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Mariners have fun with latest TV commercials
By Greg Johns / MLB.com
PEORIA, Ariz. -- Raul Ibanez isn't just a veteran player on the Mariners this spring. He's also a veteran now of a half-dozen Mariners television commercials, including a role in one of the new spots released Wednesday morning for the upcoming 2013 season.
Of course, Ibanez laughs when talking about his acting abilities. Like most of the Mariners, he loves taking part in the 30-second productions. But, no, he's not about to quit his day job.
"The one this year was kind of a role where I had the deer-in-the-headlights look," Ibanez said. "And I understand that look really well. I have that look naturally. They said, 'Pretend you're lost.' And I said, 'Hey, I can do that one!'"
Ibanez and eight other Mariners players, plus manager Eric Wedge, filmed the new commercials early this Spring Training, often shaking their heads at the wacky storylines and ideas that producers tossed their way.
The six commercials can be viewed on Mariners.com and will be played throughout the season during television broadcasts.
Shortstop Brendan Ryan and closer Tom Wilhelmsen share their spotlight with a 2,000-pound buffalo, which made for an interesting film session.
"I got out there early enough to meet the buffalo," Wilhelmsen said. "When I felt him breathing on my arm, it was pretty intimidating. He was a big boy and I guess they can be quite violent. The guy was saying, 'I'm the only buffalo tamer in town. Everybody else is dead. Got killed by the buffalo.' That's when I went to the dugout."
Ryan stayed on the field with the big bison, fielding ground balls and shooting scenes in close proximity to "Harvey" for nearly two hours with what the shortstop claimed was little trepidation.
"He had friendly eyes, you know?" Ryan said. "We had a connection. There was an understanding."
Most of the Mariners players just hope fans understand the commercial spots, which are as random as ever. Felix Hernandez abandoned his "Little Felix" partner this year and goes with a "hot sauce" he promotes, along with his fastball.
Dustin Ackley gets burdened down with lucky charms from fans. Michael Morse, Michael Saunders and Kyle Seager unveil some surprising undergarments that help them stay relaxed on the field and Ibanez pops up at the last second for a fan with a magic genie lamp.
Ibanez, 40, got a kick out of doing another Mariners commercial after having been away from the franchise the past four years.
"I love them," Ibanez said. "Those guys do such a good job with these commercials. Even when I was on other teams, I always enjoyed watching them from afar whenever I got a chance. It's like a Mariners tradition. The fans enjoy them and I think the players always look forward to them, too."
For Seager, his first commercial shoot reminded him why he didn't get into acting.
"When you see the script you think, 'Oh, I don't know,'" he said. "But when we got out there and started doing it, Saunders and Morse were pretty funny, so I didn't have to do too much. I just watched them and had fun."
Seager said their shoot took about two hours, during which he gained a new respect for actors, as well as a new set of silk pajamas that provided the punchline to his bit.
"I was kind of walking off the field with them afterward and nobody asked me for them," Seager said with a laugh. "So I just said, 'Hey, I'm taking 'em. These are pretty comfortable.'"
But if you're wondering, no, Ryan didn't take his new friend Harvey home with him.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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I'm using the DataGridView for an adjacency matrix, so I need the values left and right the main diagonal to be symmetric( or only left/right values)
If I've understood right, there is a method in C# that makes the values symmetric automatically ? If someone knows it, please tell it , it would be helpful.
If not, any useful algorithms for setting values left/right of the main diagonal for DataGridView ?
And the extra quoestion - any ideas how to use the values of DataGridView for drawing the unoriented graph ?

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Monday 8th October 2012
- Wednesday 10th October 2012
First House
£45.00 - £60.00
Alison Moyet has confirmed 3 nights at the legendary Ronnie Scott's on 8 / 9 / 10 October 2012. The shows will see Alison performing a set of songs less visited, focusing on her catalogue from the last decade. Hits not expected to attend and curved balls may apply. Perfect for all Grim Monkeys and some Demons of Wonder. Come share.
Alison Moyet - Vocals
Steve Corely - Keys
Pete Glenister – MD/Guitar
James Hallawell – BV's/Keys
Julian Cox – Bass
Bob Knight - Drums
Support: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars
+ support tonight: The Ronnie Scotts All Stars with Special Guest vocalists Emma Smith (Mon) and Natalie Williams (Tues)
Monday's band line up: Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Ed Richardson (drums).
Tuesday's band line up: is Alex Garnett (tenor sax), James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Chris Higginbottom
The Ronnie Scott's All Stars are comprised of some of the greatest talents on the U.K scene, including some of our most regular performers James Pearson (piano), Sam Burgess (bass) and Pedro Segundo (drums)
James Pearson:-
Musical Director at Ronnie Scott's and the owner of a ferocious piano technique coupled with a sense of musicality rarely heard, James Pearson is one of the most exciting musicians to have emerged from the U.K in the last 25 years. After working with him, the late jazz legend Sir John Dankworth declared: "James Pearson is an exceptionally gifted artist. His masterful playing makes him head and shoulders above the rest of his contemporaries. He shows signs of true greatness".
Sam Burgess:-
Double Bass Despite only being in his early 30's, already Sam is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene. As well as appearing on numerous film soundtracks such as 'Bridget Jones's Diary' and 'Hannibal'. Sam's thumping, pounding, relentlessly driving bass lines have been heard accompanying the likes of Bob James, Billy Kilson, Gary Novak, Joe Lock, Dave Kekowski, Guy Barker, Dave O'Higgins, Pete King, Gareth Williams, Claire Martin, Jim Mullen, Alan Barnes, Tim Whitehead, John Horler, Gwyneth Herbert, John Dankworth, The BBC Big Band and Robbie Williams.
Pedro Segundo:-
At 22 years old Pedro Segundo, Portuguese drummer joins the James Pearson Trio at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
Born and raised in Lisbon, picked up the drums seriously at the age of eight starting studying classical percussion a year later. In June 2011 he graduates from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in Timpani and Classical Percussion. His musical ability combines a blend of styles creating a unique sound on the drum set. He has played regularly with Dennis Rollins, Femi Temowo, Mário Franco, Cleveland Watkiss and many other artists touring in festivals all around the globe.
Other regular performers include:
Dave Ohm (drums), Natalie Williams (vocals), Alex Garnett (sax), Nigel Price (guitar), Steve Rushton (drums), Polly Gibbons (vocals), Alistair White (trombone), Gary Baldwin (hammond), Al Cherry (guitar), Matt Home (drums), Alan Barnes (sax), Ralph Salmins (drums), Arnie Somogyi (bass), Mark Smith (bass), James Nisbet (guitar), Pete Long (sax), Gerard Presencer (Trumpet), Dave O'Higgins (sax), Alec Dankworth (bass), Steve Fishwick (trumpet) and others...
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I have been wondering about the possibility of *disabling* resize feature in a window. For example, when a window is in restore setting, the user can change the size of the window via dragging one of its four size or four corners. I there a way to disable that feature completely? I am basically describing a dialog window without having to derive the class from CDialog.
In the program I am working on, I have disabled the maximize feature. The window stays restored throughout. However, the user can resize it. I would like to disable that feature too. The bottom line is the window looks better if it remains in its original settings (size).


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Dodgers wait to reevaluate Kershaw's status
By Scott Miller / Special to MLB.com
LOS ANGELES -- There was no change in Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw's status Thursday because he didn't do much over the past 24 hours.
"[Friday] he's allowed to play catch, so we'll see where he's at," manager Don Mattingly said. "He's really on hold."
Kershaw on Wednesday was scratched from starting Sunday night's domestic opener because of an inflamed teres major muscle, which stabilizes the upper arm near the upper back. The left-hander declined to comment before batting practice on Thursday, politely noting that it was time to go onto the field and stretch.
Adrian pulled after getting plunked in elbow
LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers first baseman and cleanup hitter Adrian Gonzalez left Thursday night's Freeway Series game with the Angels in the fourth inning after being hit with a pitch in the bottom of the third, but only for precautionary reasons.
Gonzalez was struck in the right elbow by Angels starter Hector Santiago with a two-seam fastball.
"I came out just because it went numb," said Gonzalez, whose elbow was noticeably bruised. "No need to stay out there and risk it getting swollen when I could come in and take care of it right away."
Gonzalez had been scheduled for a third plate appearance but opted instead for ice.
"I would have gotten another at-bat or two," he said. "Another at-bat or two is not going to change my season."
The inside fastball was delivered immediately after Hanley Ramirez belted an opposite-field fastball a batter earlier.
Gonzalez said he expects to play against the Angels again on Friday night "unless something happens overnight."
Ryu one hurdle from starting U.S. opener
LOS ANGELES -- And the Dodgers' starting pitcher for Sunday's nationally televised domestic opener in San Diego is ...
Stay tuned. For another day.
Hey, with those two games of the Opening Series in Australia in the rear-view mirror and previously scheduled stateside Opening Day starter Clayton Kershaw scratched with a sore back, what better purpose for the annual Freeway Series with Anaheim than to give the Dodgers a chance to revert back to Spring Training fine-tune mode?
Hyun-Jin Ryu will throw a bullpen session on Friday to test his big right toe, which was injurred while running the bases at the Sydney Cricket Ground. If all goes well -- and the Dodgers expect it to -- then Ryu will get the big Sunday start against the Padres. If Ryu has any issues, manager Don Mattingly said before Thursday night's game against the Angels that veteran right-hander Dan Haren will draw the assignment.
"Looks positive," Mattingly said of Ryu. "That being said, he's throwing a 'pen tomorrow, so we really can't go 100 percent with where we're going to go until he throws the 'pen."
Haren threw in a bullpen session before Thursday's game and "is on track to go either way, Sunday or Wednesday," Mattingly said.
Zack Greinke is slated to start the second game in San Diego, on Tuesday.
Right now, the Dodgers are keeping all options open, so much so that the starter for Saturday's final Freeway Series game against the Angels is ... yes, stay tuned for that, too.
"I don't even know," Mattingly said Thursday afternoon.
What he does know is that Minor Leaguer Stephen Fife will start Friday night's Freeway Series game at Dodger Stadium. Then, the hope is that Haren starts Saturday in Anaheim in preparation for his first regular-season start on Wednesday.
Guerrero sidelined with strained oblique
LOS ANGELES -- The rough Spring Training for Alex Guerrero finished on a painful note. Already optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque on Monday, the second baseman suffered a strained muscle on the side of his torso while swinging a bat on Wednesday.
Manager Don Mattingly noted that the strain "is a tough one." He did not put a timetable on how long Guerrero will be out, but it is expected to be several days on the conservative end.
Guerrero signed a four-year, $28 million deal in October and then batted .300 this spring, leading the Dodgers with nine RBIs, but the Cuban defector, who did not play at all last year, struggled defensively making the transition from shortstop to second base.
"You could tell he was rusty and needed to play," Mattingly said. "It was pretty evident he was rusty."
With Guerrero both sidelined and preparing for early work with the Isotopes this summer, Dee Gordon and Justin Turner will be the Dodgers' second basemen.
Will it be a straight platoon situation?
"A little bit," Mattingly said. "If someone takes it over, we'll see. Right now, I'd like to give Dee some shots."
The Dodgers remain intrigued by what the fleet Gordon can do on the basepaths, if he can just reach them enough. He went 3-for-4 from the leadoff spot in Game 2 of the Opening Series in Australia.
As for Guerrero, Mattingly praised his work ethic this spring.
"He worked every day," the manager said. "He stayed after it. He worked on his fielding, hitting, holding runners, everything.
"He has the best chance to be successful because of the way he works."
Dodgers' tickets selling at record pace
LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers, club president Stan Kasten said on Thursday, will reach 3 million tickets sold before their home opener for the first time in franchise history.
"We couldn't be prouder of that," he said. "It is tremendously gratifying to have that kind of support from your fans."
Following 3.7 million in attendance in 2013, the Dodgers sold the equivalent of 32,000 full season tickets by January. So they siphoned away some tickets normally reserved for game-day sale and, by their April 4 home opener against the Giants, expect to have sold 35,000 season tickets.
Fans also certainly will be pleased to know that Dodger Stadium now has fully operational WiFi, available throughout the ballpark at no cost.
"There's one exception," Kasten said. "The visiting clubhouse."
And no, that's not for competitive advantage reasons. Rather, Kasten noted, the new visiting clubhouse is in a bunker-like area under the stands and "technical reasons" are what's preventing WiFi right now.
"It will be on in a matter of weeks," Kasten assured.
Scott Miller is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Students from Gorleston fought to save victims of crash on A47 near King's Lynn which claimed three lives
PUBLISHED: 09:25 27 March 2014 | UPDATED: 10:27 27 March 2014
© Archant Norfolk 2014
Students fought in vain to save the lives of three people killed in a head-on crash on the A47.
MP campaigned for limit to be lowered
The crash happened on a single-carriageway stretch of the A47 where the speed limit is currently 50mph.
North West Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham said the limit should be reduced to 40mph.
"I've been pushing to have that stretch reduced to 40, I think there's a strong case for having it reduced to 40," he said. "We don't yet know what caused this accident, but speed does kill.
"Any injury or loss of life is tragic. My heart-felt sympathy goes out to the relatives of the victims.
"There are lessons to be learned and improvements which must be made."
Lynn Road resident Helen Nicolson, who moved to East Winch in October last year, said: "People just speed along this road. I think the drivers get frustrated when they get stuck behind slower drivers and then they take risks, it is dangerous."
Neighbour Klwinder Anota, who has lived there for five years said: "It is getting worse, an accident seems to happen nearly every other day, every week. My son told me that there had been an another accident. There does need to be a bypass."
The two men and a woman were in a car which was in collision with a lorry at East Winch, near King's Lynn, just after 11am yesterday.
While they have not been named, the three deceased are understood not to come from Norfolk. They are understood to be a middle-aged couple and a man in his 30s. The lorry driver escaped with minor injuries, which did not require hospital treatment.
The three deaths brings the toll on the road in Norfolk to 64 since 2005. The triple tragedy also led to fresh calls for the A47 to be dualled.
Thirteen students and three teachers from East Norfolk Sixth Form Centre, in Gorleston, were travelling yards behind the car when the crash happened.
The party were on their way to Derbyshire for a field trip as part of their uniformed services course.
Teacher Neil White, who was driving the minibus, said: "It happened right in front of us. Suddenly, we saw the car in front of us swerve out and hit the oncoming lorry. We all jumped out of our mini bus and immediately began first aid."
Fellow teacher Emma Chambers said: "We are now coming back down to earth, the realisation of what has happened is sinking in and what else could have happened.
"We are no longer going to Derbyshire and getting the students home as there are some anxious parents."
The minibus which was carrying the students braked hard when the car collided with the lorry, resulting in another minibus carrying their luggage shunting them from behind.
College principal Daphne King said the trip had now been cancelled and the party would be returning home.
"The young people are very distraught," she said. "They were with people when they were dying."
The students, who are aged between 17 and 19, hope to have a career in the fire service or police when they complete their course.
Land and air ambulances were sent to the scene of the crash, which happened near the Carpenter's Arms pub.
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: "We were called to a road traffic collision between a car and a lorry on the A47 near East Winch.
"We sent three ambulances, an ambulance officer, two rapid response cars, and East Anglian Air Ambulance to the scene. Unfortunately despite the best efforts of all of the emergency services, three people were sadly pronounced dead at the scene."
Police are still investigating the cause of the collision. Insp Bruce Gent, of Norfolk police, said: "At this stage I cannot tell you much apart from there has been a collision between a lorry and a car.
"There were also two minibuses that were driving close by behind the car, but the passengers are not hurt.
"We have done thorough investigations which have involved videos, photos and a reconstruction."
The A47 was closed for more than six hours. Drivers faced long diversions via Downham Market and A134 and A1101, or the A149 and B1145 Gayton roads.


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The man facing murder charges for an early morning shooting at Drai's After Hours nightclub inside Bally's on the Strip is expected to make a full recovery, his relative said Wednesday.
Defense lawyer Robert Beckett told Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Cynthia Cruz that his cousin Benjamin Frazier, 41, suffered head trauma when he was taken into custody, which caused swelling around his brain and prompted doctors to induce a medical coma. Beckett said Frazier on Wednesday briefly opened his eyes and acknowledged his presence but remained on a ventilator.
Frazier, who sometimes refers to Beckett as his "uncle," was supposed to make his first appearance in court Wednesday.
Cruz issued an order allowing Beckett to see Frazier at University Medical Center, something Las Vegas police had denied.
Beckett said he expects to represent Frazier in the case and he was concerned that his nephew might make a statement to police without counsel present because he won't be in the "right state of mind" when he wakes up from the coma.
A status check was set in the case for Wednesday.
Frazier opened fire about 5:45 a.m. in Bally's, at 3645 Las Vegas Boulevard South, at Flamingo Road, after an argument at the entrance to Drai's, police said.
When Kenneth Brown, 40, saw Frazier shoot two Bally's security guards, Robert Farias and Anthony Guerrero, Brown jumped on the man's back and wrestled for the gun, according to police.
Brown, who recently moved to Las Vegas from Los Angeles and worked as a club promoter and stand-up comedian, was fatally shot in the neck and upper chest.
Both guards are expected to survive.
The case probably will be reviewed by the district attorney's death penalty committee once it is sent to trial in District Court. First, Cruz or a grand jury must decide whether prosecutors have enough evidence to bring the case to trial.
The death penalty committee, whose meetings are not open to the public, looks at three factors when considering capital punishment: whether there are aggravating factors in the case including past convictions, whether a jury would impose the death penalty as punishment and whether a conviction would stand up under appeal.
The argument at Drai's started over a $30 cover charge.
Frazier asked club security whether he could go in and preview the crowd before paying the fee. Police said he decided to pay the cover and went inside but came out shortly afterward demanding a refund because the club wasn't full.
He pulled a .38-caliber revolver on the security manager, Farias, during the argument and began firing as several people attempted to disarm him, police said.
Farias was shot in the arm and chest. Frazier then shot security guard Guerrero in the stomach, according to his arrest report. That is when Brown, who was leaving the nightclub, intervened and tackled Frazier.
Other patrons and guards held Frazier after Brown was shot. Frazier's revolver was not registered in Clark County, according to a police report released Tuesday.
Frazier was booked in absentia on charges of murder and attempted murder. He will be booked into the Clark County jail after he is released from the hospital.
Beckett, a former Nye County district attorney, said Frazier has battled issues with alcohol.
Frazier has a history of violent crimes in Las Vegas.
He was sentenced to probation for a June 30, 1996, incident at a topless club for which he pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon.
Most recently, Frazier pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor battery count for a fight Feb. 29, 2012, when he punched a bartender at a Strip casino and kicked another man. He was sentenced to six months of probation and ordered to take alcohol counseling.
The shooting was the second deadly shooting on the Strip this year stemming from a nightclub altercation.
Ammar Harris, a pimp who bragged about his criminal life in Las Vegas, was arrested after a February shooting and crash on the Strip that killed three people. Police said the incident started after Harris and another man argued in Aria's Haze nightclub.
Harris is facing the death penalty if convicted.


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The Globular Cluster Bomb
by David F. Coppedge *
Some of the most stunning astronomical objects are globular clusters. These spherically-distributed celestial ornaments can pack a million stars within a tiny angle of space as seen from Earth. For example, M13 in Hercules fills the eyepiece of a 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain or 20" Dobsonian telescope. Omega Centauri, better placed for southern-hemisphere observers, is the largest globular of our galaxy and one of the few visible with the naked eye.
Stars in a globular appear densely packed but are actually widely spaced. About 180 of these clusters orbit the center of the Milky Way at various inclinations, and globulars have also been detected around other galaxies. They have played an important role in the development of astronomical thought since the Christian astronomer William Herschel named them in 1789. Few amateurs at star parties may know that they are now centerpieces of a significant upset in astronomy occurring right now, after a near century of consensus.
In 1914, Harlow Shapley noticed their spectra were different from those in the galactic disk. He named the disk stars Population I, and the globular cluster stars Population II. Because they are low in elements heavier than helium, the Population II stars were assumed to be older than the Population I stars. (A third category, Population III, is assumed to comprise the very first stars after the Big Bang, made out of pure hydrogen and helium, but none have been observed.) The distinct spectral signature of globulars, combined with their lack of dust and gas, gave rise to the view that they represent some of the oldest objects in the universe, mostly composed of old red giants in regions where no new stars are forming. The disk, by contrast, was thought to be young and actively engaged in star formation. This had been the textbook orthodoxy for most of the twentieth century.
The story started to unravel three years ago (see Astronomy, Nov. 2003) when the Hubble and other orbiting telescopes found globulars containing mixed populations of stars, with exotic members called "blue stragglers" and even planets. News@Nature last August reported that the findings are "changing our ideas completely" and will require us to "tear up textbooks." New explanations are being considered. Perhaps they formed during galactic mergers. But each new solution breeds new problems: how was there enough material left over to form these densely-packed clusters?
One thing is clear; globulars can no longer be thought of as simple, homogeneous collections of ancient stars. The article said, "In a complex Universe, astronomers thought they had at least one simple system to tell them how stars are born. Turns out they were wrong." Moreover, this upset can have ripple effects on other theories. One astronomer said, "If you have problems reproducing star formation in globular clusters, you will have problems with a galaxy."
Astronomers will undoubtedly come up with new ideas. There's an important lesson here about how science is done in these days of Big Bang-to-man theorizing. It's not that scientists are unable to concoct a story to fit the data, it's that the data require a story to fit a belief.
*David F. Coppedge works in the Cassini program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Cite this article: Coppedge, D. 2007. The Globular Cluster Bomb. Acts & Facts. 36 (2).
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freedomseek00 replied to Celiac Mindwarp's topic in Other Food Intolerance and Leaky Gut IssuesHi Celiac Mindwarp, I wanted to express my compassion for what you're going through right now. Giving up sugar is really difficult because not only does it have a physical addiction component but an even tougher psychological one. I did my first Whole30 before Christmas of last year and it was tough. There were a lot of cravings but so worth it in the end. After 30 days is the reintroduction period where you can find out exactly how your body reacts to sugar. I already knew I was celiac with allergies to eggs, dairy, and soy before starting my whole30 so I knew I would never "test" those through reintroduction but I was curious about the sugar. I've always known I'm sensitive to sugar but never knew just how serious it was until I reintroduced it. I reacted so violently and gained 9 lbs of water weight pretty much overnight from trying a few gluten, egg, dairy, soy free cookies and an apple. I also had a lot of the same symptoms you describe. I have come to the difficult conclusion that my body just does not like sugar in any form and have since given it up for good. This is a big change for me considering I used to eat about 4-5 fruits a day. But now that I'm more in tune with my body I know I do better without sugar and fruit. I'm glad you are going to do the Whole30 because it really teaches you to be aware of your body and how it reacts to all foods. I am so grateful for it. My life has improved tremendously since I disciplined myself to just do it. Good Luck and feel free to message me if you need help cutting the sugar and fruit out.
Angry, Frustrated, And Depressed About My Food Allergies
freedomseek00 replied to freedomseek00's topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithThank you everyone for responding. Shadowicewolf, I just signed up for a local support group in my area and I'm waiting to hear back from them. ScottR13, My tests only came back positive for gluten and egg, but whenever I eat or touch anything soy/legumes, dairy, corn, and/or sugar I get crazy itchy, watery eyes, mucuos pouring out of my nose and I have trouble breathing and can't stop coughing. I also get very severe psychological reactions such as panic attacks and depression. It's not pretty. And I've tried eating these foods mutiple times and the reaction keeps getting worse (which I've read can happen). So I stopped eating them on my own volition despite my stupid doctor telling me that the tests showed there was "no way" I could be sensitive to them. I just really hope there aren't more things that bother me. The one I really hope doesn't happen is nightshades. I loooooooove peppers and onions and garlic. Takala, Thanks for your suggestions. I've tried a lot of recipes for breads and snacks using different grains and they make me so constipated. Come to think of it, I almost feel just as bad when I eat gluten-free grains as I do when I eat gluten. Is there such a thing as grain intolerance? All of it makes me feel crappy I'm also going back to another one of my doctors to get some more blood tests. Despite being celiac and having all these food issues I wasn't deficient in Vitamin B12, Calcium, or Vitamin D. She didn't test for all the other vitamins and minerals out there so I am going back in a week to get as big of a blood panel as possible. What sort of things are the most important to get tested? Right now I'm taking some Vitamin C to help with my adrenals, a probiotic (for the parasite) and Glutamine to heal my leaky gut.
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freedomseek00 posted a topic in Celiac Meeting RoomHi, I'm 23 years old and was recently diagnosed with celiac and a host of other food allergies and health conditions. I was wondering if there is anyone in the Bay Area, California who can relate and would like to be buddies (email, text, chat online, face-to-face). You don't even really have to be from the Bay Area, I just would like someone to talk to (that's what's so great about the internet). Right now I only have my dad (who is sensitive to gluten but no other food allergies) and my boyfriend (who has no food allergies) and they try to help as much as they can but it's not the same as having someone who can directly relate and who will understand my story. Otherwise, I have no other friends because I've been so sick for the past 5 years until they finally figured out it was food allergies a couple months ago. I'd love having more friends I can talk to and we could support each other Admittingly, I need a lot of support right now, I'm really struggling with accepting that this is my new life.
Angry, Frustrated, And Depressed About My Food Allergies
freedomseek00 posted a topic in Celiac Disease - Coping WithHello everyone, I'm 23 years old and I was diagnosed with celiac, adrenal fatigue, anemia, and an intestinal parasite back in September. I also found out that I have allergies to soy/legumes, dairy, eggs, corn and am very sensitive to sugar. I've been attempting to eat strict Paleo (except for the egg part as I'm allergic) as often as I can since those foods really do make me feel a little bit better or at least I don't react to them. My problem is that I can't stick with my allergen-free diet. I've seen a lot of posts on similar topics but I was hoping to get some input on my personal situation, or at least some support. Until last night I was 48 days gluten free, 48 days egg free, 13 days dairy free, 20 days soy free, 2 days corn free and 2 days sugar free. But last night I just cracked! I ate all the foods I'm not allowed to eat. I feel so deprived. I've tried substitutions but I end up reacting to those as well. When it really gets down to it I know I'm addicted to food. I've used food as an emotional crutch ever since my parents got divorced when I was 7 years old. Every since finding out about my food allergies in September, I've been crying every single day. My boyfriend doesn't know how to help me and I just cry whenever we are together. I honestly don't feel like I can live the rest of my life with these food allergies. Every day is a huge struggle and most days life doesn't seem worth living. I don't know what to do to anymore. There's practically nothing I can eat and as we all know a lot of social activities revolve around food, especially at this time of year with all the holiday parties. I'm so frustrated and tired (in addition to the chronic fatigue) with having to cook all of my meals and sit back and watch other people eat the foods I can no longer safely eat at dinner parties and such. My boyfriend is a blessing. He won't eat anything that I'm allergic to in front of me because he knows how much it hurts (and he also doesn't want to have to brush his teeth every five minutes just so he can kiss me ). But it's still not enough. I'm in so much emotional turmoil. How can I get the motivation to want to take care of myself no matter what situation I'm in? I know things are eventually supposed to get better and I know I was not free from my allergens for any significant amount of time, but I hadn't seen any improvement in my aches and pains, fatigue, sleep, or emotional issues, which really makes it hard to stick with the diet. I feel very left out and isolated. I just want to be normal again. Thank you in advance for reading and responding. I appreciate any and all help I can get.
Anyone Else Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, And Soy-Free?
freedomseek00 replied to freedomseek00's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsThanks everyone for your help! I'm starting to feel better and getting used to the diet. I still have times where I really miss the old foods I used to eat but I'm not having the awful stomach cramps that I used to get when eating gluten/wheat/dairy/soy nor am I getting that horrible diarrhea that kept me on a leash to my bathroom. So I'm definitely seeing the benefits. I struggled a little in there but have been "clean" (for lack of a better word) for a full 7 days now! I'm starting to get my energy back too! I tried a few gluten-free products like those from Enjoy Life (free of top 8 allergens I believe) and some Lundberg rice chips. Enjoy Life foods were really disappointing (I tried the crisp sugar cookies and the fruit bars) but the rice chips were good! I'm not much of a salty person though. I've always preferred the sweets but I'm slowly realizing that allergen free versions are just not the same as my old favorites. BUT, I keep reminding myself that my old favorites made me very very sick and definitely not worth going back too. The only problem that still remains is finding restaurants that are allergen free. My boyfriend is still frustrated with this as am I. A lot of restaurants offer allergen free options but cross contamination is an issue and in these first few weeks I've found that I'm very sensitive to any sort of contamination, no matter how small. Again, thank you everyone for responding! Celiac.com has helped me so much as I'm figuring this new lifestyle out.
Anyone Else Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, And Soy-Free?
freedomseek00 posted a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & MedicationsHi everyone, I was recently diagnosed with celiac 3 weeks ago and also told by my doctor to completely avoid all dairy and soy for the next year or so until I can try reintroducing them again. The problem I'm having right now is that my cravings for the foods I used to eat before being diagnosed are getting stronger every day that I am on my new celiac diet. I tried looking through the supermarket in addition to the natural health food stores I have in my area (Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Sunflower/Sprouts) and every gluten free product out there seems to still contain dairy and/or soy! I don't even have options for when I'm getting a craving to safely try to satisfy it nor have my boyfriend and I found any restaurants we can go on dates too. Everything has gotten so overwhelming since being diagnosed. As a side note, due to my new wheat/gluten/dairy/soy free diet I have been eating fruit when I get cravings, but I don't want to go overboard on sugar either since I already have a Candida overgrowth and am sugar sensitive. Does anyone know of any snack foods out there that are wheat/gluten/dairy/soy/sugar free? I'm sorry, I know that's a lot to ask for


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The nature of test environments is inherently temporary—you set up an environment, run through an automated test suite, and then tear down the environment. If you can reduce the cycle time for this process down to hours or minutes, then you may be able to cut your test environment budgets considerably. The impact of cloud adoption on test environments is a valuable advancement in both cost savings and agility. The on-demand model takes advantage of public cloud APIs requiring only payment for t...
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High-velocity engineering teams are applying not only continuous delivery processes, but also lessons in experimentation from established leaders like Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook. These companies have made experimentation a foundation for their release processes, allowing them to try out major feature releases and redesigns within smaller groups before making them broadly available. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Brian Lucas, Senior Staff Engineer at Optimizely, discussed how by using ne...
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Many enterprise and government IT organizations are realizing the benefits of cloud computing by extending IT delivery and management processes across private and public cloud services. But they are often challenged with balancing the need for centralized cloud governance without stifling user-driven innovation. This strategy requires an approach that fundamentally reshapes how IT is delivered today, shifting the focus from infrastructure to services aggregation, and mixing and matching the bes...
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"CA has been doing a lot of things in the area of DevOps. Now we have a complete set of tool sets in order to enable customers to go all the way from planning to development to testing down to release into the operations," explained Aruna Ravichandran, Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy at CA Technologies, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at DevOps Summit at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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While we understand Agile as a means to accelerate innovation, manage uncertainty and cope with ambiguity, many are inclined to think that it conflicts with the objectives of traditional engineering projects, such as building a highway, skyscraper or power plant. These are plan-driven and predictive projects that seek to avoid any uncertainty. This type of thinking, however, is short-sighted. Agile approaches are valuable in controlling uncertainty because they constrain the complexity that ste...
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Cavirin Systems has just announced C2, a SaaS offering designed to bring continuous security assessment and remediation to hybrid environments, containers, and data centers. Cavirin C2 is deployed within Amazon Web Services (AWS) and features a flexible licensing model for easy scalability and clear pay-as-you-go pricing. Although native to AWS, it also supports assessment and remediation of virtual or container instances within Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or on-premise. By dr...
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"This all sounds great. But it's just not realistic." This is what a group of five senior IT executives told me during a workshop I held not long ago. We were working through an exercise on the organizational characteristics necessary to successfully execute a digital transformation, and the group was doing their 'readout.' The executives loved everything we discussed and agreed that if such an environment existed, it would make transformation much easier. They just didn't believe it was reali...
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"We're developing a software that is based on the cloud environment and we are providing those services to corporations and the general public," explained Seungmin Kim, CEO/CTO of SM Systems Inc., in this SYS-CON.tv interview at 21st Cloud Expo, held Oct 31 – Nov 2, 2017, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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It's "time to move on from DevOps and continuous delivery." This was the provocative title of a recent article in ZDNet, in which Kelsey Hightower, staff developer advocate at Google Cloud Platform, suggested that "software shops should have put these concepts into action years ago." Reading articles like this or listening to talks at most DevOps conferences might make you think that we're entering a post-DevOps world. But vast numbers of organizations still struggle to start and drive transfo...
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The cloud revolution in enterprises has very clearly crossed the phase of proof-of-concepts into a truly mainstream adoption. One of most popular enterprise-wide initiatives currently going on are "cloud migration" programs of some kind or another. Finding business value for these programs is not hard to fathom – they include hyperelasticity in infrastructure consumption, subscription based models, and agility derived from rapid speed of deployment of applications. These factors will continue to...
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While some developers care passionately about how data centers and clouds are architected, for most, it is only the end result that matters. To the majority of companies, technology exists to solve a business problem, and only delivers value when it is solving that problem. 2017 brings the mainstream adoption of containers for production workloads. In his session at 21st Cloud Expo, Ben McCormack, VP of Operations at Evernote, discussed how data centers of the future will be managed, how the p...
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There's some symmetry here amid the fluid, frenetic madness of college football expansion.
There, in the middle of the room with its middle finger aimed high, were the Baylor Bears. And to this I say: at least Baylor was honest about its intentions.
The SEC and Texas A&M have played footsie for about 15 months. Texas and ESPN concocted a network they knew would destroy the Big 12, then lied about the guts of the stinking fish. The Pac-12 has been the Pac-12 for all of three months, and already is hiking its skirt so Oklahoma can see its multibillion-dollar television contract.
And we're mad at Baylor?
All Baylor wanted—before it reportedly backed down from a legal case against the SEC—was a seat when the music stopped and everyone was scrambling for the last chair available. So instead of waiting, Baylor pulled the plug on the phonograph while everyone incredulously looked on.
Yeah, you got a problem with us?
While Baylor's game of chicken didn't last long, it underscored the sleazy side of this seismic shift in college football: It's every man for himself. And if that means you've got to lie to make it happen, then by God, you lie.
Case in point: Virginia Tech.
The school's chancellor, athletic director and head coach have all said they love the ACC; that the ACC is where they've always wanted to be and that they have no interest in the SEC.
More on realignment: Arkansas says no to Big 12 overture | Only Baylor officials have long-term goals in mind | A&M move held up by threat of litigation
Let me explain what happens now that Texas A&M has been officially released by Baylor (how awesome is that concept?), and after Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas Tech leave for the Pac-12: Virginia Tech suddenly reassesses its "future in the ever-changing world of collegiate sports"—or something like that.
Because when mass hysteria arrives, loyalty is buried under the weight of it all. The only friend you have is the friend who offers you the most security and cash—and not necessarily in that order.
And mass hysteria is coming, everyone.
Do you really think the SEC and Big Ten can sit by while the Pac-12—already armed with the game's largest television contract—gets bigger and better? Everyone has turned their launch keys on this pending nuclear explosion of the college football landscape, and now it's just a matter of who pushes that awful red button first.
With that as the backdrop, what do you think Virginia Tech does if the SEC says come hither? What do you think Missouri does if the SEC says, look, we know you only fit in academically with Florida and Vanderbilt, but come on in, y'all.
They do the same thing Texas A&M will do later today or tomorrow. They'll throw a big party and chant S-E-C! Then they'll go back to those who despise what college sports has become and proclaim to have had no choice.
They were happy where they were, but when push came to shove, they got the hell out of Dodge.
And we're mad at Baylor?
There's still hope that this radical change doesn't happen. There's still a chance that Texas and Oklahoma decide to make it work in the Big 12, and the SEC decides it only wants one more member—and then everyone can stand down from this madness.
But more than likely we're headed down a path so destructive, it can only end with the formation of superconferences and the end of the NCAA as we know it. Once we go to four 16-team conferences, those 64 teams (and Notre Dame) will break away from the NCAA and form their own association.
Then all of you crazy playoff nuts will get your wish. And the game will lose all semblance of its unique and special place in the sports world. It will be just another sport fueled by another mega television network; another sport rolled into a homogenized, hyperbolized ball of bland.
Or what I call the NFL.
More on realignment: Arkansas says no to Big 12 overture | Only Baylor officials have long-term goals in mind | A&M move held up by threat of litigation


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The proposal, submitted Tuesday by Kansas-based LodgeWell Development LLC, was met with criticism from city and Arkansas Valley Alliance for Economic Development (AVAED) officials, but no official action was taken until the submitted Master Developer Agreement (MDA) was considered during the Finance Committee's meeting.
"It's absolutely, unbelievably disappointing. It didn't address any of the key issues," Alderman Randy Horton, who serves as Finance Committee chair and liaison to AVAED, said.
Alderman Martin Irwin said he felt the proposal was intentionally written to put city leaders in a position where they felt they had no choice but to negotiate.
On Wednesday, LodgeWell principal Dave Mashburn emailed a letter to Mayor Bill Eaton in which he stated the MDA was a draft proposal intended to "facilitate discussion and negotiate a mutual (sic) satisfactory agreement."
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Steamed Broccoli with Gremolata Crumbs
We dress steamed broccoli with a mixture of bread crumbs and gremolata, an Italian garnish of lemon, parsley, and garlic that is served as a topping on anything from stews to vegetables.
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Level: Easy
Serves: 4
- 1 lemon
- 1 bag broccoli florets
- 2 tbsp. water
- 1 tsp. olive oil
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 slice firm white bread
- ¼ tsp. salt
- 2 tbsp. chopped fresh parsley leaves
- From lemon, grate 1/2 teaspoon peel and squeeze 1 tablespoon juice.
- In microwave-safe bowl, place broccoli and water. Cover with vented plastic wrap and cook in microwave on High 4 to 5 minutes or until tender-crisp.
- Meanwhile, in small skillet, heat oil on medium-high. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds. Stir in lemon peel, bread crumbs, and salt and toss to combine; remove skillet from heat and stir in parsley.
- Drain broccoli if necessary; transfer to serving bowl and toss with lemon juice. Sprinkle crumb mixture over broccoli to serve.
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Celebrity Cribs: Jeezy Puts His $1.1 Million All White Everything Atlanta Condo Up For Sale [Photos]
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If you sell enough snow you can live like this too…
Jeezy Puts $1.1 Million Atlanta Condo Up For Sale
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The Atlanta hip-hop artist formerly known as Young Jeezy and now known as just Jeezy has put his Buckhead penthouse on the market and is asking $1.1 million. It has 3 bedrooms and 3 ½ baths and features 20-foot ceilings, a panoramic view of Atlanta's skyline and lots of floor-to-ceiling glass windows, among other features.
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|August 11, 2010, 08:31 AM
Join Date: August 11, 2010
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Zenit-Belomo Scope
This scope was given to me as part of my fathers belongings after his passing. The limited info I've found on the net directs me to a polish website that sells them. I know he had at one time an AK-47 that this was more than likely mounted to. Unfortunately he sold the AK before his passing, would've loved to have had it along with his other handguns. Has anyone had any experience with these and can the mounts be changed to use on other rifles.
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Following the success of her last album, Red, Taylor Swift says she'll be working with several prominent songwriters once again. In an interview with Billboard, the "Sweeter Than Fiction" singer revealed what fans can expect from her fifth release.
"I'm really loving collaboration right now," said Swift. "I see it as a bit of an apprenticeship. I want to be around people who love writing songs and have done it for years. Every time I'm in a studio I'm learning, like how to build a drum track, and getting a new perspective on things. It's so thrilling to keep learning on your fifth album.
"As soon as [an album] comes out I'm figuring out what the next one will be," she continued. "It's gotten to the point where each one is a reinvention, which is what I like best. I like it when it sounds new and people don't know where you're going to go next."
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Marlene Stewart (Costume Designer) blue jacket from The Divergent Series: Allegiant seen with Shailene Woodley (Beatrice 'Tris' Prior)
As Seen on Beatrice 'Tris' Prior (Shailene Woodley) in The Divergent Series: Allegiant
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I looked through the forum here and did not see a direct hit on this. Sorry if missed it, normally never have to post something new here.
Full ZA alert info
ZoneAlarm Security Alert
Suspicious Behavior
Windows Explorer is trying to change the desktop background. the new background may contain a Web page with executable code.
Sorry, I forgot to hit the View Properties on the alert but SmartDefense Advisor said it did not have info available for this alert type anyways.
Ran **bleep** 2008 with updated def's and also Spybot. Neither showed anything odd. Also had just run System Mechanic to clean up registry.
I of course denied the request, but wondering what is up.
Has anyone else seen this exact ALERT?
I know the desktop can get swapped by malware, so asking if anyone saw ZA catch it before and if I should dig deeper before forgetting about it.
p.s. ZA user since 1998 and except for the occasional ZA upgrade glitch have never felt Nortoned or McGaffed.
Operating System:Windows XP Home Edition
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Mike is back from APE, the Alternative Press Expo, and has all the updates you'd expect. What was it like renting someone else's apartment for the weekend? Was he able to sleep there alone? Then, Alex has some complaining to do about Public Displays of Affection (PDA), and Mike talks about the most extreme example he can remember seeing. THEN, The Desert Panther, Tony Consiglio creeps into The Lair to tell us a story about how he bought a new mattress. That sounds boring, yes. But trust us, this is a good one.
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It's hard to imagine a more idyllic setting for cinephiles than the annual il Cinema Ritrovato (Cinema Rediscovered) festival in Bologna. After listening to friends and colleagues tell me they couldn't believe I'd never been, I attended my first, the 26th, this June. I hope I never miss another.
Organized by the Cineteca Bologna (one of the world's great centers for the study, restoration, and presentation of cinema) the festival draws archivists, critics, distributors, historians, curators, filmmakers and film enthusiasts from around the world. Unlike a traditional festival, il Cinema Ritrovato is a decidedly relaxed affair, and, with a 70 euro pass, a non-professional can enjoy pretty much the same experience as anyone else. The venues (theaters within the Cineteca Bologna, two other neighborhood theaters, and nightly outdoor screenings in the mammoth Piazza Maggiore) are located relatively close to each other and it's quite easy to fit in as many as five films in a day (I saw 33 in six days, counting a handful of shorts) with the requisite leisurely Italian lunch and dinner factored in.
The program is divided into a number of strands, and this year's featured Raoul Walsh and Jean Grémillion retrospectives, a great series of post-stock market crash films, films from 1912 (the festival's annual 100-years-ago Time Machine program), new restorations, and numerous other specialized subdivisions including tributes to Charlie Chaplin, Lois Weber, and Roberto Rossellini. There are also numerous lectures and presentations on film history and preservation, and areas selling a wondrous array of film books, DVDs, posters, and other ephemera.
The scope and diversity of the program is astonishing. At a traditional festival, it's often easy to write off one film in favor of another when figuring out one's screening schedule. Not here. I wanted to see EVERYTHING. Even if it was something I'd seen before, such as Jacques Demy's Lola, Rossellini's Voyage to Italy, or Lawrence of Arabia, it was being shown in a recent restoration in Bologna.
One sobering aspect to the festival was the number of films that were being shown digitally. While the majority of films were shown on celluloid, a surprising number were shown digitally, and not always in a digital "restoration." Obviously, the move to digital is well underway and as inevitable as the morning sun but I was still surprised to not hear more murmurs of discontent from colleagues. Maybe most of the hand-wringing was done and buried at past fests. Also, it's reassuring to hear a seasoned and dedicated preservationist like Grover Crisp from Sony Pictures discuss the reasons for digital restoration. He oversaw two of the best digital presentations at the fest – Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse and Lean's Lawrence of Arabia – and when he explains all aspects of the digital move, one listens in an "only Nixon could go to China" sort of way. Due to the condition of available elements, some films can only be restored digitally and due to the economics, some films will only be restored digitally. With all that in mind, I was as excited to see a restored, 35mm PRINT of Raoul Walsh's Pursued (1947) as anything. It looked spectacular. Gorgeous black & white.
My screening list.
*some of my favorites
The Mystery of the Hindu Image (Raoul Walsh, 1914)
Pillars of Society (Raoul Walsh, 1916)
Once Upon a Time in America (Sergio Leone, 1984) – Digital
Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961) – Digital
David Golder (Julien Duvivier, 1931)*
Essais au bord de la mer (Jean Gremillion, 1926)
Casting Ella Maillart (Jean Gremillion, 1926)
Chartes (Jean Gremillion, 1923)
Gardens de Phare (Jean Gremillion, 1929)
Wild Girl (Raoul Walsh, 1932)
Kalpana (Uday Shankar, 1948)* – Digital
Me and My Gal (Raoul Walsh, 1932)*
L'Etrange Monsieur Victor (Jean Gremillion, 1937)*
Distant Drums (Raoul Walsh, 1951)
Gueule d'Amour (Jean Gremillion, 1937)*
Voyage to Italy (Roberto Rossellini, 1954)* – Digital
Comedy of Money (Max Ophuls, 1936)*
Joriku Dai-Ippo (Yasujiro Shimazu, 1932)
Pursued (Raoul Walsh, 1947)*
Remorques (Jean Gremillion, 1939-41)*
Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958)* – Digital
La Nave Delle Donne Maledette (Raffaello Matarazzo, 1954) – Digital
What Price Glory? (Raoul Walsh, 1926)
Hard to Handle (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933)*
Lumiere d'Ete (Jean Gremillion) – Digital
La Tete d'un Homme (Julien Duvivier, 1933)*
Band of Angels (Raoul Walsh, 1957)*
The Red Dance (Raoul Walsh, 1928)
Nieuwe Gronden (Joris Ivens, 1933)*
Zeitprobleme. Wie Der Berliner Arbeiter Wohnt (Slatan Dudow, 1930)
Seifenblasen (Slatan Dudow, 1934)
Rotaie (Mario Camerini, 1929)* Digital
Samson and Delilah (Cecil B. Demille, 1949) – Digital


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Matt and I did the show today, and though there weren't any theist callers of note (we think the one we got might have been a weak troll), we had at least one feisty call with an atheist viewer, who tried to make an argument in favor of allowing creationism to be taught in schools. As you'll see in the episode, we thought his whole argument was informed by a naivety in thinking that students who were only at an introductory stage in their education would be able to evaluate (and do so correctly) creationism's claims without first having an actual grounding in the basics of skepticism and critical thinking (which I sure as hell wasn't given in junior high or high school). It was essentially a recapitulation of the "equal time" arguments creationists themselves have attempted to use down the years, except the caller thought that science and evolution would benefit from it.
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|Cluster Munitions in the Asia-Pacific Region
|Human Rights Watch
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|17 October 2008
|Afghanistan | China | Indonesia | India | Japan | Cambodia | Republic of Korea | Lao People's Democratic Republic | Sri Lanka | Mongolia | Pakistan | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | Singapore | Thailand | Viet Nam
|Armed forces / Military
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|Human Rights Watch, Cluster Munitions in the Asia-Pacific Region, 17 October 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/48fc4c4e2.html [accessed 23 January 2018]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.