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"Deleuze:" "You have selected a format as an ABC primer, you have indicated to me some themes, and in this, I do not know exactly what the questions will be, so that I have only been able to think a bit beforehand about the themes" "For me, answering a question without having thought about it a bit is something inconceivable." "What saves me in this is the particular condition:" "should any of this be at all useful, all of it will be used only after my death." "So, you understand, I feel myself being reduced to the state of a pure archive for Pierre-André Boutang, to a sheet of paper," "so that lifts my spirits and comforts me immensely, and nearly in the state of pure spirit, I speak after my death, and we know well that a pure spirit if you've made tables turn." "But we know as well that a pure spirit is not someone who gives answers that are either very profound or very intelligent." "They can be cursory." "So anything goes in this, let's begin, A-B-C, whatever you want." "So anything goes in this, let's begin, A-B-C, whatever you want." "Parnet:" "We begin with and "A" is "Animal."" "We can cite, as if it were you saying it, a quote from W.C. Fields:" ""A man who doesn't like animals or children can't be all bad."" "We'll leave aside the children for the moment, but domestic animals," "I know that you don't care for them much." "And in this, you don't even accept the distinction made by Baudelaire and Cocteau-cats are not any better than dogs for you." "On the other hand, throughout your work, there is a bestiary that is quite repugnant;" "that is, besides deers that are noble animals, you talk copiously of ticks, of fleas, of a certain number of repugnant little animals of this kind." "What I want to add is that animals have been very useful in your writings, starting with Anti-Oedipus, through a concept that has become quite important, the concept of "becoming-animal"" "So I would like to know a bit more clearly what is your relationship to animals." "Deleuze:" "What you said there about my relation with domestic animals... it's not really domestic, or tamed, or wild animals that concern me," "or cats or dogs" "The problem, rather, is with animals that are both familiar and familial." "Familiar or familial animals, tamed and domesticated, I don't care for them, whereas domesticated animals that are not familiar and familial, I like them fine because I am quite sensitive to something in these animals." "What happened to me is what happens in lots of families, there is neither dog nor cat, and then one of our children," "Fanny's and mine, came home with a tiny cat, no bigger than his little hand, that he found out in the country somewhere, in a basket or somewhere, and from that fatal moment onward, I have always had a cat around the house." "What do I find unpleasant in these animals- although that certainly was no major ordeal-l can handle it." "What do I find unpleasant?" "I don't like things that rub against me and a cat spends its time rubbing up against you." "I don't like that, and with dogs, it's altogether different:" "what I fundamentally reproach them for is always barking." "A bark really seems to me the stupidest cry..." "There are animal cries in nature, a variety of cries, and barking is truly the shame of the animal kingdom." "Whereas I can stand much better (on the condition that it not be for too long a time) the howling at the moon, a dog howling at the moon..." "Parnet: at death..." "Deleuze:" "At death, who knows?" "I can stand this better than barking." "And since I learned quite recently that cats and dogs were cheating the Social Security system, my antipathy has increased even more." "What I mean is..." "What I am going to say is completely idiotic because people who really like cats and dogs obviously do have a relationship with them that is not human." "For example, you see that children do not have a human relationship with a cat, but rather an infantile relationship with animals." "What is really important is for people to have an animal relationship with an animal." "So what does it mean to have an animal relationship with the animal?" "It doesn't consist of talking to it..." "but in any case," "I cant stand the human relationship with the animal." "I know what I am saying because I live on a rather deserted street where people walk their dogs, and what I hear from my window is quite frightening, the way that people talk to their animals." "Even psychoanalysis notices this!" "Psychoanalysis is so fixated on familiar or familial animals, on animals of the family, that any animal, in a dream, for example," "is interpreted by psychoanalysis as being an image of the father, mother, or child, that is, an animal as a family member." "I find that odious, I can't stand it, and you only have to think of two paintings by the Douanier Rousseau, the dog in the cart who is truly the grandfather, the grandfather in a pure state," "and the war horse is a veritable beast." "So the question is, what kind of relationship do you have with an animal?" "If you have a human relationship with an animal" "But again, generally people who like animals don't have a human relationship with animals, they have an animal relationship with the animal, and that's quite beautiful." "Even hunters-and I don't like hunters- but even hunters have an astonishing relationship with the animal..." "And you asked me also Well, other animals, it's true that I am fascinated by animals like spiders, ticks, fleas" "They are as important as dogs and cats." "And there are relationships with animals there, someone who has ticks, who has fleas, what does that mean?" "These are relationships with some very active animals." "So what fascinates me in animals?" "Because really, my hatred for certain animals is nourished by my fascination with many other animals." "If I try to take stock vaguely of this, what is it that impresses me in an animal?" "The first thing that impresses me is the fact that every animal has a world, and it's curious because there are a lot of humans, a lot of people who do not have a world." "They live the life of everybody, that is, of just any one and any thing." "Animals, they have worlds." "What is an animal world?" "It's sometimes extraordinarily limited, and that's what moves me." "Finally, animals react to very few things..." "Cut me off if you see that" "Deleuze:" "Yes, so, in this story of the first characteristic of the animal, it's really the existence of specific, special animal worlds." "Perhaps it is sometimes the poverty of these worlds, the reduced character of these worlds, that impresses me so much." "For example, we were talking earlier about an animal like the tick." "The tick responds, reacts to three things, three stimuli, period, that's it, in a natural world that is immense, three stimuli, that's it:" "that is, it tends toward the extremity of a tree branch, it's attracted by light, it can wait on top of this branch, it can wait for years without eating, without anything, in a completely amorphous state." "It waits for a ruminant, an herbivore, an animal to pass under its branch, it lets itself fall... it's a kind of olfactory stimulus..." "the tick smells, it smells the animal that passes under its branch, that's the second stimulus:" "light first, then odor." "Then, when it falls onto the back of the poor animal, it goes looking for the region that is the least covered with hair..." "So, there's a tactile stimulus, and it digs in under the skin." "For everything else, if one can say this, for everything else, it does not give a damn..." "That is, in a nature teeming [with life], it extracts, selects three things." "Parnet:" "And is that your life's dream?" "That's what attracts you to animals?" "Deleuze:" "That's what constitutes a world, that's what constitutes a world." "Parnet:" "Hence, your animal-writing relationship, that is, the writer, for you, is also someone who has a world... it's more compl-Yes, I don't know, because there are other aspects:" "it is not enough to have a world to be an animal." "What fascinates me completely are territorial matters." "With Felix [Guattari], we really created a concept, nearly a philosophical concept, with the idea of territory." "Animals with territory-OK, there are animals without territory, fine- but animals with territory, it's amazing because constituting a territory is, for me, nearly the birth of art." "How an animal marks its territory, everyone knows, everyone always invokes stories of anal glands, of urine, of... with which it marks the borders of its territory." "But it's a lot more than that: what intervenes in marking a territory is also a series of postures, for example, lowering oneself/lifting oneself up;" "a series of colors, baboons, for example, the color of buttocks of baboons that they display at the border of territories..." "Color, song, posture: these are the three determinants of art:" "I mean, color and lines-animal postures are sometimes veritable lines- color, line, song-that's art in its pure state." "And so, I tell myself that when they leave their territory or return to their territory, it's in the domain of property and ownership." "It's very curious that it is in the domain of property and ownership, that is," ""my properties," in the manner of Beckett or Michaux." ""my proper-ties, in the manner" of Beckett or Michaux." "Territory constitutes the properties of the animal, and leaving the territory, they risk it, and there are animals that recognize their partner, they recognize them in the territory, but not outside the territory." "Parnet:" "Which one?" "Deleuze:" "That's what I call a marvel..." "I don't recall which bird, you have to believe me on this..." "So, with Félix-l am leaving the animal subject," "I pass on to a philosophical question because we can mix all kinds of things in the Abécédaire." "I tell myself: philosophers sometimes get criticized for creating barbaric words." "But, put yourself in my place:" "for certain reasons," "I am interested in reflecting on this notion of territory, and I tell myself, territory is defined in relation to a movement by which one leaves the territory." "So, to address this, I need a word that is apparently "barbaric."" "Henceforth, with Félix, we constructed a concept that" "I like a lot, the concept of "deterritorialization."" "We've been told that it's a hard word to pronounce, and then asked what it means, what its use is..." "So this is a beautiful case of a philosophical concept that can only be designated by a word that does not yet exist, even if we later discover that there are equivalents in other languages." "For example, I happened to notice that in Melville, there appears all the time "outlandish"- I pronounce poorly," "you can correct it yourself-but "outlandish" is precisely the equivalent of "the deterritorialized," word for word." "So, I tell myself that for philosophy- before returning to animals- for philosophy, it is quite striking:" "it is sometimes necessary to invent a barbaric word to account for a notion with innovative pretensions:" "the notion with innovative pretensions is that there is no territory, without a vector of exiting the territory;" "there is no exiting the territory, that is, deterritorialization, without at the same time an effort of reterritorializing oneself elsewhere, on something else." "All this functions with animals, and that's what fascinates me." "What is fascinating generally is the whole domain of signs." "Animals emit signs, they ceaselessly emit signs, they produce signs." "That is, in the double sense, they react to signs- for example, a spider, everything that touches its web, it reacts to anything, reacts to signs- and they produce signs" "for example, the famous sign, is that a wolf sign, a wolf track or something else?" "I admire enormously people who know how to recognize [tracks], for example, hunters-real hunters, not hunt club hunters, but real hunters who can recognize the animal that has passed by." "At that point, they are animal, they have with the animal an animal relationship." "That's what I mean by having an animal relationship with an animal." "Parnet:" "And this emission of signs, this reception of signs, is there a connection with writing and the writer, and the animal?" "Deleuze:" "Of course." "If someone were to ask me what it means to be an animal," "I would answer: it's being on the lookout." "It's a being fundamentally on the lookout." "Parnet:" "Like the writer?" "Deleuze:" "The writer, well, yes, on the lookout, the philosopher, on the lookout, obviously, we are on the lookout." "For me, you see, the ears of the animal: it does nothing without being on the lookout, it's never relaxed, an animal. it's eating, [yet] has to be on the lookout" "to see if something is happening behind its back, on either side, etc." "It's terrible, this existence "aux aguets."" "So you make the connection with the writer, what is the relation between the animal and the writer...?" "Parnet: you made it before I did..." "Deleuze:" "That's true..." "One almost has to say that, at the limit..." "A writer, what is it?" "He writes, he writes "for" readers, of course, but what does "for" mean?" "It means toward them," "A writer..." "He writes toward his readers, in a way, he writes "for" readers." "But one has to say that the writer writes also for non-readers, that is, not intended for them, but "in their place."" "So "for" means two things: intended for them and in their place." "Artaud wrote pages that nearly everyone knows," ""I write for the illiterate, I write for idiots."" "Faulkner writes for idiots." "That doesn't mean so that idiots would read, that the illiterate would read, it means "in the place of" the illiterate." "I mean," "I write "in the place of" barbarians, I write "in the place of" animals." "And what does that mean?" "Why does one dare say something like that," "I write in the place of idiots, the illiterate, animals?" "Because that is what one does, literally, when one writes." "When one writes, one is not pursuing some private little affair." "They really are stupid fools;" "really, it's the abomination of literary mediocrity, in every era, but particularly quite recently, that makes people believe that to create a novel, for example, it suffices to have some little private affair, some little personal affair" "one's grandmother who died of cancer, or someone's personal love affair- and there you go, you can write a novel based on this." "It's shameful to think things like that." "Writing is not anyone's private affair, but rather it means throwing oneself into a universal affair, be it a novel or philosophy." "Now what does that mean?" "Parnet:" "So this 'writing for," that is, "intended for" or "in the place of,"" "it's a bit like what you said in A Thousand Plateaus about" "[Lord] Chandos by Hofmannstahl, in the very beautiful phrase:" ""the writer is a sorcerer because he sees the animal as the only population before which he is responsible."" "Deleuze:" "That's it, absolutely right." "And for a very simple reason," "I think it's quite simple... it's not at all a literary declaration what you just read from Hofmannsthal, it's something else." "Writing means necessarily pushing language-and pushing syntax, since language is syntax- up to a certain limit," "a limit that can be expressed in several ways: it can be just as well the limit that separates language from silence, or the limit that separates language from music, or the limit that separates language from something that would be," "what?" "Let's say, the wailing, the painful wailing..." "Parnet:" "But not the barking, surely!" "Deleuze:" "Oh, no, not barking, although who knows?" "There might be a writer who is capable..." "The painful wailing?" "Well, everyone says, why yes, it's Kafka, it's Metamorphosis, the manager who cries out, "Did you hear?" "It sounds like an animal,"" "the painful wailing of Gregor." "Or else the mass of mice, one writes for the mass of mice, the mass of rats that are dying because, contrary to what is said, it's not men who know how to die, but animals," "and when men die, they die like animals." "Here we return to cats, and I have a lot of respect..." "Among the many cats that lived here, there was that little cat who died rather quickly, that is, I saw what a lot of people have seen as well, how an animal seeks a corner to die in..." "There is a territory for death as well, a search for a territory of death, where one can die." "We saw the little cat slide itself right into a tight corner, an angle, as if it were the good spot for it to die in." "So, in a sense, if the writer is indeed one who pushes language to the limit, the limit that separates language from animality, that separates language from the cry, that separates language from song, then one has to say, yes, the writer is responsible to animals who die," "that is, he answers to animals who die, to write, literally, not "for"'-again," "I don't write "for" my dog or for my cat- but writing "in the place of" animals who die, etc., carrying language to this limit." "There is no literature that does not carry language and syntax to this limit that separates man from animal..." "One has to be on this limit..." "That's what I think..." "Even when one does philosophy, that's the case..." "One is on the limit that separates thought from non-thought." "You always have to be at the limit that separates you from animality, but precisely in such a way that you are no longer separated from it." "There is an inhumanity proper to the human body, and to the human mind, there are animal relations with the animal..." "And if we were finished with that would be nice..." "Parnet:" "OK, then, we will pass on to" ""B" is a little bit special, it's on drinking." "OK, so you used to drink, and then stopped drinking, and I would like to know what it was for you to drink when you used to drink..." "Was it for pleasure?" "Deleuze:" "Yeah, I drank a lot..." "I drank a lot..." "So I stopped, but I drank a lot..." "What was it?" "That's not difficult, at least I think not..." "You should question other people who drank a lot, you should question alcoholics." "I believe that drinking is a matter of quantity." "For that reason, there is no equivalent with food, even if there are people who eat copiously- eating always disgusted me, so that's not relevant in my case." "But drinking..." "I understand well that one doesn't drink just anything, that each drinker has a favorite drink, but it's because in that framework that one has to grasp the quantity." "What does this question of quantity mean?" "People make fun of addicts and alcoholics because they never stop saying, "Oh you know, I am in control," "I can stop drinking whenever I want." People make fun of them because they don't understand what drinkers mean." "I have some very clear memories of this," "I think everyone who drank understands this." "When you drink, what you want to reach is the last drink." "Literally, drinking means doing everything in order to reach the final drink." "That's what is interesting." "Parnet:" "At the limit?" "Deleuze:" "Well, what the limit is, is very complicated, let me tell you..." "In other words, an alcoholic is someone who never ceases to stop drinking," "I mean, who never stops having arrived at the last drink." "So what does that mean?" "It's like the expression by [Charles] Péguy that is so beautiful," ""lt's not the final water lily that repeats the first, it's the first water lily that repeats all the others and the final one."" "The first drink, it repeats the last one, it's the last one that counts." "So what does that mean, the last drink, for an alcoholic?" "He gets up in the morning, if he's a morning alcoholic- there are all the kinds that you might want -if he's a morning alcoholic, he is entirely pointed toward the moment when he will reach" "the last drink. it's not the first, the second, the third that interests him... it's a lot more..." "He's clever, full of guile, an alcoholic..." "The last glass means this: he evaluates..." "there is an evaluation." "He evaluates what he can hold, without collapsing... he evaluates..." "It varies considerably with each person." "So he evaluates the last drink, and all the others are going to be his way of passing, of reaching the last glass." "And what does "the last" mean?" "That means that he cannot stand to drink one more glass that particular day." "It's the last one that will allow him to begin drinking the next day... because if he goes all the way to the last drink, on the contrary, that goes beyond his capacity, it's the last in his power." "If he goes beyond the last one in his power in order to reach the last one beyond his power, then he collapses, then he's screwed, he has to go to the hospital, or he has to change his habits," "he has to change assemblages." "So that when he says," ""the last drink," it's not the last one, it's the next-to-last one." "He is searching for the next-to-last one." "In other words, there is a term to say the next-to-last, it's penultimate..." "He does not seek the last drink, he seeks the penultimate one." "Parnet:" "Never the ultimate..." "Deleuze:" "Not the ultimate, because the ultimate would place him outside his arrangement." "The penultimate is the last one... before beginning again the next day." "So I can say that the alcoholic is someone who says, and who never stops saying" "You hear it in the cafés, those groups of alcoholics are so joyful, one never gets tired of listening to them- So the alcoholic is someone who never stops saying, "OK, it's the last one," and the last one varies from" "one person to another, but the last one is the next-to-last one." "Parnet:" "And he's also the one who says, "I'm stopping tomorrow."" "Deleuze: "Stopping tomorrow"?" "No, he never says" ""I'm stopping tomorrow." He says, "I'm stopping today, to be able to start over again tomorrow."" "Parnet:" "And since drinking means not stopping... means stopping drinking constantly, then how does one stop drinking completely, because you stopped drinking completely...?" "Deleuze: it's too dangerous, if one goes too quickly." "Michaux has said everything on that topic." "In my opinion, drug problems and alcohol problems are not that separate." "Michaux said everything on that topic..." "A moment comes when it is too dangerous." "Here again, there is this ridge... when I was talking about this ridge between language and silence, or language and animality." "This ridge is a thin division." "One can very well drink or take drugs..." "One can always do whatever one wants if it doesn't prevent you from working." "If it's a stimulus..." "it's even normal to offer something of one's body as a sacrifice." "There is a whole sacrificial attitude in these activities, drinking, taking drugs, one offers one's body as a sacrifice..." "Why?" "No doubt because there is something entirely too strong that one could not stand without alcohol." "It's not a question of being able to stand alcohol..." "That's perhaps what one believes, what one needs to believe, what one believes oneself to see, to feel, to think, with the result that one has the need in order to stand it," "in order to master it, one needs assistance, from alcohol, drugs, etc." "Deleuze:" "So the question of limits, it's quite simple..." "Drinking, taking drugs, these are almost supposed to make possible" "something that is too strong, even if one has to pay for it afterwards, that's well known." "But it's connected to working, working." "And it's obvious that when everything is reversed and drinking prevents one from working, when taking a drug becomes a way of not working, that's the absolute danger, it no longer has any interest." "And at the same time, it's more and more obvious that although we used to think drinking was necessary, that taking drugs was necessary, they are not necessary..." "Perhaps one has to have gone through that experience to realize that everything one thought one did thanks to drugs or thanks to alcohol, one could do without them." "You see, I admire a lot the way that Michaux considers all this..." "He stops all this, and I see the advantage because I stopped drinking for reasons related to breathing, for health reasons." "It is obvious that one has to stop or do without it." "The only tiny justification possible would be if they did help one to work, even if one has to pay for it physically afterwards." "But the more one continues, the more one realizes that it doesn't help ones work." "Parnet:" "Michaux must have drunk quite a lot and taken a lot of drugs in order to get to the point of doing without in such a state as he did..." "And on the other hand, you said that when you drink, it must not prevent you from working, but that you perceive something that drinking helps you to support, and this "something" is not life..." "so that raises the question about the writers you prefer..." "Deleuze:" "Yes, it is life..." "Parnet:" "It is life?" "Deleuze: it's something too strong in life." "It's not necessarily something that is terrifying, just something that is too strong, it's something too powerful in life." "Some people believe a bit idiotically that drinking puts you on the level of this too-powerful-something." "If you take the whole lineage of the Americans, the great American writers..." "Parnet:" "From Fitzgerald to Lowry..." "Deleuze:" "Fitzgerald, the one I admire the most is Thomas Wolfe... all that is a series of alcoholics, at the same time, that's what allows them..." "no doubt, helps them to perceive this something- too-huge..." "Parnet:" "Yes, but it's also because they themselves had perceived something powerful in life that not everyone could perceive, they felt something powerful in life..." "Deleuze:" "That's right, obviously... it's not alcohol that is going to make you feel..." "Parnet: the power of life for them that they alone could perceive." "Deleuze:" "I completely agree I completely agree" "Parnet: and the same for Lowry..." "Deleuze:" "I completely agree Certainly..." "They created their works, and what alcohol was for them, well, they took a risk, they took a chance on it because they thought, right or wrong, that alcohol would help them with it." "I had the feeling that alcohol helped me create concepts... it's strange... philosophical concepts, yes, that it helped me, and then it wasn't helping me any more, it was getting dangerous for me," "I no longer wanted to work." "At that point, you just have to give it up, that's all..." "Parnet:" "That's more like an American tradition, because we don't know of many French writers who have this penchant for alcohol, and still it's kind of hard to..." "There is something that belongs to their writing..." "Deleuze:" "Well, yes, yes, but French writers, it's not the same vision of writing..." "I don't know..." "If I have been influenced so much by the Americans, it's because of this question of vision." "They are "seers"..." "If one believes that philosophy, writing, is a question, in a very modest fashion, a question of "seeing" something..." "seeing something that others don't see, then it's not exactly the French conception of literature." "Although there are a lot of alcoholics in France..." "Parnet:" "But the alcoholics in France, they stop writing, at least we don't know of any..." "But we don't know of any philosophers either who devote..." "Deleuze:" "Verlaine lived on a street right nearby here, rue Nollet..." "Parnet:" "Ah yes, with the exception of Rimbaud and Verlaine..." "Deleuze:" "It moves me." "When I take the street and I think that it undoubtedly must have been the route that Verlaine took to go to a cafe to drink his absinthe..." "Apparently he lived in a pitiful apartment..." "Parnet:" "Well yes, poets and alcohol..." "Deleuze:" "One of Frances greatest poets who used to shuffle down that street..." "it's marvelous..." "Yes, yes..." "Parnet"." "At the Bar des Arms..." "Deleuze:" "No doubt!" "Parnet:" "Yes, among poets, we know that there were more alcoholics" "OK, well, we have finished with alcohol..." "Deleuze:" "Yep, we've finished My, we're speeding along..." "Deleuze:" "Yep, we've finished My, we're speeding along..." "Parnet: .. so we pass on to and "C" is vast..." "Deleuze:" "What is it?" "Parnet: "C as in Culture."" "Deleuze:" "Sure, why not?" "Parnet:" "OK, you are someone who describes himself as not "cultivated."" "That is, you say that you read, you go to movies, you observe things to gain particular knowledge, something that you need" "for a particular, ongoing project that you are in the process of developing." "But, at the same time, you are someone who, every Saturday, goes out to an art exhibit, goes out to a movie, in the broad cultural domain..." "One gets the impression that you have a kind of practice, an effort towards culture, that you systematize, and that you have a cultural practice, that is, you go out," "you make an effort at a systematic cultural practice, you aim at developing yourself culturally." "And yet, I repeat, you claim that you are not at all "cultivated,"" "so how do you explain this little paradox?" "..." "You're not "cultivated?"" "Deleuze:" "No, because..." "I would say that, in fact..." "When I tell you that," "I don't see myself, really, I don't experience myself as an intellectual or experience myself as "cultivated" for a simple reason:" "when I see someone "cultivated," I am terrified, and not necessarily with admiration, although admiring them from certain perspectives, from others, not at all." "But I am just terrified of a "cultivated person,"" "and this is quite obvious to "cultivated people."" "it's a kind of knowledge, a frightening body of knowledge on everything..." "One sees that a lot with intellectuals, they know everything." "Well, maybe not, but they are informed about everything- they know the history of Italy during the Renaissance, they know the geography of the North Pole, they know... the whole list, they know everything, can talk about anything... it's abominable." "So, when I say that I am neither "cultivated," nor an intellectual," "I mean something quite simple, that I have no "reserve knowledge,"" "At least, there's no problem, at my death, there's no point in looking for what I have left to publish..." "Nothing, nothing, because" "I have no reserves, I have no provisions, no provisional knowledge." "And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done," "I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to" "and this gives me great joy- if I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject," "I would have to start again from zero, except in certain very rare cases, for example Spinoza, who is in my heart whom I don't forget." "It's my heart and not my mind." "Otherwise..." "So why don't I admire this "frightening knowledge," these people who talk..." "Parnet:" "Is this knowledge a kind of erudition, or just an opinion on every subject?" "Deleuze:" "No, it's not erudition." "They know... they know how to talk." "First, they've traveled a lot, traveled in geography, in history, but they know how to talk about everything." "I've heard them on t.v., it's frightening..." "I have heard... well, since I am full of admiration for him," "I can even say it, people like Eco, Umberto Eco... it's amazing..." "There you go, it's like pushing on a button, and he knows all of it as well." "I cant say that I envy that entirely, I'm just frightened by it, but I don't envy it at all." "To a certain extent, I ask:" "what does culture consist of?" "And I tell myself that it consists a lot of talking." "I can't keep myself..." "Especially since I have stopped teaching, since I have retired," "I realize that talking is a bit dirty, a bit dirty, whereas writing is clean." "Writing is clean and talking is dirty." "It's dirty because it means being seductive." "I could never stand attending colloquia ever since I was in school, still quite young," "I could never stand colloquia." "I don't travel much, and why not?" "Intellectuals..." "I would gladly travel sometime if..." "Well, actually I wouldn't travel, my health prevents it, but intellectuals travelling is a joke." "They don't travel, they move about in order to go talk..." "They go from one place where they talk in order to go to another place where they are going to talk even during meals, they talk with the local intellectuals." "They never stop talking, and I can't stand talking, talking, talking," "I can't stand it." "So, in my opinion, since culture is closely linked to speaking, in this sense, I hate culture, I cannot stand it." "Parnet:" "Well, we will come back to the separation between writing itself and dirty speech because, nonetheless, you are a very great professor and..." "Deleuze:" "Well, that's different..." "Parnet: and we will come back to it because the letter "P" is about your work as professor, and then we will be able to discuss "seduction"..." "Parnet:" "I still want to come back to this subject that you kind of avoided, to this effort, discipline even, that you impose on yourself-even if, in fact, you don't need to-to see, well, for example, in the last two weeks," "the [Sigmar] Polke exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art." "You go out rather frequently, not to say on a weekly basis, to see a major film or to see art exhibits." "So, you say that you are not erudite, not "cultivated,"" "you have no admiration for "cultivated people," like you just said, so what does this practice, all this effort, correspond to for you?" "Is it a form of pleasure?" "Deleuze:" "I think..." "Yes, certainly, it's a form of pleasure, although not always." "But I see this as part of my investment in being "on the lookout." I don't believe in culture, to some extent, but rather I believe in encounters." "But these encounters don't occur with people." "People always think that it's with people that encounters occur, which is why it's awful..." "Now, in this, that belongs to the domain of culture, intellectuals meeting one another, this disgusting practice of conferences, this infamy." "So encounters, it's not between people that they happen, but with things..." "So I encounter a..." "painting, yes, or a piece of music," "that's how I understand an encounter." "When people want to add an encounter with themselves, with people, well, that doesn't work at all..." "That's not an encounter, and that's why encounters are so utterly, utterly disappointing." "Encounters with people are always catastrophic." "So, as you said, when I go out on Saturdays and Sundays, to the movies, etc., I'm not certain to have an encounter..." "I go out, I am "on the lookout" for encounters, wondering if there might be material for an encounter, in a film, in a painting, so it's great." "I'll give an example because, for me, whenever one does something, it is also a question of moving on from it, simultaneously staying in it and getting out of it." "So, staying in philosophy also means how to get out of philosophy." "But, getting out of philosophy doesn't mean doing something else." "One has to get out while remaining within... it's not doing something else, not writing a novel." "First off, I wouldn't be able to in any event, but even if I could, it would be completely useless." "I want to get out of philosophy by means of philosophy." "That's what interests me..." "Parnet:" "That is...'.7" "Deleuze:" "Here is an example." "Since all this will be after my death, I can speak without modesty." "I just wrote a book on a great philosopher called Leibniz in which" "I insisted on the notion that seemed important in his work, but that is very important for me, the notion of "the fold."" "So, I consider that it's a book of philosophy, on this bizarre little notion of the fold." "What happens to me after that?" "I received a lot of letters, as always..." "There are letters that are insignificant even if they are charming and affectionate and move me deeply," "They are letters that talk about what I have done... letters from intellectuals who liked or didn't like the book..." "And then I receive two other letters that make me rub my eyes in disbelief." "Letters from people who tell me, "Your story of folds, that's us!" and" "I realize that it's from people who belong to an association that has 400 members in France currently, perhaps they now have more, an association of paper folders." "They have a journal, and they send me the journal, and they say, "We agree completely, what you are doing is what we do." So, I tell myself, that's quite something!" "Then I received another kind of letter, and they speak in exactly the same way, saying: "The fold is us!"" "I find this marvelous, all the more so because it reminded me of a story in Plato, since great philosophers do not write in abstractions," "but are great writers and authors of very concrete things." "So, in Plato, there is a story that delights me, and it's no doubt linked to the beginning of philosophy, maybe we will come back to it..." "Plato's theme is..." "He gives a definition, for example, what is a politician?" "A politician is the pastor of men." "And with that definition, lots of people arrive to say: "Hey, you can see, we are politicians!" For example, the shepherd arrives, says "I dress people, so I am the true pastor of men";" "the butcher arrives, "I feed people, so I am the true pastor of men."" "So these rivals arrive, and I feel like I have been through this a bit:" "here come the paper folders who say, we are the fold!" "And the others who wrote and who sent me exactly the same thing, it's really great, they were surfers who, it would seem, have no relation whatsoever with the paper folders." "And the surfers say," ""We understand, we agree completely because what do we do?" "We never stop inserting ourselves into the folds of nature." "For us, nature is an aggregate of mobile folds, and we insert ourselves into the fold of the wave, live in the fold of the wave, that's what our task is." "Living in the fold of the wave." And, in fact, they talk about this quite admirably." "These people are quite..." "They think about what they do, not just surfing, but think about what they do, and maybe we will talk about it one day if we reach sports, at "T as in Tennis"" "Parnet:" "So these belong to the "encounter" category, these encounters with surfers, with paper folders?" "Deleuze:" "Yes, these are encounters." "When I say" ""get out of philosophy through philosophy,"" "this happened to me all the time..." "I encountered the paper folders..." "I don't have to go see them." "No doubt, we'd be disappointed," "I'd be disappointed, and they certainly would be even more disappointed, so no need to see them." "I had an encounter with the surf, with the paper folders, literally," "I went beyond philosophy by means of philosophy." "That's what an encounter is." "So, I think, when I go out to an exhibit," "I am "on the lookout," searching for a painting that might touch me, that might affect me. [Same] when I go to the movies..." "I don't go to the theater because theater is too long, too disciplined, it's too... it's too... it does not seem to be an art that... except in certain cases, except with Bob Wilson and Carmelo Bene," "I don't feel that theater is very much in touch with our era, except for these extreme cases." "But to remain there for four hours in an uncomfortable seat, I can't do it any more for health reasons, so that wipes theater out entirely for me." "But at a painting exhibit or at the movies, I always have the impression that in the best circumstances, I risk having an encounter with an idea..." "Parnet:" "Yes, but there is no..." "I mean, films only for entertainment do not exist at all?" "Deleuze:" "Well, they are not culture..." "Parnet:" "They may not be culture, but there is no entertainment..." "Deleuze:" "Well, entertainment..." "Parnet: that is, everything is situated within your work?" "For the future..." "Deleuze:" "No, it's not work, it's just that I am "on the lookout" for something that might "happen," asking myself, does that disturb me?" "Those [kinds of films]... they amuse me a lot, they are very funny." "Parnet:" "Well, it's not Eddie Murphy who is going to disturb you!" "Deleuze: it's not...?" "Parnet:" "Eddie Murphy, he's a director..." "no, an American comedian and actor whose recent films are enormously successful with the public." "Deleuze:" "I don't know him." "Parnet:" "No, I mean, you never watch... no, you only watch Benny Hill on television..." "Deleuze:" "Yes, well, I find Benny Hill interesting, that interests me." "Well, it's certainly nothing that is necessarily really good or new, but there are reasons why it interests me." "Parnet:" "But when you go out, it's for an encounter." "Deleuze:" "When I go out if there is no idea to draw from it, if I don't say," ""Yes, he had an idea"..." "What do great filmmakers do?" "This is valid for filmmakers too." "What strikes me in the beauty of, for example, a great filmmaker like Minnelli, or like Losey, what affects me if not that they are overwhelmed by ideas, an idea..." "Parnet:" "You're starting in on my [letter] "I"!" "Stop right away!" "Deleuze:" "OK, let's stop on that, but that's what an encounter is for me, one has encounters with things and not with people..." "Parnet:" "Do you have a lot of encounters, to talk about a particular cultural period like right now?" "Deleuze:" "Well, yes, I just told you, with paper folders, with surfers..." "What could you ask for that's more beautiful?" "Parnet:" "But..." "Deleuze:" "But these are not encounters with intellectuals," "I don't have any encounters with intellectuals..." "Parnet:" "But do you..." "Deleuze: or if I have an encounter with an intellectual, it's for other reasons, like" "I like him so I have a meeting with him, for what he is doing, for his ongoing work, his charm, all that..." "One has an encounter with those kinds of elements, with the charm of people, with the work of people, but not with people in themselves." "I don't have anything to do with people, nothing at all." "Parnet:" "Perhaps they rub up against you like cats." "Deleuze:" "Well yes, it could be like that, their rubbing or their barking!" "it's awful!" "Parnet:" "Lets think about culturally rich and culturally poor periods." "So what about now, do you think it's a period that's not too rich, because I often see you get very annoyed watching television, watching the literary shows that we won't name, although when this interview is shown," "the names will have changed." "Do you find this to be a rich period or a particularly poor period that we are living through?" "Deleuze:" "Yes, it's poor, it's poor, but at the same time, it's not at all distressing." "Parnet:" "You find it funny?" "Deleuze:" "Yes, I find it funny." "I tell myself, at my age, this is not the first time that impoverished periods have occurred." "I tell myself, what have I lived through since" "I was old enough to be somewhat enthusiastic?" "I lived through the Liberation and the aftermath." "It was among the richest periods one could imagine, when we were discovering or rediscovering everything..." "The Liberation..." "The war had taken place and that was no piece of cake..." "We were discovering everything, the American novel, Kafka, the domain of research..." "There was Sartre..." "You cannot imagine what it was like," "I mean intellectually, what we were discovering or rediscovering in painting, etc." "One has to understand..." "There was the huge polemic, "Must we burn Kafka?". .." "It's unimaginable and seems a bit infantile today, but it was a very stimulating, creative atmosphere." "And I lived through the period before May '68 that was an extremely rich period all the way to shortly after May '68." "And in the meantime, if there were impoverished periods, that's quite normal, but it's not the fact of poverty that i find disturbing, but rather the insolence or impudence of people who inhabit the impoverished periods." "They are much more wicked than the inspired people who come to life during rich periods." "Parnet:" "Inspired or just well-meaning?" "Because you referred to the Kafka polemic at the time of the Liberation, and there was that Alexander whats-his-name who was very happy with the fact that he had never read Kafka, and he said it while laughing..." "Deleuze:" "Well, yes, he was very happy..." "The stupider they are, the happier they are, since..." "Like those who think, and we come back to this, that literature is now a tiny little private affair..." "If one thinks that, then there's no need to read Kafka, no need to read very much, since if one has a pretty little pen, one is naturally Kafka's equal..." "There's no work involved there, no work at all..." "I mean, how can I explain myself?" "Let's take something more serious on this than those young fools." "I recently went to the Cosmos to see a film..." "Parnet:" "Parajanov?" "Deleuze:" "No, but Parajanov, that was admirable..." "A very moving Russian film that was made about thirty years ago, but that has only been released very recently." "Parnet"." "The Comissar'?" "Deleuze:" "The Commissar." "In this, I found something that was very moving..." "The film was very, very good, couldn't have been better... perfect." "But we noticed with a kind of terror, or a kind of compassion, that it was a film like the ones the Russians used to make before the war..." "Parnet:" "In the time of Eisenstein..." "Deleuze: in the time of Eisenstein, of Dovzhenko." "Everything was there, parallel editing notably, parallel editing that was sublime, etc." "It was as if nothing had happened since the war, as if nothing had happened in cinema." "And I told myself, it's inevitable, the film is good, sure, but it was very strange too, for that reason, and if it was not that good, it was for that reason." "It was literally by someone who had been so isolated in his work that he created a film the way films were made 20 years ago..." "It wasn't all that bad, only that it was quite good, quite amazing for twenty years earlier." "Everything that happened in the meantime, he never knew about it," "I mean, since he had grown up in a desert. it's awful..." "Crossing a desert is nothing much, working in, passing through a desert period is not bad." "What is awful is being born in this desert, and growing up in it..." "That's frightful," "I imagine..." "One must have an impression of solitude..." "Parnet:" "Like for young people who are 18-year's old now, for example?" "Deleuze:" "Right, especially when you understand that when things..." "This is what happens in impoverished periods." "When things disappear, no one notices it for a simple reason:" "when something disappears, no one misses it." "The Stalinian period caused Russian literature to disappear, and the Russians didn't notice, I mean, the majority of Russians, they just didn't notice, a literature that had been a turbulent literature throughout the nineteenth century, it just disappeared." "I know that now people say there are the dissidents, etc., but on the level of a people, the Russian people, their literature disappeared, their painting disappeared, and nobody noticed." "Today, to account for what is happening today, obviously there are new young people who certainly have genius." "Let us suppose, I don't like the expression, but let us suppose that there are new Becketts, the new Becketts of today..." "Parnet:" "I thought you were going to say the "New Philosophers"..." "Deleuze:" "Yes, well..." "But the new Becketts of today..." "Let us assume that they don't get published-after all," "Beckett almost did not get published" "it's obvious nothing would be missed." "By definition, a great author or a genius is someone who brings forth something new." "If this innovation does not appear, then that bothers no one, no one misses it since no one has the slightest idea about it." "If Proust... if Kafka had never been published, no one could say that Kafka would be missed..." "If someone had burned all of Kafka's writings, no one could say, "Ah, we really miss that!" since no one would have any idea of what had disappeared." "If the new Becketts of today are kept from publishing by the current system of publishing, one cannot say, "Oh, we really miss that!"" "I heard a declaration, the most impudent declaration I have ever heard" "I don't dare say to whom it was attributed in some newspaper since these kinds of things are never certain- someone in the publishing field who dared to say: "You know, today, we no longer risk making mistakes" "like Gallimard did when he initially refused to publish Proust since we have the means today. ." "Parnet:" "The headhunters..." "Deleuze:" "You'd think you were dreaming," ""but with the means we have today to locate and recognize new Prousts and new Becketts." That's like saying they have some sort of Geiger counter and that the new Beckett-that is, someone who is completely unimaginable" "since we don't know what kind of innovation he would bring- he would emit some kind of sound if..." "Parnet: if you passed it over his head..." "Deleuze: if you passed it in his path." "So, what defines the crisis today, with all these idiocies?" "The crisis today I attribute to three things-but it will pass," "I still remain quite optimistic- this is what defines a desert period:" "First, that journalists have conquered the book form." "Journalists have always written [books], and I find it quite good that journalists write, but when journalists used to undertake a book, they used to believe that they were moving into a different form of writing," "not the same thing as writing their newspaper articles." "Parnet:" "One can recall that for a long time, there were writers who were also journalists..." "Mallarme, they could do journalism, but the reverse didn't occur..." "Deleuze:" "Now, it's the reverse..." "The journalist as journalist has conquered the book form, that is, he finds it quite normal to write, just like that, a book that would be nothing more than a newspaper article." "And that's not good at all." "The second reason is that a generalized idea has spread that anyone can write since writing has become the tiny little affair of the individual, with family archives, either written archives or archives... in one's head." "Everybody has had a love story, everybody has had a grandmother who was ill, a mother who was dying in awful conditions." "They tell themselves, ok, I can write a novel about it. it's not at all a novel, I mean, really not at all." "So..." "Parnet:" "The third reason?" "Deleuze:" "The third reason is that, you understand, the real customers have changed." "One realizes..." "Of course, people are still there, still well informed, but the customers have changed." "I mean, who are the television customers?" "It's not the people listening, but rather the advertisers, they are the real customers." "The listeners have what the advertisers want." "Parnet:" "The television viewers..." "Deleuze:" "Yes, the television viewers."

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Inmates must make an initial court appearance or be sentenced to more than 48 hours to be eligible for commissary/checks. Inmate money will be placed in their account and will be made available through voucher to purchase items at commissary. Money orders will be deposited directly into the account. Personal checks will be placed in the inmates’ property box to pick up upon release. Friends and family may bring money to the lobby to deposit in an inmate’s account. On cash is accepted. Money orders must come through the U.S. Mail. A member may only put money on one inmates’ account. If a member is a visitor then money can only be placed on the account of the inmate being visited. Inmates requesting to have the balance of their account available upon their release must submit the request, in writing, two (2) business days prior to their release. Upon release, an inmate’s account balance will be available at 1 p.m. the next business day. Inmates requesting to have the balance of their account mailed, must submit in writing, a request stating their correct mailing address. All other account balance checks will be held by the jail clerical staff and can be picked up during office business hours. If for any reason a stop payment is placed on a check, a fee of $ 15.00 will be charged. Checks will be mailed to other facilities the next business day upon the inmate’s transfer, i.e. MCC, MSP and other County Jails. Checks will not be available when inmates are transported. All account balances will be in check form. Monies brought in for inmates prior to 8 a.m. will be placed in the inmate’s account on that day. Funds may not be transferred from one inmate’s account to another inmate’s account. Checks drawn from one inmate account made payable to another inmate, another inmate’s family member or another inmate’s visitor(s) are not allowed. Funds may not be deposited into an inmate’s account that was received from another inmate, another inmate’s family member or another inmate’s visitor(s). Inmates housed at the Penobscot County Jail are not allowed to drop off money for any inmates for a period of 30 days following release. Visitation Non-contact visiting at the Penobscot County Jail is held four (4) evenings per week. This privilege is provided because it is important that inmates maintain ties with family and friends. Inmates must be incarcerated for four (4) days in the Penobscot County Jail before they are eligible for a visit. It is the inmate’s responsibility to communicate information regarding visits to their (potential) visitors. Policies F-150 / F-154 / F-151 / F-155 / F-210;. An inmate incarcerated in the Penobscot County Jail (minimum four (4) days), who is transferred to another facility (without break in custody) and then returned to the Penobscot County Jail within thirty (30) days, is eligible for visits. Inmates being admitted directly from another correctional facility must complete the four (4) day waiting period. Inmates sentenced to the Penobscot County Jail are not allowed to visit for a period of one (1) year following release. Inmates housed at the Penobscot County Jail, but not sentenced, are not allowed to visit for a period of ninety (90) days following release. Inmates housed at the Penobscot County Jail are not allowed to drop off money for any inmates for a period of 30 days following release. All non-contact visitation will be pre-approved and set up by appointment only on a first come first serve basis. Inmates will provide a list of no more than eight (8) potential visitors for all visitations. The inmate must mail to their potential visitors, a Private Visitor Solicitation Form. All potential visitors must mail in the completed Private Visitor Solicitation form along with a copy of a photo ID such as a license or state ID, for children a copy of a birth certificate. The form must be mailed to: PENOBSCOT COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE 85 HAMMOND ST. BANGOR, ME. 04401; ATTN; PROGRAMS DIVISION. The inmate will be notified of persons approved for non-contact visits. Inmates can update their visitation lists every 30 days. Information about persons approved for visitation will NOT be given out over the phone. For each visiting day an accumulative list for non-contact visits will be put together by the lobby clerical specialist. The lobby clerical specialist will have in their possession the approved visiting list and will deny any visitor access that has not been pre-approved. There will only be ten (10) inmates allowed at a time for non-contact visits and no more than two (2) visitors per inmate. Children under five (5) years of age that can be placed on a visitors lap will not be considered as part of the two (2) visitors. In order to set up each visit, visitors must call; 207-945-4932 and ask for the lobby clerical specialist. If room is not available during the normal two (2) visiting sessions, (1830-1930 & 1930-2030) then a 3rd or even 4th session will be set up by the lobby clerical specialist. The following days and times have been designated for setting up each visitation day. 1) Tuesday; visitors must call on Monday between the hours of 1230 and 1530 hours;*2) Thursday; visitors must call on Wednesday between the hours of 1230 and 1530 hours;*3) Saturday; visitors must call on Thursday between the hours of 1230 and 1530 hours;*4) Sunday; visitors must call on Friday between the hours of 1230 and 1530 hours.* Anyone under eighteen (18) years of age shall be accompanied by his or her parent, legal guardian or properly authorized escort**. Only biological or adopted children can be approved for non-contact visits. Emancipated juveniles between fourteen (14) and eighteen (18) will be permitted non-contact visits, only after proper approval. Unaccompanied juveniles between fourteen (14) and eighteen (18), who have written permission from their parents or legal guardians, will only be allowed non-contact visits with an incarcerated parent, after proper approval.** (For the purpose of this paragraph, properly authorized escort means with written permission from parent(s) or legal guardian). It is the responsibility of the inmate who wants visits, to mail potential visitors the Private Visitor Solicitation Form. The inmate must complete the form as to inmate’s name and ID# prior to mailing. Programs will notify the inmate of whether or not the person has been approved for non-contact visitation. Forms for non-contact and juvenile visits may be obtained from the Housing Officers. Non-contact visits are conducted on Sunday (last name M-Z), Tuesday (last name A-L), Thursday (last name M-Z) and Saturday (last name A - L) evenings. Visitation times are posted in the visitation area. Visits will be no more than sixty (60) minutes in length. Visitors must sign in no earlier than fifteen (15) minutes prior to the beginning of the visitation session. A picture ID will be required when signing in for a visit. Once the visitation session starts, additional visitors will not be admitted. Inmates are limited to participating in one (1) visit session per night. Inmates who are subject to disciplinary sanction and/or administrative segregation will be restricted to (2) two hours of non-contact visits per week. NON-CONTACT VISIT: Jail personnel will not allow more than two (2) visitors to visit with an inmate at any given time during a scheduled visit. It is a violation of jail regulations to pass any item to an inmate during visitation. Such items are considered contraband. The visitor and inmate shall be subject to search, and the visitor may be arrested and will lose all future visitation privileges. Visitors will not be allowed to loiter on county property any time prior to the visitation session. If caught loitering on county property prior to the visit, the visitor will be asked to leave the property and will not be allowed to visit with any inmate at PCJ for thirty (30) days. Repeated violations of loitering will result in progressive loss of visiting privileges with any inmate. Policy F-154. Inmates maybe subject to a pat and/or strip search after a visit with family and friends. Policy F-150 Inmates are not authorized to bring anything from the housing unit to the visitation area. Anything brought down from the housing unit may be confiscated and destroyed and the inmate may be subject to disciplinary action. All inmates will be patted down when leaving their housing units for any reason. SPECIAL VISITS: the Jail Administrator or designee may approve special visits. 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2023-11-02T01:26:28.774034

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Microsoft Visual Studio Solution File, Format Version 12.00 # Visual Studio 14 VisualStudioVersion = 14.0.25123.0 MinimumVisualStudioVersion = 10.0.40219.1 Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "FlightStick", "FlightStick.vcxproj", "{E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}" EndProject Project("{8BC9CEB8-8B4A-11D0-8D11-00A0C91BC942}") = "DirectXTK_XboxOneXDK_2015", "..\..\..\Kits\DirectXTK\DirectXTK_XboxOneXDK_2015.vcxproj", "{4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}" EndProject Global GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution Debug|Durango = Debug|Durango Profile|Durango = Profile|Durango Release|Durango = Release|Durango EndGlobalSection GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Debug|Durango.ActiveCfg = Debug|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Debug|Durango.Build.0 = Debug|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Debug|Durango.Deploy.0 = Debug|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Profile|Durango.ActiveCfg = Profile|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Profile|Durango.Build.0 = Profile|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Profile|Durango.Deploy.0 = Profile|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Release|Durango.ActiveCfg = Release|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Release|Durango.Build.0 = Release|Durango {E02A4300-4A99-4942-B968-FCF172750ED6}.Release|Durango.Deploy.0 = Release|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Debug|Durango.ActiveCfg = Debug|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Debug|Durango.Build.0 = Debug|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Profile|Durango.ActiveCfg = Profile|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Profile|Durango.Build.0 = Profile|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Release|Durango.ActiveCfg = Release|Durango {4FDFDCCD-EE2E-415C-B458-1E8FDB0D85F2}.Release|Durango.Build.0 = Release|Durango EndGlobalSection GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution HideSolutionNode = FALSE EndGlobalSection EndGlobal

2024-07-22T01:26:28.774034

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Q: Jenkins doesn't load CSS at HTML published pages I have a Java program that uses Selenium to test web sites. However when I run the program in Jenkins it generates a HTML report. When I open the report I get it with out CSS loaded. To fix this I usually go to Jenkins->Script console and type in the following command: System.setProperty("hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP", "") (As described here: https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Configuring+Content+Security+Policy) However after some time this rule is gone, so I need to put it into some config file. My server is a Ubuntu 18.04 server. I have installed Jenkins under /var/lib/jenkins Here I have a file named config.xml, but I cant see any option on this hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP. A: Create a Groovy script file $JENKINS_HOME/init.groovy, or any .groovy file in the directory $JENKINS_HOME/init.groovy.d/ with the following content: System.setProperty("hudson.model.DirectoryBrowserSupport.CSP", "sandbox allow-scripts; default-src 'self'; img-src *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src * 'unsafe-inline';") systemctl restart jenkins https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Post-initialization+script

2023-12-15T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/1429

Characteristics of the cement-solidified municipal solid waste incineration fly ash. Cement solidification is an important pre-treatment technology for municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) fly ash into landfill. The physicochemical properties and leaching characteristics are the foundation for assessing the long-term stability of the fly ash solidified with benchmark cement in landfills. The leaching performances of bulk components (Na, K, Ca, Cl, CO32-, and SO42-) and heavy metals (Cu, Zn, Cr, Pb, and Zn) were analyzed based on the percolation column test and pH dependent test respectively. The research showed that in the cement-solidified fly ash, Na and K were mainly in the form of soluble chloride salts and would be washed out severely at the initial leaching stage due to the weak fixation effect of cement. Moreover, a considerable amount of Ca was washed out simultaneously with Na and K, causing a temporary increase in pH value, and then Ca leaching was controlled by the solubility of minerals, mainly calcium carbonate, ettringite formed with CO32- and SO42-. Cement solidification reduced the cumulative release of mobile Cu, Zn, Cr, Pb, and Cd contained in MSWI fly ash. In the cement-solidified fly ash, the leaching of Cu and Zn was controlled by mineral solubility under alkaline conditions, Cr was dependent on the redox conditions, and Pb was related to the complex structures formed with Si-O bonds of silicates. A further research on the long-term stability of the cement-solidified fly ash in landfills was needed.

2024-04-15T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/7829

WASHINGTON—When Russia began its bombing campaign in Syria last year, the move provoked outrage in Washington and warnings from the White House that Russia faced a quagmire. But President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he would draw down some forces this week signaled his determination to skirt such a predicament. After five months of bombing in Syria, Kremlin watchers say, Russia has accomplished what it set out to do. Russia...

2024-07-16T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/9458

Q: How to clear input in SlideTextInput (custom TextInput component)? and of course sorry if the question is somewhat dumb. In the app I'm developing a user should be able to swipe on the TextInput. Since TextInput only listens to taps I used this gist: https://gist.github.com/MikeShi42/87b65984f0a31e38d553cc056fcda017 (BTW @Michael Shi thanks a ton) However, once I changed TextInput to SlideTextInput the Clear button ceased to work. clearInput() { this.setState({text: ''}); } render() { return ( <Button name='clear' action={this.clearInput} /> <SlideTextInput style={styles.input} ref='input' onChangeText={(text) => this.setState({text: text})} placeholder={this.state.placeholder} value={this.state.text} multiline={true} returnKeyType='done' blurOnSubmit={true} /> ) } I also tried this.refs.input.setNativeProps({text: ''}); instead of just passing a new value prop (that should be — and was — sufficient for normal TextInput), and calling forceUpdate(), but again to no avail. I don't see much changes in SlideTextInput.js compared to the original TextInput component, but I must be missing something that would explain such bad behaviour? UPD: the answer was pretty simple in the end. Instead of linking the component to its native counterpart (ref={this._setNativeRef}) like original TextInput does, SlideTextInput has it ref'ed to a string (ref="input"). I changed it back and voila. A: The answer was pretty simple in the end. Instead of linking the component to its native counterpart (ref={this._setNativeRef}) like original TextInput does, SlideTextInput has it ref'ed to a string (ref="input") (it's not about props in my code it's about SlideTextInput.js file itself). I changed it back and voila.

2023-08-09T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/5938

Hillary & Debbie Polls show Hillary has credibility problems with voters. How is she trying to change voter minds? The Packet reports (not on the front page, only page 6A), Debbie Wasserman Schultz, human proof that the “the Peter Principle” is alive & well, was forced to resign after released WikiLeaks emails clearly proved the DNC was in the Hillary Campaigns back pocket and did what they could to sabotage Bernie Sanders. Poor Debbie is now out of her other job. Wait! To the rescue comes Lying, Dishonest Hillary! In less than 24 hours, Hillary hires her and makes Debbie honorary Chairman (a homophonic term) of the Clinton campaign 50-state program. Doesn’t that say ‘I (Hillary) want no part of underhanded activity. Clintons can be trusted to do what is proper for the American people. If only Hillary remembered to tell Debbie to use a private server in her house. Do Hillary’s Super Delegates have special privileges in the general election too? How can you trust her wisdom and judgment?

2024-07-18T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/3261

A neighborhood is more than just a few homes in the same ZIP code; it’s a community of people brought together from all walks of life. These individuals aren’t just friendly faces you wave to everyday––they’re often the first you can count on to lend a helping hand when you need it the most, often without expecting to be thanked or rewarded. From cleaning a driveway for a neighbor who is sick to securing a delivered package when another neighbor is away, these acts of kindness happen everyday in communities across the country. At Ring, we want to make it even easier for you to share those good deeds with your community. That’s why we’re launching “Neighborly Moments,” a new posting category in the Neighbors app that lets you highlight these acts of kindness and help your community celebrate them together. We’re excited to make this category available to you, as it’s rooted in our mission of making neighborhoods safer. These Neighborly Moments may seem like small gestures, such as shoveling snow in a neighbor’s driveway, but can actually be a huge help. That’s how it was for Brandon, a dad of a newborn in Westfield, Indiana, after a big snowstorm. He got an alert on his Ring Video Doorbell and saw his neighbor stepping in to help at that crucial time. “We had just come home with our son, who was born two months premature,” he said. “Then we had a fairly big snow, and since it was our first winter in the house, I didn’t even have a shovel yet. We were very thankful.” Brandon shared his gratitude with his community on the Neighbors app, as did Tom in Washington, D.C., when his neighbor shoveled his steps without being asked because he knew Tom was sick. Since that first time, Tom said the neighbor has continued to shovel his steps when it snows because Tom travels for work and the neighbor doesn’t want his fiance to have to shovel. “The act of kindness went a long way,” Tom said. When DeAn, in Pueblo, Colorado, realized that her neighbor had shoveled her walk, she was “highly surprised” because she initially thought it was her son. It was only when going back through her Ring video recordings that she realized her neighbor had done a good deed in secret. DeAn has metastatic cancer and wasn’t able to shovel the walk herself, which was particularly challenging around the holidays. “For somebody to shovel my walks is such a benefit for me [and] my mailman,” she said. “My neighbors have done nice things for me and since they don’t accept gifts, I’ll sneak a gift card into their mailbox to let them know I appreciate their greatness.” She also made sure her community had a chance to appreciate that selfless act by sharing it to the Neighbors app. “Good to know that there are really good people in this world,” said a neighbor in response to the post. Neighborly Moments don’t have to happen in the snow. In Las Vegas, Janet’s trash was inadvertently dumped all over her walkway by the garbage truck, leaving a scattered mess in her front yard. She wasn’t there to see it, but her Ring Floodlight Cam caught a kindly neighbor jogging by who saw all of the spilled trash and cleaned it up before continuing on her run. “It was a very sweet act of her!” Janet said. She posted it on the Neighbors app to let the community know that a good neighbor is helping keep their streets clean. Steve lives in Meridian, Idaho, but was traveling recently. Even though he canceled the paper and stopped the mail, he said some things continued to be delivered to his house. When a neighbor was walking by, he realized that the house was clearly empty and moved the items out of sight. Steve said it’s the second time the same person has stepped in to make sure that his packages aren’t stolen. “It is gratifying to know that there are still people in our neighborhoods like this that care enough to help a fellow neighbor,” Steve said. He shared his gratitude with neighbors on the app to let them know that there is a porch angel taking care of their community. Neighbors immediately responded to the kind gesture. “Thank you for sharing,” said one neighbor while another responded, “there is still good in this world and it’s always good to point it out!” These are just a few examples of the Neighborly Moments, which can be anything, even something as vital and serious as being alerted to a house fire or a flood and helping one another make it to safety. The new “Neighborly Moments” category will make it even easier for you to share these good deeds and celebrate the kindness of those good Samaritans with your community. Join the Neighbors app now to get started!

2024-07-20T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/7096

Q: Implementing css/svg contrast filter using sharp (libvips) I'm using libvips to transform images on the backend with a css/svg preview on the frontend to save resources. I'm struggling with implementing the contrast css/svg filter function. The specification shows contrast as a linear transformation in form of: out = slope * in + intercept where intercept should be: intercept = - (0.5 * slope) + 0.5 This way, I can use contrast(1.25) in css preview of image modifications. However, implementing this linear function in libvips through JS library sharp: sharp.linear(contrast, - (0.5 * contrast) + 0.5) Looking deeper into contrast changes for an image, the expectat result is that highs are put even higher and lows even lower. This looks like a contradition with the specification because the spec applies linear transformation so it should always multiple and add, makes highs higher but also lows a little big higher. Using linear in sharp (and so in libvips) to change contrast the output actually looks like a brightness filter, which in the spcecification for css/svg filter is in form linear transformation without addition out = slope * in This looks to me like I might be misunderstanding what intercept does in svg linear function. Also, comparing svg and css shows differences. Using contrast(2) in css should mimic slope = 2 and intercept = -(0.5 * 2) + 0.5 = -0.5 in svg, which is not the case in this fiddle: .svg { filter: url(#contrast); } .css { filter: contrast(2); } <img src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <img class="svg" src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <img class="css" src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <svg> <filter id="contrast"> <feComponentTransfer> <feFuncR type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> <feFuncG type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> <feFuncB type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> </feComponentTransfer> </filter> </svg> You can clearly see that the second image with svg filter looks different than the third one using css filter. Is my understanding of filters completely wrong? I would expect there should some treshold somewhere to invert multiplication into division for lows. How can I implement css contrast in different evnironments as a linear function with the same result? A: Your intuition is not correct :) For input values less than 0.5 - the formula decreases the brightness - why? Let's take a contrast value of 2 and an input value of 0.4 Output = 2*0.4 - (0.5 *2) + 0.5 Output = 0.8 - 1 + 0.5 Output = 0.3 As you can see, when the input is lower than 0.5, the output will be always be less than the input because the sum of the slope component and the first (negative) component of the intercept will be equal to the contrast multiplied by the difference between the input and 0.5 This is the formula results on unitized values (floored and ceilinged on 0/1). Also CSS Filters use sRGB color space by default. SVG Filters use linearRGB. You need to set the SVG filter color space to sRGB by adding attribute: color-interpolation-filters="sRGB" to your svg element. When you do this - your images look the same. .svg { filter: url(#contrast); } .css { filter: contrast(2); } <img src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <img class="svg" src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <img class="css" src="https://dev-cdn.swbpg.com/o/g/1515254671.jpeg" width="300"> <svg color-interpolation-filters="sRGB"> <filter id="contrast"> <feComponentTransfer> <feFuncR type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> <feFuncG type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> <feFuncB type="linear" slope="2" intercept="-0.5"/> </feComponentTransfer> </filter> </svg>

2023-09-11T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/7039

package com.example; import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication; import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication; import org.springframework.cloud.config.server.EnableConfigServer; @EnableConfigServer @SpringBootApplication public class Application { public static void main(String[] args) { SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args); } }

2024-05-03T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/4231

When Chiefs kicker Cairo Santos was placed on injured reserve following the Chargers game, the Chiefs signed Harrison Butker off the Carolina Panthers' practice squad. On Thursday, Butker spoke about his upcoming debut at Arrowhead Stadium, and his unusual Twitter handle. David [email protected] When Chiefs kicker Cairo Santos was placed on injured reserve following the Chargers game, the Chiefs signed Harrison Butker off the Carolina Panthers' practice squad. On Thursday, Butker spoke about his upcoming debut at Arrowhead Stadium, and his unusual Twitter handle. David [email protected] Never miss a local story. He challenged veteran Graham Gano, who missed eight field goals last season, and Butker had a solid preseason. He converted both of his field goals and all four extra points. But the Panthers decided to go with Gano and eventually assigned Butker to their practice squad. He got the call from the Chiefs on Monday. Butker finished as Georgia Tech’s career scoring leader and saved his best year for last, when he made 15 of 17 field-goal attempts, including all four in a bowl game. He also made all 46 of his extra-point attempts. Oh, and there’s his Twitter handle, @buttkicker87. “It came from a trainer at Georgia Tech my freshman year,” Butker said. “People say a lot of stuff about my last name … I kind of made it a funny thing to be ‘Butt Kicker.’ I just went with it.” As for Santos, he made all 15 kicks this season — 12 extra points and three field goals — before suffering the injury in the Chiefs’ 24-10 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers. According to trainer Rick Burkholder, Santos pulled his right groin on his first boot during warm ups and aggravated it during the game. A roughing the kicker penalty didn’t have anything to do with the injury, nor was it related to a groin injury Santos suffered in the preseason, Burkholder said. The injury continues a trend of the Chiefs losing a player to injury per game. In the opening victory over New England, safety Eric Berry went down with a ruptured Achilles. In the victory over Philadelphia, center Mitch Morse was lost for several weeks with a foot injury. Now it’s Santos, who is expected to miss at least several weeks. “Cairo’s been there, done that,” Reid said. “But we have trust in Harrison, too, or we wouldn’t have brought him in here.”

2024-01-19T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/6412

Tag Archives: stephen king King fans were super excited to finally get an actual trailer for the upcoming Castle Rock show on Hulu. Do we have any idea what it’s going to be about? No. Are we any less excited? No. It’s full of King references we’re excited to see pay off in a weekly series and I personally and wishing the year would hurry up so we can get into 2018 and get closer to the premiere. While we wait I have constructed a list below that makes it so we can sort of create our own Castle Rock universe with movies that are already available. You’ve probably seen them all but may not have noticed that they are all actually connected accidentally just by adapting the source material that is connected. So here is your list in viewing order. And spoiler alert I’ll be giving a quick synopsis of the movies and also how it’s connected to the rest in the list and possibly the books they are based on. Just be warned. Stand By Me (1986) One of the more sentimental Stephen King movies. A group of boys go to find a dead body of one of their classmates and along the way each comes to terms with their place in the world. This movie sort of sets the stage. It’s summer in 1959 so we get to see a more quaint version of Castle Rock. The town is only really our starting point and stopping point but all of our characters live there. There’s not much crossover here for our movie universe other than this happened in our main setting for this viewing session. In the book Kiefer Sutherland’s character Ace Merrill actually plays a big part in the book NEEDFUL THINGS as he gets out of jail and returns to Castle Rock just as things are starting to break down in Castle Rock. But we’ll get to that in a bit. The Dead Zone (1983) One of my favorites on the list. After getting into a car crash and being in a coma for 5 years Johnny Smith finds out he has a gift. If he touches you he can see your future. Good or bad. Once he shakes the hand of Greg Stillson he sees a future filled with death. What can he do to stop it? Here we start to see the dark side of Castle Rock. For part of the first half of the movie we see that a serial killer is stalking the streets attacking women. Sheriff Bannerman (played awesomely by Tom Skerritt) is at the end of his rope trying to find the killer so he turns to Johnny to see what he can find. They find their killer and from there Johnny moves on to stop nuclear armageddon. This section of the film though will feature heavily in our next movie. Cujo (1983) – Simple concept. A woman and her son are trapped in their car at a lonesome farm by a rabid Saint Bernard. Again we’re present in Castle Rock. Here we find a pretty simple story. Woman in the car with the dog right? Well here’s where our connections come in. In the beginning of the movie Tad is afraid of the monster in his closet. In the book that monster he’s afraid of is the boogeyman that the serial killer from The Dead Zone had become around town. People whispered about it and Frank Dodd has become sort of an urban legend around town. So Tad is afraid of the killer from The Dead Zone. And later in the book it’s sort of just thrown around (not seriously but Tad sort of thinks about it while trapped) that the evil that possessed Frank Dodd has now gone into Cujo. The other big connection we have is that the sheriff that ends up out at the farm is none other than our friend Sheriff Bannerman (not awesomely played by Tom Skerritt). The Dark Half (1993) Thad Beaumont is a successful writer who’s pen name has just been outed. He decides to publicly kill off his alter ego rather than paying a blackmailer. Bad news is his alter ego doesn’t want to be dead. In this George Romero directed movie Michael Rooker plays the sheriff Alan Pangborn (who is supposed to be a main character in the new Castle Rock series). He’s Bannerman’s replacement. He’s now in charge of the strange things that happen around Castle Rock. Also we meet his deputy briefly Norris Ridgewick. Needful Things (1993) A new shop opens up in Castle Rock. It claims to be able to give you whatever you desire . . . for a price. Max Von Sydow plays the devil and has shown up to reek havoc in Castle Rock. This time out our main character is Sheriff Alan Pangborn (this time played by Ed Harris). He tries to keep Castle Rock from destroying itself but it’s a hard task. Helping him is his trusty deputy Norris Ridgewick. In the book we actually visit a lot of the famous locations from these previous movies/stories. Some old characters come back. Ace Merrill plays a big part. So there you have it. That’s your cinematic journey through Castle Rock. I will say you could also do The Shawshank Redemption but it doesn’t feature in our journey here. It does seem that it will play a part in the new Hulu series. Just about everyone that knows me knows how obsessed with Stephen King I am. It’s not just that I enjoy his work but I obsess over it. It probably came from the 4th Dark Tower book where we find out that everything he’s ever written is connected some how. My mom was a big King fan back in the day. She had a bookcase full of King books. I’d pull them out and look at the covers. I knew I’d always be too scared to read them, but they sat there and I’d stare at them. It finally happened when I was 10. The IT miniseries was on TV and even though it looked scary I still watched it. I’m sure my parents regret that. I couldn’t sleep without nightmares for awhile. Then suddenly the urge came over me. I had to read IT. I needed to know more about this evil clown. How I convinced anyone to let me buy a copy of IT I’ll never know but they let me. I read it within 6 months. I know but it’s over a thousand pages and I was 11. Give me some slack. From that point on I pretty much devoured every King book I could get my hands on. My mom seemed encouraged by my interest and even let me borrow books from her collection. Now the very books I used to get scared just looking at just the covers I was reading one after the other. I give King credit for a lot of things with me. I feel there is a point in every person’s life where they make the decision “do I keep reading for fun or do I just read because I have to for school and I move on to other things for fun?” He kept me reading. I would keep up to date on his current books. Getting them for Christmas and Birthday presents from family members. I read other authors as well but nothing could bring me to a screaming halt like King. Then I discovered within this collection of books The Dark Tower. I had avoided it because I’m not really into fantasy novels. But decided to give the first one a shot. I enjoyed it enough I wanted to see where it would go so I got the second book. Then the third. After that the 4th book would change everything. I was used to seeing references to other King works in his books. Castle Rock of course was a big nexus point but things like The Stand and some of his other short stories like The Mist (yes more a novella), The Jaunt, The Long Walk, etc. took place in worlds that there was no way could be in the same reality as Castle Rock. In the 4th Dark Tower book a character whom I thought was a stand alone character told another character that he was trying to win over to his side “I once had a man that would pledge ‘My Life For You!'” Everything changed. Suddenly this quest for the Dark Tower now had resonance across every word King had every put to paper. It all mattered. I continued on the journey to the tower and was sad to say goodbye to the friends I had made in that world but never stopped making friends with his new characters. Some books are better than others as that is with any story. I never quit. King has kept me reading and dreaming. Most importantly King has kept me writing. I had dreams of being a big novelist. I also had dreams of being a big filmmakers. Age has let me look at the realities of this world and I let myself be content to just write and make movies because I want to with no goal of hitting it big. I’d actually like to avoid that if possible. I just want to enjoy doing it. This Friday I finally close a circle as I’ll be heading up to the Chicago area to see King and his son Owen talk about their new book Sleeping Beauties. I’ve been holding out going to one of these because I always hoped there would be a chance to meet him at a signing so I could extend my hand and say “Thank you for everything you’ve given me.” It doesn’t look like he does many straight up signings anymore so this may be the only chance I’ll have to at least be in an event with him. I’m going to take it and enjoy every minute I can of him and his son sitting on stage telling stories and talking about weaving stories together. There are worse ways to spend a Friday. When IT was first announced as being up on the remake slot (or re-adaptation if you want to approach it that way) I was not really that thrilled with the idea. I once met the director of the 1990 TV miniseries version of IT. I straight up told him that I blamed him for the reason I didn’t like clowns. Anyone in my age range will tell you that Tim Curry pretty much ruined the ever enjoying a clown again. For me there was no way anyone could ever do Pennywise justice. Tim Curry had terrified a whole generation with some grease paint and a wicked smile. The longer it went on I hoped more and more that IT would be put in the old development hell section of Hollywood where things like Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash or such gems as a sequel to Bubba Ho-Tep seemed to live. I wouldn’t get my wish. I began my crusade of denying this movie. Hell no we won’t go . . . . to the cinema to see a new IT! The chant was awkward so I dropped it but I kept saying there was no way a new IT would be good. Then the first trailer hit. Suddenly a slight crack in my facade began to show. I was still adamant that Pennywise wouldn’t be nearly as good as Tim Curry’s but damn did the footage look pretty good. Trailer 2 hit. The cracks were really showing now. IT actually looked scary. As much as I love the 1990 TV movie version because it scared my 10 year old self senseless it has lost some of the scary luster it once held and now I just appreciate it for how it USED to scare me. These trailers had made it look actually scary again. Yeah but still he was no Tim Curry. What I learned this weekend is that he didn’t need to be. I’d been waiting to hate on this movie since it was first announced and now here I sit opening weekend telling you I can’t. Don’t get me wrong, it still has some quibbles with me, but I actually can say I really enjoyed it. They took a story I’ve loved all my life and gave it a loving tribute to it’s source material. The time frame is updated to 1989. Making the kids pretty much the same age I was when I saw IT for the first time. Suddenly I’m caught in a nostalgia loop. I’m reliving my childhood through these characters and they were also about to get the piss scared out of them by a killer clown. The casting is about spot on perfect for me. I have no complaints what so ever. Bill is great as an awkward leader consumed by his brother’s disappearance. Eddie is one sneeze away from being put into an iron lung by his over bearing mother. Richie is the foul mouthed class clown we all wished we could have been. And there’s Bev. Poor poor Bevie. I worry about her a lot. These kids feel like friends. It’s no stretch of the imagination to see these kids hanging out. The chemistry on screen is near perfect. Henry Bowers has traded in his duck tail hair cut and leather jacket for a mullet and sleeveless t-shirts fitting right into the 1989 setting. Pennywise. Oh let me tell you about this Dancing Clown. Bill Skarsgard brings a new twist onto King’s terrifying shape shifter. He doesn’t try to do what Tim Curry did. He didn’t do an impression. He creates something new. Which is exactly what you need in a remake like this. Something new. This evil clown doesn’t lure you in with his innocent clown tricks. No. This clown lures you in with his smile and then keeps right on smiling as he rips your guts out. If Tim Curry gave 10 year old me nightmares then Skarsgard is going to give the almost 40 year old me some sleepless nights for the next few days. I am pleading with you if you have been on the fence to give the new IT a try. And this is from a fan who denounced it from the start. Give it a chance. You might just get a few night terrors of your own. I actually have seen IT twice this weekend. First with a few friends I had made plans with a few months ago and then just today I got a chance to go see IT with an invitation for free passes to try the 4DX version. A new 4DX theater had opened in Illinois and I was curious to check it out so I gladly accepted. With 4DX you get an immersive experience. Your seat will move and vibrate along with the movie. You’ll get fans blowing when the characters are riding their bikes so you can feel the wind rushing past your head. New smells will enter the theater during every scene. There was strobe lights to help accentuate the lightning. Mist and air from the seats in front of you to bring you into the wet and surprising scenes. Seems like a great idea . . . . . .unless you’re trying to watch an atmospheric horror film. Sadly it didn’t help with this movie. The audience also didn’t help. Lots of talking and people checking phones. Part of me thinks the 4DX didn’t help with this. When you have air blasting in your face and your friends are laughing it seemed to open up the idea that you could just talk about it at full volume. Many times during the film my seat was shaking and moving all over the place and making it hard to pay attention to what was going on on screen. I looked over at my friend Scott who came with me to see him almost a foot higher than me because our seats were moving at such a weird pace. Also I didn’t smell anything. Nothing seemed to change during the movie. I felt bad as this was Scott’s first time seeing the film and what was supposed to be an immersive experience seemed to be distracting him from actually enjoying the movie. I don’t think it’s a bad idea overall. If I saw Jurassic World in this theater I probably would have enjoyed every second of it but for a movie like this it seemed to make it harder to enjoy the film. I say YES to 4DX but not for something like this. Outside of that GO SEE IT! From the box office it would seem like a lot of you did which means we will probably see more R rated horror films and more Stephen King in the theater. Both of which can be good things. On the way home from the theater me and Scott decided to break out the recorder and talk about our experience. There was a lot of road noise so I did best I could to get rid of it but you may hear some bleeps and bloops. Sorry. I’m a huge King nerd. That’s not a secret. I’ve been on record that I just don’t know about this IT remake. Not that I don’t think they could improve on it with a higher budget and less restrictions but the big point of contention with me is Pennywise. I mean how do you even come close to living up to Tim Curry’s performance? Well we got our fist look at the new trailer and while everything looks good and it has a creepiness to it there is still no real look at the Pennywise performance. We see some flashes of him and such but no dialogue and no real interaction with the characters. But I know I’ll still be there opening weekend as since I’m a constant reader I have to. Check out the trailer below and let us know what you think. WHAT IS GOING ON!!?!??!? As a certified King nerd imagine my mind exploding on Friday when the below teaser trailer was dropped online by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot. Anyone who has listened to me babble about King for years knows I’ve always wished that a cinematic Stephen King universe was a thing but with the rights to his books being spread across multiple big name film studios it was never going to happen. Well maybe I’m wrong. Maybe. They haven’t come right out and said what this is other than it’s a 10 episode series on Hulu that will cover multiple stories across King’s works. No word on which stories or novels. The fictional town of Castle Rock was first shown to us constant readers in The Dead Zone and would then go on to be the setting for many of King’s biggest stories. The Body (Stand By Me), Cujo, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and multiple short stories take place there. Also such books as Christine, IT, and The Tommyknockers make reference to the town. So it’s connections are vast. Until we know more about what this is going to be all we have is the all too short teaser below. I am beyond excited. I’m a huge Stephen King nerd. To anyone that knows me this is not a surprise. In the sub-set of this I am a big Dark Tower fan as well. Reading through his books and finding the connections was a giant thrill. Even before getting into the Dark Tower set of books knowing that in Needful Things we revisit the farm from Cujo made me excited. Reading and seeing that the monster that Tad is afraid lives in his closet in Cujo is Frank Dodd from The Dead Zone blew my mind. While today shared universes are abundant in films and even some in books back when these books were coming out it wasn’t nearly as common. So getting a reference to another book you had read was like a new experience. Later I got into the Dark Tower books and found out that everything King has written is connected to this one set of stories. Every character and every plot can be traced back to the Tower through any amount of small to large references. When it was announced that at Comicon that they were actually printing up versions of the childrens book Charlie The Choo-Choo as exclusive items I tried to get anyone I knew that was there to grab me one. Sadly it was not meant to be. Luckily Simon and Schuster saw there was a demand for this so they decided to make it a mass market book. I was lucky enough to get sent a review copy and I was jumping up and down with glee when it came in the mail. It serves as a basic meta prop from the Dark Tower book. Jake finds a copy of Charlie The Choo-Choo in a book store in the Tower books and now there is a real version you can hold in your hands. With the movie coming up it’s a fun item to have. I read through it and it is presented with great artwork from Ned Dameron as it tells the tale of old Charlie as he is seen as obsolete next to the more modern diesel engine, who looks like I imagine Blaine The Mono looks from The Wastelands. It’s a fun thing to own if you’re a big King fan like I am. I have it sitting on my shelf with the Dark Tower books.

2024-01-08T01:26:28.774034

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# Installation If you'd like to install CDash in a [Docker](https://www.docker.com) container, please see our [Docker installation guide](docker.md). ## Prerequisite software Before installing CDash, you will need: - A web server: [Apache](https://httpd.apache.org) or [NGINX](https://www.nginx.com) - A database: [MySQL v5.x+](https://www.mysql.com) or [PostgreSQL v9.2+](https://www.postgresql.org) - [PHP 7.2 - 7.4](https://www.php.net) - [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) (to install PHP dependencies) - [npm v6](https://www.npmjs.com/) (to install Javascript dependencies) ## PHP modules CDash needs the following PHP modules installed and enabled. - bcmath - bz2 - php_curl - gd - json - ldap - mbstring - pdo_mysql or pdo_pgsql - xsl ## Web server configuration CDash is built on top of the [Laravel framework](https://laravel.com). Laravel's routing system requires your web server to have the `mod_rewrite` module enabled. It also requires your web server to honor .htaccess files `(AllowOverride All)`. See [Laravel documentation](https://laravel.com/docs/6.x/installation#pretty-urls) for more information. ## Download CDash If you haven't already done so, [download CDash from GitHub](https://github.com/Kitware/CDash/releases) or clone it using git. ```bash git clone https://github.com/Kitware/CDash ``` ## Expose CDash to the web Only CDash's `public` subdirectory should be served to the web. The easiest way to achieve this is to create a symbolic link in your DocumentRoot (typically `/var/www`) that points to `/path/to/CDash/public`. ## Adjust filesystem permissions The user that your web server is running under will need write access to the CDash directory. In the following example, we assume your web server is run by the `www-data` user. ```bash # Modify CDash directory to belong to the www-data group chgrp -R www-data /path/to/CDash # Make the CDash directory writeable by group. chmod -R g+rw /path/to/CDash ``` ## Install/upgrade steps Perform the follow steps when you initially install CDash and upon each subsequent upgrade. ```bash # Install PHP and JavaScript dependencies composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist npm install ``` ## Configure CDash and generate build files If you don't already have a `.env` file in the root of your CDash tree, start with one based on the default configuration, and set your application key. ```bash cp .env.example .env php artisan key:generate ``` Next, if you haven't already done so, create the file `app/cdash/config/config.local.php` and populate it with any non-default settings you require. The most important values to set here are: * The `$CDASH_DB_*` variables. These indicate how to connect to the database. * `$CDASH_BASE_URL` should be set to the root URL of CDash (ie `https://localhost/CDash`) In most other cases, reasonable default values apply if the variables are not explicitly set. Once you're happy with the contents of `config.local.php`, run the following command to migrate your config settings into the `.env` file used by Laravel. ```bash php artisan config:migrate ``` At this point, make sure your `.env` file has a `APP_URL` entry, and that the following line appears somewhere further down in the file: ``` MIX_APP_URL="${APP_URL}" ``` Once you're happy with your config settings, run `npm` to generate CDash's frontend. ```bash # Generate build files npm run dev ``` ## Finish CDash installation Open up your new CDash instance in a web browser. You should be automatically redirected to `install.php`. Fill out the installation form to create the database tables and the initial admin user. Once that is complete you can create a project and start submitting builds to it.

2023-10-04T01:26:28.774034

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2023-11-24T01:26:28.774034

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Senior Conservative MP Ken Clarke has warned there are some Government ministers who are “not excessively fond of workers’ rights” and retaining them after Brexit. The comments from the former Chancellor came during the second of eight late-night sittings in the Commons on the EU (Withdrawal) Bill – the legislation that aims to transpose EU law onto the UK statue book after Brexit. But the Government avoided any serious backbench rebellion after five amendments to the bill were voted down by MPs in the Commons on Wednesday evening. Clause 58 – put forward by the Labour frontbench – sought to ensure that after Britain’s departure from the bloc that EU derived employment rights, environmental protection, health and safety standards and consumer standards can only be amended by primary legislation. The amendment was defeated by 311 votes 299, giving the Government a slim majority. Just one Conservative rebel, Mr Clarke, voted with Labour for the amendment. Shadow Brexit minister Matthew Pennycook said his party had put forward the amendment to the bill to prevent secondary legislation being used by future governments to “chip away at rights, entitlements, protections and standards that the public enjoy and wish to retain” after Brexit. During the debate the former Chancellor and pro-European Conservative asked why, if the Government did not intend to water down workers’ rights after Brexit, ministers were not prepared to enshrine this in the Bill by backing the amendment. “Heaven forbid by party should swing to the right at any time in its long and distinguished history,” he said. “There are members of the present Government who are not excessively fond of lizards and bats and or workers' rights, and we could be all reassured if he will undertake to put on the face of the bill reduced formal powers.” Despite voting with the Government the former Conservative attorney general Dominic Grieve warned that laws protecting such rights will be brought to the “lowest possible status” in Parliament after Brexit. Brexit: the deciders Show all 8 1 /8 Brexit: the deciders Brexit: the deciders European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier Getty Brexit: the deciders French President Emmanuel Macron Getty Brexit: the deciders German Chancellor Angela Merkel Reuters Brexit: the deciders Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker EPA Brexit: the deciders The European Parliament's chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt Getty Brexit: the deciders Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May Getty Images Brexit: the deciders Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond PA Brexit: the deciders After the first and second appointed Brexit secretaries resigned (David Davis and Dominic Raab respectively), Stephen Barclay is currently heading up the position PA Mr Grieve later said he wanted an assurance from Government that the matter was being looked at, also describing Labour's proposed change as having “problems of its own”. He went on: “I put the Government on notice that we are going to have to draw together the issues that we're debating today, and indeed I'm convinced it will be similar issues next week, all of which derive from the same problem, as to the way the Government has approached this and drafted this legislation at the moment, and it must be remedied.” On the Government benches, Robert Buckland, the solicitor general told the Commons: “The Brexit process will in no way whatsoever be used to undermine or curtail the rights of workers that have been enshrined both in domestic law and in law by virtue of the EU.” Mr Buckland added there was an essential clause to preserve the domestic statute book and to provide certainty over what was domestic law. He later later hinted he was prepared to make concessions at report stage following questioning from Mr Grieve and Mr Clarke. MPs in the Commons also voted down an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill put forward by Caroline Lucas by 313 to 295. The amendment sought to ensure that animals continue to be treated as sentient being after Brexit in domestic law. “The omission in terms of the transferral of this bit of EU law into UK law, I understand the reasons that's it not been able to be directly transposed, but I think it is something that we could very easily rectify,” she told MPs. “I'm not expecting anyone to find any great controversy about that, I think we're simply saying, and what new clause 30 is simply seeking to do, is to make sure that we close that gap. “I am not suggesting for a moment that as a result of not closing it we're all suddenly going to go out and start murdering kittens. No one is suggesting anything like that. “But what we are simply saying is that this is an important protocol.” Theresa May asked about Brexit scrutiny in light of Telegraph 'mutineer' front page During the debates on the various amendments Priti Patel, who resigned from Government last week following a series of undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials, also made her first speech as a backbench MP since stepping down as International Development Secretary. She joked about her “intensive course” over the past week on “how to stage an exit” as she backed the Government’s Brexit plans. “Of course I am speaking today in this debate following an intensive course over the past week, I think it's fair to say, on how to stage an exit which was the focus of a degree of international attention,” she said. “So for anyone who is still tracking my movements, it's fair to say that I can confirm that as I walked into the chamber this afternoon I passed statues and portraits commemorating some of our greatest statesmen including Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, statesmen who stood up and defended democracy, freedom and sovereignty of our great nation.” David Davis announces final Brexit bill will be a seperate act of parliament Referring to the proposed legislation, Ms Patel added: “This Bill paves the way for a smooth withdrawal from the European Union and it complements many of the debates and discussions that have happened, Article 50 and delivers on the will of the British people as expressed in the referendum.” At Prime Minister’s Questions earlier on Wednesday, Theresa May said the Government was listening to the contributions being made in the debate and “listening carefully to those who wish to improve the Bill”.

2024-05-24T01:26:28.774034

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Binding of HTLV-III/LAV to T4+ T cells by a complex of the 110K viral protein and the T4 molecule. Human T-lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) or lymphadenopathy-associated virus (LAV) is tropic for human T cells with the helper-inducer phenotype, as defined by reactivity with monoclonal antibodies specific for the T4 molecule. Treatment of T4+ T cells with monoclonal antibodies to T4 antigen blocks HTLV-III/LAV binding, syncytia formation, and infectivity. Thus, it has been inferred that the T4 molecule itself is a virus receptor. In the present studies, the surfaces of T4+ T cells were labeled radioactively, and then the cells were exposed to virus. After the cells were lysed, HTLV-III/LAV antibodies were found to precipitate a surface protein with a molecular weight of 58,000 (58K). By blocking and absorption experiments, this 58K protein was identified as the T4 molecule. No cell-surface structures other than the T4 molecule were involved in the antibody-antigen complex formation. Two monoclonal antibodies, each reactive with a separate epitope of the T4 molecule, were tested for their binding capacities in the presence of HTLV-III/LAV. When HTLV-III/LAV was bound to T4+ T cells, the virus blocked the binding of one of the monoclonal antibodies, T4A (OKT4A), but not of the other, T4 (OKT4). When HTLV-III/LAV was internally radiolabeled and bound to T4+ T cells which were then lysed, a viral glycoprotein of 110K (gp110) coprecipitated with the T4 molecule. The binding of gp110 to the T4 molecule may thus be a major factor in HTLV-III/LAV tropism and may prove useful in developing therapeutic or preventive measures for the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

2023-09-09T01:26:28.774034

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eXceed Jade Penetrate Black Package eXceed Jade Penetrate Black Package eXceed 3rd reboots the eXceed storyline, taking it in a new direction. In this installment, Rayne Lindwurm, a descendent of the Dragon Clan, fights her way through a tournament to become one of the 7 Cardinal Lords who rule her world, Pandemonium. eXceed Jade Penetrate Black Package is the third game in the bullet hell series and once again changes up the gameplay. You no longer have the ability to switch between colors to absorb bullets, instead you charge an energy meter to power your special attack by grazing bullets. The slow button from the first game is also back but this time it not only slows you down but causes your shots to lock onto enemies. Collecting power ups give you helpers that can also shoot and lock onto enemies. Like the second game in the series, the text has been translated into English and it allows you to play with a controller. I consider this to be the best one in the series, not great but enjoyable if you get it for a low price.

2023-08-18T01:26:28.774034

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2023-09-21T01:26:28.774034

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Comparison between vacuum aspiration and forceps plus blunt curettage for the evacuation of complete hydatidiform moles. Suction curettage is recommended for molar evacuation rather than sharp curettage because of its safety. However, the superiority of suction curettage with respect to the incidence of gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) has not been reported. This study aimed to compare the efficacy and safety of two evacuation procedures, vacuum aspiration and forceps/blunt curettage, for complete hydatidiform moles (CHMs) to determine the differences between them. Patients with androgenetic CHM determined by multiplex short tandem repeat polymorphism analysis were included in this observational cohort study. Patients underwent evacuation with forceps and blunt curettage (forceps group) before March 2013 and with vacuum aspiration (vacuum group) thereafter. GTN was diagnosed based on the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics 2000 criteria. The incidence of GTN and other clinical parameters were compared. Ninety-two patients were diagnosed with androgenetic CHM. The number of patients in the forceps and vacuum groups was 41 and 51, respectively. The incidence of GTN was 12.2% (5/41) and 13.7% (7/51) in the forceps and vacuum groups, respectively, which was not significantly different (P = 1, Fisher's exact test). No major adverse events, such as uterine perforation and blood transfusion, were noted in either group. The median surgery time was shorter in the vacuum group (16 min) than in the forceps group (25 min) (P = 0.05, Mann-Whitney U test). There were no differences in the incidence of GTN between the forceps and vacuum groups for androgenetic CHM. However, vacuum aspiration could have the advantage of a shorter surgery period. The use of vacuum aspiration for molar pregnancy seems to be safer. Therefore, we recommend suction curettage for the first evacuation of hydatidiform moles.

2023-10-24T01:26:28.774034

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11:45am: The Nationals and Rangers discussed Torrealba, but one person involved told Kilgore “it doesn’t look like a fit.” TUESDAY, 8:49am: The Rangers and Nationals are expected to discuss Torrealba today, tweets Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post. MONDAY, 10:25pm: The Rangers have designated catcher Yorvit Torrealba for assignment, Troy Renck of the Denver Post reports (on Twitter). Torrealba became expendable with the acquisition of Geovany Soto. The Rangers are likely to trade Torrealba, MLB.com's T.R. Sullivan reports. The 34-year-old has a .236/.302/.342 batting line in 182 plate appearances this year.

2024-03-17T01:26:28.774034

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Prairie Lea, Texas Prairie Lea is an unincorporated community in Caldwell County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 255 in 2000. It is part of the Austin–Round Rock Metropolitan Statistical Area. History The community, Caldwell County's oldest, was built on the 1820 land grant of Joe Martin of Gonzales. Sam Houston named the town for his future wife Margaret Lea Houston. Edmund Bellinger, a veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto and Battle of Plum Creek, became Prairie Lea's first settler in 1839. Other early settlers were largely slave-holding families. Growth followed the establishment of a sawmill, gristmill, and gin by Thomas Mooney on the nearby San Marcos River. The remains of this dam can still be seen today. James Hugh Callihan opened the first store in the community in 1849. By 1853 there was a hotel, two stores, and a post office in Prairie Lea. During the Civil War, men from Prairie Lea served with John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade and joined forces with an army in northern Virginia and took part in the ill-fated Sibley Campaign in New Mexico Territory. Members of that expedition who were either starving or stranded were brought back to their homes by a community committee that had organized wagons, mules, harnesses, food, and supplies for the mission in June 1862. A gristmill called Mooney gristmill paid for other food supplies by a special county tax and donations to the families living in Caldwell County made destitute by the war. Hardship in the community was caused by reconstruction. Nothing could stop violence in the community, not even the stationing of troops nor appeals to the Freedmen's Bureau. Some families living in the community moved to Mexico. Peace and prosperity did come back to the community by the 1870s, but an 1877 fire destroyed the community's business district, which contained 17 stores. By 1884, Prairie Lea had a population of 100 with gristmills, cotton gins and two churches. It eventually shipped cotton. By 1914, the number of residents had grown to 350, and had three general stores and two blacksmith shops. Development of the nearby Luling oilfield during the 1920s caused an increase in Prairie Lea's population. During the latter half of the twentieth century, the population slowly declined. By 1990, Prairie Lea was home to 100 residents. That number had risen to 255 in 2000 with five small businesses and two churches operating in the community. Although Prairie Lea is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP Code of 78661. Geography Prairie Lea is situated along State Highway 80 in southwestern Caldwell County, approximately six miles northwest of Luling and ten miles southwest of Lockhart near the San Marcos River. The nearest major city is Austin, located 44 miles to the north. Education The community's first school was organized in a log cabin in 1848, and was used for church services as well. A charter school called Prairie Lea Academy was established by a Masonic order in 1852, and then a school for girls called Prairie Lea Female Institute opened in 1860. It had a school in 1853, and another school was built by the Grange in 1878. Another school was established in 1890. A five-room school building was constructed in 1925. Higher enrollment caused the school to add five new classrooms the following year. By the 1940s students in nearby Fentress and Stairtown attended the school. It was still the focus of community life in 1990, and was classified as a cooperative educational effort. Today, Prairie Lea, including Fentress and Stairtown are all served by the Prairie Lea Independent School District. There is only one campus, Prairie Lea School, and it serves students in grades Pre-kindergarten through twelfth. It is home to the Prairie Lea Indians. References External links Category:Unincorporated communities in Caldwell County, Texas Category:Unincorporated communities in Texas Category:Greater Austin

2024-01-19T01:26:28.774034

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The recent improvement of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia has been significant for a few reasons. Not only is it an indication that hostilities between Israel and its neighbours could improve with time but that the perception of Israel as the enemy is fading fast. This has been illustrated by a visit to Jerusalem in July of this year by a Saudi delegation, the New York Times reported. However, despite such progress, relations have often not been as they are now, demonstrated in the wars fought over the course of the previous half century. It is with this in mind that I would like to focus on one war in particular: the Six Day War in 1967, mainly because it not only represented the greatest achievement but equally the greatest opportunity missed for Israel. It is largely because of this war that we have the problems that we have today. The focus therefore will be on why that is the case, how it could have been so different and what the solution is going forward A miraculous victory The Six Day War was fought from 5th-10th June 1967 between Israel and Egypt, Jordan and ##Syria. Many Israelis have often referred to it as a biblical miracle mainly not only due to the fact that they were fighting a battle on multiple fronts but also because of the differences in personnel and arsenal. It was also a unique war due to the fact that it was a preemptive war; in anticipation of Egyptian movement on the Israeli border, Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields. After six long days, Israel emerged victorious. Top Videos of the Day However, despite what seemed as an impossible victory, it is what happened next that is still felt today. Land seized In defeating its Arab neighbours, the rewards were great for Israel. Not only did they conquer Sinai, but the Golan Heights, East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip too. It was clear that Israel were in a very strong position. But it is what one does with that strength that is most telling. Israel were in a position where they could have returned the land taken for peace deals, ensured that the nation itself was no longer under any threat and set about building internally for the future. But they did not do that. It seemed that greed had set in. What I do not understand is how things had changed in 20 years. In 1948 a partition plan was put forward by the United Nations which proposed dividing what was then Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states. Although the Arab leaders rejected, the Jewish Agency for Palestine did not. If the land suggested was sufficient then, why not in 1967? Missed opportunities However, despite the strong position that they were in, no deals were struck. It was as a result of this decision that set the tone for the next fifty years. The Yom Kippur War of 1973, the rise of the ##PLO, the emergence of Hamas, the intifadas and the threat of ##Hezbollah all happened as a result of the war. This desire for land, which they feel was unlawfully taken, has caused Israel much greater harm than without it. The deal with Egypt illustrates this. In 1979 Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty. The Politico website stated that as a result of the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula, a peace deal was struck. It was a clear example of what could have been. What now? It is clear that today's problems are heavily rooted in the mistakes made after the 1967 war. How different the world could have been had the right decisions been taken? It was meant to be a war to guarantee Israel's security, but it in fact did the exact opposite. Going forward, Israel must realise the mistakes that were made. Although the political climate is different today, there is still the chance to return land for peace. The West Bank and Gaza, if managed correctly, can still be returned. There can still be two states living side by side. The partition plan once proposed can still become a reality. This website uses profiling (non technical) cookies, also third parties cookies, in order to send advertising messages according to user's preferences. To know our policy or to deny the consent for cookies use click here. If you continue the navigation through accessing each element below or you close this banner you agree to the use of cookies

2024-06-04T01:26:28.774034

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Services Poulshot nursery raises money for Devizes Opportunity Centre appeal Nursery manager Sarah Wheeler, who works closely with staff at Devizes Opportunity Centre, is proud her children, staff and parents have supported our Give Us A Chance Appeal. On Friday youngsters at Townsend Barn Nursery, Poulshot, took part in a number of games to raise money for our appeal and Sport Relief. Mrs Wheeler said: “We have children who come to us who also go to the opportunity centre so we know how important the work they do really is. “We thought it would be good for all of our youngsters to raise money for a local community charity as well as Sport Relief. “I am very proud of all of them. It was a fantastic day and all you could hear were giggles as they took part. We are going to continue fundraising for the opportunity centre throughout the year. I don’t know what would happen if the centre wasn’t there. “All of our children have individual education plans and so if we have a child who also goes to the centre we meet staff there to talk about their needs. It is very reassuring for parents to know we are all working together to get the best possible outcome for their child.” On Friday morning 33 children took part in an obstacle course featuring stilts, bean bags, egg and spoon and running through tyres. In the afternoon youngsters aged one and two took part in yoga while the pre-school children were coached on cricket and had a go at batting, throwing and catching. The £100 raised and will be split equally between the opportunity centre and Sport Relief. The nursery, which opened two years ago to cater for children from birth to four, now has 80 children on its roll and there are waiting lists for some ages. Two plucky mums with special reasons to support the appeal are raising money by holding a head shave. Reece Gidley, six, who has Downs Syndrome, now goes to the special unit at Wansdyke Primary School in Devizes, but his mum Anita has not forgotten the help her son received at the centre. Poppy Rose Ellison Balchin, three, who has a number of developmental problems, attends the centre and her mum Lily Balchin from Melksham also wants to help. Both women will take part in a sponsored head shave after Easter at the centre. Ipsoregulated This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Editors' Code of Practice. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to inaccuracy or intrusion, then please contact the editor here. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here

2024-07-12T01:26:28.774034

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/* * Scala classfile decoder (https://www.scala-lang.org) * * Copyright EPFL and Lightbend, Inc. * * Licensed under Apache License 2.0 * (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0). * * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for * additional information regarding copyright ownership. */ package scala.tools.scalap package scalax package rules package scalasig import scala.language.implicitConversions import scala.language.postfixOps import ClassFileParser._ import scala.reflect.internal.pickling.ByteCodecs object ScalaSigParser { import Main.{ BYTES_VALUE, SCALA_LONG_SIG_ANNOTATION, SCALA_SIG, SCALA_SIG_ANNOTATION } // TODO scala/bug#9296 duplicated code, refactor def scalaSigFromAnnotation(classFile: ClassFile): Option[ScalaSig] = { import classFile._ def getBytes(bytesElem: AnnotationElement): Array[Byte] = bytesElem.elementValue match { case ConstValueIndex(index) => bytesForIndex(index) case ArrayValue(signatureParts) => mergedLongSignatureBytes(signatureParts) } def mergedLongSignatureBytes(signatureParts: Seq[ElementValue]): Array[Byte] = signatureParts.iterator.flatMap { case ConstValueIndex(index) => bytesForIndex(index) }.toArray def bytesForIndex(index: Int) = constantWrapped(index).asInstanceOf[StringBytesPair].bytes classFile.annotation(SCALA_SIG_ANNOTATION) .orElse(classFile.annotation(SCALA_LONG_SIG_ANNOTATION)).map { case Annotation(_, elements) => val bytesElem = elements.find(elem => constant(elem.elementNameIndex) == BYTES_VALUE).get val bytes = getBytes(bytesElem) val length = ByteCodecs.decode(bytes) ScalaSigAttributeParsers.parse(ByteCode(bytes.take(length))) } } def scalaSigFromAttribute(classFile: ClassFile): Option[ScalaSig] = classFile.attribute(SCALA_SIG).map(_.byteCode).map(ScalaSigAttributeParsers.parse) def parse(classFile: ClassFile): Option[ScalaSig] = { val scalaSig = scalaSigFromAttribute(classFile) scalaSig match { // No entries in ScalaSig attribute implies that the signature is stored in the annotation case Some(ScalaSig(_, _, entries)) if entries.length == 0 => scalaSigFromAnnotation(classFile) case x => x } } def parse(clazz: Class[_]): Option[ScalaSig] = { val byteCode = ByteCode.forClass(clazz) val classFile = ClassFileParser.parse(byteCode) parse(classFile) } } object ScalaSigAttributeParsers extends ByteCodeReader { def parse(byteCode: ByteCode) = expect(scalaSig)(byteCode) val nat = apply { def natN(in: ByteCode, x: Int): Result[ByteCode, Int, Nothing] = in.nextByte match { case Success(out, b) => { val y = (x << 7) + (b & 0x7f) if ((b & 0x80) == 0) Success(out, y) else natN(out, y) } case _ => Failure } in => natN(in, 0) } val rawBytes = nat >> bytes val entry = nat ~ rawBytes val symtab = nat >> entry.times val scalaSig = nat ~ nat ~ symtab ^~~^ ScalaSig val utf8 = read(x => x.fromUTF8StringAndBytes.string) val longValue = read(_.toLong) } case class ScalaSig(majorVersion: Int, minorVersion: Int, table: Seq[Int ~ ByteCode]) extends DefaultMemoisable { case class Entry(index: Int, entryType: Int, byteCode: ByteCode) extends DefaultMemoisable { def scalaSig = ScalaSig.this def setByteCode(byteCode: ByteCode) = Entry(index, entryType, byteCode) } def hasEntry(index: Int) = table isDefinedAt index def getEntry(index: Int) = { val entryType ~ byteCode = table(index) Entry(index, entryType, byteCode) } def parseEntry(index: Int) = applyRule(ScalaSigParsers.parseEntry(ScalaSigEntryParsers.entry)(index)) implicit def applyRule[A](parser: ScalaSigParsers.Parser[A]) = ScalaSigParsers.expect(parser)(this) override def toString = "ScalaSig version " + majorVersion + "." + minorVersion + { for (i <- 0 until table.size) yield i + ":\t" + parseEntry(i) // + "\n\t" + getEntry(i) }.mkString("\n", "\n", "") lazy val symbols: Seq[Symbol] = ScalaSigParsers.symbols lazy val topLevelClasses: List[ClassSymbol] = ScalaSigParsers.topLevelClasses lazy val topLevelObjects: List[ObjectSymbol] = ScalaSigParsers.topLevelObjects } object ScalaSigParsers extends RulesWithState with MemoisableRules { type S = ScalaSig type Parser[A] = Rule[A, String] val symTab = read(_.table) val size = symTab ^^ (_.size) def entry(index: Int) = memo(("entry", index)) { cond(_ hasEntry index) -~ read(_ getEntry index) >-> { entry => Success(entry, entry.entryType) } } def parseEntry[A](parser: ScalaSigEntryParsers.EntryParser[A])(index: Int): Parser[A] = entry(index) -~ parser >> { a => entry => Success(entry.scalaSig, a) } def allEntries[A](f: ScalaSigEntryParsers.EntryParser[A]) = size >> { n => anyOf((0 until n) map parseEntry(f)) } lazy val entries = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.entry) as "entries" lazy val symbols = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.symbol) as "symbols" lazy val methods = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.methodSymbol) as "methods" lazy val attributes = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.attributeInfo) as "attributes" lazy val topLevelClasses = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.topLevelClass) lazy val topLevelObjects = allEntries(ScalaSigEntryParsers.topLevelObject) } object ScalaSigEntryParsers extends RulesWithState with MemoisableRules { import ScalaSigAttributeParsers.{nat, utf8, longValue} type S = ScalaSig#Entry type EntryParser[A] = Rule[A, String] implicit def byteCodeEntryParser[A](rule: ScalaSigAttributeParsers.Parser[A]): EntryParser[A] = apply { entry => rule(entry.byteCode) mapOut (entry setByteCode _) } def toEntry[A](index: Int) = apply { sigEntry => ScalaSigParsers.entry(index)(sigEntry.scalaSig) } def parseEntry[A](parser: EntryParser[A])(index: Int) = (toEntry(index) -~ parser) implicit def entryType(code: Int) = key filter (_ == code) val index = read(_.index) val key = read(_.entryType) lazy val entry: EntryParser[Any] = symbol | typeEntry | literal | name | attributeInfo | annotInfo | children | get val ref = byteCodeEntryParser(nat) val termName = 1 -~ utf8 val typeName = 2 -~ utf8 val name = termName | typeName as "name" def refTo[A](rule: EntryParser[A]): EntryParser[A] = ref >>& parseEntry(rule) lazy val nameRef = refTo(name) lazy val symbolRef = refTo(symbol) lazy val typeRef = refTo(typeEntry) lazy val constantRef = refTo(literal) val symbolInfo = nameRef ~ symbolRef ~ nat ~ (symbolRef?) ~ ref ~ get ^~~~~~^ SymbolInfo def symHeader(key: Int): EntryParser[Any] = (key -~ none | (key + 64) -~ nat) def symbolEntry(key: Int) = symHeader(key) -~ symbolInfo val noSymbol = 3 -^ NoSymbol val typeSymbol = symbolEntry(4) ^^ TypeSymbol as "typeSymbol" val aliasSymbol = symbolEntry(5) ^^ AliasSymbol as "alias" val classSymbol = symbolEntry(6) ~ (ref?) ^~^ ClassSymbol as "class" val objectSymbol = symbolEntry(7) ^^ ObjectSymbol as "object" val methodSymbol = symHeader(8) -~ /*(ref?) -~*/ symbolInfo ~ (ref?) ^~^ MethodSymbol as "method" val extRef = 9 -~ nameRef ~ (symbolRef?) ~ get ^~~^ ExternalSymbol as "extRef" val extModClassRef = 10 -~ nameRef ~ (symbolRef?) ~ get ^~~^ ExternalSymbol as "extModClassRef" lazy val symbol: EntryParser[Symbol] = oneOf( noSymbol, typeSymbol, aliasSymbol, classSymbol, objectSymbol, methodSymbol, extRef, extModClassRef) as "symbol" val classSymRef = refTo(classSymbol) val attribTreeRef = ref val typeLevel = nat val typeIndex = nat lazy val typeEntry: EntryParser[Type] = oneOf( 11 -^ NoType, 12 -^ NoPrefixType, 13 -~ symbolRef ^^ ThisType, 14 -~ typeRef ~ symbolRef ^~^ SingleType, 15 -~ constantRef ^^ ConstantType, 16 -~ typeRef ~ symbolRef ~ (typeRef*) ^~~^ TypeRefType, 17 -~ typeRef ~ typeRef ^~^ TypeBoundsType, 18 -~ classSymRef ~ (typeRef*) ^~^ RefinedType, 19 -~ symbolRef ~ (typeRef*) ^~^ ClassInfoType, 20 -~ typeRef ~ (symbolRef*) ^~^ MethodType, 21 -~ typeRef ~ (refTo(typeSymbol)+) ^~^ PolyType, // TODO: make future safe for past by doing the same transformation as in the // full unpickler in case we're reading pre-2.9 classfiles 21 -~ typeRef ^^ NullaryMethodType, 22 -~ typeRef ~ (symbolRef*) ^~^ MethodType, 42 -~ typeRef ~ (attribTreeRef*) ^~^ AnnotatedType, 51 -~ typeRef ~ symbolRef ~ (attribTreeRef*) ^~~^ AnnotatedWithSelfType, 48 -~ typeRef ~ (symbolRef*) ^~^ ExistentialType) as "type" lazy val literal: EntryParser[Any] = oneOf( 24 -^ (()), 25 -~ longValue ^^ (_ != 0L), 26 -~ longValue ^^ (_.toByte), 27 -~ longValue ^^ (_.toShort), 28 -~ longValue ^^ (_.toChar), 29 -~ longValue ^^ (_.toInt), 30 -~ longValue ^^ (_.toLong), 31 -~ longValue ^^ (l => java.lang.Float.intBitsToFloat(l.toInt)), 32 -~ longValue ^^ (java.lang.Double.longBitsToDouble), 33 -~ nameRef, 34 -^ null, 35 -~ typeRef, 36 -~ symbolRef ) lazy val attributeInfo = 40 -~ symbolRef ~ typeRef ~ (constantRef?) ~ (nameRef ~ constantRef *) ^~~~^ AttributeInfo // sym_Ref info_Ref {constant_Ref} {nameRef constantRef} lazy val children = 41 -~ (nat*) ^^ Children //sym_Ref {sym_Ref} lazy val annotInfo = 43 -~ (nat*) ^^ AnnotInfo // attarg_Ref {constant_Ref attarg_Ref} lazy val topLevelClass = classSymbol filter isTopLevelClass lazy val topLevelObject = objectSymbol filter isTopLevel def isTopLevel(symbol: Symbol) = symbol.parent match { case Some(ext: ExternalSymbol) => true case _ => false } def isTopLevelClass (symbol: Symbol) = !symbol.isModule && isTopLevel(symbol) } case class AttributeInfo(symbol: Symbol, typeRef: Type, value: Option[Any], values: Seq[String ~ Any]) // sym_Ref info_Ref {constant_Ref} {nameRef constantRef} case class Children(symbolRefs: Seq[Int]) //sym_Ref {sym_Ref} case class AnnotInfo(refs: Seq[Int]) // attarg_Ref {constant_Ref attarg_Ref} /*************************************************** * | 49 TREE len_Nat 1 EMPTYtree * | 49 TREE len_Nat 2 PACKAGEtree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 3 CLASStree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 4 MODULEtree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 5 VALDEFtree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 6 DEFDEFtree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref numtparams_Nat {tree_Ref} numparamss_Nat {numparams_Nat {tree_Ref}} tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 7 TYPEDEFtree type_Ref sym_Ref mods_Ref name_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 8 LABELtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 9 IMPORTtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref {name_Ref name_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 11 DOCDEFtree type_Ref sym_Ref string_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 12 TEMPLATEtree type_Ref sym_Ref numparents_Nat {tree_Ref} tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 13 BLOCKtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 14 CASEtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 15 SEQUENCEtree type_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 16 ALTERNATIVEtree type_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 17 STARtree type_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 18 BINDtree type_Ref sym_Ref name_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 19 UNAPPLYtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 20 ARRAYVALUEtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 21 FUNCTIONtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 22 ASSIGNtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 23 IFtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 24 MATCHtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 25 RETURNtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 26 TREtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 27 THROWtree type_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 28 NEWtree type_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 29 TYPEDtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 30 TYPEAPPLYtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 31 APPLYtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 32 APPLYDYNAMICtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 33 SUPERtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref name_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 34 THIStree type_Ref sym_Ref name_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 35 SELECTtree type_Ref sym_Ref tree_Ref name_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 36 IDENTtree type_Ref sym_Ref name_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 37 LITERALtree type_Ref constant_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 38 TYPEtree type_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 39 ANNOTATEDtree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 40 SINGLETONTYPEtree type_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 41 SELECTFROMTYPEtree type_Ref tree_Ref name_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 42 COMPOUNDTYPEtree type_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 43 APPLIEDTYPEtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 49 TREE len_Nat 44 TYPEBOUNDStree type_Ref tree_Ref tree_Ref * | 49 TREE len_Nat 45 EXISTENTIALTYPEtree type_Ref tree_Ref {tree_Ref} * | 50 MODIFIERS len_Nat flags_Long privateWithin_Ref * SymbolInfo = name_Ref owner_Ref flags_LongNat [privateWithin_Ref] info_Ref * NameInfo = <character sequence of length len_Nat in Utf8 format> * NumInfo = <len_Nat-byte signed number in big endian format> * Ref = Nat * AnnotInfoBody = info_Ref {annotArg_Ref} {name_Ref constAnnotArg_Ref} * AnnotArg = Tree | Constant * ConstAnnotArg = Constant | AnnotInfo | AnnotArgArray * * len is remaining length after `len`. */

2023-08-29T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/1381

Jon Voight and John Schlesinger wrapped filming in Texas and Voight noticed how red the director's face was. Voight thought Schlesinger was having a heart attack and asked him if he was okay. "He looked up at me and said, 'What have we done? What will they think of us?' After all, we had made a film about a dishwasher who lives in New York and f*cks a lot of women," Voight told Esquire. "In the moment he'd finished it, he was shaking. All of a sudden, he saw it as banal and vulgar. He's having an anxiety attack and I grabbed his shoulders to shake him out of it. I said, 'John, we will live the rest of our artistic lives in the shadow of this great masterpiece.' He said, 'You think so?' I said, 'I'm absolutely sure of it.' The only reason I said such an extravagant thing was because I wanted to get him out of it and nothing would take him out of it but that. But the statement turned out to be true."

2024-07-05T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/3837

Q: "Before date" versus "by date" Is it incorrect to say "Please do this before Tuesday"? Is there a difference between that and "Please do this by Tuesday"? A: There is a difference, yes. If you want the job to be ready on Tuesday morning, you would say Please do this before Tuesday If you need it to be done either before or during Tuesday, you would say Please do this by Tuesday In other words, using by is inclusive, it means do this on any day up to and including the day specified. Using before is non inclusive, it means that I expect it to be done when I arrive on Tuesday morning. A: If you want to be precise and want it done literally before a certain time, then "before" is the the word to use. If you want it done on or before the specified day or time, the "by" is the right word. A couple of other expressions that are used (especially in business) are "not later than" (abbreviated NLT)) and "by close of business" (abbreviated COB).

2024-04-16T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/7358

Luminescence properties of multilayer coated single structure ZnS/CdS/ZnS nanocomposites. Water soluble ZnS, CdS and multilayer coated ZnS/CdS/ZnS nanocomposites were successfully synthesized by chemical method in an air atmosphere. Structural, morphology and optical properties were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-visible absorption (UV-vis) and photoluminescence (PL) spectrometer. The obtained particles are highly crystalline and monodisperse with an average particle size of 4.3-5.6nm range. A significant red shift was observed by increasing the CdS thickness in ZnS/CdS/ZnS nanocomposites. The PL position of ZnS and CdS compound is tuned in the visible region by the way of alteration layer thickness.

2024-04-28T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/2725

Method development, matrix effect, and risk assessment of 49 multiclass pesticides in kiwifruit using liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry. In the present study, a liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method with a minimal matrix effect (ME) was developed and validated for simultaneous determination of a diverse range of pesticides (49) in kiwifruit. Samples extracted by the quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS) citrate-buffered method were analyzed either without purification or following purification (with primary secondary amine (PSA) or PSA + graphitized carbon black (GCB)). With the addition of a clean-up step, the suppression of the ME decreased, with a higher number of pesticides determined by the application of PSA + GCB. The method exhibited good linearity with coefficients of determination (R2) ≥ 0.9972 and satisfactory recoveries (70-120%) with a relative standard deviations (RSDs) <10%. The limits of quantification (LOQ) were lower than the maximum residue limits (MRLs) set by the Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) and the CODEX Alimentarius. The developed method was applied to the real samples and the results indicated that the quantitated levels of all pesticides, except for pyraclostrobin and carbendazim, are lower than the MRLs set by the regulatory authorities. The percentage of the acceptable daily intake was <20%, suggesting that there is no risk associated with the intake of residual pesticides through kiwifruit.

2023-09-13T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/3735

Local conjunctival immunotherapy: the effect of dermatophagoides pteronyssinus local conjunctival immunotherapy on conjunctival provocation test in patients with allergic conjunctivitis. We evaluated the effect of local conjunctival immunotherapy (LCIT) with standardized dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp) extracts on antigen-specific conjunctival provocation test (CPT) in patients with allergic conjunctivitis in a double blind, placebo-controlled study. We use the CPT because in our experience is the more objective parameter to evaluate the sensitivity to allergens in this patients. The patients were selected on the basis of symptoms, positive prick test, positive CPT and elevated serum and tears total and specific IgE. The CPT was assessed with increased dilution of Dp extracts instilled into the lower fornix. Conjunctival hyperemia, tearing, itching, burning and swelling of eyelids were scored according a 4-point rating scale. Patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups of 12. The first group was treated with Dp extracts and the second group with placebo during 6 months. A drop of diluted antigen was instilled in both eyes daily, in 2-fold increased concentrations, the first 10 AU/ml. The maintenance dose was 1,000 AU/ml or the maximal dose which did not provoke symptoms. The symptoms were controlled with oral and/or local antihistamines. We evaluated the CPT before and after the treatment. The patients did not receive antihistamines during the 15 previous days to carrying-out the CPT. Ten of the twelve patients of the active group complete the treatment. One of the patients dropped out of the study because experienced local reaction with a dose of 1,000 AU/ml and refused to continue with the treatment. Other patient was disqualified for failure to comply with the protocol. One patient, which experienced itching and tearing with a dose of 1,000 AU/ml, tolerate 100 AU/ml. We continue with this dose until the end of treatment. The remaining patients tolerate 1,000 AU/ml as maintenance dose. A significant difference was observed in the score of CPT between LCIT treated patients and placebo group after 6 month of LCIT. We propose LCIT as a useful alternative to traditional subcutaneous immunotherapy in patients with allergic conjunctivitis.

2024-02-10T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/7524

Q: Charles Proxy + Android HTTPS So here are some similar but outdated answers that might have helped me few years/months ago: Why can't I see http or https traffic from Chrome Browser for Android on Charles Proxy? How to get charles proxy work with Android 7 nougat? I followed all of the instructions, I can read http requests fine, but not https requests. Still can't figure what I am doing wrong. There isn't much of my own to post since I have just followed the above guides. I think the main issue is how do I force the app I am trying to debug to use my certificate? The manifest modifications don't seem to do the trick. A: See this question which has updated answers for Charles 4 and Android 7. You must install the cert from Charles help menu, and you must use Settings -> Security -> Install from storage on device. Your app needs a network_security_config.xml You must use a debuggable app

2023-10-13T01:26:28.774034

https://example.com/article/5732

Reviews Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd hits the stage in the Conant Theatre at Oglethorpe this weekend only. You kind of know the story line; it’s about that barber who got sent down to Australia by some corrupt judge, and years later shows up in London Town seeking revenge in a somewhat bloody way. Barber Sweeney Todd (Shane Desmond-Williams) hooks up with Mrs. Lovett, who is a lousy baker trying to eke out a living by making and selling her awful pasties. She was using road kill as a filler, until Sweeney figures out a much heartier source. Mrs. Lovett is sung by Heather Witt, and she and Sweeney make quite a pair. But wait. . . . you’ll also enjoy Kristin Moye as the nut-case beggar woman. She’s a hoot. The tale involves a young sailor (Ivan Segovia) who falls for Johanna (Sarah Elizabeth Peavy) who turns out to be the daughter of Sweeney, who has been raised in very tight circumstances by the judge who sent Sweeney away. The judge (Wade Thomas) has the hots for his foster daughter and would wed her, would she be willing to do so. Ugh…. And he is supported by a colorful Beadle (Charlie Bradshaw) who is a civil servant guard. The other three principals are Adolfo Pirelli (Joey Yates) and his assistant Tobias Ragg (Jeffrey Akana) who also winds up working for the pie lady. Joey Yates doubles as the loony Jonas Fogg who runs an asylum. However that is not the entire cast. They are joined by a company of 19 more players who are the street people and help to move the story along. This is an incredible work by this local opera group, for just a 3-night run. The sets alone must have taken some great work to move into the theatre. They are backed up by an off-stage orchestra, and the costuming is great as well. There are two numbers which will ring a bell, and they areNot While I’m Around(also referred to often as Nothing’s gonna hurt you . . .) sung to Mrs. Lovett by Tobias, andPretty Womensung by Sweeney and the judge. If you expect to see a lot of blood and corpses, please know that is not the case. It is part of the story, but it isn’t thrust at you in a manner to revolt you. What this is, is an excellent and highly professional production of a contemporary classic work directed by Michael Nutter, with the orchestra under the baton of Michael Giel. If you like musical theatre and/or opera in English; then this is a must see; so go visit their website where you can reserve your seats and enjoy the show. CCityOpera.org The life of an aspiring opera singer is a precarious one. After completing conservatory training, the singer ideally sets out to audition for roles with the intention of setting the world ablaze with his or her artistry. But oftentimes a 22-year-old is too green to land a job with an opera company that spends perhaps $1 million per production and can’t afford to take a chance on untested talent. For that reason, most conservatory graduates initially seek out training programs for emerging professionals, such as Atlanta’s Capitol City Opera Company. The company was founded 30 years ago and hires Atlanta-based singers for both its main stage and outreach endeavors to schools and elsewhere. It offers lighter repertoire and opera cabaret throughout the season, as well as its signature event, “Dinner and a Diva” at Petite Auberge in Toco Hills. It operates on a shoestring budget in order to fulfill its mission: to nurture young singers and honor them with a paycheck for their work. Last weekend the Capitol City Opera staged Giacomo Puccini’s “La Bohème” at Oglethorpe University’s Conant Performing Arts Center. With “Bohème,” his fourth opera, first performed in 1896, Puccini mastered something that had eluded him 10 years earlier with his “Le Villi.” He depicted a troupe of young, struggling artists in Paris who exhibited a sentimentality with which the audience could identify. He dispensed with supernatural subject matter and overblown displays of emotion. Accordingly, Capitol City Artistic Director Michael Nutter double-cast the show and matched Puccini’s economy with simplicity of stage direction, scenery and instrumentation. The well-rounded cast of singers was accompanied by string quartet and piano, conducted by Michael Giel. Rather than sounding sparse, the small ensemble was aesthetically satisfying and well suited to the young singers. Amanda Smolek was smartly cast; she conveyed a sympathetic Mimí and displayed both the stamina and vocal warmth to pull off such a challenging lyric role. Her Rodolfo, Brendan Callahan-Fitzgerald, possesses a tenor voice with metallic overtones, but the duo sang pleasantly together throughout. Elisabeth Slaten, a recent graduate of the Peabody Conservatory, is a fine singing actress and performed Musetta with aplomb. Special mention must be made of Jinho Park, who expertly sang the role of the painter Marcello. Park is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and makes his living as a choral conductor here in Atlanta; he was clearly the most seasoned artist in the cast. The ensemble hit its stride in the final act, when the contrast between comedy and tragedy is most starkly juxtaposed. Colline (the melodramatic Iván Segovia) and Schaunard (baritone Jonathan L.B. Spuhler) jousted with mops and brooms while Rodolfo snatched away from Marcello his prized keepsake, a red lace scarf previously worn by his former lover, Musetta. The choreography couldn’t have been more precisely executed, leaving the audience in stitches, and wholly unprepared for Mimí’s final entrance and subsequent quiet death. It's hard to imagine how much work has to go into creating a new opera. A story, a score, a libretto, sets, costumes, and so much more. And to stage it for three days only, just boggles the mind. But, that's exactly what is being offered to us in Atlanta by Capitol City Opera Company. The story is that of The Secret Agent, published in 1907, and set in London in 1886 where an anarchist, almost a Trotskyite coeroes an underling to create havoc by setting off a bomb adjacent to the Greenwich Observatory. Atlanta composer Curtis Bryant created the score, and a 17 member orchestra is playing live; although they are backstage since there is not pit at the Conant Center. Interesting that the librettist, Allen Reichman, is a retired forensic psychiatrist. No wonder he was so attracted to Joseph Conrad's story line. The story is one with evil intent, screw-ups, death, grieving, and resolution. Sort of typical opera. One aspect that is quite different is that this one is sung in English, albeit there are a couple of large screen TVs where the words being sung are displayed. That's nice, although you pretty much are going to be able to hear and understand the words coming from the performers. But, these screens also are used to advise the audience of the scene changes, so you know where the action is taking place. Probably the most unusual voice is that of countertenor Chase Davidson, who is Stevie, the developmentally delayed young man. That high range is quite rare. Most of the action is carried by Wade Thomas who sings as Adolf Verloc who was coerced by a foreign embassy official, Mr. Vladimir (Keith Lee) to do the dirty deeds. Stevie's sister, Winnie, is sung by Elisabeth Claxton and in Act II, we meet up with Chief Inspector Heat (Tony Yezzi), whose specialty is investigating anarchists. Is this one going to be another La Boheme or Traviata? I wouldn't think so. It doesn't have the oldtime charisma, nor memorable melodic passages. But, it is a really wonderful accomplishment for this company which specializes in advancing the careers of local performers and opera specialists. This may be some of the folks you have seen singing at La Petite Auberge in Toco Hills; but we have to stand and salute them for bringing a full-scale production to a stage as they have done. To Artistic Director Michael Nutter, Music Director Catherine Giel, Conductor Michael Giel and each and every member of the cast and crew we say Molto Bravo! When you hear the word "secret agent" you think of the cold war era of 007, where spies, anarchist, and evil doers are ready to take over the world. You don' really think an unassuming opera. This weekend the Capitol City Opera is producing a world premiere of The Secret Agent. I got to see the dress rehearsal, which was the first for me with the Capitol City Opera who always does an exquisite job. I usually see their productions In final form and have always been impressed. I love opera and they fill a much needed niche in the opera community. However the dress rehearsal can be a bit bumpy with lots of starts and stops and distractions abound. I did get the gist of the story of how you are taken to the underground world of the 1930s London, before the start of World War II. The use of shadows and shifting sets makes for a believable transformation with a live in house orchestra that is set behind the stage. The performers really filled the halls of the Oglethorpe University Theatre. The story Is about Adolf Verloc (Wade Thomas) who seems to be a mild manner proprietor of a pornography shop In London bulls really a foreign agent. His mission Is anarchism and he wants to contribute more to the cause. His larger task assigned Is to plant and set off a bomb, not to kill but to showcase the Incompetency of the government. This sets for an adventure Into Intrigue, suspense and how even a simple plan can have unexpected consequence. The Secret Agent includes passion, forbidden love affair, and a roller coaster of unexpected twists and turns. Since 1983, the Capitol City Opera is the only company in the Southeast primarily to help local singers and artist with their careers. You can truly say I saw them when, before they hit the big stages around the world. This company has something for everybody, performing locally with Dinner and a Diva and reaching out to school. This world premiere of The Secret Agent is sung in English and based on the novel by Joseph Conrad with the music by Curtis Byrant and Libretto by Allen Reichman. A bravo of a performance, check out The Secret Agent which runs through March 17, 2013 No doubt about it, Tartuffe was a huge hit! 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