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MH17 passenger jokes about doom before flight
MH17 was reportedly shot down by Ukrainian rebels on Thursday, leaving no survivors
A passenger on Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which crashed over eastern Ukraine, shared a social media post moments before boarding the plane, jokingly writing: "If it should disappear, this is what it looks like," alongside a photo of the jet.
Since then, the post has gone viral.
Dutch Cor Pan posted the photo in reference to Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which disappeared earlier this year.
MH17 was reportedly shot down by Ukrainian rebels on Thursday, leaving no survivors.
The passenger’s friends left messages of grief on his Facebook page.
“Such a beautiful couple who have been taken from life. I wish you the best wherever you are,” said Peter Bootsman (Pan’s Facebook friend) according to the Daily Mail, in reference to Pan’s partner who was reportedly on the plane with him at the time.
Pan had previously posted pictures on Facebook of tropical beaches, saying: “A few more days to wait yet...”
The Malaysia Airlines plane was shot down while flying over eastern Ukraine by militants on Thursday, killing all 295 passengers. Ukrainian official Anton Gerashchenko said the aircraft flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur inclined near a city with a stronghold of pro-Russian rebels, Donetsk.
Malaysia Airlines earlier said it had “lost contact” with MH-17 whose last known position was over Ukraine.
“Malaysia Airlines has lost contact of MH17 from Amsterdam,” the airline, still reeling from the disappearance of flight MH370, said on its Twitter account.
European flight safety body Eurocontrol said Thursday that Ukrainian authorities have closed the airspace over the east of the country following the crash.

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Powerful as was the Church in these ages, it was not able to protect women outside the shad of the cloister. And it will be readily understood how great was the influence of the priest in an age when the mass of the people were so little able to think and judge for themselves, in an age when the supernatural encompassed daily life with terrors, when the common laws of nature were dim mysteries, when disease and misfortune were ascribed to the malevolence of witches and evil spirits. The Church was the supreme arbiter, and to question her decrees was to incur the risk of eternal misery.
The powers of evil could only be exorcised by holy water and priestly aid, and lapses into sin were atoned for by substantial offerings. It was easy to persuade women, always more susceptible than men to the emotional and imaginative side of religion, that their dreams and fancies were divine warnings. And hence they fell easy prey to the ecclesiastical tyranny.
But if the Church tyrannized over the people and took advantage of their ignorance, it was a great uplifting and civilizing power in their lives.
But for the Church the middle ages would have been one dark night of unillumined [sic] barbarism. The Church summed up in herself all that existed of knowledge and culture. It was the symbol of order, progress, and learning. In time of war it was a haven of peace. It was the Church that enabled women to live secure, sheltered lives in the midst of turmoils and danger. It was the guardian of the people’s consciences, and possessed over them a power of life and death.
Church and Everyday Life
Looked at from a lighter side, the Church was a potent factor in everyday life. Its festivals were one of the chief recreations of the people. To women especially, whose diversions were fewer than those of men, the feast days, with their processions and ceremonials, were welcome excitements. In the services of the Church, woman found an outlet for the gratification of her aesthetic sense, which nothing else afforded. If the main features of social live in this period be remembered, the sordidness of the dwellings, the absence of everything beyond the barest necessities in the majority of homes, the lack of indoor recreations, and of all the resources of modern times afforded by the means of locomotion, it will not appear strange that the Church as a social force should have wielded such power.
After the founding of the Benedictine order, in 530, regular nunneries were also founded, and the conventional system spread rapidly in every part of Europe. This created a new interest for women of all ranks and conditions. It is related in the annals of the English Heptarchy that no fewer than thirty kings and queens resigned their crowns and rank to live and die in religious houses. The veneration in which they were held, however, soon by its excess engendered abuses. As numbers of the feudalry, when past the age of enterprise, or in ill health, or disgusted with the world, took refuge in convents, and there ended their days, it was usual for them to leave large bequests, and even give their whole property, for the maintenance of these institutions, and, when nunneries were established, numbers of noble women chose a cloistered life. From these and other causes, a tide of wealth poured in, which caused a total alteration in the proper character of a system commenced with the most self-satisfying asceticism.
Reference: Woman: Her Position, Influence and Achievement Throughout the Civilized World. Designed and Arranged by William C. King. Published in 1900 by The King-Richardson Co. Copyright 1903 The King-Richardson Co.

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Kelly Clarkson has released an exclusive live version of her holiday song "Christmas Eve" (listen below), recorded at Spotify Studios NYC. Earlier in November, Clarkson released live versions of "Love So Soft," the lead single from her seventh non-holiday LP Meaning of Life, and a sultry cover of Prince's "Kiss."
"Christmas Eve" is the latest addition to the exclusive album titled Spotify Singles and she's pulled out all the stops with a full backing arrangement including holiday bells. Once again, Clarkson's live voice shines, with subtle differences between the studio version and the new release.
"Christmas Eve" was originally included as a song to accompany her second children's book, "River Rose and the Magical Christmas." Though it was released the same day as the book via YouTube and download, it could have easily fit on her 2013 holiday set Wrapped in Red.
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Then I Met My Sister
Author: Christine Hurley Deriso
publication date: April 8 2011
Shannon has been the backdrop of my life since the moment I was born.
Summer Stetson lives inside a shrine to her dead sister. Eclipsed by Shannon's greatness, Summer feels like she's a constant disappointment to her controlling, Type A momzilla and her all-too-quiet dad. Her best friend Gibson believes Summer's C average has more to do with rebelliousness than smarts, but she knows she can never measure up—academically or otherwise.
On her birthday, Summer receives a secret gift from her aunt: Shannon's diary. Suddenly, the one-dimensional vision of her sister becomes all too solid. Is this love-struck, mom-bashing badass the same Shannon everyone raves about? Determined to understand her troubled sister, Summer dives headfirst down a dark rabbit hole and unearths painful family secrets. Each revelation brings Summer closer to the mysterious and liberating truth about her family—and herself.
I ordered this book from the library just for its cover, I marked it on my to-read pile a long time ago but never really read the synopsis of it until closer to when it came out, this cover is one of the most beautiful covers I have seen in a long time.
Summer was born after her 17 year old sister died, ever since she was little she felt like nothing, everyone would say how great and beautiful Shannon was but they never really paid attention to Summer.
On summer’s birthday, her aunt hands her a book, Shannon’s diary to be exact. She didn’t want to read it, didn’t want to read about how perfect and nice Shannon’s life was. Until she actually starts reading it, and finds out the truth about who Shannon really was.
I loved this story, for one there was Gibs, Gibs is such a sweet guy, and definitely cute, he helped Summer through a lot and Gibs saw the real Summer, not the shadow of her sister. I hate when characters don’t see the obvious crush that the other has on them, she was so oblivious and in her own self-pitying world that she didn’t see what was right in front of her.
The only thing I didn’t like about this book was summer’s attitude towards the whole situation. Throughout the whole book all she would do is pity herself, “oh I’ll never be like Shannon” “oh poor me”. I don’t like characters that pity themselves and make it all about them.
Gibs was there for her the whole time, whatever she asked he did, whatever crazy idea she had he would go along with. Until Gibs wanted to talk about something else besides Summer’s dead sister, that’s all Summer talked about, she was obsessed!
I’m glad that everything turned out all right in the end, everything came together nice and her mom changed, Summer changed, the whole family did a complete turnaround. I did enjoy reading this book and I hope to read more of Christine’s books in the future.

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Barbara Huntting knew from a young age that music was her calling and gifting from God. Growing up in a family of faith and accepting Christ at the age of five, Barbara spent hours singing and playing the piano at home, church, and in her community. Her grandparents purchased her very first piano and encouraged her musical gifts while providing a Christian education. In the summer before her 8th grade year, Barbara attended a youth camp where she committed her life to serve the Lord through music ministry.
After high school, she attended Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri where she majored in elementary education. In 1988, music ministry called Barbara to relocate to southern California. She led worship and children’s choirs at Faith Baptist Church in Oceanside and continued her college career at Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College in San Dimas. During her college career, Barbara toured the U.S. every summer fundraising for and representing her college through leading worship in local churches.
Over the years, music has served Barbara well in a variety of capacities. She has led worship on church staff, worked as a professional musician on stage and in recording projects, taught music in public and private schools, and entertained at nursing homes and in piano bars. Barbara’s passion is to ignite a heart of authentic worship in people of all ages, but especially in children. Music has the power to communicate truth and transform the mind like no other medium. Barbara encourages all students to experience music in her classroom through listening, movement, touch, and performance. She finds joy in watching students grow in their skills, confidence, and seeing the music classroom as a safe space to explore.
Barbara met her husband, Darren, in Bible college and they share a passion for music ministry and education. They celebrated 30 years of marriage in May 2021. Barbara and Darren are proud parents of three very musical adult children and two musical daughter-in-laws. Barbara resides in Trabuco Canyon and spends her time off singing, playing the piano, scrapbooking, and card-making.
M.A. Christian Education – Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College
B.A. Music – Pacific Coast Baptist Bible College


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The Bulgarian Community and Culture Association "Rodina" is the focal point for Bulgarians and the Bulgarian culture in Sydney and New South Wales. We organise regular BBQs, dances and social events as well as support the Bulgarian School in Sydney. Our community includes people with Bulgarian heritage, partners of Bulgarians and people interested in the Bulgarian Culture. As part of Multi-Cultural Australia we aim to contribute and enrich its diverse culture. We also provide orientation and help for Bulgarians newly arrived in Sydney and New South Wales.
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Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova has ruled out that the organized criminal gang smuggling migrants into Austria could be based in Bulgaria.
The group, which was allegedly linked to the deaths of 71 migrants found in a truck near Hungary's border with Austria, was active "in other countries" except for Bulgaria and is a de facto transnational criminal organization, Bachvarova made clear in an interview with private bTV station on Tuesday.
She did not elaborate.
Bachvarova added that Bulgaria had taken active part in the investigation which was prompted by last week's incident, providing cooperation to Austrian and Hungarian authorities.
Reports by Der Spiegel magazine revealed on Monday the names of three of the four Bulgarians detained on suspicions of their involvement. Metodi G. (29), Tsvetan T. (32) and Kasim S. (50) were not lowest-level members of the gang, the weekly said on its website.
Hungary has been seeing over the past weeks the biggest influx of migrants since 2015 began, most of the asylum seekers from Syria or the Middle East reaching its borders via Greece, Macedonia and Serbia to reach EU member Hungary and from there proceed to Germany.
In the minister's words, however, though migrants passing via Macedonia and Greece do not try to make their way through Bulgaria, "this situation might change."
"Nothing rules out the possibility" that migrants entering Greece try to use Bulgaria as part of their journey to Central Europe, Bachvarova warned. Most asylum seekers who make it to Greek land opt for Macedonia instead.
Most people who choose Bulgaria as their entry point into the EU arrive via Turkey, crossing Bulgaria's southeastern border.
Independent lawmaker Velizar Enchev has announced he is to put forward in September a bill that would allow for cannabis to be used for medical purposes.
He has warned that "thousands of people suffering in Bulgaria" could find a means to alleviate their pain if they are able to use a mouth spray and has underlined that legalizing smoking has never crossed his mind.
In a Monday interview with private bTV station, citing the experience of several EU countries and a number of US states which have approved medical cannabis, he asserted that "everybody opposing this is also opposing their practices."
Earlier, Enchev launched a petition [BG] calling for the move, explaining he wanted to have "people's voice" heard.
Launched in mid-August, the petition has gathered some 3730 signatures (as of Monday, 13:30 EEST).
It followed an exchange of comments between him and Health Minister Petar Moskov on allowing medical cannabis, a step about which Moskov is cautious, fearing it could be easily mixed up with legalization.
Enchev, a former spy, has been known for often going against the opinions of "party" lawmakers, and he quit the nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) coalition just days after being elected Parliament on its ticket.
In June, Enchev submitted to Parliament an official inquiry to Health Minister Petar Moskov which included the list of diseases whose symptoms which some researchers firmly believe medical cannabis could relieve - including "cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis," and many others.
"Unfortunately this is a taboo issue in Bulgaria. What is more, two years ago a person diagnosed with MS in Lovech was brought before court because he planted marijuana after having read in specialized medical publications that cannabis deals successfully with the development of his illness."
Enchev is referring to Marin Kalchev, who was acquitted in March with the judge citing "numerous international studies" which proved the effect of medical cannabis.
But Minister Moskov believes that THC-based mouth sprays (THC is the most active ingredient in cannabis) could bring about "marijuana smoking" which "poses more risks to the human boby than the disease itself."
There have been proposals in the past months by Israeli companies and researchers to cooperate in Bulgaria on medical cannabis.
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Hackers are targeting local celebs’ social media accounts for their personal benefits. Here’s a list of personalities who’ve been recent victims.
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The radio and TV personality recently announced on Instagram that her Twitter account had been hacked. “So, I’m hacked on Twitter. Not there anymore,” she announced. She’s since gotten her account back.
The Metro FM DJ also had his Twitter account hacked recently. Speaking to Sunday World he said: “I sent a mail to Twitter to request verification and I got a response from what seemed like Twitter asking for my password and account details to verify me.” “I handed it over and never heard back. “I woke up on Monday and my account had changed. It was suddenly tweeting random promotional posts and encouraging people to do things that I would never ask my fans to do. I spoke to Twitter immediately and they shut it down.” His account has since been restored.


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Refugee stress and molecular mental health
Researchers have been examining psychiatric disorders in refugees – and believe more work in this field will lead to a better understanding of how people cope with stress at a molecular level.
Professor Zoltan Sarnyai is a neuroscientist at James Cook University’s Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine. He was part of a team that analysed research on basic biological mechanisms underpinning the risk of psychiatric disorders – specifically those found in refugee populations.
“Over 70 million people are forcibly on the move, displaced from their homes families and countries. Over 37,000 people are added to this number daily, an increase of 50 percent over the past ten years,” said Professor Sarnyai.
He said it was well-established that there was an increased prevalence of mental disorders in asylum seeker and refugee populations due to the stresses they had been subjected to. But the researchers found few studies had looked at the biological drivers of this.
“There is overwhelming evidence that the different responses to adversity that trigger psychopathology or not may be due to how efficiently people compensate at the molecular and cellular levels following stress,” said Professor Sarnyai.
Dr Natalie Matosin of University of Wollongong and the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, the lead author of the publication, said if researchers better understood the molecular mechanisms they could develop drug and non-drug treatments capable of influencing biology at the molecular level.
“While our review highlights several molecules that have been investigated in refugee populations, definitive biomarkers are yet to be identified. Further investigation into the utility of the hormones, enzymes, proteins, and genes, as well as other potential bio-markers is required,” said Dr Matosin.
Professor Sarnyai said it was important to remember the vast majority of resettled refugees do not develop mental problems, but instead positively adapt without formal help, therapy or intervention.
“Research in this area will help everyone suffering from mental health problems due to toxic stress and trauma. Research targeting refugees has the potential for especially wide impact given the gravity of the global refugee crisis,” said Professor Sarnyai.
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Saline irrigation is a safe, inexpensive and effective method for treating chronic nasal and sinus symptoms, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Michigan Health System also concluded that saline irrigation -- the flushing of nasal passages with a salt water mixture -- is more effective than commonly used saline sprays at providing short-term relief of chronic nasal symptoms.
The study included 121 adults with chronic nasal and sinus symptoms. Sixty were treated for eight weeks with saline irrigation, and 61 were treated with saline spray.
The patients in the saline irrigation group showed greater improvement at two, four and eight weeks.
After completion of the study, 61 percent of patients in the spray group reported having symptoms "often or always," compared with 40 percent of patients in the irrigation group.
"The irrigation group achieved a clinically significant improvement in quality of life in terms of severity of their symptoms, whereas the spray group did not. Strikingly, (the irrigation group) also experienced 50 percent lower odds of frequent nasal symptoms compared with the spray group," lead author Dr. Melissa A. Pynnonen, clinical assistant professor in the department of otolaryngology, said in a prepared statement.
The study, published in the current issue of the journal Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery, received funding from NeilMed Pharmaceuticals, which makes a saline sinus rinse.
Tens of millions of Americans suffer from chronic nasal and sinus conditions. Treatments include antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-inflammatory drugs. The findings of this study suggest that doctors should recommend saline irrigation more often for patients with chronic sinus and nasal conditions, Pynnonen and her colleagues said.
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Evolution of the construction work – Módulo Rebouças
Installation of the unitized façade system: graphite gray aluminum profiles, alternating glazed modules with opaque modules. The modulation of the panels was designed so that all units had the same percentage of natural lighting. From the inside of the building, the opaque modules are covered in white aluminum composite panel.
Work has also begun on the textured mass coating of the central void, the articulating space that give access to the office units.


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Puzzles at the Palace
Now’s your chance to visit Buckingham Palace and do an escape room both at the same time! We’re sure these opportunities won’t come up too often, so we suggest you act fast to avoid dissapointment.
Spaces are limited to Friday and Saturday evenings, so there aren’t actually that many slots available.
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This new game has been produced in collaboration with Royal Collection Trust and is hosted at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace from 14th June to 5th October, as part of Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing (24 May – 13 October).
In rooms displaying Leonardo da Vinci’s incredible drawings from the Royal Collection, teams of 4 to 8 players have exclusive access for just one hour to complete a very important mission.
An after-hours VIP tour is imminent but the curator has disappeared! Thankfully he’s well prepared but everything is securely locked away! Can you crack the codes, unlock the puzzles in Leonardo’s fascinating original works and find the missing curator before time runs out? Places are limited, so don’t wait to find out more and book your game.
Think like a Renaissance genius to unlock the mysteries in Leonardo’s drawings. Your team will need careful observation, creative thinking and detective work to beat the clock, but no prior art history knowledge is required. The Queen’s Gallery will be transformed into four rooms of thematic puzzles and riddles as you solve the mystery of the missing curator.
This escape room has been created in collaboration with History Mystery.

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As a former MTV Networks freelancer, I was excited about seeing the documentary and although I was not there from the beginning, it is still so amazing to have been a part of the company.
Writer and directors, Tyler Meason and Patrick Waldrop join together to put together this must see documentary and let's us all see how this television network changed the way we consumed musics from the 80s until today.
Former MTV VJ Mark Goodman, Hip Hop Artist/Producer Darryl DMC McDaniel, MTV Founder John Sykes, Former MTV CEO Judy McGrath and Founder & Form MTV CEO, Tom Freston
MTV is a touchstone in the lives of millions of young people, as well as a home for musicians and filmmakers to display their frequently offbeat sense of artistic vision, upstart music network MTV burst onto televisions on August 1, 1981. Via a combination of the scrappy handful of young adults serving as hosts, the fly-by-the-seat-of-their-pants production style, and the music mini-movies that were the foundation of the original channel, MTV was like nothing Americans had ever seen before.
Founder of MTV, John Lack
The film takes a nostalgic and thrilling ride, I Want My MTV takes its audience back to the beginning, when the idea of a television channel devoted solely to screening newfangled videos from music’s hottest stars seemed destined for failure. From DEVO and Cyndi Lauper to David Bowie and Madonna, the film provides a peek into how the videos that defined a generation, as well as how the team of young executives—now some of the most prolific and powerful leaders in American media—tasked with growing this seed of an idea, would quickly flourish into a beloved but often controversial cultural juggernaut. Features commentary from Sting, Tegan and Sara, Fab 5 Freddy, Jerry Cantrell, Tabitha Soren, and more.
Writer and director, Tyler Measom and Patrick Waldrop
The world premiere was held May 1, 2019 at the SVA Theaters during the Tribeca Film Festival. After the Premiere Screening there was a conversation with film directors Tyler Measom and Patrick Waldrop, MTV co-founders John Sykes and Tom Freston, former MTV CEO Judy McGrath, Darryl McDaniels of Run DMC, and original MTV VJ Mark Goodman moderated by Jen Chaney (NY Mag).
The crowd laughed, cheered, took a trip down memory lane and to be honest, the night was like a mini college reunion with former and current MTV employees in the audience. It was truly an amazing time at the Tribeca Film Festival.


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If our script does not explicitly say exit 1 then the script is assumed to have completed successfully. How to map and sum a list fast? I understand that I could use verbose mode, and that cp itself prints out errors, but as stated before, I'm doing this for the purpose of learning error catching in bash The difference between a good program and a poor one is often measured in terms of the program's robustness. http://papercom.org/bash-script/bash-script-catch-error.php
Can a creature benefit from differently typed speed bonuses all named fast movement? It's possible to write scripts which minimise these problems. To do this make a copy of the data, make the changes in the copy, move the original out of the way and then move the copy back into place. Verbs of buttons on websites So sayeth the Shepherd Subtraction with a negative result Skipping directly to level 4 In a GNU C macro envSet(name), what does (void) "" name mean?
Best answer based on simplicity. –Skippr Jan 17 '12 at 17:53 I believe the exit code in the above will always be zero. On the other hand, it's still helpful to explore how to make a shell function that does error handling too. Race conditions It's worth pointing out that there is a slight race condition in the above lock example between the time we test for the lockfile and the time we create david% touch "foo bar" david% find | xargs ls ls: ./foo: No such file or directory ls: bar: No such file or directory david% find -print0 | xargs -0 ls ./foo
echo "OK" share|improve this answer edited Dec 12 '13 at 14:50 answered Jul 19 '11 at 20:07 Jukka Matilainen 77155 In all my years of bash I've never heard Is the following extension of finite state automata studied? You want to be certain that something either happened correctly or that it appears as though it didn't happen at all.Say you had a script to add users. Bash Script Error Command Not Found Why does Windows show "This device can perform faster" notification if I connect it clumsily?
Click here for subscriber services. echo -ne "\t\t\t[OK]\n" What I'm wanting to do is catch any output or errors that may result from each iptables command and store them in an array or something. will be 3 (exit code) if [ $? = 3 ] then echo "Bail out detected" fi Instead of that some_condition with an if you also can just try a command, Be atomic Sometimes you need to update a bunch of files in a directory at once, say you need to rewrite urls form one host to another on your website.
Aborting" rm * If an exit is not required in case of error, then you can even do this: # Another way to do it if exiting is not desired cd Bash Script Error Check So what can you do about it? Only then does rm get executed; otherwise an error message is output and the program exits with a code of 1, indicating that an error has occurred. This can be fixed by using: if [ "$filename" = "foo" ]; When using [email protected] variable, you should always quote it or any arguments containing a space will be expanded in
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Tip: there's a shorthand you could use here too, if you wanted to be a bit more cryptic: &>/dev/null. http://papercom.org/bash-script/bash-script-capture-error-message.php To explain how they work, I will quote from the bash man page: "The control operators && and || denote AND lists and OR lists, respectively. more stack exchange communities company blog Stack Exchange Inbox Reputation and Badges sign up log in tour help Tour Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed Or replace occurences of :@ in string $search by the text? –Lekensteyn Mar 7 '11 at 16:37 thanks 4 reply , Replacing :@ with connec..database , but this is Bash Script Trap Error
The errors were already reported to standard error by cp. But what happens if the directory named in $some_directory doesn't exist? Let's consider this simple script: #!/bin/sh cp /Volumes/Documents/criticalfile.txt /Volumes/BackUp/. http://papercom.org/bash-script/bash-script-catch-error-code.php Got it now.
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Is the standard Canon 18-55 lens the same as 5 years ago? It does however, ignore the "Submission successful" when cp fails. –Skippr Jan 16 '12 at 21:18 I notice that when cp fails, nothing after it executes. –Skippr Jan 16 Here's the code that's responsible just for try & catch: set -o pipefail shopt -s expand_aliases declare -ig __oo__insideTryCatch=0 # if try-catch is nested, then set +e before so the parent Bash Script Error Log The solution to this is to make the changes an (almost) atomic operation.
EDIT: I don't want cp errors to output to the shell! share|improve this answer edited May 3 '15 at 22:14 answered Apr 30 '15 at 19:42 niieani 9431017 2 Wow, very nice script thank you. Access the shell on Mac via the Terminal.app Unlike more recently designed languages, shell script does not have an easy answer for error handling. http://papercom.org/bash-script/bash-script-error-message.php Also the time where it is affected is reduced to the time between the two mvs, which should be very minimal, as the filesystem just has to change two entries in the
to see if it equals 0 or not. Or you can do the inverse: status=1; if true; then echo true; status=0; fi; echo $status. –Jonathan Leffler Jul 25 '14 at 16:21 It is possible (bash) to use From the man page, regarding if: The exit status is the exit status of the last command executed, or zero if no condition tested true. –mr.spuratic Jul 25 '14 at 16:04 Let's add error checking to this simple script. #!/bin/sh cp /Volumes/Documents/criticalfile.txt /Volumes/BackUp/.
For example, false | true will be considered to have succeeded. When you select something to buy, you find yourself presented with similar items as kind suggestions.
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The following editorial appeared in today's Chicago Tribune:
Airport security legislation was unanimously approved by the Senate last week but faces adamant opposition from House Republicans who oppose putting federal employees in charge of airport security. A number of senators argue that the sight of federal employees would reassure a jittery flying public and that security per se is a government function. For their part, some House Republicans rail against making Big Government bigger still.
Yet rather than appearances or ideology the key question ought to be: What works best? For that the United States ought to look at most of Europe and Israel, where aviation relies on an effective security system that is in fact a hybrid. The work is handled by private contractors operating under the close supervision of governments.
To federalize airport security would require the hiring of 28,000 employees, the biggest one-time boom in government hiring since the salad days of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society. Labor unions, hungry these days to get any new members wherever they can find them, endorse federalization. No surprise there.
It would be a surprise, though, if a new army of federalistas, covered by civil service - a setup in which being disciplined, transferred or fired are considered unnatural acts - offered much reassurance to the flying public. Think "civil service" and images of an efficient, agile, highly motivated workforce just don't pop to mind.
The Senate bill proposes a special force that would be part of civil service but whose members could be more easily fired or disciplined - regardless of civil service regulations - and who would be prohibited from striking. Such a special outfit, offering all the bureaucratic drawbacks of federal employment but none of the protections, would be unique indeed - and so would anyone who signs up for it.
The existing system of private security airport screeners worked - to a point. So far as we know, none of the Sept. 11 hijackers carried guns or other prohibited weapons onto planes and there hadn't been any hijackings in well over a decade. But security aboard the aircraft was woefully lacking, particularly in the cockpits, which left crews unprotected. This federal package is needed primarily because some of its provisions would bolster security on airplanes. Upgrading airport screeners and tightening government oversight of them also is a good idea, but not at the expense of expanding the federal bureaucracy.
Now the government must define what kind of procedures, training and personnel it wants the nation's airports and airlines to install - and be willing to pay what it costs to set up high-quality systems comparable to those at European and Israeli air terminals. Regular federal inspections are also a must. The issue of costs seems to have been settled by a proposed $2.50 fee on each airline ticket to help pay starting salaries of approximately $37,000 for airport screeners.
There have been suggestions that President Bush go along with the federalization of security services just to get the legislation approved. He shouldn't. Such a compromise would fatten the government payroll permanently - did we mention the part about never getting fired? - without a comparable payback in enhanced airport security.
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James Levine (born June 23, 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American orchestral pianist and conductor and most well known as the music director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also the current music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Levine was born into a musical family: his maternal grandfather was a cantor in a synagogue, his father was a violinist, who led a dance band, and his mother was an actress. He began to play the piano as a small child. At the age of 10, he made his concert debut as soloist in Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 at a youth concert of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.


On Sunday in Fukuoka fans had the chance to see fans had a chance to see local star Yuko Kuroki (14-4-1, 7) take part in a non-title bout against Thai visitor Kanitha Saknarong (0-4).
Kuroki, the WBC female Minimumweight champion, was testing the water above her usual divisional limit as she took on Kanitha, who had never been stopped. Despite the move up in weight the Japanese fighter's class and ability shone through as she made very light work of the over-matched Thai.
Kuroki started fast, letting her southpaw jabs go from the off before following them up with hard straight lefts. From the opening seconds it was clear that she wasn't in there to mess about and was instead in there to excite the local fans.
The excite was relatively short lived as the referee had to save the Thai in round 3, officially ending the bout at the 0:43 mark of the round.
Although this win was easy we are expecting to see Kuroki in a bigger test in December, when she is expected to defend her world title for the 3rd time. Details of that bout however haven't all been sorted as of yet.
Note-Kanitha has a reported record of 7-5 (2), though as with most Thai's her actual record is hard to hunt down, the 0-4 figure is taken from boxrec
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Alabama Shakes are rocking all over
Rootsy young Southern band, which performs Wednesday at SDSU, is on a major roll, including a vocal cameo with Paul McCartney on “Get Back” at lollapalooza.
Few bands so vividly demonstrate the potential advantages of constant touring as Alabama Shakes, which performs Wednesday at the Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre at San Diego State University – or, as I prefer to call it, CCCUOATASDSU.
This vintage soul, blues and Southern-rock drenched band made its San Diego debut in January, 2012, at the Belly Up, one month before its debut album was released and only two months after lead singer Brittany Howard quite her day job as a mail carrier for the U.S. Postal Service in her band’s Alabama hometown of Athens.
The Shakes’ Belly Up show was raw and uneven, yet strongly suggested better things to come. When they returned here in August for a sold-out House of Blues gig, their performance was notably more assured, their songs more full-bodied, vibrant and rich in texture and dynamic control.
Fast forward to this April’s opening weekend of the 2015 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which inexplicably marked the Shakes’ years-late debut at the Indio music marathon. The volcanic–voiced Howard and her three-man group delivered such a confident and galvanizing set it rivaled those by Florence + The Machine and St. Vincent as one of the standouts of the entire festival.
April also saw the release of the Shakes’ excellent second album, “Sound & Color,” which debuted at the top of the national Billboard charts. It finds the band – which on tour is augmented by two keyboardists – confidently expanding its musical horizons with a winning mix of skill, daring and refinement.
The title track features jazzy vibraphone work, while “Gemini” explores a psychedelic soundscape, “Don’t Wanna Fight” is built on a heavy funk groove and the slyly titled “Shoegaze” is anything but introverted. The band’s growth is palpable throughout. So is Howard’s increasingly strong and nuanced singing, be it her oh-so-soulful crooning on the bluesy “This Feeling” and “Miss You,” or her electrifying abandon on the exuberantly rocking “The Greatest.”
As before, The Shakes’ music is anchored by grit and determination.
Or, as the now 26-year-old Howard told me in a 2012 Union-Tribune interview: “What we do is real. We taught ourselves to play our own instruments, and we spent years when nobody wanted to hear us. But if I had to choose failure or success, I’d choose failure. Failure gives you something to work for.”
For now, success is winning. At last weekend's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago, which drew 300,000-plus fans, Howard was invited by Paul McCartney to duet with him on The Beatles' "Get Back," an invitation she happily accepted.
Concertgoers at SDSU Wednesday should try to arrive early to catch the opening set by Blake Mills, the superb guitarist whose past credits range from Fiona Apple, Diana Krall and San Diego’s Sara Watkins to Ozomatli, Kid Rock and Bruce Hornsby.
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Old Crow Medicine Show cut loose with a bright blast of roots-rock in their new song “Paint This Town,” the title track from the Nashville band’s upcoming album due out April 22.
Paint This Town, the group’s seventh studio album, follows 2018’s Volunteer and sees the group moving back to former home ATO Records. This time around, Old Crow kept things close to home, co-producing the album with Matt Ross-Spang (Margo Price, John Prine) at their own Hartland Studio.
With its jangling guitars, harmonica, and decidedly rocking drums, “Paint This Town” feels like a continuation of the group’s evolving style on Volunteer rather than a return to the old-timey bent of their early years. Singer and de facto leader Ketch Secor evokes Bob Dylan and John Mellencamp as he describes a rebellious adolescence with a sense of nostalgia and awe. “I walked and crawled across six state lines by the time I was 8 years old,” he sings.
The accompanying video for “Paint This Town” captures one glorious night of youthful exuberance. After a quick cameo by Jim Lauderdale as a TV weatherman, a teenager slips out of his house with the keys to the car and gathers his friends. They score a case of beer on a fake ID and head to a party that’s broken up by the cops (Secor plays the angry neighbor who calls the police). Later, they end up at an all-night rager that features Old Crow as the band.
Of course, the group of young friends also bear a strong resemblance to the current lineup of Old Crow Medicine Show, a point they illustrate in the video’s final frame.
Paint This Town track list:
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- “Bombs Away”
- “Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise”
- “Honey Chile”
- “Reasons to Run”
- “Used to Be a Mountain”
- “DeFord Rides Again”
- “New Mississippi Flag”
- “John Brown’s Dream”
- “Hillbilly Boy”
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Chemically bleached cotton fabric was treated with phytic acid (PA), chitosan (CH) and urea by means of layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition to impart flame retardant (FR) behavior using only benign and renewable molecules. Samples were treated with 8, 10, 12 and 15 bilayers (BL) of anionic PA and cationic CH, with urea mixed into the aqueous CH solution. Flammability was evaluated by measuring limiting oxygen index (LOI) and through vertical flame testing. LOI values are comparable to those obtained with commercial flame-retardant finishes, and applying 10 or more bilayers renders cotton self-extinguishing and able to pass the vertical flame test. Microscale combustion calorimeter (MCC) measurements show the average reduction of peak heat release rate (pHRR) of all treated fabrics of ~61% and the reduction of total heat release (THR) of ~74%, in comparison to untreated cotton. Decomposition temperatures peaks (T1max) measured by thermogravimetric analyzer (TG) decreased by approximately 62 °C, while an average residue at 650 °C is ~21% for 10 and more bilayers. Images of post-burn char indicate that PA/CH-urea treatment is intumescent. The ability to deposit such a safe and effective FR treatment, with relatively few layers, makes LbL an alternative to current commercial treatments.
Cotton is one of the best-selling textiles in the world, used for a wide range of products such as sportswear, fashion garments as well as protective clothing due to its softness and moisture absorption, which makes it comfortable to wear. This absorption is enabled by hydroxyl groups in the cellulose molecule that attract water and make it hydrophilic. However, high flammability is the primary undesirable property of cotton, making it inappropriate for protective clothing and safety workwear requiring fire safety. To reduce flammability, cotton has been treated with commercially available flame-retardant finishes based on halogen, organo-halogen, antimony organo-halogen or organophosphorus chemistries . Many of these flame retardants are toxic to humans, as well as to the environment, causing endocrine disruption, infertility, cancer, neurobehavioral problems, as well as embryotoxic and teratogenic effects . Inhalation of toxic volatile products generated in a fire (e.g., carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide, hydrocarbons, dioxin, acrolein, formaldehyde, etc.) can lead to death. Until recently, flame retardants based on organophosphorus compounds have been considered safe, but in recent studies they have been found to be persistent in the atmosphere, soil, water and in biological samples .
The most durable flame retardant (FR) finishes for cotton fabric are typically organophosphorus compounds based on tetrakis (hydroxymethyl) phosphonium derivatives and N-methyloldimethyl phosphonopropioamide applied by a pad-dry-cure process, which produces toxic smoke during curing . Formaldehyde is one of the toxic compounds released in these finishing processes. Formaldehyde-free alternatives for cotton finishing are polycarboxylic acid-based flame retardants, such as 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid (BTCA), succinic acid (SA), citric acid and malic acid (MA) [5,6]. Layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of more environmentally-benign compounds based on phosphorus-nitrogen synergy has emerged as another promising approach for cotton flame retardancy [7,8]. This aqueous treatment consists of polyanion and polycation solution exposure, resulting in a multilayer nanocoating [9,10]. This versatile technique is applicable to nearly any surface and can make use of polymers, nanoparticles and various small molecules.
Chemically bleached cotton fibers are generally negatively-charged due to the presence of carboxyl and hydroxyl-groups . However, cotton cellulose modified by quaternary ammonium compounds that block anionic groups results in a positive charge . Charged surface of cotton fibers make them an ideal substrate for the LbL deposition . LbL treatment of cotton involves dipping/immersing of fabric into the oppositely-charged polyelectrolyte solutions or simply spraying with polyelectrolyte solutions . Repeated exposure to oppositely-charged polyelectrolytes can be used to deposit bilayers (BL), trilayers (TL) or quadlayers (QL) with a desired functionality, such as combination of hydrophobicity-flame retardancy-conductivity , hydrophobicity-flame retardancy [16,17], or antimicrobial-flame retardancy [18,19].
In the present study, three environmentally-benign compounds have been used: phytic acid (PA), chitosan (CH) and urea, where negatively-charged PA and positively-charged CH are known to form an FR nanocoating on cotton . Phytic acid stores phosphorus in plants , while chitosan is a linear polysaccharide produced commercially by deacetylation of the chitin shells in the crustaceans . For FR purposes, chitosan acts as a source of nitrogen as well as blowing agent . Urea is the principal end product of metabolism in mammals and provides an additional source of nitrogen . Thirty bilayers of CH/PA has been shown to impart self-extinguishing behavior to cotton . Thirty bilayers can be reduced to 4 BL by adding divalent metal ions such as barium into CH . Here it is shown that the addition of nitrogen-rich urea reduces the number of bilayers from 30 to 10 for the same level of flame retardancy saving the energy by skipping drying at 80 °C after each immersing/padding step. Additionally, this 10 BL nanocoating increases the LOI of cotton from 18 to 28%. Accomplishing such effective fire protection using only environmentally-benign chemistries and relatively few processing steps makes this a very scalable treatment.
2. Materials and Methods
Chemically bleached, desized cotton fabric, with a weight of 119 g/m2, was supplied by the USDA Southern Regional Research Center (New Orleans, LA, USA). Branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI, M = 25,000 g/mol, ≤1% water), phytic acid sodium salt hydrate (PA), urea, hydrochloric acid (HCl) and sodium hydroxide-pellets (NaOH), were all purchased from Sigma Aldrich (Milwaukee, WI, USA). Chitosan (CH) powder (M ~ 60,000 g/mol 75−85% deacetylated) was purchased from G.T.C. Bio Corporation (Qingdao, China). For the preparation of all polyelectrolyte solutions, 18.2 mΩ deionized (DI) water was used.
In an effort to improve coating adhesion to cotton, an aqueous cationic solution of BPEI (5 wt%) was prepared and the textile was immersed to deposit a primer layer. An aqueous anionic solution of PA (2 wt%) and cationic CH (0.5 wt%), both prepared with DI, were magnetically stirred for 24 h. Urea (10 wt%) was added to the CH solution and magnetically stirred until completely dissolved. The pH of all of these solutions was adjusted to 4, with 1 M NaOH or 1 M HCl, just before LbL deposition. Cotton was washed in a standard detergent solution, dried in an oven for 24 h at 80 °C and cut into five 3 inch × 12 inch samples. Four cotton samples were alternately immersed in the PA and CH-urea solutions, depositing 8, 10, 12 and 15 BL, as shown in Table 1. The remaining cotton sample was left untreated as a control. The process of LbL deposition is shown in Figure 1.
The immersion time is 5 min for the first layer and 1 min for each additional layer. Each immersion step is followed by rinsing in DI water. All samples are dried in the oven at 80 °C for 24 h after the LbL treatment.
The weights of all samples were measured after drying in the oven at 80 °C for 24 h, before and after LbL treatment, to calculate weight gain (%) using the following equation:
Limiting oxygen index (Dynisco, Heilbronn, Germany) was measured according to ISO 4589-2:2017 .
Vertical flame testing was carried out in a standard chamber (Govmark, Farmingdale, NY, USA) according to ASTM D6413/D6413M-15 .
A Govmark MCC-2 (Heilbronn, Germany) microscale combustion calorimeter (MCC) was used to measure heat release of cotton samples according to ASTM D7309-19a . A temperature range of 75–650 °C was used with the mixture of gases consisting of 20% N2 and 80% O2, 100 mL/min gas flow rate) and heating rate of 1 °C/min. The repeatability of the MCC measurement was determined on three replicated samples for each treatment with standard deviations.
Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) was performed with a PerkinElmer Pyris 1 (Shelton, CT, USA). All samples were heated from 50 to 850 °C with a heating rate of 30 °C/min in air (flow rate: 30 mL/min). The morphology of all samples, as well as post-burn char, was imaged using a Tescan MIRA\\LMU FE-SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope, SE detector, 5 kV, Brno, Czech Republic). All samples were coated with 5 nm of chromium for better conductivity (Q150T ES Sputter Coater, Quorum Technologies, Laughton, UK), with the exception of the char samples.
3. Results and Discussion
Cotton samples were treated with a varying number of chitosan-urea/phytic acid bilayers. The tendency toward linear weight gain can be seen in Table 1.
The minimum oxygen fraction in an O2/N2 mixture that supports combustion, as well as the time required to complete combustion, was measured for these treated samples. LOI for untreated cotton is between 18% and 19%, depending on the type of fabrics, construction, weight, moisture, ambient temperature, etc. For cotton treated with commercial durable flame retardants, the LOI is usually within the range of 28–29% . Here, LOI increases with the number of CH-urea/PA bilayers deposited. Cotton treated with 8 BL has an LOI of 26%, which increases to 31% with 15 BL. Cotton treated with 10, 12 and 15 BL satisfy commercial requirements, with the values of 28% or above. Burning time of samples treated with 10, 12, 15 BL is ~35 s, which means that samples burn more slowly than untreated cotton.
The results of vertical flame testing correlate with the LOI results. Samples treated with 10, 12 and 15 BL pass the vertical flame test (VFT) with char lengths between 12.0 and 13.0 cm, with no afterflame and afterglow time, as summarized in Table 2.
Figure 2 shows microscale combustion calorimetry (MCC) heat release rates (pHRR) as a function of temperature for cotton LbL-treated with varying bilayers of PA/CH-urea.
Factors influencing pHRR curves are homogeneity, sample weight, flow rate perturbation, oxygen level and loading/types of additives [30,31]. Three different groups of curves are observed: untreated cotton (control), cotton treated with 8 BL and cotton treated with 10, 12 or 15 BL. These results correlate well with VFT results. Table 3 summarizes the MCC results.
Peak release rates (pHRR) of untreated cotton is 234.8 W/g, while total heat release (THR) is 11.1 kJ/g at ~380 °C. pHRR values for cellulose materials vary depending on their chemical composition (content of lignin, hemocellulose, impurities, etc.). Peak heat release rate of FR treated cotton is decreased by 50%, compared to untreated cotton. Among all treated samples, 8 BL exhibits the lowest reduction of pHRR (57.0%) and THR (67.6%), which correlates with the results of vertical flame testing (where the 8 BL sample burns completely). Cotton treated with 10, 12 or 15 BL reduces pHRR by ~61% and THR ~74%. In all cases, pHRR, THR and TpHRR values decrease steadily with increasing bilayers deposited.
Figure 3 shows TGA curves of untreated and LbL-treated cotton samples with three stages of weight loss, while Figure 4 shows derivative weight as a function of temperature for all samples.
The first weight loss starts between 50 and 100 °C, due to evaporation of moisture, and is identical for untreated and treated samples. The first decomposition stage begins between 250 and 400 °C, with dehydration and depolymerization. At this stage, T1max cellulose loses 95% of its weight, generating non-flammable gases, primary char residue and levoglucosane. All LbL-treated cotton samples exhibit a shift to lower temperatures, by ~60 °C. The curves differ more dramatically at the second decomoposition stage, which starts between 500 and 650 °C. Its maximum is T2max, where levoglucosane produces flammable gases and secondary char . As shown in Table 4, the highest mass loss of untreated cotton (59%) appears at ~389 °C, while at ~585 °C it loses 95% of its mass.
The char consists of impurities or inorganic compounds, making up 1–5% of untreated cotton. On the other hand, T1max of LbL-treated cotton appears at ~327 °C, with an average mass loss of 37%. This means that the CH-urea/PA coating decreases the decomposition temperature of cotton. At this stage non-flammable gases generate that dilute the concentration of the combustible gases and absorb heat causing bubbling . At the same time, urea catalyzes the reaction of PA as well as the decomposition of cellulose at low temperature, thus forming intumescent char, which acts as physical barrier that blocks heat and oxygen . At T2max the average mass loss for all treated samples is around 80 %. At 800 °C the oxidation of all organic compounds occurs. At 650 °C, the 8 BL coated cotton has a char of ~7%, while the char yield of 10, 12 and 15 BL is ~14%.
Figure 5 shows SEM micrographs of untreated and LbL-treated cotton fabric. Untreated cotton fabric’s smooth surface (Figure 5a) contrasts with the rough, uneven and paste-like surface of the treated samples (Figure 5b–e).
These images confirm that CH-urea/PA was successfully deposited onto the fabric and visually the thickness increases with the number of bilayers deposited. SEM images of char after performing vertical flame testing are shown in Figure 6.
Untreated cotton completely combusts, so no char residue was obtained. All of the charred fabric samples reveal a bubbling effect, which is characteristic of intumescent flame-retardant systems. Chitosan acts as a carbon donor, phytic acid as an acid donor and low-molecular weight urea as a blowing agent that generates gas. The foamed char acts as a physical barrier to slow heat and mass transfer between the gas and condensed phases .
Cotton fabric was successfully treated with an environmentally-benign multilayer nanocoating to reduce flammability. Layer-by-layer deposition of chitosan-urea and phytic acid solutions produced this effective intumescent treatment. LOI of cotton coated with 10, 12 and 15 BL is in the range 28–31%, confirming that LbL-treated fabric is comparable to commercially available cotton flame retardant finishes. 10 BL of CH-urea/PA applied to cotton passes the standard vertical flame test. The average reduction of pHRR of all treated fabrics is 61% and the reduction of THR, in comparison to untreated cotton, is 74%. TGA reveals an average residue at 650 °C of ~14% for 10, 12 and 15 BL, confirming the intumescent effectiveness of the treated cotton. SEM images of post-burn char show characteristic intumescent bubbles. This work demonstrates that the number of CH/PA bilayers can be dramatically reduced to 10 BL, by adding urea to the CH solution, which makes this treatment much easier to process. The ability to deposit such a safe and effective FR treatment, makes LbL an ecologically-friendly alternative to current commercial treatments.
Conceptualization, E.M. and I.J.; methodology, E.M.; software, E.M.; validation, E.M. and I.J.; formal analysis, E.M.; investigation, E.M.; resources, E.M.; data curation, E.M.; writing—original draft preparation, E.M.; writing—review and editing, J.C.G. and S.B.; visualization, E.M.; supervision, J.C.G. and S.B. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
This research was funded by Croatian Science Foundations: 9967 ADVANCETEX.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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Is Miley Cyrus being racist when she twerks with three young black women playing strippers in her latest music video, "We Can't Stop"? Is her newfound love of gold grills, Tupac headgear, tats and elaborately painted fingernails also a problematic appropriation of hip-hop's "ghetto" subcultures?
Or is young Miley just a girl who wants to have fun?
White pop stars have been appropriating black culture since before Elvis. And anyone who has every danced the Dougie or done the Twist, has, too. In many ways, we are beyond the early debate. African-American pop culture is integrated into the mainstream today -- as everything from the iTunes music charts to the Hollywood movie box office will attest.
And African-American artists do not face the same endemic discrimination that faced those in Elvis's day. Rihanna and Jay-Z seem to have no problem getting their songs played on the radio. Or finding a place to perform. Or hooking up an endorsement deal.
But a recent NOLA.com/New Orleans Times-Picayune article by Alison Fensterstock -- and a provocative essay by critic Dodai Stewart on Jezebel -- do raise some interesting points about cultural appropriation in the 21st Century.
Is it OK when white artists like Miley and Ke$sha "play" black, particularly "ghetto" black, to enrich themselves?
The Jezebel essayist Dodai Stewart puts it this way:
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It seems that everyone understand that restrictive diets don’t work. So they tell me that it’s not a restrictive diet they’re just not eating xyz (insert long list of foods or ingredients that they’re not eating) ?
They call it a “lifestyle”.
One of the (many) things that makes intuitive eating different from diets is the nuance, the exploration and the permission.
For example, I LOVE the taste and texture of cheese. Same for cream in my coffee or Alfredo sauce over pasta. AND dairy doesn’t sit so well in my guts ?
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