Once you have worked up to near or maximum daily dose, I found it about as effective as 3 Aleve per day. Taking 1 or 2 irregularly as needed is worthless. Side effects of gastro nature disappear over a month. Very dry mouth and dry eye never decreased over the year I used it. It has many potentially serious negative drug interactions with some muscle relaxants, SSRIs any anti seizure type med. Most studies now show that regular use develops strong physical dependence, much harder to withdraw from than hydrocodone. Hydro is easy compared to tramadol withdrawal. My state now treats it like an Schedule 3 substance because of drug interactions and dependence and withdrawal risks, not recreational abuse. My current PM and PCP will not Rx it. My pharmacist is also very negative.
Severe DDD, Severe neural foraminal stenosis at 2 levels, moderate canal stenosis at 2 levels, significantly impaired left shoulder & arm function. Chronic moderate compression fracture at C6.
I hate the stuff. I told my doctor I didn't want a narcotic, for the very reason I was afraid of addiction if used long-term (I am a former ten-year bulimic and was concerned because of all the pills I abused back then). She gave me tramadol instead and said it's "like a narcotic, but it's not a narcotic. Don't worry."
It did not take away my pain, but I had junkie withdrawal coming down three levels before cutting it off. I was not psychologically addicted, but my body became dependent on it even though it wasn't very effective for pain. I had the whole shebang - sweats/chills, nausea, vomiting, tremors and shaking, light sensitivity, irritability, etc. Thank goodness I was on disability at the time, because no way I could have worked through that, and I had to experience it three times before I was off the tramadol.
Just my experience, your mileage may vary.
I *heart* my TENS unit.
The neurosurgeon's nurse prescribed me tramadol after a fall. I still have the whole bottle sitting in the medicine cabinet. Extra strength tylenol works better.
very well for some and not so well for others. Just as you can become addicted to any medication if not taken exactly as prescribed , you can also become addicted and develop a physical dependance on it.
If you are in so much pain, and surgery can correct the physical problem, why would you not want to go ahead with surgery?
Spending your life on medications unnecessarily should not be an option when undergoing surgery, while not the easy choice is one that offers you a chance to resume your life.
I can honestly say that I thought Tramadol wasn't working for me until I stopped taking it. By the way, the withdrawal from it is really bad. I was on it for 7 years and decided to get off it. After I was done with the withdrawal, I was constantly in pain and found myself taking my break through pain med, a narcotic, every day. So, I went back on the Tramadol and life is good again. I do believe the vast majority of what I have read from people is that it doesn't work for them. I am in the minority.


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WOWFRD – ch 327
By MadSnail February 9, 2018
Foror praised Xiao Yu in his heart as he looked at Xiao Yu walking away. He knew that it was a very light punishment for such precious materials. He had gotten whipped almost to death because of a trifling mistake in the past. Starving wasn't a problem.
The problem with the goblins was their curiosity. It was to such a degree that they couldn't control themselves. It was like an alcoholic seeing a good wine! Therefore in the historic records the goblins were described as thieves. In fact, it was their obsession with researches, inventions and so on. Most of the materials in Lion city were kept in general warehouse but some of them were kept in private one because of their price. Those dragon tendons were one of those materials. Xiao Yu handed out those materials to Higgins and goblins so that they could use them. Those materials were valueable when the people who knew how to use them appeared. Otherwise, they were just useless bunch of materials. Xiao Yu was agitated because dragon tendons were way too precious. He was planning to make bows out of them but didn't expect the goblins to use them inside the puppets.
Nevertheless, Xiao Yu was quite happy because of increase in strength of his summoned warriors. Almost all of the undead units had reached level 10. There were just 5000 of them but it was more than enough to cause tremendeous damage to the Kennedy family.
Ghouls could scratch an ordinary person after reaching level 10 and infect them. Those people would die if they weren't healed with spells that had light attribute. Necromancers had reached level 10 too. At the present, 250 necromancers could control 2,500 skeletons. Those skeletons were the cannon fodders used by Xiao Yu when attacing the Kennedy family. Because of Necromancers the quantity of the undead troops had increased to seven or eight thousand. Banshees were at level 10 and could occupy the bodies of anyone below the fifth-rank. They could just get into body of a fourth-rank warrior and begin to slaughter others. The warriors above the fourth-rank could be controlled by the Banshees when they were injured or wounded. Magicians were the main targets of banshees as they were much easier to control. At the moment, there were 30 enemy warriors that were under the control of Banshees and had reduced into nothing but Xiao Yu's puppets. The Banshees had terrifying psychological effect on the enemy warriors. No one dared to approach closer to the undead troops because of it.
abominations were much more terrifying after reaching level 10. They were using hooks and giant axes to smash the enemies. They wouldn't let go of even high rank warriors. They wouldn't kill the high level warriors but let the Banshees control them. Crypt Fiends were able to drill under ground, shoot poisonous darts and use toxic spider webs. Their bodies were much bigger too. The speed of Gargoyles had turned fast after the level up. Xiao Yu would normally use them to group attack strong magicians or warriors. Most of the time it would be kamikaze attacks. They would siege and tore into pieces even fifth rank warriors.
Firstly, the crypt fiends would dig under the ground and attack the magicians. At the same time, the gargoyles would rush to kill those high rank mages or warriors. In fact, Xiao Yu had repurchased gargoyles many times over. They were the most common warriors that were killed during the battles.
Arthas had reached level 34. He wasn't inferior to other heroes. At the moment, he could revive thousands of deads. He would wave frostmourne around as he would lead those skeletons to battle. Xiao Yu had even thought about a scenario where Arthas would rebel and he would have to deal with Arthas.
Nevertheless, Arthas was just in level 30s. What would happen to him if he reached level 40 or 50? Death Knights and Lich Kings were strong classes!
It was no doubt that Arthas would be the strongest if all the other heroes had reached level 60. He would be invincible in the battlefield if there were enough ordinary soldiers. Anub'arak was at level 28 while Kel'Thuzad had reached 30. Xiao Yu believed that soon he wouldn't have to command the undeads but let these heroes carry the attacks.
Xiao Yu even wanted to make Arthas lead the undead troops and clean the obstacles before he moved into any territory in the future.
At first, Xiao Yu planned to use the undeads to drastically decrease the number of Kennedy family troops and then make a counter attack with Lion territory troops. However, his plans had changed after he got news that the forces of the Church would come over. So he planned to weaken Kennedy family troops as much as he could. He could kill 10,000 people if the undeads could make casualty of 1,000 each night.
Of course, he couldn't bluntly use the undeads every night to attack the Kennedy family. The suspicious would arise if he did so. He would send the undeads to harass villages belonging to Lion territory. Sometimes, he would even send them to the areas which belonged to Solomon's land. However, he would order the undeads not to kill ordinary people. The main cause was to frighten them. Afterwards, he would spread rumors that thousands of ordinary people were killed by the undeads.
Farmers and peasants would move to cities after such harassments. After all, all the cities had tall walls and undead couldn't easily get inside. As a result, the only logical place for the undeads to attack was Kennedy family's camp.
Robert and Zane were going crazy. They even wanted to withdraw as it wasn't easy to cope up with undeads. In addition, Xiao Yu's air units were attacking their camp too. Gryphon Riders would use chain lightning while the Bat Riders would throw liquid fire. Several times they were able to kill almost half of the undead troops but those ones were mainly the skeleton soldiers. It didn't take few days as the undeads returned back with full force.
Fortunately, the news was spread that the Church was sending a force to attack the Lion city which helped Robert to stabilize the situation. They were waiting for the Church's army to come but they had to retreat for 20 kilometers and make another camp…Nevertheless, Robert believed that they would be able to get the Lion city after the Church's reinforcements came over!
I don't remember if I have recommended this manhwa but The Scholar's Reincarnation .. Worth the wasted time!
NaoSou says:
The Undead Become powerful faster 😀
Thx for the chapter ^^
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Man i wish you have a whole series of books i could buy hahaha
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It seems like the final battle is coming…..ty for the chp n manga recommendations
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Love your manga recommendations!
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Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award for UFS' Zubeida Jaffer
30 November 2020 | Story Nonsidiso Qwabe | Photo Supplied
Acclaimed South African writer, author, and UFS research fellow Zubeida Jaffer was honoured with a lifetime achievement award for her career in journalism during the Standard Bank Sivukile Awards ceremony.
Passion for journalism spans decades
During the award ceremony on 15 October 2020, Jaffer received the prestigious Allan Kirkland Soga Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognises a sustained and extraordinary contribution to journalism. Jaffer said she never chose journalism, but journalism chose her. She said when she first stepped into a newsroom looking for a holiday job in the 1970s, she did not know she had stepped into her future in news reporting. Since then, Jaffer has earned many accolades in the journalism industry as well as in academia. She also became an acclaimed author, and wrote her third book, Beauty of the Heart: The Life and Times of Charlotte Mannya Maxeke, during her time as a writer-in-residence at the UFS. While at the UFS, she founded the online media platform, The Journalist, a platform that provides history and context for key issues facing South African journalists. This portal also links students with academics across the country and will soon be extended to the African continent and the diaspora.
Jaffer said she felt blessed to be recognised among the many journalism pioneers in South Africa.
"It's extremely wonderful because it came so out of the blue. This year, with COVID-19, I was digging deep, and trying my best to keep focus. I'm very thankful. It's made me pause, reflect, and realise that a lot of things I've done have been of value. When living your life, it's not that you're aware of that all the time. There are many people doing great things who don't always get this kind of recognition," Jaffer said.
Still a great need for journalists in South Africa
Talking about journalism today, Jaffer said: "I am often overwhelmed to witness the enthusiasm and determination of young journalists across the country who come from humble backgrounds and inspire those around them. Our country is gripped in a bipolar condition. It is not clear how the healing will come, but it will. The challenge is to keep our minds in balance so that we can be strong enough to root out corruption and gender-based violence, while at the same time fully understanding our blessings as a people."
UFS alumna Rising Star in Journalism
In another accolade for the UFS, the Upcoming/Rising Star of the Year award went to former UFS Journalism student Brümilda Swartbooi for her article titled 'Sy het hard vir ons gewerk'. The article highlighted the senseless killing of a woman outside her workplace, minutes after her husband dropped her off.
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Three more Kovsie staff members involved in Olympic Games
Dr Derik Coetzee
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The South African men's hockey team will practice on our Bloemfontein Campus from 28 May to 8 June 2012, and the team count on the assistance of three Kovsies to prepare them for the Olympic Games taking place in London later this year.
Dr Derik Coetzee, senior lecturer in the Department of Exercise and Sport Science and Head of our High Performance Centre, has been appointed conditioning coach of the team. He will be assisted by Colleen Jones and Riaan Schoeman, also from this department.
The UFS team and Mr Gregg Clark, the team's coach, will work out a periodisation programme for the team, which will continue until the hockey finals at the Olympic Games. The programme includes the correct exercises, volume, intensity and number of exercise sessions per week.
This is not the first time that Dr Coetzee has assisted sports teams to prepare for important events. In 2007, he was the conditioning coach of the Springbok rugby team that won the World Cup in France. He was also the conditioning coach of the under-21 Springbok team in 2002 that won the Junior World Cup Tournament.
Dr Coetzee says it is a challenge to ensure that the team performs well at the Olympic Games. "The joy on the faces of the coach and players when they qualified in Japan cannot be described because many people thought they would not qualify."
With the addition of Dr Coetzee, Ms Jones and Mr Schoeman, a total of six staff members from the UFS will be involved with the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games. The other three are:
Dr Louis Holtzhausen, Head of the university's Department of Sports and Exercise Medicine, has been selected as team doctor for the more than 300 athletes that will represent South Africa at this year's Olympic Games (in London).
Ms Ebeth Grobbelaar, Assistant Director of the South African Testing Laboratory for Prohibited Substances at the UFS, was invited to be involved in the Drugs Control Centre in the unit against prohibited substances which will test sportsmen and -women during the games.
Ms Hetsie Veitch, Head of the Unit for Students with Disabilities, has been invited to be a member of the Classification Panel at the final USA Paralympic athletics trials.


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Q: Turn each word into a variable with python I have a text which I need to delete the first two words and store the numbers into a variable.
I am trying to split the words and then create a loop to store each word in a variable.
My text is: "ABA BLLO 70000000 12-2022"
So I am trying to store the numbers, which can alternate depending on the data set and create a variable for each of them.
text = "ABA BLLO 70000000 12-2022"

a = text.strip().strip("")
for a in text:
    print(a)

So I would have three variables:
number = 70000000
month = 12
year = 2022

A: After using something like
tempSplit = text.split()

You're going to get a list class.
result = [s for s in tempSplit if s.isdigit()]

And with that you can get int objects but problem with this last fourth element is a Date object you have to use another function for that.
As @roganjosh suggested with the comment you should check other tutorials to find out about different functions. Like for this instance maybe you can try split function then learn how to get only numbers from a list.
To get dates
month = tempSplit[3].split("-")[0]
year = tempSplit[3].split("-")[1]

A: You can use the split function to split the string on white-spaces and convert all the splitted strings into a list. Then you can slice the array to remove the first two elements and destructure the remaining array into variables.
text = "ABA BLLO 70000000 12-2022"
x,y = text.split()[2:]

print(x,y)

NOTE : This would work only if there's a fixed format for the input string.

A: If i get your point right, then try to check this code:
text = "ABA BLLO 70000000 12-2022"

counter = 0
word = []
number = []
for a in text.split(" "):
    if counter <= 1:
      word.append(a)
    else:
      number.append(a)
    counter += 1
print(word)
print(number)

The output will be
['ABA', 'BLLO']
['70000000', '12-2022']

A: I don't know if I'm catching your drift but here's my answer:

new_text = text.split(" ")

for i in range(2, len(new_text)):
    if i == 2:
        number = new_text[i]
    else:
        month = new_text[i].split("-")[0]
        year = new_text[i].split("-")[1]

print(f"Number: {number}\nMonth: {month}\nYear: {year}")

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OTTAWA—His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, will present a Meritorious Service Decoration (Civil Division) to Mr. Pernell-Karl (P.K.) Subban and the Sovereign's Medal for Volunteers to 12 deserving individuals from the Montréal region. The ceremony will take place in the P.K. Subban Atrium of the Montreal Children's Hospital, on Wednesday, March 1, 2017, at 10:30 a.m.
A member of the board of directors of the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation and spokesman for the Montreal Children's Hospital, hockey defenceman Pernell-Karl (P.K.) Subban made the largest-ever donation by a professional athlete in Canadian history. Working with the hospital, he created P.K.'s Helping Hand, a fund dedicated to supporting families struggling financially as a result of their child's illness. His generous gift stands as an example of how professional athletes can positively change lives in their communities.
As the lead volunteer with the Club des petits déjeuners at École Hubert-Perron over the past 20 years, Lucie Bombardier has logged 3 200 mornings, 9 600 hours and more than 256 000 breakfasts served. Her warmth, dedication and effort have placed children in a better position to succeed at school and in their community.
In addition to helping the poor in India and Africa, Glynis Jenkins is a founder and director of Montréal's Extended Hands, a food bank and kitchen serving the community of Lachine. Under her management, its programs have grown to include clothing and furniture distribution throughout the city.
For the past three decades, Lise Gauthier has been volunteering with the Heart and Stroke Foundation, where she is a master instructor. Her ongoing efforts, notably the numerous training courses she offers free of charge, contribute to the prevention of cardiac injuries and illnesses, and to the development of emergency medical care.
Marc-André Gélinas has brought his enthusiasm and expertise to various economic, social, youth, municipal and humanitarian organizations. His work as a mentor with Futurpreneur, with the Red Cross, or with municipal youth and urban planning groups, demonstrates the breadth of his commitment.
Louis-Gabriel Girard is a student involved in both his school and community. He was part of an international co-operation trip to Ecuador and has more recently taken part in activities organized by Groupe HumaniTerre, which helps those most in need, notably by raising funds to support refugees in Kenya.
Since retiring in 1998, Sister Virginia has given of her time and attention to those in need in the Montréal community. She has helped shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, shepherd the ailing to medical appointments, and bring comfort to critically ill infants and their parents during difficult times.
For 25 years, Guy Lapointe has been responding to emergencies and helping to save lives as an active member of search and rescue groups. His work has ensured new generations of volunteers are well trained and has strengthened collaboration among emergency services personnel.
Since 1996, Jean-Marie Lapointe has improved his community through his work with a number of causes. He has been a volunteer and spokesperson for Défi sportif AlterGo since 2002, has provided support to terminally ill children through Leucan, and was closely involved in establishing la Maison l'Éclaircie, where he continues to serve as spokesperson.
For over 15 years, Martin Lessard has been involved with the Canadian Organ Donors Association. As coordinator of the police volunteers serving the Montréal area, he ensures the transport of organs, tissues and medical teams between hospitals or from the airport to collection or transplant centres in Quebec.
Carol Manning has helped foster a culture of caring at Selwyn House School by encouraging students to volunteer at the Christ Church Cathedral in Montréal, where she has been serving meals to the city's homeless population for the past 18 years. She also oversees a number of student-led initiatives, most notably donation drives to the NDG Food Depot, a local food bank.
Emma Prat has been involved in her community for as long as she has been in school. She supports a number of causes that are dear to her, including an elementary school's breakfast club, a fundraiser to help disaster victims in Nepal, and Groupe HumaniTerre, which organizes various activities to support those most in need.
An active member of the volunteer board of the Montreal Children's Hospital Foundation since 2005, Dr. Nicolas Steinmetz has held various executive positions including that of chair. His leadership and dedication were instrumental in realizing the capital campaign goal of $100 million, and in uniting pediatric and adult health care on one site.


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Three-D Issue 18: The key
Posted on April 30, 2012 in Networks, News, Newsletter, Practice Network, Three-D Issue 18
Story by: Jackey Reuben, Illustrations by: Chantal de Broglio
This is a short satire by a MeCCSA member about marketing in a University.
The Exit
There is always darkness before the dawn – wherever we might be. Do we have to continually re-enact the trauma, and was it this that was echoed, along with clip-clop of nine inch onyx stilettos, resounding across the university quadrangle?
Wendy Patten, a rat out of a trap, lap-top and buttocks clenched struggles to make it to the doors, as the few remaining students observe. In the smoked glass admiring her designer frames and her lime green spanking suit her raven bobbing hair shimmers. Wendy's smile speaks petty larcenist, to some, her dress that of a human being perhaps, or human doing or consuming, of one who wants to look older than they are, to be more grown up. And why would this be; are we so afraid to admit who we are, or anything about ourselves, you are what you is?
The old guard were vociferously outspoken in their views concerning promotion of people before their time, given they shot off to greener pastures before you could say REF. Whatever happened to loyalty, and how come she's now Head of everything, having only gained her doctorate in virtual learning two years previously, so the muttering went. She's not even thirty, by golly.
'How deluded can you be? She can't even walk in those,' giggles Cindy, the wicked tattoo of a Japanese geisha on her right forearm dancing, as Cindy continues twiddling the stud in her chin.
'It's like she deliberately wants to look as if she's about to fall over. The other day she had her skirt tucked into her knickers. She didn't even notice.'
'She'd been up to something,' Josh, a big pasty nu-metal lad, grins with the realistic ambition of being the next Jim Jarmusch.
Outside, Dr Wendy Patten Jr., Head of the History of Futures Past, at The Prymart University of the North South, fumbles for the key to her serial-killer-red convertible.
A scrunched up essay on Baudrillard and 30 Rock she should have returned two years ago, two Tampons, four semi-crushed Marlborough Gold smokes, a forty-nine cents lighter, thirty eight warm Tic-Tacs, orange and lime, a well-thumbed copy of How to Kick Ass, Not Lick Ass by Wayne H, Fryer PhD Dwayne State University, a fake Gucci watch, a squashed up oatmeal bar, and a half-burnt copy of After Theory.
Everything and anything…. But no damn keys.
Christ on a unicycle, with a spinning bowtie that squirts three euro vodka!
'Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks.'
A tsunami of horror and awareness washes over her. Too much theory, that must be it, eating into her brain, stealing her real authentic memory, made from media fragments, and tumble weed. In practice, theory comes after practice, in theory, theory before practice.
She, of course, knew she'd end up doing it in practice with John Agnew, after hearing him say of one course leaflet the immortal line:
'Does it make you moist?' As if this was the ultimate compliment to one of his juniors who'd designed it.
Apart from the degree title, often misspelt, the A4 leaflet for one of her programmes had three words on it, two misquotes from students nobody had ever taught, and three large pictures of people eating decaying sandwiches, as if this was an advertisement for an apocalyptic resort. The effort had cost over fifteen grand but it was worth it, clearly, worth it just to hear that phrase, in particular 'moist', and to know they were moving into fast food.
'Does it make you moist?'
Shouldn't that be the line to any endeavour in practice or theory?
After making the beast with two backs, she'd conjured patterns on his bald head with her talons, alchemic signs predicting the apocalypse, like a marketing tool, the appropriate word, for some new film about demons or vampires. Concurrently, she'd thought she wouldn't have to see him again until the next faculty meeting, when they would both be thinking of higher things, such as how to manipulate targets, placing customers as units on the conveyor belt, but now there was this key situation.
'You idiot, Wendy, you stupid idiot, you always lose things, you retard, because you are a total loser, a zero, a failure, a nightmare, a complete and utter, bleep.'
Despite the tapes, the books, and all the mantras she meditated on, replaying them a thousand times as a motivational guru had suggested, she wasn't getting away from self-chastisement, and was seldom aware that she was remonstrating herself out-loud.
'Everything alright, Wendy, sorry, Dr Patten?' a giant security guard, an ex-student of hers who'd wanted to be a policeman, purrs.
She smiles, condescendingly, at the guard and shakes her head from side to side, as if he should be ashamed for asking. So now what? Dear sweet Brian has the only spare set, OMG. They've been married three months and he's changed already, got more comfortably and lazy; changed for better or for worse she wasn't sure. While you had to change to stay the same she felt they were going nowhere.
There's only one option. Buffing up her hair, mouth dry, she takes six long draws on an old smoke, love sucks true love swallows, and Hitler stomps back in preparing to confront John, not her maker, not yet anyway.
Friday afternoon, the graveyard slot, most of the offices dead. A couple of secretaries sit in the main marketing office, chatting about which bars they are going to. John's office appears alarmingly barren, so lacking in fecundity, every cookie stolen from the cookie jar.
'Ah, Wendy, come back for seconds, have you?' crows John, grabbing her by the arm in the corridor that separates his office from the secretaries, thrusting her against the wall as if on drugs.
'I read in a novel that T.S. Eliot is an anagram for toilet.'
'Great, so this means what to you? That anything can turn to shit?'
'I suspect you've come for this, haven't you?'
John isn't tall, but as he dangles her car key in front of her, just out of reach, despite her stilettos, she isn't going to perform for him like a dancing dog.
Earlier, she'd been with a third year class, ridiculing Lacan's patriarchal approach which claimed language came about as an attempt to escape the mother. But, if it was nonsense, then who then was the real monster that constructed everything?
'Just give me the bloody key, John. I haven't got time for your stupid games. We've had our fun. You're having fun all the time, mashing up our courses. Now I need to get out of here, seriously, to beat the traffic. If I'm late Brian will get suspicious, and you know he's got a gun cupboard.'
'Don't threaten me bumpkin. Now, here's the thing, dear. I'm keeping these keys and tonight, Wendy my saucy-mare, you're coming with me to a party where you're going to throw these keys into a giant ashtray, an enormous dish that was left to me by the jazz legend Monty Sunshine, and we're going to see what music happens. Get the picture?'
He sounded like he was in some Mike Leigh play.
'I'm going out to dinner with friends from Australia, and we can't let them down.'
'That's a shame, because the alternative is I tell your old man what we've been up to for the past six months and your other shenanigans with various other men, women and beasts. Now, you wouldn't want that, Wendy?' and with this, he thrusts her harder against the wall, sweat from his bald head splashing on her, unholy water.
There wasn't really any explanation for her behaviour. She's at the party with John's mates, having her keys randomly picked out of a giant ashtray. This is just too much.
'And what about you, John, what would your wife and four kids think if they knew what kind of a shit you were, T.S. Eliot or not.'
The Promotion
'Don't worry about little old me. I love East Coker, the place and the poem. Michaela left me three months ago. I'm well over her, and I'm a free agent. I still see the kids, whenever I like, and she's not going to rip me off with the divorce. In fact, I feel better than ever, duck.'
He holds all the cards. She'll go to the party, enter a sweaty room with Barry White giving it some on the stereo, and find Brian making love with a woman half his age, or a man, or beast, expecting her to join in, or applaud. Or have it broadcast around the world, just to materialise an identity. Was that what everyman was looking for, some kind of approval from the mother figure? Grow up!
'There is one alternative,' John mutters, moving a handkerchief over his drenched scalp.
'One thing you can do for me, so we can forget all this nonsense, and move on in an appropriate adult way.'
Wendy tries to throw a look back, as she spies the same security guard watching them through the glass, his puzzled amused face saying it all.
'I'm going for the Pro-Vice Chancellor's vacancy next month, and I want you to back me, all the way, not just on paper but every chance you get.'
Wendy isn't exactly surprised. Things had been heading this way for some time, marketing the be all and end all. Research had ceased to matter, as had the standard of the education or the facilities, and the type of students they attracted. All that did matter was selling the right image, so John was the perfect man for the job. But she didn't feel like telling him the truth.
'I can see why you'd think you might be in with a chance, but get real John, you think you can rule the place and they'll let you?'
'The amount of dirt I have on everyone, they'll have to.'
'Are you saying you've slept with everyone?'
'I hope they were awake at the time. Anyway, no it's not all about me sleeping with people; it's far deeper than that.'
Reaching the mansion didn't take long, with a drive way lined with trees almost as enormous as giant redwoods. In one room a woman in a Silvio Berlusconi mask jumps up and down on a man in a wolf mask, while both sing opera. Wendy slams the door.
John's given her a Marilyn Monroe mask, which is weird as she'd always liked Marilyn, and has been reading her poetry that had just been published that week. He's also hands her a snippet of a poem by Paul Muldoon, 'her hand on her breast, like some other strange beast that had yet to enter the language.' What exactly did that mean? Lacan had argued that desire could never been fulfilled, even with the possession of language, which of course pre-existed the child. Desire was not determined by the self but by the other that is language, so we are not in control. With the theory she was fine, but here she was out of her depth.
'John, I have to go, I can't handle this, I feel sick,' finding John having a crafty smoke on the patio.
'Just wait a minute, there's something I need to show you.'
John pulls Wendy inside and upstairs. She isn't in the mood for anything now, and hopes he isn't expecting anything, and is about to tell him so, when the door falls open, and there it is.
'What do you think?'
'It's, well, it's kind of…,' for once, she is lost for words.
'Don't tell me. Kind of awesome, I know.'
'You really think this is going to work?'
'Of course I do.'
Tied up in the corner of the room is a human being, a real human being, what looks like a man, with –
'Tell me how I am functioning, call 0208 2963597', written on his forehead.
'It's like the signs on vehicles. It makes people more accountable. You know those signs on trucks have actually saved lives. You get the picture now don't you? This is why I'm going to be there, at the top. No more boring professors getting away with doing absolutely zero in the classroom, just churning out their same notes from thirty years ago. It's all about responsibility. The governors will love it. They'll think it should be written into everyone's contract that they agree to this, and it's perfect for staff development, reviews and management.'
'What about the students? Are you going to get them to have something similar?'
'They're being judged all the time, so no, we don't need to bother with them.'
She was out of there.
Her key now safely in her hand she switches out the landing light, happy to hear Brian's heavy breathing. Who was he dreaming about? He never told her about his dreams, so maybe he never had any. Although there was one he had told her about almost a year ago: he had dreamt he was in the House of Commons, and whatever people said it didn't matter, things had been decided anyway, like the conscious mind doing battle when the game was already won.
'We need to embed the blueprint, and then cascade this down,' she begins, with the words 'flag it up' on the tip of her tongue, 'let me drill down into this.'
The Dean was somewhere else, going global, banging the drum.
'There's something else that needs flagging up,' chips in Nigel, before Wendy has a chance to get it out, a particularly annoying colleague with a look on his face of a permanently contracting sphincter.
'Go ahead,' agrees Wendy as Chair, tapping her university pen rapidly on the table, remembering that time as a kid when they put Smarties tubes on the pet cat Charlie to make him walk like a robot.
'You are so full of shit,' shouts Nigel.
For a moment Wendy imagines she is dreaming, the one where she is driving and is holding the steering wheel, but she becomes separated from the main vehicle, until it goes out of sight, and she can't see where to steer.
'What was that, I am so full of what?'
'Shit. What is it with this embedding, blueprint, cascading, drilling down, and all that I mean, where do you get all this from, the idiot's guide to management, corporate crap?'
At this moment, initials to the ultimate acronym come to her like an epiphany – KEY.
The Revelation
KEY – Kindly Evacuate Yourself
She leaves the room, moon walking backwards, a resurrected Michael Jackson. The large screen in the university is playing a series of snippets from the party she's been to.
This time she has her key. She is no longer moist. She gets in her car and drives what she thinks is blindly. But whatever Freud, Lacan and other may say the unconscious mind, being always one step of the conscious guides her, pulls her like a blue rope hanging from an oak. By the time she gets to entrance she is so exhausted she sleeps in her car, unable to face anyone, mobile off.
When she awakes the crepuscular light is caressing her face, and she knows she is free, free from everything, including herself. She's at the entrance to the Neolithic cave, a portal to a primitive world, where acronyms now are of no use. She'd heard someone say that the first PowerPoint was a cave painting to attract a mate, but she put this thought to one side.
Inside the cave would there be large advertisements for her courses, promises of higher salaries for potential students in years to come, once you had the correct qualifications, had the same thoughts, bought into it all? Could you plunge deep within the earth and surface full of knowledge, enlightened, ready to take the world forward with you?
Time to enter this dark zone – she's been waiting for this all her life. Throwing her stilettos in the hedge, she removes all her clothes, slowly, carefully, stripping her skin. If she was once a man, or a machine, the orginary phenotype, why should we care or comment or want to establish or recognise difference? She digs a deep hole, the earth feeling good beneath her nails, and buries the key, KEY, along with the photograph on her driving licence. She scuttles within the deep silence of the cave not looking back, not ever again.


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The Chappell Years by Mike Coward
The Chappell Years
Cricket in the '70s
by Mike Coward
ABC Books, 2002, [First Edition], colour and b/w photographs throughout, hardcover with laminated pictorial boards, dustjacket, ISBN 0733311067
Fine Condition, book in fine condition with very minor bumping to bottom corners, dustjacket has minor shelf and edgewear (see photographs)
'Rhrough a lively succession of revealing, poignant and amusing anecdotes this companion volume to the ABC TV program, Cricket in the '70s - The Chappell Era, demonstrates absolutely that this was an extraordinary time in the history of the game.
The book features extended excerpts from interviews with many Australian stars and several celebrated opponents. The list includes England's Ray Illingworth, John Snow, Mike Denness and Tony Greig and the West Indies' Sir Garfield Sobers, Clive Lloyd and Sir Vivian Richards.
Written by Mike Coward, one of the game's most respected writers, and supported by an impressive array of photographs from the '70s and today, The Chappell Years will revive a score of memories for all who were won over by the great players, their legendary performances and the excitement generated throughout these tumultuous times.'
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Q: what's wrong with my int? I've tried using the following command:
 __m128i b = _mm_set_epi32 (y, y, x, x);

Where y and x are ints.
Where I run the debugger I see that b is of type: unsigned __int64[2]
I intended b to be 4 integers of 32 bits each (I think that's what they say here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/019beekt.aspx )
Do you know what's wring with my code?
Thanks

A: I don't see a problem here - a 128-bit integer is represented by two 64-bit integers, which is the largest native type outside of SSE registers a 64-bit Intel CPU can handle.
Your debugger is likely showing the "real" type, not the typedefed or macro'd type.

A: Typedefs are aliases, odds are good your debugger is showing you the value __m128i is aliased to.  In C the only real way to define a new type is through the struct keyword; all other techniques (typedef, etc) lead to type aliases which can be replaced with their equivalents.
Assuming that is true, is there an issue other than it is displaying differently than you expected?


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Family, Friends Gather to Remember Former Gov. George Leader
90.5 WESA
Family, friends and fixtures of state politics are remembering former Pennsylvania Gov. George Leader for being a tireless tinkerer — a man inspired by new ideas and always ready to go on to the next thing.
Leader died at age 95 last week. At a memorial service Thursday in Hershey, Dauphin County, his children recounted stories of their father and poked fun at his memory, at turns resisting and then contributing to a growing legend about one of the state's most beloved governors.
His daughter Jane mentioned her father's most recent participation in the Corbett administration's effort to overhaul the state prison system.
"And it was so great to see him energized and handling press conferences and Patriot-News interviews like the pro that he was," she said. "I felt like I was getting a little glimpse of the man who had been the governor when I was just a toddler. And we both felt so elated when not one but two bills passed unanimously to promote reform."
Leader was the state's second-youngest governor, serving when he was 37 years old when he took office in 1955.
He's known for overhauling the state's mental health system and selecting a cabinet based on professional credentials and not political favors, as well as professionalizing thousands of civil service jobs.
Perhaps his most widely unpopular move was enacting a state sales tax to fill the commonwealth's deficit, something he had campaigned against and later said may have cost him the U.S. Senate race he ran at the end of his four-year term as governor.
Family and friends will hold a private burial a later date.
'Seize the moment': Wolf talks about his legacy and sets table for budget speech in Pittsburgh
Self-driving tech companies in Pittsburgh push for looser rules on vehicle testing
An-Li Herring
Representatives of the autonomous technology sector say their industry is poised to take off in southwestern Pennsylvania. But they say the state must first ease its restrictions on the testing of driverless vehicles.
Democrats' issue No. 1 in Pennsylvania Senate race: kill the filibuster
Marc Levy | Associated Press
Getting rid of the filibuster rule in the U.S. Senate is emerging as perhaps the most important issue in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary for an open Senate seat, as the party struggles to use its majority in Washington to advance its agenda.


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Tag: World Water Day
Posted on March 22, 2018 by FLOW Editor - Blog Posts
Today is World Water Day, focusing attention on the importance of water. The theme for World Water Day 2018 is Nature for Water – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges of the 21st century.
In Michigan, citizens are rallying to call attention to the failure of state policymakers to protect our water. Shannon Abbott, vice president of the Grand Rapids Water Protectors, said water contamination has been largely ignored by state officials.
Pressing issues for the Great Lakes
FLOW shares these concerns and others related to water:
The state's failure to exercise its public trust prerogatives to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac. A rupture of one of these lines would have catastrophic impacts in Michigan.
The state's failure to block efforts by Nestle to dramatically increase its Michigan water extraction to increase private profits it derives from selling the public's water.
Proposals to install factory fish farms in the open waters of the Great Lakes.
State legislative efforts to give special interests veto power over state rules protecting water and other resources.
A state legislative proposal to give automatic approval of major water withdrawal proposals for factory farms — and keep the information on which the withdrawals are based from becoming public.
These policies are inconsistent with the wishes of Michigan citizens. They want clean, abundant water. World Water Day is an opportunity to speak out for our water and the Great Lakes.
High stakes
Here's what's at stake in Great Lakes protection:
The Great Lakes contain almost 20% of the surface freshwater in the world.
The Great Lakes contain 84% of the surface water supply of North America.
Only 1% of the volume of the Great Lakes is renewed annually from precipitation and runoff; the water balance of the Lakes is delicate.
The average drop of water takes 191 years to pass through Lake Superior.
Spread evenly across the 48 contiguous states, the Great Lakes would turn the U.S. into a swimming pool 9.5 feet deep.
There are approximately 35,000 islands in the Great Lakes, including the largest lake island in the world, Manitoulin.
There are about 10,900 miles of Great Lakes shoreline, 200 miles less than the distance between Detroit and Perth, Australia.
Measured by surface area, Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world, Lake Huron is third, Lake Michigan is fourth, Lake Erie is tenth and Lake Ontario is twelfth.
Lake Superior could contain all the other Great Lakes plus three more lakes the size of Lake Erie.
Eight states and Ontario border the Great Lakes. Michigan is the only state almost entirely within the Great Lakes watershed.
Tags: FLOW, For Love of Water, great lakes, Great Lakes facts, Public Trust, World Water Day
The Intrinsic Value of Water and the Public Trust Doctrine
Posted on March 22, 2017 by FLOW Editor - H2Olson
Let us ask ourselves today, on World Water Day – led by the United Nations, Watershed Movement, and the Vatican, with the assistance of organizations like Circle of Blue and the World Economic Forum, and many others – just what is the value of water and life? How will we face the world water crisis worsened by greenhouse gases and climate changes?
Everywhere we look, the need for water to survive competes with other uses, and is made more desperate by climate change, droughts, flooding, and rising sea levels. The water crisis is destabilizing countries and communities, leading to insecurity and even war, as we've seen unfold in Syria and neighboring countries in the Middle East. Here in Michigan, a similar picture has emerged, as thousands of impoverished Detroit residents struggle to survive in the face of water shutoffs.
In the face of this, there is a cry for the recognition of the human right to water. The United Nations, through two resolutions, has recognized the human right to water and sanitation, yet countries routinely ignore it. Large private interests push for ways to control water, diminishing or opposing the human right to water in favor of serving their own needs and profit motives. And the health of millions of people continues to be threatened.
So the question becomes, just what is the value of water? What are our shared rights, and what of our responsibility to see that climate does not overwhelm the earth, leaving it unfit as a home for our children and other species? What private uses could possibly subordinate the paramount fundamental value of water and life, family, children, health and the common good for people now and for future generations?
The value of water is intrinsic, it is valuable in and of itself, a gift. It is common to all, yet necessary for each person, plant, and animal. Water falls and percolates and flows over the earth, forms springs, wetlands, creeks, streams, lakes, and oceans, and all along the way, of necessity, water flows in common to all life along either side of the watercourse. Water flows and defines watersheds, and watersheds define the ever-present nature of the water cycle. Water falls into the watershed and collects, evaporates, transpires, or flows out of the watershed. Every watershed is a unique building block of life on earth. If the integrity of water and watersheds is protected from harm, from one generation to the next, if it is assured above all rights, needs, and competing use as a commons for all, for the common good, then there is a basis for life to sustain itself now and into the future.
How do we protect the intrinsic value of water as commons for the common good and for each person, plant, animal, and community in a watershed?
The answer lies in an ancient principle, drawn from Western civilization, but recognized through custom, culture, and heritage throughout the world, known as the "public trust doctrine." In modern times, this doctrine was uncovered and elevated by the late Professor Joseph Sax in his seminal 1970 article in the Michigan Law Review. Professor Sax recognized that there is a set of legal principles surrounding water – whether lake, stream, or ocean – that protect its primary uses: navigation, boating, fishing, swimming, drinking, and sanitation. He envisioned a widely applicable tool to manage and address the foreseen and unforeseen threats and demands for water in the world's future.
The public trust doctrine embodies four basic principles:
Navigable waters cannot be controlled by private interests for primarily private purposes; these waters must be maintained for public purposes.
These public trust waters cannot be materially impaired or diminished from one generation to the next.
Governments where the water flows have a solemn and perpetual duty to protect the integrity of the quantity and quality of water from exclusive or dominant private control and impairment.
Citizens, the people who live in a state or watershed, have a right and duty as beneficiaries to see that these principles are respected and honored.
If we as people, collectively and individually in our watersheds and communities, adhere to these principles, we will respect, honor, and protect the intrinsic value of water. In doing so, we assure water will be available and sustainable for everyone, including the least of us. If we do this for each watershed and the hydrosphere, we will assure that water is protected for the common good and each person of this and future generations. If we do this for the common good, the various competing uses and needs will be subordinate to the overarching public trust, and accommodated within the larger framework.
Public Trust and the Great Lakes
For example, the International Joint Commission, an international body charged by a treaty signed by Canada and the United States to protect the quality and flows and levels of the waters forming the boundaries, or flowing in and out of the two countries, released a report in 2016 on the protection of the Great Lakes in North America. These lakes, together with the St. Lawrence River basin, contain more than 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water. The IJC recommended that to face the systemic threats to the Great Lakes in the coming decades – climate change, water levels, algal blooms creating massive "dead zones," privatization and export, invasive species, waste from water mining, virtual water loss associated with other land uses such as farming that export products to other countries – that the two countries, eight states, and two provinces implement public trust principles as a "backstop" to other efforts, voluntary and regulatory. Why? Because, to assure protection and balancing of all needs and uses, there must be a common set of all-encompassing principles that catch the wild pitches, the errors, the miscalculations; in short, principles that like a lighthouse beacon keep societies, communities, businesses, and people from going off course or smashing on reefs.
Take, for instance, the Lake Erie "dead zones" caused by inadequately treated waste and a combination of climate change rainfall events and heavy phosphorous runoff from farms. In 2011, the western one-third of this lower Great Lake turned into an green toxic soup of algae, killing fish, impairing fishing and swimming, and harming tourist and water-dependent businesses. In 2014, algal blooms mushroomed again, this time closing down the drinking water system for 400,000 people in greater Toledo, Ohio. By honoring the public trust rights and responsibilities defined by public trust principles, theses systemic threats and their causal connections – phosphorous discharges and climate change – can be seen as a fundamental violation of the common good of water. By first protecting water as a commons through these public trust principles, everyone is equally required to adjust behavior to conform to the paramount obligation to protect the intrinsic value of water.
For this World Water Day, let us protect water and the human right to water as a commons and public trust. Let us move from competing public and private uses to well recognized rights, under an overarching framework of respect and responsibility. A public trust framework could provide the bridge between the intrinsic, real value of water, and the needs and uses for water on which all life depends.
The intrinsic value of all water, like life, is a gift from God, and compels us to protect water for the common good, now and for future generations. If we do this, we will make wise decisions about water, food, energy, economy, community, and peace and security. Let us start with recognizing and respecting the intrinsic value of water.
Jim Olson
President and Founder
FLOW (For Love of Water)
Tags: FLOW, For Love of Water, great lakes, Intrinsic value of water, Public Trust, Public Trust Doctrine, Water affordability, Water Day, Water sustainability, watershed, World Water Day
Happy Birthday, Governor Milliken
Posted on March 20, 2017 by FLOW Editor - News
Celebrating a great former governor of Michigan
If Michigan has ever had an environmental governor, it was William G. Milliken, Traverse City's son, who turns 95 on March 26.
The woods and waters of the Traverse City area, Milliken said, and particularly summer days at a family cottage near Acme, bonded him to nature in his childhood. That embedded appreciation carried forward into his political career.
When Milliken became governor in January 1969, the public was clamoring for environmental action. He delivered.
In a January 1970 special message to the Legislature, he said, "The preservation of our environment is the critical issue of the Seventies." The message contained a 20-point program, including proposals that ultimately became a shorelands protection act and a natural rivers conservation law.
An even bigger achievement that year was the passage, with Milliken's support, of the Michigan Environmental Protection Act, or MEPA. Granting any citizen standing to sue for the protection of natural resources and the public trust in these resources from pollution, impairment, or destruction, the law had national significance and was imitated in many states.
In 1976, he defied Amway Corp. co-founder and major Republican Party donor Jay Van Andel by backing a tough limit on phosphorus in laundry detergent, a product manufactured by the company. Reduction of the nutrient almost immediately shrank algal blooms in Michigan waters.
The same year, the legislature deadlocked on a proposal to attach a deposit to some beverage containers. Convinced the law would reduce litter and promote recycling, Milliken joined forces with the Michigan United Conservation Clubs to put the proposed container deposit law on the 1976 ballot. Voters approved the law by a roughly 2-to-1 margin. It is still considered the most successful law of its kind in the nation.
Milliken signed over a dozen major environmental bills into law, many of them evolving from his proposals: wetlands conservation, hazardous waste management, inland lakes and streams protection, and what is now the state Natural Resources Trust Fund, a public land acquisition and protection program capitalized by proceeds from oil and gas drilling on state lands. He left office on January 1, 1983 after almost 14 years in office, the longest tenure of any Michigan governor.
Defining Water
In 2011, Milliken said Michigan citizens must think of water "as something sacred, not to be treated as a commodity for barter and trade. If we Michiganders observe this principle in public policy and private actions, there will be no limit to the prosperity of our state. Water will then continue to define Michigan, enrich us in ways that include but reach far beyond dollar values, and be our legacy to generations to come. It is no wonder that our Supreme Court once declared that our streams, lakes, and Great Lakes are held in a 'high, solemn and perpetual trust.'"
Happy Birthday, Governor Milliken.
Tags: FLOW, For Love of Water, governor, Michigan, Michigan conservation, Michigan Environmental Protection Act, Milliken, William Milliken, World Water Day


Fin-de-siècle Vienna was the site of a thriving young philosophical and artistic milieu, yet the individuals contributing to these intellectual circles were predominantly male. With the exclusion of women from male-dominated intellectual circles, their schools of thought gave rise to misogynistic theories.
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin depicts the end of the Virgin Mary's worldly life. The narrative, from the apocrypha, is ambiguous regarding the specifics of Mary's physical death, and instead emphasizes the assumption of her soul into heaven.
As mediators of urban spaces, the flâneur and the photographer do much of the same work. The flâneur is a wanderer and an anonymous explorer of urban spaces. The flâneur originated and thrived both as a literary and real figure in 19th century Paris, where after the Revolution an increase in industrialization, modernization, and commodity production made way for modern bourgeois life.
The prolific twentieth-century Japanese woodblock artist, Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), has been criticized for producing overly sentimental, decorative or picturesque landscape prints. Certainly, as part of the Shin-hanga (New Print) revival of traditional ukiyo-e (floating world pictures), Hasui was supported by the commercial appeal of his works both domestically and abroad.
Selfies have become as commonplace as the technologies we use to produce them thanks to the increased ubiquity of smartphones. Selfies, despite what many believe, are not just individual projections of millennial narcissism; they offer the opportunity to represent collective as well as personal identities.
Post-war trauma, social instability, epidemic diseases, and scientific discourses characterized the end of the nineteenth century in France; an era fraught with social unrest. A preoccupation with infectious disease and physiognomic pathology in the literary and visual arts reflected the social anxieties of the time.


What Do Beer, Sweat and the Colour Orange Have in Common?
The Orange Crush will be returning to Portland for some gnarly weather riding. Come on by, put on some orange duds and watch the team suffer. Check out last years cross action HERE.
Looking forward to cheering (or heckling) the Orange Crush this weekend! You guys (Tonkin, Wicknasty, and Tree-bon) BETTER make the drive down to Portland worth it for me this weekend or you will have hell to pay! Muaaaahahahahahaaaa!
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Established in 1954, the Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles is the largest manager of charitable assets and the leader in planned-giving solutions for Greater Los Angeles Jewish philanthropists. The Foundation currently manages assets of $731 million (as of Dec. 31, 2010) and ranks among the 11 largest Los Angeles foundations. In 2010, The Foundation and its more than 1,000 donors distributed $52 million in grants to hundreds of organizations with programs that span the range of philanthropic giving.
The mission of Joshua Venture Group is rooted in the concept of a dual investment — in visionary leaders and in groundbreaking ideas. We believe that the cultivation of both leaders and the enterprises they seek to build has that much more potential to profoundly impact the Jewish world and the world Jewishly.Joshua Venture Group invites the next generation of Jewish social entrepreneurs to the communal table to achieve their visions for social impact. Through our intensive two-year Dual Investment Program, emerging leaders gain the skills, resources, and exposure to enable them to grow and sustain their ventures, as well as to complement the existing mainstream Jewish infrastructure.
Based on Jewish values, The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the Jewish people, support a secure State of Israel, care for Jews in need here and abroad, and mobilize on issues of concern to the local community, all with our local, national, and international partners.
Builders of Jewish Education is dedicated to enhancing quality, ensuring access, and encouraging participation in full-time, part-time, and informal Jewish education throughout the Jewish communities of greater Los Angeles. Affiliated institutions represent the broad spectrum of Jewish religious movements and serve children and their families from "Mommy and Me" through high school. BJE was founded in 1937 as the Bureau of Jewish Education, a department of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation and became an independent 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization in 1991.
Jewish learning is the foundation of vibrant Jewish living. BJE, a center of excellence, will ensure present and future generations of knowledgeable Jews who are committed to their religious and cultural heritage and an enduring connection with Israel. Through promoting lifelong Jewish learning, BJE will play a vital role in fostering meaningful Jewish continuity and strengthening contemporary American Jewish life.
The Mission of New Community Jewish High School is to raise up a new generation of Jewish leaders for whom Jewish values and tradition shape and guide their vision, and for whom knowledge creates possibilities for moral action, good character, and shalom.
Shalhevet offers a college-preparatory dual curriculum, designed not only to promote spiritual, moral, and intellectual growth in our student body, but also to prepare them for future academic success.


The inverse relationship between intake of dairy products and blood pressure levels was first suggested by several epidemiologic surveys in the early 1980's that revealed low calcium intake in populations with increased prevalence of hypertension. Subsequent laboratory and clinical investigations provided further evidence of the association between calcium and blood pressure, but the results of these studies were often inconsistent due to variations in study design and methods, study participants and calcium sources. The recently published results of the large and carefully executed Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Study, "DASH," which demonstrated a dramatic blood-pressure lowering effect of diets rich in dairy products, fruits, and vegetables, addressed many of the issues contributing to the inconsistencies in the blood pressure-calcium data. In the following review, we discuss the evolution of the scientific evidence of the association between dietary calcium intake and blood pressure, the findings and significance of the DASH trial and the consensus that now exists among health professionals regarding the importance of adequate dairy product intake for optimal blood pressure regulation.


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Metapontum
by Mark Cartwright
Metapontum, located on the southern coast of Basilicata, Italy, was an Achaean colony founded in the late 8th century BCE. Thriving on agriculture and trade, the city became one of the most prosperous colonies in Magna Graecia. Today, the best surviving evidence of Metapontum's importance in antiquity is the 6th century BCE Temple of Hera with 15 of its Doric columns still standing.
Metapontum (Greek: Metapontion, modern name: Metaponto) is located on a fertile plain which stretches along the southern coastline of the Basilicata region of southern Italy. The city, situated at the mouths of the Bradano and Basento Rivers, was founded by the Achaeans of the Greek Peloponnese c. 720 BCE as part of the wave of Greek colonization from the 8th century BCE onwards across the entire region of southern Italy. Archaeological evidence points to the presence on the site of an earlier Italian town which then displays evidence of Greek culture. A fully-Greek settlement seems to date from c. 630 BCE.
Controlling an extensive area of the lands around the city - some 200 km2 - the success of Metapontum was largely based on agriculture.
A Thriving City
Metapontum, along with such local rivals as Tarentum (modern Taranto) and Siris (modern Nova Siri), became one of the most prosperous cities in the region which would become known as Magna Graecia. Controlling an extensive area of the lands around the city - some 200 km2 - the success of the colony was largely based on agriculture, fishing and horse-breeding and is attested by the extensive and regular divisions of land in the area with over 850 accompanying small farms which were used over several generations. It is not known if such farmsteads were inhabited all year round or inhabited only during the growing season and then used as storehouses. The average plot of land at Metapontum measures 9 hectares which is larger than the 5 hectares needed to support a single family in the ancient Mediterranean and perhaps indicative of the greater space available in the Greek colonies and so their attraction for emigrants from the homeland.
Metapontum Silver Stater
by Mark Cartwright (CC BY-NC-SA)
The wealth and trade conducted by Metapontum are further evidenced by the minting of coinage, which was stamped with an ear of wheat in recognition of the city's debt to agriculture, the presence of dedicated areas of workshops, and the numerous dedications made at Panhellenic sites such as Olympia, where the city had a treasury building, and Delphi. The city proper covered around 150 hectares (370 acres) and had several main roads with the largest measuring 22 metres in width. The city was protected by an encircling fortification wall. One notable resident was the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras (c. 571- c. 497 BCE) who spent the latter part of his life at Metapontum.
Metapontum would eventually destroy Siris and go on to play an important role in the political and military events of the 5th century BCE, notably supporting the Athenian expeditions against Sicily and on the Italian mainland. According to Thucydides in his Peloponnesian War (7.33.5) they provided 300 darters and two triremes. At the same time, an ominous threat arrived with the founding of a new rival for resources in 433 BCE in the form of Herakleia to the west.
Temple of Hera, Metapontum
Metapontum's fortunes declined in the 4th century BCE and the city was defeated by Dionysius I of Syracuse in 390 BCE. The rise of the central Italian tribes also threatened the city's position as a trading centre on the Gulf of Tarentum with the Lucanians attacking and briefly controlling the city in the middle of the same century. Weakened, Metapontum was forced to seek safety in an alliance with longtime rival Tarentum and so became a member of the Italiote League of Greek cities. Metapontum supported the Molossian king Alexander I of Epirus when he attacked Italy and opposed Rome during the Pyrrhic Wars (280-275 BCE). Becoming an ally of Rome shortly afterwards with a Roman castrum or army camp established near the agora, the city nevertheless switched allegiances once again in 212 BCE when Hannibal invaded southern Italy. The city hosted a Carthaginian garrison and provided corn and winter quarters for Hannibal's army, remaining loyal until the general's return to Carthage.
During the 3rd century BCE the city was greatly reduced in size and large parts were abandoned as Metapontum returned to a more agricultural economy with the town leading a quiet existence as a Roman municipium for another century. The city suffered during the Spartacus-led slave rebellion of the 1st century BCE and the demise of its irrigation system meant that the area returned to swamp lands prone to outbreaks of malaria. Metapontum's once fine buildings were abandoned or reused for more modest farm dwellings, a Christian basilica was built in the 3rd century CE and, despite occupation into the 7th century CE, the city disappears from the historical record for two millennia.
Theatre, Metapontum
Like much of southern Italy, there are but few traces of Metapontum's great Greek past remaining today. Aside from the lasting legacy of olive and vine cultivation, only one temple still stands as testimony to the city's lost prosperity. The sanctuary of Hera, also known as the Palatine Tables (Tavole Palatine), lies a few kilometres northeast of Metapontum on the road to Taranto (which largely follows the ancient roadway) and boasts the most impressive example of Greek architecture in the region, the Temple of Hera. This 6th century BCE Doric temple once had 6 x 12 columns, 15 of which are still standing.
In Metapontum itself there are the remains of the temples and buildings which stood in the central sanctuary complex. The earliest date to 580-570 BCE and included five temples (dedicated to Hera, Athena, Artemis and Apollo) and an ekklesiasterion or assembly place just to the side. A theatre was built over the assembly place in the 5th century BCE which had half columns and a Doric frieze. The theatre was remodelled again in the mid-4th century BCE and in its current form measured 62 metres at its widest part and could seat some 8,000 people.
Ionic Temple, Metapontum
The second major phase of construction was carried out between 570 and 530 BCE which included the erection of the Temple of Hera. This large Doric temple once had 8x17 columns, several drums and capitals of which have been re-erected at the archaeological site today. A third important temple, this time of the Ionic order, was built between 480 and 470 BCE. Dedicated to an unknown deity, it stood on the site of an earlier temple dedicated to Artemis and once had 8x20 columns. Impressive capitals remain in situ which are richly decorated with swirls and swastikas. The building was unlike any in mainland Greece and is further evidence that the colonies of ancient Greece went on their own road of political and artistic development to become fully independent and influential cities in their own right.
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Mark Cartwright
Mark is a history writer based in Italy. His special interests include pottery, architecture, world mythology and discovering the ideas that all civilizations share in common. He holds an MA in Political Philosophy and is the Publishing Director at AHE.
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Metapontum in Magna Graecia is found by Achaeans.
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The Doric Temple of Hera is built at Metapontum, Magna Graecia.
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According to him, the only option is to oppose Russia from many sides.
"We will definitely return Crimea. To do this, we must be strong from the economic point of view and in terms of security ... There is only a comprehensive response to handle Russia… We must do it all together," he said.
"Russia blocks our freedom of navigation in the Kerch Strait, the Sea of Azov. It attacks our ships, captures our sailors. Everything we do and must do – should be focused on freeing our prisoners of war, as well as political prisoners and hostages."


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MainAll NewsForeign Affairs'It's time all who hold democratic values put politics aside'
'It's time all who hold democratic values put politics aside'
Jewish Agency Chairman and former refusenik Natan Sharansky calls on world to stem wave of anti-Semitism.
Arutz Sheva Staff, 01/03/17 14:24
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Jewish Agency for Israel Executive Chairman Natan Sharansky released a statement in response to the recent wave of anti-Semitic incidents in the US and around the world.
"I am deeply concerned by the wave of anti-Semitic attacks and threats that has been sweeping across the United States in recent days and weeks," Sharansky said. "If ever there was a line between the anti-Semitism of the far right and the anti-Israelism of the radical left, the demonization of Jews and the demonization of their state, it no longer exists.
"These two ugly phenomena feed on one another and both run counter to the foundations of democratic societies in Europe and America. It is high time that all who hold democratic values dear put their political differences aside and band together to combat these expressions of hatred and violence.
"I trust that U.S. authorities will act resolutely to find those responsible, bring them to justice, and prevent such incidents from reoccurring."
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from jobs.models import Company

class CompanySearchSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    term = serializers.CharField()

    def search(self, companies):
        q = self.validated_data.get('term')
        if q:
            companies = companies.filter(name__icontains=q)
        return companies

class CompanyNameSerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    id = serializers.CharField()
    text = serializers.CharField()

class CompanySerializer(serializers.Serializer):
    term = serializers.CharField(allow_blank=True)
    results = CompanyNameSerializer(many=True)


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Boston 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 0 2 7 13 0
Washington 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 0 0 5 7 1
W: E. Rodriguez (13-8) L: K. Finnegan (5-9) S: N. Pivetta (1)
12:05 PM PT1:05 PM MT2:05 PM CT3:05 PM ET15:05 ET19:05 GMT3:05 12:05 PM MST2:05 PM EST2:35 PM VEN23:05 UAE1:05 PM CT, October 3, 2021
Nationals Park, Washington, District of Columbia Attendance: 33,986
Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG
K. Hernández, 2B-CF 5 0 1 0 1 0 3 .250 .337 .449
K. Schwarber, 1B 3 2 1 0 1 2 0 .291 .435 .522
X. Bogaerts, SS 5 1 1 0 1 0 2 .295 .370 .493
R. Devers, 3B 5 3 4 4 10 0 1 .279 .352 .538
J. Martinez, RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .286 .349 .518
J. Iglesias, PH-2B 3 1 2 0 2 0 0 .271 .309 .391
A. Verdugo, LF 5 0 3 2 4 0 2 .289 .351 .426
H. Renfroe, CF-RF 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 .259 .315 .501
C. Vázquez, C 4 0 1 1 1 0 0 .258 .308 .352
C. Sale, P 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
H. Sawamura, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
C. Arroyo, PH 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .262 .324 .445
G. Richards, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .200 .200 .400
T. Shaw, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .238 .319 .524
M. Pérez, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
G. Whitlock, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .500 .500 .500
B. Dalbec, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .240 .298 .494
E. Rodriguez, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
N. Pivetta, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
Totals 39 7 13 7 20 3 13 - - -
L. Thomas, CF 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 .235 .341 .412
A. Escobar, SS 4 1 2 0 3 1 1 .288 .340 .404
J. Soto, RF 4 1 0 0 0 1 3 .313 .465 .534
J. Bell, LF-1B 3 2 2 0 3 1 1 .261 .347 .476
R. Zimmerman, 1B 3 0 0 1 0 1 2 .243 .286 .471
A. Stevenson, LF 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .229 .294 .339
J. Mercer, 2B 4 0 1 2 2 0 1 .254 .307 .364
A. Avila, C 4 0 1 2 2 0 1 .191 .345 .348
K. Ruiz, C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .273 .333 .409
C. Kieboom, 3B 3 0 1 0 2 1 0 .207 .301 .318
J. Adon, P 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000
P. Murphy, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
G. Parra, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .237 .292 .351
E. Fedde, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .026 .000
A. Machado, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
R. Adams, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .268 .422 .465
K. Finnegan, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
J. Romero, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
Totals 33 5 7 5 12 6 13 - - -
2B: Bos 1, A. Verdugo (32). Was 5, A. Escobar (21), J. Bell (24), J. Mercer (7), A. Avila (9), C. Kieboom (6).
HR: Bos 2, R. Devers 2 (38).
HR Detail: Bos, R. Devers (Inning: 4 , 0 Out, 0 on) off J. Adon, Bos, R. Devers (Inning: 9 , 1 Out, 1 on) off K. Finnegan.
Scoring Position: Bos - 3 for 12.Was - 3 for 13.
Player IP H R ER BB K HR BFP Pit B-S ERA OpBA
C. Sale 2.1 4 2 2 3 7 0 14 62 25 - 37 3.16 .269
H. Sawamura 1.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 15 6 - 9 3.06 .227
G. Richards 1.0 2 3 3 2 1 0 7 27 11 - 16 4.87 .289
M. Pérez 1.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 15 7 - 8 4.74 .296
G. Whitlock 1.0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 10 3 - 7 1.96 .233
E. Rodriguez, (W 13-8) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 2 - 6 4.74 .277
N. Pivetta, (S 1) 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 14 4 - 10 4.53 .234
J. Adon 5.1 6 2 2 3 9 1 24 94 37 - 57 3.38 .300
P. Murphy, (Hld 4) 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 7 1 - 6 5.30 .250
E. Fedde, (BS 1) 0.2 4 3 3 0 1 0 6 22 8 - 14 5.47 .275
A. Machado 1.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 22 7 - 15 3.53 .226
K. Finnegan, (L 5-9) 0.1 1 2 1 0 1 1 3 12 5 - 7 3.55 .251
J. Romero 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 0 3 11 3 - 8 4.50 .313
Errors: Was 1, J. Mercer (6).
Double Plays: Bos 1, (Bogaerts to K.Hernández to Schwarber). Was 1, (A.Escobar to Mercer to Zimmerman).
Wild Pitches: Was 1, J. Adon.
Passed Balls: Bos 1, C. Vázquez.
Hit by Pitch: Bos, J. Martinez by J. Adon.
Umpires: HP--Culbreth, 1B--Reyburn, 2B--Hoye, 3B--Cuzzi.
Attendance - 33,986


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Q: Hibernate Criteria for assotiated objects I have the next structure of DTO objects:
public class MainDTO implements Serializable {
    private Long mainId;
    private String name;
    ... //some other fields
    private boolean disabled;

    @ManyToOne()
    @JoinColumn(name = "root_id")
    private RootDTO root;

    @ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
    @JoinColumn(name = "child_id", updatable = false, referencedColumnName = "child_id")
    @Cascade(value = { CascadeType.ALL, CascadeType.DELETE_ORPHAN })
    private ChildDTO child;

    ...
}

public class RootDTO implements Serializable {
    ... //some other fields
    private boolean disabled;

    ...
}

public class ChildDTO implements Serializable {
    private Long childId;
    ... //some other fields
    private boolean disabled;

    @ManyToOne()
    @JoinColumn(name = "info_id")
    private InfoDTO info;

    ...
}

public class InfoDTO implements Serializable {
    private Long infoId;
    ... //some other fields
    private boolean disabled;

    ...
}

I need to fill Map<String, Map<Long, Long>> (<name from MainDTO, <mainId from MainDTO, infoId from InfoDTO >>) with next restrictions:
MainDTO.disabled = false,
MainDTO.root != null,
MainDTO.root.disabled = false,
MainDTO.child.disabled = false,
MainDTO.child.info != null,
MainDTO.child.info.disabled = false
Here is the code I've written, but got stuck in select infoId from InfoDTO:
Criteria rootCriteria = getSession().createCriteria(
        MainDTO.class);

// check that root is enabled
rootCriteria.createCriteria("root", "root").add(
    Restrictions.eq("disabled", false));

// check that child is enabled
Criteria childCriteria = rootCriteria
    .createCriteria("child", "child")
    .add(Restrictions.eq("disabled", false))
    .add(Restrictions.isNotNull("info"));

// check that info is enabled
childCriteria
    .createCriteria("info", "info")
    .add(Restrictions.eq("disabled", false));

ProjectionList rootProjection = Projections.projectionList()
    .add(Projections.property("mainId"))
    .add(Projections.property("name"))
    .add(Projections.property("child.info")); //HOW TO SELECT ONLY ID??
rootCriteria.setProjection(rootProjection);
rootCriteria.add(Restrictions.eq("disabled", false))
    .add(Restrictions.isNotNull("root"))
    .add(Restrictions.isNotNull("child"));

Thanks a lot!

A: First of all, calling entities DTO is really confusing.
Now regarding your question, you should use the aliases you defined in your projections
ProjectionList rootProjection =
    Projections.projectionList()
               .add(Projections.property("mainId"))
               .add(Projections.property("name"))
               .add(Projections.property("info.infoId"));

Also, given that you're doing an inner join to root and child, the last two restrictions are not necessary: the inner joins already make sure those are not null.


A few weeks ago at SXSW I had the opportunity to meet Ari Fuchs, developer evangelist at Aviary. After a few rounds of birthday drinks (I had just turned 24), I slurred a promise to him that I would play around with Aviary's API.
SXSW is here again and we are ready!
Ankur Oberoi and Song Zheng will be roaming the city. To get your TokBox wristband simply find us and ask for one!
Here at TokBox, we've been supporting AngelHack since its infancy. This year it's no different, and this time we sponsored at a city bursting with startup energy, Los Angeles.
The event is hosted at a spacious and comfortable co-working space called Cross Campus, a place to inspire "creative collisions through space design, learning platforms, and extraordinary events." If you are an entrepreneur you might want to check it out!
The event started off with sponsor pitches and API talks. Singly provides SDK for developers to get their app connected quickly and easily with services like Facebook, Twitter, Google, just to name a few. Gimbal provides a mobile context awareness platform that includes image recognition and geofencing. TokBox provides a video chat API (called OpenTok), and for demo I live coded a web and iOS app that video chatted with each other.


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Practicing real estate sales since 2003, Mark Simone has personally represented over 1000 buyers and sellers in the Baltimore metro area. After personally closing 100 transactions for over $30m in sales in one year, Simone launched The Simone Group. His team now consists of three agents and four operations staff and closed 131 homes for $43m in 2018.


7zip-Archiver is an archiving and compression App. Directories will be stored into a single File for easier Handling, compressed and protected by a Checksum. Multithreading is supported to speed up the Compression-Process.
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Compute PI is an App for Computer and Mathematics Nerds. It allows you to calculate Billions of Digits of PI on your Macintosh. It is extremely fast and supports Multithreading (with In-App-Purchase). It is optimized for Haswell and newer Intel-CPUs.
SwitchMouseAccelerationOff is an App, that switches off the dreaded Mouse-Acceleration. This App is extremely important to all Mac-Users, especially Gamers. It enhances the Mouse-Precision dramatically. You cannot use your Mac or play Games on it without this App.
Mouse-Acceleration means, that the Mouse-Precision is reduced and you cannot hit the Targets you are aiming at, because the Mouse-Pointer is not moved linear to the Mouse-Movement.
A Mouse with about 3200 cpi is recommended.


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How the Hero Wins a Minor Victory After the Midpoint
Posted on December 27, 2022 by wallyadmin
Every story consists of two halves. In the first half, the hero's life starts out in a dead end and gradually gets better. The peak of the hero's life occurs at the midpoint of the story.
Immediately after the midpoint, life starts getting worse for the hero while getting better for the villain. However, this forces the hero to start fully demonstrating who they'll eventually become. To do this, the hero must achieve a minor victory over the villain.
This minor battle involves several elements:
The villain already has a plan in action that gets partially revealed
The hero takes action to thwart the villain
The hero protects the Symbol of Hope from the villain
This is how the hero's minor victory works in the following movies:
Villain's plan: Execute Princess Leia.
Hero's action: Convince Han Solo to help him rescue Princess Leia.
Protecting Symbol of Hope: Princess Leia.
Villain's plan: Already prepared to attack the police using shoulder-fired rockets.
Hero's action: Use the detonators he stole from the terrorists to blow up the terrorists attacking the police.
Protecting Symbol of Hope: During this battle, the villain almost identifies the hero's wife as one of the hostages.
Villain's plan: The villain has made the attack run difficult.
Hero's action: Keep training for the attack run while barely surviving accidents based on the dangers of the mission.
Protecting Symbol of Hope: The ability to keep flying.
This part of the story (the beginning of Act IIb) often mirrors the actions that started the beginning of Act IIa. While the beginning of Act IIa shows the hero learning the rules of a new, unfamiliar world, the beginning of Act IIb shows the dangers of that same unfamiliar world.
In "Top Gun: Maverick," the beginning of Act IIa is where the hero first meets the Top Gun pilots he's supposed to train and they engage in dogfights so he can teach them what they don't know.
Then in the beginning of Act IIb, the hero starts training these pilots for a dangerous mission and accidents occur. One pilot nearly blacks out but barely recovers in time. Another pilot suffers a bird strike that blows out her engines, forcing her and her navigator to eject at the last minute. Even though nobody gets hurt, this part of the story highlights the growing threat and risk to the hero.
In "Die Hard," the hero has just contacted the police and he thinks they'll take care of the problem for him. However when the police SWAT team arrives, the villain shows he's prepared because he's brought along shoulder-fired rockets specifically to attack armored vehicles like the one the SWAT team is using.
In the beginning of Act IIa when the hero had first escaped the terrorists, he was able to kill them fairly easily without getting hurt. Now in the beginning of Act IIb, the villain seriously wounds the entire police SWAT team and plans to kill them until the hero uses the detonators he stole from the terrorists to blow the terrorists up.
In "Star Wars," the hero has convinced Han Solo to help him rescue Princess Leia. They arrive at the prison easily, but when a prison commander gets suspicious of them, they have to kill them all, which alerts everyone on the Death Star of their presence.
In the beginning of Act IIa, the hero had just left his planet to deliver R2D2 to Princess Leia's planet. In the beginning of Act IIb, the hero must rescue Princess Leia herself, but now all the storm troopers have been alerted to their rescue mission.
The beginning of Act IIa is often referred to as the "fun and games" part of a story where the hero experiences new, but non-threatening events. Then the beginning of Act IIb takes those same events but exposes the darker, more dangerous side of those actions as the villain starts directly threatening the hero.
Exercise: Pick a favorite movie and identify the beginning of Act IIa (typically the 30-45 minute mark of a two hour movie). Then identify the beginning of Act IIb (typically the 60-75 minute mark of a two hour movie).
How does the beginning of Act IIa represent a "fun and games", experience of the hero that minimizes any danger?
How does the beginning of Act IIb represent a dangerous, darker experience that's similar to the beginning of Act IIa?
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Rolls-Royce expanding with 'smaller' model and the opening of its 80th dealership
Viknesh Vijayenthiran April 23, 2007 Comment Now!
It seems Rolls-Royce CEO Ian Robertson can't keep his mouth shut surrounding information about the luxury marque's forthcoming new entrant. After revealing production details for the new model back at February's Geneva Motor Show, Robertson has spilt the beans with Reuters at this week's Shanghai Auto Show.
"We are working on a smaller car," Robertson said, mentioning that it will cost roughly one third less than the Phantom saloon but remain above BMW's flagship 7-Series. Rolls-Royce has been enjoying great success with the Phantom but it still hasn't met its original goal of selling 1,000 units annually. But this new model should change all that, with Robertson saying "we should more than double our overall sales with a broader market."
Production is scheduled to start in the not too distant future. "The design is finished and the first prototypes should be running very shortly," he said, adding that the plant in Crewe will soon be upgraded with a second production line to accommodate the new model.
Unlike the floundering Maybach brand, Rolls-Royce is moving from strength to strength. The company announced at the Shanghai show that its 80th showroom in the world has just been opened in Chengdu bringing its total in China to five. The country is easily Rolls-Royce's fastest growing market and two new dealerships are planned to be opened within the next 12 months making China second only to the US.
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