hikes up Kebo or Dorr Mountain, or trips to Compass Harbor, could be taken virtually right from my back door.
Later, running a printing press at the old Bar Harbor Times morphed into a rewarding career in journalism writing and editing for that paper, for The Ellsworth American, and, in later years, the chance to start and grow the Mount Desert Islander. Falling in love, getting married, building my own home, and savoring the embrace of family have been the proverbial icing on the cake.
As rewarding as this unscripted path has been, beneath it all, deep in my heart, that early love of Acadia continued to burn bright. Perhaps the best acknowledgement of it was coaxed from me by my predecessor, Friends of Acadia Communications Director Aimee Beal Church, when we sat down for an interview she did for a story in the Journal last spring. We had worked closely together for nearly a decade, but I realized in the short space of that interview that we were kindred spirits in our affection for this park and this island community and our desire that it be protected and preserved so that successive generations of visitors might also taste of its extraordinary natural and spiritual rewards.
To be sure, being involved in small-town journalism, the ability to elevate matters of community concern and occasionally swing the spotlight of public attention to various issues, is a rare opportunity and a sacred responsibility — one that I did not relinquish lightly and that I will miss greatly.
But the chance to shift all my energies to a more precise focus, to work closely with David MacDonald and the dedicated and talented Friends of Acadia staff, under the guidance of the board, to help protect and preserve the park as well as the character of MDI communities, was just too good to pass up.
As a Registered Maine Guide and guide book author I've often been asked over the years "What's your favorite hike?" The answer today is the same as it was the first time I was asked some 30 years ago – "The one I just did." Acadia just encompasses such an incredible diversity of beauty, it is impossible to rank any one of its charms ahead of the others. It's why I came here. It's why I stay here. It's why I will never leave.
Becoming a part of the Friends of Acadia team, for me, is not so much a career move as it is a return to my roots, a re-prioritization in the end of what really matters most. I can't wait to get started.
Well said Earl! The feeling is mutual for many of us. All the best as you move forward. Proud to have you as a friend!
It is always a pleasure reading something you have composed, always pulling the reader in immediately. Congratulations on all of your life's endeavors and the opportunity to add to that, another chapter !! Hats off !!
Beautifully put, and I share your enthusiasm. Aren't we lucky – and I think wise – to live here! Enjoy the new gig. Looking forward to reading more from you.
I've followed your work for many years at the "Bar Harbor Times" and "Mount Desert Islander" Earl and wish you All the Best in your new position with "Friends of Acadia." I seem to recall your having a book coming out and I'm hoping to get an autographed copy!


As a school we work hard to ensure that all of our students make the maximum possible progress in their studies. We monitor this through our regular assessment and reporting procedures, but to gain information about how much progress students make in comparison to other students of their age nationally, we need them to sit a baseline test. This is the MidYIS assessment for Lower School students (Remove – Lower Transits) and the ALIS assessment for Upper School students (Study I and II). Students who enter the school between these years may sit the YELLIS assessment. These are online assessments run by the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (Durham University) which allow statistical predictions about GCSE grades and A Level grades to be made. This gives us a baseline on which to compare the attainment of our students and a gauge to use in helping us to decide whether a student is performing as expected, better than expected or is in need of further interventions. It also allows us to identify areas of best practice within our teaching and disseminate them throughout the curriculum. Of course, this is only one tool we use in assessing and maximising the progress of our students.
Information gained from these tests will only be used internally in school to monitor student attainment and calculate value added progress in subjects. The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring use data submitted as set out on their web pages at www.cem.org/about-us to generate profiles which give information about a student's potential and progress. Specific data protection details are given under the section "small print" which can be found at www.cem.org/small-print. We will be running the baseline tests for the next academic year during the first few weeks of term. If you would like any further information about these assessments please do not hesitate to contact us at school, and if for any reason you would like to withdraw your daughter from these base line assessments please let the school know in writing before 1st September 2018.
Be assured that students do not need to prepare in any way for these assessments – they are only to give a base line with which to inform future pedagogical methods.


One assumes that given the same search key words, all users of the internet get the same results. Right? Wrong!
In his book, The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser unveils how Google 'customizes' your searches, effectively putting you into an 'information bubble' intended to drive you to particular products or services.
"Most of us assume that when we 'google' a term, we all see the same results — the ones that the company's famous Page Rank algorithm suggests are the most authoritative based on other pages' links. But since December 2009, this is no longer true. Now you get the result that Google's algorithm suggests is best for you in particular — and someone else may see something entirely different. In other words, there is no standard Google anymore.
"It's not hard to see this difference in action. In the spring of 2010, while the remains of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig were spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, I asked two friends to search for the term 'BP.' They're pretty similar — educated white left-leaning women who live in the Northeast. But the results they saw were quite different. One of my friends saw investment information about BP. The other saw news. For one, the first page of results contained links about the oil spill; for the other, there was nothing about it except for a promotional ad from BP.
"Even the number of results returned by Google differed — about 180 million results for one friend and 139 million for the other. If the results were that different for these two progressive East Coast women, imagine how different they would be for my friends and, say, an elderly Republican in Texas (or, for that matter, a businessman in Japan).
"For a time, it seemed that the Internet was going to entirely redemocratize society. Bloggers and citizen journalists would single-handedly rebuild the public media. Politicians would be able to run only with a broad base of support from small, everyday donors. Local governments would become more transparent and accountable to their citizens. And yet the era of civic connection I dreamed about hasn't come. Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead we're more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy requires a reliance on shared facts; instead we're being offered parallel but separate universes.
"My sense of unease crystallized when I noticed that my conservative friends had disappeared from my Facebook page. Politically, I lean to the left, but I like to hear what conservatives are thinking, and I've gone out of my way to befriend a few and add them as Facebook connections. I wanted to see what links they'd post, read their comments, and learn a bit from them.
"But their links never turned up in my Top News feed. Facebook was apparently doing the math and noticing that I was still clicking my progressive friends' links more than my conservative friends' — and links to the latest Lady Gaga videos more than either. So no conservative links for me.
"I started doing some research, trying to understand how Facebook was deciding what to show me and what to hide. As it turned out, Facebook wasn't alone.