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Q: Mongo consecutive writes We're using mongo 4.2, node 14.17.3, mongodb package 3.6.10 - with default read (local) and write concern (w:1) on a replica set with 3 instances.
Our ecommerce system:

*

*uses a transaction to create a sale from the stock (to ensure stock decrease and sale increase are atomic)

*once this transaction has ended, launches a payement with stripe

*once this payment is successful, stores the id of this payment with an updateOne on the previously created sale.

This works well, but, mostly on heavy loads (but also some other times), the stripe id is missing from the sale, and the updateOne returns a modifiedCount of 0.
Here is a simplified version of the code:
const allocate = async(sale, stocksToAllocate) => {
    const saleJSON = await this.mapping.encode(sale); // transforms sale class instance to json literal

    const session = client.startSession();
    try {
        await session.withTransaction(async() => {
            if (sale._id)
                await this.repository.replaceOne({_id: sale._id}, saleJSON, {session});
            else
                await this.repository.insertOne(saleJSON, {session});

            for (const stockToAllocate of stocksToAllocate) {
                const stockJSON = await this.stockRepository.findOne({_id: stockToAllocate._id}, {session});
                const stock = await this.stockMapping.decode(stockJSON); // transforms json literal to a stock class instance
                if (stockToAllocate.count < 0) {
                    stock.replenish(-stockToAllocate.count, sale.delivery.shippingAt);
                } else if (stock.canAffect(stockToAllocate.count, sale.delivery.shippingAt)) {
                    stock.affect(stockToAllocate.count, sale.delivery.shippingAt);
                } else {
                    throw new ValidationError('Stock unavailable', {id: stock._id});
                }

                const updatedStockJSON = await this.stockMapping.encode(stock);
                await this.stockRepository.replaceOne({_id: stockToAllocate._id}, updatedStockJSON, {session});
            }
        });
    } finally {
        await session.endSession();
    }

    const invoiceItem = {
        customer: sale.getStripeCustomerId(),
        subscription: sale.getStripeSubscriptionId(),
        amount: sale.getPrice().ttc,
        currency: 'EUR',
        description: sale.getName()
    };

    const updatedInvoiceItem = await stripe.invoiceItems.create(invoiceItem);
    await this.repository.updateOne({_id: sale._id}, {$set: {'payment.stripe.chargeId': updatedInvoiceItem.id}}); // this updateOne returns a modifiedCount of 0 sometimes
};

Thanks a lot.

A: This issue is not related to Mongo.
Before the shared code sample, this.repository is wrapped on each request to add the user id to the each db request (something like this.repository = this.repository.shield(userId)).
On heavy loads, on the same node instance, a first user may be awaiting the answer from Stripe, while a second user is launching the transaction; thus erasing the shield. So when Stripe answers to the first user, the mongo query is enriched with a userId linked to the second user and not the first one.
Fixing this will fix the issue.


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Zlata Razdolina, composer, author, and performer began her career performing her works at the artist's organization "Lenconcert" in Leningrad. She is a Laureate of many national and international music competitions. Among her awards is her laureate at the all-Russian competition celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Victory over Fascism.
Her repertoire includes more than six hundred romances and songs is composed of the famous Russian classical poets, Akhmatova, N.Gumilyov, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetayeva, Blok, Severyanin, Yesenin and others. These works, based on love poems, are set to music. This music has been successfully performed and accepted with great acclaim.


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Q: How to add a column to a lm based flextable Let's say I make a model with lm such as
library(flextable)
set.seed(123)

mydata <- data.frame(y=runif(100,1,100), x1=runif(100,1,100), x2=runif(100,1,100))
model <- lm(y~x1+x2, data=mydata)
as_flextable(model)

This gives me a flextable with the Estimate, Standard Error, t value, and Pr(>|t|).  Let's say I want to add a column to the flextable, for instance, if my y is logged and I want a column that shows exp(model$coefficients)-1.
Is there a straightforward way to do that or do I have to recreate the table from scratch?

A: In referencing the source code of flextable's as_flextable.lm function it's clear there's no built in way to do it.  I made a "new" function by copying from source.
pvalue_format <- function(x){
  z <- cut(x, breaks = c(-Inf, 0.001, 0.01, 0.05, 0.1, Inf), labels = c("***", "**", "*", ".", ""))
  as.character(z)
}

as_flextable_newcol<-function(x,new_cols=NULL) {
  data_t <- broom::tidy(x)
  data_g <- broom::glance(x)
  ##this is my addition
  if(!is.null(new_cols)&is.list(new_cols)) {
    for(i in names(new_cols)) {
      data_t <- data_t %>% mutate("{i}":=new_cols[[i]](term, estimate, std.error, p.value))
    }
  }
  ##end of my addition
  ft <- flextable(data_t, col_keys = c("term", "estimate", "std.error", "statistic", "p.value", "signif"))
  ft <- colformat_double(ft, j = c("estimate", "std.error", "statistic"), digits = 3)
  ft <- colformat_double(ft, j = c("p.value"), digits = 4)
  ft <- compose(ft, j = "signif", value = as_paragraph(pvalue_format(p.value)) )

  ft <- set_header_labels(ft, term = "", estimate = "Estimate",
                          std.error = "Standard Error", statistic = "t value",
                          p.value = "Pr(>|t|)", signif = "" )
  dimpretty <- dim_pretty(ft, part = "all")

  ft <- add_footer_lines(ft, values = c(
    "Signif. codes: 0 <= '***' < 0.001 < '**' < 0.01 < '*' < 0.05 < '.' < 0.1 < '' < 1",
    "",
    sprintf("Residual standard error: %s on %.0f degrees of freedom", formatC(data_g$sigma), data_g$df.residual),
    sprintf("Multiple R-squared: %s, Adjusted R-squared: %s", formatC(data_g$r.squared), formatC(data_g$adj.r.squared)),
    sprintf("F-statistic: %s on %.0f and %.0f DF, p-value: %.4f", formatC(data_g$statistic), data_g$df.residual, data_g$df, data_g$p.value)
  ))
  ft <- align(ft, i = 1, align = "right", part = "footer")
  ft <- italic(ft, i = 1, italic = TRUE, part = "footer")
  ft <- hrule(ft, rule = "auto")
  ft <- autofit(ft, part = c("header", "body"))
  ft
}

the new_cols parameter to this function needs to be a named list of functions where the name of each function in the list will become the new column name.  The functions inside the list will take term, estimate, std.error, p.value as input as those are the names of the data_t tibble.
For example:
new_cols=list(perc_change=function(term, estimate, std.error, p.value) {
  ifelse(term=="(Intercept)","", paste0(round(100*(exp(estimate)-1),0),"%"))
})

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Explore business opportunities with leading experts on our market visit to Denmark and Sweden on 22-25 May. Register today.
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Eligibility: Open to all Scottish companies with desire and capacity to extend their exports in Scandinavian markets.
Get support to explore opportunities in Scandinavian markets.
On this market visit you'll be introduced to local partners who can help you enter the Scandinavian market and have a chance to network with like-minded Scottish businesses and local contacts.
We can offer support in the form of free market research for your product in the local market, with help to find distributors, advice on how to sell your product, the rules that apply when doing business in Scandinavia, seller introductions and practical advice on setting up there.
Recent years have seen Scandinavia raise its international profile, and the region is now considered to be an increasingly attractive business location. Denmark, Norway, Sweden all figure in the top 10 Ease of Doing Business Index (The World Bank). With its physical proximity, Scandinavia boasts a number of other links to Scotland - including air and freight routes as well as cultural history. It's a great starter export market for Scottish companies.
Denmark's market economy features a high-tech agricultural sector, advanced industry with world-leading firms in pharmaceuticals, maritime shipping and renewable energy.
Danes enjoy a high standard of living and the Danish economy is characterised by extensive government welfare measures and an equitable distribution of income which ensures social stability. Denmark is regarded as one of the least corrupt countries in the world.
The Norwegian economy is a prosperous mixed economy, with a vibrant private sector, a large state sector, and an extensive social safety net. Norwegians enjoy the second-highest GDP per-capita among European countries (after Luxembourg), and the fourth-highest GDP (PPP) per-capita in the world.
Today, Norway ranks as the second-wealthiest country in the world in monetary value, with the largest capital reserve per capita of any nation. The standard of living in Norway is among the highest in the world. Foreign Policy Magazine ranks Norway to be the world's most well-functioning and stable country.
Sweden is the seventh-richest country in the world in terms of GDP (gross domestic product) per capita and it maintains a Nordic social welfare system that provides universal healthcare and tertiary education for its citizens. Sweden ranks highly in numerous metrics of national performance, including quality of life, health, education, protection of civil liberties, economic competitiveness, gender equality, prosperity and human development.
Key sectors in Scandinavia differ from country to country. Denmark generally displays a strong interest in green tech – namely the production and development of wind turbines – while Norway's current focus is on renewable energy, with all of the country's electricity produced by hydropower. Tidal energy is significant in Sweden, as is life sciences – the Ursun 'medical valley' region between Copenhagen and South Sweden is home to around 1000 life sciences companies, including world-leader in diabetes drugs development, Novo Nordisk.
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Q: Laravel helpers - removing the facade I have a file called \App\Helpers, which contains a couple of functions one it to check if the user is an admin
@if(\Helper::isAdmin())
  do something
@endif

I could add a method to the user model and get
$user->isAdmin()

This is a bit neater. However, is there any way just to do
@if(isAdmin())
      do something
@endif

A: Yes, you can do this by creating a file with some global functions in it, so for example, add an entry in your composer.json file like one given below:
"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "database"
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "App\\": "app/"
    },
    "files": [
        "helpers/functions.php"
    ]
},

Notice the files section. then create a top level directory inside your project root as helpers and create the functions.php file inside it and declare your global functions, for example:
// helpers/functions.php
if (! function_exists('isAdmin')) {
    function isAdmin()
    {
        // You can entirely rewrite the logic here or
        // you can use your existing Helper::isAdmin()

        return \Helper::isAdmin();
    }
}

Don't forget to run composer dump-autoload at last. Btw, if you are in Larave 5.5.x then you may use larave'ls new Blade::if() Directives described here.


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Was 'One Million Hijabs' Victim Killed by Her Own Family? Daughter and Husband Linked to 'Race-Hate' Slaying of Iraqi Found Dead in Californian Home
Thomas Durante, Daily Mail (London), April 5, 2012
A California hate crime murder that sparked an international uproar may have been a killing within the family, as police turn their investigation to her husband and teen daughter.
The Iraqi family was troubled by relationship issues before Shaima Alawadi, 32, a mother of five was beaten to death in her California home, according to newly released documents that contain little evidence the killing was a hate crime.
Alawadi, 32, planned to divorce her husband and move to Texas, according to search warrant records obtained by U-T San Diego.
And the victim's 17-year-old daughter was apparently distraught over the prospect of an arranged marriage to her cousin.
In addition, a suspicious text message led police to take a look at the woman's daughter, who reportedly had a strained relationship with Ms Alawadi.
While police interviewed her after the attack, she got a text message reading: 'The detective will find out tell them (can't) talk,' according to the search warrant affidavit.
The newly uncovered documents show that Ms Alawadi was contacted in November after officers caught her daughter, Fatima Alhimidi, 17, having sex with a 21-year-old man in a parked car.
The records state that after Alawadi had picked up the teen following the incident, Fatima jumped out of her mother's car as she was driving away at speeds of up to 35 mph.
Police have reportedly searched the home of the man that Fatima had the vehicle tryst with, and have removed items from his home in their investigation.
The teenager, who was with her mother in the Lakeside home at the time of the March 21 attack, called 911 after finding Alawadi unconscious.
Ms Alawadi's family, including her husband and daughter, are still in Iraq, where burial proceedings were held.
El Cajon police have said little about the investigation since a March 26 news conference.
A voicemail message left by The Associated Press for El Cajon police spokesman Lt. Mark Coit wasn't immediately returned on Thursday.
The FBI is assisting the investigation. No arrests have been made.
Suspicions arose that it was a hate crime after the daughter told reporters she found a note near her mother telling the family to go back where they came from.
But authorities haven't disclosed the contents of the handwritten note.
The sheriff's crime lab determined it was a copy, not the original, according the documents.
El Cajon police have said the note indicated the possibility of a hate crime, but investigators have stressed they are exploring other possibilities.
Those findings prompted demonstrations around the world by women donning a hijab as a show of solidarity towards the female Islamic community.
The campaign, 'One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi', has seen women worldwide wear the Islamic headscarf to show support for the family and friends of Ms Alawadi.
The family told police a similar note was left at their home weeks before the attack, but they did not keep it or file a report with police.
On the night of the killing, the teenager told police, she heard her mother squeal and the sound of glass breaking but thought it was a dropped plate.
She said she found the her mother unconscious 10 minutes later.
Ms Alawadi, who had at least six blows to the head, possibly caused by a tire iron, died three days later.
A neighbor reported seeing a man in his 20s running from the area of Alawadi's house around the time of the attack.
The victim and her family left Iraq in the early 1990s after a failed Shiite uprising.
They lived in Saudi Arabian refugee camps before coming to the U.S., said Imam Husham Al-Husainy of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn, Mich. Saddam Hussein's troops hanged Alawadi's uncle.
The family arrived in the Detroit area in 1993 and later moved to San Diego.
Shaima Alawadi was a religious Shiite Muslim who wore a hijab, said Al-Husainy, a family friend, and her father, Sayed Nabeel Alawadi, is a cleric in Iraq.
Topics: California, Crime, Islam in America
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Thread: iPrint client on Windows 2003 NOT TS!!!
the latest version of the iPrint client, as of the date of posting - v4.26.
and that bugs me more.
there a reg key it looks at? No documentation I can find mentions this.
box as TS and do a complete reinstall of the iPrint client?
end-node "server" PC that just happens to be running Windows Server 2003.
like NDPS to begin with.


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Q: How to exclude specific dependencies version on sbt project I have list of dependencies
libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
  ws,
  evolutions,
  lombok,
  guice,
  jackson213,
  logstashLogEncoder,
  awsSecretsmanagerJdbc,
  configProperty,
  wireMock,
  restAssured,
  commonsLang3
}

but I want to exclude for specific dependencies version for example for exclude
snakeyaml-1.26.jar

how to do that ?
thanks


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Garmay Sar (, also Romanized as Garmāy Sar) is a village in Kojid Rural District, Rankuh District, Amlash County, Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 30, in 7 families.

References

Populated places in Amlash County

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UPDATE 3-Pace of Mexico rate hikes could start to slow, cenbanker says
Valentine Hilaire and Anthony Esposito
December 6, 2022, 7:26 p.m. ·2 min read
(Updates with context on fuel subsidies)
By Valentine Hilaire and Anthony Esposito
MEXICO CITY, Dec 6 (Reuters) - The Bank of Mexico's cycle of interest rate hikes is not yet over, though it could start to slow following four consecutive 75 basis-point increases, deputy governor Jonathan Heath said on Tuesday. "We believe that we can maybe start to slow the rhythm (of interest rate increases), though continuing to raise them, because we're coming close to what I believe could be a terminal rate," Heath told reporters at an event.
A Reuters poll showed on Monday that Mexico's headline inflation likely eased in November, opening the door for the central bank to slow the pace of rate hikes at its next meeting.
Annual core inflation, which remains a concern for the central bank, is expected to have hit 8.58%.
Mexico's central bank has raised interest rates to a record 10% in the current tightening cycle in a bid to tamp down on inflation, which is well above the bank's target rate of 3%, plus or minus one percentage point.
Banxico, as the central bank is also known, is due to meet for its next rate-setting decision on Dec. 15.
Heath said on Tuesday at an event in which he was awarded "Person of the Year" by Mexico's "Fortuna" magazine that the central bank "was getting close" to the end of rate hikes.
The central banker pointed to global factors, such as energy costs, as drivers of Mexico's inflation spike.
"What we'll first have to see is a drop in worldwide indicators for commodities, energy, food, shipping transport costs," Heath said.
He said that once global costs fell, "that's when I think inflation in Mexico could start to lower."
"Once that moment comes, we'll have to form a monetary policy that's consistent with the inflationary complexity."
Mexico has relied heavily on fuel subsidies to help keep a lid on consumer prices, with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador saying annual headline inflation would have hit 14% without the measure.
However, now that global energy costs are falling, the subsidies will mean Mexico's inflation rate will drop at a slower pace, Heath said.
They have "helped contain the rise in inflation, but won't help so much now that we need it to go down," he said. (Reporting by Valentine Hilaire and Anthony Esposito; Writing by Kylie Madry; Editing by Brendan O'Boyle & Shri Navaratnam)


Please explain the idea behind Face Cartography and how you came up with it.
What is the greatest challenge for creating a Face Cartography portrait?
Another huge problem was the flash generator. In the beginning of the project I had to cool flash heads with ice because of the high frequencies and short loading cycles. Luckily, the Scoro S 32000 RFS 2 from broncolor solved this problem. It is one of the very few flash generators able to cope with these extraordinary demands. It also has a short flash frequency which helps to freeze the image and keeps the color temperature very stable.
How do your subjects feel about being photographed so many times by your RoboPhot device? Is it intimidating to them? Do they worry the photos will reveal too much information about their face?
Some people think the machine is eating their soul step by step and transfers the information in the computer. A person who sits on the RoboPhot chair has to be quite self-confident and has to trust me. The front of the lens moves very close in front of their face. I am always surprised how fearless people are and how they trust a technology they do not know. For safety reasons I am working with a dead-man's safety system. During the whole process, I have to hold down a button. The entire system stops immediately, as soon as I let go. I talk constantly to the person and explain them every little step which comes and what I can see on my monitors. For me it is like flying with a helicopter over a landscape. I discover so many details I never would be aware in a normal encounter with the person. Many persons say after the sessions: "It is like meditation. I could see my face with my inner eye." Many people close the eyes when the robot moves over other parts of their lower face. I have to be careful that they do not lose their normal tension, which leads to small movement of the whole body. There are of course persons, who do not want to be cartographed by RoboPhot. They do not want to see themselves so close and with so much detail. But for most people the process being photographed by a robot, which normally builds cars, is a great and lasting experience. They enjoy discovering their face in a size and resolution they have never seen before. The pictures are only intimidating on the surface. The face becomes a neutral icon or a sculpture of the person's face, which does not reveal anything about the person's character.
Do you also do traditional photo portraits? How do you feel traditional portraiture differs from Face Cartography?
Yes I do. And love to tell whole stories with one picture, to talk with people and inventing situations to condense ideas. But you work always under pressure, because you never know, if you are on the right path.
You also photograph insects. What appeals to you about capturing an insect photo using RoboPhot?
Do you have other plans for your Face Cartography project? If so, what are they?
There are many projects in my head. But first I would like to have an exhibition showing 10 of the 2×2 meter mega-portraits. The goal is to have people leaving the room with Goosebumps without knowing why.
Than I would like to embark on a journey "People, of the 21th Century" like Sanders did. For this I would like to travel around the world and install my mobile RoboPhot on location.


Troymet Expands Geophysical Survey … | Troymet Exploration Corp.
February 23, 2010 - Troymet Exploration Corp. (TSXV:TYE) ("Troymet" or the "Company") is pleased to report preliminary results from a pulse electromagnetic (PEM) survey recently completed on the Company's 100% owned claims on the McClarty Lake Project. The McClarty Lake property is located near Snow Lake, Manitoba and lies ~45 km south of HudBay Minerals' (TSX: HBM) Chisel Lake and Lalor Lake volcanic massive sulphide (VMS) deposits.
The property comprises three claims (344 hectares) owned 100% by Troymet and two claims (252 hectares) owned 60% by Troymet and 40% by Hudson Bay Exploration and Development (HudBay) ("option claims").
Troymet identified a gold-bearing VMS system, the Discovery zone, on the option claims, in 2007. HudBay is currently earning an additional 20% interest in the option claims by spending $750,000 on exploration by June 5, 2011. The Company anticipates that HudBay will complete its earn in ahead of schedule by conducting a 2010 winter diamond drilling program on the Discovery zone.
On the 100% owned MAC 3 claim, Troymet has identified a strong conductive response on the southwest edge of the newly established grid. A 400-metre x 1000-metre extension of the grid and survey coverage has been recommended by the Company's geophysical contractor, Crone Geophysics of Mississauga, Ontario.
Completion of the grid extension and additional surveying is expected by the end of February, allowing for a follow-up diamond drilling program to commence in early March.


Bill Maurer is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on law, property, money and finance, focusing on the technological infrastructures and social relations of exchange and payment. He has particular expertise in emerging, alternative and experimental forms of money and finance, and their legal implications, ranging from offshore financial services to mobile phone-enabled money transfers, Islamic finance, and alternative currencies. His research has been supported by several grants from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation, and other sources. He is the editor of six collections, as well as the author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands (1997), Pious Property: Islamic Mortgages in the United States (2006), and Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason (2005). The latter received the Victor Turner Prize in 2005. He has worked as a consultant in industry and the non-profit and philanthropic sector, and has also provided expert testimony on his areas of expertise. For more information on Professor Maurer's current research projects, click on the Research link above.
He serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, as well as the editorial boards of Cultural Anthropology, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Cultural Critique, and PoLAR: The Political and Legal Anthropology Review. From 2007-09 he was President of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, and served in 2009-10 as a member of the Program Committee for the Law and Society Association meetings in Chicago, IL. He was Chair of the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine from 2005-06 until 2010-11, during which time the Department hired several new faculty members, expanded its graduate program, and solidified its standing among the very top cultural anthropology programs in the country. In July 2011, he assumed the role of Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine.


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800 Words: What Is This Blog?
By temperament, I am by no means a writer or an intellectual. The longer I keep up this blog, the clearer it seems that there is some element of sitzfleisch which I lack which would allow me to sit down methodically every day and grind out the once-a-day posts which was once my fondest ambition for this page. I've surprised myself by the sheer sitzfleisch I've summoned, but I had hoped that with practice I'd find still more. I haven't.
However shy or bookish I often am, I'm a performer by temperament; perhaps a highbrow performer, but a performer nonetheless who craves attention, spotlight, and reaction - approval if possible, but settling a bit too happily for disapproval. Since there are so few readers as there have always been on this page, it's become exceedingly difficult to work up the ability to work through the four or five hours of laborious boredom which a good post inevitably takes (to say nothing of the few hours of editing I should but never do…).
And this blog is, in so many ways, a performance. As I once discovered as a composer, I don't think I have original ideas, and yet for a person who makes such a fetish out of skepticism as I try to, I find it alarming that I have thousands of opinions which I clearly burn with all too great a desire to communicate. To be honest, I'm not entirely sure I even understand the ideas I espouse on this page - I just do the best I can.
Having the healthy ego of a performer which I do, the performance on this page is a performance version of me. I seem to find my inner monologue so fascinating that the idea of getting inside someone else's head has, thus far, been almost impossible. Most of my few attempts at fiction on this page have been fairly risible, so in lieu of that, I explore the contents my own head. I'm an inveterate self-revealer, and yet I wonder if by sharing so much of myself, I've in fact obscured more than I've revealed. A blog, like a photograph, is a vision of a person frozen in an instant - a two dimensional rendering of a subject with three dimensions. The main difference between a photograph and a painting is the amount of time it takes - painting involves endless retouching. Painting and sculpture do not capture something which already is, it gradually becomes the thing it is - and therefore the best of it has an extra dimension of rumination which even the best photography (or blogs) find more difficult to attain - however many the other qualities which photography does better than the artform it in so many ways supplanted.
There are many unfinished multi-part blogposts I'd hoped to go back and complete, but I never have and have rarely tried. Many of them only make sense to me in the moment of their composition, and what I write about on any given day is whatever I'm sufficiently 'burning with desire' to say. It's very hard to be inspired by a subject for days on end. The mind wanders from subject to subject, and few people's minds stand still for long enough to burrow like hedgehogs, ever more deeply into a single subject. As I've said many times before, I can't help viewing people with such minds with a mixture of boredom and alarm. We are all, to a certain extent, trapped by the obsessions of our own minds. How much more dangerous is it then to willingly give in to our obsessions? But one can't help realizing that it is such people, blessed or cursed with such a weltanschauung, that get things done in the world. They have their overarching goal for which no pain is great enough to stop them from achieving, and therefore it is almost inevitably these are the people who move the world forward and backward. While their minds stand still, their persons are always moving, and while our minds are always moving, our persons stand still.
Perhaps there is a single prism through which a person can see the world, but how can you be so certain that you've used the right prism? Plagued by that most urgent of "Doubting Thomas" questions as I am, I often find myself in extreme difficulty with regard to precisely that problem on this blog. Writing these posts is often a mad scramble to finish, regardless of how excruciating the process, because I know that by tomorrow I'll be thinking about something else, and unable to summon yesterday's vision for today's need.
For years, I coveted acceptance from hyper-achievers. I saw myself, and perhaps I still see myself, as a displaced hyper-success from a world of privilege I never knew and probably never will know. I never necessarily saw myself as the smartest guy in the room (though, of course, I have all too often…, and occasionally people are dumb enough that I can allow myself a bit of justification in that regard :), but I've always seen myself as among the most curious, the most driven to understanding, the most filled with longing for knowledge. Even if I wasn't the smartest guy in the room, or even if I've often been quite far from being so, it always dismayed me how satisfied so many other people were by incuriosity. I grew up going first to Jewish parochial schools, then to a boarding school for underachieving kids. Neither milieu was ever going to be anything resembling an intellectual Mecca, and I'd look on the honors students with enormous envy. Growing up in Pikesville, Maryland as I did, I knew many of these honors students, and a lot of them were morons just as idiotic as the learning disabled kids I knew, and less interesting too because they simply did what they were told with no questions asked. But were I more like them, I might have had a chance of meeting smarter people, making smarter friends, having smarter teachers, and generally having people at whom I could talk to without feeling like I speak a foreign language. Perhaps my entitlement complex and ego are just that huge that I blamed others for my inability to feel like a regular kid and adolescent, but I don't understood why I was made to feel ashamed of not being so.
But by college and afterward, I started mingling in my own small way among the 'smarter set,' and I must say, I was invariably disappointed in the extreme by what I found. Rather than curiosity about ideas, there is passion for a single idea, and an unwillingness to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of any worldview but one's own. All those ideas which do not fit into a total worldview are viewed with hostile suspicion.
it's fairly easy to come up with a cogent explanation for this phenomenon. Few low achievers are ever encouraged to satisfy intellectual curiosity, and they therefore don't bother much with mastering subjects whose study they'll never be rewarded. A low achieving person would rarely study with a particular goal in mind, only to have new things to consider. Whereas a high achieving person must have goals to accomplish and reasons to meet these goals. There must be an end in sight - something to achieve attain. People of action require not ideas, but ideas to prove.
I began college as a philosophy major, and I promptly failed introductory philosophy because I alienated my first philosophy professor with far too many questions and stopped showing up to class. Ever since I was a college freshman, I've proven to myself again and again that I have no real interest in philosophy. For years I've picked up its heavy tomes, only to put them down, singularly unimpressed by the knowledge I once was insatiably curious to learn. The whole idea that we beings of extraordinarily limited understanding can come up with a definitive explanation of reality is its own kind of hilarity. The few philosophers whose ideas have ever stirred me - Mill, Berlin, Eric Hoffer, John Locke, etc - are those who warn against precisely the dangers of such explanations. A few weeks ago, I had a very long conversation with a friend of mine who took precisely the opposite trajectory in philosophy. She's a philosophy doctoral student at one of the world's premiere universities, and we had a particularly long digression about Kant, whom she adores. In so many words, I told her (much more diplomatically) that it's ridiculous to admire any philosopher so greatly who wanted to create a theory of everything, because such theories, even the most abstract (perhaps especially), have inevitable real world consequences. To which she replied "If you're not going to try to come up with a total explanation of the world, what's the point of philosophy?" What indeed?
Kant is hardly the most erroneous or dangerous of German philosophers. But Kant himself provided his best rebuttal in one of his rare moments of comprehensibility: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was made." What Kant argues with the categorical imperative and the 'thing-in-itself' is a monstrous tyranny of reason, a replacement for God himself in which we are coerced to follow our own thoughts to their logical conclusion, no matter how dangerous or limited those thoughts are. It uses empiricism as a mere featherweight on which to pin a presupposition that our puny reason can understand the world well enough to act upon it with impunity. She countered this by saying that Kant ameliorated the categorical imperative's harsh degree by admitting that considerations of human rights must be taken into account; indeed, that the 'categorical imperative' is a directive to act with the dignity of human beings in mind. But what if a person reasons his way out of consideration for human rights? What if people reason, as they often have throughout history, that certain human beings are less than human? It's difficult to believe that Kant didn't understand that problem, and it's more likely that he simply didn't care. One of his other famous phrases was coopted from the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I: "Let justice be done, though the world perish," It's difficult to believe that Kant never read Rousseau, and like that of many enlightenment thinkers, his imagined world is a world where reason needn't make any compromise. It is only one step from Kant's Categorical Imperative to Schopenhauer's Will, which we are imprisoned by and cannot contradict. In fact, Schopenhauer once declared that he discovered the 'thing-in-itself', and that thing is the all-conquering will. It's then one step from Schopenhauer to Nietzsche's Superman, who wills the world into change by the force of his own powerful reason and will to power, whose reason is of course 'better' than the reason of others. and one step from Nietzsche to…
But Kant is no different than so many thousands of philosophers, working in a field that works with the most extraordinarily limited means in even its best moments. Most philosophy is antithetical to the the word's meaning ( love of wisdom), and nothing more than a crude instrument plowing into a fertile, untrammeled earth; an earth which might yield more edible results if we simply left its mysterious processes alone. Perhaps one day it will yield better results, but by and large, philosophy has gotten us into an enormous amount of avoidable trouble.
I have no brain for math and science, and while I hope eventually to remedy it, my understanding of even the most basic theoretical stuff is not unlike a kindergartener trying to read Ulysses. If I'm in any sense a true pointy-headed 'intellectual', then my subject is History. I'm the son of a 'failed' historian, I come from stock shook by many of history's greatest upheavals, I have a Rain Man-like mind for dates and quotes. More and more, I find myself cracking open the history books - as best I can, I want to know how our world came to be the way it is. And so I do my darndest to disappear into Hobsbawm, Spengler, Barzun, Taylor, even Niall Ferguson (ah, the sins of one's youth…), And yet each of them, however informative or well-written, is every bit the 'totalist' which one gets from the most dogmatic philosophers. Each gives us a tantalizingly conjured key to all realities that disappears at the slightest critical approbation. I long to find some large, well-written, historical work in which history has no end - only a series of theories expressed on the page, and taken as a given that the next epoch will prove it utterly wrong, with the mystery and folly of the world preserved intact from age to age.
No, I don't much like facts. Don't get me wrong, I love the most useless of them, and have a great mind for useless trivia. But I don't much like the idea that the world is a simple place that can be contained by explanations. I like reading about the follies of the explanations, and perhaps there is an explanation out there which can contain the world's contents, but I'd rather not know about it. It simplifies the world to a horrible degree and takes the mystery, and therefore the fun, out of living. It's taken me thirty-one years to get it, but for all the insatiable curiosity I've tried to will myself into having, the world does not exist to be understood - it exists, to the best of our abilities, to be enjoyed. There is no point in a greater understanding of the world unless you can enjoy that understanding.
My most particular, and intense, enjoyment comes out of expression - not in intellect, not in emotion, but in the messy blend between the two which increases our experience of both. To interest me, it's not enough to display emotion or cold logic. The emotions must feel revelatory because they're complex and conflicted, and the thoughts must be suffused with a human dimension. And not only that - a person has to be willing to share them with others, regardless of how difficult; like an intense and rewarding conversation with a close friend or family member you love, in which by the end you know the person better than you ever did before. You've captured a part of their mystery, their perception of their own mystery, and their perception of yours, in a completely new way which adds to the mysteries which life holds, and you therefore love them even more.
Few things can beat the pleasure of conversation. But for me, the arts come close, or at least they do some of the time. I love those romantic/realist painters from the early 19th century like Delacroix, Goya, Courbet, and Turner who manage to create the most innovative techniques (in some ways, painting never moved beyond them), yet marry all those magnificent innovations to emotional expression. Contrast that to the decadent pleasures of impressionism, or the ascetic coolness of modernism, and you'll immediately see the difference. By the time of the impressionists, a painter like Van Gogh and had to swim against the current and was driven to suicide. By the time of modernism, a painter like Chagall with a personal vision was completely poo-poohed by the obsessive art lovers who should have loved him best. For the same reason, I love early 20th century Post-Romantic composers like Mahler, Janacek, Richard Strauss, Carl Nielsen, Sibelius, Elgar. Poor Britten and Shostakovich were born too late, poor Brahms and Bruckner too early, and though all four achieved great notoriety in their lifetimes, they had to bitterly persist in pursuing their own personal greatness against forces which wanted nothing more than for their greatnesses to be rejected. Or post-production code Hollywood movies from the 70's - Bonnie and Clyde, The Producers, The Last Picture Show, The Godfather, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Annie Hall, Raging Bull, The Right Stuff, etc maybe even Nashville... - that eschewed dry European 'formalism' for good old-fashioned Hollywood storytelling. Even so, the stories they told were challenging, personal, unpandered, and unspoiled by bottom lines and focus groups - a truly popular art. To be sure, there are greater painters and composers and moviemakers than those mentioned - not a single Mozart or a Rembrandt or Welles among them. But, in some ways, the work of these 'late' masters suffered because they all aspired to a higher metaphysical aim than it ever occurred to the greatest masters to express. They aspired to things which their artforms could not do, and therefore failed nearly as often as they succeeded. Some find all this work I've mentioned insufferably bloated and too intense. But I love its excess - sometimes these creators fall off high rungs, but they do so because they risk so much, and often reap rewards beyond which even Mozart and Rembrandt can attain. To the best of their abilities, the whole world is contained within their creations, and nothing is alien to them.
If I had to categorize myself and the point is of this blog, it's to capture my very limited portion of the world, and my attempt to understand it. The best philosophy, however amateurish, is wisdom-writing. And as an extremely limited follower of essayists like Montaigne and Emerson and Orwell, I'm trying to understand the world and make sense of it in an extremely unscientific, warm-hearted way in which no answers are to be found - only new questions.
This is where I have to admit, a person with such a proven record of being the very opposite of wise has no business writing anything related to wisdom. But perhaps its that very need for wisdom, and my follies in obtaining it, that necessitates the writing, and has enabled me to sustain it in some manner for nearly two-and-a-half years. This blog is the canvass on which I, to the best of my limited ability, portray, capture, and express myself.
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On this week's episode of Ukulele Webcam Sessions, Matt shows you how to play both natural and artificial harmonics on your ukulele - the techniques involved and what you need to practice in order to get them to sound right. Try it out for yourself and see how you can add this awesome sound to your own playing!
For more on this, be sure to check out the Uke Minutes episodes on One Handed Harmonics and Artificial Harmonics. And if you have any questions, let us know!
Great lesson. I knew about natural harmonics, and have seen steel guitar players and electric guitar players use artificial harmonics, but did not realize they are available to me on my 'ukulele. Thanks for showing me how to do it.
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2 Red travelled to Leeming to the leaders of the division. It proved a tough day on the Leeming greens and the difficult breeze we had all day but no excuses they played better overall.
Jim Drake-Brockman, Alan Booth, Terry Norrish and Little Joe were our only victors on the day. They played the hardest rink but still managed to get across the line by 1 shot 20-19. It did not look good early after dropping a four on the first and third ends and a three on the fourth end but with a great deal of cunning Little Joe rolled a long end and the team responded by picking up a six which brought the score back to 10-11. A close game continued with the Leeming skip playing some great bowls to keep them in the game, with Jim doing a great job on the one end he was left to do something by drawing his two bowls.
Mike Carey with his new third Richard Pears (who came into the role at very short notice and played pretty well from what I saw and heard), Lindsay Brown and the rising star Dave Nester had a very close game which ended in a 19 all draw. Didn't see a lot of the game but everyone contributed and Dave set things rolling more times than not.
The Greg Ginby rink of Chris Woodroff, Mark Matthews and young Brian Clare were in deep trouble early and at one stage were down 22-1 or similar. In true fashion the buys picked themselves up and fought back on dropping 4 shots while scoring 14 themselves. A great effort to only go down 15-26 and typical of their effort so far this season.
Craig Stevens with Steve Lambert, Phil Gillespie and Alby Chapelhow unfortunately, if you listen to them had the most difficult rink to play on. The opposing skip may have also contributed to the bad rink draw as I saw him make a lot of conversion shots. The boys were in trouble for a big part of the game but the worm turned late in the game and they got back to only lose 17-23. Another solid effort by the team.
Overall we only got 1.5 to 6.5 and lost by 71-87 which was a great result considering Leeming had not been beaten. The side is in 6th spot at the moment and with the spirit within the group should be able to hold their place at season's end.


Fleets preparing for the withdrawal of the paper counterpart driving licence – which will officially take place on June 8th this year – have been offered some advice on the process by the British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association.
With the aim of both streamlining the process of managing licensing in the UK, as well as helping to protect the environment by doing away with the need for physical paper counterparts, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) is overseeing this shift.
Companies should therefore be prepared for the impact that these changes will have on their compliance processes, with the need to update systems in line with the new licensing standard.
From June 8th, the DVLA will be the UK's only legal source of driver licensing information and will be the only provider of full licensing history for motorists – including all endorsements, penalty points or disqualifications, as well as address and personal history.
Three methods for the clarification of driver details will be open to those wishing to find further driver registration information following the introduction of the new licensing system – via a DVLA-accredited driving licence verification service; the DVLA's premium rate telephone service; or the new Share My Driving Licence facility.
Share My Driving Licence will be accessible via the gov.uk portal and will enable employers or other bodies to carry out checks on a motorist's details through a one-time-use digital pass code.
An area where the abolition of the paper counterpart is likely to have some of the greatest impact is in the vehicle rental sector, where operators presently rely upon these documents to verify a motorist's details prior to leasing them a car.
Instead, rental providers will need to rely on the above methods for checking driver personal information – something that in the short-term could lead to difficulties as people will be less than au fait with the new processes, although these problems are only likely to be seen in the short-term.


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Parade celebrates diversity
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The Annual Black History Month Parade and Exposition helped encourage people from the community of Riverside to come together Feb. 14 in Downtown Riverside to celebrate black history, as well as recognize the culture and achievements.
Every February for the past 32 years, Riverside hosts the parade and exposition to display the racial and cultural diversity of Riverside. People and organizations from all over the city participate in the parade and exposition to show the community the pride they have in their heritage. The event featured floats, music and vendors to bring the community together.
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to "seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history." Since then, every U.S. president has officially designated the entire month of February as Black History Month.
Some students at California Baptist University attended the Black History Month Parade and Exposition to honor the historical month.
"It's a good experience to see African-Americans in the community supporting each other," said Torsha Collins, Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology student at CBU. "Besides them, there are a lot of different races here to support."
The parade began at 10 a.m. and included floats from organizations around Riverside, such as the Second Baptist Church Youth Ministry and the Eastside Renovation Commission.
The parade also incorporated several dancing groups from around the community, ranging from children to young adults. As people continued the celebration of the parade, they lined the streets and cheered on the groups, who danced to music and waved to the crowds.
Megan Morrow, Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology student, said she originally decided to attend the parade because her internship with Women Wonder Writers required it. After volunteering as a station attendant and runner and viewing the parade in its entirety, she said she realized it was something more than volunteer work.
"I helped out earlier (and) will probably, hopefully (be coming back next year)," Morrow said.
For some people, the Black History Month Parade is a way to celebrate tradition.
"I grew up going to these parades every year, so it was just an automatic thing," said Renetta Kepler, a Riverside resident and attendant of the parade.
Kepler's daughter Ryenn Kepler, a student at Riverside City College, said she has continued the tradition and joins her mother for the celebration every year.
"It's a tradition to come celebrate our community and just celebrate our black history," Kepler said.
Vendors set up booths near city hall for people to enjoy and to raise awareness for various organizations. Some of the groups that attended were Covered California, Meals on Wheels and the California Highway Patrol.
"There are a lot of different people and different organizations that I didn't even know existed," said Samantha Albro, Master of Arts in Forensic Psychology student at CBU. "I think it brings awareness."
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Michael Boucher CPA – Owner Michael Boucher has been located in Old Saybrook, CT, working as an owner, partner and employee since 1992. His area of practice is concentrated in small business entities, sole proprietorships and individuals, providing services for clients living or doing business in 30 different states and countries.
Professional Certificates & Organizations:
Connecticut – Certified Public Accountant, September 1995
Rhode Island – Certified Public Accountant, August 1990
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, August 1991
Connecticut Society of Certified Public Accountants, September 1995
Rhode Island Society of Certified Public Accountants, August 1990
Franklin Pierce College, Bachelor of Science (Accounting)
Rindge, New Hampshire – December 1986
University of Maine at Orono, Bachelor of Science (Finance)
Orono, Maine – December 1984
University of Maine at Orono, Associates Degree (Business Administration)
Orono, Maine – May 1982
U.S. Army, Sergeant, Pershing Missile System
Fort Sill, Oklahoma & Neckarsulm, Germany July 1977 – June 1984
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Carol Ann Amante has been a practicing CPA since 2004 working at Michael Boucher CPA, LLC since 2008.
Carol Ann is a graduate of the University of New Haven, CT, a member of CSCPA and the Connecticut Society of CPAs.
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ShitKid // Tales From The City
One time we were playing in London and I was waiting to be interviewed in some sort of green room. I saw a really tall guy with a lot of face tattoos and asked him for cigarettes. But then I saw he was smoking weed so I asked for weed instead. He gave me weed to smoke/inhale and said he could take me into a VIP room. It was pretty cool. He told me he was a tattoo artist with 70k followers on instagram and I got impressed and was looking for a shout out. I asked him if his dick was tattooed and he said "yes, even the head". I asked him if it hurt and he said he'd been a heroinist so nothing hurt anymore. After the interview he invited me and my bandmate Linda and a really famous young artist named Moa Romanova (@moaromanova) who is making a documentary about us to his apartment. It was a really nice apartment, not fancy but a good feeling and nice feng shui. He gave us some nice t-shirts and gave us lemonade and weed. Then he said that we had to meet Georgie and went into a room and came out with a really big bunny. It was so soft and a bit skittish. We then laid on the floor petting the bunny and making its fur jiggle and the bunny seemed to like it. Then the young artist got too high and was a bit freaked out and had to go home. Linda disappeared after the gig and we found her the day after outside a church eating a bag of crisps and a sandwich. We almost missed our flight but we didn't. It was a hahaha-really good time. The word count is at 287 now so I can also tell you that we met a really cool guy in a park outside Bush Hall in Shepherd's Bush. He was also very tall. 6'5″. I remember this because he added his number to my phone as 6'5″.
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Q: Bootstrap collapse not showing content when clicked I have just started learning bootstrap.I have encountered this problem regarding collapse.Collapse is not showing content when clicked.It does nothing when its clicked,I have tried everything from updating jquery's link ,removing button div out of header,using id instead of class in ul's parent div but nothing seems to be working for me.I know it must be a newbie mistake but for some reason i cant figure it out.
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Medicine For Melancholy....
How do you court somebody you just met, but already f**ked?
That may sound crass, but it is the genesis of a film I saw the other night at the LA Film Fest, and a movie that has been making a sort of a splash as of late.
Medicine For Melancholy is a film that is interesting for more than just it's subject matter. It was made with very little money, but is shot in a way that steadfastly held my attention even before the storyline did....it is shot in the most beautiful sepia tones and pinks, which has a way of making everybody and everything look absolutely beautiful. The soundtrack was offbeat, but perfect for each scene when played.
The film starts off with a couple waking up next to each other at what looks to be remnants of a party at someone else's house the night before. They seem to have almost no cognizance on who the other might be or what happened, but they do know that they are about to do a hardcore "walk of shame", as the white folks say.
What transpires over the course of the film is what happens when someone tries to hold on to something that really shouldn't have happened in the first place. The unusual looking male of the duo, Mikah (Wyatt Cenac, who grew on me more and more as the film progressed) tries to overcome the awkwardness by taking the female, Jo (a young Diahann Carroll-esque Tracey Heggins) to breakfast and sharing a cab ride. Though she tries to be game for a minute, it is clear that in her mind she has made a regretful and horrible mistake, and can barely contain the fact that she can't wait to bolt from him. She leaves her wallet in the cab, sparking Mikah to go and find her. Not really because of the wallet, but because he is a thoughtful, intelligent, and curious black man, and clearly not the type to go around sleeping with random folks and then forgetting about it. He needs to satisfy his questions and curiosity more than anything else.
What happens after that is a journey of what happens to them in the next 24 hours. I really don't want to give off any spoilers, and it would be hard to give plot points without revealing too much. It reminded me very much of the French New Wave films of the 60's, which usually focused on very few characters, usually a couple, and were much more filled with talky narrative between said couple than anything else, with lots of close ups and oddly angled shots. You would think a film about watching two folks talking and then doing stuff without talking would be dull, but in fact, in this film, it was wholly engaging and riveting.
What helped was the charisma of the leads Mikah and Jo. Mikah reminds me of men I have dated in the past--immensely smart, with an unusual and different sense of humor, low key fashion conscious with a quirky style of sexy. I guess it's no coincidence that Mikah is very San Francisco, where the movie is set, and where I'm from. Jo had a look of the French waifs from back in the day--she is luminous and you can't take your eyes off her, and she has an elusiveness that is maddening, but still makes you want to know more.
It also reminded me of a John Cassavetes film in it's cinema verite' style. For those who may not know, cinema verite' is almost the same as looking at a film and being so absorbed in it that you forget you are watching one cause it seems so real, almost like you are spying. The weirdly edited sound in the club scenes was also very Cassavetes; loud, rough-edged and real. Mikah and Jo find they are seemingly polar opposites--he being earthy and activist driven, she living in an upscale, art-filled, bourgeois non-black world.
There was a sub-plot that involved the gentrification of San Francisco (where us Negroes now make up only 7% of the population) that I watched wearily. The point was made a bit heavy handedly, but since it was one of the main reasons I moved away earlier this year, I know the filmmaker (Barry Jenkins) knew it was important to be said. I say I watched wearily, as I have talked about that very same subject many times, all the while knowing there wasn't a damn thing we could do about it...like I said, important to be said, but a bit out of place in the story with it's weight--but then again, maybe adding to the charm of the unexpectedness of everything else in the film.
I'll wrap it up by saying that what I took away from the film is that we can never control who we are genuinely attracted to. "It is what it is", as Mikah liked to say. And if we see the situation clearly for what it really is, whether it's appropriate or not, and everyone is consenting, then you will probably come away with some rich and beautiful life experiences and memories...it may even help change your life for the better (or worse!). The trouble always lies in trying to make something into what it's not, or never will be.
Such is life in every aspect; it is what it is, and the more we are able to accept that, the easier it becomes.
Here is the trailer; will answer your comments later today:
Posted by Invisible Woman at 6/26/2008
Labels: current cinema, reviews, up and coming auteurs
Lenoxave said...
Outstanding review IW. I'd peeped the film announcement over at Cocoa Lounge and being in SF, I'd love to check it out.
It sounds like a mature, well-done and thought provoking film from what you have to say about it and that's enough for me.
The Obenson Report said...
It's about time :o)
Good review... I'll link to it on my blog if ya don't mind!
I'm sure this will make its way to NYC soon enough, and I'll catch it then.
What will be interesting to watch for is how IFC will market it, whom they will market it to, and what parts of town it will play in. Films like these rarely reach the intended audiences that the filmmakers often hope they will reach. That's not to say it's a film that can't be appreciated by anyone, regardless of ethnicity, because it most certainly can. But, I think it's vital that films of this nature play to audiences that look like the people in the film itself... 'na mean?
I've seen MFM and I agree with everything that you said about it. It's admittedly a "slight" film, definitely very "inde", but it resonates with you long after you've seen it. And here's a lesson for especially for black filmmakers Just because you're making a low budget film doesn't means that your film has to look like crap. MFM was made for very little money with a six man crew and it looks great. It doesn't have the super slick polish that you would except in a bigger budget film, but it visually interesting and solidly put together. I have seen WAAAAAAY too many low budget black films that are crummy simply because the filmmakers use the excuse of having little money to make inferior product.
One thing though is I wonder how will the black audience at large take to this film. It's not either the usual gansta' or "O-woe-is-me-Lawd-why-did-you-make-me-so-black?-or low brow Tyler Perry rip off. If MFM was a film with white characters I don't think anybody would have batted an eye. But because this is black film I fear too many black people are mentally stuck in a box and afraid to explore something different. I hope I'm wrong
Marvalus said...
Your writeup makes me want to fly out to SF and see this...excellent review!
I need a good movie, a good man/woman relationship that is not a Tyler Perry same storyline movie...this one sounds right up my alley...
LISA VAZQUEZ said...
Now THIS is a film I must see!
It has all of the elements that I love in a film!
You have also given me a new term to start tossing out on people so I can sound like I know cinema:
"That film is verrrry Cassavetes!"
(Then, I will watch people look puzzled while I act like I am too deep with my cinema knowledge! *LOL*)
Thanks for featuring this film!
Peace, blessings and DUNAMIS!
Thank you ALL for these thoughtful words.
It's much, MUCH appreciated
Sounds really good, something with a little more depth than your typical love story. Wish I was in LA :-(
Sounds like something I want to see, I need something unique and non-commercial.
I really think I would like this movie.
clnmike said...
Okay I thought this was a chic movie but it's more art house im sold I want to see it.
You sure know how to review a movie. Me and the folk are sitting here reading this and saying we're sold. We are going... We are looking out for it. Thx for the clue.
Wow! How would I get to see this in Atlanta?
Kem said...
So far so good. Invisble get back at me when you see this. I would like to feature your post on my blog.
Tafari said...
"How do you court somebody you just met, but already f**ked?" Umm damn!
Your breakdown has me feenin' I just email the site & asked when it is going to be released wider or DVD.
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Coach Self and Players Meets with Media on Friday
On Friday afternoon Kansas players, along with head coach Bill Self, spoke with members of the media in Allen Fieldhouse about the Jayhawks' upcoming opponent, South Florida. Self and players answered questions on the last game versus Florida Atlantic, as well as the development of the team through six games.
Below are videos and a transcript of Coach Self's and select players' interviews.
Coach Self
T. Releford Interview
C. Teahan Interview
Media Availability
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Kansas head coach Bill Self
On South Florida:
"They are 5-3. Their defense is excellent and they have labored scoring the ball like we have at times. Their field goal percentage defense is great. Stan (Heath)'s teams always guarded well at Arkansas too. I played them when I was at Illinois and they really guarded then. It will be a good game and a tough game. It's a BIG EAST opponent and we don't see that every night."
On what makes South Florida so good defensively:
"They are quick and they're big. They seem to be pretty tough. We looked at their stats and their stats are impressive from a field goal percentage defense standpoint. Teams are shooting 39 (percent) overall and 31 (percent from three-point range against South Florida). They are out-rebounding them at a pretty good clip. They are sound on that end."
On comparing Conner Teahan to former Kansas player Tyrel Reed:
"Conner has a short memory. He remembers just the good stuff which is a good way to be. He's kind of like Mario (Chalmers) in that respect. He hasn't played the number of minutes yet to have the same comfort level of Brady (Morningstar) or Tyrel (Reed), but the guy can really shoot. We just have to do a better job of getting him looks. If we get him four looks a game, I'm confident he will make at least two of them. The other night basically we were stuttering and stammering around and he goes on a 9-0 run or whatever and gives us confidence and plenty of breathing room. He's very important to us."
On his relationship with former Kansas head coach Ted Owens:
"Well, he comes back all the time. Ted and I take golf trips together every summer. We bunked together in Scotland for a week. I've gotten to know Coach real well. He's been really good to me and my family. You're here 19 years and he's kind of the coach that sometimes gets lost, but he went to two Final Fours and won a lot of games. Like the (1966) team (that will be honored during the South Florida game). If a 50-50 call had gone the other way, we would never have had the history with the Texas Western stuff because I think most people would say you can't tell if JoJo (White) was in or out when he made that last shot against Texas Western."
On how he can get Kansas' guards to do what he wants them to do:
"I think they want to do what I want them to do. We're just careless. We have a severe case of mental lapses. Tyshawn (Taylor) and Elijah (Johnson) are capable of playing as well as any guards in the country, if we just take our time and take possessions off. We have to do a much better job of that and focus in. I told Tyshawn, 'If a quarterback has two mental lapses, the score is 14-0 the other team.' So that's kind of where we are at. He's making some mistakes that lead to easy baskets, and Elijah has done the same, but they are more than capable of playing better and they will. Their offensive output, Elijah's wasn't very good the other day, but collectively, their offensive output hasn't been poor at all. Tyshawn's has been very good. He has to find that balance where he's a scorer, but still an initiator first."
On opponents keeping the ball out of Conner Teahan's hands:
"He doesn't do as good a job of getting open as some guys do. He has to focus on that. People aren't going to let him get his feet set. Even with that being said, you've accomplished something positive, you've stretched the defense. That isolates Thomas (Robinson) more in the post so there are some positives to having him out there even if he is not getting the shots."
Senior guard Conner Teahan
On head coach Bill Self not being happy with guard play against FAU:
"He made that very evident at half time and during the game, which, if you look at the stat sheet, he has the right to be that way. We just have to try and get better every day in practice and hope that we perform better tomorrow."
On how the bench can earn Self's trust:
"You just have to go out there and do what he wants us to do. Defending and rebounding are the main things that he wants and are what he's always emphasizing. You just have to show that you can hold your own out there. You're going to have to earn his trust over time and I know that's what everybody on the bench is trying to do right now. It's a game thing and a practice thing. You have to prove it every day in practice and show that you can make practice translate on the court."
On what the key is for the guards' success:
"It just depends on your role. There are some people, like myself, that he doesn't want to dribble around the court. He wants me to catch, maybe have one or two dribbles and either put it in somebody else's hands or shoot it if I'm open. Different roles require different things. If you know your role, you'll be fine."
On how he measures his success in games:
"Coach always says for me, it's about making shots. If I'm out there, I need to be scoring points. I look at it overall. I need to be playing defense and everything like that because if your man doesn't score then you can win, obviously. You just have to watch how you help the team, and what the point differential is when you get in the game and what it is when you get taken out."
Junior guard Travis Releford
"We haven't gone over the scouting report yet. Today is actually the day when we will go over it. We do know they are a good defensive team, better than Florida Atlantic, who we just played."
On playing this year with Conner Teahan:
"It's great to be out there with him. I've been playing on the same team as Conner since the summer of my freshman year of high school. It's always been fun playing on the same team as him. He's a great player and a great guy on-and-off the court."
On how confident he feels in his three-point shot this season:
"I feel very confident in it. I haven't made very many in the last few games, but I still feel confident in it and I'm going to keep taking open ones when I get a chance."
On KU's offense versus FAU:
"We just got lackadaisical on the offensive end. FAU was able to speed us up because they were very quick on the defensive end, especially their guards."
On if he feels he is making an impact on the team:
"I think I can do more, especially on the defensive end. I definitely feel like I can get more steals and rebounds. Those two areas I feel like I could help out the team more."
On if he was playing with a lot of energy against FAU:
"Every game I try and come out with a bunch of energy. In the second half when Coach (Self) took Ty (Tyshawn Taylor) and Elijah (Johnson) out, he told me to be more aggressive and that's what I tried to do."


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Q: How to kill the idle connection in Postgresql.? I am using java servlets along with pgadmin 9.1.Problem is the connection in servlets was not closed properly so it leads to blank screen if it reaches the maximum connection.I don't want every user to extend maximum connections in pgadmin...i have used the below query in starting and end ending point of servlet but its showing error like..connection terminated due to administrator command..
ResultSet rs_1q=st_Query3.executeQuery("SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pg_stat_activity.procpid)FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE pg_stat_activity.current_query = '<IDLE>' AND procpid <> pg_backend_pid();");

A: Generally, as @Rahul points out, its not advisable to kill connections. But if it's your last resort, this is how to terminate idle connections:
SELECT pg_terminate_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity
WHERE datname = 'databasename'
AND pid <> pg_backend_pid()
AND state in ('idle');

A: I dont think that killing a connection is an ideal solution as there may be certain connection which might be genuinely waiting for the transaction to get completed. Instead I would suggest you to set a timeout for your transacion.
However if you are desperate to kill the idle connections then you can try like this:
Use shell script and do  "ps auxwww|grep 'idle in transaction'"
which will return list of all "idle in
transaction." processes.
Then you can use "awk" and find of each line of output to get the
the process id, and finally you can use a "kill <pid>" to each process.


Chapter 1 – Extract 15 from The Paradise Induction!
"I will," said the man who breathed a sigh of submission.
More of a statement than a question, Chris thought. He moved his gaze across to another individual on the opposite side of the plane, whose pale skin was almost green.
The man had one of his hands grasping his side, rubbing his ribs, then moving toward his stomach and darting back again to his ribs. He kept his head down and quickly looked to his right then back at his screen. He blinked rapidly, then looked up to his right as if something caught his interest. There was nothing above him, but the plane's overhead lights and air conditioning. The man touched his face, rubbing his chin and lips, then his eyes dashed back and forth. Chris could just about see that the man's forehead was glistening. The sickly looking guy shook his head and wiped his mouth again.
He was the one making this plane a toxic waste hazard.
Chris pressed his lips together. Poor guy. How embarrassing.


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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, förkortat ICANN (engelskt uttal: ), är en icke vinstinriktad organisation som har yttersta huvudansvaret för IP-protokollen, adressrymden som finns i IP-protokollen, DNS med mera. ICANN arbetar inte med att kontrollera datainnehållet på Internet, till exempel skräppost och bedrägerier.

Organisationen grundades 18 september 1998. Ansvaret för dessa områden låg tidigare hos myndigheter i USA, vilka i sin tur delegerade verksamheten till organisationen IANA. Innan ICANN övertog ansvaret kritiserades de dåvarande ansvariga organisationerna för hemlighetsmakeri och för att inte tillåta internationell inblick i verksamheten.

Se även
 Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
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Referenser

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Q: Insert query depending on value previously inserted I'm using MySQL in node.js (MySQL module) to manage my database. I have two tables related to one main table as follow:
Table 1 (Main table): Flights
+-----+-------------+-----------------+
| Id  | CreatedDate |      Notes      |
+-----+-------------+-----------------+
| 1   | 2015-01-01  | No reservations |
| 2   | 2015-02-15  | Without places  |
| ... | ...         | ...             |
+-----+-------------+-----------------+

Table 2: FlightPassengers
+----------+------------+--------+
| IdFlight | Passenger  | Arrive |
+----------+------------+--------+
| 1        | 125        | true   |
| 2        | 115        | false  |
| ...      | ...        | ...    |
+----------+------------+--------+

Table 3: PassangerParameters
+----------+-------------+-------+
| IdFlight |  Parameter  | Value |
+----------+-------------+-------+
| 1        | Age         | 12    |
| 2        | Civil status| S     |
| 2        | Age         | 25    |
| 4        | Civil status| M     |
| 4        | Age         | 40    |
| ...      | ...         | ...   |
+----------+-------------+-------+

Right now, when I want to add a flight, I have to make the INSERT INTO Flights SET ? MySQL query first and then get the Flight Id to make this others querys:
INSERT INTO FlightPassengers VALUES (?,?,?)
INSERT INTO PassangerParameters VALUES (?, ?, ?), (?, ?, ?)

to insert the values in the other tables. On this way I feel is very inefficient and uncomfortable, specially for the PassangerParameters table.
How can I make this query more efficient? There's a method that I can take to make this properly?

A: You could use a TRIGGER to automatically insert into other tables when you insert into Flights
CREATE TRIGGER insertPassInfo
    AFTER INSERT ON Flights
    FOR EACH ROW
    BEGIN
        INSERT INTO FlightPassengers VALUES (NEW.Id, ?, ?);
        INSERT INTO PassengerParameters VALUES (NEW.Id, ?, ?), (NEW.Id, ?, ?);
    END


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