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PPI::Transform - Abstract base class for document transformation classes
provides an API for the creation of classes and objects that modify or transform PPI documents.
my $transform = PPI::Transform->new(
param1 => 'value1',
param2 => 'value2',
The new
constructor creates a new object for your PPI::Transform
subclass. A default constructor is provided for you which takes no params and creates a basic, empty, object.
If you wish to have your transform constructor take params, these must be in the form of a list of key/value pairs.
Returns a new PPI::Transform
-compatible object, or returns undef
on error.
The document
method should be implemented by each subclass, and takes a single argument of a PPI::Document object, modifying it in place as appropriate for the particular transform class.
That's right, this method will not clone and should not clone the document object. If you do not want the original to be modified, you need to clone it yourself before passing it in.
Returns the numbers of changes made to the document. If the transform is unable to track the quantity (including the situation where it cannot tell IF it made a change) it should return 1. Returns zero if no changes were made to the document, or undef
if an error occurs.
By default this error is likely to only mean that you passed in something that wasn't a PPI::Document, but may include additional errors depending on the subclass.
The apply
method is used to apply the transform to something. The argument must be a PPI::Document, or something which can be turned into a one and then be written back to again.
Currently, this list is limited to a SCALAR
reference, although a handler registration process is available for you to add support for additional types of object should you wish (see the source for this module).
Returns true if the transform was applied, false if there is an error in the transform process, or may die if there is a critical error in the apply handler.
# Read from one file and write to another
$transform->file( 'Input.pm' => 'Output.pm' );
# Change a file in place
$transform->file( 'Change.pm' );
The file
method modifies a Perl document by filename. If passed a single parameter, it modifies the file in-place. If provided a second parameter, it will attempt to save the modified file to the alternative filename.
Returns true on success, or undef
on error.
See the support section in the main module.
Adam Kennedy <email@example.com>
Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.


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FHEM: Battery powered Home Automation remote display using small OLED and MQTT
This is the successor of my MQTT remote display. It is battery driven and can so be placed where you want.
The main component is a Pololu U1V11F3, a step up/down converter with 3V3 output and an Enable input pin. Unfortunately the Enable pin is already clamped to Vin via a 100K resistor. For me I had to remove the small SMD resistor to have the circuit powered off normally. The R6/100K is located directly to the Enable in Input connectors of the Pololu board.
The Enable pin is then connected to GND via an 1M resistor to ground. Do not leave the Enable pin floating, it will sense a finger tip already and switch to on/off by accident.
Then I added a momentary switch and a 47K resistor between Vin (the battery Plus) and the Enable pin. If the switch is pressed, the converter starts and gives 3V3 on it's Output pin. This powers the ESP12 and the OLED display. But only as long as you press the switch. So I added a Diode from GPIO14 of the ESP-12 to the Enable pin.
In the code, GPIO14 is set as output and immediately set to high. This will enable the converter even when the switch is released.
After some code cycles, the GPIO14 output is set to low and the power of the converter is shut down.
The converter will not drain the battery in shutdown mode. But you need to press and hold the switch 2 or 3 seconds until the code powers the Enable pin.

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So, I wonder what was the highlight of the year for you and why? Leave a comment below and let others know what race you thought was so special.
One very noticable feature in 2007 was the very welcome increase in race numbers. It started with the 10 mile classic series, with nearly every race getting record numbers. As we headed into the Summer, all of the races seemed to be up. I'd guess that the numbers are up at least 10% on last year. Reasons??? I think the Cork City Marathon & Relay brought in a lot of new runners. I know that some of the newer runners are using this blog to find out what the races are on. Maybe running is just getting popular again? Whatever the reason, let's hope it continues in 2008.
And just one final thought for 2007. It would be impossible to have such a vibrant local running scene if it were not for all those people who give up their time to organise and plan all of the races. The likes of John Walshe and the gang at Ballycotton Running Promotions, the guys in the Cork BHAA with their excellent series of races and all of the officials in the various clubs who put on their own races. I think that everyone in the local running community owe's them a debt of gratitude for all of the time and hard work that they put in over the last year.
Well done and thanks.
And on a final, final......I would just like to wish all of the readers of this blog a very happy new year :o)
....and load's of PB's in 2008!!
John Desmond
Hi John. For me, it had to be the Cork to Cobh race, I really enjoyed that race. I suppose because it was the longest distance I ran since I started running last April and I had convinced myself that if I got as far as Fota Island, then that would have being good enough for me. But to my amazement, I felt really good by the time I got there and increased my pace from Fota Island to the finish line in Cobh as I'm so familiar with the 5 mile distance. I thought, lets step it up a bit now and try and do it in under 2 hours, which I did so that was really a good achievement for me for 2007 in running. I'd like to echo your comments on thanking all the organizers of the races in 2007. Well done and thank you to all. They were all well organized and enjoyable.
Happy new year to all.
Regards.....John Dunphy
Had to be the Cork City marathon.It was my first attempt at the distance and my own personal performance was dissapointing but the whole day itself was very enjoyable and to my mind a major success. I'll be back for more this year. Hopefully they get the numbers they are expecting. Happy new year and thanks for all the excellent info on the site.....AJ


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There are several passwords in Excel. The first 3 on this list are covered by the Excel Password Remover:
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Beacon Park is proud to partner with Harper for Kids to teach our students important character traits from legendary UCLA Coach John Wooden's Pyramid of Success and his definition of success: "Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you are capable of becoming."
Coach Wooden believed and taught that the most important responsibility each of us had to ourselves was to do everything we could to achieve our own potential. He offered his Pyramid of Success and his definition of Success as a guide, stepping stones to help young people understand what it really takes to make the effort – 100% – to fulfill their potential and do their best.
Each month, our students will focus on one or two character traits from Coach Wooden's Pyramid of Success. Classroom lessons and integrated activities will be designed to help reinforce the character traits from the Pyramid of Success.
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Thursday, August 31, 2017
Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Dr. Rassan M. Tarabein, 58, a neurologist residing in Fairhope, Alabama, pled guilty before Chief United States District Judge Kristi K. DuBose to one count of health care fraud and one count of unlawful distribution of a schedule II controlled substance. As part of his plea agreement, Dr. Tarabein will no longer be able to practice medicine and prescribe controlled substances in the United States. Chief Judge DuBose has scheduled sentencing for March 2, 2018. Dr. Tarabein faces up to ten years in prison for health care fraud and up to twenty years in prison for unlawfully distributing a controlled substance.
On June 28, 2017, a federal grand jury for the Southern District of Alabama returned a 22–count superseding indictment against Dr. Tarabein, charging him with health care fraud, making false statements relating to health care matters, lying to a federal agent, unlawfully distributing schedule II controlled substances, and money laundering. He was arrested two days later.
Dr. Tarabein previously operated the Eastern Shore Neurology and Pain Center, a private clinic in Daphne, Alabama where he offered services relating to neurology and pain management, such as spinal injections. In his plea agreement, Dr. Tarabein admitted that from around 2004 to May 2017, he ran an insurance scam in which he induced patients to visit his clinic so that he could bill health care benefit programs for medically unnecessary tests and procedures. The purpose of Dr. Tarabein's admitted scheme was to maximize personal financial gain by fraudulently seeking payments from health care benefit programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, Humana, UnitedHealthcare, and other private insurers. As part of his guilty plea, Dr. Tarabein admitted to violating the traditional standards of care in his medical practice by, for example, failing to provide informed consent to patients about procedures, discriminating against Alabama Medicaid patients in services rendered, fraudulently documenting patient records, submitting false claims to insurance companies, and issuing prescriptions for schedule II controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose.
Dr. Tarabein has pending state criminal charges in Montgomery County, Alabama. On June 16, 2017, a state grand jury returned a 2–count indictment against Dr. Tarabein, charging him with Medicaid fraud and theft of property in the first degree, each a felony offense. On September 20, 2017, Dr. Tarabein is expected to plead guilty in state court to Medicaid fraud.
Acting United States Attorney Butler stated, "Today's guilty plea reinforces our office's dedication to protecting the public from corrupt physicians. Doctors who exploit patients through medically unnecessary services to line their own pockets have no place in our health care system. I commend the investigators who unraveled Dr. Tarabein's scam for their commitment to uproot health care fraud."
Attorney General Steve Marshall stated, "I am pleased that my Medicaid Fraud Control Unit had the opportunity to team with our federal law enforcement colleagues to investigate and bring to justice this defendant who not only violated his oath to his patients, but stole taxpayer money set aside to provide care for our most vulnerable citizens. I am grateful to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Alabama for its speedy resolution of the federal charges, as this defendant is held to account for his actions."
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Robert E. Lasky stated, "The FBI stands ready to work alongside our state, local, and federal partners to eliminate prescription drug abuse. When doctors place money before the well-being of their patients, this task becomes nearly impossible. This guilty plea is a testament to all the hard work and cooperation between the agencies that conducted this investigation."
"The abuse of prescription drugs is a serious problem in our communities. All too often, this abuse leads to addiction, shattered lives, and even death. For the health and safety of our citizens, DEA and our law enforcement partners will continue to target those who illegally distribute these potentially dangerous drugs. We hope that the conviction of Dr. Tarabein serves as a reminder to anyone who might illegally divert pharmaceuticals that they will be held accountable for the harm they cause," said Stephen G. Azzam, Special Agent in Charge of DEA's New Orleans Field Division.
"Today's plea should serve as a wake-up call to those who intend to bill the government for medically unnecessary services and thereby enriching their own bottom line," said Special Agent in Charge Derrick L. Jackson of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG). "The nation is facing a very serious prescription drug crisis and the OIG, along with our state and federal law enforcement partners, take allegations such as these very seriously."
The FBI, DEA, OIG, and Alabama Medicaid Fraud Control Unit are investigating the federal case. Assistant United States Attorneys Sinan Kalayoglu and Gregory A. Bordenkircher are prosecuting the federal case in coordination with the Office of the Alabama Attorney General, Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Assistant Attorney General Bruce M. Lieberman is prosecuting the state case.


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but the indicators included are simple and understandable. The victory in the match and the goals scored are good. Defeat and yellow and red cards are bad. There is a number of bonuses - for clean sheets for goalkeepers, for hat-tricks, scoring series, etc.
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Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and co-founder & CEO of Square, speaks during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021.
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Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey weighed in on escalating inflation in the U.S., saying things are going to get considerably worse.
"Hyperinflation is going to change everything," Dorsey tweeted Friday night. "It's happening."
The tweet comes with consumer price inflation running near a 30-year high in the U.S. and growing concern that the problem could be worse that policymakers have anticipated.
On Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged that inflation pressures "are likely to last longer than previously expected," noting that they could run "well into next year." The central bank leader added that he expects the Fed soon to begin pulling back on the extraordinary measures it has provided to help the economy that critics say have stoked the inflation run.
In addition to overseeing a social media platform that has 206 million active daily users, Dorsey is a strong bitcoin advocate. He has said that Square, the debit and credit card processing platform that Dorsey co-founded, is looking at getting into mining the cryptocurrency. Square also owns some bitcoin and facilitates trading in it.
Responding to user comments, Dorsey added Friday that he sees the inflation problem escalating around the globe. "It will happen in the US soon, and so the world," he tweeted. Dorsey is currently both the CEO of Twitter and Square.
It's one thing to call for faster inflation, but it may be surprising to some that Dorsey used the word hyperinflation, a condition of rapidly rising prices that can ruin currencies and bring down whole economies.
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones and others have called for a period of rising inflation. Jones told CNBC earlier in the week that he owns some bitcoin and sees it as a good inflation hedge.
"Clearly, there's a place for crypto. Clearly, it's winning the race against gold at the moment," Jones said Wednesday.
But most of the major investors have not gone so far as to call for hyperinflation like Dorsey.


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Kevin: John Naughton has an excellent meditation about the internet and the pervasive search for easy answers. We're living through a revolution. Get used to it. As he writes, disruption is a feature not a bug. "By implementing these twin protocols, Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn created what was essentially a global machine for springing surprises." It's an excellent piece that looks at a number of the disruptive trends online such as how to deal with information abundance, which upends traditional economics that attempts to deal with the allocation of scrace resources.


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Taylor Swift Might Not Do a Stadium Tour for 'Lover'
Taylor Swift revealed that she does not currently have set plans to tour for Lover, though concerts to promote the new album may be in the future.
"I'm not quite sure what we're doing with touring because with this album, I was so full-on planning this album release and directing the videos and putting all these different clues in these videos and trying to make this album release experience the most fun one for my fans, that I didn't wanna plan what we [were] gonna do in terms of live [shows]. I don't want to do the same thing every time because I don't want my life to feel like I'm on a treadmill," she told Ryan Seacrest in an interview.
Swift said people don't realize that you have to reserve stadiums a year and a half in advance. She also added that Lover is different when it comes to getting listeners to understand the album's intention: "With Reputation, I knew that nobody would really fully understand the album until they saw it live because I knew what I had planned ... was going to make people understand what I had made on the record," she explained.
The artist revealed that six months prior to the release of Lover, her management team asked about going back to stadium touring.
"And I was like, 'Guys, I just got off tour — I literally just got off tour. I literally just took my tights off and my thigh-high boots off from the last tour. I literally cannot do this right now. You need to give me space, even if that means we have to do things a little bit differently.' I really can't feel like my life is just album tour, album tour, album tour, album tour," she told Seacrest.
"I want to give them 113% every show so I need for it to be in a way that feels right," she continued. Because Lover is an opposite vibe to her sixth studio album, Reputation, Swift shared that the songs should be played in a different atmosphere.
She also shared that she "definitely" does not want to play the album live for a lot of people. "I definitely want to give fans an opportunity and give me the opportunity to vibe with them on these songs in a live setting and see them sing the words back, but I don't really know exactly what way that's going to happen," she admitted.
"My goal for whatever live setting that we decide to do things in, is gonna be to try to make wherever we are … feel smaller like a living room. That's my goal. That's my objective, [but] I truly don't know what we're doing … I haven't had the meetings yet."


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After being traded from Portland to Charlotte as part of the Gerald Wallace deal, forward Dante Cunningham was playing to get noticed. To earn a contract for next season.
Well, he's got the noticed part down.
He was pulled over for speeding and reckless driving by police not far from Villanova University, where he played his college ball. Inside the car police found marijuana, a pipe that one might use to smoke marijuana, and a BB gun, according to NBC Philadelphia (via CBS Eye On Basketball).
He has been released pending a hearing.
An NBA player caught with weed? Not good if you're a guy off the bench trying to get picked up for next season like Cunningham, but not shocking in the least.
But a BB gun?
His family is military, but a BB gun? The military does not give soldiers a standard issue BB gun, last I checked. And whatever NBA/D-League locker room he ends up in next season, he can count on some serious trash talk from teammates about the Red Ryder BB gun he got for Christmas.


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Skyrmions, subatomic quasiparticles that could play a key role in future spintronic technologies, have been observed for the first time using x-rays. An international collaboration of researchers working at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) observed skyrmions in copper selenite (Cu2SeO3) an insulator with multiferroic properties. The results not only hold promise for ultracompact data storage and processing, but may also open up entire new areas of study in the emerging field of quantum topology.
"Using resonant x-ray scattering, we were able to gather unique element-specific, orbital-sensitive electronic and magnetic structural information not available by any other method," says Sujoy Roy, a physicist who oversees research at ALS Beamline 12.0.2 where the study was carried out, and the corresponding author of a paper describing this research in Physical Review Letters titled Coupled Skyrmion Sublattices in Cu2OSeO3.
"We found the unexpected existence of two distinct skyrmion sub-lattices that rotate with respect to each other, creating a moiré-like pattern," Roy says. "Compared to materials with a simpler magnetic structure, the sub-lattices provide for an extra degree of freedom to minimize the free energy. This leads to magnetic excitations that can't exist in materials with a single magnetic lattice structure."
Although skyrmions act like baryons, they are actually magnetic vortices – discrete swirls of magnetism – formed from the spins of charged particles. Spin is a quantum property in which the charged particles act as if they were bar magnets rotating about an axis and pointing in either an "up" or "down" direction. The discovery of skyrmions – named for Tony Skyrme, a British physicist who first theorized their existence – in manganese silicide generated much excitement in the materials sciences world because their exotic hedgehog-like spin texture is topologically protected – meaning it can't be perturbed. Add to this the discovery that skyrmions can be moved coherently over macroscopic distances with a tiny electrical current and you have a strong spintronic candidate.
"A major breakthrough came with the discovery of skyrmions in copper selenite because its magnetic properties can be controlled with an electric field," says Roy. "To achieve this control, however, we must understand how different electron orbitals stabilize the skyrmionic phase. Until our study, the copper selenite skyrmions had only been observed with neutron scattering and transmission electron microscopy, techniques that are insensitive to electron orbitals."
ALS Beamline 12.0.2 is an undulator beamline with experimental facilities optimized for coherent x-ray scattering studies of magnetic materials. The collaboration, which included researchers from Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Japan's RIKEN institute, used these facilities to first identify the magnetic vortex. Then, at a certain applied electric field and temperature, they saw x-ray signals due to the formation of a skyrmion lattice.
"We were able to show that although the skyrmions act like magnetic particles, their origin in copper selenite is electronic," says Matthew Langner, lead author of the Physical Review Letters paper. "We also found that temperature can be used to move the skyrmions in copper selenite in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction."
Controlling the movement of skyrmions in a multiferroic compound suggests these magnetic vortices could be used to read and write data. Skyrmions are considered especially promising for the holographic information storage concept known as magnetic race-track memory.
"The skyrmion is topologically distinct from the other ground-state magnetic structures, meaning it can be moved around the sample without losing its shape," Langner says. "The combination of this stability and the low magnetic and electric fields required for manipulating the skyrmions is what makes them potentially useful for spintronic applications."
In addition to device applications, the collaboration's findings show that is now possible to use x-rays to study spectroscopic and electronic aspects of the skyrmion, and to study skyrmion dynamics on the time-scale of fundamental interactions.
Co-authors of the Physical Review Letters paper, in addition to Roy and Langner, are Shrawan Mishra, James Lee, Xiaowen Shi, Muhammad Hossain, Yi-De Chuang, Shinichiro Seki, Yoshinori Tokura, Stephen Kevan and Robert Schoenlein.
This research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science.
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The aim of the BTT Mechanical Module is to give the delegates the knowledge and skills to carry out basic mechanical tasks (supervised by an experienced technician), using safe working procedures and the correct PPE.Content:
Upon completion of the course, delegates will have achieved skills and basic knowledge of:- Main components, mechanical systems and the basic operation of wind turbines.
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As we celebrate women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements this International Women's Day, the Indexed Annuity Leadership Council (IALC) wants to raise awareness that when it comes to savings, the gender savings gap is still huge.
When it comes to savings, the gender savings gap is huge. A recent study[1] indicated that women have 50% lower savings than their male counterparts. There are a number of reasons that this disparity exists, among these are that, on average, women earn lower salaries than their male counterparts and will spend fewer years in the workforce. However, there are actions that women can take right now, that will help improve their savings and provide a bridge to end the gender savings gap.
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Commit to increasing your rate of savings every year. Increasing the amount you save by just $25/month every year could mean that you will have $5,000 more in retirement savings, and an increase of $150/month[2] every year could mean more than $34,000 in savings when you get to retirement.
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Make sure that at least a portion of your savings is in lower-risk products that are not subject to loss from economic or stock market volatility. Fixed Annuities and Fixed Indexed Annuities are insurance products that offer guaranteed[3] rates of interest, protect your principle and interest from loss due to market downturns (assuming you don't make any early withdrawals), and can offer the advantages of tax-deferred savings when part of a retirement plan.
The surest way to make change is to take action. Do something today to help close the gender savings gap for tomorrow.
[1] Women versus men in DC Plans, Vanguard white paper, October 2015.
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People suspected of drunken driving can't automatically be subjected to blood tests without a warrant and without their consent, the U.S. Supreme Court has held.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote the majority opinion (PDF) in Missouri v. McNeely. The natural metabolization of alcohol does not justify an automatic exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, Sotomayor wrote. Instead, the need for a warrant "must be determined case by case based on the totality of the circumstances," she said.
Justices Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan joined Sotomayor's opinion in full. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy joined most sections of the opinion. In a concurrence, he stressed that states should be able to adopt rules and procedures that satisfy the Fourth Amendment in blood draw cases, providing needed guidance for police officers.
The court ruled in the case of Tyler McNeely, who refused to provide a breath sample or to consent to a blood test after an officer stopped him for speeding and crossing the center line. The arresting officer instructed hospital personnel to draw a blood sample despite McNeely's refusal, and McNeely sought to suppress the results.
The state of Missouri had argued that a warrantless blood test was always justified. As a result, Sotomayor said, the court did not have an adequate framework to consider the factors that would justify a warrantless test. Factors could include the availability of a magistrate judge and other practical problems with obtaining a warrant, she said.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called for more guidance in an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.
"A police officer reading this court's opinion would have no idea—no idea—what the Fourth Amendment requires of him, once he decides to obtain a blood sample from a drunk driving suspect who has refused a Breathalyzer test," Roberts wrote in an opinion joined by Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Stephen G. Breyer. "But the circumstances in drunk driving cases are often typical, and the court should be able to offer guidance on how police should handle cases like the one before us."
Roberts said officers should be required to obtain a warrant before drawing blood when there is time to do so. Sotomayor said Roberts' rule would allow a warrantless blood draw when an officer couldn't secure a warrant in the time it takes to transport the suspect to a medical facility.
"Under the chief justice's rule," Sotomayor wrote, "if a police officer serendipitously stops a suspect near an emergency room, the officer may conduct a nonconsensual warrantless blood draw even if all agree that a warrant could be obtained with very little delay under the circumstances." Kennedy did not join this section of Sotomayor's opinion.
Justice Clarence Thomas dissented. "Once police arrest a suspect for drunk driving, each passing minute eliminates probative evidence of the crime," he wrote. That fact justifies a warrantless blood draw in every situation where police have probable cause to arrest a driver for DWI, he said.


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Loving Cup has not been seen in 13 Phish shows.
It was last played: 2023-12-31.
It was played at 7.41% of live shows.
It has been performed live 149 time(s).
Music/Lyrics: Jagger/Richards
Original Artist: The Rolling Stones
Original Album: Exile on Main St (1972)
Vocals: Page, Trey
Debut: 1993-02-03
Historian: Martin Acaster (Doctor_Smarty)
Originally written in 1969 during studio sessions for Let It Bleed, the piano-driven romantic trophy piece "Loving Cup" was safely locked away for three years until its release on the 1972 Rolling Stones epic double album Exile On Main St. The Stones' studio version of "Loving Cup" was recorded in their mobile studio at Keith Richards' Villa Nellcôte, Villefranche, France in 1971. Lyrically it is an impassioned plea from a stumbling, fumbling, nitty, gritty, torn shirt wearing, broken down car driving, bad guitar playing, muddy faced, mountain climbing, rose picking, plowman for a beauty beyond his means to satiate his desires. Clearly he feels unworthy, but he's just gotta have it. "Loving Cup" closes out the delta blues cum swampy-tonk first LP of the original vinyl release and features the New Orleans jazz flavored horn playing of Bobby Keys (saxophone) and Jim Price (trumpet and trombone), the piano stylings of Nicky Hopkins, and additional percussion from Jimmy Miller. The Rolling Stones played "Loving Cup" live during their 1972 tour in support of the album but have played it sparingly since.
Phish broke the dusty drinking vessel out of its trophy case (2/3/93 Portland, ME) as the spring 1993 tour opening song. The timing of this debut apparently had hinged on the ability of the band to tour with a baby grand piano; 2/3/93 was in fact the first show with the baby grand in Page's touring ensemble, and the opening lick of that year was thus on the baby grand. The subsequent sipping from the font of Venus during that tour was frequent and came almost exclusively (the 2/5/93 Roseland Ballroom encore as the exception) as a first or second set opener. In contrast "Loving Cup" appeared only once during the summer tour that year (8/8/93 Cleveland), was exiled even from Maine's streets during the holiday run, and only made three appearances during all of 1994. Most noteworthy of the 1994 performances was the 5/7/94 version which ushered in the legendary Bomb Factory "Tweezer" fest. This version, which was released on Live Phish 18, should definitely be listened to on a sunny Sunday morning-after with friends and loved ones nearby to be truly appreciated. Other versions released in the series include the 9/14/00 Darien Lake (Live Phish 03) and 7/15/98 Portland Meadows (Live Phish 17) "Loving Cups."
Since the near-exile of "Loving Cup" early after its debut, the song has been in regular rotation and ranks among the most played cover songs in the Phish repertoire. Since late September 1999, "Loving Cup" appears to have been awarded favored nightcap status, appearing only a few times as a second set closer and more commonly as an encore. One of these second set appearances (8/3/03 IT) followed the awarding of the "Loving Cup" trophies presented to the winners of the "Runaway Jim" 5K held earlier in the day.
Variation between individual performances has been slight despite the obvious room for balls out rock and roll improvisation. A notable exception is the 10/18/98 Bridge School Benefit version, which was played acoustically. Realizing he would be unable to shred the conclusion of the song in its acoustic format, Trey yields the floor to Fishman to play the role of anchorman in draining the cup. Trey revisited "Loving Cup" in its solo acoustic form several times on his Fall 2005 tour.
Prior to the Festival 8 (10/31/09) Exile set, Phish performances of "Loving Cup" had lacked the horns and sublimely soulful backing vocals, and no performance to date has had a second guitarist, and the extra percussionist present on the Stones' studio version; however, even die-hard fans of the original auteurs have been heard to admit that: "Phish really can crank on that tune." That opinion was cast in Stones by the Festival 8 "Loving Cup" masterpiece. With the help of Sharon Jones and Saundra Williams on vocals, Dave Guy on trumpet, David Smith on trombone, and Tony Jarvis on saxophone, Phish raised the bar on "Loving Cup" to beyond top-shelf status. It was a true peak experience that will never be supplanted as the "best Loving Cup ever!" and is actually capable of causing spontaneous human combustion and triggering multiple orgasms... seriously.
Evidence of the power of the song to elicit a strong reaction from the ladies was displayed when Phish participated in Jimmy Fallon's Late Night Exile week (5/13/10). The sight of ecstatic Phish fan Karissa dancing dead center in the crowd behind the stage as Phish was delivering a rather crisp version of "Loving Cup" is all the evidence needed to support the claims made above. Phish themselves got special attention that night as their performance of "Loving Cup" was introduced by surprise Fallon guest and legendary bad ass Mr. Keith Richards himself! Each night of Fallon's Exile week featured a musical guest performing songs from Exile as a prelude to the release of the remastered version of the album. The new Exile features bonus material harvested from the hours of outtakes that were scoured by Don Was and includes an alternate take of "Loving Cup." This version flows like hot black tar, opens with a variation on the piano intro, features several alternate lyrics, does not include horns, is slathered with a healthy dose of slide guitar, and concludes with an extended outro groove that really does Let it Bleed. It is difficult to say which version of the two is better. Thanks to the amazing re-release of Exile we no longer have to decide...one album, two "Cups!"
The longest "Loving Cup" to date was played 6/12/19 at the Chaifetz Arena in St Louis minutes after the St. Louis Blues snapped their 52-year long wait and won their first Stanley Cup. Ending the longest such drought in league history. Maybe the Mariners can get Phish to play in Seattle some October?
For a representative taste from the full spectrum of the Phish "Loving Cup," in addition to those listed above please check out the following versions: 3/30/93 Eugene; 11/4/94, Syracuse; 12/9/95, Albany, NY; 11/24/96, Portland, OR; 7/1/97, Amsterdam; 8/2/97, The Gorge; 8/15/98, Lemonwheel; 12/30/98 MSG; 9/14/99, Boise; 5/21/00 Radio City Music Hall; 12/28/03 Miami; and 7/30/09 Red Rocks; each one guaranteed to make the listener exclaim "OH... What a beautiful buzz!"
Recommended Versions: 1993-02-03, 1993-03-30, 1994-05-07, 1994-11-04, 1995-12-09, 1996-11-24, 1997-07-01, 1997-08-02, 1997-11-13, 1998-07-15, 1998-08-15, 1998-12-30, 1999-09-14, 2000-05-21, 2003-12-28, 2009-07-30, 2009-10-31
Albums: At the Roxy, Live Phish 03, Live Phish 17, Live Phish 18, Hampton/Winston-Salem '97, Lullaby Versions of Phish V2, Amsterdam


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An umbilical granuloma (gran-you-LOW-ma) is a small, red stalk of scar tissue that stays on a newborn baby's bellybutton after the umbilical cord has fallen off.
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The White Sox and Red Sox begin at 11:05 a.m. at Fenway Park in the annual Patriots' Day game. Could mean early-morning batting practice for J.D Martinez and José Abreu.
The event usually coincides with the Boston Marathon — in past years, fans in the Green Monster seats would turn around to catch a glimpse of the leaders while others headed over after the final out to cheer on the runners in Kenmore Square, about a mile from the finish line. This year, the famous race has been moved to Oct. 11 due to the pandemic.
Chicago ace Lucas Giolito (1-0, 2.55 ERA) is slated to start the series finale against Nathan Eovaldi (2-1, 2.08).
The Twins will continue coronavirus testing and contact tracing with the hope of getting back on the field Tuesday for a doubleheader at Oakland.
Minnesota had games against the Angels in Anaheim on Saturday and Sunday postponed. The Twins-Athletics game Monday also was called off.
The Twins have had at least four positive coronavirus tests in the past week.
There have been six MLB games postponed this year because of the virus, including a season-opening, three-game series between the Nationals and Mets after Washington's coronavirus concerns.
Atlanta star Ronald Acuña Jr. left a game Sunday at Wrigley Field with pain in his lower abdominal muscles, an issue that arose after he dove back into first base on a pickoff attempt. The Braves are off Monday before opening a series at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, giving the dynamic outfielder a day to see if the discomfort will subside.
Acuña is off to a terrific start this year, batting .433 with seven homers and 16 RBIs heading into the series finale against the Cubs. The outfielder also had scored a major league-high 20 runs coming into Sunday.
Atlanta has been hit hard by injuries early in the season. Pitchers Max Fried, Drew Smyly and Sean Newcomb and outfielders Cristian Pache and Ender Inciarte have been placed on the 10-day IL since Wednesday.
Rays left-hander Josh Fleming is set to pitch the series opener at Kansas City in front of his own personal rooting section.
The 24-year-old Fleming is from Bridgeton, Missouri, on the other side of the state in the St. Louis area. He's expecting about 12 family members and 25 friends for the game. Many of them have not seen him pitch since 2018 at Bowling Green.
"Any time I hear screaming, here I'll know it's going to be from there," he said.
Fleming's parents will be on hand. They were forced by the pandemic to watch his debut on television at a hotel across from Tropicana Field but did attend World Series games.
San Francisco manager Gabe Kapler returns to Citizens Bank Park for the first time since being fired as Philadelphia's skipper.
The Phils went 80-82 in 2018 during Kapler's first year and 81-81 in 2019. The Giants didn't play in Philly last season.
"I'm looking forward to seeing people. It's not going to be the easiest thing with the COVID protocols. But I plan on getting a little bit of time with some people I grew close to during my time in Philly."
What kind of reception does he expect from fans?
"Making that prediction, I just don't know where to begin," he said. "I did the best job I could every day. It didn't work out. We didn't win enough. That ultimately is the bottom line."
Jay Bruce has called it a career.
The three-time All-Star who was with the Yankees this season announced his retirement Sunday, 15 days past his 34th birthday. Bruce received an ovation when shown on the Yankee Stadium video board before the eighth inning but did not get in the game, a 4-2 loss to Tampa Bay that was New York's fifth straight defeat.
"Just the consistent underperformance for me," he said, his voice quavering at times. "Felt like I wasn't able to do it at a level that was acceptable for myself."
Bruce hit .118 with one homer and three RBIs in 39 plate appearances this year. He had a .244 average with 319 homers and 951 RBIs in 14 major league seasons with Cincinnati (2008-16), the Mets (2016-18), Cleveland (2017), Seattle (2019), Philadelphia (2019-20) and the Yankees.
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When he was just a boy living in the Coney Island projects, being funny was about survival. With the right snap, Tracy could shut down the playground bullies who beat up on him and his physically disabled older brother. And with a wild enough prank, he could exact revenge on whoever stole his Pumas at the community pool. Later, being funny was about escape—from the untouchable sadness of his father's death, from the desperation of the drug dealer's trade, from the life and death battles waged on the streets of the South Bronx in the age of crack. But these days being funny is about living his dream—a dream born in the comedy clubs of Harlem and realized on shows like Martin and Saturday Night Live, where he was a cast member for seven years, and in movies like The Longest Yard and Half-Baked.
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In early spring, I had the chance to meet up with Chris Dyer in Ghent, Belgium, while he was visiting the family of his wife, the lovely Valerie. As he regularly spends time in this part of Europe, and in order to avoid getting bored and to take advantage of this time away from Montreal, his home city, he met with the local street artists and ended up collaborating on a bunch of projects. And because Chris is so generous and positive, he naturally became friends with many of them.
For me, it was an opportunity to explore the city with Chris, to get his take on Ghent and see what he'd painted there. Actually, as he said to me, Ghent should be re-named Bue the Warrior City! When you enter Ghent, you see Bue's art everywhere. Whether it's illegal or legal pieces, his art covers a multitude of walls and doors… All of it painted in a joyful spirit, yet always controlled.
While we were walking through the city, looking for some cool spots where he used to paint, Chris explained to me how he improved his bombing technique each time he worked with Bue. It's the same gratitude you can feel when he speaks about his beginnings in Montreal, where he was invited, in the early 2000's, to join an exhibition organized by the best of the best,Troy Lovegates and Labrona, after he moved from Peru for study illustration in Canada. What a lesson of humility, when you can hear the admiration and respect for his peers by an artist like Dyer! He also told me about his early life in Lima, Peru, where he began tagging as a teenager while he was part of a street gang.
Ghent is a small town compared to bigger neighbors like Brussels, but it appears to be an incredible canvas for Belgium street artists and graffiti writers. ROA is the most well-known among them, as are Dzia, A squid called sebastian, Resto, Bisser, Scarpulla, and of course Bue the warrior, just for named a few.
Thank you very much Chris!
Positive Creations in Belgium (Artventures Webpisode #8) from Chris Dyer`s Positive Creations on Vimeo.
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The following article appeared in the Washington Post March 3, 2017. Original Article (w/photos) More People are Adopting Old Dogs --- Really Old DogsBy Karin Brulliard
When a German Shepherd rescue organization posted Elmo's photo online last fall, it made no effort to mask the dog's problems. He wore a cone around his neck to prevent him from licking the large open sore on his hip. His fungus-ridden feet were swollen. His graying, 11-year-old face held a pathetic, ears-to-the-ground gaze. Steve Frost, a retired fire captain in Northern California, said he saw the photo and thought Elmo "looked like hell." He immediately decided he wanted the dog. Four months later, Frost sits by his fireplace every morning and evening and gives Elmo four pills for his various ailments, "like an old man." On Wednesday morning, he took Elmo in for prostate surgery. Frost, who had not owned a dog in several years, is now ushering one through its final years of life, which he says he figures will be "a lot better than living in a kennel." Frost, 59, met Elmo through the Thulani Program, one of a growing number of animal organizations focusing on adopting out older dogs, or "senior dogs" that are typically 7 years or older. Their age makes them some of the hardest-to-place animals in a society that still adores romping puppies, although that is changing as books on elderly dogs and social media campaigns convince pet-seekers that the mature pooches often come with benefits, such as being house-trained, more sedate and less demanding of people with busy lifestyles. But some of those adopters go further, selecting pets from programs for dogs in need of hospice care, or what amounts to assisted living for very ill or very old dogs. These programs usually commit to covering the cost of a dog's medical and dental care, which might otherwise be a major obstacle to finding them homes, said Lisa Lunghofer, executive director of the Maryland-based Grey Muzzle Organization. The donor-funded group gave $225,000 in grants last year to 38 senior dog programs nationwide, several of which now promote hospice adoptions. Frost, who lives in Redding, Calif., and is a part-time professional pilot, said he knew he wasn't up to the task of raising a puppy. He also knew he wanted a German Shepherd. An Internet search led him to Thulani, and that led him to Elmo, one of the organization's hospice dogs. Frost knows little about Elmo's past, other than that he was turned over to an animal shelter in Los Angeles and had clearly been neglected. His ears had mites, his innards had worms, his prostate had a tumor and he was puppy-like in one key way: At age 11, he wasn't house-trained. Now Elmo has two beds in Frost's home and a permanent place in the back seat of his four-door Ford F-150, and the two take what Frost called "a man shower" together every few days. "This guy has just burrowed his way into my heart," Frost said. Lunghofer stresses that most senior dogs do not require the kind of care Elmo has. The majority "just need a good home," she said, and many "regain their vitality and reward their families with years of unconditional love and devotion." And more of them are finding those homes, she said. Grey Muzzle — which says it envisions "a world where no old dog dies alone and afraid" — recently surveyed its grantees, the majority of which said the situation for older dogs has improved in the past two years and that young people are more open to such adoptions. Nearly all said the main reason people adopt aging dogs is "altruism," although mellowness and potty skills were also cited. "This is a great way to ease into dog ownership," said Erick Smith of Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco, a Grey Muzzle grantee. "It's not this epic commitment that you're staring down." Dante, a 10-year-old black Lab mix, had an eye removed shortly before he was adopted by David Writz of Eau Claire, Wis. (David Writz)David Writz, 34, said he's hoping his newly adopted 10-year-old black Lab mix, Dante — who is not a hospice case — will stick around for five years or so. Like Frost, Writz found his dog online after deciding he didn't have time for a puppy. When the two met in person at Bob's House for Dogs in Eleva, Wis., Writz was smitten, despite the fact that Dante was about 20 pounds overweight. Then the shelter called and told Writz that the dog would be having emergency surgery to remove an eye with glaucoma. Did Writz still want him? "I was like, 'Obviously,' " said Writz, who works in a payroll office. "I figured at the very least I'd just get him an eye patch." Knowing that Dante won't be around for long "is the depressing aspect of it," said Writz, who regularly takes Dante to a local brewery, where the dog happily begs for pretzels. "But I figure he'll be happy the rest of his remaining years." Russell Ulrey, a Muttville volunteer who helped start the shelter's hospice program, said he was initially worried that he wouldn't find takers. He was wrong. Last year, Muttville adopted out 85 hospice dogs, and Ulrey said demand is higher than supply. Caring for a terminally ill dog is "a life-changing experience," said Ulrey, 41, but one he tells potential adopters to approach with flexibility. Ulrey, who has adopted several hospice dogs, said one lived 14 months until, one day, he charged up a hill to a favorite park and collapsed. A veterinarian euthanized him there. An Airedale mix named Ralph, in contrast, had multiple organ failure, rotten teeth and survived just a week. "A dog like Ralph, we didn't take him out to the park. He didn't want to go," he said. "We made him cozy and made him feel really loved, maybe for the first time in his life." )These days, Ulrey and his partner, Marie Macaspac, are the parents of Chachito, a 20-pound mutt who qualified as a hospice dog because he is 16 years old, blind and deaf — exactly the kind of pet few adopters would be willing to take on. Chachito's regime involves homemade meals of brown rice pasta and chicken, supplements for his joints, arthritis medication and lots of hanging out at the couple's Fairfax, Calif., home. "He has his route," Ulrey said. "He bonks into one wall and then knows he's going to turn right." Farther north, in Redding, Elmo is recovering from his prostate surgery, which added hundreds of dollars to the $1,000 or more Frost has paid — with Thulani funds — to get the dog in shape. Soon, Frost said, he'll take Elmo for a ride in an airplane. "The best you can do is make him have a great life, because his life up until this point has been hell," Frost said. As for the end? Frost said he doesn't focus on that. "If it didn't hurt, you've got to question the love that's involved." |
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