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Bill and Joyce Taylor of the Knox Trail Sno-Riders were presented the 2013 Snowmobile Association of Massachusetts Family of the Year Award. Bill and Joyce have been active in SAM for decades. Combined they have held the office of secretary, vice president and president on their club, sometimes for multiple years.
They have attended several ISC’s across North America and were volunteers at ISC in Sturbridge. One of them has been the Club delegate to SAM for over ten years.
Thousands of snowmobilers meet them every year at the Expo, they are like icons when it comes to the Club and SAM. They are truly ambassadors of Massachusetts snowmobiling… hands down.
They are also often described as fun-loving characters, a trait they wear proudly. They have one of the most uniquely decorated front yards, the centerpiece being a vintage Ski-Doo on permanently display! |
Economics, 4th Edition
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Learn economics through real business examples.
Hubbard/O'Brien explains the basics of economics by demonstrating how real businesses use economics to make real decisions everyday. This is something all readers can connect to, as they encounter businesses in their daily lives. And regardless of future career path—opening an art studio, doing social work, trading on Wall Street, working for the government, or bartending at the local pub—readers will benefit from understanding the economic forces behind their work.
Table of Contents
Part 1: IntroductionChapter 1: Economics: Foundations and Models Chapter 2: Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System Chapter 3: Where Prices Come From: The Interaction of Demand and Supply Chapter 4: Economic Efficiency, Government Price Setting, and Taxes Part 2: Markets in ActionChapter 5: Externalities, Environmental Policy, and Public Goods Chapter 6: Elasticity: The Responsiveness of Demand and Supply Part 3: Firms in the Domestic and International EconomiesChapter 7: The Economics of Health Care Chapter 8: Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance Part 4: Microeconomic Foundations: Consumers and FirmsChapter 9: Comparative Advantage and the Gains from International Trade Chapter 10: Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics Part 5: Market Structure and Firm StrategyChapter 11: Technology, Production, and Costs Chapter 12: Firms in Perfectly Competitive Markets Chapter 13: Monopolistic Competition: The Competitive Model in a More Realistic Setting Chapter 14: Oligopoly: Firms in Less Competitive Markets Chapter 15: Monopoly and Antitrust Policy Part 6: Markets for Factors of ProductionChapter 16: Pricing Strategy Part 7: Information, Taxes, and the Distribution of IncomeChapter 17: The Markets for Labor and Other Factors of Production Chapter 18: Public Choice, Taxes, and the Distribution of Income Part 8: Macroeconomic Foundations and Long-Run GrowthChapter 19: GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income Chapter 20: Unemployment and Inflation Chapter 21: Economic Growth, the Financial System, and Business Cycles Chapter 22: Long-Run Economic Growth: Sources and Policies Part 9: Short-Run FluctuationsChapter 23: Aggregate Expenditure and Output in the Short Run Chapter 24: Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis Part 10: Monetary and Fiscal PolicyChapter 25: Money, Banks, and the Federal Reserve System Chapter 26: Monetary Policy Chapter 27: Fiscal Policy Chapter 28: Inflation, Unemployment, and Federal Reserve Policy Part 11: The International EconomyChapter 29: Macroeconomics in an Open Economy Chapter 30: The International Financial System |
Josh Cody during a brew day at Three Barrel in Del Norte, Colorado. (Credit: Josh Cody)
Where There’s Smoke: Will Smoke Beers Catch Fire?
July 5, 2017
You could call Josh Cody a bit of a malt head. He, along with his brother, uncle and dad, own and operate Colorado Malting Company (CMC) in Alamosa, Colorado.
In 2008, when they founded CMC, small brewers’ access to a variety of malts that provided localized flavor and character was not as common as it is today — and it definitely was not as diverse as the burgeoning hop industry. CMC, whose founders’ family had been in the malting industry for four generation set out to be a part of change.
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As a malt specialist, writing all of CMC’s custom roasted, crystal, caramel and adjunct malted grains recipes, Cody believes that malt is due to play a part in the next big craze for craft beer and that distinctive malt can be celebrated the way experimental hops in IPAs have had an impact on the beer landscape most recently.
We sat down with Cody to get his international perspective on the specialty malt game and what he believes to be the next frontier in American beer: smoke beer.
Full Pour with Josh Cody
CraftBeer.com: Josh, you’ve traveled the world experiencing and discussing smoke beers with many international brewers and maltsters. The variety of smoke beers is not as expansive here in the states. What can you tell us about how other countries view smoked malts as an ingredient? Are American brewers and consumers missing out?
Josh Cody: Like many beer drinkers in the US, my first experience with smoked beer was over the top. The first time I tasted a smoked beer brewed in the states, it was so smokey that it turned me away from trying others when I saw them on a menu.
But then a German brewmaster named Matthias at the Bryggeri Helsinki offered me a seasonal smoked wheat beer when I was at his brewery. Being polite and not wanting to offend him, I graciously took a glass. The first sip was life changing. I had never had anything like it before. The slightly smokey character was more of a complexity in the overall flavor. If he hadn’t told me he used smoked malt, then I may not have even known it was present, but it portrayed more of a BBQ sweetness.
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From that moment on, I have tried smoked beers all over Europe and the world. Yes, I think that the American brewers are missing out on what good smoke beers can add to a brewery’s portfolio and likewise the consumers are missing out on a totally different and delicious experience.
CraftBeer.com: Can you explain what smoked malt is? What is the application?
Cody: Smoked malt is really a step back in time. Once upon a time, all malt was kilned over a fire and therefore all beer would have had a slightly smokey flavor. Before industrialism changed the face of malting and brewing, local malts were kilned over fires for local brewers, for local beer drinkers. I think one could safely deduce that our ancestors like smoked beer.
Fundamentally, smoked malt is still base malt. The process of smoking the grain doesn’t necessarily kill the diastatic power [the measure of how much starch-converting enzyme any given malt contains] of the malt and therefore can be used at a high percentage, or all the grain, in the total malt bill. This makes it a very flexible and useful product in a brewer’s list of ingredients. It can add flavor and complexity that nothing else can contribute.
CraftBeer.com: What do you believe makes a great smoke beer?
Cody: In my experience as a beer drinker, the most drinkable smoked beers are balanced. The idea behind smoked beers around the world isn’t to kick someone in the face with smoke, but rather to add balanced flavor and complexity.
I am afraid that brewers too often equate smoked beers with hoppy beer styles. The comparison isn’t necessarily apples to apples. Hops in massive quantities can bring about very pleasant flavors appreciated by a large number of beer drinkers. While there may be a small percentage of beer drinkers that like very smokey flavors, I think most beer drinkers need to enter the world of smoked beers with balanced complexity and drinkability. There may be someday when smoked beer is commonly accepted as the very hoppy beers have been, but we as Americans are just beginning to understand this ancient style. The crucial aspect of this balance is sourcing the highest quality, fresh, smoked malts.
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CraftBeer.com: Colorado Malting Company produces a smoked malt with a local twist. What can you tell us about it? How do brewers like this malt and is there a market for non-traditionally smoked malts?
Cody: This area of Colorado was settled many years ago by the Spanish. During their quest up from the south, they passed many miles of piñon and Chico bush. When they arrived in the San Luis Valley and settled on the banks of the upper Rio Grande River, they found the cottonwood tree growing along the rivers’ edge. So they called the area “Alamosa,” which was the name they used for the cottonwood trees. Colorado Malting Company offers “Alamosa Smoked Malt” in honor of the brave men and women who settled here and to allow a unique market contribution for brewers and distillers alike. It is different than the traditional hardwoods that Europeans have been using for generations. Alamosa Smoked Malt has a special and historic connection to this land and I think you can taste it in the final product.
CraftBeer.com Speaking of local, CMC represents a localized movement in malt. Is there an advantage to having small maltsters like yourself?
Cody: The future isn’t more of the same, rather it is a shift in the direction of local, sustainable and collaborative business practices that can provide specialized and custom ingredients to a rapidly changing beer market.
(READ: Grain Trust: Craft Beer, Craft Malt, and What It Means to be Local)
CraftBeer.com: What’s up with your annual Gemütlichkeit party, and the subsequent smoked beer revival competition?
Cody: Our Gemütlichkeit is really a special experience for the brewer, distiller and beer enthusiast. Every year, around harvest time, Colorado Malting Company opens her doors to brewers, distillers and friends to show the malthouse and the farming operations. This event is meant to educate people both about the malting process and the farming of malting grains. The attendees have the opportunity to either stay in one of the local hotels and we provide free shuttle service, or they can camp in the field. People actually camp in the field and sleep with the grain. We have live music, dinner brought to us by our friends at the San Luis Valley Brewing Company, malthouse and farm tours and some of the best beer in the world. This year, we are also hosting The Smoked Beer Revival awards ceremony at our Gemütlichkeit and anyone who submits beer to the contest gets free entry. The Smoked Beer Revival is a professional beer competition sponsored by Viking Malt, Malt Tech LLC, Colorado Malting Company and the Real Colorado Beer Project. Any brewery interested in submitting a beer to The Smoked Beer Revival can do so through the event’s website, here. If anyone is interested in attending our Gemütlichkeit on August 12, 2017, visit our website.
Last Sips
Just as the hop industry successfully pivoted from a yield focus to innovative cross breeds and varieties that brewers and beer lovers can’t get enough of, so too are maltsters offering more variety and distinctive specialty malts that offer a sense of terroir and connection to the past.
Smoke beers may seem exotic or extreme for American beer lovers, but the style has its champions. Hoppy IPAs once were a tough sell, but there is nothing that says that the increased availability of specialty malts might send up signals that smoke beers or perhaps another malt-forward beer will be the next to catch fire.
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DETROIT – The youngsters called up from Grand Rapids to help the Detroit Red Wings stay afloat during a rash of injuries have impressed coach Mike Babcock more and more with each game.
And that could lead to some interesting decisions when the Red Wings finally get healthy.
The Red Wings will have to make some roster moves when Pavel Datsyuk, Stephen Weiss and Joakim Andersson are ready to return and the only players exempt from waivers are Luke Glendening, Riley Sheahan and Tomas Jurco.
The problem is, all three are playing well and Babcock sounds a lot like somebody who wants to keep the youngsters in Detroit. So what eventually unfolds is going to be interesting to watch.
"What we're going to do is talk about it and the best guys are going to play," Babcock said after Sunday's 5-4 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers at Joe Louis Arena.
"It's not going to have anything to do with age, it's just going to be what have you done here lately. They're pushing real hard. Riley Sheahan, (Tomas Tatar), Jurco, that line was really good" against Florida.
To keep the youngsters around, the Red Wings could opt to expose some of their veterans to waivers -- something they've already done this season with Cory Emmerton, Jordin Tootoo, Patrick Eaves and Mikael Samuelsson.
Potential candidates could include Daniel Cleary and Todd Bertuzzi, who have both struggled offensively this season.
Cleary, who was supposed to be a healthy scratch vs. Florida before Henrik Zetterberg missed the game with a back injury, has four goals and four assists in 51 games. Bertuzzi – who was a healthy scratch against the Panthers – has six goals and five assists in 44 games.
But the Red Wings might be reluctant to waive either.
Cleary and Bertuzzi are team leaders both in the dressing room and on the ice. The Red Wings might want their experience in the postseason if they can extend their playoff streak to 23 seasons.
Eaves will need to be placed on waivers again to be sent down because he has been on the NHL roster for more than 30 days and played more than 10 games since being recalled from Grand Rapids.
As for the youngsters, it's not hard to see what Babcock likes.
Glendening is a good penalty killer whose defensive play gets under the skin of opponents and has a big fan in Babcock. Sheahan is a big forward who has three goals to go with five assists in 12 games. Jurco is a slick forward who has two goals and three assists in 13 games.
Sheahan and Tatar both had a goal and an assist against Florida while playing on a line with Jurco, who drew an assist. Sheahan has scored in two straight games.
"With guys coming back, you're trying to replace them and do what you can to help the team," said Sheahan, who realizes he's a top candidate to return to Grand Rapids. "Their spots, they'll have the edge on you when it comes to the lineup, but right now I'm just trying to help the team win.
"We're doing the best we can right now. Every team gets hit with some adversity and it's just a matter of how you react to it. You play through it. That's all we're trying to do right now."
The Red Wings might have to start making decisions as early as Tuesday, when Andersson is hoping to return for Detroit's game in Philadelphia. |
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Formation of Au nanoparticles in an ionic liquid by electron beam irradiation.
A novel method to synthesize Au nanoparticles via a reductive reaction in an ionic liquid containing Au3+ ions was demonstrated using a low-energy electron beam irradiation technique; Au nanoparticles (approximately 122 nm) formed by the incident electron beam were well dispersed and crystallized; this finding opens up the possibility that the use of electron beams and ionic liquids is of key importance in the development of new fabrication techniques for nanomaterials. |
Mysticism is a crucial aspect of the study of religion. "One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its roots and centre in mystical states of consciousness," William James writes in The Varieties. That said, it's important to be clear about what he means by phrases like "states of consciousness".
Our view is coloured by a psychologising tendency that's grown since James. It can be associated, in particular, with Abraham Maslow's notion of "peak experiences" – the ecstatic states that satisfy the human need for self-actualisation. This exaltation of feelings of interconnectedness is questionable on two counts.
First, Maslow's analysis is scientifically dubious. As Jeremy Carrette and Richard King put it: "Sampling disillusioned college graduates, Maslow would ask his interviewees about their ecstatic and rapturous moments in life." No offence to students, but they probably do not provide the best samples of mystics.
A second critique of Maslow's work is found in the writings of the great spiritual practitioners themselves. The author of The Cloud of Unknowing, for one, explicitly argues that, whatever the mystical might be, it is hidden from experience. Or, as any decent meditation teacher will tell you, clinging to oceanic experiences will hinder your progress quite as much as clinging to anything else.
This is not to say that mystical experience has nothing to do with feelings, James continues. Rather, it is a state both of feeling and of knowledge, of wonder and intellectual engagement. The two faculties must be deployed when weighing any insight. "What comes," James explains, "must be sifted and tested, and run the gauntlet of confrontation with the total context of experience." Mystical states can, therefore, be assessed for their truth value. But how?
Not, James explains, in the way advocated by the "medical materialists" – those for whom mysticism signifies nothing but "suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria".
More controversially, James also believes that the truth of mystical experience has little to do with the specificities of time and place – which puts him at odds with scholars today, who generally emphasise the opposite: the need for a dialogue between the experience and its historical context. For example, the Jewish scholar, Gershom Scholem, coined the term "historiosophy" to capture the mix of real-life events and metaphysical response that he argued was implicit in mystical experience. A case in point is the origins of Lurianic Kabbala, which Scholem interpreted as a reaction to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492.
James, though, is mostly interested in the individual, not communal, significance of mysticism and, further, he inclines to the view that it is real and positive. "In mystic states," he writes, "we both become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness." In short, there are two characteristic outcomes: optimism and monism. This, he believes, is amply demonstrated in copious accounts of mystical experience. Generally speaking, they move "from a less into a more, as from a smallness into a vastness, and at the same time as from an unrest to a rest. We feel them as reconciling, unifying states".
Of course, such perspectival shifts could be deluded. The experience may be "nothing but [a] subjective way of feeling things, a mood of … fancy". James also considers what he calls "lower mysticisms", a category that includes states of consciousness that are the product of chemical not spiritual stimulation. An example is alcohol: "The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour."
Nonetheless, there is, for James, such a thing as genuine mystical experience, providing a pointer to a reality that is more likely true not false. The monism and optimism that is their product have such a demonstrably positive impact upon those who have them. And, James concludes, "that which produces effects within another reality must be termed a reality itself".
James's logic is faulty on this point. Robert Segal, of Lancaster University, has called it the "functional fallacy": delusions can lead an individual to act in positive ways, too. Moreover, James can be accused of putting the cart before the horse because the great mystics tend not to claim that good deeds prove the truth of an experience. Rather, they make the lesser claim that misdeeds invalidate them.
So, James's discussion of mysticism is not unproblematic. Alongside the functional fallacy, he is vulnerable to charges like that of sidelining historical context. But there is significant value in the way he frames the subject, particularly his recognition that experience is an interaction of both feeling and cognition. He seeks to assess mysticism's veracity not merely on account of its "luminousness". He also takes account of its reasonableness, judged by its fit within a well-articulated and philosophically defensible system of beliefs. And he stresses its overall moral consequences for the individual, the quality known as saintliness. |
Nebraska Pastor Hank Kunneman of One Voice Ministries, last seen promising God would cure cancer in the wake of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting, really wants Donald Trump to win re-election.
That’s why he offered Trump spiritual protection in a recent sermon.
… May there be a divine protection. Angelic assistance! Angelic reinforcements for President Trump! Angelic reinforcements! Angelic reinforcements! We call from the command of the army of the hosts of Heaven. We speak to the commander of the army of the hosts. More angelic reinforcements for President Trump! More, more angelic! More angelic reinforcements! We call upon the God of Heaven. Angelic reinforcements over the agenda that you have placed in the heart of this president. Over this administration! More angelic reinforcements! We [Christian gibberish]. We speak [Christian gibberish]. More angelic reinforcements! More angelic reinforcements! … “We speak a divine protection,” he added. “Not one hair on your head, President Trump, will be harmed in any way … We break the powers of darkness. Every satanic altar of evil where your name is mentioned, President Trump, we speak and command the fire of God to bring it to ashes.” “President Trump, Vice President Pence, you shall walk in the divine counsel of the Lord God of Hosts,” Kunneman declared. “You shall walk in the divine plan to make this nation great again, to keep this nation great again. This shall continue in 2020, 2024, and look to 2028 … It’s not just about four years, God is extending the number of the Kingdom for 12 years.”
That’s a weird way to ask Putin for help… Even if Trump had angelic reinforcements, you know it’d only be a matter of weeks before the angels said they’re resigning to spend more time with their celestial families.
And it’s telling that these right-wing pastors aren’t even bothering to ask God for help in GOP voter turnout. That’s not part of the Republican game plan anymore.
The Kunnemans’ ministry, by the way, is a religious non-profit group, which means they’re prohibited from endorsing a candidate from office. If the IRS gave a damn, his ministry would lose its tax-exempt status.
(via Right Wing Watch)
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Netscape and Microsoft are releasing new browsers with all sorts of new features. As a marketer with a Web site, should I care? What should I do about it?
For the moment, wait. The install base for these products is very limited right now, especially since Microsoft's Internet Explorer 4.0 won't be fully released until the end of the month at the earliest.
But just because your audience would be small today doesn't mean that it's going to stay that way.
It's a good time to talk to your developers and the rest of your staff about implementing some new features. What sort of use could you make of rich media or dynamic HTML? How would those features fit into your business plans?
Recently, we looked at pricing for some of these features in our Web Price Index.
Some of the new features are meant to make designers' lives easier by giving them more and better control over how a Web page looks on screen. This will make it easier for you to translate existing documents such as catalogs or pamphlets to the Web.
However, if you want to go beyond repurposing your content, Netscape's Communicator and IE will give you a lot of options. The new browsers will be able to create a more dynamic and interactive environment for visitors to your site.
They'll also give you the ability to develop more enticing ways to showcase your products or services than you can now.
The best part is that these solutions aren't all high-bandwidth. By making more use of Java, JavaScript and Dynamic HTML, sites can develop better-looking features without some of the long download times of the past.
Still, there are compatibility issues here. Microsoft and Netscape are battling for control of the browser market. One result is that their browsers don't operate quite the same way, and some features might work on one browser and not the other. And if you use too many new bells and whistles, people who haven't updated their software might get left behind.
Just because they're not the most tech-oriented people on the most tweaked systems doesn't mean that they're not your customers, too.
So discuss the possibilities with your developer and be ready to take whatever actions you deem necessary. More and more people will be able to take advantage of these features, and it might be to your advantage to have a site using some of the cooler new capabilities -- once the audience is there. |
Cryostats integrating PTR cooling are usually designed such that no liquid cryogen is present in their operation—the absence of liquid cryogen represents their main advantage over the standard bath cryostats. Standard bath cryostats use one or more types of liquefied gases of various boiling temperatures in their operation. The subject invention combines all advantages of standard cryostats with the advantages of the PTR-based cryostats. The invention is intended for measurements in solid state physics, in particular of AC susceptibility. |
Escalating security measures, body scans, lie detector tests and behavior analysis now being forced upon unwitting human livestock passing through airports are the first stage of an agenda to create a two tier caste system whereby only government authorized citizens will be able to travel and everyone will be subject to intense airport style harassment on city streets.
Recent incidents that caused delays and diversions on airliners - including the latest example where a flight was turned back due to a group of men using mobile phones - underscore the unmitigated hysteria created by the politically timed release of the alleged foiled plot announcement two weeks ago.
On August 14th a British Airways flight bound for New York was diverted back to Heathrow Airport because a mobile phone rang at the rear of the plane and its owner was not to be found.
Days later, United Airlines 923, bound for Washington from London had to be escorted to Boston by two F-15 fighter jets after a patently mentally ill woman began urinating on the floor and manically talking about having visited Pakistan and making vague references to bombs.Original reports that she had possessed a handwritten note alluding to Al-Qaeda were later dismissed.
Today all 12 suspects who were detained after Northwest Airlines flight 42, bound for Mumbai, had to be diverted , were freed. Passengers grew suspicious when the men began using mobile phones and cheering. On the face of it this is absurd - why would potential hijackers who would in the normal course of events be prepared to face fierce resistance from passengers want to make themselves conspicuous before any hijack attempt was made?
Perhaps the most ridiculous example of fear run amok occurred when passengers on a flight returning from Malaga Spain complained about two Asian men who they thought were potential suicide hijackers. The evidence? They were Asian! To the astonishment of the students they were marched off the plane at gun point before it took off.
Just when we thought airline security was starting to become rational again five years after September 11, one carefully timed PR scam has reversed all that and travelers are again treated worse than cattle as they are shoved around airports, treated as criminals and barked at by poorly trained screeners on little Hitler power trips.
The agenda is clearly to maintain a state of alert and panic until such a time that reverting back to 'normal' and 'reasoned' security measures is forgotten - the new normal becomes the insane and displaying any traits of disobedience to authority figures is taken as a sign of terrorism. Lie detector tests, voice stress analysis technology, advanced screening which produces naked images of passengers along with brain scanner and perspiration tension analysis systems are all being implemented as the notion of innocent until proven guilty is jettisoned without recourse.
The airports are merely a beta test for the exact same measures to be rolled out in major cities, where regular checkpoint officials inspect internal passports and consumers are body scanned to enter a supermarket or any kind of public event as spy drones swoop overhead to catalogue movement and alert authorities to any suspicious body language (remember Poindexter's gait analysis?).
The key to achieving all this on the part of the Neo-Fascists is to carry out more staged terror attacks on soft targets like sports stadiums, schools and large shopping malls. In terms of police state propaganda, these attacks would be more effective than a 9/11 style event because the implications would reach down into the roots of everyday life.
After more soft target terror attacks on buses and trains, citizens will be forced to biometric scan and show ID just to enter the transport station. Resistors who refuse to take a national ID card and eventually an implanted ID chip will be punished by their exclusion from a trusted travelers program that denotes how well a citizen has behaved and compares that score to the criteria of how and when they can travel. Nationwide toll roads snaking across the US and Britain that use RFID signals at toll booths and instant kill switches in private vehicles will see this nightmare extend its tentacles into the personal vehicle of every citizen.
The majority of what I outlined is already being implemented at major transport and police hubs in the US and Britain. When the technology to automate these measures is more widely used, its cost will drop and in turn spread like wildfire outside of the major cities and into local communities - unless we scream bloody murder and stop it before it makes it out of the airport terminal and onto our street corners.
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Our group is focused on classifying, identifying and studying the structure and functions of unknown egg proteins of invasive snails, agricultural plague and parasite vectors. We endeavour to understand the snail reproductive strategies from a biochemical perspective and, at the same time, to select some of these new proteins with potentials as bioactive compounds to exploit its application in Biomedicine.
Importance of the study of snail proteins
The knowledge of the structure and protein function is of key relevance for the understanding of all the biological processes. Gastropod molluscs are a source of bioactive molecules commonly used in Pharmacology and Medicine, since they have an outstanding diversity of compounds as reflection of their long evolutionary history. However, proteins of mollusc eggs are very little investigated. Our research group is studying them taking as a model those of Pomacea canaliculata (Lamarck, 1822), also called ampularia, an aquatic snail, worldwide invader which has turned out to be a plague for rice fields. Its uncontrolled expansion entailed the advance of a vector nematode parasite, responsible for human eosinophilic meningoencephalitis in Asia and Latin America. Its eggs strongly coloured by pigmented proteins almost have no predators.
Questions expected to answer
What kind of proteins do the eggs of this snail have?
Which are the properties of these proteins and what role do they play in the defence mechanism of the embryos?
Doe they have any application as tools in Biomedicine?
Employed methodology
Our group uses a multidisciplinary approach with collaborations of other research groups of our country and abroad in order to answer these questions, usually employing a combination of methodologies such as biochemical, molecular biology, biophysics, cellular biology, histopathological and bioassays with laboratory animals. Some of the techniques used are described as follows:
Determination of amino acid sequence.
Study of biochemical activity of inhibitors, lectins, enzymes isolated from the eggs.
Study of structure/function of proteins through dispersion of angle x-rays and biophysical techniques.
Microbiological studies of inhibition of bacterial growth.
In vitro studies of toxicity and interaction with cultured tumour cells.
Basic immunological studies.
Toxicity bioassays in murine model.
Use of optical and electronic microscopy for histopathological studies, effects on the nervous and digestive systems of potential predators
Main results
We studied the proteome of egg fluid and demonstrated that P. canaliculata has achieved a fascinating antipredatory defence mechanism where perivitellins play a central role, providing the embryos with one of the best defences in animals at biochemical level. We characterize major perivitellins (PcOvo y PcPV2) that participate in the defence as follows:
PcOvo caroprotein provides photoprotective and antioxidant compounds which at the same time give an intense colour. Its striking colouring would warn potential predators of the presence of various protein toxins of perivitellin fluid surrounding the embryo. PcOvo also has associated an activity as protease inhibitor of gastrointestinal tract of the predator, limiting the digestion of egg nutrients (antidigestive defence). Orally administered, it diminishes the growth rate in rats and impedes nutrient acquisition.
PcPV2 is lethal for rodents and is the first protein toxin described within an egg. Its structure differs from all other animal toxins since it combines a lectin subunit that recognizes specific sequences of membrane sugars, and a subunit that forms pores in the membrane. Despite the fact that there is no equal in animals, it is similar to some toxins type AB described in seeds and to the botulinum toxin. Whether this novel defence system is present in the eggs of other species remains unknown. We continue studying its properties and mechanism of action. However, we study the major egg protein ofPomacea scalaris so-called scalarin (PsSC) that provides the eggs with a striking rose-salmon colour that could function as a warning signal. We demonstrated that it is a powerful lectin that shows, nevertheless, many structural and functional similarities with PcOvo, that it is not.
We are studying its defence function as toxin lectin on the digestive system and its potential as biomarker of tumour cells. Other gastropod lectins have impact on medical practice and are commercialized to improve the pharmacokinetics of glycoprotein drugs or in the diagnosis of diseases such as tumour markers.
The structure and function of these three proteins are very resistant to high temperatures, to a very range of pH and to gastrointestinal digestion, what allows reaching biologically active intestines, highlighting even more its biotechnological application.
Evolutional and ecological implications
The selection pressure exerted by predators and hostile environment on the eggs would lead to the acquisition of new properties to endure the air development of an aquatic animal. At biochemical level it seems that these adaptations would involve a new type of perivitellins that besides being a reserve protein they are multifunctional compounds provided with very efficient defences against predation together with protective properties of the embryo facing hostile environment conditions.
The presence of eggs protected with proteins of these characteristics has not been found in other members of the animal kingdom, but it is similar to the plant defences against herbivory. |
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Open location app from webpage link from ios browser
I wish to make a link in my mobile website that will trigger a location based application (as waze or google maps) to open in location.
the following html code:
<a href="geo:32.0783087,34.81842779999999">go to location</a>
working great with android browsers, but not working with iphone (using safari or chrome)
How can it be done to work with iphone/ipad browsers?
A:
To open google maps on ios you have to use a specific url scheme (specific for each application, if provided) for example the following will call google maps :
comgooglemaps://?daddr=%f,%f&saddr=%f,%f&mrsp=0&ht=it&ftr=0", contactPosition.latitude, contactPosition.longitude, myPosition.latitude, myPosition.longitude
and this wil open waze :
waze://?ll=37.331689,-122.030731&navigate=yes
In both cases to have this working the user, obviously, should have the apps installed.
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As a teenager, I volunteered at the local animal shelter. One of the tasks I performed there was assisting in the bathing of newly acquired cats and kittens. From this I learned two important pieces of information: 1) cats hate water and 2) they will gladly claw your face off to escape a bath. Many wild felines also display a lack of enthusiasm for getting wet, but not the fishing cat. This species regularly and willingly enters water. They swim, they dive and, most importantly, they catch fish – thus earning them their common name.
Spots and stripes
At first glance, fishing cats bear some resemblance to the water-loathing domestic cats we dunked into tubs at the shelter. But the tabby cat stripes on their heads give way to a spotted coat more evocative of a leopard, and they’re closer in size to a bobcat than to a house cat. Male fishing cats are considerably larger than females, averaging 15 kg (33 lbs) and 5 kg (11 lbs) respectively. Both genders have stocky, muscular proportions. Their legs and tails are relatively short, and their small ears can be tucked close to their heads when in the water.
The fishing cat’s partially webbed feet are sometimes cited as an adaptation to its aquatic lifestyle, but such webbing is also common in cats that eschew water. More unusual are the cat’s claws. The claws of most felines are fully retracted into their paws when not in use. But fishing cats’ claws are only partially sheathed and protrude from their paws like exposed fishing hooks.
The cats’ vocalizations are also a bit of an oddity. While the repertoire includes some cat-like meows, fishing cats also produce staccato growling sounds that might best be described as barks.
Dive dining
As you likely surmised, fishing cats are quite comfortable in the water.* They’re skilled swimmers, even in deep water and for longer distances. Their short tail can be used as a rudder for better steering.
While they may also sometimes partake of small mammals, reptiles and birds, it is of course fish that make up the bulk of the fishing cat’s diet. The species hunts mostly at night, stalking and pouncing on its prey much like land-dwelling felines, except that it does so while up to its neck in water. To snatch fish from their aquatic home, the cats dive at their prey with teeth bared or swat them out of the water with their sharp front paws. They’ve also been seen tapping the water’s surface, a behavior some say is designed to attract fish by making it appear as though tasty insects can be found above.
On the waterfront
Fishing cats are found in southern and southeastern Asia – including parts of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia – but their distribution is patchy. They live primarily near wetlands, slow moving bodies of water such as swamps and marshes being their optimum habitat.
The degradation of wetlands is the major threat to fishing cat populations. Human draining of these habitats for use in food production such as farm-raising of shrimp is swallowing large swathes of the cats’ terrain.
Fishing cats are listed as endangered, and conservationists are working to protect the cats and the wetlands they need to live and hunt. One piece of good news is that fishing cats inhabit some of the same environments as tigers, so conservation efforts on behalf of this larger, more famous feline may also benefit the fishing cat.
* Several other species of wild cats also defy the stereotype the felines can’t stand water. Tigers are the most well known of the swimming kitties.
This post was originally published in January, 2012 |
Algerian Hostage Tapes: Inside Intel on Terror Attack?
Jan. 22, 2013
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Kristi Wysocki, whose husband Steven was one of the seven who managed to survive the ordeal, said that Steven hid, sometimes just feet away from the terrorists, for more than two days before running for his life.
"He told me that when he felt someone was close, that was the only time he could quit shaking," she told ABC News in an exclusive interview. |
#region CmdMessenger - MIT - (c) 2014 Thijs Elenbaas.
/*
CmdMessenger - library that provides command based messaging
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Copyright 2014 - Thijs Elenbaas
*/
#endregion
using System;
namespace CommandMessenger
{
public sealed class CommandEventArgs : EventArgs
{
public Command Command { get; private set; }
public CommandEventArgs(Command command)
{
Command = command;
}
}
}
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Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are terrible illnesses that are both socially and medically tough to deal with. The Hogewey center in the Netherlands, however, is helping pioneer a sensitive new form of care for dementia and Alzheimer’s patients by creating a safe, gated village where they can roam freely and lead normal lives.
The enclosed village of De Hogeweyk, located in the town of Weesp, has everything – a grocery store, parks, a restaurant, a bar and a theater. Its 23 homes house 152 seniors suffering from dementia and Alzheimer’s.
The center, designed by the Molenaar&Bol&VanDillen architecture firm, opened in 2009. It cost the Dutch government 17.8 million euros (20.1 million USD), with an additional 1.5 million (1.7 million USD) coming from local organizations. The cost for a single resident is around 5,000 euros (5,657 USD) a month.
More info: hogeweyk.dementiavillage.com | mbvda.nl (h/t: twistedsifter)
Hogeweyk isn’t your regular quiet Dutch village
Image credits: msagd.rlp.de
It’s home to 152 dementia and Alzheimer’s patients
Image credits: Madeleine Sars
Life is normal, however – there’s even a supermarket!
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
Other amenities include a restaurant, a theater and a bar
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
The residential buildings are separated by interior decor styles
Image credits: KopArt, Amstelveen
Image credits: KopArt, Amstelveen
Image credits: msagd.rlp.de
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
The center, designed by the architects at Molenaar&Bol&VanDillen, opened in 2009
Image credits: msagd.rlp.de
The center cost the Dutch government and local organizations 19.3 mil. euros (21.8 mil. USD)
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
The caretakers and staff dress in everyday clothes to appear normal
Image credits: Hans Erkelens
The patients that live in “up-scale” suites sometimes treat caretakers like neighbors or workers
Image credits: Anita Edridge
Image credits: Madeleine Sars
Image credits: msagd.rlp.de
Image credits: Nieko Roozen
Image credits: Molenaar&Bol&VanDillen architekten |
Q:
invoke-parallel in Powershell - data sharing inside script with global variable
Using invoke-parallel in Powershell, I'm trying to get a list of hosts where a certain command works vs. does not. How can I write to a global variable inside of invoke-parallel?
$creds = Get-Credential -UserName $username -Message 'Password?'
$servers = get-content .\hosts.txt
$success = @()
$failure = @()
Invoke-Parallel -InputObject $servers -throttle 20 -runspaceTimeout 30 -ImportVariables -ScriptBlock {
try
{
$result = Invoke-Command $_ -Credential $creds -Authentication "Negotiate" -ErrorAction Stop {hostname}
$success += $result
}
catch
{
$failure += $_
}
}
write-host $success
write-host $failure
A:
Try this:
$Results = Invoke-Parallel -InputObject $servers -throttle 20 -runspaceTimeout 30 -ImportVariables -ScriptBlock {
try
{
$Output = Invoke-Command $_ -Credential $creds -Authentication "Negotiate" -ErrorAction Stop {hostname}
}
catch
{
$Output = $_
}
@($Output)
}
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#include "lino_base.h"
int main(int argc, char** argv )
{
ros::init(argc, argv, "lino_base_node");
LinoBase lino;
ros::spin();
return 0;
} |
What does it take to get a crazy mofo locked up around here?
The day James Anthony Williams allegedly stabbed to death a stranger on Capitol Hill, the homeless, mentally ill ex-convict showed up at his probation officer’s office agitated, defensive and, the officer wrote, “barely able to hold himself together.”
[…]
Department of Corrections (DOC) records released Friday show that Williams, diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, spiraled into a pit of anger and delusion late last year. He skipped required mental-health appointments and was evicted for threatening his landlord.
[…]
An opportunity to intervene with Williams emerged last summer, after he was charged in Seattle Municipal Court with threatening to “shoot all the caseworkers” at Sound Mental Health and to “lay in wait” to shoot his DOC officer. He spent three months at Western State Hospital for an assessment of whether he was competent to stand trial for misdemeanor harassment charges.
His menacing behavior continued while at Western State. A social worker complained to DOC about Williams’ “intimidating and menacing behavior” toward staff, and about Williams’ claims of having “two personalities and one of them can lead to killing people and maybe he should go to jail,” according to the DOC records released Friday.
He’s a violent, mentally ill man with open disdain for his caretakers, but all of this isn’t enough to get somebody put away so they don’t hurt somebody.
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The state DOC needs to completely overhaul community corrections. What has Gregoire done to improve this? We had that incident where 48 inmates were freed last year due to jail space, and we’ve had at least two police officers killed in the past three years from ex-cons still under community supervision. Gregoire has tried to claim ignorance on this in the past, but there’s no getting past this one.
Let me be clear, I’m not blaming the Governor for this horrific death, but I do blame her for doing virtually nothing to improve the Department of Corrections. What significant changes and improvements have occurred under her watch? I could easily point to a lot more tragedies…
@1 Tim Eyman wants to increasing transportation spending by $130 million a year without raising taxes by raiding the General Fund. How many criminally insane people will we have to release from Western State and Eastern State to pay for Timmy’s “congestion relief” scheme?
Dino Rossi promises tax cuts but doesn’t tell us where they’ll come from. All we know is the one time he helped write a state budget he kicked 40,000 poor kids off health care. Will he release inmates from Walla Walla? Will he close Western State? What state services will he cut? He doesn’t say. He wants to keep you guessing.
Actually I do blame Gregoire on this one, as well as every DSHS nightmare that will continue to come to light. The problem is no one is ever really held accountable. Unfortunately and apparently, my only options later this year are to either not vote or to vote for some boob who says he believes the Earth is only 6000-7000 years old.
As a liberal, it’s hard for me to say this, but I honestly blame the liberal mindset that says that mentally ill are not responsible for their actions, therefor we cannot punish them as harshly as non-mentally ill people.
“As a liberal, it’s hard for me to say this, but I honestly blame the liberal mindset that says that mentally ill are not responsible for their actions, therefor we cannot punish them as harshly as non-mentally ill people.”
I wasn’t aware that that mindset existed as a liberal-mindset. I’m a liberal, but I don’t think people that cause harm to other people should be part of our community. I’d say that the difference in mindset between liberals and conservatives is that liberals think the mentally ill who commit crimes need helped where the conservatives don’t think the mentally ill can be helped or think it’s too expensive to help them.
Where you are more concerned with helping violent mentally ill people, I am more concerned with helping their future victims stay safe from them. Let me bottom line it for you. If that piece of garbage had been locked up for life the first time he shot someone, Shannon Harps would be alive today.
Btw, you can decrease the number of people who get stabbed by crazy mofo’s, by having better access to health care including mental health care there by reducing the number of crazy mofo’s in the population.
A number of commenters try to distinguish between liberal and conservative approaches to protecting the public from misfits like Williams. It’s not a left vs right issue: it’s a competency of government issue. The democrats running this state have not done squat to protect the citizenry in this Williams case, despite years of being in charge of EVERYTHING. They’ve had other priorities.
Better access to health care is a good one, michael: that should keep deranged killers off the street. Meanwhile, Roger blames the predicted future flood of murderous psychopaths on Tim Eyman??? You guys are nuts.
Husky football player joke on target. Husky football player joke make me laugh.
As far as the social service argument goes, everyone can sleep well knowing that Frank Blethen and Bill Gates enjoy a much lower tax rate due to the gutting of the social safety net. This includes funding for the mentally ill. Being Republican means never saying you are wrong. So what else is new?
Roger 15: None. WA has had surplus lately and your Democrats did nothing to address this issue. Unfortunately for the victims, there are no corporate lobbyists or waelthy non-profits pushing for this mess to be fixed.
Tim Eyman and the whole anti-tax, anti-goverment mentality from which he gains his life-force like some frat-boy-lamprey hybrid has as much to do with how things are run in this state as the Democrats do. The Dems haven’t been in control of the state legislature for that long, for one thing. And ever since Eyman came on the scene the state has had to pare programs left and right. Sorry, but more crazy people with knives out on the streets is just as likely the result of program cuts as it is to poor management.
@17 You’re full of shit. The surplus isn’t spending money. Our state’s dependence on sales taxes necessitates saving money during good times to make up revenue declines when the economy slows, as it is doing now. At least, that’s how you’re supposed to do it, although our last Republican governor didn’t, which resulted in disruptive program cuts had to be made. We don’t need any more of GOP/Spellman-style fiscal management. You’re also full of shit that opposing taxes doesn’t impact the prison/mental hospital budget, which is one of the 3 largest non-education expenses in the state budget. You’re also full of shit that there are no crime victim lobbies.
What you’re trying to say is Republicans can cut taxes and keep dangerous people locked up at the same time.
17, 18 – The truth is mental health has been starved of funding in this state for years. We emptied our state mental hospitals onto the streets years ago and there’s next to nothing in support or supervision for the chronically mentally ill, many of whom end up in city and county jails. In fact, about half of the local jail population consists of people with mental problems.
DOC is so short of prison beds they’ve had to rent space in county jails. We have the same dangerous prison overcrowding conditions other states have. And there aren’t enough CCOs (community corrections officers) either.
And against this backdrop all we hear from Republicans is incessant whining for tax cuts that benefit only them. If we could somehow afford to cut taxes, why not give more property tax relief to senior citizens of modest means, and sales tax rebates to low income households? Why should those who are already making out like robbers under our regressive tax system get even more tax breaks at the expense of public safety or other vital services?
And why on God’s green earth should someone like Tim Eyman come along with a new program costing $130 million a year and think he can pay for it by robbing other programs?
Washington voters aren’t as stupid as Republicans think. For 24 years, they’ve refused to elect any of the rejects the GOP insists on running for governor. The last capable Republican to run for governor in this state was Dan Evans.
Better access to mental health services helps people from becoming psyo-killers in the first place. Which is a much better solution to the problem than locking them up after the fact and it’s cheaper too!
If you go back to my original comment @6 you’ll see that I want people who are a danger to society locked up. Hell, I probably want them locked up more than you two as I’m willing to foot the tax bill to do it.
#5 and #6 above (I stopped reading there): I’m a liberal and I’m not supporting leaving dangerous people on the street. People don’t seem to understand “liberalism” – it is different for all of us really. But, I’m generous when deserved; I believe in consequences – harsh ones – when deserved.
Mental illness is not a reason to forgive everything. As one who is on the fence regarding capital punishment, if we’re not going to house the mentally ill humanely for life, then euthanasia is something I can easily consider.
#27 – better access to mental health care doesn’t often help people from becoming sick. Schizophrenia isn’t easily managed. If you’ve ever known a schizophrenic, you’d know that. They are impossible for even their own families to control.
In this case, the system failed big time. The system is just people and if those people aren’t accountable, why have them?
I know all sorts of people with mental illnesses that are doing just fine thanks to proper treatment and support. This is an anonymous blog, you shouldn’t think you know things about the other people on it.
“In this case, the system failed big time. The system is just people and if those people aren’t accountable, why have them?”
Yes the system did fail big time and it is too bad that those people responsible for that failure will not be fired from their jobs. It is also too bad that those people who are trying to help people and are doing their jobs aren’t better funded and supported.
@19 Memo to Mr. Know-It-All: Mental health services are provided at the county level, and county budgets have been hard hit by Eyman’s initiatives. Guess you didn’t get the previous memo on this subject.
It plays to Rossi’s favor to have dangerous psychotics running around the streets. That way he and Lou Guzzo can gasbag about how “we need to clean things up”, and he and his buddies can make money building more gated communities out in the ‘burbs for those who can afford it to be “safe” in.
Dan Satterberg has a major share of the blame. The King County Prosecuting Attorney is the office responsible for prosecuting civil commitment cases in King County, and it looks like Satterberg failed to do anything whatsoever to seek this person’s civil commitment.
Also, it looks like James Anthony Williams could have been charged with a felony when he threatened to shoot the caseworkers at Seattle Mental Health and lie in wait to shoot his corrections officer. Instead, Satterberg declined felony charges and left it with Seattle authorities to pursue that case as a misdemeanor.
When someone is found incompetent or insane on a felony charge, they continue to be locked up, until they prove they are not a danger to society or themselves. But if someone is found incompetent or insane on a misdemeanor charge, they will be release, unless civil commitment is pursued and a high standard of proof is satisfied that they are dangerous.
Roger @ 34: You are masterful at dreaming up excuses for our governments failure to protect the citizens from dangerously mentally ill creeps. And you still haven’t come up with anything to refute my opinion that “The legislature and governor have other priorities, thats why they have done nothing.” It’s a lack of results that is obvious to everybody but you, old grouch.
When you bring up taxes, Eyman, Republicans, “it’s funded at the County level” or “crime victim lobbies” you are just being a Democrat hack wind bag. Purposely no doubt. Ever heard the saying “Power corrupts”? Partisan gas bags like you using Eyman as an excuse for letting sick deranged killers wander around Seattle is a perfect example of that.
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Noah K tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! Amazon and Best Buy just cut the price of Apple TV - is a refresh imminent? Sony is in talks with big media to start a live TV streaming service over the Web. And Nokia's got a higher end Lumia phone - and a Windows tablet - in the pipeline.
Noah K tackles the biggest tech rumors of this week! Amazon and Best Buy just cut the price of Apple TV - is a refresh imminent? Sony is in talks with big media to start a live TV streaming service over the Web. And Nokia's got a higher end Lumia phone - and a Windows tablet - in the pipeline.
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Synergistic anti-proliferative effect of metformin and sorafenib on growth of anaplastic thyroid cancer cells and their stem cells.
Sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor has recently been approved for the treatment of radio-iodine refractory thyroid carcinoma. However, toxic side effects may lead to dose reduction. In the present study, we analyzed whether a combined therapy with metformin may allow a dose reduction of sorafenib without loss of effectiveness at the same time. In HTh74 anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) cells and its derived doxorubicin-resistant HTh74Rdox cell line, the growth inhibitory effect of sorafenib with or without metformin was investigated. Furthermore, an analysis of cell cycle arrest in response to sorafenib was performed and the ability of a combined treatment to induce apoptosis was analyzed. In addition, the effects on clonal growth and formation of stem cell-derived spheres were assayed. The influence of sorafenib and metformin on MAP kinase pathway was investigated by analysis of ERK phosphorylation. Sorafenib and metformin synergistically inhibited growth of the two thyroid cancer cell lines, with a more pronounced effect on the doxorubicin-resistant HTh74Rdox cell line. The two drugs also synergistically decreased sphere formation, which suggested a specific effect on thyroid cancer stem cells. The addition of metformin enabled a 25% dose reduction of sorafenib without loss of its growth inhibitory efficacy. Sorafenib and metformin synergistically decreased the proliferation of ATC cell lines and the outgrowth of their derived cancer stem cells. A combined treatment enabled a significant dose reduction of sorafenib. In respect to frequent toxic side effects, clinical studies in future should demonstrate whether the addition of metformin may be an advantage in the chemotherapy of patients with radio-iodine‑resistant thyroid cancer. |
Q:
Firebase onAuthStateChange() state does not change
I am trying to login the user to my app. I expect when the user enters details and signs in, to be redirected and to console.log(user); account details. The problem is that console just shows Not logged in even after I try to login. Regarding the overall flow of the application, when the user successfully signs in, a token is sent from the cloud function which is displayed in the console. I do not understand what am I doing wrong here.
function signIn() {
var usernameValue = document.getElementById("sign-in-username").value;
var passwordValue = document.getElementById("sign-in-password").value;
fetch("http://localhost:5001/.../europe-west3/api/login", {
method: "POST",
mode: "cors",
headers: {
"Content-type": "application/json",
},
body: JSON.stringify({
username: usernameValue,
password: passwordValue,
})
})
.then((res) => {
return res.json();
})
.then((data) => {
console.log(data)
})
.catch((error) => console.log("ERROR"));
}
The authentication state does not change.
auth.onAuthStateChanged(function (user) {
if (user) {
window.location.href = "user.html";
console.log(user);
} else {
console.log("Not logged in");
}
});
A:
If you some sort of API endpoint to sign in a user, that will never have an effect on the auth state observed by the Firebase SDK. The auth state observer is only going to trigger when you also use the Firebase SDK to sign in the user. For example, it triggers when you call methods like signInWithEmailAndPassword(), or any of the methods that start with "signIn".
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Global Epidemiology, Prevention, and Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.
The incidence rate of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is rising. It is one of the most common cancers worldwide and accounts for substantial morbidity and mortality. Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) are the most important etiologies of HCC, and effective screening and management strategies are crucial to reduce the HCC risk. For HBV, which accounts for the majority of HCC cases, most infections were acquired via perinatal and early horizontal transmission. Universal vaccination of newborns has led to a decline in HCC incidence compared with the pre-vaccination era. Effective antiviral therapies with nucleos(t)ide analogues or pegylated interferon reduced the incidence of HCC. For HCV, the emergence of effective direct-acting antiviral (DAA) agents has substantially improved cure rates; therefore all patients with HCV should be considered for DAA treatment. The most important obstacle in eliminating HCV is access to therapy. For NAFLD, the global incidence is increasing rapidly, thus its impact on HCC incidence may be explosive. Progression to HCC in NAFLD happens particularly in those with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and exacerbated by metabolic syndrome, or PNPLA3 gene polymorphism. Lifestyle changes are imperative while drug therapy has yet to demonstrate substantive protective effects on HCC prevention. For management of HCC, early diagnosis via imaging surveillance among persons with HCC risk factors remains the most important strategy to identify early-stage disease appropriate for resection or transplantation. |
Street protests in Iran under the banner of "No to High Prices" erupted on 28 December in the holy city of Mashhad, the country's second-largest city. The following day, the protests spread to several additional cities, including Qom, home to the largest centre for Shia scholarship and seminaries in the world.
Demonstrators ignored a warning by Iran's interior minister to avoid "illegal gatherings". The protesters set a police car on fire in Mashhad on the night of 30 December.
Why Mashhad?
That the dominant slogan chanted by the Mashhad demonstrators in the early hours was "Death to Rouhani" - referring to the Iranian centrist president - raises the suspicion that the protests were orchestrated by hardliners to undermine Hassan Rouhani and his administration.
Mashhad is where Ebrahim Raisi, the hardliner candidate who was defeated by Rouhani in last May's presidential elections, is headquartered as the custodian of the holy shrine of Imam Reza, the eighth Imam of the Shia Twelvers.
Mashhad is also home to Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, Raisi's father-in-law and the city's Friday prayer leader, who is one of Rouhani's fiercest opponents. In the May election, Raisi attracted 903,000 votes in Mashhad, versus Rouhani's 688,000.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani listening to a speech at International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran on 5 December 2017 (AFP)
This imbalance resulted in Mashhad being the only large city that voted for Raisi.
In a statement, Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri alluded to the likelihood of the protests being launched and organized by the hardliners in an effort to bring down Rouhani, saying: "The ones who trigger political moves in the streets may not be the ones who will put an end to it, since others may ride the wave they have started."
Jahangiri's remark proved prescient. The anti-Rouhani slogans were quickly taken over and dominated by others, such as "Death to the dictator," "You are using religion as a ladder, you have ruined people," "Leave Syria alone, do something for us," "The Islamic Republic we don't want, we don't want" and "The nation is struggling in poverty, the leader is acting as God".
But what was completely unprecedented – and never been seen in any previous demonstrations since the Iranian Revolution – were slogans in support of the last royal dynasty, which was toppled by the 1979 revolution, such as: "Reza Shah [referring to the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty], Bless your soul" and "Shahanshah [meaning the king, referring to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, overthrown in 1979], Bless your soul."
But what was completely unprecedented ... were slogans in support of the last royal dynasty that was toppled by the 1979 revolution
Poverty, unemployment and astronomical corruption
Grievances such as poverty, high unemployment (officially at 12.7 percent), astronomical corruption cases, price increases, fraudulent financial schemes that have resulted in millions of people's savings being erased, and – perhaps worst – the widening gap between the poor and the rich, were reflected in the slogan of "What a mistake we made by taking part in the revolution".
According to a 4 September report by the Revolutionary Guards in their political organ Sobhe Sadeq titled "People's livelihoods is the Leader's many-years-long concern," half of the Iranian population live under the poverty line and inequity is widening.
It is an open secret that in Iran, where corruption is prevalent, wealth accumulation is primarily realised through patronage, nepotism, cronyism, and rent seeking activities.
While the majority of Iranians suffer economically and some struggle for survival – the walls of Tehran are plastered with ads of people selling their kidneys, for example – the "rich kids of Iran" revel in their glamorous lifestyle. Against this backdrop, the government claims to be revolutionary, seeking to place the Islamic value of ghest (social justice) at the centre of its discourse.
Making matters worse is Rouhani and his team's Pavlovian following of a neoliberal economic system, which brings with it a dogmatic adherence to the spurious idea that economic growth is the remedy to all ills of society and that the wealth of the rich "trickles down" to the poor.
In August, Rouhani's minister of intelligence, cleric Mahmood Alavi, said to businessmen: "I kiss your hands. ... If any of my colleagues get close to arresting a [largely] economically active person, that would be the end of his career."
In an unheard of statement by an official in the Islamic Republic, Alavi continued by saying: "Just because your generosity reaches our society and our youth, we send you our prayers and do our best to protect your security and your reputation."
The opponents of the moderates and reformists, ie the conservatives, are no better in this respect. They simply use populist rhetoric as a tool to discredit the moderates and have not passed a single piece of legislation to defend those who suffer economically. This despite the fact that conservatives have overwhelmingly been the dominant faction in the parliament.
Will the protests lead to a popular uprising?
Thus far, the protests have failed to transform into mass demonstrations. There are three major reasons why they may not.
First, unlike the 2009 protests of the disputed election of the former eccentric president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there is no leadership to mobilise a mass uprising. Indeed, there is neither leadership inside nor outside of Iran opposing the government based on a platform in support of the needy. In the 2009 upheavals, not a single economic demand was brought by the Green Movement.
Iranians chant slogans as they march in support of the government near the Imam Khomeini grand mosque in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017 (AFP)
First, unlike the 2009 protests of the disputed election of the former eccentric president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, there is no leadership to mobilise a mass uprising
Second, a large number of the middle-class urbanites who took part in the 2009 demonstrations are suspicious about the nature of the current developments. They do not want to fall into the conservatives' trap and be used as a tool to weaken Rouhani in favour of his opponents, whom they wholeheartedly detest. One must not forget that Rouhani won the election primarily as a result of the support of the middle class.
Third, there is confusion as to the basis of the protests. Although the protests began as demonstrations against economic woes, in their continuation the slogans have addressed a myriad of issues ranging from economic to political to anti-clerical and anti-establishment arenas.
That said, as life becomes more arduous for the Iranian people, especially the poor, there likely could be an outbreak of public anger by a new class that has not arisen since the 1979 revolution. That new "movement of the hungry" could endanger the stability of Iran and its establishment.
- Shahir Shahidsaless is an Iranian-Canadian political analyst and freelance journalist writing about Iranian domestic and foreign affairs, the Middle East, and the US foreign policy in the region. He is the co-author of Iran and the United States: An Insider’s View on the Failed Past and the Road to Peace. He is a contributor to several websites with focus on the Middle East as well as the Huffington Post. He also regularly writes for BBC Persian. He tweets @SShahisaless.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.
Photo: An Iranian woman raises her fist amid the smoke of tear gas at the University of Tehran during a protest driven by anger over economic problems, in the capital Tehran on December 30, 2017.
This article is available in French on Middle East Eye French edition. |
Q:
Using Array(Tuple(LowCardinality(String), Int32)) in ClickHouse
I have a table
CREATE TABLE table (
id Int32,
values Array(Tuple(LowCardinality(String), Int32)),
date Date
) ENGINE MergeTree()
PARTITION BY toYYYYMM(date)
ORDER BY (id, date)
but when executing the request
SELECT count(*)
FROM table
WHERE (arrayExists(x -> ((x.1) = toLowCardinality('pattern')), values) = 1)
I get an error
Code: 49. DB::Exception: Received from clickhouse:9000. DB::Exception: Cannot capture column 3 because it has incompatible type: got String, but LowCardinality(String) is expected..
If I replace the column 'values'
values Array(Tuple(String, Int32))
then the request is executed without errors.
What could be the problem when using Array(Tuple(LowCardinality(String), Int32))?
A:
Until it will be fixed (see bug 7815), can be used this workaround:
SELECT uniqExact((id, date)) AS count
FROM table
ARRAY JOIN values
WHERE values.1 = 'pattern'
For the case when there are more than one Array-columns can be used this way:
SELECT uniqExact((id, date)) AS count
FROM
(
SELECT
id,
date,
arrayJoin(values) AS v,
arrayJoin(values2) AS v2
FROM table
WHERE v.1 = 'pattern' AND v2.1 = 'pattern2'
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|
Existence and purification of porin heterotrimers of Escherichia coli K12 OmpC, OmpF, and PhoE proteins.
Porin is a trimeric membrane protein that functions as a diffusion pore in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. We report the existence and purification of porin heterotrimers between the ompC, ompF, and phoE porin gene products. Separation was achieved using a high resolution anion exchange column. The amount of each heterotrimer species present depended on the level of expression of the subunits and was consistent with random mixing of trimer subunits. A strong effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on the chromatography of porin was also detected. These results imply that assembly of porin trimers occurs between subunits synthesized on different polysomes and that subunit contacts between the porin subunits occur in conserved regions of the primary sequence. |
america the beautiful
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords Shot In Arizona (UPDATED)
Jesus, what is it with this country? “U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.” According to reports, she’s been transported to University Medical Center in Tucson, but her condition isn’t known. UPDATE: NPR says she and six others have died.UPDATE 2: Gunman is said to be uninjured and “called out names of people” as he aimed at targets. UPDATE 3: A sheriff of some sort on MSNBC is now saying she is STILL ALIVE.UPDATE 4: On MSNBC, a hospital official says Giffords is alive and currently in surgery.UPDATE 5: Among those killed, according to MSNBC: a federal judge.UPDATE 6: As we await the hospital news conference at 3:30 ET, a report from inside says Giffords was talking on her war into surgery, according to MSNBC.UPDATE 7: State senator on Fox News said Giffords was shot in the temple and the bullet went through her brain and exited her head and that she has made it through surgery and is responsive.UPDATE 8: Arizona district court judge John Roll is the federal judge who was killed, according to Fox News. He was appointed by George H.W. Bush. He and his family received death threats in 2009 for allowing a lawsuit by illegal immigrants.UPDATE 9: Also according to Fox: the shooter was a 22-year-old white male.UPDATE 10: AP says shooter is named Jared Laughner. He’s in custody.UPDATE 11: Status on Giffords is critical condition, according to doctor at the press conference. He expects her to survive. She was shot one time. One dead at his hospital: a nine-year-old child. She’s the victim of a semi-automatic weapon. This sort of thing is apparently something that often happens in Arizona, because Giffords’ staff reported feeling unsafe at town halls in 2009 when an attendee dropped a gun at one of her events. Sure, we joke about Arizona and other states being insane and violent, but here you go: Fine, Arizona. You win. Now stop. Jesus Christ. Keep refreshing this post and we’ll keep you updated.
From that article in 2009:
One of the callers to the Service Employees International Union said, “I suggest you tell your people to calm down, act like American citizens, and stop trying to repress people’s First Amendment rights… That, or you all are gonna come up against the Second Amendment.”
Sometimes these idiots are so dumb and hateful they follow through on their own chickenshit threats.
For all of that and more, Mr. Acosta’s class and others in the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American program have been declared illegal by the State of Arizona — even while similar programs for black, Asian and American Indian students have been left untouched.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff’s office confirms. The 40-year-old Democrat was outside a Tucson grocery store when a gunman ran up and began firing indiscriminately. The suspect was taken into police custody.
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona was shot in the head and killed outside a grocery store in Tucson while holding a public event, Arizona Public Media reported Saturday.
Politics at its most horrifying:
This is what Google News looked like a few minutes ago: Congresswoman hopes people of differing views can work together. Congresswoman shot dead. Jesus Christ, this country.
She is 40.
Here is what is being passed around Twitter:
Gabrielle Giffords is newly married. She is a step-parent. She has served in Congress since January of 2007 and has been a public servant for the people of Arizona for much of a decade.
If you don’t want to close your laptop and go off to cry for the rest of the day, please don’t read this next line: “She has a D+ rating from the NRA and a D- from the GOA.”
UPDATE: Though Fox and CNN confirmed she died, according to MSNBC, police say she is still alive. But she was shot “in the head.”
UPDATE: On MSNBC, a hospital official says Giffords is alive and currently in surgery.
In April, Giffords supported Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) after he had to close two offices, including one in Tucson, after he and his staff received threats following his call for a boycott of Arizona businesses in opposition to the state’s controversial immigration law.
At least inciting her population to rise up against Hispanics and those who would support them got Jan Brewer re-elected, right? That was totally worth it. HAR HAR HAR.
Here is a video we found on YouTube put together by some Teabaggers. Giffords is shown making comments about a “riot,” but the videographer takes footage of Teabagger protestors outside her office to show the world how peaceful they are. Right.
And the video to top them all: Giffords responding to that SarahPAC thing with crosshairs over her district: “Sarah Palin has the crosshairs of a gun sight over our district and when people do that, they’ve gotta realize there are consequences to that action”:
UPDATE: As everyone awaits the news conference, a report from the hospital says Giffords was talking on her way into surgery, according to MSNBC. And also Obama has released a statement: He also thinks this was awful!
You really should stop reading this post, because the irony we keep bringing you is disgusting. Here’s a listing for an event with her 2010 midterm opponent:
UPDATE: State senator on Fox News said Giffords was shot in the temple and the bullet exited her head and that she has made it through surgery and is responsive.
The website associated with that SarahPAC graphic has been pulled. Whoops!
UPDATE: Arizona district court judge John Roll is the federal judge who was killed, according to Fox News. He was appointed by George H.W. Bush. He and his family received death threats in 2009 for allowing a lawsuit by illegal immigrants, fueled by talk-radio hosts. How very Arizona of you, Arizona!
Fucker news analyst on Fox News: The violence of Mexico is encroaching on Arizona now. Good to see they can scramble to stay on message!
UPDATE: Also according to Fox: the shooter was a 22-year-old white male. The poor young man probably fell in with the Mexicans! Pity him! (We are now vomiting some more.)
Let’s hope so. A shot from an automatic weapon in the temple from her constituent and she survives? Would be amazing. Way to stick it to those fuckers.
UPDATE: Status on Giffords is critical condition, according to doctor at the press conference. He expects her to survive. She was shot one time. One dead at his hospital: a nine-year-old child.
Arizona crazies couldn’t let only one guy have all the fun:
Here’s an insane video that opens saying the uploader’s name is Jared Lee Loughner. Sounds like a Paultard, but absolutely crazy and concerned with dreams. He wants to make a new currency or something. Fox News says he seems to be a war veteran. Afghanistan.
From YouTube: “The government is implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar. No! I won’t pay debt with a currency that’s not backed by gold and silver.” The morans have risen up.
Nothing to see here. Move along. This is not an image of gun sights trained on Gabrielle Giffords in an official release by SarahPAC.http://yfrog.com/f/h4j00sj/
horsedreamer_1
twoeightnine, make sure to save that on your own thumb-drive, since you known Sarah Palin will be whitewashing the poster.
horsedreamer_1
Save that pic to your thumbdrive, with the IP information, since you know our girl Sarah is going to be white-washing this.
PsycWench
Dammit, I want to see that image attached to every news story on this tragedy. Then I want to hear Palin apologize for real.
LetUsBray
Not me. I want to hear her answer for it in a court of law.
PsycWench
I wish. This is why PACs have that banner about not being authorized by a candidate (that, and tax laws). She can claim that it's not her work and she isn't responsible.
hooray4anything
I'm sure we'll get a twitter or Facebook post soon denying any involvement
PsycWench
I want to see that image in every new story about this tragedy. And then I want to hear some apologizing and not that "I'm sorry I was misinterpreted" bullshit either.
natoslug
I've been using that image every time someone on other sites comments about how this had nothing to do with Beck, Palin and the rest of the fucktard crew that keep rallying the crazies to kill. Sorry, but it's bullshit if they now want to say it's just figurative. And no, this was not the action of a liberal. By the time you get to his rants on "the Gold Standard" it's pretty fucking obvious that this guy watches a shitload more Glenn Beck than Rachel Maddow. Fuck you, GOP, for inviting the hatiest of haters into your bigotry tent. Pretty sure that's what they meant by big tent, just a fucking typo on their part. fuck.
HELisforHEL
It's so fucking irritating that outlets like NPR are skating around assigning THE SO FUCKING OBVIOUS BLAME to these cheesedicks. I wanted to strangle the radio this morning while Cokie Republitard Roberts offered her (as always) useless analysis, trying to convince us that we can't rightly pin the blame for this type of violence on Tea Party/NeoCon rhetoric . Come on, reporters. Call it for what it is! Grow some Murrow/Cronkite sized balls and do what you're supposed to do.
sati_demise
they all said "targeting a politician has an entirely DIFFERENT meaning, even if we use a gun sight as a symbol"
Radiotherapy
Don't QUIT, reload YOU FUCKING ALASKUNT
Not that she cares, the psychopath, but there is blood on her hands.
Why don't you go shoot another reindeer on your fake show…bitch.
jcinco
this will be palin's waterloo. she can scrub her crosshairs post all she wants, screenshots are already viral.
jodyleek
Shouldn't we throw the now defunct Sharon Angle into this along with Sister Sarah? This sounds like a Second Amendment solution after all. Fucking troglodyte Rethugs, both of them…
Uuuuugh. One of his favorite books is 'Brave New World'? Aldous Huxley is rolling in his grave. It appears Mr. LITERATE! failed at reading comprehension.
Siiigh
lulzmonger
AROO! AROO!
The official happy-horseshit of the day via SarahcudaPAC is that those are actually surveyors' marks (which in RealWorldLand unfortunately just happen to look exactly like 4-piece pies with alternating missing pieces, & not so much like gunsights) … so just stop thinking, STFU & keep your Freedom Tray locked in place & heaped full at all times, citizen!
Texan_Bulldog
Once you unsqueeze the toothe paste of crazy, you can't put it back in.
MaxUdargo
I think everybody needs to calm down and stop the irresponsible name-calling. You're not elevating discourse in this country by calling people "crazy."
I'm hoping President Obama comes on television soon and explains to everybody the need for calm deliberation and the virtues of reaching across the aisle. Sure, shooting Democratic politicians is excessive, I think we can all agree on that, but I'm sure if we work together in the spirit of bipartisanship we can reach a compromise. Would Sarah Palin and her Tea Party supporters agree to only "wing" the Democrats they shoot? Perhaps we can get them to forgo guns altogether and only stab? Okay, that's probably not on the table, but surely if we come together in good faith, we can arrive at some understanding. But only if "the professional left" is willing to set aside partisan differences and compromise.
Fascism,socialism … these are opposites ends of the spectrum and require large governments. Why would I apologize? This is not my doing.or a entity I associate with. The man was an atheist, he was upset because the military gave him a bible when he tried to enlist. I find it curious that all the violence has been from the left (show me where one of those Tea Baggers got arrested or assaulted anyone, I can show you plenty of the left biting fingers off, beating a black man, burning cars, breaking windows). I am to the point that when the libprogs say something, they have either just have, are doing or are about to do it. November shows that people woke up to the lies and they were being told by the left. Well princess, maybe you should apologize?
You know you have one the debate when they resort to name calling or lewd retorts.
neiltheblaze
HA HA – I'd suggest remedial English lessons, Adolf.
PhilippePetain
Looks like you have the full of shit part down, numbnuts. I feel like that response "one" me the debate.
SorosBot
Funny that the article you linked to doesn't actually say he was an atheist; I wonder if there is any actual evidence for that, or it's like the zombie lie that fundamentalist Christians keep trotting out and claiming Hitler was an atheist, even though he was a devout Catholic. Not that it matters anyway, nor does that article say anything to indicate he was a leftist; indeed, one of his favorite books listed was "Mein Kampf", written by the aforementioned far-right Hitler; and it appears a white supremacist, a conservative philosophy. So in short, fuck off, troll.
HELisforHEL
"I find it curious that all the violence has been from the left "
AH HA HAHAHA
You're funny.
Keep believing that fantasy asswipe. It fits in with all your other delusions.
From the Tucson Tea Party. They “wanted to talk to her”: They talked to her alright, talked to her up close point blank.
Fuckers.
PsycWench
How long will it take the Fox News crew to blame this on liberals?
horsedreamer_1
Great minds… Sorry I missed this.
But you know we're all thinking it.
Wadisay
They will probably describe her as job killing Congresswoman Giffords.
James Michael Curley
A while ago! Poster on Ben Smith's Politico Blog says a Daily KOS thread has people stating their congresswoma (Giffords) is 'dead to them' because she voted against Nancy Pelosi and for congressman Lewis the other day.
Hey troll, that just takes people to an outlook login; and "Mein Kampf" indicates he's a right-wing nut. Also, how dare you both troll this very thread, and how dare you use an American flag in your icon when you hate America.
PsycWench
Of course, every liberal i know is obsessed with the state of U.S. currency and keeps a copy of Mein Kampf by the bedside table.
Well, the commenters seem convinced that the shooter must be an illegal alien. Have to see how Fox manages to spin it as her having deserved it.
DustBowlBlues
CNN said everyone is asking "both sides" to cool the rhetoric. Both sides, right. Because we can name all the acts of violence perpetrated by liberals against conservtards. There's . . .ugh . . .there must be . . .well, those half dozen or so Code Pink ladies have been very rude in hearings.
As for the 'tard on liberal violence: fuck it. I don't feel like typing all that shit.
Yeah, keep it fair, everyone. Blame the gun-hating liberals for our over-heated rhetoric. Face it: we can't keep up enough hate to match Rush Limbaugh's radio show for a half hour.
Not nearly as fast as the lame stream media has tried to pin it on conseratives and/or the Tea Party movement.
SorosBot
Strange that people would pin the blame on the very people who are directly responsible; hell it's obvious enough that even the conservative mainstream media gets it.
Dances_For_Ham
Jesus Kneeling H Christ on a biscuit. The people in this state are insane. I had to move my family out of the neighborhood because the neighborhood "Methamphetamine Boy" kept calling the police stating I was breaking into his house and taking pictures of his furniture. It was a common sight to see him dancing around his front gravel patch, screaming the rats were peeing on him. (Neighbors were unconcerned., and this was a nice neighborhood) Eventually he ended up holing up in his house with his monster truck parked and blocking his front door. When it finally came to an end for this fuck, the police found over 2000 rounds of ammo, a sawed off shotgun and several large caliber handguns secreted through out the house. He had blown holes in the interior walls and nailed all the drawers, window cases and cabinets shut.
On the back of his bloated white monster truck was a "Sarahcuda:" bumpersticker. He loved himself that woman.
This bag of phlegm was sentenced to 1 year in prison and will be released in two weeks.
eastcoastelite
Sounds to me like a candidate for RNC chairman!!
sati_demise
one reason I refuse to put political bumper stickers on my truck…….I could get run off the road by one of these meth head Beckians. Not a safe thing on Sunset Point.
NorthStarSpanx
Guess it's too much to hope he dried out in the can?
mumbly_joe
That actually happened to a college professor of mine, not even a block off campus, in one of the bluer parts of suburban PA, back when I was in school. Literally run off the road. And then he came back around and made a second pass, shouting obscenities. Because of a Kerry sticker. I don't think John Kerry has ever managed to elicit so strong an emotional response, prior or since.
Behavior like this doesn't make the newspaper / web in Arizona. Have you ever traveled through Phoenix? It is like a meth powered freak walk. Toons everywhere. The link I have to this event is my new mortgage, and the two weeks I had to spend in a hotel until the police picked this fuck up.
OzoneTom
Sounds like a real candidate for a Second Amendment Remedy. Just simple self-defense donchaknow.
Dances_For_Ham
The police explained to me they only come after a crime is committed and it was my responsibility to protect my family. They hinted strongly that I should be prepared to meet deadly force with deadly force. (This recidivist was seen almost daily walking around with a shot gun in his side yard, which was 8 feet away from my master bedroom.) And no, I don't have a link to this as well.
No one could have ever predicted that stoking the fear and anger of violent morons for short term political gain could lead to moronic violence.
JustPixelz
"Tea Partiers Determined to Strike in United States"
Dances_For_Ham
True dat. Just came out of nowhere. I hate this fucking state and the sub-humans I have to deal with on a day to day basis. The only upside to this state, is the people are so stupid, it is easy to make a living here. (As long as you show up as promised, don't lie and don't smell like poo)
PublicLuxury
Right-Wing Extremists just need smallest excuse to use their guns. They love their guns and use them like a fleece blanket. Somebody bother you? Shoot 'em
Somebody cut you off at the exit? Shoot 'em
Somebody vote for something you don't believe in? Shoot 'em
Don't like how elections turn out? Shoot 'em
Law Enforcement not doing something fast enough for ya? Shoot 'em.
Ignorant bastards.
baconzgood
"An elected official that you don't like….Don't write letters or get out to vote. shoot them" This is the right wing thinking now. As GW said. "If your not for (the right wing nutz) then your against us". Aparently that is the only politics that the right know now.
Sparky_McGruff
Hey, Sarah… Don't retreat, RELOAD!
bagofmice
Given the number of shots fired, it is obvious that he took this advice to heart. And head in some cases.
Crank_Tango
Fuck all you assholes with your Second Amendment Solutions. Fuck you all to hell.
JustPixelz
I can't imagine any other reason to target a member of Congress like that except to undo the election. So the trouble with "fucking them all to hell" is they really just want to kill people. When brown people do that, it's called "terrorism".
Crank_Tango
well my first thought was retribution, but that would be terrorism and get me on a watchlist of some sort. then again we are probably all on a watchlist just for posting here.
Rotundo_
A safe bet there, unfortunately. As for the Second Amendment, given the sheer amount of crazy these days, having a small armory might not be a bad idea after all. I don't want to hurt anyone, but if they are coming in my house to kill me, I at least want to wing them before I go down.
There's a zillion comments on the WaPoop blog "44" making the same mealy mouthed broderisms.
USA! USA! USA!
~
horsedreamer_1
One of my better — only, really — real-life friends has said I should move to DC.
Apparently, he's right. I'm down with the Enzytegeist.
hooray4anything
Why can't Obama be more bipartisan?
horsedreamer_1
If Bill Daley were anything like his dad, it's a wonder what the National Guard in Arizona would be called out to do.
TxSpinyLizrd
I just left a message at the SarahPAC office telling her this is what happens when you inflame your redneck base to violence. You too can remind Sarah of her role in Rep Gifford's death, when she published materials with a gunsight on this politician's district. SarahPAC number is (202) 747-1812.
Sassomatic
I'm hoping for a way to flood her FB page with pictures of that little girl.
4tehlulz_lite
Dear Arizona:
Secede or get glassed. Choose one.
Troubledog
Nuke 'em from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
PsycWench
Harry Reid predicted the demise of the Tea Party when the economy improved. Let's hope to God that the demise is beginning now that the populace sees what that kind of rhetoric causes.
Not holding my breath though.
horsedreamer_1
Exactly. If James Earl Ray couldn't kill this movement dead when he shot Peace Prize Laureate & Christian* Preacher Martin Luther King, no one will ever do anything heinous enough to make the Reactionary Right see the error in their means.
I thought the Right liked Christians?
ChessieNefercat
Oh, think now!. White Christians. Make sense now?
horsedreamer_1
True. But those black Christians are Christians because their slave-masters (the Good, white Christians) thought it would keep them docile.
So, whitey has only himself to blame. Should have just let Kunta Kinte remain a Muslin. (Why, yes, I did read Roots when I was 13. Seriously.)
All I can hope is that we can hang their words around their neck and let the weight of their violent stupidity drag them under the waves. Don't retreat, Reload. We just want our country back. Second amendment solutions. Etc, etc.
HistoriCat
Well it's not like anyone could have foreseen that paranoid loony talking points would be taken seriously and lead to some asshole actually trying make use of his Second Amendment remedies and reload rather than retreat.
Harry is an idiot. Anything to spin the fact that it is a true non-violent grass roots movement. Sorry, there is now a Tea Party caucus in congress. So how does he figure it is going away? Like I said, an idiot.
comrad_darkness
Don't panic Fox News, you haven't lost a viewer. The gunman will probably get teevee privileges in prison.
ByronTheBulb
The last member of Congress to be murdered in office was Leo Ryan, killed by the mutants at Jonestown. So, that's where the national discourse is at now.
horsedreamer_1
How things change. Leo never drank the Kool-Aid, but Gabrielle guzzled that SOZILIST PURPLE STUFF.
(Too much?)
(Prolly.)
(But, fuck it, I'm reeling. As someone who spent eight hours on a surgical table getting heart surgery this summer, this wave of death has me feeling not right. At all.)
LibrulEleet
Wasn't there a Congressman on KAL 007, shot down by the Soviets a few years after that (1982 or 83)?
savethispatient
The first person to suggest that this whole tragedy could have been avoided by Congressmen and/or Grocery store clerks being armed deserves a stern talking to. But not to be shot, 'cos that's fucking insane.
My thoughts and sympathies to the victims' families.
finallyhappy
of course, people will say that. They always do- instead of recognzing as sane people do that more guns means more shitheads with guns, not people protecting other people.
UW8316154
Nothing funny about this, so I deleted my snark. But I sense right-wing, white-trash outrage behind these horrible murders.
smokefilledroommate
Holy fucking shit–I can't believe this.. I'm surprised it wasn't Grijalva. I need to get the fuck out of this state now.
sati_demise
yea, we lost our nice Dem Congresslady up here in Yavapai county to a teaparty dentist who is fucking crazy.
Bonzos_Bed_Time
CA will welcome you with open arms. Serious, liberals and the non-insane have no business living in AZ. Don't give me any BS about how liberal Tuscon or Flag is, either. Still part of the state…
HELisforHEL
Bring your intelligence and jobs to Connecticut. Sure, it's overly expensive to live or do business here (we expect businesses to be somewhat good citizens-don't pollute the water, don't fill the sky with any more shit then we already have, etc.), and our weather is 'Meh'. But we have a fairly compassionate, blue leaning citizenry that makes it manageable.
Oh, and great Thai, Indian and Vietnamese food.
natoslug
I'm willing to start an exchange program. AZ can have Darryl(sp?) Issa, and CA will welcome the saner residents of AZ.
Considering the fact that the white guy who flew his plane into that IRS building right when he knew pretty much everyone would be at their desks was called a "patriot" (or, at worst, "troubled") when flying planes into office buildings is kind of THE terrorism benchmark for the new millenium, I would have to agree with you.
Well it looks like, thankfully, the first one won't be used for a good reason. Though hopefully "attempted" with be added.
SorosBot
The judge who was killed had apparently ruled against Arizona's racist immigration law, so sadly assassin is probably still accurate.
GuanoFaucet
Also, if the shooter turns out to be some racist, "Second Amendment Remedies" teabagger fucktard, the media better call this an act of fucking terrorism. Fuck, I'm going to have a drink, or twelve.
JustPixelz
"…if…"?!?
Maybe it will be time for Michele Bachmann to investigate the anti-American attitudes of her Tea Party supporters.
Bonzos_Bed_Time
I'm working on some Knob Creek myself. 100 proof for efficiency.
Sassomatic
I'm glad this guy is still alive, because I want everyone to hear him say what motivated him, where his political ideas come from, how much he admires Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin, etc.
Frost/Nixon/Robocop
We all know who perpetrates this kind of terrorist act. Why are we randomly searching people?
Sue4466
This is just horrifying and yes, nothing funny or snarky to say. What a tragedy for the Congresswoman, the other victims, and their families.
Troubledog
Arizona, you are dead to me. There is no merit to your continued inclusion in our nation. You are a welfare state, and consume more Federal dollars in grants and services than you supply in taxes. Your institutionalized hatred makes you unsuitable to be part of the first world, let alone a representative democracy. I propose we do indeed finish that fence, but replot it to keep you away from us.
I hear you. I do a lot of shopping on eBay and when I see a seller in a place like Arizona, Texas, Florida or any other backward state I just exclude them. I know that there are intelligent decent people in those states but lacking anything else to go on I just can't contribute to those economies.
BTW, I'm also in a particularly heinous red state but still encourage everyone with a consciousness to boycott us whenever possible. Thank-you.
Winnie_Cooper
Gabby was one of the good ones. I'm still trying to find out information about the other victims, in particular a friend who worked for her. If you guys see any names or other information, could you please post it here? Genuine thanks. I have no snark on this story.
jim89048
My best thoughts for your friend and the Congresswoman…
Winnie_Cooper
Thank you! Perhaps I should have said, "Gabby *is* one of the good ones." Clearly I'm too cynical for my own good around here. I'm really hoping that she makes a full recovery. We are getting so many crazy reports that I don't even know what to believe. 24 hour news cycle, you are failing me when I need you the most!
Jukesgrrl
KOLD News13, the Tucson CBS affiliate, is streaming live on their website. Hospital news conference was announced for 1:30, AZ time, but it's already 1:37 as I type this and it has yet to start. I'm sure that will be on the national news. All best thoughts for your friend.
Winnie_Cooper
Thanks. A friend in the Oro Valley Police Department thinks that my friend is okay, but there is a lot of confusion on the ground, and since it isn't in his jurisdiction, I will feel better when I hear something more official. They aren't releasing names to the media pending notification. Supposedly Chief Judge John Roll of the US District Court was among those killed.
RFK and MLK were killed in 68' – culminating some 4 years of increasing hostility by right wingers and religious nutters – but what is not as well known is the numerous attacks on congresspeople who voted for LBJ's 'War on Poverty' and Civil Rights legislation after 1964. No deaths but a hell of a lot of shot up offices, firebombings and the like.
Sadly, I'm afraid, this level of animus and violence is just getting started and for the Capitol police to not of drawn parallels between the 1960's civil rights era right wing terrorism and today is shockingly bad work. Especially since her office has already had shots fired at it, she has been threatened repeatedly and honestly, let's think about this, who lets a Democratic wife of an astronaut talk in the asshole of Arizona without armed guards? Some of those people still believe in a 6000 year old geocentric universe. Someone needs to be fired.
Sarah Palin and Jesse Kelly need to be held absolutely accountable for this.
For what it's worth, Tucson is one of the saner parts of Arizona–the sort of place where they elect people like Giffords and Raul Grijalva. During the short unhappy term of Evan Mecham (the true asshole of Arizona), there was a tongue-in-cheek movement for secession of "Baja Arizona" from the loonocracy in Phoenix.
Troubledog
My god, people, does there need to be another civil war? Look to those who profit from our discord. There you will find the true enemies of our nation, our rights, and our freedoms. I am overcome with horror and rage.
what can one expect in a state and country that encourage guns, guns, and more guns for every freedom-loving, 2nd amendment luvin
wingnut.
by the way, is that a sarah palin blue ad in this wonkette page?
well i guess one's gotta take money from wherever it comes.
i ain't complaining here, just wondering.
sure, i'd take some money from the soundbite snowgrifter Payland if i could…
Crank_Tango
Look at it again.
x111e7thst
Gun control. Can we talk about gun control for a minute? No? I didn't think so.
gvvt
She was a victim of 2nd Amendment Remedies. Do we feel sorry for infections wiped out by antibiotics? No.
Dashboard_Jesus
FUCK YOU ASSHOLE! also
gvvt
Sorry – I was thinking I should label that as bad-taste irony. One of the problems is, of course, the view that the "body politic" is diseased and that violent action is the equivalent of medical intervention. Worked as a real effective metaphor in Germany in the 30s.
JustPixelz
Second Amendment Remedies work both ways.
les_gvt
the more people that have guns, the less criminals tend to use them, in fear of being shot themselves.
The entire purpos of the 2nd Amendment was so as to keep the federal government in fear of the public
x111e7thst
All I have to say to you is Christina-Taylor Green. Please go away and take your unspeakably idiotic ideas with you.
JustPixelz
Doesn't anyone read the Constitution anymore?
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The Second Amendment was to protect the formation of Militias to secure, not fight, secure the government.
DoktorZoom
Arizona's open-carry laws did such a great job of preventing the shooter from going ahead with his murders.
obfuscator2
now a sheriff on msnbc is claiming she's still alive.
a source from the hospital she was flown to says she's in surgery right now.
JackObin
Just another day in Gun Nut Land. My only reaction is what was such a beautiful and accomplished woman doing in Arizona? The future of this sinking country looks very dim indeed.
Serfville
I guess Palin's cutesy tootsie lil' reload tagline is officially ovah. This is the day the Spree Party finally ended. This is what happens when Type II Diabetic Rednecks in Spree Party States get drunk on too many government programs like Medicare & go batshit.
horsedreamer_1
There was a slow-speed chase to capture the perpetrator as he scooted away.
She got shot in the temple from behind, which sounds like it might of been a clean shot that did not enter the brain.
Blendergoathead
Fuck. Holy. Fucking. Fuck. How many tears is Boehner going to shed on the tee-vee over this?
Fuck. They killed a person. Fuck.
LetUsBray
They killed a BUNCH of people.
bagofmice
Don't retreat, reload.
comrad_darkness
Before or after he stops giggling?
deelzebub
They killed a little kid. What the fuck is wrong with people.
Jerri
Jesus Christ. This is just completely horrible.
I trust* Sarah et al will react to the news with the appropriate level of respect, regardless of whether or not the gunman winds up being a fan of right wing nuttery.
*will be shocked if
Fare la Volpe
She issued a twat giving the standard "Our hopes and prayers are with you." Naturally, no part of her updates admit she had anything to do with this.
Jerri
It's the least she can do. Literally, the least she can do.
Serfville
Jesus, 21 year old male. Nazi Youth. Learn 'em young eh Sarah?
UW8316154
too outraged for words right now.
JustPixelz
apparently didn't look like an illegal alien or anything suspicious to Arizona law enforcement.
ChessieNefercat
He was white with a gun. What was there to be suspicious about?
BarackMyWorld
Jon Stewart was right.
horsedreamer_1
No. Jon Stewart would have us believe there's some left-winger out there who did this to a GOP Congressman. "Everybody does it", he claimed, "& needs to stop".
Jonny Boy is still feeling the effects of StraightTalkExpressitis, first manifesting in 2000.
BarackMyWorld
Because I've never heard Jon Stewart criticize a Republican for violent rhetoric, nor ever heard a liberal say they wished physical harm on Bush or Limbaugh?
Stewart spends 90% of his show attacking right-wing propaganda, so don't be mad that he simply acknowledges that there are nuts on the left as well.
glamourdammerung
That is the problem though. There are nuts on the left and the right. But one side has them on the fringes and the other has them running their show, which is a pretty big difference.
BarackMyWorld
I can't argue with that.
horsedreamer_1
It's not that he mentions that some leftists have expressed violent sentiments, rather the equivalence, that the attempts to propagate civil war by the left have been done in the same way, at the same levels, as on the right.
John Stewart is a putz. On his biggest stage, days before a critical election, he pretended equivalence, against the evidence of 10 years of his own damned program.
BarackMyWorld
He wasn't trying to have a partisan rally, he wanted everyone to tone down their rhetoric. For him to give the loud-mouths on the left a free pass would've been hypocritical, given how unhinged many got during the Bush years. 9/11 Truthers and people who thought the flooding in New Orleans was deliberate weren't exactly working for the RNC.
As far as Stewart's attacks on the media goes, when MSNBC and Fox fail to report things that don't fit within their predetermined ideological narrative, the public isn't being served. Neither seems to be devoted to finding the truth (nor is CNN, but for different reasons). I'll admit, MSNBC's standard's are a little higher (and it doesn't give lunatics like Glenn Beck their own shows), but that doesn't make them innocent of periodically using partisan rhetoric in news reports and ignoring accurate information that might cast doubt on their pre-determined conclusion.
bumfug
I would have posted a comment earlier but the first thing I did after reading about this was to Google "how to get a passport."
If you have a bachelor's degree its easy to become a citizen of New Zealand or Australia.
OzoneTom
The government was anticipating this. The cost went up last year.
It's a win-win for them to drive progressives to this degree of desperation.
Badonkadonkette
I'm gonna break ranks with my Wonketteers, though I love you all, and not speculate as to anyone's motives. Those will be known in time. Now all we know is that a great, beloved Representative has been critically injured, and possibly killed. I'm focusing all my energy in hoping that she and others shot pull through. There will be plenty of time to talk, yell, and come to blows over why this happened later.
ByronTheBulb
Right now, some Fox News Executives are figuring out how to spin this into a "shooter is a liberal nut" story. But then, he if HE is a Nazi as early rumors say, than that just means he's a "National Socialist". Problem solved!
I'm also guessing that this is the first time that a female American politician has been murdered, unless someone knows of another example. But, she was Jewish so that may not count in Arizona.
Fucking hell. Oklahoma City was only 16 years ago. Is our national learning curve about overheated violent rhetoric just completely flat?
Rotundo_
Our national learning curve about overheated violent rhetoric is completely flat. An optomist might hope for some voices of rational thought or decency from the right after a "learning opportunity" like this. I'm thinking not.
You can't sell the bullshit the republicans have without hatred, because if you think for a moment about what they are saying in an interior reasonable voice you will not have the utter lack of awareness needed to keep yelling in an outside wingnut voice.
Speaking as a person who is probably closer to the shooter's age than you are (I'm 21), I think the only thing I've heard about Oklahoma City since McVeigh was executed (aka since before I started middle school) has been liberals saying "Why can't anyone actually take demagogues to task for X violent act? Have we forgotten Oklahoma City?"
I think the answer is yes, of course we have, and probably the people who stop by the memorial at the bombing site are those who are least able to generalize in their thinking about demagoguery.
beer4prez
This makes me sick and sad. But hopefully it will lead individuals to be more careful with how they frame political antagonism and discussions. Those who espouse the "second amendment remedies" junk and the like are playing a dangerous game. Truly disgusting. The RIGHT in this country is behaving sickeningly irresponsible and I fault anyone who sides with them for that.
finallyhappy
They will continue- those with any intelligence sucker the morons. Hatred, bigotry, violence is the central position of the right. Nothing else.
DustBowlBlues
Yeah. I know the Murrah Building bomb, the shooting of the Unitarians in Tenn, Doctor Teller, et al, really made a difference in these Sean O'Rushbeck loving dickwads.
Listening to Rush on the radio yesterday, I'm not suprised wingnuts get sent over the edge.
x111e7thst
If it turns out that this shooting was done by a "lone wolf terrorist" inspired to act by the preaching of Cryin' Glen and Shillin' Sarah I am sure that ALL the guilty parties will be pursued with the same vigor that we employ against Yemeni internet mullahs.
smashaduck
Freepers are shockingly already blaming the brownz.
PublicLuxury
Why the fuck would that surprise you?
aqua_buddha
Just heard the Fox guy noting that this kind of thing last happened at the hands of "puerto-rican nationalists or somethng" ….
If you can link to anything Non-White, the Fox echo chamber will take it and just try it out for awhile. Not that they mean anything by it.
horsedreamer_1
& her name was Lebron!
We Are All Witnesses.
smashaduck
Since I'm not actually on Free Republic, I didn't see the need for "sarc tags" to clarify for the 'tards. And, I get to fucking use god damn big people words. Also.
The gunman was young, mid-to-late 20s, white, clean-shaven with short hair and wearing dark clothing and said nothing during the shooting or while being held down, although he struggled at first. He was "not particularly well-dressed"; he didn't look like a businessman, but more of a "fringe character," Rayle said. The sheriff's department arrived, arrested the gunman and cordoned off the parking lot.<i/>
Fringe character all right. Standard wing nut who probably has Glenn Beck books all over his room.
sati_demise
6 dead?, `12 people shot? 15 to 20 rounds…….? Neilist needs to tell us what kind of gun this is that can kill so many with one bullet…….
Neilist
The average modern combat pistol load (e.g., a 9mm; .40 cal. S&W) is designed to minimize the odds of a "through and through" shot if the target is the center of mass, e.g., the body trunk, which is where you are supposed to aim in most combat situations — or Kill Your Congressperson Scenarios.
Same thing, really.
The idea is that you want to transfer as much of the energy of the bullet into the target's body, to maximize the tissue damage and hydrostatic shock. If the bullet exits the body, energy is wasted that could have been used to incapacitate the target.
[Broadly stated, pistol rounds are relatively inefficient at "stopping" a human being quickly, when compared to a rifle or shotgun. The pistol round typically is moving about 1/3 the speed of a rifle bullet, and thus as much less ballistic energy.]
You can have a through-and-through with a pistol round, particularly when the bullet hits an extremity or only soft issue; and the range is very short. But that's more an accident in the physics/target alignment.
The standard practice for "Quick Stops" nowadays is the "Mozambique Drill": Two shots into the center of mass (the chest); followed by one shot into the head. If you practice — and some of us do — you can place all three shots in less than a second. The sound is BANGBANG:::very short beat:::BANG.
That's pretty much guaranteed to be fatal. But it's three rounds per target.
The other factor is head wounds. If this guy was able to fire at point blank range into the victims' heads — because they were Liberals Who Refused To Believe That Bad Shit Happens, and failed to take precautions or whatever — one-shot kills are easily done. But if the target is moving – running around, screaming, or just shaking in terror — a head shot can be difficult to get.
That's the whole idea behind the Mozambique Drill: The first two into the chest stop the target, and the third one into the head makes sure you don't get nailed by a "Last Gasp" final return shot.
Any other questions?
[ASSHOLE. Got it.]
voodooeconomics
lay this one at Fox News feet. KO will do it .
Jukesgrrl
The sheriff who is quoted as saying Giffords is in surgery is Gene Dupnik, sheriff of Pima County. You will remember him as one of the two border sheriffs who publicly opposed 1070 and appeared on national TV speaking against it. As the chief law enforcer in Giffords district, his is the voice to listen to.
I can barely type this as my hands are shaking. I would love to say this is beyond my ability to comprehend, but I've predicted here and other places that this was an inevitable event. I've met Gabby Giffords many times at Dem party events, but never attend her very public "Congress on Your Corner" meetings for this EXACT REASON.
I never agreed with everything she said/did. Not liberal enough for me. But, of course, I voted for her in Nov., as her opponent was a tea bagger extreme. The sheriff has confirmed at least one death of a person who worked for Giffords.
sati_demise
with you on this. Progressives have to be very careful in Az. and it only got worse after Palin hit the national stage. We lost our nice Dem Congresswoman in Yavapai couty to a teabagger nutzo
dyedwool
Jukes and Sati,
Being at a reasonably safe remove, physically and personally, as I'm not in/from AZ, it would be SO easy for me to say, "C'mon, this is the time to buck up, and FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT THAT MUCH HARDER!!! Don't give up!" But I know it's easy for me to say, and I can only imagine how demoralizing it must be for you having to actually LIVE as "The Other" in that godforsaken hellhole of Brewerstan.
Shit, what was my point? Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. That, and I guess I do take some small comfort knowing there are still some sane people like you in that insane fucking place. Gives me a wee bit of hope…despite all evidence to the contrary. I'm just sorry you're having to "take one for the team," as it were.
Are you happy Sarah? Are you going to assume any responsibility whatsoever for your politics being on target?
ChessieNefercat
When has that skanky piece of ignorant trash ever taken responsibility for anything?
horsedreamer_1
Quit picking on Trig.
ChessieNefercat
I would never pick on little Trig. He has enough to bear in life with that screeching harpy pretending she's his mother just so she can drag him around every time she needs a prop to show off her so-called pro-life creds.
LakeLucilleLoon
The douchebags at SarahPac REMOVED the target map from the SarahPac website, just a few minutes ago. Feeling guilty much?
beer4prez
Exactly. And the removal is just as incriminating as the initial posting.
BarackMyWorld
Someone was finally all "Oh, shit!" and put two and two together. That person was probably not their glorious leader, though.
ChessieNefercat
Yeah, I'm pretty sure the answer to 2+2 is beyond that fucking, hateful cunt unless there are dollar signs involved.
PS Please excuse my language, I just couldn't find a word that matches that vile cretin any better.
tabouley
Used to avoid using that word, but if there is any time to use it, it is now, and if there is any person who deserves that description, it is her.
They just said that a 9 year old girl was killed.
If the Southern Poverty Law Center could work out a strategy for bankrupting the KKK after a they lynched Michael Donald, then couldn't the families of the victim's here sue the crap out of the supporters of Sarah Pak, Faux News etc? I'd like to see them OWN Faux News.
Hagar7
Exactly. Although it's too little, too late — the damn thing is on every site I've seen discussing it, including, of course, here. And frankly, although this shooting horrifies and saddens me, some part of me is still stank and angry enough to be glad that Palin isn't going to be able to scrub it off the Net entirely and stroll away from this one whistling.
horsedreamer_1
Apparently, the DLC put out a "target" map in '06 or '08, but rather than cross-hairs used archery targets. So, unless they were suggesting assassination by cross-bow, I think that's a more conventional take on the "targetted races, but not targetted people" line.
horsedreamer_1
Google Cache, how the fuck does it work?
ByronTheBulb
Shit, now they are saying that he killed a Federal Judge that was at the scene.
mirrorballdc
This tragedy could have been prevented if everyone else at the store had been packing heat, like all good Americans.
PuckStopsHere
Fuken A, right! US 'Merkins should be REQUIRED to pack. Shit, ya gotta wear a seat belt when you drive. Same diff…
Because of course if the Congresswoman had been carrying, she could have shot first. Only guns can prevent gun violence.
HELisforHEL
This is the argument I see having with my Libertarian Gun Fan Boy brother. Yeah, what we really need is wild west solutions to crime. Everybody! Get a gun! If you see a crime being committed just open fire and randomly shoot people! Maybe-just maybe-you'll actually take out the perpetrator. You'll be a hero! Yay! Freedumb reigns!
GREAT IDEA NRA MORONS.
THANKS JOHN MCCAIN for calling out and condemning this Sarahpac poster
what?
He said it was fine? Just politics?
Barbara_i
Someone said that Sarah removed her little target practice human map off her website. Oh Sarah, do you not know that the interwebs have people who already saved this shit, you horrible little chicken shit weasel of a woman. You and Beck and the rest of the idiots who are trying to scare the stupid people into a frenzy make me sick. Honestly, I thought that someone would have tried to shoot President Obama by now, heaven forbid. The thought horrifies me. I hate you, Sarah Palin. I hate you with the white hot intensity of a thousand suns. I don't wish you dead though. That would make me the same monster that you are.
DemmeFatale
Amen.
ChessieNefercat
50 more thumbs up for you if I could.
Rotundo_
Who knows how many attempts to assassinate Obama have been quietly and discretely stopped? I have a feeling if we knew what the Secret Service knows that we'd all shit. One budget item they need to increase, unfortunately, is security for representatives, senators, cabinet members, and judges
Barbara_i
I agree with you Rotundo, thanks.
fuflans
what's really good on a terrible day like this is being able to turn to wonkette and read all the hundreds of literate comments sharing the same sadness and rage and even humor. helps a little.
and my thoughts exactly.
mavenmaven
Apparently a child was also shot, according to the NYT. I suppose this is alright in teabag world, because in our end-of-weimar America, wiping out all dissent to the death including children is a second amendment right of "taking back the country".
randoracer
That's what the little kid gets for obviously being a liberal Commie-pinko who wants to always have access to health care and, you know, rights and shit. Fuck this shooter and anyone of his ilk .
GodShammgod
Republicans may feign sympathy, but in reality they're all salivating at the chance of taking back a Republican-leaning House seat in a special election. Don't be fooled.
predilectrix
Plus the chance to marginalize the Killa-incita from Wasilla, finally.
ChessieNefercat
What are the rules in Arizona if a congressperson dies or is otherwise incapacitated (i.e., long recovery) in office? How is he/she replaced? Do any Arizonans here know the answer?
I hope that whether by appointment or by election, the congressperson MUST be from the same party.
Consider the alternative if that is not the case. Don't like the results of an election? Off 'em and try again.
Another act of domestic terrorism inspired by the Al Queda of Alaska and Arizona (it means "the base"). Let's not let Jan Brewer off the hook here. She's presided over a lot of this and has continued to let the crazee right run wild. Also, any life loving D needs to keep the heat turned up on Palin and her brood over this. That Rodeo Clown Glenn Beck will be on Monday talking about how this was a limited incident, but he's driving this, no matter what he says. Horrifying. Absolutely horrifying.
finallyhappy
Good luck onthat. maybe Alan Grayson who was defeated will speak out – maybe my Congresswoman, Donna Edwards- but most will keep a low profile and keep quiet(maybe Donna should- a very left-wing black woman congresswoman in a state where we have had some small mail bombs this week). we have seen the enemy and it is the GOP/ right wing.
Jukesgrrl
Grayson has a blog on HuffPost.
PublicLuxury
If those fucking republicans don't get their asses out and demounce this kind of bullshit then they're as guilty as the gunmen. Where's Palin and the idiot savant Angle?
Ignorant fuckin' bastards.
OzoneTom
Not wholly ignorant.
The reason that they and the MSM are so working against this being identified in any way as characterized as terror is that would put them on the horns of a dilemma.
Denounce and alienate 2/3 of their base?
Fare la Volpe
This is how democracy dies: with powder residue.
Neilist
Interesting. That's how Democracy was born, too.
That whole "shot heard round the word" thingie? Or did you think they were using Airsofts?
[God, you people have GOT to stop blocking punches with your faces.
Rhetorically, I mean. The idea of any of you being in a fist-fight is too amusing for words.]
On the positive side: If the doctors treating the victims need consultation, may I suggest COL Rocco Armonda at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. If you need brain surgery or post-trauma treatment for one, he is the man. He is beyond brilliant. If you want to be inspired by a doctor's story, look him up.
Fare la Volpe
Stop referring to her as a former governor. You need to earn that title, and bitch sure as fuck didn't.
Steverino247
Posting a comment makes it impossible to correct that "error." However, she was the duly elected (for some fucking reason) Governor of the State of Alaska so that's the proper term to use. Personally, I prefer "Cunt Sarah Palin" but I don't get to make the rules.
neiltheblaze
True. She sat in that chair for months.
sati_demise
You left out John McCain.
yea
smellyal8tr
And Boehner, Eric Cantor, Darrell Issa,
PublicLuxury
I am so very horrified! I just want to cover my face and cry.
ChessieNefercat
Everybody laughed at Minnesota over the Franken/Coleman election, but I remember thinking that Minnesota and the US should be proud.
Everyone carefully followed the law regarding close elections, the vote checkers were from both parties and worked closely and cooperatively to ensure a truthful and valid election result, Coleman and Franken each hired lawyers, not hit men, there were no threats of violence from either party toward the other, the National Guard did not need to be called in, there were no riots in the street.
The state and the country abided by the law and a contentious election was settled without violence or bloodshed, a true accomplishment in a country so large and diverse.
Today's news points in such a horrifyingly different direction. Where are we going? Where are we going to end up? I want to cry.
From RedHate's Erick son of Erick:But let’s not let the left, yet again, spin this against the tea party movement, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, or Sarah Palin inciting violence. That’s both a profound lie and just another, though lesser, bit of evil.
ByronTheBulb
Yes, truly the perpetrators of evil here are on the left here. Fuck you, Erick Erickson you truly loathsome hack.
Next up: Glenn Beck to re-emphasize how he's just an "entertainer".
sati_demise
FUCK THOSE FUCKING FUCKS.
all of them.
ChessieNefercat
No Erick, it is not a "profound" lie. Not even a little white lie. It is the absolute, golden shining truth as sung by all the celestial choirs above.
And Erick, you are part of the evil in this incident. You fat, smarmy, stupid, ill-educated, lying, sack of oozing mucusy shit.
Yes please Wonkette, please post updates with times or numbers. If we are going back and forth from site to site, the updates go in different directions which makes it even more confusing.
Fare la Volpe
It's in their best interests not to. Facts are stupid things.
FlyOverGirl
This morning, in an unspeakable tragedy, a number of Americans were shot in Tucson, Arizona, at a constituent meeting with Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. And while we are continuing to receive information, we know that some have passed away, and that Representative Giffords is gravely wounded.
We do not yet have all the answers. What we do know is that such a senseless and terrible act of violence has no place in a free society. I ask all Americans to join me and Michelle in keeping Representative Giffords, the victims of this tragedy, and their families in our prayers.
–U.S. President Barack Obama
HateMachine
Fucking fuck, man.
savethispatient
Public Health announcement: if you're already reeling from this news, avoid reading the comments on news websites.
I've just that someone has "no sympathy" for Gifford as she was "pro-choice". Another "prefers civil war to obamacare". Perhaps take a step back and think, people.
Hagar7
I'm so sorry that this happened to Rep. Giffords, her staff, and their families.
Memo to Homeland Security: right now we're all statistically more likely to be killed by a white male Republican between the ages of 18 and 54 than we are to be offed by a mythical brown person with a pocket full of anthrax. Fucking refocus.
Steverino247
Absolutely correct. There are domestic enemies of the Constitution and this act was perpetrated by one of them. White, Christian males blow up clinics in this country as well as Federal buildings in Oklahoma. I know it's sexier to chase after Muslins, but the FBI needs to pay more attention to the other side of this evil coin.
Hagar7
Thank you. Right now they need to worry more about the assholes trying to win the favor of a certain Alaskan grandmother than they do about the ones aiming for 72 virgins.
chascates
There are actually some posts on Pallin's Facebook page calling her out (they'll soon be scrubbed) but most are what you'd expect:#
Heather Moore–Everyone needs to relax. Its not like she had a target of the face of the poor congresswoman. She only pointed out where the problems were on a map. You dont even know why it was done. It could have been completely personal and not poli…tical. You people who are placing the blame on Sarah are accomplishing one thing. You are giving the individual a good defensive strategy. It will be very easy for him to claim insanity and blame it on palin rather than to admit to what really might have happened. I am a republican but I dont like the idea of anyone being wrongfully accused. I still believe in innocent till proven guilty. Other that that, the things you people are saying is slander and I hope she sues your pants off.See More
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Glenda Gaye Reyes–Sarah Palin represents all that is good in this nation. For those of you who want to outlaw guns, feel free to give yours up. To in any way blame her for this tragedy shows unbelievable ignorance and hatefulness. You probably also want the rich to be taxed more than everyone else, feel free to pay all you want in taxes, if you pay any at all which most likely you don't.
BarackMyWorld
Yes, obviously the real victim in all this is Sarah Palin. I'm so glad she has such loyal followers to come to her defense in her hour of need.
Sometimes I just weep for this country, how can Sarah Palin not issue a statement saying that she feels some responsibility? Oh…because she is such a cunty cunt.
Jukesgrrl
She's already issued a "condolence" message from herself and Todd. It's being read on TV news in Tucson. WHY do they think we care what she thinks?
obfuscator2
that would require some level of self-awareness and maybe a little empathy on her part. not gonna happen.
Hagar7
And because this is the year that the 2012 election stops being so theoretical, and Sarah wants to be president (even though being governor got boring, so she quit, and she apparently doesn't understand that being president is going to be a lot like being governor, although she'll get to be on TV more and say Dirty Harry-type things when Burkina Faso gets impertinent). Even Sarah probably understands that starting off the year by being connected to the gunning down of a well-liked, dedicated public servant is not a good start.
ChessieNefercat
Yeah, I think the little reptilian part of her brain (unlike the frontal cortex) sometimes functions adequately.
So I predict that she will absolutely not appear in or on any venue at all, including Fox, where she might be asked questions about it. She will not address it all.
She will cover it up with some other hyped up, made up issue that will require her endless yammerings via her one way fb and twatter accounts.
Will our glorious media be mindful and aware of this tactic of distraction or will SQUIRREL?!
SorosBot
Fucking fuck. And yet the media will continue to claim that the only terrorists are brown Muslims and the teabaggers are all just peaceful protesters.
tiger_tree
Holy shit this post is a mess. I mean, I understand the information flying around doesn't exactly paint a coherent picture but maybe it's time to archive this post somewhere else (or delete it, whatever) and start over?
ChessieNefercat
Well where are you you fucking tweeting hateful lying vicious racist bitch? Well?
Oh wait, whenever she is required to respond to some issue that didn't go her way, she just doesn't.
Fucking cretinous coward. Oh by the way, you stupid beyond belief bitch, your stupid poster is aaaall over the internets. Taking it off your site doesn't make it go away.
John McCain, roast in hell forevermore more listening to an eternity of endless loops of that poisonous viper you foisted onto this country.
and he was appointed by Bush the First. I wonder if the crazy ass gunman shot him 'cause he was a RINO? Or he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. The fact that he was heard naming names as he squeezed the trigger makes me think the former.
Guppy06
Tomorrow, Eric Cantor will hold a press conference, announcing that he'd been shot in the head, too, but didn't make a big deal about it like the Democrats.
Trinket
This is so awful that I thought I had lost the ability to laugh out loud, but you just proved me wrong, Guppy. I scared the cat and everything! Thanks, man. I needed that.
horsedreamer_1
I mentioned Cantor's own FAKE brush with a FAKE shooting at his FAKE office in Richmond in his FAKE district on Politico comments, as evidence both sides do it. Surprisingly, no one took my bait.
CapeClod
Fucking bastards. This is no different from the acts perpetrated by the Brownshirts.
No snark today. Any politician (or former politician turned d-list celebrity,) in the future who suggests violence as a political expedient has to pay a legal price for their actions or words.
Can't get much more impersonal than that, hey? But I guess, in her defense, it's just a placeholder while she spins this to her advantage or waits for it to go away. Bitch.
horsedreamer_1
She's calculating what this will do the value of "Bristol's" house.
indecencycmdr
it's so weak, her response. luckily, that crosshairs map is all over the interwebs and will never be erased.
chascates
From azcentral.com:
Arizona law enforcement official say a gunman in the crowd shot Giffords, a 40-year-old Democrat, and a person in the crowd shot at the gunman. The Associated Press identified the gunman as Jared Laughner [22-year-old according to other sources].
Six others have been killed and 18 wounded following the shooting at a Safeway in northwest Tucson at Ina and Oracle roads, according to Richard Kastigar of the Pima County Sheriff's Office.
So li'l orange Johnny posted something about how outrageous it is that someone would shoot at a Congressman….he shouldn't be surprised, he and his ilk should be blamed. If you spend enough time preaching hatred and anger, eventually one of the crazies is likely to come out and shoot someone. Looking at the totality of this post I am surprised that it hasn't happened more and God help us if it continues.
binarian
Great. We're slowly turning into Iraq. Or Afghanistan. This is what happens when people who have zero idea what actual violence is hinting about "Second Amendment remedies" and similar drivel. Some crazy shithead picks up on it and convinces themselves it's ok. This is a sad, sad day for this country. Her poor family.
horsedreamer_1
USA! USA!
binarian
yeah.
Hagar7
If by the "they" in "they never learn," Malkin means "I," co-sign.
Jukesgrrl
News conference: Dr. says Giffords is critical. Neurosurgery already completed. Doctors are "optimistic" and she has "a good chance of recovery." They will know more after 24 hours. Names still not being released due to notification requirements. The person who died at the hospital was a 9-year-old girl, according to the doctor.
comrad_darkness
Update 8, best fucking news of the year. Bringing tears to my eyes.
Hang tough, Gabby.
Added: Update 9, Sincere condolences to Roll's family.
It's tough to be a public official in banana republic.
ChessieNefercat
"It's tough to be a public official in banana republic. "
Sad, but unfortunately, accurate assessment of where we are at in this country.
The doc say he very positive for recovery for Gabby given being shot in the head. One dead at the hospital – the child.
So fucking sad, so very fucking sad.
Limeylizzie
At news conference the surgeon said she is following commands and he is as optimistic as can be , considering the injury,she received one shot through the head . So cautious optimism appears to be in order. One child died at hospital.
SorosBot
The sad thing us, the violence-inciting fuckers like Rush, Beck and Palin will probably get away with it; anyone who correctly pointed out that they were responsible for such tragedies as the Oklahoma City bombing, Eric Rudolph's wave of bombing abortion clinics and gay bars, and the assassination of Doctor Hiller has always been shouted down by the fucking cunts of the mainstream media for being "uncivil".
hooray4anything
Clinton's speech after the OKC bombing subtly called out Rush and all the other foaming mouths and had them on the defensive for awhile. The speech, obviously, didn't end all of it but it seemed to quash some of the crazy invective thrown his way. So they tried to impeach him instead
horsedreamer_1
Don't expect Obama even to get that close to calling out Rush. We must look forward, not back.
I think Van Jones, Piven and the like have instigated the left into performing these atrocities. The man was an atheist, Military rejected. Far left wing nut according to classmates. Once again the misinformed, uninformed and hate mongering left try to spin it. No Tea Party member has ever been arrested or committed an assault. I can point to countless assaults and arrests by the left. Why is that….
SorosBot
What does Van Jones, a good man who was pushed out of office after the right-wing media spread a bunch of lies about him, have to do with anything? Oh, and you are a lying moron. No Teabagger has ever committed an assault, really? What about the teabaggers who beat and nearly killed a woman from MoveOn.org outside a Rand Paul rally?
And then you compound the lies with "I can point to countless assaults and arrests by the left". Name one, just one; and one that ACTUALLY HAPPENED, not made up. And that do your trolling on this thread, about six people murdered by a teabagger, is simply despicable.
straighteight
Surgeon says one fatality of those brought to the hospital was a child. UGH.
sati_demise
Waiting for John McCains statement,
fucking bloody hell
he laughed off that poster like a angry jerk
#Samantha Stephens — The crazy that shot Rep. Giffords was a Left Wing Anarchist:
Find Jarred Loughner's craziness on You Tube- HE IS NOT Tea Party.
He is a Lefty Anarchist:http://www.youtube.com/user/Classitup10
about an hour ago · ·
#Samantha Stephens — His favorite books include Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto.
horsedreamer_1
His favorite books include Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto.
This just makes him confused.
Hagar7
The fact that Samantha Stephens looked at that mishmash of a booklist and felt that she could declare with all certainty that he's a "lefty anarchist" merely tells us what her own political leanings are.
It also tells us that she's stupider than a bag of stupidity thrown into the River Stupid at Stupid-on-the-Thames.
"This is time for the country to come together" they'll say. "Forget that we've been talking about second amendment remedies and that we've been using violent political rhetoric", they'll say. "She was a republican" they'll say. "We need to give the FBI more power", they'll say. "This is the result of Obama's divisive healthcare policy", they'll say.
From a poster on FoxNation.com:I held my nose and looked on the huffington post to see what the communists were saying. From the NYT:
"Her father Spencer Giffords, 75, wept when asked if his 40-year-old daughter had any enemies. "Yeah," he told The Post. "The whole tea party."
That's pretty communist all right.
GregComlish
Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not rush to judgement. Reports claim that apparently the gunman was privy to some very disturbing information regarding Obama's birth certificate.
CuriouslyCarved
Now's the time to start pressuring companies to end their sponsorship of the professional haters. If it's true that advertising works, or media can sway public opinion, then it must be admitted that media-borne messages of hate and violence will eventually lead to actual hate and violence. It's a miracle that the lid stayed on until today.
This is absolutely horrible, but is anyone surprised that this happened in a state where political capital is gained by things like putting pink-underwear-clad prisoners in literal concentration camps and demonising Browns?
I see shit like this and I think that the Russian political scientist who predicted that the US would break up by 2010 wasn't too far off the mark. We have state legislatures doing weird stuff like forbidding Sharia law (as if it would ever be used outside a mosk), encouraging the minting of their own money, demanding Presidential candidates' birth certificates, and even suggesting that multistate compacts could be formed to nullify Federal law – what the fuck, this is like 1860 all over again.
Oh yeah, there's still a Federal Death Penalty for killing Federal judges and Congresspersons. The shooter will surely end up watering the tree of liberty along with Timmy McVeigh one day.
In summary: Fuck all of those fucking motherfuckers. Palin, Brewer, Walnuts, Boner, Limpballs, Hannity, Beck, Malkin, Coulter, Ingraham, Savage. Fuck them all. Go start your own fucking nation in the desert along with all the sun-crisped Olds if you hate the rest of us so fucking much.
Hagar7
Caveat: by the following, I am not taking a position on the morality of the death penalty. That said (assuming that an insanity defense fails), Jared Lee will water the tree of liberty that much sooner if this is handled as an AZ state prosecution instead of handed over to the U.S. Attorney in Tucson, because a halfway decent lawyer can keep the Feds mired in appeals for decades. In contrast, Arizona has something of an express lane for capital cases.
THAT said, when you commit the felony murder of the Chief Judge of a federal district court while trying to assassinate a U.S. Congressperson while she was in her Congressional district, I don't know who ends up prosecuting your sorry ass.
stew1
"Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was shot Saturday during a public event in Tucson, was among 20 other members of Congress who were on a so-called hit list published by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin."
Sarah, you fucking pig!
MadBrahms
I am absolutely at a loss for words; I sincerely hope that Wiegel / Espinoza is wrong about the whole "names being called' thing, because I want to (but don't) believe that this was a random act of rage rather than something so premeditated.
Let this be a wakeup call to the GOP about their tea party allies: be careful who you align yourself with and what sort of rhetoric you endorse, as it will haunt you. And it may kill.
finallyhappy
How could it be a random act of rage? This was a speaking engagement by the Congresswoman-although it may be that the names the murderer called were not the ones of the people he shot.
comrad_darkness
Oh, all the whining about jumping to political conclusions over at Sarah's FB. How about a little trip down memory lane from before it was revealed Shaun Christy was an NRA member bible thumper:
"But what did Team Sarah have to say about it? Here’s our pal Simon Roth:
Absolutely horrible. Unfortunately left-wingers, because they generally lack moral restraint, are more driven to go through with calculated acts like this than conservative nut-jobs are.
The name Lee Harvey Oswald comes to mind."
I got your lack of moral restraint right here, brownshirting b*tch.
hooray4anything
Don't forget Squeeky Fromme. Totally dirty fucking hippy
horsedreamer_1
Mentally ill, actually, & in sway to Uncle Charlie. Hippy had nothing to do with it.
hooray4anything
That sorta was sarcasm and a joke. Much like the idea Lee Harvey Oswald was a left-wing nut job. Unless it was LBJ who ordered than it, yes, it could be said he was killed by a liberal.
Neilist
How DARE you IMPLY that Lee Harvey Oswald was a left-wing nut job.
Just because his Marine buddies called him "Lenin"; he studied Russian; he tried to defect to the Soviet Union; lived there and married a Russian wife; came back to the US and worked for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee?
My God, man: Those are the qualifications for Right Wingnuts!!!!!
[Jesus H. Christ. You're not even TRYING to make sense.]
hooray4anything
Neilist, it was always my understanding that Oswald's politcal leanings were murky as he started turning anti-Castro and anti-Communist towards '63. According to Wikipedia, that's not necessarily true, although he did hang out with a lot of them in New Orleans. If you buy into the conspiracy theories, though, it was the anti-Castro-ites (with the CIA) who set the assassination in motion. Also, it wouldn't make that much sense for a pro-Conmie crazy person to shoot a Democratic President who, while certainly no commie-lover, was less so than others.
The fact that Oswald attempted to assassinate RightWingNut Bircher General Walker before he went after JFK is PROOF POSITIVE that Oswald was a RightWingNut, because only a RightWingNut would try to kill another RightWin . . . .
Hold on. I think I lost your chain of reasoning. Let me try again.
Oswald's attempt to assassinate Walker was PROOF POSITIVE that Oswald was NOT a LeftWing Loonie, because only a non-LeftWing Loonie wou . . . .
Whoops. Lost it again. Hmmm. Let me try it this way:
Oswald's assassination of JKF, the man who ordered the Bay of Pigs Invasion and who was trying to assassinate Castro is PROOF POSITIVE that Oswald was a RightWingNut, because ONLY a RightWingNut would attempt to protect a Communist dicta . . . .
Hmmm.
I'm a bit confused. Can you explain your reasoning again? The facts seem to keep getting in the way of your theory . . . .
[Bad facts! BAD!]
hooray4anything
What I'm trying to say is that nobody really knows what Oswald was doing or what he believed because he got shot too quickly to know and his motivations too murky. It's also hard to know because there's way too many stories out there about the whole thing but most of them do tend towards the JFK being killed as a result of him being blamed for allowing Castro to take over Cuba, whether it be the mob, anti-Castro-ites, or the CIA. None of those three could be considered lefty.
So, in other words, calling Oswald one thing or another is silly because nobody knows and if there is a meme out there saying he was some crazy-ass liberal, then it shows just how desperate some people are to twist history into their weird little worldviews but facts are stubborn little things.
fuflans
simon, please list those left wing assassinations of which you speak? cause i'm pretty up the news and can't think of any recent ones.
assassinations in this country in the last 30 years have been right wing christian nutjobs, right wing islamic nutjobs and random troubled students.
SorosBot
There's none that I can think of since the guy who killed McKinley, 110 years ago. Hell, the guy who shot the single right-winger who was the victim of an assassination attempt in the wave of assassinations of left-wing figures in the 60s and 70s turned out to be a nutcase who just wanted to assassinate somebody important so he would become famous; and likewise Hinkley was just an insane stalker.
Jukesgrrl
U of A basketball game scheduled for today has been canceled. That's as serious as shit gets here in Tucson.
jim89048
Even MSNBC stopped their weekend prison marathon to run with this, so yeah, pretty serious.
luke_warm
It's in his second video where he talks about the constitution and "apprehending" the current slate of treasonous laws. But yeah, he's batshit.
The judge who was assassinated was Chief Judge John Roll of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona. He had received death threats in the past from … guess! … talk-show listeners because he allowed a lawsuit by undocumented immigrants to go past summary judgment, and god help you if you do anything good for a Brown.
So now we have not only had an attack on a Congresswoman (probably) because of her political affiliation but also a literal attack on judicial independence.
In February, when U.S. District Judge John Roll presided over a $32 million civil-rights lawsuit filed by illegal immigrants against an Arizona rancher, the Marshals Service was anticipating the fallout.
When Roll ruled the case could go forward, [Arizona U.S. Marshal] Gonzales said talk-radio shows cranked up the controversy and spurred audiences into making threats.
In one afternoon, Roll logged more than 200 phone calls. Callers threatened the judge and his family. They posted personal information about Roll online.
"They said, 'We should kill him. He should be dead,' " Gonzales said.
Roll, who is the chief federal judge in Arizona, said both he and his wife were given a protection detail for about a month.
"It was unnerving and invasive. . . . By its nature it has to be," Roll said, adding that they were encouraged to live their lives as normally as possible. "It was handled very professionally by the Marshals Service."
At the end of the month, Roll said four key men had been identified as threat makers.
The Marshals Service left to him the decision to press charges but recommended against it. Roll said he had no qualms about following their advice.
AZ_Transplant
I worked in her office last year. I only met her a few times, but she she was always really genuine and kind. I hope she pulls through.
It's not a particularly common name, is it? Photo must be from 2010 festival, since the 2011 one is not scheduled until March.
karen
Yeah that's what I was thinking.
EdFlintstone
Sarah save your bullshit sympathy post on fucking facebook. Feigning sympathy for a a member of congress, shot in the head, after putting crosshairs on the same person doesn't pass the laugh test. Go to fucking hell, you fucking cunt.
fuflans
yeah, i read the postings by palin, cantor, boehner, et alia and all i could think was 'sorry, right wing assholes, you don't get to be nice'.
we can't have nice things because of you. we can't have civil discourse, a 20th c. health care system, a progressive tax policy, an informed population, hell a VIABLE OPPOSITION PARTY.
" =| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1lsLU-kUw
If there's no flag in the constitution then the flag in the film is unknown.
There's no flag in the constitution.
Therefore, the flag in the film is unknown.
Burn every new and old flag that you see.
Burn your flag!
I bet you can imagine this in your mind with a faster speed.
Watch this protest in reverse!
Ask the local police; "What's your illegal activity on duty?".
If you protest the government then there's a new government from protesting.
There's not a new government from protesting.
Thus, you aren't protesting the government.
There's something important in this video: There's no communication to anyone in this location.
You shouldn't be afraid of the stars.
There's a new bird on my right shoulder. The beak is two feet and lime green. The rarest bird on earth, there's no feathers, but small grey scales all over the body. It's with one large red eye with a light blue iris. The bird feet are the same as a woodpecker. This new bird and there's only one, the gender is not female or male. The wings of this bird are beautiful; 3 feet wide with the shape of a bald eagle that you could die for. If you can see this bird then you will understand. You think this bird is able to chat about a government?
I want you to imagine a comet or meteoroid coming through the atmosphere.
On the other hand, welcome yourself to the desert: Maybe your ability to protest is from the brainwash of the current government "
22 years old. How many older "friends" and "role models" you think egged him on politically? Took him out shooting in the desert? They need to go through that kid's life with a fine toothed comb and see who has been talking to him about politics and what groups he is involved in.
No 22 year old comes up with this shit without tons of brainwashing. This isn't shooting your classmates who've been calling you a faggot since kindergarten. This is willful, premeditated, political violence.
Banana Republic isn't just a store at the mall anymore.
horsedreamer_1
Very few (if any) of the school shooters have been bullied. Quite a few, in fact, would better be classified as bullies.
Just looking at the reasons for the It Gets Better campaign, too, if you've suffered being called a faggot, you're as likely to kill yourself before harming anyone else.
sati_demise
All of them had taken some sort of anti depressants like prozac. not good for developing brains obvsly
horsedreamer_1
I would contend the largest problem in giving antidepressants to kids is it's treated as a magic bullet: give them the 'Zac, & they'll be all better. But without structure elsewhere, in the home, schools, without parents parenting, it does no good. It's being a vegan, but then doing rails every weekend.
You're right. That was my ham-handed way of pointing out the difference between a act coming out of one's personal emotions and one coming of cold blooded, calculated, political murder.
tabouley
I am sure he had many fine role models, just like John Salvi 3rd.
These stupid right-wing sites are complaining that "communist" sites are stepping right up and blaming the Tea Party. In the meantime, these folks, each of them obviously an untutored Sherlock Holmes, have already figured out that the shooter was Hispanic, (insert irony here, considering the judge was seen as being sympathetic to Hispanics), Muslim, and definitely a left-winger because one of his favorite books was Mein Kampf. Seriously. http://honeytrail.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/breaki…
Note the person who was wondering what kind of a book "The Republic" was.
BarackMyWorld
The fact that a child was a casualty of this is the most sickening part of all.
We've been on a path to third world conditions for 30 years, we just took a big slide further today. This is the sort of thing that happens when ill educated, desperate and stupid people are boxed in economically and egged on by opportunistic groups that use them to do battle by proxy for profit. Arizona is more on the fringe than most states, but before we all start patting ourselves on the back here gang, it could have happened anywhere. I still hope we might get out of fan the crackers and divide and conquer mode, but it seems to be working quite well for the wealthy few and their servants.
fuflans
here's a question for you fox / right wing / politicians who've harnassed the crazy for cheap politcal gain:
what are the odds it WASN'T a conservative nutjob?
user-of-owls
sent this in as a tip, but you never know. this was the single line comment on…wait for it!…fox news' story about the shooting. probably scrubbed, but a gut wrenching indication of the gleeful fulfillment of palin-inspired murder. it's an update of her "target" graphic with blood streaming from giffords' crosshairhttp://oi55.tinypic.com/2s7yn8j.jpg
jjb3rd
I'm thinking that new currency he's talking about will be cigarettes and ass-rape in a federal prison.
chascates
All the usual suspects have a rote Twitter reply:GovMikeHuckabee–Please join Janet and me in praying for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and all the victims of the tragic shooting in Arizona. 4 minutes ago via web
newtgingrich–Please pray for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and every person shot in this tragic attack, as well as for their families. 1 minute ago via web
MicheleBachmann–Rep. Giffords and all victims in today's shooting are in my prayers. Those responsible must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. 4 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone
glennbeck–Worst night yet with neuropathy. Maybe 20 minutes sleep and not in a row. Upside? I watched Tania sleep all night. I love her. about 1 hour ago via Twitterrific
binarian
glennbeck out of the reality loop again…or still
baconzgood
When will this maddness stop. Congresspeople gettting shot?, Stopping morons going to attack Acorn?, I'm from Pittsburgh and work not far from where that nut job shot the police (about 15 blocks)….Is this the kind of discourse. "We lose at the ballot box so let's talk about '2nd amendment remedies'". You know alot of people in PA didn't like Slick Rick Santorum but I've never heard of someone from the left saying "well since he was elected and I don't like him I'll shoot him"
Meanwhile, how fucked up is it that Wonkette is currently the best place to receive updates and cogent analysis. Oh, and prison buttsechs for the perp, please.
Midway117
Wonkette so far has the best coverage of this event. TV broadcast dinosaur networks showing sports.
glamourdammerung
There is a distinct advantage to the medium too though.
It is much easier to edit a blog post than go back on a broadcast and say "oops, she is not dead", etc.
DustBowlBlues
I don't know, but what the fuck. I was watching mindless teevee, cooking and critiquing a fun book. Generally, forgetting politics for a minute. Then my husband ran in and told me the news.
WTF? Thank you, Ken, for doing this. I know we give you guys a lot of shit, but, wtf, thank you. Best to be around friends. Liberal, NRA-hating friends.
That fucking Jan Brewer doesn't even look sad. Is she happy that a seat will be open for a Republican? I hate that bitch.
stew1
"Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was on Sarah Palin's infamous "crosshairs map," listing all the Representatives the former VP candidate wanted defeated in the midterm elections, RadarOnline.com can report."
And Palin has the nerve to express her "shock".
glamourdammerung
You are not being fair.
I am usually kind of shocked when I get what I ask for too.
binarian
Palin's a stupid bitch who can't find her own ass with both hands and a flashlight.
James Michael Curley
Probably because she forgot where she stuck the flashlight the last time she was looking.
karen
Jan Brewer currently choking on her non-caring at the moment.
EdFlintstone
She was smiling half the time. Looked like her handler stepped in to get her away from the podium for fear she was going to look even worse than she already did if she continued.
memzilla
You Can't Spell Crazy Without AZ.
Jukesgrrl
Gov. Brewer is on TV right now, dripping crocodile tears, talking about how she was such great friends with Gabby. She's calling this an "awful tragedy" and talking about it being so sad that we have to worry about "these things happening," and she's "concerned that those of us who are elected officials are targets." But of course nothing about how the gun laws in this state play a part. Put the flags at half mast and business as usual.
Neilist
:::Yawn:::
Substitute the names John Lennon, Mark Chapman, and New York into the news stories.
And you end up with yet-another example of how crazed, deranged and dangerous New Yorkers are.
Too bad the killer didn't use an old Detroit manufactured van to run the victims over. That way you all could launch into Torrents of Outrage about how American cars should be outlawed; only Right Wingnuts drive American iron, etc., etc., etc.
Wonkette: Demonstrating, yet again, that Once The Shit Starts Flying, The American Brain Moves Immediately To The "Off" Position.
It stands as a snarky comment about the hysteria, lack of rational analysis, ignorance of history, and just plain Liberalness that runs rampant among you people whenever this kind of thing happens.
In that my comment – good or bad, polite or impolite — is completely consistent with the expressed ethos of this website (unlike all of your Boo-Hooing) . . . well, why wouldn't I be proud of it?
If any of you ever want to have a rational discussion of gun control; the history of violence in America; the scientific fact that weakness tends to attract force and exploitation, both in politics and nature, well . . . don't bother me, as none of you have demonstrated the intellectual capability, lack of emotionalism, and historical knowledge to do so.
Although it's amusing to watch you flounder around when you try.
I'm just glad that all those American Indians; and Nat Turner and Demark Vesey; and all those Juden and Communists in Germany; the Zulus in Natal; etc., etc., etc. didn't have guns. While "we" DID . . . .
And the idea of an "Armed Liberal"? Dear God, now there's something REALLY frightening.
Good idea for all our soldiers to have a semi-automatic weapon when they come stateside, with no jobs, crap mental health care, and lots of illegal drugs you can get without a doctors prescription.
Maybe we could tax & regulate drugs, improve health services and try to license guns with a bit more scrutiny. Bet he got that gun at the Tucson gun shop'n'swap that has been arming the Mexican drug cartels thanks to the NRA loopholes.
Neilist
By God, this IS a wonderful country, isn't it?!?
No, wait a minute. That may not be want you me . . . .
Never mind.
sati_demise
Fuck you and all you gun nuts. And I hunt occasionally for white tail.
Neilist
Ah, the True Vocabulary of the Liberal Reveals Itself Again!
user-of-owls
I've never responded to you before because I know your type. We all do. A pathetic small man who confuses attention with respect. So why don't you do humanity a favor and give one of your precious guns a blow job. Make sure to twitch your trigger finger when you ejaculate.
I think Limey Lizzie has a pet word for you.
snoopyfan2010
and power attracts arrogance….
snoopyfan2010
"the scientific fact that weakness tends to attract force and exploitation, both in politics and nature, well . . ."
It's a religious fact too. After all Jesus never used force against his enemies.
savethispatient
The TV reported a semi-automatic weapon with an extended magazine. Not that that really means anything to me.
I've not seen whether or not the weapon was legally or illegally owned. Of course, I come from a country that has banned all handguns; our crazy people just stab our MPs. And that was for the Iraq war, not "new currency".
As for the P points, yeah, probably.
horsedreamer_1
Knife Crime Island in the hizzy, yo.
Neilist
On the Glock, the extended magazine can vary from an over 10 round mag (all you can have in California) to the factory standard (15 to 17 on the full size models) to "after market" extended magazines that can hold 30 or more rounds.
There even are several "drum feed" widgets that you can use with the Glock that can give you 75 rounds or more. They are stupid, even dangerous, in a Real Life situation due to the danger of malfunction. But you can buy them in some jurisdictions (including, I think, the Copper State).
sati_demise
Why should anyone be able to buy one without a special license and training and psych screening?
jim89048
Just shut the fuck up, this one time.
And it was a Glock 9mm.
binarian
Well, it was a Glock 9mm, as had been stated. With an extended clip. Which no one needs unless you're out to kill people. Lots of people. I have guns, too, but strictly for target shooting or hunting. The average American has no need for, and probably can't be trusted with, automatic weapons, extended clips, and so forth. As you would know if you had ever been in the business of carrying weapons for a living (policeman, military, and so forth). Try not getting any more stupid juice on us please.
Neilist
1. The Glock is not an "automatic weapon," other than the Glock 18, which is not sold to civilians in this country. It's a semi-automatic. Score "1" for your ignorance.
2. "Extended magazine," like "assault rifle," covers a wide variety of magazines. See above. Some of them are for sport/fun; and most are impracticable, and/or dangerous, to use in Real Life. Which you would have realized if you had any real knowledge of firearms — which you clearly don't.
3. A re-fill on that glass of "Stupid Juice," sir? Or have you had enough? (Remember what the NRA says: Stupid Juice and Firearms Don't Mix!"
binarian
I never said I thought it was an automatic weapon. My automatic weapon mention was a more general comment. And I had multiple tours in the military so I think I know what I'm talking about. Stupid Juice was meant as in "How stupid are you to come on here and say this shit here today". And go fuck yourself. And I mean that in the kindest possible way.
sati_demise
So, not automatic but he could get off 20 rounds in less than a minute.
Long enough to kill a 9 year old child.
But the NRA refuses to say that Crazy and Firearms dont mix.
Neilist
Oh, heck, with the 17 round magazine in the Glock Model 17 (the full size 9 mm), a reasonably well practiced shooter should be able to get off 51 rounds in a minute (three magazines; two reloads).
I've never tried it, only because (1) 9 mms are for girls; and (2) it's a waste of ammo.
But if you're shooting 9-year-olds, from close range, the 9 mm round might do a through-and-through, such that you could hit a couple of the little buggers with the same bullet.
And "Crazy and Firearms" = Hunter S. Thompson, doesn't it?
Or do Liberal only like to read about stuff like that?
Neilist
Just Outside of Barstow, On The Edge Of The Desert, Waiting For The Drugs To Take Hold . . .
Veritas78
We're only keeping you around so we know what guns to buy, like now.
Neilist
I Exist To Serve.
Ideally, winged game, e.g., wild duck, pheasants, quail.
"If It Flies, It Dies. If It Hops, It Drops!"
P.s. I have some squirrel recipes, too. For when all you cubical farm commandos get laid off, and the rat population around the dumpster gets thinned out.
PuckStopsHere
Nice how you can ignore the plain language of the US Constitution: Well. Regulated. Militia.
Neilist
How nice you can ignore recent controlling United States Supreme Court case precedent, e.g., District of Columbia v. Heller; McDonald v. City of Chicago.
But I keep forgetting: The Second Amendment means what you Liberal Pinko Communist SKUM "feel" or "want" or "dream" it to mean, rather than what the Highest Court in the land says it does.
And if you don't agree with the Supreme Court's analysis and holding, why, it's WRONG!!!!!!!
Silly, silly me. Let's run the country YOUR way. We'll call the resulting form of government . . . ::::hmmm:: . . . how does Complete Chaos sound to you?
Puck. Stops. Here.
P.S. Miranda? Wrong. Sound be ignored.
Brown v. Board of Education? Wrong. Get those blacks out of "our" schools.
Roe v. Wade? WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Ladies, back to the coathangers!!!!
PuckStopsHere
SCOTUS is fucking infallible, yes. It has never made and never will make a mistake because it is incapable of so doing. Overturning precedent has never happened and will never happen because of that infallibility. I'm sorry. Bush v Gore and Citizens United threw me for a moment because each so closely resembles bad law. But, you're correct. This simply cannot be. Thanks for helping me regain my footing.
Neilist
No, no, I get your point. You, with all of your knowledge of U.S. constitutional law, American history, and what is Right and Moral, are the sole and only arbitrator of the meaning of the United States Constitution, including the Second Amendment.
What you say goes, and the SCOTUS, because it is not "infallible," should be ignored by All Right-Thinking Americans.
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
[But then, you get to give Ye Olde English Fuckque to a young Susannah York. So being a Constitutional Nitwit has some benefit . . . . ]
sati_demise
Lets just pass out guns at the mental hospitals, mkay?
PuckStopsHere
You disappoint. You bring up motor vehicles in a discussion of gun violence. Jesus, specious much? But, since you did, for Christ's sake you have to take a class and pass a test to drive a car because in untrained hands cars and trucks are dangerous.
A Glock, meh, not so much.
We shoulda fixed this little problem after Oswald shot Kennedy with a 20-dollar rifle. Instead, continue to let the insane own and use firearms and you are ok with that. Let freedom ring.
sati_demise
This guy may have Az. Militia creds. That does not mean what you think it means. They are skinheads, neo Nazis, and criminals who say they want to protect the border but really just want to kill brown people.
Neilist
"but really just want to kill brown people. . . . "
But you say that as if it's a Bad Thing — when it's the Definition of The Foreign Policy of the Obama Administration.
(Brown. Black. Yellow. Whatever. Secretary Gates will kill them all for Our President Hopey, and for his Wall Street Friends.)
binarian
People tend to ignore things they don't want to hear.
Neilist
"People tend to ignore things they don't want to hear. "
You're repeating the Basis of American Liberalism why, precisely?
Pragmatist2
What good is the First Amendment if you can't incite people to murder?
What good is the 2nd Amendment if you can't murder people if you think that's a good idea?
What good is the 3rd Amendment if absolutely no one has any idea what it says?
Tjis message brought to you by your friends at the tea Party.
Makemyownchoice
Telling someone to do something in no way forces them to.
2nd Amendment does not protect murderers.
3rd keeps soldiers from living in your house aginst your will in peacetime. I don't see why you brought that up though.
-I support MOST of what the tea party stands for and I haven't heard anything from them remotely close to what your saying
Pragmatist2
I suppose it is possible tat you are naive enough not to understand that this is satire. That would explain why you claim to support the positions of a group that has no positions – only anger because the world did not turn out the way they wanted.
Some free advice – think for yourself and work hard at it.
Makemyownchoice
I apologize, it is difficult to pick up tone through quick texts on the internet. I do not support everything from the tea party, but I disagree that they have no positions. Perhaps you should look harder into what positions people who relate to the tea party have. For starters, govt spending within means and govt out of personal choices….not to far from what I hear on from the left.
I do think for myself thank you.
Your free advice is worth what I paid for it.
Pragmatist2
Apology accepted.
"living within your means" is not a position. It is a truism. We all believe in it.
The difficulty is that it requires hard choices. The Tea Party advocates lower taxes and deficit reduction and offers only trivial program cuts. That is a Free Lunch and mathematically impossible. Grown ups know we have to cut programs and apply modest tax increases on those (like myself) who make more large amounts of disposable income. Thinking .a little deeper remains sound advice.
Have a good life.
SorosBot
Now that it looks like Giffords is going to survive, I just really hope her brain is mostly OK. She was shot in the head, and I'm reminded of a good friend who was run over by a car and suffered intense brain damage; and while initially everyone was hoping that she'd live and happy that she did, after she ended up basically having the mental power of a toddler, now I think she may have been better off if she hadn't survived.
LionelHutzEsq
Glenn Beck blames this on George Soros, Woodrow Wilson, and/or the Jews in 3, 2, 1….
DustBowlBlues
And that's why I love the wonket and the wonkeratti. Only gallows humor helps at a time like this. Imagine we are all holding hands and singing Kumbaya (except for me because, as a song, it fucking sucks) and giving each other warm fuzzies.
Learning about evils like mind control through grammar usage and slavery through traffic stops is the reason I keep coming back to Wonkette.
Neilist
OPEN SEASON ON FILIPINO PUNDITS! One per hunter!
stew1
As much as I loathe the scumbag Palin, it was Walnuts who brought her out of obscurity and threw her worthless ass on us so fuck him too.
jodyleek
Not even Cindy wants to fuck that old shriveled turd.
Neilist
:::Yawn:::
Well, this has all been very amusing. But I have to get back to work on this brief.
Also, I have to try to fit in my re-qualifying shoot, ideally, tomorrow. Nothing says American Protestant Christianity like a day at the gun range, ya know?
Even for us Ex-Irish Catholics.
binarian
krazy keyboard kommando is krazy
Neilist
A word of advice? On the technical, rhetorical level?
When you get clubbed down verbally, like a gay baby harp seal, and have nothing clever to say in response, the better course is to just slink away, and hope no one notices.
When you come back with ad hominem attacks — particularly attempts to be cute with alliteration, etc. — you just highlight your stupidity.
But either way: Better luck next time! And thank you for playing our game.
binarian
You really are an asshole. I mean really, we've just had a national tragedy, and you have the gall to come here and spout silly nonsense how stupid we are to be upset? Fuck off and die.
Neilist
"Fuck off and die."
Obscenity: The Last Refuge of the Unintelligent, Uneducated, And Unenlightened.
Oh, and . . . YOUR MAMA!!!!!
lulzmonger
*LOL CLUELESS*
Thinking Wonkette = some Roberts' Rules Of Order anally-clenched debating club: this is why you have failed so hard so much here.
Enjoy your deletion.
Limeylizzie
What the fuck is wrong with you? You dozy cunt, don't you realise that outside of the snark and sarcasm and smart-alecky behaviour on Wonkette, the thing that resonates on this strange and wonderful little site that we all love , is a resounding sense of humanity and if you have none then best stay away.
Neilist
"Dozy cunt" I'll accept, if only for the quaintness.
You toffish git, you.
DemmeFatale
Well, at least he's reminding us what an attention-whore he is.
jodyleek
What she said! Neilist, shut your muzzle and go back to spooning your Charleton Heston cutout.
"Classitup10 writes –> Hello, and welcome my classified leak of information that's of the United States Military to the student body and you. Firstly, I want you to understand this from the start. Did you know grammar is double blind, listener? Secondly, if you want to understand the start of revelatory thoughts then listen to this video. I'll look at you mother fuckin Anarchists who have a problem with them illegal illiterate pigs. :-D If you're a citizen in the United States as of now, then your constitution is the United States. You're a citizen in the United States as of now. Thus, your constitution is the United States. Laugh. I'll let you in on their little cruel joke that's genocidal. They're argument is appeal to force on their jurisdiction with lack of proof of evidence. Each subject is in question for the location! The police don't quite get paid correctly with them dirty front runners under section 10? Their country's alliances are able to make illegal trades under section 10. Eh! I'm a Nihilist, not someone who put who put trust in god! What is section 10 you ask? If you make a purchase then it's illegal under section 10 and amendment 1 of the United States constitution. You make a purchase. Therefore, it's illegal under section 10 and amendment 1 of the United States constitution. We need a drum roll for those front runners in the election; those illegal teachers, pigs, and politicians of yours are under illegal authority of their constitution. Those dirty pigs think they know the damn year. Thirdly, tell them mother fuckers to count from 0 to whenever they feel a threat to stop their count. We can all hope they add new numbers and letters to their count down. Did you run out of breath around the trillions, listener? Well, B.C.E is yet to start for Ad to begin! What does this mean for a citizen in any country? Those illegal military personal are able to sign into a country that they can't find with an impossible date! How did you trust your child with them fraud teachers and front runners, listener? Did you now know that the teachers, pigs, and front runners are treasonous! You shouldn't jump to conclusion with your education plan. The constitution as of now, which is in use by the current power pigs, aren't able to protect the bill of rights! Do you now have enough information to know the two wars are illegal! What is your date of time, listener? Fourthly, those applications that are with background checks break the United States constitution! What's your riot name? I'll catch you! Top secret: Why don't people control the money system? Their Current Currency(1/1) / Your new infinite currency (1/~infinte) This is a selcte information of revoluntary thoughts! Section 10 – Powers prohibited of States No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility. No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress. No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay. Each subject is unlocatible!"
Yes! I enjoy the Second Amendement just as much as I enjoy the others:)
rocktonsam
FOR SALE SIGN ON BPALIN'S FRONT LAWN IN 4 , 3 . . .
undeadgoat
I would just like to take this juncture to point out that in the midterms just passed, only 53% of voters voted for a Republican congressperson, with a whopping like 4% Libertarian, aka totally disgusted with the crazies. And somehow they are probably going to be quite successful in making all the college-educated white Democratic voters think, "Wouldn't it be nice to live someplace where I can take my child to see her congressperson without being in fear for our lives?" And then New York City and Portland OR and Madison WI will be just that much more liberal, and the Democrats in rural districts will continue to rush to the center until they alienate their base, awful vicious cycles, defections to the Republicans, etc.
I am not saying that electoral reform will stop shootings, just that it would be much harder to pretend that the crazies hold an actual majority in a more representative electoral system, and people thinking that a woman like that, because she disagrees with them on one or two issues, is in any way their enemy–from what I see, I might be hesitant on voting for her if I was a constituent because she's so centrist, but then again I have a lesbian congresswoman and don't live in Arizona, but she seems like a stand-up woman who votes her conscience and keeps her constituents in mind.
Or at least she was, I didn't go to school in brains but I am pretty sure that there is no way she won't be affected, in personality or in some sort of physical way, by a wound like that in some way or other, at the very least she will probably be in rehab or something after she is physically stabilized.
Troubledog
None of this matters. The wingnuts will spin this and distance themselves from this whackjob.
Earlier today, Breitbart was calling out Markos on Twitter, warning Markos not to make this political. He said Markos would regret the backlash. It was very ominous.
Despite Breitbart's call for calm and non-politicalization of this tragedy, the lead story at breitbart.com is entitled: "Tuscon Shooter's 'Favorite' YouTube Video Shows Flag Burning"
I can't fucking stand it.
Sassomatic
How exactly does one go about not politicizing a political assassination/attempt? It's like saying that a hurricane isn't about weather.
Jukesgrrl
A gentleman from the Tohono O'dom Nation was interviewed on Tucson TV this evening. He drove down from the Tucson area to pay his respects at Giffords HQ. But he also said he was on camera to pay his respects to Judge Roll. He reported he had worked with him on many occasions and that he had done great service for the Nation, especially helping them to address the drug problems within their community. The gentleman remarked that it seemed to him to be a "thankless task to be a jurist" today and he wanted to mention that Judge Roll was a man worthy of our respect. Thought that was a point of view worth mentioning.
BTW, quite a few posts from pages 3 and beyond seem to be disappearing again this evening.
GuyWithTheFace
Jesus Christ. The comments section of the youtube video that was in that guy's favorites is a veritable hornet's nest of wingnuts. Not 1 hour after the vid became famous were there comments talking about BO's birth certificate and accusations of him being a muslim. You'd think they'd eventually come in contact with reality after having this shit debunked countless times, but no.
I mean, I knew they could be crazy/stupid, but holy shit.
gvvt
Truth is just another layer of the conspiracy.
pinkocommi
The whole controversy about the use of crosshairs on Palin's campaign materials got me thinking about how, once upon a time, the Republican Party – at least theoretically – stood for personal responsibility. If this were still true, the Republican Party would laugh Palin all the way back to fucking Wasilla. What a scum bag Palin is. Once again, it makes me think there is no such thing as karma, because there is no way Ms. Giffords would be the one lying in a hospital bed in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the temple.
Maybe OT, maybe not, but I lay the blame in a different place, and propose a solution.
Jared Loughner is apparently mentally ill. He was taught in American public schools. Therefore, a series of teachers and administrators failed to spot the problem, to address the problem or to solve the problem.
Not blaming them, they're swamped.
Here's my proposed solution: Massive investment in education (it's a jobs program), hire about double the number of teachers we have now, thus halving classroom size and giving all teachers a bit of psychological training in "spot the future psychopath" (Cruelty to animals, bullying or being bullied, psychopathic parents, isolation, I'm sure there are many more telltale signs)
Also, perhaps, teach kids the difference between conscious and conscience.
Assuming the schools are dominated by the progressive left, it could just be indoctrination. This is what happens when you teach hate and revisionist history. We have given schools massive amounts of money and it has actually gotten worse. The money ends up going to the teachers and administration. I propose getting unions out of the education process and get rid of the Department of Education. The have failed us and we cannot compete globally.
But how could they not? It's all they've ever had (and the moolah from the corruption, of course).
I've been saying it's time to take names and take action against the MSM liars who promote this kind of nonsense to the easily confused for a decade now (since the stealing of the 2000 election when the preachers of the dumb mobilized them to storm the polls for Dumbya).
Too bad it seems to only work the other way round.
Thanks for this. I can't stop crying but my political choices now seem to have been confirmed for all time. I will continue to report on the jackels who are feasting on the bleeding body of the US lower classes without mercy.
Kudos on your coverage of this most important milestone.
Sadly,
Suzan
Good to see they can scramble to stay on message!
Makemyownchoice
I'm sorry I missed where this became a class warfare issue. Where did you get the lower classes are the victims for this story?
Because it's not true. The target thing was from fucking Sarah Palin, moron; and describing someone encouraging a primary run in a diary that uses no violent rhetoric whatsoever as a "hit list" is reprehensible. Now please go fuck yourself.
What part of "go fuck yourself" do you not understand? You for some reason are throwing out irrelevant bullshit to try and deflect responsibility for this tragedy from the teabaggers who are responsible. From your profile I see you mostly post at Glenn Beck's and Brietbart's sites, so you are a piece of shit, and oh look you have personally tried to instigate violence against a good man just three days ago: "It is time we start implementing Obamacare death panels, I nominate Mr Soros as the first patient "
Now go fuck yourself. Leave.
les_gvt
Please explain why it is irrelevant? I was offering a different opinion- don't liberals support diversity?
I was doing nothing more than pointing out that threats had been made to her from both sides, and that the lft wing people tend to be more prevalent in carrying out those threats.
I am sorry you are not mature enough to handle the adversity of diversity, and recommend you expand your vocabulary, to at least that of my 5 year old niece
I would also question anyones mental status that adores a man that has destroyed 4 nations currency, and is currently attempting to destroy America. I do not agree with many of our Lawmakers, but at least they ar Americans. If Soros gets his way, wee will have people from Angola and
Chad making our laws, I do not ant that, do you?
SorosBot
Except that: 1) there were no threats from the left; read that diary again, there was no violent language at all; and 2) huh, the "lft" [sic] wing people tend to be more prevalent in carrying out those threats"? What the fuck our you talking about? Every single assassination and terrorist attack in America in my lifetime has been carried out by someone who is either conservative or just nuts and apolitical. Really, can you name one?
les_gvt
not sure you are old enough to remember the Russian trained Lee Harvey Oswald
9/11 was carried out by Muslim extremeist- If you look at the Shiria law they want to implement, you can not tell it apart from the Progressive doctrine
Sirhan Sirhan was a leftist that considered Bobby to far right
You really need to start learning your history
Maggie Thatcher was attacked by a leftie also
SorosBot
What part of "in my lifetime" don't you understand? And anyway, no one knows what Oswald's politics and reasons for killing Kennedy were, or Sirhan Sirhan; and both their targets were liberals. And yeah, 9/11 was carried out by Muslim fundamentalists – right-wing extremists. Religious fundamentalism is a conservative doctrine, whatever the religion, idiot, and Sharia law is virtually identical to the laws the theocratic fundamentalist Christians in this country want to enact; the only difference is that they different names for their god.
Meanwhile, the murderers of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, and a ton of other civil rights leaders were all conservative racist Southerners; and such anti-government terrorists as Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols, and anti-choice terrorists as Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder, were all right-wingers. Learn your history, moron.
les_gvt
I said I did not know your age, and judging by the lack of verbal skills, and overall lack of knowledge and maturity level, I was pushing it in thinking you might be around 12-14 yrs old, so I did not want to tax you too much, however is Mc Veigh was while you were born, now I will guesstimate you are 15-16 so you may still learn something yet.
SorosBot
Sorry shithead; I'm 34, but it is ironic that you actually claim I should learn my history when you actually referred to Hitler as a liberal.
mumbly_joe
It's kinda rich that he's managed to so rapidly jump from "Hitler was a liberal" to "Liberals want to surrender to sharia law". Last time I checked, the Nazis' whole thing was militaristic pan-German nationalism, which is somewhat the opposite of surrendering to a foreign culture's religious laws.
In fact, if I remember correctly, there were one or two ethnic groups in Germany at the time, whom Hitler and the Nazis accused of attempting to infiltrate and weaken German society, by introducing some "foreign" political system, not unlike some of the posts over on Atlas Srugs about Muslims. Kinda fuzzy on the specifics, though.
SorosBot
I find the "liberals want to surrender to sharia law" very amusing. Yeah, because liberals are well-known for our desire to ban abortion, treat women as property of their husbands or fathers, institute the death penalty for gay people, force everyone to conform to one religion, and re-ban alcohol.
No, morons; what we do is not be racist and recognize that the one billion Muslims are different people and most are not terrorists, nor do they want to impose Sharia law, in fact many are fairly secular and ignore the stricter dictates of the religion and do things like eat pork, drink alcohol and fuck non-Muslims.
glamourdammerung
I said I did not know your age, and judging by the lack of verbal skills, and overall lack of knowledge and maturity level, I was pushing it in thinking you might be around 12-14 yrs old, so I did not want to tax you too much, however is Mc Veigh was while you were born, now I will guesstimate you are 15-16 so you may still learn something yet.
Maybe you should figure out what a "sentence" is before you start insulting your betters.
les_gvt
BETTERS?no one on here yet would qualify as my pet cockroach
SorosBot
Please, your average cockroach is smarter than a fucking moron who actually has the gall to claim the Nazis were liberal. What I want to know is: are stupid, and actually believe that outrageous lie, or are you just lying? Or both?
glamourdammerung
And yet we can write at an adult level. Since you have not managed to do that so far, that chip on your shoulder must really be bothering you.
glamourdammerung
Please explain why it is irrelevant? I was offering a different opinion- don't liberals support diversity?
Because no one here cares about your opinion when facts contradict it.
les_gvt
No one on here bothered to get any facts before they started making accusations.
I just pointd out the hate being directed towards her on a far left web site
No one here bothered to find anything out about this kid, they just jumped to conclusions
SorosBot
Look above. You actually claimed the Nazis were left wing; since you hate facts, you have no right to claim that other people didn't bother to get facts.
Oh, and guess what; as was was pointed out while dealing with one of the other trolls from that racist Breitbart's site (and what, does that piece of shit periodically order you guys to go and annoy us? And will he ever apologize for what he did to ACORN?) that conservative WordPress blogger ADDED THE BULLSEYE IMAGE to that Kos post; it was not in the original, that was a lie to help enable your bullshit false equivalency.
Now kindly go fuck yourself.
glamourdammerung
At least you admit to being a liar, even if you still lie about being a fool as well.
les_gvt
Did anyone catch the post daily kos took down right after the shootings?
Full post from the Kos:
My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!
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by BoyBlue
Thu Jan 06, 2011 at 11:07:17 AM PST
I am from the Tucson area and live in Congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords' district. I worked like a dog for her elections when she was in the Arizona House, surrounded by rightwing nutcases. When Arizona re-districted in 2002, a seat opened up and she was right smack in the middle of it. So was I because I live in Oro Valley, Arizona, which is at the heart of that – then – new CD. I was one of several people to talk her into running and pledging complete loyalty and pledging to raise as much money as possible for her.
She ended up running for the first time against a fellow AZ House member, Randy Graf who was a rightwing whacko who advocated guns in bars and was the "Russell Pearce before Russell Pearce" vis-a-vis border issues. With a LOT of hard work and plenty of money, Gabby won. Easier than thought, too. I never like to throw money in people's faces, but i have given Gabrielle Giffords THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of dollars in both good times and bad times for me financially.
BoyBlue's diary :: ::
Fast forward to this election season. A weirdo asshole named Jesse Kelly who advocated ELIMINATING Social Security and was a tea bagger favorite got the GOP nom to run against her. I am gay and had been married and my spouse left me January 15, 2010. I shot myself in the mouth in a serious suicide attempt, because of that. Barely surviving, I spent two months in the hospital and still have some paralysis. I did receive a severance from my employer, as i had been laid off in December, 2009. That may have been part of the reason my spouse left me.
Anyway, after months of physical and mental rehab, I got back into the political scene and started working for Gabby once again. I raised over $100,000 for her and maxed her out myself out of my severance, even though i still don't have work and could not qualify for state aid because of my severance.
She wins her re-election and told me she was still a supporter of Speaker Pelosi at her victory party. We talked about how Nancy Pelosi was a successful woman and accomplished oh so much in just four years as Speaker.
Today, just a little while ago, I saw on Andrea Mitchell Reports (out of the one eye in can still see out of) that Giffords voted AGAINST Nancy Pelosi as our Minority Leader. Rhetorical question: I fought back from my condition and jumped in with both feet to help Gabrielle Giffords for THIS shit???
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is dead to me now. I won't lift a finger, make one phone call, nor will i EVER vote for her in the future. And why did she do this? Giffords never told me she was conservative Democrat. And her voting record is okay. Damn.
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gvvt
Gosh, he's an asshole, too. Who'd a thunk it. Maybe EVERYBODY ought to stop pretending that their political views are so wondrously radiant and pure.
glamourdammerung
Are you going to cut and paste this in every WordPress site you troll?
Unsubstantiated claim is unsubstantiated. Also.
les_gvt
Did anyone notice his favorite reading list included the communist manifesto? and Mein Kampf- seems pretty much like a left wing nut job working here
SorosBot
Huh? Um, Mein Kampf is a sign of a RIGHT-wing nutjob, moron.
SorosBot
Really, I don't even understand how you can say this without realizing you are undermining your own claim; you point out that his reading list included Mein Kampf, that famous racist screed by history's most well known evil, conservative dictator, then claim that means he's a leftist? Huh? That makes the kind of sense that's not.
les_gvt
National SOCIALIST Party
Socialism is government control- Hitler was a dictator- full government control- hence Hitler was a leftiset.
The only differencee between Hitler and Stalin was that Hitler had to lie to people enough to get elected
They both controled manufacturing, food output, children,
They both controlled every aspect of society, and if you did not follow their rulees you wound up in a prison, or excuted. there is nothing right wing about that. You need to go back and learn your politics better
better yet- you just need to learn the truth
SorosBot
"Hitler was a leftiset"
What the fuck? Did you even take sixth grade history? Or do you just think we're so stupid that we would actually a lie as outrageous and obviously wrong as that? My god, you are one stupid fucker.
les_gvt
once again, your verbal skills- or lack thereof- are on display- which also says something about your overall intelligence level most likely
However- hitler was a total Staist- which is to the left as far as you can go
He controled everything, and no matter which spectrum chart you use, communism and Nazism end up at the same point- one person being total dictators runing everything in the nation
I would say to use some common sense and think about it, however- i doubt you have any to spare
If you look back- the NAZI's were kicked out of the communist party- because they were TOO RADICAL for the communists. The Beep Hall Putsch was aimed at destroying their rivals- the communist, and Hitler and Stalin Hated each other- becuase they were too much alike and both wanted the same thing
Difference was Hitler was jealous of the land- Stalin was jealous of the industrialization both wanted more. Stailin just knew how to put a better face on himself than Hitler did
Oh well- I am one of those evil taxpayers- gotta go support some tofu eating espresso drinking needing free health care illegal alien child- and where I live- thats roughly 60% of the kids
les_gvt
34? physically, ok, Mentally? doubt it
go back and look at the beginning of the NAZI party- they were mostly rejects from the communist party that had been kicked out because they were TOO RADICAL for the communist.
This is the reason Hitler hated them so much.
Comparing Nazism to communism is like comparing Lennin to Trotski
gvvt
Where on earth did you get this? Please cite a real source. The Nazis developed out of the extreme right wing Freikorps soldiers who put down the Communist revolution at the end of WWI. Have YOU READ Mein Kampf? Have you read Hitler's gloating recollections of breaking up Communist meetings? The first Germans interred in concentration camps were left-wingers. You know nothing about what you think you are talking about.
Like all of you fools on the right, you will buy anything any huckster on TV or the internet will dish up to you. READ Mein Kampf, read German history before you make such mendaciously idiotic statements.
les_gvt
You really want me to dig up my grandad who was there?
This is when he and my grandmother decided to leave Germany- because she was Roma- and they both new that they would not be able to hide that for long.
After the Putsch, he finally realized he had been lied to – and blind-about many things, and saw what was about to happen to the nation
Yes- my grandfather was one of th communist that got kicked out and became one of the original NAZI's- fortunately- he got ou alive and repent for his mistakes.
You have the reason they hated ach other all wrong, just as you have that NAZIism is right wing all wrong- it is just as hard left as communism
mumbly_joe
Almost as astounding as his grammar and spelling, incidentally.
SorosBot
I these kind of lies come from the Manichean world view that many conservatives have, that leads them to whitewash history. To them, conservatives are good, and liberals are bad, so anyone who is evil is called a liberal even they are conservative, so they claim Hitler was really liberal (and that he was an atheist when he was actually Catholic), just as this guy is claiming this crazed racist killer was actually a secret liberal who tried to kill Giffords I guess because she too moderate, and above called Muslim fundamentalist terrorists liberals.
Or else they claim they weren't really bad, like saying that the Confederate traitors seceded over "State's Rights" instead of purely over slavery. Similarly, they try to claim some liberal heroes, like the ridiculous claim that Martin Luther King was conservative, or ignoring that Jesus' teachings were downright socialistic. It's ridiculous and dishonest, but it's what they do. Meanwhile, outside of a few whackos on the street liberals try to look at history accurately; you don't hear people claiming the Soviets were really right-wingers.
les_gvt
Hitler-
control of all business
control of food supply
control of youth
control of education
control of health care
pushed eugenics
control of manufacturing
control of transportation
put enemies in jail/executed them
one party rule
Stalin-
control of business
control of food supply
control of youth
control of education
control of health care
pushed eugenics
control of manufacturing
control of transportaion
put enemies in jail/executed them
one party rule
so where is the difference? there isn't one
SorosBot
Nazi Germany was capitalistic, moron; the government didn't control business but worked with them. Also, once again, their central doctrine was racism, a conservative value.
glamourdammerung
Not only was Germany pro-business, they were pro-business to the point where it hurt the war effort. Hence putting Speer in charge of finally forcing businesses to focus on a war economy.
Trinket
I don't think he's a liar. I think he's an actual moron.
mumbly_joe
Their full name was actually the National Socialist German Workers party, which makes sense, given how labor-friendly they were. Oh, wait.
By your logic, North Korea is both a democratic nation, and a republic, because it says so on the label, and nobody ever uses names for propaganda or anything.
Beyond that, it's really isn't worth even engaging with you, because the "truth" you're spouting is basically Holocaust denial, a half-step removed. The fact that the political coalition that elevated Hitler to power was between the Nazis, a mainstream conservative party, and a number of smaller nationalist groups is indisputable fact, as is the fact that their main political opposition was from the Social Democrats, who, by your illogic should have been ideologically aligned with them.
Obviously the Democratic in their name = the US Democratic party. You, you, communist socialist nazi statist.
les_gvt
You are correct- I am in total denial that my grandmother lost two sisters and a brother in gas chambers.
mumbly_joe
None of which changes the fact that denying the facts of Hitler's rise to power is a hair's breadth away from denying the facts of the Holocaust itself. That you're bringing shame upon your own family in the process is besides the point.
les_gvt
Do you know the story bhind the Beer Hall Putsch?
look at the beginning of the Nazi party- you will discover that it was virtually all expelled communist- Just as the Fascist party was in Italy
They are all the same government system with varying degrees of brutallity- hence Lenin or Trotski
now I have to go support a tofu eating, latte drinking illegal alien welfare recipient child in need of free medical care that I can't afford
and with where I live- thats about 3/4 of them- illegal aliens that is
SorosBot
A racist as well, charming. By the way, the Nazis were nationalists, white supremacists and anti-Semites, all of which are right-wing doctrines. Now go back to take sixth grade history.
Makemyownchoice
What race is an illegal alien?
SorosBot
Oh lovely, someone else throwing around racist rhetoric.
mumbly_joe
Sorry kid, but anti-Bolshevism was actually a major plank of the Nazi platform, and arguably a big part of what elevated them in the Reichstag in the first place. In fact, one of the major thrusts of Nazi anti-semitic propaganda was that German Jewry were a Bolshevik fifth column, and hence a threat to national stability. Which is, again, why I said that attempting to rewrite this bit of history is tantamount to Holocaust Denial.
Oh, and regarding illegal immigrants: the Nazis never were known terribly well for their open immigration policies or embrace of intra-national multiculturalism. Why do you suppose liberals are known for these things, but conservatives aren't, and yet, this makes liberals more ideologically related to fascists? And no credit for "liberals are the real racists". Come on. You're just embarrassing yourself now.
gvvt
Mussolini figured out that Socialism wasn't going to get him anywhere. So he became a right-wing fanatical anti-communist. He was furious that Hitler delayed his attack on the Soviet Union, which Hitler did purely for tactical and logistical reasons. And don't bring up the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. That was an attempt to buy time and keep Russian raw materials flowing into Germany for the munitions industry.
The Munich Putsch was Hitler lashing out at the insufficiently violent plans of the right wing ruling group in Bavaria; they had backed down from their intentions to overthrow the Berlin government and establish a right-wing dictatorship. Hitler hoped to seize the momentum and topple the central government.
gvvt
You should honor the memory of your relatives by learning the facts instead of spouting your disgusting twisting of historical truth. History is not whatever damn thing you feel like "believing." And fools who throw around garbage as stupid as this nonsense of yours will only drag us back down the same road to utter barbarity.
Hitler added "socialist" to the party's name to defuse the left's appeal and to suggest some sort of classless society, reminiscent of the supposed brotherhood of the trenches in WWI.
Total control is not a leftist notion; it's a dictatorial form of government. Batista was no leftist, Franco was no leftist, and Hitler and Mussolini were most emphatically not leftists.
Hitler's only real war aim was to destroy the Soviet Union and its "Jewish Bolshevism." PLEASE READ SOME REAL HISTORY.
mumbly_joe
I mean, for chrissakes, Franco's biggest cheerleader Stateside was founder of the National Review Bill Buckley himself, who specifically admired the vigor with which Franco was oppressing Spain's political left.
Unless this somehow means that founder of the "modern intellectual right," Willam F Buckley, Jr. was secretly a leftist, too?
les_gvt
It does seem that every communist nation has peoples, democratic or republic in it official title. good point, because they are none of the 3
Animal Farm, an anti-communist allegory that was written by a socialist. And here I thought communism and socialism were one and the same!
BarackMyWorld
I KNOW….right? Weird!
glamourdammerung
So since you list a quote you claim to be from Saul Alinsky (I do not know or care as I am not obsessed with the guy like you clowns are), does that make you a leftist?
I have read Papal Edicts. Does that make me Catholic?
If it does not, then it completely invalidates pretty much every bit of nonsense you spewed here.
gvvt
I'm sorry if this has been asked already, but where were Sens. McCain and Kyle at 10 AM on June 12, 2010? Any chance either of them were at a campaign event back home?
gvvt
Oddly enough, the Tuscon Citizen website doesn't have any listings for Jesse Kelly between the end of April and July. I guess he suddenly stopped campaigning.
glamourdammerung
The "do not retreat, reload" crowd sure seems to be tripping over themselves to lie their ways out of everyone seeing just what those "Second Amendment solutions" they were gushing about meant.
4tehlulz_lite
Why not? They managed to evade blame for the Oklahoma City bombing; this is minor league compared to that.
Makemyownchoice
SorrosBot- You failed to answer my question. What race is someone who chooses to break our immigration laws?
Next: How is this question rasict rhetoric?
Imissopus- I never said we should give up on keeping dangerous weapons away from dangerous people. I already go through a process when I buy a gun for just this purpose, and I have no problem with it. My point is the weapon does not make the person act violently. It is a personal choice.
I stated this view in response to someone saying access to guns was to blame, not to start a gun control debate.
SorosBot
Oh please, as if the anti-immigrant rhetoric wasn't inherently racist; and we know the racists have latinos in their mind when you are spewing your bile.
mumbly_joe
Immigration has always been about race, going all the way back to the yes-it-was-really-called-that Chinese Exclusion Act. The notion that present-day immigration debates are about THE LAW, and not about Mexicans qua Mexicans, is belied by the prominence of various white supremacist groups on one side of that debate, as well as every single ancillary issue raised the debate, (just as an example, bilingual services) which are frankly coated with anti-Latino animus. Attempting to deny that this has been made an issue because of anti-Latino bias is like attempting to pretend that the original navitism push in the 1880's had nothing to do with bias against "Chinamen". In other words, you're full of shit. |
Doing time with cops of NYPD
A 28-year-old woman is stabbed in the chest and left for dead in the lobby of her Manhattan apartment. A corpse boiled to a crisp is found at the bottom of a manhole on Fulton Street. A man hangs by his hands from the Henry Hudson Bridge, a slack noose around his neck, while tourists on a Circle Line cruise boat snap pictures from below.
This is life and death as seen in the daily workaday world of the New York City Police Department. Starting tonight and running Tuesday nights from 10 to 11 for the next six weeks, it's also the focus of NYPD 24/7, a seven-part documentary by the same crew from ABC News that so eloquently captured life and death at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2000 in a similar prime-time, nonfiction series.
Like the program on Hopkins, NYPD 24/7 uses no on-camera reporter or network correspondent to tell us what we should think. The style is video verite edited for the shortened attention span of prime-time TV. The voice of Dennis Franz, who plays a fictional detective on the ABC drama NYPD Blue, is used for narration, providing transitions and orientation amid the swirl of images, actions, sounds and events.
Prime-time exposure for documentary series is one of the more positive byproducts of the reality TV mania that has taken hold of network programming the last four years. If CBS' Big Brother is the low end of the fly-on-the-wall genre, ABC's 24/7 series resides on the higher end - near the point on the programming compass where the immediacy of reality TV meets the power of the documentary to show us the world through the eyes of others.
But understand that nothing gets into prime time without playing by razzle-dazzle, show-biz rules. And NYPD 24/7 makes some serious compromises at the expense of telling the kind of representational truth traditionally associated with documentary filmmaking.
The tilt toward Hollywood begins with Franz. In Hopkins 24/7, the narrator's role was filled by Sylvia Chase, an ABC News correspondent. Journalist out, actor in.
On paper, it might not seem like much more than a slight nod to marquee value, but a pattern of shaping the real world of New York cops to fit the narratives laid down in dramas such as NYPD Blue and NBC's Law & Order is all too apparent in the stories NYPD 24/7 chooses to tell.
Tonight's first hour features a homicide detective, Steve Di Schiavi, who might remind viewers just a bit of the very detective, Andy Sipowicz, played by Franz in the make-believe NYPD Blue.
Furthermore, both the case on tonight's show and the way it unfolds are straight out of Law & Order. We begin in the lobby of a swank Manhattan apartment building where a young woman has been viciously assaulted with a knife. Her ex-boyfriend, a yuppie banker, lives in the same building. As the victim fights for her life in intensive care, Di Schiavi and his fellow detectives track down leads. Dick Wolf couldn't have scripted it any better for one of his many Law & Order series.
Much of the second hour (which airs next week) features Detective Nicole Papamichael, a member of the vice squad whom viewers meet as she goes undercover as a prostitute in a sting operation. In the opening of the hour, Franz describes her as "one of the vice squad's greatest assets - an undercover with legs."
The very first look we get at Papamichael is an extreme close-up of her high heels, ankles and legs as she walks up a set of station-house stairs in her short-short hooker's skirt. Even the female detectives on Steven Bochco's NYPD Blue get to wear pants most of the time. This treatment harks all the way back to Angie Dickinson as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on NBC's Police Woman in the 1970s.
This is compelling television, no doubt about it. And the filmmakers do regularly go beyond the usual concerns of prime-time drama to explore more complicated truths of police life, such as burnout, rage, fear and social class. At those moments when they get the mix of story and truth-telling right, NYPD 24/7 is powerful stuff.
But ABC News went a little too far this time in bowing to the gods of entertainment, to the point where one never stops wondering about what is not on the screen because it was deemed too dull for prime time. |
The predictability of Obama's Nobel speech
The Nobel Peace Prize Committee played host Thursday to a classic Barack Obama moment, albeit likely not the one it anticipated. Obama delivered a blockbuster speech. Acknowledging the tension of a president at war accepting a prize for peace, he defended the necessity of force to build a more just world, while paying respect to the principles of diplomacy, non-violence and the aspirations of lasting peace. He squared the circle, as he so often does, leaving some of his critics perplexed and some of his supporters dismayed.
The Nobel committee members must have been surprised. Surely, they expected more about international law and diplomacy and less about the use of force.Yet the entirety of the Nobel Prize saga -- the premature nomination, the award, the speech and the aftermath -- followed a familiar script.
First came the near-messianic adulation by Obama's fans. Based on a nomination submitted a mere two weeks into this presidency, the Nobel committee wrote: "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future."
Then, the celebration, complete with gratuitous conservative-bashing. Slamming the previous administration, Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Thorbjørn Jagland noted in his presentation speech Thursday, "The U.S.A. is now paying its bills to the U.N. It is joining various committees, and acceding to important conventions. International standards are again respected. Torture is forbidden; the president is doing what he can to close Guantanamo."
Then, the president's turn. He laid out a pragmatic vision not readily caricatured as either liberal or conservative. "There will be times when nations -- acting individually or in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified. I make this statement mindful of what Martin Luther King said in this same ceremony years ago -- 'Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: It merely creates new and more complicated ones.'... But as a head of state sworn to protect and defend my nation, I cannot be guided by their examples alone. I face the world as it is, and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people."
At home, disillusioned left wingers continued to beat their drums, the Huffington Post afire with frustration over the troop escalation in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, right-wingers offered reminders that the president shouldn't have received the award in the first place, even if the speech was well-received.
This is how all of the first year of Obama's presidency has gone. The adulation, the expectations, the pragmatic approach, the disillusionment on the left and hostility on the right. And through it all, the forward march of the president.
While President Bush hewed too closely to his Republican base, President Obama has not been afraid to ignore left-wing admirers. Even so, he sounded a familiar echo of his predecessor at Thursday's press conference. "The goal is not to win a popularity contest or to get an award -- even one as esteemed as the Nobel Peace Prize," the president said. "The goal is to advance American interests, make ourselves a continuing force for good in the world. If I'm successful in those tasks then hopefully some of the criticism will subside, but that's not really my concern. And if I'm not successful then all the praise and the awards in the world won't disguise that fact."
Unlike Bush, Obama listens to allies and critics, which is a sounder approach to decision making. But once he makes up his mind, he has the ability to tune out the distractions, to stay the course with dignity, despite the enormous ruckus surrounding him. He knows that while the Nobel committee may not judge him on his accomplishments, history will. |
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<h1>atomate.qchem.workflows.base package<a class="headerlink" href="#atomate-qchem-workflows-base-package" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="section" id="submodules">
<h2>Submodules<a class="headerlink" href="#submodules" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
</div>
<div class="section" id="module-atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt">
<span id="atomate-qchem-workflows-base-double-ff-opt-module"></span><h2>atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt.get_wf_double_FF_opt">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_wf_double_FF_opt</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">molecule</em>, <em class="sig-param">pcm_dielectric</em>, <em class="sig-param">linked=False</em>, <em class="sig-param">qchem_input_params=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">name='douple_FF_opt'</em>, <em class="sig-param">db_file='>>db_file<<'</em>, <em class="sig-param">**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#atomate.qchem.workflows.base.double_FF_opt.get_wf_double_FF_opt" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt>Firework 1<span class="classifier">write QChem input for an FF optimization,</span></dt><dd><p>run FF_opt QCJob,
parse directory and insert into db,
pass relaxed molecule to fw_spec and on to fw2,</p>
</dd>
<dt>Firework 2<span class="classifier">write QChem input for an optimization in the</span></dt><dd><blockquote>
<div><p>presence of a PCM, using the molecule passed
from fw1,</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>run FF_opt QCJob,
parse directory and insert into db</p>
</dd>
<dt>Args:</dt><dd><p>molecule (Molecule): input molecule to be optimized and run.
pcm_dielectric (float): The PCM dielectric constant.
max_cores (int): Maximum number of cores to parallelize over.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>Defaults to 32.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>qchem_input_params (dict): Specify kwargs for instantiating the input set parameters.</dt><dd><p>Basic uses would be to modify the default inputs of the set,
such as dft_rung, basis_set, pcm_dielectric, scf_algorithm,
or max_scf_cycles. See pymatgen/io/qchem/sets.py for default
values of all input parameters. For instance, if a user wanted
to use a more advanced DFT functional, include a pcm with a
dielectric of 30, and use a larger basis, the user would set
qchem_input_params = {“dft_rung”: 5, “pcm_dielectric”: 30,
“basis_set”: “6-311++g**”}. However, more advanced customization
of the input is also possible through the overwrite_inputs key
which allows the user to directly modify the rem, pcm, smd, and
solvent dictionaries that QChemDictSet passes to inputs.py to
print an actual input file. For instance, if a user wanted to
set the sym_ignore flag in the rem section of the input file
to true, then they would set qchem_input_params = {“overwrite_inputs”:
“rem”: {“sym_ignore”: “true”}}. Of course, overwrite_inputs
could be used in conjuction with more typical modifications,
as seen in the test_double_FF_opt workflow test.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>qchem_cmd (str): Command to run QChem.
db_file (str): path to file containing the database credentials.
kwargs (keyword arguments): additional kwargs to be passed to Workflow</p>
</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt><dd><p>Workflow</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="module-atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation">
<span id="atomate-qchem-workflows-base-fragmentation-module"></span><h2>atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation.get_fragmentation_wf">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_fragmentation_wf</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">molecule</em>, <em class="sig-param">depth=1</em>, <em class="sig-param">open_rings=True</em>, <em class="sig-param">additional_charges=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">do_triplets=True</em>, <em class="sig-param">pcm_dielectric=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">do_optimization=True</em>, <em class="sig-param">linked=False</em>, <em class="sig-param">qchem_input_params=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">name='FF then fragment'</em>, <em class="sig-param">db_file='>>db_file<<'</em>, <em class="sig-param">check_db=True</em>, <em class="sig-param">**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#atomate.qchem.workflows.base.fragmentation.get_fragmentation_wf" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><dl>
<dt>Args:</dt><dd><p>molecule (Molecule): input molecule to be fragmented.
depth (int): The number of levels of iterative fragmentation to perform,</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>where each evel will include fragments obtained by breaking
one bond of a fragment one level up. If set to 0, instead
all possible fragments are generated using an alternative,
non-iterative scheme. Defaults to 1.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>open_rings (bool): Whether or not to open any rings encountered during fragmentation.</dt><dd><p>Defaults to True. If true, any bond that fails to yield disconnected
graphs when broken is instead removed and the entire structure is
optimized with OpenBabel in order to obtain a good initial guess for
an opened geometry that can then be put back into QChem to be
optimized without the ring just reforming.</p>
</dd>
<dt>additional_charges (list): List of additional charges besides the defaults described in the</dt><dd><p>firetask. For example, if a principle molecule with a +2 charge
is provided, by default all fragments will be calculated with
+1 and +2 charges. If the user includes additional_charges=[0]
then all fragments will be calculated with 0, +1, and +2 charges.
Additional charge values of 1 or 2 would not cause any new charges
to be calculated as they are already done. Defaults to [].</p>
</dd>
<dt>do_triplets (bool): Whether to simulate triplets as well as singlets for molecules with</dt><dd><p>an even number of electrons. Defaults to True.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>pcm_dielectric (float): The PCM dielectric constant.
do_optimization (bool): Whether or not to optimize the given molecule</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>before fragmentation. Defaults to True.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>qchem_input_params (dict): Specify kwargs for instantiating the input set parameters.</dt><dd><p>Basic uses would be to modify the default inputs of the set,
such as dft_rung, basis_set, pcm_dielectric, scf_algorithm,
or max_scf_cycles. See pymatgen/io/qchem/sets.py for default
values of all input parameters. For instance, if a user wanted
to use a more advanced DFT functional, include a pcm with a
dielectric of 30, and use a larger basis, the user would set
qchem_input_params = {“dft_rung”: 5, “pcm_dielectric”: 30,
“basis_set”: “6-311++g**”}. However, more advanced customization
of the input is also possible through the overwrite_inputs key
which allows the user to directly modify the rem, pcm, smd, and
solvent dictionaries that QChemDictSet passes to inputs.py to
print an actual input file. For instance, if a user wanted to
set the sym_ignore flag in the rem section of the input file
to true, then they would set qchem_input_params = {“overwrite_inputs”:
“rem”: {“sym_ignore”: “true”}}. Of course, overwrite_inputs
could be used in conjuction with more typical modifications,
as seen in the test_double_FF_opt workflow test.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>db_file (str): path to file containing the database credentials.
check_db (bool): Whether or not to check the database for equivalent</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>structures before adding new fragment fireworks.
Defaults to True.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>kwargs (keyword arguments): additional kwargs to be passed to Workflow</p>
</dd>
<dt>Returns:</dt><dd><p>Workflow with the following fireworks:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>Firework 1<span class="classifier">write QChem input for an FF optimization,</span></dt><dd><p>run FF_opt QCJob,
parse directory and insert into db,
pass relaxed molecule to fw_spec and on to fw2,</p>
</dd>
<dt>Firework 2<span class="classifier">find all unique fragments of the optimized molecule</span></dt><dd><p>and add a frequency flattening optimize FW to the
workflow for each one</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>Note that Firework 1 is only present if do_optimization=True.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</dd></dl>
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<span id="atomate-qchem-workflows-base-torsion-potential-module"></span><h2>atomate.qchem.workflows.base.torsion_potential module<a class="headerlink" href="#module-atomate.qchem.workflows.base.torsion_potential" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="atomate.qchem.workflows.base.torsion_potential.get_wf_torsion_potential">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">atomate.qchem.workflows.base.torsion_potential.</code><code class="sig-name descname">get_wf_torsion_potential</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">molecule</em>, <em class="sig-param">atom_indexes</em>, <em class="sig-param">angles</em>, <em class="sig-param">rem</em>, <em class="sig-param">name='torsion_potential'</em>, <em class="sig-param">qchem_cmd='>>qchem_cmd<<'</em>, <em class="sig-param">multimode='>>multimode<<'</em>, <em class="sig-param">max_cores='>>max_cores<<'</em>, <em class="sig-param">db_file=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">**kwargs</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#atomate.qchem.workflows.base.torsion_potential.get_wf_torsion_potential" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Returns a workflow to the torsion potential for a molecule.</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>Firework 1<span class="classifier">write QChem input for an optimization,</span></dt><dd><p>run Qchem,
parse output and insert into db,
pass relaxed molecule to fw_spec and on to fw2,</p>
</dd>
<dt>Firework 2<span class="classifier">rotate molecule torsion to a particular angle,</span></dt><dd><p>write QChem input for an optimization,
run Qchem,
parse output and insert into db</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<p>last Firework : add analysis code at some point</p>
<blockquote>
<div><dl>
<dt>Args:</dt><dd><p>molecule (Molecule): Input molecule (needs to be a pymatgen molecule object)
atom_indexes (list of ints): list of atom indexes in the torsion angle to be rotated (i.e. [6, 8, 9, 10])
angles (list of floats): list of all the torsion angles to run
rem (list of two rem dictionaries): a list with two rem dictionaries, one for the first optimization and
one for the second constrained optimization
name (str): Name for the workflow.
qchem_cmd (str): Command to run QChem. Defaults to qchem.
multimode (str): Parallelization scheme, either openmp or mpi.
input_file (str): Name of the QChem input file. Defaults to mol.qin.
output_file (str): Name of the QChem output file. Defaults to mol.qout.
max_cores (int): Maximum number of cores to parallelize over. Defaults to 32.
qchem_input_params (dict): Specify kwargs for instantiating the input set parameters.</p>
<blockquote>
<div><p>For example, if you want to change the DFT_rung, you should
provide: {“DFT_rung”: …}. Defaults to None.</p>
</div></blockquote>
<p>db_file (str): Path to file specifying db credentials to place output parsing.
<a href="#id1"><span class="problematic" id="id2">**</span></a>kwargs: Other kwargs that are passed to Firework.__init__.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div></blockquote>
<p>Returns: Workflow</p>
</dd></dl>
</div>
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Gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline graphene quantum dots with superior optical properties.
Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have various alluring properties and potential applications, but their large-scale applications are limited by current synthetic methods that commonly produce GQDs in small amounts. Moreover, GQDs usually exhibit polycrystalline or highly defective structures and thus poor optical properties. Here we report the gram-scale synthesis of single-crystalline GQDs by a facile molecular fusion route under mild and green hydrothermal conditions. The synthesis involves the nitration of pyrene followed by hydrothermal treatment in alkaline aqueous solutions, where alkaline species play a crucial role in tuning their size, functionalization and optical properties. The single-crystalline GQDs are bestowed with excellent optical properties such as bright excitonic fluorescence, strong excitonic absorption bands extending to the visible region, large molar extinction coefficients and long-term photostability. These high-quality GQDs can find a large array of novel applications in bioimaging, biosensing, light emitting diodes, solar cells, hydrogen production, fuel cells and supercapacitors. |
/*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
* Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*
* The Original Code is Copyright (C) 2008 Blender Foundation.
* All rights reserved.
*/
/** \file
* \ingroup editors
*/
#pragma once
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
struct AnimData;
struct Depsgraph;
struct ID;
struct ListBase;
struct ARegion;
struct Main;
struct ReportList;
struct ScrArea;
struct SpaceLink;
struct View2D;
struct bContext;
struct wmKeyConfig;
struct Object;
struct Scene;
struct bDopeSheet;
struct FCurve;
struct FModifier;
struct bAction;
struct uiBlock;
struct uiLayout;
struct PointerRNA;
struct PropertyRNA;
/* ************************************************ */
/* ANIMATION CHANNEL FILTERING */
/* anim_filter.c */
/* --------------- Context --------------------- */
/* This struct defines a structure used for animation-specific
* 'context' information
*/
typedef struct bAnimContext {
/** data to be filtered for use in animation editor */
void *data;
/** type of data eAnimCont_Types */
short datatype;
/** editor->mode */
short mode;
/** area->spacetype */
short spacetype;
/** active region -> type (channels or main) */
short regiontype;
/** editor host */
struct ScrArea *area;
/** editor data */
struct SpaceLink *sl;
/** region within editor */
struct ARegion *region;
/** dopesheet data for editor (or which is being used) */
struct bDopeSheet *ads;
/** Current Main */
struct Main *bmain;
/** active scene */
struct Scene *scene;
/** active scene layer */
struct ViewLayer *view_layer;
/** active dependency graph */
struct Depsgraph *depsgraph;
/** active object */
struct Object *obact;
/** active set of markers */
ListBase *markers;
/** pointer to current reports list */
struct ReportList *reports;
/** Scale factor for height of channels (i.e. based on the size of keyframes). */
float yscale_fac;
} bAnimContext;
/* Main Data container types */
typedef enum eAnimCont_Types {
ANIMCONT_NONE = 0, /* invalid or no data */
ANIMCONT_ACTION = 1, /* action (bAction) */
ANIMCONT_SHAPEKEY = 2, /* shapekey (Key) */
ANIMCONT_GPENCIL = 3, /* grease pencil (screen) */
ANIMCONT_DOPESHEET = 4, /* dopesheet (bDopesheet) */
ANIMCONT_FCURVES = 5, /* animation F-Curves (bDopesheet) */
ANIMCONT_DRIVERS = 6, /* drivers (bDopesheet) */
ANIMCONT_NLA = 7, /* nla (bDopesheet) */
ANIMCONT_CHANNEL = 8, /* animation channel (bAnimListElem) */
ANIMCONT_MASK = 9, /* mask dopesheet */
ANIMCONT_TIMELINE = 10, /* "timeline" editor (bDopeSheet) */
} eAnimCont_Types;
/* --------------- Channels -------------------- */
/* This struct defines a structure used for quick and uniform access for
* channels of animation data
*/
typedef struct bAnimListElem {
struct bAnimListElem *next, *prev;
/** source data this elem represents */
void *data;
/** (eAnim_ChannelType) one of the ANIMTYPE_* values */
int type;
/** copy of elem's flags for quick access */
int flag;
/** for un-named data, the index of the data in its collection */
int index;
/** (eAnim_Update_Flags) tag the element for updating */
char update;
/** tag the included data. Temporary always */
char tag;
/** (eAnim_KeyType) type of motion data to expect */
short datatype;
/** motion data - mostly F-Curves, but can be other types too */
void *key_data;
/**
* \note
* id here is the "IdAdtTemplate"-style datablock (e.g. Object, Material, Texture, NodeTree)
* from which evaluation of the RNA-paths takes place. It's used to figure out how deep
* channels should be nested (e.g. for Textures/NodeTrees) in the tree, and allows property
* lookups (e.g. for sliders and for inserting keyframes) to work. If we had instead used
* bAction or something similar, none of this would be possible: although it's trivial
* to use an IdAdtTemplate type to find the source action a channel (e.g. F-Curve) comes from
* (i.e. in the AnimEditors, it *must* be the active action, as only that can be edited),
* it's impossible to go the other way (i.e. one action may be used in multiple places).
*/
/** ID block that channel is attached to */
struct ID *id;
/** source of the animation data attached to ID block (for convenience) */
struct AnimData *adt;
/**
* For list element which corresponds to a f-curve, this is an ID which
* owns the f-curve.
*
* For example, if the f-curve is coming from Action, this id will be set to
* action's ID. But if this is a f-curve which is a driver, then the owner
* is set to, for example, object.
*
* Note, that this is different from id above. The id above will be set to
* an object if the f-curve is coming from action associated with that
* object. */
struct ID *fcurve_owner_id;
/**
* for per-element F-Curves
* (e.g. NLA Control Curves), the element that this represents (e.g. NlaStrip) */
void *owner;
} bAnimListElem;
/**
* Some types for easier type-testing
*
* \note need to keep the order of these synchronized with the channels define code
* which is used for drawing and handling channel lists for.
*/
typedef enum eAnim_ChannelType {
ANIMTYPE_NONE = 0,
ANIMTYPE_ANIMDATA,
ANIMTYPE_SPECIALDATA__UNUSED,
ANIMTYPE_SUMMARY,
ANIMTYPE_SCENE,
ANIMTYPE_OBJECT,
ANIMTYPE_GROUP,
ANIMTYPE_FCURVE,
ANIMTYPE_NLACONTROLS,
ANIMTYPE_NLACURVE,
ANIMTYPE_FILLACTD,
ANIMTYPE_FILLDRIVERS,
ANIMTYPE_DSMAT,
ANIMTYPE_DSLAM,
ANIMTYPE_DSCAM,
ANIMTYPE_DSCACHEFILE,
ANIMTYPE_DSCUR,
ANIMTYPE_DSSKEY,
ANIMTYPE_DSWOR,
ANIMTYPE_DSNTREE,
ANIMTYPE_DSPART,
ANIMTYPE_DSMBALL,
ANIMTYPE_DSARM,
ANIMTYPE_DSMESH,
ANIMTYPE_DSTEX,
ANIMTYPE_DSLAT,
ANIMTYPE_DSLINESTYLE,
ANIMTYPE_DSSPK,
ANIMTYPE_DSGPENCIL,
ANIMTYPE_DSMCLIP,
ANIMTYPE_DSHAIR,
ANIMTYPE_DSPOINTCLOUD,
ANIMTYPE_DSVOLUME,
ANIMTYPE_DSSIMULATION,
ANIMTYPE_SHAPEKEY,
ANIMTYPE_GPDATABLOCK,
ANIMTYPE_GPLAYER,
ANIMTYPE_MASKDATABLOCK,
ANIMTYPE_MASKLAYER,
ANIMTYPE_NLATRACK,
ANIMTYPE_NLAACTION,
ANIMTYPE_PALETTE,
/* always as last item, the total number of channel types... */
ANIMTYPE_NUM_TYPES,
} eAnim_ChannelType;
/* types of keyframe data in bAnimListElem */
typedef enum eAnim_KeyType {
ALE_NONE = 0, /* no keyframe data */
ALE_FCURVE, /* F-Curve */
ALE_GPFRAME, /* Grease Pencil Frames */
ALE_MASKLAY, /* Mask */
ALE_NLASTRIP, /* NLA Strips */
ALE_ALL, /* All channels summary */
ALE_SCE, /* Scene summary */
ALE_OB, /* Object summary */
ALE_ACT, /* Action summary */
ALE_GROUP, /* Action Group summary */
} eAnim_KeyType;
/* Flags for specifying the types of updates (i.e. recalculation/refreshing) that
* needs to be performed to the data contained in a channel following editing.
* For use with ANIM_animdata_update()
*/
typedef enum eAnim_Update_Flags {
ANIM_UPDATE_DEPS = (1 << 0), /* referenced data and dependencies get refreshed */
ANIM_UPDATE_ORDER = (1 << 1), /* keyframes need to be sorted */
ANIM_UPDATE_HANDLES = (1 << 2), /* recalculate handles */
} eAnim_Update_Flags;
/* used for most tools which change keyframes (flushed by ANIM_animdata_update) */
#define ANIM_UPDATE_DEFAULT (ANIM_UPDATE_DEPS | ANIM_UPDATE_ORDER | ANIM_UPDATE_HANDLES)
#define ANIM_UPDATE_DEFAULT_NOHANDLES (ANIM_UPDATE_DEFAULT & ~ANIM_UPDATE_HANDLES)
/* ----------------- Filtering -------------------- */
/* filtering flags - under what circumstances should a channel be returned */
typedef enum eAnimFilter_Flags {
/**
* Data which channel represents is fits the dope-sheet filters
* (i.e. scene visibility criteria).
*
* XXX: it's hard to think of any examples where this *ISN'T* the case...
* perhaps becomes implicit?.
*/
ANIMFILTER_DATA_VISIBLE = (1 << 0),
/** channel is visible within the channel-list hierarchy
* (i.e. F-Curves within Groups in ActEdit) */
ANIMFILTER_LIST_VISIBLE = (1 << 1),
/** channel has specifically been tagged as visible in Graph Editor (* Graph Editor Only) */
ANIMFILTER_CURVE_VISIBLE = (1 << 2),
/** include summary channels and "expanders" (for drawing/mouse-selection in channel list) */
ANIMFILTER_LIST_CHANNELS = (1 << 3),
/** for its type, channel should be "active" one */
ANIMFILTER_ACTIVE = (1 << 4),
/** channel is a child of the active group (* Actions specialty) */
ANIMFILTER_ACTGROUPED = (1 << 5),
/** channel must be selected/not-selected, but both must not be set together */
ANIMFILTER_SEL = (1 << 6),
ANIMFILTER_UNSEL = (1 << 7),
/** editability status - must be editable to be included */
ANIMFILTER_FOREDIT = (1 << 8),
/** only selected animchannels should be considerable as editable - mainly
* for Graph Editor's option for keys on select curves only */
ANIMFILTER_SELEDIT = (1 << 9),
/**
* Flags used to enforce certain data types.
*
* \note The ones for curves and NLA tracks were redundant and have been removed for now.
*/
ANIMFILTER_ANIMDATA = (1 << 10),
/** duplicate entries for animation data attached to multi-user blocks must not occur */
ANIMFILTER_NODUPLIS = (1 << 11),
/** for checking if we should keep some collapsed channel around (internal use only!) */
ANIMFILTER_TMP_PEEK = (1 << 30),
/** Ignore ONLYSEL flag from #bDopeSheet.filterflag (internal use only!) */
ANIMFILTER_TMP_IGNORE_ONLYSEL = (1u << 31),
} eAnimFilter_Flags;
/* ---------- Flag Checking Macros ------------ */
// xxx check on all of these flags again...
/* Dopesheet only */
/* 'Scene' channels */
#define SEL_SCEC(sce) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(sce, Scene *), ((sce->flag & SCE_DS_SELECTED)))
#define EXPANDED_SCEC(sce) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(sce, Scene *), ((sce->flag & SCE_DS_COLLAPSED) == 0))
/* 'Sub-Scene' channels (flags stored in Data block) */
#define FILTER_WOR_SCED(wo) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(wo, World *), (wo->flag & WO_DS_EXPAND))
#define FILTER_LS_SCED(linestyle) ((linestyle->flag & LS_DS_EXPAND))
/* 'Object' channels */
#define SEL_OBJC(base) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(base, Base *), ((base->flag & SELECT)))
#define EXPANDED_OBJC(ob) \
(CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(ob, Object *), (((ob)->nlaflag & OB_ADS_COLLAPSED) == 0))
/* 'Sub-object' channels (flags stored in Data block) */
#define FILTER_SKE_OBJD(key) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(key, Key *), ((key->flag & KEY_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_MAT_OBJD(ma) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(ma, Material *), ((ma->flag & MA_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_LAM_OBJD(la) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(la, Light *), ((la->flag & LA_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_CAM_OBJD(ca) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(ca, Camera *), ((ca->flag & CAM_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_CACHEFILE_OBJD(cf) \
(CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(cf, CacheFile *), (((cf)->flag & CACHEFILE_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_CUR_OBJD(cu) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(cu, Curve *), ((cu->flag & CU_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_PART_OBJD(part) \
(CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(part, ParticleSettings *), (((part)->flag & PART_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_MBALL_OBJD(mb) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(mb, MetaBall *), ((mb->flag2 & MB_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_ARM_OBJD(arm) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(arm, bArmature *), ((arm->flag & ARM_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_MESH_OBJD(me) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(me, Mesh *), ((me->flag & ME_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_LATTICE_OBJD(lt) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(lt, Lattice *), ((lt->flag & LT_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_SPK_OBJD(spk) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(spk, Speaker *), ((spk->flag & SPK_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_HAIR_OBJD(ha) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(ha, Hair *), ((ha->flag & HA_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_POINTS_OBJD(pt) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(pt, PointCloud *), ((pt->flag & PT_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_VOLUME_OBJD(vo) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(vo, Volume *), ((vo->flag & VO_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_SIMULATION_OBJD(sim) \
(CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(sim, Simulation *), ((sim->flag & SIM_DS_EXPAND)))
/* Variable use expanders */
#define FILTER_NTREE_DATA(ntree) \
(CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(ntree, bNodeTree *), (((ntree)->flag & NTREE_DS_EXPAND)))
#define FILTER_TEX_DATA(tex) (CHECK_TYPE_INLINE(tex, Tex *), ((tex->flag & TEX_DS_EXPAND)))
/* 'Sub-object/Action' channels (flags stored in Action) */
#define SEL_ACTC(actc) ((actc->flag & ACT_SELECTED))
#define EXPANDED_ACTC(actc) ((actc->flag & ACT_COLLAPSED) == 0)
/* 'Sub-AnimData' channels */
#define EXPANDED_DRVD(adt) ((adt->flag & ADT_DRIVERS_COLLAPSED) == 0)
/* Actions (also used for Dopesheet) */
/* Action Channel Group */
#define EDITABLE_AGRP(agrp) (((agrp)->flag & AGRP_PROTECTED) == 0)
#define EXPANDED_AGRP(ac, agrp) \
(((!(ac) || ((ac)->spacetype != SPACE_GRAPH)) && ((agrp)->flag & AGRP_EXPANDED)) || \
(((ac) && ((ac)->spacetype == SPACE_GRAPH)) && ((agrp)->flag & AGRP_EXPANDED_G)))
#define SEL_AGRP(agrp) (((agrp)->flag & AGRP_SELECTED) || ((agrp)->flag & AGRP_ACTIVE))
/* F-Curve Channels */
#define EDITABLE_FCU(fcu) ((fcu->flag & FCURVE_PROTECTED) == 0)
#define SEL_FCU(fcu) (fcu->flag & FCURVE_SELECTED)
/* ShapeKey mode only */
#define EDITABLE_SHAPEKEY(kb) ((kb->flag & KEYBLOCK_LOCKED) == 0)
#define SEL_SHAPEKEY(kb) (kb->flag & KEYBLOCK_SEL)
/* Grease Pencil only */
/* Grease Pencil datablock settings */
#define EXPANDED_GPD(gpd) (gpd->flag & GP_DATA_EXPAND)
/* Grease Pencil Layer settings */
#define EDITABLE_GPL(gpl) ((gpl->flag & GP_LAYER_LOCKED) == 0)
#define SEL_GPL(gpl) (gpl->flag & GP_LAYER_SELECT)
/* Mask Only */
/* Grease Pencil datablock settings */
#define EXPANDED_MASK(mask) (mask->flag & MASK_ANIMF_EXPAND)
/* Grease Pencil Layer settings */
#define EDITABLE_MASK(masklay) ((masklay->flag & MASK_LAYERFLAG_LOCKED) == 0)
#define SEL_MASKLAY(masklay) (masklay->flag & SELECT)
/* NLA only */
#define SEL_NLT(nlt) (nlt->flag & NLATRACK_SELECTED)
#define EDITABLE_NLT(nlt) ((nlt->flag & NLATRACK_PROTECTED) == 0)
/* Movie clip only */
#define EXPANDED_MCLIP(clip) (clip->flag & MCLIP_DATA_EXPAND)
/* Palette only */
#define EXPANDED_PALETTE(palette) (palette->flag & PALETTE_DATA_EXPAND)
/* AnimData - NLA mostly... */
#define SEL_ANIMDATA(adt) (adt->flag & ADT_UI_SELECTED)
/* -------------- Channel Defines -------------- */
/* channel heights */
#define ACHANNEL_FIRST_TOP(ac) \
(UI_view2d_scale_get_y(&(ac)->region->v2d) * -UI_TIME_SCRUB_MARGIN_Y - ACHANNEL_SKIP)
#define ACHANNEL_HEIGHT(ac) (0.8f * (ac)->yscale_fac * U.widget_unit)
#define ACHANNEL_SKIP (0.1f * U.widget_unit)
#define ACHANNEL_STEP(ac) (ACHANNEL_HEIGHT(ac) + ACHANNEL_SKIP)
/* Additional offset to give some room at the end. */
#define ACHANNEL_TOT_HEIGHT(ac, item_amount) \
(-ACHANNEL_FIRST_TOP(ac) + ACHANNEL_STEP(ac) * (item_amount + 1))
/* channel widths */
#define ACHANNEL_NAMEWIDTH (10 * U.widget_unit)
/* channel toggle-buttons */
#define ACHANNEL_BUTTON_WIDTH (0.8f * U.widget_unit)
/* -------------- NLA Channel Defines -------------- */
/* NLA channel heights */
#define NLACHANNEL_FIRST_TOP(ac) \
(UI_view2d_scale_get_y(&(ac)->region->v2d) * -UI_TIME_SCRUB_MARGIN_Y - NLACHANNEL_SKIP)
#define NLACHANNEL_HEIGHT(snla) \
(((snla) && ((snla)->flag & SNLA_NOSTRIPCURVES)) ? (0.8f * U.widget_unit) : \
(1.2f * U.widget_unit))
#define NLACHANNEL_SKIP (0.1f * U.widget_unit)
#define NLACHANNEL_STEP(snla) (NLACHANNEL_HEIGHT(snla) + NLACHANNEL_SKIP)
/* Additional offset to give some room at the end. */
#define NLACHANNEL_TOT_HEIGHT(ac, item_amount) \
(-NLACHANNEL_FIRST_TOP(ac) + NLACHANNEL_STEP(((SpaceNla *)(ac)->sl)) * (item_amount + 1))
/* channel widths */
#define NLACHANNEL_NAMEWIDTH (10 * U.widget_unit)
/* channel toggle-buttons */
#define NLACHANNEL_BUTTON_WIDTH (0.8f * U.widget_unit)
/* ---------------- API -------------------- */
/* Obtain list of filtered Animation channels to operate on.
* Returns the number of channels in the list
*/
size_t ANIM_animdata_filter(bAnimContext *ac,
ListBase *anim_data,
eAnimFilter_Flags filter_mode,
void *data,
eAnimCont_Types datatype);
/* Obtain current anim-data context from Blender Context info.
* Returns whether the operation was successful.
*/
bool ANIM_animdata_get_context(const struct bContext *C, bAnimContext *ac);
/* Obtain current anim-data context (from Animation Editor) given
* that Blender Context info has already been set.
* Returns whether the operation was successful.
*/
bool ANIM_animdata_context_getdata(bAnimContext *ac);
/* Acts on bAnimListElem eAnim_Update_Flags */
void ANIM_animdata_update(bAnimContext *ac, ListBase *anim_data);
void ANIM_animdata_freelist(ListBase *anim_data);
/* ************************************************ */
/* ANIMATION CHANNELS LIST */
/* anim_channels_*.c */
/* ------------------------ Drawing TypeInfo -------------------------- */
/* role or level of animchannel in the hierarchy */
typedef enum eAnimChannel_Role {
/** datablock expander - a "composite" channel type */
ACHANNEL_ROLE_EXPANDER = -1,
/** special purposes - not generally for hierarchy processing */
/* ACHANNEL_ROLE_SPECIAL = 0, */ /* UNUSED */
/** data channel - a channel representing one of the actual building blocks of channels */
ACHANNEL_ROLE_CHANNEL = 1,
} eAnimChannel_Role;
/* flag-setting behavior */
typedef enum eAnimChannels_SetFlag {
/** turn off */
ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_CLEAR = 0,
/** turn on */
ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_ADD = 1,
/** on->off, off->on */
ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_INVERT = 2,
/** some on -> all off // all on */
ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_TOGGLE = 3,
} eAnimChannels_SetFlag;
/* types of settings for AnimChannels */
typedef enum eAnimChannel_Settings {
ACHANNEL_SETTING_SELECT = 0,
/** warning: for drawing UI's, need to check if this is off (maybe inverse this later) */
ACHANNEL_SETTING_PROTECT = 1,
ACHANNEL_SETTING_MUTE = 2,
ACHANNEL_SETTING_EXPAND = 3,
/** only for Graph Editor */
ACHANNEL_SETTING_VISIBLE = 4,
/** only for NLA Tracks */
ACHANNEL_SETTING_SOLO = 5,
/** only for NLA Actions */
ACHANNEL_SETTING_PINNED = 6,
ACHANNEL_SETTING_MOD_OFF = 7,
/** channel is pinned and always visible */
ACHANNEL_SETTING_ALWAYS_VISIBLE = 8,
} eAnimChannel_Settings;
/* Drawing, mouse handling, and flag setting behavior... */
typedef struct bAnimChannelType {
/* -- Type data -- */
/* name of the channel type, for debugging */
const char *channel_type_name;
/* "level" or role in hierarchy - for finding the active channel */
eAnimChannel_Role channel_role;
/* -- Drawing -- */
/* get RGB color that is used to draw the majority of the backdrop */
void (*get_backdrop_color)(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale, float r_color[3]);
/* draw backdrop strip for channel */
void (*draw_backdrop)(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale, float yminc, float ymaxc);
/* get depth of indention (relative to the depth channel is nested at) */
short (*get_indent_level)(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale);
/* get offset in pixels for the start of the channel (in addition to the indent depth) */
short (*get_offset)(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale);
/* get name (for channel lists) */
void (*name)(bAnimListElem *ale, char *name);
/* get RNA property+pointer for editing the name */
bool (*name_prop)(bAnimListElem *ale, struct PointerRNA *ptr, struct PropertyRNA **prop);
/* get icon (for channel lists) */
int (*icon)(bAnimListElem *ale);
/* -- Settings -- */
/* check if the given setting is valid in the current context */
bool (*has_setting)(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale, eAnimChannel_Settings setting);
/* get the flag used for this setting */
int (*setting_flag)(bAnimContext *ac, eAnimChannel_Settings setting, bool *neg);
/* get the pointer to int/short where data is stored,
* with type being sizeof(ptr_data) which should be fine for runtime use...
* - assume that setting has been checked to be valid for current context
*/
void *(*setting_ptr)(bAnimListElem *ale, eAnimChannel_Settings setting, short *type);
} bAnimChannelType;
/* ------------------------ Drawing API -------------------------- */
/* Get typeinfo for the given channel */
const bAnimChannelType *ANIM_channel_get_typeinfo(bAnimListElem *ale);
/* Print debugging info about a given channel */
void ANIM_channel_debug_print_info(bAnimListElem *ale, short indent_level);
/* Draw the given channel */
void ANIM_channel_draw(
bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale, float yminc, float ymaxc, size_t channel_index);
/* Draw the widgets for the given channel */
void ANIM_channel_draw_widgets(const struct bContext *C,
bAnimContext *ac,
bAnimListElem *ale,
struct uiBlock *block,
rctf *rect,
size_t channel_index);
/* ------------------------ Editing API -------------------------- */
/* Check if some setting for a channel is enabled
* Returns: 1 = On, 0 = Off, -1 = Invalid
*
* - setting: eAnimChannel_Settings
*/
short ANIM_channel_setting_get(bAnimContext *ac,
bAnimListElem *ale,
eAnimChannel_Settings setting);
/* Change value of some setting for a channel
* - setting: eAnimChannel_Settings
* - mode: eAnimChannels_SetFlag
*/
void ANIM_channel_setting_set(bAnimContext *ac,
bAnimListElem *ale,
eAnimChannel_Settings setting,
eAnimChannels_SetFlag mode);
/* Flush visibility (for Graph Editor) changes up/down hierarchy for changes in the given setting
* - anim_data: list of the all the anim channels that can be chosen
* -> filtered using ANIMFILTER_CHANNELS only, since if we took VISIBLE too,
* then the channels under closed expanders get ignored...
* - ale_setting: the anim channel (not in the anim_data list directly, though occurring there)
* with the new state of the setting that we want flushed up/down the hierarchy
* - setting: type of setting to set
* - on: whether the visibility setting has been enabled or disabled
*/
void ANIM_flush_setting_anim_channels(bAnimContext *ac,
ListBase *anim_data,
bAnimListElem *ale_setting,
eAnimChannel_Settings setting,
eAnimChannels_SetFlag mode);
/* Deselect all animation channels */
void ANIM_deselect_anim_channels(
bAnimContext *ac, void *data, eAnimCont_Types datatype, bool test, eAnimChannels_SetFlag sel);
/* Set the 'active' channel of type channel_type, in the given action */
void ANIM_set_active_channel(bAnimContext *ac,
void *data,
eAnimCont_Types datatype,
eAnimFilter_Flags filter,
void *channel_data,
eAnim_ChannelType channel_type);
/* Delete the F-Curve from the given AnimData block (if possible),
* as appropriate according to animation context */
void ANIM_fcurve_delete_from_animdata(bAnimContext *ac, struct AnimData *adt, struct FCurve *fcu);
/* Unlink the action from animdata if it's empty. */
bool ANIM_remove_empty_action_from_animdata(struct AnimData *adt);
/* ************************************************ */
/* DRAWING API */
/* anim_draw.c */
/* ---------- Current Frame Drawing ---------------- */
/* flags for Current Frame Drawing */
typedef enum eAnimEditDraw_CurrentFrame {
/* plain time indicator with no special indicators */
/* DRAWCFRA_PLAIN = 0, */ /* UNUSED */
/* time indication in seconds or frames */
DRAWCFRA_UNIT_SECONDS = (1 << 0),
/* draw indicator extra wide (for timeline) */
DRAWCFRA_WIDE = (1 << 1),
} eAnimEditDraw_CurrentFrame;
/* main call to draw current-frame indicator in an Animation Editor */
void ANIM_draw_cfra(const struct bContext *C, struct View2D *v2d, short flag);
/* ------------- Preview Range Drawing -------------- */
/* main call to draw preview range curtains */
void ANIM_draw_previewrange(const struct bContext *C, struct View2D *v2d, int end_frame_width);
/* -------------- Frame Range Drawing --------------- */
/* main call to draw normal frame range indicators */
void ANIM_draw_framerange(struct Scene *scene, struct View2D *v2d);
/* ************************************************* */
/* F-MODIFIER TOOLS */
/* ------------- UI Panel Drawing -------------- */
/* draw a given F-Modifier for some layout/UI-Block */
void ANIM_uiTemplate_fmodifier_draw(struct uiLayout *layout,
struct ID *fcurve_owner_id,
ListBase *modifiers,
struct FModifier *fcm);
/* ------------- Copy/Paste Buffer -------------- */
/* free the copy/paste buffer */
void ANIM_fmodifiers_copybuf_free(void);
/* copy the given F-Modifiers to the buffer, returning whether anything was copied or not
* assuming that the buffer has been cleared already with ANIM_fmodifiers_copybuf_free()
* - active: only copy the active modifier
*/
bool ANIM_fmodifiers_copy_to_buf(ListBase *modifiers, bool active);
/* 'Paste' the F-Modifier(s) from the buffer to the specified list
* - replace: free all the existing modifiers to leave only the pasted ones
*/
bool ANIM_fmodifiers_paste_from_buf(ListBase *modifiers, bool replace, struct FCurve *curve);
/* ************************************************* */
/* ASSORTED TOOLS */
/* ------------ Animation F-Curves <-> Icons/Names Mapping ------------ */
/* anim_ipo_utils.c */
/* Get icon + name for channel-list displays for F-Curve */
int getname_anim_fcurve(char *name, struct ID *id, struct FCurve *fcu);
/* Automatically determine a color for the nth F-Curve */
void getcolor_fcurve_rainbow(int cur, int tot, float out[3]);
/* ----------------- NLA Drawing ----------------------- */
/* NOTE: Technically, this is not in the animation module (it's in space_nla)
* but these are sometimes needed by various animation API's.
*/
/* Get color to use for NLA Action channel's background */
void nla_action_get_color(struct AnimData *adt, struct bAction *act, float color[4]);
/* ----------------- NLA-Mapping ----------------------- */
/* anim_draw.c */
/* Obtain the AnimData block providing NLA-scaling for the given channel if applicable */
struct AnimData *ANIM_nla_mapping_get(bAnimContext *ac, bAnimListElem *ale);
/* Apply/Unapply NLA mapping to all keyframes in the nominated F-Curve */
void ANIM_nla_mapping_apply_fcurve(struct AnimData *adt,
struct FCurve *fcu,
bool restore,
bool only_keys);
/* ..... */
/* Perform auto-blending/extend refreshes after some operations */
// NOTE: defined in space_nla/nla_edit.c, not in animation/
void ED_nla_postop_refresh(bAnimContext *ac);
/* ------------- Unit Conversion Mappings ------------- */
/* anim_draw.c */
/* flags for conversion mapping */
typedef enum eAnimUnitConv_Flags {
/* restore to original internal values */
ANIM_UNITCONV_RESTORE = (1 << 0),
/* ignore handles (i.e. only touch main keyframes) */
ANIM_UNITCONV_ONLYKEYS = (1 << 1),
/* only touch selected BezTriples */
ANIM_UNITCONV_ONLYSEL = (1 << 2),
/* only touch selected vertices */
ANIM_UNITCONV_SELVERTS = (1 << 3),
/* ANIM_UNITCONV_SKIPKNOTS = (1 << 4), */ /* UNUSED */
/* Scale FCurve i a way it fits to -1..1 space */
ANIM_UNITCONV_NORMALIZE = (1 << 5),
/* Only when normalization is used: use scale factor from previous run,
* prevents curves from jumping all over the place when tweaking them.
*/
ANIM_UNITCONV_NORMALIZE_FREEZE = (1 << 6),
} eAnimUnitConv_Flags;
/* Normalization flags from Space Graph passing to ANIM_unit_mapping_get_factor */
short ANIM_get_normalization_flags(bAnimContext *ac);
/* Get unit conversion factor for given ID + F-Curve */
float ANIM_unit_mapping_get_factor(
struct Scene *scene, struct ID *id, struct FCurve *fcu, short flag, float *r_offset);
/* ------------- Utility macros ----------------------- */
/* provide access to Keyframe Type info in BezTriple
* NOTE: this is so that we can change it from being stored in 'hide'
*/
#define BEZKEYTYPE(bezt) ((bezt)->hide)
/* set/clear/toggle macro
* - channel - channel with a 'flag' member that we're setting
* - smode - 0=clear, 1=set, 2=invert
* - sflag - bitflag to set
*/
#define ACHANNEL_SET_FLAG(channel, smode, sflag) \
{ \
if (smode == ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_INVERT) { \
(channel)->flag ^= (sflag); \
} \
else if (smode == ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_ADD) { \
(channel)->flag |= (sflag); \
} \
else { \
(channel)->flag &= ~(sflag); \
} \
} \
((void)0)
/* set/clear/toggle macro, where the flag is negative
* - channel - channel with a 'flag' member that we're setting
* - smode - 0=clear, 1=set, 2=invert
* - sflag - bitflag to set
*/
#define ACHANNEL_SET_FLAG_NEG(channel, smode, sflag) \
{ \
if (smode == ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_INVERT) { \
(channel)->flag ^= (sflag); \
} \
else if (smode == ACHANNEL_SETFLAG_ADD) { \
(channel)->flag &= ~(sflag); \
} \
else { \
(channel)->flag |= (sflag); \
} \
} \
((void)0)
/* --------- anim_deps.c, animation updates -------- */
void ANIM_id_update(struct Main *bmain, struct ID *id);
void ANIM_list_elem_update(struct Main *bmain, struct Scene *scene, bAnimListElem *ale);
/* data -> channels syncing */
void ANIM_sync_animchannels_to_data(const struct bContext *C);
void ANIM_center_frame(struct bContext *C, int smooth_viewtx);
/* ************************************************* */
/* OPERATORS */
/* generic animation channels */
void ED_operatortypes_animchannels(void);
void ED_keymap_animchannels(struct wmKeyConfig *keyconf);
/* generic time editing */
void ED_operatortypes_anim(void);
void ED_keymap_anim(struct wmKeyConfig *keyconf);
/* space_graph */
void ED_operatormacros_graph(void);
/* space_action */
void ED_operatormacros_action(void);
/* ************************************************ */
/* Animation Editor Exports */
/* XXX: Should we be doing these here, or at all? */
/* Action Editor - Action Management */
struct AnimData *ED_actedit_animdata_from_context(struct bContext *C);
void ED_animedit_unlink_action(struct bContext *C,
struct ID *id,
struct AnimData *adt,
struct bAction *act,
struct ReportList *reports,
bool force_delete);
/* Drivers Editor - Utility to set up UI correctly */
void ED_drivers_editor_init(struct bContext *C, struct ScrArea *area);
/* ************************************************ */
typedef enum eAnimvizCalcRange {
/* Update motion paths at the current frame only. */
ANIMVIZ_CALC_RANGE_CURRENT_FRAME,
/* Try to limit updates to a close neighborhood of the current frame. */
ANIMVIZ_CALC_RANGE_CHANGED,
/* Update an entire range of the motion paths. */
ANIMVIZ_CALC_RANGE_FULL,
} eAnimvizCalcRange;
struct Depsgraph *animviz_depsgraph_build(struct Main *bmain,
struct Scene *scene,
struct ViewLayer *view_layer,
struct ListBase *targets);
void animviz_calc_motionpaths(struct Depsgraph *depsgraph,
struct Main *bmain,
struct Scene *scene,
ListBase *targets,
eAnimvizCalcRange range,
bool restore);
void animviz_get_object_motionpaths(struct Object *ob, ListBase *targets);
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
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This invention relates to helicopters, and more specifically to helicopters for achieving high speed flight.
In conventional helicopters, lift propulsion and control are provided by one or more rotating airfoils or rotors blades. The rotational plane of the rotors blades is substantially horizontal. In forward flight, the velocity of air flowing over the rotor airfoils differs between the left and right sides of the helicopter; because the airfoils on one side are advancing in the direction of flight and on the other side the airfoils are retreating. Consequently, the maximum air speed of the advancing rotor blade at its tip is the sum of the tip speed due to rotation and the forward speed of the helicopter. Similarly, the minimum speed of the retreating rotor blade on the other side of the helicopter is the difference between the tip speed of rotation and the forward speed of the helicopter. Consequently, the air speed of the advancing rotor blade is greater than that of the retreating rotor blade by twice the forward air speed of the helicopter.
This difference in the velocity of air flow over the advancing and retreating rotor blades is the factor which limits the maximum air speed of a helicopter, primarily because, as the helicopter's forward air speed increases, the air flow over the retreating airfoil or rotor blade becomes too low to support the required weight; and the retreating airfoil stalls. On the advancing side, the blade tip approaches supersonic speed; and the resulting compression of the air against the blade (compressibility effect) can cause blade flutter and greatly increased power requirements as well as creating unstable operating conditions of the helicopter. As a consequence, the maximum forward speed of a conventional helicopter is limited because of the effects of retreating blade stall and advancing blade compressibility effects. Without auxiliary lift or propulsion devices in the helicopter, a practical maximum speed for a conventional helicopter is approximately 250 miles per hour.
Another problem which is encountered in conventional helicopters, and which is increasingly noticeable at high speed, is that the helicopter tends to roll to one side, the retreating side, due to unequal lift of the rotor blades on the advancing and retreating sides. To compensate for this tendency and to maintain stable flight at relatively high forward speeds, attempts have been made in the past to compensate for this tendency by equalizing the lift on opposite sides of the rotor hub (that is on the advancing and retreating sides). To some extent this can be accomplished by raising the pitch of the retreating blades while simultaneously lowering the pitch of the advancing blades with a swash plate mechanism. A problem arises, however, if the blades are already operating at pitch angles near their stall limits for hovering efficiency. In this situation, the procedure of increasing the pitch of the retreating blades can result in the stalling of the retreating blades significantly decreasing their lift capability instead of increasing the lift. Compromises therefore must be made between the rotor efficiency of the helicopter and the rotational speed of the rotor. At higher speeds, the rotor blades can operate at a lower average pitch angle to accommodate the asymmetry of lift.
In the past, three methods for avoiding the stalling of the retreating rotor blades in high speed forward flight have been tried. One of these methods is the "advancing blade concept" which consists of the utilization of two coaxial counterrotating rotor hubs. Rotor airfoils or rotor blades then are mounted rigidly on these respective hubs so that there are always advancing blades on both sides of the helicopter. As a consequence, the retreating blades do not need to provide any lift to keep the helicopter in balance. Helicopters employing this advancing blade concept have been constructed and successfully operated, but these helicopters are very expensive. In addition, the blades must be extremely rigid because large moments must be transferred across the two counterrotating hubs.
A second method is an "X-wing aircraft". This type of aircraft has a substantially horizontally mounted multiple blade rotor which is stopped in flight. Propulsion then is achieved by a conventional propeller to either pull or push the aircraft through the air, and the rotor blades become the fixed wings of the aircraft. Theoretically, an aircraft of this type would be the ideal aircraft since the rotor could be rotated to provide lift, but is not required to provide forward propulsion. In practice, however, an aircraft of this type is also very expensive; because the horizontal rotor blades must be rigid enough to support the aircraft without the benefit of centrifugal force. This means that the blades must be large and rigid. In addition, the control system and the hub are very complex. Consequently, such aircraft have not achieved any degreee of practical acceptance.
A third method for avoiding the retreating blade stall of helicopter airfoils or rotors is the "tilt rotor" type of aircraft. This aircraft essentially comprises a conventional airplane in which the two wing-mounted propellors are rotated, so that the axis of rotation is vertical for take off. The propellors then are slowly rotated into a conventional horizontal position for high speed flight. The tilt rotor, however, also is expensive due to mechanical complexity and the necessity of cross-linking the two propellors in case of engine failure, since a failure of one of the two propellors could be catastrophic.
Some systems have been developed in the past to compensate for the difference in lift between the advancing and retreating blades of a helicopter to minimize or offset the tendency of this lift differential to cause the helicopter to roll over toward the retreating blade side. One system, directed to a resolution of this problem, is disclosed in the patent to Garfinkle #3,921,939. In Garfinkle, the single rotor hub is mounted on a pair of transverse slide rods; so that the lateral position of the hub may be moved toward the retreating blade side. This shifts the center of lift of the rotor system toward the retreating blade side of the helicopter fuselage. There is no speed advantage which is achieved by this shifting, however, because the hub itself does not create any moment on the shaft of rotation. It is desirable to provide a helicopter or rotary wing aircraft capable of attaining flight speeds or air speeds substantially higher than have been attainable by such aircraft in the past. In addition, it is desirable to provide a high speed helicopter in which the retreating blades are unloaded while maintaining control of all six degrees of freedom of the helicopter (roll, pitch, yaw, up-down, left-right, fore-aft) by using a combination of forces and moments created solely from a single main multiple blade rotor. |
Q:
Python regex to match one or more line breaks?
I want to split a text file into paragraphs, separated by 1 or more empty lines.
For example:
# file.txt
"Paragraph1
Some text
Paragraph2
More text
Paragraph3
some more text"
I tried using regex, but I'm not sure if I'm doing it correctly. In the example I'm trying to print the second paragraph only, but I get a list index out of range error. But when I print p[0] it prints the whole text file. What am I doing wrong? Should I use a different regex expression? Or other methods to split the file into paragraphs?
with open(file) as f:
text = f.read()
p = text.split("[\r\n]+")
print(p[1])
A:
Use re.split()
>>> import re
>>> re.split(r'[\r\n][\r\n]+', text)
['Paragraph1\nSome text', 'Pragraph2\nMore text', 'Paragraph3\nsome more text']
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Q:
Javascript map function :add new key and value to object
I have JSON array like this
var array= [{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'}]
I would like to add a new key (eg:isApproved) to each object in the existing array
expected output:
var array= [{id:1,name:'foo',isApproved:true},{id:2,name:'bar',isApproved:true}]
I used the map function to achieve this
array.map(function(e,index){
e.isApproved[index]= true
}
But this not worked for me
A:
You were really close. You do not need the index here. The map passes through every element of the array, so 'e' will be each object in your array.
var array= [{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'}];
array.map(function(e){
e.isApproved = true;
});
console.log(array);
A:
With this code, you wont mutate objects inside your array
const arr = [{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'}];
const mapped = arr.map(element => Object.assign(element, {isApproved: true})
More new approach would be using spread operator:
const arr = [{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'}];
const mapped = arr.map(element => ({isApproved: true ,...element}))
Snippet
const arr = [{id:1,name:'foo'},{id:2,name:'bar'}];
const mapped = arr.map(element => ({isApproved: true ,...element}))
console.log(mapped)
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A comparative study of pesticide exposures in adults and youth migrant field workers.
To study possible differences between pesticide exposures received by youth (subjects less than 16 yr of age) and adults (subjects greater than 16 yr of age), human exposure samples (gloves and urine) were collected during the onion harvesting season of 1982. Environmental samples (soil, foliage, and field air) were also collected during the study period. All samples were analyzed for toxaphene, ethyl parathion, methyl parathion, and malathion. Environmental samples were found to have very low levels of these insecticides. The youth cohort had lower residue values than did the adults, and these differences were statistically significant (P less than 05) for toxaphene residues on gloves on each sampling day, and for ethyl parathion residues on gloves on one sampling day only. Detectable levels of dialkyl phosphates were found in only 2 of 44 urine samples. |
Maitland railway station
Maitland railway station is located on the Main Northern line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the city of Maitland opening on in 1880 as West Maitland being renamed on 1 April 1949. It is the junction station for the Main Northern and North Coast lines. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
History
The Great Northern Railway was built through Maitland in the 1850s and extended to Lochinvar in July 1860. Maitland was serviced by Victoria Street, East Maitland and High Street when it opened however it was not until 1880 that what is now Maitland's principal station opened as West Maitland.
Initially the station comprised only one platform, the present Platform 1. The station expanded with an island platform and footbridge constructed in 1914 followed in 1933 by another island platform. In April 1949 in recognition of its position as Maitland's primary station it received its present name. A bay platform was located at the eastern end of Platform 1 for terminating services from Newcastle, it was removed in the 1990s.
The station is susceptible to floods. In the 1955 floods the signalbox was washed away with its replacement constructed on stilts. This closed on 27 October 1990 and has been leased to a model railway club. The high water marks have been marked on the building on Platform 1. Flood gates have been installed at the northern end of the platforms. A new signal box opened opposite the station on 17 December 1990.
A yard is located east of the station. It is mainly used to stable railway maintenance equipment, although each April is used as a depot for locomotives attending the Hunter Valley Steamfest.
Immediately east of the station the Main Northern and North Coast lines split, while about 500 metres west of the station the South Maitland Railways line to Pelton branches south.
On 27 July 2015 Maitland was the first station to receive a Regional Customer Support Centre covering the Central Coast, Hunter and North West areas of NSW.
Platforms & services
Maitland has five platforms, although only four are used by passenger trains. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Hunter Line services travelling from Newcastle to Muswellbrook, Scone, Telarah and Dungog.
It is also serviced by NSW Trainlink Xplorer and XPT long distance services from Sydney to Armidale, Moree, Grafton, Casino and Brisbane.
Events
Each April, Maitland station is the focal point for the Hunter Valley Steamfest, an event that has been held annually since 1986.
Transport links
Hunter Valley Buses operates seven routes via Maitland station:
179: Stockland Green Hills to North Rothbury via Rutherford with limited services to Hanbury Estates
180: Stockland Green Hills to Singleton Heights via Rutherford
180x: to express via , and Stations
181: Aberglasslyn to Woodberry via Metford
182: Thornton to Rutherford via Ashtonfield
183: Rutherford to Tenambit via Telarah
185: to Largs via Bolwarra, with limited services to Paterson and Gresford
192: to South Maitland and Louth Park
Rover Coaches operates two routes via Maitland station:
164: to Cessnock via Kurri Kurri, limited services operate to Stockland Green Hills
166: Stockland Green Hills to Kurri Kurri via Gillieston Heights, Heddon Greta & Pelaw Main
Sid Fogg's operates one route via Maitland station:
Newcastle station to Dubbo station via the Golden Highway
Description
The station complex includes two brick station buildings, the platform 1 building completed in 1880 of type 5 first-class design, and the platform 2/3 building completed in 1914 of type 11 initial island/side building design. The signal box is of elevated timber on a steel frame and was completed in 1956, and the booking office, on the street facing Railway Prade, was completed in 1948. There is also a pedestrian overbridge connecting the road to the platforms.
Heritage listing
The Maitland station group is of high significance both as a complete unit, and for its individual elements. The various buildings date from the earliest surviving on the north line through to the 1950s forming a harmonious group with an important civic contribution particularly from the booking office and first class station building. The site is of additional interest with the relationship of the first class building to the alignment of platform 1 and the extended awning down to the realigned and lowered line which is unique in the railway system. The main station building is of high significance and is a very important building in Maitland and in the State particularly with its adaptive awning structure. The other buildings at the station including the signal box are significant and indicate the importance of the location as a commercial centre and junction station, particularly with the adjacent Maitland colliery system which linked with the main line nearby to the west. The number of platforms also indicate the importance of the site for changing trains and as a centre of commerce and the furthest link of the Newcastle commuter rail system.
References
External links
Maitland station details Transport for New South Wales
Category:Easy Access railway stations in New South Wales
Category:Maitland, New South Wales
Category:Railway stations in the Hunter Region
Category:Railway stations opened in 1880
Category:Regional railway stations in New South Wales
Category:New South Wales State Heritage Register
Category:Main North railway line, New South Wales |
Connectable sections provide a reach of up to 10 feet!
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Visiting C. Milton Wright and Joppatowne played a tight contest throughout, with CMW (2-0, 7-1) pulling out the 73-68 win over the Mariners (1-1, 4-2).
Also Friday in Chesapeake play, Patterson Mill was a winner over Harford Tech and Aberdeen beat Edgewood. Three Susquehanna Division games were postponed due to Cecil County Public Schools being closed on Friday.
In Joppatowne, the game was tied 6-6 early on and the Mustangs led 16-11 late in the opening quarter. Joppatowne senior Montrell Horsey changed that, scoring five straight points to pull the Mariners even.
CMW slipped back ahead, 18-16, but Horsey’s three-point play with 4.6 seconds left gave the Mariners a 19-18 lead after one quarter.
Quincy Haughton’s three-point shot with 1:30 left in the half gave CMW a 30-25 lead, but Joppatowne used four free throws to get back to within a point, 30-29.
Mustangs senior guard Imran Hussain added a late three and the Mustangs took a 33-31 lead into the half.
Horsey answered back for Joppatowne to begin the second half. His three-pointer pushed Joppatowne back ahead and it started an 11-0 run by the Mariners, who led 42-33.
The Mustangs battled back with an 8-3 run and on Corey Patterson’s basket, the game was retied at 49-49.
Hussain then drove and scored in the final seconds of the third quarter, leaving the game right where it was when the quarter started; CMW still leading by two, but now, 51-49.
“Coming through the second half, we knew that they’re gonna throw a punch (make a run), so we were just gonna weather the storm, but we knew could do anything in our possibilities to get the win,” Hussain said.
Horsey (23 points) opened rhe final quarter with another three to push the Mariners back ahead, 52-51. A short time later it was 56 all.
The game was tied again at 61 when Joppatowne sophomore Jalen Morris was hit with a technical foul.
The infraction led to five straight CMW points and the game was never tied again and the Mustangs never trailed again.
Hussain, who led all scorers with 30 points, added another three-point shot, but Jayden Johnson added a three for the Mariners. CMW led 69-65 with 59.2 seconds left.
Two free throws by Julio Brodie pulled the Mariners to within three, 70-67, and the Mariners had the steal off the inbounds pass, but two Joppatowne players collided and the ball was snagged by the CMW’s Haughton.
Haughton made 1-of-2 free throws, as did Joppatowne’s Jalen Willis, leaving the Mariners with life, down 71-68 with 10.6 seconds left.
Brett Lindsey (15 points) missed the front end of his 1-and-1, but quickly made up for it. He grabbed the loose ball rebound and layed it back in for the game’s final points.
“We knew coming in that Joppatowne was arguably the best team out there and that they were more athletic than we were,” CMW coach Jon Stefanides said. “They had two guards, Jalen Willis and Montrell Horsey, just phenomenal players and we knew we had to slow them down. We knew we couldn’t stop them.”
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Q:
Inno Setup ComponentsList OnClick event
I have a list of components for my Inno Setup installer, 19 different options, I want to set the OnClick event for ONE of the components. Is there a way to do this? Or is there a way to check which component triggered the OnClick event if it's set for all components?
Currently, the OnClick event is set like so:
Wizardform.ComponentsList.OnClick := @CheckChange;
I would like to do something like:
Wizardform.ComponentsList.Items[x].OnClick := @DbCheckChange;
The WizardForm.ComponentList is declared as a: TNewCheckListBox
A:
You do not want to use OnClick, use OnClickCheck instead.
The OnClick is called for clicks which do not change checked state (like clicks outside of any item; or clicks on fixed items; or selection change using keyboard), but mainly it is not called for checks using keyboard.
The OnClickCheck is called only, when the checked state changes, and both for keyboard and mouse.
To tell which item was checked by user, use ItemIndex property. The user can check only the selected item.
Though if you have a components hierarchy, or setup types, the items checked automatically by the installer due to a change in child/parent items or change in the setup type, won't trigger the OnClickCheck (nor the OnClick). So to tell all changes, all you can do is to remember the previous state and compare it against the current state, when the WizardForm.ComponentsList.OnClickCheck or WizardForm.TypesCombo.OnChange are called.
const
TheItem = 2; { the item you are interested in }
var
PrevItemChecked: Boolean;
TypesComboOnChangePrev: TNotifyEvent;
procedure ComponentsListCheckChanges;
var
Item: string;
begin
if PrevItemChecked <> WizardForm.ComponentsList.Checked[TheItem] then
begin
Item := WizardForm.ComponentsList.ItemCaption[TheItem];
if WizardForm.ComponentsList.Checked[TheItem] then
begin
Log(Format('"%s" checked', [Item]));
end
else
begin
Log(Format('"%s" unchecked', [Item]));
end;
PrevItemChecked := WizardForm.ComponentsList.Checked[TheItem];
end;
end;
procedure ComponentsListClickCheck(Sender: TObject);
begin
ComponentsListCheckChanges;
end;
procedure TypesComboOnChange(Sender: TObject);
begin
{ First let Inno Setup update the components selection }
TypesComboOnChangePrev(Sender);
{ And then check for changes }
ComponentsListCheckChanges;
end;
procedure InitializeWizard();
begin
WizardForm.ComponentsList.OnClickCheck := @ComponentsListClickCheck;
{ The Inno Setup itself relies on the WizardForm.TypesCombo.OnChange, }
{ so we have to preserve its handler. }
TypesComboOnChangePrev := WizardForm.TypesCombo.OnChange;
WizardForm.TypesCombo.OnChange := @TypesComboOnChange;
{ Remember the initial state }
{ (by now the components are already selected according to }
{ the defaults or the previous installation) }
PrevItemChecked := WizardForm.ComponentsList.Checked[TheItem];
end;
For a more generic solution, see Inno Setup Detect changed task/item in TasksList.OnClickCheck event. Though with components, one has to trigger the check on the WizardForm.TypesCombo.OnChange call too.
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Exercise Protects against Cancer-induced Cardiac Cachexia.
Cancer has been shown to negatively stimulate autophagy, leading to a decline in cardiac function. Although exercise is cardioprotective, its influence over autophagy-mediated tumor growth and cardiac function are not well defined. This study aimed to determine the effect of exercise on tumor morphology and cardiac function. Fisher 344 rats (n = 28) were assigned to one of four groups: 1) sedentary non-tumor bearing (SED), 2) sedentary tumor bearing (SED + T), 3) wheel run non-tumor bearing (WR), or 4) wheel run tumor bearing (WR + T). Rats remained sedentary or exercised for 6 wk. At week 4, rats in tumor groups were inoculated with MatBIII tumor cells. At week 6, cardiac function was measured. SED + T animals exhibited significantly lower left ventricular developed pressure when compared with SED, WR, and WR + T (P < 0.05). This coincided with a significant increase in cardiac autophagy (increased LC3-II) in SED + T animals when compared with SED, WR, and WR + T (P < 0.05). Furthermore, SED + T hearts showed a significant increase in β-myosin heavy chain expression versus nontumor groups (P < 0.05). Tumor mass was significantly larger (P < 0.001) in SED + T animals when compared with WR + T animals, which was accompanied by a significant increase in tumor LC3-II protein expression (P < 0.05). Nonexercised tumor-bearing rats showed severe cardiac dysfunction and excessive, maladaptive autophagy in the heart and tumors. Voluntary exercise preserved cardiac function and attenuated the autophagic response in heart and tumor tissues. This preservation may be related to the reduced tumor growth in aerobically exercised rats, to the improved regulation of autophagy by exercise, or both. |
Q:
In aspx page how to bind only one json value inside a tag
I have a problem I have JSON data in my aspx page.Also I have code inside code behind to call api to get all JSON data. My sample json data as followsenter
"tags": "খালেদা-জিয়া,বিএনপি,নির্বাচন",
"timeline_tags": null,
"people_tags": null,
Here you can see in tags there are more than 1 value. I want display the first value .In my aspx I take inside a tag as follows
`enter code here`<a href="/TagNews.aspx?tagname=<%#Eval("tags")%>" class="tags">
Here in #EVAL i get all value i need to get the first one.Your help will be highly appreciated.Thanks
A:
You can split the string and use just the first returned element:
<%#((string)Eval("tags")).Split(new string[] {","}, StringSplitOptions.None)[0]%>
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Mittenwald, Germany
A decade ago, in one of my college German classes I was asked to choose a German town to be mine for the duration of the class. After much urging by my Santa Clause doppelgänger of a professor, my town became Mittenwald, a tiny village located in Bavaria a few kilometers from Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Extremely excited that we could visit “meine Stadt in Deutschland” I truthfully planned the entire day around us ending in Mittenwald where I had images of dusk sleighriding through snow in my head. “This is going to be AWESOME!” I squealed on more than one night, while making the Frenchman watch various circa 2003 powerpoint presentations I had made about the town. I told him all about it: about how violins were made there and how there were sleighs and cute music stores and about how there were two ski lifts that could take us up to mountain-top viewing platforms. I read articles online about all of the fun we could have, such as this one, from Afar Magazine. Everything and everyone agreed, it was going to be amazing in this perfect, artisanal German town.
Thus, after parking our car in what the signs said was Mittenwald we looked around wondering aloud if we were in the right village. Aside from the gentleman sleeping in the vehicle next to us the town was deserted (and, as we’ve already established, snow free.) “We must just be on the wrong side,” I confidently announced, warily eyeing the shut-up makings of a Christmas village. After wandering around for a bit only to find mostly empty and boarded up stores, we stopped in to the only cafe we could find to inquire about the violins. “Oh, all of the music stores and violins left a long time ago. There are some violin makers, but they are just workshops that the public cannot visit,” the shop owner told us. “The museum’s still there, but it’s not open now, and there is one music store, but it’s closed right now, too.” The ski lifts, it turns out, were also not in operation for as maintenance was performed. A decade’s worth of love for a tiny Bavarian village rose up into tears splattering into my coffeecup and apple strudel. “But, but… there have to be violins!”
The history of violin or Geigenbau making in Mittenwald is mostly attributable to Matthias Klotz, a violin maker of the 17th and 18th centuries. By Klotz’s death in the second half of the 18th century violin making in Mittenwald had already began to decline as instruments could be made piece-meal and then assembled factory-style, instead of carefully carved by hand. Following a resurgence in handmade, artisanal items after World War II, the Mittenwald violins saw a second revival though interest appears to have once again dwindled. During their heyday Klotz violins were played the world over, including, most certainly in the nearby towns of Salzburg and Vienna, and even by Mozart himself.
This is not to say that parts of the village are not lovely. The block of brightly-painted, storybook houses are magnificent images into the past to rival many Italian frescos, and, during the summer months, when the hills are full of wildflowers it is surely pleasant to stay in one of the chalets for a hiking or mountain biking holiday.
While others may have Neuschwanstein as their most disappointing Germany place, for me it was Mittenwald. And, if you had German class with me and were inspired to visit Mittenwald after my thrilling presentations, entschuldigung. |
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With the PMT function, you can return a payment amount, based on
loan information. In this example:
The loan amount is $10,000
The interest rate is 5% annually
The loan is for a 4 year term, with 48 monthly payments
In cell C6, the PMT function calculates the monthly payment, based
on the annual rate, which is divided by 12 to get the monthly rate,
the number of payments (periods) and the loan amount (present value):
=PMT(C2/12,C3,C4)
The payment, -230.29, is calculated as a negative amount, because
you are paying that amount out of your bank account.
If you would prefer to see the result as a positive number, you can
use a minus sign before the PMT function:
=-PMT(C2/12,C3,C4)
Example 2: Calculate the Payment on a Canadian
Mortgage
For Canadian mortgage loans, the interest is compounded semi-annually,
rather than monthly, even if the payments are monthly. To calculate
the payments, you need a different rate calculation, instead of the
simple Rate/12.
Note: Visit your bank's website, or check with your banker, to confirm
how your bank will calculate the payments.
In this example:
The mortgage loan amount is $100,000
The interest rate is 5% annually, compounded semi-annually
The loan is for a 20 year term, with 240 monthly payments
In cell C6, the PMT function calculates the monthly payment, based
on the annual rate, the number of payments (periods) and the loan
amount (present value):
=PMT((C2/2+1)^(1/6)-1,C3,C4)
Instead of simply dividing the rate by 12, the rate calculation is:
(Rate/2+1)^(1/6)-1
(Rate /2 +1) is the semi-annual interest as a proportion of the
annual rate. In this example, the rate is 5/2 = 2.5% each 6 months.
So at the end of 6 months you owe 1.025 of what you owed at the
beginning.
Payments are monthly, and there are 6 months in a half year, so
the proportional rate is raised to the power of 1/6. In this example,
the monthly rate is 1.025 ^(1/6)=1.00412391547
The 1, that was added for the rate calculation, is subtracted
The payment, -657.13, is calculated as a negative amount, because
you are paying that amount out of your bank account.
If you would prefer to see the result as a positive number, you can
use a minus sign before the PMT function:
=-PMT((C2/2+1)^(1/6)-1,C3,C4)
Example 3: Enhanced Loan Calculator
In the previous examples, you had to enter the total number of payments
due, after calculating that number -- number of years in the loan
term, times the number of payments per year.
To make things easier, this Excel loan payment calculator lets you
select the payment frequency from a drop
down list of options.
In the sample file, the Lists sheet has a lookup table of frequencies
and number of payments per year, for each frequency.
Based on the frequency that you select, a number of payments per
year is calculated in cell E5, using a VLOOKUP
formula.
=IFERROR(VLOOKUP(C5,FreqLU,2,0),"")
The payment amount is calculated with the PMT function:
=IFERROR(PMT(C7/E5,E6,-C4),"")
In this workbook, there is a minus sign before the present value
variable, so the monthly payment is shown as a positive number. You
can omit the minus sign, to show the payment as a negative number. |
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RIO DE JANEIRO — Reading through the hacked cellphone messages of Brazilian prosecutors and judges, Glenn Greenwald knew he had a blockbuster story.
Mr. Greenwald, an American journalist, figured he was well equipped to weather the blowback. After all, he played a central role in exposing the secret intelligence programs leaked by Edward Snowden, the national security contractor, five years ago.
“I assumed it was going to be very similar to the Snowden story,” Mr. Greenwald said. “I’m going to know how to do this.”
He greatly underestimated.
The cellphone messages sent shock waves through Brazil when the news organization Mr. Greenwald co-founded, The Intercept Brasil, wrote about them last year, raising doubts about the fairness of the vast corruption investigation that upended the country and ultimately helped pave the way for the election of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro. |
Q:
Caml Query - skip X first results
Let's assume I have list with 100 items. Is it possible to write CAML query to get 5 items, but skip 10 items from the beggining? Something like LIMIT and OFFSET in SQL?
A:
Unfortunately, SharePoint paging works a bit differently than LIMIT and OFFSET in SQL. To get paginated items you have to provide ID of the first item for the page you want and then set RowLimit, and if you have sorting defined for the list, you also have to provide sorting columns names and values of those columns for the first item on your page.
You can see how it works if you go to any list which has enough items and try to go through pages and see how the query string of the page changes. Then delete some items and try again. Then change order of items and try again...
All those params you will have to pass into ListItemCollectionPosition property of SPQuery object.
More about paging in SharePoint:
http://www.directsharepoint.com/2011/03/step-by-step-guide-to-implement-paging.html
In your particular case, you can simplify things a bit, if you don't have filtering and sorting:
Select first 11 IDs from the list
Use 11th ID to create the correct ListItemCollectionPosition for your SPQuery
Set RowLimit of the SPQuery object to 5
To quickly select top 11 IDs, use this query:
var query = new SPQuery()
{
ViewFields = "ID",
ViewFieldsOnly = true,
IncludePermissions = false,
RowLimit = 11
};
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Ext.define("PartKeepr.Components.Widgets.FieldSelectorWindow", {
extend: 'Ext.window.Window',
layout: 'fit',
width: 600,
height: 600,
title: i18n("Select Field"),
/* Constrain the window to fit the viewport */
constrainHeader: true,
config: {
sourceModel: null
},
initComponent: function ()
{
var modelFieldSelector = Ext.create({
xtype: 'modelFieldSelector',
border: false,
sourceModel: this.sourceModel,
useCheckBoxes: false,
flex: 1,
listeners: {
selectionchange: function (selectionModel, selected)
{
var addFieldButton = this.down("#addSelectedField");
if (selected.length == 1 && selected[0].data.data.type !== "onetomany") {
addFieldButton.enable();
} else {
addFieldButton.disable();
}
},
scope: this
}
});
modelFieldSelector.on("itemdblclick", function (view, record)
{
if (record.data.data && record.data.data.type !== "onetomany") {
this.fireEvent("fieldSelect", record);
this.close();
}
}, this);
this.items = modelFieldSelector;
this.bbar = [
{
xtype: 'button',
itemId: 'addSelectedField',
disabled: true,
text: i18n("Add selected Field"),
iconCls: 'fugue-icon flask--plus',
handler: function ()
{
var selection = modelFieldSelector.getSelection();
if (selection.length == 1 && selection[0].data.data.type !== "onetomany") {
this.fireEvent("fieldSelect", selection[0]);
this.close();
}
},
scope: this
}
];
this.callParent(arguments);
}
});
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In order to break the cycle of intergenerational transmission from women alcoholics to their offspring, we need to identify the relevant mediating and moderating risk factors. This would make it possible to intervene in the lives of high-risk children before alcohol abuse becomes entrenched in their life-styles. Because we need a better understanding of how to identify those children at highest risk, offspring of parents with the most severe form of the disorder need to be studied. We have successfully identified a particularly severe form of alcoholism in women utilizing a double proband methodology which was first developed in our laboratory to select more severe cases of male alcoholism (e.g. early onset, high familial aggregation). During thee first five years of this award we identified 40 extended high-risk pedigrees, and among other goals achieved, successfully evaluated offspring from these pedigrees cross- sectionally. We compared these offspring to low-risk controls using neurophysiological indices associated with risk for alcoholism (primarily the amplitude of the P300). We also evaluated these offspring for psychopathological characteristics utilizing direct clinical interviews (consensus diagnoses based on a K-SADS interview separately with the child and the parent). We find: (1) significantly reduced P300 among these offspring of female alcoholics from high density families; and (2) significantly more psychopathology, both externalizing and internalizing. These effects are present even when only the mother is alcoholic and in the absence of drinking during pregnancy. The primary goal of the proposed renewal is to follow 200 high and low- risk offspring over the next five years. We will model: (1) age of onset for regular drinking, and (2) severity of psychopathology. In order to insure that the findings to date are robust, we will include an unscreened control group of offspring to be compared with our high-risk group and the screened low-risk group already available for follow-up. We have documented in several published studies, the presence of neurobiological risk factors (e.g. reduced amplitude of P300) in high- risk children. We suggest that these neurobiological indices may signal developmental delays for some children. These findings underscore the importance of utilizing these potential neurobiological markers prospectively and relate them to later development of alcohol dependence. The possible interplay between environmental variation and the neurobiological factors associated with high-risk status also suggests the need to assess this variation in the context of a longitudinal follow-up. |
Amazon created a major buzz today around the country -- and in one Canadian city -- when it took the wraps off its short-list of cities for its coveted second headquarters project.
Dallas-Fort Worth made the list, along with many of the same cities that North Texas regularly competes against for corporate relocations. Here are the 20 cities identified by Amazon as finalists. Tell us where you think HQ2 will land by voting below:
So far, The Dallas Morning News business staff's predictions are all still in the running. Here are the prognostications of our reporters and editors. |
Q:
NSOperation in global queue
I'm already trying to understand whats wrong with my code for 2 days now. I hope you have an idea?
I'm trying to create a NSOperationQueue as a "global" queue to allow me to add operations from any method within that viewController. Before I tried to define the queue in the .h file to make it global I created it inside the method I needed it originally and I was able to add Operations. This worked well. But then I wanted to check if there were any active operations inside the queue from outside the original method, which I obviously couldn't because I declared it inside the method. So I tried to declare it in the .h with the following code:
@property (strong, nonatomic) NSOperationQueue *queue;
and in the top of .m:
@synthesize queue;
this is the code where I add the operation to the queue.
NSInvocationOperation *doMorse = [[NSInvocationOperation alloc] initWithTarget:self selector:@selector(morse) object:nil];
[self.queue addOperation:doMorse];
The problem is that the queue stays empty when I try to add an operation. (Which worked properly before.) Did I declare the queue wrong? By the way, is there a better solution to make the queue accessible from any method than the one I tried? (within the same viewController (if it would work from any view it would be awesome :-) )).
Thank you very much!
A:
You need to actually create your queue. You only declare an instance variable to store the queue in.
In your constructor (init method), add:
self.queue = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init]
If it worked before but not any longer, you probably started calling another constructor. A mistake I commonly make is to do setup in initWithFrame: in my custom views, but then start using the view from a nib, which means initWithCoder: will be called instead.
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package org.apache.tajo.master.event;
import org.apache.tajo.TaskAttemptId;
import org.apache.tajo.ResourceProtos.TaskStatusProto;
public class TaskAttemptStatusUpdateEvent extends TaskAttemptEvent {
private final TaskStatusProto status;
public TaskAttemptStatusUpdateEvent(final TaskAttemptId id,
TaskStatusProto status) {
super(id, TaskAttemptEventType.TA_UPDATE);
this.status = status;
}
public TaskStatusProto getStatus() {
return status;
}
}
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/*
* Copyright (C) 2003-2006 Ben van Klinken and the CLucene Team
*
* Distributable under the terms of either the Apache License (Version 2.0) or
* the GNU Lesser General Public License, as specified in the COPYING file.
*
* Changes are Copyright(C) 2007, 2008 by Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies), all rights reserved.
*/
#ifndef _lucene_search_IndexSearcher_
#define _lucene_search_IndexSearcher_
#if defined(_LUCENE_PRAGMA_ONCE)
# pragma once
#endif
#include <QtCore/QString>
#include "SearchHeader.h"
#include "CLucene/store/Directory.h"
#include "CLucene/document/Document.h"
#include "CLucene/index/IndexReader.h"
#include "CLucene/index/Term.h"
#include "CLucene/util/BitSet.h"
#include "HitQueue.h"
#include "FieldSortedHitQueue.h"
CL_NS_DEF(search)
/** Implements search over a single IndexReader.
*
* <p>Applications usually need only call the inherited {@link search(Query*)}
* or {@link search(Query*,Filter*)} methods.
*/
class IndexSearcher:public Searcher{
CL_NS(index)::IndexReader* reader;
bool readerOwner;
public:
/// Creates a searcher searching the index in the named directory.
IndexSearcher(const QString& path);
/// Creates a searcher searching the index in the specified directory.
IndexSearcher(CL_NS(store)::Directory* directory);
/// Creates a searcher searching the provided index.
IndexSearcher(CL_NS(index)::IndexReader* r);
~IndexSearcher();
/// Frees resources associated with this Searcher.
void close();
int32_t docFreq(const CL_NS(index)::Term* term) const;
bool doc(int32_t i, CL_NS(document)::Document* document);
int32_t maxDoc() const;
TopDocs* _search(Query* query, Filter* filter, const int32_t nDocs);
TopFieldDocs* _search(Query* query, Filter* filter, const int32_t nDocs,
const Sort* sort);
void _search(Query* query, Filter* filter, HitCollector* results);
CL_NS(index)::IndexReader* getReader() {
return reader; }
Query* rewrite(Query* original);
void explain(Query* query, int32_t doc, Explanation* ret);
};
CL_NS_END
#endif
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package com.springcloud.storageserver.service.impl;
import com.springcloud.common.OperationResponse;
import com.springcloud.common.storage.ReduceStockRequestVO;
import com.springcloud.storageserver.dao.ProductDao;
import com.springcloud.storageserver.service.StorageService;
import io.seata.core.context.RootContext;
import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.Transactional;
/**
* Created with IntelliJ IDEA.
*
* @Date: 2019/9/7
* @Time: 22:12
* @email: [email protected]
* Description:
*/
@Service
@Slf4j
public class StorageServiceImpl implements StorageService {
@Autowired
private ProductDao productDao;
@Override
@Transactional(rollbackFor = Exception.class)
public OperationResponse reduceStock(ReduceStockRequestVO reduceStockRequestVO) throws Exception {
log.info("当前 XID: {}", RootContext.getXID());
// 检查库存
checkStock(reduceStockRequestVO.getProductId(), reduceStockRequestVO.getAmount());
log.info("开始扣减 {} 库存", reduceStockRequestVO.getProductId());
// 扣减库存
Integer record = productDao.reduceStock(reduceStockRequestVO.getProductId(), reduceStockRequestVO.getAmount());
log.info("扣减 {} 库存结果:{}", reduceStockRequestVO.getProductId(), record > 0 ? "操作成功" : "扣减库存失败");
return OperationResponse.builder()
.success(record > 0)
.message(record > 0 ? "操作成功" : "扣减库存失败")
.build();
}
public void checkStock(Long productId, Integer requiredAmount) throws Exception {
log.info("检查 {} 库存", productId);
Integer stock = productDao.getStock(productId);
if (stock < requiredAmount) {
log.warn("{} 库存不足，当前库存:{}", productId, stock);
throw new Exception("库存不足");
}
}
}
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Is Chris Paul Making The Right Decision By Becoming President Of The National Basketball Players Association?
Chris Paul made a surprising decision on Wednesday afternoon. Seemingly out of nowhere, Paul—who has maintained a pretty active role with the National Basketball Players Association in recent years—announced that he was interested in becoming the next president of the NBPA. And his fellow players elected him to the position almost immediately, which means he will replace Derek Fisher as the president of the NBPA during the upcoming NBA season. It’s a huge role for Paul but one that he seems equipped to handle.
“It was something I saw as a challenge,” he said during a conference call on Wednesday, “something I knew I’d be able to handle. It’s an unbelievable opportunity, a lot of responsibility comes with this position.”
You can say that again. And that responsibility begs the question: Is Chris Paul really ready for his new job? The truth is that being the president of the NBPA is going to make Paul feel like he has two full-time jobs. He’s going to have to focus on practicing and playing for the Los Angeles Clippersand focus on keeping the best interests of the NBA players in mind during NBPA discussions. He’s going to have a lot on his plate, and there’s definitely going to be a period of time during the season where he’s going to feel overwhelmed. So while we respect him for trying to do what’s best for the NBA players as a whole, we fear that he might struggle during his first year as NBPA president.
That shouldn’t stop him from giving it a try, though. LeBron James thought about accepting the same position earlier this month before ultimately deciding against it because of the time commitments attached to it. And that’s definitely something that Paul considered, too. But it’s not like he has to serve as president forever. At the very least, he should give it a try for a year and see if he’s able to handle the workload associated with it. If he is, we think that Paul is the perfect guy to get things done as president of the NBPA. And if not—or if his role as president of the NBPA starts to affect his play on the basketball court—then he can resign. But it won’t hurt to try it out and see how he does. It’ll be a challenge, but we think Paul is up for it.
It’s girl for Kobe and Vanessa Bryant!!
The couple welcomed their third daughter into the world last week in Orange County, California. Kobe announced over the summer via social media that he and Vanessa were expecting …
Multiple mosques in California received identical copies of a letter telling them them that President-elect Donald Trump is “going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the jews” [sic]. The letters coincide with …
Singer Sevyn Streeter was scheduled to perform the national anthem prior to the Philadelphia 76ers home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday night. And during her performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Streeter planned …
LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers destroyed the New York Knicks on Wednesday night. The Cavaliers beat the Knicks 126-94 at Madison Square Garden to advance to 15-5 on the season, and they actually led …
Although they never made it down the aisle, the split between Mariah Carey and her ex-fiancé James Packer is getting nasty!!
Reportedly, the pop diva wants Packer to pay her $50 million for the expenses she … |
New York (CNN)The British Parliament has obtained a set of internal Facebook documents the social media giant has fought for months to stop from being made public, according to Facebook and a lawyer involved in a suit against the company.
The cache of documents, some of which may include correspondences between Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and company executives, stem from a lawsuit in California that outlines a litany of allegations against Facebook, including claims about the company’s alleged disregard for user privacy and the claim that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg devised a scheme that forced Facebook’s rivals, or potential rivals, out of business.
“We allege that Facebook itself is the biggest violator of data misuse in the history of the software industry,” Ted Kramer, the owner of Six4Three, the company suing Facebook, told CNN in an interview this summer.
Kramer told CNN he wants the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and attorneys general across the United States to investigate the allegations Six4Three is making.
A Facebook spokesperson told CNN on Saturday that Six4Three’s lawsuit is without merit.
The internal documents were obtained by Kramer’s lawyers through discovery, a legal process whereby one party to a lawsuit can obtain evidence from the other.
The San Mateo Superior Court in California ordered the documents remain under seal, meaning they should not be made public by Six4Three.
However, last Monday, Member of Parliament Damian Collins, the head of the British parliamentary committee that has been looking into Facebook, wrote to Six4Three’s Ted Kramer, asking for the documents.
Kramer was apparently in the United Kingdom for work and the letter was sent to the hotel in central London where Kramer was staying, court documents reviewed by CNN show.
Facebook contacted the court in California when it learned of Collins’ request. Tuesday, the judge in the case ordered that no unredacted copies of the relevant sealed documents should be released until further notice from the court, and that “failure to comply will be considered an act of contempt.”
Friday night, one of Six4Three’s lawyers, Stuart Gross, confirmed to CNN that the British committee had obtained materials from Six4Three that are under seal. It is not clear when the documents were obtained. Gross said that Six4Three had asked the committee to “refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook.”
A Facebook spokesperson said in a statement that the materials obtained by the committee are subject to a protective court order restricting their disclosure.
Saturday night, The Observer newspaper in London reported that the documents had been seized after Kramer was escorted to Parliament after a sergeant-at-arms appeared at Kramer’s hotel. Kramer was told he risked fines and possible imprisonment if he didn’t hand over the documents. CNN has not independently confirmed this.
The legal fight
Six4Three, which has been engaged in a yearslong legal battle with Facebook, were the makers of “Pinkini,” a controversial app that allowed users to find pictures of their friends wearing bikinis.
The app did not breach Facebook’s terms and conditions when it was released in 2013. But in 2015 Facebook changed its policies about how it shared information about its users with third-party app developers such as those behind Pinkini.
Prior to the change, Pinkini and other app developers were able to access information not only about their users, but also about their users’ Facebook friends, including users’ friends’ photos.
While a crude app that searched out bikini photos, and which shut down years ago, might not be noteworthy on its own, the fact that Six4Three has access to internal Facebook documents — currently under court seal — is.
The little-known case attracted the interest of major news organizations, including CNN and The Guardian newspaper, that filed a joint court motion in June for the documents to be made public.
The motion referenced the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which also deals with Facebook’s prior practice of allowing apps access to users’ friends’ data, and argues: “(G)iven the furor quite rightly surrounding the Cambridge Analytica controversy, the public has an immediate and overwhelming interest in understanding the facts surrounding Facebook’s data practices over time.”
“The Guardian and CNN express no opinion on the merits of the dispute,” the motion added.
That motion, and other motions to unseal all of the documents, were rejected by the court in October.
Pushback from Facebook
Facebook has consistently pushed back on Six4Three’s claims.
“Before their case was picked up by CNN, this app’s biggest accomplishment was being named ‘one of the creepiest apps ever,” Natalie Naugle, Facebook’s associate general counsel, litigation, said in a statement provided to CNN in October. “Its creators marketed the app as a way to look at pictures of women in bikinis. We made changes to the platform in 2014 and we do not regret that this restricted Six4Three’s access to information.”
Also in October, a Facebook spokesperson provided CNN with a link to a 2013 promotional video for Pinkini, saying the company was doing so “so your viewers have a clear picture of what Six4Three is trying to defend.” Facebook also said that the Pinkini app had fewer than 4,500 downloads.
Naugle, Facebook’s lawyer, told CNN in a statement last month that the company stood by its decision to ask for the documents to be kept under seal. “Motions to seal are entirely commonplace in litigation and are typically granted as a matter of course to respect the confidentiality of internal discussions and the trade secrets their disclosure may reveal. We believe Six4Three’s claims are entirely meritless,” she said.
Speaking to CNN over the summer, Kramer dismissed Facebook’s portrayal of Pinkini as creepy. He said the app was a way for his company to gather a user base and develop its “sophisticated visual pattern recognition algorithms.” The ultimate goal of the company, he said, was to “develop a business that you could look at photos and be able to purchase clothing from looking at an image.”
Kramer told CNN that he views his fight with Facebook as a “David versus Goliath” battle.
“I think it’s really important to understand that they have fought tooth and nail to prevent this evidence from becoming public which we believe the world should see. We believe everyone should see this evidence because they have the right to know the truth,” he said. |
Q:
combining the results of pettitte test in columns
my data look like this. i have the data on groundwater level for some wells over the time. I did pettitt test to detect the change point in that. now I want to combine the results of pettitt test for all each well in columns. how can I do that?
WLCODE year. pomrb
W04790 2018 14.99
W04824 2018 8.05
W04791 2018 10.85
W04299 2018 8.87
W04797 2018 4.3
W04039 2018 7.25
W04799 2018 5.58
W04300 2018 14.35
W04790 2017 14.99
W04824 2017 7.9
W04791 2017 9.6
W04295 2017 8.24
W04302 2017 2.6
W04300 2017 0.63
W32596 2016 5.69
W32607 2016 2.15
W32602 2016 10.9
W32605 2016 12.47
W32612 2016 10.65
W32635 2016 3.78
W32490 2016 9.95
W32491 2016 4.03
W32485 2016 5.6
W32505 2016 3.13
W31146 2016 3.9
W32537 2016 7.46
W32530 2016 2.41
W32540 2016 6.35
W32545 2016 5
W32549 2016 5.3
W32547 2016 5.26
W32554 2016 6.79
W32557 2016 7.97
W32572 2016 8.2
W32575 2016 9.03
W32577 2016 9.8
W04299 2016 8.87
W04797 2016 4.34
W04799 2016 5.6
W25598 2016 7.36
W25612 2016 8.8
W04809 2015 4.86
W04826 2015 3.73
W04792 2015 13.15
W04798 2015 9.54
W04034 2015 14.51
W04793 2015 9.25
W03834 2015 4.62
W04808 2015 12.42
W04043 2015 7.68
W04795 2015 12.34
W04037 2015 12.22
W04822 2015 10.72
W04821 2015 6.53
W04807 2015 7.95
W04295 2015 8.24
W04299 2015 8.87
W04797 2015 3.69
W25404 2014 3.93
W25438 2014 7.18
W25451 2014 5.56
W25476 2014 4.37
W25293 2014 5.06
W04809 2014 4.07
W04792 2014 10.45
W04798 2014 9.35
W04034 2014 14.51
W04809 2013 4.3
W04043 2013 6.8
W04795 2013 11.82
W04822 2013 11.7
W04821 2013 4.5
W04819 2013 4.26
W04042 2013 12.7
W04798 2012 11.5
W04034 2012 11.45
W03834 2012 5.59
W04808 2012 12.32
W04043 2012 9
W04795 2012 12.67
W04822 2012 11.8
W04821 2012 8.3
W04807 2012 4.35
W04806 2012 7.9
W04287 2012 9
W04288 2012 5.75
W03836 2012 4.13
W03835 2012 6.6
W04809 2011 4.04
W04822 2011 10.7
W04821 2011 7.26
W04807 2011 3.04
W04806 2011 5.51
W04287 2011 7.82
W04288 2011 4.15
W03836 2011 3.38
W04801 2011 4.4
W04298 2011 7.51
W04302 2011 2.89
W04300 2011 1.21
W04809 2010 4.6
W04792 2010 12.38
W04822 2010 11.57
W04821 2010 4.27
W04807 2010 5.47
W04806 2010 8.44
W04287 2010 8.14
W03833 2010 3.73
W04797 2009 3.6
W03834 2009 4.29
W04799 2009 4.8
W04281 2009 6.6
W04790 2009 10.05
W04824 2009 4.88
W04791 2009 8.52
W04295 2009 7.04
W04299 2009 6.57
W04300 2009 1.85
W04296 2009 5.66
W04816 2009 4.06
W04303 2009 11.97
W04797 2008 3.15
W04790 2008 7.77
W04824 2008 5.96
W04791 2008 7.92
W04295 2008 6.84
W04299 2008 6.94
W04300 2008 2.5
W04296 2008 5.6
W04816 2008 3.81
W04303 2008 13.5
W03914 2008 9.9
W04281 2008 5.9
W03833 2008 3.46
W04040 2008 2.18
W04283 2008 16.83
W04806 2008 7.2
W04287 2008 7.82
W04288 2008 4.64
W03836 2008 3.31
W04039 2008 7.12
W04797 2007 4.55
W03834 2007 4.21
W04799 2007 7.35
W04790 2007 12.65
W04824 2007 5.95
W04791 2007 8.9
W04295 2007 6.96
W04299 2007 7.64
W03914 2007 9.18
W04281 2007 8.25
W04286 2007 7.32
W04040 2007 2.53
W04283 2007 16.8
W04801 2007 2.1
W04298 2007 7.76
W04299 2006 6.24
W04300 2006 3.25
W04296 2006 4.65
W04816 2006 6.33
W04818 2006 3.4
W04303 2006 13.31
W03914 2006 8.15
W04281 2006 6.45
W04286 2006 5.7
W04040 2006 1.78
W04283 2006 16.45
W04801 2006 2.55
W04298 2006 6.51
W04302 2006 2.25
W03835 2006 8.4
W04293 2006 2.65
W04819 2006 5.24
W04042 2006 9.66
W04290 2006 9.58
W04789 2006 6.3
W04806 2006 7
W04287 2006 7.4
W04288 2006 4.35
W03836 2006 3.3
W04811 2006 4.68
W04043 2006 7.5
W04795 2006 11.92
W04037 2006 11.63
W04822 2006 9.6
W04821 2006 3.8
W04807 2006 4.33
W04821 2005 4.06
W04807 2005 8.35
W04809 2005 5.27
W04820 2005 5.95
W04792 2005 9.85
W04798 2005 9.75
W04034 2005 10.05
W03834 2005 3.34
W04038 2005 8.71
W04796 2004 7.5
W04808 2004 9.52
W04799 2004 5.2
W04790 2004 9.9
W04823 2004 5.28
W04824 2004 4.4
W04791 2004 8.84
W04295 2004 6.89
W04299 2004 8.87
W04797 2004 3.53
W04301 2004 9.9
W04296 2004 8.7
W04816 2004 4.95
W04818 2004 12.5
W04303 2004 15.47
W03914 2004 9.58
W04281 2004 6.52
W04286 2004 5.95
W04040 2004 3.33
W04283 2004 17.1
W04801 2004 6.28
W04298 2004 7.19
W04302 2004 3.66
W04300 2004 5.75
W04293 2004 7.58
W04042 2004 14.77
W04035 2004 8.68
W04290 2004 9.84
W04789 2004 8.8
W03833 2004 4.69
W04806 2004 9.45
W04287 2004 8.7
W04288 2004 5.13
W03836 2004 4.93
W04815 2004 10.75
W04811 2004 7.96
W04810 2004 8.52
W04037 2003 24.9
W04822 2003 12.37
W04821 2003 3.47
W04807 2003 8.51
W04809 2003 6.84
W04039 2002 8.4
W04799 2002 5.5
W04790 2002 10.36
W04823 2002 4.42
W04824 2002 8.51
W04791 2002 8.3
W04295 2002 6.89
W04299 2002 8.87
W04797 2002 3.4
W04301 2002 9.9
W04816 2002 7.47
W04818 2002 10.32
W04303 2002 15.25
W03914 2002 10.48
W04789 2002 8.72
W03833 2002 6.05
W04806 2002 9.93
W04287 2002 11.35
W04288 2002 5.65
W04815 2002 4.25
W04811 2002 5.54
W04810 2002 10.51
W04038 2002 7.21
W04796 2001 5.9
W04793 2001 9.6
W04039 2001 7.5
W04799 2001 4.7
W04790 2001 11.2
W04823 2001 8.06
W04791 2001 7.7
W04295 2001 7.07
W04299 2001 8.87
W04797 2001 1.65
W04301 2001 9.9
W04818 2001 5.35
W03914 2001 9.28
W04281 2001 7.1
W04286 2001 6.66
W04040 2001 2.63
W04283 2001 12.7
W04298 2001 7.41
W04302 2001 4.18
W04300 2001 2.85
W04819 2001 5.09
W04805 2001 9.7
W04042 2001 8.25
W04035 2001 9.98
W04290 2001 9.84
W04789 2001 7.15
W04806 2001 8.58
W04287 2001 9.45
W04288 2001 5.62
W04815 2001 2.55
W04811 2001 5.84
W04810 2001 9.96
W03835 2001 9.4
W04043 2001 9.9
W04795 2001 9.62
W04037 2001 15.88
W04822 2001 12.2
W04038 2001 6.81
W04796 2000 7.25
W04793 2000 9.52
W04039 2000 6.03
W04799 2000 4.66
W04041 2000 2.77
W04790 2000 7.77
W04823 2000 6.26
W04791 2000 7.9
W04295 2000 6.24
W04299 2000 8.36
W04797 2000 1.58
W04816 2000 4.28
W04818 2000 7.75
W04303 2000 14.95
W03914 2000 8.72
W04281 2000 7.88
W04040 2000 5.78
W04283 2000 15.72
W04805 2000 8.02
W03914 1999 10.81
W04281 1999 8.6
W04790 1999 13.19
W04823 1999 4.22
W04791 1999 8.19
W04295 1999 7.33
W04299 1999 8.88
W04797 1999 4.2
W04796 1999 8.3
W04038 1999 7.42
W04039 1999 7.8
W04799 1999 5.49
W04811 1999 6.08
W04810 1999 7.63
W03835 1999 8.87
W04819 1999 4.63
W04805 1999 8.39
W04035 1999 7.36
W04789 1999 6.91
W03833 1999 6.91
W04040 1999 2.85
W04298 1999 5.17
W04302 1999 3.58
W04043 1999 8.7
W04795 1999 12.91
W04822 1999 11.53
W04821 1999 3.63
W04807 1999 6.3
W04806 1999 8.88
W04288 1999 5.7
W04815 1999 2.45
W04299 1998 3.13
W04797 1998 2.59
W04810 1998 7.4
W04819 1998 3.81
W04805 1998 7.9
W04035 1998 9.07
W04789 1998 9.01
W03833 1998 5.72
W04799 1997 5.54
W04041 1997 4.57
W04811 1997 5.08
W04810 1997 6.16
W03835 1997 7.56
W04819 1997 4.85
W04805 1997 7.9
W04043 1997 9.22
W04795 1997 13.3
W04822 1997 11.98
W04821 1997 7.86
W04807 1997 5.6
W03832 1997 10.26
W04806 1997 8.57
W04288 1997 5.42
W04297 1997 6.91
W03914 1996 11.12
W04815 1996 6.42
W04797 1996 2.86
W04796 1996 7.42
W04038 1996 6.74
W04039 1996 7.05
W04799 1996 5.04
W04041 1996 8.77
W04811 1996 4.94
W04810 1996 6.6
W03835 1996 9.48
W04819 1996 5.13
W04805 1996 8.17
W04035 1996 9.21
W04789 1996 5.33
W04795 1996 12.81
CIT_pomrb <-read.csv("/Users/priyankaupreti/Desktop/CIT_pomrb.csv")
sp <- split(CIT_pomrb, CIT_pomrb$WLCODE)
results_pt <- lapply(sp, function(CIT_pomrb){
tryCatch(pettitt.test(CIT_pomrb[, 3]),
error = function(e) e)
})
I am getting the output like this-
$W08371
Pettitt's test for single change-point detection
data: CIT_pomrb[, 3]
U* = 37, p-value = 0.1224
alternative hypothesis: two.sided
sample estimates:
probable change point at time K
7
$W08372
Pettitt's test for single change-point detection
data: CIT_pomrb[, 3]
U* = 36, p-value = 0.142
alternative hypothesis: two.sided
sample estimates:
probable change point at time K
8
I want to produce a table using this output and export it to excel with WLCODE in each row and statistic, p-value, and probable change point at time K in columns. How can I do that? Please help.
A:
The output from pettitt.test() is a list, making results_pt a list of lists. While it's often fairly straight forward to extract elements from a nested list like this, using sapply() and the extract functions
library(trend)
# to see what name each element has
str(results_pt[[1]])
# List of 8
# $ nobs : int 1
# $ statistic : Named num 0
# ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "U*"
# $ estimate : Named int 1
# ..- attr(*, "names")= chr "probable change point at time K"
# $ p.value : num 2
# $ data.name : chr "CIT_pomrb[, 3]"
# $ alternative: chr "two.sided"
# $ data : num 0
# ..- attr(*, "nm")= chr "Uk"
# $ method : chr "Pettitt's test for single change-point detection"
# - attr(*, "class")= chr [1:2] "htest" "cptest"
ex1 <- sapply(results_pt, "[[", "p.value")
ex1[1:3]
# W03832 W03833 W03834
# 2.0000000 0.2907114 0.4738555
ex2 <- sapply(results_pt, "[", c("nobs", "p.value"))
ex2[,1:3]
# W03832 W03833 W03834
# nobs 1 6 5
# p.value 2 0.2907114 0.4738555
the lists pettitt.test() produces appear to be not quite consistent, making things a bit more difficult. In this case It might be better to modify the lapply() call you have to reformat the output
pt.l <- lapply(sp, function(x) {
pt <- pettitt.test(x[,3])
with(pt, data.frame(code=x[1,1], nobs, statistic, estimate, p.value)[1,])
})
pt.df <- do.call(rbind, pt.l)
rownames(pt.df) <- NULL
head(pt.df)
# code nobs statistic estimate p.value
# 1 W03832 1 0 1 2.0000000
# 2 W03833 6 9 3 0.2907114
# 3 W03834 5 6 2 0.4738555
# 4 W03835 6 6 2 0.8487457
# 5 W03836 5 4 4 1.0545848
# 6 W03914 9 14 7 0.4682726
This will give a few warnings, but they are inconsequential.
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Histopathologic evaluation of liver biopsy for cirrhosis.
In current medical practice, the clinical diagnosis of cirrhosis is rendered when a patient has suggestive imaging findings or features of portal hypertension (pHTN). Liver biopsy may be considered to assess potential underlying cause(s). Cirrhosis, however, is not the only etiology of pHTN; in fact, schistosomiasis remains a significant factor worldwide. pHTN results from obstruction of hepatic blood flow; it is classified clinically based on either the anatomic location of obstruction or hepatic venous pressure gradient measurements. The clinical categories carry clinicopathologic significances. Histopathologically, pHTN is manifest with either cirrhotic or noncirrhotic features. Noncirrhotic pHTN results from a heterogeneous group of disease processes, all of which result in vascular remodeling with variable parenchymal nodularity and fibrosis. This review summarizes liver biopsy findings of cirrhosis and possible etiologies and provides a stepwise approach for the histologic differential diagnosis of a liver biopsy done for "cirrhosis." |
/*
* vsp1.h -- R-Car VSP1 Driver
*
* Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Renesas Electronics Corporation
*
* Contact: Laurent Pinchart ([email protected])
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*/
#ifndef __VSP1_H__
#define __VSP1_H__
#include <linux/io.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <media/media-device.h>
#include <media/v4l2-device.h>
#include <media/v4l2-subdev.h>
#include "vsp1_regs.h"
struct clk;
struct device;
struct vsp1_drm;
struct vsp1_entity;
struct vsp1_platform_data;
struct vsp1_bru;
struct vsp1_hsit;
struct vsp1_lif;
struct vsp1_lut;
struct vsp1_rwpf;
struct vsp1_sru;
struct vsp1_uds;
#define VSP1_MAX_RPF 5
#define VSP1_MAX_UDS 3
#define VSP1_MAX_WPF 4
#define VSP1_HAS_LIF (1 << 0)
#define VSP1_HAS_LUT (1 << 1)
#define VSP1_HAS_SRU (1 << 2)
#define VSP1_HAS_BRU (1 << 3)
struct vsp1_device_info {
u32 version;
unsigned int gen;
unsigned int features;
unsigned int rpf_count;
unsigned int uds_count;
unsigned int wpf_count;
unsigned int num_bru_inputs;
bool uapi;
};
struct vsp1_device {
struct device *dev;
const struct vsp1_device_info *info;
void __iomem *mmio;
struct clk *clock;
struct mutex lock;
int ref_count;
struct vsp1_bru *bru;
struct vsp1_hsit *hsi;
struct vsp1_hsit *hst;
struct vsp1_lif *lif;
struct vsp1_lut *lut;
struct vsp1_rwpf *rpf[VSP1_MAX_RPF];
struct vsp1_sru *sru;
struct vsp1_uds *uds[VSP1_MAX_UDS];
struct vsp1_rwpf *wpf[VSP1_MAX_WPF];
struct list_head entities;
struct list_head videos;
struct v4l2_device v4l2_dev;
struct media_device media_dev;
struct media_entity_operations media_ops;
struct vsp1_drm *drm;
};
int vsp1_device_get(struct vsp1_device *vsp1);
void vsp1_device_put(struct vsp1_device *vsp1);
int vsp1_reset_wpf(struct vsp1_device *vsp1, unsigned int index);
static inline u32 vsp1_read(struct vsp1_device *vsp1, u32 reg)
{
return ioread32(vsp1->mmio + reg);
}
static inline void vsp1_write(struct vsp1_device *vsp1, u32 reg, u32 data)
{
iowrite32(data, vsp1->mmio + reg);
}
#endif /* __VSP1_H__ */
|
Sometimes it seems as if God is ignoring our prayers. Patience is a virtue when it comes to waiting on God's provision, but it's important to remember the solution doesn't always come on our terms. Whether it be physical, emotional, or spiritual fulfillment we're seeking, TCW contributors weigh in on how they have come to believe God knows best—even when the going gets tough.
The Uncanny Provision of God
He can move the entire created world to act on behalf of his children
Angela M. Shupe
Standing in line, I watch helplessly as a candy bar sails through the air, into the empty cart in front of me. The grinning, piggy-tailed four-year-old whose pitch sent it flying never once takes her eyes off me; her gaze is as steady as her determination. "I've got one just like her at home," the cashier chuckles, shaking her head. "You have a little one at home?" I ask, stretching out as far as my five-foot-two-and-a-half-inch frame will allow, in a failed effort to retrieve the lone candy bar. "No, just one like her. She'll be a handful for you." Not exactly encouraging words for a young mom, but as she began to describe her daughter, I realized just how much she did understand.
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Effects of a soy-based dietary supplement compared with low-dose hormone therapy on the urogenital system: a randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial.
This study aims to compare the effects of a soy-based dietary supplement, low-dose hormone therapy (HT), and placebo on the urogenital system in postmenopausal women. In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 60 healthy postmenopausal women aged 40 to 60 years (mean time since menopause, 4.1 y) were randomized into three groups: a soy dietary supplement group (90 mg of isoflavone), a low-dose HT group (1 mg of estradiol plus 0.5 mg of norethisterone), and a placebo group. Urinary, vaginal, and sexual complaints were evaluated using the urogenital subscale of the Menopause Rating Scale. Vaginal maturation value was calculated. Transvaginal sonography was performed to evaluate endometrial thickness. Genital bleeding pattern was assessed. Statistical analysis was performed using χ(2) test, Fisher's exact test, paired Student's t test, Kruskal-Wallis test, Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test, and analysis of variance. For intergroup comparisons, Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test (followed by Mann-Whitney U test) was used. Vaginal dryness improved significantly in the soy and HT groups (P = 0.04). Urinary and sexual symptoms did not change with treatment in the three groups. After 16 weeks of treatment, there was a significant increase in maturation value only in the HT group (P < 0.01). Vaginal pH decreased only in this group (P < 0.01). There were no statistically significant differences in endometrial thickness between the three groups, and the adverse effects evaluated were similar. This study shows that a soy-based dietary supplement used for 16 weeks fails to exert estrogenic action on the urogenital tract but improves vaginal dryness. |
A Griffin is a creature that has the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. They can only be born of magic, and can only be killed by magic. Any nonmagical weapon that strikes them- even steel- will shatter off their skin and feathers, given they are invincible to them.
Contents
One particular Griffin attacked Camelot during the reign of Uther Pendragon, who sent his son and a battalion of knights to attempt to kill it. They failed, but the griffin was later killed when Lancelot charged at it with a lance imbued with magic by Merlin. Prior to this attack, the griffin was believed to exist only in myth. Information on griffins was obtained by Camelot's court physician Gaius in the castle library (Lancelot). |
Lomefloxacin HCl
Uses
Lomefloxacin is used orally in adults for the treatment of mild to moderate lower respiratory tract infections (acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis) and uncomplicated or complicated urinary tract infections caused by susceptible organisms. The drug also is used orally for perioperative prophylaxis in patients undergoing transrectal prostate biopsy or transurethral surgical procedures.
Respiratory Tract Infections
Lomefloxacin is used for the treatment of mild to moderate acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis caused by susceptible Haemophilus influenzae or Moraxella catarrhalis. Because Streptococcus pneumoniae exhibits resistance to lomefloxacin in vitro and the safety and efficacy of the drug in lower respiratory tract infections caused by this organism have not been demonstrated, the drug should not be used for the empiric treatment of respiratory tract infections, including acute bacterial exacerbations of chronic bronchitis, when it is probable that S. pneumoniae is the causative organism.
If empiric therapy is to be undertaken and lomefloxacin therapy is considered, it should be guided by a Gram stain of the sputum; the drug should only be considered for such therapy if the Gram stain demonstrates an adequate quality of specimen (e.g., greater than 25 polymorphonuclear neutrophils per low-power field) and there is a predominance of gram-negative bacteria and not a predominance of gram-positive bacteria.
When lomefloxacin is used for the treatment of UTIs caused by Ps. aeruginosa, the possibility of associated bacteremia should be considered; the manufacturer warns that safety and efficacy of the drug in the treatment of pseudomonal bacteremia have not been established, and serum concentrations achieved with currently recommended oral dosages of lomefloxacin do not reliably exceed the MIC for this organism.
Perioperative Prophylaxis
When lomefloxacin is used perioperatively to reduce the incidence of UTIs in patients undergoing transrectal prostate biopsy, the drug usually is administered as a single dose 1-6 hours prior to the procedure in an attempt to reduce infections that might develop during the early (3-5 days) and late (3-4 weeks) postoperative period.
When lomefloxacin is used perioperatively to reduce the incidence of UTIs in patients undergoing transurethral surgical procedures, the drug usually is administered as a single dose 2-6 hours prior to the procedure in an attempt to reduce infections that might develop during the early postoperative period (3-5 days).
Efficacy of the drug in reducing the incidence of early postoperative infections other than UTIs has not been established. Lomefloxacin should not be used prophylactically in patients undergoing minor urologic procedures, such as simple cystoscopy or retrograde pyelography, for which prophylaxis is not indicated.
Gonorrhea and Associated Infections
Oral lomefloxacin is one of several single-dose alternative regimens recommended by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the treatment of uncomplicated cervical, urethral, or rectal gonorrhea in adults and adolescents.
The CDC states that, although the single-dose lomefloxacin regimen appears to be effective for the treatment of uncomplicated gonorrhea, clinical experience with the regimen is limited and it does not appear to offer any advantage over currently recommended single-dose regimens of ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, or levofloxacin. In addition, the fact that strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with decreased susceptibility to fluoroquinolones have been reported in several areas in the US (e.g., Hawaii, Ohio) and elsewhere (e.g., Southeast Asia, Australia, Africa, Great Britain) should be considered.
The CDC states that fluoroquinolones should not be used for the treatment of gonococcal infections acquired in Asia or the Pacific islands (including Hawaii) and may be inadvisable for infections acquired in other areas where N. gonorrhoeae with fluoroquinolone resistance have been reported (including California).
Cautions
Lomefloxacin generally is well tolerated, and adverse effects of the drug are similar to those reported with other fluoroquinolones; however, lomefloxacin appears to be associated with a higher frequency of photosensitivity reactions. Most adverse effects reported in clinical trials have been mild to moderate in severity and transient. Adverse effects have been reported in 2-12% of patients, and have resulted in discontinuance in 2-4% of patients. The most frequent adverse effects of the drug involve the skin, nervous system, and GI tract.
Dermatologic and Sensitivity Reactions
Lomefloxacin appears to be associated with a higher frequency of photosensitivity reactions than other currently available fluoroquinolones. Current evidence suggests that quinolone-induced photosensitivity may be either phototoxic or photoallergic in nature; however, the manufacturer states that all photosensitivity reactions reported to date with lomefloxacin have been phototoxic.
Photosensitivity reactions were reported in 2.3% of patients in clinical trials with the drug. Moderate to severe photosensitivity reactions (e.g., erythema, edema, blistering, bullous eruptions, rash, pruritus, dermatitis, eczematous lesions) have occurred in patients exposed to direct or indirect sunlight or to artificial (ultraviolet, UV) light (e.g., sunlamps) during or following therapy with lomefloxacin and can occur following a single dose of the drug.
These reactions also have occurred in patients exposed to shaded or diffuse light, including exposure through glass, and with or without the use of sunscreens. Recovery may be prolonged for several weeks in some cases. As with some other types of photosensitivity, exacerbation of the reaction on reexposure to sunlight or artificial (UV) light before complete recovery is possible. Rarely, reactions have recurred up to several weeks after discontinuing the drug.
Exposure to direct or indirect sunlight (even when using sunscreens) should be avoided while receiving lomefloxacin and for several days after treatment, and therapy with the drug should be discontinued immediately at the first sign of photosensitivity. Limited evidence indicates that the minimal dose of UVA light needed to result in erythema (MED-UVA) is inversely proportional to plasma concentrations of lomefloxacin. In healthy individuals receiving lomefloxacin (at steady-state), the MED-UVA values 16 and 12 hours postdose were substantially higher than values obtained 2 hours postdose.
These results indicate that increasing the time interval between administration of lomefloxacin and exposure to UVA light increases the amount of light energy needed for photoreaction. Pruritus (including genital itching), rash (e.g., erythematous), urticaria, eczema, skin exfoliation, diaphoresis, and other skin disorders have been reported in less than 1% of patients treated with lomefloxacin.
Occasionally, such dermatologic reactions may result in discontinuance of the drug. Although not reported in clinical studies with lomefloxacin, erythema nodosum, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, exfoliative dermatitis, toxic epidermal necrolysis, and hyperpigmentation have been reported with other quinolones. Serious and potentially fatal hypersensitivity (anaphylactoid or anaphylactic) reactions, sometimes occurring following the first dose, have been reported in patients receiving quinolones, including lomefloxacin.
Such reactions may be accompanied by cardiovascular collapse, loss of consciousness, tingling, pharyngeal or facial edema, dyspnea, urticaria, or pruritus and most frequently have been reported in patients without a history of hypersensitivity reactions. If an allergic reaction occurs during lomefloxacin therapy, the drug should be discontinued. Severe acute hypersensitivity reactions should be treated with appropriate therapy (e.g., epinephrine, corticosteroids, maintenance of an adequate airway, oxygen, IV fluids, antihistamines, maintenance of blood pressure) as indicated. Chills, allergic reaction, and facial edema have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin.
Nervous System Effects
Headache and dizziness are the most common adverse CNS effects of lomefloxacin, occurring in 3-9% and 2-7% of patients, respectively, in clinical trials, and occasionally they may result in discontinuance of the drug. Adverse nervous system effects that have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving the drug include coma, hyperkinesia, tremor, twitching, 1 vertigo, paresthesia, somnolence, insomnia, nervousness, confusion, anxiety, asthenia, fatigue, malaise, depression, agitation, depersonalization, paranoid reaction, abnormal thinking, impaired concentration, and paroniria.
Psychiatric disturbances, agitation, anxiety, and sleep disorders may be more common with lomefloxacin than with other quinolones. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, possible exacerbation of myasthenia gravis, hallucinations, manic reaction, ataxia, phobia, and dysphasia have been reported with other quinolones. Seizures have been reported in patients receiving lomefloxacin, but it has not been established whether they were directly related to the drug.
Seizures, increased intracranial pressure, toxic psychoses, and CNS stimulation, which may lead to tremor, restlessness, lightheadedness, confusion, and hallucinations, have been reported in patients receiving other quinolones.
Lomefloxacin has been associated with a possible increased risk of seizures compared with other quinolones; these may occur with a relative absence of predisposing factors. If any of these reactions occurs in patients receiving lomefloxacin, the drug should be discontinued and appropriate treatment initiated. Pending availability of additional information, lomefloxacin should be used with caution in patients with known or suspected CNS disorders.
GI Effects
Nausea, diarrhea, and abdominal pain are the most common adverse GI effects of lomefloxacin, occurring in 3.5-7%, 1-3%, and 1.2% of patients, respectively, in clinical trials, and these effects occasionally may require discontinuance of therapy with the drug. Dyspepsia, vomiting, flatulence, constipation, GI inflammation, dysphagia, GI bleeding, dry mouth, tongue discoloration, dysgeusia, anorexia, stomatitis, and increased appetite have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, painful oral mucosa and intestinal perforation have been reported with other quinolones.
Effects on GI Flora
Lomefloxacin exerts a selective effect on normal bowel flora. Pseudomembranous colitis has been reported with nearly all antibacterial agents, including lomefloxacin. However, while fluoroquinolones, including lomefloxacin, are relatively inactive against Clostridium difficile in vitro, pseudomembranous colitis has been reported relatively infrequently with the drugs. Broad-spectrum anti-infectives may alter normal GI flora and lead to overgrowth of Clostridium difficile and production of the toxin thought to result in pseudomembranous colitis.
The possibility that diarrhea developing in any lomefloxacin-treated patient may be secondary to C. difficile-associated pseudomembranous colitis should be considered. Mild cases of colitis may respond to discontinuance of lomefloxacin alone, but diagnosis and management of moderate to severe cases should include appropriate examination and bacteriologic studies as well as treatment with fluid, electrolyte, and protein supplementation as indicated. If colitis is moderate to severe or is not relieved by discontinuance of lomefloxacin, appropriate anti-infective therapy (e.g., metronidazole, vancomycin) should be administered. Isolation of the patient may be advisable.
Other causes of colitis also should be considered. Total bacterial counts of normal anaerobic fecal flora generally are unaffected by lomefloxacin use. Gram-positive aerobic oral flora also are unaffected by the drug or may increase (mainly streptococci).
Cardiovascular Effects
Hypotension, hypertension, edema, syncope, flushing, tachycardia, bradycardia, arrhythmia, extrasystoles, cyanosis, cardiac failure, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, cerebrovascular disorder, cardiomyopathy, and phlebitis have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, cardiopulmonary arrest and cerebral thrombosis have been reported with other quinolones.
Hepatic Effects
Increases in serum concentrations of ALT (SGPT), AST (SGOT), bilirubin, and alkaline phosphatase have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Increased serum concentrations of Gamma-glutamyltransferase (?-glutamyl transpeptidase, GGT, GGTP) have been reported rarely.Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, hepatic necrosis has been reported with other quinolones.
Hematologic Effects
Thrombocytopenia, thrombocythemia, purpura, lymphadenopathy, increased fibrinolysis, anemia, and monocytosis have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Prolongation of prothrombin time, leukocytosis, leukopenia, eosinophilia, decreased hemoglobin, hemolytic anemia, macrocytosis, and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) have also been reported. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, agranulocytosis has been reported with other quinolones.
Musculoskeletal Effects
Leg cramps, arthralgia, chest or back pain, nonspecific pain, and myalgia have been reported in less than 1% of patients treated with lomefloxacin. Achilles, shoulder, and hand tendon ruptures that required surgical repair or resulted in prolonged disability have been reported in patients receiving fluoroquinolones, including lomefloxacin. Lomefloxacin should be discontinued in any patient who experiences pain, inflammation, or rupture of a tendon. Tendon rupture can occur during or following therapy with lomefloxacin. Lomefloxacin, like most other fluoroquinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin, gatifloxacin, moxifloxacin, levofloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin), causes arthropathies in immature animals of various species. (See Cautions: Pediatric Precautions.)
Ocular Effects
Abnormal vision, conjunctivitis, photophobia, abnormal lacrimation, and ocular pain have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, diplopia, nystagmus, and photophobia have been reported with some other quinolones. Ophthalmologic abnormalities, including lenticular opacities, were not observed in lomefloxacin-treated animals in studies designed to evaluate such effects or in subchronic and chronic toxicity studies in rats, dogs, and monkeys.
Genitourinary and Renal Effects
Vaginitis, dysmenorrhea, leukorrhea, intermenstrual bleeding, perineal pain, and vaginal candidiasis have been reported in less than 1% of women and orchitis and epididymitis have been reported in less than 1% of men receiving lomefloxacin. Dysuria, hematuria, strangury, micturition disorder, albuminuria, and anuria have also been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin.
Abnormal urinary specific gravity and increased BUN have been reported rarely. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, candiduria, crystalluria, polyuria, interstitial nephritis, renal failure, renal calculi, and urinary retention have been reported with other quinolones. Crystalluria was not observed in lomefloxacin-treated animals in studies designed to evaluate such an effect or in subchronic and chronic toxicity studies in rats, dogs, and monkeys.
Respiratory Effects
Dyspnea, respiratory infection, rhinitis, pharyngitis, epistaxis, respiratory disorder, respiratory depression, bronchospasm, cough, increased sputum, and stridor have been reported in less than 1% of patients receiving lomefloxacin. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, pulmonary edema has been reported with other quinolones.
Decreased total serum protein or albumin concentration, decreased serum potassium or other abnormalities in serum electrolyte concentrations, and decreased blood glucose concentration have been reported rarely. Although not reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, acidosis, laryngeal edema, hiccups, and elevated serum triglyceride concentration, serum cholesterol concentration, serum potassium concentration, and blood glucose concentration have been reported with other quinolones.
Precautions and Contraindications
Lomefloxacin is contraindicated in patients with a history of hypersensitivity to the drug or to other quinolones. Lomefloxacin, like other quinolones, may cause serious, potentially fatal hypersensitivity reactions, occasionally following the initial dose. (See Cautions: Dermatologic and Sensitivity Reactions.) Patients should be advised of this possibility and instructed to discontinue the drug and contact their physician at the first sign of rash or any other sign of hypersensitivity.
Because lomefloxacin may cause moderate to severe photosensitivity reactions, patients should be advised to avoid to the maximum extent possible direct or indirect sunlight (including exposure through glass and exposure through sunscreens) and artificial (UV) light (e.g., sunlamps) during and for several days after therapy with the drug. (See Cautions: Dermatologic and Sensitivity Reactions.)
Patients also should be advised to discontinue lomefloxacin immediately and contact a physician at the first sign of a photosensitivity reaction such as sensation of skin burning, edema, blistering, rash, pruritus, or dermatitis.
Patients who have experienced a photosensitivity reaction should be advised to avoid reexposure to sunlight and artificial (UV) light until the reaction has resolved completely, since reactions have recurred rarely up to several weeks after discontinuing lomefloxacin therapy. Because lomefloxacin, like other quinolones, may cause increased intracranial pressure, toxic psychoses, and CNS stimulation that potentially could result in tremor, restlessness, lightheadedness, mental confusion, hallucinations, and/or seizures, pending availability of additional information the drug should be used with caution in patients with known or suspected CNS disorders, such as severe cerebral arteriosclerosis or seizure disorders, or other factors (e.g., concomitant drug therapy) that predispose to seizures. If any of these CNS reactions occur in patients receiving lomefloxacin, the drug should be discontinued and appropriate treatment initiated.
Patients should be advised that lomefloxacin may cause dizziness or lightheadedness, and their individual susceptibility to these adverse effects should be determined before operating a motor vehicle or machinery or engaging in activities requiring mental alertness and coordination.
Although crystalluria has not been reported in clinical trials with lomefloxacin, patients should be instructed to drink sufficient quantities of fluids to ensure proper hydration and adequate urinary output during therapy with the drug. Patients receiving lomefloxacin should be advised to discontinue the drug and inform their clinician if they experience pain, inflammation, or rupture of a tendon and to rest and refrain from exercise until a diagnosis of tendonitis or tendon rupture is excluded.
Doses and/or frequency of administration of lomefloxacin should be decreased in patients with severe renal impairment since plasma concentrations of the drug are higher and prolonged in such patients compared with patients with normal renal function. Serial determinations of plasma lomefloxacin concentration should be performed to determine whether any adjustment in the usual dosing interval is necessary.
As with other anti-infectives, use of lomefloxacin may result in overgrowth of nonsusceptible organisms. Resistant strains of some organisms may develop during therapy with the drug. If superinfection occurs, appropriate therapy should be instituted. Specialized references and/or the manufacturer’s labeling should be consulted for information on potential drug interactions and laboratory test interferences
Pediatric Precautions
Safety and efficacy of lomefloxacin in children younger than 18 years of age have not been established. Because lomefloxacin, like most other fluoroquinolones, causes arthropathy in immature animals of various species, some clinicians state that the drug should not be used in children younger than 16-18 years of age.
Other clinicians suggest that fluoroquinolones may be used cautiously in adolescents if skeletal growth is complete and suggest that the potential benefits of therapy with these drugs may outweigh the possible risks in certain children 9-18 years of age with serious infections (e.g., cystic fibrosis patients) when the causative organism is resistant to other available anti-infectives.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that use of fluoroquinolones (e.g., ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, lomefloxacin, norfloxacin, ofloxacin, sparfloxacin, trovafloxacin) in children younger than 18 years of age may be justified in special circumstances; however, the drugs should be used only after careful assessment of the risks and benefits for the individual patient and after these benefits and risks have been explained to the parents or caregivers. The AAP states that fluoroquinolones may be useful when no other oral agent is available (to avoid use of a parenteral agent) or when the pediatric patient has an infection caused by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria, such as certain strains of Pseudomonas, or Mycobacterium.
Therefore, possible uses of fluoroquinolones in pediatric patients include the treatment of urinary tract infections caused by P. aeruginosa or other multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria, chronic suppurative otitis media or malignant otitis externa, chronic osteomyelitis, exacerbation of cystic fibrosis, mycobacterial infection, or other gram-negative bacterial infections in immunocompromised patients when prolonged oral therapy is desired. Arthropathy, involving multiple diarthrodial joints, and lameness were observed in immature dogs administered lomefloxacin at oral dosages as low as 4.5 mg/kg for 7-8 days (0.3 times the recommended human adult dosage based on mg/m2 or 0.6 times the recommended human adult dosage based on mg/kg).
Arthropathy and lameness also were observed in rats receiving oral dosages of the drug at 5.4 times the recommended human adult dosage (based on mg/m2; 34 times the recommended human adult dosage based on mg/kg). Histopathologic examination of the weight-bearing joints in these animals revealed permanent erosions of the cartilage. In immature rats, no changes were observed in the joints at dosages up to 91 mg/kg for 7 days (2 times the recommended human dosage based on mg/m2; 11 times the recommended human dosage based on mg/kg).
Geriatric Precautions
Lomefloxacin generally is well tolerated in geriatric patients. When the total number of patients studied in clinical trials of lomefloxacin is considered, 25% were 65 years of age or older and 9% were 75 years of age or older.
Although no overall differences in efficacy or safety were observed between geriatric and younger patients and other clinical experience has not revealed evidence of age-related differences, the possibility that some older patients may exhibit increased sensitivity to the drug cannot be ruled out.
Lomefloxacin is substantially eliminated by the kidney and the risk of toxic reactions to the drug may be greater in patients with impaired renal function. Because geriatric patients are more likely to have decreased renal function, lomefloxacin dosage should be selected carefully and it may be useful to monitor renal function in these patients. Dosage of lomefloxacin does not need to be modified in geriatric patients with creatinine clearances of at least 40 mL/minute per 1.73 m.
Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity
The CHO/HGPRT in vitro mutagenicity assay was weakly positive at lomefloxacin concentrations of 226 g/mL and higher and negative at concentrations lower than 226 g/mL. Lomefloxacin was not mutagenic in 2 other in vitro mutagenicity assays (tests for chromosomal aberrations in Chinese hamster ovary cells or human lymphocytes) and in 2 in vivo mouse micronucleus mutagenicity tests. In a study in hairless (Skh-1) mice exposed to UVA light for 3.5 hours 5 times every 2 weeks for up to 52 weeks while concomitantly receiving lomefloxacin or other quinolones, skin tumors developed in a substantial proportion of the treated mice. The lomefloxacin dosages used in this study caused a phototoxic response.
The time to development of skin tumors was 16 weeks in mice treated with UVA light and lomefloxacin concomitantly compared with 28-52 weeks when other quinolones were used concomitantly with such light.
Almost all (92%) of the mice treated concomitantly with UVA light and lomefloxacin developed well-differentiated squamous cell carcinomas of the skin, which were nonmetastatic and endophytic in character; two-thirds of these carcinomas contained large central keratinous masses and were thought to arise from the vestigial hair follicles in the hairless animals. In this model, mice treated with lomefloxacin alone did not develop skin or systemic tumors. There are no data available from similar models using pigmented and/or fully haired mice. The clinical importance of these findings to humans is not known.
Pregnancy, Fertitlity and Lactation
There are no adequate and well-controlled studies to date using lomefloxacin in pregnant women.
Since lomefloxacin, like most other fluoroquinolones, causes arthropathy in immature animals, the drug should be used during pregnancy only when the potential benefits justify the possible risks to the fetus. Reproduction studies in rats using lomefloxacin dosages up to 34 times the recommended human dosage (on a mg/kg basis; 8 times the recommended human dosage based on a mg/m2 basis) have not revealed harm to the fetus.
An increased incidence of fetal loss was observed in monkeys receiving 6-12 times the recommended human lomefloxacin dosage (on a mg/kg basis; approximately 3-8 times the recommended human dosage on a mg/m2 basis), but no teratogenicity was observed in rats and monkeys receiving up to 16 times the recommended human dosage. Studies in rabbits showed maternal toxicity and associated fetotoxicity, decreased placental weight, and variations of the coccygeal vertebrae at 2 times the recommended human lomefloxacin dosage (on a mg/m2 basis).
Reproduction studies in male and female rats using oral lomefloxacin dosages up to 34 times the recommended human dosage (on a mg/kg basis; 8 times the recommended human dosage on a mg/m2 basis) have not revealed evidence of impaired fertility. It is not known whether lomefloxacin is distributed into human milk, although it is known that some fluoroquinolones are distributed into human milk and that lomefloxacin is distributed into milk in lactating rats. Because of the potential for serious adverse reactions to lomefloxacin in nursing infants, a decision should be made whether to discontinue nursing or the drug, taking into account the importance of the drug to the woman.
Description
Lomefloxacin is a fluoroquinolone anti-infective agent. Like other commercially available fluoroquinolones, lomefloxacin contains a fluorine at the C-6 position of the quinolone nucleus; however, like sparfloxacin, lomefloxacin contains a second fluorine group.
For additional information on this drug until a more detailed monograph is developed and published, the manufacturer’s labeling should be consulted. It is essential that the labeling be consulted for information on the usual cautions, precautions, and contraindications concerning potential drug interactions and/or laboratory test interferences and for information on acute toxicity. |
‘If you’ve stuck something in a place where you shouldn’t have stuck something [then you should pay],’ says former PM adviser
People who injure themselves while drunk or “stick something where it does not belong” should pay for their hospital treatment, says the policy consultant behind the $6 GP co-payment plan.
Terry Barnes, a former health adviser to prime minister Tony Abbott, faced the Senate select committee into the government’s commission of audit on Tuesday as part of its examination of his health reform proposals.
He told senators that he had not modelled the potential cost to the health system of his $6 GP co-payment push but suggested that people should also pay to use the emergency department of a hospital on a “discretionary” basis.
“If someone presents to the emergency department who has injured themselves in a drunken incident for instance, self inflicted, should the taxpayer be expected to pay the full cost of cleaning up the mess?” he said.
When asked to expand on the idea he said smokers and people who are overweight should not have to pay to use hospitals as they fall within the health risks of the general population.
“If you present to an emergency department, if you’ve stuck something in a place where you shouldn’t have stuck something [then you should pay],” he said.
When asked if a toddler who has stuck a biro tip into themselves fell into that category he replied: “I would give them the benefit of the doubt but if you presented with a milk bottle in a place it shouldn’t be as a grown adult I think that’s something I don’t really feel our emergency department should deal with but they do.”
Barnes, who is principal of Cormorant Policy Advice, admitted he had not factored potential extra pressures on hospitals into his push for people to pay $6 to visit a doctor and did not know if the costs could outweigh the benefits.
“My brief was not to focus on those bigger pictures; it was simply to model or update the 1991 measure as I’ve pointed out elsewhere when I was initially responding to criticisms about this. Imposing a similar or matching price signal on GP services in emergency departments is one way of managing those pressures,” he said.
Barnes said it was not an unreasonable thing to get people questioning if they really needed to go to the doctor and health costs per person were increasing.
“It’s interesting and I’m not going to claim the whole country behind me in terms of my assumptions,” he said.
“But certainly in terms of reaction to this proposal, the thing that surprised me is that people who are less well off, people who do have chronic illnesses, people with small children, valued those services very highly and are prepared to either consider it or pay it,” he said.
Stephen Duckett, from the Grattan Institute, told senators the co-payment idea was counter to previous government policy which was to encourage people to go to the doctor before they got too sick and ended up costing the health system more.
“We also know people on lower incomes have higher instances of illness so it would be a double whammy in that sense,” he said.
The hearing also heard from welfare expert Ben Phillips, of the national centre for social and economic modelling at the University of Canberra.
He said Australia had a “pretty well targeted” system although he would be concerned if certain areas of welfare were reduced, singling out Newstart and the youth allowance.
But he said the cost of living was much less of an issue than people thought.
“For this one the perception is very strong; in this instance it’s not so much about the reality but the expectations,” he said. “We are doing a lot better but you see your neighbours doing better and you want more.”
The age pension, in particular, took up a huge part of the welfare budget and could be reviewed.
“The general statement I’d make about welfare payments in Australia is they don’t tend to be increasing as share of GDP, as a share of expenditure or as a share of revenue,” he said.
“So at this point in time there is not a suggestion for a reduction.”
He said there were “small elements” of so-called middle-class welfare but most welfare went to low-income earners who needed it.
“Certainly worthwhile having an independent group looking into the state of finances of the country; I’d be interested to see what the recommendations are in my area of expertise,” Phillips said.
“I would be looking for those on the low-income spectrum to be beneficiaries [of the commission of audit]. I’d be concerned if there was reduction in their payments. I’d be interested to see what changes there will be in regard to pension.”
Australian Council of Social Service chief executive Cassandra Goldie told the hearing a representative from the community sector should have been on the board of the commission of audit.
“We’re concerned about the process. It does appear it will be essentially behind closed doors leading into a budget,” she said.
She likened it to when the Gillard government moved 80,000 single mothers on to the Newstart allowance without warning.
“We’ve seen the savage socio-economic implications of that because there was no process to engage with the government properly,” she said. |
Italy has said “those responsible will pay” if reports that the daughter of the North Korea’s former ambassador to Rome was forcibly taken back to Pyongyang after her father went into hiding are correct.
Jo Song-gil and his wife fled the embassy in Rome without notice in early November, weeks before his mandate was due to end, raising suspicion of a defection of a senior North Korean official.
Thae Yong-ho, a former North Korean diplomat who defected to South Korea while serving as deputy ambassador to London in 2016, said the couple’s daughter – believed to have been attending high school in Rome – was repatriated before she made an attempt to reunite with her parents.
Thae told the South Korean news agency Yonhap: “I do not know for sure how many children Jo had, but the one who stayed in Italy has been sent back to North Korea. Jo is currently with his wife.”
In January, Thae called for Seoul’s help in bringing Jo to South Korea.
He added: “I can no longer publicly tell Jo to come to South Korea. The amount of punishment that is imposed to those whose family members fled to South Korea is incomparable to those whose family fled to other countries.”
Politicians with Italy’s Five Star Movement have called on their coalition partner, Matteo Salvini, the interior minister and leader of the League, to clarify the report.
Manlio Di Stefano, deputy foreign affairs minister, said that if the report was confirmed the case would have been of “unprecedented severity”.
“Those responsible will pay,” he added.
Maria Edera Spadoni, the vice-president of the lower house of parliament, said: “North Korean intelligence seized the daughter of the North Korean ambassador Jo Song-gil on Italian soil? This is a serious episode. Matteo Salvini must report to parliament as soon as possible.”
In January, South Korea’s JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reported that Jo had applied for asylum to an unidentified western country.
At the time, the Italian press reported that Italy had not received an asylum request from a North Korean official.
Jo, 48, had been acting ambassador in Rome since October 2017 after Italy expelled the previous ambassador, Mun Jong-nam, in protest at a nuclear test by North Korea in violation of UN resolutions.
North Korean diplomats serving overseas are often required to leave behind several family members – typically children – to discourage defections. However, Jo came to Rome in May 2015 with his wife and children, suggesting he may be from a privileged family.
The alleged repatriation comes as the US president, Donald Trump, and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, prepare for their second summit, which is expected to be held in Vietnam at the end of February. |
Wooden furniture, for example pine frame beds, is now often supplied in a flat pack for assembly at home.
Certain sections such as for example the bed ends, top (headrest) and bottom are often assembled in the factory by gluing and by the use of dowels or mortise and tenon etc. These can be neatly assembled without any unsightly fixing members being visible. |
Le 28 juil. 2012 à 21:40, Diego a écrit :
> Hi,
>> I've been using IPython 0.12 and the Qt Console with no problems
> whatsoever for a while.
>> Everything was fine until today, when I opened the IPython Qt Console
> and -although it opened up- it was frozen. No cursor and no user
> interaction, except for the menus, which are fully responsive. I also
> get a dialog saying that the kernel heartbeat has been inactive for 3
> seconds and asking whether I want to restart the kernel. It does not
> matter what I choose on that dialog, the console remains the same.
>> Regular IPython is working as usual.
>> My platform is Linux Mint Debian Edition 64 bits and I'm attaching a
> screenshot of the frozen Qt Console.
>> Any hints?
Hi,
Do you have any outputs on the terminal you used to launch the qtconsole ?
If I remember correctly there was a bug in heartbeat for 0.12 (but I think it was only in parallel) which should be fixed in 0.12.1
Can you upgrade ?
--
Matthias
>> Thanks in advance,
> Diego
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52 S.W.3d 169 (2001)
Michael G. BROWN, M.D., Petitioner,
v.
Donn C. FULLENWEIDER, individually, and on behalf of J.D. "Bucky" Allshouse, J. Michael Hill, and Joseph Constantino, Respondents.
No. 00-0137.
Supreme Court of Texas.
March 29, 2001.
Rehearing Overruled September 20, 2001.
Richard N. Countiss, Law Office of Richard N. Countiss, George R. Neely, Houston, for petitioner.
Billy Shepherd, Cruse Scott Henderson & Allen, Thomas G. Bousquet, Bousquet & Jackson, John D. Vogel, Cruse Scott Henderson & Allen, Linda A. Hinds, Fullenweider & Wardell, Houston, for respondents.
PER CURIAM.
Former section 3.70(a) of the Family Code provided in pertinent part that "[a] court order or the portion of a decree of divorce or annulment providing for a division of property ... may be enforced by *170 the filing of a motion as provided by this subchapter in the court that rendered the decree by any party affected by the order or decree."[1] The question in this case is whether a party's attorney may file a motion under this provision to collect fees from his own client. The court of appeals answered in the affirmative.[2] We disagree, reverse the court of appeals' judgment, and dismiss the action as having been outside the trial court's jurisdiction.
Attorney Donn Fullenweider represented Michael G. Brown in his divorce action. The December 1994 final consent decree ordered the parties to divide their assets and liabilities in accordance with their agreement incident to divorce and to "do all necessary acts to carry out the provisions of the agreement." The agreement provided that Brown was to pay his own attorney fees. The decree itself made no mention of attorney fees.
In February 1996, Fullenweider filed a motion in the divorce case under what was then section 3.70 of the Family Code,[3] asking the court to enforce the decree by granting him judgment against Brown for unpaid fees, or to "clarify" the decree if it was insufficiently specific for enforcement. He also asserted claims based on sworn account, contract, and quantum meruit. Brown moved to dismiss the motion, arguing that Fullenweider was not a "party affected" by a divorce decree under section 3.70, and thus he had no standing to proceed under that statute and the court lacked jurisdiction over his motion. The court denied Brown's motion and at Fullweider's request severed the motion from the divorce case and ordered that it be docketed as a separate proceeding in the same court. Brown then counterclaimed for malpractice. The court granted Fullenweider summary judgment on both his claims and Brown's in November 1997.
Brown appealed, arguing that the trial court did not have jurisdiction over Fullenweider's motion and therefore could not sever it into a separate proceeding.[4] The court of appeals, by a divided vote, rejected Brown's argument, holding that the divorce decree awarded Fullenweider attorney fees against his client and that Fullenweider was a "party affected" by the decree and entitled to move for enforcement and clarification under section 3.70.[5] Brown petitioned this Court for review.
We disagree with the court of appeals for two reasons. First, the divorce decree did not award Fullenweider attorney fees against Brown, his own client; it merely allocated responsibility for any such fees between Brown and his former wife as part of the division of their marital estate. The agreement did the same for all the parties' obligations. By providing that Brown was responsible for his vehicle lease obligation the decree made no award that the leasing company could enforce by motion under section 3.70. Fullenweider was in no different position.
Second, the obvious purpose of former sections 3.70-.77 of the Family Code, *171 currently sections 9.001-.014, was to provide an expeditious procedure for enforcing and clarifying property divisions in divorce decrees. For example, section 3.70(c) provided that a court retained "the power to enforce the property division" in a divorce decree for two years from certain specified dates.[6] Section 3.70(d) stated that a motion could not be made to enforce property that was not divided in the decree.[7] Section 3.70(e) denied a party the right to trial by jury.[8] Section 3.71 was entitled "Enforcement of Division of Property" and dealt only with that subject.[9] Section 3.72 provided for clarification of "the original form of the division of property".[10] We need not describe every other provision related to section 3.70 proceedings. Suffice it to say that none contemplates that such proceedings would involve any issues other than those related to the division of a marital estate. An attorney's claim against his client for fees is not such an issue. It is wholly implausible that the Legislature intended to deny an attorney and client the right to trial by jury in a dispute over fees related to a divorce proceeding.
Fullenweider's motion was filed long after the trial court's plenary jurisdiction over the Brown divorce case had terminated, and jurisdiction was not properly invoked under section 3.70. Thus, the trial court had no power to sever the motion into a separate proceeding in the same court, and no jurisdiction to render judgment in that proceeding. Accordingly, without hearing oral argument,[11] the Court reverses the judgment of the court of appeals, vacates the judgment of the trial court, and dismisses the action for want of jurisdiction.
O'NEILL, J., did not participate in the decision.
NOTES
[1] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2350) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.001(a), Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 37). This action was unaffected by 1997 statutory changes. See Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 4, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 43 (stating that the recodification of certain provisions of the Family Code, including section 3.70, did not affect proceedings pending on April 17, 1997, the effective date of the Act, and that such proceedings were to be governed by the law in effect at the time they were commenced).
[2] 7 S.W.3d 333 (Tex.App.-Beaumont 1999).
[3] Supra note 1.
[4] 7 S.W.3d at 334.
[5] Id. at 335-336.
[6] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2350) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.002 .003, Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 37).
[7] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2350) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.004, Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 37).
[8] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2351) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.005, Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 37).
[9] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2351) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.006-.007, Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 37-38).
[10] Act of May 30, 1983, 68th Leg., R.S., ch. 424, § 2, 1983 Tex.Gen.Laws 2346, 2351) (recodified as Tex.Fam.Code § 9.008, Act of April 3, 1997, 75th Leg., R.S., ch. 7, § 1, 1997 Tex.Gen.Laws 8, 38).
[11] Tex.R.App.P. 59.1.
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Association of time to recurrence with thymidylate synthase and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase mRNA expression in stage II and III colorectal cancer.
Patients with International Union Against Cancer (UICC) stage IIb and III colon cancer and stage II and III rectal cancer may receive adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). High levels of thymidylate synthase (TS) and dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD) have been associated with resistance to 5-FU in advanced colorectal cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of TS and DPD mRNA levels with recurrence-free survival in patients with colorectal cancer who are receiving adjuvant 5-FU-based chemotherapy. TS and DPD mRNA quantitation was retrospectively performed in primary colorectal cancer specimens from patients receiving adjuvant 5-FU using a reverse transcription- polymerase chain reaction technique. The median TS mRNA level in patients with a recurrence (n = 142) was 0.68, and in patients without a recurrence (n = 206) the median level was 0.80 (P < 0.01). Patients with a recurrence who had a low TS level (TS < or = 0.9; n = 102) had a median recurrence-free survival of 18 months (range 3.0 to 54 months), and those with a high TS level (TS > 0.9; n = 40) had a median recurrence-free survival of 11 months (range 1.7 to 53 months; P = 0.0024). There was no difference in the median recurrence-free survival of patients with low and high DPD mRNA levels. The TS mRNA level may be a useful marker to predict the time to recurrence in patients with colorectal cancer who are receiving adjuvant 5-FU treatment. |
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Treatment of idiopathic inflammatory myositis associated interstitial lung disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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Disposition of morphine in the rat isolated perfused kidney: concentration ranging studies.
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"So I went out with a drug dealer on..." "Jared S., make a better choice!" "Saturday night." " It was incredible." " Oh, that is so awesome." "Okay, Alfred G., three, two..." "Not today, my friend." "Was he, like, a mobster or something?" "No, he, like, sells Vicodin on the low, full time." "Stop." "Down." "Now." "If you tell me he has a goatee," "I'm gonna be so jealous." "He was really tender." "Xavier L., is that your... thank you for making a good choice, Xavier L." "But not too tender, if you know what I mean." "[chuckles]" "Did you do the deed?" "[chuckles]" "Okay, Room 301, we're done down here." "We do not make gestures like that." "These are bad kids." "The worst." "[rock music]" "♪ Tear it down ♪" "♪ Tear it down ♪ [rock music]" "♪ Cake, cake, cake ♪" "♪ Haters gonna hate, bakers gonna bake ♪" "♪ Cake in the morning ♪" "What's up with this cake?" "My class made it for Hunger Action Month." "Then shouldn't they be eating it?" "No." "I took it away from them, so they could know the true meaning of hunger." "Well, I've decided to treat myself ever since my breakup with Jacob." "How are you doing?" "Not that well." "Hasn't it been, like, a year?" "14 months." "Ladies, I'm so glad you're all here for the meeting." " What meeting?" "." " The anti-bullying committee meeting." "Ms. Feldman?" "Ms. Feldman, are you here for the meeting?" "The meeting?" "Yes." "Yes, I am." "Were you just sleeping?" "No." "No, I was not." "Okay." "I just got off the phone with Mrs. Lark from district." "A while back, they mandated that every school launch an anti-bullying program." "I need this committee to come up with ways to prevent bullying here at Fillmore." "But we don't have a bullying problem." "I know, but someone reported that we didn't have a program, and now we have to have one." " That was me." " Why would you do that?" "But then how are we going to know who the popular kids are?" " What?" " I thought I was excused from all extracurricular activities due to emotional stress." "That was never a thing." "This is going to make a real difference." "I know in high school when Lauren Zellnek convinced everyone that I was gay and put fetal pigs in my locker," "I could have used a program like this." "Anyway, I need you all to come up with different ways to prevent bullying at Fillmore." " Are you all in?" " Yes." "Because with cutbacks looming, it's volunteering for a program like this that would keep you from getting fired." " I'm in." " Me, too." " Yeah, I'll do it." " Yeah, yeah." " Good." " Yay." "Okay, everyone." "Quiet coyote." "Thank you." "Now today I want to talk to you guys about bullies." "Did you know that the word "bully"" "originally meant "sweetheart"?" "Makes a lot of sense when you think about it." "Because sometimes a bully starts out as a sweetheart." "That's how they get you." "A bully is someone who generally disregards your feelings, ignores your texts, and changes the password on your joint Netflix account" " two days after you break up." " Uh, Ms. Watson..." "A bully can also take you to Nashville one weekend on his frequent flier miles, treat you to bottomless mimosas, and then on Monday tell you it's over." "What's a mimosa?" "It's something women in their 20s order so they can feel better about drinking in the morning." "I thought we were going to read Cinderella today." "No." "No, I'm not going to be reading you any fairy tales because they're lies." "The truth is, kids, sometimes Prince Charming wants to date other people, you know?" "And just because you leave a shoe in his apartment doesn't mean you can show up whenever you want." "Nobody lives happily ever after." "Trust me." "My cousin Connie's 39." "She just got divorced, and now she works part-time at a Chicos." " Chicos?" " Yeah, Chicos." "It's Spanish for big shoulders." "[rock music]" "Ms. Snap, I drew you a picture of us." "Thank you so much." "Is that supposed to be me?" "Yeah." "Where are my cheekbones?" " Uh..." " Couple of tips." "We have the same size wrists, so why do you draw me with the bigger body?" "I'm not Miley Cyrus." "I don't have horse teeth." " Okay." " This is really bad." "It's disgusting." "Let's just consider this a rough draft." "Debbie?" "Love that chambray dress." "What if we had them write down what they did wrong on signs and then they could wear them around their necks like that dog-shaming website?" "They're not dogs." "Sometimes bullying can be a good thing." "In high school, my best friend Randy got called the f-word every day and now he's head pastor of his church." "Lauren Zellnek tortured me in high school." "It got so bad that I got hemorrhoids and I had to sit on an innertube in all of my classes." "You must have felt like you were at the pool all day." "Sorry." "The hot dad dropped his son off late and I had to flirt with him." "He is so hot." " Did you bring any ideas?" " Yes, I did." "A compliments board is a great idea." "I think we should christen it by giving each other compliments." "Um, I'll start." "Chelsea, I think your hair looks really nice today." "I look like a piece of [bleep]." "So should I not write that down or..." "Caroline, um..." "I really like how you handled your breakup." "That's not a compliment." "For someone who doesn't have a lot going on for them, you have a lot of confidence." "Thank you so much." "Raise your hand if you've ever bullied someone." "Okay, guys, bullying is not just pushing, beating, and shoving." "We can also hurt each other with our words." "So why don't we go ahead and shout out some examples of verbal bullying?" "Marty has a butt chin." "Yes." "That is bullying." "Any other examples?" "Denise doesn't know who her dad is." "Mm, this is an interesting example." "It sounds like bullying, but is also a factual statement." "So is it bullying?" "I don't know the answer there." "Ms. Feldman's gonna be honest with you guys." "I don't know." "This is one of those times where we're all on the same page learning together, and it's really fun." "Maggie has the same haircut as my Aunt Linda." "My mom made me get this haircut." "Alison's mom is fat." "Chuck's mom is fat." "Brendan's mom is fat." "Alison, Chuck, and Brendan's dads like it like that." "A lot of guys do." "Did someone already do Maggie's haircut?" "You guys, my mom made me go to her hairdresser, Doris." "And Doris only knows one haircut." "I don't think Maggie's haircut is a problem, you guys." "I think it's Doris." "But if we all agree that Maggie's haircut is bad, then is that bullying?" "Yeah." "I think it is." "It's 'cause people are very dark inside." "People are very sad and dark inside." "Okay, a little too much?" "We'll save that for after lunch." "[kids sobbing]" "Oh, my God." "What happened?" "This is horrible. _" "I didn't want this haircut." "Oh, Maggie, honey, ignore the board." "You're beautiful." "Where did they come up with these insults?" "This is the opposite of compliments." "This is bullying." "Which is progress because this morning they didn't even know you could bully with words?" "Unbelievable." "[rock music]" "The compliments board was a disaster." "Now does anyone have any ideas that are actually good?" "We really need an anti-bullying club." "What if we implement a buddy system where you always have one friend you can really count on?" "What if they don't even have one friend?" "What if we made sure kids only said nice things?" "We can't restrict their free speech." "I really think we need an anti-bullying club." "Now that is a good idea." " I love that." " Yeah." "Yeah." "I just suggested that." "What would they do in the club?" "It would be a safe place for them to talk about their feelings." "They could make potato batteries." "They could check their email." "It could just be a safe place for them to talk about their feelings." "That's it." "Perfect." "Did I not just say that?" "We'd need someone to be in charge." "I'm happy to offer my classroom." "I used to cut myself." "This is my pain." "I'm gonna run this club." "I am." "This is a safe place." "I want you all to feel that you can come here and talk about issues and troubles you're having here at school, okay?" "Does anyone want to share anything?" "Brad says I smell like Funyons." "People love Funyons." "They're fun." "Listen, in high school, Lauren Zellnek changed my name from Deb Adler to Dumb Fatter, which made me develop an eating disorder." "Has anyone had any experiences like that?" "No?" "Really?" "No one's ever sprayed you in the face with Windex?" "No one's ever started a rumor that you were gay because you won tickets to The Rosie O'Donnell Show?" "Did Lauren Zellnek make you take a shot from a diva cup?" "Jesus Christ." "Look, I really want to know how brutal it is for you guys." "People make fun of my haircut." "Oh, if that's the worst thing that's happened to you, you're dead when you get into the real world." "It's not that bad here at Fillmore." "Ugh." "You guys, you're giving me nothing to work with." "It's gonna get bad." "When you get to sixth grade, get boobs, cramps, whatever it is guys get, everything's gonna change." "When that happens, remember that you have a voice." "And think of our group's name:" "Stop Teasing And Bullying." "STAB." "All:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "Ms. Snap, I drew you another picture." "Why do you insist on making me ugly?" " What?" " I didn't pay $60 a week for a juice cleanse to have my thigh gap go unnoticed." "I'm on to you." "I'm not gonna let you bring me down, Debbie." "This is a prime example of institutional bullying." "Gender specific bathrooms force students to prematurely classify themselves, when really gender's on a spectrum." "I can relate." "One time I dreamt I had a dick." "I do have one question though." "How are they gonna know which bathroom to use?" "Now they can use either." "Don't you have a class right now?" "They're in silent free time." "[all screaming]" "Come on." "We've got five more bathrooms to hit." "Did you know you can get HPV from fingers?" "How many fingers?" "I bought my very first Groupon today." "Oh, nice." "What was it for?" "Anal bleaching." "Do you really think that you need that?" "Probably." "Both:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "Oh, don't worry." "That's, uh, that's our new anti-bullying club." "Aren't they being a little aggressive?" "No." "They're just standing up for themselves." "My mom says I can be President." "You're too stupid to be the President." "Oh, isn't that kid in your class?" "Yeah." "That's Blake." "Well, he's a bully." "You need to call a conference with his parents." "Dumb bitch." "Today." "Because the bottom line is you can't break up with someone and still like all their posts on Facebook." "You need to give them closure." "Just because one person's okay doesn't mean the other person is." "For all you know, that other person could have been asked to leave their pottery class at the learning annex due to excessive crying because the class kept reminding them of the movie Ghost." "So what's the answer?" "Sorry." "I got a little sidetracked." "It's one." "[knocking]" " Ms. Bennigan?" " Oh, Hot Dad." "What?" "Yes?" "Hi." "Hello." "Are you Blake's dad?" "Yeah." "You wanted to meet with me?" "Yes, thank you for coming in." "Um, I wanted to talk with you about some issues concerning Blake's behavior." "Yeah." "I was afraid of that ever since the, uh, change in our family situation." "Oh." "Oh, I'm surprised Blake didn't tell you." "Uh..." "His mom left us." "Oh." "I'm so sorry." "Oh, no." "It's... it's fine." "No, we'll be strong." "We do miss having a woman around the house, but, you know, you're sort of a surrogate mom to Blake." "[giggles]" "[chuckles] I'm..." "I'm sorry." " I've embarrassed you." " No, no, no." "So, um, what's going on with Blake's behavior?" "You know what?" "Don't worry about it." "Hey, wait, what?" "I thought you said there were issues." "The issue is he's too advanced." "He's the smartest kid I've ever known." " Blake?" " He's the pussy's pajamas." "Cat's!" "The cat's pajamas." "Okay." "Well, thanks for letting me come by." "Thanks for letting me come." "Well, I'm just gonna..." "I'm gonna get going." "Kids:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" " [blows whistle]" " Hey!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Get out of here." "Stop." "STAB is too big for you to control." "He's a bully." "Let's show him what we do to bullies." " Whoa!" " Kids:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "I am beside myself." "This week was supposed to prevent bullying, and now we have more reported cases of bullying than ever before." "Your compliments board turned into a-a... an insult board." "We have a banned vigilante squad." "It's like Lord of The Flies out there." " We were trying..." " I don't care!" "Luckily, Mrs. Lark from the district is an anti-bullying expert." "She's agreed to come in this afternoon and help these children that you've traumatized." "If today doesn't go well, start looking for other places to warp young minds." "If you see a kid who's missing a tooth, let me know." "I found this on the playground." "Oh, shoot." "Excuse me, I'm looking for the library." "I'm here to facilitate an anti-bulling workshop." "Lauren?" " Oh, my God." "Lauren Zellnek?" " [gasps]" "Oh, actually it's Lauren Lark now." "I'm married." "Um, sorry, do we know each other?" "You don't remember the girl you were completely brutal to in high school?" "Deb Adler." "Don't you mean Dumb Fatter?" "Oh, Deb, you have to let that go." "It's in the past." "Based on your eyeliner," "I can tell you're still very angry." " Seriously?" " Well, I'm sorry for the way" "I behaved in high school, but that was a long time ago." "And...[chuckles] Bravo to you for losing all that weight." "It must have been really hard because it was a lot of weight." "A lot. [laughing] [laughing]" "Good afternoon." "Today, we're gonna work to turn all of you bullies into buddies." "What a nightmare." "Now, who here has a personal story they'd like to share about a time they were bullied?" "This is for the students." "Yes." "Ms. Snap hates my drawings." "What?" "That's not true." "They're just not an accurate portrayal of my body." "I drew you a new one." "Ms. Snap?" "What a cool body." "I love it." "Now we're getting somewhere." "All right." "Where's Blake?" "Blake, why aren't you in the workshop?" "I can't go in there and face all my nemeses." "Listen, today you've gotta walk in someone else's shoes." "And now that you know what it's like to be bullied, you won't do it again, right?" "Right." "Do you feel better?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "Maybe you could tell your dad what a great talk we had?" "Don't you think it would be fun to see me at school, and then back at your dad's house?" "For this next exercise, we're gonna do a little roleplay." "Mrs. Adler, why don't you come up and help me show everyone the proper way to handle a bully?" "Let me guess." "You're the bully." " You're ugly." " Have we started yet?" "I said you're ugly." "Okay." "I would appreciate it if you would not talk to me like that." "At school, we should respect each other." " You're a lesbian." " No, I'm not." "And calling someone a lesbian isn't an insult." "Even though you're not fat anymore, you'll always be a fat girl on the inside," "Dumb Fatter." " Shut your mouth." " Ah, ah, ah." " Now that is the wrong..." " [yelling]" " Oh, my God." " Who's a lesbian now?" "Kids:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "Oh, my God." "Kids:" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "STAB!" "Get off me, get off of me!" "Ladies, will you please help me stop this?" "Stop it!" "Ow!" "She's biting me!" "[kids cheering] Ladies, help!" "Ow!" "I am the principal!" "Well, I just got off the phone with the district office." " We are so sorry." " It was my bad." "It is not my fault." "Actually, it was good news." "After what happened today with Mrs. Lark, she doesn't want anything else to do with us." "She's excused Fillmore Elementary from any further participation in the anti-bullying program." " That's great news." " That's awesome." " Wow." " So happy I could have helped." "By the way, does anyone know what's going on with the bathrooms?" "♪ ♪" "♪ Tear it down ♪" "♪ Tear it down ♪" "♪ Tear it down ♪" "♪ Tear it down ♪" "Oh, yeah." |
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T.C. Memo. 2011-121
UNITED STATES TAX COURT
BISWESH B. MALI, Petitioner v.
COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent
Docket No. 18668-07. Filed June 2, 2011.
Biswesh B. Mali, pro se.
Mark S. Schwarz, for respondent.
MEMORANDUM FINDINGS OF FACT AND OPINION
GALE, Judge: Respondent determined a deficiency of $3,409
and an addition to tax under section 6651(a)(1)1 of $852 with
respect to petitioner’s 2003 Federal income tax. After
1
All section references are to the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as in effect for the year in issue, and all Rule references
are to the Tax Court Rules of Practice and Procedure. All dollar
amounts are rounded to the nearest dollar.
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concessions,2 the issues for decision are: (1) Whether
petitioner is entitled to a deduction of $724 for meals and
entertainment expenses;3 (2) whether petitioner is entitled to a
deduction of $3,456 for car and truck expenses; (3) whether
petitioner is entitled to a deduction of $10,130 for supplies
expenses;4 and (4) whether petitioner is liable for an addition
to tax under section 6651(a)(1) of $852.
FINDINGS OF FACT
Some facts are stipulated and are so found. The stipulation
of facts, with accompanying exhibits, is incorporated herein by
this reference. At the time the petition was filed, petitioner
resided in Nevada.
Petitioner was self-employed in the business of graphic
design during 2003 as a sole proprietor. As part of his
business, he produced T-shirts, promotional flyers, billboard
2
The notice of deficiency disallowed $13,000 that petitioner
claimed as a wages expense on his Schedule C, Profit or Loss From
Business. Petitioner conceded at trial that he had no wages
expense. Petitioner has not disputed respondent’s determination
that he is liable for self-employment tax of $2,495 (computed on
the assumption that the other adjustments in the notice of
deficiency will be sustained). Accordingly, petitioner is deemed
to have conceded this issue. See Rule 34(b)(4).
3
Petitioner claimed meals and entertainment expenses of
$1,200 on his Schedule C but conceded at trial that the expenses
did not exceed $724.
4
Petitioner did not claim any supplies expenses on his
Schedule C but contended at trial that he had $10,130 in supplies
expenses.
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advertisements, and television commercials. Petitioner reported
$22,290 in gross receipts on his Schedule C from his graphic
design business and claimed $22,466 in expenses. Respondent
disallowed the deduction for $17,656 of the expenses.
Petitioner conducted the graphic design business from his
residence.
Petitioner has two bachelor’s degrees: One in microbiology
from a university in his native Nepal and the other in graphic
design from Midwestern State University in Texas.
Respondent concedes that petitioner was granted an extension
of time to file his 2003 Federal income tax return until August
15, 2004. Respondent received petitioner’s 2003 return on April
19, 2006.
OPINION
I. Meals and Entertainment Expenses
Respondent disallowed a deduction for meals and
entertainment expenses of $1,200 as petitioner originally
claimed. Petitioner now concedes that his meals and
entertainment expenses did not exceed $724. Petitioner bears the
burden of proving error in respondent’s determination. See Rule
142(a); Welch v. Helvering, 290 U.S. 111, 115 (1933); see also
INDOPCO, Inc. v. Commissioner, 503 U.S. 79, 84 (1992); New
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Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering, 292 U.S. 435, 440 (1934).5
Furthermore, deductions are a matter of legislative grace, and
the taxpayer bears the burden of proving entitlement to any
claimed deductions. Rule 142(a)(1); INDOPCO, Inc. v.
Commissioner, supra at 84; New Colonial Ice Co. v. Helvering,
supra at 440.
Where a taxpayer establishes that he paid or incurred a
deductible expense but does not establish the amount of the
deduction to which he may be entitled, we may in certain
circumstances estimate the amount allowable. See Cohan v.
Commissioner, 39 F.2d 540, 543-544 (2d Cir. 1930); Vanicek v.
Commissioner, 85 T.C. 731, 742-743 (1985). However, certain
categories of expenses, including those for meals and
entertainment, must also satisfy the strict substantiation
requirements of section 274(d) in order to be deductible. See
sec. 274(d)(2); sec. 1.274-5T(b)(3), Temporary Income Tax Regs.,
5
Petitioner has not shown entitlement to a shift in the
burden of proof to respondent under sec. 7491(a) with respect to
any factual issue. See H. Conf. Rept. 105-599, at 239-242
(1998), 1998-3 C.B. 747, 993-996 (taxpayer has the burden of
proving that he meets prerequisites for application of sec.
7491(a)). A prerequisite to a shift in the burden of proof under
sec. 7491(a) is that the taxpayer cooperate with reasonable
requests for information and meetings. Sec. 7491(a)(2)(B).
Petitioner conceded that he did not respond to a request from
respondent to meet and exchange information before trial as
required by Branerton Corp. v. Commissioner, 61 T.C. 691 (1974).
See Krohn v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2005-145; Lopez v.
Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2003-142, affd. on this issue 116 Fed.
Appx. 546 (5th Cir. 2004).
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50 Fed. Reg. 46015 (Nov. 6, 1985). The Cohan rule may not be
used to estimate expenses covered by section 274(d). See Sanford
v. Commissioner, 50 T.C. 823, 827 (1968), affd. per curiam 412
F.2d 201 (2d Cir. 1969); sec. 1.274-5T(a), Temporary Income Tax
Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46014 (Nov. 6, 1985).
To substantiate a deduction pursuant to section 274(d), the
taxpayer must, through adequate records or sufficient evidence
corroborating the taxpayer’s own statement, show (1) the amount
of the expense; (2) the time and place of the expense; (3) the
business purpose of the expense; and (4) the business
relationship of the taxpayer to the persons entertained (if
applicable). See sec. 1.274-5T(b)(2) and (3), Temporary Income
Tax Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46014-46015 (Nov. 6, 1985).
Petitioner testified that he incurred meals and
entertainment expenses, both in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he
resided during the year at issue, and in California, where he
claimed he traveled on business. Besides his general and vague
testimony, petitioner has not presented any evidence that these
claimed meals and entertainment expenses were for business
purposes. The only documentary evidence that petitioner
presented to substantiate meals and entertainment expenses
totaling $724 was five credit card receipts from restaurants
(totaling $165) and a receipt from a bowling alley (for $26).
The restaurant receipts were all for restaurants in Las Vegas,
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precluding any claim they were for meals while traveling on
business. The receipts do not indicate who was present at the
meals or their business purpose, and petitioner’s general claim
in his testimony does not fill that gap. Similarly, the bowling
alley receipt standing alone does not substantiate a business
purpose, nor does petitioner’s testimony suggest a business
purpose. We conclude that petitioner has not substantiated the
meals and entertainment expenses he claimed and sustain
respondent’s disallowance of all such expenses.
II. Car and Truck Expenses
Respondent disallowed petitioner’s claimed deduction for car
and truck expenses of $3,456. Petitioner testified that he used
his car 80 percent for business and that he drove it to
California for business and to several client sites within Las
Vegas.
Passenger automobiles are subject to the substantiation
requirements of section 274(d) because they are listed property
as defined in section 280F(d)(4)(A)(i). For automobile expenses,
taxpayers must substantiate: (1) The amount of the expenditure;
(2) the mileage for each business use of the automobile and the
total mileage for all purposes during the taxable period; (3) the
date of the business use; and (4) the business purpose of the
use. See sec. 1.274-5T(b)(6), Temporary Income Tax Regs., 50
Fed. Reg. 46016 (Nov. 6, 1985).
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Petitioner has not established either the total miles driven
or the miles driven for business purposes. The only documentary
evidence petitioner provided was a repair receipt for his car
that does not list the cost of the repair and a receipt for $299
for a rental car. The repair receipt includes an odometer
reading, but standing alone such a reading does not establish
total mileage driven during the year. There is no evidence
regarding the business purpose of the car rental other than
petitioner’s general claim that it was for business purposes.
Petitioner has not substantiated any business use of his car
or any other car and truck expenses as required by section 274.
We accordingly sustain respondent’s disallowance of all such
expenses.
III. Supplies Expenses
At trial petitioner claimed entitlement to a deduction for
supplies expenses of $10,130. To the extent he provided
substantiation, it reveals that he used the supplies category to
denominate a range of expenditures, including those for
equipment, supplies, graphic design production items, cellular
telephone equipment and service, utilities, and other items.
Petitioner offered into evidence various invoices, receipts, and
canceled checks that he contends substantiate the expenses he
claims were for supplies. We will discuss petitioner’s proffered
substantiation as best we can categorize it.
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A. Equipment
Petitioner testified that he made the following purchases in
2003 for use in his graphic design business: $2,000 for a
laptop, $900 for a video camera, $1,100 for a digital camera,
$800 for another laptop, and an unspecified amount for a desk.
The only documentary evidence petitioner offered concerning the
foregoing was a credit card receipt for the purchase of a video
camera for $1,072 in 2003. There is no substantiation for any of
the other claimed purchases; accordingly, no deduction for any
other equipment is allowable. See sec. 6001; sec. 1.6001-1(a),
Income Tax Regs.
A video camera is listed property subject to the
substantiation requirements of section 274(d), see sec.
280F(d)(4)(A)(iii); sec. 1.280F-6T(b)(3), Temporary Income Tax
Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46041 (Nov. 6, 1985), with certain
exceptions.6 Petitioner’s general claim that the video camera
was used for business purposes does not satisfy the
substantiation requirements of section 274(d), under which the
6
A video camera is not listed property if it is used
exclusively in connection with the taxpayer’s principal business
or exclusively at the taxpayer’s regular business establishment.
See sec. 1.280F-6T(b)(3)(ii), Temporary Income Tax Regs., 50 Fed.
Reg. 46041 (Nov. 6, 1985). Petitioner has not shown that his use
of the video camera was confined in either of these ways.
The temporary regulation was made final on June 25, 2004,
effective for property placed in service after July 7, 2003, and
is redesignated sec. 1.280F-6(b)(3), Income Tax Regs. See T.D.
9133, 2004-2 C.B. 25. The video camera at issue was purchased on
Jan. 31, 2003.
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periods of business use and overall use must be shown. See sec.
1.274-5T(b)(6), Temporary Income Tax Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46016
(Nov. 6, 1985). Therefore, petitioner is not entitled to any
additional deduction for the expenditure represented by the
receipt for the video camera.7
B. Supplies
Petitioner offered into evidence credit card receipts for
2003 for purchases totaling $238 at Circuit City, CompUSA, and
Office Max. Petitioner claimed $590 for “office expense” on the
Schedule C, which respondent allowed. Petitioner has not shown
that the amounts represented by the foregoing credit card
receipts have not already been allowed as office expenses. He
therefore is not entitled to any additional deduction for the
expenditures reflected in these receipts.
C. Graphic Design Production Expenses
Petitioner offered into evidence invoices and cancelled
checks for 2003 (including some checks with completed memo
7
Petitioner elected a sec. 179 expense deduction of $768 for
a “camera” on a Form 4562, Depreciation and Amortization,
attached to his Schedule C, that was carried over to 2004. Even
if one assumes that the camera for which a $768 expensing
election was made is the video camera reflected in the $1,072
credit card receipt in evidence, petitioner has not shown
entitlement to any deduction in 2003 with respect to the camera
because it is listed property subject to the substantiation rules
of sec. 274(d), and petitioner has not shown that he satisfied
those requirements, as discussed above. See sec. 1.274-5T(b)(6),
Temporary Income Tax Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46016 (Nov. 6, 1985);
see also Singh v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2009-36; Whalley v.
Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1996-533.
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entries) that he testified reflected payment for services related
to his graphic design business. Upon our examination of this
evidence we are satisfied that petitioner has substantiated
payments for graphic-design-related items as follows:8
Payment
Vendor Substantiated
Tee Shirts of Nevada $186
Full Color Printing 3,186
Envelopes of Nevada 892
WOW Printing 740
Pappapetru’s (diemaker) 365
Final Cut Letterpress 751
Rotocolor, Inc. (label maker) 23
United Parcel Service, Inc. (shipping from
Rotocolor, Inc.) 31
Banner Outlet 16
Creative Eye Embroidery (cap embroiderer) 109
Discount Labels, Inc. 73
Dare to Dream Digital, Inc. 437
Pictographics 100
Rory Rehm (for banners) 90
Glenn Grayson (for audiovisual services) 650
Peter Chmiel (for DVD compressor) 300
Total 7,949
8
In many instances, invoices and cancelled checks can be
matched. In other situations, we are persuaded on the basis of
other contextual evidence that invoices lacking cancelled checks
or cancelled checks lacking invoices still substantiate payment.
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We accordingly hold that petitioner has demonstrated
entitlement to a deduction for Schedule C expenses totaling
$7,949 not previously allowed.
We further find that petitioner failed to show a business
purpose for payments during 2003 to the following individuals and
organizations: David Ban, Joey Franco, Drivers License Renewal
[sic], CCSN-Board of Regions [sic], BMG Music, Apple, Server
City, Cox, Fleet, and Indian Hills, or for a draft invoice for
Jeep Window Vision. Therefore, petitioner has not shown
entitlement to a deduction for these expenditures as trade or
business expenses under section 162.
Petitioner also offered into evidence a cancelled check for
$358 payable to the “IRS”. Except in circumstances which
petitioner has not shown apply, payments of Federal tax are
generally not deductible. See sec. 275(a).9 Petitioner has not
shown entitlement to a deduction for this expenditure.
D. Cellular Telephone Expenses
Petitioner offered into evidence a number of receipts and
cancelled checks that appear to relate to the purchase of a
cellular telephone and service for either a cellular or other
9
Although petitioner was self-employed and one-half of any
Federal self-employment tax paid is deductible, see secs. 164(f),
275(a), there is no evidence that petitioner paid any self-
employment tax in 2003. Indeed, respondent determined a
deficiency in self-employment tax of $2,495 for 2003 which
petitioner has not disputed.
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telephone. Certain receipts from “good guys!” indicate that he
made payments totaling $134 to purchase a cellular telephone and
possibly to purchase some portion of a service package. The
checks to Sprint and Sprint PCS indicate that he made additional
payments of $1,281 for cellular telephone service or
alternatively for other telephone service. As discussed above,
certain listed property is subject to stricter substantiation
requirements under section 274(d)(4). For 2003 cellular
telephones were listed property,10 and both the purchase of,
including any possible depreciation deduction or expensing, and
service for, cellular telephones were subject to the
substantiation requirements of section 274(d). See sec.
280F(d)(4)(A)(v); Lang v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2010-152;
Singh v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2009-36; Vaksman v.
Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2001-165, affd. 54 Fed. Appx. 592 (5th
Cir. 2002); Whalley v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1996-533; see
also sec. 280F(d)(1); sec. 1.179-1(d)(3), Income Tax Regs. To
meet the substantiation requirements for a cellular telephone,
petitioner must substantiate: (1) The amount of the expenditure;
(2) the total time that the cellular telephone was used for
business purposes and the total overall time that the cellular
10
Effective for taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2009,
cellular telephones are no longer listed property. See Small
Business Jobs Act of 2010, Pub. L. 111-240, sec. 2043, 124 Stat.
2560.
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telephone was used; (3) the date of the business use; and (4) the
business purpose of the use. See sec. 274(d); sec. 1.274-
5T(b)(6), Temporary Income Tax Regs., 50 Fed. Reg. 46016 (Nov. 6,
1985). Petitioner has not provided any testimony or other
evidence that would indicate the total time that the cellular
telephone was used, either for business purposes or overall.
Petitioner has also not provided any testimony or provided any
documentary evidence indicating the dates of cellular telephone
use. On the alternative assumption that some of the checks to
Sprint were for conventional “landline” telephone service, they
are not deductible because there is no showing that these
payments were for an additional telephone line. Basic local
telephone service for a first line to a personal residence is a
nondeductible personal expense. See sec. 262(b). Therefore,
petitioner has not shown entitlement to any deduction for the
foregoing telephone expenditures.
E. Utilities Expenses
Petitioner introduced into evidence several cancelled checks
for 2003 payable to Nevada Power and to Southwest Gas that
totaled $588 and $146, respectively. However, petitioner claimed
$1,620 for “utilities” expenses on the Schedule C, which
respondent allowed. Petitioner has not shown that the amounts
represented by the cancelled checks payable to Nevada Power and
to Southwest Gas have not already been allowed. He therefore is
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not entitled to any additional deduction for the expenditures
reflected in these checks.
F. Other Payments
Petitioner introduced into evidence a 2003 cancelled check
for $173 payable to the City of Las Vegas for a business license.
Petitioner claimed $499 for “taxes and licenses” on his Schedule
C, which respondent allowed. Petitioner has not shown that the
amount represented by this cancelled check has not already been
allowed. He therefore is not entitled to any additional
deduction for the expenditure reflected in this check.
IV. Section 6651(a)(1) Addition to Tax
Section 6651(a)(1) imposes an addition to tax for any
failure to file a return by its due date. The addition is equal
to 5 percent of the amount required to be shown as tax on the
return for each month or portion thereof that the return is late,
up to a maximum of 25 percent. Sec. 6651(a)(1). The addition is
imposed on the net amount due, calculated by reducing the amount
required to be shown as tax on the return by any part of the tax
which is paid on or before its due date. Sec. 6651(b)(1). Under
section 7491(c), respondent has the burden of production for any
addition to tax.
The addition will not apply if it is shown that the failure
to file a timely return was due to reasonable cause and not due
to willful neglect. See sec. 6651(a)(1); see also United States
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v. Boyle, 469 U.S. 241, 245 (1985). A failure to file is due to
reasonable cause “If the taxpayer exercised ordinary business
care and prudence and was nevertheless unable to file the return
within the prescribed time”. Sec. 301.6651-1(c)(1), Proced. &
Admin. Regs.; see United States v. Boyle, supra at 246. Willful
neglect is interpreted as a “conscious, intentional failure or
reckless indifference.” United States v. Boyle, supra at 245.
Petitioner was granted an extension under which his 2003
Federal income tax return was due on August 15, 2004. See secs.
6072(a), 6081(a); sec. 1.6081-4(a), Proced. & Admin. Regs.
Respondent received his return on April 19, 2006. These
undisputed facts satisfy respondent’s burden of production under
section 7491(c) and establish petitioner’s liability for the
section 6651(a)(1) addition to tax unless petitioner can
establish that his failure to file timely was due to reasonable
cause and not willful neglect. See sec. 6651(a)(1); see also
United States v. Boyle, supra at 245.
Petitioner testified that he filed late because he was
experiencing acute financial difficulties and because he did not
understand that he would incur a penalty that increased over time
for his failure to file timely. As there is no evidence that
petitioner was unable to manage other matters at the due date and
during the period of the delinquency, petitioner’s explanation
falls short of reasonable cause for a failure to file timely.
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See Campbell v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2011-42; Wright v.
Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1998-224, affd. without published
opinion 173 F.3d 848 (2d Cir. 1999); Bear v. Commissioner, T.C.
Memo. 1992-690, affd. without published opinion 19 F.3d 26 (9th
Cir. 1994). Accordingly, petitioner did not have reasonable
cause for failure to file timely, and petitioner is liable for
the addition to tax under section 6651(a)(1) in an amount to be
computed under Rule 155.
To reflect the foregoing,
Decision will be entered
under Rule 155.
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Q:
merge autocomplete results from multiple sources
I am currently getting autocomplete results from a single source. If I wanted to also get results from a second source how would I go about this, and can I add the results on the fly (if one of the sources took longer).
For example this is a form field which is autocompleted using town names from geonames.org.
http://jsfiddle.net/Q6YFx/
How would I impliment merging the results from a second source such as Google Geocode API:
geocoder.geocode( { 'address': request.term, 'region': 'GB' }, function(results, status) {
response($.map(results, function(item) {
return {
value: item.formatted_address+' (google)',
latitude: item.geometry.location.lat(),
longitude: item.geometry.location.lng()
}
}));
})
The google results are quicker to fetch, so I'd like to show these when they are ready and then when I get the geonames.org results I'd like to add these to the mix.
Thanks
A:
This is how I did it in the end http://jsfiddle.net/ekzMN/89/
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Dynamic properties of a delayed protein cross talk model.
In this paper we investigate how the inclusion of time delay alters the dynamical properties of the Jacob-Monod model, describing the control of the beta-galactosidase synthesis by the lac repressor protein in E. coli. The consequences of a time delay on the dynamics of this system are analysed using Hopf's theorem and Lyapunov-Andronov's theory applied to the original mathematical model and to an approximated version. Our analytical calculations predict that time delay acts as a key bifurcation parameter. This is confirmed by numerical simulations. A critical value of time delay, which depends on the values of the model parameters, is analytically established. Around this critical value, the properties of the system change drastically, allowing under certain conditions the emergence of stable limit cycles, that is self-sustained oscillations. In addition, the features of the end product repression play an essential role in the characterisation of these limit cycles: if cooperativity is considered in the end product repression, time delay higher than the mentioned critical value induce differentiated responses during the oscillations, provoking cycles of all-or-nothing response in the concentration of the species. |
712 So.2d 946 (1998)
STATE of Louisiana
v.
Eric GRESHAM.
No. 97-KA-1158.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.
April 15, 1998.
*947 Bruce G. Whittaker, Louisiana Appellate Project, Gretna, for Appellant Eric Gresham.
*948 Paul D. Connick, Jr., District Attorney, Terry M. Boudreaux, Assistant District Attorney, Research and Appeals, Gretna, for Appellee State of Louisiana.
Before GRISBAUM, DUFRESNE and CANNELLA, JJ.
CANNELLA, Judge.
Defendant, Eric D. Gresham, appeals his conviction of armed robbery. We affirm his conviction, adjudication as an habitual offender and sentence.
On October 16, 1996, the Jefferson Parish District Attorney filed a Bill of Information charging defendant with two counts of armed robbery, a violation of La. R.S. 14:64.[1] At the arraignment on October 24, 1996, defendant pled not guilty. He filed a motion to suppress the evidence and confession on October 25, 1996. After a hearing on April 7, 1997, the trial court denied defendant's motion to suppress. On the same day, the state severed count one, and jury selection began. Defendant was tried before a jury of twelve persons on count two on April 8th and 9th, 1997. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged on April 9, 1997, by a vote of ten to two. On April 25, 1997, the trial judge sentenced defendant to serve forty years imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence. On the same date, the state filed an habitual offender Bill of Information, alleging defendant to be a third felony offender.
On April 29, 1997, defendant filed a motion for appeal, which the trial court granted on May 1, 1997. The habitual offender hearing was held on September 19, 1997 and the trial court took the matter under advisement. On November 7, 1997, defendant was adjudicated a third felony offender. After vacating defendant's previous sentence, defendant was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor, without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.[2]
Officer Chris Gordon of the Gretna Police Department and Jacqueline Billiot (Billiot) testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress. Officer Gordon testified that on September 9, 1996, at approximately 1:00 a.m., he responded to a call regarding an armed robbery at the Burger King located at 78 Westbank Expressway. He was advised that the suspects were two black males and that the robbery had been committed with a gun. On the way to the Burger King, Officer Gordon observed two black males walking away from the Burger King, through the parking lot of 90 Westbank Expressway, approximately a block and a half away from the crime scene. Officer Gordon stated that he stopped his car and saw that Officer Guidry was nearby. He and Officer Guidry ordered the two suspects to stop and place their hands on the hood of the car. Defendant asked what was happening and Officer Gordon responded that they were investigating an armed robbery. Officer Gordon testified that defendant replied, "Man, that wasn't me. I'm just going over to Rally's." Officer Gordon patted down defendant and Officer Guidry patted down the other man, Narcisse. Officer Gordon testified that the pat down was done "due to the robbery being with a weapon ... to make sure they didn't have a weapon on them, for our safety." Officer Gordon stated that as he was patting defendant down, he felt "something hard" in defendant's front right pocket. The officer stated that he removed a roll of quarters and a roll of pennies from that pocket. Officer Gordon said that he removed these objects because "when [he] felt it was hard, [he] didn't know what it was, and it's always possible it could have been a small weapon." He continued to pat down defendant and felt another object in defendant's right rear pocket, "protruding through the pocket, up underneath his T-shirt." The officer removed removed this object and discovered that it was a roll of garbage bags. He testified that he "couldn't feel exactly what *949 the object was" when he was patting defendant down.
Officer Gordon testified that he advised his lieutenant of the situation and the lieutenant told him to release the subjects because since the robbers wore scarves or bandanas over their faces, the victims were unable to identify the robbers by their facial features. The officers returned the property and then released defendant and Narcisse. Defendant and Narcisse then walked away. Thereafter, Officer Gordon continued to search the area for suspects and Officer Guidry returned to the Burger King. Officer Gordon testified that while Officer Guidry was at the Burger King, one of the victims told him that the robbers took a roll of garbage bags during the robbery. When the victim showed Officer Guidry the kind of garbage bags that had been taken, Officer Guidry recognized them as the same kind of garbage bags which defendant had in his pocket. Officer Gordon stated that they then went to search for defendant and Narcisse again.
Officer Gordon testified that defendant and Narcisse were apprehended about ten minutes later. He and Officer Guidry brought them to the Burger King for identification. Officer Gordon and Officer Guidry stood outside of the drive-through window with defendant and Narcisse and a spotlight was shone on them. Officer Gordon testified that his lieutenant was inside with the victims and indicated that defendant and Narcisse were positively identified.
After argument by counsel, the trial court denied the motion to suppress the evidence, stating the following reasons:
THE COURT:
All right. I have no problem with the stop and frisk. I think the stop was appropriate. I think that frisk was also appropriate I think that the law is not whether they think there's a weapon; the law is whether or not the officer reasonably feels he is in physical danger. I think the roll of coins could put him in reasonable danger. Certainly a rolled up something in the back, even though the outside of it feels soft, there could be something in it. I have no problem with them removing both the coins or removing the rolled up garbage bags; therefore, the Motion to Suppress the Evidence is denied; and we'll go forward with the rest of the Motion to Suppress the Identification. (R., p.227)
Relative to the motion to suppress the identification, Billiot testified that she and Earl Jackson were working at the Burger King at 78 Westbank Expressway on September 9, 1996. She stated that on that night, two black males robbed the Burger King and hit her in the head. She stated that she didn't see either of the perpetrators' faces at the time of the robbery because both of them wore "handkerchiefs" over their faces, up to their eyes and they were also wearing hats. Billiot testified that she called the police after the robbery and that she was very upset when the police arrived. She did not recall what she had told them. She testified that approximately ten to fifteen minutes later, the police returned with two people and told her they wanted her to "look at" them. She looked at them through the store's front window, as well as the drive-through window, but could not remember whether or not she positively identified these two people. Finally, she testified that the police did not tell her whom to select or try to influence her in any way.
After argument by counsel, the trial court noted that Billiot did not state that she had identified defendant, but ruled that the identification procedure itself was not "faulty."
At trial, the state presented the testimony of Officer Gordon, as well as Officer Starlett Cuzzort, Officer Hebert Estee, Officer Guidry and Billiot. Officer Gordon's testimony at trial was substantially similar to his testimony at the suppression hearing. However, he additionally testified that, to his knowledge, no gun was ever recovered and that Officer Estee was the officer who actually found defendant and Narcisse the second time at 929 Westbank Expressway. Officer Gordon went to that location to assist Officer Estee.
Officer Estee of the Gretna Police Department testified that he is a narcotics and canine patrol handler. He was accepted by the trial court as an expert in this field. He *950 testified that on September 9, 1996, he responded to a call regarding a robbery at the Burger King. He arrived with his canine partner, Marco, approximately 45 seconds after receiving the call. When he arrived at the Burger King, he saw that two subjects had been detained at 90 Westbank Expressway. He started a "search" with Marco at the rear of the Burger King. When Marco reached 90 Westbank Expressway, he started "spinning around in a circle." Officer Estee testified that the "track" ended where the two suspects had initially been detained. Officer Estee notified his lieutenant of his findings and the lieutenant instructed him to attempt to locate the subjects. Thereafter, Officer Estee began searching for the subjects in his patrol unit. At approximately 1:30 a.m., he observed defendant and Narcisse at 929 Westbank Expressway. Officer Estee stopped and advised the subjects that he was investigating an armed robbery. The two men told him that they had just been stopped by other officers. Officers Gordon and Guidry then arrived on the scene and Officer Estee put Marco on an "article search," or a search to find any object with a fresh human scent. In a flower bed at 80 Westbank Expressway, Marco located a clear, plastic bag filled with U.S. currency.
Officer Guidry testified substantially the same as Officer Gordon at trial and at the suppression hearing. At trial, he testified that on his way to the Burger King, he saw two black males walking westbound from the direction of Burger King. He said that they looked at him and then "hurried up and tried to walk away nonchalantly." Officer Gordon stopped. Officer Cuzzort began to stop, but she proceeded to the Burger King. Officer Guidry testified that he patted down Narcisse, while Officer Gordon patted down defendant. Defendant and Narcisse were subsequently released, but later were apprehended as a result of the garbage bags.
Officer Cuzzort of the Gretna Police Department testified that she too responded to the armed robbery call. She stated that she observed two subjects as she was on her way to the Burger King, but saw that Officer Gordon and Officer Guidry had stopped, so she proceeded to the Burger King. When she arrived, she noted that there were two victims, a man and a lady. The lady had been struck in the head and was "hysterical." The victims said that the gunman wore dark blue jogging pants, was thin and wore black tennis shoes. The other man wore stonewashed shorts and a white T-shirt. Both were wearing bandannas on their faces, over the nose and under the eyes. The record reflects that Officer Gordon identified state's exhibit three as a pair of blue jean shorts that defendant wore that night.
At trial, Billiot's testimony was more detailed than at the suppression hearing. She stated that the Burger King was closed and that she and Earl Jackson (Jackson) were there. At approximately 1:00 a.m., she saw a light-colored van pass through the drive-through. Two men exited from the van and it drove away. A short time later, she saw two men standing at the back door, which was glass. One of the men had a gun and he told her to open the door, which she did. After they came inside, they demanded money and she gave them a deposit bag containing money. The man with the gun told her to get more money. Billiot attempted to open the safe. She testified that he kept asking why she was "stalling." When Ms. Billiot replied that she was not stalling, the man hit her with the gun in the head so hard that he knocked her glasses off and an earring out of her ear. Meanwhile, the other man was holding Jackson and said, "Shoot that white bitch!" After the robbery, the gunman ordered her to crawl to the cooler. Jackson was also placed in the cooler.
Billiot testified that it seemed like they were in the cooler for an hour, but it was probably more like five or ten minutes. She stated that she was treated at a hospital that night for an injury requiring nine clamps in her head. The witness could not remember what she told the police or what the robbers were wearing, except that they were wearing bandannas over their faces.
Next, the jury was taken to view the scene and the state rested its case. The defense's only witness was Robert Tucker (Tucker), who was apparently called for the purpose of impeaching Billiot. Tucker testified that he was a private investigator hired *951 by the defense. He stated that he interviewed Billiot and she told him that it seemed like she was in the cooler for "maybe half an hour, but it was less than that." He further testified that she made a subsequent statement to him that it was five or ten minutes at the most. On cross-examination, Tucker stated that Billiot did not seem to be lying or to have anything to hide. After both sides rested, the jury found defendant guilty as charged.
On appeal, defendant asserts as error that the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress. Defendant also asks for a review for error patent.
In determining whether the ruling on a defendant's motion to suppress is correct, an appellate court is not limited to the evidence produced at the hearing on the motion to suppress, but may also consider pertinent evidence given at the trial. State v. Tart, 93-0772 (La.2/9/96), 672 So.2d 116, 127, cert. denied, ___ U.S. ___, 117 S.Ct. 310, 136 L.Ed.2d 227 (1996); State v. Byes, 94-611 (La.App. 5th Cir. 12/28/94), 648 So.2d 1073, 1074.
In this case, defendant does not challenge the validity of the investigatory stop. Rather, defendant challenges the pat down frisk leading to the removal of the roll of coins, on the grounds that Officer Gordon did not have an articulable belief that he was in danger so as to justify the frisk. Defendant further contends that Officer Gordon's removal of the roll of coins was unlawful because the roll was not immediately identifiable as contraband under the "plain feel" exception set forth in Minnesota v. Dickerson.[3] The state, on the other hand, contends that the pat-down and removal of the objects from defendant's pocket was justified because Officer Gordon reasonably suspected that he was in danger.
The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and La. Const. Art. 1, § 5 protect individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures. State v. Belton, 441 So.2d 1195, 1198 (La.1983), cert. denied, 466 U.S. 953, 104 S.Ct. 2158, 80 L.Ed.2d 543 (1984). However, the right of law enforcement officers to stop and question a person where there is reasonable suspicion to believe that the person is committing, has committed or is about to commit a crime was established in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). See also: State v. Keller, 403 So.2d 693, 696 (La.1981); State v. Duran, 96-602, (La.App. 5th Cir. 3/25/97), 693 So.2d 2, 3, application dismissed, 97-1485 (La.1/9/98), 705 So.2d 1087. The requirements for a valid Terry stop and for any search incident to the stop was codified in La.C.Cr.P. art. 215.1, which provides in pertinent part:
A. A law enforcement officer may stop a person in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense and may demand of him his name, address, and an explanation of his actions.
B. When a law enforcement officer has stopped a person for questioning pursuant to this Article and reasonably suspects that he is in danger, he may frisk the outer clothing of such person for a dangerous weapon. If the law enforcement officer reasonably suspects the person possesses a dangerous weapon, he may search the person.
C. If the law enforcement officer finds a dangerous weapon, he may take and keep it until the completion of the questioning, at which time he shall either return it, if lawfully possessed, or arrest such person.
When a police officer observes conduct which leads him to reasonably conclude that criminal activity may be afoot and that the persons with whom he is dealing may be armed and dangerous, he is entitled to conduct a carefully limited search to discover weapons that might be used to assault him, in the course of the investigatory stop. Terry v. Ohio, 88 S.Ct. at 1884-1885; State v. Tolliver, 556 So.2d 166, 169 (La.App. 5th Cir.1990). The pat-down is justified under circumstances where a reasonably prudent man would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger. State v. Keller, 403 So.2d 693, 697 (La.1981); State v. Edwards, 630 So.2d 302, 304 (La.App. 5th *952 Cir.1993). See also: State v. Mitchell, 96-999 (La.App. 5th Cir. 3/25/97), 692 So.2d 1251, 1252. The officer's belief is not reasonable unless the officer can point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous. Sibron v. New York, 392 U.S. 40, 64, 88 S.Ct. 1889, 1903, 20 L.Ed.2d 917, 935 (1968); State v. Hunter, 375 So.2d 99, 102 (La.1979); State v. Edwards, 630 So.2d at 304. It is not necessary that the officer establish that it was more probable than not that the detained individual was armed and dangerous. Rather, it is sufficient that the officer establishes a "substantial possibility" of danger. State v. Hunter, 375 So.2d at 102; State v. Edwards, 630 So.2d at 304.
In the present case, Officer Gordon testified that it was approximately 1:00 a.m. when he responded to a call regarding the armed robbery at Burger King. When the call was dispatched, he was told that the suspects were two black males and that the robbery had been committed with a gun. Only 30 to 45 seconds had elapsed between the call regarding the armed robbery and when Officer Gordon spotted defendant and Narcisse at 90 Westbank Expressway, a block and a half from the Burger King. The officer further testified that defendant and Narcisse were walking away from Burger King and that they were the only two black males in the area. When Officer Gordon initially approached them, defendant told the officer that he was going to Rally's. At trial, Officer Gordon testified that Rally's was in the opposite direction from the direction from which defendant was walking. He patted defendant down because the robbery had been committed with a weapon. Officer Gordon testified that defendant did not refuse to cooperate.
In State v. Wesley, 28,012 (La.App. 2nd Cir. 4/3/96), 671 So.2d 1257, writ denied, 96-1127 (La.10/4/96), 679 So.2d 1379, an officer heard a call regarding an armed robbery at 2:25 a.m. The suspect was reported to be a black male wearing a ski mask, brown jacket, black pants and armed with a pistol. Near the scene and shortly after the call regarding the robbery, the officer observed a car occupied by two black males. The occupants were acting suspiciously inside the car and the car weaved on the road. The officer then stopped the car, ordered the suspects out of the car, handcuffed them and patted them down. The pat down revealed a silver pistol that had been concealed on defendant's person. After finding the initial stop to be justified, the Wesley court held that because "a gun was used in the robbery and the time of night, the officers were justified, for their own protection, in ordering the two occupants from the car, in handcuffing them for their security and in a pat-down for weapons." Id., at 1259.
Here, the armed robbery occurred in the early morning hours, at approximately 1:00 a.m. The robbery was reported to have been committed by two black males with a gun. Thirty to forty-five seconds later, Officer Gordon observed two black males, the only ones in the area, walking away from the scene of the robbery. When stopped, defendant told the officer that he was going to Rally's, but Rally's was the opposite direction from which defendant was walking. Considering all of these circumstances, we find that Officer Gordon was reasonable in his belief that his safety was in danger and that the pat-down of defendant was justified.
Defendant also contends that, even if the officer were justified in patting down defendant, the removal of the roll of coins in defendant's front right pants pocket exceeded the scope of that pat-down. Defendant cites Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S.Ct. 2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993), and other jurisprudence dealing with the "plain feel" exception. However, Minnesota v. Dickerson, applies to the seizing of contraband. There, the United States Supreme Court extended the rational from the "plain view" doctrine to the "plain feel" doctrine. See: Minnesota v. Dickerson, 113 S.Ct. at 2137. This Court adopted the "plain feel" doctrine in State v. Mitchell, 692 So.2d at 1253-1254 and State v. Stevens, 95-501 (La. App. 5th Cir. 3/26/96), 672 So.2d 986. In Dickerson, the officer affirmatively testified that the object he felt appeared to him to feel like cocaine. Here, the officer testified that he felt a hard object that he couldn't identify, but that could have been a weapon, not contraband. *953 As noted earlier, La.C.Cr.P. art. 215.1(B) applies to a pat-down for weapons and permits a frisk for weapons after a valid investigatory stop when the officer "... reasonably suspects the person possesses a dangerous weapon ..."
Officer Gordon testified at the suppression hearing that he "felt something hard in his [defendant's] front right pocket." When questioned on direct examination at the suppression hearing as to why he removed that object, he stated, "`Cause when I felt it was hard, I didn't know what it was, and it's always possible it could have been a small weapon." (R., p.195) On cross-examination, the following exchange occurred:
Q. You patted down Gresham?
A. Yes.
Q. All right. And you said you felt something hard in his pocket.
A. Correct.
Q. Was that in his front pocket?
A. Yes.
Q. At that time, did it feel like a gun to you?
A. I wasn't sure of what it was at all.
Q. Well, no. My question was, "Did it feel like it was a gun?"
A. It felt like it could possibly be one.
B. All right. A roll of quarters felt like a gun?
MR. SINHA:
Objection. He's already answered the question.
THE COURT:
He's on cross. You can ask.
MR. ARMATO:
Q. Did it feel like a knife?
A. I had no way of knowing what it was.
Q. No, the question was, "Did it feel like a knife?"
A. No, it didn't feel like a knife.
Q. All right. You also patted down the back of his pants?
A. Yes.
Q. And you felt something there. Was that hard?
A. It was round and hard.
Q. Did that feel like a gun?
A. Not that object, no.
Q. Did it feel like a knife?
A. No.
Q. Did it feel like a stick, or any-did it feel like any other weapon that you can articulate?
A. In my mind, at the time, it could have easily been something hiding a weapon, with it inside, to where I wouldn't be able to feel it, feel the shape of it; it could easily be done.
(R., pgs.204-205)
In this case, the testimony shows that Officer Gordon performed the pat-down in concern for his safety and that he thought that the object he felt could have been a weapon. As noted above, is not necessary that he establish that it was more probable than not that defendant was armed and dangerous. It is sufficient that the officer establishes a "substantial possibility" of danger. State v. Hunter, 375 So.2d at 102; State v. Edwards, 630 So.2d at 304. Thus, we find that the trial judge did not err in denying the motion to suppress the evidence.
ERROR PATENT
La.C.Cr.P. art. 920 provides: "the following matters and no others shall be considered on appeal: (1) An error designated in the assignments of error; and (2) An error that is discoverable by a mere inspection of the pleadings and proceedings and without inspection of the evidence."
For the purpose of an error patent review the "record" in a criminal case includes the caption, the time and place of holding court, the indictment or information and the endorsement thereon, the arraignment, the plea of the accused, the bill of particulars filed in connection with a short form indictment or information, the mentioning of the impaneling of the jury, the minute entry reflecting sequestration in a capital case, the verdict, and the judgment or sentence. State v. Oliveaux, 312 So.2d 337 (La. 1975); State v. Boudreaux, 95-153 (La.App. 5th Cir. 9/20/95); 662 So.2d 22, 28.
Our review reveals one patent error. Defendant was not advised of the three-year *954 time limit for filing an application for post conviction relief, as required by La.C.Cr.P. art. 930.8. This article dictates that, except under certain limited circumstances, a defendant must file his application for post-conviction relief within three years after his judgment of conviction. Section C provides that the trial judge shall inform defendant of this prescriptive period at the time of sentencing. However, the failure to inform the defendant is not a ground for vacating the sentence. Rather, the remedy is to remand the case with an instruction to the trial judge to inform defendant of the provisions of article 930.8 by sending written notice to defendant within ten days after the rendition of this opinion and to file written proof in the record that defendant received such notice. State v. Birden, 675 So.2d at 1190-1191; State v. Crossley, 94-965 (La.App. 5th Cir. 3/15/95), 653 So.2d 631, 636-637, writ denied, 95-0959 (La.9/15/95), 660 So.2d 459.
Accordingly, defendant's original conviction, his adjudication as an habitual offender and sentence are hereby affirmed. The case is remanded for the trial judge to inform defendant of the provisions of C.Cr.P. article 930.8 by sending written notice to defendant within ten days after the rendition of this opinion and to file written proof in the record that defendant received such notice.
CONVICTION, ADJUDICATION AND SENTENCE AFFIRMED; CASE REMANDED.
NOTES
[1] Edward Narcisse was also charged on the same day for the same robbery. The record appears to reflect that Edward Narcisse pled guilty to two counts of attempted armed robbery on December 13, 1996.
[2] On November 13, 1997, defendant filed a second motion for appeal, which was granted on November 17, 1997.
[3] Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S.Ct. 2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993).
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Termidor
Termidor – Better Than Other Liquids
Like many other termite control products, Termidor is a liquid – but that’s where the similarities end. Among liquid termiticides, Termidor is in a far more effective league of its own. Termidor is undetectable, termites neither avoid its treatment zone nor try to find a way around it. Even other nonrepellent liquids can’t match Termidor’s unprecedented performance or success rate. Some claim to be “nearly,” “virtually,” or “almost” as effective, but the difference between “almost as good as Termidor” and Termidor itself can make all the difference in the world when it comes to ensuring your home is termite free.
Better than baits… without the wait. A bait system does not seek out termites. Instead, termites actually have to find a bait station and then “recruit” sufficient colony members to it as well for it to do any good. Unfortunately, there’s no guarantee termites already in or heading for your home will ever find it at all! If they do, it can then take many months for a bait system to control their colony. Termidor starts working immediately and is the fastest and most effective at eliminating termites in and around structures. |
Cell association increases RPE outgrowth from primary explant.
Most studies of cell growth of the RPE employ cultures which have been previously passaged, but here we investigated freshly-explanted RPE cells, which may have been growth-quiescent for years, within the eye to determine whether co-culture affects initial outgrowth in primary culture. Bovine or human RPE were co-cultured in primary culture with several cell types to test the effects of homologous or heterologous cell association. For bovine RPE, cell number was measured over 14 days in cultures of RPE alone, or RPE in co-culture with irradiated living cells, with fixed-killed cells, with cells separated from the RPE by a semipermeable membrane, or in medium conditioned by the cell types used for co-culture. For human RPE, isolates from all donors were randomized, over a 13-month period, to co-culture or to culture alone. The number of cultures attaining a cell number at one month that was sufficient for further propagation was compared. Co-culture with irradiated living cells increased the growth of primary cultures of both bovine and human RPE. Living cells were required; fixed-killed cells were ineffective. The outgrowth-promoting activity was not tissue or species specific, and it appeared to require close cell association between the RPE and the co-culture cell population. Conditioned media were ineffective and rather were slightly growth inhibitory. Primary RPE cells showed an earlier expression of vimentin (a marker of Gzero-G1 transition), more rapid cell spreading, and a greater increase in cell number between 7 and 14 days after explant when grown in co-culture than when cultured alone. The results indicate that cell association between non-mitotic RPE cells and previously cultured cells of many types increases the outgrowth of the RPE by accelerating the early stages of growth activation in vitro. Co-culture methods offer a practical means for increasing the likelihood of producing cultures from small RPE isolates. Further, should cells involved in proliferative pathologies in situ associate with non-mitotic RPE within the monolayer, the latter cells may also be activated, leading to an augmentation of the pathology. |
Natural Occurrence of Aldol Condensation Products in Valencia Orange Oil.
Cold pressed orange oils contain predominantly d-limonene (approximately 95%) and various other lower concentration monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, sinensals plus 3 key aliphatic aldehydes: hexanal, octanal. and decanal. The aldol self-condensation products or "dimers" for each aldehyde have been postulated as being present at low concentrations in the oil. However, to date only the hexanal dimer has been previously reported. In this paper, cold pressed Valencia orange oil was fractionally distilled/folded and analyzed by GC and high resolution GC-MS to detect these compounds on 2 different capillary column phases. Subsequently the hexanal, octanal, and decanal self-aldol condensation products, 2-butyl-2-octenal, 2-hexyl-2-decenal, and 2-octyl-2-dodecenal, respectively, were detected in the folded oil. These predominantly trans configuration isomeric compounds were synthesized, to confirm them as being present in nature and evaluated organoleptically by a panel of evaluators. To further confirm the mechanism of their formation, the enriched oil was made into a simple beverage to show the effect on the formation of these aldol compounds under acidic conditions. Finally aliphatic aldehydes from hexanal to undecanal were reacted together in various combinatorial pairs to give an additional 33 self and mixed aldol condensation products, some of which were also detected in the folded oil. This paper discloses the structural elucidation and synthesis of 8 novel aldol condensation products found at trace concentrations in citrus and leading to a further 31 mass spectrally determined aldol products. Sensory evaluations and application of some of these components were demonstrated in a model citrus beverage. |
Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation
The Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation is a German nonprofit organization based in Hamburg which awards an annual literary prize for nostalgic literature. The award comes with a check for € 10,000.
Rinke prize winners
External links
(in German)
Category:German literary awards |
Q:
Concatenate iterators in Groovy
Given three iterators
it1, it2, it3
how can I return one iterator that iterates over it1, then over it2 and last it3?
Lets say
def it1 = [1, 2].iterator()
def it2 = [3, 4].iterator()
def it3 = [5, 6].iterator()
I want to have an iterator that will return
1
2
3
4
5
6
A:
There's no such iterator that I know of in Groovy, but you could write your own:
class SequentialIterator<T> implements Iterator<T> {
List iterators
int index = 0
boolean done = false
T next
SequentialIterator( Iterator<T> ...iterators ) {
this.iterators = iterators
loadNext()
}
private void loadNext() {
while( index < iterators.size() ) {
if( iterators[ index ].hasNext() ) {
next = iterators[ index ].next()
break
}
else {
index++
}
}
if( index >= iterators.size() ) {
done = true
}
}
void remove() {
throw UnsupportedOperationException()
}
boolean hasNext() {
!done
}
T next() {
if( done ) {
throw new NoSuchElementException()
}
T ret = next
loadNext()
ret
}
}
def it1 = [1, 2].iterator()
def it2 = [3, 4].iterator()
def it3 = [5, 6].iterator()
assert new SequentialIterator( it1, it2, it3 ).collect() == [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Or, if you're feeling greedy (and will need all the data loaded at the same time) you could just collect the values from the iterators in turn:
[ it1, it2, it3 ].collectMany { it.collect() }
Or as Dave Newton says, you could use Guava:
@Grab( 'com.google.guava:guava:15.0' )
import com.google.common.collect.Iterators
def it1 = [1, 2].iterator()
def it2 = [3, 4].iterator()
def it3 = [5, 6].iterator()
assert Iterators.concat( it1, it2, it3 ).collect() == [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
Or commons-collections;
@Grab( 'commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2.1' )
import org.apache.commons.collections.iterators.IteratorChain
def it1 = [1, 2].iterator()
def it2 = [3, 4].iterator()
def it3 = [5, 6].iterator()
assert new IteratorChain( [ it1, it2, it3 ] ).collect() == [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]
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Q:
Crystal Reports Check All dependencies of a report
Problem: As you may know report wizards and reports inside crystal reports have a Many to Many relationship. This makes reporting tricky as one report relies on:
1 or more reportwizards
0 or more subreports
and these main reports can rely on multiple sub reports and those sub reports rely on multiple report wizards.
So is there any way to catalog the reports and their dependencies?
example:
**ReportWizard Name** **Report 1** **Report 2** ....
Billing clientsReport EmployeeReport
AND/OR in reverse...
ReportWizard1 Name ReportWizard2 Name ....
Report 1
Report 2
Thanks!
A:
Report wizards are part of the report designer - they aren't dependencies at all.
Subreports are saved as part of the report file (even though they may have been imported from another existing report), so they aren't dependencies of the main report as such - they are (part of) the report.
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Q:
No way to resolve conflict between log4net from GAC and log4net from project
I'm developing a C# library project with .NET Framework 4.6.2 and log4net 2.0.8.
When I try to compile the project I get the following error:
error CS0433: The type 'log4net.ILog' exists in
'c:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\log4net\1.2.10.0__692fbea5521e1304\log4net.dll'
and also in
'd:\Desarrollo\packages\log4net.2.0.8\lib\net45-full\log4net.dll'
It seems that there is another version of log4net in GAC.
Why does it use the GAC version to compile? I have another projects with log4net and only in this one I get this error.
The reference for log4net is D:\Desarrollo\packages\log4net.2.0.8\lib\net45-full\log4net.dll. And it sets as local copy.
I have installed the package and added again with the same error.
The detailed error is this:
1>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\Microsoft.Common.CurrentVersion.targets(1964,5): warning MSB3243: No way to resolve conflict between "log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a" and "log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304". Choosing "log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a" arbitrarily.
1>D:\MyProject\Loggers\ActionLogHelper.cs(28,20,28,24): error CS0433: The type 'ILog' exists in both 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' and 'log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a'
1>D:\MyProject\Loggers\ActionLogHelper.cs(30,26,30,30): error CS0433: The type 'ILog' exists in both 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' and 'log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a'
1>D:\MyProject\Loggers\ExceptionLogHelper.cs(22,20,22,24): error CS0433: The type 'ILog' exists in both 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' and 'log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a'
1>D:\MyProject\Loggers\ExceptionLogHelper.cs(24,29,24,33): error CS0433: The type 'ILog' exists in both 'log4net, Version=1.2.10.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=692fbea5521e1304' and 'log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a'
========== Rebuild All: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========
A:
The problem was that there were two references to the same dll in the project file. I have opened the project file with Notepad++ and I have found this inside:
<ItemGroup>
<Reference Include="log4net, Version=2.0.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<HintPath>..\..\..\packages\log4net.2.0.8\lib\net45-full\log4net.dll</HintPath>
<Private>True</Private>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="Newtonsoft.Json, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<HintPath>..\..\..\packages\Newtonsoft.Json.10.0.2\lib\net45\Newtonsoft.Json.dll</HintPath>
<Private>True</Private>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="Ninject, Version=3.2.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=c7192dc5380945e7, processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<HintPath>..\..\..\packages\Ninject.3.2.2.0\lib\net45-full\Ninject.dll</HintPath>
<Private>True</Private>
</Reference>
<Reference Include="System" />
<Reference Include="System.Core" />
<Reference Include="System.Net.Http" />
<Reference Include="log4net">
<HintPath>..\..\..\packages\log4net.2.0.3\lib\net40-full\log4net.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>
I have removed the last one, and now it compiles.
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Q:
Is there a way to run SQLite queries from python asynchronously or in parrallel?
How can sqlite3 statements be run from python in some kind of "non-sequential" way?
Here is some code, basically straight from the python docs, on sqlite3. (I am assuming this code is executing sequentially):
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('::memory')
c = conn.cursor()
###First sequence
c.execute('''DROP TABLE IF EXISTS stocks''')
c.execute('''CREATE TABLE stocks
(date text, trans text, symbol text, qty real, price real)''')
c.execute("INSERT INTO stocks VALUES ('2006-01-05','BUY','SOME_STOCK',100,35.14)")
conn.commit()
result_stocks = c.execute('''SELECT * FROM stocks''').fetchall()
### Second Sequence
c.execute('''DROP TABLE IF EXISTS bonds''')
# Create first table table
c.execute('''CREATE TABLE bonds
(date text, trans text, symbol text, qty real, price real)''')
c.execute("INSERT INTO bonds VALUES ('2006-01-05','BUY','SOME_BOND',100,35.14)")
conn.commit()
result_bonds = c.execute('''SELECT * FROM bonds''').fetchall()
conn.close()
print(result_stocks)
print(result_bonds)
Is there a way to execute the "Second Sequence" without waiting for the "First Sequence" to finish?
A:
No.
SQLite databases may only be written to by one connection at a time; a write transaction will lock the entire database and prevent other threads and processes from reading or writing.
So yes, you can create a thread for each sequence, but since only one sequence can write to the database at any time, they don't execute concurrently, which defeats the purpose of running them asynchronously.
If however you are doing something else other than querying the database while your thread is running a query, then you will see a benefit, as the query thread will wait for the disk, freeing up the CPU to do other stuff. But in your example, there is no benefit to running the two sequences in separate threads.
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Q:
LOAD DATA INFILE - but also add this column entry for every row?
Below is the code.
$host = '';
$username = '';
$password = '';
$database = '';
$con = new mysqli($host,$username,$password,$database);
if ($con->connect_error)
{
die('Connect Error (' . $mysqli->connect_errno . ') ' . $mysqli->connect_error);
}
$di = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/var/www/html/cdr');
foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($di) as $filename => $file)
{
if ($filename == "/var/www/html/cdr/.")
{
}
else
{
$con->query("LOAD DATA INFILE '" . $filename . "'
INTO TABLE cdr
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '\"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES"
);
echo $filename . " added to Database and deleted";
echo "<br />";
unlink($filename);
}
}
The current code works as intended. It itterates through a directory of csv files and imports each one to a database.
What I am wanting to do is add an extra column to the database titled "Filename" with the filename that each record came from.
Is there a way to modify the MySQL query to add specified column data at the end of each row with $filename being the data?
Thanks.
UPDATE
The following is the updated code now doing what was desired.
$di = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator('/var/www/html/cdr');
foreach (new RecursiveIteratorIterator($di) as $filename => $file)
{
$fileName = $filename;
if ($fileName == "/var/www/html/cdr/.")
{
} else {
$con->query("LOAD DATA INFILE '" . $fileName . "'
INTO TABLE cdr
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '\"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES
SET filename = '" . $fileName . "'"
);
echo $fileName . " added to Database and deleted";
echo "<br />";
unlink($fileName);
}
}
Was as simple as adding SET columnName = columnEntry to the end of the query.
A:
You could try this:
$sql = "LOAD DATA INFILE '" . $filename . "'
INTO TABLE cdr
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '\"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES
(`col2`,`col3`, `colX`)
SET filenameColumnName='{$filename}'";
Or even without the column list:
$sql = "LOAD DATA INFILE '" . $filename . "'
INTO TABLE cdr
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ENCLOSED BY '\"'
LINES TERMINATED BY '\n'
IGNORE 1 LINES
SET filenameColumnName='{$filename}'";
There are examples of this in the MySQL documentation:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html
NOTE: You should probably use data binding on your query, instead of directly including $filename
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-- obtained from <S>. <NewS> is an image of <S>.
uses
Shape from TopoDS,
ShapeEnum from TopAbs,
ListOfShape from TopTools,
DataMapOfShapeListOfShape from TopTools,
DataMapOfShapeShape from TopTools
raises
ConstructionError from Standard
is
Create;
SetRoot (me : in out; S : Shape from TopoDS)
is static;
Bind (me : in out; OldS : Shape from TopoDS;
NewS : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Links <NewS> as image of <OldS>.
raises
ConstructionError -- if Olds has image.
is static;
Bind (me : in out; OldS : Shape from TopoDS;
NewS : ListOfShape from TopTools)
---Purpose: Links <NewS> as image of <OldS>.
raises
ConstructionError -- if Olds has image.
is static;
Add (me : in out; OldS : Shape from TopoDS;
NewS : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Add <NewS> to the image of <OldS>.
raises
ConstructionError -- if Olds has not image.
is static;
Add (me : in out; OldS : Shape from TopoDS;
NewS : ListOfShape from TopTools)
---Purpose: Add <NewS> to the image of <OldS>.
raises
ConstructionError -- if Olds has not image.
is static;
Clear(me : in out)
is static;
Remove(me : in out; S : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Remove <S> to set of images.
raises
ConstructionError -- if S is not an image.
is static;
Roots (me)
---C++: return const &
returns ListOfShape from TopTools
is static;
IsImage (me; S : Shape from TopoDS)
returns Boolean from Standard
is static;
ImageFrom (me; S : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Returns the generator of <S>
---C++: return const &
returns Shape from TopoDS
is static;
Root (me; S : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Returns the upper generator of <S>
---C++: return const &
returns Shape from TopoDS
is static;
HasImage (me; S : Shape from TopoDS)
returns Boolean from Standard
is static;
Image (me; S : Shape from TopoDS)
---Purpose: Returns the Image of <S>.
-- Returns <S> in the list if HasImage(S) is false.
---C++: return const &
returns ListOfShape from TopTools
is static;
LastImage (me; S : Shape from TopoDS;
L : in out ListOfShape from TopTools)
---Purpose: Stores in <L> the images of images of...images of <S>.
-- <L> contains only <S> if HasImage(S) is false.
is static;
Compact (me : in out)
---Purpose: Keeps only the link between roots and lastimage.
is static;
Filter (me : in out;
S : Shape from TopoDS;
ShapeType : ShapeEnum from TopAbs);
---Purpose: Deletes in the images the shape of type <ShapeType>
-- which are not in <S>.
-- Warning: Compact() must be call before.
fields
roots : ListOfShape from TopTools;
up : DataMapOfShapeShape from TopTools;
down : DataMapOfShapeListOfShape from TopTools;
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