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SUBJ/CNO GUIDANCE FOR 2009//
GENTEXT/REMARKS//1. I HAVE RELEASED MY GUIDANCE FOR 2009 AND POSTED IT
ONLINE AT WWW.NAVY.MIL.
2. IT REAFFIRMS THE VISION, MISSION, GUIDING PRINCIPLES, FOCUS AREAS,
AND 18 INTENTIONS ARTICULATED IN MY PREVIOUS GUIDANCE. IT IDENTIFIES
KEY MEASURES I WILL USE TO ASSESS PROGRESS TOWARD ACCOMPLISHING MY
INTENTIONS. INCLUDED IN THIS YEAR?S GUIDANCE ARE SOME OF OUR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN EXECUTING THE MARITIME STRATEGY OVER THE PAST YEAR;
IT WAS WRITTEN WITH OUR COMMANDERS, SAILORS, AND CIVILIANS IN MIND.
3. THE INITIATIVE AND DISCIPLINE THEY DEMONSTRATE REPRESENTS THE
DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS AND ENDURING VALUES THAT WE HOLD DEAR.
TODAY WE PRESERVE THE ACTIONS, THE COMPETENCE, AND PROFESSIONAL
COMMITMENT OF THOSE WHO HAVE WRITTEN OUR STORIED HISTORY WITH THE
PUBLICATION OF NAVY ETHOS, WHICH CODIFIES IN PRINT AND BRINGS TO LIFE A
SET OF BELIEFS, VALUES, AND EXPECTATIONS FOR THOSE WHO SERVE IN THE
UNITED STATES NAVY (ACTIVE AND RESERVE SAILORS AND NAVY CIVILIANS,
REGARDLESS OF UNIT, COMMAND OR COMMUNITY).
4. MY INTENTIONS BUILD UPON THEIR ENERGY AND ALIGN EFFORTS AT ALL
LEVELS TO ENSURE OUR NAVY IS WELL POSITIONED TODAY AND IN THE FUTURE TO
PREVENT CONFLICT AND WIN OUR NATION?S WARS.
5. AS YOU READ MY GUIDANCE, CELEBRATE OUR ACHIEVEMENTS. DISCUSS MY
GUIDANCE WITH YOUR SHIPMATES. GO FORWARD WITH THE INNOVATION, CONFIDENT
RISK-TAKING, AND CULTURE OF COMMAND THAT MAKE OUR NAVY THE WORLD?S
FINEST.
6. WE ARE ON THE RIGHT COURSE TO SEIZE THE MANY OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD.
YOUR WORK AFLOAT AND ASHORE MAKES ME PROUD TO LEAD OUR NAVY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATED SERVICE AND FOR THE STEADFAST SUPPORT OF
YOUR FAMILIES.
7. RELEASED BY ADMIRAL G. ROUGHEAD, CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS.//
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That old-time religion
Finding out there was no Easter bunny was more of a relief than a setback. The last prying anxiety a five-year-old needs is the threat of a giant rabbit breaking into their house at night to give out candy and eventual cavities. I never remember being entirely sold on it, but the threat was enough to stay up and keep a look out. Relief set in as I saw my mom shuffling through our pantry and filling baskets with candy eggs.
After that, Easter lost most the mask and became about different things – like quiche and overeating chocolate and someone in the family that drank too much wine. It became about togetherness. The bunny was mentioned for fun and for the kids who still let themselves stay suckered in. However, no one seemed to be mentioning the guy who brought on the quiche and overeating chocolate and someone in the family who drank too much wine.
Jesus should be an Easter buzz word, but it’s just not. It’s become more about the resurrection of the Cadbury bunny egg – not the resurrection of God. I thought this was just my family, but it seems like I’m not alone.
From 1990 to 2008, the percentage of Americans who claim “no religion” has doubled. Now at 15 percent, people who are swearing off God trump 1990’s 8 percent, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.
This “no religion” religion comes in third place of what most believe. Catholics take first with 25.1 percent and Baptists take second with 15.8 percent. Atheism is more popular than Judaism, Protestantism, and Spiritualism (Wicca, other pagan traditions, etc).
This could mean many things. This could mean that people are going to start losing their moral ground. Without “consequences” that stretch into the afterlife, without guilt and without shame for doing what we want coming from above – does that mean without moral fiber? Will our compass break and spin us into different directions?
This could also mean that our standards of self have been lowered. Do we not need to be all we can if we’re not being judged by the only being whose opinion matters more than our own? Will there be chaos of self-expectation?
This could mean that we’ll stop acting as responsible members of society. Without consequence – without heaven and hell or wrath or reward – will we sink the ship? We could all become victims of ourselves and full of apathy. Without God to take care of Americans, who will?
This could also mean something quite opposite. It could mean the Bible Belt and Rust Belt dissolve. It could open up a new blueprint for the basis of moral judgment. It could rewrite motivational standards. It could make people start to believe in people – instead of God. We could stop being victims of fate and start to act in order to create fate.
The bitter truth is that it’s happening. Churches are closing down nationwide. Here in New England, the once Catholic monopoly has been added to the melting pot.
The good news is, although the religious belief has begun to fade within people, religious customs stay embedded into culture. Even those who mock religious beliefs still find themselves with a plate of Christmas ham in front of them when that day rolls around.
God has become a sort of hobby. It can be played out or put down whenever it’s convenient. “Losing my religion” isn’t just an R.E.M. song anymore for a lot of people. It’s a reality.
With this 15 percent of America’s population calling themselves atheist, there doesn’t seem to be a loss of moral identity. Moral philosophy can be taught through religion, but it can be learned otherwise. Being a responsible, functioning part of society has not deemed it necessary to require religious belief.
Just because someone had a civil wedding, didn’t get baptized or didn’t get their baby baptized doesn’t mean that they can’t contribute to society – or even contribute to religion. It’s just not traditional. Spirituality and belief come in many forms. If being true to yourself is being untrue to a religious custom, it’s very easy to claim “no religion.”
It seems society is missing something. The important part of life needs to be seen in the spot life – and this important part of life needs to be agreed upon my religious followers and atheists and semi-atheists alike.
Christmas and Easter, for example, may be about big dinners and presents for some people, making them not as religious as those celebrating it in the name of God. However, whatever motives a family or friend group has to get together on those days, the end result is the same.
There is still togetherness.
Isn’t that what it’s really about? If it isn’t – shouldn’t it be? God may or may not be out there. That can be debated. Having friends and family get together to share each other’s company is just as important. That can be also be debated, depending on how much you enjoy your family. But, they are tangible. They’re only here for so long. Why not use that time to make the best of the memory making? Why not celebrate the love you feel for those who you care about?
Religion may be dying, but love and moral fiber doesn’t have to. We just need to get our priorities straight.
Leigh Greaney is a Collegian columnist. She can be reached at lgreaney@student.umass.edu.
I am frightened to think of a time when America might have, say, 50% non-believers out there. The last thing this country needs are more excuses to indulge; the U.S is like the Roman empire, in that it will fall from being both geographically and spiritually overinflated.
About the Easter-bunny/ Santa claus thing- It’s funny to look back and remember a youthful time when those figures were prominent and one feared their judgment. But why this push to make every body grow up so dam fast and forsake those fantastic dreams which come so naturally to a boy or girl? As a society, we have forsook the imaginative process; we revel now in our own egos and consciousness, as if those two things are the most perfect guides for our lives. The reality is, they’re not.
“I am frightened to think of a time when America might have, say, 50% non-believers out there. The last thing this country needs are more excuses to indulge; the U.S is like the Roman empire, in that it will fall from being both geographically and spiritually overinflated.”
You’re right, because the proliferation of atheists/agnostics in countries, such as Switzerland, has caused widespread rape, self-indulgence, and moral decay. I even heard they have something called a particle accelerator, claiming it can probe the “mysteries” and “paradoxes” of God’s perfect Universe. Sorcery and black magic.
Personally, I welcome the time when most Americans do not identify with a religion. Principles of moral philosophy are grounded in human nature and do not require Americans to identify as God-fearing to differentiate “good” conduct from “bad.”
” As a society, we have forsook the imaginative process; we revel now in our own egos and consciousness, as if those two things are the most perfect guides for our lives. The reality is, they’re not”
Nothing is a perfect guide to living, even with religion. So what are you proposing is the tradeoff here? Are we losing more by abandoning conventional faith and becoming more universal in accepting a diversity of beliefs?
How will the dispersement of faith predispose human beings with more excuse to indulge? If anything, it provides me an “excuse” to live my life to its maximal potential, recognizing that this is probably the only opportunity I have to live, learn, wonder, and enjoy the world around me.
Switzerland is a unique example, Brandon- Europe has seen so much destruction that it has no illusions about the consequences of human arrogance; on the other hand, America has been “priveleged” enough not to know there are limits in this world. Americans still need to realize that the individual is NOT special- and this is just the attitude which is impossible to realize in a society that has no spiritual or cultural respect.
Ken there are several surprising and troubling assumptions you create about atheists/non-religious in general in your comment:
“Americans still need to realize that the individual is NOT special”
Generally, many atheists I know of think they are far less special than many Christians, who have told me how special I am. Atheism does not necessarily carry with it a universal arrogance any more than select individuals who identify with religion. Speaking of what is “special” is an entirely relative argument and what do you propose as your method of quantifying this?
“and this is just the attitude which is impossible to realize in a society that has no spiritual or cultural respect.”
I believe that in this particular poll, no religion was the only option, which doesn’t necessarily mean everyone lumped into that category is bereft of spiritual or cultural respect. It is very possible to be non religious and spiritual and it is also possible for those of no religious affiliation to be mindful of those who do observe religious practice. I have met a number of individuals who identify as atheist that have no respect for religion or spirituality, but I have met an even greater number that have shown deference to those that observe religious tradition. What is left out of consideration here are those who are religious who do not tolerate other beliefs and show little respect for diverse spiritual identity. It works both ways, Ken.
Some of the conflicts in Europe’s history have had a religious motivation. It seems peculiar that you isolate a non-religious identity as the next culprit and harbinger of destruction and mayhem in the global world without any sound argument to support your assumption.
“Americans still need to realize that the individual is NOT special- and this is just the attitude which is impossible to realize in a society that has no spiritual or cultural respect.”
I see you’re likely not referring to those who exclusively identify as non-religious. I think we would both agree that there is quite a bit of spiritual and cultural disrespect going on in the world from all walks of life. But I disagree with the notion that arrogance, self-indulgence, and identifying as “non-religious” go hand and hand. There is no magical incantation that whisks away individual moral responsibility and I think there is a bit of humility in coming to the realization that our actions are not at the individual level, but of a global one. Present and future generations are responsible for shaping the educational, moral, and accepting direction of a future society to come. It is profound that human beings are the pioneers of a future and is not orchestrated by a puppeteer in the sky causing natural disasters, famine, or a AIDs to punish reprehensible acts derived from “original sin”. Of course, I cannot truthfully make these claims, that nothing is responsible for the flow of existence and reality that we are familiar with. However, it sure is comforting to many of us to understand that all of the answers are not all there and we must work together to develop and refine methods of understanding one another, our biology, and the universe around us to better search for meaning and truths.
There are differences between philosophical atheism and convenient atheism; it is the latter kind, however, which I target as being an arrogant and ignorant attitude. It is too easy for humans to qualify their desires (or mistakes) with a simple word like atheism and to claim, perhaps in a time of moral and spiritual quandary, that they are non-believers of god.
To my mind, the peculiar variances of the religious institution are inconsequential, as most are founded upon set of similar premises about the rights and wrongs of human behavior.
Again, I am concerned about the snowball effect of convenient atheism or whatever you want to call it; like any other set of beliefs, once it becomes popular, it will become influential
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tax day.
So let's get right to the point and sum up:
Federal taxes paid today.
State taxes paid today.
Quarterly federal taxes paid today (as a small business owner I have to pay 1/4 of my expected tax liabilty each quarter)
Quarterly state taxes paid today.
Property tax was due on my store on the 10th and paid.
Real estate tax on my house is due in two weeks.
Sales tax collected in teh store is due each month on the 20th.
I paid all three excise taxes due on three cars.
I had to fund my SEP retirement plan by the 15th or pay more taxes.
I paid taxes on the Pike today too get to work.
Gas taxes highest in the States which I paid yesterday when I filled up my tank.
I have to pay a freakin' 'sign tax' for my store sign.
A sign tax???
Personal property tax is due on the 1st for the fixtures and stuff in my shop.
I wish I was Phil Spector.
Cake said...
I got paid today and nearly half went to taxes...I feel your pain.
I wish I was the Obama's new dog. Or something.
Sparkle Plenty said...
For real? A SIGN TAX? For real?
(You do NOT wish Phil Specter's psycho poodly permfro on yourself. No way. Plus, you just don't look enough like a homocidal anteater.)
Beatles said...
I Ain't No Oprah said...
Sign tax is real. They don't inspect it, look at it, notice it...just tax it.
The Man is keeping us down!
Sparkle Plenty said...
Cra-ZEE! A sign tax!
(Attica! Attica! Or something! Or something!)
Anonymous said...
They will soon be adding a Tea Tax too.
Cake said...
There's a blog tax too...didn't any of you get the memo??
One Lump or Two? said...
I'm surprised IANO is at work today.
Bromance said...
Finally, there's a term for the relationship between two heterosexual lifemates!
not really The Hoag said...
So....does this mean you aren't paying for lunch?
mulderjoe said...
Hmmph. Rich people are always complaining about the taxes they have to pay.
I Ain't No Oprah said...
And poor people always complain about all the free stuff they get from the government.
"Oh...this cheese isn't that good!"
"This free cancer care is making my hair fall out.."
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assertion debug failure, text files, and tokenScanner
I have written a program that processes text files one at a time and extract relevant information. My program works well with some of the text files and not others. There is no obvious difference between the files that run seamlessly through my program and those that don't.
As far as the problematic files are concerned: 1) the program opens the file 2) it reads in and processes a good chunk of the lines one at a time as it should but then it reaches a problem line and gives the error message:
"Debug Assertion Failed File:
Line: 56
Expression: (unsigned)(c+1) <= 256"
When I enter the debugger mode the problem seems to arise from the "while(tokenScanner)" loop in my code below. I pulled up the content of the problem line being processed and compared that across a couple of problem files and I found that the Assertion Failure message pops up at "</li>" where the last token being processed is ">". It's not clear to me why this is a problem. This particular token in the original text file is contiguous with "<li" in the form "</li><li". Therefore the scanner is having trouble half way throught this string. Any thoughts on why this is and how I can fix this?
Any advice would be much appreciated!
Here is the relevant portion of my code:
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream> //to get data from files
#include "filelib.h"
#include "console.h"
#include "tokenScanner.h"
#include "vector.h"
#include "ctype.h"
#include "math.h"
using namespace std;
/*Prototype Function*/
void evaluate(string expression);
Vector<string> myVectorOfTokens; //will store the tokens
Vector<string> myFileNames;
/*Main Program*/
int main() {
/*STEP1 : Creating a vector of the list of file names to iterate over for processing*/
ifstream infile; //declaring variable to refer to file list
string catchFile = promptUserForFile(infile, "Input file:");
string line; //corresponds to the lines in the master file containing
the list files
while(getline(infile, line)){
/* STEP 2: Iterating over the file names contained in the vector*/
int countFileOpened=0; //keeps track of number of opened files
for (int i=1; i< myFileNames.size(); i++){
myVectorOfTokens.clear(); //resetting the vector of tokens for
each new file
string fileName;
string line2;
ifstream inFile;
fileName= myFileNames[i];
inFile.open(fileName.c_str()); //open file convert c_str
if (inFile){
getline(inFile, line2);
return 0;
/*Function for Extracting the Biographer Name*/
void evaluate(string line){
/*Creating a Vector of Tokens From the Text*/
TokenScanner scanner(line); //the constructor
while (scanner.hasMoreTokens()){
string token=scanner.nextToken();
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Harvard University
Advanced Leadership Initiative
Advanced Leadership Initiative
Harvard University
About
A collaboration of Faculty at Harvard University has developed a bold, academic innovation that has become another facet of higher education, changed the concept of “retirement” and helped change the world for the better. The Advanced Leadership Initiative, conceived by Professors Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Rakesh Khurana, and Nitin Nohria, is a new third stage in higher education designed to prepare experienced leaders to take on new challenges in the social sector where they potentially can make an even greater societal impact than they did in their careers.
The Advanced Leadership Initiative was formed by Faculty from Harvard’s professional schools of Business, Education, Government, Law, Medicine and Public Health, including Professors Barry Bloom, David Gergen and Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., to build knowledge about societal challenges requiring interdisciplinary leadership skills and to capitalize on demographic changes that create opportunities to educate and deploy accomplished leaders at later life stages in public service.
Systemic problems such as poverty, global health, environmental degradation, and basic education also have political and technical dimensions that cannot be solved by a simple one-off approach. Research universities are uniquely positioned to close knowledge gaps by finding new ways to develop and implement comprehensive solutions through integrative research and educational innovation.
Initiative
Through the Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard is seeking to tap the experience of a socially conscious generation of leaders and help redirect and broaden their skills to fill critical leadership gaps in solving major social issues. Starting in January 2009, a select group of Fellows from diverse sectors with a track record of achievement and accomplishment have come to Harvard to transition from their primary income-earning careers and prepare for their next phase plan as change agents for society. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '320c30f3a9409fec13ad069e91aa059b8cfebc63de1562ea6db062279f46f7a6'} |
Stress and Conflict
Every machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. No machine exists that is a singularly whole unit, all machines are merely a sum of parts. And so we can more accurately say that the machine does not get stressed, it is the parts that get stressed. Some parts get stressed in certain situations which leave other parts relaxed or within their limitations and so the machine can still function, although in a far reduced capacity for a limited period of time.
Your mind, company, team or family are all machines in a way just like your vehicle or computer. Many parts are in themselves machines made up of smaller parts. Even what may appear to be one single piece of metal or plastic, what appears to be a single part with no other parts within it is in fact still just a sum of parts; atoms and molecules held together by an electromagnetic or gravitational force. No need to get into physics here, but this illustrates the point that nothing is a singular whole.
For any machine to function properly, its parts must function well. If the parts are stressed, even one tiny part, then the entire space shuttle will explode.
A company or family are both made up of parts which include the people. Those are the main moving parts which endure the most stress when pushed beyond their limits. Given a factory, if the production machinery or computer breaks down, the stress is transferred to the people. Ultimately we can say that the other moving parts of a company are the equipment, but when your computer crashes and you yell profanities at it, it does not jump out of fear and start working. It is only humans who imagine that cursing a machine will make it work. Therefore, the mechanical parts of the company do not experience the same stress that a human does, although a human will endure the same stress as a machine if put under intense physical strain.
Given this and knowing that we must work with the underlying cause of any event in order to correct a problem, we must focus on the stresses that are placed on people that make them malfunction.
Here we must go in two directions. The first is the true capacity and second is the perceived capacity. True capacity is fixed, it has its definite limits. The limit for machines is documented by the designer, and for humans, likewise it is set by nature at an incredibly high capacity, however we take perceived to be true. I fasted for several weeks on just water while continuing to run my businesses which included three stores, one of which was in a food market, talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time! The lack of food did not diminish my capacity because there was a need and nature is able to handle incredible amounts of difficulty if the need is sincerely there.
I am sure you can find many other examples of stress. One that I have not attempted is raising kids, even triplets. That to me would be an overwhelming amount of stress, but many people survive that as well, or from what I have heard, the very limited amount of sleep that some new parents get for a couple of years. You see, we can go without food or sleep and still function if we have to.
Perceived capacity is the problem. This is where we have conflicts and communication issues. My view of your capacity is not the same as your view of your capacity. Further, yours and my view of your capacity is rarely your true capacity. Now we must explore the reason for the different views of our individual capacities.
Let us look at investor expectations of a company. Investors demand higher profits and sales each year. That is against nature as nothing in our world perpetually increases. To demand this of a company is to go against nature and therefore beyond the machines capacity which will stress its parts which will eventually break down with stroke, heart attack, nervous breakdown, or run right out the door.
When enough parts break down, the machine suffers. It is wise to run a machine within its normal operating limits so it lasts as long as possible. Now we must ask what those limits are for a human being which returns us to where we diverted a moment ago.
The machine of the human mind is very complex and made up of many components. By understanding these components we can find the true stress limits rather than the perceived ones.
Our mind is constantly being programmed to think in a certain way. Because we are not aware of this, we do not see that we are being programmed and then falsely believe that our opinions are our own. That is the first cause of errors.
Second. Our current society is following a path of political correctness. This encompasses the concept that by changing a word we can change the reality. This in fact is obviously false and a distraction. If you know that wood will burn and now I say we shall call wood metal, you will say metal but think wood and still put it on the fire. If you told someone who does not know of your change of labels to put some metal on the fire, they would think you a fool or simply get wood. Changing the name does not change reality.
Because of this attempt to avoid reality, we are increasing the avoidance of seeing the natural stress limits and this is the root of many conflicts. Names have changed but humanity is still the same, and creating new names to make you sound like a partner when in fact you are still just an employee will not give you any less stress or increased feeling of ownership if your pay and power remains the same. It is just a way of avoiding the reality of your position to live in a lie, which in the end can only create more stress.
As a machine is stressed or overloaded, not only does it not perform according to its design, but it may do many unpredictable things. This we all know about with computers. Why did it do that!
Humans are the same. Learn about the machine of your mind and find the natural conditions and path a person or company should take to function without becoming overly stressed to breaking down. Follow this natural flow through increase and decrease back to increase without avoiding reality and stress levels as well as breakdowns will significantly decrease.
With the decrease of unnaturally high stress levels, the components will function smoothly and you will find that recovery from any negative situation becomes quick, far simpler and of course far less expensive. This applies to a business event or a personal one in the workplace or at home in your relationship. All to often a couple will fight about an irrelevant issue due to one or both being overstressed from unreasonable demands made at work. Are you the recipient or the creator of this stress in your company?
It is clearly shown that negative economic times offer a great opportunity for success. Success in times of disaster is only for the few who stay calm in all situations by seeing the current reality and projecting what the future will deliver by looking back to a similar time in the past.
Those few but highly successful people stayed calm while the rest panicked under perceived stress as they triumphed. I will end with the most important four words which will relieve all stress and worries, if you can understand them beyond the simplicity of their surface meaning.
I will give you a hint of how to find the profound depth and power of these words. As I said above, all things are made of parts, and this applies to a sentence of well put together words.
‘This too shall pass.’
Author's Bio:
David Samuel is The Entrepreneur Monk. David is a rag to riches story, making his first million at 25. Reaching his financial target by the age of 29, he sold six of the eight companies he owned to travel internationally for several years.
To date, David has owned companies in over 25 industries and 15 countries. Combined with his business ventures, teaching and consulting, David is devoted to the never ending exploration of the nature of the mind. He has resolved the riddle of why we do what we know is bad for us yet do not do what we know is beneficial and teaches that very effectively.
David has published four books and is working on his fifth at this time. You can read more about David and view his books on www.EntrepreneurMonk.com
Currently, David consults to private clients and corporations who are interested in eliminating negative aspects of their personality towards personal cultivation and success. He also holds ‘open to the public talks’ on Thursday evenings when he is in Auckland.
David also publishes exclusive articles 4 times per week on his LawOfAttractionForum.net. The Forum presents a new exercise each week which leads towards success in any goal. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'c682e95206d192120711d76af4278cb3a7bda4c697dd8fca45ab6f5d9327b756'} |
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Please Others, Not Yourselves
The Gospel for Jews and Gentiles Alike
“Therefore I will confess you among the Gentiles,
and sing praises to your name”;
10 and again he says,
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with his people”;
11 and again,
“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,
and let all the peoples praise him”;
12 and again Isaiah says,
“The root of Jesse shall come,
the one who rises to rule the Gentiles;
in him the Gentiles shall hope.”
Paul’s Reason for Writing So Boldly
“Those who have never been told of him shall see,
and those who have never heard of him shall understand.”
Paul’s Plan to Visit Rome
18. In order to make the Gentiles obedient, etc. These words prove what his object was, even to render his ministry approved by the Romans, that his doctrine might not be without fruit. He proves then by evidences that God by the presence of his power had given a testimony to his preaching, and in a manner sealed his apostleship, so that no one ought to have doubted, but, that he was appointed and sent by the Lord. The evidences were word, work, and miracles. It hence appears that the term work includes more than miracles. He at last concludes with this expression, through the power of the Spirit; by which he intimates that these things could not have been done without the Spirit being the author. In short, he declares that with regard to his teaching as well as his doing, he had such strength and energy in preaching Christ, that it was evidently the wonderful power of God, and that miracles were also added, which were seals to render the evidence more certain.
He mentions word and work in the first place, and then he states one kind of work, even the power of performing miracles. The same order is observed by Luke, when he says that Christ was mighty in word and work, (Luke 24:19;) and John says that Christ referred the Jews to his own works for a testimony of his divinity. (John 5:36.) Nor does he simply mention miracles, but gives them two designations. But instead of what he says here, the power of signs and of wonders, Peter has “miracles and signs and wonders.” (Acts 2:22.) And doubtless they were testimonies of divine power to awaken men, that being struck with God’s power, they might admire and at the same time adore him; nor are they without an especial meaning, but intended to stimulate us, that we may understand what God is.
This is a striking passage respecting the benefit of miracles: they are designed to prepare men to reverence and to obey God. So you read in Mark, that the Lord confirmed the truth by the signs which followed. (Mark 16:20.) Luke declares in the Acts, that the Lord by miracles gave testimony to the word of his grace. (Acts 14:3.) It is then evident that those miracles which bring glory to creatures and not to God, which secure credit to lies and not to God’s word, are from the devil. The power of the Spirit, which he mentions in the third place, I apply to both the preceding clauses. 454454 Some, as Beza and Grotius, understand by the last clause, “through the power of the Spirit of God,” the internal power of speaking with tongues, etc., and by “signs and wonders,” the external work of healing the sick, etc. But this passage is evidently an instance of the Apostle’s usual mode of stating things. “Word” means preaching; and “work,” the doing of miracles. He first specifies the last, the work was that of “signs and wonders;” and then he mentions what belongs to the first, and shows how it became effectual, that is, through the power of the Spirit. See a similar arrangement in 1 Corinthians 6:11; where he mentions washed, sanctified and justified; and then he mentions first what belongs to the last, “in the name of the Lord Jesus,” and afterwards what appertains to the first words, “and by the Spirit of our God.” “Signs and wonders” are often mentioned together: they designate the same things by different names: miracles were called “signs,” because they were evidences of divine power, and they were called “wonders,” or prodigies, because they were not according to the course of nature, but were extraordinary things. By these words their design and character are set forth. — Ed.
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Since we've got our new pope and all (congrats, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has chosen the rap name pope name Francis), I thought now might be a good time to address a peculiar little drama pilot that's taking shape over at Showtime.
It's called The Vatican, and it's about...the Vatican. The weird thing is, save for Anna Friel's character--she'll play a New York party girl--everybody's pretty much a clergyman. And by everybody, I mean some actors that we're not used to looking at in quite that way.
Kyle Chandler plays a cardinal, which is confusing because... who among us did not harbor a Coach crush in the heyday of Friday Night Lights?
Matthew Goode plays a "papal secretary," and even after nine years of Catholic schooling, I can't tell you for sure if that means he's also a priest, but I'm pretty sure it does.
Then there's Sebastian Koch, who isn't exactly tough on the eyes, mostly because he's clearly the baby of Liam Neeson and Jason Statham.
But here's my question--and I don't think this show's gonna look anything like The Borgias, mind you--how invested can you really get in a show about guys who wear the collar? Like, best case scenario is that The Vatican is full of the same luscious OMG-that's-what-goes-on-in-this-secret-society?!? imagination that makes a movie like The Skulls appealing. But no matter what, the chips are stacked against it in terms of romantic possibilities being next to nil. Add in the fact that everyone's extremely good-looking, and you've got what feels almost comically like a fashion photo shoot where everyone's dressed as clergy rather than actual clergy.
Am I overthinking this, or do you think it's a little odd too?
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Ars Alchimia Review (First Impressions)
Alchemy is a hallmark of a lot of video game sidequest activities, and I was both amused and intrigued by the thought of a board game based around it.
The general setup is great and makes a lot of sense thematically: players gather materials, learn recipes (“orders”), and perform alchemy (all represented by different cards on the board). There are also cards representing assistants that can be hired to provide specific bonuses.
The key mechanics are worker placement and resource management. Collection and spending the proper resources to complete orders is the main way to collect victory points, which of course determine the winner at game end.
Taking actions is where the worker placement comes in. Players deploy workers to the board spaces associated with the card they want to claim/use. A significant amount of strategy revolves around this deployment. At least one more worker must be placed than those currently on the space (the previous workers are then moved to a general area for the rest of the round). So popular spaces become more and more “expensive” as the round goes on.
The second aspect to deciding how many workers to play involves bonus die rolls when taking certain actions. Playing extra workers increase the chances of collecting bonuses, but will also make that space require even more workers to use again in the future. It’s a really great aspect: players always get a set benefit for using the card regardless, but can mitigate the luck for bonuses if they choose.
There are other interesting elements that add depth, including players who go later in turn order getting more workers, elixirs which count as any resource when completing orders, etc. I found it all came together really well and provided interesting, meaningful choices during the game.
Ars Alchimedia has very nice looking components and attractive art, but admittedly it could have been “spruced up” a bit. It’s clearly reflective of Japanese design and original production in the economy of space everything has. There is an incredible amount of information and functionality compressed down into a general board and a bunch of different card types.
While impressive, this also makes things a bit overwhelming on the cards sometimes and leads to very small and occasionally hard to read type, particularly since TMG made the odd decision to leave the original Japanese text in addition to the translations. While the Japanese student in me likes this, from a gameplay perspective it’s unneeded and distracting. My opponent (who is not colorblind) also had some trouble telling the small colored boxed apart on the cards, which could have been easily addressed by using the symbols for each resources shown on the player’s tracking cards.
This is a hefty game cleverly packed into a small box, and as such while I generally really like the design and artistic style there are some minor resulting inconveniences.
The overall balance seemed good, with harder to get materials and orders being involved in higher scoring. Although there is luck involved in the available options on the board at any given time and some are strictly better than others. However there is a mitigating mechanism for turn order, so I think it all fits nicely and fairly.
I really enjoyed my first experience with Ars Alchimia and am excited to play it again sometime, try it with more players, etc.
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There's nothing quite like being the victim of your own arrogance. The ugly $2 billion loss - which is probably only the beginning since the bank still owns those positions - sits squarely on the head of CEO Jamie Dimon. As we learned during the crisis of 2008 as well as this latest Wall Street failure is that we need much more transparency in the too-big-too-fail world.
Karma, anyone?
The big problem that we see once again from Wall Street is that they know Washington is a bunch of spineless jellyfish, who talk the talk but won't walk the walk. Wall Street knows that when these big banks get into trouble, the gutless will always be there to bail out the banks. Heads they win, tails they win. It's a fixed game and Wall Street knows it.
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Lucene 4.5.0 analyzers-stempel API
Stempel - Algorithmic Stemmer for Polish Language
org.apache.lucene.analysis.pl Analyzer for Polish.
org.apache.lucene.analysis.stempel Stempel: Algorithmic Stemmer
org.egothor.stemmer Egothor stemmer API.
Stempel - Algorithmic Stemmer for Polish Language
A method for conflation of different inflected word forms is an important component of many Information Retrieval systems. It helps to improve the system's recall and can significantly reduce the index size. This is especially true for highly-inflectional languages like those from the Slavic language family (Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Bulgarian, etc).
This page describes a software package consisting of high-quality stemming tables for Polish, and a universal algorithmic stemmer, which operates using these tables. The stemmer code is taken virtually unchanged from the Egothor project.
The software distribution includes stemmer tables prepared using an extensive corpus of Polish language (see details below).
This work is available under Apache-style Open Source license - the stemmer code is covered by Egothor License, the tables and other additions are covered by Apache License 2.0. Both licenses allow to use the code in Open Source as well as commercial (closed source) projects.
A short explanation is in order about the terminology used in this text.
In the following sections I make a distinction between stem and lemma.
Lemma is a base grammatical form (dictionary form, headword) of a word. Lemma is an existing, grammatically correct word in some human language.
Stem on the other hand is just a unique token, not necessarily making any sense in any human language, but which can serve as a unique label instead of lemma for the same set of inflected forms. Quite often stem is referred to as a "root" of the word - which is incorrect and misleading (stems sometimes have very little to do with the linguistic root of a word, i.e. a pattern found in a word which is common to all inflected forms or within a family of languages).
For an IR system stems are usually sufficient, for a morphological analysis system obviously lemmas are a must. In practice, various stemmers produce a mix of stems and lemmas, as is the case with the stemmer described here. Additionally, for some languages, which use suffix-based inflection rules many stemmers based on suffix-stripping will produce a large percentage of stems equivalent to lemmas. This is however not the case for languages with complex, irregular inflection rules (such as Slavic languages) - here simplistic suffix-stripping stemmers produce very poor results.
Lemmatization is a process of finding the base, non-inflected form of a word. The result of lemmatization is a correct existing word, often in nominative case for nouns and infinitive form for verbs. A given inflected form may correspond to several lemmas (e.g. "found" -> find, found) - the correct choice depends on the context.
Stemming is concerned mostly with finding a unique "root" of a word, which not necessarily results in any existing word or lemma. The quality of stemming is measured by the rate of collisions (overstemming - which causes words with different lemmas to be incorrectly conflated into one "root"), and the rate of superfluous word "roots" (understemming - which assigns several "roots" to words with the same lemma).
Both stemmer and lemmatizer can be implemented in various ways. The two most common approaches are:
There are many existing and well-known implementations of stemmers for English (Porter, Lovins, Krovetz) and other European languages (Snowball). There are also good quality commercial lemmatizers for Polish. However, there is only one freely available Polish stemmer, implemented by Dawid Weiss, based on the "ispell" dictionary and Jan Daciuk's FSA package. That stemmer is dictionary-based. This means that even though it can achieve perfect accuracy for previously known word forms found in its dictionary, it completely fails in case of all other word forms. This deficiency is somewhat mitigated by the comprehensive dictionary distributed with this stemmer (so there is a high probability that most of the words in the input text will be found in the dictionary), however the problem still remains (please see the page above for more detailed description).
The implementation described here uses an algorithmic method. This method and particular algorithm implementation are described in detail in [1][2]. The main advantage of algorithmic stemmers is their ability to process previously unseen word forms with high accuracy. This particular algorithm uses a set of transformation rules (patch commands), which describe how a word with a given pattern should be transformed to its stem. These rules are first learned from a training corpus. They don't cover all possible cases, so there is always some loss of precision/recall (which means that even the words from the training corpus are sometimes incorrectly stemmed).
Algorithm and implementation
The algorithm and its Java implementation is described in detail in the publications cited below. Here's just a short excerpt from [2]:
"The aim is separation of the stemmer execution code from the data structures [...]. In other words, a static algorithm configurable by data must be developed. The word transformations that happen in the stemmer must be then encoded to the data tables.
The tacit input of our method is a sample set (a so-called dictionary) of words (as keys) and their stems. Each record can be equivalently stored as a key and the record of key's transformation to its respective stem. The transformation record is termed a patch command (P-command). It must be ensured that P-commands are universal, and that P-commands can transform any word to its stem. Our solution[6,8] is based on the Levenstein metric [10], which produces P-command as the minimum cost path in a directed graph.
One can imagine the P-command as an algorithm for an operator (editor) that rewrites a string to another string. The operator can use these instructions (PP-command's): removal - deletes a sequence of characters starting at the current cursor position and moves the cursor to the next character. The length of this sequence is the parameter; insertion - inserts a character ch, without moving the cursor. The character ch is a parameter; substitution - rewrites a character at the current cursor position to the character ch and moves the cursor to the next character. The character ch is a parameter; no operation (NOOP) - skip a sequence of characters starting at the current cursor position. The length of this sequence is the parameter.
The P-commands are applied from the end of a word (right to left). This assumption can reduce the set of P-command's, because the last NOOP, moving the cursor to the end of a string without any changes, need not be stored."
Data structure used to keep the dictionary (words and their P-commands) is a trie. Several optimization steps are applied in turn to reduce and optimize the initial trie, by eliminating useless information and shortening the paths in the trie.
Finally, in order to obtain a stem from the input word, the word is passed once through a matching path in the trie (applying at each node the P-commands stored there). The result is a word stem.
(to be completed...)
The following Polish corpora have been used:
This step was the most time-consuming - and it would probably be even more tedious and difficult if not for the help of Python. The source texts had to be brought to a common encoding (UTF-8) - some of them used quite ancient encodings like Mazovia or DHN - and then scripts were written to collect all lemmas and inflected forms from the source texts. In cases when the source text was not tagged, I used the SAM analyzer to produce lemmas. In cases of ambiguous lemmatization I decided to put references to inflected forms from all base forms.
All grammatical categories were allowed to appear in the corpus, i.e. nouns, verbs, adjectives, numerals, and pronouns. The resulting corpus consisted of roughly 87,000+ inflection sets, i.e. each set consisted of one base form (lemma) and many inflected forms. However, because of the nature of the training method I restricted these sets to include only those where there were at least 4 inflected forms. Sets with 3 or less inflected forms were removed, so that the final corpus consisted of ~69,000 unique sets, which in turn contained ~1.5 mln inflected forms.
I tested the stemmer tables produced using the implementation described above. The following sections give some details about the testing setup.
Testing procedure
The testing procedure was as follows:
Test results
The following table summarizes test results for varying sizes of training samples. The meaning of the table columns is described below:
Training sets Testing forms Stem OK Lemma OK Missing Stem Bad Lemma Bad Table size [B]
100 1022985 842209 593632 172711 22331 256642 28438
200 1022985 862789 646488 153288 16306 223209 48660
500 1022985 885786 685009 130772 14856 207204 108798
700 1022985 909031 704609 107084 15442 211292 139291
1000 1022985 926079 725720 90117 14941 207148 183677
2000 1022985 942886 746641 73429 14903 202915 313516
5000 1022985 954721 759930 61476 14817 201579 640969
7000 1022985 956165 764033 60364 14620 198588 839347
10000 1022985 965427 775507 50797 14662 196681 1144537
12000 1022985 967664 782143 48722 14284 192120 1313508
15000 1022985 973188 788867 43247 14349 190871 1567902
17000 1022985 974203 791804 42319 14333 188862 1733957
20000 1022985 976234 791554 40058 14601 191373 1977615
I also measured the time to produce a stem (which involves traversing a trie, retrieving a patch command and applying the patch command to the input string). On a machine running Windows XP (Pentium 4, 1.7 GHz, JDK 1.4.2_03 HotSpot), for tables ranging in size from 1,000 to 20,000 cells, the time to produce a single stem varies between 5-10 microseconds.
This means that the stemmer can process up to 200,000 words per second, an outstanding result when compared to other stemmers (Morfeusz - ~2,000 w/s, FormAN (MS Word analyzer) - ~1,000 w/s).
The package contains a class org.getopt.stempel.Benchmark, which you can use to produce reports like the one below:
--------- Stemmer benchmark report: -----------
Stemmer table: /res/tables/stemmer_2000.out
Input file: ../test3.txt
Number of runs: 3
Total input words 1378176 1378176 1378176
Missed output words 112 112 112
Time elapsed [ms] 6989 6940 6640
Hit rate percent 99.99% 99.99% 99.99%
Miss rate percent 00.01% 00.01% 00.01%
Words per second 197192 198584 207557
Time per word [us] 5.07 5.04 4.82
The results of these tests are very encouraging. It seems that using the training corpus and the stemming algorithm described above results in a high-quality stemmer useful for most applications. Moreover, it can also be used as a better than average lemmatizer.
Both the author of the implementation (Leo Galambos, <leo.galambos AT egothor DOT org>) and the author of this compilation (Andrzej Bialecki <ab AT getopt DOT org>) would appreciate any feedback and suggestions for further improvements.
1. Galambos, L.: Multilingual Stemmer in Web Environment, PhD Thesis, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, in press.
2. Galambos, L.: Semi-automatic Stemmer Evaluation. International Intelligent Information Processing and Web Mining Conference, 2004, Zakopane, Poland.
3. Galambos, L.: Lemmatizer for Document Information Retrieval Systems in JAVA. <http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/%7Eley/db/conf/sofsem/sofsem2001.html#Galambos01> SOFSEM 2001, Piestany, Slovakia.
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How an almost 100 year old company is adapting to a digital future
NRMA is an Australian-based member organization. Its goal is to keep people moving and become one of Australia's largest transport and tourism providers. The NRMA provides a range of motoring and travel services to its 2.6 million members and the broader community, including roadside assistance, car servicing, and motor-related training.
As the motoring landscape changes, the NRMA needs to continue to adapt to provide utility and support to its members. ThoughtWorks worked with NRMA to help them create deeper engagement with their members and ultimately become a digital business. ThoughtWorks supported the transition to agile and lean ways of working while building out a responsive platform to support its digital ambitions.
The first step was to assess where we could add the most value to the customer's journey while improving the technology environment. We used agile methods to understand NRMA's users, processes, and technology before building and testing a prototype to simplify the online renewals experience, including implementing a new Content Management System to create and manage digital content.
Customer research informed our design decisions, using rapid prototyping to create a seamless customer experience. After implementing the new online renewal functionality, the proportion of customers renewing online has now doubled, increasing from 15% to 30% of all renewals in just two months.
NRMA didn't stop there. Looking to improve Members' entire travel experience, from leaving home, to reaching their destination, we worked together to design and build a mobile parking app, which aggregates parking availability across car park providers at any given time and allows for instant booking. The goal of the app was to help reduce the congestion caused by motorists searching for parking, as well as providing a value-added service for a customer's journey.
The parking app was delivered in just eight weeks, including the implementation of a reusable API strategy. We used the new API service to upgrade the existing NRMA mobile app, dramatically reducing the future cost of maintaining the service while consolidating the new parking functionality with the ability to find cheaper fuel and request roadside assistance.
I have never seen a project go from concept to release in such a short time.
— Vinnie Dempsey - General Manager of Digital Delivery
As well as uplifting technical capability, the team used the lean Improvement kata to introduce a culture of continuous improvement across the digital team. By creating a clear vision for Digital, and breaking down the transformation into manageable tasks, the team was able to continue to innovate both their technical and organizational approaches. This goal-directed way of working provided a foundation for problem-solving, equipping the team with the tools needed to work through any future challenges that may emerge. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9512789249420166}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '29700', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2GGAIQOW6SFEQ36YRM2XA46COFV7W4PI', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:611cc7f2-8edd-48c0-8cb5-ad95023351a4>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 5, 20, 3, 29, 40), 'WARC-IP-Address': '13.249.44.27', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:MYXTHNWQBDMBUD3OC7LLEOEV7UI2BMJO', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:fd965823-7cb2-4fd9-84ce-5871b1fe300a>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/nrma', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:d57d5f75-1229-4442-985a-dfa77b108e14>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '460', 'url': 'https://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/nrma', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-22\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-171-174-209.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.051267802715301514', 'original_id': '6851496e1e6c7830dfff7d581ade1dde5e78ac1f645805a6797bd9c8ce073d2a'} |
You Could Win $200,000 for Playing The Most Annoying Facebook Game Ever MadeS
How would you like to win a $200,000 mortgage pay off or $100,000 cash? That's the grand prize in Race 4 My Place, a new social city building game that trades real-money microtransactions for an even more annoying revenue model—mandatory advertising.
PopRox Entertainment's Race 4 My Place seems like a wonderful idea. It's a Facebook game where you create your own town. You create businesses, factories to stock those businesses, homes for the workers in those factories and businesses. There are goals to achieve and prizes to be won, and should you complete all the goals within the allotted time (113 days left!) you're eligible for a shot at the grand prize. You never have to pay a single cent to play. You just have to watch a lot of advertisements.
I have watched the same ad for T-Mobile prepaid mobile phones at least a dozen times since I started playing Race 4 My Place earlier this afternoon. T-Mobile is my cell provider of choice. They've been good to me thus far, but I swear the frequency of these ads are pushing me away, which is not what you want ads to do.
But I have to watch them. I watch ads to refill my energy so I can complete more actions in the game. I watch ads so I can staff my businesses without annoying my friends—though that bothersome game mechanic becomes unavoidable within ten minutes of playing. Only one worker slot can be staffed by a computer-controlled resident. Buildings with two or more spots require you to recruit your friends.
Enterprising Facebook social gamers will form communities of friends in order to burn through Race 4 My Place's goals and queue up for grand prize glory. Along the way they'll have a shot at smaller prizes as well—iPads, airline tickets, movie tickets and gift cards. If you think it's worth the hassle, then by all means go for it. I'll pass. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9616100192070008}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '65730', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:SXAMJEOCRV3OCAF7RU5MCYRAICY36MJ7', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:0a5c0c64-4f9f-40aa-8f2e-6173ba01cc7c>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2013, 12, 9, 5, 14, 51), 'WARC-IP-Address': '199.27.76.129', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': None, 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:M7IYVIEYOWVDSPF2LYJ2EOJ4VPQNONAS', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:b8f19180-b6ad-4878-897c-79de17fc1f13>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://kotaku.com/5983717/you-could-win-200000-for-playing-the-most-annoying-facebook-game-ever-made?popular=true', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:093702b2-2769-4e50-8bba-cefb551a2469>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '332', 'url': 'http://kotaku.com/5983717/you-could-win-200000-for-playing-the-most-annoying-facebook-game-ever-made?popular=true', 'warcinfo': 'robots: classic\r\nhostname: ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0\r\nisPartOf: CC-MAIN-2013-48\r\noperator: CommonCrawl Admin\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web with URLs provided by Blekko for Winter 2013\r\npublisher: CommonCrawl\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.0\r\nconformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.040852129459381104', 'original_id': 'b46d8d9cbd1ce3ed570c6ae357a3c9b89685bbc8c50dc1e1039f9b9216bd9d5c'} |
Creative Communities Are Addressing Social Isolation
Jan 7, 2019, 3:00 PM, Posted by
Social connections are not just nice to have—they can significantly affect our health and well-being. Inspired by creative approaches abroad, communities across the United States are taking steps to reduce social isolation and increase residents’ sense of belonging.
A man walks over a snow covered lawn.
It’s only January and already, I’m counting down the days to spring when warm weather will arrive. The long, cold months of winter can be isolating—the snow and subzero temperatures make it difficult to get out and about. Winter is particularly tough for children who can’t go outside to play, and for newcomers from warmer climates who are not accustomed to the cold. For people who don’t have meaningful social connections, the cold weather season can exacerbate the isolation they face year-round.
Social isolation is a serious problem for many. It can lead to anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and even suicidal thoughts. Social isolation can impact our health in other ways too—by escalating unhealthy habits, stress, lack of sleep—and putting us at higher risk for coronary heart disease and stroke.
Fortunately, there are many creative ways in which communities across the United States are tackling social isolation and building a sense of community.
Who Experiences Social Isolation?
Those who don’t struggle with this challenge might be surprised at who experiences social isolation. But for others, it’s easy to be in a crowd and feel alone. Conversely, you can live on your own and be incredibly connected. While solitude is a matter of choice, social isolation happens when you feel disengaged from others; when you feel you have nobody to call on if you need help.
Social isolation can result from a major shift in one’s life course—such as moving to a new town, having a baby, or falling on hard times. Many people feel marginalized or like they don’t belong because of their gender identity, race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. Even young people with lots of online friends and relationships can feel disconnected when the only people they feel they can talk to are miles away.
We need positive social connections and strong social support networks throughout our lives: research shows that people who have meaningful social connections are happier, have fewer health problems, less depression, and live longer.
How Communities Are Tackling Social Isolation
When we issued a call for proposals to tackle social isolation in 2017, we really captured people’s attention and imagination, received hundreds of applications, and countless inquiries. Clearly, social isolation is an issue that is keeping many of us awake at night.
Here are some examples from our grantees who have taken inspiration from overseas and are working to increase meaningful social connections and a sense of belonging in their communities:
• Bringing public life to winter cities: The public realm offers a unique opportunity to create socially connected and physically active communities. But the lack of winter-friendly design and programming in our cities discourages residents from spending time in public spaces during the cold season. With support from 8 80 Cities, three American cities are devising creative solutions—such as heated bus stops and indoor snowball fights—to turn public spaces into places to gather, socialize, and exercise during the cold season. They will be drawing upon lessons from cities in Canada and Nordic countries, including Iceland and Norway.
• Strengthening social networks for young people: Bullying, suicide, depression, and substance abuse rates are unconscionably high among our young people. Recognizing that social isolation is a significant risk factor, an Icelandic program has dramatically decreased smoking, drinking and drug use among teens by getting young people to spend more time with friends and family. By investing in organized sport, music, art, dance and other clubs, Iceland’s cities were able to help kids find ways to feel more socially connected and part of a group. They also educated parents about the importance of talking to their kids about their lives, knowing who their friends are, and keeping their children home in the evenings. The program transformed family life and changed the way children are raised in Iceland. Now, the United Way is bringing this program to young people in the Matanuska Susitna Borough of Alaska.
• Connecting families living in poverty to the community: Families living in poverty often have limited social networks and are often cut off from the support and opportunities that could positively impact their health and well-being. Saúde Crianca (Child Health) helps families living in Brazil's working-class neighborhoods, known as favelas, break barriers to social inclusion—connecting them to resources such as food, job training, and housing assistance. The organization also holds monthly coaching sessions that offer psychological counseling, health education, and emotional support. The University of Maryland School of Nursing is adapting the Saúde Crianca program for poor families with children under age 3 that live in the Upton and Mondawmin neighborhoods of West Baltimore.
• Creating a peer support network for Latino LGBTQ youth: Latino LGBTQ youth can experience rejection from family members, religious communities, and peers. This threatened sense of belonging can lead to depression, chronic stress, attempted suicide, sexual risk, substance use, and exposure to violence. Inspired by successful efforts in Brazil and Peru, 4-H at Oregon State University is training young leaders in its Outreach Leadership Institute to become allies of their LGBTQ peers. They will do this by hosting workshops where these leaders use telenovelas (soap operas) to role play scenarios in which they must address stigma and stereotyping.
• Improving social connections for incarcerated and returning citizens: The U.S. prison system is grounded in the belief that to facilitate public safety, society must isolate people convicted of crimes from their communities, families, and social supports. But this can backfire when people return home after serving time—considering the data showing that adults in the United States are re-incarcerated at much higher rates compared to other countries. Corrections agencies and service providers are beginning to rethink the role they play in helping recently incarcerated people enhance their social connections, drawing upon successes in Europe. In New Jersey, the Jewish Family Service of Atlantic County is implementing a program that supports people who are incarcerated—or have been recently released—to form new relationships—and maintain existing relationships with friends, families, and local community members, as appropriate to their needs and wishes. Additionally, leaders from corrections agencies in Connecticut and Massachusetts are working to transform the prison system for young, incarcerated adults to help them stay or get connected to their family and community, and are better prepared to return home.
Weaving a Tighter Social Fabric
We all need meaningful social connections and to feel like we belong. This is especially true for those most susceptible to social isolation—individuals and groups that feel they don’t belong because of their gender identity, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. Others are new mothers; immigrants; those living in rural areas; people with disabilities; and individuals and families struggling to make ends meet.
So what can each of us do to increase meaningful social connections for ourselves, family, and others in our community? How can we ensure that our families, friends, and neighbors have the connections and relationships they need to thrive?
We can start by gaining a better understanding of the importance of social connections to health and well-being. Health providers can collect information about patients' social connections during visits and then work with them to develop practical strategies. City planners can shape public spaces as places for social interaction. Schools and educators can teach students how to build and maintain friendships and relationships, and strengthen their social and emotional skills. Community-based organizations, religious congregations, and social service providers can devise programs that encourage socializing and provide the supports needed—from transportation to coaching—for people to participate.
As you make your new year’s resolutions, think about how meaningful social connections can affect well-being and health. Reach out to others who could use a helping hand or who might need someone by their side. And remember—feeling connected to family, friends, and community can help all of us to thrive.
What are you or your community doing to address chronic social isolation?
About the author
Maryjoan Ladden / RWJF
Maryjoan D. Ladden, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a nurse practitioner working on leadership for better health and global ideas for U.S. solutions. She focuses on building the capacity of leaders and the wider workforce to collaborate across sectors, organizations and communities to promote a Culture of Health. Read her full bio | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '54', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9574480056762696}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '80822', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:6OYRTC5KMSRVQFD26W6DZDMERBQG7M6U', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:654c3561-9fc0-4ad8-9622-dcfcee22f77b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 20, 13, 17, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '99.84.181.91', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:TXYIOQCKQ6U4FEN3DW7AOA4EQA23IWE7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:d02654fb-7367-4de3-aabe-3e96ceef0709>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.rwjf.org/en/blog/2019/01/what-communities-are-doing-to-address-social-isolation.html?cid=xsh_rwjf_fb', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:2e28c94b-813c-4771-a174-d14fbc883869>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1411', 'url': 'https://www.rwjf.org/en/blog/2019/01/what-communities-are-doing-to-address-social-isolation.html?cid=xsh_rwjf_fb', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-109-209-241.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.02448403835296631', 'original_id': 'f1bbc8da9620228e0f392f54662bf10942eeee29c641e313ffa3c58a00432d9c'} |
Body hair to scalp transplant (BHT) - standardised education and results
Dear readers and fellow doctors,
I have recieved many messages from doctors who say that they understand the necessity of using body and beard hair to alleviate scalp baldness. But they are unsure about how to get good yield and even whether body hair will grow well on scalp.
Additionally, one is correctly worried about the scarring potential if very refined techniques and instruments are not used.
Therefore, in continuation of sharing my journey in BHT, I am tabulating some cases that show/prove excellent healing in the most exposed donor, i.e., beard donor including the hair on the chin and cheeks if correct methods are used.
Please let me know about your experiences. Doctors may contact me at poswalarvind@yahoo.co.in or whatsapp phone +919818201323 if you wish to further update your skills.
Standardised education and cooperation between veteran doctors is the need of the hour in this field.
Dr A
Case 1
This patient required beard redesigning.
This surgery was performed in early 2014.
He did not like the hair too high up on his cheeks. The hair were removed using the FUSE technique and the “expanding needle concept”.
Please note the immaculate healing without any visible scars on the cheeks.
Case 2 -
Perfomed in 2014, this young patient desired a youthful hairline but had a family history of norwood 5 level hairloss.
So, body and beard hair grafts were used alongwith scalp hair, to fill the scalp.
His skin is brown. A question asked is whether there will be visible scarring in colored patients.
Results speak for themselves.
These are immediately after extraction and 5 months post extraction pictures.
I am surprised how well it heals on the chin. Are the beard supposed to grow back after extraction? The guy who had 1566 grafts extracted have a full beard in the after photo.
no, they do not grow back, the patient probably had very thick beard density to begin with.
@Dr_Arvind Good job with the donor healing Dr. A !! :+1:
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I began taking an interest in every aspect of recycling when an area close to my hometown was destroyed by people dumping off trash and unwanted items. This area was down a long dirt road that was rarely used by anyone other than those looking for a scenic drive on a nice day. I took part in the clean-up effort and that was when my recycling obsession was sparked. From that point on, I have stopped along the road to pick up trash and dumped off items. Once I have these items, I do my best to break them down and recycle every element possible. This blog will show you all kinds of things about recycling that you may not already know.
FAQs of E-Waste
28 September 2015
Categories: , Blog
The rising amount of electronic waste is a concern that is growing each year. According to the United Nations, up to 50 million tons of electronic waste is added to the world's landfills annually. To help ensure that you are part of the solution and not the problem, here is what you need to know.
What Is Electronic Waste?
Electronic waste, or e-waste, refers to the unwanted electronics that are no longer used by consumers. For instance, when you buy a newer version of your mobile phone and toss the old one in the trash, it becomes e-waste. Due to constant advancements in technology, e-waste is consistently growing around the world.
What Can You Do with Your Waste?
Instead of tossing your old electronics in the trash, you have several options for dealing with them. One of your first options is to donate the electronics to a local organization. Many organizations repurpose the old electronics and use them to help consumers. For instance, old mobile phones that are donated to women's shelters are commonly given to domestic violence victims so that they have a way to contact emergency services if needed.
Another method of dealing with your e-waste is to take it to a recycler. E-waste recycling centers make sure your waste is properly disposed of, which means a decreased harmful impact on the environment. According to the website DoSomething.org, 356,274 pounds of copper and 75 pounds of gold can be reclaimed from 1 million mobile phones.
Some recycling programs have the option to repair old electronics and donate or sell them to individuals and organizations. Go to sites of local recycling centers to find the one closest to you.
How Can You Prepare for Recycling?
Before donating or recycling your electronics, it is important that you take steps to remove any identifying information from them. For instance, use your mobile phone's menu to reset the phone to its original factory settings. To remove your information from a computer, run an erasing application. There are several such applications available online to download and use on your computer.
Can You Reduce Your Waste?
One of the ways you can reduce your e-waste is to be smarter about your purchases. For instance, when purchasing a new mobile phone, pay close attention to the reviews. You want to find a phone that is most likely to last a few years. The longer you are able to hold onto your electronics, the last waste you create.
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World Museum of Mining
The World Museum of Mining is located in Butte, Montana. The purpose of the museum is to preserve a segment of American history which has heretofore been neglected.
Chartered in 1964 as a non-profit educational corporation, the Museum first opened its doors in July 1965. The site, an inactive silver and zinc mine named the Orphan Girl, includes some 22 acres of land.
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Is Working from Home For You?
Posted on 10/14/2015 in News
Working from home requires a lot of discipline because, let's face it, there are a lot of distractions at home: dishes that need to be washed, dogs that need to be walked, kids that need to be tended to, etc. Some people can find themselves doing everything but working when they're at home. We've rounded up the five ways to know if becoming one of our home-based travel agents is for you:
1. You are highly organized
This is a trait that cannot be understated while working from home. A successful work-from-home professional needs to be able to compartmentalize his or her time in order to maximize productivity. If you get easily distracted, often forget to finish assignments, or are a multi-tasker, you might need to brush up on your organization skills before committing to a full-time, work-from-home gig.
2. You work smarter, not harder
One of the best reasons to work from home is having a great work/life balance: you're not stuck in the car for a long commute or in endless meetings all day. But that fact is negated if you have to work harder to get things done at home. You will be very successful if you are always looking for a better process or way of doing something. If you need a little help, try starting with these tips:
- Track your time to find out how much time you're spending on various tasks
- Prioritize tasks and use organizational tools to save time
- Simplify client communication with regular follow-ups and updates via email marketing
3. You are results-driven
Working from home can feel aimless without measurable goals in place and a strategy to achieve them. Therefore, being results-driven is the ultimate key to success. Make S.M.A.R.T goals (specific, measurable, achievable, results-focused, time-bound) and create a process for measuring your success and a timeline for how often you'll assess success.
If you have these three qualities, or are willing to work on them, you are sure to be a great success working from home. But what are you going to do? Our independent travel agent programs might be a great fit for you; you can test it with this quick quiz.
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{%extends 'base.html'%}
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<img class="showroom"
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alt="">
<div>
<h1 class="text-center p-3">LOOKING FOR A CAR TO BUY?</h1>
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<i class="fas fa-3x mt-5 fa-chevron-down"></i>
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</div>
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
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<div class="card mb-5 bazaar-card">
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<div class="carousel-item active">
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<span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
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</a>
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<h5 class="card-title">{{car.make}} <span style="font-weight: 900;">{{car.model}}</span> </h5>
<p class="card-text">{{car.description}}</p>
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<li class="list-group-item"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Engine Size: </span>{{car.engine_size}} <strong>cc</strong></li>
<li class="list-group-item"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Price: KSH </span>{{car.price}}</li>
<li class="list-group-item"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Owner: </span>{{car.user}}</li>
<li class="list-group-item"><span style="font-weight: 600;">Email: </span>{{car.user.email}}</li>
</li>
</ul>
<!-- <div class="card-body">
<a href="#" class="card-link">Card link</a>
<a href="#" class="card-link">Another link</a>
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The Influence Of Jews In Yemeni Traditional Crafts
National Yemen
Jew jewelry in Yemeni Hands
By Tamjid Alkohali
There are many myths that narrate the story of the Yemenite Jews. Some think that the first coming of Jews to Yemen was in 900 BC after they received an order from King Solomon to search for gold and silver to build a structure.
In the tenth century, Islam had reached the judgment and granted the Jews freedom of religion for paying a tribute. Jews have been treated as second-class citizens and looked at as outcasts. In 1679 a large number of Jews were expelled from Yemen, but after one year they were asked to return in order to save the economy of Yemen from deterioration.
1882 was the first Jewish immigration to Palestine. The immigration continued increasing with the suffering of Jews in Yemen. In 2005, there were less than 200 Jews in Yemen. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '265', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.983384132385254}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '289372', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:JHDX4J4A5TIHRPANNMGHSC72PDPTK4VM', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:2e652519-df9e-4f4a-a934-9ac335be3a6b>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 11, 16, 2, 51, 2), 'WARC-IP-Address': '46.101.133.60', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:YKCYABRDKJYGS737FLLGNG4WBW7GNMM5', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:dc9ac50f-5e26-4b98-90db-05c912302dd2>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://nationalyemen.com/2015/01/18/the-influence-of-jews-in-yemeni-traditional-crafts/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:11c2170e-41e6-4d4c-aa6a-927845e374ec>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '497', 'url': 'https://nationalyemen.com/2015/01/18/the-influence-of-jews-in-yemeni-traditional-crafts/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-47\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-222.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08133834600448608', 'original_id': 'c6ccfcdbaa27984b5a770e60de6bb2e876d78c5b860da292de5e24db3455a687'} |
Far as I can tell, there isn't. Now, I support nominating Scalia for Chief Justice. He's a lightning rod with questionable ethics and and reams of extremist public statements, all atop a singularly unappealing public persona. So let's have that confirmation fight, bloody him (and his nominators) with his "gay agenda" paranoia and abiding affection for duck hunting, and then use his tenure to spotlight the sort of neanderthals arrayed against social progress. But let's not pretend that Bush will engage in a pragmatic quid pro quo benefitting Senate Democrats. He's shown no interest in in such substantive bipartisanship. In fact, the only likely scenario where such a deal emerges is if Bush gets mauled, Hillarycare-like, by his Social Security games and Democrats retake the Senate in 2006. And while I'm all for trying, let's get our, ahem, ducks in a row before we start shooting them down.
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Intelligent Voice Technology Provider Iflytek Does Not See Much AI Contribution to Profits in 2016
Yicai Global
/SOURCE : Yicai
(Yicai Global) March 28 -- Iflytek Co. [SHE:002230], a provider of intelligent voice and artificial intelligence products, reported a 13.9 percent increase in net profit to CNY484 million (USD70.2 million) in 2016 compared with the previous year, shows the company's latest financial data. However, Iflytek did not disclose the amount of profit it made from its artificial intelligence (AI) business.
As China's first listed company focusing on voice technology, Iflytek's market value has soared from CNY3 billion in 2008 when it was listed to CNY48 billion now. The company is regarded as a leading player among AI-related firms listed on the A share market.
Iflytek's 2016 annual report did not specify the contribution of AI to its total profit. However, the company achieved CNY3.32 billion in revenues last year, up 32.78 percent from a year ago, its financial data shows. Its top three revenue contributors were education products and services (27.44 percent), information engineering (25.07 percent) and telecom value-added products (12.17 percent), suggesting that Iflytek's main businesses remain to be software products, services and system integration.
A New York Times article published last February on the development of AI technology in China and the US called Iflytek an AI company focusing on speech recognition and understanding natural language, saying that Iflytek has won international competitions both in speech synthesis and translation between Chinese and English.
The company's investment in research and development as a percentage of sales revenue has been higher than 20 percent for years, said Liu Qingfeng, chairman and president of Iflytek, said at a meeting about company's 2016 online earnings. Iflytek's R&D efforts mainly focus on the research of core AI technologies and the application of such technologies in education, smart city, consumer products, public security, smart cars and call centers. In terms of its AI strategy, Iflytek has established a strong presence in the education sector, which is set to largely contribute to its profit growth.
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by Nick Valdez
Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon was refreshing. Setting new standards for book adaptations and animated films, Dragon somehow was everything you look for in an entertaining kid's movie. It had a tight hero's journey story (that was nuanced enough for adults and respected kids' intelligence), good looking visuals, a great voice cast, and it managed all of this while being cute as a button.
Good thing its sequel, How to Train Your Dragon 2, keeps the momentum going as it raises the bar for sequels going forward. With how prevalent inadequate sequels/prequels/reboots have been in Hollywood lately, I'd forgive you for fearing Dragon 2 would suffer the same fate. Luckily, we don't have to worry about that one bit. Cheap little throwaways are not going to cut it anymore.
We've got a contender for Best Animated Film of 2014 right here folks.
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Review: Lullaby
by Nick Valdez
Disease dramas are in a subgenre that certainly has more misses than hits. If not done in a certain way, you can turn an emotionally stirring story into a schmaltzy mess. Often films find it incredibly difficult to find a balance, but as such with real life, there's no rule book or true direction as to how to deal with death. Filming this very unnatural, awkward run through the five stages of grief could lead to a good film.
But when you condense that into two hours, there's not a lot of room explore. Sadly, that seems to be Lullaby in a nutshell. A film that really wants to walk through the five stages of grief when it really should jog at a brisk pace.
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Review: Maleficent photo
Review: Maleficent
by Nick Valdez
I've been anticipating Maleficent for a long time. As a big Disney fan, I don't usually like when Disney decides to make a live action version of one of their properties (101 Dalmations is worse than you remember, trust me), but casting Angelina Jolie as the titular witch was enough to pique my interest.
Trailer after trailer showed off how good Jolie looked in costume, Lana Del Rey's amazingly dark "Once Upon a Dream" cover, and even made me interested in the whole "this is the TRUE story" angle. But the entire time I've been worried that the actual film might not live up to the mountain of hype I'd made for myself thanks to the recent glut of lackluster gritty fairy tale reboots. Thankfully, the final product isn't too far off the mark.
Maleficent is like a fine ham and cheese quiche that might not have been baked long enough. It's still good, but some bites are a little more raw than others.
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Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West photo
Review: A Million Ways to Die in the West
by Nick Valdez
Seth MacFarlane's directorial debut, Ted, was a welcome surprise. It was a mix of a charming friendship, un-ironic love of the 80s, and gratuitous amount of raunchy humor. Like the best episodes of MacFarlane's Family Guy, it managed a fine balance between all of those things to provide a high quality product. With his sophomore effort, A Million Ways to Die in the West, I was hoping things would be a little less, well, sophomoric.
A Million Ways starts strong, but as it continues, it feels like a million years as joke after joke is thrown out with hopes that one of them works. As jokes continually fail, and extraneous scenes pile onto the film's near two hour run, I soon realized I'd rather die in a million different ways than continue watching this juvenile mess.
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Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past photo
Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past
by Nick Valdez
The X-Men movies have a troubled past. Three out of the six previous films have been critically ripped apart. Yet in spite of their dubious quality, each of the X-Films have done extremely well commercially. Basically, no matter how bad we might say the franchise has gotten, there's still a desire to see each one. I know I still watch these movies hoping they'll nail it someday.
But where does that leave the seventh film in the X-Men series, Days of Future Past? After rebooting the franchise, rebooting Wolverine's origins, changing directors multiple times (and will sadly have to do that once again thanks to recent unfortunate events), and creating a continuity so convoluted no one knows what's going on anymore, Days of Future Past has quite the mountain to climb.
Luckily for both fans of the X-Men and fans of comic book movies in general, Days of Future Past says "F**k all that" and delivers the best X-Men film to date.
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Review: Don Peyote photo
Review: Don Peyote
by Nick Valdez
Whenever someone mentions Dan Fogler, I'm suddenly interested. He's a comedic dynamo who always seems to choose interesting or niche projects. Directing his second film since 2009, Fogler displays acting ability that he really hasn't be able to show off yet. With Don Peyote's strange, but cool tale, Fogler has a grand spectrum of insanity.
It's just a shame that the rest of the film falls apart.
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Review: Neighbors photo
Review: Neighbors
by Nick Valdez
I had completely written off Neighbors. Coming off of Seth Rogen's last starring role in This is the End, the first trailer for Neighbors underwhelmed me. I've gotten used to Rogen acting, writing, and directing his own films so I was a little concerned when Rogen placed himself in someone else's film. Was his lack of major involvement going to impact the overall quality of the film? Should you expect less because Rogen didn't write a lot of it himself?
Thankfully not. Even with some groan inducers, Neighbors is a little smart. It just needs to reign it in a bit.
[This review was originally posted as part of our coverage of South by Southwest 2014. It is being reposted to coincide with the film's wide release.]
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Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 photo
Review: The Amazing Spider-Man 2
by Nick Valdez
The first Amazing Spider-Man failed to live up to the "Amazing" in its title. But while it wasn't perfect, it certainly had potential to become something great. Like with most superhero franchises, there's always a promise of better stories once the origin is out of the way. Despite some troubling advertising the last few months (the barrage of trailers, the announcement of yearly sequels and spin-offs), I still found myself looking forward to the The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
When done in an amazing, spectacular, or superior fashion, Spider-Man movies could be the best comic book films out there. More so than any other superhero, Peter Parker is relatable. He's just a goofy guy who's in way over his head sometimes. And the same thing can be said of this movie.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is in way over its head. When power is handled irresponsibly, you get a fun but awkward web of a film.
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Review: Brick Mansions
by Nick Valdez
Brick Mansions is a complete surprise. I had no prior knowledge of it going in (didn't know it was a remake of the French film, District 13), and decided to finally see it when one of the trailers managed to grab my attention. I had completely expected generic action, maybe some cool guy lines from the late Paul Walker, and maybe it'd be fun.
What I didn't expect was how much fun I'd have. It's grandiose, silly, but most importantly, it never once loses an ounce of sincerity. Brick Mansions is stacked, and that's a fact. Ain't holding nothing back.
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Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier photo
Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
by Nick Valdez
Captain America: The First Avenger is my favorite film out of the Marvel line up (which is why I claimed this review). Captain America has always been my personal favorite Marvel character due to a mix of that cool Saturday morning cartoon aired on Fox Kids, his stance during the Civil War comic event, and how fun he is to play in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. Beyond that, Steve Rogers has always been a character that spoke to me personally.
When stripped of the Americana facade and super human strength, you have a stagnant man within a world that's constantly changing around him. A real fish out of water. In a post-Avengers world, when it seemed like we'd finally get an America movie that delivered on the promise of the first, we're left with The Winter Soldier
That's not to say it's devoid of entertainment. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is like a wiffleball bat; a fun toy with no real weight to it.
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Review: Mr. Peabody & Sherman photo
Review: Mr. Peabody & Sherman
by Nick Valdez
When Dreamworks first announced their plans to turn Peabody's Improbable History (a short which ran during The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show featuring Mr. Peabody and his boy companion, Sherman) into a full length animated film, I was a little worried that my once beloved cartoon (I used to wake up at three in the morning in order to catch reruns of it on Cartoon Network) would be run through the standard generic animated blender everything seems to go through now. Little did I know I would be so, so wrong.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman is remarkably smart, adorable, educational, referential, heartwarming, effervescent, hilarious, and even a little rude. But most of all, it's improbably entertaining.
Which is exactly the way I like my Peabody.
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Review: The LEGO Movie photo
Review: The LEGO Movie
by Nick Valdez
Since its first delightful teaser over a year ago, I have been eagerly anticipating The LEGO Movie more so than any other movie releasing in 2014. I was instantly drawn to the idea of seeing the very Lego sets I played with as a kid (and still play with on occasion) recreated in a loving stop motion/CG film. I'm just not quite sure why I was so excited in the first place. Is it nostalgia or some kind of attempt to rekindle my lost childhood? Now that I've grown up, should I completely forget things that once made me happy in order to fit in with the professional world?
Wait, am I really thinking about all of this? It's The LEGO Movie we're talking about here! Strange thing is, The LEGO Movie actually builds on these philosophical dilemmas in an intelligent, wacky, and surprisingly sophisticated manner.
So yeah, everything is awesome.
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12:00 PM on 09.03.2013
New Releases, week of 9/7/13: Sabrina's Cat Edition
When the Sabrina the Teenage Witch show aired as part of ABC's TGIF lineup, I thought it was the neatest show (but Boy Meets World had it beat, hands down) since the animatronic cat on the program was named Salem and was voic...
Nick Valdez
Review: The Dark Knight Rises photo
Review: The Dark Knight Rises
by Geoff Henao
The final film in a trilogy has so much at stake going for it. Not only do they have to tie everything together in a satisfactory way, they must do so in a way that justifies everything that has been built up towards the conclusion. With Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, the stakes were raised so highly, both canonically and critically with 2008's The Dark Knight. While the film ended in a manner that set itself up for a third and final entry to Nolan's brilliant take on Batman mythos, it's hard to deny that Heath Ledger's spectacular portrayal of Batman's greatest nemesis, The Joker, would be hard to follow.
Did The Dark Knight Rises bring proper closure to everything Nolan and company has pieced together? More importantly, was it better than The Dark Knight? The answer may surprise you.
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Review: What to Expect When You're Expecting
by Matthew Razak
Sometimes you just have to put your romantic comedy hat on for a movie. There are some movies that will only work if you forget about real issues and emotions and facts and remember that people coming to the film are just looking for a laugh. What to Expect When You're Expecting is one of these movies. Unfortunately, even when you put your romantic comedy hat on it isn't that funny.
If you'd like a review that ignores the general idiocy of the film because it's meant to be a comedy then this isn't for you. I'm perfectly comfortable ignoring some idiocy in order to have a good time (just check out my Battleship review), but I have to be rewarded with a good time to do it.
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Bargain Basement reopens for business
Big savings on end-of-line stock
Cash'n'Carrion Whether you're an impoverished student living on pot noodle and boiled cardboard, a cash-conscious savvy shopper with an eye for a bargain or just plain tight, there's certainly something for you in our reopened Bargain Basement.
This candle-lit cellar of low-cost kit - also known locally as Cheap'n'Cheerful - is where discontinued lines end their days, and where the canny buyer can pick up El Reg apparel and other goodies for next to nothing.
The best get-it-while-you-can offer currently available is a three-in-one deal encompassing a Reg Mini logo shirt, Reg London shirt and Reg mug for an incredible £8.49 (£9.98 inc VAT).
The mug, btw, is the old red-on-white classic, now superseded by the all-new white-on-red model.
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Transient v Resident Medulla Review
Album. Released 2001.
BBC Review
...'organic' is not a word normally applied to electronic music, but with Archer, it...
Bill Tilland 2002
Electroacoustic composer Martin Archer uses melodic fragments and rhythmic patterns, but his music seldom builds to a climax or resolves itself in any sort of superficially coherent fashion. Instead, Archer offers the attraction of unusual timbres and textures, and an introspective atmosphere that mixes fragile, sometimes austere beauty with the stuff of hallucination and nightmare - quite often in the same piece. Archer's compositional processes, on this and other of his recordings, involve a bewildering assortment of intuitive studio additions, subtractions and manipulations of source material (emphasis on the "intuitive"). Somewhat tongue in cheek (one would hope), Archer relates that the foundation of one piece on Medulla was generated by "kicking the violin around the studio floor and occasionally poking it with a bow."
This latest collaboration between Archer and longtime associate Chris Bywater (I'm assuming that Bywater is the "Transient," and Archer the "Resident") features the thirty-eight minute "Culm," which starts out with tribal hand-percussion and a dense cloud of mysterioso electronic effects, and then after roughly half its length introduces a haunting, raga-like theme featuring Kamalbir Singh on violin. Fans of Popol Vuh (especially "In The Gardens of Pharao") might notice parallels in the first half of "Culm," but the introduction of the raga element is a totally unexpected delight. With co-credits for electronics and processing, as well as sopranino sax (Archer) and percussion (Bywater), the two principals are certainly capable of going it alone -- as illustrated by the short but gorgeously ethereal "Fimbriata." But Archer's preference is for collaborative composition, and on Medulla he also solicits, treats and integrates recorded submissions from trumpeter Derek Saw, electric/acoustic guitarist Benjamin Bartholomew and the previously mentioned Singh. Saw's poignantly wispy muted trumpet line is inserted, to excellent effect, into what Archer accurately represents as an 'electronic rainforest' on "Claviform," the CD's opening track.
Elsewhere, on the somewhat more aggressive "Squamosa," the end product is the sum of two independent Archer organ tracks, combined by Bywater, who also adds percussion and processing. Then Bartholomew's multiple electric guitar lines are superimposed, together with a touch of Saw's trumpet. Like much of Archer's work, the initially inpenetrable mass of sound resolves itself as it develops, and ultimately becomes another satisfying aesthetic statement. 'Organic' is not a word normally applied to electronic music, but with Archer, it seems to fit.
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The down-home sounds of banjos, fiddles, tambourines and mandolins will fill the air in Emmitsburg, Md., Sunday, July 7, as the music that entertained soldiers during the Civil War is re-created in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
The concert will feature bands known for playing authentic Civil War-era music - Hancock String Band and the Susquehanna Travelers Band.
The Hancock String Band - a group with 11 instruments and a four-part harmony - performs the tune "Lorena" during their set, a song Confederate generals banned during the war because it made the men homesick, according to a press release.
Civil War re-enactors and members of the 87th Pennsylvanian Volunteer Infantry, the Susquehanna Travelers Band got started playing music around the campfire at re-enactments, according to their website.
The event takes place at the National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton and is a continuation of the commemoration of the Battle of Gettysburg.
"Civil War history is rich at the shrine," said Rob Judge, executive director of Seton Heritage Ministries, in a press release. "The war came to Emmitsburg in late June 1863, with the armies of the Potomac and Northern Virginia succeeding each other in St. Joseph's Valley."
Guests are invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnic food to the concert. There will also be food vendors in the area for those who wish to purchase dinner.; 717-637-3736, ext. 183; Twitter: @ESkpetiford
If you go
What: Civil War era concert.
Where: National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Emmitsburg, Md.
When: Sunday, July 7 at 4 p.m.
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The Post-Pandemic Evolution of Cruise Lines
On Behalf of | Oct 28, 2020 | Personal injury
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt long after it finally ends, with or without a vaccine. Terms such as “social distancing” and others are now cemented in our vernacular. However, the change goes beyond societal terms and norms. Businesses in every industry will change with the times as well.
The first indication that the coronavirus made its way to the United States involved news coverage of cruise ships forced to dock, but not disembark passengers who contracted the illness. Since that revelation, business in the industry stagnated with many lawsuits filed by sick passengers and grieving loved ones.
Cruise ship lines are promising a comeback. However, promises of lower prices and fewer passengers will not be enough to satisfy fearful customers. Simply put, it will not be business as usual, as these businesses will have to change to reflect these unprecedented times.
A Commitment to Coming aboard Safely
Upon entering the ship, passengers could potentially have their temperature taken before boarding and be subject to medical screenings once the vessel sails. Another option is to have passengers undergo testing for COVID-19 before the trip and provide documentation that would allow them entry.
A significant segment of cruise ship passengers involves seniors. Post-pandemic, older people are now considered high risk of contracting the coronavirus and other afflictions. Many cruise lines took that step prior to ceasing operations in March with passengers 70 and older required to have letters from doctors verifying that they were fit to travel. That policy could continue.
Cruise ships are best known for their buffets that feature a wide array of food and drink. In a new era, passengers will not be serving themselves and potentially transmitting serious illnesses of any form. Those responsibilities will be left to staff adorned with masks and gloves. This is not necessarily a new phenomenon as past outbreaks have required these types of adjustments, just not permanently.
Beyond the buffet area, the overall cleanliness of a ship must now take center stage with processes and procedures that maintain the highest standards of hygiene. Washing and disinfecting high-touch surfaces are not enough. Encouraging customers to regularly wash their hands and make antibacterial gel readily available could mean the difference between safety and tragedy.
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The Perfect Tear By Connie Lansberg
Genre: YA Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Summary from Amazon.com:Eleanor is a singer. Her songs keep nature in balance, but when they are stolen from her, a grey mist descends and her world fails to thrive. This timid orphan is thrust into a course of action she never asked for, nor envisioned. Set against a backdrop of abandonment, loss and betrayal, she must find her way through strange and dangerous landscapes in her desperate search for the Perfect Tear, a dark crystal which holds the future of her world. But, Eleanor is no savior. She is a simple girl with strong instincts and she must learn to trust them. Just like the notes of song must connect to create a melody, Eleanor must discover the connections needed to create the harmony required to truly save her world.
Lerion forced his lips into a smile and nodded politely in an effort to feign interest in the creations of his fellow novices. Their excited chatter and heightened energy pulsed the length of the room. They seemed foolish to him, but he managed to conceal his disdain. Social transparency in his society was the norm, but hiding his feelings from the collective was something he excelled at. It was his secret talent. Today however, he struggled to maintain a pleasant countenance.
The novices were allowed to see their competitionfor only a few moments and Lerion extended his glance the length of the narrow corridor again. He had to be certain he would win. Only the best young designers were invited to enter the Creation Contest, and then, only once. Lerion knew this was his only chance to achieve his dream, and he forced himself to scan the room once more. He was searching for any design that might pose a threat, but after another quick reconnaissance, nothing he saw gave him cause for concern. He took a quick, shuddering breath and lifted his chin. Why had he been so nervous?He felt his energy uncoil and his step became light. He'd worked for this opportunity almost from the day his two co-creators sung him into being - he deserved to win.
Lerion clenched his jaw. The arrogance of his desire was not lost on him. The Creation Contest was much more than a matter of whose design was the most innovative or which novice showed the most initiative. The winning design had to uphold and even surpass the standards of creation set by the Ancient Ones. It had to enhance the evolution of their society as a whole. Had he achieved that?
He stopped in front of a nine-dimensional hologram and pretended to be intrigued with the design, while he slyly studied its creator, a feminine-biased novice named Lalycri. The energy emanating from her shimmered against his outer layer and he involuntarily vibrated in response. Her eyes lit up and he swallowed hard. Her animated smile caused her nose to crinkle and her energy swelled in gentle waves. It undulated softly through him. He felt himself surrender to the pleasure of it and immediately blocked its flow. He would not allow himself to respond. This was not the time to reveal his attraction to her, and he nodded curtly. He had to admit, he found Lalycri appealing and she peaked his curiosity. On any other day, he might have encouraged her, but this kind of personal chemistry often led to a desire to co-create and he was not about to break the rules. Not today, anyway.
Novices were forbidden to form creative partnerships of any kind. Only those having twelve activated strands of DNA were allowed the privilege of co-creation. Lerion sighed. He had activated only seven strands of the twelve that lay within each of his cells. More than all the other novices, but still, not enough.
Determined to ignore her vibrant energy, Lerion gave Lalycri a small nod. He leaned in and studied the extremely unusual construct while she beamed at him. He couldn’t work out what its purpose must be, and he stiffened. It had never occurred to him Lalcyri might be competition. How had she managed such a complicated design?He made sure to keep his voice polite rather than accusatory. "I had no idea you'd been selected."
Lalycri tilted her head and her smiled faltered. "Well, I was."Her tone had a sharp edge and he realized he had insulted her. "Certainly. I'm not surprised."
"You sound surprised." Lalycri's voice was stern but the twinkle returned to her eyes. "I'm grateful for the honor. It's definitely the most daring design I've produced so far." She lowered her lashes an her mouth grew firm. "I would give anything to win. I long to pit myself against Tsera."
Her words came fast and her voice had a ferocious quality that startled him. Lerion blinked and looked sharply at her. They all wanted the honor of winning. However, it had not occurred to him there might be others who desired to win as much as he did. Nobody could want this as much as he did. His every cell informed him being Main Creator was his destiny, and the idea she could snatch it from him was ludicrous.
He felt his vibration quicker, but Lalycri did not seem to notice the change in his demeanor. She smiled brightly, as if she had not just made a startling admission, and began to prattle without taking a breath.
Epically fascinating! I've never quite read a book like this that blends a futuristic sci-fi world and medieval times! Completely original, the author weaves a spellbinding web as she immerses you into her flawless worldbuilding. The characters were each unique with palpable emotions and complex personalities. The story is somewhat like a sci-fi angels vs demons set in medieval times if that makes any sense. Sounds strange, but the author completely pulls it off! With plenty of intrigue and tons of plot twists, I was left sitting on the edge of my seat as I devoured the vivid descriptions the tale spooned out. This was a REALLY great read and I can definitely see how they're making it a movie next year - can't wait to see it!
Connie Lansberg is a singer/songwriter and now author based in Melbourne Australia. She’s had her original songs placed in some of Australia’s best loved TV shows that play around the world and The Connie Lansberg Quartet is a fixture in the Melbourne jazz scene. Her most recent original musical project, Alone with Bees, performs her songs written especially for The Perfect Tear. This is Connie’s first novel and the movie is coming.She also received several grants from the Victoria Council of the Arts for the development of mobile phone games that she created.Connie joined the Melbourne Writers Group in 2010 to work on ideas and scripts and during this time the idea for The Perfect Tear began to develop and take shape. She continued her education by taking scriptwriting classes at the Australian Film and Television School in Melbourne and later, worked extensively with Marcy Kennedy on the book. She has two more stories to complete The Perfect Tear Trilogy and is hoping to have the second book finished by 2016.“The first thing anybody tells you about this business is to say what makes you unique and different, but I couldn’t and the very idea of it never sat well with me and after much deliberation, I finally realized why.Because, I’m not unique or different–I’m exactly like you and I love that.We each have a unique filter through which we interpret the world, and with this filter in place, I write stories and songs and you might find them surprising or intriguing or confronting, you may relate or you may not. They may make you laugh and sometimes, even cry.You may or may not understand what I’m trying to say and you may not understand me, however, rest assured, once we get past the filters, at our core, we are wonderfully and beautifully, exactly the same.”
———————————————————————————————————————--In 2017, Little Studio Films, is planning to release "The Perfect Tear" as a feature length film. Be on the look out for this incredible story to hit the big screens! For more information check out:
Fatal Identity The Fatal Series- Book 10
By Marie Force
Every family has its secrets…
As the first anniversary of her marriage to Vice President Nick Cappuano approaches, Lieutenant Sam Holland is dreaming of Bora Bora—sun, sand and a desperately needed break from the DC grind. But real life has a way of intervening, and Sam soon finds herself taking on one of the most perplexing cases of her career.
Government worker Josh Hamilton begs Sam to investigate his shocking claim that his parents stole him from another family thirty years ago. More complicated still, his “father” is none other than the FBI director. When a member of Josh’s family is brutally murdered, Sam begins to question how deep this cover-up goes. Is it possible the revered director was part of a baby-napping ring and that others involved are also targets?
With a killer intent on deadly revenge and her team still reeling from a devastating loss, Sam’s plate is full—and when Nick and their son, Scotty, take ill, is her dream of a tropical anniversary celebration in peril too?
“I love you. I’m sorry I brought this situation into our home, and I’m sorry I had to say no to you for the first time ever.”His lips curved into a small, sexy smile. “You’ll make it up to me.” He leaned in close to brush his lips against her ear. “On your back, with your legs on my shoulders, your ass red from my hand and—”“Stop it,” she said, shivering from the desire that instantly heated her core. “Right now. I’ve got to go to work.”Chuckling, he released her. “Hurry home, and be careful out there, Samantha. Whoever decided to kill the FBI director won’t think twice about killing again.”“I’m always careful. Don’t worry.”“Right. You may as well tell me not to breathe.”“Don’t do that. I need you alive and well when I get home so I can make it up to you.”“It’s not fair. You’re suspended and you still have to work. I was sort of looking forward to having you all to myself for a few days. Should’ve known it was too much to hope for. But you’ll pay. Yes, you will. When you get home and when we get to Bora Bora at the end of the month. You will pay.”Smiling, she kissed him again. “Can’t wait.”“Me either.” He stole another kiss from her. “Love you so much. Please be careful.”“I will. I promise. Hold down the fort, and keep an eye on our guest.” She patted his chest one last time and left the kitchen, deciding in that moment to keep the news about Troy from Josh until she knew more. They’d keep it on lockdown so there was no way he’d hear it online or anywhere else until they were ready to release the news.
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Marie Force is the New York Times bestselling author of contemporary romance, including the Gansett Island Series, which has sold more than 2.2 million books, and the Fatal Series from Harlequin Books, which has sold more than 1 million books. In addition, she is the author of the Green Mountain Series from Berkley Publishing as well as the new erotic romance Quantum Series, written under the slightly modified name of M.S. Force.
Her goals in life are simple—to finish raising two happy, healthy, productive young adults, to keep writing books for as long as she possibly can and to never be on a flight that makes the news.
There is magic beneath the mundane and in The Dragon in the Garden, Siobhan Orsini witnesses it all. No lie can fool her, no glamour or illusion can cloud her Sight. She sees through them all and wishes she could close her eyes. Returning to face her past, Siobhan inherits her grandparents’ house in California’s wine country. She encounters a talking dragon, a hot fallen angel, a demon lord, a Valkyrie, and, oh yes, her ex-boyfriend. And that is just in the first twenty-four hours.
It’s time to find out why she has this power.
Siobhan seeks out the Oracle and learns that only her Sight can help mankind navigate the travails of an ancient war. Our world is the prize in a battle between the dragons, who would defend us, and Lucifer’s fallen angels, who seek to take the Earth for themselves. Using her gift, she will have to make a choice that will decide humanity’s future.
EXCERPT
Chapter One
The memory has haunted me for years.
In the middle of a bright California summer, dark days came. My mother and grandparents spoke in hushed, serious voice, arguing about my absent father. Was it my fault he left? A soft whimper escaped my throat and my eyes burned. I needed a hug, but no one paid any attention to me that day. So I ran away to the refuge of my grandparents’ garden where I could hide among its statues and flowers.
My eyes lingered over the familiar garden ornaments. I passed the old birdbath, the statues of gnomes, and a cheerful squirrel. I ran one hand over the stone deer. Its brown paint had faded from years under the sun. Walking with quick steps down the gravel path, I made my way to the center of the garden, my special spot where my favorite statue waited.
A gnarled apricot tree grew there. Right now it was covered with tiny green apricots. Later in the summer the sweet fruit I loved would ripen. I would get to pick them with my parents, no, just with my mother. My lip trembled. My father wouldn’t be here.
The bright-green dragon lay curled at the foot of the apricot tree, partially covered by vines. My mother called the color jade green—the same shade as my eyes. As a child she talked to all the statues, but I only spoke to the dragon. I named her Daisy. Sitting down next to her now, the tears welled up at last, spilling over my cheeks. I wrapped my arms around my legs, making myself into a little ball of five year old misery.
“Child, why are you sad?” said a woman’s voice.
“Who said that?” I asked, wiping my cheek.
“I did.”
“Where are you?” I stood and peered at the plants and statues around me.
“Right here.”
“Are not,” I retorted.
A soft laugh filled the air and the woman spoke again. “Perhaps you are right. Easy enough to fix, I suppose.”
The breeze picked up. The space beneath the apricot tree shimmered. Ripples warped the air like the heat over the barbecue when my father cooked. The sweet notes of wind chimes filled the yard. Grandma and Grandpa didn’t have any wind chimes. I whirled around to find the noise.
Under the branches appeared an enormous green dragon’s head. My mouth opened in a silent O and I held my breath.
“Now child,” said the woman. “I won’t hurt you.” Her voice came from the dragon’s mouth.
I opened my lips to scream, but no noise came. Backing away, I bumped into the hammock and froze.
“I don’t eat little girls.” The dragon’s huge golden eyes twinkled.
“How did you know what I was thinking?” I whispered.
“I am a good guesser. Besides, I know I must be very big to you.” The voice sounded kind, like my teacher’s.
“As big as Daddy’s car,” I said.
“Oh, I am much bigger than that,” the dragon said, smiling. Her teeth shone white and enormous. “I’m only showing you a bit of me right now.”
“Where is the rest of you?”
“All around us.”
“Why aren’t you smooshing everything?” I gestured around the garden.
The dragon chuckled. “You are a smart little thing.” The jeweled head tilted to one side. “You would be Siobhan, yes?”
“You said it right. Sha-vauhn.” Everyone messed up my name. I wished on every first star, each night, for a different name— a normal name.
“I am not smooshing the garden because I am not quite here. Only part of me is here. What year is it?”
“It’s 1993, Daisy.”
The dragon stirred. “It’s too early, child. The prophecy says I should not be here yet.”
“What’s a prophecy?” My tongue stumbled on the unfamiliar word.
“It’s a prediction of what might happen in the future.”
“You mean like the weather? My daddy says the guys on TV mess up all the time,” I said.
Daisy chuckled, a low rumble deep in her throat. “Your father is not wrong.”
“What does it say will happen?”
“I am supposed to meet someone, but our appointment is for later,” said Daisy.
“Can’t you stay here until the appointment? I won’t let you be late,” I said.
Daisy frowned. “It’s a secret appointment. There are some people I don’t want to know about the person I’m supposed to meet.”
“Bad people?” I asked. “Is that why you hide and pretend to be a statue?”
“Have you ever had a friend,” asked Daisy, “a friend who misbehaved and needed a break?”
I knew all about that. “Sure, Danny hit Carter. They’re friends, but they both wanted the bike, and wouldn’t take turns. Miss Sarah told them to go sit down and have a time out.”
“Miss Sarah must be very smart,” said the dragon. “As it happens, friends and I have been fighting over something and we needed a time out.”
“Are there more dragons?” I asked.
“Yes, many more.”
“Are there dragons hiding in any other statues?”
The jeweled head moved slowly back and forth. “No, just me. The others cannot pass between worlds.”
“Why just you?”
“I have a job to do,” said Daisy. Her voice sounded sad.
“Are the dragons good guys?” I asked, scooting closer to Daisy and laying a hand on her warm nose. I didn’t want her to be sad.
Daisy snorted, tickling my hand so I giggled. “Yes, dear one, I think we are good.”
“But, if you come back now it would be bad?” My laughter faded.
“It would be very bad indeed, but later, when it is right, I can return.” Daisy sighed.
“I always knew you were real.” I straightened my shoulders. I had found a dragon in hiding.
“Really?” Daisy asked.
“You’re the only statue I named,” I answered. “Nobody fools me.”
The breeze picked up again. Daisy sniffed the wind. “Siobhan, I’m afraid it’s time for me to leave or the bad things will happen. Will you be all right?”
“My daddy’s not coming back, is he?” My worries returned.
Her scales sparkled in the bright sunshine. “No, he is not coming back to your mother although he will visit you and your brother.”
I sighed. “Daisy, will I ever see you again?”
The golden eyes twinkled. “Yes, I believe you will.”
The air warped again. I tried to watch, but a bird warbled close by, and I turned my head. When I glanced back at the apricot tree, the air shimmered and the small, dragon statue lay where Daisy’s head had been. “But, Daisy, who were you fighting with?”
A whisper floated on the breeze. I bent closer to the statue to listen. “That can’t be right,” I said to the empty garden.
On that day everything changed, especially me.
My name is Siobhan Isabella Orsini. It would be twenty years before I saw my dragon again.
About the Author
Erika is a sixth generation San Franciscan of Irish descent. She attended the University of California at Davis and completed degrees in Medieval History and Biological Sciences. A lifelong lover of books and a scribbler of many tales from a young age (her first story was completed at age five) she turned to writing full-time in 2011.
On a personal level she loves spicy food, twilight, dark chocolate (with sea salt-yum!) and nickel slots at Vegas. Erika lives for time with friends, a nice glass of red wine, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” & “Doctor Who” and good conversation. Her favorite things to do are running, cooking, reading, needlework, gardening… and of course, writing. Erika's music of choice is heavy metal. To pick her out in a lineup you should know that she is very short, fairly loud, and has dark eyebrows. The rest, as her hero Anne McCaffrey once said in her bio, “is subject to change without notice”.
Erika resides in Northern California with her incredibly hot husband, their three amazing kids, and their chocolate Labrador named Selkie. To reach Erika regarding her books, wine recommendations, or to debate which Iron Maiden album is the best (clearly, it’s Brave New World), you can find her online at www.erikagardner.com.
Dark Little Secrets By A.K. Kruse Genre: Romance
When Tad Stevens meets Alexandria Lane, their attraction is undeniable – but Alexandria is sure that their different backgrounds mean they could never be together. And just when she starts to change her mind, she discovers something Tad has been hiding, and her doubts come crashing back.Even though their passion drives them back into each other’s arms, more secrets from Tad’s past could make them lose everything.Will Tad’s secrets tear them apart? Or will the fire between them be enough to let their love grow?Find out in book one of the Beholder Series:Dark Little Secrets!
Alexandria sat in stony silence while Philosophy Guy, as she was now beginning to think of him, stood sputtering across the table.She apologized. What else did he want?While she waited for him to either walk away or respond, she studied him as she would a painting. It was a habit she’d gotten into, especially when she was knee-deep in schoolwork. He was perfectly symmetrical, except the slight crookedness of his teeth and the diagonal fall of his dark blonde hair over his forehead. Beauty lay in symmetry.She took in his broad shoulders and narrow waist. He filled out his jeans nicely, with the fabric clinging to his hips and thighs nicely. The cuffs of his button-down were rolled halfway to his elbows, and his forearms were well-muscled and lightly haired. He had strong, graceful hands.She registered all these things clinically, but then a very non-clinical thought popped to mind, which made her almost gasp with the intrusion.I wonder how those hands would feel against my skin….
A.K. Kruse is a romance writer who has written several novels in addition to the Beholder series. She loves romance of all kinds, because it appeals to people from all walks of life. In addition to writing romance, she loves to research romance novels, and even teaches a college course in popular romance, writing, and research.She lives with her husband, three girls (who she hopes wait until they’re teenagers to read her books), and various pets. She enjoys swimming, art, reading, and good T.V.
Wagon Train Sisters by Shirley Kennedy GENRE: Historical Romance
After the death of her abusive husband, Sarah Gregg is free to join her family along with thousands of others in the nation’s westward march for gold. But in the middle of the hard journey, Sarah’s younger sister, Florrie, disappears. Devastated by the family’s failed attempts to find her missing sister, Sarah now wants only to settle into a quiet, uneventful life when she reaches California . . .
But Jack McCoy, a drifter and one-time gambler riding along their wagon train, sees so much more for Sarah. In the roaring mining town of Gold Creek his attentive persistence points Sarah toward new vistas. Then unexpected news of Florrie arrives—and it’s worse than anyone expected. But driven by a new hopefulness, Sarah seeks help from Jack, despite his troubled past. The two have traveled a rough road together, and only their hearts can tell them where they are headed . . .
“Has anybody seen my sister?”Lined along the bank, the ladies of the train dutifully halted their labors. “Haven’t seen her since this morning.”
“Haven’t seen her all day.”
“Maybe she ran away.”Everyone tittered at that last remark. After weeks living in the forced closeness of a wagon train, they knew each other well, and in some cases, better than they wished. Sarah was known to be the hard worker of the family. Her sister-in-law, Becky, was the one with the sharp tongue. Florrie was the quiet one, hadn’t made many friends, and stayed close to their wagon. She’d be the last person in the world who’d run off. Besides, where would she go? Two days ago they’d left the last vestiges of civilization at Fort Hall and were now in a land where rivers raged, wild animals roamed, forests stretched to the horizon and beyond.`So where was Florrie? Come to think of it, Sarah hadn’t seen her since right after they stopped for the day, and that was hours ago. It wasn’t like her, but she must be visiting at one of the wagons. She’d surely appear in time for supper. Nothing to worry about.
Shirley Kennedy was born and raised in Fresno, California. In her early career as an author, Shirley wrote traditional Regency romances, one for Ballantine, the rest for Signet. Later on, she branched into other genres. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her older daughter, Dianne, and Brutus and Sparky, her two editorial assistants who love to nap in the sunshine next to her computer while she works on her next book. Please visit Shirley at shirleykennedy.com, or follow her Twitter account @ladyk360, or on Facebook at facebook.com/shirley.kennedy.52.
In this gritty, fast-paced debut thriller, an ex-con biker chick turned law-abiding citizen risks everything to save her new life—and confront the demons of her past.Shea Stevens is biker royalty. Her father was the president of the Confederate Thunder Motorcycle Club. Under his watchful eye, she learned how to pick locks, disable alarms, and hot-wire cars like a pro. But all that is ancient history. Or so she thought . . .After a stint in prison, Shea has worked hard to make a quiet, happy life for herself in Arizona. She spends her time bonding with her big-city girlfriend and running her bike shop, Iron Goddess Custom Cycles, with her dedicated team of misfits. But when one of her employees is shot and three of her specially commissioned bikes are stolen, Shea’s new life collides with the criminal underworld she tried to leave behind.Shea knows better than to trust the police. So, with her Glock on her hip, she takes the investigation into her own hands. Shea’s search for the bike thieves leads her straight to her father’s old gang—and her estranged sister, whose young daughter has been kidnapped by a rival club. The last thing Shea wants is to be caught in the middle of a war—but if she learned one thing from her old man, it’s that when someone comes at you, you push back. Hard. And that’s exactly what she’s going to do.
Chapter 1Sparks exploded from the left footpeg of Shea Stevens’ motorcycle as it scraped against the pavement. She was going too fast through the curves that twisted up the south side of Sycamore Mountain. The road was dark—daybreak still an hour away. Getting up close and personal with an elk at sixty miles an hour would be disastrous. But Shea was in a hurry.She tried to convince herself the call from the security company was another false alarm—a rat looking for a crumb, or maybe a glitch in the sensors. But she couldn’t shake the fear that someone had broken into the shop. If the three custom motorcycles they’d finished the night before were stolen, it would be a quarter-million-dollar loss.Please, God, let it be another false alarm.The cold air blasting through the vents in her jacket caused her teeth to chatter. In her rush to alleviate her paranoia, she’d thrown on her jeans and T-shirt from the night before. Didn’t bother with a bra. Her only precaution had been the .40-caliber Glock she’d slipped into a pancake holster at the small of her back.Fifteen minutes later, her bike crested the hill and reached what the residents of Sycamore Springs, Arizona, call Olde Towne—a mile-long strip of locally owned shops including a café, a pharmacy, an antiques shop, and Iron Goddess Custom Cycles—her destination.She screeched to a stop in front of the cycle shop, killed the engine, and ripped off her helmet. The pungent scent of creosote mixed with dead skunk made her nose crinkle. Moonlight reflected off the desert dust on the plate glass window, obscuring the Iron Goddess logo. Her gaze shifted left to the shop’s front door. Shards of glass clung to the doorframe like broken teeth.“Fuck.” Her hands tightened into fists. She wanted to beat someone.She climbed off the bike and scanned the street, hoping to spot the intruder skulking through Olde Towne. Fifty feet away at the Kokopelli Café, a Coca-Cola sign flickered on and off. Across the street, a security gate sliced the blue light of a fifties-era jukebox glowing from within the antiques shop. The rest of Olde Towne’s shops slumbered in darkness.She dug a flashlight out of her tank bag and drew the Glock, turning her attention back to Iron Goddess. She crept onto the cement porch, paused outside the door, and listened for anyone who might be inside. Somewhere in the darkness, a pack of coyotes performed a predawn symphony of yips and high-pitched howls over a recent kill. Two delivery trucks roared past three minutes apart. But no voices or sounds of crunching glass came from inside Iron Goddess. If anyone was in there, they may have hunkered down when they heard her motorcycle. She had to find out for sure.Drops of a dark liquid on the concrete caught her attention. Was it oil or blood? She brushed it with a finger, creating a crimson smear. Blood. Her pulse quickened.She pulled on the door handle. It was unlocked. Thief must’ve reached in and unlocked it after breaking the glass. She scolded herself for not getting a double-cylinder lock.After slipping in through the door, she scanned the place with her flashlight. Tiny bits of glass sparkled like jewels across the floor. A bowling ball–sized rock lay near the front sales counter. The familiar industrial smell of the showroom mixed with the organic tang of blood. Her fist tightened on the grip of the gun.More drops of blood led off to the right. She considered turning on the lights, but didn’t want to blow what little stealth she had left. Broken glass crunched under her boots with each step. Moving slower didn’t make it any quieter.She followed the trail of blood around the counter to where three custom-ordered bikes and several production bikes had been parked hours earlier; they were now gone.Clothing racks for motorcycle jackets and pants had been cleared. Empty hangers lay scattered on the floor. Shelves that once displayed helmets, boots, and other gear had been stripped bare.Shea felt sucker-punched. Her mind kept telling her it was a dream.Her heart leapt into her throat when someone coughed and moaned. She ducked down until she heard it again. Her finger slipped onto the trigger. She swung the flashlight around and found a man lying on the floor in the motor oil aisle. She approached cautiously, ignoring the pulse pounding in her ears.With the light on the man’s face, she recognized him as Derek Williams, one of her employees.She slapped on the overhead lights. Derek was a scrawny guy, just shy of his twentieth birthday. His stubbly face was pale and clammy. Blood covered his shirt, pooling on the floor around his chest.“Aw shit, Derek!” She holstered her gun and knelt down next to him.He opened his eyes for a moment. “They made me,” he wheezed before coughing up blood.“Who? Who did this to you?”His eyes lost focus and closed.She checked his pulse. Her own heart beat so fast she couldn’t tell if he had a pulse or not. She pulled out her phone.“Cortes County 911—what’s your emergency?”“I need an ambulance at Iron Goddess Custom Cycles, 8234 South Sycamore Highway. My friend is bleeding.”“How is he injured, ma’am?”“I . . . I don’t know. I just found him. He’s got blood all over his chest. I think someone shot him.”“Is he breathing?”“Uh . . . let me check.” She put her ear to his mouth and could hear shallow, gurgling breaths. “He’s breathing, but barely.”“We’ve dispatched an ambulance. It’ll be there momentarily.”Shea hung up the phone and checked his pulse again. It was there, but weak. Then it stopped. She struggled to remember the lessons from a CPR course two years earlier. She clasped her hands and compressed in the center of his chest. Blood gushed from his wounds. That wasn’t in the course.She lifted up his shirt. His chest was smeared with blood. She wiped away as much as she could. Dark liquid oozed from two dime-sized wounds, one right above his heart, the other closer to his left shoulder.“Shit!”His shirt was soaked. Wouldn’t work to stop the blood, even if she could get it off him. Shea looked for something else to use. The nearby shelves were stocked with bottles of motor oil, industrial cleaners, and cans of chain lube. No shop cloths or clothing.She scrambled out of her jacket, pulled off her shirt, and twisted it into a tight wad. She pressed it over the wounds and compressed his chest again. The T-shirt kept the bleeding to a minimum. She continued pumping his chest. “Come on, Derek. Gimme a heartbeat.”After fifty compressions, she checked again. Still no pulse. She continued pounding on his chest, desperately trying to minimize the bleeding and hoping the EMTs would arrive before she ran out of energy.Her back was beginning to cramp up when the silver bell on the front door jingled.“Over here!” she yelled.Two deputies rushed in, guns pointed at her.“Sheriff’s Office! Get on the floor. Hands behind your head.”
Dharma Kelleher writes gritty tales about outlaws, renegades, and misfits. Her hobbies include riding motorcycles, picking locks, and getting inked. Her debut novel IRON GODDESS will be published by Penguin Random House’s Alibi imprint on June 28, 2016. Learn more about her and her writing at dharmakelleher.com.
If You Only Wanted One Night Would You Take A Chance On a Man Who Wanted Forever?
Rose O'Brian wants to spice up her love life and Jack Winston seems like the answer. Sexy, funny and a killer smile, Jack is every woman's fantasy. All she wants is one night of passion, nothing more. But Jack has a secret that stops him from taking her up on her offer, stops him from having the one thing he wants more than his next breath--beautiful Rose O'Brian. Rose has her own secrets. Emotionally scared, she's never believed in happily ever afters. But for the first time she's met a man who makes her want to open her heart, to dream of love. When Rose's past rears its ugly head can she finally let go and overcome the hurt? Can Jack convince her to take a chance and embrace a future with him? Can he show her that love is there if she will only reach out and take it?.
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Publisher: Brook Publications
Published: May 2015
Welcome back to Harper Falls, WA, a place where love is in the air, but danger is just around the corner. Dani Wilde had already met the love of her life and lost him. Two weeks of passion and romance five years ago. Then he had walked away. Dani thought she had moved on, She dated, enjoyed the company of other men, even thought that she was keeping her heart open to the possibility of another love. But when Alex Fleming rode his motorcycle into Harper Falls, she knew she had been kidding herself. Her heart was still his. Alex Fleming knew what was waiting for him in Harper Falls. His sister, his best friend, a good job, and the woman he'd spent the last five years dreaming about--trying to forget. At the time, walking away had seemed like the only way. Now he has a second chance, but it isn't just his personal demons keeping him from Dani, his past is about to put the only woman he's ever loved in danger. He has a choice, walk away again or stay and fight. Love has a way of catching up with you. Dani and Alex are getting a second chance at their happily ever after. Now they just have to be strong enough to take it.
Publisher: Brook Publications
Published: August 2015
Tyler and Drew’s Story
He broke her heart. Now, ten years later he’s finally going to tell her why.
Tyler Jones and Drew Harper.
They came from different worlds.
They weren’t supposed to fall in love.
Teenagers on the brink of adulthood they gave into an uncontrollable attraction, sharing their hopes, fears, and their bodies. The plans they made in secret kept them going until they could leave the small town of Harper Falls and pursue their dreams.
Drew wanted to break free from his family’s wealth and influence, he wanted to make it on his own. Tyler was an artist. People in her hometown laughed at the idea of a girl with her background making anything of herself. Together they planned on conquering the world.
Without warning Drew pulled away. He left town without an explanation, crushing Tyler’s heart.
Now they’re both back where it all started and Drew can finally tell Tyler what really drove them apart. They have a second chance at love. But there are some people who will stop at nothing to keep them apart. Not even murder.
Publisher: Brook Publications
Published: October 2015
Lila Fleming.
Good sister. Good friend. Good girl.
Lila spends her life walking a straight line. No swerves. No excitement. Her future seems mapped out. A very boring future. One where her secret dreams will never see the light of day.
Then one snow-filled day, she meets a man who will shake up her routine, capture her heart, and help make all her dreams come true.
Welcome to a Harper Falls Christmas. Filled with laughs, old friends, and a happily ever after. Oh, and Cooper. A dog who will steal your heart.
About the Author
Mary J. Williams is an author from Washington State who went to school in a small town on the Columbia River. She loves writing, reading, and football. She always wanted to write a novel and she always knew it would be a romance novel. But it wasn’t until her favorite football team lost the Super Bowl on the last play with an interception, that this dream began to come to fruition. She was so depressed that she tuned out all the media. Without television, internet, or newspapers, she had nothing else to do, so she sat down and started writing. Her first romance series, Harper Falls contains four books. Mary has released two new series in 2016, Hollywood Legends and One Pass Away (which combines her love of football with her love of romance).
17-year-old November Lonergan spent her whole life feeling like an outsider. She was right. She’s a reaper like her mother; like her two cousins, Kai and Tristin. The supernatural world believes they are part of a prophecy to save them from an evil known as the Grove. Ember just wants to survive high school and fix the fallout from bringing back her friend.
Old enemies are lurking; waiting for their opportunity to strike but the pack has a new problem. A group of legendary hunters has resurfaced, threatening the reapers and anybody who stands with them. They are making good on their threats too; attacking those closest to the pack.
Their only hope of defeating the Legionaries involves trusting a stranger to perform a dangerous spell to advance Ember and her cousin’s powers. But Ember has a secret; a secret she can’t tell the pack. One that leaves the pack vulnerable.
An attack on pack allies, leaves one member of the group injured and another missing, along with a mysterious girl named Evangeline who may play a bigger part in this than any of them realize. As the Legionaries are closing in, the pack must trust their enemies, enter hostile territories, and play a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychopath. Their entire plan lynches on a dangerous bargain, but rescuing one member of the pack could mean losing another in their place…possibly forever.Add to GoodreadsBuy Links (only $1.99):Amazon
17 year old Ember Denning has made an art of isolating herself. She prefers the dead. She spends her days skipping school in old cemeteries and her nights hiding from her alcoholic father at the funeral home where she works. When her own father dies, Ember learns her whole life is a lie. Standing in the cemetery that’s been her sanctuary, she’s threatened by the most beautiful boy she’s ever seen and rescued by two people who claim to be her family. They say she’s special, that she has a supernatural gift like them…they just don’t know exactly what it is.
They take her to a small Florida town, where Ember’s life takes a turn for the weird. She’s living with her reaper cousins, an orphaned werewolf pack, a faery and a human genius. Ember’s powers are growing stronger, morphing into something bigger than anything anybody anticipated. Ember has questions but nobody has answers. Nobody knows what she is. They only know her mysterious magical gift is trying to kill them and that beautiful dangerous boy from the cemetery may be the only thing standing between her and death.
As Ember’s talents are revealed so are the secrets her father hid and those in power who would seek to destroy her. What’s worse, saving Ember has put her cousins in danger and turned her friend’s lives upside down. Ember must learn to embrace her magic or risk losing the family she’s pieced together.Buy Links (only $1.99):Amazon
Martina McAtee lives in Jupiter, Florida with her teenage daughters, her best friend, two attack Chihuahua’s and two shady looking cats. By day she is a registered nurse but by night she writes young adult books about reapers, zombies, werewolves and other supernatural creatures. She wrote her first story when she was five with an orange crayon on a legal pad she stole from her mom’s office. She’s been writing ever since. Her influences include Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, Joss Whedon, L.J. Smith and even J.K. Rowling. Living in South Florida provides her with plenty of material for the weird worlds she writes about. When she isn’t working, teaching or writing she’s reading or watching shows involving reapers, zombies, werewolves and other supernatural creatures.
âThe air became frigid and the lights flickered as they both watched a shimmering veil of mist rise from the hardwood floor. As it floated toward Kelly, the dim shape of an adolescent came to life in its veiling center. The little girlâs body grew more defined in its advance, until every detail of the portrait at Kellyâs back focused and came alive before them.â
Soon after Thomas Shear buys a house for his art gallery, the spirits of a killerâs child victims haunt his dreams. Believing they were conjured by stress and a vivid imagination, Tom hopes to vanquish the nightmares that leave him shaking and sweat soaked by creating a series of life-sized portraits portraying the suffering of each little girl.
When news of his portrait series spreads, Tom is confronted by the lead investigator for the missing children, Detective Mark Winward. Realizing he has become involved in something more sinister than he could ever have imagined, and becoming the detectiveâs number one suspect, Tom races to find the real killer before he is framed and someone Tom loves becomes the killerâs next victim.
Portrait of Rage sets the stage for The Marcel Experience, giving readers a glimpse into what is to come. Both horror and romance, real and fantastic, Portrait of Rage introduces real-world horrors into the universe of the supernatural.
Cynthia H. Wise lives with her husband in Marietta, Georgia, where her series, The Marcel Experience, is centered. When she is not writing novels about the supernatural and the fantastic, Cynthia can be found with her husband, Cliff, their two dogs, Jake and Sadie, and their cockatiel, Sam.
In Cynthia H. Wiseâs paranormal mystery series, The Marcel Experience, readers will find themselves thrown into haunted houses, avenging ghosts and wandering spirits, and even, possibly, falling in love with a handsome shapeshifter. In the next novel in the series, Eyes of Autumn, releasing this October, a dangerous enemy from Marcusâs past is threatening to destroy everything he holds sacred, including the only woman heâs ever lovedâa woman who doesnât remember him.
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Eminent Love By Leddy Harper
Genre - Contemporary Romance
Life doesn’t always start with once upon a time.Love doesn’t always end with happily ever after.After spending five years with the love of my life, I did nothing to stop her from walking away. She had her reasons to leave. I had my reasons to stay. But a year later, the realization of loss hits me, and I’ll stop at nothing to fix it. I leave everything behind to drive across the country to win her back, and I refuse to accept anything other than fulfilling old promises.But the only certainty in life is: nothing is as expected.The most valuable lessons don’t often revolve around a fairytale ending—frequently, they come from hurt and healing. They come from the kind of personal growth love offers. The mending of your heart, your soul, and your life. And every once in a while, you find the greatest gifts in the packages you never expected to open.Add EMINENT LOVE to Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30760083-eminent-love
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She stole my breath away.
I strode across the room to the woman who owned my heart— every part of me. The warmth of her bare skin on mine alleviated the chill in the air and sent a rolling fire through my body. She ran her palms along my chest, over my shoulders, and into the hair on the back of my head.
“If this is too weird for you— being in your parents’ house— we can wait until we return to your apartment. I’m ready, and there is no expiration date on my decision. I told you I wanted to wait for the right time. I didn’t mean it had to be the right date or the right location… just right. So whether it be here or two nights from now in your bed, I don’t care. Because I’m absolutely in love with you and can’t fathom not sharing every part of me with you. I have no doubts, Creed.”
Leddy Harper had to use her imagination often as a child. She grew up the only girl in a house full of boys. At the age of fourteen, she decided to use that imagination and wrote her first book, and never stopped.
She often calls writing her therapy, using it as a way to deal with issues through the eyes of her characters.
She is now a mother of three girls, leaving her husband as the only man in a house full of females.
The decision to publish her first book was made as a way of showing her children to go after whatever it is they want to. Love what you do and do it well. Most importantly Leddy wanted to teach them what it means to overcome their fears.
England, 1820.To gain a certain marquess’s notice, Lady Albina Beauchamp aims to win the derby. What she hadn’t planned for is the price handsome Mr. Edmund White asks in payment to train her to race: each lesson for a kiss.A first place finish isn't the only thing worth racing forLady Albina Beauchamp is in love with the Marquess of Satterfield. Unfortunately, his only interest is in horses, and doesn’t know she exists. But when the marquess confesses he will bestow his undying admiration on the jockey racing the winning horse at Emberton Derby, Albina sets out to win his affections by training to race.Mr. Edmund White is a master groomsmen for the Earl of Amhurst in line for a viscountcy, should he abandon his passion for horses and become a respectable sheep owner. But horses are his love--until he meets Lady Albina and her silly notions of racing. When she affirms she will enter the derby with or without his assistance, Edmund not only instructs his student in racing, but seduction as well.
For Albina, a first place finish isn’t the only thing at stake. She must decide whether to take her place in society...or follow her heart and love a groom.
“My lady.” Mr. White’s exasperated voice called from behind her. “I only seek to help you.”Albina turned around, her chin lifted, her plaited hair licking past her arm. “Then do so, Mr. White. Tell me how to correct my form without insulting me. Unless you cannot. In which case, I shall seek out assistance elsewhere.”He ran up to her and took hold of her hand, pulling her into his chest. Her hat fell to the ground as she crumpled against him, her right hand gripping his arm to steady herself. A thick, hard, and solid arm.Heavens.He lowered his head, his mouth mere inches from hers. “Your head should be flush with the horse’s.” His words were breathy and low, spoken in a rich tenor she could hardly hear over the hammering of her heart.“My head,” she whispered. Her thoughts were no longer on her form, but the pair of lips hovering over hers.“Place it alongside the mare’s, low and even, as though you see and hear as one.”“See and hear as one,” she repeated, her voice far throatier than it ought to be.“And your legs,” he continued, “should be tight against her sides.” His hands fell to her outer thighs. With a slight push, he clamped her legs around his. “Like this.”God in heaven. She couldn’t think. At least not of anything beyond the pair of hands resting on her thighs. She gave a slight nod and licked her lips.He inhaled, an audible, sharp intake of breath. His hands should not have been anywhere on her person. No gentleman would hold her thus, with such bold possession. But Mr. White was not a gentleman. He was a groom.And she was, for the first time, glad for it. A heady rush of excitement coursed through her.“Is that all?” she whispered. “My head and legs?”Slow and sensual, his lips curled. “Your bottom.” His hands slipped to her backside and cupped her supple flesh through the thin leather of her breeches. “It needs to be held high in the air.”“M-m-my, my bottom,” she stuttered, lapsing into a mode of speech most often associated with her sister, Henrietta. “Must b-b-be higher,” she ended on a gasp.Her breath caught, his fingers burning on her bottom as though they were on fire. No man had ever dared, never imagined to place his hands upon her…certainly not the marquess, who, as a titled peer, would respect the rules of decorum and treat her as a lady. As he ought.Yet…she could not deny the surge of pleasure rushing through her at Mr. White’s forwardness. His blatant disregard for propriety was intoxicating. A shot of rebellion that echoed her own. Her rule-breaking, however, was limited to assuming the appearance of the opposite sex. A simple portrayal. A minor deception, though it was quickly becoming more. She had allowed him to kiss her yesterday. Today…today she was allowing him a firm grasp of her bottom. And what’s more, enjoying every second of it.
After viewing her all-time favorite love story, “Anne of Green Gables”, at the impressionable age of ten, Frances Fowlkes has been obsessed with affable boy-next door heroes, red-heads, and romance stories with lots of “highfaluting mumbo jumbo” written within their pages. It only seems natural then that she married the boy who used to pull on her curls in her high school English class, had not one, but THREE red-headed boys, and penned multiple love stories with bits of flowery prose.When not writing, Frances loves spending time with her family, fangirling, and planning her next vacation.Frances Fowlkes, originally a northern mid-westerner, now lives in the southeast with her ardent hero of a husband, three playful and rambunctious boys, and one spoiled standard poodle.A self-professed Anglophile and summa cum laude graduate of LeTourneau University, Frances Fowlkes combines her passion for happily-ever-afters with her interests in both American and English histories.
A Gentleman and a Rogue by Stephanie Burkhart GENRE: Steampunk romance
Edmund of Wales is from the future. His last jaunt through history muffed up the time line. Now, he's here to set it straight and win Keira's heart.
For Keira, if it isn't one obstacle, it's another. Queen Victoria has sponsored a competition to find a cleaner fuel source than coal. Keira's father is trying to build a windmill and the Ridgecrofts are working with gasoline. Then there's Edmund, whose sensual kisses and heated stares distract her down to her bones.
Keira has a choice: trust Edmund's notorious mischief-making or put her faith in Queen Victoria to make the right decision, but if Keira makes the wrong choice, the future of Great Britain will be changed forever.
Alice dug into her reticule and removed a small slender cylinder. She pressed a button and a beam of light shot out."Amazing! How did you do that?" asked Keira."It runs on a battery that generates electricity." Alice walked over to the desk and examined the locks. She fussed in her reticule some more, pulled out some picks and went to work.Edmund stood next to Keira and placed his hand in the small of her back. "She's brilliant, don't you think?""A girl after your own heart, I see.""Alice may have popped my dirigible, but I respect her all that much more for doing it.""You are incorrigible.""Come, let's talk." He guided her away from the desk and next to the window. The drapeswere pulled back, allowing the dim, natural light from the stars and moon to filter into the room. Keira's heart pounded in her chest. Determined to stay strong in Edmund's tempting presence, she crossed her arms."Did you tell me everything back in my study?" she whispered.He looked her over seductively, talking softly. "I told you I would the next time I saw you, and I have.""Oh."He placed his hand on her shoulder, trailing his finger up the soft skin of her neck, cupping her cheek. His eyes never left hers. "I want to see you again. Soon.""It isn't wise.""I know. I don't care." His voice grew low and husky.Keira hesitated. Her body thrummed with warmth from his touch. Uncomfortable heatpooled in her core. She tried to fight, to set her resolve and step away from him, but she couldn't. His gaze riveted on her face and moved over her body slowly. "I didn't forget you. I couldn't. You're never far from my thoughts."Logic. She needed logic. "You're from the future. I'm your past."He shrugged. "I don't see it that way."Her knees weakened. "How do you see it?"
Author Bio: Stephanie Burkhart is a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. She was born and raised in Manchester, New Hampshire. After serving 11 years in the US Army she currently calls Castaic, California her home. Stephanie was married in Denmark in 1991 and has two young sons. She adores chocolate, is addicted to coffee and enjoys early morning walks. She's also an assistant den leader for her son's Cub Scout den and is a Boy Scout mom. She writes paranormal, contemporary, and steampunk romance and has two children's books published with 4RV Publishing.
Welcome to my tour stop of "Leaving Triscuit" by Will Pollock, presented by Elite Book Tours. To follow the full tour, please visit here. "LEAVING TRISCUIT" IS FREE ON AUGUST 9, 10 AND 11!
Say “hello” to better good-byes! “Leaving Triscuit” is a blueprint on how you can heal the stress of leaving pets while you’re away for work or leisure. This poignant and personal story is woven with advice from animal- and human-behavior experts who contribute affirming, indispensible strategies to strengthen and even improve the unique bond between pet and parent. Using picture imaging and harnessing the innate, unspoken connection between pet and parent, your separation anxiety will fade away and a greater understanding will be formed.
Triscuit gazed at me with forlorn eyes and a worried mug. Agitated and distressed, she was in effect saying, ‘Good grief, not again.’ Triscuit hopped on the bed and straight into the suitcase, as if to plant her flag and insist I pack her, too. As a canine parent, you know this doggie agenda: eyes as big as saucers, ears pinned back, shoulders slumped, spirit hanging low. Like Triscuit and so many other dogs and cats of her intuitive ilk, she knew.
Will Pollock is a freelance multimedia journalist, content wrangler, artist and author based in Atlanta. His love of dogs and animals began early on when his family owned a Great Pyrenees in New York City named Yeti. He decided to write “Leaving Triscuit” after the stress of leaving his beloved Rat Terrier, Triscuit, while on a three-week trip to Ireland. Separation anxiety is a problem for most pet owners, and the tips and strategies Will learned from experts will help ease that pain.
I’m extremely superstitious. From my years of playing and watching baseball perhaps, but still: I bounce my tennis ball a set amount of times before I serve. I can’t walk on sidewalk cracks (as a result of growing up in Manhattan I guess). And I have to touch the ceiling of my car when I go through a yellow light.
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Recovering from a gunshot wound that nearly killed her, Kylie is tormented by her ex-boyfriend’s final words—to have her forever, even if it means she must die.
Desperate to regain her life, Kylie’s world is turned upside down when she discovers Alex betrayed her. The life she dreamed of now uncertain, she slips further into madness, convinced she is being stalked by John’s ghost.
Kylie fights to regain control of her life and salvage her relationship with Alex. Fearing she will never escape her ex-boyfriend’s revenge, she devises a plan to destroy her demon—at any cost.
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Rebekah. The woman who tried her damnedest to come between Alex and me—who nearly succeeded with her lies about a fake affair—stands in an identical robe with a glass of champagne. She slithers onto the chaise next to me.
"How's your closed head injury?" She tips back her champagne, but her gaze never leaves mine.
My pulse races. I want to smack the glass right out of her hand and choke the shit out of her.
"Getting better everyday. Thank you. How's your escort service?"
"Yes, turns out the two of you have a great deal in common. You're both psychotic and have failed at getting rid of me." Heat surges through my body. How dare she twist John's sadistic games into witty reparte? My head is pounding. The pressure at the base of my neck is about to explode. My jaw is clenched so tight, it’s painful. I don't think I have ever wished violence on anyone—until now.
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About The Author
Born and raised in the Rocky Mountains, Anne L. Parks has spent the last 25 years moving all over the United States. Married to the Navy - well a Commander in the Navy - Parks has lived in various locales throughout the United States. She currently resides in the Washington D.C area, and is loving every minute. When not writing, she spends her time reading, doing yoga, mountain biking, and keeping track of four kids. And drinking wine.
2013 marked her debut in publishing. Her first novel, Strangers, released on her 45th birthday. She was amazed at the number of people who fell in love with a story about two people dealing with grief, and finding love again. Abby and Bryce were the perfect couple to introduce Parks as an up-and-coming author.
Her second novel, The Return, released in December 2013. A wonderful Christmas romance, it is the first book in the Return To Me series. Book two, Return To Newport, released April 29th, and followed the couple through the murky waters of saying good-bye to a past that refused to let go. Lauren's Return, the third book in the series, released on August 19th. This chronicles the challenges of bringing together a family amidst tragedy and death, and still holding firmly to the love they have fought so hard to keep alive. The fourth book, Returning Home, shifts the focus away from Jake and Eve, and delves into the life Eve's eldest daughter. Clarissa has a secret she has guarded for most of her life. Fearing it will be revealed, she refuses to allow love into her heart - until she meets Griff. December 2014 brought the close of this series, with the release of RSVP: A Return To Me Christmas novella. The wedding of the year is threatened by Mother Nature, forcing the couple to re-evaluate whether "happily ever after" is really attainable.
Stepping out of her comfort zone, Parks delved into the paranormal with a group of highly talented authors. The result? An unexpected fantasy of four sisters fighting to save the earth - and each other - from their deranged mother. Elementals, A Urban Fantasy/Paranormal Romance Anthology, released on May 15th. Summer brought more collaboration with the release of a Fourth of July themed short story, FlyBoy, that was included in the Sparks Fly boxed set.
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MIDNIGHT SOUL is coming! Being released on August 15th, this amazing fantasy takes place in our world and a parallel universe where fantasies are true…but perhaps not all you would expect. MIDNIGHT SOUL is the highly anticipated finale to Kristen Ashley’s bestselling Fantasyland Series. As a special treat the first books in the series are on sale for a limited time only, including the first book in the series, WILDEST DREAMS, for just $.99! Pre-order this amazing novel today, and be sure to check out the exclusive excerpt below!
Franka
“You need to leave,” I declared.
His brows drew together a moment before his expression showed clearly that comprehension had dawned.
Sadly, comprehension might have dawned but he didn’t leave.
He crouched by the bed and offered in a soft voice, “You need me to carry you to the other room so you can have a bit of privacy?”
Dear goddess.
He thought I needed a chamber pot.
But…
What was happening to my face?
Dear goddess!
The heat I felt in my cheeks could be nothing other than me blushing.
I didn’t blush. I’d never blushed. Not even when I’d set about seducing my first lover at age sixteen.
I needed to be quit of this man as soon as possible.
“No…I…do…not,” I bit out.
“Sure?” he asked kindly.
“I need you to leave, Noctorno,” I used his full name in an effort to irritate, something that worked if the flare in his eyes was any indication, “so Josette can prepare me. We’re away to Kristian’s this morning.”
Another drawing of his brows before he asked, “What?”
“After my toilette, Josette and I are to my sleigh so we can begin our journey to my brother’s home.”
His eyes got bigger as his mouth inquired peculiarly, “Are you high?”
“No,” I answered his ridiculous question unnecessarily, “Indeed, I’m low. As you can see since I’m lying abed.”
For a second he just stared at me.
Then he threw his head back and burst into loud, deep, beautiful laughter.
I wanted to throw something at him.
Unfortunately, in my current position, this was not an option open to me.
“I fail to see what’s amusing,” I noted.
He controlled his mirth only to mutter, “I’ll explain it later.” He went on more distinctly, “Frannie, you’re not goin’ to your brother’s today. Or tomorrow. Or until you’re fit. Then, maybe Valentine will spirit you there, or whatever the fuck that’s called. But for the foreseeable future, your ass is in that bed and you’re resting so you can heal.”
Well!
Who did he think he was, telling me what I would or would not do?
“As you’ve determined,” I began, “this is not the first time I’ve been in this condition so I do believe that I know best what I’m capable of and…”
I stopped speaking because he came slightly out of his crouch so he could put his face into my face and he was no longer looking mirthful.
He was looking angry.
Very angry.
“That was when you had no one lookin’ out for you but that’s not the case anymore. So this is how it’s gonna be,” he announced.
He then, to my shock, irritation and outrage, announced how it was going to be.
Like he had the right to tell me how it was going to be!
Against his will, Noctorno Hawthorne, an undercover vice cop, finds himself embroiled in magic, mayhem and parallel universes. Too late, he meets an amazing woman only to find she’s destined for his identical twin in another world.
And things aren’t going real great there.
Noc is recruited to help save that world.
What he doesn’t know is his destined love resides there.
FrankaDrakkar wears a mask. A mask she never takes off to protect herself in a world of malice, intrigue and danger.
When Franka meets Noc and he discovers her secrets, convinced she carries a midnight soul, having shielded herself from forming bonds with anyone, she struggles with accepting his tenderness and care.
When Noc meets Franka, over wine and whiskey, her mask slips and Noc knows it’s her—only her—and he has to find a way to get her to come home with him.
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About Kristen Ashley: Kristen Ashley was born in Gary, Indiana, USA and nearly killed her mother and herself making it into the world, seeing as she had the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck (already attempting to accessorise and she hadn’t taken her first breath!). Her mother said they took Kristen away, put her Mom back in her room, her mother looked out the window, and Gary was on fire (Dr. King had been assassinated four days before). Kristen’s Mom remembered thinking it was the end of the world. Quite the dramatic beginning. Nothing’s changed. Kristen grew up in Brownsburg, Indiana and has lived in Denver, Colorado and the West Country of England. Thus, she’s blessed to have friends and family around the globe. Her family was (is) loopy (to say the least) but loopy is good when you want to write. They all lived together on a very small farm in a small farm town in the heartland. She grew up with Glenn Miller, The Everly Brothers, REO Speedwagon and Whitesnake (and the wardrobes that matched). Needless to say, growing up in a house full of music, clothes and love was a good way to grow up. And as she keeps growing, it keeps getting better.
Friend of the Devil by Mark Spivak GENRE: Thriller
In 1990 some critics believe that America’s most celebrated chef, Joseph Soderini di Avenzano, sold his soul to the Devil to achieve culinary greatness. Whether he is actually Bocuse or Beelzebub, Avenzano is approaching the 25th anniversary of his glittering Palm Beach restaurant, Chateau de la Mer, patterned after the Michelin-starred palaces of Europe.
Journalist David Fox arrives in Palm Beach to interview the chef for a story on the restaurant’s silver jubilee. He quickly becomes involved with Chateau de la Mer’s hostess, unwittingly transforming himself into a romantic rival of Avenzano. The chef invites Fox to winter in Florida and write his authorized biography. David gradually becomes sucked into the restaurant’s vortex: shipments of cocaine coming up from the Caribbean; the Mafia connections and unexplained murder of the chef’s original partner; the chef’s ravenous ex-wives, swirling in the background like a hidden coven. As his lover plots the demise of the chef, Fox tries to sort out hallucination and reality while Avenzano treats him like a feline’s catnip-stuffed toy.
He stepped down from the womb of the 727 onto the stubby metal stairway and descended slowly onto the asphalt of the old Palm Beach Airport, like a child sticking a toe into a hot bath.The first thing he noticed was the light. By the time he reached the tarmac, it hurt his eyes. It was opaque and shining, milky white and brilliant.As his feet touched the bottom, a coffee-colored hand plucked the bag from his grasp.
“Mr. Fox?” The teeth were almost as bright as the light reflecting against the pavement.
“Guilty.”
“Welcome to Palm Beach. West Palm, to be precise.” The voice was cool and melodious, with a Jamaican lilt. “We gladly cross the river to welcome our distinguished guests and ferry them to the other shore.” He extended his hand toward the terminal, smiling broadly. “Come, sir. Your chariot awaits.”The woman stood next to the limousine, sticking out of the asphalt like an exotic tree. She wore a black leather jacket, and a short, black leather skirt, cut on the bias to give her a schoolgirl look. She was smirking.She has gorgeous skin, was his first thought, smooth enough to lick. Then there was her hair: jet black, cropped short, spiked liberally with mousse, standing straight up as if from an electrical charge. I am so beautiful that I can mutilate my hair and you will still crave me, she seemed to say. I can masquerade as Elvis Costello and you will still crawl across the runway to worship me.
Mark Spivak is an award-winning writer specializing in wine, spirits, food, restaurants and culinary travel. He was the wine writer for the Palm Beach Post from 1994-1999, and was honored by the Academy of Wine Communications for excellence in wine coverage “in a graceful and approachable style.” Since 2001 has been the Wine and Spirits Editor for the Palm Beach Media Group; his running commentary on the world of food, wine and spirits is available at the Global Gourmet blog onwww.palmbeachillustrated.com. He is the holder of the Certificate and Advanced diplomas from the Court of Master Sommeliers.
Mark’s work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Robb Report, Men’s Journal, Art & Antiques, the Continental and Ritz-Carlton magazines, Arizona Highways and Newsmax. He is the author ofIconic Spirits: An Intoxicating History(Lyons Press, 2012) andMoonshine Nation: The Art of Creating Cornbread in a Bottle(Lyons Press, 2014). His first novel,Friend of the Devil,is published by Black Opal Books.Website: http://www.markspivakbooks.com
Sir Robert Alain de Bellencombre has been granted what every man wants: a rich English estate in exchange for his valiant service at the Battle of Hastings. To claim this reward, the Norman knight must wed the estate's Saxon heiress. Most men would leap at such an opportunity, but for Alain, who broke his vow to his dying mother by failing to protect his youngest brother in battle, it means facing more easily broken vows. But when rumors of rampant thievery, dangerous beasts, and sorcery plaguing a neighboring estate reach his ears, nothing will make him shirk duty to king and country when people's lives stand at risk. He assumes the guise of a squire to scout the land, its problems, and its lady.
Lady Kendra of Edgarburh has been granted what no woman wants: a forced marriage to an enemy who may be kith or kin to the man who murdered her beloved brother. Compounding her anguish is her failure to awaken the miraculous healing gift bequeathed by their late mother in time to save his life. Although with his dying breath, he made her promise to seek happiness above all, Kendra vows that she shall find neither comfort nor love in the arms of a Norman…unless it snows in July.
Alain is smitten by Lady Kendra from the first moment of their meeting; Kendra feels the forbidden allure of the handsome and courtly Norman "squire." But a growing evil overshadows everyone, invoking dark forces and ensnaring Kendra in a plot to overthrow the king Alain is oath-bound to serve. Kendra and Alain face a battle unlike any other as their honor, their love, their lives, and even their very souls lie in the balance.
Alain’s friendship with Sir Ruaud, his polished manners and speech, fighting skills, and scars—it made less sense than ever that he could be a squire. “Who are you, really?” she whispered.
His back stiffened, and he released her hand to give her a curious look. Finally, he smiled. “A complete fool.”
She arched an eyebrow. “Hardly that, if you possessed the wit to locate me. I mean, you must be a knight. Don’t bother to deny it. There can be no other reasonable explanation.”
He regarded her for a long moment. “Yes. I am a knight.”
“But why the disguise?” She recoiled as an unpleasant thought returned. “Sir Robert didn’t send you to test my virtue, did he?”
“Mon Dieu, no! Never once did that cross his mind.”
She felt her brow wrinkle. “How can you be so certain?”
“I have known Sir Robert my entire life.” His smile turned enigmatic. “He would never resort to such a ploy.”
“But he would send you and Sir Ruaud ahead to look me over, is that it?” Her ire rose on the wings of indignation. “To determine whether I am a worthy match for his lordship?” His smile inverted to dread. “Hah. I am right.”
Denying him a chance to reply, she shot to her feet. Her instinct suggested escaping into the maze, but fear of becoming lost in the mist pushed her toward the tower’s door. The bolt’s heaviness prevented her from locking him out, so she concentrated on making best speed. Pounding footsteps warned her of Alain’s pursuit.
He caught her wrist while she was still on the stairs, but she yanked it free and continued up. On the landing outside the upper chamber, she had to pause for air. He joined her before she could escape.
“Please, my lady,” he said between breaths. “Let me explain.”
“What’s to explain? Sir Robert sent you to scout me out, and you agreed. You Normans are a despicable lot. Every last, stinking one of you! I thought I had met one who wasn’t.” She blinked hard to fight off the welling tears. “I was wrong.”
Kim Headlee lives on a farm in southwestern Virginia with her family, cats, goats, Great Pyrenees goat guards, and assorted wildlife. People and creatures come and go, but the cave and the 250-year-old house ruins—the latter having been occupied as recently as the mid-twentieth century—seem to be sticking around for a while yet. She has been an award-winning novelist since 1999 (Dawnflight first edition, Sonnet Books, Simon & Schuster) and has been studying the Arthurian Legends for nigh on half a century.
Princess Sarita has everything. Loving parents, a castle fit for royalty, fine clothes, loyal friends, and an exciting job as a scholar of magic. At eighteen years of age, one might think that she would be content with her position. But one thing has always been missing from her life... full magic, itself.
When a strange old woman gave Sarita a secret spellbook as a child, her entire life was changed. The book contains spells, songs, and stories. But most of all, it provides a path to gaining full magic, the only thing that Sarita still needs to feel complete. And now, she has finally prepared to leave her home in search of the Stones of the Divine, the final ingredient she needs to gain magic.
Gabrielle has been known as the sister of a knight and best friend of the princess for as long as she can remember. Now an experienced healer's assistant, she is desperate to find her place and purpose in Junacave. An adventurous mission to help Sarita locate a mystical stone may be just the change in her life that she is looking for.
King Cassidy is still alone, but not for a lack of trying. His attempts to convince the Princess of Junacave to marry him over the past ten years have been for naught. And being twenty years old, with no heir, he is running out of time. If he can't win the heart of the princess, he may have to face a future without the love of his life.
Adventure, romance, and magic await as we travel through Everealm with royalty, wizards, fairies, and more, in the fantasy-romance Songs of Everealm, a five book series by J.D. Wright, author of the Everealm Series.
Note: Adult Content
Songs of Everealm Series is the second series set in the fantasy-filled Everealm. It begins 8 years after the conclusion of the first series, the Everealm Series.
Cassidy smiled, walking toward her. He leaned against the table closest to her desk and studied her. She was so beautiful. He thought she looked a lot like her mother, but she had Rowan’s soft brown eyes. Her long and slightly curly hair was still blonde, though. It hadn’t turned auburn like Bree’s or brown like Rowan’s. It stayed blonde all through her childhood and to now. And it suited her other soft features. To most, the princess might appear delicate. He had angered her enough to know that she wasn’t. And she was just remarkable when she was angry.Her gown was plainer than the ones he usually saw her wearing, but he rarely entered her space when she was working during his visits. He figured she would probably change into something more formal before supper. And she would be just as striking in an elaborate gown as she was in her riding clothes. Which reminded him…“I wanted to know if you were up for finishing our race. I brought Stallion with me, this time. So think carefully before you accept. I would hate to make my princess cry when I leave her in my dust.”Sarita narrowed her eyes at him, then stepped closer.“I am not your princess and Stallion will never win against Dragonfly. My horse practically flies, hence the name.”Cassidy snickered. “Does she fly like a dragon or like a fly? Because one doesn’t exist and the other is a giant nuisance.”She smirked at him.Well played, Your Majesty.“Either one would be faster than your precious Stallion.”“Is that so?”“Yes. I think we both know that you will be the one in my dust. I hope you choke on it.”“I love it when you wish harm to come to me.”“Then you should be the happiest king in the realm because I wish harm on you almost every day.”“Oh, I am insanely happy. Especially, right now.”Sarita’s eyes widened. She suddenly realized just how close she had gotten to him. She wasn’t sure how long she had been standing there or when he had put his hands on her waist. Yet, looking down, almost her entire body was pressed against him. She quickly backed away and turned toward her desk.“I will take that as your agreement to my challenge,” he said, turning to go.She stared at him as he walked out of the room. When she was alone, again, she sank into her chair and dropped her head onto the desk. This was going to be a disaster. Sneaking away before the tournament was over would be nearly impossible. She wouldn’t get far before Cassidy would realize she was gone.
An absolutely enchanting read! You're immediately whisked away to the magic filled kingdom of Everealm and get to indulge in a story full of adventure, intrigue and romance! The worldbuilding was very intricate and completely original, with special attention paid to details. The characters were very complex with unique personalities that make you really feel for them. I loved the complexities of all the different romances going as as everybody tries to come to terms with their feelings for each other and figuring out who belongs with whom. Even though I didn't read the first Everrealm series, I had no problem picking up this book and never feeling lost, as the author does a great job filling in background information for past events. This story has it all- a magical quest, mages, fairies, sweet romance and even some pretty dangerous situations they have to scrape out of! I absolutely thoroughly enjoyed this story and can't wait to indulge in the next book!
The journey across Everealm to find the magical stones has not come without its challenges. After being plagued by unwanted guests, disagreements, and accidents, Princess Sarita is beginning to wonder if her dream of gaining magic is a fantasy that can't come true.
Along the way, new friends and rekindled sparks between old flames have caused quite a stir within the group. As a new wizard joins the effort and gives the princess a reason to continue, the quest for the next stone ensues...
As the sun rises over the ridge, our story continues into the Song of Sparrows!
Adult content. Intended for mature audiences.
The enchanting adventure continues! The story picks up right where the first book ended and wastes no time getting back to all the adventure! The romances continue to bloom as the characters find new emotions coming to the surface for each other. There's a few new characters and creatures introduced that immensely enhance the story and captivate me even more. The quest continues as Sarita continues to search for the magical stones and I was left racing through the pages just to find out what would happen next! The story is kept light-hearted, yet with plenty of action and romantic angst to keep me completely captivated. I am truly becoming an Everrealm addict and really can't wait to see what the next book in this enchanting series brings!
Writing has always been a hobby of mine, beginning as a young child. It was a way to cope with losing my father at seven years of age. I started with poetry and was featured several times on the amazing poetry blog, Autumn Leaves, by Sondra Ball. My love for poetry soon led to writing songs in middle school and beyond, which I still do occasionally. Music has always been an important part of my existence, so writing songs came naturally to me. In high school, I started my own novel, however, life got in the way and I never finished it.
Fast forward many years later and I find myself married with three children, absorbed in my busy life with commitments to my family, work, school, church, and charities, among other things. One day I came across my old binder, with notes from my first novel, and it was with those notes that I conjured up the elusive Everealm.
I write to please readers such as myself, who have a love for fantasy and romance, but like a little danger and sex in their reading. I wrote the book with a mature audience in mind, who can appreciate a hearty imaginary world with magic and the unknown, but want more than fluffy love stories with wizards in them. They want the romance, magic, and danger, all wrapped into one.
The Past Lives series of books introduces two strong women who undergo dramatic changes in their lives when they learn about their soul's past. Through past life regression they learn of their own history and investigate the concept of soul mates reuniting through time. Read Loves of our Lives and Love by Knight to learn about Katie Benjamin and Kelly Taylor.
Love by Knight– Book 2
“Thank you Kelly. I imagine you’re trying to figure out what brought us to Canada?”
“Well, yes, the thought did cross my mind.”Gramps and Katrine looked at each other. “You start Katrine.”
“Alright Dad, well, we have two reasons. The first is obviously Neil. We are both really concerned about him. Since you left in August, he’s been going at a break-neck pace. He’s pushing himself way too much. I’ve begged him to slow down, but he just won’t. He didn’t even come back to Derbyshire for Christmas. Chris and I talked and we feel Neil is working himself to death, trying to push all his feelings aside and just work. It’s a pattern we see all too often in the men of the family when they don’t have their soul mate around. It’s for lack of a better word, a curse the Carter men deal with. They become restless and almost self-destructive when they are alone. I’ve watched my brother for years commit himself entirely to the business he built. He would never admit that the business is his lover and other half, but it is. And now I think Neil is going down the same path. All work, no pleasure, one hundred percent committed to other things than his own well-being. I suspect that you might have been doing the same thing? Trying to drown your sorrows in work?”
“I don’t deny that I miss Neil more than I could imagine. But we live such different lives, from completely different worlds. I just don’t see how we could sustain a relationship based on that. We’re too different.”
“Young lady, I don’t believe that for a second. The two worlds you talk about are the illusion and the superficial world of our minds. At your core, you and Neil live in the same world. You’re both just being stubborn, and scared as far as I can see. The love you two share is so rare. I can understand how it feels to be so in love it scares you. Abigail was that woman for me. But if I hadn’t taken the risk, then none of the rest of them would be here. All of us in the Carter family know that feeling. You just have to trust that the risk is worth it.”
“Gramps, I’ve loved and lost twice already. Once with my father, it nearly killed me too. And when Ken died, I just about gave up on life. I just can’t take that risk again!”
“Kelly, my girl, please. Passion and love are always worth the risk. Life is worth the risk. Don’t let the fear of the hurt stop you from living the moments that will make you happiest. Don’t let the mind and ego stampede over the yearnings in your soul.”
AC Chenier is the author of the Past Lives series of books, including Loves of our Lives and the forthcoming Love by Knight. The novels explore the fascinating spiritual world and the concept that we are all souls who have lived before, and that we reunite with our loved ones through time. The novels allow her to couple her long standing interest in the romance and fantasy genres with a passion for writing. When she’s not busy typing away at her computer, you can find her with her horses or golf clubs.Her books are available in paperback and ebook.
Do you believe you've lived before and if so, who were you?
I do believe that I’ve lived in the past… many times. I’ve attended a couple of Dr. Brian Weiss workshops, where he conducts a group regression and invites you to explore some of your own past lives. I’ve been given a glimpse of some different times and interesting people. Two that were very notable were a composer in the 1600’s-1700’s and a young girl/student way back in the times just after the dawn of the Christian era.
I’ve also had some very unique experiences when visiting places in Europe. That haunted feeling that you know a place/ have been there in the past….ghosts of the past calling to you. This was especially true for me in Ireland and Paris…. Visiting Notre Dame Cathedral was a truly spine tingling day.
I do not have any names to attach to my lives, at least at this point in time…. But I don’t believe I’ve been anyone famous; just ordinary people, living their lives as best they can in the times they lived.
What are your top ten favorite books?
Top ten favourite books is a tough one…. But these are the books I go back to time and time again….the ones I’ve had to replace numerous times in my collection.
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility - Jane AustenThe Lord of the Rings - TolkienThe Mallorean series plus Belgarath the Sorcerer and Polgara the Sorceress- David Eddings
Almost any book by Judith McNaught (particularly the historical series)The Last Dragonlord and Dragon and Phoenix - Joanne BertinRed Storm Rising – Tom ClancyBlack Beauty – Anne Sewell
It’s a pretty eclectic selection of authors from romance to fantasy to action.
What's the most interesting/ unique thing that's ever happened to you?
I’ve had many interesting experiences in my life, but none that I would say are so unique that they would be different than what anyone else has experienced. I’ve been lucky enough to travel to many places in the world, I’ve met and worked with many interesting and talented people, I’ve loved and lost; I’ve lived life. None of this is particularly different than anyone else in the world…and maybe that’s what is unique about it. It’s my life, made up of all those experiences and combines to make it my unique life.
If I had to pinpoint one experience that has been awe inspiring, I would say it was witnessing the true power and uncontrollability of nature. Back in 1992 I was in Kauai when Hurricane Iniki struck the tiny island. I can still remember to this day, standing at the back door to the shelter I was in and watching the trees being pushed horizontal by the power of the wind….and watching a big garbage bin (the commercial ones) go flying through the air. And then after the passing of the storm, seeing the destruction that nature can wreck…it was a very humbling to realize how little we really control of this earth.
What's something unique and quirky about you?
I can’t say that I think of myself as unique and quirky. I guess I would start with not being a girly girl. I far prefer the outdoors and sports over a shopping mall…. I hate shopping actually, unless I’m shopping for my horses. If I’m looking for anything for them, then I could shop forever… they are better dressed than I am. LOL. I also think I’m “allergic” to make-up… I rarely wear any.
Krista Winter is in need of legal counsel. Several years ago she was forced to flee her life as a teacher in New Jersey after being shunned for practicing witchcraft, and her past is about to catch up with her.
Jon Bartolo is a dedicated attorney. His days are spent helping his clients with their struggles, and his nights are spent in agony, lost in a world between life and death. His mother, who died three years ago, lurks in his house, suffering from a curse for eternity, without a final resting place.
A smoldering fire ignites between Jon and Krista almost immediately, however, he’s sure his secret would frighten any woman away. An afternoon escape brings them closer, but doubts linger between the love-struck couple.
Burning questions about how to fuse their futures together with so much of their past still clouding the future becomes a heavy burden that they’re both trying to bear on their own. It will take a touch of magic if there’s any hope in sight.
Steadying herself, Krista stared into his eyes with her heart racing. As Jon moved in again and plunged his tongue deep into her mouth, he caressed her back, and she surrendered mercifully to his touch. Each passion-filled kiss felt as if he was a long lost lover who had reappeared and claimed her heart’s desire. There was no telling what might happen next. Her whole body relaxed as he nuzzled her ear, teasing her with playful nips at her neck. All rules had been broken, but it didn’t matter. His hard shaft rubbed up against her, and she swayed back and forth, unable to break away from temptation. Jon’s breathing sped up as his hands traveled up and down her back. She quietly moaned, lost in another world. Every movement brought her one step closer. Was she lonely enough to have sex with a man she’d just met? Each kiss weakened her guard. Maybe it was fate. As his hand trailed across her back, her body rocked with his. Each flicker of his tongue along the sides of her mouth was electrifying, as if he wanted to devour her, and she found herself in a trance-like state. This was what she’d been missing. Running her hand across his firm bicep, the room spun. The warmth of his body was raising her level of arousal. Here, in the middle of his office, she experienced a passion like no other. Everything seemed right. Lust took control of her senses, and she let herself go with it. With each kiss, he cradled her in his arms, his embrace warm and protective like a warrior of love. How did this happen? Had she found the man she was destined for, or was it all a dream?
Kathleen writes contemporary and paranormal romance in her home in New Jersey, where she lives with her husband and their two fur babies, Luc and Chaz. She spent years working as a registered nurse in an emergency room. She is also active in Community Theater. She has three children and three lovable grandsons. Her favorite romantic getaway is Cape May, New Jersey. You might find Kathleen on a beach down the Jersey Shore, wearing a straw hat and sipping on an iced tea as she plots her next romance novel.You can find Kathleen at the following places:Website: www.kathleenanngallagher.weebly.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/KathleenwritesFacebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorKathleenAnnGallagher
DRAGON FEVER by Donna Grant, a novella in her Dark Kings Series brought to you by 1001 Dark Nights, is finally here! Be sure you check out the trailer and excerpt below, and grab your copy today!
Excerpt:
Someone was in her hotel room.
Her gaze swung to the bathroom door she’d left cracked open. Her heart hammered against her ribs as her stomach clenched in fear. No one should’ve been able to get into her room. She’d bolted the door.
In an attempt to slow her racing heart, she took a deep breath. Then, slowly pushed open the door. She peered around the edge to find a man sitting casually in the overstuffed chair. Long black hair was pulled away and clasped at the base of his neck. Gold eyes watched her with a wealth of humor. And a smidgen of mockery.
She blew out a breath and leaned against the door of the bathroom as indifferently as she could while wrapped in a towel.
One side of his mouth lifted in a grin. “You don’t seem surprised.”
She took in his British accent that was a bit too perfect. Sam MacDonald was anything but what he said he was. It was a fact she accepted in order to get what she wanted.
His arms rested carelessly along the arms of the chair. One long leg was bent with an ankle resting atop his other knee. His white shirt was unbuttoned at his neck with no tie in sight. But that was usually the case.
There was something undeniably dangerous about Sam MacDonald. He frightened her, but it was men like him that gave her the information she needed to expose the truth to the world. So he was a necessary evil.
But that didn’t mean she had to like him.
“How did you get in?” she demanded.
His smile widened, stretching his full lips but never reaching his gold eyes. “That’s a secret I’ll keep.” Then he blinked, his chest expanding as he took in a breath, and his entire demeanor changed. “Get dressed. We need to talk.”
She stepped back into the bathroom and closed the door with a sigh. She looked down at her hands to find them shaking.
“Stop it,” she whispered to herself.
She had to get her nerves under control and quickly. Without delay, she dressed in a pair of black lounge pants and a loose-fitting, long-sleeved gray shirt. When she exited, Sam was in the same position. Except now there were two glasses of Scotch sitting on the coffee table.
Their gazes met. Rachel had learned to listen to her instincts, and as she looked into Sam’s eyes, she saw determination, anticipation, and…a slow burning anger. He blinked, and the anger was gone, hidden once more.
It would show again. It always did. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t hide it for long. She found it difficult to trust him because she knew he was keeping something from her.
“I don’t like whisky,” she replied as she walked from the bathroom. She tucked her leg beneath her and sat on the sofa opposite him.
He gave an indifferent shrug. “I’d advise you change your mind.”
A yearning that won’t be denied
Rachel Marek is a journalist with a plan. She intends to expose the truth about dragons to the world – and her target is within sight. Nothing matters but getting the truth, especially not the ruggedly handsome, roguishly thrilling Highlander who oozes danger and charm. And when she finds the truth that shatters her faith, she’ll have to trust her heart to the very man who can crush it… A legend in the flesh Suave, dashing Asher is more than just a man. He’s a Dragon King – a being who has roamed this planet since the beginning of time. With everything on the line, Asher must choose to trust an enemy in the form of an all too alluring woman whose tenacity and passion captivate him. Together, Asher and Rachel must fight for their lives – and their love – before an old enemy destroys them both…
About Donna Grant: Donna Grant is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the sizzling Dark King series featuring dragons, immortal Highlanders, and the Fae. She was born and raised in Texas but loves to travel. Her adventures have taken her throughout the United States as well as to Jamaica, Mexico, and Scotland. Growing up on the Texas/Louisiana border, Donna’s Cajun side of the family taught her the “spicy” side of life while her Texas roots gave her two-steppin’ and bareback riding. Despite deadlines and voracious reading, Donna still manages to keep up with her two children, four cats, and one long haired Chihuahua.
Only an Earl Will Do To Marry a Rogue #1 By: Tamara Gill Released July 25, 2016
Entangled Select Historical
The reigning queen of London society, Lady Elizabeth Worthingham, has her future set out for her. Marry well, and marry without love. An easy promise to make and one she owed her family after her near ruinous past that threatened them all. And the rakish scoundrel Henry Andrews, Earl of Muir whose inability to act a gentleman when she needed one most would one day pay for his treachery.
Returning to England after three years abroad, Henry is determined to make the only woman who captured his heart his wife. But the icy reception he receives from Elizabeth is colder than his home in the Scottish highlands. As past hurts surface and deception runs as thick as blood, so too does a love that will overcome all obstacles, unless a nameless foe, determined with his own path, gets his way and their love never sees the light of day...
Elizabeth hid a repulsed shudder over Lord Riddledale, who stood pompous and proud across the floor, the ever-present scowl on his face no surprise. No doubt her stepping out with another gentleman other than himself had put him out of countenance. She turned back to her sister. “I cannot summon any remorse for annoying Riddledale. As for Lord Dean, I’ll be sorry to hurt him, but no, I will not marry him no matter how much his heart breaks over my decision.”
“Could your feelings change in time, do you believe?” Victoria asked.
“No.”
“No?”Elizabeth shook her head. “No.”
“Why?”She swallowed the familiar lump which formed in her throat every time she thought of him, the man she refused to name, even in her own thoughts. “I’m not the loving kind. I don’t believe it’s healthy to rely on such feeble unstable emotions when someone is entering the marriage state. Men and their need to be adored, looked up to in awe, can go hang. Lord Newland’s name protects me now. I have no need to marry again.”Victoria threw her a dubious look. “I believe there is nothing purer and good than love, especially if you are fortunate enough to have it in a marriage.” Her sister sighed, the sound tinged with sadness. “You promised Papa you would try.”
“I am well aware of what I promised Papa, but he did not stipulate marriage is what I should try. I’m friendly and affable. That is enough.”
Tamara Gill is an Australian author who grew up in an old mining town in country South Australia, where her love of history was founded. So much so, she made her darling husband travel to the UK for their honeymoon, where she dragged him from one historical monument and castle to another. A mother of three, her two little gentleman’s in the making, a future lady (she hopes) and a part-time job keep her busy in the real world, but whenever she gets a moment’s peace she loves to write romance novels in an array of genres, including regency, medieval and time travel. Tamara loves hearing from readers and writers alike. You can contact her through her website, and sign up to follow her blog or newsletter.
Beth Huntley, photographer and devoted bachelorette, doesn’t believe in true love. Too much hurt and disappointment has left her hiding behind the camera. All she can see is a black and white world through the lens.
William Lorde, widower and father, was once an open and carefree man. The loss of his wife has left him wrapped up in the needs of his little girl. He can no longer see the colors of the world as he struggles each and every day.
What happens when these two similarly different people meet and help each other to step out of the world they’ve created for themselves? Will they find a love that helps them heal from the past, enjoy their present and create a beautiful future?
I woke the following morning to the sound of the ocean crashing against the beach. I was still wrapped in William's embrace, my head resting on his shoulder. His breathing was even and soft as he slept.
I was too comfortable to start the new day. Looking around without bothering to lift my head, I located our clothes, neatly folded on the other chair under the cabana. Heat rushed to my cheeks. Who had done that? And when had they done it?
William stirred beside me. "Morning, love." His voice was rough with sleep.
"Morning," I whispered, not sure if our mysterious housekeeper was still nearby.
He was immediately focused. "Beth, what's wrong?"
It was impossible to hide anything from him now. I was an open book now and he was my reader.
"We had a visitor," I said, pointing at our neatly-folded clothes.
He relaxed back into the chair. "Oh, Beth, we're grown adults. We didn't do anything the rest of them haven't done."
He was right, but it wasn't something I was so open to having everyone know. "But..."
"Relax, Beth." William consoled me. "Are you regretting it?"
I was shocked at his question. "No, never!"
"So don't be embarrassed. It's a natural part of a relationship," William chuckled. "Stop over thinking everything."
I hid my face on his chest. He was right; he was always right. How could I doubt what had happened between us? We’d both been ready, and I was sure a few people up at the house were curious why it hadn't happened sooner. I had to stop over-analyzing everything.
"My camera!" I cursed as I yanked the tank top from the folded clothes over my head.
"Where did you leave it?" He sounded concerned, knowing what my equipment meant to me.
"On the beach, before we went into the water last night," I yelled as I hopped out of the cabana, still attempting to get my other leg in my shorts.
We spent the next twenty minutes searching the beach. My anger quickly turned into horror as reality sunk in. My camera was gone. Had someone taken it, or had the ocean claimed it?
William tried to comfort me as we trudged up the path to the villa. "All those photos... the airport, the flight, the first photos of Jamaica, they're all gone, William." I was more upset over the loss of the photos than the camera itself.
Voices were audible from the kitchen as we stepped through the patio doors. The aromas were incredible, but weren't enough to lighten my mood. Most people would be upset about the camera, but even if it was my favorite, and worth a ridiculous amount of money, it was the loss of so many memories which upset me.
Jude came out of her bedroom and stopped short when she spotted us. She glanced towards the kitchen as she rushed towards us. She wrapped her arms around me, and whispered loud enough so William could hear her, "Everyone thinks you went for an early walk." I stiffened, unsure how much she knew. "I put your camera in your bedroom." She chuckled as she stepped back. As she turned, she reached out and tugged on William's shirt. "You really do pack neatly."
I stood motionless, completely stunned and my body turned to lava with embarrassment. Just before Jude turned the corner to the kitchen, she glanced over her shoulder. "By the way, William, you should get a tan on that ass."
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28 year old writer, Vanessa Fortney, has travelled the world, living life to the fullest. When she comes home due to the unexpected death of her only blood relatives, she only has one regret; never finding a love that triumphs all others.
In a beautiful valley in the Rocky Mountains, Nessa finds herself wondering about a mysterious stranger who saved her after a nearly disastrous car accident. The mystery that surrounds Daniel is quickly replaced by the increasing attraction Nessa feels for him.
Will she find that love that transcends all love or will an unforeseen tragedy keep them apart?
My love for books began at a very small age. I lived inside the many worlds the local library could provide. The characters within those pages were my companions and my support when I needed someone most.
My imagination began to soar as I grew. I began writing small poems as a teenager, but never thought much about publishing or expanding beyond put my words to paper.
After my children were born our love for a certain TV show fueled my love for writing. Using my children as inspiration, I began to write fanfiction, my children being the characters within the stories.
My passion for putting words to paper (or screen as is the norm now) has turned from passion to obsession. I've made some incredible friends through this journey and in turn, have become not only an author but a promoter and supporter for those whose imagination dreams characters and worlds that I can lose myself in.
I thank my precious children, my beautiful soul-mate and my forever sister and best friend for being my constant rock and support as I continue to walk this road called life.
Sign of the Green Dragon by C. Lee McKenzie GENRE: Middle Grade
When a wall of their cave hideout crumbles, three boys discover a skeleton, clutching a treasure map. They set off to trace the story of an old murder, but stumble into a modern crime, and confront ancient Chinese dragons.
Sam inched forward and aimed the flashlight inside. “Uh oh.”
“What?” Joey gasped.
“It’s a ... well, kind of a ... skeleton.”
“Awww,” Roger screamed, ran, tripped, and sprawled on his stomach.
“It can’t hurt you, Roger,” Sam said. “Come on.Take a look.” One thing about being in a family of paleontologists, you got used to bones.Roger quick-shook his head. “No. No. No.”Joey took three slow steps and stood next to Sam. “Sweet. A dead guy. Man, let’s get out of here.”
“Hold this.” Sam handed Joey the flashlight. “Keep the light on him, okay?”The skeleton was partly covered by a tattered shirt and pants. Bony fingers clutched a wooden box with a piece of thin metal about two inches long on its top.Reaching inside, Sam tried to pry the box from the skeleton’s grasp, but the finger bones fell through the rib cage and clattered to the bottom of the chest. The box lodged between the ribs.The light jiggled in Joey’s hand. “Come on Sam, enough already.”Sam picked up the thin metal piece from the top of the box, and held it under the light. One end of it was bent at a right angle. A faded red tassel looped through the other end.
“Here, take this.” Sam handed Joey the strange object, then reached inside the chest and gripped the box. He lifted it slow and easy. It could be a trap. It could be dangerous. His hands twitched and the edge of the box caught on a rod that held the chest lid open. He barely snatched the box free before the lid crashed down.What sounded like an angry dragon exploded around the cave.
C. Lee McKenzie has a background in Linguistics and Inter-Cultural Communication. Her greatest passion is writing for young readers. Sign of the Green Dragon is her third Middle Grade novel. Alligators Overhead and the sequel, The Great Time Lock Disaster were her first two. She has traditionally published four young adult novels: Sliding on the Edge, The Princess of Las Pulgas, Double Negative and Sudden Secrets.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:I'd like to highlight the fact that I always have a free ebook (a different one every few months) available on my website for visitors.http://cleemckenziebooks.com
Blurb
I couldâve fucking strangled her. She knew it too because she stepped away quickly. âTouch me and Iâll have you!â she snarled.
âBruja mala leche! What the fuck do you think youâre playing at! You canât push me around!â
âSure I can.â Her eyes were slate grey, the same colour as the sky, and just as cold. âI need help, and youâre going to give it.â
âWhat the hell are you talking about?â
âIâve got a situation. I need someone who isnât afraid of murder and mayhem.â
I should have charmed her, offered to help and maybe it would have settled it, but I was too mad to even consider it. âHelp you? Over my dead fucking body!â
She shrugged. âWe can do it that way, too.â She took out her phone. âIâll call you soon, hopefully within the hour. If you still refuse, I call Smith.â The eyes were hard. âIâd rather not shop you, because I hate that bastard, but I will if you make me.â
I gave her my number. I mean, I wanted to kill her, but in London they notice things like bodies in the street. Especially if youâre careless enough to do it in broad daylight next to a cop shop.
Quique is having a bad time. Back in Mexico his marriage has fallen apart and his wife has made him a laughing stock by cheating on him. Now heâs in London and finding himself out of his depth with a complex commercial deal. To make things worse, Natalia Truelove, a chef and pub manager, is blackmailing him. Quique is ready to commit murder and heâs pretty sure who his first victim will be. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '17b111e8b364ce9397a59831ec117aedf1a8ddd2a1b87eeda18e4d421adedf2a'} |
65 F.3d 725
Jesse VENTURA, doing business as Jesse "The Body" Ventura,also known as James G. Janos, Appellee,v.TITAN SPORTS, INC., a Delaware Corporation, doing businessas Titan Sports Enterprises, doing business asWorld Wrestling Federation, doingbusiness as The WWF, Appellant,A & H Video Sales Representatives, Inc., a New YorkCorporation, doing business as Coliseum Video; LJN Toys,Ltd., a New York Corporation; Putnam Publishing Group, andits Division Perigee Books, also known as Putnam BerkleyGroup, Inc.; Columbia House, a Foreign Corporation, Defendants.Jesse VENTURA, doing business as Jesse "The Body" Ventura,also known as James G. Janos, Appellant,v.TITAN SPORTS, doing business as Titan Sports Enterprises,doing business as World Wrestling Federation,doing business as The WWF, Inc., aDelaware Corporation, Appellee,A & H Video Sales Representatives, doing business asColiseum Video, Inc., a New York Corporation; LJN Toys,Ltd., a New York Corporation; Putnam Publishing Group, alsoknown as Putnam Berkley Group, Inc., and its DivisionPerigee Books; Columbia House, a Foreign Corporation, Defendants.
Nos. 94-3103, 94-3235.
United States Court of Appeals,Eighth Circuit.
Submitted March 16, 1995.Decided Sept. 11, 1995.Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied Oct. 26, 1995.
Jerry S. McDevitt, Pittsburgh, PA, argued (Mark Ginder, Minneapolis, MN, on the brief), for appellant.
Alan C. Eidsness, Minneapolis, MN, argued (David B. Olsen, on the brief), for appellee.
Before MAGILL, Circuit Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.
1
This appeal arises out of a match between wrestler/commentator Jesse "The Body" Ventura and Titan Sports, Inc., which operates "The World Wrestling Federation" (WWF). Titan appeals the district court's judgment in favor of Ventura, arguing that (1) Ventura was not entitled to recovery under quantum meruit because an express contract covers the subject matter for which Ventura sought recovery; and (2) the district court erroneously admitted and relied upon the testimony of Ventura's damages expert. Ventura cross-appeals the district court's denial of prefiling interest. We affirm in all respects.1
I. BACKGROUND
2
During July 1984, Titan entered into a licensing agreement with LJN Toys authorizing LJN Toys to manufacture dolls using the images of WWF wrestlers. Titan also entered a "master licensing" agreement with DIC Enterprises that resulted in WWF T-shirts, trading cards, calendars, a computer game and numerous other items. In December 1984, Titan entered into a licensing agreement with A & H Video Sales (d/b/a Coliseum Video) for the production of videotapes of WWF matches. Agreements with A & H and Columbia House resulted in the production of approximately ninety videotapes of WWF performances involving Ventura.
3
Ventura began wrestling for Titan in Spring 1984 under an oral contract with Vincent K. McMahon, Titan's President and sole shareholder. In late 1984, Ventura suffered medical problems and ceased to work as a wrestler, although Titan continued to pay him during his convalescence. After Ventura recovered, he returned to work for Titan as a "color" or "heel"2 commentator under an oral agreement with Titan. He was paid a flat rate of $1000 per week and there was no discussion of videotape royalties or licenses. Shortly after returning to work for Titan, Ventura executed a "Wrestling Booking Agreement" (WBA) with an effective date of January 1, 1985. Ventura subsequently resumed wrestling for Titan, for which he was paid according to the terms of the WBA. In March 1986, Ventura terminated his relationship with Titan in order to pursue an acting career.
4
Ventura's foray into movies was moderately successful, but in fall 1986 he returned to Titan as a commentator, again under an oral agreement that made no mention of videotape royalties or licenses. In fall 1987, Ventura hired Barry Bloom as his talent agent. Bloom negotiated on Ventura's behalf with Dick Ebersol, Titan's partner in producing the "Saturday Night's Main Event" show. However, the negotiations quickly broke down, and as a result, the first show of the 1987-88 season aired without Ventura. A few weeks later, Titan's Vice-President of Business Affairs, Dick Glover, contacted Bloom concerning Ventura and represented to Bloom that Titan's policy was to pay royalties only to "feature" performers. Because Ventura was interested in working for Titan, Bloom thought it wise not to attempt to "break the policy." Ventura returned to work for Titan under a new contract that waived royalties and continued to work as a commentator for Titan until August 1990. Since that time he has worked as a commentator for WCW, Titan's main competitor.
5
In December 1991, Ventura filed an action in Minnesota state court seeking royalties for the use of his likeness on videotapes produced by Titan. The original complaint contained causes of action for fraud,3 misappropriation of publicity rights and quantum meruit. Titan removed the case to federal court, and the case was tried before a jury. Although only the quantum meruit claim was submitted to the jury, the jury was given a special verdict form concerning misrepresentation. Using this form, the jury found that Titan had defrauded Ventura and that $801,333.06 would compensate Ventura for Titan's videotape exploitation of his commentary. The jury also determined that Titan exploited Ventura's name, voice or likeness as a commentator in other merchandise and concluded that $8,625.60 would compensate Ventura for this exploitation.
6
After the jury rendered its verdict, the district court concluded that Ventura was not entitled to a jury trial on his quantum meruit claim. Accordingly, the court vacated the jury verdict and entered findings of fact and conclusions of law that were consistent with the verdict. The court denied Ventura's request for prefiling interest but granted prejudgment interest from the time the suit was filed. Titan appealed, and Ventura cross-appealed the denial of prefiling interest.
II. DISCUSSION
7
Titan raises three claimed errors on appeal. First, Titan argues that Ventura was not entitled to quantum meruit recovery of royalties for the videotape4 exploitation of his performance as color commentator during the 1985-87 (pre-Bloom) period because Ventura provided his commentating services under an express contract. Second, Titan claims that the district court erroneously applied the law of quantum meruit when it rescinded an express contract and awarded Ventura royalties for the videotape exploitation of his performance as color commentator during the 1987-90 (post-Bloom) period. Third, Titan alleges that the district court abused its discretion in qualifying and relying upon Ventura's expert witness in awarding damages. Ventura's cross-appeal presents a single issue: whether the district court clearly erred when it denied Ventura's request for prefiling interest. We address each of these issues in turn.
8
A. Is quantum meruit available during the pre-Bloom period?
9
Minnesota law determines the rights of the parties in this diversity action, and we review the district court's interpretation of Minnesota law de novo. Salve Regina College v. Russell, 499 U.S. 225, 231, 111 S.Ct. 1217, 1221, 113 L.Ed.2d 190 (1991). The basic contours of the law of quantum meruit, or unjust enrichment, are well settled under Minnesota law:
10
An action for unjust enrichment may be based on failure of consideration, fraud, mistake, and situations where it would be morally wrong for one party to enrich himself at the expense of another. However, a claim of unjust enrichment does not lie simply because one party benefits from the efforts or obligations of others, but instead lies where one party was unjustly enriched in the sense that the term 'unjustly' could mean illegally or unlawfully.
11
Hesselgrave v. Harrison, 435 N.W.2d 861, 863-64 (Minn.App.1989) (internal quotations and citation omitted). Although the applicable law is well settled, the facts of this case are rather unique and therefore require us to address some preliminary issues.
12
The first unique aspect of this appeal involves defining the benefit received (allegedly unjustly) by Titan. Titan makes much of the fact that Ventura provided no services for Titan other than pursuant to the Ventura-Titan contracts. While it is true that the Ventura-Titan contracts governed all the services provided by Ventura (i.e., his acts of appearing at the wrestling match and commentating), the agreements do not necessarily address all the benefits created by Ventura's services. Ventura's services created several varieties of intellectual property rights. In defining the "benefit" conferred upon Titan, the proper focus is not merely Ventura's labor as he performed, but must also include the intellectual property rights created by Ventura's performance. Thus, we find that the intellectual property rights to Ventura's commentary are benefits upon which an action for unjust enrichment may be based.
13
We next must determine whether Titan, in taking this benefit, was unjustly enriched. Ventura's quantum meruit claim may succeed only if Titan's rights to use Ventura's performance are limited so that Titan is not entitled to use the performance without Ventura's consent. We believe that Titan's rights are limited by Ventura's right to publicity. In determining the law of the State of Minnesota concerning publicity rights, we are bound by the decisions of the Minnesota Supreme Court. If the Minnesota Supreme Court has not addressed the issue, we must determine what that court would probably hold were it to decide the issue. The parties have identified, and we have discovered, no case in which the Minnesota Supreme Court has either accepted or rejected the tort of misappropriation of publicity rights. We must therefore attempt to predict the decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court.5 In making our prediction, we may consider relevant state precedent, analogous decisions, considered dicta, scholarly works and any other reliable data. B.B. v. Continental Ins. Co., 8 F.3d 1288, 1291 (8th Cir.1993).
14
We believe that the Minnesota Supreme Court would recognize the tort of violation of publicity rights. We are aware that Minnesota does not recognize the fourfold tort of invasion of privacy. See Hendry v. Conner, 303 Minn. 317, 226 N.W.2d 921, 923 (1975); Stubbs v. North Memorial Medical Center, 448 N.W.2d 78, 80-81 (Minn.App.1989). However, the right of publicity differs substantially from the right to privacy. Uhlaender v. Henricksen, 316 F.Supp. 1277, 1280-81 (D.Minn.1970); 2 Fowler V. Harper et al, The Law of Torts Sec. 9.7, at 657 (1986). The policy underlying the tort of invasion of privacy is the protection of the privacy and solicitude of private personae from the mental distress that accompanies undesired publicity. Uhlaender, 316 F.Supp. at 1280. Minnesota courts have refused to adopt this policy on their own initiative. Stubbs, 448 N.W.2d at 81. However, the policy underlying the right to publicity is different in several important respects. The right to publicity protects the ability of public personae to control the types of publicity that they receive. The right to publicity protects pecuniary, not emotional, interests. Uhlaender, 316 F.Supp. at 1280-81. As such, the policy underlying the right to publicity is more akin to the policy underlying the protection of trade names, which Minnesota recognizes. See Minn.Stat. Sec. 325D.165 (Supp.1995) (1994 Amendment to Minnesota Unlawful Trade Practices Act); Sec. 325D.44 (Supp.1995) (Minnesota version of Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act). Indeed, the district court for the District of Minnesota has twice relied upon this distinction to recognize the right to publicity. Uhlaender, 316 F.Supp. at 1280-81 (distinguishing misappropriation from right of privacy); McFarland v. E & K Corp., 18 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1246, 1247, 1991 WL 13728 (D.Minn.1991) (quoting Uhlaender, 316 F.Supp. at 1281-82). Thus, we believe that the Minnesota courts would recognize the right to publicity, and Titan's violation of this right makes Titan's use of Ventura's commentary without his consent unjust.6
15
However, quantum meruit is not available simply because Titan may have been unjustly enriched. Minnesota law is clear that "[w]here an express contract exists, there can be no implied [in law] contract with respect to the same subject matter." Reese Design v. I-94 Highway 61 Eastview Center Partnership, 428 N.W.2d 441, 446 (Minn.App.1988); accord Sharp v. Laubersheimer, 347 N.W.2d 268, 271 (Minn.1984). On the other hand, if an existing contract does not address the benefit for which recovery is sought, quantum meruit is available regarding those items about which the contract is silent. Holman v. CPT Corp., 457 N.W.2d 740, 745 (Minn.App.1990); Frankson v. Design Space Int'l, 394 N.W.2d 140, 145 (Minn.1986); Sagl v. Hirt, 236 Minn. 281, 52 N.W.2d 721, 725 (1952).7
16
Between 1985 and 1987, Ventura performed services for Titan under two different agreements. Ventura's services as a wrestler are governed by the WBA; his services as a commentator are governed by his oral agreements with McMahon. Thus, two contracts existed between Ventura and Titan between 1985 and March 1986, when the WBA was terminated. Whether quantum meruit recovery was proper depends upon whether or not the two agreements between Ventura and Titan were of limited scope, addressing only televised live performances, or also included subsequent videotape releases of the performances. The district court found that the WBA precluded royalties for the videotape exploitation of Ventura's performance as a wrestler. The district court also found that Ventura and Titan had no agreement concerning the payment of royalties for videotape exploitation of Ventura's performance as a commentator. This finding concerns the intent of the parties, Cepeda v. Swift & Co., 415 F.2d 1205, 1207-08 (8th Cir.1969), and as such, is a factual finding which we review only for clear error. 1 Steven A. Childress & Martha S. Davis, Federal Standards of Review Sec. 2.23 (2d ed. 1991) ("The clearly erroneous rule generally applies to a finding regarding the intent of the contracting parties, at least where the contract is ambiguous.").
17
We have reviewed the record, and are left with no definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made. From 1985 to 1987, there was no discussion of Titan's right to use Ventura's color commentary. At least initially,8 Ventura was not aware of the impending videotape sales, as merchandising was not part of the industry practice. These facts support the conclusion that Ventura's contract for commentating services did not contemplate a license for videotape distribution. Accordingly, we hold that the district court's finding that the pre-Bloom Ventura-Titan contracts did not address videotape licenses or royalties is not clearly erroneous. See Anderson v. Bessemer City, 470 U.S. 564, 105 S.Ct. 1504, 84 L.Ed.2d 518 (1985). We believe that the judgment of the district court was correct insofar as it awarded damages for the exploitation of Ventura's pre-Bloom commentating performances.
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B. Is quantum meruit available for the post-Bloom period?
19
The post-Bloom contracts pose different issues. It is clear that Ventura performed commentating services between 1987 and 1990 pursuant to a series of contracts with Titan. It is also clear that the post-Bloom Ventura-Titan contracts included an arrangement concerning videotape royalties. Bloom specifically inquired about royalties and was told of the Titan policy. In reliance upon this purported policy, Ventura waived his rights to royalties. Titan contends that Ventura is not entitled to recovery in quantum meruit for the post-Bloom period because of the existence of express contracts waiving royalties. See Sharp, 347 N.W.2d at 271 (" 'It is fundamental that proof of an express contract precludes recovery in quantum meruit.' " (quoting Breza v. Thaldorf, 276 Minn. 180, 149 N.W.2d 276 (Minn.1967))). Thus, the question reduces to whether Ventura may avoid the express contract waiving royalties and recover these royalties under quantum meruit. We believe that the district court correctly concluded that Ventura was entitled to avoid the fraudulently induced contracts and to recover the reasonable value of the royalties.
20
We address two issues. First, we decide whether Ventura is entitled to introduce evidence of fraud when his only cause of action at trial was quantum meruit. Second, we address Titan's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence concerning fraudulent inducement.
21
We believe that Ventura is entitled to introduce evidence of fraudulent inducement, despite the fact that this fraud theory was not pleaded. In ruling on pretrial motions, the district court granted Titan's motion to exclude evidence concerning Titan's fraudulent misrepresentation of its royalty policy as proof of Ventura's fraud theory because Ventura had failed to plead Titan's fraudulent misrepresentations of its royalty policy with the particularity required by Rule 9(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Add. at 34-35. Although there was some confusion as to whether Ventura's pleaded fraud claim (i.e., Titan's misrepresentations concerning its marketing plans for Ventura's commentaries) survived the district court's ruling, it is clear that Ventura abandoned all fraud claims before trial. App. at 53-57. The district court denied Titan's motion to strike Ventura's quantum meruit claim and held that Ventura could present his quantum meruit theory provided that he presented credible evidence of fraudulent inducement. Add. at 37. Titan's Sixth and/or Seventh Defenses in its Answer to Ventura's Second Amended Complaint raise a "covered by contract" defense to Ventura's quantum meruit claim. Because Ventura had no opportunity to file a responsive pleading, Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8(d) deems Titan's "covered by contract" defense to be denied or avoided (i.e., it permits Ventura to raise the fraudulent inducement issue although it was not pleaded). Fraud is only in the case because of this "covered by contract" defense. This fraud rescinded or set aside the contract, opening the door to his quantum meruit claim. Thus, we conclude that Ventura was entitled to introduce evidence of fraudulent inducement to avoid this defense.
22
Ventura clearly pursued only the rescission to eliminate the contract and open the door to quantum meruit before trial. On the first day of trial, as preliminary matters were being decided, counsel representing Ventura stated unequivocally that "[w]e are not presenting any claim of misrepresentation or fraud in a separate cause of action." App. at 57. Ventura's counsel continued, making it clear that the only relevance of misrepresentation was to open the door to quantum meruit.
23
Thus, we conclude that the district court properly permitted Ventura to rescind the contract and recover in quantum meruit by proving fraudulent inducement to avoid Titan's "covered by contract" defense. We believe that Ventura's options were quite similar to those of the plaintiff in Stark v. Magnuson, 212 Minn. 167, 2 N.W.2d 814 (1942).9 In Stark, the defendant breached a contract with the plaintiff, and the plaintiff disaffirmed the contract and sought quasi-contractual recovery. The court approved of such a course of action. Id., 2 N.W.2d at 815. We turn now to the issue whether Ventura actually proved the fraudulent inducement upon which his quantum meruit claim depends.
24
It is well established under Minnesota law that unjust enrichment and quantum meruit may arise from fraud or several other predicates. See, e.g., Holman, 457 N.W.2d at 745; Hesselgrave, 435 N.W.2d at 863; Timmer v. Gray, 395 N.W.2d 477, 478 (Minn.App.1986); Anderson v. DeLisle, 352 N.W.2d 794, 796 (Minn.App.1984). Nothing in these Minnesota cases requires that all elements of a cause of action for fraud must be proved in order to use fraud as a stepping stone for quantum meruit. However, we begin with the elements of a cause of action for fraud under Minnesota law as a useful guide. See Davis v. Re-Trac Mfg. Corp., 149 N.W.2d 37, 38-39 (Minn.1967) (listing elements of cause of action for fraud). Titan argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the necessary findings of materiality, inducement, justifiable reliance, causation and damages. We disagree. Both Ventura's and Bloom's testimony support the district court's findings. The district court found their testimony to be credible, and we must give deference to the district court's credibility determinations. Fed.R.Civ.P. 52(a) ("due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses").
25
The evidence demonstrates that in 1987, Ventura hired Bloom to negotiate with Titan on his behalf. During negotiations, Glover told Bloom that Titan's policy was to pay royalties only to talent featured in their own videotapes, such as the "Best of" videotapes. Believing it difficult to break Titan's policy, Bloom negotiated an agreement under which Ventura agreed to perform for Titan as a commentator. The agreement did not entitle Ventura to royalties for videotapes of his performances, unless he was the featured performer. Ventura's compensation did not include any payment based on videotape sales.
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Between 1987 and 1990, Glover and Bloom met annually, in person or by telephone, to negotiate Ventura's performance fees for each broadcast season, and occasionally for special performances. During each negotiation, Bloom asked Glover whether Titan had changed its policy regarding the payment of videotape royalties, and each time Glover reiterated that no talent received videotape royalties unless they were the featured performer on a videotape. Glover also told Ventura of this policy. Bloom and Ventura relied on Glover's statements concerning Titan's royalty policy, and understood that by entering into fee agreements they waived any right Ventura had to royalties. Despite these representations, Titan simultaneously made numerous royalty payments which were inconsistent with the purported policy of not paying royalties except to featured performers.10
27
In light of this evidence concerning Titan's representations and its history of royalty payments, the district court concluded that from 1987 through 1990, Titan's representations to Ventura that its policy was to pay videotape royalties only to featured performers were false. The district court also found that had Ventura known that Titan did not abide by its stated policy, he would not have accepted a deal which did not compensate him for the reproduction and sale of his performances on videotape. The court further found that Ventura justifiably relied on Titan's fraudulent misrepresentations of its royalty policy, and as a result Ventura suffered damages. Thus, the district court rescinded the 1987-1990 agreements, and permitted Ventura to recover in quantum meruit. In light of the abundance of supporting evidence, we find no basis for concluding the district court's findings were clearly erroneous or lacked sufficient evidentiary support.
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C. Did the district court abuse its discretion when it relied upon the testimony of Ventura's damages expert?
29
Titan makes two challenges to the testimony of Ventura's damages expert, Weston Anson. First, Titan argues that the district court abused its discretion when it admitted Anson's testimony that was "without foundation, speculative and irrelevant." Titan also argues that the district court "ignored all of the reliable, relevant evidence." Although not specifically so labeled by Titan, we interpret this second argument as a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence relating to damages.
30
Our analysis of the admissibility of expert testimony concerning reasonable royalty rates is controlled by Federal Rules of Evidence 702 and 703. These rules require that evidence of "scientific knowledge" provided by an expert must be relevant and reliable. See Daubert v. Merrell Dow, --- U.S. ----, 113 S.Ct. 2786, 125 L.Ed.2d 469 (1993). Sorensen by and through Dunbar v. Shaklee Corp., 31 F.3d 638, 647 n. 13, 648 (8th Cir.1994). Titan's challenge to the admissibility of Anson's testimony is two-pronged. First, Titan argues that the testimony, which had to do with the market rate for royalties for licensing intellectual property, was irrelevant to the damages issue at trial. Second, in what appears to be a reliability-based challenge, Titan argues that the testimony was impermissibly speculative. We review the district court's decision to admit expert testimony for abuse of discretion. TCBY Sys., Inc. v. RSP Co., 33 F.3d 925, 929 (8th Cir.1994).
31
We believe that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it found Anson's testimony to be relevant. The relevance inquiry under Rule 401 merges the common law requirements of relevancy and materiality. See Fed.R.Evid. 401 advisory committee's note. Anson's testimony is relevant if it makes any material fact more likely than the fact would be in the absence of his testimony. See 22 Charles A. Wright & Kenneth W. Graham, Federal Practice and Procedure Sec. 5165, at 48 (1982 & Supp.1994).
32
Anson's testimony concerned a material fact. Minnesota cases generally state the amount of recovery in quantum meruit as the reasonable value of the benefit (or services) to the defendant. See, e.g., Sagl, 52 N.W.2d at 725; Frankson, 394 N.W.2d at 140; Galante, 379 N.W.2d at 726 ("value of the services rendered less benefits received"). Section 152 of the Restatement of Restitution, which applies in cases of conscious torts, defines the measure of recovery as the market value of the plaintiff's services irrespective of their benefit to the recipient. Restatement of Restitution Sec. 152, at 606 (1937). Thus, regardless of whether Titan's actions rise to the level of a conscious tort, Anson's testimony concerning the market value of Ventura's videotape license relates to material facts: the value of the license to Titan (the measure of recovery for nonconscious torts) and the value of royalties to Ventura (the measure of recovery for conscious torts).
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Anson's testimony is relevant because it tended to fix the value of the license/royalty. By providing evidence of the market rate for videotape royalties, Anson's testimony (1) provided direct evidence of the market value of Ventura's license, which is the measure of Ventura's recovery if Titan's conduct was consciously tortious; and (2) assisted the jury in determining the reasonable amount that Ventura's license is worth to Titan by providing the competitive background against which Titan is operating. Titan argues that Anson's testimony is irrelevant because Glover and Bloom negotiated an arm's length deal that should be used as the measure of royalties and, alternatively, because Titan's policy which provides for a royalty rate of less than five percent should be used to determine the amount of the royalty. We reject these arguments. The proof identified by Titan simply provides evidence of a reasonable royalty rate; it does not render competing evidence irrelevant. Accordingly, we conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion when it concluded that Anson's testimony was relevant.
34
We now turn to the related question whether Anson's testimony was reliable. Titan argues that Anson's testimony is unreliable because it is impermissibly speculative. In order to assess whether Anson's testimony is reliable, we must focus on the methodology and principles underlying the testimony, not the conclusions they generate. Sorensen, 31 F.3d at 648. Anson arrived at his estimate of damages by applying a royalty percentage to Titan's revenues from wholesale distribution of the tapes. The sales figures for the ninety videotapes upon which Ventura appeared were not available, but net profits (a more conservative measure) were established to the penny ($25,733,527.94). The main dispute concerns the royalty rate applied to this figure to generate the royalty that is the measure of damages. Titan's expert figured damages in a similar fashion, applying varying royalty percentages and formulas to base amounts keyed to sales. Anson testified that a five percent royalty was the minimum that he would be satisfied with as an agent and was the single most likely rate, but that rates could range from 3.5% to 7.5%. When applied to the profits figure, these rates yield: $865,723.00 (3.5%), $1,236,747.00 (5%), and $1,855,121.00 (7.5%).
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We believe that Anson's methodology in arriving at the royalty percentages was reliable. Anson based his opinion as to the reasonable royalty upon a survey of thousands of licensing agreements. It is common practice to prove the value of an article (e.g., a videotape license) by introducing evidence of transactions involving other "substantially similar" articles (i.e., other licenses). 2 John H. Wigmore, Wigmore on Evidence Sec. 463, at 616-30 (James H. Chadbourn rev. 1979). Anson surveyed licensing agreements involving numerous sports and entertainment figures, App. at 487a (NFL), 489a (major league baseball), as well as various other types of characters. Although no individual arrangement examined by Anson was "on all fours" with the predicted Ventura-Titan license, in the aggregate, the licenses provided sufficient information to allow Anson to predict a royalty range for a wrestling license. We believe that this methodology is sufficiently reliable to support the admission of Anson's testimony.
36
Titan's other arguments go mostly to Anson's qualifications as an expert. Anson's qualifications are quite impressive, and certainly more so than those of some experts whose testimony this court has permitted. Compare App. at 463-69 (detailing Anson's undergraduate and graduate education and work experience) with Bennett v. Lockhart, 39 F.3d 848, 856-57 (8th Cir.1994) (affirming admission of testimony of deputy sheriff as expert concerning the likely effect of jumping from height of 25 feet into 5 feet of water), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 115 S.Ct. 1363, 131 L.Ed.2d 219 (1995). Titan's arguments boil down to an argument that Anson cannot be qualified and his methodology cannot be trusted because he did not personally handle Ventura's licenses. This argument is meritless. Accordingly, we find no abuse of discretion in the district court's admission of Anson's testimony. We also find no merit to Titan's challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence to support the damages award.
37
D. Did the district court clearly err when it denied Ventura's request for prefiling interest?
38
On appeal, the parties agree upon the interpretation of Minnesota law. Under the interpretation adopted by the district court, prefiling interest may be awarded under Minnesota law if the claim was liquidated or readily ascertainable by reference to objective standards. Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Flight Trails, 3 F.3d 292, 297 (8th Cir.1993) (citing Potter v. Hartzell Propeller, Inc., 291 Minn. 513, 189 N.W.2d 499 (1971)). The district court's determination that Ventura's claim was not readily ascertainable is a factual finding reviewed for clear error. Northwest Airlines, 3 F.3d at 298.11 Prejudgment interest has been denied where ambiguities in a commission agreement included the length of the required period preceding notice of termination, the exact sales base for the commission and the commission rate (5% vs. 7%). Bitronics Sales Co. v. Microsemiconductor Corp., 610 F.Supp. 550, 555 (D.Minn.1985) (Murphy, J.).
39
Although in this case the ultimate award of damages was made by reference to objective standards (market value), there are sufficient questions to prevent it from being "readily ascertainable," thereby precluding an award of prejudgment interest. Anson's testimony established that although 5% was the most likely rate, the potential royalty rate varied between 3.5% and 7.5%. Moreover, as there was no agreement, certain payment details, such as the wholesale sales base, the categorization of tapes upon which Ventura appears in multiple roles and the time periods for accrual and payment of royalties, were also unsettled. Thus, this case presents ambiguities similar to those encountered in Bitronics. The precise royalty rate and payment details were contingencies that the jury was required to resolve. Minnesota law precludes an award of prefiling interest where the factfinder must resolve such contingencies. Hutchinson Util. Comm'n v. Curtiss-Wright Corp., 775 F.2d 231, 242 (8th Cir.1985); Unique Sys., Inc. v. Zotos Int'l, Inc., 622 F.2d 373, 379-80 (8th Cir.1980).12
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Minnesota cases have also found that 200% variations in damages from low to high estimate preclude an award of prefiling interest. Potter, 189 N.W.2d at 504 (no prefiling interest where range of $45,000 to $95,000); Hogs Unlimited v. Farm Bureau Mut. Ins. Co., 401 N.W.2d 381, 387 (Minn.1987) (no prefiling interest where range of $218,500 to $428,250).13 Cases in which prefiling interest is awarded involve much less extreme variations. See, e.g., Pearson-Berke, Inc. v. McIntosh, 350 N.W.2d 378 (Minn.1984) (interest awarded where recovery varied between $4,822.50 and $6858); Polaris Indus. v. Plastics, Inc., 299 N.W.2d 414 (Minn.1980) (denial of prefiling interest on $66,758.31 of $208,391.98 verdict reversed where "[w]ith the exception of about $21,000 ... the jury's award reflected item by item the exact amount of out-of-pocket expenses"). Accordingly, we find that the district court did not commit clear error in denying prefiling interest where Ventura's damages estimates varied by over 200% ($865,723 to $1,855,121).
III. CONCLUSION
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The district court did not clearly err when it determined that Ventura's pre-Bloom contracts did not address videotape licensing and royalties. Accordingly, it did not err in permitting quantum meruit recovery of videotape royalties for the pre-Bloom period. Nor did the district court err when it awarded quantum meruit recovery for the post-Bloom period. We also find that the district court did not abuse its discretion in qualifying Anson, nor did it abuse its discretion in determining that Anson's testimony was relevant and that the methods used by Anson were reliable. We further find that the district court did not clearly err in denying Ventura's request for prefiling interest where Ventura's potential damages varied by over 200% and where the amount was contingent upon the factfinder's determination of unresolved issues.
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MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge, dissenting.
43
I dissent from so much of the court's opinion as allows Mr. Ventura a recovery for royalties before Mr. Bloom negotiated a contract for him. To state a cause of action for unjust enrichment in Minnesota, a plaintiff must show either on legal or equitable grounds, or based on principles of natural justice, that a defendant's retention of a benefit would be unjust. Mehl v. Norton, 201 Minn. 203, 205-07, 275 N.W. 843, 844-45 (1937). In the court's view, Mr. Ventura was deprived of a legal right to additional compensation because Titan infringed his right of publicity. I believe that the court has mistakenly allowed this recovery, however, because I do not think that a right of publicity exists under Minnesota law.
44
The court finds a right of publicity under Minnesota law in the absence of any evidence that Minnesota's courts would welcome this cause of action--and, indeed, a Minnesota Supreme Court case indicates to me that they would not. Minnesota has not adopted the tort of appropriation of name or likeness or any of the other torts collectively known as invasion of privacy, Hendry v. Conner, 303 Minn. 317, 319, 226 N.W.2d 921, 922-23 (Minn.1975), and a right to one's likeness is virtually indistinguishable from a right of publicity. See Carson v. Here's Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc., 698 F.2d 831, 834 (6th Cir.1983). With respect, the two federal cases that the court relies on offer no significant support for its conclusion. Uhlaender v. Henricksen, 316 F.Supp. 1277, 1279-80 (D.Minn.1970), was decided before Hendry, and McFarland v. E & K Corp., 18 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1246, 1991 WL 13728 (D.Minn.1991), cites no Minnesota state cases whatever for the existence of a right of publicity. It is also not irrelevant that a majority of states do not recognize a cause of action based on a right of publicity, Donald S. Chisum and Michael A. Jacobs, Understanding Intellectual Property Law 6-67 (1992), and it appears that most states that have adopted one have done so by statute. See id. at nn. 2 & 3. Finally, it is highly significant that, in the year 1995, when everyone not only wants his or her fifteen minutes of fame but the concomitant television rights as well, no Minnesota state court has yet discovered a right of publicity in Minnesota law. The court has thus cited no "reliable data," B.B. v. Continental Ins. Co., 8 F.3d 1288, 1291 (8th Cir.1993), to indicate that Minnesota would recognize such a right. Titan was therefore not enriched in violation of a legal right recognized in Minnesota.
45
Nor has Mr. Ventura shown that it would be inequitable or violate natural justice for Titan to reproduce and sell the videotapes that it produced and on which Mr. Ventura was already paid to appear as an announcer without paying him additional consideration. The doctrine of unjust enrichment, it is true, may provide recovery for performing extra services not specified in an original contract, Sagl v. Hirt, 236 Minn. 281, 287, 52 N.W.2d 721, 725 (1952), but Mr. Ventura does not argue that he performed any duties in addition to his commentary. One may also recover to prevent unjust enrichment if a benefit is conferred "unknowingly" or "unwillingly," Galante v. Oz, Inc., 379 N.W.2d 723, 726 (Minn.App.1986), but Mr. Ventura's own testimony shows that he did not confer the alleged benefit unknowingly or unwillingly. More important, it is hardly unjust, from an economic viewpoint, that Titan should receive the full benefit from selling copies of the videotapes that it created. Titan, as entrepreneur, staged the wrestling matches, hired the various wrestlers, hired the announcers, and, above all, took the risks that the venture would fail to turn a profit. Now that Titan has been successful, Mr. Ventura wants additional compensation for having performed no additional work. If there is any unjust enrichment in this case, it is in allowing Mr. Ventura a recovery under these circumstances.
46
Plaintiff cites Frankson v. Design Space Int'l, 394 N.W.2d 140, 145 (Minn.1986), and Holman v. CPT Corp., 457 N.W.2d 740, 745 (Minn.App.1990), for the proposition that when there is a lack of full agreement concerning compensation an employee may still recover in quantum meruit. That is no doubt so. But those cases are inapposite because each involved performances that had concededly not been compensated. The issue in each was whether sales employees would be allowed to recover commissions. In Frankson, the court held that the parties never reached an agreement about commissions and that therefore the plaintiff should be allowed a quantum meruit recovery. In Holman, plaintiff was terminated before she realized a commission on a sale that was virtually complete but still pending when she was fired, and the contract was silent with respect to whether a commission was due under the circumstances. Mr. Ventura, by contrast, performed and was compensated for his performances. He made an agreement to be paid a weekly sum rather than royalties for announcing wrestling events, and while he now regrets this less favorable arrangement, his regrets are not actionable under Minnesota law because one cannot recover for an unfavorable bargain. See Galante, 379 N.W.2d at 726.
47
Nelson v. Radio Corp. of Am., 148 F.Supp. 1 (S.D.Fla.1957) is an instructive case. Nelson, a vocalist, was hired to perform with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Miller paid him weekly according to union scale. Nelson sang six selections for a recording session and two more for a broadcast that also was recorded. Miller assigned all his rights in the records to the defendant, and in due course, defendant made copies of the recordings for sale. Nelson sued for an accounting for the sale of the recordings on which he sang, a 5 percent royalty on the records, as well as injunctive relief and damages. The evidence established that Nelson had no agreement with Miller entitling him to receive any royalties on the sale of photograph records. The court ruled that "any right in and to phonograph records or other recordings in connection with the production of which plaintiff worked were the property of the plaintiff's employer Miller...." 148 F.Supp. at 3. The court therefore rejected Nelson's claim for royalties.
48
The reasoning of Nelson is highly persuasive and our case is strikingly similar to it. Mr. Ventura agreed to receive weekly pay to perform wrestling commentary. He does not dispute, as far as I can discern, that the videotapes belong to Titan. Mr. Ventura, like Nelson, is suing for a royalty on the sales of the recordings on which he performed. And like Nelson, Mr. Ventura deserves no recovery because he and Titan both performed under their contract and the recordings of Mr. Ventura's performances now belong to Titan and it may profit from them as it sees fit.
49
Finally, even if Minnesota recognized a cause of action for the breach of a right of publicity, and even if this case could be properly characterized, as the court seems to believe, as a dispute over the scope of a license of intellectual property rights (that is, publicity rights), I still doubt that Mr. Ventura should recover. Mr. Ventura himself testified that he was employed to "broadcast wrestling." The agreement was therefore clearly susceptible to the construction that it authorized the sale of videotapes to end users. According to a leading copyright treatise, the preferred rule for copyright contracts when the intent of the parties is unclear is that the licensee may properly pursue any uses that may reasonably be said to fall within the medium as described in the license. 3 Melville B. Nimmer & David Nimmer, Nimmer on Copyright Sec. 10.10[B] at 10-93 (1993). It follows "that a grant of the right to exhibit a motion picture by 'television' in its unambiguous core meaning refers to over-the-air television broadcasts, but in its ambiguous penumbra includes any device by which the motion picture may be seen on television screens, including cable television and videocassette uses." Id. at 10-94. The ambiguity ought to favor the licensee because "it is surely more arbitrary and unjust to put the onus on the licensee by holding that he should have obtained a further clarification of a meaning that was already present than it is to hold that the licensor should have negated a meaning that the licensee might then or thereafter rely upon." Id. I believe that this principle is recommended by reason and is applicable here because a right of publicity does not differ in any material way from a copyright. See Baltimore Orioles, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n, 805 F.2d 663, 679 (7th Cir.1986), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 941, 107 S.Ct. 1593, 94 L.Ed.2d 782 (1987). Mr. Ventura testified that he was hired to perform commentary for television broadcasts. "Television broadcasts" under these circumstances must reasonably include dissemination of the videotapes containing the commentary that Mr. Ventura performed as part of his employment. Indeed, this seems to me utterly implicit in the original contractual arrangement.
50
For the foregoing reasons, I believe that Mr. Ventura's claim for additional compensation for his announcing duties in the period before Mr. Bloom negotiated a contract for him fails as a matter of law. I would therefore reverse that part of the judgment allowing Mr. Ventura's recovery for his role as a commentator before he entered into the written contract.
1
We refer to the contracts negotiated by Ventura's agent, Barry Bloom, during the 1987-90 period as "post-Bloom" contracts. The earlier oral agreements between Ventura and McMahon we refer to as the "pre-Bloom" contracts
2
A color commentator provides the story of the wrestling match, which is in essence a stage show. A heel commentator is a color commentator who plays the role of "the bad guy."
3
The fraud pleaded in Ventura's Complaint and Second Amended Complaint is that Titan fraudulently misrepresented to Ventura that Ventura was employed for no purpose other than a live performance. Second Amended Complaint p 42
4
For the sake of simplicity, we discuss the issues only in terms of the videotapes. However, the principles applied to videotape licenses and royalties apply equally to other merchandise
5
We are aware that the district court excluded all evidence "relevant solely to [Ventura's] appropriation claim." Order at 4 (Feb. 2, 1994). Contrary to Titan's assertions, the law of the case doctrine does not preclude our review of this issue in the context of Ventura's quantum meruit claim. See 2A Federal Procedure: Lawyers Edition Sec. 3:705, at 361 (1994). Moreover, the district court implicitly resolved this issue in Ventura's favor by awarding restitution under quantum meruit
6
We are troubled by the fact that section 301(a) of the copyright code (Title 17) preempts Ventura's claims that are "equivalent to any of the exclusive rights within the general scope of copyright as specified by section 106," such as the production of videotapes of Ventura's televised commentary. Baltimore Orioles, Inc. v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n, 805 F.2d 663, 675 (7th Cir.1986) (baseball players' challenge to television broadcast of live games without their consent as a violation of their publicity rights preempted), cert. denied, 480 U.S. 941, 107 S.Ct. 1593, 94 L.Ed.2d 782 (1987). However, Titan has not timely raised the issue of preemption on appeal, and has therefore waived it. See, e.g., United States v. Eldeeb, 20 F.3d 841, 843 (8th Cir.), cert. denied, --- U.S. ----, 115 S.Ct. 269, 130 L.Ed.2d 187 (1994). We deny Titan's motion for leave to file a supplemental brief addressing these waived issues
7
A corollary of this rule is that quantum meruit is available if the benefit is conferred unknowingly, but not if the benefit is conferred merely as part of a bad bargain. Galante v. Oz, Inc., 379 N.W.2d 723, 726 (Minn.App.1986). For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that Ventura conferred the videotape rights upon Titan unknowingly
8
Ventura stated that he was aware that tapes were being distributed in 1985. App. at 99-100
9
In Stark, the plaintiff's right to rescind and seek quantum meruit was based upon the defendant's breach of contract. In the present case, Ventura's right to rescind and seek quantum meruit is premised upon Titan's fraud. However, this factual difference is immaterial
10
In 1985, 1986 and 1987, Titan paid videotape royalties to Hulk Hogan and Marvel Comics for "Wrestlemania I," "II" and "III," despite the fact that there was no featured performer in these productions. During 1988, Titan paid videotape royalties to all 54 wrestlers appearing in the "Survivor Series," to all 57 wrestlers appearing in "Wrestlemania IV" and to all 38 wrestlers appearing in "Summer Slam '88." Again, these payments were inconsistent with Titan's stated policy because none of these videotapes had one featured performer. Beginning in December 1988, Titan paid royalties to all wrestlers appearing in videotapes of pay-per-view events
11
We are aware that several Minnesota cases predating Northwest Airlines state that the standard of review is de novo. However, we are bound to follow Eighth Circuit precedent. We note that our resolution of this issue would be no different were we to review the matter de novo
12
International Financial Services v. Franz, 515 N.W.2d 379 (Minn.App.1994), aff'd and rev'd, 534 N.W.2d 261 (Minn.1995), is not to the contrary. In IFS, an award of prefiling interest was affirmed where a jury awarded $216,000 in damages as the difference between the value of a photo-plotting machine as warranted and as delivered. IFS contains no discussion of any range of damages estimates, but it is not unlikely that the estimates of the value of a photo-plotting machine were more consistent and less contingent (and hence more readily ascertainable) than those involved here
13
Lacey v. Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Ry., 236 Minn. 104, 51 N.W.2d 831 (1952), upon which Ventura relies, is consistent with this analysis. In Lacey, an award of prefiling interest was affirmed where the amount in dispute ranged from approximately $4750 to $9300. The Lacey court affirmed an award of prefiling interest, noting that the amount ultimately awarded ($7,127.03) did not differ from the amount requested ($9,307.17) by an "unreasonable" amount. Lacey focused upon the difference between the high end of the damages range and the amount awarded rather than the range of damages estimates. In Lacey, the award-estimate difference found to be reasonable was less than 25% of the amount of the requested amount. In the instant case, the difference is several times that amount, and may easily be viewed as "unreasonable" as that term was used in Lacey
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Cape Crisis #91 Question: What did you think of Amazing Spider-Man 2?
15 thoughts on “Cape Crisis #91 – Is “Amazing” The Right Word?
1. Nope, no it isn’t. “Mediocre” would be the correct word for this movie.
Shame too, because unlike the hosts, I actually did enjoy the first movie a fair deal. This one left me pretty cold though, feeling like most of the criticisms levied at the first movie apply to this one. Nothing about it felt memorable, the plot meanders and then isn’t particularly engaging or interesting, everything about electro feels ham-fisted or poorly thought out, from his characterization to how his powers work. It’s just a mess…
2. Interested to hear you guys’ thoughts on ASM2. I ended up seeing it twice opening night so I’m pretty solidified in my “underwhelmed” opinion
3. quick aside, when electro is doing itsy bitsy spider during the fight it isn’t because of him hitting things it’s because of the sound using lasers which is a pretty cool thing in real life.
4. If I had to rank Amazing Spider-man 2 in terms of Spider-man movies, i’d put this second last.
I liked it but I wanted so much more out of Electro, hoping that his character isn’t dead. *SPOILERS* Also I called the Gwen Stacy death scene weeks before seeing the film so I wasn’t entirely shocked though the little Emma Stone fanboy in me cried like a bitch during the following scenes.
I hope this is the Iron Man 2 of the trilogy and that the third one is the saving grace because I feel bad for Marc Webb only doing what Sony tells him to.
5. i loved all the spidey bits in this movie, and those bits on IMAX, for me, rated higher than the sum of all previous Spider-Man movies. yeah. Harry Osborn (DeHaan for prez) was satisfying, also.
everything ELSE (the characterisations of the villains, INCLUDING Harry’s sudden psycho change in attitude towards Peter, and the weird handling of Peter’s parents desperate push during their final moments as well as Aunt May’s adamant discouraging of Peter’s search for answers), however, was so choppy, over-dramatised, and simplified, leaving me feeling like the script was written by–and for–16 year olds. the funny thing, too, is that some of the problems could have been ‘fixed’ with some post-production cutting and pasting. example: have Peter ‘see’ Gwen’s father’s ghost in one very quick, among-the-crowd flash AFTER…the thing that happens, a la Dexter.
cut out Electro and the horrible Ravencroft nazi doctor completely. so on.
tl; dr, i loved bits, i cringed in bits.
ps. PLEASE do a co-skype show with Eleven O’Clock Comics, they’re like you, 10 years older!
6. Alright Henry, the thing with Peter leaving Gwen and seeing the flashback had been a THEME. Gwen says it in a dialogue with Peter in the beginning of him doing this repeatedly HENCE her breaking up with him, she couldn’t take him doing that over and over again. So it makes sense.
And the gwen speech also clearly regards her father. I mean she lost her dad when she was in HS so the speech fits.
It’s alright to criticize but some of these criticisms are unfair nitpicking due to watching looking for bad stuff.
1. Considering that we never really see Gwen in any way being affected emotionally by the loss of her dad in any other scene, and she’s more annoyed than anything else when Peter brings him up… Either she had mourned him and moved on at this point, (And thus making the speech not fit at all) or the writers did a very poor job characterizing her grief. Either way, it was shoddily done, and corny.
7. Amazey 2 was just terrible. it reminded me of a time when we didn’t expect quality superhero films. this would have for right in 2002. such a waste. garbage for babies. insulting. don’t pay to see it. I watched a cam.
8. Just got a marvel unlimited subscription and a galaxy tablet so what spiderman comics should I download prior to seeing this film thanks.
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Epidermal growth factor and tumor promoters prevent DNA fragmentation by different mechanisms.
Serum deprivation of C3H 10T 1/2 fibroblasts resulted in DNA fragmentation which was prevented by growth factors such as Epidermal Growth Factor or the tumor promoters, 12-0-tetradecanoyl-13-0-phorbol acetate and Dihydroteleocidin B. Palmityl carnitine, an inhibitor of Ca2+-phospholipid-dependent protein kinase C, reversed the effects of the tumor promoters, but not the effect of Epidermal Growth Factor. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'b893bfcda25781ed9f9cf630edcf67c88f7bfa1b6dd71b3cf0bb138f1dca1ab4'} |
How To Enroll For Courses In Kenya Universities
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Kenya adopted the 8-4-4 system a few decades ago and up to now the system is still functional. In a few years, it was evident that only few students in Kenya made it to the university level. This trend has changed because almost every student in Kenya is qualifying to the university level with almost 70% admissions to both public and private universities within Kenya yearly. This has been triggered by high demand of jobs in Kenya hence every one now is trying to be competitive.
There are three types of university students in Kenya who are enrolled in both public and private universities in Kenya. The types of students in Kenya include: 1. The JAB (Joint Admissions Board in Kenya) admitted students 2.Those learning through the parallel degree program in Kenya 3.Those studying in private universities in Kenya.
For a student to be admitted to universities in Kenya through JAB, you have to attain the grade required by the Joint Admission Board in Kenya, this grade varies according to how the students have performed or on how much the public universities in Kenya can accommodate on that given year. Secondly, to do a parallel degree program in Kenya, you should have attained a minimum of C+ on your KCSE and a pass in Mathematics and English. Some universities in Kenya require a pass mark of C+ on those subjects and at least a C+ on one of the sciences. But most Kenya universities require a grade of C in those. It should be noted that some courses in Kenya might require a higher grade than the aforementioned ones. For example, to do a medicine course at university of Nairobi in Kenya, you need to have a minimum grade of B+.
It’s advisable to Kenyans that before you choose your degree to pursue in Kenya universities to first check the requirements in the particular universities offering the course in Kenya. This information can be checked from respective university website, catalogues or on the daily newspapers in Kenya. Thirdly, to enroll to a private university in Kenya for a degree course, requirements are much similar like the ones in the parallel degree program, although most universities in Kenya just require a minimum of C+ with an alternative of bridging the failed subjects. It’s all about money here to be honest.
If you have attained the requirements for the degree of your choice in Kenya, you can handpick the application forms from the institution or download from the university\\\'s website. After fillingthe application, you are required to pay a non-refundable application fee to the university which might range from 2500-5000 depending on your university of choice in Kenya. It usually does not take long before they get back to you. If your application has been accepted, you get informed on the day of admission to the university in Kenya. The fee structure of the university is also provided, although you can always check the fee from the website or the dailies before applying.
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package com.asakusafw.yaess.paralleljob;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.text.MessageFormat;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import com.asakusafw.yaess.basic.AbstractJobScheduler;
import com.asakusafw.yaess.basic.JobExecutor;
import com.asakusafw.yaess.core.JobScheduler;
import com.asakusafw.yaess.core.ServiceProfile;
/**
* Basic implementation of {@link JobScheduler}.
* @since 0.2.3
*/
public class ParallelJobScheduler extends AbstractJobScheduler {
static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(ParallelJobScheduler.class);
private volatile JobExecutor executor;
@Override
protected void doConfigure(ServiceProfile<?> profile) throws InterruptedException, IOException {
try {
this.executor = ParallelJobExecutor.extract(
profile.getPrefix(),
profile.getConfiguration(),
profile.getContext().getContextParameters());
} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
throw new IOException(MessageFormat.format(
"Failed to configure job scheduler: {0}",
profile.getPrefix()), e);
}
}
@Override
protected JobExecutor getJobExecutor() {
return executor;
}
}
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Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost made a bold decision to require abortion providers to halt performing most abortions, deeming them as elective, nonessential procedures. The order to suspend services specifically applies to nonessential surgical abortions.
The decision falls within the guidelines established by the state health department’s March 17 order to cancel all “nonessential or elective surgeries and procedures”. In order to preserve personal protective equipment (PPE) in hospital and clinic settings, a strong order to limit services was determined to be necessary.
Governor DeWine has issued some of the strongest orders for his state of all the governors in the country. Letters were sent to clinics explaining the decision.
In letters to clinics, Deputy Attorney General Jonathan Fulkerson framed the crackdown as a necessary measure amid a public health crisis that’s drawn dire warnings from Ohio leaders. Gov. Mike DeWine (R) has led the way with dramatic policies — shutdowns of schools, restaurants, bars and more — to curb the virus that has now infected hundreds and killed three people in the state. Officials around the country fear the pandemic will become far deadlier if strained systems grow overwhelmed. “This is an unprecedented time in the state’s history, and everyone must do their part to help stop the spread of this disease,” Fulkerson wrote, warning that the department of health will “take all appropriate measures” if providers don’t fall in line.
The attorney general’s office responded to complaints made against some abortion providers on Friday and Saturday. Ohioans complained that abortion clinics were still open and operating though, to the critics, abortion is a nonessential medical procedure. Abortions have not come to a screeching halt in Ohio. There is wiggle room in the wording of the governor’s order. Planned Parenthood, for example, is finding a way to work around the order.
But after receiving complaints, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost ordered two of them to follow Ohio Health Director Amy Acton’s mandate. Yost’s warning applies to all such clinics in the state. However, operators of at least one of the clinics responded that they would both comply with Acton’s order and continue to provide abortions. “Under that order, Planned Parenthood can still continue providing essential procedures, including surgical abortion, and our health centers continue to offer other health care services that our patients depend on. Our doors remain open for this care,’” said a joint statement from Iris E. Harvey and Kersha Deibel, respectively presidents and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio and Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region. The latter runs an abortion clinic in Cincinnati.
Abortion providers consider their services as essential, not nonessential services. This struggle, as the state battles the spread of the coronavirus, comes down to pro-life groups objecting to abortion clinics continuing to operate and using up medical resources, and pro-abortion clinics viewing abortion as essential health care for women. The two sides of this argument aren’t going to agree in the midst of a pandemic. The governor’s office has to play referee through letters issued by the state’s attorney general. That office warns clinics that if the order isn’t adhered to, there will be consequences, though those consequences are not spelled out.
The National Abortion Federation (yes, there is such an organization) calls elective abortions “essential health service”.
Abortion is provided for almost one in five pregnancies in the United States, as part of the continuum of pregnancy care. It is an essential health service. An individual and family decide to end a pregnancy for a complex constellation of reasons that include the impact of pregnancy and birth on their health, ability to work, and strained economic circumstances. These are conditions that do not go away—and are likely heightened—in pandemic conditions. Denying or deferring abortion care places an immediate burden on patients, their families, and the health system, and can have profound and lasting consequences.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists doesn’t want abortion procedures included in Ohio’s guidance against elective procedures.
“As hospital systems, clinics, and communities prepare to meet anticipated increases in demand for the care of people with COVID-19, strategies to mitigate spread of the virus and to maximize health care resources are evolving. Some health systems, at the guidance of the CDC, are implementing plans to cancel elective and non-urgent procedures to expand hospitals’ capacity to provide critical care. “While most abortion care is delivered in outpatient settings, in some cases care may be delivered in hospital-based settings or surgical facilities. To the extent that hospital systems or ambulatory surgical facilities are categorizing procedures that can be delayed during the COVID-19 pandemic, abortion should not be categorized as such a procedure. Abortion is an essential component of comprehensive health care. It is also a time-sensitive service for which a delay of several weeks, or in some cases days, may increase the risks or potentially make it completely inaccessible. The consequences of being unable to obtain an abortion profoundly impact a person’s life, health, and well-being.
The governor of Ohio is aggressively working to mitigate the spread of a pandemic. Idealogical arguments over abortion were bound to enter the fray, given the influence the pro-abortion forces have in today’s politics. It’s completely understandable that the state’s leadership is trying to keep watch over the use of resources like protective gear for medical professionals that are in short supply. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '6555bb4c4cc930ad8686fa274e480b0febc71c3cbe1a709b90880d09fd30c674'} |
The Ninth Circuit also issued an order separating Al-Haramain from Hepting v. AT&T, EFF's case against the telecommunications company for its participation in the warrantless surveillance program. Previously, the cases had been consolidated, and both were argued at the same hearing on August 15, 2007. There was no indication on when the appeals court might rule in the Hepting case. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '118', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9664425849914552}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '43143', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:XC6TK3AIKSQ7LK4L4NAY6AQZ7MCWEOK2', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:67276217-0275-473a-a156-d6f99e0cfea9>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 6, 22, 15, 6, 28), 'WARC-IP-Address': '151.101.200.201', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:WLA2TJTW56EGZ5OAZ3ZIM5D6RJDVYT2K', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:8212e291-4367-4c33-865c-fbc1bd6115bc>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/ninth-circuit-issues-decision-al-haramain-warrantless-wiretapping-case', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:daf9e443-be5f-4c71-b627-4a7359ccec0d>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '174', 'url': 'https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/11/ninth-circuit-issues-decision-al-haramain-warrantless-wiretapping-case', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-25\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for June 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-187.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.020819664001464844', 'original_id': 'c69859782010cd2ccd140812df8ab2322f315ac97ff70521802461f31bdf506f'} |
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Traeger approached us for assistance in expanding and differentiating their Town and Country Series product line with a focus on enhancing features, technology, and aesthetics, as well as finding production efficiencies. We began the collaborative process with 2D ideation sketches based on Century 2.0, Silverton, and Timberline’s visual brand language. Using production-quality parametric 3D CAD data, we identified ways to simplify assembly and reduce material waste, improving the customer experience straight out of the box. Additionally, for the Ranger grill, we helped Traeger bring a new-to-the-industry feature (the WiFi ARC controller with a “keep warm” function) to market through rapid wireframe prototyping, tackling both workflow integration and GUI.
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How To Alter Basic Skirt Length
AppNote Number: ANBP0102
The standard length for the basic skirt pattern is knee-length. Since basic skirt pattern is a straight skirt, you can always reduce or add its length at the hem line.
To Alter Waist-To-Hip Length
However, if you want to alter the Waist-to-Hip length, the alteration is made at or above Hip Line.
First, draw an alteration line perpendicular to the grain line (see figure to the right).
Then, follow the directions below for adding or reducing waist-to-hip length.
To Add Waist-To-Hip Length
1. Cut pattern apart on alteration line.
2. Glue or tape half of the pattern on another paper.
3. Extend the grain line on the paper and mark the amount you want to add.
4. Align the other half of pattern with the mark and grain line and tape it in place.
5. Draw a new seam line between waist and hip.
To Reduce Waist-To-Hip Length
1. Fold the pattern piece along the alteration line.
2. Make a pleat one-half amount to be reduced.
3. Keep the pleat parallel to the alteration line and glue or tape the fold in place.
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Molino Gaetano Roccasalva
Based on its rigorous monitoring processes, Molino Gaetano Roccasalva choose the best raw grains in the Italian market and the most valuable ones from abroad. At the beginning of the milling process the produce is assessed for its protein content, gluten quality and purity.
All products have the following certifications: IFS, BIOAGRICERT.
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The production cycle is divided into four main stages
Grain Storage
When the raw grain arrives at the Mill, once is weighted and analysis and testing inspections are passed, it is stored in silos or large bins. The silos vary by size to accommodate different types of wheat: Wheat is stored according to protein levels and other quality considerations.
Once the quantities of wheat needed for the production of different types of semolina have been decided, the silos are opened in order to ensure a balanced mix of the different varieties of wheat.
Cleaning process
In order to remove foreign bodies, the grains must repeatedly undergo a cleansing process: they pass through aspiration systems and are then cleansed and analyzed by an optical selector. The impurities are then separated from the grains and removed. Lastly, the wheat is soaked in water to facilitate the separation of outer bran layers from the grains. The length of the hydration process, and the subsequent storage period in silos (from 12 to 48 hours) depend on the type of wheat.
Grinding wheat
The wheat kernels are now ready to be milled into flour. The modern milling process involves the gradual reduction of wheat kernels through a process of grinding and sifting. At the beginning of the grinding process, the grain passes through a series of rollers with rough surfaces. These revolve at high speed in opposite directions causing the kernels to break down. The produce then further ground down by machines to gradually reduce the thickness.
Sifting process
At each phase of the grinding process, an oscillating sieve retains the larger fragments (bran), releasing the finer ones to make rough semolinas. The remaining product is again grinded and sifted. Depending on the type of process, it is is possible to obtain numerous products: semolina, regrinded semolina, fine bran, and middlings etc. Once the sifting process has finished, a rigorous series of quality checks is undertaken and the produce is then stored in silos before it is packaged.
Packing and Distribution process
The flour and bran are collected in different batches and from a number of different machines. These are finally gathered either in bulk storage bins or packing stations. The flour is then packaged into 1kg, 2kg or 25 kg paper bags. Flour is also dispatched to large or small bakeries at nationally and internationally.
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table.eli5-weights tr:hover {
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<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=0
</b>
(probability <b>0.094</b>, score <b>-2.217</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=1
</b>
(probability <b>0.092</b>, score <b>-2.232</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=2
</b>
(probability <b>0.082</b>, score <b>-2.367</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=3
</b>
(probability <b>0.070</b>, score <b>-2.537</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=4
</b>
(probability <b>0.113</b>, score <b>-2.009</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=5
</b>
(probability <b>0.116</b>, score <b>-1.972</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=6
</b>
(probability <b>0.107</b>, score <b>-2.066</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=7
</b>
(probability <b>0.138</b>, score <b>-1.778</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=8
</b>
(probability <b>0.104</b>, score <b>-2.095</b>)
top features
</td>
<td style="padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid black; text-align: center;">
<b>
y=9
</b>
(probability <b>0.085</b>, score <b>-2.328</b>)
top features
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 95.20%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.303
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.40%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.015
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.40%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.015
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.40%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.015
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.37%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.017
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.37%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.017
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.37%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.017
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.17%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.025
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.88%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.038
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.55%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.055
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.55%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.055
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.20%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.074
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.15%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.078
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.30%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.133
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 82.20%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-1.967
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 94.49%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.369
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.33%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.018
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.33%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.018
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.33%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.018
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.14%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.026
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.12%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.027
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.12%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.027
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.12%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.027
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.71%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.046
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.71%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.046
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.62%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.111
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.48%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.121
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.31%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.132
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 82.10%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-1.985
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 95.66%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.262
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.60%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.60%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.60%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.50%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.012
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.50%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.012
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.50%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.012
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.26%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.81%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.041
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.68%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.048
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.47%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.059
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.47%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.059
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.12%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.080
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.10%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.081
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.10%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.081
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 96.78%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.171
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 82.47%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-1.926
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 96.33%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.206
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.52%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.011
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.52%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.011
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.52%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.011
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.17%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.025
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.17%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.025
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.17%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.025
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.06%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.029
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.06%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.029
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.06%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.029
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.05%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.030
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.98%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.033
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.53%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.056
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.36%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.066
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.27%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.070
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.27%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.070
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.94%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.091
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.94%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.091
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 81.74%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-2.041
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 93.15%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.503
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 99.58%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 99.58%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 99.58%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.009
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.76%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.76%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.76%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.68%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.006
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.68%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.006
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.68%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.006
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.84%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.040
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.82%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.041
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.82%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.041
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.14%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.144
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.11%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.146
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 81.39%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-2.097
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 94.40%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.377
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.79%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.79%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.79%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.004
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.14%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.026
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.14%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.026
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.99%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.032
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.99%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.032
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
lea mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.99%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.032
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov lea
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.81%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.041
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.56%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.054
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.56%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.054
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.25%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.071
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.15%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.077
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
leave ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.34%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.130
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
ret
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 83.53%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-1.761
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 97.67%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.108
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.25%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.25%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.25%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
neg
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.70%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.047
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.70%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.047
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.70%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.047
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
sub mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.54%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.055
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.21%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.074
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 98.21%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.074
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
push
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 97.15%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.144
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add leave
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 84.45%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-1.622
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</td>
<td style="padding: 0px; border: 1px solid black; vertical-align: top;">
<table class="eli5-weights"
style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; margin-top: 0em; table-layout: auto; width: 100%;">
<thead>
<tr style="border: none;">
<th style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;" title="Feature contribution already accounts for the feature value (for linear models, contribution = weight * feature value), and the sum of feature contributions is equal to the score or, for some classifiers, to the probability. Feature values are shown if "show_feature_values" is True.">
Contribution<sup>?</sup>
</th>
<th style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">Feature</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(120, 100.00%, 93.63%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
+0.453
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.74%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.005
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl mov
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.74%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.005
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.74%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.005
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
mov divl
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.30%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.019
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
<BIAS>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.27%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
<td style="padding: 0 0.5em 0 0.5em; text-align: left; border: none;">
add
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="background-color: hsl(0, 100.00%, 99.27%); border: none;">
<td style="padding: 0 1em 0 0.5em; text-align: right; border: none;">
-0.021
</td>
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Shockinglydelicious Cooking Class: Foolproof Hard-Cooked Eggs
by Dorothy Reinhold on April 7, 2020
Print This Post Print This Post How to make perfect hard-cooked eggs: It's easy to hard-cook eggs once you know a couple of tricks -- use old eggs, watch the timing, cool them quickly and follow this foolproof method.
There are only a couple of simple secrets to cooking the perfect fool-proof hard-cooked egg — tender, no green ring around the yolk, easy to peel, ready for a meal or a snack.
Everyone needs to know how to make a hard-cooked egg. It’s really easy as long as you have a medium pot, some week-old eggs, and you remember to set the timer. For the sake of beginning cooks, I am giving detailed instructions.
This method of cooking makes the eggs tender but not rubbery, and cooling them quickly at the end helps to prevent that little green colored layer from forming around the yolk. *See below for your science lesson on why the green happens.
How to cook hard-cooked eggs
1. To hard cook eggs, buy large eggs a week before you plan to use them. We use older eggs for hard-cooked eggs because eggs 7-10 days old are easier to peel when boiled. But to be honest and practical, use what you have. On occasion I have hard-cooked freshly bought eggs and it has all worked out fine. If you have the luxury of planning ahead, get the eggs ahead.
Cover eggs with water and bring to a boil
2. Place eggs in a medium-sized heavy pot, add a pinch of salt and cover with water by about 1-1 1/2 inches above the top of eggs. Cover the pot and heat until boiling. This will only take a few minutes (exact time will depend on size of pot, how much water is in it, how high your heat is, etc., so don’t leave the kitchen or you will come back to a furiously boiling pot and you won’t know how long it has been boiling).
3. As soon as the water comes to a full boil (listen up, this is important!), turn heat off, leave pot lid on, and allow the eggs to sit in the hot water for 12 minutes. Set the timer so you are sure.
Ice cools down the eggs quickly after cooking
4. When timer rings, take the pot over to the sink, pour off the boiling water and run cold water over the eggs; pour water off again and replace with more cold water. Leave the pot with cold water in the sink until the eggs cool down. For more rapid cooling, I usually add ice to the cold water in the pot and let the pot sit for a few minutes. When eggs are cool, drain the pot and use the eggs, or label and refrigerate them.
There, that was easy, wasn’t it? Once you make hard-cooked eggs this way, you won’t have to ever consult this again. Just remember 12 minutes.
How to peel hard-cooked eggs
You can either bang the cooked and cooled eggs against each other in the pot (shake the pot back and forth a few times), or roll the egg on the counter under the palm of your hand. Then hold the egg under slowly running water as you peel the shell off. The water helps to loosen the rest of the shell as you are peeling.
(Also, the older eggs will aid in your peeling. According to Shirley Corriher in “Cookwise,” the ease of peeling is “related to pH, a measure of acid/alkaline levels. Older eggs, which have lost some of their carbon dioxide, are more alkaline, with a pH of 8.7-8.9 or higher. Hard-cooked older eggs are easier to peel than fresh eggs. Because you want to keep this high level of alkalinity, you should NOT add vinegar to the cooking water,” she says. Also, quick cooling helps with easy peeling.
Label the hard-cooked eggs
There are two easy ways to label hard-cooked eggs that will be refrigerated after cooking. Why label? Because a hard-cooked egg in a white shell looks eggsactly the same as a fresh egg in a white shell.
Label the hard cooked eggsMark on the shells with a pencil or marker so you can tell which ones are cooked. In my childhood, there was often a bowl of eggs in the frig with the letters “HB” on them (for hard-boiled).
Papery skin from onions will color egg shellsOr, when you place the eggs in the pot, add some papery onion skin (either from yellow or red onions) along with the salt and water. The onion skin will dye the egg shells lightly during the cooking/steeping time, and you will have colored egg shells which can signify hard-cooked eggs to you.
What to do with the used egg shells
Turn them into the soil in your garden and bury them, or throw them in your compost heap. Yes please, either one.
*A science lesson about the green ring around the yolk
*What is that green layer that forms around the yolk sometimes? According to food sleuth Shirley Corriher, that ugly green stuff is the “result of iron in the yolk combining with sulfur in the white to form green iron sulfide. While the egg is cooking, heat speeds up the chemical reaction. The longer the egg cooks, the greater the chance for discoloration, so watch the time carefully. Quick cooling also helps prevent the green layer from forming.” (There is nothing wrong with the green stuff other than its appearance.) Now you know.
(Source: “Cookwise: The Hows & Whys of Successful Cooking,” by Shirley O. Corriher.)
To practice your new egg skill, you might like to try these recipes that use hard-cooked eggs
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There you have it…eggsactly perfect eggs!
SaveThis post was originally published Oct. 24, 2010, and has been refreshed and republished today.
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
Catalysts for Change
This was originally intended as a post on my LinkedIn account, but it exceeded the character limit.
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Every action causes a reaction.
No, I'm not talking about one of Newton's laws of physics, I'm talking about how our minds work.
We see something, we hear something (let's refer to this as a catalyst) and we react. Granted not all reactions are equal. Sometimes our reaction is as small as a simple facial gesture, while sometimes the reaction is much stronger, one that makes us reevaluate the situation and attempt to change it.
This brings me to a pet-peeve of mine.
Your response to the catalyst doesn't need to directly relate to the catalyst.
If the catalyst opens your eyes to another issue, and you attempt to repair that other issue, that's fine too.
It's actually better than fine, cause it means that you can think more broadly, you are not limited by "what happened HERE and what can we do to prevent THIS?".
Instead, your thought process is:
"An event just took place, therefore let me evaluate not just THIS event, but other potential events".
Let me explain with the following real life example:
In 2007 minor league baseball coach Mike Coolbaugh was hit just below his ear by a batted ball, he died as a direct result of this.
The next year, major and minor league baseball mandated that all coaches who are on the field during play must wear helmets.
Helmets that neither cover the ear, nor the area below the ear.
A helmet that had Mr Coolbaugh been wearing it wouldn't have saved his life.
But baseball realized that leaving coaches (who are often much older than the players), who are standing close to the batter unprotected is both unwise and unsafe.
As a parent, many things will make you question the status quo.
Many catalysts will get your attention and cause a reaction.
If the reaction is for the betterment of your child, go with it.
Never-mind that your reaction might not have made a difference in the case of the catalyst.
That doesn't make you some type of hypocrite.
It doesn't make you over protective.
It makes you a good parent who is always looking to learn and improve.
Sorry, but saying "Well this wouldn't have helped anyway" is being both shortsighted and reckless.
It is as if you are wearing blinders, limiting yourself to seeing only this catalyst and nothing but this catalyst.
If something needs to be improved, improve it, whether or not it would have been helpful in the case of the catalyst.
Yisroel Picker is a Social Worker who lives in Jerusalem. He has a private practice which specializes in working with people of all ages who are looking to improve their awareness and their social skills. He also lectures on the topics of communication and child safety. You can email Yisroel at
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IV. Experienced
Your execution and Dragunov fundamentals should be second nature, if not, please review Intermediate before proceeding. Now we'll begin to focus on Dragunov's more advanced techniques, such as iWR+2 and wakeup traps. An experienced player should be taking less risks by CH confirming Dragunov's spammable strings while saving his punishable attacks for launching and/or punishing the opponent. Now granted a player might take the initiative to launch a player on anticipation, but Dragunov lacks strong high and low crushing launchers, hampering his chance of this happening.
I. Dragunov Discussion
II. Techniques
III. CH Confirming
IV. All about iWR+2
V. Combos
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Friday, April 06, 2007
Interview with WOTS finalist Ned Beedie
Our friend Frederick Mensch from, the number one go-to resource for screenplay contests, recently did an interview with 2006 Writers on the Storm Top 3 finalist Ned Beedie. We thought we'd post it here, too. Congrats on the publicity, Ned! You deserve it!
MovieBytes Interview: Screenwriter Ned Beedie
An interview with screenwriter Ned Beedie regarding the Century City Writing Competition.
A: The Dollmaker.
The logline is: Mike Broyles is a recently disgraced reporter -- think Jayson Blair from the NY Times. He returns to his hometown to rethink his life when the body of a missing 8 year-old boy turns up hanging from a tree.
Mike begins to uncover evidence that links this killing to a series of unsolved murders from fifteen years ago -- the Dollmaker killings.
Of course, with his credibility shot, no one believes Mike. That is, except for the murderer himself, who now knows that somebody is on to him. Mike has a chance on a story that could redeem his life and career -- if he lives long enough to write it.
A: I enter any and all contests that I can. I figure the more exposure, the better.
Yes, I have. -Semi-finalist in the Writer's Network Competition
-1st Place Winner in the Century City Screenwriting Competition
-2nd Runner Up in Writers on the Storm Competition -1 of 40
scripts selected for the fall '06 IFP Market, NYC -Semifinalist
in the Screenwriting Expo Contest -Honorable mention for the
IndieProducer.Com Screenwriting Competition -Semifinalist in
American Accolades Competition -Quarterfinalist in American
Screenwriting Competition -First Round Placement in 20/20
Competition -Quarterfinalist in Page Screenplay Competition
A: I was very satisfied with all the contests I entered except one. I had an extremely bad encounter with the administrator of that particular competition and would never recommend it to anyone. Otherwise, all went very well. I received everything promised and got many meetings and readings from them.
A: I've been given a TON of feedback on the script. I have a completely new draft that tries to take many of these notes into account. I've only had a few people read this new version so it's still untested. I don't know if it works or if too many cooks in the kitchen undid what I was trying to achieve.
A: Yes, it has helped market it. I've been approached by all three but yet to sign with anyone, much to my frustration.
A: I have a Master's Degree in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute. I have written other screenplays, optioned two and am working in the industry full time on various projects...though am ready to take my game up a notch or two.
A: Yes, I don't think you can truly succeed in this business unless you do. So much of it is about bumping into people at the gym or Starbucks, or knowing a friend who has a sister who's an agent and volunteers to pass along your script. Obviously,
writing and the material matter. But, unfortunately, that can only take you so far and it's the relationships you build that sustain you.
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Does MT4 Finally Have a Challenger?
The MT4 platform is as popular as ever - when will the MT5 platform's time come?
In the 21st century, when we are usually bombarded by frequent software updates, and our favourite versions of computer programmes become obsolete before we have completely mastered them, trading software is continuing to buck the trend. In the last decade, we have witnessed the launch of several different versions of Windows, and yet in the same period of time, MT4 has faced only one competitor, MT5, which despite being launched in 2010, has only recently started to gain traction.
Despite many differences between the two platforms, I want to dedicate this article to discussing the several major differences which have been labelled significant by industry experts, before finally answering the question of whether MT5 is finally ready to challenge MT4.
MetaQuotes, the company behind both pieces of software, has begun to regard MT5 as a failed project due to its limited take-up around the world. MT4, despite having faced six years of competition, still accounts for over 70% of global FX market share. One must consider the sheer impressiveness of this achievement, when many independent trading platforms are being offered by brokerages.
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Expert Advisors
The first reason for the continued popularity of MT4 is its compatibility with expert advisors, known as forex robots. EAs have steadily become more popular amongst traders, and allow traders to input commands in order to fulfil transactions when the trader is not present. Particularly popular in the Asian Pacific market, MT4 is a system which allows a fast compilation of the necessary codes to enable the EA to be efficient, whilst also preventing the porting of said codes to the MT5 system.
Compatibility Issues
The last issue in the above paragraph is a major issue with MT5. Whilst the software does enable both a multi-currency strategy tester and a much faster testing system, any coding which has been written for MT4 will require re-writing for MT5, thus wasting all the time that you have saved in using the newer software.
Additional Markets
Whilst MT4, often due to the input provided by third-party software developers, has allowed access to most of the world’s major markets, MT5 is an attempt to access a number of growing markets which were beyond reach beforehand. For example, DGCX, The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange, the leading derivatives exchange in the Middle East, the Warsaw Stock Exchange, the Australian Securities Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are all now accessible using the MT5 system.
Whilst these markets are lucrative additions, and without wishing to enter the confusing world of hedging, in the lead up to the release of MT5, the National Futures Association, which is the industry-wide, self-regulatory organisation for the US futures industry, prevented hedging from being used in the US forex market. With the MT5 software designed to prevent hedging, the new platform is fully compatible with the US market.
The majority of trading platforms are still using MT4, and it is easy to see why. The coding incompatibility is a major stumbling block, and MT4 is extremely popular with a large majority of traders. At the same time, even though the issue of the EA remains, the emerging Asian Pacific markets are utilising MT5 in their droves as emerging markets are ideally suited to its systems and capabilities. In essence, it appears as though MT5 will continue to gain popularity, but not amongst traders who favour markets compatible with the MT4 software.
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New Rules For Data In OOH Advertising
Out-of-home (OOH) advertising is the only major form of traditional advertising that is growing. Unlike TV, radio, and print publishing, which have all lost share of ad spend as traditional formats go digital, the reverse has been true for OOH.
When billboards or bus shelters go from paper to pixels, revenue potential increases as more ads can be rotated in and more dynamic formats can be utilized.
OOH now stands at the precipice of becoming a true data-driven medium. This is a moment of reckoning, when the OOH industry can learn from the mistakes of the online world -- or be doomed to repeat them. As new rules for data and advertising start to emerge in the online space, here are three areas where the OOH industry should likewise look to raise the bar on privacy, ensuring that data does not become a four-letter word:
Minimize the data footprint. In the online world, the collection and use of data have been arguably indiscriminate, the result of an “if-it’s-allowed-then-do-it” mentality. The OOH bar needs to be higher. The scope of data collection and use should be limited not merely to what is allowed, but to what is allowed and minimally required to operate the business.
Location data, if collected and shared, should be obfuscated and imprecise. Cameras should never be used to identify specific individuals or vehicles. Data should be stored for the bare minimum of time necessary (and far less than the one- to two-year standard for online). When it comes to data collection, retention, and sharing practices, less is more.
Be fully transparent with data practices. Arguably the biggest failing of digital advertising to date has been the longstanding practice of disclosing data practices to the minimum degree required. The OOH bar needs to be higher. Any conversation about data and privacy has to begin with trust, and there can be no trust without understanding what is done (and not done) with the data. That means creating a privacy policy that explains, clearly and in detail, everything the company does with user data. Conversely, if it’s not in the privacy policy, it shouldn’t be done. This kind of radical approach to transparency is where the online industry is moving with efforts like GDPR, but the OOH industry should simply start there.
Do not target individuals with advertising. This principle is a true departure from online. In the online world, there is typically one person consuming content and advertising on a personal device, and advertising often follows people around on those devices. The OOH bar needs to be higher.
Imagine if that pair of shoes, rash cream, weight loss supplement, or pregnancy test that you browsed online, now followed you around in public space, where those ads are seen by the people around you and can’t be blocked. That’s not just the stuff of “Minority Report” futurism; today’s real-time technologies could theoretically accomplish this. Doing so could violate people’s expectations of privacy in public space and lead to the kinds of negative consumer experiences we’ve seen online, or worse. The OOH industry should simply refrain from the practice of targeting specific individuals with advertising in public space.
The OOH industry stands poised at a transition: from a historically data-poor medium to one that is about to join the big data revolution. It has a unique opportunity to learn from the past, standing on the shoulders of online advertising to proactively raise the bar when it comes to the collection and use of data. The right set of choices now can benefit consumers, drive continued OOH revenue growth, and set an example for the rest of the advertising industry.
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1. John Grono from GAP Research, June 28, 2018 at 7:12 p.m.
And I'd add make sure that your reach data doesn't exceed the population as a large online company regularly reports.
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A Brief History of Markup - duck
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/a-brief-history-of-markup/
======
dctoedt
This is really a brief history of HTML / XHMTL. Markup goes back long before
either. In 1980-81 I used Brian Reid's SCRIBE formatting program (and Emacs as
the text editor) to produce the manuscript of my law review note. According to
Wikipedia, Brian won the ACM's Grace Murray Hopper Award for his dissertation,
which was based on SCRIBE -- which itself was based on (and was the first
robust version of) RUNOFF. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribe_(markup_language)>.
~~~
studer
And the RUNOFF manual from 1964 mentions that it doesn't implement the
FOOTNOTE and COMMENT markup commands from a predecessor called "DITTO"...
<http://mit.edu/Saltzer/www/publications/CC-244.html>
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Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case 386
Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case
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• A bad decision (Score:1, Interesting)
by egg troll ( 515396 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:42AM (#6897389) Homepage Journal
I'll be the first to say that Scientology is evil. However, I'm distressed by this court's decision. For example, if I were to post an entire album by $BAND along with a critique, everyone would agree that this was copyright infringement.
Of course, this is Slashdot where all copyrights are bad, so I expect this post to drown in a sea of downmods. Still, I feel that I need to point out that this decision doesn't sit well with me.
• Good to see. (Score:5, Interesting)
by Endareth ( 684446 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:42AM (#6897390) Journal
It seems to me that the two lower rulings being overturned is a great achievement. Linking to remote content almost defines what the web is! And making ISPs into police is always just asking for trouble. Well done the Hague!
• Re:A bad decision (Score:5, Interesting)
by Nels ( 325798 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:46AM (#6897408)
What makes you extend this to posting an entire album? What about fair use? Simply because the website posted portions of copyrighted material doesn't mean it's illegal. Also, another important thing is parody. I'm not familiar with the website, but if it could in any way be construed as a parody, it would be completely legit.
We aren't against all copyrights (most of us anyways). We just don't like it when copyright owners try to make us use their information exactly as they wish and not to critique it with excerpts.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:50AM (#6897420)
In all fairness, though, there's translations of the Bible that are copyrighted and these copyrights are enforced. Now if you go and translate it from Hebrew, Greek, and the other languages used in the original texts, then you own the copyright and aren't subject to any trouble. Furthermore, I don't think anyone could possibly claim ownership to such translations as the king James Version. Most of the books you see published about Christianity are copyrighted, as are most of the hymns, though. It's a little different with scientology, but it's not the only religion whose texts are copyrighted.
• Proud (Score:5, Interesting)
by olderchurch ( 242469 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:53AM (#6897433) Homepage Journal
This makes me proud to be a dutchmen. And proud to use the excellent services from xs4all. They always have been a strong supporter of both privacy and free speech and are willing to back it up. Even though they went from a hacker provider to one of the major league telco subsidairies.
xs4all keep up the good work!
• Re:A bad decision (Score:5, Interesting)
by kevinz ( 591587 ) <> on Monday September 08, 2003 @12:54AM (#6897435) Homepage
I've got one modpoint left, so I could mod you down, but that would prevent me from asking if you even read the slashdot article, much less the linked article. Besides, it'll happen anyway.
Based on what the article says, what you are really saying is that if you posted a review of $BAND with a link to the illegal posting of the entire album that your ISP should be held liable for copywrite infringement. That argument doesn't wash with me; the ISP should be considered a common carrier and nothing more.
This has nothing to do with Scientology and everything to do with protecting those entities that provide access to content providers. The fact that some copywrite holders (RIAA, Sceintology, etc) think that it is easier and cheaper to attach the bandwith provider than it is to attach the content providers does not make such actions justified. This is a good decision that should be mirrored in the US. I've got my fingers crossed....
• Imagine that. (Score:3, Interesting)
by cgranade ( 702534 ) <.cgranade. .at.> on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:00AM (#6897461) Homepage Journal
The courts actually ruled that free speech is more importatnt than IP. Now, if only the USSC could follow suit...
• Ought to deal with Scientologists the same way. If their work is so secret that they cannot have it published, then perhaps they are consorting with Baphomet too!
• Odd: (Score:5, Interesting)
by Mac Degger ( 576336 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:04AM (#6897474) Journal
Considering how important I take this ruling to be (it's a ruling upholding fair use and against strong-arm tactics; and it sets a nice precedent) for the web, I'm surprised this isn't being covered in the news in the didn't even make regional tv.
I wonder if it makes the back pages of the papers...
• e-meter sessions (Score:4, Interesting)
by lightspawn ( 155347 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:11AM (#6897498) Homepage
... And their rituals (with the E-meter) are just as strange.
Not really. Their main purpose is four-fold:
1. Provide a means for subject to discuss problems with another human being (on some very basic level, it does help, I suppose).
2. Pass a low current through subject to introduce a sense of euphoria, which is both addictive and lowers resistance (heh) to interrogator's questions.
3. Alert interrogator to any issues which may weaken hold on subject.
4. Provide information on subject to be used if hold on subject ever looks like it may be broken.
So, what happens in the U.S. if a organization is ever certified as a "religion" by mistake? Is any means available to undo it?
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:19AM (#6897524)
See and Karin Spaink's site for what Stupidology teaches (secretly) and at great expense. Scientology price list shows it would take about $360,000.00 to do all their courses to obtain OT VIII. The secret teachings about how an ancient space dictator Xenu inplanted us all with body thetans (space cooties) we have to audit out at great expensse is something Scientology wants to keep secret because nobody in their right mind who knew that ahead of time would join scientology knowing that. Which is why Scientology sues and sues and sues. Once EVERYBODY knows, they are sunk. What this Dutch court has said in essence is, no, copyright law was not meant to keep such information from being discussed and proven from a cult's own writings. Its even stupider than Satanism. And that is why they are utterly desperate to keep Hubbard's drivel from being made public in a manner they cannot deny.
• by Captain Sarcastic ( 109765 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:19AM (#6897526)
I have to agree with AEton above.
Religions are given a tax-exempt status on the grounds that they are pursuing a "higher truth," one that is supposed to be shared with others.
Not so with Scientology. Try looking for one of their texts in the public library, and you'll more often than not find them missing. They say that "the world isn't ready for these truths yet," but still believe that they should enjoy the protection granted to other religions that do make their messages freely available.
They can't have it both ways - either Scientology has trade secrets (in which case it is a business) or it doesn't (in which case it is a church).
• by TWX ( 665546 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:27AM (#6897558)
I believe that any financial transaction between a church and a political official or candidate (from the church, not necessarily to the church) should be barred. Of course, I believe that any funding contribution from any organized group, rather than from private donors, should be illegal. This isn't to say that organizations should be barred from encouraging people so that people themselves make contributions, but it should not be processed in any way through the organization, nor should the organization keep any records of "commits" or the like. They should be free to voice their opinions, but it should stop there. This is supposed to be a country governed by people and for people, not by corporate or organizational puppets for organizations and corporations.
Other countries call this sort of corporate contribution a bribe, and could go so far as to call accepting money like that treason.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:27AM (#6897564)
Actually, they are organized criminials and terrorists masquarading as a cult. Why do you think they run all these front companies? Money laundering and tax evasion. Rread the comments on the site linked in the story, find the really long one where some guy wrote about the 10 odd years of his life he wasted on these creeps, he mentions several said front companies there and the illegal practices they did. Yes, it is in english. You can't miss it, it fills half the page. They are a LOT like Al Qaida, only its an American organization instead of an islamic one.
• Expiration concepts (Score:3, Interesting)
by TWX ( 665546 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:35AM (#6897596)
The trouble that I've noticed with copyright is that it doesn't deal well when something becomes part of mass-culture. Someone or some group creates something that becomes intrinsic in society, yet even after the novelty has worn off, they continue to maintain an iron grip on it. They won't release it to the benefit of society. Disney, the RIAA, the MPAA, and the like are all involved in this. Hell, half of the old TV shows made after '68 are unknown to younger generations. How many kids under the age of fifteen have seen "Scarecrow and Mrs. King", or "Laverne and Shirley", or "Taxi"? Some of the programs that were popular even as little as 20 years ago, ones that made a large impact on popular culture, are not really found anymore, while TV shows before that (which were subject to differing copyright and public domain rules), like "Star Trek", "Lost in Space", "The Andy Griffith Show", and such are still entertaining people today.
New culture can be cool. I've found groups like Space Hog, Chris Isaac, and Love and Rockets to be very entertaining and very talented, but I've also found a wealth of very good music and media from the past, and it doesn't see the light of day anymore unless it was top-40 back in it's heyday. That's just sad.
• Re:A bad decision (Score:3, Interesting)
by Waffle Iron ( 339739 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @01:51AM (#6897635)
Please explain what would stop someone from taking a GPLd work, sticking their name on it, compiling it, claiming it was there own and selling it if there where no copyrights?
You can do that now with a GPLd program, except for claiming that you wrote it (since you have to retain the original copyright notices when you redistribute).
It's too late to remove copyright laws now (anybody who proposed such a thing would be accused of being some kind of communist). However, it would be interesting to go back to the late 18th century when the utility of copyrights was still under debate. If one could inform the people formulating these laws how much feature creep and freedom-restricting expansions the copyright concept would experience over the next 250 years, I wonder if they wouldn't put a clause in the constitution prohibiting copyrights.
In its place, very strong laws prohibiting false claims of authorship might have been put in place. (This would address the "claiming it as their own" problem you mentioned, and almost nobody would object to such a statute because it's basically fair.) Additionally, only the actual author or his licensees could produce copies labeled as "genuine". Other than that, anybody could produce copies of anything, as long as they weren't billed as genuine.
I would bet that over the centuries, this kind of copyrightless scheme would have supported plenty of content creation. It would tend to favor high quality works since people tend pay extra for genuine copies of the things that they enjoy most. The media industries would be smaller than they are today, but that's no real loss since 90% of everything put out right now is crap.
• by Slurpee ( 4012 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:07AM (#6897682) Homepage Journal
So would Slashdot today still remove that text if it was posted in a comment?
I remember Rob pulling that comment. I thought (and still think) that it was and is the saddest day in the history of Slashdot.
After handling trolls, first posters, legal threats by Microsoft and other parties...they gave in to a Scientology threat. I'm not sure if Slashdot has removed posts since. But that was the first.
a sad sad day.
• by Mostly a lurker ( 634878 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:20AM (#6897718)
Condemns the plaintiffs to pay the costs of this suit, up to this moment on the part of defendants ... estimated to be fl 2830.- each time, of which f 330.- is recording rights.
We are talking about legal costs for each ISP of less than US$1500. And the costs paid by the plaintiffs when the ISPs are found to do nothing wrong. Why cannot the US legal system be more like Holland's?
• Re:Proud (Score:5, Interesting)
by CvD ( 94050 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:38AM (#6897770) Homepage Journal
I second this. XS4ALL is definately the coolest, most techie-friendly ISP that I've ever come across. They provide all sorts of fun techie stuff like a shell account on a FreeBSD server, an IPv6 tunnel, batched SMTP, and a lot more.
Hooray for XS4ALL!
• Re:Go XS4ALL! (Score:5, Interesting)
by CvD ( 94050 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:48AM (#6897798) Homepage Journal
I've not seen anyone mention that XS4ALL, in their Terms and Conditions, encourages customers to hack their system and gain root access, and tell XS4ALL how you did it. They'll then give you 6 months of free access.
Shows how serious they are about their own security and setup, too.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:48AM (#6897799)
This is because Christianity has lost it's power base. Remember they used to burn people alive for translating the bible from latin just because doing so allowed the actual doctrine to leak out to ordinary people.
And that lead to the reformation, political revolution, the Renaissance and 300 years of warring and other ugliness.
The net result was that Catholicism lost much of it's power base, but Christianity in general came out much stronger than it was before.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @02:54AM (#6897814)
I had a not so good run in with the scientologists. In Australia they hand out pamphlets saying "Free I.Q Test" with an address. Absolutely no details whatsoever saying who they are. Many years ago I actually went to it thinking cool (as if it was legitimate). I did the test and then they went off to mark it.
When they come back they do a one on one interview. I think I got 132 (what they said). She said that's very good, entry level genius. I thought shit okay, then she said now look at this chart. Showed me a chart with different moods labelled on it, she said "you're all over the place, you're an unstable person" - "You have the intelligence but you need to balance yourself out, why don't you come on one of our courses?, $100." Thats when I started to think "Oh I see, get me in for a free i.q test and then try and get me to go on a course, well see you later". I should of knew better. At this point I didn't know who the scientologists were, and I couldn't of cared less, I wasn't going to pay money this way. So I told her I wasn't really interested.
Then she said, well, then do you want to buy some of our books, $9-10 each (Author Hubbard of course). Then I said err no. Then that's when she came out with it, "It's all about trust, you have to trust me".. "Have you noticed John Travolta has been doing alot of movies lately?". Then I started to think, oh, scientologists, I think I saw these guys on the news. I actually had them mixed up with National Geographic.
Then she really got aggressive... "Well, do you have any money on you?", I said, "No I got no money", then she said - "well do you have a card you can get money out of", again I said "No".
Finally, I thought, I gotta get out of this mutha fucker, so I said "Err how about you give me your phone number and I'll call you?", and she said, "No.", and I said "why not?", and she said, "because I know you won't call", then I said "Do you trust me?". Then I got my bag and left, fucking showed her.
As I was walking down the stairs I saw their posters and thought, oh yeah, I think I know who these fuckers are.
Anyway, I blame myself for going and not thinking. Be careful of so called "free" i.q tests - they're out to brainwash you.
Lately I've spotted a UFO cult in my neighborhood, the Raelians. These bitches are everywhere (cults) and you'll be surprised at their membership numbers, it's fucked up society we live in.
• by R.Caley ( 126968 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @03:08AM (#6897840)
Clearly it tookplace for centuries without the bible. It is quite possible, even easier, to evangelise by letting only the evangeliser read the secrets and pass on only those which will be useful at this moment, preferably distorted to match the local situation.
That the marks^H^H^H^H^Hordinary believers should be allowed to read the secrets and convince themselves was one of the big innovations of the protestant reformers.
Take a walk around the vatican and ask where the money came from.
Scientology took it's model from Christianity and just sharpened up the operation, looking more like the church back when it still had teeth than the stumbling mess christianity now is.
But yes, most religions are not nearly as bad as Christainity and Scientology, I'd guess it was the close identification of christanity with the later roman empire which built it into such an efficiant command and control structure, or perhaps they learned a great deal from their enemies in Persia.
• by R.Caley ( 126968 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @03:22AM (#6897876)
Classical, dark ages and middle ages christianity was pervasive and a major power center, since then it has been all down hill.
Apart from the USA, christianity is a mildly amusing sideshow in all of the developed nations. Even the Irish have been kicking it in the head in the past few decades. The Italians have a weird relationship with it, in that the church seems to be everywhere, but they basicly ignore it (eg look at their birth rate).
The main places where christianity is really a force are in south and central america and some bits of eastern Europe (noteably Poland), where it is still the catholic church which is the power. The orthodox church looked like it might make a power grab in Russia after the fall of communism, but that is looking less likely as time goes by.
• by Captain McCrank ( 583414 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @03:42AM (#6897930)
Hubbard used to be involved with devil worship vis-a-vis John Whiteside Parsons before he "discovered" scientology.
Other Christians out there are quite comfortable seeing where the source of this evil comes from. An institution that is so whole-heartedly devoted to the distraction and misdirection of mental and spiritual energy really has to serve on some level, some kind of purpose. Given that no one's ever completed the "research" of Scientology, can it really serve any other purpose?
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist".
• by mabhatter654 ( 561290 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @04:25AM (#6898053)
I think the Judge was right on. After all, this ruling is akin to the MS EULAs about benchmark results and the like. As far as "deep" linking and linking in general to offending material, Deep linking is merely exploiting a hole in the system. Most deep links could be stopped thru more careful administration...setup to require hacking which is a different matter. Linking to copyright material is not infringement itself...let's point the blame where it belongs...and use the links to rat out the offenders, till the offenders start prohibiting the links on their own! The only other issue was weather or not the item was a legal document or evidence. The court chose to dodge the bullet and call it an important part of the case which wasn't "gaged" and already out of the bag.
As far as other claims, just like in slashdotter world, you have to be careful how you post things...most normal people have zero understanding of the subtlies of copyright to make sure you can get your point without violation. The lawyers know people [and often Judges] aren't versed in the particulars. Again a case where the Law refuses to simplify rules, or publish "safe" useages without weeding thru piles of paper.
Of course to me [USA] this means jack squat. We still have to deal with this mess!
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @04:28AM (#6898057)
And for once, this is 100% accurate:
1. Join our church
2. ???
3. Profit
A cousin of mine once landed in these guy's hands. It took him and his parents four years to get him out, and he never really recovered.
• by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 08, 2003 @05:23AM (#6898153)
The Church of Scientology knows what they're doing, at least in terms of getting their sites highly listed in Google.
I was doing research on drug addiction, and did searches for 'marijuana addiction', 'lsd addiction', 'cocaine addiction', and 'heroin addiction'.
The first (or second) listed sites for each of those searches turned out to be Narconon sites. Narconon is a Scientology front group. see [] for more info.
Narconon is not to be confused with Narcotics Anonymous, which is a legit organization. The name similarity is probably intentional (on the part of Narconon).
So the next time you're looking for drug addiction info on Google, keep an eye out for Narconon pages, and if you have no love for Scientology, don't link to them. They seem to be doing well enough already...
• by jcr ( 53032 ) <jcr.mac@com> on Monday September 08, 2003 @05:42AM (#6898177) Journal
Umm, NO. Religions get their special tax privileges on the premise that they're akin to charitable organizations.
Scientology only professes to be a religion because Hubbard's decistion to try the "religion angle" succeded beyond his wildest dreams. The mere claim to religious status apparently paralyzes law enforcement in the USA.
• by kahei ( 466208 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @05:49AM (#6898183) Homepage
Confining myself to factual corrections, I note that in many medieval christian communities everyone could read the bible. For instance, Alfred the Great translated it into English for that very purpose. It was only later when the ecclesiastical hierarchy became more rigid and more focused on Rome that the Bible was restricted to the clergy.
• Re:A bad decision (Score:5, Interesting)
by Sphere1952 ( 231666 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @08:26AM (#6898668) Journal
Well, this doesn't go back quite that far...
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• by Evil Pete ( 73279 ) on Monday September 08, 2003 @09:18AM (#6898993) Homepage
Like a real "Snow Crash".
I got asked by one of them once to do a "test". And I started talking to him, but my answers must have been so non-standard he seemed like he was lost for an answer. And when I started describing the works of L. Ron Hubbard and his supposed bet with the editor of Astounding(?) about who could start a religion first .... he seemed to lose interest. Sigh. Its so hard to make friends when you bring up inconvenient facts.
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Krishnamurti & the Art of Awakening
Krishnamurti Quote of the Day
Krishnamurti to Himself | Ojai California
You can learn about the limited, but you cannot learn about the unlimited. And we try to learn about the whole field of the psyche, and say that needs time. But time may be an illusion in that area, it may be an enemy. Thought creates the illusion, and that illusion evolves, grows, extends. The illusion of all religious activity must have begun very, very simply, and now look where it is - with immense power, vast properties, great accumulation of art, wealth, and the religious hierarchy demanding obedience, urging you to have more faith. All that is the expansion, the cultivation and the evolution of illusion which has taken many centuries. And the psyche is the whole content of consciousness, is the memory of all things past and dead. We give such importance to memory. The psyche is memory. All tradition is merely the past. We cling to that and want to learn all about it, and think that time is necessary for that as in the other area.
I wonder if one ever asks whether time has a stop - time to become, time to fulfil? Is there anything to learn about all that? Or can one see that the whole movement of this illusory memory, which appears so real, can end? If time has a stop, then what is the relationship between that which lies beyond time and all the physical activities of the brain as memory, knowledge, remembrances, experiences? What is the relationship between the two? Knowledge and thought, as we have often said, are limited. The limited cannot possibly have any relationship with the unlimited but the unlimited can have some kind of communication with the limited, though that communication must always be limited, narrow, fragmentary.
One might ask, if one is commercially minded, what is the use of all this, what is the use of the unlimited, what can man profit by it? We always want a reward. We live on the principle of punishment and reward, like a dog which has been trained, you reward him when he obeys. And we are almost similar in the sense that we want to be rewarded for our actions, for our obedience and so on. Such demand is born out of the limited brain. The brain is the centre of thought and thought is ever limited under all circumstances. It may invent the extraordinary, theoretical, immeasurable, but its invention is always limited. That is why one has to be completely free from all the travail and toil of life and from self-centred activity for the unlimited to be.
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Knowledge is never complete, can never be complete.
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The Borinqueneers on Parade
Jun 11, 2014
8:43 AM
Yesterday, President Barack Obama awarded the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th U.S. Army Infantry Regiment, also known as the “Borinqueneers.” A decade ago no one would have predicted such an occasion nor was the 65th as popular as it is now. Not only was the 65th virtually forgotten by Puerto Ricans but the contribution of hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans who have served in the armed forces has also been largely ignored by the general public.
When the Korean War broke out, most Puerto Ricans were still confined to the segregated 65th or one of Puerto Rico’s National Guard outfits. The 65th fought in Korea from 1950 to 1953 as part of the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division.The enlisted men, non-commissioned officers, and the majority of junior officers in the 65th were Puerto Ricans, while most senior officers were continental Americans. The fact that Puerto Ricans were segregated and led mostly by continental Americans qualified them as colonial troops. During the Korean War, they were sent to fight as first-line troops for the first time.
Soldiers of the 65th, North of the Han River, Korea, June 1951. (US Army)
Since its inception on May 20, 1899, to its transformation into an integrated outfit in 1953, the 65th never lacked for enthusiastic volunteers to fill its ranks. Most Puerto Ricans regarded the 65th as “our heroic regiment.” During the Korean War, “el sesenta y cinco” became a Puerto Rican icon. However, little or anything was known about the 65th a few decades after the war. Those growing up in Puerto Rico and many visitors have seen the monuments or transited through the Avenida 65 de Infantería. But the role that these soldiers played during the Korean War and what their sacrifice meant for Puerto Rico and the United States, for Puerto Ricans and Latinos in general, was, sadly, forgotten or unknown.
In 1999, when I was preparing to initiate graduate studies in Philadelphia, I came across a Sunday edition of The San Juan Star, which featured Noemi Figueroa Soulet and her efforts to gain support to produce a documentary on el 65. I was impressed with what I read and decided to conduct my own research on the 65th as I trained as a military historian. Figueroa Soulet ignited the flame that lead to many individuals and groups to dedicate their time to rescue the regiment’s history. Now, a first-rate documentary (The Borinqueneers), an official battle history, several magazine articles, academic works and studies, oral histories, as well as many fiction works have been produced exploring the 65th.
Recovering the history of the 65th required researchers to face moments of the 65th’s history which were not easy to digest. At moments their story reads as glorious, at other times like tragedy and injustice. I will try to briefly summarize their history until the Korean War and then explain the significance of their participation in that war and of the ongoing effort to secure the Congressional Golf Medal.
Not too long after the cannons felt silent in the Spanish-Cuban, Filipino-American War of 1898, Puerto Ricans started to serve in the U.S. military. On May 20, 1899, General Davies published General Order No. 65 authorizing the formation of the battalion of Porto Rican Volunteers. Oddly enough, the first volunteers came from the town of Lares, where anti-Spanish and pro-independence sentiment had been strong since the second half of the nineteenth century.
The military authorities added a cavalry battalion and changed the name of the Porto Rico Battalion to the Porto Rico United States Volunteers (P.R. U.S.V.) in 1900. With World War I imminent, Puerto Rican troops saw their role extended to include the defense of the Panama Canal. Upon their return to Puerto Rico in 1920, they found their names changed from the “Porto Rican Regiment” to the “65th Infantry, U. S. Army,” courtesy of the National Defense Act of 1920.
The 65th served in North Africa and Europe during World War II, although not as first-line troops. The regiment went to the European theater, while the defense of the Panama Canal and the island was entrusted to the 295th and 296th Infantry Regiments of the Puerto Rico National Guard. When the men of the 65th returned home in 1945, they were received like heroes by an enthusiastic multitude crowding the streets of San Juan.
On June 24, 1950, war broke out in Korea. In Puerto Rico, the National Guard was activated, and the 65th was mobilized and soon ordered to Korea. The island’s participation in the Korean War was more significant than in previous wars since Puerto Ricans were entering this conflict very early, and they were going in as first-line combat troops. About 61,000 Puerto Ricans served in the U.S. armed forces during the Korean War. Many served with the 65th , and the vast majority were volunteers. More importantly, the chance that they may be sent to the 65th motivated thousands of Puerto Ricans to volunteer for service. Throughout the war 747 Puerto Ricans were killed in action (KIA).
Hugnam, Korea: 24 December 1950. "Últimos en salir"
Hugnam, Korea: 24 December 1950. “Últimos en salir”
The public and private sector in Puerto Rico joined to support the 65th throughout the war. Governor Luis Muñoz Marín often made reference to the men of the 65th in his speeches. The island’s public buses and train carts sported the 65th’s unit crest. Plazas and avenues were named to honor the regiment. Returning soldiers, especially the wounded, were received as heroes and treated to public receptions by government officials. Muñoz Marín himself attended the burials of the fallen and sent his recorded speeches to the troops in Korea. In those early days of the war, a day did not pass in which the island’s press did not write about the Puerto Rican soldiers. Soldiers were paid to endorse local products, from non-alcoholic malt beverages to powder milk and some of the soldiers’ exploits even found their way to comic strips. The Puerto Rican soldier had in fact become a quintessential figure on the island and among the growing diaspora—the 65th became a national icon.
Comic strip from the 1950s honoring Sgt. Modesto Cartagena of the 65th.
The Borinqueneers themselves knew they were on the spotlight, and came to internalize their iconic status. On Christmas Eve of 1950, the Borinqueneers of the 65th Infantry, the last United Nations troops in Hungnam, were finally evacuated from the besieged port. As the 65th’s commanding officer, Colonel William W. Harris, boarded the last transport, someone handed him a copy of an article from the Pacific Stars & Stripes. The article quoted Corporal Ruiz of Puerto Rico as saying: “We are proud to be part of the United Nations Forces, and we are proud of our country. We feel that too many people do not know anything about Puerto Rico; they think that we are all natives who climb trees.” Ruiz and many other soldiers in the 65th fighting in Korea felt they had to prove they were second to none. Ruiz added: “We are glad for the chance to fight the communists and also for the chance to put Puerto Rico on the map. It will be a great accomplishment if we can raise the prestige of our country in the eyes of the world.”
Things would change during the second half of the war and the record of the Borinqueneers would be temporarily stained by a series of mass court martial. Eventually, their record would be restored. A culmination of the restoration process is receiving the Congressional Gold Medal.
Obtaining such award comes from the effort of the “Borinqueneers CGM Alliance” (BCGMA) founded by former Army Captain and Iraq War veteran, Frank Medina. The medal has been awarded to other famous minority units, including the Tuskegee Airmen, the Navajo Code Talkers, the Nisei Soldiers and the Montford Point Marines. The Borinqueneers was the first Korean War unit to receive the award.
The ethnicity and race of the Gold Medal recipients is no coincidence. All these recipients fought under times of crisis to defend a country that at the time treated them at best like second-rate citizens and at worst like foreign threats. African-American marines and aviators disproving the myth of racial inferiority and unfitness for military service, Navajo talkers using their native language for communications saving countless of American lives at a time when Navajo kids were being beaten for speaking their own language at school, Nissei soldiers who volunteered to join the U.S. Army as their own families were being sent to internment camps by the U.S. government—those are the type of people whom this medal recognizes.
And that is the kind of contribution that the Borinqueneers made. They were willing to pay the ultimate price at a time when Puerto Ricans were openly called “a problem” in academic works and the American press.
Harry Franqui-Rivera, Ph.D., is a historian and researcher at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '84', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9749631881713868}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '145664', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:4YMWLTO6NXIKX3OPQNTIA5UHNGVC5DIS', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:c52f9077-8a51-4711-8fb9-5967a1a3b5b8>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 9, 24, 12, 31, 17), 'WARC-IP-Address': '45.33.82.74', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:GBVCW6P3LDGQYALIBVWMCR3OJ2PWDYW7', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:72cdf4c3-4d7a-4390-8c6b-6fb058f1aa16>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.latinorebels.com/2014/06/11/the-borinqueneers-on-parade/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:5969ed8b-c2cb-4820-b888-5de1eba6d9a5>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '1497', 'url': 'https://www.latinorebels.com/2014/06/11/the-borinqueneers-on-parade/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-39\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for September 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-40\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.019204556941986084', 'original_id': '658feed568e2a631ec86af2b009f7ec195149172ebca00cd7f819e4e99b080aa'} |
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Insults and Putdowns for everyday use - Intelligence
Heckler Put-downs
I'll Ignore You
Intelligence ?
Pickup Put-downs
I would ask you how old you are, but I reckon you can't count that high.
I would have like to insult you, but the sad truth is that you wouldn't understand me.
If you were twice as smart as you are now, you'd be absolutely stupid..
I'm blonde. What's your excuse?
She has reached rock bottom and shows signs of starting to dig.
Some drink from the fountain of knowledge, but it looks like this guy just gargled.
Some folks are so dumb, they have to be watered twice a week.
That man is cruelly depriving a village somewhere of an idiot.
Whom am I calling 'stupid'? Good question. I don't know. What is your name?
Your mind isn't so much twisted as badly sprained.
Your verbosity is exceeded only by your total stupidity.
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/**
* SPDX-License-Identifier: (MIT OR CECILL-C)
*
* Copyright (C) 2006-2019 INRIA and contributors
*
* Spoon is available either under the terms of the MIT License (see LICENSE-MIT.txt) of the Cecill-C License (see LICENSE-CECILL-C.txt). You as the user are entitled to choose the terms under which to adopt Spoon.
*/
package spoon.support.reflect.declaration;
import spoon.reflect.annotations.MetamodelPropertyField;
import spoon.reflect.declaration.CtType;
import spoon.reflect.declaration.CtTypedElement;
import spoon.reflect.path.CtRole;
import spoon.reflect.reference.CtTypeReference;
/**
* This class is used to represent the constructor of an array when calling with an expression like
* <pre>
* String[]::new
* </pre>
*
* Warning: this type is never present in the Spoon model.
* It is created dynamically when calling the executable of an expression such as the one in the example.
*/
public class InvisibleArrayConstructorImpl<T> extends CtConstructorImpl<T> {
@MetamodelPropertyField(role = CtRole.TYPE)
private CtTypeReference<T> type;
@Override
public CtTypeReference<T> getType() {
return this.type;
}
@Override
public <C extends CtTypedElement> C setType(CtTypeReference<T> type) {
if (type == null) {
return (C) this;
}
this.type = type;
return (C) this;
}
@Override
public String toString() {
return this.getType().toString() + "::new";
}
@Override
public CtType<T> getDeclaringType() {
return this.getType().getTypeDeclaration();
}
}
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Cannes 2018 review: Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré)
It can be very easy to take a look at a moment in time and let the circumstances of an era colour or even overwhelm the story. Many great films have been made whose hearts are lovingly anchored in the impact of how a crisis defined the people it affected, but some of them become so preoccupied with the tragedies to which they are love letters, that they lose sight of individual faces and struggles. Christophe Honoré’s Sorry Angel is a film that successfully finds a humane balance, where the height of the AIDS crisis silently fills every frame of the film, but the loves, lives, and emotions of the people it studies ring even louder.
Jacques, a former novelist and current bon vivant, is too poor not to live beyond his means, although he knows he should be making a greater effort to produce new material to keep the creditors off his back, but a revolving door of lovers will always be more irresistible. “I know that I need you more than you need me, and I prefer it that way,” Jacques says smilingly to one of his young lovers: while he craves their affection, he intentionally pursues relationships that are doomed to failure in a form of self-sabotage, because he knows he is not ready for commitment. Jacques is also one to compartmentalize the different facets of his life: as a lover, a writer, and the father of a young boy, these roles ultimately bleed into each other, but he has no idea how to reconcile them. And all of these qualities are exacerbated by the fact that he is terminally sick. The pursuit of pleasure and love become the template for how he approaches relationships and squanders his time, until he has found them, and it becomes safer for him to swiftly run away.
Arthur, a twenty-two-year-old student from Brittany, has always thought he preferred the company of girls, until he finds himself cruising parking lots for late-night trysts with attractive men. A former girlfriend questions Arthur, “How could you be with someone like me and still sleep with them?” “Because I only ever fell for girls, until recently,” he explains.
By chance, or perhaps as fate would allow, Jacques enters a cinema and Arthur catches his eye in the audience. Jacques sits next to Arthur, and they engage in concupiscent flirtation. “I resent how cute your generation is,” Jacques laments, and Arthur replies, “Flattery will get you nowhere.” But it’s not flattery: Jacques is by no means old, and his looks are attractive, but he is mature enough to realize that youth is wasted on the young and that death comes too soon. After all, his friend and former lover Marco has returned to stay in Jacques’ apartment as he suffers the last stages of AIDS-related complications. Jacques is a writer, so the cliché of an older man who pines for a younger man is not lost on him, but as he has grown increasingly aware of how cruel disease and the passage of time can be, it becomes important to him to fill his life with as much beauty as possible. Arthur suggests that they leave to make love to each other, but Jacques resists: Arthur should first finish watching the film and then meet him outside the theatre. Once they reunite, they bounce from location to location across Paris, fruitlessly looking for a place where they can enjoy each other privately, until the night culminates in a quick stop in an alley, followed by sharing sandwiches and beer as they lie next to the Seine.
Once they part, life trudges forward for the pair as they wait to be reunited, and every subsequent frame of the film feels the distance between them and is overwhelmed by each one’s haunting grip on the other’s thoughts. Arthur has been writing hoards of unreturned postcards to Jacques and has finally lost hope that he would ever receive a phone call from him. It is only when Arthur meets a young “blond with a cute ass” and brings him back to his room that he hears that elusive ring of the telephone. Jacques has picked this inopportune moment to finally reach back to him, and he becomes jealous and more invested in Arthur once he guesses that he is entertaining another man. It is a wakeup call to both: Jacques realizes how much he cares for Arthur and how easily he could lose him; Arthur feels like Jacques is the first man he has ever begun to truly love. They eventually make plans to reunite, but questions of fitness and emotional inhibition threaten to come between them, and Jacques must work to conquer his apprehensions, and allow himself to be vulnerable and open to a love that has eluded him.
Chief among Sorry Angel’s virtues is that while it acknowledges how Jacques’ battle with his health informs his emotional reactions, it shows that unrelated innate fears are his biggest obstacle. Struggles with his health have a hand in shaping his already complicated emotional landscape, but even if Jacques could live in a vacuum where disease did not exist, the film suggests that most of his inhibitions would still be self-inflicted phenomena. Jacques’ awareness of how his fleeting mortality influences whether he will be able to let himself love and begin to dream, when he has so little time left, is a fear that Sorry Angel will not minimize, while refusing to treat it like a life-defining sentence. In concentrating the majority of its energy on identifying the personal reasons which can prevent someone from daring to be intimate, and how it is possible to move past one’s fears and reservations, Sorry Angel is a testament to hope, exploring how to maximize the time we have, and to use that time in search of happiness and fulfillment. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9802569150924684}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '39650', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:7W5GQYKDOVOPN2YH2GOC235NTXKNIOZU', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b35441ef-29cd-4fc9-a71b-84856535ed71>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2021, 5, 6, 3, 57, 49), 'WARC-IP-Address': '72.9.154.191', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:F5FBE3BPAZZOENWXJPQBG7UEDKGHRNWW', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:a2d280dc-eadd-4fe4-bd16-9e292e42c241>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://icsfilm.org/reviews/cannes-2018-review-sorry-angel-christophe-honore/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:92be55b5-3ec6-40ba-9b8f-da0b6ea7f724>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '978', 'url': 'https://icsfilm.org/reviews/cannes-2018-review-sorry-angel-christophe-honore/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2021-21\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for May 2021\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-91.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.18 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.2-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.040855467319488525', 'original_id': 'e96a484cf640a2e31917fd8d887224c09bd8547a757fb3e8eaecd42b756bc611'} |
/*
* Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
*
* This file may be redistributed and/or modified under the
* terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
* Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* It is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
* WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
* FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License in the
* file COPYING for more details.
*/
#if defined(HAVE_CONFIG_H)
# include "config.h"
#endif
#if defined(AO_NO_PTHREADS) && defined(AO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS)
# include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
printf("test skipped\n");
return 0;
}
#else
#include "run_parallel.h"
#include "test_atomic_include.h"
#ifdef AO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS
# define NITERS 100000
#else
# define NITERS 10000000
#endif
void * add1sub1_thr(void * id);
int add1sub1_test(void);
void * acqrel_thr(void *id);
int acqrel_test(void);
void * test_and_set_thr(void * id);
int test_and_set_test(void);
#if defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_add1) && defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_sub1)
AO_t counter = 0;
void * add1sub1_thr(void * id)
{
int me = (int)(AO_PTRDIFF_T)id;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NITERS; ++i)
if ((me & 1) != 0) {
(void)AO_fetch_and_sub1(&counter);
} else {
(void)AO_fetch_and_add1(&counter);
}
return 0;
}
int add1sub1_test(void)
{
return counter == 0;
}
#endif /* defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_add1) && defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_sub1) */
#if defined(AO_HAVE_store_release_write) && defined(AO_HAVE_load_acquire_read)
/* Invariant: counter1 >= counter2 */
AO_t counter1 = 0;
AO_t counter2 = 0;
void * acqrel_thr(void *id)
{
int me = (int)(AO_PTRDIFF_T)id;
int i;
for (i = 0; i < NITERS; ++i)
if (me & 1)
{
AO_t my_counter1;
if (me != 1)
{
fprintf(stderr, "acqrel test: too many threads\n");
abort();
}
my_counter1 = AO_load(&counter1);
AO_store(&counter1, my_counter1 + 1);
AO_store_release_write(&counter2, my_counter1 + 1);
}
else
{
AO_t my_counter1a, my_counter2a;
AO_t my_counter1b, my_counter2b;
my_counter2a = AO_load_acquire_read(&counter2);
my_counter1a = AO_load(&counter1);
/* Redo this, to make sure that the second load of counter1 */
/* is not viewed as a common subexpression. */
my_counter2b = AO_load_acquire_read(&counter2);
my_counter1b = AO_load(&counter1);
if (my_counter1a < my_counter2a)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Saw release store out of order: %lu < %lu\n",
(unsigned long)my_counter1a, (unsigned long)my_counter2a);
abort();
}
if (my_counter1b < my_counter2b)
{
fprintf(stderr,
"Saw release store out of order (bad CSE?): %lu < %lu\n",
(unsigned long)my_counter1b, (unsigned long)my_counter2b);
abort();
}
}
return 0;
}
int acqrel_test(void)
{
return counter1 == NITERS && counter2 == NITERS;
}
#endif /* AO_HAVE_store_release_write && AO_HAVE_load_acquire_read */
#if defined(AO_HAVE_test_and_set_acquire)
AO_TS_t lock = AO_TS_INITIALIZER;
unsigned long locked_counter;
volatile unsigned long junk = 13;
void * test_and_set_thr(void * id)
{
unsigned long i;
for (i = 0; i < NITERS/10; ++i)
{
while (AO_test_and_set_acquire(&lock) != AO_TS_CLEAR);
++locked_counter;
if (locked_counter != 1)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Test and set failure 1, counter = %ld, id = %d\n",
(long)locked_counter, (int)(AO_PTRDIFF_T)id);
abort();
}
locked_counter *= 2;
locked_counter -= 1;
locked_counter *= 5;
locked_counter -= 4;
if (locked_counter != 1)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Test and set failure 2, counter = %ld, id = %d\n",
(long)locked_counter, (int)(AO_PTRDIFF_T)id);
abort();
}
--locked_counter;
AO_CLEAR(&lock);
/* Spend a bit of time outside the lock. */
junk *= 17;
junk *= 17;
}
return 0;
}
int test_and_set_test(void)
{
return locked_counter == 0;
}
#endif /* defined(AO_HAVE_test_and_set_acquire) */
int main(void)
{
test_atomic();
test_atomic_acquire();
test_atomic_release();
test_atomic_read();
test_atomic_write();
test_atomic_full();
test_atomic_release_write();
test_atomic_acquire_read();
# if defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_add1) && defined(AO_HAVE_fetch_and_sub1)
run_parallel(4, add1sub1_thr, add1sub1_test, "add1/sub1");
# endif
# if defined(AO_HAVE_store_release_write) && defined(AO_HAVE_load_acquire_read)
run_parallel(3, acqrel_thr, acqrel_test,
"store_release_write/load_acquire_read");
# endif
# if defined(AO_HAVE_test_and_set_acquire)
run_parallel(5, test_and_set_thr, test_and_set_test,
"test_and_set");
# endif
return 0;
}
#endif /* !AO_NO_PTHREADS || !AO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS */
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Driving lessons to build confidence
In about 27 seconds you will have taken a big step to feeling more confident…
Driving lessons to build confidence
While you are learning to drive, It’s important that you get the most suitable driving instructor that can help you to improve your skills and guide you through all of the stages from tips on how to answer those tricky theory test questions or even easy to follow steps for the reversing manoeuvres.
I’m nervous about learning how to drive – can you help me?
Absolutely yes! You want to feel more confident? Rest assured, with over 22 years experience in helping people just like you who that are feeling anxious, Kevin will help you to pass the driving test and start to feel more confident about driving. There is always a calm approach on offer that will have you feeling comfortable in no time, you will never be rushed during your learning process or made to feel anxious.
How long is a driving lesson?
You can choose from the standard 1 hour per week driving course, 90 minutes or if you are really up for the challenge why not just go for it with the most popular choice of 2 hourly lessons? It really depends on your preference and schedule.
What happens on a lesson?
Each driving lesson will be different. Your driving confidence will grow as you learn new skills and progress through the learning to drive process. Especially for nervous drivers, we will start in quiet areas where you can practice your driving skills before eventually progressing onto main roads.
How many lessons will I need?
This will depend on your experience, knowledge and driving skills. Your driving instructor will be able to give you an estimate of how long it will take for you to reach the driving test standard after a few lessons.
Just pick up the phone
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For Christmas catering services, some companies have their own specialties. A finger food catering company can provide wedding-predetermined food or cold-to-eat food for a special event. Split grilled cooked meals can be controlled by many different companies and can create specific types of events. When someone requires office catering, corporate catering or personal catering services, he wants to make sure his company needs to meet its special needs.
One can determine whether a person can understand the needs of his figure and meet his needs. If someone wants to eat a cool finger, he should immediately tell the caterer that if he does not plan to expand his menu then he does not have to worry about whether his service will be maintained after arrival. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9790632128715516}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '53502', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:M63R47C7SJBWMXYUBNXTWZ4RKODPCR4D', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:68b2c2ea-cf93-4918-8fa4-d76e7a2a406a>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2020, 3, 30, 7, 54, 14), 'WARC-IP-Address': '88.99.204.168', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:URGNJXXB4KLROFQLVDAYTM42UPRVDBHI', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:91f568b5-a4d0-4c35-bda0-cbc424f1235f>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://homefoodvendor.com/how-to-find-a-christmas-catering-special-company/', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:c06eb074-198b-44ea-85cb-35528f257eb8>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '125', 'url': 'https://homefoodvendor.com/how-to-find-a-christmas-catering-special-company/', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2020-16\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for March/April 2020\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-127.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.16 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.5533917546272278', 'original_id': 'dd3de849cf3d1f2e98b9cf51639b194eee1a0236f20a3d8218d369e442c4e330'} |
The period in America from around 1607-1763 where just about everyone was a Puritan Pilgrim and had to attend church services that were approximately 11 days long. Everyone wore black all the time; the men all carried blunderbusses and wore tall hats with big buckles around them[1], while the women all wore bonnets and square linen collars with optional large red A's [2].
The women were all called "Goody Somethingorother" and were frequently burned at the stake as witches. Occupations among the men, besides the aforementioned prayer and witch-burning, included persecuting Quakers, oppressing Native Americans, being scalped, and hunting turkeys for the first Thanksgiving Day dinner.
Examples of The Colonial Period include:
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• The Crucible
• Which was historically accurate enough to know that witches were hanged not burned in this period.
• Almost everything else was wrong, though; the people who wrote Burn the Witch got it right.
• As this troper recalls, it wasn't meant as an accurate portrayal of the Salem Witch Trials and instead used the witch trials as a metaphor for the hysteria surrounding the Mc Carthy hearings
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AP PHOTOS: 20 images that documented the enormity of 9/11
September 8, 2021 GMT
It was a day of indelible images — apocalyptic, surreal, violent, ghostly, both monumental and profoundly personal. Wrenching to remember. Impossible to forget.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 were captured in countless pictures by news photographers, bystanders, first responders, security cameras, FBI agents and others. Even an astronaut on the International Space Station took some.
Twenty years later, The Associated Press has curated 20 of its photographers’ frames from Sept. 11, 2001, when hijackers used commercial planes as missiles and crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people and toppled the trade center’s 110-story twin towers.
These photos document the enormity, chaos and emotion of 9/11 on every scale, from panoramic views of smoke rising over New York’s skyline to a close-up of the anxious, smudged face of a woman hastening down a street blanketed with ashen dust.
Street scenes chart escalating horror as people stare and weep at the burning skyscrapers, then run from the dust cloud billowing through lower Manhattan after one of them crumbles. Flames shoot from the windows of the Pentagon, a global symbol of military might that proved vulnerable to an attack by a handful of Islamic militants. A falling human form, almost silhouetted against one of the trade center towers, shows one of the most agonizing horrors of all.
Some show more intimate views of pain, but also humanity — an injured firefighter’s screaming face; a woman walking through the eerie blizzard of trade center debris with her arm around someone else’s shoulder; the then-deputy chief of the Army Reserve, Col. Malcolm Bruce Westcott, holding a comforting hand to Pentagon employee Racquel Kelley’s brow while assessing her for shock. There are images of determination, including firefighters working amid the smoky rubble and a shopkeeper sweeping up the dust of catastrophe.
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Everyone seems to be chasing gold. Ads on radio and TV try to tempt you into buying bullion or mining stocks. Even local jewelry shops say to take advantage of historically high prices by trading your jewelry for cash.
The allure of gold, which has jumped from around $500 per ounce five years ago more than $1,800 today, reminds me of market darlings of yesteryear. Remember when everyone piled into dot-com stocks and drove them into bubble territory in the late 1990s? Most of those speculative Internet stocks crashed a few years later. Soon after that, people were jumping into real estate and home prices went through the roof. We all know how that turned out.
Most booms and busts have the same pattern. People like to buy things when prices are high. Maybe they think they'll miss the chance to make a lot of money if they don't get in like everyone else. What people forget is prices can fall as fast as they rise. They're investing based on what's happened in the past instead of what's ahead.
With prices hitting all-time highs, this is not the time to be buying gold. The time to buy an investment is before its price rises, not after a big run. I'm not saying gold can't go higher from here, and I'm not saying to "short" gold. What I am saying is the risk/reward ratio is not favorable—I would rather miss out on the last part of an upward move than get caught in the stampede after a catastrophic decline.
If you are considering adding some gold to your investments now, don't run out and buy a gold mutual fund or exchange-traded fund. You most likely have enough exposure to gold through the funds you already own. Gold and other precious metals should be a small percentage—no more than 5 percent—of your investment plan.
There's a good chance that you have enough exposure to gold already; some funds you own buy companies with the highest earnings growth. The economics of a gold mining stock are simple: it costs companies a relatively fixed cost to get an ounce of gold out of the ground. As the price of the metal continues to hit new highs, gold companies are generating windfall profits.
Fund managers recognized this trend, and some have added gold and precious metal-related companies to their portfolios during the last few years. For instance, Michael Cuggino, manager of Permanent Portfolio (symbol PRPFX), invests directly in gold and silver.
Before you buy any gold, check your investment plan. To determine your exposure to gold in your funds, go to Morningstar.com. On a fund's page, click the "Portfolio" tab below the fund name, then "Holdings," and scroll down to view the top 25 holdings. There might be exposure beyond what's shown, but the top 25 holdings give you an idea of the range of the investments in the portfolio through the most recent reporting period. Also, a fund company's website may provide a list of top holdings.
If the manager of a diversified large company mutual fund has exposure to gold, it's probably only a small share of the fund's assets. That's because gold has not historically been a good investment. And now, with big price swings of up to $50 each trading day, gold is certainly not a safe investment.
Although the strong price gains look tempting, try to resist the luster of gold. You probably already have all you need.
This post originally appeared at U.S. News & World Report.
Get the latest Gold price here.
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NC Budget Director Art Pope is a leading funder of climate science denial.
Art Pope still funding climate disinformation
As North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's budget director, Art Pope will help make important fiscal decisions for a state facing serious threats due to climate disruption, from destructive storms and more intense hurricanes to unusually fast-rising seas.
But he will carry out that work in a political context that's been shaped by disinformation about climate science -- thanks to efforts Pope himself has generously funded.
According to a Facing South analysis of the latest annual tax filing from the John William Pope Foundation, Pope's family fund gave almost $5.7 million from July 2011 through June 2012 to conservative think tanks and advocacy groups that work to deny the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and driven at least in part by human activities like burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. That represents 61 percent of total giving for the year by the Pope Foundation, which draws its wealth from the Pope family's discount-retail chain, Variety Wholesalers. (Click on chart for a larger version.)
Pope has long been a big contributor to efforts to challenge climate science and block any action to address global warming. Our previous analysis of tax return data showed that the Pope Foundation donated generously to many of the groups that make up what Greenpeace has dubbed the "climate denial machine," a network of industry-supported think tanks that works to sow doubt about global warming -- over $24 million from 1997 to 2008.
Figuring the Pope Foundation gave an average of just over $2.6 million per year to climate science denial groups during that nine-year period, its 2011-2012 total represents an increase in giving to the groups engaged in climate science denial.
Some highlights of the Pope Foundation's anti-science philanthropy in 2011-2012:
* The biggest recipient at over $2.6 million is the John Locke Foundation, which promotes the idea that global warming is a "hoax." A conservative Raleigh, N.C.-based think tank that was founded by Pope and gets most of its support from his foundation, JLF has been one of the most outspoken voices of climate denial in North Carolina, claiming that global warming is a "pseudoscientific fraud." It has worked closely with other prominent denier groups and individuals to cast doubt on the science of global warming; Paul Chesser, a former JLF editor who is prominent in climate denial circles, accused Christians concerned about climate of suffering from “Biblical illiteracy” and cited the Book of Revelation to warn them that “God has some serious global warming of His own planned.” JLF is currently advocating repeal of North Carolina's renewable energy law.
* The second-biggest grantee at over $1.3 million is the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, which claims there is no scientific consensus on climate change. This Raleigh-based think tank founded and largely funded by Pope bills itself as "North Carolina's conservative voice." The group keeps up a steady drumbeat of doubt about the science of global warming and dismisses concerns as coming from "radical environmentalists" and "alarmists" suffering from "Green Fever." Another Pope-founded organization that received money from his family foundation in 2011-2012 -- a total of $542,800 -- was the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, which also promotes the idea that global warming science is a fraud.
* The Pope Foundation contributed $455,000 to the Institute for Humane Studies, a think tank affiliated with prominent climate science deniers. Mother Jones magazine has described IHS, located at George Mason University in Virginia, as a "haven for climate change deniers." Among its current guest lecturers are Paul Driessen with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a free-market policy organization that says the case for global warming is "dwindling," and several staff members of the Cato Institute, which has played a leading role in the climate denial movement. Art Pope serves on the IHS board, which is chaired by Charles Koch, head of the Koch Industries oil and chemical conglomerate and a leading funder of climate science denial. Pope is a close associate of Charles Koch and his brother David, and they contribute to many of the same climate denial groups.
* It gave $150,000 to the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Americans for Prosperity, a tea party group that’s been a leader in the effort to cast doubt on global warming. AFP was founded by David Koch, and the Koch and Pope family foundations have been its top funders. Art Pope sat on AFP’s national board until his appointment as North Carolina budget director, and Gov. McCrory spent a year touring the state with AFP, becoming what his hometown newspaper called the group’s “de facto spokesman.” AFP sponsored what it billed as a "Hot Air Tour" to challenge what it calls “global warming alarmism,” and its North Carolina chapter has called global warming a “scam.”
* The Pope Foundation contributed $95,000 to Donors Trust, a secretive funding organization with close ties to the climate denial movement. Located in Virginia and affiliated with the Donors Capital Fund, Donors Trust is a nonprofit fund that allows donors to contribute to organizations without disclosing their identities. A recent exposé of Donors Trust by the British newspaper The Independent showed that the group is a major operator in what the paper calls the climate "counter movement" and gets generous funding from the Koch brothers. Among the climate science denial groups that have received significant contributions from Donors Trust are the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, Heartland Institute and State Policy Network; all three also received grants from the Pope Foundation in 2011-2012.
* The Pope Foundation gave $25,000 to the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, which is targeting state renewable energy laws like North Carolina's. The foundation is the sister group of Americans for Tax Reform, a conservative advocacy group led by Grover Norquist, who worked as a lobbyist for fossil-fuel interests including BP America and the Edison Electric Institute. ATR is a member of the Cooler Heads Coalition, which says it is devoted to "dispelling the myths of global warming." Cooler Heads is closely tied to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, which also got $10,000 from Pope in 2011-2012; CEI is being sued for defamation by prominent climate scientist Michael Mann for accusing him of fraud and comparing him to a child molester. ATR is also working to overturn state renewable energy laws and has singled out North Carolina as a state where the "iron is hottest to strike."
At the same time he's helped fund the effort to spread misinformation about climate science, Pope has also contributed generously to the campaigns of North Carolina lawmakers that are hostile to environmental regulation. In fact, lawmakers backed by Pope and his immediate family members have received particularly low scores for their voting records from an environmental advocacy group.
It's a one-two punch of political giving by Pope that will make it more difficult for North Carolina to secure a sustainable future.
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The assumption being made
The assumption being made here is that climate denial money is somehow considered dirty and evil, while climate alarmism money is considered clean and good. Lol!!
Good story
Very good research on this story, Sue. I will pass it along to my thousands of facebook friends. It makes so much sense. They are using all the same methods as tobacco companies did for years to deny any connection between cigarettes and cancer. Only this time the whole human race is at stake.
Also, how is it that there are 4 comments against your article already and I just received it in my mailbox? Could it be the same righty-troll posing as different people? Not that many people could be that stupid and also, we know the effiency folks would not want to pay that many, either. It has to be just one. Maybe someone on Art Pope's team? What losers.
What warming?
More desperate rantings from the irrational left.
New McCarthyism
The hypothesis (it is only a hypothesis based on scientific protocol because there is no ability to prove its accuracy since there has been no warming in almost 17years even by the IPCC own numbers) is the modern age McCarthyism.
If you choose to disagree with the hypothesis you are tared and feathered in the media and called names like denier, etc...
This is no different than the tactics used by Joe McCarthy in his hunt for Communists in the U.S.. Funny how liberals like Sue will claimn to detest the McCarthy era, and yet adopt old Joe's tactics to push their agenda.
Ah the same ol' story
Uh, you do realize that global warming doesn't exist right? That massive amount of evidence has shown that A. the global temperature has not risen in 20 years despite the world being more industrialized now than ever before, B. the science behind it is incredible flawed and not accurate, and C. even the scientists who wrote the UN climate report e-mail's revealed they fudged the data and made up results to fit their claims. Apparently, you like to jump aboard the progressive propaganda bandwagon just like the rest of the media so we can keep forcing regulations upon hundreds of business that stymie growth, spend millions of taxpayer money on losing industries that have yet to prove they affect the environment in any significant way, and cause energy prices to skyrocket - forcing the American people who have been steamrolled by the economy that you and your progressive-minded folk allowed to fail by repealing the Glass-Steagall Act in 1999 to pay even more out of pocket. You've done such a great job so far. Enjoy your time in the sun, when the counter-culture kicks in and the American people wake up, you'll find your coffer to be quite empty.
Funding accusation implies what, exactly?
In case you haven't noticed, these kinds of accusations about corrupt funding is no more than guilt-by-association about sums of money that end up looking like starvation wages when they are spread out among all the people in the organizations receiving the money, over extended periods of time. Do the math on it all, it's that simple. And if any promoter of man-caused global warming is not first able to establish that the money was NOT donated because the organization sources were simply in agreement with what skeptics say, then the leap to the accusation that such money bought fabricated false science assessments does not follow without the combination of specific evidence of those exchanges for specific results, and those results being demonstratively wrong. On top of all that, skeptic climate scientists do not "deny" climate change, they assert that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has not conclusively made its case that human activity is the main driver of global warming.
What this all burns down to in other words, is that without proof to back up the insinuation that skeptics are paid to lie about the issue ….. You. Have. NOTHING.
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What is use of validation.properties for ESAPI.encoder().encodeForSQL in ESAPI
I am using ESPAI for SQLInjection prevention in Java.
I am only using ESAPI.encoder().encodeForSQL(ORACLE_CODEC,queryparam)) method.
If I do not include validation.properties in the esapi.properties I get IllegaleStateException.
Please let me know why encodeForSQL() will require validation.properties.
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I'm actually more concerned that you're using ESAPI to stop SQL Injection. Typically, this is achieved by rewriting the SQL queries in question to parameterized versions, like using PreparedStatement or a JPA implementation that uses PreparedStatement. I just want you to be aware, that using ESAPI to encode for SQL only has the design intent for temporary remediation because a particular query is too complex to rewrite during an incident response situation. If you use encodeForSQL() just note that it is a band-aid solution for the permanent problem of a poorly written SQL query. It should be expected that the query will be rewritten and the need for esapi will go away.
This is because you're not going to get better escaping performance from ESAPI than you will from a properly written PreparedStatement.
There are two files ESAPI requires to function properly. ESAPI.properties and validation.properties. These files are needed because in order for most of the classes to load, they need to read options and settings from these files. You didn't provide a stacktrace, so diagnosing your exact problem will be impossible, but if you supply those files, the problem should go away.
ESAPI.properties
validation.propeties
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What worked once may not work now
January, 2018
Staying on top of changes to search engine algorithms, and adapting your content suitably is an ongoing process because search engine optimization (SEO) tactics that were ground-breaking a few years ago are simply not effective anymore. If you’ve fallen behind on optimizing your site then it has probably dropped to the bottom of Google’s search results. Now more than ever, it’s necessary to make changes to how you optimize while knowing what ineffective tactics to avoid. To help, here are a few of them.
Keywords before clicks
The misconception to focus on keywords before clicks has been outdated for a few years now. While it’s important to include your keywords in the title, you shouldn’t overdo it. If someone online is looking for a new watch and comes across your business in Google with your title being “Watches | New Watches | Used Watches | Cheap Watches,” it may come across as sketchy. Nothing is drawing them in, rather the potential customer is getting the fact that you sell watches shoved in their face. No interest means no clicks, and as we know, Google is using click signals to help document ranking over time.
Using a title such as “Walt’s Watches | Luxury Watches at Reasonable Rates,” the potential customer gets more out of it. They know they claim to sell high-quality watches at a decent price. It draws people in by offering a unique proposition. It’s a message, and if it gets through, it can be highly effective when aiming to gain traffic to your website.
“Now more than ever, it’s necessary to make changes to how you optimize”
Page for every keyword variation
Up to a few years ago, creating a page for separate variations of the same keyword essentially worked. But as Google has been getting smarter with recent upgrades, the model has shifted focus towards intent and topic matching. Because the intention for each variated keyword is the same, only one page is necessary to target them. It’ll take some juggling on where to place each keyword but with such places as the title, headline, content, and meta available, it becomes possible.
Use of exact-match domains
Only a few years ago, exact-match domains (EMDs) were highly sought after for search engine optimization. It was easy to throw up a website on an exact-match domain and rank far more quickly than a traditional, branded domain. An EMD is a domain that matches the exact keyword you’re looking to rank in such as cheapwatchesminnesota.com. While these have potential to rank high alongside other domains, they also risk higher potential of being flagged as spam. They just don’t sound like real brands to most people. They’re not as memorable and we don’t have positive associations with them; they’re going to draw clicks away from your site and towards your competitors who sound more credible and branded. They’re typically viewed as being untrustworthy to the consumer resulting in reduced conversions which is why this tactic should be avoided
Low-quality link-building
A link bringing people to your website is one of the most important factors in SEO marketing. It used to be that practically any link you placed would give your site a boost, no matter where it came from. That meant you could easily gain SEO value by posting links cheaply in low-quality places such as online business directories, comments sections, and even forums. But now, using links from low-quality websites are just a waste of time as Google and other search engines will either ignore low-quality links or penalize your site for black-hat link-building. You’ll now need a smart link-building strategy that focuses on brand equity and high-quality content, both of which will naturally earn links towards your domain.
Here have been just a few of the outdated SEO tactics in recent years but there are many more. Search engines are updating regularly and because of this, we must as digital marketers be constantly changing how we think SEO to ensure that our tactics are still relevant and working.
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Yesterday I rebooted the web server machine, but I'm trying to figure out why the graph below shows prior rebooting the memory almost full of cache and just a bit of active memory used. Would there be any problem keeping it the same was it was or rebooting every ~30 days is what I'm suppose to do?
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Check out this blog post, it might shed some light on the issue.
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nice answer! short, to the point, and exactly what the OP needed. – faultyserver Nov 10 '09 at 17:36
Linux likes to use all otherwise-unused memory for disk cache. There's no performance downside, and there just might be a benefit because the disk won't need to be touched for some disk reads.
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Exactly. Using memory for cache is GOOD. Enjoy it. And whatever you do, don't reboot a Unix server every 30 days. They're meant to run for a LONG time. – Lee B Nov 10 '09 at 19:46
I think Lee B means "don't reboot a Unix server unless you have a good reason." Security updates which involve kernel updates, are a Good Reason. If someone shows you an uptime of more than 90 days, odds are very good you can show them a machine that has unpatched kernel vulnerabilities. – David Mackintosh Nov 10 '09 at 21:04
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Sequential evaporation of water molecules from protonated water clusters: measurement of the velocity distributions of the evaporated molecules and statistical analysis.
Velocity distributions of neutral water molecules evaporated after collision induced dissociation of protonated water clusters H+(H2O)n≤10 were measured using the combined correlated ion and neutral fragment time-of-flight (COINTOF) and velocity map imaging (VMI) techniques. As observed previously, all measured velocity distributions exhibit two contributions, with a low velocity part identified by statistical molecular dynamics (SMD) simulations as events obeying the Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics and a high velocity contribution corresponding to non-ergodic events in which energy redistribution is incomplete. In contrast to earlier studies, where the evaporation of a single molecule was probed, the present study is concerned with events involving the evaporation of up to five water molecules. In particular, we discuss here in detail the cases of two and three evaporated molecules. Evaporation of several water molecules after CID can be interpreted in general as a sequential evaporation process. In addition to the SMD calculations, a Monte Carlo (MC) based simulation was developed allowing the reconstruction of the velocity distribution produced by the evaporation of m molecules from H+(H2O)n≤10 cluster ions using the measured velocity distributions for singly evaporated molecules as the input. The observed broadening of the low-velocity part of the distributions for the evaporation of two and three molecules as compared to the width for the evaporation of a single molecule results from the cumulative recoil velocity of the successive ion residues as well as the intrinsically broader distributions for decreasingly smaller parent clusters. Further MC simulations were carried out assuming that a certain proportion of non-ergodic events is responsible for the first evaporation in such a sequential evaporation series, thereby allowing to model the entire velocity distribution. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '22e74e47fee0f7c191c12817aeae6da57ab4ee0c6f862e8f1298282bf38a1f86'} |
4. Pra^terea, quod ex carnali intentione agitur, non videtur habere spi- ritualem effectum. Sed quandoque pueri ad baptismum deferuntur carnali intentione. ut scilicet corporaliter sanentur. Non ergo consequuntur spiri- tualem effectum gratiae et virtutum. Sed contra est quod Augustinus dicit (in Enchir. cap. 52, ante med.): « Parvuli renascendo moriuntur illi peccato quod nascendo contraxerurit; ac per hoc ad illos etiam perlinet quod dicitur : Consepulti sumus cum illo per baptismum in mortem. » Subditur autem : Ut quomodo Christus sur- rexit d mortuis per gloriam Patris.^ ita et nos in novitate vitx ambulemus. Sed novitas vitae est per gratiam et virtutes. Ergo pueri in baptismo gra- tiam et virtulesconsequuntur. CONCLUSIO, — Ciim pueri in baptismo Christi membra efficiantur, consequens est, eos non modo characterem Chrisli, verum etiam gratiae et virtutis influxum a Chrislo capite recipere. Respondeo dicendum quod quidam antiqui posuerunt quod pueris in baptisrao non danturgratia et virtutes; sed imprimitur eis character Chris- ti, cujus virtute, ctim ad perfectam aetatem venerint, consequuntur gra- tiam et virtutes. Sed hoc patet esse fal^um dupliciter : primo quidem quia pueri, sicut et adulti. in baplismo efficiuntur membra Christi; unde ne- cesse est quod a capite recipiant influxum gratiae et virtutis. Secundo quia secundum hoc pueri decedentes post baptismum non pervenirent ad vitam {\) Conciliuai Tridentinum definivit gratiara semper et omnibus , quanlum est ex parte omnibus, sine uUa excepiiooc, per baptisiiniin Dei,cliamsi rile 2asusci}}iant, sed aliquando conferi i sess. vn, can. 7 : Si quis dixTil non el aliquibus; anathema ^iL Dei graliam per hujusmodx sacramenla QU/EST. LXIX, ART. VI ET Vfl. 611 aeternam, quia, ut dicitur (Rom. vi, 23), gratia Dei est vita lEternn ; et ita non profuisset eis ad salulern, baplizatos fuisse (1). — Causa autem erroris fuit, quia nescierunt distinguere inter liahilum et actum, et sic vidcntes pueros inhabiles ad actus virtutum, crediderunt eos post baptismum nul- latentis virtuLem habere. Sed ista impotentia operandi non accidit pueri» ex defectu habituum, sed ex impedimento corporaii; sicutetiam dormien- tes, quamvis habeant habitus virtutum, impediuntur tamen ab actibus propter somnum. Ad primum ergo dicendum, qu6d fides et charitas consistunt in volun- tate hominum, ita tamen qu6d habitus harum et aliarum virtutum requi- runt potentiam voluntatis, quae est in pueris; sed actus virtutum requi- runt actum voluntatis, qui non est in pueris. Et hoc roodo Augustinus dicit qu6d « parvulum, etsi nondiim illa fides qua3 in credentium volun- tate consistit, jam tamen ipsius fidei sacramentum, quod scilicet causat habitum fidei, fidelem facit. » Ad secv.ndian dicendum, quod, sicut Augustinus dicit in lib. De charitate (seu tract. 3, super Epist. Joan. a princ), « nemoex aqua et Spiritu sancto renascitur, nisi volens, » quod non de parvulis, sed de adullis intelligen- dumest; et similiter de adultis intelligendum est quod homo a Cliristo sine ipso non justificabitur. Quod autem parvuli baptizandi, prout viribus possunt, reluctantur, non eis imputatur, quia « intantum nesciunt quod faciunt, utnecfacere videantur, » ut Augustinus dicit in libro De prse- scientia Dei ad Dardanum (epist. 287, al. 57, aliquant. a med.). Ad tertium dicendum, quod, sicut Augustinus dicit (De verb. Apost., serm. iO, cap. 2, a princ), « parvulis mater Ecclesia aliorum pedes ac- commodat, utveniant; aliorum cor, utcredant; aliorum linguam, ut fa- teantur; » et ita pueri credunt non per actum proprium, sed per fidem Ecclesiae', qua3 eis communicatur; et hujus fidei virtute conferuntur eis gratia et virtutes. Ad gwar/wm dicendum , quod carnalis intentio deferentium pueros ad baptismum nihil eis nocet; sicut nec culpa unius nocet alteii, nisi con- sentiat. Unde Augustinus dicit (in epistola ad Bonifacium, 98, al. 23): « Non illud te moveat quod quidam non ea fide ad baptismum percipien- duni parvulos ferunt, ut gratia spiritiiali ad vitam regenerentur aeternam; sed hoc eos putant remedio corporalem retinere, vel recipere sanitatem; non enim propterea illi non regenerantur, quia non ab istis hac intentione offeruntur. » ARTICULllS VII. — UTRUM EFFECTUS BA^PTISMI Slt APERTIO JANU/E REGiM COELESTIS (2). De his etiam Sent. iv, dist. 3, art. I, queest. lir, et ilist. 4, qusest. II, ait. 2, quaest. s\, et Cont.gent. lib. IV, cap. 50 , fl Joan. IIT, lect. \ fin, Ad septimum sic proccditur. I. Videtur quod elTectus baptismi non sit apertio januairegni coelestis. lllud enim quod est apertum. non indiget apertione. Sed janua regni coelestis est aperta per passionem Christi; unde (Apoc rv, 1) dicitur : Post h^c vlcii ostium magnum apertinn in cceto, Non est ergo eflectus baptismi apertio januae regni coelestis. {\)Absit, ait riinocentius HI, ut universi r2) Hanc voceni u^^urpat concilium Florenti- parx'ulipi'reant, quorum qnotidie tantn mul- nnm : ait enim : Primum onrnium sacramfn- titudo morilur : quin el ipsis misericors tofum locum tenct sanctum bafttisma, quod VcHS, qui nemincm vull perire, aliquod vitco spiriiualis jaiiua est. remedium procuravent ad salulem vExtray. De bapt. ejus effect. cap. Majores). 612 QU^ST. LXIX, ART. VII ET VIII. 2. Praeterea, baptismus omni tempore, ex quo institutus fuit, habet suum effeclum. Sed quidam baptizati sunt baplismo Christi ante ejus pas- sionem, ut liabetur (Joan. ni . quihus, si tunc decessissent, intfoitus regni coeleslis nondiim patebat, in quod nulhis ante Christum introivit, secun- dum ilhid (Mich. ii, 13) : Jscendit {]) pandens iter ante eos. jNon est ergo effectus baptismi apertio januae regni coelestis. 3. PraiJterea, baptizati adliuc sunt obnoxii morti et aliis poenalilatibus vitae praesenlis, utsupra dictum est fart. 3 huj. quaest.). Sed nulii estaper- tus aditus legni coelestis, quamdiij obnoxius est poenae, sicut patet dehis qui sunt in purgatorio. Non ergo effectus baptismi est apertio januae regni coelestis. Sed ccntra est quod super ilhid (Lucae iii) : Apertum eat cop.lum^ dicit Glossa Bedae ordin. : « Virtus hic baptismatis ostenditur, de quo quisque cum egreditur, regni coelostis ei janua aperitur. » CONXLUSIO. — Cum per baplisraura quaevis culpa et poenae omnis reatus tollatur, ipsura quoquejanuam regui coelestis aperire credendum est. Respondeo dicendum qu«id aperire januam regni coelestis, est removere impedimentum quo quis impeditur regnum ca*leste introire. Hoc autem impedimentum est culpa et reatus poenae. Ostensum est autem supra(art. 1 et 2 huj. qusest.), qu6d per baptismum omnis culpa et omnis reatus poenae toHitur. Unde consequens est quod effectus baptismi sit apertio ja- nuae regni coelestis (2). Ad primum ergo diceudum . quod baptismus intantum aperit baptizato januam regni coeleslis, inquantum incorporat eum passioni Christi, virtu- tem ejus homini apphcando. Ad secundum dicendum, quod quando passio Christi nondum erat rea- liter perfecta, sed soliim in fide credentium, baptismus proportionaliter causabat januae apertionem, non quidem in re, sed in spe; baptizati enim tunc decedentes ex certa spe introitum regni coelestis expectabant. Ad iertium dicendum, quod baptizatus non est obnoxius morti et poe- nahtalibus vitae praesentis propter reatum personae, sed propter statum naturse-, et ideo propter hoc non impeditur ab introitu regni coelestis, quando anima separatur a corpore per mortem , quasi jam persoluto eo quod naturae debebatur. ARTICULUS Vin. — UTRUM BAPTISMUS HaBEAT IN OMMBUS iEQUALEH EFFECTUM. Dehis etiam Sent. lY, dist. 4, quaest. II, art. o, quaest. I et II, etdist. ^8, quaest.I, art. 3, qiiaest. I corp. Ad octavum sic proceditur. i. Videtur quod baptismus non habeat in omiubus aequalem effectum. Effectus enim baptismi est remotio culpae. Sed in quibusdam plura peccata tolht quam in aliis; nam in pueris tollit solum peccatum originale, in aduhis autem etiam peccata actualia, in quibusdam plura, in quibusdam vero pauciora. Non ergo aequalem effectum habet baptismus in omnibus. 2. Praeterea, per baptismum conferuntur homini gratia et virtutes. Sed quidam post baptismum videntur habere majorem gratiam et perfectio- nem virtutum quam ahi baptizati. Non ergo baptismus habet spqualem ef- fectum in omnibus. 3. Pfceterea, natura perficitur per gratiam, sicut materia per formam. Sed foi'ma recipiturin materia secundum ejus capacitatem. Ciim ergoin quibusdam baptizatis, etiam pueris, sitmajorcapacitas naturahum quam (1) Viilpata, Ascendel. ex aqua et Spiritu sando non polest introire (2) Hinc dicitur : Si qui$ non renatus fuerit in regnum Dei (Joan. iii, o). QVJE^T, LXIX, ART. VIII. 6i3 in aliis, videtur quod quidam majorem gratiam consequantur quam alii. 4. Praeterea, quidam in baptismo consequuntur non soliim spiritualem saJutem, sed etiam corporalem, sicut patet deConstantino, qui in baptis- mo mundatus est ^ lepra (1). Non autem omnes infirmi corporalem salu- tem consequuntur in baptismo. Baptismus ergo non liabet aequalem eflec- tum in omnibus. Sed contra est quod dicitur (Ephes. iv, 5) : Una fides^ unum baplisma. Uniformis autem causae est uniformis effectus. Ergo baptismus habet aequalem eflfectum in omnibus. CONCLUSIO. — Baptismus eum effeclum ad quem producendum est institutus, spiritualis nimirum vitae novitatem, in omnibus aequaliter accedentibus cTqualem habet, alios vero effectus non aequales, sed secundiim divince providentiae ordmem ia quibusdam majores, in ahis vero minores habet. Respondeo dicendum quod duplex est effectus baptismi, unus per se, et alius per accidens. Per se quidem effectus baptismi est id ad quod baptismus est institutus, scilicet ad regenerandum homines in spiritualem vitam; et hunc effectum aeqnaliter facit in oninibus qui sequaliter se habent ad baptismum. Unde quia omnes pueri aijqualiter se habent ad baptismum (quia non in fide propria, sed in fide Ecclesiae baptizantur),omnes sequalem efifectum percipiuntin baptismo. Adulti ver6, quia per propriam fidera ad baptismum accedunt, non aequaliter se habent ad baptismum : quidam enim cum majori, quidam cum minori devotione ad baptismum accedunt, et ide6 quidam plus, quidam miniis de gratia novitatis accipiunt, sicut etiam ab eodem igne accipit plus caloris qui plus ei appropinquat; licet ignis, quantum est de se, sequaliter adomnes suum caiorem effundat (2). Effectus autem baptismi per accidens est, ad quem baptismus non estordinatus; sed divina virtus hoc in baptismo mi- raculose operatur, sicut super iilud Rom. vi : Ut ultra non serviamus pec- cato, dicit Glossa Augustini (De peccator. merit. et remiss. lib. i, cap. 39, ante med.) : « Non hoc prsestatur in baptismo, nisi forte miraculo ineffabili Creatoris, ut lex peccati, quae est in membris, prorsiis extinguatur. » Et tales effectus non aequaliter suscipiuntur ab omnibus baptizatis, etiamsi cum aequali devotione accedant : sed dispensantur hujusmodi eftectus se- cundijm ordinem providentiae divinae. Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod minima gratia baptismalis sufficiens est ad delendum cuncta peccata. Unde hoc non est propter majorem effl- caciam baptismi,quodin quibusdam plura, in quibusdam autem pauciora peccata solvit, sed propter conditionem subjecti, quia in quolibet soivit quodcumque invenerit. Ad secundum dicendum , qu6d hoc quod in baptizatis major vel minor gratia apparet, potest dqplicitercontingere : uno modo quia unus in bap- tismo percipit majorem gratiam quam alius propter devotionem majorem, ut dictum est (in corp. art.); alio modo quia etiamsi aequalein gratiara percipiant, non aequaliter ei utuntur; sed unus studiosius in ea proficit, alius per negligentiam gratiae Dei deest. {{) Sic in roniano concilio 2 sub Sylvestro dissert. 23, Benedictini Manrioi in notis ad quod Baronius in Annalibus, toni. l, ad annuin Orat S. Ambrosii de obilu TheoJosii, Tille- 324, velut veruni et aullienticum probat. Sed niontius, Flenry , etc. tuctores recenliores tenent Constantinuui bap- -(2 Concilium Tridentinum dofinivit jostitiam tizalum fuisse in suburbio Niconu-diae sub finem in baptismo recipi secumlum propriara cujusque vitsB : i(a Papobrochius ad diem 21 niaii, An- dispositionem et cooperationem. touius Pagi ad annum 524, ^jatal. Alex. succ. I7, 61i QU.EST. LXIX, ART. MII ET IX Ad tertium dicendnm, quod diversa capacitas naturaliiim in hominibus non est ex diveisiiate nientis, quaj per baplismumrenovatur (cum omncs homines ejusdem speciei existentes in foi'ma conveniant); sed estex di- versa disposilione corporum. Secus autem est in angelis, qui differunt specie, et ideo angelis dantur dona gratuita secundum diversam capacita- tem naturalium, non autem hominibus. Ad quartum dicendum, quod sanitas corporalis non est per se effectus baptismi, sed est quoddam miraculosum opus providentiae divinae. AIITICLXUS IX. — UTRUM FICTIO IMPEDIAT EFFECTUM BAPTISMI (1). D« his etiani Sent. iv, dist. A, quaest. li, art. \, quscst. l ad 5, et qiiapst. lii, art. 2, quaest. n, per tot. et dist. 12, qusst. 11, art. \, qua^t. iii ad 3. Ad nonum sic proceditur. \. Videtur qu6d fictio non impediat effectura baplismi. Dicit enim Apofitohis (Gaiat. ni, 27) : Quicumque in Chruto bap- tizati estis, Christum induistis. Sed omnes qui baptismum Christi susci- piunt, baptizantur in Christo. Ergo omnes induunt Cliristum, quod est percipere baptismi effectum; etita fictio non impedit baptismi effectum. 2. Pra^terea, in baptismo operatur virtus divina, quai potest volunta- tem hominis mutare in bonum. Sed effectus causae agentis non potestim- pediri per id quod ab illa causa potest auferri. Ergo fictio non impeditbap- tismi effectum. 3. Praeterea, effectus baptismi esl gratia, cui peccatum opponitur. Sed multa sunt alia peccata graviora quam ficlio, de quibus non dicitur quod effectum baptismi impediant. Ergo neque fictio impedit effectum baptismi. Sed contra est quod dicitur (Sap. i, 5) : Spiritus sanctus disciplinx effu- giet fictum. Sed effectus baptismi est a Spiritu sancto. Ergo fictio impedit effectum baptismi. CONCLUSIO — Ciim Deus ad justitiam homines non cogat, manifestum est ficte accedenlesbaptismi effectum non cousequi. Respondeo dicendum qu6d, sicut Damascenus dicit (Orth. fid. lib. n, cap. 30) : « Deus non cogit hominem ad justitiam. » Et ide6 ad hoc quod aliquis justificetur per baptismum , requiritur quod voluntas homi- nls amplectalur baptismum et baptismi effectum. Dicitur autem aliquis fictus per hoc quod voluntas ejus contradicit vel baptismo (2), vel ejus effectui. Nam secundum Augustinum (De baptismo cont. Donat. hb. i, cap. 12, et lib. vii, cap. 53), quatuor modis dicitur aliquis fictus : uno modo ille qui non credit, cum tamen baptismus sit fidei sacramentum; aho modo per hoc quod contemnit ipsum sacramentum ; tertio modo per hoc quod aliter celebrat sacramentum, non servans ritum Ecclesiae (3); quarto modo per hoc quod aliquis indevote accedit. Unde manifestum est quod fictio impedit effectum baptismi. Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod baptizari in Christo potest intelligi du- pliciter : uno modo in Christo, id est in Christi conformitate; et sic qui- cumque baptizantur in Christo, conformati ei perfidem et charitatem, in- duunt Christum per gratiam ; alio modo dicuntur aliqui baptizari in Cliristo, inquantuin accipiunt sacramentum Christi; et sicomnes induunt Christum per configurationem characteris, non autem per conformitatera gratige. [\) Fictio est simulatio qwk quis extorius de- (2; De illa fictioa;' quae veritatera sacramenti monstrat se velle qiiod r<^vera Don vult, sive excludit actum est (art. vil, quaest. praeced.l. quia iion hal^et volunlatem suscipiendi baptis- (5) Si delicit in rebus sacrameuto e^sontialibus nii, sive quia non liabet di>positionera qu« ad sive in forraa, sive in materia, tuncucn valct Sratiam baptisraalem est necessaria sacramentum. QVMST. LXIX, ART. IX ET X. 6lS Kd secundum dicendum, qii6d quando Deus voluntatem hominis demalo in bonum mutat, tunc homo non accedit fictus; sed non seniper hoc Deus facit, nec ad hoc sacramentum ordinatur ut de fictofiat ahquis non fictus, sed ut non fictus aliquis accedens justificetur. Ad tertium dicendum, qu6d fictns dicitur aliquis ex eo qu6d demonstrat 86 aliquid velle quod non vult. Quicumque aulem accedit ad baptismum. ex hoc ipso ostendit se rectam fidem Christi habere, et saciamentum venerari, et velle se Christo conformare, et velle a peccato recedere. Unde quicumque peccato(ijvult homo inhaerere, si ad baptismum accedit, fic- tus accedit, quod est indevot6 accedere. Sed hoc inteiligendum cst de peccato mortali, quod gratiae contrariatur, non autem de peccato veniali. Unde fictio hic quodammodo includit omne peccatum. ARTICULUS X. — UTRUM fictione recedente baptismus suum effectum CONSEQUATUR (2). De bis etiam Sent. iv, dist. 4, qacest. III, art. 2, qua;st. lli, et dist. \1, quaest. Ill, art. 2. Ad decimum sic proceditur. 1. Videtur qu6d, fictione recedente, baptis- mus suum effectum non consequatur. Opus enim mortuum, quod est sine charitate, non potest unquam vivificari. Sed ille qui fictus accedit ad baptismum, recipit sacramentum sine charitate. Ergo nunquam potest vivificari hoc modo ut gratiam conferat. 2. Praeterea, fictio videtur esse fortior quam baptismus, cum impediat ejus effectum. Sed fortius non tollituradebiliori. Ergo peccalum fictionis non potest tolli per baptismum a fictione inditum, et sic baptismus non consequetur suum efiectum, qui estremissioomnium peccatorum. 3. Praeterea, contingit quod aliquid fict6 accedat ad baptismiim, et post baptismum multa peccata committat, quae tamen per baplismum non toliuntur, quia baptismus tollit peccataprseteriia, non fulura. Ergo baptis- mus talis nunquam consequetur suum effectum, qui est remissio omnium peccatorum. Sed contra est quod Augustinus dicit (De baptismo cont. Donatist. lib. i, cap. 42, parum a princ.) : « Tunc valere incipit ad saluiem baptismus, ctim illa fictio veraci confessione recesserit, quoe, corde in malitia vel sacri- legio perseverante, peccatorum abolitionem non sinebat fieri. » CONCLUSIO. — Ficlione per poenitentiam remota, baptismus effectum suum con- tinuo consequitur. Respondeo dicendum qu6d, sicut supra dictum est (quaest. lwi, art. 9), baptismus est qua^dam spiritualis regeneratio. Cum autem aliquid gene- ratur, simul cum forma recipiteffectum formse, nisi sit aliquidirnpediens, quo remoto, forma rei generatae perficit suum effectum, sicut simul cum corpus grave generatur, movetur deorstim, nisi sit aliquid prohibens, quo remoto, stalim incipit moveri deorsum. Et similiter quando aliquis baptizatur, accipit characterem quasi formam, et corsequitui- propriLini effectum, qui est gratia remittens omnia peccata. Impedituraulem quan- doque per ficlionem. Unde oportet qu6d remol^ ea (3) per poenitentiam, baptismus staiim consequatur suum effectum. Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod sacramentum baptismi est opus Dei, (1) Scilicet niortali ; eflectus enim peccati (5) Tum , ait Sylvins, datur seiundiim quan- venialis non est lictio quse gratiam baptismi tilatcm dispositionis qiid lollilur lictio, tanla excliidit. gratia quanla fnisset ilata, si eanulem disposi- (2) Affirmative respontlot S. Doilor et haec tionein liahuisset in baptisrao sententia coniniunis ost. 616 QU.EST. LXX, ART. 1. et iion hominis, et ide6 non est mortuum in ficto, qui sine charitate bap- tizalur. Ad secundum dicendum, qu6d fictio non removetur per baptismum, sed per [KEuilentiam subsequentem, qu^ remota, baptismus aulert omnem culpiim, et realum omnium peccatorum praecedentium biiptismum, et etiam simul existentium cum baptismo. Unde Augustinus dicit in libroDe Baptismo (loc. sup. cit.) : « Solvitur hesternus dies, et quidquid superest solvitur. etiam ipsa hora momentumque ante baptismum et in baptismo; deinceps autem continu6 reus esse incipit. » Et sic ad baptismi effectum consequendum concurrit baptismus et poenitentia; sed baptisrnus sicut causa per se agens, poeniteutia sicut causa per accidens, id est removens prohibens. Ad tertium dicendum, qu6d effectus baptismi non est tollere peccata futui-a. sed prdPsentia vel praeterita; et ideo, recedente fictione, peccata sequentia remittuntur quidem, sed per poenitentiam, non per baptismum. Unde nou remittuntor quantum ad totum reatum, sicut peccata praece- denlia baptismum. QUiESTIO LXX. DE CIRCUMCISIONE QUiE PRiECESSIT BAPTISMUM, IN QUATUOR ARTICULOS DIVISA. Deinde considerandum est de praeparatoriis ad baptismum; et prirao de praepara- torio quod praecessit baptismum, id est, de circuracisione; secundo de prfeparatoriis, quae coucurrunt siraul cum baptismo, sciiicet de catechismo et exorcismo. Circa primura quaeruntur quatuor : 1° Utriira circuracisio fuerit praeparatoria et figurativa baptismi. — 2* De institutione ipsius. — 3' De ritu ejus. — 4' De effectu ipsius. ARTICULUS I. — UTRUM circumcisio fuerit pr^paratoria et figurativa BAPTISMI. De hisetiam supra, qnaest. LXVIII, art. \ ad ^, et ^ 2, qnaest. Cll, art. 5 corp. et 5 ad 5, et Sent. IV, dist. \, quaest. II, art. ^, quaest. I corp. et dist. 2, quaest. I, art. ] ad 5, et Rom. II, lect. 2 et 4. Ad primum sic proceditur. i. Videtur quod circumcisio non fuerit praepa- ratoria et figurativa baptismi. Omnis enim figura habet aliquam similitu- dinemcum suo figurato. Sed circumcisio nullamhabet similitudinemcum baptismo. Ergo videtur quod non fuerit praeparatoria et figurativa bap- tismi. 2. Praeterea, Apostolus dicit (I. Corinth. x),deantiquis patribus loquens, quod omnes in nube et in mari baptizati sunt. Non autem dicit quod in circumcisione baptizati sint. Ergo protectio columnae nubis et transitus maris Rubri magis fuerunt prseparatoria ad baptismum, et figurativa ipsius, quam circumcisio. 3. Praeterea, supra dictum est (qu. xxxvni, art. 1 ad 1), quodbaptismus Joannis fuit praeparatorius ad baptismum Christi (i). Si ergo etiam circum- cisio fuit praeparatoria et figurativa baptismi Christi, videtur quod baptis- mus Joannis fuerit superfluus, quod est inconveniens. Non ergo circumci- sio fuit praeparatoria et figurativa baptismi. Sed contra est quod Apostolus dicit (Gol. ii, ii) : Circumcisi estis circum- cisione non manufactd., in expoliatione corporis carnis^ sed circumcisione Christi. consepulti ei in baptismo. {\, Ubi dicitur tripliciter ad illum praepa- Christo institutura , rcl per poenitentiam ad rasse ; vel per doctrinam inducentera ad fidein illius effectum requisitam. Christi, vel per assuetudinem ad baptismum a QU/EST. LXX, AIIT. 1 ET II. 617 CONCLUSIO. — Cum eadem fuerit nostra et aritiquorum patrum fides, et Patribus ©mnia in figura contigerint, perspicuum est circumcisionem , quae fidei quaedam protestatio fuit, ad baptismum praeparatoriam fuisseet ipsius (iguralivam. Respondeo (licendunri quod baptismus dicitur sacramentum fidei, inquan- tum scilicet in baptismo fit quaedam fidei professio, et per baptismum ag- gregatur homo congregationi fidelium. Eadem autem esl fides nostra, et antiquorum patrum, secundiim illud Apostoli (II. Cor. iv, 13) : Habentes eumdemspiritum fidei, credimus. Circumcisio autem eratquaidam protestatio fidei; unde dicitur (Rom. iv, ii), quod Jbraham accepit circurncisionem^ tanqudm signaculum ftdei (1); unde et per circumcisionem aiiticjui aggre- gabantur collegio fidelium. Unde manifestum est quod circumcisio fuit praeparatoria ad baptismum, et praefigurativa ipsius, secundiim qu6d anti- quis patribus omnia in figuram futuri contingebant, ut dicitur (I, Corinth. x), sicut et fides eorum erat de futuro. Ad primum ergo diccndum, qu5d circumcisio habebat similitudinem cum baptismo, quanttim ad spiritualem eflectum baptismi; nam sicut per circumcisionem auferebatur quaedam carnalis pellicula (2), ita per baptis- mum homo expoliatur a carnali conversatione. Ad secundum dicendum, quod protectio coiumnae nubis et transitus ma- risRubri fuerunt quaedam figuraenostri baptismi, quo renascimurexaqua significata per mare Rubrum, et Spiritu sancto significato per cohimnam nubis; non lamen per haec fiebataliquaprofessio fidei, sicut percircumci- sionem, et ide6 praedicta duo erant tantum figurae, et non sacramenta. Circumcisio autem erat etiam sacramentum praeparatorium ad baptismum ; miniis tamen expresse figurans baptismum, quantum ad exteriora, quam praedicta. Et ideo Apostolus potius fecit mentionem de praedictis quam de circumcisione. Ad tertium dicendum, quod baptismus Joannis fuit praeparatorius ad baptismum Christi quantiim ad exercitium actus, sed circumcisio quan- tiim ad professionem fidei, quae requiritur in baptismo, sicut dictum est (in corp. art.). ARTICULUS II. — UTRUM ciucumcisio fuerit convenienter instituta (3). De his etiam 2 2, qusBst. Cii, art. 5 ad ^, et qusest. cni, art. \ ad 3, et Seut. i, dist. 1, art. 2, quaBst. IV corp. et quaest. M, art. \, qusest. lU. per tot. Ad secundum sic proceditur. 1. Videtur quod circumcisio fuerit inconve- nienter instituta. Sicut enim dictum est (art. praec), in circumcisione fiebat quaedam fidei prolessio. Sed a peccato primi hominis nulius unquam sal- vari potuit nisi per fidem passiouis Christi, secundum illud (Rom. iii. 23) : Quem proposuit Deus propitiatorem per ftdeminsanguine ipsius. Krgostatim post peccatum primi hominis circumcisio institui debuit, et non tempore Abrahae. 2. Praeterea, in circumcisione homo profitebatur observantiam veteris legis, sicut inbaplismo profitetur observantiam novae legis; unde Aposto- lusdicit (Gahit. v, 3) : Testiftcor omni homini circumcidenti se, quoniam de- hitor est universx tegis faciendx. Sed legalis observantia non est tradita tempore Abrahue, sed magis tempore Moysi. Ergo inconvenienter inslituta est circumcisio tempore Abrahae. {\) Vulpata : Ef signum accepit circum^ ^ (5) Aflirmative respondet S. Doctor jiuta illiul eisionis, signaculumjustitiw fidei. (Sap. xi) : Omnia in pondire, numero et (2) In ea nempe parte in qna niaxiine viget mensura disposuisti. carnalis jippo(itns, vel cononplsrontia libidinosa, quanivis per totum corpus diffuadatur. 618 QU.^ST. LXX, ART. II. 3. Praeterea, circiimcisio fuit figiirativa et praeparativa baplismi. Sed bap- tismus exliibctur omiiibus populis, secuudiun illud (Matth. iilt. -19) : Euntet docete otfines gentes^ baptizantes eos. Ergo circumcisio non debuit ins- titui ut observauda tautum ab uno populo Judt)eorum, sed ab omnibus populis. 4. Prasterea, carnaliscircumcisiodebetresponderespirituali, sicutfigura figurato. Sed spiritualis circumcisio, quae fit per Clirislum, iudifferenter convenit utrique sexui, quia in Christo Jesu non est mascuius neque fce- mina, ut diciiur rCal. ni). Ergo inconvenienter est circumcisio instituta, quae competit solis maribus. Sed contra est quod, sicut legitur (Gen. xvn), circumcisio est inslituta k Deo, cujus perfecta suut opera (1). CONCLUSIO. — Cum Abraham primus Christi nascituri promissionem susceperit, et primus se ab intidelium socielate segregaverit, fuit in ipso couvenienler circumci- sio instiluta. Respondeo dicendum quod, sicut dictum est (art. praec^ circumcisio erat pra?paratoria ad baptismum, inquantum erat qu.nedam professio fidei Christi, quam etiam in baptismonosprofitemur. luter antiquos autem pa- tres primus Abiaham promissionem accepit de Christo nascituro, ctim dic- tum est ei (Geu. xxii, 18) : In semine tuo benedicentur omnes gentes terrx. Ipse etiam primus se a societate infidehum segregavit, secundum manda- tum Dei dicentis sibi (Gen. xii, i) : Egredere de terra tua et de cognatione tua. Etideo convenienter circumcisio fuit instituta in Abraham. Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod immediat^ post peccatnm primi pa- rentis, propter doctrinam ipsius Adae, qui plene instructus fuerat de di- vinis (2), adhucfides et ratio naturalis intantum vigebat inhomine, quod non oportebat determinari hominibus aliqua signa fidei et salutis; sed unusquisque pro suo libito fidem suam aliquibus signis protestaba- tur. Sed circa tempus Abrahae diminuta erat fides, plurimis ad idolola- triam decliuantibus : obscurata etiam erat ratio naturalis per aug- mentum carnalis concupiscentiae usque ad peccatum contra naturam. Et ide6 convenienter tunc, et non ante , fuit institiita circumcisio ad profitendum fidem, el ad minuendum carnalem concupiscentiam. Ad secundum dicendum, qucd legalis observantia tradi non debuit nisi populojam congregato, quia lex ordinatur ad bonum publicum, utin se- cunda parte dictum est (1 2, quaest. xc, art. 2). Populus autemfidelium congregandus erat aliqno signo sensibih, quod est necessarium ad hoc quod homines in quacumque religione adunentur, sicut Augustinus dicit contra Fausium (lib. xix, cap. 11 , in fin.). Et ideo oportuit priiis institui circumcisionem quam lex daretur. Illi autem patres qui fueruntante legem, familias snas instruxerunt de rebus divinis per modum paternse admoni- tionis. Inde et Doniinus dicit ad Abraliam (Gen. xvui, 19} : Scio quddpras- cepturus sit fitiis suiSy et domui sux post se, ut custodiant viam Domini. Ad tertium dicendum, quod baptismus in se contiuet perfectionem sa- lutis, ad quam Deus omnes homines vocat, secundum illud (I. Timoth. ii, 3) : Qui vult omnes homines salvos fieri; et ideo baptismus omnibus popuhs proponitur. Circumcisio autem non continebat peifectionem salutis, sed figurabat ipsam ut fiendam per Christum, qui erat ex Judaeorum populo nasciturus, et ideo illi soli populo data est circumcisio. M) Sicut dicitvir Denleron. x^XIl, 4). tlori cognitione quam nos, ut (part. I, qusesf« (2) Non Oii tanicn i'lenitii(iine qua lieati, quia XCIV, art. 2) ex profcsso dictum est, nec Deuiu ipsuui per essentiam vidit } seJ al- QUi^^.ST. LXX, ART. IT ET 111. 619 Ad quartum dicendum, quod circumcisio inslihita est ut signum fidei Abrahse, qui credidit se patrem futurum Christi sibi repromissi; et idec» convenienter solis maribus competei:>at. Peccatum etiam originale, contra quod specialiter circumcisio ordinabatur, a patre trahitur, non a matre, ut 'n secunda parte dictum est (1 2, quaest. Lxxxr, art. 5 in corp. et ad 2). Sed baptismus continet virtulem Christi, qui est universalis causa salutis om- nium, et remissionis omnium peccatornm. ARTICIILUS IH. — UTRUM ritus circumcisionis fuerit co>venie?«s. Oe hisetiam Scut IV, dist. \, qusest. II, art. 5, queest. ii, et art. 5, quflest. II et iii, et Jnaa. TII^ lect. 2, et Roin. iv, lect. 2. Ad tertium sic proceditur. 1. Videtur qu6d ritus circumcisionis non fue- rit conveniens. Circumcisio enim, sicutdictum est (art. 4 et 2 prifcc.j, fidei quoedam professio est. Sed fides in vi apprehensiva existit, cnjiis operatio- nes maximc apparent in capite. Ergo magis debuit siguum circumcisionis dari in capite quam in membro generationis. 2. Praeterea, ad usum sacramenlorum assumimus ea quorum est com- munisusus, sicut aquam ad abhiendum, et paiiem ad reficiendum (i). Sed ad incidendum communius utimur cultello ferreo quam petrino. Ergo cir- cumcisio non debuit fie»'i culteilo petrino. 3. Praeterea, sicul baptismus instituitur in remedium originalis peccati, itaetiamcircumcisio, sicut Bedadicit (in hom.Circumcis., partima princ). Sed baptismus non differtur usque ad octavum diem, ne pueris periculum damnationis immineat propter originale peccatum , si nondiim baptizati decedant; quandoque etiam traditur baptismus post octavum diem. Ergo circumcisioni non debuit determinari octavus dies, sed debebat quando- que praeveniri, sicutetiam quandoque tardabatur. Sed contra est quod (Rom. iv, super iilud : Et slgnum accepit circumci- sionis) determinatur in Giossa (ord.) prsedictus circumcisionis ritus(2). CONCLUSIO. — Ciim circumcisio signum quoddam fidei sit a Deo institulum, ritus ejus conveniens fuit in lege pracceptus. Respondeo diceudum quod, sicut dictum est (art. praec), circumcisio quoddam signum fidei est, insiitutum a Deo, cujus sapientiae non est nu- merus(3). Determinare autem convenientia signa, est sapientiae opus. Et ide6 concedendum est quod ritus circumcisionis fuitconveniens. Ad primum ergo dicendum , quod circumcisio convenieuter fiebat in membro generationis, prim6 quidem quia signum erat fidei qu^ Abraham credidit Christum ex suo semine nasciturum; secundoquia erat in reme- dium peccati originalis, quod per actum generationis traducitur; terti6 quiaordinabatur ad diminutionem carnalisconcupiscenliae, quae praecipu^ in membris illis viget, propter abundanliam delectationis venereorum. Ad secundum dicendum, quod cultelius lapideus non erat de necessitate circumcisionis, unde non invenitur tale inslrumentum pra?ceplo divino determinatum (4); neque etiam communiter tali instrumento Judaei ute- bantur ad circumcidendum, sicut neque modo utuntur. Leguntur tamen aliquae circumcisiones famosae cultello lapideo factae, sicut legitur (Exod. IV, 23), quod tuiit Sephora acutissimam petra?n, et circumcidit prseputium (!) Seu in baptismo aqitani cujus conimunis (3) Usnrpaluni ex Ps. CXLVI, 5. usus ad abliK luhini, ct in Kuchiuistia paucm (4) Quoil etiani a Jnstino in dialogo cnra cujns conimunis usns aJ roficiendnm. Triphone ab lingon»' Viclore (Palud. lib. I, p. (2) Nemi)e qnod iD virili menibro, quod ia ' \2, c.2), Kicb. etaliis io Sent. iv, d. I traditur. Cultro pftrino, quod octavo die lieret propter causas deinceps indicandas. 620 QU.*:ST. LXX, ART. lll ET IV. filii sni; et (Josue v, 2) dicilur : Fac tibi cultellos lapideos^ et circumcide secundd filios Israel ; per quod figurabatur circumcisionem spiritualem esse faciendam per Ghristum, de quo dicilur (l. Gorinth. x, 4j : Petra au- tem erat Christus. Ad tertium dicendum , qu6d octavus dies determinabalur circumcisioni him propter mysterium, quia in octava aetate, quae erit aatas resurgen- tium, quasi in octavo die perficietur per Ghristum spiritualis circumcisio, quando auferet ab electis non solum culpam, sed etiam omnem poenali- tatem ; tumetiam propter teneritudinem infantisanteoctavum diem. Unde etiam de animalibus (Levit. xxn, 37^ praecipitur : Bos, ovis et capra, cum genita fuerint^ septem diebus erunt sub ubere matris sux; die autem octavo et deinceps offerri poterunt Doniino. Erat autem octavus dies de necessi- tate praecepti, ita scilicet quod octavum diem praetermitteutes peccabant, etiamsi essel sabbatum, secundum illud (Joan. vii, 23) : Circumcisionem accipit homo in sabbato^ ut non solvatur lex Moysi. Non tamen erat de ne- cessitate sacramenti, quia si aliqui omittebant octavum diem, postea po- terant circumcidi. Quidam etiam dicunt quod propter periculum imminen- tis mortis poterat octavus dies praeveniri. Sed hoc nec ex auctoritate Scripturae, nec ex consuetudine Judaeorum haberi potest. Unde meliiis di- cendum est, sicut etiam Hugo de S. Victore dicit (De sacram. lib. i, part. 42, cap. 2, a med.), quod octavus dies nulla necessitate praeveniebatur(4). Unde super illud (Proverb. iv) : Unigenitus eram coram matre med, dicit Glossa (ord.) , quod alius Bersabea^ parvulus non computatur, quia ante octavum diem mortuus nominatus non fuit , et per consequens nec cir- cumcisus 2). ARTICULUS IV. — UTRUM CIRCUMCISIO CONFEREBAT GRATIAM JUSTIFICASTEM ''3). De his etiam supra, quaest. LXII, art. 6 ad o, et Sent. IV, dist. \ , quaest. II, art. 4, et De ver. quaest. XXVIII, art. 2 ad \2, et Rora. iv, lect. 5. Ad quartum sic proceditur. i. Videtur quod circumcisio non conferebat gratiam justificantem. Dicit enim Apostolus (Galat. ii, 24) : Si ex leye est justitia, Christus gratis mortuus est, id est, sine causa. Sed circumcisio erat quaedam obligatio legis implendae, secundiim illud (Galat. v, 3) : Tes- tificor omni homini circumcidenti se, quoniam debitor est universx legisfa- ciendx. Ergo si ex circumcisione est justitia, Ghristus gratis, id est, sine causa. moriuus est. Sed hoc est inconveniens. Non ergo ex circumcisione erat gratia justificans a peccato. 2. Praeterea, ante institutionem circumcisionis sola fides ad justificatio- nem sufliciebat; dicit enim Gregorius (Moral. lib. iv, cap. 3, a princ.) : « Qu6d apud nos valet aqua baptismatis, hoc egit apud veteres pro par- vulis sola fides. » Sed virtus fidei non est imminuta per mandatum cir- cumcisionis. Ergo soia fides parvulos justificabat, et non circumcisio. 3. Praeterea (Josue v, 5), legitur quod populus qui natus est in deserto, per quadraginta annos incircumcisus fuit. Si ergo per circumcisionem au- ferebatur peccatum originale, videtur quod omnes qui in deserto mortui sunt, lam parvuli quam adulti , fuerint damnati. Et eadem objectio est de pueris qui moriebantur ante octavum diem circumcisionis, qui praeveniri non debebat, ut dictum est (art. praec. ad 3). {\) I-x his patet diem octavum fuisse de ne- ex opere operato passiv^; quoad adultos vero ccssitate praecepti. magis fervet controversia , niulti contenduat (2 Nihil dicit Auctor de circumcisionis loco eam non contulisse gratiam, nisi ex opere ope- el ministro, quia niliil Scriptura detprminavit. ranlis. l3; In pueris circumcisio conferebat gratiam QU^ST. LXX, ART. IV. 621 4. Praeterea, nihil impedit introitum regni coelestis nisi peccatum. Sed circumcisi ante passionem Christl impediebantur ab introitu regni coe- lestis. Non ergo per circumcisionom homines justificabantur a peccato. 5. Praeterea, peccatum originale non dimittitur sine actuali, quia « im- pium est k Deo dimidiam sperare veniam , » ut Augustinus dicit falius auctor, in lib. De vera et falsa poenitent. cap. 9, circa med.). Sed nusquam legitur qu6d per circumcisionem remitteretur actuale peccatum. Ergo etiam neque originale per eam dimittebatur. Sed contra est quod Augustinus dicit ad Valerium contra Juliamim (De nupt. ei concupiscent. lib. n, cap. li, a med.): « Ex quo instituta est cir- cumcisio in populo Dei, quse erat signaculum justitiae fidei, ad juslificatio- nem purgationis valebat parvulis (1) originalis veterisque peccati; sicut et baptismus ex illo coepit valere tempore ad innovationem hominis, ex quo institutus est. » CONCLUSIO. — Quanquam in circumcisione, sicut in baptismo, conferrelur gralia quanlum ad omnes gralia? effectus, aliter tamen quam in baptismo; nam in cir- cumcisione gratia ex fide, non ex vi circumcisionis, in baplismo aulem ex yi sacra- menti acquiritur. Respondeo dicendum qu6d ab omnibus communiter ponitur qu6d in circumcisione peccatum originale remittebatur (2). Quidam tamen dixe- runt qu6d non conferebatur gratia, sed solum auferebatur peccatum; quod Magister ponit (i dist. 4 Sent. et Rom. iv, in Glossa ord., sup. illud : Si- gnum accepit). Sed hoc non potest esse, quiaculpa non remittitur nisi per gratiam, secundum illud (Rom. m, 24} : Justificati gratis per gratiarrij etc. Et ide6 alii dixerunt qu6d per circumcisionem conferebatur gratia quan- tum ad effectus remotiores culpse, sed non quantum ad effectus posiiivos, ne cogerentur dicere qu6d gratia in circumcisione collata sufficiebat ad implendum mandata legis, et ita superfluus fuerit adventus Christi. Sed haec etiam positio stare non potest , prim6 quidem quia per circumcisio- nem dabatur pueris facultas suo tempore perveniendi ad gloriam, quae est ultimus effectus positivus gratia^; secundo quia priores sunt naturaliter secundum ordinem causae formalis effectus positivi quam privativi, lic^t secundum ordinem causae materialis sit e converso ; forma enim non excludit privationem, nisi informando subjectum. Et ide6 alii dixerunt qu6d in circumcisione conferebatur gratia etiam quantum ad aliquem effectum positivum, qui est facere dignum mik ietern&, sed non quantum adomnes effectus, quia non sufficiebat reprimere concupiscentiam fomi- tis, nec etiam ad implendum mandata legis; quod etiam ahquando mihi visum est(4, dist. 1, quaest. u, art. 4, quaestiunc. iii). Sed diligenter consi- deranti apparet hoc non esse verum, quia minima gratia potest resistere cuilibetconcupiscentiae^etvitareomne peccatummortaIe,quodcommittitur in transgressione mandatorum legis : minima enim charitas plus diligit Deum quam cupiditas millia auri et argenti. Et ideo dicendum estquod in circumcisione conferebatur gratia quanttim ad omnes gratiae efifectus; ali- ter tamen quam in baptismo. Nam in baptismo confertur gratia ex virtutc ipsius baptismi quam habet , inquantum est instrumentum passionis Christi jam perfectae; in circumcisione autem conferebatur gratia non ex virtute circumcisionis, sed ex virtute fidei passionis Christi , cujus {\) Ita cum Augustino passim. Al. : Sxgna- ^ (2) Hsec sententia communis est, quamvis Bel- culum fidei juslilicB Dei ad sanclificationem larminus, Vasqnez, Lherminier, Nalalis Alex., purgationis;\le\n:Signaculumjus{ilicefidei Tourucly et quidam alii aliter senliant. ad purgalionem valebat magnis et parvulis. 622 QU.EST. LXX, ART. IV. sigmim erat circnmoisio; ita scilicet (1) qii5d homoqui accipiehatcircum- cisiouem, profilebalur se suscipere talem tidem , vel aduUus prose,vel alius pro parvulis. Uude et Aposlolus dicil (Rom. iv, 11), quod Abraham Qcce/iitsigninncircumcisionis^ signaculum justitix fidei, quia scilicet justitia erat ex fide siguificata(2), non ex circumcisione siguificaute. Etquia bap- lismus operatur instrumentaliter in virtule passionis Ciiristi, non autem circumcisio; ide6 baptismus imprimit cliaractcrcm incorporantem homi- uem Christo, et copiosiorem graliam coutert qu^m circumcisio ; major enim est elTectus rei jam proesentis quam spei. Ad primuni ergo dicendum , qu6d ratio ilia procederet, si ex circumci- sione esset justilia aliter quam per fidem passiouis Christi (3). Ad secundum dicendum, qu6d sicut ante institutioneni circumcisionis sola fides Christi futuri juslificabat tam pueros quam adultos, ita etiam circumcisione data. Sed antea non requireijatur aliquod signum protesta- tivum hujus fidei, quia nondiim homines fideles seorsum ab infldelibus coeperant adunari ad cultum unius Dei. Probabile tamen est qu6d pa- rentes fidelos pro parvulis natis, et maxime in periculo existentibus ali- quas preces Deo funderent, vel aiiquam benedictionem eis adhiberent (quod erat quoddam signaculum fideij , sicut adulti pro seipsis preces et saciificia offerebant. Ad tertium dicendum, qu6d populus in deserto praetermittens man- datum circumcisionis excusabatur, tum quia nesciebant quando castra movenda erant, tum quia , ut Damascenus dicit (Orth. fid, lib. iv, cap. 26, in princ,), non necesse erat eos aliquod signum distinctionis ha- bere, cum seorsum ab aliis populis habilabant; et tamen, ut Augus- tinus dicit (iib. Quffist, in Josue , quast. 6 , a med.) , inobedientiam incurrebant qui ex contemptu praetermittebant. Videtur lamen quod nulli incircumcisi mortui fuerint in deserto, quia, ut(Psal. civj dicitur, nonerat in tribubus eorum infirmus; sed ilii soli videntur mortui in deserto qui fue- rant in i^gypto circumcisi ; si tamen aliqui incircumcisi mortui sunt, ea- dem ratio est de liis ut de his qui moriebantur ante circumcisionis insti- tutionem; quod etiam intelligendum est de pueris qui moriebantur ante octavum diem tempore legis. Ad quartum dicendum, quod in circumcisione auferebatur originalepec- catum ex parte personae; remanebat tamen impedimentum intrandi in regnum coeiorum ex parte totius naturae, quod fuit sul)latum per passio- nem Ghristi. Et ide6 etiam baptismus ante passionem Christi non introdu- cebat in regnum. Sed et circumcisio, si haberet locum post passionem Cbristi, iutroduceret in reguum. Ad quintum dicendum, qu6d adulti, quando circumcidebantur, conse- quebantur remissionem non soUim originalis peccati , sed etiam actua- lium peccatorum '4), non tamen ita quod liberarentur ab omni reatu poe- nae, sicut in baptismo, in quo confertur copiosior gratia. (I) Ita edlli omiies libri quog videmus , qui conferrot, vel in lego Moysi contuiisset indepen- tanieu ad niargincm notant variam leitioiiem, dentcr a passione Cliristi , vcl a fide ipsius pas- quam ex codd. Alcan., Tairac. et Paris. .subji- sioiiis. cinius ; Circumcisio autem conferebat gra- i-'t^ Qiiaiuvis non ex opere operato , vel ex vi tiam, inquantum erat sigiium fidei passionit quaJam inlrinspca iiistrunK ntali , sicut iu bap- Chrisli fulurce,ita scilicet, eic. tismo fit, sed ox opere operantis et propter [2] M , jitslifjcanle. quanuiam relalioncm exlriusecnm ad passlonen» (o, Puta, si per scipsam circumcisio jostitiam C.liristi, ait Nicolai. QU.EST. LXXI, ART. 1. 623 QU.^STIO LXXI. DE PR^PARATORIIS QU.E SIMUL CONCIRRUNT CUM BAPTISMO (l), IN QUATUOR ARTICULOS UIVISA. Deinde considerandum est de praepaj^atoriis quae simul concurrunt cura baptismo; et circa hoc quaeruntur quatuor: l» Ulrum catechismus dcbeat pra*cedere baptis- iniim. — 2* Ulrum ba|)tismum debeat pra^cedere exorcismus. — 3* Liium ea qua) af^tintur in calechismo et exorcismo, aliciuid effici.uil, vel solum siguiMcent. — 4* Utrum baptizandi debeant calechizaii vel exorcizari pcr sacerdoles. ARTICULUS I. — UTRLM CATECHISMtS DEBEAT PR-«:CEDEKE BAPTlSUUil (2). De his ctiam Seut. iV, dist. G.qunst. li, arl. qusst. l. Ad primum sicproceditiir. I.Videturquodcatechisrnus non debeat prae- cedere baptismum. Per baptismum enim regenerantur homines in vitam spiritualem. Sed prius homo accipit vitam quam doctrinam. Non ergo piiiis debet homo catechizari, id est, doceri, quam baptizari. 2. Praeterea, baptismus exhibetur non sollim adultis, sed etiam pueris qui nou sunt doctrinae capaces, e6 quod non habent usum raiionis. Ergo ridiculum est eos catechizare. 3. Prteterea, in catechismo confitetur catechizatus suam fidem. Sed pueri non possunt suam fidem confiteri neque per seipsos. neque etiam aliquis alius pro eis; tum quia nullus potestalium ad aliquid obligare; tumetiam quia non potest aliquis scire utriim pueri, cum ad legitimam getalem per- venerint, assentiant fidei. Non ergo debet catethismus pracedere baptis- mum. Sed contra est quod Rabanus (De institutione cleric. lib. i , cap. 25. a med.) dicit : « Ante baptismum catechizandi debet hominem praevenire officium, ut fidei primum catechumenus accipiat rudimeutum. » CONCLUSIO. — Cum baptismus sit sacramenlum fidei, ad quam suscipiendani instructio requiritur, catechismus baptismum convcnienter pnccedit. Respondeo dicendum quod, sicut supra dictum est (qua^st. praec. art. \\ baptismus est fidei christianae sacramentum , ciim sit qua?dam prolessio fidei christianse. Ad hoc autem quod aliquis fidem accipiat, requiritur quod in fide instruatur, sccundum illud Rom. x, M) : Quomodo credent eiquem non audiei^vtit? quomodo autem audient sine prxdicante? Et ided ante baptismum convenienter praecedit catechismus. — Und(.' et Dominus prae- ceptum baptizandi discipulis tradens, pra^mittit doctrinam baptismo, di- cens (Matth. ult. 19) : Euntes docete omnes gentes, haptizantes eos^ etc. Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod vita gratiae, in qua regeueraiur aliquis per baptismum, praesupponit vilam naturae rationalis, in qua liomo polest esse particeps doctriniB. Ad secundum dicendum, qu6d sicut materEcclesia, ut supra dictum est (quaest. lxix, art. 6 ad 3), accommodat pueris bapiizandis aliorum pedes, ut veniant, et aliorum cor, ut credanl; ita etiam accommodat eis aliorum aures, ut audiaut, et intellectum, utper alios iustruantur; et ideo eadem ratione sunt catechizandi quA sunt baptizandi. Ad <er</w??idicendum,qu6dillequi propuerobaptizatorespondet, Credo, non praedicitpuerumcrediturum, cum ad legitimos anuos pervenerit; alio- (I)Iii hac qnaestione S. Thonias agit de ctere- " (2) Calccliisnius iU> quo hic asilur snhstantia- moniis baptisnii ; ea de rc confcrri potesl, Cate- liter consislit in suflicienli tloctrioa reruin iidei cbismus roiuanus (part. II, n* C9j| et morum. 62i QU.EST. LXXl, ART. I ET II. quiii (liceret, Credet\ sed protitetur fiilem Eeclesiae iri persona pueri cui cominunioatur, cujus sacramentum ei tril)iiitur, etad quam obligatur per alium {\)\ non est enim inconveniens quod aliquis obligetur per alium in his qu;e suut de necessitate salutis. Similiter etiam patriinis pi'0 puero res- pondeiis, piomittit se operam daturum ad hoc quod puer credat; quod lamen non sufliceretin adultis usum rationis habentibiis. ARTICULUS IL — utrum exorcismus debeat pr/Ecedere baptismum (2). De his «^tiam infra, art. 3 ad 5, et Scnt.iv, dist.O, qiiaest. ll, art, 5, qua>st i, jicr tot cl qnaest. II ad 4. Ad secundum sic pioceditur. \. Videtur quod exorcismus non debeat pra^cederebaptismum. ExoiTismusenim conti^a energumeiios,id est, arrep- tilios, ordinatur. Sed non omnes baplizandi sunt tales. Ergo exorcismus non debet praecedere baptismum. 2. Pra^terea, quamdiii ho:i;o subjacet peccato, diabolus in eum habet potestatem, quia, ut dicitur (Joan. viii, 34), qiii facit peccatum, servus est peccati. Sed peccatum tollitur per baplismum. Non ei^go ante baptismum sunt homines exorcizandi. 3. Pi"«ter'ea, ad arcendum daemonum potestatem introducta est aqua benedicta. Non ei^go ad hoc oportebat ahud remedium adhiberi per exor- cismos. Sed contra est quod Coelestinus papa dicit (epist. 2, can. 9, et habetur De consecrat. cap. 53, dist. 4, et Hb. De eccles. dogmat. cap. 31 ) : <' Sive parvuH, sive juvenes ad r-egenerationis veniant sacr^amentum, non priiis fontem vltae adeant, quam exor^cismis et exsufflationibus clericorum spiri- tus inimundus ab eis abjiciatur. » CONCLUSIO. — Convenienler ante baptismum expelluntur daemones per exor- dsmos, ne hominis saliitem impediant. Respondeo dicendum quod quicumque sapienter aliquod opus facere proponit, priiis i^emovet impedimenta sui operis^ unde dicitur (Jer^em. iv, 3) : i\ovate vobis novale, et nolite serere super spinas. Diabolus autem hostis esl humanae salutis, quae homini per baptismum acquiritur; et habet potestatem aliquam in hominem ex hoc ipso quod subditur originali peccato, vel etiam actuali. Unde convenienter ante baptismum expellun- tur d«mones per exorcismos, ne salutem hominis impediant ; quam qui- dem expulsionem significat exsufflatio. Benedictio autem cum manus impositlone pi^aecludit expulso viam, ne ledire possit. Sal autem in os missum, etnarium et aurium sputo linitio, significat receptionemdoctrinae fidei quantum ad aures, et approbationem quantum ad nares, et confes- sionem quantum ad os. Olei vero inunctio (3) significat aptitudinem honiinis ad pugnandum contra daemones. Ad pri)nu7n ei^go dicendum, quod energumeni dicuntur, quasi interius laborantes (4; ex intrinseca operatione diaboh; et quamvis non omnes ]] Qu'h1 egregie Dionysius (lib. De eccles. bierarch. cap. ult.) contra infideles explicat et defeudit; ubi patrinum bic vocatura appellat susreplorem , sponsorem , ducem, pcBdago- gum. divinum patrem, etc. (2^ \)c eiorcismis, ait Catecbismus romanus, vide Tertull. (De praescript. cap. 41), Cypr. (Epist. II), AugUstin.^De gratia Dei et peccato originali, lib. II, cap. AO, et lib. 11 De nupt. et conciipisc. cap. 20), Optat. ,lib. IV contra Par- meniaiHini). loi EsLsiifflationis merainit Ambrosius (cap. i , Jib. De iis qui initiantur), Auguitin, (De yec- cato orig. cap. 40, et lib. Tl cont. Julian. cap. 5), — Impositionis raanuura, Dion. (Eccles. hierar. cap. H, Concil. iv (artbag. cap. 85, et concil. Ii Hispal. can. 7). — Csus salis Isid. (Off. lib. II, cap. 20), August. 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Greece’s largest morning circulation newspaper, Kathimerini, published the following Op-Ed on Saturday, August 28, 2010.
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English translation below:
Light at the End of Greece’s Difficult Tunnel
By Andy Manatos and Andy Athens
Saturday, August 28, 2010
It may be difficult to see now, but there is light, bright light, at the end of the obstacle-filled economic tunnel through which Greece is now passing. In fact the light at the end of this tunnel is significantly brighter than at its entrance. How can this be?
The answer has two parts. The first part of the answer involves the fact that Greek people prosper in economies that are based on the merit of the individual or company – economies like those in America and Australia. For example, a Pew Foundation study found that in America, (an economy three times larger than China’s) Greek Orthodox citizens have higher income and education levels than all other religions, except for members of the Jewish faith.
But, one might ask, is Greece still the wellspring of such successful people or did America and Australia train Hellenes to perform so well? Relatively recent Greek immigrants to America and Australia outperform second and third generation Hellenes, proving that Greece is still the wellspring such performance.
In Greece, historical developments caused the economic system to become less based on merit and to become filled with a range of corruptions, thereby limiting the areas in which Greeks can flourish and lead the world. The fact that the Greek people could achieve a good standard of living amid decades of such corruptions is, in itself, a testament to their extraordinary abilities. As well, Greece’s ability to have already reduced by 40% its deficit compared to last year is another indication of an ability to accomplish difficult things. The elimination of corruptions in the Greek economy will unleash the country and its people.
There is no doubt in our minds that Greece will soon be one of the world leaders in some technologies and other fields. Look what happened to the Jewish people, who are much like we Greeks. As Israel’s economy has stabilized in recent decades, Israeli technologies have moved to the cutting edge.
The second part of the reason that there is bright light at the end of the tunnel involves decades of pent-up demand for involvement in the Greek market by successful businesses owned by Hellenes outside of Greece. And, once they show that foreign companies can prosper in the Greek economy others will follow.
One of many examples of the pent-up demand for access to the Greek market is the Ameresco Company, owned by George Sakellaris. It is the number one American company for improving energy efficiency and reducing the carbon dioxide footprint of major facilities, including the US Capitol building. Its work costs these facilities effectively nothing. The amount of savings in fuel expenditures generated by the improvements Ameresco puts into place within a facility are so great that they cover the cost of the newly installed energy efficient equipment in addition to providing continued savings in fuel expenditure for the facility owner. Applied to Greece, this system could create many future-looking Greek jobs paid for, neither by Greek citizens nor the government, but by Euros diverted from the pockets of Middle Eastern oil producers.
Prime Minister George Papandreou is taping this pent-up demand for access to the Greek market by successful Hellenes in the three meetings he held with them in recent months. We have seen this demand over the decades as we arranged for various Greek Ministers to get together with America’s top Greek-American businesspeople. Their reaction is similar to the Diasporas of Ireland and Israel that played a significant role during those counties’ times of trouble.
One might ask if these companies want so badly to go to Greece what’s stopping them. The answer is that these business leaders have seen virtually everyone lose money who tried to take their business to Greece. The various corruptions in Greece’s economic and bureaucratic system, that they didn’t see in other foreign markets where they were successful, stopped them. However, if current reforms are fully implemented and Greece becomes a meritocracy, you will see hundreds of top notch businesspeople, Hellenes and non-Hellenes, investing in Greece.
If the corruptions disappear, so will Greece’s brain drain. Hellenism’s best and brightest will stay in Greece, and many who left will return like a moth to a flame, bringing with them high paying jobs and cutting-edge new Greek companies.
Since the “Golden Age”, Greeks linked merit, reward and excellence. With merit of performance in mind, Greeks were the first to create organized athletic competition. Additionally, the Greeks were the first to have merit and democracy choose their leaders rather than brute intimidation or inheritance. Alexander the Great expressed Greece’s merit-based criterion when he bequeathed his kingdom “to the strongest.”
Converting Greece to a more merit based economy isn’t easy. But Greeks have never shied away from difficult necessities. Mirroring the typical Greek reaction, author Nikos Kazantzakis said, “Though my teeth clattered with fear, I bound my forehead tightly with a red handkerchief to hide the blood, and I returned to the assault.” Whether fighting the Axis forces in WWII, preparing for the 2004 world-leading Olympic Games or struggling through today’s IMF/EU imposed economic transformation, Greeks somehow meet Kazantzakis’ challenge to “reach what you cannot.”
Andy Manatos – former US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, President of Manatos & Manatos, and President of the Coordinated Effort of Hellenes (CEH)
Andy Athens — former US steel industry leader, first and longest-serving President of the World Council of Hellenes Abroad and Chairman of CEH.
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In an another legal blow to Monsanto, India's Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the Delhi High Court's ruling that the seed giant cannot claim patents for Bollgard and Bollgard II, its genetically modified cotton seeds, in the country.
Monsanto's chief technology officer Robert Fraley, who just announced that he and other top executives are stepping down from the company after Bayer AG's multi-billion dollar takeover closes, lamented the news.
Fraley tweeted, "Having personally helped to launch Bollgard cotton in India & knowing how it has benefited farmers ... it's sad to see the country go down an anti-science/anti-IP/anti-innovation path..."
Monsanto first introduced its GM-technology in India in 1995. Today, more than 90 percent of the country's cotton crop is genetically modified. These crops have been inserted with a pest-resistant toxin called Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.
Citing India's Patents Act of 1970, the Delhi High Court ruled last month that plant varieties and seeds cannot be patented, thereby rejecting Monsanto's attempt to block its Indian licensee, Nuziveedu Seeds Ltd., from selling the seeds.
Because of the ruling, Monsanto's claims against Nuziveedu for unpaid royalties have been waived, as its patents are now invalid under Indian law. Royalties will now be decided by the government.
Indian environmentalist Vandana Shiva, who is known for her fierce activism against corporate patents on seeds, called the top court's move a "major victory" that opens the door "to make Monsanto pay for trapping farmers in debt by extracting illegal royalties on BT cotton."
She also said in a video Monday in front of the Supreme Court, "Our sovereignty is protected, our laws are protected. Our ability to write laws in the public interest [and] for the rights of farmers through the constitution are protected."
"The Earth will win. Seed will win. Monsanto will lose," Shiva added.
A Monsanto India spokesman told Reuters the case will be submitted for an expedited preliminary hearing on July 18.
"We remain confident on the merits of the case. India has been issuing patents on man-made biotech products for more than 15 years, as is done widely across the globe," the spokesman said. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '45a7f0156682d346cfdb3e88df73c9f7918e321c2c0107ab050fb8f96d7ef110'} |
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Hector Lee
V-Control: DAW Control on the iPad
How does it work
After purchasing and downloading it onto your iPad, you will be directed to download a helper app to install onto your workstation that links V-Control Pro on your iPad to your DAW. What this helper app seems to do is to create a virtual midi interface that bridges the V-Control Pro on the iPad and makes it appear as a HUI device connected to that virtual port. However, this helper app definitely does more than just that as we look deeper into the other features available in V-Control Pro.
Layout and Features
The primary layout of V-Control Pro is fairly straight forward. You are immediately presented with a mixer-like control surface with eight faders and control knobs. This is the primary interface for mixing with your DAW.
If you have used a mixing control surface before, you should find yourself at home. Transport controls are available at the bottom of the screen. Additional function keys are available on the right side and via menus button on the bottom toolbar.
Touch interface
The touch interface is extremely useful as it can adapt to various interfaces. There are surround panners, scrub wheels, and lots of function buttons like memory locations, zoom, automation and group controls. This replaces the need to remember numerous keyboard commands or the use of the mouse. Im an advocate of memorising keyboard commands but there are some commands that are just not used frequent enough to commit to muscle memory. This is where the numerous function keys become really useful.
One of the problems with working with touch screens is that you have to constantly look at it to know where to place your hands. The haptic feedback of placing your hands on physical faders and being able to close your eyes to listen while mixing is invaluable. Being able to feel where the faders are relives the need to look and allows you to focus on listening. A somewhat important thing to do. Theres been a lot of talk about haptic feedback for touchscreens but until the day comes where they release one, physical controllers will always have a place.
The biggest feature that sets V-Control Pro apart from the other HUI-emulation apps on the iPad is the V-Window. V-Window lets you bring up any open window on your computer and display it on the iPad. This could be plugin windows, an edit window, or even a window from another app. This second display is extremely useful as you can also interact with the display, tweaking the plugin with touch control. You could display your plugin using V-Window and place it in a more convenient position such as on your keyboard or on a music stand while playing a guitar.
V-Control Pro isn't the cheapest iPad app but it definitely costs much less than an equivalent hardware controller. Even if you factor in the cost of an iPad, its probably still cheaper than something with a matching feature set. Ive been using it for a couple of weeks now and Ive found that its a useful tool that has its place in my studio. Although Im not always using the faders as a primary mix controller, Im really digging it for the wireless and function keys. Theres a lite version thats free to check out on your iPad and maybe you could consider adding it to your arsenal of studio tools. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '90', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.947230577468872}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '7461', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:DCWJEUPZ2SQDYJETO45F77G2P2F4OGQA', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:b87d0ff6-1b7b-4954-9bce-f846f6efbcf2>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 22, 8, 22, 59), 'WARC-IP-Address': '188.166.217.7', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:3LLRCXRK5QSTONDK43ELBTYRG3XMCWCG', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:99a1536b-834d-4210-91ce-047ff27552b7>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://hector-lee.com/blog/v-control-daw-control-on-the-ipad', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:1bc02de6-5860-4e8b-a4e7-7fca10106815>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '637', 'url': 'https://hector-lee.com/blog/v-control-daw-control-on-the-ipad', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-169-175-90.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.04045367240905762', 'original_id': '47588164fa00e6390cab9fe68a163521999a1c6c51428e76e2aacfc7511bc351'} |
Case Study: My Experience With Resources
What Is Macular Degeneration
The macular degeneration is a medical condition related to aging and those who are greatly affected by it are older adults. This condition cold result to visual loss. But this condition is far more different than other conditions because macular degeneration causes the loss of the center field of vision. Macula is the area of the eyes and because of retina damage loss of vision can occur. Dry and wet are 2 forms. This often happens to people who are over the age of fifty.
Because the macular degeneration affects that central vision, a person who has this may have difficulty in recognizing places and people and they will have hard time reading. The good thing is that, the peripheral vision is still intact and the person can still continue with his or her daily routine. With the dry version of macular degeneration which is also called nonexudative is also caused by the buildup of debris between the choroid and retina. The debris that buildup between the retina and choloid in the dry form is Drusen that causes the retina to be detached and can cause the symptoms of blindness.
Wet form of macular degeneration or also called as exudative is caused by blood vessels to grown behind the retina. It grows in the choroid. The macular degeneration is this form can be treated using medication and laser coagulation. This treatment can help stop tit or it can also reverse the growth of the blood vessel that can causes this condition.
If You Think You Understand Options, Then Read This
What are the signs of macular degeneration? Yellow deposits that can appear in the macula. The yellow deposits that is found is the macula is what makes the drusen.
People who are now in the early stage may not notice anything different in their eyesight. They will only notice that they have the condition when it becomes worst and that the deposits increase. If you must know, the yellow deposits is cholesterol but it is still unconfirmed by scientists and it has the possibility that it will respond to the cholesterol lowering treatments.
Doing Resources The Right Way
Those who are experiencing exudative form of macular degeneration or also known as Neovascular AMD is also caused by growth in blood vessel. With this, there is a high risks that it can leak and could cause bleeding and can even cause scarring and could eventually damage and it can be irreversible. It is important that you know that with this type of macular degeneration has found a solution due to the new medications that can also help and assist in dealing with these type of AMD. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '0', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9666826128959656}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '54536', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:2PKFBJSKOBWO6T26OKF7ZB6FG2FMIHQL', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:000b91ab-bb2d-4d95-8e99-25c6a28bfc83>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2019, 4, 19, 0, 49, 25), 'WARC-IP-Address': '104.18.57.93', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:L7Q742ZSSLB7KODRACUFCYIZNMFQWN3G', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:16298666-2c10-401e-829d-59fbec5b272b>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'http://www.nicecoachoutlet.com/case-study-my-experience-with-resources.html', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:6a096a5d-38b5-49ec-8104-60a9b195eccc>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '455', 'url': 'http://www.nicecoachoutlet.com/case-study-my-experience-with-resources.html', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2019-18\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for April 2019\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-93-200-49.ec2.internal\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.15 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.1-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: http://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.05818915367126465', 'original_id': 'a8612a9b9f861631da5a53f02f97d0bafbe869f213f436d7c975425db6cc9f79'} |
Alaska is known worldwide for its wildlife. We should respect it.
• Author: Anchorage Daily News editorial board
| Opinion
• Updated: September 11, 2018
• Published September 11, 2018
Traffic stopped for this yearling moose that was following a cow moose as they crossed 36th Avenue in Midtown Anchorage on March 22, 2018. (Bill Roth / ADN archive)
Those familiar with Unalaska know that close encounters with bald eagles in the fishing town can be commonplace. But an interaction documented on social media in late May by the crew of a sailing vessel passing through the Aleutian Islands wasn't of the usual sort.
In the since-deleted video posted to Instagram, crew member Nico Edwards of the S/Y Infinity reached out to touch a clearly agitated eagle. The Infinity's stated mission on its most recent Arctic voyage, according to its website, is "to inspire people from around the globe to join a movement towards peace and sustainability."
"I want to touch you, you don't want me to touch you, and there are some problems associated with this thing," Edwards said to the eagle. "Well, don't be offended by the touching that's going to happen. Shhh. You need to be quiet."
There are laws against interacting with bald eagles the way Mr. Edwards did — specifically, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and the Bald Eagle and Golden Eagle Protection Act. But it's not clear if he or the crew of the S/Y Infinity in general faced any consequences for harassing the eagle. The crew's website and social media bear no mention of the incident.
When it comes to harmful interactions with wildlife, however, the incident in Dutch Harbor is just the tip of the iceberg.
It's hard to say exactly how pervasive wildlife harassment in Alaska and elsewhere was before the rise of social media. But the explosion of networks on which users have an incentive to contribute "edgy" content — and the global reach of that documented bad behavior — has certainly made the problem worse. In posts to networks such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, people regularly document themselves getting far too close to wild animals, sometimes touching them. These actions often put themselves and the animals in harm's way. Worse, they contribute to habituated contact between wildlife and people. That makes the animals more dangerous to humans they meet in the future, even if those people are taking appropriate precautions.
On the one hand, it seems like an easy problem to solve given that the perpetrators are documenting their bad behavior, some of which crosses the line into criminal conduct. But there's a clear incentive for those posting pictures and videos of themselves getting far too close to moose, bears and other Alaska wildlife: People find wildlife encounters engaging, and those who post them are often rewarded by more clicks, likes and shares. As demonstrated by the crew of the S/Y Infinity, people looking to spread a message know that, and they seek it out — even when it means real-world consequences like fines, court dates, or even injury and death for themselves or the animals.
Given that reality, what can we do to curb such mistreatment of the wildlife Alaskans and visitors hold dear? Institutionally, one clear answer is to more stringently enforce laws and policies against harassing wild animals. On a personal level, it takes feedback from family and friends to communicate that acting a fool around wild animals is nothing to promote or share. If you see a post where someone has documented an unsafe wildlife encounter or if you witness one in person, let them know why that behavior is destructive and dangerous.
On the border between civilization and wilderness, we have plenty of conflicts between the two without actively instigating more.
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\section{Roots of Complex Number/Examples/z^8 + 1 = 0}
Tags: Examples of Complex Roots
\begin{theorem}
The roots of the polynomial:
:$z^8 + 1 = 0$
are:
:$\set {\cos \dfrac {\paren {2 k + 1} \pi} 8 + i \sin \dfrac {\paren {2 k + 1} \pi} 8: k \in \set {0, 1, \ldots, 7} }$
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = z^8 + 1
| r = 0
| c =
}}
{{eqn | ll= \leadsto
| l = z
| r = \paren {-1}^{1/8}
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
From Euler's Identity:
:$-1 = e^{i \pi}$
Let $b$ be defined as:
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = b
| r = \sqrt [8] 1 \paren {\cos \dfrac \pi 8 + i \sin \dfrac \pi 8}
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \cos \dfrac \pi 8 + i \sin \dfrac \pi 8
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
From Roots of Complex Number: Corollary:
:$\paren {-1}^{1/8} = \cos \paren {\dfrac \pi 8 + \dfrac {2 k \pi} 8} + i \sin \paren {\dfrac \pi 8 + \dfrac {2 k \pi} 8}$
for $k = 0$ to $7$.
{{begin-eqn}}
{{eqn | l = \paren {-1}^{1/8}
| r = \set {\cos \paren {\dfrac \pi 8 + \dfrac {2 k \pi} 8} + i \sin \paren {\dfrac \pi 8 + \dfrac {2 k \pi} 8}: k \in \set {0, 1, \ldots, 7} }
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \set {\cos \dfrac {\paren {2 k + 1} \pi} 8 + i \sin \dfrac {\paren {2 k + 1} \pi} 8: k \in \set {0, 1, \ldots, 7} }
| c =
}}
{{eqn | r = \set {\exp \dfrac {\paren {2 k + 1} i \pi} 8: k \in \set {0, 1, \ldots, 7} }
| c =
}}
{{end-eqn}}
{{qed}}
\end{proof}
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/*
Copyright (C) 1996-1997 Id Software, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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*/
//
// quakeasm.h: general asm header file
//
//#define GLQUAKE 1
#if defined(__i386__) && defined(USE_ASM)
#define id386 1
#else
#define id386 0
#endif
// !!! must be kept the same as in d_iface.h !!!
#define TRANSPARENT_COLOR 255
#ifndef NeXT
#ifndef GLQUAKE
.extern C(d_zistepu)
.extern C(d_pzbuffer)
.extern C(d_zistepv)
.extern C(d_zrowbytes)
.extern C(d_ziorigin)
.extern C(r_turb_s)
.extern C(r_turb_t)
.extern C(r_turb_pdest)
.extern C(r_turb_spancount)
.extern C(r_turb_turb)
.extern C(r_turb_pbase)
.extern C(r_turb_sstep)
.extern C(r_turb_tstep)
.extern C(r_bmodelactive)
.extern C(d_sdivzstepu)
.extern C(d_tdivzstepu)
.extern C(d_sdivzstepv)
.extern C(d_tdivzstepv)
.extern C(d_sdivzorigin)
.extern C(d_tdivzorigin)
.extern C(sadjust)
.extern C(tadjust)
.extern C(bbextents)
.extern C(bbextentt)
.extern C(cacheblock)
.extern C(d_viewbuffer)
.extern C(cachewidth)
.extern C(d_pzbuffer)
.extern C(d_zrowbytes)
.extern C(d_zwidth)
.extern C(d_scantable)
.extern C(r_lightptr)
.extern C(r_numvblocks)
.extern C(prowdestbase)
.extern C(pbasesource)
.extern C(r_lightwidth)
.extern C(lightright)
.extern C(lightrightstep)
.extern C(lightdeltastep)
.extern C(lightdelta)
.extern C(lightright)
.extern C(lightdelta)
.extern C(sourcetstep)
.extern C(surfrowbytes)
.extern C(lightrightstep)
.extern C(lightdeltastep)
.extern C(r_sourcemax)
.extern C(r_stepback)
.extern C(colormap)
.extern C(blocksize)
.extern C(sourcesstep)
.extern C(lightleft)
.extern C(blockdivshift)
.extern C(blockdivmask)
.extern C(lightleftstep)
.extern C(r_origin)
.extern C(r_ppn)
.extern C(r_pup)
.extern C(r_pright)
.extern C(ycenter)
.extern C(xcenter)
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.extern C(d_vrectright_particle)
.extern C(d_vrecty)
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.extern C(d_pix_max)
.extern C(d_y_aspect_shift)
.extern C(screenwidth)
.extern C(r_leftclipped)
.extern C(r_leftenter)
.extern C(r_rightclipped)
.extern C(r_rightenter)
.extern C(modelorg)
.extern C(xscale)
.extern C(r_refdef)
.extern C(yscale)
.extern C(r_leftexit)
.extern C(r_rightexit)
.extern C(r_lastvertvalid)
.extern C(cacheoffset)
.extern C(newedges)
.extern C(removeedges)
.extern C(r_pedge)
.extern C(r_framecount)
.extern C(r_u1)
.extern C(r_emitted)
.extern C(edge_p)
.extern C(surface_p)
.extern C(surfaces)
.extern C(r_lzi1)
.extern C(r_v1)
.extern C(r_ceilv1)
.extern C(r_nearzi)
.extern C(r_nearzionly)
.extern C(edge_aftertail)
.extern C(edge_tail)
.extern C(current_iv)
.extern C(edge_head_u_shift20)
.extern C(span_p)
.extern C(edge_head)
.extern C(fv)
.extern C(edge_tail_u_shift20)
.extern C(r_apverts)
.extern C(r_anumverts)
.extern C(aliastransform)
.extern C(r_avertexnormals)
.extern C(r_plightvec)
.extern C(r_ambientlight)
.extern C(r_shadelight)
.extern C(aliasxcenter)
.extern C(aliasycenter)
.extern C(a_sstepxfrac)
.extern C(r_affinetridesc)
.extern C(acolormap)
.extern C(d_pcolormap)
.extern C(r_affinetridesc)
.extern C(d_sfrac)
.extern C(d_ptex)
.extern C(d_pedgespanpackage)
.extern C(d_tfrac)
.extern C(d_light)
.extern C(d_zi)
.extern C(d_pdest)
.extern C(d_pz)
.extern C(d_aspancount)
.extern C(erroradjustup)
.extern C(errorterm)
.extern C(d_xdenom)
.extern C(r_p0)
.extern C(r_p1)
.extern C(r_p2)
.extern C(a_tstepxfrac)
.extern C(r_sstepx)
.extern C(r_tstepx)
.extern C(a_ststepxwhole)
.extern C(zspantable)
.extern C(skintable)
.extern C(r_zistepx)
.extern C(erroradjustdown)
.extern C(d_countextrastep)
.extern C(ubasestep)
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.extern C(a_tstepxfrac)
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.extern C(a_spans)
.extern C(erroradjustdown)
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.extern C(d_ptexextrastep)
.extern C(d_countextrastep)
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.extern C(d_lightextrastep)
.extern C(d_ziextrastep)
.extern C(d_pdestbasestep)
.extern C(d_pzbasestep)
.extern C(d_sfracbasestep)
.extern C(d_ptexbasestep)
.extern C(ubasestep)
.extern C(d_tfracbasestep)
.extern C(d_lightbasestep)
.extern C(d_zibasestep)
.extern C(zspantable)
.extern C(r_lstepy)
.extern C(r_sstepy)
.extern C(r_tstepy)
.extern C(r_zistepy)
.extern C(D_PolysetSetEdgeTable)
.extern C(D_RasterizeAliasPolySmooth)
.extern float_point5
.extern Float2ToThe31nd
.extern izistep
.extern izi
.extern FloatMinus2ToThe31nd
.extern float_1
.extern float_particle_z_clip
.extern float_minus_1
.extern float_0
.extern fp_16
.extern fp_64k
.extern fp_1m
.extern fp_1m_minus_1
.extern fp_8
.extern entryvec_table
.extern advancetable
.extern sstep
.extern tstep
.extern pspantemp
.extern counttemp
.extern jumptemp
.extern reciprocal_table
.extern DP_Count
.extern DP_u
.extern DP_v
.extern DP_32768
.extern DP_Color
.extern DP_Pix
.extern DP_EntryTable
.extern pbase
.extern s
.extern t
.extern sfracf
.extern tfracf
.extern snext
.extern tnext
.extern spancountminus1
.extern zi16stepu
.extern sdivz16stepu
.extern tdivz16stepu
.extern zi8stepu
.extern sdivz8stepu
.extern tdivz8stepu
.extern reciprocal_table_16
.extern entryvec_table_16
.extern ceil_cw
.extern single_cw
.extern fp_64kx64k
.extern pz
.extern spr8entryvec_table
#endif
.extern C(snd_scaletable)
.extern C(paintbuffer)
.extern C(snd_linear_count)
.extern C(snd_p)
.extern C(snd_vol)
.extern C(snd_out)
.extern C(vright)
.extern C(vup)
.extern C(vpn)
.extern C(BOPS_Error)
#endif
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How To Grow to be A Trainer
Special education can be outlined as specifically configured directions and different schooling-associated companies to meet the academic, social, emotional, and vocational wants of students with disabilities. The attrition, or burn-out,” charge for particular education lecturers is extremely high in comparison with most different professions. Demand for special training providers and lecturers ought to rise as children with disabilities are more and more being recognized earlier and enrolled into particular teaching programs.special education teacher
In addition they require completing a instructor preparation program and supervised experience in instructing. These programs usually embrace fieldwork, reminiscent of student teaching. Lecturers in districts with a year-round schedule sometimes work 9 weeks in a row and then are on break for three weeks.
If you happen to’re considering a profession as a special training trainer, you could need to tap into useful sources like the Nationwide Association of Particular Education Lecturers (NASET). Special education lecturers held about 442,800 jobs in 2012. Better screening and identification of assorted disabilities in children are expected to extend the demand for special training providers.special education teacher
Some children are easily recognized as candidates for special wants because of their medical historical past. Most states require teachers to go a background test. A few of these academics main in elementary education or a content material space, resembling math or chemistry, and minor in special schooling.special education teacher
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Fire in Vandergrift labeled suspicious
posted Nov 18, 2016, 9:56 PM by Joseph Gray
Vandergrift firefighters respond to a reported house fire at 213 Longfellow St. on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. Only a couch ended up being on fire inside the vacant building.Photo by Sydney Davis | Tribune-Review
As Matthew Bockhouse walked up Vandergrift's Longfellow Street with his dinner Thursday night, he smelled smoke and feared his apartment building was on fire.
Instead, the smoke was coming from a fire in the vacant building next door — just five doors down from two commercial buildings that were destroyed by a conflagration two weeks ago.
Bockhouse called 911 and alerted the other tenant in his building, which is just 4 feet from the 21⁄2-story, white-sided house that was on fire at 213 Longfellow St.
Vandergrift No. 2 fire Chief Steve Potoka said the flames were were traced to a couch in the front room. Potoka said there was only minor damage to the room because firefighters quickly extinguished the small fire.
He deemed the fire — reported just after 8 p.m. — suspicious and said a state police fire marshal will investigate. The building is not connected to utilities and has been vacant for years, Potoka said.
Neighbors said squatters have used the building.
Meanwhile, Bockhouse sat across the street in the parking lot of Byers Taxi Service and ate his sandwich, surrounded by the grocery bags he'd been carrying home from Sprankle's Market when he spotted the fire. He wasn't too worried about his food spoiling — the only perishable item was the frozen turkey he'd bought for Thanksgiving dinner. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '898998ee8cd29651509b156e35c57c9dedd630468160d21376fb2fffb454640d'} |
Is submental flap safe for the oncological reconstruction of the oral cavity?
The reconstruction of oral defects after oncological surgery is not an easy task for head and neck surgeons. The main aim of this work is to evaluate the functionality, viability and safety of submental flap for oral reconstruction. We analyzed the records of patients diagnosed with oral and oropharyngeal SCC and reconstructed with the use of submental flap in Virgen de las Nieves University Hospital of Granada (Spain) from 2014 and 2015. Nine patients were found. Specific features such as age, sites of occurrence, sex distribution, T stage at diagnosis, nodal involvement, functionality of reconstruction and local and regional failure were determined. The male/female ratio was 8:1. The average age of the patients was 59.6 years (range: 42-75). Tumor locations were base of the tongue (n2), lateral edge of the tongue (n4), floor of the mouth (n2) and buccal mucosa (n1). Six tumors were classified as a T2 tumor and 3 as T3. No major complications were evidenced during the immediate postoperative period. Moreover, all patients showed excellent tissue coverage with acceptable aesthetic and functional outcomes. However, 1 patient showed partial epithelial loss of the skin paleta. Finally, the recurrence rate of disease was 44,4%. Four of 9 patients experienced a local (1/9) or cervical relapse (3/9). Submental flap might offer great aesthetic and functional results in oral reconstruction. However, the recurrence rate of disease was too high in our sample. From our point of view, submental flap should be carefully indicated in oncological reconstruction, especially in case of suspicion of lymph node involvement at level Ib. | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'a85c45e35afb40724e228245c053750f2c3f7eabcda6eb841b8dee27fd009f5a'} |
[PC tips] Free ways to speed up your PC
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Does it feel like you can make a pot of coffee and clean the kitchen all in the time it takes for your computer system to boot up? Do you find yourself daydreaming of dropping it off the top of your office building while youââ,¬â,,¢re waiting for web pages to load?
If it seems like your computer is running slower every day, here are some things to do to get your ââ,¬Å"old reliableââ,¬Â running in tip-top shape. Of course, budget-savvy Nerd Chicks are always looking for ways to save some dough, so weââ,¬â,,¢ve made sure they are all free.
Here are 10 free ways to speed up your PC:
• [spoiler=Get rid of the nasties]Viruses and spyware donââ,¬â,,¢t always break your computer, but they do always slow it down. Theyââ,¬â,,¢re more common than you may think, and can hang out in your system, gumming up the works, without you even knowing it. Microsoft Security Essentials is a great, easy, all-in-one solution to keep your computer healthy and running in top form. Download it here.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Update your operating system (OS)]Windows issues updates all the time. These can patch holes in the software, closing vulnerabilities that viruses and spyware exploit, and generally make Windows run better. If youââ,¬â,,¢re running Windows XP, right click on the My Computer icon on the desktop, select Properties and click on the Automatic Updates tab. Make sure you set them to download and install automatically.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Purge 'Bloatware']Still have that Norton Trial software installed from when you bought your machine three years ago? Get rid of it! Every time it pops up a window ââ,¬Å"remindingââ,¬Â you to buy it, Iââ,¬â,,¢m guessing a little voice in your head mutters unpleasant things. Itââ,¬â,,¢s also slowing down your system as the antiquated software runs in the background. Search for ââ,¬Å"Norton Removal Toolââ,¬Â (or ââ,¬Å"McAfee Removal Toolââ,¬Â) to make sure that you get the software fully uninstalled.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Speed your startup]MSConfig is a tool built in to most versions of Windows. Even novice computer surfers can use this tool to stop programs from starting automatically every time you boot up. While certain things are necessary for Windows to function, if your system is trying to turn on iTunes, your printer, and Adobe every time it boots up, the poor thingââ,¬â,,¢s got a lot of things to get going before it can launch your Sudoku. Click the "Start" button. If you have a search option, type ââ,¬Å"msconfigââ,¬Â into the search field. If you donââ,¬â,,¢t have a search option, but have a ââ,¬Å"Runââ,¬Â button on the startup menu, click that instead. When you do this, a window will appear on screen with the word "Run:" next to a blank text field. Type "msconfig" in the blank text field and press "Enter". Click the "Startup" tab at the top of the menu. Uncheck the boxes next to programs that you don't need during startup ââ,¬â€œ but only programs you recognize! Click the "Apply" button, then select "OK", and restart your computer. I can almost hear your computer sighing in relief from here.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Defrag your hard drive]Every time you save a file, or update software, your hard drive stores each new thing in chronological order. This means that when you launch Word, your system has to search all over your hard drive to find all the pieces that have been stored over the months, or years. Defragging simply means that your hard drive will take all the ââ,¬Å"likeââ,¬Â things and put them together, allowing programs to launch and work faster. Windows 7 comes configured to defrag automatically, however Windows XP users will need to start the process manually. From the Start menu, right-click the ââ,¬Å"My Computerââ,¬Â option. Select ââ,¬Å"Manageââ,¬Â and choose disk defragmenter under the Storage section. Keep in mind that the process can take several hours, so set it to run at night. Also, remember to disable your systemââ,¬â,,¢s hibernate mode & screen saver before starting. When the process is complete, restart your PC.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Repair the registry]Your systemââ,¬â,,¢s registry is like your hard driveââ,¬â,,¢s table of contents. If there are incorrect entries, it can take your drive longer to find all the pieces of data it needs to launch and run programs. Glary Utilities is a great free application that you can install to quickly and easily fix registry errors and optimize your systemââ,¬â,,¢s performance. Download the free version here.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Clear out the cookies]Every time you visit a website, it stores little pieces of itself, or programs, on your system. The idea is that the next time you visit the site it will load that content faster. The problem is that itââ,¬â,,¢s rare that we return to the same sites and see the same things over and over again. Instead, the process of digging through several MBs of temporary internet files will lead all websites to load more slowly. Clear out your cache with CCleaner , a top rated free software program for cleaning out temporary files and making your system run at its best. One tip: use the cookies tab to select cookies you want to keep from sites you visit often and/or want to continue to login to automatically (like your email, or your bank).[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Clean it, no really!]Your computer has a fan in it that draws in air to cool the CPU and components. If this fan or vent becomes clogged with dust, pet hair, or other nasties, your system can overheat, causing it to run more sluggishly and eventually break. Grab a can of air and take your PC outside for a field trip. Donââ,¬â,,¢t just blow into the intake vent: open the case, donââ,¬â,,¢t blow air too closely at the components, and blow dust away from the case.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=Ditch Internet Explorer]There are many alternative browsers you can use to access the Internet. Most techies agree that Googleââ,¬â,,¢s Chrome is the fastest option that doesnââ,¬â,,¢t compromise compatibility.[/spoiler]
• [spoiler=If all else failsââ,¬Â¦]A surefire way to ensure that your system is running as close to good-as-new as you can hope to get is to back up your data, format your hard drive, and reinstall Windows. Keep in mind that you will need to reinstall all of your software, including office. Donââ,¬â,,¢t forget to install your anti-virus and anti-spyware before surfing the net! [/spoiler]
Getting on a regular maintenance schedule will save you, and your trusty computer, much pain and suffering. Especially if these tips keep you from drop kicking your PC off the roof!
Best Regards,
Susanto B.Sc
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Learn how to speed up your PC running Windows 7 or Windows Vista.Update now to Windows 8.1 for free. Close. Windows XP support has ended.Stop all unneeded background processes. Look at the right corner of your Taskbar, to the left of the time,date, and essential system icons. How fast your computer starts up depends on several things, including the storage space and memory by uninstalling programs that you don't use.How to speed up Windows 7 and 8: Free up disk space.How to speed up a PC or speed up a laptop. Free software tweaks to speed up Windows, and the best hardware upgrades to boost your PC.Free applications can easily replace go-to programs, while speeding up your PC and giving you additional features at the same time.Follow these simple steps to speed up your computer and get it back to running as fast as the day you purchased it.
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After looking through many, many build threads, I've finally decided to make an attempt on building my own guitar.
I plan on building a tele... primarily for metal
I have extensive experience with power tools and have access to them.
Is my list complete/possible? I understand hardware limitations such as TOM bridges requiring angled necks and so on.
I will make my first attempts on some cheap plywood first but...
My build tops out at $800 (I can go much higher)
-Mahogany/Alder/Basswood Body blank
-Gotoh Humbucker Tele Bridge
-Black dome knob x2
-Guitar String Ferrules
-Neck Mounting Plate/Neck Ferrules + Screws
-Humbucker Mounting Ring Black (Metal or Plastic)
-Black humbucker mounting ring screws x4
-Oval Jack Plate black
-Strap Buttons black
-Strap Button Felt Washers
-Sperzel Tuners
-Duncan Distortion + 59 (Salvaged from old guitar)
-Grain filler if mahogany
-Stain (either from stewmac or local)
I have access to laquer + spray equipment
I have left the neck out because I'm wondering if I should simply order from warmoth and do finish coats on my own. Or build from scratch (depending on difficulty)
Sorry for huge post, because I don't want to be tossing $800+ out of the window
Last edited by solidrane at Mar 6, 2013,
Quote by -MintSauce-
If you don't mind me asking, where did the $800 figure come from?
Also, have you considered ash?
The price of 800 came from running around ontario (canada) looking for hardware, and wood. Sifting through stewmac, warmoth, allparts + so much much more. resulting in a lowest possible price of 750 but I'll allow up to +$300 as tolerance. It would be a hell lot more if I didn't have guitars to salvage + tools to borrow
Sadly I haven't played many ash guitars in my time, luckily ash is quite plentiful around canada. I'll consider it heavily.
Last edited by solidrane at Mar 6, 2013,
On my previous builds I've always gone for a salvaged neck, but that's because I don't really have access to the tools to make one myself. I can also see it being extremely time consuming and the slightest mistake could result in having to restart the neck... But that's just my view on it.
Just throwing my two pennies' worth in here, but I'd be tempted to ditch Warmoth and get a neck elsewhere. I'd also find alternatives to the Gotoh and Sperzel hardware. Most of the 'economy' parts are better than people give them credit, as long as you're careful.
don't forget potometers, wiring, pickups, and what not. Also, shipping fee's can get pretty crazy.
And I would do without pickup rings but that's just me.
I dream red.
Oh yeah, the electronics and pots should have been on the list, 2 volume pots, 3 way toggle (it's harder to cut a slot than just a hole)
I can find a bulk of these locally
I'd buy a neck since this is your first build. You probably don't want the project to drag on and you'd need more specialized tools to do a neck well efficiently. Also, if you don't get the neck perfect, then you're gonna hate it.
Good luck.
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Divide 71793106 b | mini_pile | {'original_id': 'e4f11b1a62b5bd0ddca9767dc530077d76f267cf13254af8ca42cf9ae2acfe7a'} |
An important objetfofthe: invention is to provide a device of-the above mentioned character which may be made sm'allahd compact to be conveniently carried in the pocket and which may be quickly and conveniently used 'for inhaling the vapor or air. i i
A further object of the invention is to provide a device of the above mentioned character which is extremely simple in construction and is formed of few and simple parts which are readily adjustable for arranging the tubular absorbent element in position.
A further object of the invention is to provide a device or the above mentioned character which is vapor tight when 'closed preventing evaporation of the perfume, chemical or medicine.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.
, In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application and in which like numerals are used to designate like parts throughout same:
Figure 1 is a plan view of the inhaler, the cap being removed,
Figure 2 is a longitudinal section taken on line 2--2 of Figure 3, parts in elevation,
Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 4,
Figure 4 is a longitudinal section taken on line 2--2 of Figure 3, all parts being shown in section,
Figure 5 is a horizontal section taken on line 5-5 of Figure 6,
Figure 6 is a longitudinal section taken on line 6-6 of Figure 3, the lower portion of the device being shown in elevation, and, a
Figure 7 is a horizontal section taken on line 1l of Figure 4.
In the drawings, where for the purpose of i1- lustration is shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral l0 designates a casing,
which is preferably cylindrical and preferably formed of transparent material, such as plastics material. This casing ID has one end covered or closed by a bottom ll, preferably integral therewith and this bottom has a raised central projection or portion I2, concentric with the side of the casing i0 and of a smaller diameter to be spaced therefrom. Surrounding the raised projection l2 and spaced therefrom is an annular group of spacing lugs l3, and these lugs are circumferentially spaced and formed integral with H 1 ,1 Claim, (or 128-4200) the bottom Ii. The casing is provided at its top or opposite end witha reduced portion I l, forreceiving a removable tubular cap 'l5, a lso--preferably formed of transparent plastics material. The
cap is removably mounted upon the reduced] portion I4 and has a snug fit thereon to provideagas tight joint which will prevent the evaporation of the-volatile perfume; chemical or medicine.
The numeral [6 designates a tubular suction element to be placed in themouth, or inserted in the nose. The tubular suction elementhas a bore 11 extending through its opposite ends. The tubular suction element is preferably provided with flattened faces IB'fas shdwn. Formed integral with the tubular suction "element" nearits inner or lower end i9 arelongitudina'l" ribs 20, which i are circumferentially'spaced, providing longitudinal'air recesses or passages,2 I; The ribs have inner taperedportionsjZ'Z; which may be readily inserted within the reduced portion M. The ribs 20 have a snug fit within the reduced portion l4. When the-tubular suctionelement i6 is inserted Within the reduced portionll l of the casing H], the sides of the recesses or passages 2| remain uncovered, at their outer or upper ends since these recesses or passages project upwardly or outwardly beyond the portion l4, while the remaining portion of the recesses or passages 2| are covered by the portion H. The lower or inner portion of the tubular suction element has a reducedexte nsion 23 forming a shoulder 24, and theribs 20 project inwardly or downwardly beyond the shoulders 24, forming notches 24.
The numeral 25 designates a tubular absorbent element, which may be formed of fibrous material, such as cardboard or the like. This tubular absorbent element receives at one end the reduced extension 23 and the end of the element 25 is inserted into the notches 24', and contacts with the shoulder 24, and the longitudinal ribs 26 engage over the end of the tubular absorbent element 25, holding it upon the reduced extension 23'. The lower or inner end of the absorbent element 25 rests upon the stop lugs [3. It is thus seen that the tubular absorbent element 25 and the lugs I 3 limit the inward movement of the tubular suction element It, whereby the upper or outer ends of the recesses 2 I remain uncovered.
The element 25 has a smaller exterior diameter than the internal diameter of the casing l 0, providing a passage 25'. This passage 25 leads into the recesses 21. The inner end of the element 25 is spaced from the bottom ll, whereby the openings l3 between the lugs l3 place the pas- 3 sage 25 in communication with the interior of the element 25.
In the use of the device, the cap may be removed from the casing l0 and the tubular suction element is removed from the portion It. The tubular absorbent element 25 is now applied to the reduced extension 23 and will be held thereon by frictional engagement with this extension and the ribs 20. The volatile liquid such as perfume, chemicals or medicine is now applied to the tubular absorbent element 25, which may be dipped into the volatile liquid, or the liquid applied thereto in any suitable manner. The tubular suction element It with the tubular absorbent element 25 applied thereto is now inserted into the casing inner end of the element 25 will rest upon the stop lugs I3, while the ribs will frictionally engage with the reduced portion M. The tubular suction element may be placed in the mouth or nose and the user will then inhale. Air ,will be drawn inwardly through the recesses 2| and travel longitudinally through the passage exterior ly of the element 25 and then pass through the openings 13 and enter the inner end of the tubular element 25 and then pass through the tubular suction element I6.
teriorly of the element 25 and will become laden with the vapor from the volatile perfume, chemical or medicine. When a sufiicient amount of vapor has been inhaled, the cap i5 is applied to the reduced portion l4, and the casing [0 completely closed so that the volatile perfume or the like will not evaporate and may be used at a subsequent time.
It is to be understood that the form of my invention herewith shown and described is to be taken as a preferred example of the same and that various changes inv the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of my invention or .the scope of the subjoined claim.
[0, and the V The air is thus caused to travel in opposite directions exteriorly and in- 4 Having thus described my invention, I claim: An inhaler comprising, a tubular casing having one end open and its opposite end closed, said closed end having circumferentially spaced lugs extending axially of the casing and terminating near the closed end, a tubular suction element provided at its inner end with circumferentially spaced axially extending ribs of substantial length forming recesses between them, the inner ends of the recesses being open, the ribs slidably engaging within the upper end of the tubular casing, the suctionelement having a reduced inner extension and the lower ends of the ribs extending longitudinally over the reduced extensionto form notches, a tubular absorbent element having one end receiving the reduced extension and entering the notches for engagement behind the lower ends of the ribs to be held in place thereby, the tubular absorbent element having a smaller exterior diameter than the interior diameter of the tubular casing and being of a length to contact with the lugs and be held spaced thereby from the closed end of the tubular casing and also serving to limit the inward movement of the tubular suction element so that the outer ends of the recesses between the lugs remain uncovered by the tubular casing, and a cap removably mounted upon the open end of the tubular casing.
ANTHONY FALCONE.
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Respiratory mechanics during NCPAP and HHHFNC at equal distending pressures
1. Anna Lavizzari1,
2. Chiara Veneroni2,
3. Mariarosa Colnaghi1,
4. Francesca Ciuffini1,
5. Emanuela Zannin2,
6. Monica Fumagalli1,
7. Fabio Mosca1,
8. Raffaele L Dellacà2
1. 1NICU, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico-Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
2. 2TBM Lab, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneira–DEIB, Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy
1. Correspondence to Dr Anna Lavizzari, NICU, Fondazione IRCCS Ca'Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico–Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy, Via Della Commenda 12, Milan 20122, Italy; anna.lavizzari{at}
Objective To compare the effect of heated, humidified, high-flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) and nasal continuous positive airways pressure (NCPAP) on lung function and mechanics in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) at the same level of retropharyngeal pressure (Prp).
Design Randomised crossover trial.
Setting Neonatal intensive care unit, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
Patients 20 preterm infants (gestational age: 31±1 wks) with mild-moderate RDS requiring non-invasive respiratory support within 96 h after birth.
Interventions Infants were exposed to a randomised sequence of NCPAP and HHHFNC at different settings (2, 4 and 6 cmH2O for NCPAP and 2, 4, 6 L/min for HHHFNC) to enable comparison at the same level of Prp.
Main outcome measures Tidal volume by respiratory inductance plethysmography, pleural pressure estimated by oesophageal pressure, and gas exchange were evaluated at each setting and used to compute breathing pattern parameters, lung mechanics and work of breathing (WOB).
Results A poor linear regression between flow and Prp was found during HHHFNC (Prp=0.3+0.7*flow; r2=0.37). Only in 15 out of 20 infants it was possible to compare HHHFNC and NCPAP at a Prp of 2 and 4 cmH2O. No statistically significant differences were found in breathing pattern, gas exchange, lung mechanics and total WOB. Resistive WOB in the upper airways was slightly but significantly higher during HHHFNC (0.65 (0.49;1.09) vs 1.57 (0.85;2.09) cmH2O median (IQR)).
Conclusions Despite differing mechanisms for generating positive airway pressure, when compared at the same Prp, NCPAP and HHHFNC provide similar effects on all the outcomes explored.
• Neonatology
• Respiratory
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What is already known on this topic
• Heated, humidified, high-flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) provides effective non-invasive respiratory support to preterm infants in a variety of clinical conditions.
• Despite differing working mechanisms, both nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP) and HHHFNC provide a continuous positive airway pressure.
• Compared to NCPAP, during HHHFNC, the distending pressure for a certain flow rate is not known, highly variable and unpredictable.
What this study adds
• In infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), the application of either NCPAP or HHHFNC resulted in equivalent lung function and work of breathing when they applied similar distending pressures.
• The distending pressure developed in HHHFNC fluctuates within the breathing cycle, providing an increased load to the patient, however, this does not appear of a clinically relevant magnitude.
Compared to nasal continuous positive airway pressure (NCPAP), heated humidified high flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) offers ease of use, better tolerance and improved feeding and bonding in preterm newborns requiring non-invasive respiratory support.1–6 As a consequence, it is being increasingly used in neonatal intensive care units in a variety of clinical situations,7–12 most recently postextubation or as initial approach to neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (RDS).13
Even though the working mechanisms of HHHFNC are not yet fully understood, the washout of the upper airways (leading to a reduction of the physiological dead space) and the provision of a distending pressure are considered the most relevant.14–18 While the first is specific to HHHFNC, the application of a distending pressure to maintain lung volume recruitment and airway patency is the rationale of using NCPAP. Although during HHHFNC and NCPAP the developed pressure is due to a gas flowing across a resistance, the flow and the resistance involved in the process differ in the two approaches. During NCPAP pressure is generated within the device and is dependent on the flow in the expiratory line, while resistance is provided by the expiratory valve. By contrast, during HHHFNC pressure is developed within the nasal cavity and results from the flow through the cannula in combination with the infant’s breathing, while resistance is determined by the leak between the nares and the cannula.18 Because of this difference in the modality of generating pressure, the pressure developed during HHHFNC cannot be easily monitored1 ,2 and, most importantly, the retropharyngeal pressure (Prp) might present larger within-breath changes associated with the breathing flow.19 To the best of our knowledge, the effects of the differing working mechanisms of NCPAP and HHHFNC on lung mechanics and work of breathing (WOB) have been compared only in a single study in which NCPAP at 6 cmH2O was related with HHHFNC at different flow rates, therefore, the comparison was not performed matching the distending pressure developed by the two techniques.20
In this study, we aimed to identify whether the differing mechanisms of generating Prp in HHHFNC compared to NCPAP affect WOB, breathing pattern, lung mechanics and gas exchange when the same level of continuous Prp is provided in preterm infants with RDS.
The study was approved by the human ethics committee of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan, and informed parental consent had been obtained prior to the study.
Study population
Preterm infants between 28+0 and 32+6 weeks gestational age (GA) and postnatal age <96 h receiving either NCPAP or HHHFNC for mild to moderate RDS were studied. According to the institutional guidelines, the criteria to commence NCPAP or HHHFNC were a Silverman score >5 and/or fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) >0.3 for target peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) of 88–92%. Infants were studied once they were deemed stable by the treating clinical team. Exclusion criteria were intraventricular haemorrhage or major congenital abnormalities.
Experimental protocol and measurements
Experimental setup is shown in figure 1. SpO2, heart rate, transcutaneous partial pressure of oxygen (PtcO2) and carbon dioxide (PtcCO2) were continuously measured (IntelliVue X2, Philips, Best, The Netherlands and MicroGas 7650, Linde Medical Sensors, Basel, Switzerland). SpO2, Pes, Prp and lung volume (VL), were continuously recorded at 200 Hz for the last 5 min at each NCPAP/HHHFNC setting. PtcO2 and PtcCO2 were recorded at the end of each protocol step.
Figure 1
Experimental setup. The pneumotachgraph was only used for calibration.
Tidal changes in VL were computed from the abdominal (AB) and thoracic (RC) displacements measured by respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP) (Bioradio 150 CleveMed, Cleveland, Ohio, USA). Direct comparison of tidal changes in VL measured by a face-mask pneumotachography (8410A Hans Rudolph, Kansas City, Missouri, USA) over several spontaneous breaths allowed calibration of the RIP.
Intrapleural pressure was estimated by measuring the oesophageal pressure (Pes) through a neonatal oesophageal balloon placed in the lower third of the oesophagus and connected to a pressure transducer (DCXL30D, Honeywell, New Jersey, USA). Correct position of the oesophageal pressure was confirmed by evaluation of the pressure waveform and, when possible, by the occlusion technique.21 ,22
A 6 Fr feeding catheter with four side holes at the distal extremity was inserted in the pharynx and connected to a pressure transducer to measure Prp. To avoid occlusions of the catheter by secretions, a 40 mL/h airflow produced by a microinfuser was applied at the inlet of the catheter.
NCPAP and HHHFNC strategies
The study design was a randomised cross-over trial. Each infant was treated with NCPAP (SiPAP, Viasys, Healthcare, Palm Springs, California, USA) and HHHFNC (Precision Flow-Vapotherm, Stevensville, USA) applied in random order.
During NCPAP, pressures of 2, 4 and 6 cmH2O were applied in a randomised sequence. As it was not feasible to adjust HHHFNC in real time to provide to each newborn similar distending pressures, HHHFNC flow rates of 2, 4 and 6 L/min were applied to all infants, again in a randomised sequence, with the aim of selecting a posteriori, for each infant, the flow rates in which Prp matched the values applied during NCPAP. Each setting during NCPAP and HHHFNC was applied for 15 min.
The size of the nasal prongs for HHHFNC did not exceed 80% of the nares diameter in order to allow adequate air leak. For the purpose of this study, mouth air leaks were avoided by gently closing the mouth during data collection in both HHHFNC and NCPAP.
Data analysis
From the recorded data the following parameters were computed:
Breathing pattern: respiratory rate (RR), tidal volume (VT), minute ventilation (MV), percentage contribution of the rib cage to VT (%RC), Inspiratory Asynchrony Indices (IAI), laboured breathing index (LBI),23 and pressure time product (PTP). IAI was defined as the fraction of the inspiratory time during which the abdomen and the ribcage move in opposite directions.23
Lung mechanics: Lung resistance (RL) and dynamic lung compliance (Cdyn) were estimated by fitting the transpulmonary pressure (PL=Prp−Pes) and VL signals to the equation of motion of the respiratory system by the least-squares method.24
Work of breathing: The WOB and its components were estimated from Pes and lung volume changes measured by RIP as described in Saslow et al.20 The total WOB was divided into its elastic (eWOB), resistive (rWOB), inspiratory (WOBi) and expiratory (WOBe) components. As it is not possible to obtain an accurate passive pressure-volume relationship for the chest wall in spontaneously breathing preterm newborns, the contribution of the chest wall to eWOB has been neglected. Finally, we computed the resistive WOB associated with upper airways (WOBup) considering the difference between pressure at the end of the nasal cannula and Prp. The pressure at the end of the nasal cannula was considered constant and equal to the Prp at zero flow. With this assumption, WOBup includes the resistance of the upper airways and the load due to the fluctuation of the generated pressure. To account for variations in VT, WOB was normalised by it.
In order to better compare the effect of NCPAP and HHHFNC, the comparison was performed at the same level of Prp (max difference 1 cmH2O). In particular, each parameter was evaluated at a Prp as close as possible to 2 and 4 cmH2O. A minimum of 15 breaths free from artefacts were selected, and the analyses were performed on each breath.
Statistical analysis
Sample size estimation was based on finding a clinically significant difference in WOB between NCPAP and HHHFNC. Calculations (Sigmaplot 11.0, Systat Software), indicated that 14 subjects would be sufficient to reject the hypothesis of equivalence with 80% probability using an α of 0.05, given that means differed by at least 40%. Mean and SD were taken from Saslow et al.20 To account for patients potentially unable to be included in the comparison, we recruited 20 subjects. ANOVA on ranks for repeated measurements was used to test the significance of differences among the six conditions of ventilation support. Multiple comparisons after ANOVA were performed using the Tukey test. Differences were considered statistically significant for p<0.05. Data are reported as median (IQR).
Patients’ characteristics
Twenty infants were enrolled from December 2011 to June 2012. GA was 31 (30+6; 32) weeks, postnatal age 49 (35;79) hrs and birth weight 1490 (1404; 1657) g. Prior to commencement of non-invasive respiratory support the patients had a Silverman score of 6 (5; 6) and a FiO2 requirement between 0.3 and 0.6. At the time of the enrolment, 13 infants were receiving NCPAP at 4–6 cm H2O, while the other seven were on HHHFNC at 4–6 L/min. During the study, FiO2 was between 0.21 and 0.25 for both the modalities.
All ventilation modalities/settings were well tolerated by all infants. No interventions, including FiO2 adjustments, were required to maintain SpO2 in the range 88–93%, suggesting that, by the time of the study, most of the patients had improved. This consideration explains relatively high values of compliance found in few patients.
Generated end-expiratory pressure
Figure 2 shows experimental traces of a representative infant during NCPAP and HHHFNC at an end-expiratory Prp of 2 cmH2O. Changes in Pes and transpulmonary pressure (PL) are reported instead of absolute values as in supine patients only changes in pleural pressure can be accurately estimated from Pes.21 ,22 VT was similar in the two modalities, while Prp and Pes presented higher intratidal variations during HHHFNC.
Figure 2
Experimental tracings: retropharyngeal pressure (Prp), changes in oesophageal pressure (ΔPes), changes in transpulmonary pressure (ΔPL), volume changes (ΔVL), abdominal and thoracic contributions to lung volume changes (Vab and Vrb) of a representative infant during nasal continuous positive airways pressure (NCPAP), and heated, humidified, high-flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC) at a pressure of end-expiration Prp of 2 cmH2O.
The relationship between flow rate (V’) in HHHFNC and the level of end-expiratory Prp is shown in figure 3. There was a poor correlation between the variables as determined by linear regression, even when flow values were corrected for infants weight (Prp=0.3+0.7*V’; r2=0.37). The maximum Prp recorded at end-expiration was 7 cmH2O.
Figure 3
Linear regression between flow rate divided by infants’ weight and end-expiratory Prp in heated, humidified, high-flow, nasal cannula (HHHFNC) (Prp=0.3+0.7*V’; r2=0.37).
NCPAP at settings of 2, 4, 6 cmH2O achieved an end-expiratory pressures of 2, 4 and 6 cmH2O at the level of the retropharynx. HHHFNC was able to produce an end-expiratory Prp of 2 cmH2O in all 20 infants, while Prp of 4 cm H2O was obtained only in 15 infants and of 6 cmH2O in 5 infants. For this reason, the comparisons were limited to 15 infants at Prp of 2 and 4 cmH2O. During HHHFNC, Prp of 2 cm H2O was reached in 4 infants with 2 L/min and in 11 infants with 4 L/min, while Prp of 4 cmH2O was reached in 4 infants with 4 L/min and in 11 infants with 6 L/min.
Comparison between NCPAP and HHHFNC
Detailed comparisons between HHHFNC and NCPAP can be found in table 1. No statistically significant differences were found between HHHFNC and NCPAP on breathing pattern parameters, gas exchange and respiratory mechanics.
Table 1
Pressure swings, breathing pattern, lung mechanics, gas exchange and WOB during HHHFNC and NCPAP at 2 and 4 cmH2O of end-expiratory retropharyngeal pressure
RR and %RC were lower and IAI was higher during HHHFNC than NCPAP but without reaching statistical significance. Increasing Prp from 2 to 4 cmH2O produced similar effects during the two modalities: a significant reduction in RR and a slight increase in VT and PtcO2.
Figure 4 shows WOBi, divided into WOBup and the component due to the lower part of the respiratory system. At a Prp of 4 cm H2O, the inspiratory WOBup was significantly higher during HHHFNC than NCPAP. However, we did not observe any significant difference in terms of WOBi, because WOBup contributes only a small part (16%) to the total.
Figure 4
Inspiratory work of breathing (rWOBi) with underlined the resistive component (rWOBi) and the component due to the upper airway (WOBup). * p<0.5 between WOBup during heated, humidified, high-flow, nasal cannula (HHHFNC), and nasal continuous positive airways pressure (NCPAP) at 4 cmH2O.
This study compared the effects of HHHFNC and NCPAP on breathing pattern, gas exchange, lung mechanics and WOB in premature infants with RDS at equivalent applied Prp. At the considered Prp, there was no difference in gas exchange, WOB and lung mechanics between NCPAP and HHHFNC.
Generated end-expiratory pressure
In our study, during HHHFNC, only 75% of infants reached an end-expiratory Prp of at least 4 cmH2O and values over 5 cm H2O were rarely achieved, suggesting that HHHFNC, as currently applied in the clinical settings, provides lower continuous distending pressures than those commonly used in NCPAP.
The correlation between the HHHFNC flow rate and Prp was quite poor, consistently with previous reports.1–2 The slope of the linear regression differed from the one reported previously (1.1 cmH2O*min*kg/L)26 suggesting that, in addition to the wide intersubject and intrasubject variability in the amount of pressure developed for a given flow rate,25 there may also be large between-centre variability.
Comparison between NCPAP and HHHFNC
No statistically significant differences were found either in gas exchange, breathing pattern, thoraco-AB asynchrony or WOB between the two modalities, in agreement with previous studies.17 ,20 ,27 Interestingly, a lower mean RR was noticed in HHHFNC than in NCPAP, when compared at the same Prp. Although not statistically significant, the difference could be clinically important and has been previously reported in adult studies.28 It is important to underline that in this study, as distinct from the previous ones,20 ,27 the comparison of the two techniques at the same distending pressure was aimed to better understand the role of one of the possible mechanisms of action and, because of this, its application differs from how HHHFNC is most commonly applied in clinical practice.
Upper airways resistance during HHHFNC
Although no difference was found between NCPAP and HHHFNC in total WOB, at a Prp of 4 cmH2O the WOBi was slightly higher during HHHFNC than NCPAP. In particular, WOBiup was significantly higher during HHHFNC. This difference is likely due to the fact that within-breath changes in Prp are higher during HHHFNC than during NCPAP. In fact, during HHHFNC the resistance determined by the leak is flow-dependent, which means that even small changes in flow can produce significant changes in pressure. Moreover, the bias flow during HHHFNC (generally 2–8 L/min) is lower than during NCPAP (generally 15 L/min) and, therefore, the tidal flow associated to the infants’ spontaneous breathing (generally 1 L/min) plays a more significant role. However, as rWOBup represents a small part of WOBi, this potential drawback of HHHFNC appears not to be clinically relevant.
Limitations of the study
Changes in oesophageal pressure may not accurately reflect changes in pleural pressure because of suboptimal positioning of the balloon, or when the chest wall distortion results in an uneven distribution of pleural pressure changes. However, as no differences were observed in thoraco-AB asynchrony between NCPAP and HHHFNC, possible inaccuracies should have equally affected the measurements, allowing reliable intrasubject comparisons.
Even if RIP is considered reliable for determining tidal changes in VL in preterm infants,29 accuracy of the calibration coefficients may be affected by movements during measurements.
WOB has been computed without considering the relaxation curves of the lung and the chest wall, as they cannot be accurately assessed in spontaneously breathing infants. Therefore, the estimation of WOB is based on the following assumptions, commonly used in this kind of studies20: (1) changes in total respiratory system pressure-volume curve around the operating lung volumes are mostly due to the lung; (2) the compliance is constant over the breath and (3) end-expiratory lung volume does not change significantly within each protocol step.
When similar end-expiratory pressures are applied, in spite of the differing mechanisms of pressure generation, NCPAP and HHHFNC show comparable effects in terms of breathing pattern, gas exchange, lung mechanics and work of breathing in preterm infants with mild-moderate RDS.
We thank Branka Cupic, MD, for providing advices and assistance in the use of HHHFNC device.
• Contributors AL: contributed to the study design, took part to the experimental activity, drafted the manuscript. CV: contributed to the study design, took part to the experimental activity, carried out data processing and drafted the manuscript; MC: contributed to the study design, data interpretation and manuscript revision. FC: took part to the experimental activity and data analysis. EZ: contributed to the interpretation of the data and to the preparation of the manuscript. MF, MD: took part to the experimental activity. FM: contributed to the study design and data interpretation and to the preparation of the manuscript. RLD: contributed to the study design, supervised the experimental activity and data interpretation and contributed to the preparation of the manuscript.
• Competing interests None.
• Patient consent Obtained.
• Ethics approval Human Ethics Committee of the Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico in Milan.
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Implementation of Routing Protocols of MANETs in
VANETs Using Route Analysis
Muhammad Bilal Khattak, Gulzar Ahmad
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Implementation of Routing Protocols of MANETs in VANETs Using
Route Analysis
Muhammad Bilal Khattak, Gulzar Ahmad
Abstract— The comparative analysis of routing protocols of
MANETs in VANETs under different scenarios. The tests were
conducted in MATLAB by varying the vehicles densities. The
different parameters used to study these analysises are Packet
Delivery Ratio (PDR), Average End-to-End Delay (E2ED),
Normalized Routing Overhead (NRO), and Average Link
Duration (ALD).
Keywords— Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), TDMAaware Routing Protocol for Multi-hop communications
(TRPM), Optimized Link State Routing Protocol (OLSR),
Moving Zone Based Routing Protocol (MoZo), Packet
Delivery Ratio (PDR).
I.
INTRODUCTION
Ad hoc is a Latin word which means "for this reason". A
MANET (Mobile Ad Hoc Network) is a versatile specially
appointed network configuration which is constantly selfdesigning, framework less network of mobile computing
devices connected without cables.
Every device in the ambit of MANETs is allowed to roam
autonomously and by the virtue of this dynamism it will alter
its connections to other devices oftentimes all must pass
random traffic to their use, and as a result be a router [1]. The
essential confrontation in establishing a MANET mechanism
is enabling each device to consistently keep up the data
required to route traffic legitimately. These networks can
operate independently of anyone else or may be associated
with the largest Internetwork. It may possess one or more
transceivers between different nodes or terminals. This results
in a very dynamic and autonomous topology [2].
MANETs are a sort of WANETs that most often has a routing
network management condition on top of a link layer of ad
hoc network connection [3]. MANETs have a self-shaping,
network self-recovery, and peer to peer as opposed to a mesh
Muhammad Bilal Khattak: PG Research student, Dept. of EEE, University of
Engineering and Technology Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
Email: mbk248@yahoo.com
Gulzar Ahmed: Research Scholar, Dept. of EEE, University of Engineering
and Technology Peshawar, KP, Pakistan
network has a focal controller (to decide, develop and spread
the routing table) [4].
Multi-hop transfers, links back to time immemorial. The
development of portable PCs and 802.11 / Wi-Fi distance
networking made the MANETs a research centered point from
the mid-1990s. Numerous academic papers assessed the
protocols and their capabilities, considering fluctuating
degrees of mobility within a limited space, typically with all
terminals or nodes within a couple of jumps of any other [3].
Various protocols are assessed on the basis of different
parameters such as the drop-out rate of data packet, the
overhead introduced because of routing protocols, network
throughput, the ability to scale, end-to-end data packet delays
[5].
A vehicular ad hoc network uses vehicles as locomotive
terminal in a Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) to establish
mobile network. Every participating vehicle end up to a
wireless node or router by a VANET, grants cars almost 100400 meters of one other to connect and, as a result, a wide
ranged network is created. If the vehicles went out of the
network and signal range, other cars are allowed to join the
network [6]. These cars that are connected to each other
results in a mobile Internet. The first system that make use of
this technology will probably be the fire vehicles and police in
order to communicate with one and other for safety and
security purposes [7].
In MANETs and VANETs the Topology changes swiftly and
unpredictably. The location and position of nodes changes
time to time and thus their topologies also changes with
passage of time in VANETs [11]. Every node can exchange its
information with each and every node in the network, for the
reason that the network among them is Ad-hoc Network. Ad
hoc network is a type of network in which every node can
communicate with every other node without any centralized
device. Certain nodes directly communicate with each other in
a case if they are close and have direct contact with each other,
but not in all cases. If the two nodes are at distance from each
other, but within Range of each other, then in this case the
Intermediate nodes provide the communication bridge from
Source to Destination to deliver the messages.
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Infrastructure
(GSM)
Wireless
Infrastructureless
(VANET, WANET
,MANET, WSN)
Network
Wired
Infrastructure
(LAN)
Fig. 1. Types Of Networks
At the point when the transmission of messages is influenced
by the loss of connection among source and destination, the
recuperation of dropped route is connected here or scan for
new conceivable route is done if it is accessible. Route
movement, Route Discovery and Route Maintenance are the
aspects when the communication connection is breaks
amongst nodes. The recuperation of route is done when all
node trade the control messages with its neighbors and along
these lines the messages surge inside the network. This
marvels increases the routing overhead of protocols that we
utilized and it impacts the assets of portable nodes which are
constrained. At the end of the day the effect of this thing
influences the entire existence of our Network and we should
limit it for proficient execution of our Routing Protocols.
That time in which two nodes came extremely close to each
other and they can both feel the impact of each other so it is
called Link duration. When two nodes came in scope of each
other up to that degree that they both can detect the presence
of each other and the communication may conceivable
between them in the event that they both wish so. The nodes
are exceedingly dynamic that they move in each direction and
every time new topologies are creating, some new nodes came
in topology while some leave the topology same time so
quickly topologies might be altered.
At the point when two nodes are connected with each other
and they have active route then the minimum time of
connection between two nodes in case of connected route is
known as Path duration. Two nodes enter in scope of each
other and one node needs to communicate messages to other
node so it will make association or connection first by sending
REQUEST message and on this connection they both will
send their information. Certainly the ideal opportunity for
which Destination node sends REPLY of REQUEST MSG,
till teardown of this route and these two nodes have active
path on which they both send or get data is known as the path
duration. At the point when the connection demolishes among
two nodes then they again trade the control packets and
connection is again associated between them, so this expands
the overhead of our routing protocols.
We can amplify the effectiveness of routes seeking
protocols to gather information about link and path duration in
an uncommon situation. TRPM ensures the accessibility of first
routing path on the grounds that TRPM is Reactive Routing
Protocol and it looks for a route when there is need of route for
reason for sending data [8]. While on other hand the Optimized
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Link State Routing (OLSR) is Proactive routing protocol and it
chooses the route intermittently on the grounds that the
Proactive Routing Protocols have routing table ahead of time
and they knew the area of nodes inside the Network and
updates this routing table time to time [12].
In Moving zone on the basis of (MoZo) structure comprises
a plurality of moving areas, which are formed by vehicles with
similar patterns of movement [13]. The captain of the vehicle is
selected for each zone and is responsible for managing the
information to other vehicles of the user and spread a message
[9]. Move construction zone starts logging vehicle on VANET.
The vehicle will perform accede to the Protocol Find nearby
area or moving form its own zone. The zone formation criteria
against Figured based on the similarity of movement of the
vehicle. Captain cars each zone keeps moving index object that
controls up to date information on all its cars States [10].
The execution and effectiveness of these protocols will be
incremented to include the traits and knowledge of path and
link duration. Heterogeneity, MAC protocols of energy
proficient, Multiple QoS path parameter, Sink mobility are
additionally some essential properties and parameters. We pick
three routing protocols for our examination where one routing
protocol is reactive which are TRPM and two proactive routing
protocols which are OLSR and other is MoZo.
II.
MATHEMATICAL SECTION
Source (S) sends data to Destination, consequently first
source made some selection of next node which also called
forwarding nodes who will simply forward its messages and is
also called Relay node (R).
x = rα × π/1800
(1)
And also
x = √ r2 + D2 – 2rDcos (α)
(2)
The solution of Eq. (1) and (2), in order to calculate the
distance D between source S and destination D, taking Square
on both sides and by arranging variables, we get
D2 – 2rcos (α) D + (r2 – x2) = 0
(3)
As in equation (3) we can see that it is the quadratic
formula and, if we solve this quadratic equation for distance
then we get the value of D which is
D = rcos (α) ± √ (rcos (α)) 2 – (r2 – x2)
(4)
If we derive the Probability Density Function (PDF), then it
will be
Fd (D) = r2 – x2 – D2/ 2rD
(5)
At the point when nodes start to move from their initial
location or position than there we have to find the distance D.
In order to find the value of distance D here we discuss two
cases with respect to the initial positions of nodes. We classify
it in two cases on the basis of angles when Source S and
forwarding node R are making Acute and Obtuse angles
interchangeably.
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Case – 1
III.
We will calculate the Distance Dt1 between Source node
and next forwarding node. Here forwarding nodes are making
obtuse angle in motion whereas source node are moving with
Acute angle as depicted below in fig. 14
Mathematically we derive equation for Distance Dt1when
we subtract Y1cos (αA) and add the other value of Y2cos (180
– β0)
Dt1 = D - Y1cos (αA) + Y2cos (180 – β0)
(6)
LINK DURATION
At a point when the Source node desires to send
information to the Destination node or any other node, the
Source node (S) directs its message to closest node, which is
within Range of Source node in direction of Destination node.
The criteria for selection of forwarding node is that the distance
of the forwarding node will be Minimum from destination node
in Range of Source node.
The distance of a node within Range of other node that
communication between them is possible is our Link Duration.
Hence we have the two cases of fT (t), which are Probability
Density Function PDF of Link Duration. At time when a node
enters in Range of another node, it feels the existence of the
newly entered node in its range. When they both came in range
of each other as a result the communication between them is
possible, if they both wish so.
Case 1: When the Velocity of nodes is like so then,
fT (t) = ∫0V max fd (D) fv (vr) d vr
(8)
= ∫0V max fd (D) (vr) d vr /π √ 4v2 – vr
(9)
Case 2: And the case 2 is about when the velocity of nodes
will be alike, hence
fT (t) = ∫0V max fd (D) fv (v1 , v2) d vr
Figure 2: The Link Connectivity Model when Source is moving with
acute angle and forwarding nodes with Obtuse angle.
= ∫0V max fd (D) ((-1/v12v22) – (vr v1 v2/ v12
(11)
+ v22)
And Vmax is the maximum speed of node.
Case – 2
IV.
In Case 2 for calculating distance Dt2 we will see that the
forwarding nodes move with the angle less than 900 or Acute
angle, whereas the Source node will be moving with the
Obtuse angle or angle more than 900 as shown in Fig. 2
(10)
SIMULATIONS AND RESULTS
Here we will see the execution of our three routing
protocols in VANETs for PDR. We will get start to discover
the Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) against the parameters of
various Scalabilities.
0.09
TRPM
MoZo
OLSR
Packet Delivery Ratio
0.08
0.07
0.06
0.05
0.04
0.03
0.02
0.01
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
Vehicle Density
Figure 3: The Link Connectivity Model when Source is moving with
Obtuse angle and next forwarding nodes are with acute angle.
Figure 4: Achieving PDR
The Distance Dt2 will be shown mathematically such as
In the event that we see the performance of three routing
protocols in VANETs for Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) so it is
clear from the Fig 4, that the PDR of TRPM is superior to the
other proactive routing protocols (OLSR and MoZo). Its PDR
is low in small Number of Nodes yet with expanding of
Dt2 = D + Y1cos (1800 – α0) + Y2cos (βα)
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7
x 10
TRPM
MoZo
OLSR
End-to-end Delay
6
5
4
3
2
1
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
Vehicle Density
Figure 5: Production of E2ED
In case of VANETs, End-to-End Delay (AE2ED) of
(TRPM) is greater than the Proactive Routing Protocols
nevertheless when mobility is very high its performance
become sensible similar to rest of the two routing protocol. In
low mobility, the Delay of TRPM is great however overall role
of MoZo and OLSR is same in context of AE2ED in both low
and high Mobility in VANETs. Its performance is not affected
by low and high mobility like TRPM. Generally in Vehicular
Ad-hoc Networks the performance about AE2ED of Proactive
Routing Protocols is better in low and high mobilities than
Reactive Routing Protocol.
Routing Overhead of TRPM is better in VANETs, in the
event that we contrast it with OLSR and MoZO. The
Normalized Routing Overhead of Proactive Routing Protocols
(OLSR and MoZo) is expanding quickly with expanding of
Scalability yet TRPM does not influence like them under
various densities. Every one of the protocols demonstrate low
NRO when there are 100 vehicles and high routing overhead in
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Normalized Routing Overhead
The Result of AE2ED in VANETs utilizing our three
Routing Protocols which are TRPM, MoZo and OLSR as
talked about before. In MANETs, the AE2ED of Reactive
Protocol is more prominent in modest Number of Vehicles
however diminished with expanding of Scalability yet the Endto-End Delay of Proactive Routing Protocols is efficient. MoZo
proving itself better here from both TRPM and OLSR because
its E2ED is lower than whatever remains of two other routing
protocols. OLSR is giving low End-to-End Delay in low
Scalability however increasing its Delay with increasing
Number of Nodes in MANETs. Generally the execution of
MoZo and OLSR is superior to TRPM in context of AE2ED
under MANETs.
low and high number of vehicles in VANETs as can be found
in Fig 6.
TRPM
MoZo
OLSR
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
Vehicle Density
Figure 6: Production of Normalized Routing Overhead
By studying the performance consequences of the three
routing protocols in VANETs we can observe that Average
Path Duration (APD) of TRPM is high in low Mobility which
implies that its NRO is low in less Vehicle Density yet with the
element of Density the APD goes descending as appeared. At
high Density its outcome is same as OLSR and MoZo giving
their Average Path Duration results. However, OLSR and
MoZo demonstrate them not very great than TRPM in setting
of APD and Normalized Routing Overhead (NRO) in low
Density on the grounds that their APD is low in start.
The approaching of two Mobile Nodes within the Range of
each other is called ALD. Every mobile node has its own
radius of Range; in which it can send its information to other
node when other node enters its range. The nodes changes their
positions rapidly that’s why their topologies also change and
these nodes enter or exit from range of each other
unpredictably. Hence the entrance of one node within range of
other mobile node is ALD.
4
5
x 10
TRPM
MoZo
OLSR
4.5
Average Link Duration
Scalability, its Packet Delivery Ratio additionally expanded
which make it great than remaining two routing protocols in
MANETs. The PDR of MoZo and OLSR is not pleasant at
everything but if we compare the performance of MoZo with
third one then it shows a little good result for PDR than OLSR
but then again not good like TRPM with growing Number of
Vehicles or Scalabilities.
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
700
800
900
1000
Vehicle Density
Figure 7: The ALD of protocols under VANETs with varying Scalability
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From the above resut in Fig.7 we conclude that ALD of
TRPM at low vehicle density is not much pleasant however
with increasing vehicle density its ALD improves and we can
readily observe from its graph that it is steadily moving down.
The TRPM in this particular scenario is 125% more efficient
than MoZo and 60% more efficient than OLSR but OLSR
performance is better than MoZo by the same margin of 60%.
However at low vehicle density the performance of MoZo is
better than the two protocols that is MoZo is the ideal protocol
in case of low vehicle density but as the vehicle density
increases its performance start to undergo a non-uniformity. It
can be concluded that at low vehicle density MoZo is the ideal
choice while at high vehicle density TRPM is the ideal choice.
In the overall scenario TRPM stood first followed by OLSR
and then MoZo. While the overall performance of OLSR is
satisfactory as the remaining two protocols are perform
efficiently at two different scenarios that is at low vehicle
density and at high vehicle density.
CONCLUSION
We conclude that TRPM and MoZo are a sort of
specialized protocols performing efficient results at different
scenarios at some point one protocol performs and show
encouraging results at low vehicle density while the other
displays impressive results at high vehicle density in the same
scenario. The performance of OLSR is satisfactory and often
seen that has only displayed satisfactory results at low vehicle
density. But here our focal area is high vehicle density where
both TRPM and MoZo has displayed good results but if
compared the overall performance of TRPM is much better
than the other two protocols in all the scenarios. As our
detailed study as mentioned in the tables have also displayed
that the average performance ratio or percentage of TRPM is
highly promising.
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Introduction {#Sec1}
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Ketocarotenoids are a special group of carotenoids characterized by the presence of one or several carbonyl groups in their ß-ionone rings. The electron-withdrawing effect of keto moieties on the carotenoid's conjugated π-system results in a slight shift of absorption maximum from 450 nm (yellow) to 470 nm (red). Thus, ketocarotenoids are easily recognizable by their red hue. Due to their excellent anti-oxidative characteristics, ketocarotenoids such as astaxanthin and canthaxanthin rank among the highest-value products on the carotenoid pigment market^[@CR1]^. While market demands are still being met mainly by the chemical industry, the interests in ketocarotenoids produced in biological systems has witnessed skyrocketing growth in the recent years^[@CR2]^.
In contrast to non-ketolated carotenoids such as ß-carotene, lutein, zeaxanthin, violaxanthin etc., all of which are ubiquitous among photosynthetic organisms, the biosynthesis of ketocarotenoids is limited to a small groups of organisms including several marine bacteria^[@CR3]^, the fungus *Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous*^[@CR4]^, microalgae^[@CR5]^ and flowers of *Adonis aestivalis*^[@CR6]^. Most prominent among these species is the unicellular green alga *Haematococcus pluvialis*, which can accumulate astaxanthin at very high levels up to 7% of its dried weight^[@CR7]^. Huge algal farms growing *Haematococcus* for astaxanthin extraction have been established in several countries including the USA, Israel and China^[@CR8]^. Industrial production of astaxanthin in *Haematococcus*, however is hampered by several limiting factors such as the alga's slow growth rate and low cell density, high risk of contamination^[@CR9]^, parasitic disease^[@CR10]^, high energy cost for induction of carotenogenesis (requiring high light intensity) and difficulty breaking the thick cell wall of haematocysts^[@CR11]^. Thus, there is a great and obvious need to develope new, alternative biological platforms for ketocarotenoids production.
Significant efforts have been made to engineer the ketocarotenoid biosynthetic pathway (especially of the high-value astaxanthin) into already existing carotenoid biosynthesis of model organisms such as bacteria^[@CR12]^, cyanobacteria^[@CR13]^, yeast^[@CR14]^, higher plants^[@CR15]--[@CR17]^ or microalgae^[@CR18]--[@CR20]^. The experimental strategy often involves the introduction of the key enzyme, ß-carotene ketolase (BKT) derived from an astaxanthin-producing organism, into the host's cells. The results of these approaches vary from complete reddening of plant tissues due to pigment accumulation to only trace amounts of detected ketocarotenoids. Due to the promiscuous nature of the enzyme, a large number of intermediates or side-products are accumulated in conjunction with the target ketocarotenoid^[@CR21]^. The dearth of isoprenoid precursors and metabolic sink prevent the maximal efficiency of carotenoid biosynthesis^[@CR22]^. Spatial separation of enzyme--substrate is another factor that might result in low production of ketocarotenoids^[@CR23],[@CR24]^. Feedback-inhibition of carotenogenesis due to its own excessive end-product has also been reported^[@CR25]^. Overall, these studies reflect the complexity of ketocarotenoid biosynthesis and the fact that in many cases introducing a foreign protein in a metabolic network only represents the first step of metabolic engineering.
For at least 70 years, the unicellular green alga *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* has served as a model organism for research on photosynthesis, flagellate structure and function, chloroplast biogenesis, light perception, cell--cell recognition and cell cycle control, among many other biological processes^[@CR26]^. *Chlamydomonas* also belongs to a limited number of microalgae whose transformation has been routinely achieved by thoroughly developed molecular toolkits^[@CR27]^. It was long assumed that *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* does not accumulate ketocarotenoid. This assumption was disputed in 2011 when large amounts of ketocarotenoids, including 4-ketolutein, 4-ketolutein esters, astaxanthin, astaxanthin esters and canthaxanthin, were detected in *Chlamydomonas* diploid zygospores^[@CR28]^. A ß-carotene ketolase variant, termed CrBKT, was identified earlier from sequencing data of *Chlamydomonas* genome^[@CR29]^. Functional analysis in *E. coli* showed that CrBKT is a diketolase (i.e. able to add carbonyl groups to both ß-ionone rings) capable of converting ß-carotene to canthaxanthin and zeaxanthin to astaxanthin with high efficiency^[@CR12]^. CrBKT is highly expressed in *Chlamydomonas* zygospores, while in vegetative cells its expression is kept at minimal level. This pattern explains the lack of ketocarotenoids in these cells. CrBKT has been successfully utilized to introduce astaxanthin production into *Arabidopsis*^[@CR12]^, tomato^[@CR16]^, tobacco^[@CR15]^ and rice^[@CR17]^ among other species.
While commercial production of ketocarotenoid in *Chlamydomonas* zygospores is not economical (the zygospore maturation alone takes at least one month!), vegetative *Chlamydomonas* cells have shown a great potential as host for production of a wide range of high-value compounds and biotechnological products^[@CR30]^. In this paper, we report about our approach to engineer the ketocarotenoid biosynthetic pathway into *Chlamydomonas* vegetative cells by overexpressing its native enzyme CrBKT. The resulting transformants accumulated canthaxanthin and also displayed significant changes in chlorophyll content. These findings indicate a cross-talk mechanism between ketocarotenoid- and chlorophyll biosynthesis.
Results {#Sec2}
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Selection of *Chlamydomonas* strain for ketocarotenoid metabolic engineering {#Sec3}
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Studies in *Haematococcus pluvialis*^[@CR31]^, *Chromochloris zofingiensis*^[@CR5]^, *Agrobacterium aurantiacum*^[@CR3]^, *Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous*^[@CR32]^ and *Adonis aestivalis*^[@CR6]^ have indicated that ketocarotenoids are synthesized from carotenoids. Two types of reactions are usually involved: ketolation (i.e. addition of the carbonyl groups to the ß-ionone rings) catalyzed by ß-carotene ketolases (BKT/CrtW/CrtO) and hydroxylation (i.e. addition of the hydroxyl groups to the ß-ionone rings) catalyzed by ß-carotene hydroxylases (CHYb/CrtY/CrtR; Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}). Like many other secondary metabolic processes, the enzymes of ketocarotenoid biosynthesis are promiscuous: They can accept a wide variety of substrates. For example, CrBKT can process ß-carotene to echinenone, echinenone to canthaxanthin, zeaxanthin to adonixanthin, adonixanthin to astaxanthin, α-carotene to 4-keto-α-carotene and lutein to 4-ketolutein^[@CR33]^ .Figure 1Biosynthetic pathways of carotenoids and ketocarotenoids in *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*. In the lower right corner is the numbering of ß-ionone ring as well as positions where hydroxylation and ketolation reactions take place. In order to direct cell's resources towards biosynthesis of highly valuable canthaxanthin and astaxanthin, we identified two competing side pathways---the α-carotene biosynthesis and xanthophylls cycle---that need to be eliminated. These pathways are highlighted in coloured boxes.
To streamline resources towards the biosynthesis of highly valuable ketocarotenoids---canthaxanthin or astaxanthin---competitive metabolic side pathways can be silenced. As depicted in Fig. [1](#Fig1){ref-type="fig"}, such pathways include the biosynthesis of α-carotenoids and those of xanthophylls cycle pigments (violaxanthin, antheraxanthin and neoxanthin). Silencing these pathways requires disruption of the conversion steps of lycopene to α-carotene and of zeaxanthin to violaxanthin. In *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*, there have been successful reports of CRISPR-Cas9- and RNA interference (RNAi)-mediated gene knock-out/knock-down^[@CR34]--[@CR37]^ but these techniques have not been well established.
*Chlamydomonas* strain CC-4102 (genotype *npq2-2 npq1 lor1)*, in which both the α-carotenoids biosynthesis and the xanthophylls cycle are defective, has been previously isolated and characterized^[@CR38]^. This strain is characterized by reduced non-photochemical quenching (NPQ), accumulation of zeaxanthin as well as the near absence of lutein, violaxanthin, antheraxanthin and neoxanthin. Surprisingly, even with such defective photoprotective mechanisms, CC-4102 cells can still grow at both low- and high light conditions. These findings suggest that zeaxanthin protects cells from photooxidation. For ketocarotenoids metabolic engineering, strain CC-4102 holds several advantages over the frequently used CC-124 or CC-4350 *Chlamydomonas* strains. The absence of many major carotenoids leads to less clustered chromatograms, making it easier to detect newly formed ketocarotenoids. Their absence also reduces the possibilities of side products -- unwanted ketolated substances due to the promiscuous nature of CrBKT. The major carotenoids of CC-4102, ß-carotene and zeaxanthin, are good substrates of CrBKT and the respective products, canthaxanthin and astaxanthin, are high value ketocarotenoids. Consequently, we chose strain CC-4102 for the ketocarotenoid metabolic engineering experiment.
Transformation and selection of *Chlamydomonas* strain CC-4102 {#Sec4}
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We transformed the algal cells with CrBKT-overexpression vector pChlamy4 CrBKT V5H via electroporation. We selected transformed CC-4102 cells under either mixotroph or heterotroph conditions, as detailed in "[Materials and methods](#Sec9){ref-type="sec"}" section. In both cases, we obtained numerous zeocin-resistant colonies (184 colonies from mixotrophic selection, 56 colonies from heterotrophic selection: the corresponding transformation efficiencies were 184 and 56 colonies/µg vector DNA, respectively). Transformation with another ble2A bicistronic vector, namely pBR9 mCherry^[@CR39]^ provided a similar efficiency (186 colonies/µg vector DNA). Most of the CrBKT transformants displayed a dark green color indistinguishable from non-transformed cells. Only on plates cultivated under heterotrophic conditions did we observe four pale green colonies, whose green color seemed much less intense compared to the surrounding dark green ones. We termed such lines DARK-PALE 1--4 and grouped them separately for later analysis.
We extracted genomic DNA from 96 zeocin-resistant lines and performed PCR to confirm the integration of the overexpression construct into genome. We used primers 1479 and 1491, which spanned from the selection marker *ble*, over 2A sequence to the very end of *CrBKT* gene (Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}). Successful integration of the intact *ble2A-CrBKT* resulted in amplification of a 1288 base pair (bp)-long fragment. For comparison, we combined transformants into three groups: dark green lines from mixotrophic selection, dark green lines from heterotrophic selection and pale green lines (named DARK-PALE lines) from heterotrophic selection. As presented in Table [1](#Tab1){ref-type="table"}, the PCR-positive rate among DARK-PALE lines was 100% (4/4), while we observed much lower rates (10% and 5.8%) in other two (dark green) groups. Figure 2The overexpression vector pChlamy4 CrBKT V5H. Half arrows represent binding positions and 5′-3′ direction of primers used for PCR screening and insertion mapping of transformants. Also shown are the sequences of adaptors and adaptor primers used for insertion mapping. Oligonucleotides 389 and 390 annealed to form asymmetric blunt-ended adaptor. The short strand was extended after first round of PCR. Table 1Whole cassette amplification (PCR with primers 1479 and 1491).Number of coloniesTransformation efficiencyPCR-positive/testedPercentage (%)Dark green, mixotrophic184184 colonies/µg DNA4/4010Dark green, heterotrophic5256 colonies/µg DNA3/525.8Pale green, heterotrophic(DARK-PALE lines)44/4100
Pigment analysis of transformants overexpressing CrBKT {#Sec5}
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The pigment profiles of all dark green transformants, regardless of whether they were from mixotrophic or heterotrophic selection, were almost identical in pigment profile compared to non-transformed CC-4102 cells under the same growth conditions. On the other hand, there were significant changes among DARK-PALE transformants (Figs. [3](#Fig3){ref-type="fig"}, [4](#Fig4){ref-type="fig"}). In all DARK-PALE lines, the chlorophyll-to-carotenoid ratio was strongly reduced by a factor of 2 to 3, causing a pale green color. HPLC analysis revealed the presence of canthaxanthin---the diketolation product of ß-carotene in at least two DARK-PALE lines (DARK-PALE 1 and DARK-PALE 4). These data indicatie that in these lines CrBKT was expressed and functional. We estimated canthaxanthin concentrations to be about 10% of total carotenoid concentration (0.1 pg/cell). There was no astaxanthin. We also noticed the presence of many minor peaks whose absorption spectra were similar to those of chlorophyll *a* or chlorophyll *b*. We assume that these minor peaks might be either from degradation of chlorophyll or were accumulated intermediates from chlorophyll biosynthetic pathways.Figure 3HPLC analysis of pigments extracted from DARK-PALE1 transformant as well as from DARK-GREEN 1 and non-transformed CC-4102 cells. Peaks identification: (1), (2), (3), (4): putative chlorophyll degradation products, (5): chlorophyll *b*, (6): lutein, (7): zeaxanthin, (8): new ketocarotenoid, (9): chlorophyll *a*, (10) and (11): ß-carotene. Below are absorption spectra from 280 to 640 nm of peaks (1), (2), (3), (4), (8), as well of chlorophyll *a*, *b* and canthaxanthin. Peak 8 is identified as canthaxanthin based on identical retention times (peak 8: 10.06 min, canthaxanthin: 10.00 min) and similar absorption spectra. Figure 4Comparison of chlorophylls/total carotenoids ratios of all PCR-positive CrBKT overepxression transformants. Four DARK-PALE lines display significantly lower Chl/car ratios than both non-transformed CC-4102 cells as well as all dark green lines. (\*) denotes statistical significance (*p* \< 0.05) compared to non-transformed cells under same growth conditions.
Insertion mapping of DARK-PALE transformants {#Sec6}
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We mapped the 5′- and 3′-flanking regions of DARK-PALE 1 and 3′-flanking region of DARK-PALE 2 (Table [S1](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"} and Fig. [S2](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"}, Supplementary Material). In DARK-PALE 1 5′- and 3′-end mapping yielded different insertion sites in different chromosomes. Such ambiguity was also encountered by Zhang et al*.*^[@CR40]^ and Pollock et al*.*^[@CR41]^, who explained it by co-integration into insertion site of extracellular DNA fragments derived from other cells lysed during electroporation. None of our discovered insertion sites could be associated to the chlorophyll biosynthetic pathway, thus though still incomplete, our insertion mapping implies that the expression cassette was randomly integrated into genome. Therefore, it is rather unlikely that the reduction of chlorophyll content in DARK-PALE lines was caused by disruption of chlorophyll biosynthetic genes.
Influence of light on ketocarotenoid- and chlorophyll-biosynthesis in DARK-PALE transformants {#Sec7}
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Initially we heterotrophically maintained DARK-PALE lines, i.e. in darkness on TAP-YP agar plates supplemented with zeocin (20 mg/L). We attempted to grow DARK-PALE cells mixotrophically on zeocin-containing TAP agar plates in the light but they repeatedly failed to grow. It turned out that the decrease of zeocin resistance was responsible for this failure. Light-cultivated DARK-PALE cells survived zeocin concentrations up to 10 mg/L but died completely at a concentration of 20 mg/L. Dark-grown DARK-PALE cells survived all tested concentrations (Fig. [5](#Fig5){ref-type="fig"}a). Intriguingly, light-grown DARK-PALE cells no longer showed the distinctive pale green color. Instead, they were dark green similar to non-transformed CC-4102 cells. HPLC analysis revealed the return of non-transformed chlorophyll/carotenoid ratio (Fig. [5](#Fig5){ref-type="fig"}b), as well as the absence of canthaxanthin in light-grown DARK-PALE cells (Fig. [S5](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"}, Supplementary Material). The presence of an intact expression cassette was confirmed by PCR in both dark- and light-cultivated cells (Fig. [S6](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"}, Supplementary Material).Figure 5Changes of pigment profiles of DARK-PALE cells under light and dark conditions. (**a**) Light-cultivated DARK-PALE cells return to dark-green color and do not survive high zeocin concentration of 20 mg/L. (**b**) Comparison of chlorophylls/total carotenoids ratios of dark- and light-grown DARK-PALE cells. DP = DARK-PALE.
Discussion {#Sec8}
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Confirmation of the intact integration of the overexpression cassette's intact integration into the genome by PCR resulted in very low positive rates: 10% among mixotrophic- and 12.5% among heterotrophic transformants. Such very low integration rates are unusual for the bicistronic ble2A system. Other publications have reported much higher rates of antibiotic-resistant lines harboring the gene of interest: 70%^[@CR42]^ 93%^[@CR43]^, 51.3%^[@CR44]^. With plasmid pBR9 mCherry, mCherry-fluorescence was detected in 76% of zeocin-resistant colonies indicating that the incorporation rate of the mCherry gene into *Chlamydomonas* genome was high. PCR amplification for the *ble* gene resulted in positive results for all zeocin-resistant transformants (data not shown), data that confirm the presence of *ble* gene required for zeocin resistance. We postulate that in all PCR-negative lines, the expression cassette was fragmented and only the *ble* gene was incorporated into the genome. According to the transgene integration model proposed by Zhang et al.^[@CR40]^, extracellular DNA is subjected to digestion by sequence-specific endonucleases before and during entry into recipient cells subjected to transformation. Cassette fragmentation and the subsequent low co-integration rates could be caused by sequence-specific cleavage of the CrBKT gene by such endonucleases.
In this approach, ketocarotenoid production in *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii* was associated with a decrease in chlorophyll content. This report is not the first time that such a correlation has been observed. Higher plants engineered to produce ketocarotenoids have much lower leaf chlorophyll contents compared to their non-transformed controls^[@CR45]--[@CR50]^. In microalgae such as *Haematococcus pluvialis*, *Chromochloris zofingiensis* and *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*, ketocarotenoid biosynthesis is also accompanied by degradation of chlorophyll^[@CR28],[@CR51],[@CR52]^. The mechanism behind this correlation is not well understood. However, its understanding is important to improve ketocarotenoid production in photosynthetic organisms. In higher plants, interference to chlorophyll biosynthesis could be avoided by limiting ketocarotenoid biosynthesis to non-photosynthetic tissues such as flowers or roots. Obviously, such options are unavailable in microalgae.
In CC-4102 cells, the predominant carotenoid is zeaxanthin, followed by ß-carotene. CrBKT can convert zeaxanthin to astaxanthin and ß-carotene to canthaxanthin with high efficiency^[@CR12]^. Remarkably, we only detected canthaxanthin. We hypothesize that substrate and enzyme spatial separation is responsible for the absence of astaxanthin rather than low enzymatic activity. One of the first ketocarotenoid metabolic engineering attempts in *Chlamydomonas* was carried out by Leon et al.^[@CR18]^, in which the authors overproduced HpBKT from *Haematococcus pluvialis* but could detect only 4-ketolutein, ketolation product from lutein, rather than astaxanthin and canthaxanthin. The authors attributed this finding to the enzyme's inaccessibility to its substrate ß-carotene. In a more recent publication, Perozeni et al.^[@CR20]^ also attempted to overexpress CrBKT in *Chlamydomonas npq2* mutant, but their study differs from ours. They directed CrBKT to the thylakoid membrane via fusion of the *psaD* chloroplast transit peptide (cTP^[@CR53]^) to its N-terminus. As a result, both astaxanthin and canthaxanthin are detected in their psaD-CrBKT transformants. In our study, we intentionally did not include cTP because there is evidence of an intrinsic cTP in CrBKT sequence, both from *in silico* sequence analysis with PredAlgo^[@CR54]^ as well as fluorescence translocation assay^[@CR20]^. The lack of astaxanthin leads to the assumption that CrBKT was expressed and imported into chloroplast but not into thylakoid membrane, thus leaving it unable to metabolize zeaxanthin. Further studies will be needed to elucidate the exact location of CrBKT in *Chlamydomonas* chloroplast.
DARK-PALE transformants reverted back to dark green color when they were grown under light and lost ketocarotenoid production. This phenomenon persisted even when TAP-YP agar was used instead of TAP, indicating that a difference in medium compositions was not the reason for this phenomenon. Furthermore, promoter activity did not underline this difference because the HSP70/RBCS2 promoter is active under both light and dark conditions^[@CR55]^. Loss of the transgene via genomic instability can also be excluded. Insertion-mediated disruption of the light-independent protochlorophyllide reductase genes (the so-called "yellow-in-dark" mutations) causes similar phenotypes^[@CR56]^ but this explanation is inconsistent with our insertion mapping results. We postulate that interference of CrBKT overexpression with chlorophyll biosynthesis is likely the reason for the observed phenotypes. This phenomenon could explain why no ketocarotenoid-producing transformants were recovered from mixotrophic plates, even though there are more colonies on them. It is entirely possible that several transformant lines on mixotrophic plates were indeed capable of producing ketocarotenoids under the right conditions (dark, heterotrophic medium). However, being cultivated under the "wrong" conditions (light, mixotrophic medium), they failed to display the desired phenotype and were subsequently rejected during screening.
In this study, we showed that it is indeed possible to engineer ketocarotenoid pathway into *Chlamydomonas* green vegetative cells for production of the valuable pigment canthaxanthin. Despite this success, the usefulness of our transformants as a ketocarotenoid production platform is still limited by a number of factors including low ketocarotenoid concentration, interference to chlorophyll biosynthesis and the loss of phenotypes under light. In the bigger picture, these difficulties represent the common problems usually encountered by algal metabolic engineering and underscore the fact that our understanding of these organisms, despites three quarters century of intensive research, is still limited.
Materials and methods {#Sec9}
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Microorganisms and cultivation conditions {#Sec10}
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*Chlamydomonas* strain CC-4102 (genotype *npq2-2 npq1 lor1 arg7 mt* +) was obtained from the Chlamydomonas Resource Center, University of Minnesota USA. Algal cells were cultured mixotrophically in liquid or agar solidified Tris--Acetate-Phosphate (TAP) medium^[@CR57]^ supplemented with 200 µg/mL [l]{.smallcaps}-arginine and at 25 °C under cool white daylight from fluorescent lamps (60 µE/m^2^ s); or heterotrophically in TAP medium supplemented with 0.3% peptone and 0.2% yeast extract (TAP-YP medium^[@CR34]^) in the dark. For vector construction, *Escherichia coli* strain DH5α was cultivated at 37 °C in standard LB medium. For selection of algal and bacterial cells, zeocin (InvivoGen) and ampicillin (Carl-Roth) were added to final concentrations of 20 and 100 µg/mL respectively.
Construction of CrBKT-overexpression vector {#Sec11}
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The plasmid pChlamy4 has been generated and distributed by Thermo Fisher as a vector optimized for protein expression in *Chlamydomonas reinhardtii*. The plasmid also yields higher levels of transgene expression and improved transgene stability by utilizing the bicistronic strategy, in which the selection marker, *ble* zeocin resistance gene from *Streptoalloteichus hindustanus*, is linked directly to the gene-of-interest's sequence via the foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) 2A self-cleaving sequence^[@CR42]^. Gene expression is driven by the strong constitutive HSP70/RBCS2 promoter^[@CR55]^. For subsequent protein detection and purification, the plasmid also harbors dual protein tags, namely 6xHis and V5.
We chose a truncated CrBKT in which a 116 amino acid-long sequence at its C-terminus was removed without affecting the protein's activity (GenBank: AEA35045.1^[@CR12]^) for overexpression in *Chlamydomonas*. The truncated CrBKT coding sequence was kindly donated by Dr. Jürgen Breitenbach, University Frankfurt, amplified via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers 1502 and 1534 (Table [2](#Tab2){ref-type="table"}) and cloned between the *Xho*I and *Xba*I sites of plasmid pChlamy4 (Thermo Fisher). Due to the presence of an *Xba*I site within the CrBKT sequence, the PCR products were instead digested with *Bcl*I, which created cohesive end compatible to *Xba*I-overhang. The resulting plasmid harbors the bicistronic construct of *ble* and *CrBKT* linked via the FMDV 2A sequence. At the C-terminus of CrBKT, there is the dual epitope V5-6xHis (Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}).Table 2List of primers.Primer5′-3′ sequenceDescription1502AATA CTCGAG ATG GGC CCT GGG ATA CAA CCUsed for amplification of CrBKT1534AAAA TCTAGA GA CGC CAG GGC TGC GCCUsed for amplification of CrBKT1563GCC ATA TGC ATG GCC ATC5′-end mapping primer1564CGC ACC AAT CAT GTC AAG CCT CAG CG5′-end mapping nested primer1565CTG GGC CTG GAC AGC ACC3′-end mapping primer1566GGC GGG CTG GGC GTA TTT GAA GCG3′-end mapping nested primer1147GTA ATA CGA CTC ACT ATA GGG CAdaptor primer1148TGG TCG ACG GCC CGG GCT GGAdaptor nested primer1479GAC CAG GTG GTG CCG GAC AAC ACCScreening primer1480TTG CTC TCC ACG TCG CCC GCC AGC TTCScreening primer1491AAAA GTCGAC CGC CAG GGC TGC GCC GCGScreening primer
Nuclear transformation of *Chlamydomonas* {#Sec12}
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Nuclear transformation of *Chlamydomonas* was attained with electroporation using modified protocol of Shimogawara et al*.*^[@CR58]^. Briefly, *Chlamydomonas* was grown mixotrophically in TAP liquid medium supplemented with 200 mg/L [l]{.smallcaps}-arginine. Algal cells in early *log* phase (cell density 1--3 × 10^6^ cells/mL) were harvested, washed and concentrated to 3 × 10^8^ cells/mL in GeneArt MAX Efficiency Transformation Reagent for Algae (Thermo Fisher) following the manufacturer's instructions. The cells were then dispersed into 250 µL aliquots. Five µg of *Sca*I-linearized plasmid was subsequently added and the mixture was chilled at 4 °C for 5 min. Electroporation was conducted with BioRad Gene Pulser system with 0.4 cm-gap cuvettes (BioRad). We chose the exponential decay mode with parameters set at 500 V, 50µF capacitance and 800 Ω resistance, which typically yielded a time constant around 50 ms. After electroporation, the cells were allowed to recover at room temperature for 15 min before being transferred to 10 mL fresh growth media supplemented with 40 mM sucrose, shaken overnight and plated on selection plates containing 20 mg/L zeocin the following day. Half of the cells were recovered and selected mixotrophically in TAP-arginine medium under 20 µE/m^2^ s white light while the other half were heterotrophically recovered in TAP-YP medium in the dark. Colonies appeared on agar plates after 2--3 weeks. We also established the following controls. For negative controls, cells were transformed without DNA and then recovered and screened under either mixotrophic or heterotrophic conditions. For the positive control, cells were transformed with 5 µg of linearized pBR9 mCherry plasmid^[@CR39]^, then recovered and screened under mixotrophic conditions.
Isolation of *Chlamydomonas* genomic DNA and PCR {#Sec13}
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Genomic DNA from *Chlamydomonas* was extracted using a modified cetyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) method^[@CR59]^. Briefly, cells were either harvested from 2--5 mL of densely grown liquid culture or scraped (a spatula full) from agar plates, washed with double distilled water (ddH~2~O) and resuspended in 500 µL lysis buffer containing 2% w/v CTAB, 100 mM Tris--HCl (pH 8), 1.4 M NaCl, 20 mM ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and 2% v/v freshly added ß-mercaptoethanol. The samples were incubated at 65 °C for 1 h and extracted with a standard phenol--chloroform extraction protocol. DNA was precipitated from the aqueous phase with 0.7 volume of isopropanol. The DNA pellet was washed once with 70% ethanol, air-dried and dissolved in 20 µL ddH~2~O. To remove RNA and reconstitute DNA, the samples were treated with RNase A (1 mg/mL) overnight at room temperature.
We performed PCR with Biotherm Taq polymerase (Genecraft) and 10--50 ng of extracted genomic DNA. Due to the high GC content of *Chlamydomonas* genome, we added dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to the reaction mixture to final concentration of 5% v/v.
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We extracted pigments from *Chlamydomonas* with 100% methanol. We measured the sample's absorption at 470, 652 and 665 nm with a WPA Biowave S2100 UV/Vis Diode Array Spectrophotometer. The total chlorophylls and carotenoid concentrations were estimated with the following equations^[@CR60]^.$$\documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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For high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis, we sequentially extracted pigments with 200 µL methanol, 200 µL acetone and 200 µL chloroform. We combined the organic extracts and added 1,000 mL dH~2~O. The lower phase which contained chlorophylls and carotenoids was collected, dried under a stream of dry nitrogen gas and finally dissolved in methanol. We separated pigments on a C30 YMC-carotenoid column (YMC, Japan, 250 mm × 4.6 mm, 5 µm particles) using a published protocol^[@CR61]^. The mobile phases contained Solvent A: 81% (v/v) methanol, 15% methyl *tert*-butyl ether (MTBE), 4% H~2~O; and Solvent B: 8% methanol, 88% MTBE, 4% H~2~O. We applied the following gradient program: 0--30 min: 0--67% Solvent B; 30--35 min: 100% Solvent B; 35--40 min: 0% Solvent B. We detected pigments with a variable wavelength detector (VWD) model G1314A (Agilent) set at 450 nm. Absorption spectra from 280 to 640 nm were recorded with diode array detector (DAD) model G4212B (Agilent).
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We mapped the insertion sites of transformants with the genome walking method described by Siebert et al*.*^[@CR62]^ and Pollock et al*.*^[@CR41]^. Briefly, genomic DNA was extracted from *Chlamydomonas* transformants and digested overnight at 37 °C by a mixture of three blunt-end cutting restriction enzymes: *Eco*RV, *Nru*I and *Pvu*II. We prepared a blunt-ended adaptor from two oligonucleotides: one 8 nucleotides (nt)-long (oligo 389) and the other 48 nt long (oligo 390; Table [2](#Tab2){ref-type="table"}). Prior to annealing, oligo 389 was phosphorylated for 2 h at 37 °C by T4 polynucleotide kinase (NEB) in 1 × T4 ligase buffer supplemented with 1 mM ATP. We mixed 500 pmol of phosphorylated oligo 389 and 1,000 pmol of oligo 390 in 1 × Green buffer (Thermo Fisher) to a final volume of 40 µL, heated to 95 °C for 5 min and slowly cooled down to 4 °C (a rate of 1.5 °C/min) in an ordinary thermocycler. In the following step, we ligated the adaptor to the blunt end of DNA fragments at 16 °C overnight. The ligation mixture comprised 40 ng digested genomic DNA, 4 µL adaptor, 1 mM ATP, 8 units of T4 ligase (Thermo Fisher) and 1 × T4 ligase buffer. After the reaction was stopped by heating at 65 °C for 20 min, we diluted the ligation mixture 1:10 with ddH~2~O and used it as the template for PCR.
For amplification of the upstream- and downstream flanking sequences of the transgene, we performed two rounds of PCR. Using adaptor-ligated genomic DNA fragments as template, the first round of PCR utilized an adaptor primer (primer 1147) and a gene-specific primer (primer 1563 or 1565). In the second "nested" PCR, we diluted PCR products from the first round 1:50 with ddH~2~O and amplified them using adaptor primer 1148 and gene-specific primers 1564 and 1566. The positions of these primers are shown in Fig. [2](#Fig2){ref-type="fig"}. Both PCRs utilized touch-down programs to minimize nonspecific amplification (Fig. [S1](#MOESM1){ref-type="media"}) with high-processivity Taq polymerase (Genaxxon). We cloned nested PCR products in the *Eco*RV site of pBluescript II SK( +) via TA cloning^[@CR63]^ and sent them for sequencing at Mycrosynth Seqlab (Göttingen, Germany) using the M13 Forward (-20) primer (TGT AAA ACG ACG GCC AG). We then compared sequencing data to the *Chlamydomonas* genome database on Phytozome (<https://phytozome.jgi.doe.gov>).
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We determined statistical significance using Student's t-test, namely the \"Two-Sample Assuming Equal Variances with Analysis ToolPak Add-in\" of Microsoft Office Excel 2007.
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This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by any of the authors.
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is available for this paper at 10.1038/s41598-020-67756-2.
We want to express our gratitude to Dr. Jürgen Breitenbach, University Frankfurt, who kindly sent us the plasmid containing truncated CrBKT sequence, and to Mr. Marcus Geißler, Plant Biotechnology and Metabolic Engineering, Biology Department, TU Darmstadt who provided us valuable support in our HPLC-DAD experiments.
N.T.T. and R.K. conceptualized the study. N.T.T. performed all the experiments. R.K. supervised the work and provided insight for discussion. N.T.T. and R.K. wrote and reviewed the manuscript and approved the submitted version.
The authors declare no competing interests.
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That work came to fruition with the enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA in 2015. ESSA returns control over education to Alaskans. It eliminates the No Child Left Behind mandates for “Adequate Yearly Progress” that gave Alaskan schools 31 ways to be labeled a “failure” but no ways to get credit for improvement. It removes “Highly Qualified Teacher” mandates that never worked to identify the truly exceptional teacher. And it includes multiple provisions that Senator Murkowski was able to include to meet the needs of Alaska Native communities, working parents, school administrators, and teachers. | dclm_baseline | {'bff_contained_ngram_count_before_dedupe': '4', 'language_id_whole_page_fasttext': "{'en': 0.9626764059066772}", 'metadata': "{'Content-Length': '53596', 'Content-Type': 'application/http; msgtype=response', 'WARC-Block-Digest': 'sha1:CQHQVNIEPGKPRLSLXRCFWKY32X4VZTEE', 'WARC-Concurrent-To': '<urn:uuid:de3d2d02-7b82-4cd7-b416-235f54cecd25>', 'WARC-Date': datetime.datetime(2022, 11, 26, 22, 28, 16), 'WARC-IP-Address': '23.0.197.27', 'WARC-Identified-Payload-Type': 'text/html', 'WARC-Payload-Digest': 'sha1:HNP7O7P2V2ZOO2S72SL32PCITU22ZBBM', 'WARC-Record-ID': '<urn:uuid:0b5590c3-44da-4a55-9fa7-f65bff9100dd>', 'WARC-Target-URI': 'https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/issues/issues-and-priorities/education', 'WARC-Type': 'response', 'WARC-Warcinfo-ID': '<urn:uuid:e9693cc4-db3c-4523-a561-eaa6e883f900>', 'WARC-Truncated': None}", 'previous_word_count': '393', 'url': 'https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/issues/issues-and-priorities/education', 'warcinfo': 'isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2022-49\r\npublisher: Common Crawl\r\ndescription: Wide crawl of the web for November/December 2022\r\noperator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)\r\nhostname: ip-10-67-67-11\r\nsoftware: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)\r\nrobots: checked via crawler-commons 1.4-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)\r\nformat: WARC File Format 1.1\r\nconformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/', 'fasttext_openhermes_reddit_eli5_vs_rw_v2_bigram_200k_train_prob': '0.08380639553070068', 'original_id': '4e4a9e8da6fd58510b2e556732c472b9f3985f34121802518f558eebc72980b5'} |
Union Battle Sparks in Maryland
This is a rush transcript from "Special Report," March 15, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
RICHARD TRUMKA, AFL-CIO PRESIDENT: We won't go back. I can promise you that. We won't give up and we won't go back.
MARK MCLAURIN, SEIU LOCAL 500 POLITICAL DIRECTOR: It's a bipartisan message, quite frankly, and it goes out to Republican and Democratic governors, and that is that it is that it is important that they keep their promises to the public workers.
GOV. MARTIN O'MALLEY, D-MARYLAND: We are committed to staying at the table and to figuring this out and to moving together as one Maryland. You will not find in Maryland the sort of Midwestern repression that goes on in places like Wisconsin.
BRET BAIER, ANCHOR: Ah, Wisconsin. This is actually Maryland. Maryland's Democratic governor Martin O'Malley is starting the feel the heat as you can see there in a state facing $19 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. The governor is asking state employees to increase their contributions to their pensions, or take reduced benefits in the future, and thousands of employees converged on the capitol.
We're back with the panel. What about this, Fred?
FRED BARNES, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, THE WEEKLY STANDARD: Well, Bret, ya know, I mean there's something -- there are not many things that Democratic politicians, particularly Democratic governors, fear more than being at cross purposes with organized labor. I mean this is a part of -- labor is part of their constituency and a huge part, and gives them all kinds of money. So it's tough for them.
And you look in California, even though Jerry Brown talked about this when he was running for governor last year, he's done nothing so far this year. Though he said, well maybe he will negotiate. He has a budget but it doesn't include anything about pensions.
In Illinois, Pat Quinn the governor has ducked the whole thing entirely, and leaving it to the House speaker to do it. And Andrew Cuomo in New York, another state with, ya know, a huge pension problem, will get to it after April 1. Well we'll see if he does.
Now, O'Malley's actually been, I think, fairly brave. Has real proposal. Look, it's not a huge increase in the contribution by the so-called public servants for their pensions. What it goes from 5.6 percent of pay to 7 percent of pay? That's not a lot. And yet he proposed it, and good for him, and showed up at the labor rally.
BAIER: Yeah, Juan, he did show up and, of course, mentioned the ominous name of Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
JUAN WILLIAMS, SENIOR EDITOR, THE HILL: Scott Walker has become, you know, demonized in this debate. But to me what is interesting is that he showed up. Because why was the governor there? This was the public sector employees rallying against the governor, but the governor is there because he is a Democratic governor.
So it puts him in a difficult situation. It's almost a matter of hypocrisy. Here he is cursing out Scott Walker; in fact he's doing the same thing in his state. He's trying to cut back on the amount of money that the average citizen puts in to the civil servants pension plans and even raise the age of retirement. He is doing that in order to balance a budget.
BAIER: But the fact -- exactly. For the fact that this Democratic governor who has support of the unions is doing the same type of thing in dealing with these pensions to try to cut back benefits or increase contributions, does that signal that across the country we're gonna see this in state after state after state?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: It tells you, A, how desperate is the situation of the states, and, B, how this is becoming "the" issue state to state across the country, how you deal with these overhanging liabilities that everybody knows are bankrupting the states.
And when you get a Democratic governor asking for a minor, minor adjustment of how much is put into the pensions and gets a rally like this, I would interpret his showing up negatively, as telling you how weak the Democrats are. They actually have to come and talk to their own demonstrators, assure them we're go easy on you, that if you really want a reform of pension and healthcare, you better elect a Republican governor, as in Wisconsin, that repressive Wisconsin or other states.
In fact, if I could just have one second to say that I want to thank Juan for acting as my interpreter.
WILLIAMS: Why, of course.
KRAUTHAMMER: At no charge. I would say to Fred, don't believe him. Go to the source. Ask me. [INAUDIBLE]
BAIER: That's it for panel. But stay tuned for a need possibly for a career change.
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Institutional indications for islet transplantation after total pancreatectomy.
This study was designed to establish institutional indications for pancreatic islet transplantation by examining patients with total pancreatectomy as candidates for islet allotransplantation. In 12 patients who underwent total pancreatectomy, we compared pre-and postoperative plasma glucose level, body mass index, HbA1c, and daily insulin use; we examined candidacy for islet allotransplantation based on the guidelines of Japan's islet transplantation registry. Eight of the 12 patients with total pancreatectomy were operated for intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm. At our institution, the 5-year survival of patients with intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm was far better (76.3%) than that of patients with pancreatic cancer. Postoperatively, plasma glucose level, HbA1c, and daily insulin use were increased in all patients with total pancreatectomy. Of the 12 patients treated with total pancreatectomy, 4 (intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, n = 2; islet cell tumor, n = 1; and acute pancreatitis due to arteriovenous malformation, n = 1) showed deteriorated diabetic control and therefore were considered to be candidates for islet allotransplantation according to the guidelines. Islet allotransplantation could be indicated for patients with favorable postoperative survival who have had a total pancreatectomy for either benign or neoplastic disease. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '602523b04f20853bf0df034acce420ebaa519119f385bd69178f4340a8ddf823'} |
It's hard to get a sense of what a food shortage is like unless you've lived through one, but this tidbit from Venezuela serves as a chilling illustration.
The lines to get into government supermarkets are so long that people mark their arms with their place in line. It's not a permanent tattoo — just a pen — but the point is to make sure that the long lines stay as orderly as possible.
It looks like this:
The Road to Serfdom game in Venezuela just got real -- human tattooing for food privileges pic.twitter.com/ceKJycftOK — TakingHayekSeriously (@FriedrichHayek) March 9, 2014
According to a source familiar with what's going on, this number-scribbling takes place outside large cities like Caracas, and it doesn't happen in private supermarkets. However, private supermarkets can set a limit to the number of items a person can buy. For example: You can only pick up 4 liters of milk, 2 liters of oil, 2 kilos of sugar etc.
And that's if the market even has those items.
People also have numbers on their ID cards, which decide which days they can even get in line to shop at supermarkets like San Cristobal's Bicentenario, according to AFP.
Protests taking place all over the country aren't helping either. Demonstrators have been building barricades, which are slowing the flow of goods from place to place.
From AFP:
Armando Mirando, vice president of the Tachira State Bakeries Association, told AFP that San Cristobal could run out of bread by Tuesday...
"We already had shortages before and now nothing is arriving," Mirando said after addressing a "peace conference" organized by the government to end the protests but shunned by the opposition as a sham.
Most shops and restaurants are closed in the city of 260,000 people.
On Friday, Maduro got on TV and said that smuggling food into the country is more profitable than selling cocaine.
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Damn, actin' like you know me,
You gonna do you, who you think I'ma do?
We'll see how much is true,
Mighta heard, but you didn't listen,
Thought you knew how I do, why you multitaskin'?
Tellin' me your deepest thoughts,
I'ma sit here patiently,
Waiting for you to see,
Might not be today,
But you gonna hear what I have to say,
Don't matter if you push me away,
You can't escape me, I'm here to stay,
Run to the ends of the earth, I'll be there,
Do what you gotta do, I don't care,
Whatever it takes to make you aware,
‘Cause we ain't seein' eye-to-eye,
If we can't work together, how can we fly?
I'm not compromising, I know what I know,
I ain't theorizing, time to shake the status quo,
Might call me an optimist, even a summer child,
But truth is I'm a realist, go ahead and question my style,
Horizon expanded, I zoomed out to the max,
To where nothing matters but the facts,
Now I'm zoned in with unbroken focus,
Half tryin' to analyze me but all you see is hocus pocus,
Ain't carryin' but I'm strapped,
Got that flowing river of the infinite tapped,
If you ain't listening I know your mind is trapped,
Pay attention as reality is mapped,
My words are beckoning, but when my jam came on you napped,
Got you pullin' weapons ‘cause you fear me,
Actin' a fool ‘cause you don't hear me,
Too wrapped up in your world to invest energy,
Into trying to understand that which is outside your perceived reality,
If I said it more than once it's because it’s important,
Open your mind and start being observant,
Awareness is the seed to clairvoyance,
Stop being avoidant,
If you don't want this session to be recurrent,
There's many more lessons to be learned,
It's time to start bein' God's student,
Let go of the shit that ain't servin' ya,
If you're a true player then you'll draw in those deservin' ya,
Don't need to force 'em to see shit from your side,
Not everyone is ready for a guide, how 'bout you?
Might call me a hypocrite,
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You had a choice, I just gave you the option,
Now can’t you see my lyrics are poppin’?
Take a sip of my potion,
Watch the sun rise over my ocean,
Time you start valuing thought before action,
So you can be real and quit actin',
My words ain't just revolutionary, they're evolutionary,
Trainin' the hundredth monkey,
Yeah, I'm legendary,
Black holes last frozen in time,
Watch me as I shine,
I'll realign your state of mind,
Don't matter if you live during my stay,
My rays reach across midday,
"Here he go bein' cocky,"
There you go still actin' like you know me,
I get to the heart of the matter,
Have you bothered to peel back the layers?
Let me make things clear,
I ain't just an engineer, nor a physicist,
Not just an entrepreneur, nor a lyricist,
Turnin' lead into gold but ain't just an alchemist,
I see through you but don't call me a psychologist,
I'm unlimited, got my fingers in everything,
Ain't stoppin' 'till I'm prepared for anything,
Because I got a life to live to its fullest,
If you ain't doin' the same then you're what a fool is,
I told you I'm God,
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Just ‘cause you don't know yourself,
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You're God; this is your christening,
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When you see God,
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Problems are surmountable,
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Varied perspective brings fortitude,
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'Bout to increase our frequency's amplitude,
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I look in the mirror,
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I ain't playin’,
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If you ain't with me it's ‘cause you can't see past how I'm perceived,
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I know you question my style,
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Someone’s gotta do it,
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It’s simple: awareness or ignorance,
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A Sagittarius is an energetic sign. You enjoy traveling and are always eager to explore new places. Your motto is “the farther, the better.” Perfect places for starters include Greenland, Bali, Japan, and Israel. If you are an experienced traveler, consider Chile, Bolivia, Tibet, and Indonesia. A Sagittarius is a fire sign which means that you prefer a warm and dry climate. Besides, you try to soak up as much information as possible; you will certainly enjoy sightseeing. However, you eagerly explore both major tourist attractions and less-known and distant places. Therefore, do visit Amien Cathedral in Paris, Quartiere Coppede in Rome, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument in New Mexico, or the Lost Sea in Tennessee.
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Re-build website on React 6 days left
[zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] is developed using angular. would like to extend and fix the design and make it more attractive. Below needs to be done. 1. make it more attractive grids/sub grids 2. when user scrolls over a line in the grid, a popup should display with the details of the record 3. if menu type is tabbed, then only the menus should appear on the top (with no drop down of screens...
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im looking for someone that can help me teach me angular im not a beginner i pay 15 euro a hour and we will work over teamviewer microphone is required
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We're looking for a node.js developer for around 70 hours per month for long term (can grow to more than 70 hours in the near future). This work involves a good understanding of the following: MongoDB and specifically Mongoose framework. NodeJS with a good understanding of the express framework and ECMAScript 2017 async/await. Mandatory Testing (Mocha + Chai) - unit tests and AP...
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Build a Web App 6 days left
We are building a Web App for a SaaS product. For that we need a FullStack Developer with Experiences in NodeJS, HTML, CSS, LESS, EJS, Firebase and good communication skills in english or german. To confirm that you did read this description, please type in "yes" before your offer. The main architecture + documentation of the project is already done. Basically the Frontend is 80% fini...
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Looking for someone who can work full time / part time for a MVP. Below are responsibilities, but not limited to: 1. write nodejs backend logic in typescript 2. very good understanding of mogodb and mongoose 3. we use typescript so you need to follow proper coding style with tslint 4. Angular 7 will be a huge plus. 5. good understanding of OOPs Please tell us more when about your experience wh...
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Online Exam 6 days left
I want web application with code built in angular latest version. For conducting exam with user login and admin login where admin can assign exam to user. I want very simple app but Ui should be except able. Application title and screen title should be configurable. Login form based authentication. Db could be SqlLite.
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I want create a simple NodeJS app that consume an api to create recipients and be able to make transfer to thesame recipient either as a single in bulk
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This website is a great example of what i'm looking for - [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] - Login through FB/Google - Organization of locations (similar to Airbnb) - Chat - Calling feature (good to have) - Professional profile including bio, pictures, videos etc - They can search for country (not necessary for MVP since only 3 countries) - Booking Confirmation - Notifications for paym...
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I’m interested in building a node explorer similar to the following one: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] Some of the code used for this project can be found here: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] The difference would be to build one for the following coin: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] Their developer tools can be found here: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] If someone have exper...
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in UNGDUNGTHONGMINH (SMARTAPP) we are build one MemberCard Smart System
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Framework : ReactJs, NodeJs, Mongo DB Expected to be exported as a React Native app for Android and iOS. UI screens are done, backend is done, database is done, API's have been written. Need you to take our UI screens and implement the back end functionalities and export the result into iOS and Android ecosystem.
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3 senior developers 6 days left
Frontend developer (React, java script) Next 8 weeks 15-20hr a week. Backend developer (Node, Mongo, experience handling large data sets in Node) Next 4 to 6 weeks15-20hr a week. Developer Ops (know AWS, KAS, Docker, has done CI/CD) Next 8 weeks 1-10hours as needed basis. This will be the baseline, but work will likely be long term and ongoing. It will be for the development of a few projects....
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simple angular6 project layout page using angular material
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I need to find someone with expertise in node js for long term project. Please explain your knowledge in node. No more than 12 dollars will be considered, it is a small budget project at the moment.
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Modernmeal is an Orlando, Florida based digital health platform that proudly bridges the gap between the nutrition advice consumers receive and their ability to execute on it. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to potentially transition into the CTO role over the next 6 months. Our tech stack is made up of: Ruby on Rails, Ember.js , React Native, PostGres, AWS, Heroku. Our customers dep...
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Contact me for more info. Lets discuss on my requirements. Its a startup.
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Our trading bot needs integration with multi-exchanges APIs. Our platform is build up in separate services including a PROD & DEV environment. The languages we used are ReactJS, NodeJS, and Java (Spring). We need at the beginning to integrate with at least 5-10 cryptocurrency exchanges. At the end of the integration you will be responsible for maintenance and also you will gradually switch to ...
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Create Methods in Javascript which could be run in NodeJs /Mocha Framework
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I need you to develop some software for me. I would like this software to be developed using Java. we need a android app which can capture photo and read nfc/RFID chip(mifare1k) from external reader(acr122u) and the photo on the API. Also, we need a web application where people tap his RFID chip to get all the photos captured. and print it from the terminal. My deadline is 28th Feb. so only ne...
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Electron with Angular 5 days left
I need expert of Electron + Angular. The software need to run on Mac and Windows. Details are added in attached file. Lowest bid would be preferred. There can be upgrades or addition of more features in future. Answer questions in attached file
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URL to PNG 5 days left
The project consists in create a web server that converts text contained in URL to images. For example, the following URL would return a .png image of the text in color 4B5E75 : [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL]~text?txt=The+quick+brown+fox+jumps+over+the+lazy+dog.+The+five+boxing+wizards+jump+quickly.&txtclr=4B5E7
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I need a person expert in arguing programing who can implement a Tcp ip loop in Node mcu Chip all data pin and one analog pin value should be transfered as a array of string over WiFi to host Tcp loop should run every 50 ms
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I need to build a web application with ReactJS, NodeJS and MySql
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Need a AWS developer to complete a data processing and visualisation project. milestone include: create SQS and lambda functions(python) to process and store files in S3 upload to Athena and visualize using quicksight. Due date 03/01 can't miss dead line and milestone needs to be meet before due [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] code and Documentation needed to be provided.
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Pm me for more info. Its a browser based gambling dapp. Note this is a start-up project.
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Create site in C # Net using tool ([zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL]) Login: Source : SQL Analisys Service - Using [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] Admin: Tamplate Bootstrap Analyze: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] Notification: Push (same as Facebook) More details we can send the documentation
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I need a new website. I need you to design and build a website for my small business. Create betting exchange website with super admin, admin, super master, master, user panels. expecting like orange000, lotusbook etc. Bid only if you have knowledge of this field and having some portfolio in the same field.
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I''m looking for Node.js expert who can work with me for many years. I have not only this Node project, so if you work well in this project, i can proceed too many projects with you. You should be an expert at Javascript with having great eye in frontend. Please include the answer of these questions in the description of your bid. 1. How many years of experiences do you have in Node.js?...
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Create a portal to manage coaching institute basic tasks. About us: [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL] Basic Requirements : Student and Institute Profiles Student can: apply for admission/ training /workshop Pay fee View notification/Events add/modify personal details course/training search facility Institute can: Accept online admission Add course/training Collect fee online Add notification/E...
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Somos una Start-Up con foco en el entretenimiento durante eventos deportivos y musicales, innovando con Web Apps. Necesitamos un/a programador/a que nos ayude a crear una nueva instancia de GCE con Node.js y implementar integraciones con Google Cloud Storage y la base de datos que se decida más adecuada para el proyecto. Experiencia en Google Cloud es importante. No buscamos un robot prog...
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Senior Node.js Developer 5 days left
Hi I'm looking for senior node.js developer who can with me for a long time. If you're familiar with even React.js, it'll be perfect! Node and React are core required skills in my project. But, if you're expert at Node ( not React), it's also welcome. You need to be familiar with my project by completing tickets. Hope to hiring expert, not junior one. Thanks
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I need IONIC projects SOURCECODES 5 days left
Hello there ! anyone here has ionic project source codes to sell with some support ? We are a digital agency and we want to test some real projects Design doesn't matter , functionality does News app Ecommerce App Booking App General App Chat App Random Video Chat App Reminder App Wallet Money App Point of Sale App Better to be with PHP Laravel backend or a Firebase backend or A node.js ...
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Hello! I need someone who knows how Ghost application on Heroku works. I made a kit for Ghost, I uploaded it on Heroku, but when I try to upload the image from local through Ghost dashboard, my access is denied. Can someone help me with this?
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Dialogflow chatbot that works with google assistant for seat booking. needs to write a logic or script for calculation of seats.
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I need a Node/React developer with experience creating plugins for Shopify. The deliverable is: - A plugin that will render a given script> html code on every page of the shopify. - The plugin has a few configuration parameters such Id , color etc about 9-10 in totals, so create a configuration page where the user can type the Id, can select the color from a color picker etc once the user cli...
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A project running into various sprints- Sprint 1 - Post a requirement in the application with some details - example - Name , Address, Phone number, Country The data should go and sit on a mongo db server also; the data should be populated in front end browser in a tree view in the left panel of the page & the right panel should display the selected treeview item details i.e Name, Address...
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I want a website having a user login , sign in , where a user can ask questions and can answer to others questions just like a question answer forum.. not so advance like quora but the requirement is like that .
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Shoutoutloud 5 days left
Online polling app with sharing feature
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Integrate our platform with Zapier 5 days left
Need to fully integrate our application for CRM, Even Creation, Surveys, Rewards e.t.c to Zapier.
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Aws based system with a worker node that downloads the schema data is broke.
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We are looking for an experienced full stack Node developer to help contribute to development of a product that enables tracking of project expenses. The product is close to a beta release, and the initial scope of this work is to help clear a backlog of tasks required for this release. The product aggregates data from various sources and provides an an analytics UI for this aggregated data. The ...
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I need an online app made with nodejs/express where the user can post a car that is for sale. An app like this one ==> [zaloguj się, aby wyświetlić URL]
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Telecom provider IDT and international payments service group Mercury have announced that they will pilot Ripple’s xRapid for money transfers.
The two companies become the latest to sign onto the product, which uses the firm’s XRP token, following news that remittance major MoneyGram was testing it for internal processes. Ripple had previously announced last October that Cuallix, a Mexican financial services firm, was using XRP.
As indicated in statements, the aim is to improve the speed of payments to a point at which they are occurring in real time. In tandem with that goal, the companies are looking to the tech as a way to drop the overall cost of transacting.
Alfredo O’Hagan, SVP of IDT’s consumer payments business, said in a statement:
“We’re excited to pilot Ripple’s xRapid solution for on-demand liquidity. We expect that xRapid will enable us to settle more transactions in real-time and at a lower cost.”
“Payment providers like IDT Corporation and MercuryFX are early movers because they understand what XRP can do for their business and customer experience,” Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said of the announcement. “We’re excited to have them at the forefront of the Internet of Value.”
Disclosure: CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Ripple.
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MANILA, Philippines - Nais ni Pangulong Duterte na mabaril na siya sa ulo kaya palagi umano siyang bumabalik sa Marawi City kung saan mayroon pa ring kaguluhan upang mapatunayan na sinsero siya sa pagtugis sa mga kriminal, drug lords at terorista sa bansa.
“Kaya palagi akong nandoon, hoping also that I’d get a bullet in the head and probably that would satisfy everybody na totohanan ‘yung kanya,” sabi ng Pangulo sa isang talumpati kamakalawa ng gabi.
Ayon sa Pangulo, nasasaktan siya araw-araw tuwing may mababalitaan na may patay na sundalo sa Marawi.
Nagsimula ang kaguluhan sa Marawi noong Mayo 23 at umaabot na sa 700 ang namamatay, 100 dito ay mula sa tropa ng gobyerno.
Matatandaan na dalawang beses ng bumalik sa Marawi City si Duterte upang ipakita ang suporta at itaas ang morale ng mga sundalo.
Sinabi pa ng Pangulo na masakit para sa kanya na nasa 100 pulis na at 200 sundalo na namatay buhat ng simulan nya ang kampanya laban sa ilegal na droga.
“Huwag mo akong gawaing g***. I was there but I was also to assure them. Masakit sa akin kasi I proclaimed martial law there and I sent the soldiers there to die,” pahayag ni Duterte.
Muli nitong ipinaliwanag ang naging simula ng kaguluhan sa Marawi City na dapat ay maghahain lamang ng warrant para sa isang kaso ng iligal na droga.
“Then it went out of proportion then we discovered na they were really preparing to proclaim Marawi as the first caliphate city,” pahayag ni Duterte.
Nakuha na umano ng Maute group ang mga tunnel at maging mga pampasabog kaya nahirapan na ang tropa ng gobyerno.
“Kaya hirap tayo ngayon and what is stopping us now is there are 300 --- baka kasama ‘yung pari doon, who are held hostages. Gusto ng Army doon i-assault. Sabi ko “Huwag. We will just have to wait it out.” If it would take 10 years there, eh ilan na lang ang naiwan diyan, and you’d have to give them food,” dgdag ni Duterte.
Idinagdag pa ni Duterte na nagiging mahirap din ang pagtapos sa Maute group dahil may hawak ang mga itong bihag.
Hinikayat din ni Duterte ang mga mamamayan na mag-isip kung ano ang mangyayari kung ang nagaganap sa Marawi City ay mangyayari sa limang siyudad sa Pilipinas. | mini_pile | {'original_id': '3d2f68390a50d0b6599643482568c6e39cb4b210e94c7b41dca9428013d83731'} |
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