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Oglethorpe (16-12, 6-7) 0 5 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 9 11 3
Millsaps (13-18, 4-8) 0 0 4 0 0 3 0 0 6 13 10 3
Oglethorpe (16-13, 6-8) 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 7 1
Millsaps (14-18, 5-8) 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 10 1
2B: Andrew Mink
HR: Jarvis Miller; Austin Ferlita
HR: Wes Lassere
2B: Adrian Celata; Britton Araujo
HR: Adrian Celata
The Oglethorpe baseball team had a rough go of it Saturday afternoon in Jackson, Mississippi, falling to the homestanding Millsaps Majors in a pair of games that the Stormy Petrels led in the late innings. They had a 9-4 lead in the sixth inning of Game 1 before allowing 6 ninth-inning runs, including a walk-off grand slam, to fall 13-9. Then, they led 3-2 into the sixth inning of Game 2, but allowed a run in each of the final two frames (of the 7-inning game) to fall 4-3. The losses dropped the Petrels to 16-13 overall and 6-8 in SAA play.
In Game 1, the Petrels rushed out to a 5-0 lead with a big second inning. Junior catcher Adrian Celata walked to lead off the frame, while sophomore first baseman Andrew Mink doubled and junior second baseman Matt Motz walked to load the bases. They were followed by senior designated hitter Austin Ferlita, who promptly launched a grand slam over the fence in left field and gave Oglethorpe a 4-0 lead. The inning continued, though, as junior third baseman Connor Crooke singled with one out and stole second base. Junior center fielder Jarvis Miller followed with a single to left and Crooke subsequently scored on a delayed double steal of home.
The Majors got four of those runs back in the third inning, though, drawing to within a single run. That didn't faze the Petrels, as they came back with a pair in the top of the fourth. Shortstop Sam Held led off the inning with a single and was followed by Crooke, who singled and advanced to second on an error. With runners at second and third and one out, junior left fielder Bobby Rezac came through with a single up the middle, scoring both runners and extending Oglethorpe's lead back out to 7-4. They added additional runs in the fifth and sixth, with Miller launching a solo homer in the sixth and Mink scoring on a Ferlita sacrifice fly after being hit by a pitch in the fifth. Millsaps scored three in the sixth, though, drawing to within two, 9-7. They then turned the tables with six runs in the ninth inning.
Ferlita led the team in Game 1, going 1-for-2 with a home run, a sacrifice fly, a walk, 5 RBIs and a run scored. Crooke went 2-for-4 with 2 stolen bases and 2 runs scored.
Junior right-hander Matt Davis got the start and went 6 innings, allowing 7 runs on 6 hits. He issued 5 walks and 3 strikeouts, hitting four Millsaps batters, as well. Freshman left-hander Preston Vegotsky suffered the loss, falling to 4-3 on the season. He allowed 5 earned runs on 4 hits 2 1/3 innings.
Millsaps jumped out to a 1-0 lead in Game 2, but the Petrels scored a run each in the second, third and fourth innings. Celata led off the second inning with a home run, tying the score. Held then led off the third inning with an infield single before junior left fielder Britton Araujo followed with a double to the left-center gap, tying the score. He was thrown out trying to stretch it to a triple, but the Petrels had the lead. Millsaps tied the game back up in the bottom of the inning, but the Petrels took the lead right back. Celata doubled down the left-field line to lead off the fourth and advanced to third on a passed ball. That was followed by Mink driving in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly, making it 3-2.
However, the Majors scored single runs in the sixth and seventh innings to secure their second consecutive walk-off victory.
Celata went 2-for-2 with a home run, a double, a walk, an RBI and 2 runs scored. Motz was 1-for-2 with a walk in the game.
Sophomore left-hander Kyle Babb suffered the loss, allowing 3 earned runs on 10 hits and 7 walks over a complete-game 6 2/3.
The Petrels will try to shake off the two difficult losses when they return to Twenty Field in Jackson for the final game of the 3-game series. The two teams will get started at 1 p.m. Eastern.


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Q: Object context injection into mvc web api I have a custom AuthorizeAttribute on my actions in a asp.net mvc web api. I need to inject my EF ObjectContext into it.
First request after the dev server fires up always works. It's the following ones that fail. The ObjectContext is disposed and for the life of me I can't figure out how to inject the damn thing for every request.
Here is my FilterProvider.
   public class UnityFilterAttributeFilterProvider : IFilterProvider
    {
        public UnityFilterAttributeFilterProvider(IUnityContainer container)
        {
            _container = container;
        }

        private IUnityContainer _container;

        public IEnumerable<Filter> GetFilters(HttpConfiguration configuration, HttpActionDescriptor actionDescriptor)
        {
            if (configuration == null)
            {
                throw Error.ArgumentNull("configuration");
            }
            if (actionDescriptor == null)
            {
                throw Error.ArgumentNull("actionDescriptor");
            }

            IEnumerable<Filter> first =
                actionDescriptor.ControllerDescriptor.ControllerType.GetCustomAttributes(true)
                    .Select(instance => new Filter((IFilter)instance, FilterScope.Controller));

            IEnumerable<Filter> second =
                from instance in actionDescriptor.GetFilters()
                select new Filter(instance, FilterScope.Action);

            foreach (var filter in first.Concat(second))
            {
                if (filter.Instance is HeroineAuthorizeAttribute)
                    _container.BuildUp(filter.Instance as HeroineAuthorizeAttribute);
            }

            return first.Concat(second);
        }
    }

_container.BuildUp is called on the first request but not for subsequent.
When that didn't work, I doubled up with an ApiControllerActionInvoker. Here it is:
 public class InjectingActionInvoker : ApiControllerActionInvoker
    {
        private readonly IUnityContainer _container;

        public InjectingActionInvoker(IUnityContainer container)
        {
            _container = container;
        }

        public override System.Threading.Tasks.Task<System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage> InvokeActionAsync(HttpActionContext actionContext, System.Threading.CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            foreach (var filter in actionContext.ActionDescriptor.GetFilters())
            {
                if (filter is HeroineAuthorizeAttribute)
                {
                    var f = filter as HeroineAuthorizeAttribute;
                    f.UserRepository = _container.Resolve<IUserRepository>();
                }

            }
            return base.InvokeActionAsync(actionContext, cancellationToken);
        }
    }

Sure enough, injection takes place on the first request, not on the subsequent. But this all takes place after OnAuthorization is called so there is not much point. I thought I'd mention it anyway.
Umm... so how do I do this?
I just thought I'd show my Application_start aswell. I'm sure you can fill in the blanks.
    var container = CoinUnityContainerFactory.GetUnityContainer();

    DependencyResolver.SetResolver(new HeroineDependencyResolver(container));
    GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.ServiceResolver.SetResolver(new HeroineServiceResolver(container));

A: Eventually I did roll my own membership provider, just overriding SqlMembershipProvider.
However the ObjectContext is not my main reason for my custom attribute so a custom membership provider in itself doesn't solve the problem. I'm still left with my original question, where to inject my object context, only the target has changed.
There is also the added problem of MembershipProvider being centered around MembershipUser, but I've dealt with parallel users before so that's circumvented easily enough.
Finally it all worked out with this. (See edit below.)
    public override void Init()
    {
        this.AuthorizeRequest += new EventHandler(WebApiApplication_AuthorizeRequest);
        base.Init();
    }

    void WebApiApplication_AuthorizeRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var provider = Membership.Provider as HeroineMembershipProvider;
        if (provider != null)
            provider.UserRepository = _container.Resolve<IUserRepository>();
    }

That's called every request and injects a fresh repo every time. My updated attribute depends on Membership.Provider and not directly on the object context.
It took a while before I realized what I was actually doing.
The thing is, I don't use FormsAuthentication. Authentication is by an encrypted ticket sent in the header. That's why I need my custom auth attribute. MVC doesn't play with cookieless auth which in essence is what I'm doing.
So I'm using Membership.Provider only as a vessel to carry a fresh object context. Seems like I might as well use HttpContext.Current.Items. That's the quick answer I suppose.
In the end, though, the new MembershipProvider allows me to clean up my code in my other non api web apps where FormsAuthentication IS used (and where, incidentally, FilterAttributeFilterProvider works as it should IMO). So I don't mind this, actually.
Anybody has a better/simpler idea or has an itch about security vulnerability I need to be reminded of, let me know.
Edit
Alot of things changed from MVC 4.0 beta to RC. Cutting the story short, I tool inspiration from this nice fellow. Creation of the MembershipProvider and injection of UserRepo now goes in the BeginScope()-method. Clean? Perhaps.

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Here you can find information and tips for guidelines for Easyjet hand luggage.
EasyJet (styled as easyJet; LSE: EZJ) is a British low-cost airline carrier based at London Luton Airport. It operates domestic and international scheduled services on over 700 routes in 32 countries. EasyJet plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.EasyGroup Holdings Ltd (the investment vehicle of EasyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou and his family) is the largest shareholder with a 34.62% stake (as of July 2014). It employs nearly 11,000 people, based throughout Europe but mainly in the UK.
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The maximum hand baggage allowance by Easyjet must not exceed a certain size.
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Although it is rarely the case that Easyjet controlled the weight of hand luggage, but it is recommended nevertheless the hand luggage before check-in at the counter to weigh the trolley.
For additional laptop bag, there is no weight restriction on Easyjet.
In order to make sure in advance to that one's hand luggage meets the guidelines of the airline, you can weigh your luggage with a luggage scales.
In recent years, the establishment of low cost airlines have got more an more important in things of cabin baggage dimensions and weight of the hand luggage.
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Nowadays, there is no uniform approach at Easyjet when checking cabin baggage. When flying with Easyjet it is important to know that there is no uniform approach if the hand luggage gets checked. This applies not only to Easyjet but also to other airlines.
Due to the tight clocking of flights – especially with Easyjet – the time pressure is particularly large.
Many use this information as a benchmark to determine if a piece of luggage meets the requirements of Easyjet for the hand luggage.
Backpacks are less strictly controlled than trolleys. This not only applies to Easyjet but also to other airlines.
Clear overshooting of the permitted dimensions for the hand luggage at Easyjet should be avoided. Therefore some recommendations for action are always helpful.
Much stress can be avoided by checking out Easyjet's hand baggage rules carefully before booking.
Clear breaches of the rules of Easyjet should, of course, be avoided.
If you buy a new hand luggage suitcase for Easyjet you should watch out for the right measurements of the suitcase.
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Q: web programming language benchmarks? I'm thinking that as more and more programming moves to the web with similar and a variety of tools and techniques, has anyone come up with a good set of benchmarks for a programming language?
I'm thinking server-side languages, like Java, PHP, ASP.net, and C# are the big ones.  Though it could be anything like C or perl, I don't want to go there because it's not mainstream or even fast.
When I buy a new CPU, I can benchmark the floating point, integer, and multi-task numbers.  I can bench things like rendering times.
I would think someone could develop a standard bench for simple programming tasks, and practical web serving scenarios.  Preferably an independent organization.  Of course you can always tweak code for performance, but I am talking simple things that can be done identically in every language.  I bet it could be robust as well.
At some point for scalability, performance will be an issue for web languages.  I would like to have a way to tell if a language, or better yet, the latest release of it, stacks up against the competition.
Anybody doing this yet, or should I come up with my own business?
EDIT: yes I know benchmarks are subjective, even more-so for web pages.  I didn't say it would be easy, or even necessary now..  Clearly benchmarking my video card on Crysis versus Far Cry is subjective, but it is a useful real world test.  That's what I'm aiming for, and for the mainstream languages.  Could we see a resurgence in C if performance becomes a focus point down the road?

A: There are some benchmarks out there comparing a lot of server side languages.

I've always enjoyed fractals, and was curious if scripting languages were up to the task. I wrote a very simple Mandelbrot set generator for my test. Rather than optimizing for each language, I tried to write each program in approximately the same way in each language to make a reasonable performance comparison.
Here are the results from running on my 867 mhz Powerbook G4. Shorter is better. Please note, the following benchmarks are not scientific, and were simply done to satisfy my curiosity. Your mileage may vary.
Feel free to send me ports to any other languages. The program should print the time in seconds that elapsed at the bottom in the form of 'Elapsed %0.2f'. If you can, include instructions for building on MacOS X.

Language                Time    Relative Speed
C gcc-4.0.1             0.05 seconds     1.00 x
ocaml compiled 3.09.2   0.05 seconds     1.00 x
SBCL 1.0.2              0.13 seconds     2.55 x
Java 1.4.2              0.40 seconds     8.00 x
Io 20070410 Vector      1.40 seconds     28.09 x
Lua 5.1                 1.50 seconds     30.00 x
ocaml bytecode 3.09.2   3.76 seconds     75.15 x
Python 2.5.1            9.99 seconds     199.80 x
Ghostscript 8.51        11.66 seconds     233.12 x
Perl 5.8.6 Optimized    12.37 seconds     247.34 x
TCL 8.4 Optimized       16.00 seconds     320.00 x
Perl 5.8.6              21.75 seconds     435.00 x
PHP 5.1.4               23.12 seconds     462.40 x
Javascript SpiderMonkey v1.6 31.06 seconds     621.27 x
Ruby 1.8.4              34.31 seconds     686.18 x
Emacs Lisp              47.25 seconds     945.00 x
Applescript             71.75 seconds     1435.00 x
Io 20070410             85.26 seconds     1705.13 x

A: You are talking base technologies here, which are too general to spec. The web is more about networking and telecommunications than programming languages. Signal transmission, modulation, and reception affect quality of service. Think about multiplayer games, or your back office business portal. Primary considerations about application performance might be the weather, signal noise, distance, number of people using the resource, and so on. The server characteristics and user peripheral devices are going to have a major role in the usability of your program. Lastly, will your program even work properly on different platforms. So the biggest problem for programmers is not the language, but the bugs. Don't have buggy programs. It's not the compiler. It's the code.
I had the same question. JavaScript or dot net. The answer depends on what you want to do. Doing page look and feel, simple data, or easy operations probably script, because script has a simple language structure. Complex operations or larger data store would get better performance from a more robust and structured programming language like C++.
There is also the money factor, which has a positive correlation to the sophistication of the media presentation. Everything! costs money, even your time. It may be obscure, but the cost is there. Generic (open source) is not always better, because the hidden costs spring up when you want to use someone else's resources. Often times, the $$company$$ has more efficient tools to use to manipulate the resources they own, and the tools may require a specific language or technology. That is to say, you don't always have the choice of language. That decision has already been made in the development of the resources.

A: Are you referring to computational speed or programming productivity?  Or perhaps something else?
Aside from actual number crunching speed, language quality is highly subjective, and there are those who would argue that programming productivity is more important than computing speed.
Furthermore, while many languages have common characteristics, each language has specific goals.  It would be like comparing apples to oranges.

A: The floating point etc figures from a CPU are less subjective than a web page / webservice etc. to make a fair comparison between languages will be difficult and often the problem is how it is written, not the language itself. It would be difficult to accurately compare languages, although not impossible.
The easiest analogy for me is the database TPC scoring mechanisms are well known and do provide performance figures on the database side but when does the average developer even go look at them? Unless you are not working at an extreme level they are not your guiding factor (and even then, the DB's include optimiser shortcuts to make the TPC scores better.)
TPC made a non-profit business out of it, but it takes significant buy in from the competing products - if MS / Oracle / IBM along with the hardware vendors did not buy into it, it would not of got very far.
Could it be done? possibly, never say never, but it wouldn't be trivial at all and requires buy-in from multiple language vendors, h/w vendors etc. It's more about sales and marketting than technology at that point.

A:
has anyone come up with a good set of benchmarks for a programming language?

Probably not and this seems increasingly less likely to happen - see "Flawed Benchmarks" and particularly "Benchmarks are a crock".

I am talking simple things that can be done identically in every language

What makes you think you can tell that they are "done identically in every language"? The program source code might look the same but that doesn't mean the same thing is done by the language interpreters or the same processor instructions are generated by the compilers.


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package restlib.data;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;

import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.util.Locale;

import org.junit.Test;

import com.google.common.testing.EqualsTester;
import com.google.common.testing.NullPointerTester;

public final class LanguageTest {
    @Test
    public void testEquals() {
        new EqualsTester()
            .addEqualityGroup(Language.ANY, Language.create("*"))
            .addEqualityGroup(Language.create("en-us"), Language.forLocale(Locale.US))
            .addEqualityGroup(Language.create("fr-fr"), Language.forLocale(Locale.FRANCE))
            .testEquals();
    }

    @Test
    public void testMatch() {
        assertEquals(0, Language.create("en-us").match(Language.create("fr-fr")));
        assertEquals(1000, Language.create("en-us").match(Language.create("en-us")));
        assertEquals(500, Language.ANY.match(Language.create("en-us")));
    }

    @Test
    public void testNulls() {
        new NullPointerTester()
            .testAllPublicStaticMethods(Language.class);
        new NullPointerTester()
            .testAllPublicInstanceMethods(Language.create("en-us"));
        new NullPointerTester()
            .testAllPublicInstanceMethods(Language.PARSER);
    }

    @Test
    public void testPARSER$parse() {
        assertEquals(
                Language.create("en-us"),
                Language.PARSER.parse(CharBuffer.wrap("en-us")).get());
        assertFalse(
                Language.PARSER.parse(CharBuffer.wrap("")).isPresent());
        assertFalse(
                Language.PARSER.parse(CharBuffer.wrap("@abc")).isPresent());
    }

    @Test
    public void testToLocale() {
        assertEquals(Locale.US, Language.create("en-us").toLocale());
    }
}

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The People's Committee of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on October 9 approved a project to build two additional speedboats to connect Vung Tau and Con Dao Island, the local media reported.
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Budget airline Vietjet Air has opened sales for the air route linking Viet Nam's Phu Quoc island and the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s capital city of Seoul, in order to meet the increasing travel demands during the year-end festive seasons.
Localities in the western cluster of Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta need to foster regional co-operation to create highly competitive tourism products in the Mekong River Delta region, officials have said.
The Saigon Railway Joint Stock Company said on the national day (September 2), the company plans to add more 30 trains on some key routes from HCMC to Phan Thiet, Nha Trang, Quy Nhon and Quang Ngai provinces and vice versa.


Editor's Note: Earlier this week our Director of Engineering, Nick Hasty, was a guest author on the Google Cloud Big Data and ML blog. Nick touched on the use of Google Cloud Machine Learning to analyze and tag our GIFs, ultimately making it easier to find the perfect GIF on GIPHY. The following blog post is a condensed and modified version of the post published on Google Cloud Platform blog.
Here at GIPHY, we serve over three billion GIFs a day to over 300 million daily active users, and are constantly looking for ways to improve the results of their GIF searches. Recently, we've integrated Google's Cloud Vision and Cloud NLP APIs into our GIF processing pipeline, which has helped us collect more metadata about our GIFs and enhance the core GIPHY search engine. Specifically, using Web Entities data from Cloud Vision helped us boost our search performance and using syntax data from Cloud Natural Language and the Knowledge Graph API let us create rich titles for our GIFs.
With entertainment and culture at the heart of our content, we need to be able to identify specific instances of celebrities, animals, movies, sports, video games, and more. The incredible pop-culture wizards in our in-house editorial team crawl through our catalog identifying and annotating our content, but at our current size, they need help. While we wanted to leverage machine learning to supplement our editors, our need for specificity presented a challenge.
The depth of this problem grew with every GIF crawled or uploaded to our site. We knew it was possible to train custom ML models in-house, and we do have a large amount of labeled data, but we needed a solution fast. After some research, we believed Google offered the most mature service and the widest array of quality models. After a few exploratory tests with positive results, we decided to go big and processed over 10 million GIFs across using the full array of Google Vision services. Here's an overview of what we did.
Our first integration of the metadata generated from Cloud Vision into our search engine was to use its optical character recognition (OCR) endpoint, which evaluates images for the presence of text, notably subtitles.
OCR detects text that is integrated into the actual pixel data of an image, and because this text can change over frames, like with subtitles, we wanted to make sure we captured as much text data as possible.
To begin evaluating a GIF for text, we sent off an initial frame to see if the API detected any text. If it did, we sent another frame and computed the difference in text values to see if the the text found in the GIF was static or dynamic across frames. If the text differed enough across frames, like in the case of dialog subtitles, then we repeated this process across a percentage of total frames until we had sufficient coverage to perform textual analysis. You can check out our sample Python code and try it for yourself-all you need is a captioned GIF with which to test and your Google Cloud credentials.
After our success with OCR, we focused on integrating Google's label data, specifically the Web Entities, which were great for discovering the additional specifics about the image.
Cloud Vision provides two types of image labels: "Label Detection", which provides labels for objects that Google's machine learning models are trained to detect, and "Web Entities", which yield labels derived from the context in which the image was crawled and indexed. Since Web Entity labels take into account the data embedded around an image, like the surrounding text or captions, they tend to be very specific and can even provide proper nouns. For example, while Cloud Vision doesn't have a model specifically trained to identify a specific celebrity, if it discovers an person's image across multiple websites and in each case that image is displayed with a caption containing a proper noun, then the Web Entities endpoint labels that image with that proper noun.
A parallel project to using Web Entities was to improve the algorithm for generating titles for our GIFs. GIF titles are most noticeable on our GIF detail pages-right above the GIF itself. Initially, creating these titles was fairly simple and involved choosing the most popular tag for that GIF. This worked for a while, but with an ever-growing catalog we were creating many duplicate titles and lacking specificity.
For our new title schema, we wanted to be as descriptive as possible, with special emphasis on including the names of famous people, fictional characters, or TV shows, as well as actions, emotions, or reactions. Our schemas required metadata about, say, a tag's part of speech and whether or not the tag was a proper noun. There are many solid open-source libraries for determining syntax, but we ended up using Google Cloud Natural Language asit provide very precise syntax detection and its Entity Recognition also provides a great way to identify proper nouns. Entity Recognition identifies known objects in a block of text, and provides Google Knowledge Graph IDs when available. This tight coupling between APIs helped us identify tags that refer to specific people, places, and things and highly specific metadata about those objects.
After processing our tag catalog, we began putting the data to use and generating new GIF titles. So far we've been thrilled with the results.
Historically, taking advantage of the latest developments in machine learning and computer vision required in-house specialists and lots of time-two things that growth-stage startups like GIPHY don't always have.
Although these technologies are becoming more accessible, easier to use, and faster to implement, their ultimate success depends heavily on both the quality and quantity of data you have available for training. Google Cloud's Machine Learning APIs provides tremendously powerful, cutting-edge models that are just a request away. To learn more about the technical details visit the Google Cloud Platform blog.


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Amber Heard repeats allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp, including how actor 'kicked her because he was jealous over romantic scene with James Franco' and 'left her bloodied after ecstasy-fueled row' a month into marriage
Amber Heard described the abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of ex-husband Johnny Depp in a court filing obtained Thursday by The New York Post
The filing is in response to a $50million defamation lawsuit Depp filed last month
It largely consists of allegations Heard already made public, but in more detail
The actress says Depp became 'a totally different person' when he was abusing drugs and alcohol, adding: 'We called that version of Johnny, "the Monster"'
She recounts how Depp allegedly attacked her on a private jet in May 2014 because he was upset over her film The Adderall Diaries with James Franco
Heard also shared graphic details about a marathon fight in March 2015
She said he went on an ecstasy bender in Australia when he was supposed to be clean and then got angry when she confronted him about breaking his sobriety
Heard claims that Depp took eight ecstasy pills and stayed awake for three days while brutally assaulting her around their home in Los Angeles
She ultimately filed for divorce and a restraining order after a May 2016 fight
Depp has denied all of Heard's allegations of abuse against him
Amber Heard has repeated her allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp in a new court filing in response to his $50million defamation lawsuit.
Heard describes a number of incidents when Depp alleged beat and choked her while he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol during their four-year relationship in the complaint obtained by The New York Post on Thursday.
Depp sued Heard last month over a 2018 op-ed she wrote for the Washington Post in which she described being a victim of domestic abuse but did not mention the actor, whom she divorced after 15 months of marriage in May 2016.
The defamation suit accused Heard of implying that Depp was abusive toward her and labeled her claims 'an elaborate hoax'.
Amber Heard has renewed her allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp in a new court filing in response to his $50million defamation lawsuit. The couple, who divorced in May 2016 after 15 months of marriage, are seen above in January 2016
Heard responded to Depp's suit by laying out the actor's alleged abuse in vivid detail.
She claims that her then-husband became 'a totally different person, often delusional and violent' when he was abusing drugs and alcohol.
'We called that version of Johnny, "the Monster",' she wrote.
She said she first witnessed his alleged substance abuse about a year into their relationship, which began in 2012.
'On some occasions, when Johnny simultaneously used both illegal narcotics and prescription medications I have had to get him medical attention,' she wrote, according to The Post.
'Whenever he was using, I worried for both of us.'
Addressing Depp's repeated denials of her allegations, Heard wrote: 'Johnny often would not remember his delusional and violent conduct after he came out of his drunk or medicated states.'
She added: 'Because I loved Johnny, I had believed his multiple promises that he could and would get better. I was wrong.'
Heard claims in the filing that Depp became 'a totally different person' when he was abusing drugs and alcohol. The actress is pictured on Sunday in Los Angeles
Heard specifically describes one morning in May 2014 when she and a visibly intoxicated Depp clutching a bottle of champagne boarded a private jet from Boston to Los Angeles.
She said that once they were on the flight, Depp ordered the flight attendants to give him an oxygen tank and continued to drink heavily.
'Johnny's handlers told me that he was upset that I was filming a movie with a romantic scene with James Franco the day before,' wrote Heard, who was filming The Adderall Diaries with Franco at the time.
'Soon, Johnny began to throw objects at me. Instead of reacting to his behavior, I simply moved seats. That didn't stop him. He provocatively pushed a chair at me as I walked by, yelled at me, and taunted me by yelling out the name "James Franco".'
She continued: 'At some point, I stood up, and Johnny kicked me in the back, causing me to fall over. Johnny threw his boot at me while I was on the ground.
'Johnny continued to scream obscenities until he went into the plane bathroom and passed out locked in the bathroom for the remainder of the flight.'
Heard claimed that Depp later apologized to her over text message, writing: 'Once again, I find myself in a place of shame and regret. Of course, I am sorry. I really don't know why or what happened. But I will never do it again.
'My illness somehow crept up and grabbed me … I must get better . . . Again, I am so sorry, so sorry. … I love you and I feel so bad for letting you down.'
Heard also claimed that Depp's assistant Stephen Deuters messaged her and claimed that the actor didn't remember what he'd done, saying he was 'appalled' when he learned about the incident.
Deuters allegedly said: 'When I told him he kicked you, he cried. He's a little lost boy. And needs all the help he can get.'
Heard and Depp began dating in early 2012 and were married in February 2015. The actress filed for divorce 15 months later in May 2016. The couple are pictured together in May 2014
The next fight described by Heard via The Post took place over three days in March 2015, just one month after Heard and Depp tied the knot.
Heard claims that Depp was supposed to be clean when he went on a three-day ecstasy bender in Australia.
He later said that he didn't believe he broke his sobriety because his new wife hadn't 'explicitly forbidden' him from taking ecstasy.
'The argument heated up, and Johnny pushed me, slapped me, and shoved me to the ground before I retreated to a locked bedroom,' Heard wrote.
The following morning Heard allegedly found that her new husband hadn't slept at all because he'd taken 'about eight MDMA pills' and was drinking again.
'We got into a fight that Johnny made physical, and I barricaded myself in one of the rooms. That didn't stop Johnny from busting through the door of the room I was in.'
'By nightfall, Johnny had hit me multiple times, shoved and pushed me to the ground, choked me, and spit in my face.
'Johnny then handed me a liquor bottle that he was drinking from, and asked me: "What are you going to do?" I threw the bottle on the floor. Johnny responded by starting to throw cans and unopened glass bottles at me.'
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After Heard filed for divorce images emerged at the time (above) showing her with a bruised eye and face
Heard continued: 'That night, Johnny shoved me into a ping pong table that collapsed underneath me. Johnny threw bottles through the window panels of a glass door, breaking two panes, and leaving glass everywhere.
'Johnny then grabbed me, gripping my body and nightgown. He tore the nightgown off, and at some point, I was naked and barefoot, covered in alcohol and glass.
'Johnny grabbed me by my hair and choked me against the refrigerator in the kitchen. I tried to stand myself up but I was sliding around the glass-strewn floor and countertop. Johnny threw me away from him, and I tried to run away as Johnny continued to throw objects and alcohol at me.
'In one of the most horrific and scariest moments of this three-day ordeal, Johnny grabbed me by the neck and collarbone and slammed me against the countertop. I struggled to stand up as he strangled me, but my arms and feet kept slipping and sliding on to the spilled alcohol and were dragged against the broken glass on the countertop and floor, which repeatedly slashed my feet and arms. Scared for my life, I told Johnny: "You are hurting me and cutting me."
'Johnny ignored me, continuing to hit me with the back of one closed hand, and slamming a hard plastic phone against a wall with his other until it was smashed into smithereens. While he was smashing the phone, Johnny severely injured his finger, cutting off the tip of it. Once I was able to get away, I barricaded myself in an upstairs bedroom.
The next morning, which marked the third day Depp had gone without sleep, Heard stated: 'I came downstairs to find numerous messages Johnny had written to me around the house, on the walls and on my clothes, written in a combination of oil paint and the blood from his broken and severed finger. Johnny also urinated all over the house.'
Heard said Depp was hospitalized after the incident and she walked away with 'a busted lip, a swollen nose, and cuts all over my body'. She said many of those scars still haven't healed four years later.
Heard said she hit back at Depp during another incident in March 2015 that was witnessed by her younger sister Whitney at his home in Los Angeles.
She said Depp had been destroying all of her personal property throughout the house when he suddenly 'lunged' at her and Whitney stepped in between them.
'Johnny turned his attention to Whitney, who was standing on the top of a flight of stairs, and moved on her,' Heard stated.
'Acting in defense of my sister, as I was scared for her physical safety, I punched Johnny in the face to draw his attention away from her. That was the only time I ever hit Johnny.'
Depp has long denied the allegations and has instead claimed that his ex-wife repeatedly violently attacked and severely injured him. The pair are seen together in October 2015
'The Monster' reared his ugly head again in August 2015 when the couple were traveling through Thailand and Malaysia and Depp allegedly chocked Heard for so long that she thought he might kill her.
Then in December of that year, Depp 'picked a fight' with Heard and began destroying their Los Angeles apartment before he dragged her across the house.
'In the process, he pulled large chunks of hair and scalp out of my head,' the filing claims.
Describing what transpired next, Heard wrote: 'Hoping to avoid the violence, I tried to calm Johnny down, and then went upstairs to try to remove myself from the situation. Johnny followed me, hit me in the back of my head, grabbed me by my hair again, got in front of me on the steps, and then dragged me by my hair up the last few steps.
'At the top of stairs, Johnny shoved me twice, which made me fear I would fall. I told Johnny that he had broken my wrist in an attempt to get him to stop.
'Johnny kept hitting me, and each time he knocked me down, I chose to react by simply standing up and looking him in the eye. Johnny responded by yelling: "Oh, you think you're a f***ing tough guy?"
The Eastern Columbia Building in downtown Los Angeles where Johnny Depp is reported to have paid $2million for a penthouse apartment is pictured above
'He reeled back and head-butted me in my face, bashing my nose, which immediately began bleeding, sending searing pain through my face. I instantly started tearing up, and I thought that I would have to go to the hospital.
'I told Johnny I wanted to leave him, and that I would call the police if he ever touched me again. When I began to walk away toward the guest apartment, he responded by pushing me, then grabbed me and pulled me from one room to the next, gripping me by my hair.
'By the time Johnny had dragged me into the upstairs office, I told Johnny that I was leaving him, since I could not put up with his behavior any longer. Johnny reacted by grabbing me by my throat, pushing me down to the ground, and punching me in the back of my head. He grabbed me by my hair, slapping me in the face, and screaming at me something like: "I f***ing will kill you — I'll f***ing kill you, you hear me?" There were chunks of my hair everywhere and indentations in the carpet where I was dragged.
Heard said the fight continued on a bed, where Depp 'got on top of me with his knee on my back and the other foot on the bedframe, while repeatedly punching me in my head, and he screamed—as loudly as I've ever heard him scream— "I f***ing hate you" over and over again.
'The bedframe splintered under the weight of the pressure of his boot. Johnny hit me with his closed fists, and I remember being unable to hear myself screaming because he had pushed my face into the mattress. I screamed as loudly as I could, hoping Johnny would realize he was severely hurting me.
'For a while, I could not scream or breathe. I worried that Johnny was in a blacked-out state and unaware of the damage he was doing, and that he could actually kill me.'
It wasn't until several months later in May 2016 that Heard finally decided to end the relationship for good after he grabbed her phone and 'wound up like a baseball pitcher and threw the phone in my face, as hard as he could'.
Heard said she screamed and cried as Depp continued to attack her before a neighbor heard the commotion and intervened.
She also filed for a restraining order from Depp at the same time as the divorce.
Heard was spotted leaving a California court in 2016 with facial bruising (above) after she was granted a temporary restraining order against Depp just days after claiming he attacked her
In the latest filing Heard also addressed rumors that she faked her injuries, writing: 'Many people called me a liar (without ever hearing my story). I was dropped from a global fashion brand's upcoming campaign. I lost a part for a movie in which I had already been cast. People I have never met or spoken to threatened me with violence. I received so many death threats I had to change my phone number on a near-weekly basis.
'People accused me of having abused Johnny. That simply is not true. I never attacked Johnny other than in self-defense (and in defense of my little sister). I have never physically abused anyone. I know what that does to people.'
She continued: 'Instead, I have attempted to promote good in the world and to advocate an end to domestic violence. I have sought to use my public persona to speak out on an issue that was extremely meaningful to me and millions of other women and men every year.
'I have spoken out about violence in public, but I have always avoided specifically referencing Johnny, or recounting his violence against me, not only because I wanted to move past that phase of my life but also because I was constrained by the terms of a strict confidentiality agreement that Johnny had insisted upon as part of our divorce settlement.'
DailyMail.com has reached out to Heard's attorney for comment.
Depp has long denied the allegations and has instead claimed that his ex-wife repeatedly violently attacked and severely injured him.
In the defamation lawsuit, Depp claims Heard threw a glass vodka bottle at him and caused the bones in the tip of his right middle finger to shatter.
He claims the incident occurred one month into their marriage and resulted in him having to have his finger 'surgically reattached'.
'Ms Heard then disseminated false accounts of this incident, casting Mr Depp as the perpetrator of his own injury'.
Depp claims in the lawsuit that he was dropped from Pirates of the Caribbean just four days after Heard's op-ed was published in the Washington Post.
'Ms Heard also knew that her elaborate hoax worked: as a result of her false allegations against Mr Depp, Ms Heard became a darling of the #MeToo movement, was the first actress named a Human Rights Champion of the United Nations Human Rights Office, was appointed ambassador on women's rights at the American Civil Liberties Union, and was hired by L'Oreal Paris as its global spokesperson.'
Amber Heard claims Johnny Depp became a monster when he drank
Amber Heard repeats allegations of domestic abuse against Johnny Depp


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Oshkosh zoo makes changes after wolf bite incident
Menominee Park Zoo officials have implemented new security, procedural and training protocols after the May 22 incident.
Oshkosh zoo makes changes after wolf bite incident Menominee Park Zoo officials have implemented new security, procedural and training protocols after the May 22 incident. Check out this story on thenorthwestern.com: https://oshko.sh/1Sdzyk0
Nathaniel Shuda, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 4:30 p.m. CT July 28, 2015
One of three wolves at the Menominee Park Zoo. A fourth wolf had to be put down after biting a child May 22.(Photo: Joe Sienkiewicz / Oshkosh Northwestern Media)Buy Photo
Oshkosh city officials are instituting changes at the Menominee Park Zoo after a wolf bit a child's fingers in May, causing authorities to euthanize the animal, newly obtained documents show.
Among the changes are the updating of operating procedures, conducting additional employee training, posting new signs and installing an additional fence around the non-public area of the zoo where the child entered and put its fingers through a fence, according to a memo from city parks director Ray Maurer to Oshkosh Common Council members.
"We have determined that the incident was a result of human error after a gate to a non-public area of the zoo was left open by staff," Maurer wrote in the June 22 memo. "Due to the multiple causes that resulted in this incident, there is no employee discipline planned."
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The changes were the result of a joint investigation by the city Parks, Human Resources and Risk Management/Safety departments, according to the memo, which Oshkosh Northwestern Media obtained Tuesday, July 28, along with a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection report.
"Gates that are left open that serve as a part of the public barrier pose a danger to the animals and the public by not restricting access to the animals by members of the viewing public," according to the USDA report, dated May 27. "The integrity of the public barriers must be maintained to assure the safety of the animals and the viewing public."
The gate in question was one that staff uses to access the wolf and elk exhibits, according to the inspection report.
"Safety is of the utmost importance to our zoo facility in order to ensure that our visitors, employees and animals are safe," Maurer said. "Although I regret that this incident occurred, I am confident that the assessments conducted and the measures taken will allow the zoo to be a safer and more enjoyable place."
Related story: Menominee Park Zoo wolf euthanized after biting child
The child was transported to a local hospital for treatment of minor finger injuries, Maurer said previously. The child's parents did not want to put their child through rabies shots, and because the incubation period for rabies in wild animals is unknown, the animal was euthanized. A brain sample then was sent to Madison for a rabies test, which came back negative.
Reach Nathaniel Shuda at 920-426-6632 or nshuda@thenorthwestern.com; on Twitter @onwnshuda.
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The wolves are back at the Menominee Park Zoo which opens to the public May 2, 2015. The wolves are 12 years old and are named Sienna, Echo, Thunder and Rebel. All are active and like to be out and about in their acre of the zoo. Oshkosh Northwestern Media, Joe Sienkiewicz / Oshkosh Northwestern Media
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Karachi: The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry has emphasised that the newly elected government in its first 100 days must bring economic reforms which are crucial for sustained economic growth leading to economic prosperity and development in the country.
President KCCI Muhammad Haroon Agar, unveiling the Chamber�s budget proposals for 2013-14, said that government�s basic objectives of the budget exercise should be to increase the foreign direct investment (FDI), reduce the budget deficit and create new ventures for industries, said a KCCI release on Tuesday.
He urged the new government to facilitate private sector, encouraging entrepreneurs to expand existing businesses and to undertake new ventures and industrialisation.
The KCCI�s proposals seek to redress the issues through both administrative and policy measures aimed at providing relief and facilitation to the tax payers.
Efforts should be made to identify the segments/sectors which have so far been left out of the tax net despite generating substantial income, leakages in the system, exemptions and evasions.
Haroon Agar stated that KCCI is fully aware of the present situation of the economy and as such feels the dual responsibility of looking after the interests of the business community and at the same time strengthening the government�s efforts for revenue generation and broadening of the tax base.
KCCI recommendations for all major sectors stress on the need for reducing taxes on already burdened sectors and levying taxes on untapped areas. This should be done through consultation with trade bodies. �Every income must be taxed,� he remarked.
KCCI has highlighted the issues such as fiscal measures, high mark-up rate, energy crises, high gas and power tariff, inflation, industrial production cost, declining exports, increasing cost of raw materials, petroleum product prices etc.
It is also highlighted that high rates of customs duty, sales tax and withholding tax on import of raw materials, intermediate and finished goods must be brought down to curb smuggling and illegal imports under the cover of Afghan Transit Trade. After 18th amendment and 7th NFC Award, the right to collect taxes on services remains with the Provincial government. As done last year, the KCCI would also like to present its proposals to the Sindh Government, he said.
President KCCI stated that in the last few years the government�s role has been missing in providing and maintaining the industrial infrastructure, gas and electricity, a growth oriented monetary policy and a conducive environment for promotion of trade and industry. KCCI in its budget proposals opined that the growth rate of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) should at least be 4.5% just to break even or achieve zero growth.
It is imperative to inject a new spirit of dynamism in the entrepreneurs to expand existing businesses as well as to undertake new ventures. �A number of measures are necessary to achieve this goal. With the present state of affairs in the institutions such as PIA, Railway and Pakistan Steel Mills, which are burdened with surplus staff numbering thousands, only the private sector has the capacity to create new jobs. Growth in Industry means growth in jobs and growth in jobs means growth in GDP.
Haroon Agar said that KCCI�s budget recommendations this year are aimed at reversing the negative trends in various sectors of the economy.
Rates of GST and Income Tax be brought down to a maximum of 9% and 25% respectively to provide relief to trade and industry.
Customs duty and taxes on capital goods such as machinery and basic raw materials be brought to a nominal rate.
The flow of goods through Afghan Transit Trade has to be more regulated and controlled. Prices of fuel, electricity and gas should be rationalised and reduced wherever possible so as to reduce cost of production.
GST System of Revenue generation suffers from major flaws which results in hardships to the tax payers. Online computerized system of filing tax returns has flaws and inadequacies making it difficult for a registered person to file returns, rectify errors detected subsequently and avail the entitlement to tax input and refunds.
He called for amendment in Sales Tax Act-1990 and a comprehensive amendment in Income Tax Ordinance 2005 to repeal the draconian laws governing the tax policy and curtail the unbridled discretionary powers to the officers of Inland Revenue.
To achieve revenue targets and offset the deficit, loopholes and avenues for evasion must be closed.
Exemptions to be withdrawn and other incentive regimes be replaced with Export Voucher Scheme. Law and Order should be restored in the largest city of Pakistan which contributes 68% of tax revenue.
There has to be a national consensus on measures to be taken to extricate this once thriving city from the shackles of violence, crime, arms and various mafias.
President KCCI stated that chronic fiscal deficit is due to revenue shortfalls and uncontrolled expenditure. Total focus on rural economy by previous government has severely impaired the capacity of urban economy to pay taxes and generate growth.
Public sector development programme (PSDP) lacked transparency and massive losses by state owned enterprises. Shortage of electricity and gas was faced by industries all over the country.
There was lack of transparency in budget expenditures such as PSDP and discretionary funds. A disintegrated tax structure and flaws in e-filing systems.
FBR�s inadequate capacity to administer and manage revenue collection. A number of income generating sectors are exempt from all taxes. Irrational and draconian tax laws and sweeping discretionary powers to officers of inland revenue are negative factors.
Each of these issues is discussed in detail in the specific proposals of KCCI being unveiled today, the KCCI statement said.


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Music lessons in early childhood lead to changes in the brain that could improve its performance far into adulthood, researchers say.
Brain scans of young adults revealed that those who had formal musical training before the age of seven had thicker brain regions that deal with hearing and self-awareness.
"Early musical training does more good for kids than just making it easier for them to enjoy music. It changes the brain and these brain changes could lead to cognitive advances as well," said Yunxin Wang of Beijing Normal University.
"Our results suggest it might be better to start musical training before age seven, which is consistent with what most piano teachers recommend," she added.
Wang devised the study to investigate whether musical training early on in life had any lasting effect on the structure of the brain. She hoped the results might help parents decide when was best for their children to learn an instrument.
The brain's cortex plays a leading role in scores of crucial abilities, from thought and language to memory and attention. The region matures rapidly in the early years of life, and its development could be affected more if a person started musical training before it fully matured.
After taking gender and the number of years spent having music lessons into account, Wang found that musical training that started before the age of seven appeared to thicken areas of the brain involved in language skills and executive function, which is a person's ability to plan and carry out tasks. She presented the results at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.
"We're not sure why these changes arise, but a reasonable explanation is that early starters might rely more on auditory clues during learning music, since it might be more difficult for younger children to read music," Wang said.
The findings build on earlier work that suggests musical training before the age of seven can have a significant impact on the brain's development. Earlier this year, researchers at Concordia University in Montreal showed that people who took music lessons before seven years old had stronger connections between motor regions of the brain, which are involved in making movements, and the sensory areas.
Wang hopes to look at whether the age people start musical training has any meaningful impact on their cognitive skills as an adult, and on the rate at which their brain function declines with age. "As we know the brain is the executive organ of our mind, these changes might possibly reduce the ageing of the auditory system," she said.