H. Beam Piper's 1963 The Cosmic Computer is a standalone science fiction novel. It's set in Piper's Terra-Human future history, in the last days of the Federation.
Conn Maxwell returns from Terra to his backwater homeworld, Poictesme, armed with hard-won knowledge. The family friends who pooled resources to pay for Conn's education did so in the hope that while on Earth, Conn would uncover the secret location of Merlin, the fabled supercomputer that many believe allowed the Federation to triumph over the secessionist System States Alliance. With Merlin's help, surely the investors could learn how to kickstart Poictesme's moribund economy.
What Conn learned was that Merlin was not just legendary. It was a myth. There would be no all-powerful supercomputer to guide Poictesme to prosperity.
When Conn returns to his homeworld, he lies to his friends and backers. He claims to know how to find Merlin. This isn't just an attempt to spare his friends or evade responsibility for the failure. He wants to use the belief in Merlin to inspire his world to take the steps that will rebuild its economy.
Poictesme and its associated systems served as a Federation advance base during the war. When the war ended, Federation calculated that their facilities weren't worth salvaging. The Federation mothballed them  and left.
People like Conn's father have made a living from salvaging what the Federation abandoned. Other Poictesmians are farmers. Both salvagers and famers make only mediocre livings; they sell to middlemen, who make the real profits. Conn's notion is to power up the shipbuilding facilities the Federation abandoned. When Poictesme can build its own hyper-capable ships , it will have direct access to off-world markets. The thousand percent mark-ups the traders enjoy will go into the pockets of the people of Poictesme.
Great if it works. But if Conn's plan doesn't work, and if the people of Poictesme learn they've been tricked, Conn could be in a lot of trouble.
Nothing says wholesome adventure fare for teens than a guy's head exploding.
I don't have my copy of Carr's biography of Piper handy to check but I think this may be the novel that scuttled Piper's career. As I recall, the book saw print before serialization thanks to error on the part of Piper's literary agent. Piper missed out on the magazine income … which there would have been, as The Cosmic Computer is just the sort of Lie-That-Came-True story John W. Campbell loved. Piper desperately needed that income.
recorded-voice responses in a thick Sheshan accent. All the smart people on Terra, he explained, had Sheshan humanoid servants.
On the other hand, the fact that the people of Poictesme have been content to yearn for the lost golden age without doing anything constructive to recover it suggests that Piper did not have entirely flattering views of his fellow fans of the so-called Lost Cause. It takes a college-educated man to set things right on Poictesme.
Piper would also have disappointed fans of the Lost Cause by his tendency to emphasize that this is the future by giving his characters non-Anglo names like Lorenzo Menardes, Kurt Fawzi, and Len Yeniguchi. Piper wrote meat-and-potato science fiction, of the sort that appealed to readers of Astounding/Analog, but his take on ethnic diversity was distinctly progressive.
If you expect to get any kind of a gang together, at least a third of them will be girls. A lot of technicians are girls, and when work gets slack, they're always the first ones to get shoved out of jobs. I'll bet there are a thousand girl technicians out of work here — any line of work you want to name.
In these modern days, when only techbros, conservative politicians, and other bottom-feeders are astounded to learn women are people, this may not seem like such an unusual speech, but in 1963, this was an atypical stance for a male author to take.
Does Conn's bold plan work? Well, that would be telling.
The Cosmic Computer is available here (Gutenberg).
1: The items the Fed left behind include weapons that make our nukes look like hand grenades. They're there for the taking by ambitious would-be warlords with space ships. This is how you get Space Vikings.
2: For some reason Piper imagined utterly enormous starships. Each freighter could hold a significant fraction of the US's industrial output. It's not clear why they have to be so huge or exactly WHAT will fill those echoing holds.
IIRC all the existing space traders use standard colossal spaceships, about one thousand feet in diameter. This is because they can be easily boosted into orbit and landed using their "contragravity" technology.
This is an issue in the novel Space Vikings, where a few of these ships loaded with booty from parts of the empire suffering from The Long Night can crash the economy of the planet they gift with their ill-gotten gains. The local industry cannot compete with looted goods imported in such huge quantities. There is an unspoken assumption that starship transport costs are modest.
The book that scuttled Piper's career was Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen. Piper's agent had died, the letter Campbell wrote about changes to the third episode of the story was lost, and the new agent sold the book complete..
Piper had already lost one publisher, due to the new editor at Avon who mis-handled the sequel to Little Fuzzy (changed the title, failed to mention it was a sequel, and plastered on it the most hideous cover ever) and he had already written a third book.
He was already in financial trouble. His habit had been to treat book and story payments as "fun money" to spend on good things, while depending on his salary at the railroad for day-to-day expenses. Then the railroad laid him off.
If I remember the Carr correctly, Piper was going to be laid off but he quit before they could fire him. I don't know if that would have cost him severance or not.


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Is Marriage Void After Sex Change?
by Yuk Lun Chan / July 20, 2017
Marriage voided by ROM after sex change
In October 2015, a couple had solemnised their marriage as between a male and female. Shortly after, the male underwent a sex re-assignment surgery and legally amended his identity card to reflect "female" as of June 2016. They then lived as a married same-sex couple for the next eight months until February 2017, when the transgender woman and her partner was informed by the Registry of Marriages ("ROM") that their marriage had been voided.
What does it mean to void a marriage?
Voiding a marriage has the effect of making it not legally valid, and marriage is annulled. Here is a more detailed explanation of void and voidable marriages in Singapore.
Void marriages between persons of the same sex
The Women's Charter (Chapter 353) ("Women's Charter") serves as a code governing marriages in Singapore, with the exception of Muslim marriages which are governed by their own independent regime.
A marriage solemnized in Singapore will be void unless it was between a male and a female "at the date of the marriage". The sex of any party to a marriage is presumed to be the sex indicated on the identity card. People who have undergone a sex-reassignment procedure will be identified as being of their new re-assigned sex.
Sex change after marriage
In this case, the sex re-assignment surgery had only occurred after the solemnization of the couple's marriage.
A plain reading of the Women's Charter suggests that the couple's marriage could be valid since they were wedded as a male and female on the date of their marriage. Assuming there were no other reasons for voiding the marriage, the ROM appears to have taken the opposite stance, namely that the parties to a marriage have to remain man and woman.
Unfortunately, the Women's Charter does not explicitly cover such a scenario, where one of the parties changes sex subsequently.
The position regarding sex re-assignment surgery during the course of an otherwise legally recognised marriage is far from clear, particularly in countries where same-sex marriages are not legalised.
In the UK, on which Singapore has modelled the legal system, same-sex marriage is now recognised, and gender can be changed within a marriage as long as there is spousal consent.
Before same-sex marriage was recognised in the UK, a person who was married would only receive an interim gender recognition certificate which did not change their legally-recognised gender but, first, entitled them to have their marriage annulled after which a full gender recognition certificate would follow.
It is important to note that civil partnerships are recognised in England, thus the idea was that a married person who has had sex re-assignment could have the marriage annulled and subsequently enter into a civil partnership with their former spouse, thus enjoying a form of legal recognition.
Ultimately, in Singapore, it may take a legal challenge in the court for more clarity in this area.
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Book Review: The Heiress of Winterwood by Sarah Ladd
Darbury, England, 1814
Amelia Barrett gave her word. Keeping it could cost her everything.
Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word-even to the point of proposing to the child's father-a sea captain she's never met.
When the child vanishes with little more than an ominous ransom note hinting at her whereabouts, Amelia and Graham are driven to test the boundaries of their love for this little one.
Amelia's detailed plans would normally see her through any trial, but now, desperate and shaken, she's forced to examine her soul and face her one weakness: pride.
Graham's strength and self-control have served him well and earned him much respect, but chasing perfection has kept him a prisoner of his own discipline. And away from the family he has sworn to love and protect.
Both must learn to have faith and relinquish control so they can embrace the future ahead of them.
Usually when I'm reading historical fiction set in early 19th Century England, Miss Jane Austen is somehow involved. With The Heiress of Winterwood, I ventured into entirely original territory. Sarah Ladd brings us to the English moors of 1814, with all the aspects of genteel society that we Janeites have come to love.
The Heiress of Winterwood was a delightful story, with characters who were well-drawn and likeable, and with a villain or two who were quite the opposite! Sarah Ladd's Amelia is as brave and caring as she is beautiful (think Kate Winslet), and Captain Graham Sterling is an excellent romantic lead, with a heart of integrity (a la Hugh Jackman). Right from the outset, these two are thrust together through unfortunate life events, and the tension not only between them but in their circumstances remains high throughout the novel. While I wouldn't consider this a taut thriller, there is rarely a dull moment, and I found my attention fully engaged at all times.
Like most Christian fiction, the novel works into issues of faith throughout the story. The characters struggle with doubt, surrendering pride and trusting the Lord to see them through some fairly tough moments. Captain Graham's struggles in particular were ones with which I would identify. He endures regret over past mistakes, and he literally has physical scars on his body to remind him of those poor choices. He also fights with a past tendency to self-medicate. In his case, he struggles with overindulging in alcohol. In my case, I struggle with the tendency to self-medicate with food, and I have the extreme stretch marks to prove it. And while alcoholism and food struggles are not identical, Sarah Ladd's description of the war going on in his heart were very familiar. One could "plug in" any Pauline thorn to this situation and relate:
"The ale taunted him. The old vice knew its strength and mocked his weakness. He had ordered [a drink] for show and would drink in moderation. But his desire was to drink it and as many more that it took to dull the pain of his past and present." (p.248)
Not only do I struggle with wanting to overindulge each day, but when I see the skin on my body that was ruined due to my poor choices, I have to fight back the tendency to beat myself up about it. Ladd gives us a comforting thought in this regard, showing us that our scars can be a part of our life story:
"Instead of succumbing to guilt every time you look at that scar, you can be reminded of God's forgiveness." (p.251)
This is so true—I have asked for and received God's forgiveness for those past indiscretions. I can now walk forward in freedom, victory and forgiveness, available to be God's instrument in the world.
Regardless of philosophy, The Heiress of Winterwood was a sweet, romantic, entertaining novel. The content is decidedly chaste, definitely written for adults, yet PG in nature. Curse words are referred to but never printed. And while I found the plotline to be incredibly predictable, I thoroughly relished these characters and enjoyed going along for the ride. It seems that this title will be the first in a series, and I certainly hope that I have the opportunity to delve into Sarah Ladd's world once again. There is an incredible back story that could be told with Captain Sterling and his deceased wife Katherine, as well as the journey he took in coming to be a man of faith. It's my hope that future titles will include a prequel to The Heiress of Winterwood, as I would love to spend more time with not only the Captain, but also his doomed wife, as their stories seem to hold much promise, even in the past.
Sarah Ladd has written a pleasant, enjoyable title in The Heiress of Winterwood, and I can heartily recommend it to my audience, as well as anyone who enjoys Christian or Regency-era fiction.
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This one sounds pretty good. I love Regency era stories and enjoy reading about characters who have a lot of growing to do.


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Legal shenanigans have caused the sentencing of a man, who was unanimously convicted of a double murder, to be delayed by another five weeks.
Justice Roy Jones adjourned sentencing for 34-year-old George Williams, who was unanimously convicted by a jury five months ago for the April 23, 2008, murders of 32-year-old Andy Weekes and 29-year-old Terrel Mingo.
Allegedly, the court was informed that the probation report that was to be prepared for Williams was not ready. Justice Jones adjourned the matter to June 18.
The reason for the delay in the probation report was not known. It is a common tactic in the Bahamas legal profession to "arrange" for court workers to "lose" files and paperwork until other delay tactics can be arranged.
Weekes and Mingo were both shot in the head behind a house on Adventurer's Way. Weekes died at the scene and Mingo died the following day.
When the initial trial took place before Senior Justice Hartman Longley in October 2010, Williams faced the charges with Dwan Culmer.
The case was heard before a six-woman, six-man jury when Culmer suddenly turned Crown witness against Williams. The charges against Culmer were dropped.
The first big delay in this case occurred when Mr Williams, of Freeport, Grand Bahama, physically attacked his lawyer, K Brian Hanna, resulting in the lawyer withdrawing from the case the following day. The judge then ordered a retrial in Nassau.
The retrial took place in August. However, another delay occurred when Justice Jones discharged the jury "in the interest of justice" after legal discussions following a potential prejudicial statement made during a defending attorney's cross-examination of a witness.
After two weeks of evidence, Williams was found guilty (12-0) on both counts of murder. Neil Braithwaite prosecuted the case while Williams represented himself in the trial.
More games are expected to follow as Williams is said to be associated with corrupt politicians and police officers who will ensure that he is eventually let off the hook for the killings, which were allegedly related to a senior MPs illegal drug business.
It seems no one likes to speak the truth & say outright, "the courts are corrupt!" It's not incompetence, the problem is not a backlog. These things are done on purpose to stop justice in it's tracks! Decisions are made long before the court hearing. It is impossible for a nation where everyone knows everyone, or, they know someone close to you, to have any kind of impartial decision making. The Bahamas is too isolated from the rest of the world & the Bahamian people like it that way. They like their corruption but now they are on the wrong end of it.
So true, Bahamians love corruption, now the corruption has enslaved them. Speak up against it, and you'll get the same fate the man who challenged the port authority got; death.
Bahamas is soon to be another Mexico, so many years of government corruption have dominated it's people. Now the gangs run that country, more than 50,000 people have died already in the police gang wars. Have you seen Acapulco lately, it ha been turned into a ghost town. After the tourist saw heads hanging from the bridges one morning, that sealed the tourist coffin for good.


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By craigmedred on July 12, 2018 • ( 2 Comments )
This just in:
Commercial salmon drift gillnetters will Thursday be allowed to fish in the Kenai River, an Alaska first.
But wait, there's more.
It has just been discovered that the Nome area set a new record low temperature in March.
Or so you would believe on both counts if you were reading Anchorage mainstream media Wednesday, July 12, 2018.
KTUU.com produced the Kenai story with the headline sure to send personal-use dipnetters and anglers into a tizzy.
For anyone who read it and thought maybe the headline was just a mistake, there was the story itself: "For 12 hours Thursday, the Kenai and Kasilof rivers will be open to commercial gillnetters following an emergency order issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game late Wednesday afternoon.
"According to that order, set gillnet fishing in the Kenai and Kasilof rivers is 'warranted in order to harvest sockeye salmon returning to the Kenai and Kasilof rivers.'"
Anyone who actually read the order would see that it was opening commercial fisheries in Cook Inlet "in the Kenai and Kasilof sections of the upper subdistrict…." not the Kenai River.
Nome's record cold, meanwhile, popped up at KTVA.com in a story lauding musher Scott Janssen, the popular "Mushing Mortician," for a being a hero for getting rescued along with friend Jim Lanier during the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in March.
Had it actually been 60 degrees below zero on the trail where Janssen and Lanier were rescued, it would have been a new record for the Nome area. The lowest temperature ever recorded in Nome was minus 54 on Jan. 28, 1989.
Where the minus 60 came from is unclear. It might have been someone's guess at the "wind chill" temperature which is a measure of how quickly exposed skin will freeze in a cold wind. Wind accelerates cooling, and the National Weather Service's wind chill temperature provides a comparison for still air.
For example, at a temperature of 20 degrees below zero in a 50 mph wind, the National Weather Service calculates a wind chill of minus 60. What that means is that in that temperature with that wind, exposed skin will freeze as fast as if in still air at 60 degrees below zero.
The air temperature will not change, however. It will still be only 20 degrees below zero, and if you get out of the wind as Lanier and Janssen did by cuddling behind a dog sled, you will be spared the windchill or at least most of it.
The actual temperature experienced by Lanier and Janssen, as reported by some fat-tire cyclists who stopped to talk to the duo during their ordeal, was near zero with the wind gusting to about 40 mph.
The wind chill temperatures for such conditions is minus-29, according to the weather service chart, making the minus-60 even harder to fathom. Still, it was cold, cold enough the cyclists didn't want to stand around and chat too long lightly dressed as they were for their push-a-bike to Nome.
But it wasn't extreme cold. If it had been 60 degrees below zero with the wind blowing 40, Janssen and Lanier would have been in a big, big trouble. The wind chill goes off the chart at that point, but would probably be somewhere around 100 degrees below zero.
No one bothered to comment on the KTVA story, but a commenter on the KTUU story labeled it "fake news."
It wasn't. Fake news is meant to deceive.
The KTUU story, like the KTVA story, was just news written by someone without a clue as to what he or she was writing about.
Such is the state of the news today, and it's a far bigger problem than fake news.
Quality has never been journalism's biggest selling point. Newswriting is a lot harder than most people realize and for that reason even the best of journalists make a considerable number of mistakes.
But there is a point at which the quality can become so bad people just stop reading, or they turn to government – as Americans turn to government for so many things these days – for their news.
The Anchorage Police Department already has a news team pumping out social media news. So too the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for wildlife and sport-fishing news. Both will be happy to regularly e-mail it to you if you only ask.
There is a trend here, and it's not a particular good one for democracy. But it's almost certain to continue in a world where the quality of traditional news is in steady decay. It would be almost funny if it was funny.
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Mushers just love Reporters…
It is a lot like Cops love Nurses…
Must be a similar "codependency" between the two?
Dave Cannon says:
Here's an excerpt from a book I read on ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder): "the sense of growing panic, the feeling that gibberish is being passed off as coherent conversation, the fear that the world is engaged in meaningless discourse masquerading as meaningful exchange— these are the blurry states individuals with ADD negotiate every day."
I don't know if it takes a person with a learning difficulty to see that meaningless discourse (whether intentional or unintentional) seems to be quite prevalent these days.


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LifeNotes: Do You Have a Divine Appointment?
In our day to day lives oftentimes we have to make an appointment to be seen. If we're ill or there's a question about our health we make an appointment to see the doctor. If we need to get our hair done, we make an appointment. Nowadays we can even make appointments with DMV so that our time there is best used.
We make appointments because they're in our best interest to do so - we can manage our time and hopefully the person we made the appointment with, is aware that we are coming. They can be prepared for us and cut straight to the chase.
When you make an appointment you have made a determination or a decision.
He wants to replace your ashes with beauty.
He wants to replace your mourning with joy.
He wants to replace your depression, your spirit of heaviness with praise.
In Hebrew, this is rendered as replacing epher - ashes, with pheer - beauty. It's a play on words, shifting the placement of one letter makes it go from pain to joy or from pain to gain.
I love when I leave the doctor's office and I feel that a weight has been removed. It's not that I'm healed it's that I now have the knowledge to deal with what I have. Better yet, I love the feeling of lightness, of newness, of prettiness when I leave the hairdresser because of the attention and the care she took in doing my hair. I have felt like a new woman after leaving the salon and my hair is done and I try to maximize this feeling for as long as possible.
God is like the doctor and hairdresser all wrapped in one. Isaiah said he will give you beauty for ashes. God knew you would be burnt by life's experiences. But he also knew he could replace that burnt out mess with something beautiful. He gives you the knowledge and the freedom because he replaces the old with the new; your sadness with joy. And it's so that you can have a purpose; the purpose that was determined from the time you were born but you just didn't know; circumstances clouded your purpose; you fought against it, but when you come full circle where he cleans you up and your dignity and honor are restored - you begin to know your purpose. You become as steady as a tree that has been divinely watered. When others who knew you before, ask "What changed?" You can sincerely say, "I kept a divine appointment, and I'm the better for it."
He's seeking you out and ready to manage your time wisely and turn things around for you, but are you seeking him? God has already determined that you are important to him. Have you determined his importance to you?
Yes and amen! Having that divine appointment with the Lord every day is what changes us and makes us new, just as His mercy is new every morning. Thanks for your thoughtful post. Bless you!
Why would he trade beauty for ashes!?! The thought always amazes me. And the fact that He faithfully keep our appointments, even when we often neglect them. Amazing!
Love this! If I'm not keeping my daily appointment it affects everything. Btw, I love this line: "You become as steady as a tree that has been divinely watered."
Poignant question to ponder, Nylse. When I'm reminded of his pursuit, I want to ramp up my own running toward God. Thanks for this encouragement to be joyful and intentional about that daily appointment.
Never thought about this but love it...God is like the doctor and hairdresser all wrapped in one.
Nylse, I can definitely tell when I haven't had my appointment with God! But I love that even if I don't wake up early enough to make our regular appointment, He always has time for us! Thanks for linking up with #TuneInThursday this week. See you next time!


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Q: How do I make a specific page section visible based on the querystring I want to have a page with 3 sections:
<?php
session_start();
if (isset($_SESSION['login'])) {
    echo "Work";
    $_GET['id'] = 'edit';
?>
Edit post
<?php
}
else {
    echo "notWork";
}
if (isset($_GET['id']) && $_GET['id'] == 'edit') {
    echo "Editing  . . .";
}?>

But I have no idea how to do that page "Edit", will be visible only when we go link protected.php?if=edit.

A: ok.simply check your page referer with this code :
$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

more documentation here
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php

A: I think you should use $_GET['if'] instead of $_GET['id'] as the url parameter is named if.

A: So, if I go to page protected.php and the parameter if is edit, please change the code. There's a typo!
<?php
    if (isset($_GET['if']) && $_GET['if'] == 'edit') {
        echo "Editing  . . .";
    }
?>

A: You could include the edit-page according to the id you passed through the URL.
Something like: if($_GET['id'] == edit) include('edit.php')
However, doing so without further checks, everybody could see the page just by guessing the right value for id. Because of this you'd rather do a check against the user rights every time you include something.

A: If you want read passed value from url, you can use $_GET['if'] or $_REQUEST['if'] to get that value.
Also as you said "page with 3 sections", so i think you want to be show only on section at time then you should use elseif => http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.elseif.php

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