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Some of you that follow this site might know that my wife and I reside in Denver, Colorado.
Last night, We checked in to where the Batman "The Dark Knight Rises" movie was doing a late night premiere and the only theater close to us that was not sold out was the Aurora 16 theaters. I turn 41 today and thought a super late 3 hour movie could be fun and something a little bit different to do for us. After a few minutes of contemplating, We decided to wait until the crowds die down and possibly see it on a larger screen since the Aurora 16 theaters are not the best quality.
The fact that My wife is pregnant and that it was a Thursday night (early Friday morning) made the decision to wait a lot easier. I can only imagine what would have happened if it was a Friday night under a little different circumstances.
It seems very surreal that this little city of Aurora, Colorado halted a Paris, France world premiere with cast and crew for the new Batman film and got condolences from President Obama (He knows Aurora well since he flies into Buckley Air Force Base which is located there).
It is sad that the state of Colorado is starting to be known for mass shootings rather than the amazing mountainous landscape views and talented citizens.
It is a sad day here, do something nice for someone you love over there.
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I know this has been asked before but none of the answers seems to work in OS X Mountain Lion. I would like to launch a process via SSH and close the terminal without killing the process.
nohup ccl64 -e '(ql:quickload :"file")' &
Doesn't work. When the terminal is closed, the process dies.
nohup ccl64 -e '(ql:quickload :"file")'
Same here.
I think there must be a way. This is very annoying as it works as a standard in any Linux system, yet Mac OS X refuses to work with any of these combinations.

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Nienstedt deposed.
On April 2, Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis was deposed by attorney Jeff Anderson as part of a lawsuit filed by a man who claims he was molested by a priest in the 1970s. The plaintiff alleges that the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, along with the Diocese of Winona, created a public nuisance by failing to disclose information about clerics accused of sexual abuse. At a press conference this afternoon, Anderson released a slightly redacted transcript of the deposition. The archdiocese posted the transcript and full video to its website, noting that Anderson did not ask any questions about the abuse allegations that occasioned the deposition.
The wide-ranging and often contentious conversation reveals an archbishop who felt comfortable delegating authority to deal with the abuse crisis--even though he's "a hands-on person"--and who still believes that he and his delegates have done a good job handling the problem. According to Nienstedt's sworn testimony, one of those delegates recommended that conversations regarding accused priests shouldn't be put in writing because they could be discovered in litigation.
"You followed his advice, didn't you?" Anderson asked the archbishop.
"In terms of?"
"Not putting things into writing."
"Yes," Nienstedt replied.
The man who offered that advice, according to Nienstedt, is Fr. Kevin McDonough. He served as vicar general under the previous archbishop, Harry Flynn, and then as "delegate for safe environment" under Nienstedt. Last week, a task force created by Nienstedt to investigate diocesan abuse procedures sharply criticized McDonough for mishandling reports of clergy misdonduct.
McDonough features in two troubling cases brought to light after Nienstedt's former top canon lawyer, Jennifer Haselberger, went to the police and the press with her concerns about how the archdiocese had handled them. In one case, McDonough objected to the archdiocesan review board's recommendation to warn a parish staff that their new pastor had a history of sexual misconduct (with adults), which included allegedly propositioning a nineteen and twenty-year-old at a bookstore, trying to pick up teenagers at gas station, driving drunk, and being spotted by a cop cruising for sex. That priest--and he is still a priest--is Fr. Curtis Wehmeyer. He's in jail for molesting children and possessing child pornography. Among his victims were the children of a parish employee.
In another case, McDonough advised Nienstedt that even though an independent report had found "borderline illegal" pornographic images on a priest's computer, there was no need to report them to the police because they were probably "enticements to take a further step to view pornography." "Were Father Shelley to have clicked on such advertisements, he would likely have been caught in a law-enforcement sting," McDonough claimed. Neither McDonough nor Nienstedt reported this to the police, even though they are mandated reporters required by law to immediately (within twenty-four hours) inform civil authorities when they suspect child abuse--which includes possessing child porn. (The Washington County prosecutor declined to press charges against the priest. It's not clear whether the Ramsey County attorney will pursue the case.)
McDonough was deposed last Wednesday (the transcript has not been released).
Under questioning, Nienstedt said that he never reprimanded or faulted McDonough for the way he carried out his duties as child-safety czar. "I've always believed that Fr. McDonough had the best intentions," Nienstedt told Anderson. When pressed, the only disagreement the archbishop could recall was with McDonough's decision not to tell Wehmeyer's parish about his "drunk driving"--he didn't mention the cleric's history of sexual misconduct. "Any other actions taken by Kevin McDonough as your delegate for safe environment or as vicar general that you look back on now and say, 'He blew it'?" Anderson asked.
"I don't believe so," Nienstedt said.
"So you think he did a good job about that huh?"
"I believe he did."
"Do you think you're doing a good job?" Anderson continued.
"I believe I am, yes." In fact, "the only mistake that I know I made" had nothing to do with Wehmeyer or Shelley. It was about "not removing the faculties" from another priest.
What about any other priests or officials of the archdiocese? Have they mishandled abuse allegations? "No," Nienstedt said. "I don't believe so." (Of course, the archbishop's lawyers would have advised against admitting fault in sworn testimony.)
Anderson raised the case of Fr. Michael Stevens, reminding Nienstedt that "in the mid-1980s, he pleaded guilty to criminal sexual misconduct with a minor." But Nienstedt is "not aware of that" because "that was all before my time." Except, as Anderson points out, Stevens is in the archdiocese's monitoring program, and after his guilty plea, after he was suspended from ministry, he was working in several parishes performing "IT work." That work was brought to an end, but Nienstedt couldn't recall when. What about why? "I don't have that answer," Nienstedt said. "I would presume Fr. McDonough would know. I think that happened under his watch."
Naturally, Anderson asked: "But your watch as archbishop, correct?" Nienstedt can't recall that either: "I don't have those dates." Nor did he have any recollection of Haselberger--his former chancellor for canonical affairs--raising concerns with him about Stevens doing IT work as recently as 2011.
During that exchange, Nienstedt told Anderson that Fr. Peter Laird, who was vicar general when the Wehmeyer case broke, resigned of his own volition because he disagreed with the archbishop's decision to make Wehmeyer pastor, and thought news reports made him look bad. "My recollection is that he said...'I'm being painted with the same brush you are.' And he said, 'I need to resign to maintain my integrity."
In February, Minnesota Public Radio reported a secret recording of Nienstedt telling a roomful of priests that Laird was "the person who's been hurt the worst in this." But in the deposition Nienstedt didn't remember "the exact words" he used, and said that he didn't listen to the recording released by MPR.
Reading the transcript, you can't help but wonder whether Nienstedt has been keeping track of the stories that put him in front of Jeff Anderson. During a lengthy exchange about Shelley--the priest whose computer contained "borderline illegal" images--Nienstedt is fuzzy on basic facts about the case, such as which of his employees advised him to do what with those photos. For several pages of testimony, he claims that the archdiocese turned over the files to the police in 2004--that's why, he says, he didn't immediately have the material sent to the cops when Haselberger discovered them in 2012. "It was taken as a fact," Nienstedt testified, "that that had already been turned over to the police and the police had made a decision on it." But in fact they had not. Nienstedt later corrected his mistaken, but curiously detailed account. He got confused, he explained, because the archdiocese had hired a retired law-enforcement officer to review the images.
And when Anderson questioned Nienstedt about Wehmeyer, again the archbishop seemed oddly uninformed about the case. He repeatedly claims that Haselberger warned him that Wehmeyer shouldn't be promoted to pastor because he's "same-sex attracted," that he had propositioned two young men at a bookstore. What about Haselberger's concern about the cleric's diagnosis of sexual addiction? Anderson asked. "I don't recall that." And: "I don't remember that at all." Which is odd, because Nienstedt said that he read the report from the treatment facility Wehmeyer was sent to after his misconduct came to light. Nienstedt also can't recall that Wehmeyer was trying to pick up teenagers at a gas station. (There's more to say about the Wehmeyer case--especially the question of when the archdiocese learned of the first allegation and how long it took to report it to police. To be continued.)
Thanks to MPR's reporting, all of that information has been part of the public record for months. Apparently Archbishop Nienstedt hasn't been keeping up.
Nor has he shown any interest in personally examining priest personnel files. Anderson asked whether Nienstedt has ever said, "I want to review the file of Father X," in order to make fully informed decisions. "I don't recall that I have," Nienstedt answered.
No, he's relied on others to keep him informed, to make sure his promise that no credibly accused priests remain in ministry holds true. But it wasn't until he hired an outside consulting firm that he realized one such priest had been working in parishes--Fr. Kenneth LeVan.
Nienstedt removed him last month.*
* An earlier version of this sentence incorrectly stated
that LeVan was removed in December.
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It is fascinating to watch the scramblings of Archbishop Nienstedt to save himself. He came to straighten out St. Paul. Lay people and consultation ,ha, he knows best. But now the promises, promises and it is everybody else's fault. Staff can be expected to be thrown under the bus. Resign or be removed by Rome. Not yet. Let the discoveries coming to light come to fruition. It is too early to let him escape. Then let him retire to a monestary to on and the good work of his predecessors (even with their faults) of building the Church in St. Paul that he was so eager to correct.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what is a video of a RCC leader's deposition worth?
The more we ask and push for "personal accountability" and "personal responsibiity" in the conduct and decision-making of USA Catholic Church leaders, the more excuses and lies we get.
Best part of the Nienstedt drama, the videos will be available for future Catholic generations and those scholars who wish to study source documents re the RCC leadership's response to the clergy abuse crisis in the early 21st century.
Michael Skiendzielewski
Philadelphia, PA
I believe Nienstedt with his droning "I don't recall" statements is just another example of episcopal mendacity in deposition. For more of the same, consult a whole list of depositions at http://www.bishop-accountability.org/legal-docs/
Mahony, George, McCormack, Goedert, Law, Curry, take your pick of the "I don't remember" litanies in what comes across to me as rehearsed responses.
Recall also the quote of a bishop who "often appeared in court to defend priests facing charges. He described how, as he was walking into court, he would recite to himself, 'I'm sorry, Your Honor, but I do not remember.' The 40 new Jesuit superiors in attendance "laughed loudly" at that bit of humor.
Again, many thanks to Grant for researching and presenting prior threads about Nienstedt's parsed drivel where he contradicted himself and indulged in dishonest shadings of the truth.
And where, pray tell, are the spines of prosecutors who sit by and fail to indict on criminal charges?
The passivity of Catholic laity and major donors in not coming out in droves to challenge Nienstedt is telling. Perhaps we deserve what we allow to pass for episcopal leadership. In retrospect, it was when major donors peeled away from Law (after some document releases) that JPII accepted his resignation.
A plaintiff's lawyer on a fishing expedition. A bishop wriggling to stay off the hook. That's my takeaway.
Darn, I saw "Nienstedt deposed" and I thought it meant that Pope Francis had removed him from his office.
While it is really the only way to get this information out in th eopen, the legal system is also in many respects the worst way. I have no doubt that the good archbishop's legal team told him not to answer any questions directly. Use I don't recall and so forth. The plaintiff's lawyer is trying for a "gotcha" moment. It is a sorid ending to a sorid process. One would hope that the good archbishop will have the common decency to resign once this is over. How can one expect to be taken seriously on matters of faith and morals when one has been through this process?
Jim P.
If this is fishing, may the fisheman succeed in landing this lunker. Then he can be released to some safe aquarium where he can do no harm- plenty of monasteries around -- if there's no need for anything else.
The takeaway for me is not that he does not recall exactly when or who was in the room when he was advised not to put, in writing, conversations regarding accused priests, it is that he acted on such advice.
One of the perks of being a bishop, or anybody for that matter, is that you also have the option of taking your own counsel. If I were a bishop, particularly knowing the climate around this whole issue, I would document every conversation and action I took. And I would strive to act in a just, fair, and reasonable manner both privately and publicly.
When I worked in a managment capacity, I told the staff that I would always consult and provide a full rationale for the basis for my decisions. They did not have to agree nor am I infallible but at least I would be transparent and if there was a flaw in my reasoning or if I should have considered other matters, I would always be open to hearing that and I was. I should say that this style did not go over well with senior managment but no matter, I think transparency is an important value and we should walk the walk.
Maybe the church should consider leadership training, modelled on the gospel, for our leaders. There is tons out there on that whole area. I think Francis is trying to move them more broadly in a specific direction but it still needs to be translated into concrete action. A start would be mandated advisory committees in every diocese and canon law changed to ensure that bishops have a duty to consult (not an option)
Another performance for the ages from Nienstadt!
I'm shocked that Nienstadt's lawyers ever allowed him to ever testify under oath. What else could he say except the very limp, "I don't recall"?
I don't know the specific legal issues that are at stake in this particular case, but the really good practiced liars in the hierarchy get their lawyers to negotiate an out-of-court settlement so they don't have to testify under oath.
Like when Cardinal William Leveda did in a defamation suit brought by one of his own priests whom he had defamed and humiliated after the Rev. John Conly [a former assistant US district attorney] had reported to the police his pastor raping the rectory's adolescent telephone receptionist.
Leveda had summarily suspended the priest from ministry, removed him from the rectory, cut-off all financial support, forced Conly to undergo psychiatric examination and psychological evaluation. Leveda's parting shot to Conly was really rich: "You need to learn obedience."
[Leveda eventually even got SCOTUS to declare him an official of a forgeign country [i.e., the Vatican due to his being prefect of the Inquisition (CDF)] thereby conferring diplomatic immunity against any pesky American subpoena. You can't make this stuff up!]
I guess that is why Leveda got that top job in Vatican: because he just so clever and devious?!?
I hope that this performance by Nienstadt's adds to the body of work before Catholics that demonstrates the degenerate and corrupt state of their hierarchy. "Houston, we have a problem!"
I once had a conversation with now deceased Bishop Walter Sullivan of Alexandria VA. He had just returned from one of those ad limina visits to Rome and I asked him what was his overall impressions. He smiled that warm Irish grin of his and said: "Someday, they will all be dead."
Painful to watch.
Chosing to eliminate the papertrail shows where his priorities are. It helps defend against litigation, but it also hampers their ability to monitor how they are handling these cases. What would happen if the person in charge of managing these cases died unexpectantly? Would we want to rely on Archbishop Nienstedt's apparently less than stellar memory?
Also, I can understand the legal strategy, but are they considering how much this is costing his authority? Is anyone going to seek guidance from someone who has trouble keeping track of the relevant facts and worse seems uninterested in them?
"Maybe the church should consider leadership training, modelled on the gospel, for our leaders."
Curriculum Suggestions:
1. Don't ever say it is a burden if you have to preside at three Eucharists on Sunday.
2. If you do not help the poor and downtrodden every day, you are not doing your job. (Same for all Christians)
3. If you do not know the names of most of your parishioners, resign!
4. Give a detailed list of how the contributions are going to the poor. (The Cardinal's fund does not count.)
5. Inform the people of how many trips you take a year. Let the people know why you can take five, ten or twenty times more trips than those who are supporting you.
6. Don't ever say that there is more sex abuse in families than there are among clergy and religious.
7. Never use the term "the Good Father" or "the Good Bishop."
8. Prepare at least 3 hours for the Sunday homily.
9. Let no one call you "Father."
10. Call your bishop on it when he is covering up crimes against children.
But if all this unnverves you then you can retrogress to clergy worship by starting at this site.
In the news we're always seeing stories of ordinary people getting a chance to talk to the pope for a few minutes ... if only someone was able to just say to him (hopefully with a reporter nearby) ....
"One of the worst parts of the sex abuse scandal is that bishops and cardinals who covered up the abus have not been punished and their cover-ups have not even been *acknowledged* by the Vatican - you have to address this."
"Let no one call you "Father" - once read that in a Fundamentalist (Chick, I think) brochure put under my windshield at a shopping mall.
"Let no one call you "Father" - once read that in a Fundamentalist (Chick, I think) brochure put under my windshield at a shopping mall.
Yep. I recall seeing it on a sticker pasted over an ad on a Chicago "el" car years ago, during the time of Pope John Paul II's visit to Chicago.
Whats the point of an article about a deposition where: Anderson did not ask any questions about the abuse allegations that occasioned the deposition.
If that's a serious question then you haven't been paying attention. If you're just trolling then do it elsewhere.
Also, I can understand the legal strategy, but are they considering how much this is costing his authority? Is anyone going to seek guidance from someone who has trouble keeping track of the relevant facts and worse seems uninterested in them?
@ Ryan Rowenkamp: You're presuming that any of those pastoral sensibilities have any currency for the hierarchs. You really need to look beyond the mythology that we sheeple have been fed for lo these many centuries.
Hierarchs are corporate trolls. Little more than politicos in the world's oldest all-male feudal oligarchy. Sadly, they don't give a wit about things like being a good shepherd, except for lip service.
You know, the idea of "not putting anyhting in writing" comes is typical advice one would get from a lawyer or risk management person. I've run into a similar line fo thinking when I was in city government. Our city attorney's office always advised that because if there was nothing in writing to back up various decisions there would be no "embarassing facts" (his term) on the record and no judge would substitute his judgement for the administrative agency. I regularly disregarded this advice because I wanted throrough analyses of matters from my staff, which weren't as posssible when given verbally. In the end I think we made better decisions, and had better reasoning behind those decisions despite the pains it gave our legal team. I have serious concerns with managers who kowtow to legal advice that as if it came down from Mount Sinai on 2 tablets of stone. If you are too embarrassed to write down the reasons you used to make a decision, they might not be such good reasons.
@ Jim Dunn: Bingo!
American hierarchs have surrounded themselves with whole phalanxes of lawyers and public relations consultants - who are really more akin to union-busting thugs dressed in expensive suits and Italian loafers.
I would speculate that Nienstedt's whole testimony was carefully rehearsed with professionals who know how to coach witnesses on how to say essentially nothing, or at least minimize any legal exposure.
Most of the American hierarchs' over-arching grand legal strategies has been mapped out for them, consolidated within the singular purview by their mysterious and shadowy attorney Jeffery Lena based here in Berkeley, California who represents the Holy See in civil lawsuits in the US.
It's hard to get any information on Lena - no published office address or telephone number - but I believe he has no other clients except the Vatican, and of course their American toady hierarchs. Think of Lena as the personification of the character of Tom Hagen as The Godfather Vito Corleone's consigliere.
I once had an exchange with Lena about his slash and burn legal tactics in court against survivors, attacking their veracity, and humiliatingly recounting their personal life struggles - all totally irrelevant to their sexual assaults by priests. When I suggested the impropriety of the Catholic Church re-assaulting victims of priest perpetrated abuse, he retorted "You think we should just surrender!?!" [Abruptly, then archbishop Leveda quickly ended the conference call quashing any possible debate on the merits]
What would Jesus say about that legal strategy?
The reason that Nienstedt didn't write anything thing down is because his attorneys have most likely have told him to vacuum-up, destroy any trace of written notes which are subject to discovery in any court proceeding. [This is main reason why Cardinal Mahony filed endless appeals to block access to any priest personnel records which for decades documented his complicity in the rape and sodomy of hundreds, if not thousands of children.]
Sadly, our hierarchs are very devious and practiced liars. It seems that it has been a prerequisite skill for their jobs in the feudal oligarchy of the Catholic Church.
Heavy is head that wears the crown.
Sorry - think you guys are missing some evidence of patterns and another deposition (McDonough's)
Also, if you go back to Haselberger's accounts, she lays out a different pattern. Couple that with Msgr. Laird's resignation based upon his own integrity....you arrive at a different view of Neinstedt.
First, Nienstedt works mostly alone and at nite/week-ends. He does not like meetings or interpersonal discussions. (could have a field day on his MMPI - he must have a number of diagnoses on both Axis One and Axis Two). Almost all communication is from him and it is by memos (the Monday memo drop).
Second, given this top down and anti-relational approach to life, would wager that he resents these abuse cases; resents the priests who have put him in this spot; and thus he has little compulsion to read, investigate, or involve his personal energy in these issues.
Third, he reminds me of many bishops/pastors who could never understand an abuser - the very thought was so outside their sphere of understanding, that they physically and mentally shut down...went into denial.
Fourth,look at McDonough's deposition - he rejected Nienstedt's statement that he told him not to take notes. See above - Nienstedt didn't want to take notes.
Fifth, read through the various statements by Hasselberger - she describes a man who operates in a very strange manner - remote, avoids human contact, etc.
Sorry, this guy is not all there.
Reading the transcript of Anderson's questioning of McDonough I see that the sparring between them has been going on for 20 years -- the evidence of wrongdoing on McDonought's part seems to be somewhere between tenuous and non-existent -- is Anderson some sort of obsessed crusader?
Thank you, Bill deHaas, for your excellent review of Nienstedt's modus operandi: the anti-relational approach being particularly meaningful. Resentment, denial, a loner - quite a brew along Axis One and Two.
Not mich vetting of episcopal candidates, is there? Except perhaps for slavish loyalty to hyper-orthodoxy; psychological maturity and leadership skills not necessary.
Its a serious question which you just belittled. IMHO, your article contained nothing new, insightful or remotely interesting, and was all summed up by my quote.


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A preliminary hearing has been continued for a man accused of robbing a Leavenworth convenience store at knifepoint.
The hearing for Donail Foster was scheduled for Wednesday, but the case was continued until Sept. 12 for a status hearing.
Foster is charged with aggravated robbery and aggravated kidnapping.
The charges stem from a Sept. 1, 2013, incident at a convenience store at 1031 Metropolitan Ave.
Wednesday's hearing had to be continued because the victim in the case was unavailable to testify, Assistant County Attorney Christopher Scott said.
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Monday, December 17, 2012
L'Oreal Colour Caresse Shine Stain Swatches and Review
First thing, the formula: these feel exactly like YSL Glossy Stains on my lips, which is a very good thing in my book. Both formulas can dry out my lips if I wear them exclusively for several days in a row, but if I give my lips a break in between with lots of lip balm at night, I'm fine wearing them for a full day or two. The L'Oreal Colour Caresse version appears to be more sheer on average but there are definitely a few exceptions to that, as you'll see below. The formulas of both are buildable: you can start with one layer for sheerer coverage, or add a second or third "coat" after letting it dry for a minute or more to increase the color opacity. As such, I've shown these pictured across three layers so you can see how opaque/buildable each shade is. My camera struggled to pick up the colors with just one swipe, so I'm sorry the first couple of pictures are a bit blurry - they are the best I could get until I built up more color.
Next, here are the color names for your reference and my initial thoughts on them, including comparisons to YSL Glossy Stain shades:
182: Pink Perseverance - essentially looks like a clear gloss on me, but does slightly even out my naturally pale pink lips after three coats (more flattering than YSL GS #18 or #19, both of which were streaky pastel messes on me)
183: Pink Resistance - similar to YSL GS #7, but sheerer
184: Rose On and On - similar to YSL GS #15, but sheerer
185: Lilac Ever After - not even a near-dupe to YSL GS #4 or #5, stands alone as a sheer mauve-berry (a complete misnomer, if you ask Sara and me - not lilac at all!)
186: Berry Persistent - similar to YSL GS #1, but more of a pure purple and less brown
187: Infinite Fuchsia - this one is TRICKY. See below***
188: Coral Tattoo - totally hot orange, brighter and clearer than YSL GS #6
189: Pink Rebellion - similar to YSL GS #17, but sheerer
190: Endless Red - similar to YSL GS #10
191: Stubborn Plum - similar to YSL GS #16, but sheerer
192: Everlasting Caramel - I do not have any similarly-colored YSL GS shades to compare this to and am honestly not sure what skin tones it would flatter, if any
193: Eternally Nude - I do not have any similarly-colored YSL GS shades to compare this to (it is closest to YSL GS #6, but far less orange and more rosy brown than that GS, so hardly comparable)
*** Regarding #187 Infinite Fuchsia, this one made me have a severe "WTF?!" moment. It completely changes color as it dries. It starts out as a cool hot pink that reminds me somewhat of MAC Girl About Town lipstick or YSL GS #13. As it dries, it becomes gradually darker and plummier. You can't totally see it here, but once it's fully dry, it is a full vamp, a deep plum similar to YSL GS #1 on me. You can sort of see the difference here, with a freshly applied glob on the left and a semi-dried (not even fully dried!) swatch on the right:
See how different they look? And the swatch on the right continued to get darker still, after I took this picture. Wild, huh? I swear it's the same color, though!
What do you think? Will you be rushing out to hunt for these too?
NOTE: These have been found so far by various people in Target, Rite Aid, CVS, Walgreens, Fred Meyer, and Harmon stores.
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very interesting. I love YSL glossy stains, definitely will hunt this L'oreal version!ReplyDelete
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BTW, are GS 21-26 not out in the US yet? :(
You've narrowed me down to 185 -- GS 4 and 5 are too muddy for me and I usually tend to like misnamed not-purples (Korres Natural Purple, Revlon Mauve it Over) :DReplies
They're not that I know of! I do have #25, bought off a blog sale - will check later which L'Oreal one it might be closest to...Delete
Do you feel that Stubborn Plum and Pink Rebellion are too similar? Those are the two I want to get, because YSL GL #16 and #17 are the ones I always wanted to get, but the Loreal ones look too similar? What do you think?ReplyDeleteReplies
It's hard to say... I think it depends on how pigmented your lips are. The L'Oreal ones are both sheerer than the YSLs. I find YSL GS #s 16 and 17 different enough to own both, as they are very different on me after a couple of coats/layers (16 is more of a bright fuchsia, 17 more of a pale-yet-bright cool pink). The two L'Oreal ones you're asking about each echo one of those YSL GS colors, but they're significantly sheerer. On very pale, unpigmented lips, you might see a small difference between the two; on more pigmented lips, they would probably look the same. So if you have much pigment at all in your lips, I think you'd be fine just choosing one, and perhaps disappointed if you got both.Delete
If I were you and I had the money, though, I'd just get the Glossy Stains in both colors. I don't think Stubborn Plum or Pink Rebellion are among the best colors in the L'Oreal lineup, because both are so sheer. If I were to somehow lose all 12 of these and all my Glossy Stains (so I wouldn't be re-buying ones I knew were dupes of each other), I would probably only repurchase the more opaque shades from the L'Oreal line like 185, 186, 187, 188, and 190, and maybe 184.
I saw these at my local drugstore today, they only had one tester but it was soo pretty. Thank you taking the time to do all these swatches. I've just started blogging, and now I finally understand the amount of effort that goes into swatching.ReplyDelete
I am debating between Rose On and On and Pink Rebellion. Which one is your favourite?
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(2) The probability of hitting -y vs hitting +x, horizontal lines in 2d grid,
which looks like being same as
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Can someone please tell me if my 1->2 assumption or 2->3 assumption is wrong. In which case, could someone please tell me how to proceed with the solution to 1.
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I wonder whether there are rules or guidelines regarding plural nouns in nominal compounds. For example a compound university students list. If there are many lists and many universities is it grammatically correct to say universities students lists? Must all elements be in the plural form or can some be left in singular, even though the meaning is plural? I've seen an expression universities student lists; is it correct?
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There is a cross-linguistic principle that words incorporated into compounds tend to lose any inflections (I remember an article in Language in the 80's - probably, from the index, one of the articles in Vol 62 No 1, but I haven't a copy to hand).
So in English, the norm is that nouns incorporated into compounds do not take a plural ending. Where they do, this is usually because the singular form would be ambiguous, often because there is a homophonous adjective. An example I recall is "solid modelling" - the company I worked for in the 80's used this phrase (in the UK, hence the spelling of "modelling"), but other vendors preferred "solids modeling", presumably because they thought that "solid modelling" might be a solid kind of modelling, as opposed to the modelling of solids.
As a general rule of thumb, you want to have just one plural word in such a phrase. The other nouns in the phrase act as modifiers to the pluralized noun and are not, therefore, pluralized. So "university student lists" would indicate a number of lists made up of students at universities. The normal inference would be that there were multiple universities, and it would take some modification to restrict it to lists of students at a single university, or that each list was composed of students at a single university. "A university's student lists", or "each university's student lists", would supply those restrictions.
The expression "Universities' student lists" would correctly mean the student lists of a number of universities, but you would want the apostrophe in there.
I think it is easier to read this with 'student' rather than 'students' as it removes possible ambiguity, creating a noun from the phrase 'student lists.'


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2014/2015 marks quite a season for Russell Braun! The Toronto-based, internationally acclaimed baritone performed a full summer of concerts and recitals across North America and Europe, then made his role debut as Ford in the COC's production of Falstaff in the fall – and now he takes on Mozart's legendary womanizer, Don Giovanni.
What he's doing with us: Russell has already played Don Giovanni in acclaimed director Dmitri Tcherniakov's production when it appeared at the Teatro Real Madrid in 2013. This winter at the COC, he'll return as the drinking and angst-ridden lothario in Tcherniakov's take on Mozart's masterpiece.
Where you might have seen him: Russell has been a welcome presence at the COC over the past few seasons. Most recently, he displayed his more comic talents as Ford in the COC's hit Falstaff, and last spring, sang Nottingham in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux - both role debuts! Globally, most recently he was Valentin in Faust at Met Opera and Lescaut in Manon at La Scala, a role he reprises next year at the Metropolitan Opera, among many other international appearances.
Interviews and Profiles: A great conversation in Toronto Life with Russell and musical threatre star Louise Pitre from 2011, A Q & A with the Ottawa Citizen Russell talking with Eleanor Wachtel on Wachtel on the Arts, and two of our own video interviews for Roberto Devereux and Don Giovanni!
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The weather outside is certainly frightful, but our concerts this December are absolutely delightful! Make your way to Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre this month for some performances that will fill you with festive cheer.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
12 - 1 p.m.
Ballet 360
Canada's Ballet Jörgen
Canada's Ballet Jörgen, a perennial favourite, returns to the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre with an hour-long program of classical and contemporary ballet, including highlights from Cinderella, Robert Desrosiers' Bouffonia, and the holiday classic, The Nutcracker, A Canadian Tradition.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
12 - 1 p.m.
The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble
Under the direction of Brian Current, the talented young artists of The Glenn Gould School New Music Ensemble present the world premiere of a new work by Canadian composer Brian Harman, as well as Claude Vivier's Lonely Child and a work by visiting Italian composer Marco Stroppa.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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Cantautore: Here and Now
Daniela Nardi's Espresso Manifesto
Award-winning singer-songwriter Daniela Nardi presents her jazz-world music project Espresso Manifesto, whose mission is to discover, showcase and re-interpret the scintillating spirit of Italian music and culture. In this special presentation, she performs selections from her three internationally acclaimed recordings, as well as a sneak preview of her upcoming album, Canto.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
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Gracias a la Vida: A Holiday Celebration
Amanda Martinez Quartet
Celebrate life and the joys of the season with a spicy selection of tunes from Amanda Martinez's much-lauded discography, as well as a mix of beloved seasonal songs. Her unique Mexican and South African roots blend with elements of flamenco, Afro-Cuban rhythms and Mexican folklore to create an irresistible signature sound that is very much her own.
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The COC is saddened to learn that Brian Macdonald, one of Canada's pre-eminent theatre and opera directors, passed away over the weekend. Although Brian directed the COC's 1991 production of La Traviata, he was best-known to COC audiences for his classic production of Madama Butterfly, first created for the COC in 1990.
As we launched this year's season with his sixth revival of Madama Butterfly, Brian spoke with us about his production in the video clip below.
Brian Macdonald's other opera work took him all over the world where he staged productions for Teatro all Scala, Opera Australia, and New York City Opera, among others. He is a Canadian legend.
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-bank transfer (mostly for people from Poland I guess)
Refunds are not available, please keep this in mind. Please be sure about commissioning me.
2. Copyright Stuff
-Commissions are only for your personal use. That means you can use them in your own websites, logos, avatars, print them out and put on your wall and so on. But you can't say that it was done by you, you can't sell them in any way (prints and other) and you are not able to submit them into your gallery without credits to my DA page and link to my original work! if you put credits, it's ok.
-All commissions done by me belong to me and the credit for doing it still belongs to me, even if it's your character, the character belongs to you, but the drawing itself belongs to me.
-All commissions have two watermarks: one in a corner with link to my DA page, and another one on the character with my name/da link only. Arts with transparent background have only one watermark- on the character. Do not remove my watermarks please.
-I as the creator have the right to upload a commission on art sites I am a member of: DeviantArt, Anipan, SheezyArt, FurAffinity, SoFurry and/or HentaiFoundry with writing your name in my comments under the submission. I don't do private commissions, and I want them to be shown in my galleries, please respect that.
3. How does it work?
-To commission me, you need to send me a note or leave a comment when my commissions are open. (Notes prefferred, it's easier to find them when they're starred). Put your commission details, the more you add the better. I need to know the chara's name, short description, details, colors, 1-5 references (the more the better, size of the pic (waist-up and so on), type of coloring (digi/tradi), background, shipping to you (if traditional or merchandise), payment method (paypal email), pose references, and any other additional thoughts simply a detailed description of what you want me to draw for you. You can of course tell me only half of this, and leave the rest for me to decide (for example pose, expression, clothes etc)
-Payment is in advance That means you have to pay full price before I even start the sketch. Sorry I will start the sketch only if I receive the full payment. So if you're not able to pay me, don't ask to commission me please. You will be able to see sketch of course, and if you don't like it I will redraw it once (change pose/clothes ect what you wish) and then show you both and you will be able to choose the one you like more and if there will be only small changes, like bangs/expression/ details etc, I will change it on that sketch. this rule shouldn't be a huge problem because most of you paid me in advance please understand this and think before commissioning me.
-Seeing sketch is optional. But I prefer to show you, because you will be able to confirm or tell me to change something, if you wish.
-Backgrounds are mostly added in photoshop and are simple (some colors, brushes, light, textures etc) but If you want the original traditional pic to be sent to you, it will be without bg of course ^^' You can ask for a bit more detailed background, for digital or traditional, but I don't do full detailed backgrounds. Examples of the ones I do will be shown below.
-I don't have a time limit to do the comission. It may take from a few days to about 1-2 months I think. But when school or something/someone else kills me, it may take longer, or if it's more complicated, many details or many characters, or a dress up, it WILL take longer. So please understand and don't rush me. I have my own live too I'll just try to make it as soon as possible If you want/ need it very fast, it's available too, I can put you on top of my to do list. But for doing for doing it within a certain (short) amount of time, you'll have to pay more.
-Remember that I can say NO to your commission. I am the artist and I decide what I want and not want to draw. Just respect this.
4. Receiving your commission
-All my commissions will be submitted to my accounts on art sites I'm a member of and that I think fit the site themes, These sites are so far: DeviantArt, SheezyArt, FurAffinity, SoFurry, Anipan and/or HentaiFoundry. I don't do private commissions, and I want them to be shown in my galleries, please respect that.
-If it's a digital one, I can send you original size through e-mail. Keep in mind, that the size is usually the same, because I work on such small sizes, and it still WILL have my watermark on.
-If it's a traditional piece, shipping cost is depending on the size of commission. a5 and a6 is +3USD. a4 size is +4USD. These both prices include priority mailing and bubble-envelope, plastic cover-thing and a page of harder paper to protect the art as much as possible. Keep in mind that I don't recommend to send sketch and lineart commissions through mail! Preferably colored, unless you really want to have the sketch/ lineart. Size is a6, a5 or a4. Unless you really want to, but the shipping cost might be bigger than the sketch/ lineart, please keep this in mind.
5.Acceptable and non-acceptable themes
Keep in mind that my style is manga/ anime related. just look at my gallery to see how I work. you can ask for examples of a specific theme too, of course (if I have such an example I'll show).
A. I will draw
-sexy and cute humanoid girls (humans, kemonomimis, angels, elves etc)
-anthro females
-normal/ simple looking males
-female nudity, yuri
-some fetishes, like light bondage, light hentai, tentacle fun (ask)
-animals and fantasy creatures (wolves, horses, dragons etc)
-semi-detailed backgrounds (examples will be shown below)
B. I will not draw
-difficult (action etc) poses- unless reference given
-some animals (ask)
-porn, some bondage, some fetishes, hard yuri, (ask)
-yaoi, blood, violence
-full completed, very detailed, hard backgrounds
-in different style than mine
These prices are for the said number of character only. If you want more characters on a commission, you need to pay 75% of the first character base price for each next character. I added two character prices for only some offers but of course each offer can have multiple characters.
Small additional characters- prize to discuss, info below.
Waist-up single character: 2 USD
Knees-up single character: 2,50 USD
Fullbody single character: 3 USD
Mature Content
(Traditional or Digital)
Waist-up single character: 4 USD
Knees-up single character: 5 USD
Fullbody single character: 6 USD
Fullbody single character: 8,50 USD
Lil Mini Chibi single character: 2 USD
Mature Content
Mature Content
Headshot single character: 4 USD
Waist-up single character: 6 USD
Knees-up single character: 10 USD
Knees-up two characters: 17,50 USD
Fullbody single character: 12 USD
Fullbody two characters: 21 USD
Mature Content
Mature Content
(detailed coloring)
Headshot single character: 5 USD
Waist-up single character: 8 USD
Knees-up single character: 12 USD
Knees-up two characters: 21 USD
Fullbody single character: 15 USD
Fullbody two characters: 26,20 USD
STYLE 1 (single character), Fullbody: 5 USD
(1:1 body to head size) (soft and cell shading mixed)
STYLE 2 (single character), Fullbody: 5 USD
(2:1 body to head size) (cell shading)
STYLE 3 (single character), Fullbody: 6 USD
(1:1 body to head size) (soft shading)
(cell shading) single character
Fullbody: 4 USD
(colored pencils, black ink pen)
a6 size single character: 105×148 mm
waist-up: 7 USD
knees-up: 9 USD
a5 size single character: 148×210 mm
waist-up: 9 USD
knees-up: 11 USD
fullbody: 14 USD
a4 size single character: 210×297 mm
fullbody: 17 USD
-done in Photoshop and Flash, base is a fullbody, simple soft shaded, more characters is + 8USD each
-you may specify the clothing you want me to do, or leave it to me to create them (references or photos of clothes you want me to create are welcome )
-each even small is counted as one, like every panties, bras etc, but socks, shoes, gloves are counted as 1 piece
-if you want buttons instead of clothes to move, like here: izka197.deviantart.com/art/Dre… it's +3-8 USD depending on details and number of buttons that need to be done. buttons are needed if you want different hairstyles or eyes or expressions or body colors etc.
-payment with money only
Mature Content
Mature Content
25 pieces to dress: 28 USD
50 pieces to dress: 38 USD
75 pieces to dress- 45 USD
(cell shading, soft shading with or without lineart- depends on Pokemon, to be discussed, single character)
Digital (soft or cell shading) single character
Headshot: 4-5 USD
Fullbody: 10-14 USD
Traditional single character:
a5 fullbody: 8-11 USD
a4 fullbody: 12-16 USD
Mature Content
simple or transparent background (my choice): free
detailed background (digital or traditional): + 2-5 USD (depending on details!)
single small items (examples: glass, handbag, fan, baloon etc): free
big, detailed items/ clothes (examples: wings, very detailed clothes, hard/ big weapons/ accessories, dolls, tiny animals, extremely long and detailed hair): + 1-5 USD (depending on details!)
-simple animation would cost somewhere between +1-5 USD. Though the price depends on the picture size, animation details and difficulty. Ask me to know more!
Example of bg + details:
+75% of base price for an additional big human/ anthro/ animal/ creature
for small characters- price to discuss
a6 or a5 size: +3 USD
a4 size: +4 USD
You can choose which face style do you prefer.
style 1: without lips
style 2: with colored lips
Cell shading: 10 USD single character
Soft Shading: 12 USD single character
Cell shading: 18 USD two characters
Soft Shading: 23 USD two characters
-they work and have rules as normal commissions , the only difference is that I proveded some pose ideas and you can choose to see your character in any of these poses and THEY ARE CHEAPER!!
-FEMALES only as you can see x3 mature content or no
-expressions can be chosen, boobie size can be changed, ears tails etc can be added, can be anthro or human.
-items like scythe/ broom etc can be replaced by other single items or removed, these are only ideas.
-details like wings or things or background of choice and other things might cost more according to my commission rules
-send me a note or comment if interested, please don't pay until I confirm!!
Eamples of finished pre- pose commissions:
Mature Content
more izka197.deviantart.com/gallery…
Any questions? Feel free to ask, thanks for looking


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Stateside Missing From Food & Wine's East Passyunk Ave. List; Hype Builds For Serpico
If the buzz hasn't already been blown up for Serpico, it is now.
If the buzz hasn't already been blown up for Serpico, it is now.
The little boozy, local start-up is branching out again.
The chef polled the writers about their favorite foods and flavors to come up with the dishes.
The announcements will surely have trolls on a roll today.
As if running a blossoming restaurant empire wasn't enough, the two are now penning a column too.
Sbraga earns high marks for great food and reasonable prices.
Since his restaurant rants have lost steam, Philly's most despised blogger steps up the controversy.
The site came back to life today after going dark back in 2010.
Vetri, and one of his proteges gets named, and the Khyber owners are kings of late night.
The First Friday fest this month celebrates a milestone.
She replaces outgoing editor Drew Lazor.
Though the magazine picks it as a best bet for visiting Philly, it's still not yet open.
Colin Shearn's 'Always Crashing the Same Car' lands in the pages of the magazine.
The duck fat, sourdough pizza at Garces Trading Co. was all Travel + Leisure needed, but they flipped for the hangar steak.
With Vetri's help the magazine presents the city in broader scope..
Restaurant Rows are blowing up all over the city.
It turns out that Philly's chefs are more incestuous than the characters in a John Irving novel.
They truth is neither cheesesteak mill delivers on all the hype.


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MLB Commissioner Selig to Retire in 2015
Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig formally announced Thursday that he will retire in January 2015, ending his tenure after more than 22 years. In a statement, the league also said Selig will soon announce a transition plan that will include a reorganization of MLB management.
Selig, 79, has stated repeatedly over the past year that he intended to retire after the 2014 season. But he expressed similar intentions when his term was set to end in 2009 and again when it was set to end in 2012, only to agree to stay on longer.
By making his plans official Thursday, Selig sent a clear message to owners that this time, he wouldn't change his mind. He has presided over the league since 1992, when he was named interim commissioner, and was named commissioner in 1998.
"It remains my great privilege to serve the game I have loved throughout my life," Selig said in the statement. "Baseball is the greatest game ever invented, and I look forward to continuing its extraordinary growth and addressing several significant issues during the remainder of my term."
Selig, the ninth man to hold the office, will exit with the second-longest tenure of any commissioner in MLB history. Only Kenesaw Mountain Landis, MLB's first commissioner, held the job for longer, serving from 1920 to 1944.
Since the strike that cut short the 1994 season, Selig has presided over nearly two decades of labor peace. The former Milwaukee Brewers owner has overseen myriad changes to the sport including interleague play, expanded playoffs, economic reforms such as revenue sharing and, more recently, instant replay. Though his legacy will be marred by the steroids era, Selig also oversaw the creation of a drug testing program now considered the toughest among major American sports leagues.
More than anything, though, Selig has said he wants to be judged by the growth of franchise values during his tenure. The $2.15 billion sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers last year shattered the previous record sales price for a U.S. sports team.
"Bud Selig's impact on baseball during his tenure as Commissioner has been nothing short of historic," St. Louis Cardinals owner Bill Dewitt said.
Selig thanked owners, players and fans, saying, "Together we have taken this sport to new heights and have positioned our national pastime to thrive for generations to come."
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This problem was reported on Ubuntu stations, which use PulseAudio.
We recommend using the PulseAudio backend to SDL or removing PulseAudio and using only Alsa drivers.
Kdenlive uses SDL for audio and video output. However, there appears to be a problem somewhere between SDL, ALSA, and PulseAudio. One possible remedy is to install the PulseAudio backend for SDL, if it is available on your distribution. For Debian and Ubunutu based distributions, try this:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
If that does not help, make sure you have set the Audio Driver to Auto in Kdenlive settings. Also, try restarting Kdenlive and possibly reboot your computer to reset everything. If that does not work, then consider removing PulseAudio per the directions below.
Remove the added lines to /etc/asound.conf.
If /etc/asound.conf did not exist when you installed PulseAudio, you may remove /etc/asound.conf entirely.
After this, you may remove all of the installed PulseAudio packages:
sudo apt-get install esound
will remove PulseAudio packages.
To disable pulseaudio you may need to select alsa for for all options in /system/preferences/sound
Log-out and start a new session.
Then test Alsa drivers using this command:
speaker-test -Dplug:surround51 -c6 -l1 -twav to test if
Select Alsa as an audio driver.


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You may or may not continue using Wave as an open-source "box,", but if you want to archive any important conversations you've had in it, you can now export a Wave into HTML or ZIP files, attachments included.
To grab your Wave, open it up, then look for the "Export" button on the right side of the top toolbar—it may be tucked under an "..." button. Right now, it's a Wave-by-Wave basis, but the developers say they're working on means of exporting bulk Waves, as well as transferring them into Google Docs.


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Learn how to create a classroom research project with the iPad and encourage collaboration among your students.
Start learning with our library of video tutorials taught by experts. Get started
Bring 21st century instruction techniques into the classroom with the iPad.
Demonstrates the essentials of creating a web site with a polished, professional appearance and a compelling user experience.
Highlights the importance of a CSS style guide, which serves as an interface for the design team and a communication tool for the client.


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Is there a difference between the two? Also, does the commercially available wine vinegar contain any alcohol?
As Blessed Geek indicates, vinegar is made by fermentation of ethanol by "mother of vinegar", a bacterial culture. This is true of all vinegar, not just wine vinegar. The unique flavor profile of various vinegars is the result of other flavors in the base wine or spirit used to produce the vinegar. (Well, some vinegars like true traditionally produced balsamic vinegar get flavor from the casks in which they are produced and aged, but that is a special case.)
Finding definitive and credible sources on the amount of remaining alcohol in the final product after fermentation is difficult. One of the more credible sites indicates no more than about 2% alcohol content remains; other sources seem to indicate about 0.5%.
Unless you are concerned about the laws of Islam, or the possible affect on a recovering alcoholic, this is trace alcohol almost certainly negligible. I am not qualified to comment on what it might mean for those two areas of concern, though.
Vinegar is a by-product of alcoholic fermentation. Rather, alcoholic beverages might be considered the intermediate-product of vinegar-making.


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The 7 Most Baffling Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body
We previously gave you The 7 Most Horrifying Things Ever Discovered in a Human Body, and you may have thought we were done showing you pictures that would make Satan himself throw up in his mouth a little. Luckily, that is something that we never, ever grow tired of doing, so here are some more disgusting things that have managed to lodge themselves in someone's body in one way or another.
#7. A Small Fortune
How much money do you have in your wallet right now? How about your pockets? Your savings account? For most people, the answer could be anywhere from thousands of dollars to a nickel and some Cheetos dust.
A king's ransom in cholesterol!
But how much cash do you have in your stomach? Hopefully the answer is none, unless you're some kind of mutant piggy bank. Well, one 62-year-old man walked into the Cholet General Hospital in France complaining of severe abdominal pains and rectal blockage. Doctors gave the man an X-ray and found a 5.5-kilogram mass in his stomach, which is about the size of a bowling ball. The mass had actually grown so large that it sunk his stomach in between his hips, like a boulder in a hammock made of rubber bands. Doctors operated immediately and discovered that the mass consisted of more than $4,000 worth of coins. So was this man a billionaire who accidentally swallowed a few pounds of coins while swimming through his fortune like Scrooge McDuck?
Ever wonder what it feels like to shit a bank?
"He likes eating coins," said Dr. Bruno Francois, putting it as nonchalantly as humanly possible, as if he were telling us that he'd had Cocoa Puffs for breakfast. The man's family had warned doctors that he had a habit of eating coins and would often steal from people hosting dinner parties to indulge himself, effectively making him the Hamburglar of traditional currency. His habit lasted for 10 years before he was forced to seek help, which raises the question of whether he was allowed to keep the money after his surgery. On one hand, it was $4,000. On the other, it was $4,000 worth of coins soaked in stomach lining.
"Hey, guys, go ahead and order pizza. This dude's buying."
#6. A Belt
It didn't seem like it could get much worse for Anuj Ranjan, who checked into a New Delhi hospital complaining of abdominal and chest pains, labored breathing, weight loss and blood-flecked coughs. He'd even developed a boil on his chest that was leaking air. After anatomy charts indicated that the nipple was not supposed to have a blowhole, X-rays revealed a large patch in his left lung. His doctors diagnosed him with tuberculosis and started him on a treatment regimen that lasted two years while Ranjan's symptoms grew progressively worse.
"This is totally going to start working, eventually."
The doctors finally decided to perform surgery, and when they opened up his chest, they found the remnants of a leather belt and a small bit of cloth. Four years earlier, Ranjan had been in a car accident that had apparently lodged his belt in his stomach, and the belt eventually worked its way up into his lung. You might be asking why Ranjan didn't tell his doctors about the time his belt went missing right after a car punched a belt-shaped hole into his stomach. But you've never tried to utter the sentence, "I think the belt I was wearing got punched into my stomach" to a trained medical professional who is licensed to diagnose you as insane. He probably didn't mention it for the same reason you wouldn't believe it happened if we didn't have a link to the story: He didn't think he lived in a cartoon universe where you can run into something so hard that your body literally starts trying to cough it up.
Watch out for falling rocks, Ranjan.
The surgery lasted for hours, with a large part of Ranjan's lung having to be removed and doctors presumably having to take turns taking one another's picture next to the guy with part of a wardrobe in his lung. Fortunately, Ranjan came out alive, free to have more articles of clothing shoved into his body and subsequently forgotten about.
#5. A Bullet
A 77-year-old woman named Jin Guangying went to the Shuyang Leniency Hospital in China, complaining of headaches that had pained her for most of her adult life. So in case the Indian guy who didn't notice that he'd had his belt punched into his stomach wasn't enough to make our American readers feel like pampered hypochondriacs, well, hold onto your panties. After one X-ray, doctors were quick to identify the problem.
While surviving a gunshot to the head isn't totally unheard of, the origin of this particular bullet is what truly sets Jin apart from most head-shot survivors -- and Bond villains for that matter. Jin had been shot in the head in 64 years earlier in 1943, when she was only 13-years old. She had been delivering food to her father in the front lines of World War II, and the bullet first passed through someone else's arm before lodging in her brain. Her mother used herbal medicine to heal the wound despite modern medicine having long ago demonstrated that no amount of green tea can cure a bullet to the face. Doctors removed the bullet to find it covered with rust and a green substance that can only be described as "leprechaun poop."
#4. A Nail
Patrick Lawler had been working construction at a ski resort in Breckenridge, Colo., when his vision started to blur and a minor toothache began. When icing and aspirin didn't help, he went to the dentist's office where his wife worked. During the examination, it was discovered that a 4-inch nail was embedded in his skull.
"Boy, it looks like we really hit the nail on the head. But seriously, there's 4 inches of metal in your brain."
Apparently Lawler had been using a nail gun that backfired and shot a nail up through his mouth that he somehow failed to notice. It was lodged an inch and a half into his brain, just barely missing his right eye. He managed to go six days before the nail was discovered and had been eating ice cream to try to fight the swelling, because for some reason he thought that's what ice cream does.
"A sprained ankle, you say? Just rub this on it; you'll be fine."
He was quickly taken to a hospital in Denver, where the nail was removed after four hours of surgery. "This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been embedded in their skull," neurosurgeon Sean Markey told a local television station. "But it's a pretty rare injury."
So, you know, frame that nail or have it cast in bronze or something.


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I'm completely new to GIS and this is a very basic question about editing existing shapefiles.
I am working off an existing shapefile which was digitized (by a colleague) so that polygons represent building cover. The shapefile contains information about the land use type and area. I am using QGIS to edit the shapefile.
Now, I wish to add/remove/edit polygons to improve accuracy as the extent of building area has changed a lot recently.
However, when I add new polygons into the shapefile (by digitizing it using an updated basemap), they are not added into the same polygon class as the earlier shapefiles, even though I input the right LandUse type (i.e. Buildings) in the attribute form. Each new polygon seems to create a new LandUse category, even though they're all namd "Buildings".
How do I ensure that any new polygons I add are added into the same LandUse class (all previously created polygons are in this "Buildings" class)?
Thanks in advance for any help on this.