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The co-stars were joined by director Zal Batmanglij that afternoon to chat about their new film The East. The studio was presented by Dockers and Speck.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Sensitivity, thy name is Brent
What possible mis-comprehension could be going through Brent's mind so that he interprets Skull's line, "I mean I really have to go now. Forever." as a plea to go potty? Skull's well-drawn, Cintiq-supported fourth panel is totally un-ambiguous.
No one has to pee forever; Brent's line is pretty lame.
25 comments:
- Uberstein said...
*forever* is written in smaller typeface, which to me implies Skull said it very sadly and more importantly, softly, almost to himself.
I don't think Brent heard that part.
I thought it was great.
- May 13, 2008 at 11:38 AM
- Chase said...
I dunno. I can envision a small child telling me that they have to pee so bad, they could pee "forever."
And is Skull's mentality anything other than childish in Brent's eyes?
- May 13, 2008 at 11:41 AM
I can see uberstein's point. Especially if Brent isn't really listening (shocker).
But, the joke probably would have been better in the middle of the strip as a lead-in to something else.
- May 13, 2008 at 11:45 AM
Chase's interpretation was what immediately occurred to me, and I found this strip absolutely hilarious. Honestly, if this entire storyline was planned around that joke, Kurtz has done well.
Plus from a storytelling perspective, it works well to have a strip of Brent still not taking anything Skull says seriously before the truth hits him in the next strip.
- May 13, 2008 at 12:34 PM
. . .which was why it was so funny. To me it is Brent's deadpan, obvious misreading of Skull's words that made me chuckle out loud. I can see it: "Brent I really have to go . . . . forever! (with "forever" spoken in a hushed, ominous tone.)" Brent's only real response that he could ever really give to that would be to simply treat it as Skull saying something childish yet again, hyperbolizing the sheer amount he must pee.
- May 13, 2008 at 12:53 PM
Yeah, but it's not the latest strip:
- May 13, 2008 at 1:28 PM
- Sage said...
I, like Uber, thought that Skull was saying "forever" more to himself, and Brent's response, which did make me chuckle.
TFSM, i can see where your reading of it comes in, as I can't think of a way to do an aside in the comic which wouldn't look ridiculous (again thats why Im not a comic artist).
One point I do have to make is again where you dispute Brent's interpretation. I can see where Brent wouldn't think that Skull wasn't saying goodbye to him. He's been around him for years and totally loyal to him. Then out of the clear blue sky he says "I have to go (even if he heard) forever" I would take it as hahaha very funny, keep drinking
- May 13, 2008 at 1:58 PM
- Sage said...
Time issues-
I don't know if anyone read the post today, but Scott addressed something near and dear to a lot of people hear, his lack of timeliness with his strips.
The one thing I will give Scott credit for is that he admits that he has a problem (AA folks would be proud). However, it sucks that it got to the point where his dad had to rip him a new cornhole about his tardiness.
The thing is I didn't care all too much and voiced that here on the forums defending him a little bit (no RW im still not an apoligist) as he did have a lot. However, if you are going to move to LESS strips, which is well within his rights to do what he thinks should be done, then you have no more excuses to be late (outside of the obvious, im not saying we should get a strip if a server is down or a family member is dying.
I fully admit to my own procrastination. When I am in my daily life I wait a lot to get things done. However, when it comes to my job, where what I do affects other people, I know I need to get my shit done.
The funny thing is I make this complaint because i do LIKE PVP, and I like it as much as PA (PA is better overall and great, for my tastes I like PVP as much) I check the website as part of my morning and afternoon internet checking along with DING! on Tues and thurs. Everytime there is not a strip you just get disappointed and thats not what you want if your webcomic is supposed to be your business.
Lastly, I found it odd that he wrote "And it hurts just as much to know that there are those out there gunning for me to fail. I am happy to disappoint the naysayers and I thank you in your efforts to help me thwart them." I hope he doesn't mean those of us that critique his work, as we are a much different breed than a PVP-hater.
I truely hope that he does do what he sets out to do a gets a month cushion. It'll suck now to get that far ahead, but one you have that Scott won't have to worry about freak "tornado-like" winds or a staph infection throwing off his schedule and hoping/soliciting for guests to write his strip.
For in scramblign my friend work tends to really suck.
- May 13, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- Clint said...
I'll agree with uberstein, and that gets reinforced with today's strip.
Much as I also suspect a reverse wonderful life angle, I'm actually hoping he goes for a while. It'd be interesting to see if SK can write the strip without Skull in anything other than a "deafening silence" sort of way.
And as someone who is married, I can tell you Brent is dead wrong about one thing: It's not his wedding day. It's hers. The groom is just there to say I do.
- May 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM
After this latest "daddy issue" that Scott has made public, I'm a gonna have to state this for the record: I think Kurtz has some sort of weird father-issue thingy.
I mean, look at the whole "Rip Sienna" deal, where Brent's Dad is the hyper masculine demi-god, capable of pummeling pandas left and right, oozing with manly sexual magnetism (as evidenced by Miranda's ultra-slut routine), and an all around man's-man. There's a filial loyality, and then there's weird.
Combine that character with the numerous times Scott's dad apparently lays into his son, and I think you've got a recipe for unsettling soup, with a side of oddball bread.
I'm just sayin is all!
- May 13, 2008 at 6:02 PM
I see Scott took another swing at the 'looking at the audience' piñata with this strip. A swing and a miss - it just doesn't work with Brent and his shades. I know he's probably looking at Skull but without seeing his eyes, he could just as well be staring out of the panel too. Both of them looking out would give the last frame a kind of old-school sitcom 'ba-dom-tish!' aspect that seems awkward.
- May 13, 2008 at 8:25 PM
Best way forward is probably for Skull to become Francis' case worker.
Please let Shecky not be involved.
- May 13, 2008 at 9:18 PM
I actually loved that one, because it was quite unexpected. Decent strip.
- May 13, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Brent was staring into empty space, not at the audience or Skull. He was stunned.
- May 14, 2008 at 12:42 AM
I think what annoys me most in this extremely predictable strip is that Skull says, "I'm leaving PVP forever." These characters exist outside of the office, right? Like at the wedding they're currently at? Skull was present during Brent's childhood, not just at the office. So why the emphasis on PVP? It sounds like he's talking to the readers, rather than a character. Otherwise, it kind of insinuates he won't be seen at the office any more, but he might be seen at the local laundrymat or gloryhole.
- May 14, 2008 at 2:49 AM
Except that for Skull, PVP is his home. So he's really saying "I'm leaving home forever".
- May 14, 2008 at 9:55 AM
I hope he really takes the ripping from his dad seriously. It's incredibly annoying to load the page at 8am one day, read the strip, do the same thing at 8am the next day, get confused because you missed something, then have to go back into the archives because Kurtz posted 2 strips in one day...
If you miss a day Scott, that's fine, but stop making me jump back and forth just cause you can't post on time...
- May 14, 2008 at 10:32 AM
- Sage said...
Credit where credit is due. Comic was up by 8:12 am EST when I checked it.
- May 15, 2008 at 5:13 AM
even more credit, it was actually up well before that, I brought up the site at around 2am EST, and there was a shiny new comic.
- May 15, 2008 at 7:26 AM
Even more credit, Scott's update schedule is ahead of the Fake SM.
- May 15, 2008 at 7:38 AM
the new strip for the 15th, where brent takes a golf club to the statue....
it totally made me cry.
this storyline is awesome.
- May 15, 2008 at 7:50 AM
Well, credit for today, yes. For yesterday? and the weeks before that? questionable at best...
- May 15, 2008 at 8:25 AM
- Sage said...
Well you gotta start somewhere, if you complain about it (like i did) you got to give credit.
Now keeping this up we'll see, notice I didn;t say this scedule problems were fixed.
- May 15, 2008 at 9:44 AM
Yes, props to Scott for managing to raise his game to 'the least you should expect'. It's only taken ten years and cutting the strip to a five-day week.
- May 15, 2008 at 10:30 AM
I miss jokes like this. I'm glad to see the character development and such that Scott's putting into his writing now, but these jokes what PvP is missing now that Scott has to pander to his every critic and forget what made his comic funny in the first place.
Scott, if you see this, please take these guys with a grain of salt and bring back the funny... I have very little life and only webcomics to get me through my day, and yours was one of them. True, I've seen good advice up here, but I've seen bad too, and trying to make everyone happy will only make your fans miserable.
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You gonna swap your wipho for this then?
BlackBerry users have a love-hate relationship with their phones. The devices were often forced upon users rather than chosen. At the same time, the handhelds were the most usable and useful communications gadgets you could put in your pocket. Yes, there are things a BlackBerry can't do very well or at all. But it is capable …
You gonna swap your wipho for this then?
I'm living off loans and antiques right now. WinPho for the last month...
This UI and the Lumia 920 would be a nice combo. I'd settle for that.
> This UI and the Lumia 920 would be a nice combo. I'd settle for that.
It's called N9
RIP Sid Waddell.
If Nokia & BB would have made a better smartphone pairing than Nokia & MS.
What would it take to buy RIM now?
Probably quite alot - QNX is used in quite a bit of actual useful things the world over. (But that stuff isn't usually shiny and finger print coated).
Android, Apple and Blackberry. Plenty of competition there.
Oh and that other one. Never mind.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but Rim became 'the other one' during November when WP sales over took them....
Will it allow me to collect email without BB services (IMAP, POP, hotmail etc)? The £5.month BB services tax has always been the biggest offputter for me as a home user, meaning I've stuck with Nokia QWERTY phones.
There have always been standalone email clientes for the Blackberry much like K9 on Android. Of course BB10 is not out yet, but I can tell you from my Playbook (already running QNX) I have email without needing a Blackberry phone or monthly data plan.
The Blackberry email service is basically the only reason you would but a Blackberry - so if you were going to use a standard POP3 / IMAP client you may as well any (other) smartphone instead.
Do you have BBM without the £5 Blackberry tax though? That's the only reason most people buy a Blackberry these days. Well that and as corporate devices - but that's a dead market for RIM now - Microsoft and BYOD will clean up there.
You could go with T-mobile and get BB service for £3.33 a month if you pay £20 for 6 months upfront.
The early BBs were actually nice phones with monochome screens and QWERTY keyboards. It would have made great sense to have IMAP on those, but it wasn't possible.
For me that service is the big put off. I don't want my e-mail to go through unencrypted through a server standing somewhere neither the sender nor the receiver can control. The rare cases that already happens with regular e-mail are already enough.
" I don't want my e-mail to go through unencrypted through a server"
Errrm...you do know that Blackberry's are the most secure devices on the market? Certain countries (Looking at you India,) have threatened to ban the devices because of the high level of Encryption and RIM won't hand out the encryption keys to the local authorities.
Only if you have your own BES server. Otherwise Blackberry DO give out keys on valid request....
The Bold 9900 is the best feeling handset out there IMHO. Thin, light, and exceptionally well-built. Give us something that looks like a 9900 with the right touchscreen, and THAT interface...Blackberry, are you listening?!?!?
Besides a full touch, there will be a full BB10 QWERTY phone announced in January 30. So BB is listening ;-)
Not any more. They mainly sell on contract price of course, but nowadays cool-ness is a factor.
And BB is about as cool as your dads work-tie collection.
Like i saw someone tweet this week "Apple's "slack off while on the bog" campaign is far better than BB's "Work, work, work, die" one."
BB was the platform of choice for kids until very, very recently if it has indeed yet been overtaken.
From what I can see, coolness is also based on peer pressure and critical features. BlackBerries may not be cool to fogeys like me (been there, done that, moved on) but to my kids BBM is the holy grail of phone functionality.
If this OS is as good as it sounds there's no reason why today's BB users won't become adult BlackBerry fanbois.
('BlackBerry fanbois' as 'RIM fanbois' just sounds wrong).
Kids? They'll use any brand as long as it'll text and work social networks.
You probably haven't seen the "boy meeting girl in bar" BB ad and other latest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzPPOCHMaZI&playnext=1&list=PL6301D83540D8BAEE&feature=results_main
The iPhone and iOS are the oldest dogs around... they're not cool anymore. Right now Samsung and others are far cooler.
My 18 year old asked for a BB (sitting in the cupboard). She hates my iPhone, and isn't overly keen on her older sisters android. If RIM can pull off good hardware with a good UI coupled with a decent ad campaign, then there is hope for them yet.
I come in contact with lots of young people through coaching ice hockey and the phone of choice among them is indeed the Blackberry... may not be "cool" with execs these days but it's "sick" according to the rising generation.
... still a bit of a mouthful though - how about "Bramblers"
But I'm not at all convinced that iOS is 'cool' (and nor for that matter is an old version of Android running on some generic-underpowered PoS hardware).
I for one am hoping utilitarian makes a come-back. Those decade old Nokias 6310s we still have lurking in the corners of the office, the ones that have unbeatable sound-quality, never broke and have a battery that lasts a week. I don't want one, but they have a special place in my heart.
Even the users of iphones don't really seem to feel any attachment to theirs - every couple of years they'll wave around the new one they upgraded to, so an increasingly dimming sound of adulation. I mean this year "Oh, is that the new one?". "Oh, that's nice, it's widescreen finally, I see"
I ooohed much more over the Lumia casing and the stylus on a Note.
Looking at the BBX interface, the two apps on the same screen thing - that deserves an oooh.
Just can't help but think once the mystique has gone from iphone, it'll have lost something. Does anybody really ooh over somebody pulling out an iphone as their corporate phone? You'd consider that a benefit in helping you decide whether to switch to another employer?
"BB was the platform of choice for kids" ^ that couldn't afford a smartphone.
Correction added for you.
There really isn't hope. Market interest in BB10 is 4%, versus 22% for WP - http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/11/09/windows-phone8-and-iphone-interest-tied/
What you're saying is that RIM still makes a good phone. That's not good enough. The big three have gone way beyond that in computers, chromebooks, laptops, phones, tablets, clouds.
Heins has proclaimed BB10 will be on Playbook (anyone remember Playbook) after it's on phones.
After? Christmas 2013? What does 'after' mean to Heins' precision Teutonic mind? That's strangely vague language coming from someone who likes to nail down dates, and the Crackberry site is awash with rumour about what it all means.
RIM is always going to be a peripheral maker, and becoming more so in time.
BB10/QNX is on just about any car in the USA. You have no clue whatsover. Also I have a Playbook and it'll upgrade to BB10 seamlessly. How's the rest of the tablets regarding getting a new major OS? You'd better start saving for the next iPad...
Did we just read the same article? The one I read was about BB 10 the OS, didn't really mention the device it runs on....
IIRC, my last update was a notification. "There is new firmware available, you want?"
I said "yes please". Did the same thing for a minor update a few days ago.
Asus do make nice tablet-tops.
It's a stretch to say QNX runs on cars and conflate that with BB10.
"I have a Playbook...seamlessly."
When? Don't say "after the phones". That's almost meaningless.
I guess you read a different article from this one:
"Opinion BlackBerry users have a love-hate relationship with their phones. The devices were often forced upon users rather than chosen. At the same time, the handhelds were the most usable and useful communications gadgets you could put in your pocket."
Most of the story is about phones. And I'm saying RIM is a phone-maker. Granted. And RIM won't go much further than that.
I think you're addressing another article, or comment.
Oh right, you read the first paragraph and then posted. All the words after that bit you posted are about BB10.
You are right about RIM making phones though. Well done. No really, well done.
And then the final 3 paragraphs of the article includes BB10 in the mix. I'm likewise addressing both. I'm not constrained to calculate how much of an article (and of course I read the article) includes what, and then precisely match a comment proportionately.
Honestly, some of these BB/RIM posters make iZombies almost look intelligent
ARe you suggesting that iOS devices aren't upgradeable to newer OS releases? Have you been following events at all?
I think you are thinking of Microsoft?
I've got a playbook thanks, bought three one for me and two as Christmas presents.
You seem to be falling into the trap that many others are doing, This statement is simply not true. Lots of QNX in embedded applications (also a lot of Linux and VxWorks too FWIW).
Whilst BB10 might be build with QNX at its core, you definitely not assume that devices using QNX have anything of the extra stuff that BB10 brings to the party, or that there is suddenly any kind of interoperability.
Your assertion is about as useful as saying that because Android is based on a Linux kernel, a Linux server must therefore have similarities or capabilities of Android.
I never thought I'd say this but it looks pretty good.
TWO app at the same time without pressing HOME then clicking on the app icon HOPING that it didn't close?
Shoot. I mean, it doesn't sound that impressive but man... they've read my mind. That and also work and home profile feature looks good. I always use that kind of feature, particularly on my browser bookmarks.
For me though, the looks is also important. Their BB7 touch just didn't appeal to me. If the new phone looks anything like the leaked shots... well they look pretty nice too.
Going on how this industry is, it's probably patented.
Wonder if I will be able to upgrade mid-contract.
Of course you will be able to upgrade. As long as you pay the full price. But don't blame that on RIM - blame that on the carrier. And yourself, for signing an x-year contract with an early termination fee.
I know; sounds harsh. But this will happen over and over unless more people start complaining / haggling about it.
I, For one, will welcome my new blackberry. I'm holding off until the qwerty one has been released.
I'm also hoping that in the US Verizon will carry both, instead having to switch... Bastards.
They are also Canadian, which means that the US Government cannot claim that by using their email and other services you place yourself under US legal jurisdiction. BB10 is now part of the only smartphone product line for which a significant part is not American owned, with the exception of a few older Nokias. Perhaps that's why they are getting so much flak from the US.
With the US/UK extradition treaty as one sided as it is, the case for avoiding involvement with US technology wherever possible can only be growing.
The Blackberry storm (or storm 2, cant remember, the one with the clicky screen) that i had was the most unreliable phone Iv ever had. It would randomly loose all network conectivity, and only a battery pull and (very slow) reboot got it going again. Maybe I had a faulty device, but that coupled with the `blackberry tax` means i would never buy a Blackberry again. All the decent apps were bloody expensive as well.
The clicky screen that got round the limitations of the not very responsive resistive screen and the holster detection were cool though.
I agree: the Storm sucked. But that was RIMs first attempt at a touch screen phone. They've gotten much better at it. BB6 and 7 touchphones are waaaaay better. From the handson videos I can see they are very good.


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Thank you in advance.
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I would advise you to keep most of this information to yourself going forward. I would also suggest that you don't tell women you're horny. Exceptions to this include Craigslist erotic encounters.
Where are white women, you ask? At Macy's, probably. Definitely at Pinkberry. They can also be found at Ann Taylor, Pottery Barn, nail salons, The Container Store and Lululemon. White ladies are, in fact, everywhere! They shop at your grocery stores and drink at your local Starbucks. Indeed, it seems you can't throw a tiny dog out of a window without it landing on a white lady. But if you need concrete suggestions that are definitely offensive to everyone involved, here they are.
A few of my black-lovin,' white girlfriends suggest you chat up the wildly gesticulative gals at Bulls games. A different friend, whom I will not name, suggests, "Uptown coffee shop, depending on the age of your suitor, or an African American studies class (ripe for the picking). Lincoln Park bars are good...Does he have any white friends? Nothing like the 'he's totally cool' stamp of approval."
Now that we're all uncomfortable, here's some actual advice. Interracial dating sites are plentiful, even if their stock couple photos are not. A few of them are: afromance.com, interracialromance.com, interracialmatcher.com, whitewomenblackmendating.com, and blackandwhitesingles.com. And that was from a really brief Google search. If you dig deeper, I'm sure you'll find more.
Also, if you need research to back you up, according to the latest Pew report, the U.S. rate of interracial marriage has more than doubled in the last 20 years. Attitudes are changing too. Of people polled, 43 percent said that "more people of different races marrying each other has been a change for the better in our society." Pew also found that "minorities, younger adults, the college-educated, those who say they're liberal and those who live in the Northeast and the West are more likely to view intermarriage positively." So there's that.
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The imminent end of Prime Minister Mario Monti's government fueled the largest increase in Italian borrowing costs in four months and threatened to open a new front in Europe's crisis fight before a year-end summit.
Italian 10-year bond yields jumped 27 basis points to 4.79 percent at 3:45 p.m. in Rome, widening the difference between yields on German bunds of similar maturity by 26 basis points to 349 basis points. Italy's benchmark FTSE MIB stock index fell 2.5 percent, while Germany's DAX Index was little changed.
Italy's government crisis, which pits Monti against billionaire former premier Silvio Berlusconi, is roiling investors and bringing tensions among European Union leaders to the fore. EU heads of state and government, gathering in Oslo today to collect the Nobel Peace Prize, are seeking to present a united front as the resurgent Berlusconi hits the campaign trail with his German-skeptic, anti-austerity message.
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The Italian election campaign puts the EU's budget policy up for review in the 27-country area's fourth-largest economy. Monti, 69, said Dec. 8 he will resign due to parliamentary opposition from Berlusconi and his allies, who had previously backed the government. The unelected premier is undecided about whether to seek a second term, Italian daily La Repubblica reported today.
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Under Monti's 13-month-old government, Italy's 10-year bond yield has declined more than 200 basis points and the government last month sold debt at the lowest rate in two years. His austerity measures, while deepening the country's fourth recession since 2001, have also left the nation on track to bring its deficit within the EU's limit of 3 percent of gross domestic product this year.
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Blindsided (Paperback)
Lifting a Life Above Illness: A Reluctant Memoir
Harper Perennial, 9780060014100, 272pp.
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
Richard Cohen, a veteran writer, producer and distinguished journalist, has lived with multiple sclerosis for over 25 years. Recently diagnosed again with colon cancer, Cohen describes his lifelong struggle with multiple sclerosis, his first bout with colon cancer, a loving marriage to Meredith Viera, the effect of illness on raising children, and the nature of denial and resilience, all told with grace, humour, and lyrical prose.
Cohen chronicles and celebrates a life brimming over with accomplishment, adversity and personal endeavour and his story has struck a chord with readers nation–wide. He has been interviewed by Barbara Walters for a nearly hour–long segment that ran on 20/20, he also appeared on wife Viera's program, The View and is scheduled for Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Good Morning America, and the Paula Zahn Show, among others. Blindsided also received outstanding print attention and People magazine has run a first serial piece.
Autobiographical at its roots, reportorial and expansive, Blindsided builds on Cohen's story as a task aimed at emotional well–being, if not survival, pursued in sober tones that explore coping to its most redemptive and complex levels. Despite his extreme circumstances, Cohen's is a common struggle, recognisable as an integral part of humanity, and one which he explores with varying amounts of diligence, respect, personal revelation and humour.
About the Author
Richard M. Cohen's distinguished career in journalism earned him numerous awards, including three Emmys and a George Foster Peabody Award. He lives outside New York City with his wife, Meredith Vieira, and their three children.
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"A powerful and agonizingly frank description of a life with which many chronically ill people and their families will identify."
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Boys Dark Grey slim fit wedding suit
5 Piece suit that works great for kids on the slimmer side
Fabric Content:
- Coat is 65% soft polyester and 35% viscose
- Pant 65% soft polyester and 35% viscose
- Shirt is a polyester cotton blend
- Vest matches coat fabric
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- Fully lined
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Thread - manipulate threads in Perl (EXPERIMENTAL, subject to change)
The Thread extension requires Perl to be built in a particular way to enable the older 5.005 threading model. Just to confuse matters, there is an alternate threading model known as "ithreads" that does NOT support this extension. If you are using a binary distribution such as ActivePerl that is built with ithreads support, this extension CANNOT be used.
use Thread;
my $t = new Thread \&start_sub, @start_args;
$result = $t->join;
$result = $t->eval;
if($t->equal($another_thread)) {
# ...
my $tid = Thread->self->tid;
my $tlist = Thread->list;
use Thread 'async';
WARNING: Threading is an experimental feature. Both the interface
and implementation are subject to change drastically. In fact, this
documentation describes the flavor of threads that was in version
5.005. Perl 5.6.0 and later have the beginnings of support for
interpreter threads, which (when finished) is expected to be
significantly different from what is described here. The information
contained here may therefore soon be obsolete. Use at your own risk!
Thread module provides multithreading support for perl.
- new \&start_sub
- new \&start_sub, LIST
newstarts a new thread of execution in the referenced subroutine. The optional list is passed as parameters to the subroutine. Execution continues in both the subroutine and the code after the
new Threadreturns a thread object representing the newly created thread.
- lock VARIABLE
lockplaces a lock on a variable until the lock goes out of scope. If the variable is locked by another thread, the
lockcall will block until it's available.
lockis recursive, so multiple calls to
lockare safe--the variable will remain locked until the outermost lock on the variable goes out of scope.
Locks on variables only affect
lockcalls--they do not affect normal access to a variable. (Locks on subs are different, and covered in a bit) If you really, really want locks to block access, then go ahead and tie them to something and manage this yourself. This is done on purpose. While managing access to variables is a good thing, perl doesn't force you out of its living room...
If a container object, such as a hash or array, is locked, all the elements of that container are not locked. For example, if a thread does a
lock @a, any other thread doing a
lock($a[12])won't block.
You may also
locka sub, using
lock &sub. Any calls to that sub from another thread will block until the lock is released. This behaviour is not equivalent to declaring the sub with the
lockedattribute. The
lockedattribute serializes access to a subroutine, but allows different threads non-simultaneous access.
lock &sub, on the other hand, will not allow any other thread access for the duration of the lock.
lockwill traverse up references exactly one level.
lock(\$a)is equivalent to
lock($a), while
lock(\\$a)is not.
- async BLOCK;
asynccreates a thread to execute the block immediately following it. This block is treated as an anonymous sub, and so must have a semi-colon after the closing brace. Like
new Thread,
asyncreturns a thread object.
- Thread->self
Thread->selffunction returns a thread object that represents the thread making the
- Thread->list
Thread->listreturns a list of thread objects for all running and finished but un-
joined threads.
- cond_wait VARIABLE
cond_waitfunction takes a locked variable as a parameter, unlocks the variable, and blocks until another thread does a
cond_broadcastfor that same locked variable. The variable that
cond_waitblocked on is relocked after the
cond_waitis satisfied. If there are multiple threads
cond_waiting on the same variable, all but one will reblock waiting to reaquire the lock on the variable. (So if you're only using
cond_waitfor synchronization, give up the lock as soon as possible)
- cond_signal VARIABLE
cond_signalfunction takes a locked variable as a parameter and unblocks one thread that's
cond_waiting on that variable. If more than one thread is blocked in a
cond_waiton that variable, only one (and which one is indeterminate) will be unblocked.
If there are no threads blocked in a
cond_waiton the variable, the signal is discarded.
- cond_broadcast VARIABLE
cond_broadcastfunction works similarly to
cond_broadcast, though, will unblock all the threads that are blocked in a
cond_waiton the locked variable, rather than only one.
- yield
yieldfunction allows another thread to take control of the CPU. The exact results are implementation-dependent.
- join
joinwaits for a thread to end and returns any values the thread exited with.
joinwill block until the thread has ended, though it won't block if the thread has already terminated.
If the thread being
died, the error it died with will be returned at this time. If you don't want the thread performing the
jointo die as well, you should either wrap the
joinin an
evalor use the
evalthread method instead of
- eval
evalmethod wraps an
evalaround a
join, and so waits for a thread to exit, passing along any values the thread might have returned. Errors, of course, get placed into
- detach
detachtells a thread that it is never going to be joined i.e. that all traces of its existence can be removed once it stops running. Errors in detached threads will not be visible anywhere - if you want to catch them, you should use $SIG{__DIE__} or something like that.
- equal
equaltests whether two thread objects represent the same thread and returns true if they do.
- tid
tidmethod returns the tid of a thread. The tid is a monotonically increasing integer assigned when a thread is created. The main thread of a program will have a tid of zero, while subsequent threads will have tids assigned starting with one.
The sequence number used to assign tids is a simple integer, and no checking is done to make sure the tid isn't currently in use. If a program creates more than 2^32 - 1 threads in a single run, threads may be assigned duplicate tids. This limitation may be lifted in a future version of Perl.
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About a decade ago, I invented a game with a colleague of mine who, like me, had once worked for Irving Kristol. We called it neoconservative bingo. The idea was that the clichés of neoconservative discourse would be arranged in various combinations on bingo cards: "The World's Only Superpower"; "The New Class"; "The China Threat"; "Decadent Europe"; "Against the UN"; "The Adversary Culture"; "The Global Democratic Revolution"; "Down With the Appeasers!"; "Be Firm Like Churchill." The free space in the center of the bingo card would be "The Palestinian People Do Not Exist" (nowadays it would be "No Palestinian State" or "All Palestinians Are Terrorists"). As you read an essay or a book by a neoconservative, you would check off each slogan on the card in the order in which it appeared.
We never printed our neocon bingo cards. But the neoconservative manifesto by David Frum and Richard Perle, An End to Evil, which is more a collection of talking points than a coherent argument, can serve just as well. The United Nations "has traduced and betrayed" the dream of world peace. The China Threat: "Eventual Korean unification will reinforce the power of the world's democracies against an aggressive and undemocratic China, should China so evolve." There are the Neville Chamberlain appeasers and the Decadent Europe theme: "To Americans, [Europe's doubts about the invasion of Iraq] looked like appeasement. But it would be a great mistake to attribute European appeasement to cowardice–or to cowardice alone." There are the obligatory Churchill references–a chapter is titled "End of the Beginning"–and there is this: "We will never cease to hope for the civilized world's support. But if it is lacking, as it may be, then we have to say, like the gallant lonely British soldier in David Low's famous cartoon of 1940: 'Very well, alone.'"
Paradoxically, Perle and Frum happened to publish their manifesto of neoconservative grand strategy at the very moment many of their colleagues were insisting in print that neoconservatism does not exist, and that the neocons have no influence on US foreign policy. Up until the summer of 2003, neo-conservatives proudly championed their movement against adversaries on the left and against factions on the right (realist, paleoconservative and libertarian) that questioned the wisdom of invading Iraq. That summer, however, the invasion of Iraq–planned for a decade and carried out chiefly by leading neoconservative foreign policy experts like the Bush Pentagon's Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith–went terribly wrong. As of this writing, more US soldiers have died in the unnecessary second war in Iraq than have been killed in any other US military venture since Vietnam, and several thousand Iraqis have died, with many more maimed (the Bush Pentagon does not bother to count Iraqi casualties). As the enormity of the debacle became apparent, neoconservatives abruptly began avowing their own nonexistence. Not since Stalin ordered the US Communist Party to go underground has an American political faction pretended to dissolve itself in public like this.
David Brooks recently claimed in the New York Times that only "full-mooners" believe that neoconservative institutions like the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) have any influence on Bush Administration policy because PNAC "has a staff of five and issues memos on foreign policy." But PNAC disseminates the views not of its paid staffers, receptionists and interns, but of powerful Administration insiders like Paul Wolfowitz, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, in the same way that the Committee on the Present Danger used to broadcast the views of Paul Nitze and Gene Rostow, who as government officials were guarded in their own public comments.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 43 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are under going a current management change of a firm that exists for the last 5 years. We serve the top global FT 500 companies and we need to continue to provide quality and professionalism.
We have undergone the name AriesForth. Aries (being the first astrolical sign, with LEADERSHIP as one of its main qualities Forth as in : MOVING, FORWARD, ONWARDS.
Companies that work with us thrive to LEAD their industry and always onwards and forwards.
Enough said, our current company logo is very rigid and outdated. We need something quite fresh, innovative, secure and distinctive.
We want to give the image of a modern but very professional consulting firm.
We will be using that logo on a new website, business cards and the correspondences (invoices, proposals etc.). We prefer submissions with creativity and focus. We will ask you to change stuff accordingly and provide feedback. We expected this to be a great interactive and fun experience for all involved!
Terms: The winning designer will be required to sign all copyrights of the winning entry over to me and will be required to sign and fax/mail/scan back a written agreement.
Note> Since we are starting is very likely that the winner will have more work to be required as we finish the start up phase of the company.
Aries Forth
Example 1:of admired logo
http://www.capgemini.com (we love the colours and simplicity)
Motto "Propelling the mind"·
Imagine an Aries (the animal with round horns), those horns are like "spinning of the mind and propelling them in strong an an accurate direction". Aries Forth can be in colour blue that starts weak and becomes stronger especially on the word "Forth". Under it is written a slogan "Propelling the mind".
Instead of having the whole animal Aries, perhaps, just an image of horns, that are like round circles, with an arrow on the end, hope you can envision an image that is clear and sends the message.
Just thinking... but you guys are the specialists.
Oh yes, Vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator
- Simplicity, Professionalism
Too many colours (rainbows)
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At the top of chapter 1 of The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, Steve Hayward observes: "The year 1964 was the Year of Lyndon." In one of his great philosophical statements of 1964, LBJ gave us the liberal credo: "And I just want to tell you this: we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few."
It's the liberal counterpart to my conservative worry list. There are a lot of things I worry about and mighty few I don't ("global warming" would probably lead my short list of non-worries). Coming to the rescue of folks like me is economist Irwin Stelzer, who offers a worrier's guide to "Selective worrying." One problem: Stelzer legitimates some serious worries of mine:
Ben Bernanke's Fed is printing money at an unprecedented rate in order to keep interest rates low. And plans to keep doing so until the unemployment rate drops to at least 6.5 percent. It is an enabler: The government is borrowing $40 for every $100 it spends (don't try that in your house or business), and the Fed is printing money with which to purchase the IOUs the government is issuing, and then more so it can send interest payments to the treasury. Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, fears that the Fed has gone too far and for no purpose, "that just throwing money at the economy is unlikely to solve the problems that are keeping a … worker from finding a good competitive job." Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed and Esther George of Kansas City also worry about Bernanke's no holds barred use of the printing press. Among other things, zero interest rates are causing asset inflation—and shares, land, and house prices that are driven artificially skyward often come down with an unpleasant thud.
Enter the bond vigilantes. At some point investors will decide, as they did in the case of Greece and similarly situated eurozone countries, that the only way the U.S. government can pay its debt is by printing still more money, debasing the currency, and repaying its creditors with dollars worth far less than those it borrowed. At that point the interest rates they demand will shoot up, raising the government's borrowing costs, driving down the value of the Fed's portfolio of $2.6 trillion in bonds, driving up mortgage rates, aborting the housing recovery, making it costly for consumers to swipe their credit cards and throwing the economy into recession, or worse. This is a legitimate worry, one that makes the rulers of our biggest creditor, China, more than a little nervous.
Stelzer counts that as one worry, but I think he's counting conservatively. Here are worries two and three:
A second worry with a realistic basis is that what has come to be called "the new normal" for the American economy includes an irreducible unemployment rate of 7.5 percent. Even if the lower Fed target of 6.5 percent is attainable, some economists reckon that at the current rate of job growth and labor force participation, we won't get to that target until 2020. Others guess that even if the economy grows at annual rate of 2.25 percent—it is now growing at less than 2 percent, and that was before the recent increase in payroll and other taxes—it will take 5.4 years to get the unemployment rate down to 6.5 percent. The importance of removing impediments to economic growth is demonstrated by a second computation: If the economy would only grow at a rate one percentage point higher—3.25 percent—unemployment would drop to the Fed's target in 1.8 years.
A final and wholly realistic brick in the wall of worry relates to the policies of the Obama administration. Its regulatory agencies have now filed their agendas for 2013: Proposed new regulations total tens of thousands of pages, with more to come as regulations implementing Obamacare and the Dodd-Frank financial reform law are written. These are not likely to stimulate growth or create jobs for other than bureaucrats.
That's the bad news. Stelzer also purports to bring the good news taking certain worries off our list. Among Stelzer's companion list of non-worries is the fear that we're heading into a recession. But isn't our slow-as- molasses economic growth something to worry about? That one is staying on my list.


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Stones Throw / Now-Again signed The Heliocentrics are:
Malcolm Catto – drums & piano
Jake Ferguson – bass & Thai guitar
Mike Burnham – modular synth & effects
Jack Yglesias – flutes, percussion & santur
Adrian Owusu – guitars, oud & percussion
James Arben – clarinet, tenor & baritone sax
Ray Carless – alto, tenor & baritone sax
Max Weissenfeldt – vibes & percussion
Khadijatou Silcott-Fraser (K2 Wordplay) – vocals
The Heliocentrics have backed DJ Shadow and released their own LP in 2007. From MySpace:
Four years in the making, The Heliocentrics' debut album is finally complete. Out There is here. Good luck trying to categorize their music. Led by the relentless drummer Malcolm Catto, the UK collective's objective lays quite a ways beyond what ordinary listeners know or expect. In an alternative galaxy, where the orbits of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, Psychedelic, Electronic, Avante-Garde and Ethnic music all revolve around "The One" – that's where you might find The Heliocentrics.


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First, we've added a new End Meeting button in the global toolbar so that meeting room owners or managers can simply click the button to close the meeting room. This action ends the meeting for all participants, so they no longer are in the room, and no longer see any room content. The room owner (or manager, depending on who presses the button) stays in the room, so they can be ready for their next meeting.
Here's what this new button looks like in the toolbar:
We've also added a feature that allows meeting room owners and managers to remove a participant from a meeting. From within a meeting room, a room owner or manager simply right-clicks a participant's name to remove that person from the meeting:
Users who are removed will see a notification that they've been removed, and they will no longer see the content of the meeting room.
When someone is removed from a room, there may be a "lockout" time, during which that person will not be able to re-enter the room. System administrators set this timeout period on a per-server level, using this configuration setting:
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Assa Abloy Door Security Solutions adds CL33900 series
The CL33900 from Assa Abloy Door Security Solutions are electrified cylindrical locks that provide remote locking and unlocking by using a lockset with a lever release mechanism. The self-contained solenoid enables installation in standard cylindrical preparation. The device is available in either a failsafe or fail secure modes. The CL33900 runs off 12 or 24 VAC/VDC.
For more information about this product, call Assa Abloy Door Security Solutions at 651-633-6100 or visit the company's web site at www.assaabloy.com.
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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Instead of letting a robber get away, a witness to a convenience store stickup in Spokane, Wash., caught the armed man and held him for police.
The surveillance camera at the G & B Grocery shows a man wearing a ski mask, threatening the clerk and other people in the store, including three children. He grabs the money and is trying to run out of the store when one of the customers chases him.
KREM reports (http://bit.ly/TZ80w4 ) it was the clerk's brother.
He tackled the fleeing man Monday going out the door. Officers arrived a few minutes later and arrested a 25-year-old man for investigation of robbery, assault and possession of a stolen firearm.


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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Case Files of Chinese Immigrants (FamilySearch Historical Records)
|This article describes a collection of historical records available at FamilySearch.org.
Access the records: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia - Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, 1900-1923 .
Record Description
This collection includes case files for Chinese immigrants arriving through Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the years 1900 to 1923. This collection corresponds to NARA publication M1144: Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, 1895-1920, from District No. 4 (Philadelphia) of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
A detailed Romanized surname index is provided in alphabetical order on pages 8-96 (image #13-101) with corresponding case numbers listed. A separate index of ship names is on pages 97-117 (image #102-122). A table of the 51 rolls of microfilm included in this collection is also given with corresponding case numbers contained in each roll listed on pages 118-119 (image #123-124).
The files are part of the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group (RG) 85, and are housed in the Federal Archives and Records Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
For a list of an index and files currently published in this collection, select the Browse link from the collection landing page.
This collection includes records for the years 1900 to 1923.
These case files were prepared by the staff of the regional office to enforce the various Chinese exclusion acts passed by Congress during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The information was supplied by the immigrant or a traveling companion (usually a family member). Incorrect information was occasionally given, or mistakes may have been made when the clerk guessed at the spelling of foreign names.
Citation for This Collection
The following citation refers to the original source of the information published in FamilySearch.org Historical Record collections. Sources include the author, custodian, publisher and archive for the original records.
- "Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Case Files of Chinese Immigrants, 1900-1923" Images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : accessed 2013. Citing NARA microfilm publication M1144. Washington D.C.: National Archives, n.d.
Suggested citation format for a record in this collection.
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- Age
- Occupation
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⇒Select the appropriate "index type" which takes you to the images.
Begin your search by finding your ancestors in the index. Name indexes make it possible to access a specific record quickly. Check the index for the surname and then the given name. You may need to look at many entries to find the one you are seeking. Remember that these indexes may contain inaccuracies, such as altered spellings, misinterpretations, and optical character recognition errors if the information was scanned.
When searching the index it is helpful to know the full name of your ancestor and the approximate date of immigration. If you do not know this information, check the census records after 1900.
Use the locator information found in the index (such as name of the ship, page, or entry number) to locate your ancestors in the records. Compare the information in the record to what you already know about your ancestors to determine if this is the correct person. You may need to compare the information of more than one person to make this determination.
When you have located your ancestor's record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family. For example:
Use passenger lists to:
- Learn an immigrant's place of origin
- Confirm their date of arrival
- Learn foreign and "Americanized" names
- Find records in his or her country of origin such as emigrations, port records, or ship's manifests.
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- Continue to search the passenger lists to identify siblings, parents, and other relatives in the same or other generations who may have immigrated at the same time.
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Clone Captain Rex
Clone Captain Rex served the Republic during the Clone Wars, often taking orders from Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. He viewed military service as an honor, and he always completed his mission. Fond of using two blaster pistols at the same time, Rex customized his armor with distinctive blue markings. His loyalty to the Republic and his Jedi Generals was absolute, but even this dedicated veteran soldier found himself plagued by doubts as the Clone Wars claimed more lives and brought ruin to more worlds.
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The leader of the 501st Legion's Torrent Company, CT-7567 – better known as Rex – was an exemplary clone trooper, brave under fire and dedicated to the men serving under him. As a no-nonsense, by-the-book trooper, Rex had to adjust to the maverick Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his headstrong Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Despite his lifelong training and discipline, Rex came to admire and sometimes emulate Anakin's genius for improvisation and his willingness to bend the rules.
Over many campaigns, Rex saw too many clone troopers die fighting the Separatists' seemingly limitless battle droids. Some of those deaths were unavoidable, but other troopers died because commanders such as the Jedi General Pong Krell saw clones as expendable, little more than living droids bred to serve and die.
Rex believed in the Republic, and he had been trained to believe that a soldier's highest calling was doing his duty despite long odds and orders he might not understand. But as the war ground up more and more of his men, Rex began to wonder what the point of the conflict was, and what price the clones would ultimately pay.
Years after the completion of the Clone Wars, Captain Rex along with Commanders Wolffe and Gregor trudged the plains of Seelos hunting for joopa. It was then that they met the Ghost crew, sent by Rex's old compatriot, Ahsoka Tano. After Kanan hesitated to give his trust, Rex revealed that the three clones removed their chips before Order 66. The crew solicited the clones' help in finding a potential new base and in turn the clones asked for their assistance catching a joopa. After shooting a menacing probe droid that had been tracking the clones' walker, Rex proved that his allegiance lied with the Ghost crew.
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Anakin Skywalker
Discovered as a slave on Tatooine by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker had the potential to become one of the most powerful Jedi ever, and was believed by some to be the prophesied Chosen One who would bring balance to the Force. A hero of the Clone Wars, Anakin was caring and compassionate, but also had a fear of loss that would prove to be his downfall.
Clone Troopers
At the time of their introduction, the Republic clone troopers represented the future of galactic warfare. Far superior to battle droids, the clone troopers formed the backbone of the Republic's new military that waged war against the forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. So symbolic were they of the times, the galaxy-wide conflict that saw their debut took its name from their ranks: the Clone Wars.
Clone Commander Cody
A natural and practical leader in the clone army, Cody was a good fit for General Kenobi, to whom he was particularly loyal. Cody's keen ability to strategize, combined with his fierce combat style in the heat of battle, earned him the respect of the Jedi, and of his fellow clones as well. He often worked with Captain Rex, with whom he became friends. Cody enjoyed a close relationship with Kenobi, often sharing a tension-busting joke with him during intense moments on the battlefield. When Darth Sidious gave Order 66, however, Cody's loyalty to Kenobi was eclipsed by his clone indoctrination, and he ordered his troops to fire on the Jedi.
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Something unexpected happened to Barack Obama as he slipped toward the lame duck inertia that stifles second term presidencies.
He transformed himself into a power hungry, Constitution-busting, imperial president who will simply ignore Congress when it won't give him what he wants.
That, at least, is the line from Republicans fuming at Obama's flexing of executive power to skip past their refusal to enact his agenda.
Such is the political estrangement in Washington, that House Speaker John Boehner has made an unusual threat to take Obama to court, alleging abuse of power.
Democrats dismiss the move as a stunt — and it is unlikely Obama is in legal jeopardy.
But any charge sheet would likely accuse the president of breaking the law by changing implementation dates of his health reform Act and of exceeding his powers to set climate and immigration policy.
Claims Obama is running rogue were bolstered last week when the US Supreme Court, by a 9-0 margin, ruled he illegally appointed members to a Labor Relations Board, bypassing the Senate.
A bipartisan rebuke from the Supreme Court is not to be ignored.
But to Republicans, the president is showing no mercy, even as conservative columnists like George Will wail at "egregious" constitutional offenses and the top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell warns the administration only obeys "the laws it likes."
In an extraordinary moment at a jovial reception for PGA golf pros at the White House last week, Boehner took Obama aside and told him that Americans "don't trust him to enforce the law as written" and ruled out a vote on immigration reform — the president's top remaining domestic priority, this year.
Republicans also oppose Obama's use of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to cut global warming emissions from power plants after climate legislation died on Capitol Hill.
Lawmakers from both parties complain meanwhile the White House did not fully consult them, as the law requires, when it swapped Taliban prisoners to free US soldier Bowe Bergdahl.
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But Obama won't be cowed. In fact, the Republican assault has breathed new definition into an administration that had appeared sullen and exhausted with two-and-a-half years left.
"Middle Class Americans can't wait for Republicans in Congress to do stuff. So sue me," Obama said Tuesday.
"As long as they're doing nothing, I'm not going to apologize for doing something."
Obama endured much mockery over his "pen and phone" strategy of targeted executive action –- a pale imitation of the hope and change of 2008.
But now, he is doubling down, and asked his cabinet for new steps he could take within months, and promises to do all he can to fix the US immigration system himself.
The White House argues that each action is within the president's power to set rules and implement laws that have been passed by Congress.
Legal experts are divided on whether Obama is stretching the constitutional envelope or waging the presidency's age-old struggle for influence with Congress.
George Edwards, one of the foremost scholars of presidential power, said such struggles often occur when the White House and one or both chambers of Congress are in different hands.
"My bottom line here is I don't think there is a crisis in separation of powers but there is certainly a lot of tension," said Edwards, a professor at Texas A & M University.
"I don't see that there are great abuses in this case."
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Though Obama might be enjoying a morale boost, his tactics appear more likely to have a superficial rather than lasting political impact.
His approval ratings are near historic lows around 40 percent. A Quinnipiac University poll Wednesday found him shunned by voters on the economy, health care and foreign policy after struggling to impose himself on a string of global crises.
He is thus no help to Democrats as Republicans eye a Senate takeover in mid-term elections in November.
The Quinnipiac survey found only 38 percent thought America would be worse off had Republican Mitt Romney beaten Obama two years ago, suggesting an erosion in the political position of a president who twice won more than 50 percent of the popular vote.
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Obama's refusal to endorse the KeyStone XL pipeline to carry oil sands crude from Canada –- under heavy pressure from his environmentalist base, is a millstone for Senator Mary Landrieu in a tough re-election fight in Louisiana where oil is king.
And while he can shape American life by changing administrative rules — on immigration — for instance dictating which categories of illegal immigrants are deported — Obama admits his action is short of transformational.
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And at a recent meeting of his charitable foundation, Bill Gates revealed that on two separate occasions — once at the Trump Tower in December 2016 and another time in March 2017 at the White House — Trump asked him if the Human Papillomaviruses (HPV) and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) were the same thing.
"Both times, he wanted to know if there was a difference between HPV and HIV," Gates, 62, said in a clip that aired on Thursday."So I was able to explain that those are rarely confused with each other."
Trump again lusted after Princess Diana in bizarre detail in a 2000 interview with Stern, telling the host he would have slept with Diana "without even hesitation."
"I tell you what," Trump said, "I think she's magnificent. Lady Di was truly a woman with great beauty. I've seen her a couple of times. She was really beautiful, and people didn't realize that beautiful. She was supermodel beautiful.She had the height, she had the beauty, she had the skin, the whole thing."
Recordings of the two radio interviews were first released by the Factbase website in September 2017, eight months into Trump's presidency. The Washington Post , Newsweek and many other outlets reported on the interviews at the time.
In a 2015 column in the U.K. paper The Sunday Times, former British TV anchor Selina Scott wrote that Trump saw Diana as "the ultimate trophy wife," and tried to woo her after her divorce from Prince Charles in 1996, sending huge bouquets to the newly single princess's London home at Kensington Palace.
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Princess Diana died at 36 in a Paris car crash in 1997.In his 1997 book The Art of the Comeback , Trump wrote: "I only have one regret in the women department – that I never had the opportunity to court Lady Diana Spencer. I met her on a number of occasions. I couldn't help but notice how she moved people. She lit up the room with her charm, her presence. She was a genuine princess – a dream lady."
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Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench are among the British nominees.
They are in the best actress in a comedy or musical category, alongside Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie and Emma Stone.
The Shape of Water received the most nominations of any film - with seven in total. The Post and Three Billboards each have six.
It was announced last month that Plummer would take over the role of the late oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty in All the Money in the World.
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Spacey had also appeared in a trailer which was released in September.
Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams, who also star in the movie, had to take part in reshoots for the film, which is still scheduled for release at the end of the month.
But another film in which Spacey stars, Baby Driver, attracted one nomination - Ansel Elgort is up for best actor in a musical or comedy film.
Gary Oldman is nominated for best actor in a drama, for playing Winston Churchill in Darkest Hour - the film's only nod.
Oldman faces competition from Timothee Chalamet (for Call Me By Your Name), Daniel Day-Lewis (Phantom Thread), Tom Hanks (The Post) and Denzel Washington (Roman J Israel, Esq).
Angelina Jolie gets a nomination in the best foreign language film category for her Cambodia-set drama First They Killed My Father.
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Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are both nominated for best actress in a limited series for their roles in Big Little Lies.
The show received six nominations in total - making it the most-nominated TV series this year.
The pair are up against Jessica Biel, who is nominated for her role in The Sinner, and Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, both of whom are nominated for Feud: Bette and Joan.
De Niro is nominated for best actor in a limited series for The Wizard of Lies, alongside Jude Law for The Young Pope and Geoffrey Rush for Genius.
The category is completed by Ewan McGregor, who is nominated for Fargo, and Kyle MacLachlan, for Twin Peaks.
The 75th annual Golden Globe Awards, hosted by US comedian Seth Meyers, will take place on 7 January.
The nominations were announced at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in California by Kristen Bell, Sharon Stone, Alfre Woodard and Garrett Hedlund.
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We hope the mayor's new chief of staff can do him some good at Brockton City Hall. Mayor Bill Carpenter's second term has been marred by a series of missteps that have diminished his appeal to an increasing number of Brockton residents. We are not talking about anything criminal. There are, however, a series of things that could have been done better from the point of view of the mayor's reputation and the city's well-being.
Darren Duarte is the mayor's new chief of staff, an appointment announced this past week. Duarte took over that post after a one-month stint as communications director for the police department. Carpenter insisted on appointing Duarte to that position after the City Council twice refused to put up the money to pay for it and the city's police unions told the mayor the appointment was a violation of the city's labor contracts. In his month as communications director for the police department, Duarte did an admirable job of inserting Carpenter's name into any number of "news" releases from the department.
Duarte is now chief of staff for the mayor, a vaguely defined job that essentially involves seeing that the mayor's wishes are carried out and city programs run the way Carpenter wants them to run. Before coming to the jobs in Brockton, Duarte was director of public affairs for the state Department of Correction, an agency that is about as forthcoming with information as the National Security Agency. Access to people who actually make decisions and really run things was nearly impossible in the Department of Correction. We hope that does not become the practice in Brockton.
Carpenter has been the subject of some unfavorable reviews for his actions in recent months. No other mayor in Brockton history has felt the necessity of having a police driver chauffeur him around the city. At a time when the mayor and the council are hassling over police overtime, Carpenter's police detail driver was paid at least $25,000 in overtime in the 12 months that ended June 30.
The mayor also has failed to account for his spending on seven out-of-state trips taken since he assumed office in 2014, including three to Cape Verde. There is a $5,000 line item in the city budget for out-of-state travel the mayor undertakes on city business. Again, there is no indication of wrongdoing. If the mayor collected money from that account, he simply needs to pull those receipts together and get them to the appropriate office at City Hall. That's something a chief of staff might well be assigned to take care of for the mayor.
We are a year away from a mayoral election in Brockton. There is no reason for Mayor Carpenter to continue to make decisions and do things that make it more likely he will have serious opposition if he chooses to run again next year.
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Business, the activity of buying and selling: commerce or trade has covered a huge portion in the lives of the human beings. It has influenced our lives in a great way. The meaning of business can be different to different people. For some businesses it is a way to make money or make a hefty profit or for some people business is the way to help people, encourage them and have a hand in their development.
The topic is about my views about the role business can play in the development and the well-being of children. I will keep my words simple and short.
1.APPS AND GAMES: The most common features on your smartphone. Let's use it in a good way. We should try and create educational games for the children. There should be fun and enjoyment too. There should be some learning for children too. If a child learns the hero of his life, his supermodel (maybe Superman or Mickey Mouse) died as he used to have too much alcohol then it should certainly create hatred on that child's mind. On the other hand, that child can play a big role for his home and/or his drunk father. Apps for blogging can be created for the youth.
2.USING THE MEDIA: The role of mass media in a democratic country is similar to the role of the judiciary and the executive. To some extent, "it plays a more effective role than the judiciary and executive organs of the country," Dhaka University Vice Chancellor (VC) Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique. For example, the Bangladesh government in association with UNICEF Bangladesh is presenting a cartoon show "Meena". In the serial, Meena is the main character. She represents the common village girls of our country. She talks about serious issues such as education, early marriage, unequal food and other sensitive social issues. This cartoon show created a mass awareness in Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, there is universal awareness of Meena and 95% know that the Meena television series. Now she has become a role model of South Asian girls fighting against society without any weapon. On the other hand if we go for print media, students read news for learning different aspects about life.
3.Some salt and ginger, and then a secret recipe will make broccoli taste like chicken! This will also make the 'blessed' vegetable go into the stomach of the children and most importantly it will impress his mom and dad. And your restaurant business profit will skyrocket.
4.Business tycoons who are concentrating on only one can do business on multiple elements. Suppose your business is that you prepare medicine or drugs and sell it to people. While preparing medicine or drugs the wastage that are created can be used to make soap. So, now you have two. One is the medicine and the other one is the soap.Thus more job opportunities for the youth. That is it from me.