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REDMOND, Wash., Aug. 17, 2011 – Nintendo's celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda™ series continues in full force with the announcement that The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword will launch in North America on Nov. 20. The epic adventure, created from the ground up for the Wii™ console, sends this storied series to new heights and marks a turning point for the franchise.
The game uses the precision motion controls of the Wii Remote™ Plus (or a Wii Remote controller with a Wii MotionPlus™ accessory) and Nunchuk™ controllers to map on-screen action to the player's movements. When a player swings the Wii Remote Plus controller, Link™ appears to swing his sword in exactly the same way.
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The game includes a massive, multilayered world that takes players from dark dungeons to a diverse overworld to cloud cities in the sky, requiring a combination of puzzle-solving and swordplay to unlock all of its secrets. Link soars through the air on the wings of a majestic bird while exploring the game's sky area, providing players with unprecedented freedom of movement as they progress on their adventure. The quest lays the foundation for the events in The Legend of Zelda™: Ocarina of Time™, which is frequently cited as one of the greatest video games of all time.
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is now available for pre-order at major retailers throughout North America. A deposit may be required for pre-orders. See individual retailers for details. For more information about the game, visit http://www.zelda.com/skywardsword/.
Well finally we get a release date. Now how about one for Kirby & Rhythm Heaven Wii while you're at it, and Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, and Kid Icarus too please. I'll be picking up the bundle seeing as how the puppy we took in destroyed my only Wii Remote Plus the other day.


Our native swan, the Mute swan, is protected by Royal Command. These gracious birds have lived our parks for many, many years and are so well established that I could not imagine my daily walk without seeing their beautiful presence.
Swans are the largest water birds in Britain. They are covered in snow white feathers with long, graceful "S" shaped necks, orange beaks and grey webbed feet. The male is commonly known as the Cob, the female is called a Pen. These birds pair for life after an initial ballet like courtship. They will choose a suitable nesting site together on the ground using any materials within about 40 feet to construct the nest. A typical clutch can be 5-7 eggs with one laid every other day. Only when the last egg is laid will incubation begin. The pen will come off the nest for short periods to stretch her legs, have a wash and feed. Whilst this happens the cob will take her place. This usually occurs in April to May and the eggs will hatch after approximately 35 days.
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Swans can live for many years, some may even reach 25 years in favourable conditions.


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Hallow-vent - Day 24: Errementari
We love Halloween here at The DreamCage and we love the countdown to it even more as, every day in October, David Ames opens a window (well, writes an article) in his Hallow-vent Calendar of horror films. His choice for Day 24 of Hallow-vent is Errementari...
It is that time once again, faithful readers, for us to don our proverbial witch's hats and climb upon this digital broomstick as we progress into the fourth year of our annual Hallow-vent calendar. In the past we have covered an amalgam of different genres and types of horror: vampires, slashers, originals and remakes. This year, however, I wanted to make a list that was accessible to the masses out there in our shared digital world. This year, I turn to Netflix for my source of inspiration and horror for October. Here we will be tackling all 31 films, with a mix of Netflix original films, and other streamable options. Also, thrown randomly into the mix this year will be a few anime movies/series (sadly the only non-streamable options) that are also based in the horror genre. I am also going to approach the reviews a bit differently this year. I will list all of the pertinent information in the beginning, and avoid too much plot summary, instead focusing just on the positives and negatives. Strap in, crank up the surround sound, throw every ounce of candy corn you have into the trash, and enjoy this year's Netflix-based Hallow-vent Calendar.
Find the rest of David's Hallow-vent 2019 articles on the Calendar as they are published.
Title: Errementari (2017)
Producers: Pokeepsie Films
Distributor: Netflix
Director: Paul Urkijo Alijo
Cast: Kandido Uranga, Uma Bracaglia, Eneko Sagardoy, Ramon Agirre
Sometimes you are incredibly excited for a film that you have heard about. You wait and wait, and eventually the day comes when that movie is released, and you can finally indulge in that long awaited pop culture experience. Other times you stumble across something that looks amazing, simply out of the blue. This has happened to me on numerous occasions. Today I was hoping for the same thing, and so, after noticing the images on Netflix of this film, I sat down excited to enjoy what appeared to be something wholly original. Today, we look at 2017's Basque-language film, Errementari.
The film opens with an amazing monologue detailing how hell itself works, describing the circles and the suffering. Also, we are made aware of a man that even the devil himself feared. That man was a blacksmith, and so our story begins.
The film opens with a group of men preparing to be executed by firing squad. As the final man is prepared, there is a strange fog, and in that we see the silhouette of a demon brandishing a pitchfork. The final man, Paxti, is alluded to have sold his soul to the devil in order to survive and make it home to see his wife.
Eight years later the Blacksmith is feared by everyone in the nearby village. There are rumors about his bargain with the demon and the entire town looks to him as a cursed individual. Even the children use his house a source of fear and tales to frighten one another. There are even rumors that he murdered his wife, something the entire town seems to believe. One day an inspector for the government, Ortiz, shows up and demands to be taken to the Blacksmith shop. After some snooping, the town finds out that Ortiz is present to find gold that was stolen during the previous war.
Usue, a young orphan girl who is incessantly bullied by the other children and treated like trash by the adults, plays near the forge. One day, while she is near, men from the town, hired by Ortiz, try to storm the forge where Paxti lives, and are quickly chased off, but not before one man falls and is killed by a bear trap. When Usue enters the forge unseen to try and get back the doll that a local boy threw over the fence, she stumbles across a young boy who is being held captive in a cage. She frees the child who immediately transforms into the demon Sartael.
Paxti awakens and after a brief struggle is able to place the demon back in the cage. We find out that Paxti traded his soul to see his wife again, but when he arrived back at home, his wife had chosen another lover and bore a child. Paxti, in a rage, burned the child's face and murdered her father. Because of this, his wife hanged herself, and it is revealed that Usue is that child.
I don't want to give much more away, but I will say that even more demons appear and the film ends with an epic trip to hell, wherein people battle. Also, unlikely alliances are formed.
This film was an interesting one. I have never heard anyone speak Basque before, and I know nothing of the culture, so I feel some of this may have been wasted on me. Overall, the film is decent. It was hard, at first, to look past the terribly cheap-looking costumes and the over-the-top acting. Also, the CGI feels like it was created around 2003. That being said, the film itself is not bad.
I feel like the story was okay, and that with a proper touchup on the script, would have been pretty decent. What we get instead is a rambling, somewhat incoherent story which takes strange leaps, although once again, I could be missing something in the translation. I started out watching the film with the English dub but quickly switched back to the subtitles, which truly did help to make the film better.
I can't talk too much about the performances because I wasn't really impressed with anyone. They were all serviceable for their parts but no one really stood out. I will say that the prosthetics for the demons are spot on, and while the film may not have looked the best, the demon portrayals looked incredible. Those suits and the score were the real high points of the film.
In the end, I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys those old stories and myths from ancient cultures. This film feels as though it was trying to be too grand for the budget, but it shoots for the sky anyway, and even though it falls rather short, the end result is still rather enjoyable.
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A residential title high rise without facilities, it can be a walk up low rise flat as well. Normally under low cost housing and controlled by the state government for the flat allocation.
A greater version compared to flat with a minimal of one to three facilities such as playground, gated and guarded. It is usually categorized under affordable housing which is controlled by state government as well.
A commercial titles high rise with basic facilities for dwelling purpose such as Small Office Home Office (SOHO). It can be use as office and as a residential purpose dwelling for Airbnb. The assessment, quit rent and utility charges are higher than residential titled property.
A residential title high rise with a full numbers of luxury features like swimming pool, gymnasium and other facilities. Designed for residential purpose with facilities to complement a balance life style.
The top most unit condominium in a building which usually take up the whole floor or two floors. It is also designed to be the biggest unit most of the time.
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As our coverage of the Essence Music Festival Press Room rolls on, we got a chance to ask a question to one of our favorite artists on the verge, Bridget Kelly. She made a big statement by performing in the Essence Festival last year, and she's accomplished so much in the time since. After performing in the Festival for her 2nd straight year, we asked her to reflect on how that journey has been over the past year. Check out her response below.
YouKnowIGotSoul: You performed at Essence last year, and now you're back again this year. How do you feel your career has progressed since the last time you were here?
Bridget Kelly: This is has probably been the most incredible year of my life, truthfully. I thought nothing could top singing "Empire State of Mind" on stage with Jay-Z and I gotta say being on tour with Mary J. Blige this summer is up there too. It's just phenomenal for me, I'm big on female empowerment and being a voice for women in my records. To just continue to be allowed to perform and speak my mind and tell my story and also relate to other women as well is really a humbling experience. Of course, having the new single with Kendrick Lamar and having all of these incredible co-signs, it's been amazing and really surreal for me. Really what I love the most is getting to come out to festivals like this and starting a show with 10 people in front of me and then by the end having hundreds of people in front of me. It just means that my music is reaching people. To know that that's what's going on every time I hit a stage is really phenomenal.
I believe that she is the new thing. I love her and that single with Kendrick, I believe that she is the new break out artist for R&B .


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Can Anything Save Zynga Stock From Its Deathbed?
It's time to put this former social giant out to pasture
Do you remember Zynga (ZNGA), the company responsible for all of those annoying Facebook (FB) games, such as Farmville, Mafia Wars and Bubble Safari? Zynga games were all the rage for a long time, and at one point there were as many as 61 million people playing Farmville every month.
Management chose to take the company public; and in December 2011, Zynga stock became the largest Internet-related IPO since Google (GOOGL, GOOG) debuted in 2004.
But, eventually the novelty of the games wore off, and FB users became tired of the unending barrage of incessant requests for bricks, seeds, plants and animals. After countless complaints about Zynga game notifications, Facebook institued policy changes that eliminated those notices — and stifled ZNGA traffic. In March 2012, Zynga purchased OMGPOP, a competing social game maker responsible for Draw Something, for $200 million.
At the time, Zynga stock was popular — shares had reached an all-time high of nearly $15. But ZNGA began plummeting, and by the end of August it was trading below $3.
Could Anything Have Saved Zynga?
In a word, no. The social gaming arena is frighteningly volatile, and subject to countless risks, nearly all of which are beyond control.
People are finicky creatures, and there's no telling which games social media will find interesting tomorrow. Further, even if a game becomes popular, there's no telling how long it might remain there or how long until it's yesterday's news.
Zynga's value was, initially, based on the success of its relationship with Facebook and its status as a premier partner. Without FB, Zynga is no different than any other game developer, and the challenges faced by mobile game companies are immense.
The social gaming market in the U.S. is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 20% through 2019, and the competition to grab a piece of that pie is as cutthroat as it gets.
Unfortunately for ZNGA, there are more than a few other game developers with deep pockets and innovative titles.
Bottom Line on Zynga Stock
Despite fervent cost-cutting measures and some CEO ring-around-the-rosy, ZNGA has been unable to regain any of its former luster. Massive employee layoffs, new game titles and a multi-year partnership with Warner Brothers (TWX) still hasn't been enough to entice tech investors to buy more shares.
Zynga stock trades below $2.40 per share, and there's little to suggest that a turnaround is on the horizon. By this point, it would appear that most of the investors initially interested in ZNGA a few years ago have long since bailed. The chances of Zynga stock surging are nonexistent, as Facebook games don't elicit the type of addicted, excitable response that they did a few years ago.
ZNGA appears doomed, and the lack of buzz in its transition into mobile just goes to show that nobody's even that interested anymore.
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Kindergarten students use the Everyday Mathematics program. The kindergarten math curriculum is hands-on and incorporates manipulatives to teach all skills. The following concepts are emphasized number identification (1-100), addition, subtraction, sorting and classifying data, composing and decomposing numbers, as well as analyzing and creating shapes.
Our science units are hands-on, discovery-based, NGSS aligned and follow a STEAM design loop. We study weather types, patterns, forecasting tools, and how that impacts the children's lives directly. We also study the effects of the sun on the earth's surfaces. We have a unit on forces and motion. We discover how pushes, pulls, gravity, collision and friction impact movement. Lastly, we learn about the close relationship between plants, animals, humans and the environment. We examine habitats, ecosystems and developing world issues. Their young minds have the opportunity to generate creative solutions and build them together.
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Mehr lives in a world where she is only half accepted. The Ambhan people have conquered and destroyed the Amrithi, and as a woman with parents from both worlds, she struggles to find her place as a worshipper of the old Amrithi gods and traditions. When the Emperor's mystics take note of her Amrithi powers, they force her into a marriage with one of their own, and Mehr becomes a very important pawn in a deadly game of men, gods, and demons.
When I heard "Indian-inspired adult fantasy", I was immediately intrigued; when I heard "angry, vengeful gods", I was sold. Empire of Sands has been one of my most anticipated releases of the year. I feel like there isn't a lot of own-voice diverse fantasy in the adult age range, so to see a story so interwoven with the author's own heritage and experiences as a woman of color, coupled with the inspirations she took from actual history, made this an incredibly fascinating read.
She'd always understood that keeping even the barest bones of her heritage demanded a terrible price. But she had kept her heritage regardless. That was her gravest error.
Right from the start, I loved the world Tasha Suri has built here. It's always tough to read stories about conquered nations, knowing what an anchor those themes have in the real world, but Suri goes above and beyond many authors I've read tackling similar plots by showing me how awful the Maha and Emperor are and how drastic their crimes against the Amrithi people have been. It's also incredible to see how strongly Mehr's Amrithi traditions resonate with her on a daily basis, and how much comfort she takes from her rituals and ancestry.
He had never hated her mother's people. He had just never considered them people at all. They were the kindling wood that fed the fire of the Empire's strength.
I also absolutely loved the daiva, these demon-esque spirits that appear in birdlike forms. There's an imminent threat present in them from the beginning, but something about their design and the way they interact with Mehr hooked me right away and had me wishing to see even more of them in the story.
Mehr knew what it looked like, when another human being stared at her with hatred. What she had seen in Amun's face was a knife turned inward.
Finally, there's the relationship. In the beginning of the story, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but I ended up rooting for Mehr and her love interest so quickly and absolutely swooning over their fleeting, quiet moments by the end. I also can't help but feel like there's some very valuable commentary in the story regarding arranged marriages and how they're not always what western society views them as.
How strange, that the world still looked so normal when Mehr's world was collapsing around her.
There's only one thing I had an issue with, but unfortunately, it was actually a really big struggle I faced while reading Empire of Sand: the pacing. Take this with the knowledge that I love slow fantasy stories, but something about the slow pacing of this book just does not work for me. It felt too tame and like nothing important was happening most of the time; when something important did happen, it was over-explained to the point of losing its power.
Even though the writing itself was beautiful, I think it could have been improved by being a solid 75-100 pages shorter. I know that's a harsh axe to drop, but this book actually put me into the worst slump I've had all year (with it now being November). I had to put it down for a week to get over the slump, but when I picked it back up to finish it, it almost put me into another slump! This never happens to me, so despite how gorgeous the plot and characters and setting were, I have to knock off a full star for how slow and meandering it was.
Altogether, I really enjoyed Empire of Sand, despite struggling with the pacing. It's got this incredibly immersive desert setting, these lovable characters, and a backstory that drew me in and didn't let go. I only wish that I could have enjoyed it more despite the slowness, but I would definitely be happy to try Tasha Suri's next release, as I think she displays tremendous potential.
If you're someone who also loves slow fantasy—especially if you're even more patient than I typically am—then I don't think it will be an issue, but if you're not one who can handle slow-burning fantasy plots, you may want to try this in audiobook format so you can tune out a little when the tedium kicks in.
All quotes come from an advance copy and may not match the final release. Thank you so much to Orbit for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Oof. I've been very excited to read this, but I find overly slow pacing so frustrating. Maybe knowing about it beforehand will help though. Great review!
Thank you! 🙂 I hope it won't hinder your enjoyment of the story too much!
Right! The whole middle part dragged SO badly for me. Did you get any further in it yet?
I think you enjoyed this more than me, as I didn't take to this one as much as I thought I would. I agree the writing is gorgeous though, and I'm with you on your comment about this could have benefited from being shorter. I thought it dragged a little, and I think the pacing was ultimately the factor I disliked the most. But I am curious about the next book, because I think now that the foundations have been established, we can get to the action!
I agree completely with you on the pacing being the worst factor. I honestly almost knocked this down to 3 stars, but ultimately realized that I couldn't justify it with how much I did love the first 75 pages or so. I thought it had SO much potential so I'm very interested in seeing how the second book goes.
Love this review Destiny! I may or may not have bought it this month because of the reviews going around 🙂 I'm so stoked for it!
I honestly think this would be the PERFECT crossover fantasy for someone who doesn't usually stray from YA! It actually felt really similar to YA fantasy to me, besides the protagonist being a little older (I want to say she's 19-20 but I don't remember for sure). I think, if new adult fantasy was a more widely recognized genre, this would fit the bill well. It's also not explicit or overly violent like some adult fantasy can be.


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Opinion|How Do We Increase Empathy?
How Do We Increase Empathy?
In my last column, I wrote about a high school buddy, Kevin Green, a warm and helpful man who floundered in a tough job market, hurt his back and died at the age of 54. The column was a call for empathy for those who are struggling, but, predictably, scolds complained that Kevin's problems were of his own making.
So what do we know about empathy and how to nurture it?
First, it seems hard-wired. Even laboratory rats will sometimes free a trapped companion before munching on a food treat.
"Probably the biggest empathy generator is cuteness: paedomorphic features such as large eyes, a large head, and a small lower face," Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist, tells me. "Professional empathy entrepreneurs have long known this, of course, which is why so many charities feature photos of children and why so many conservation organizations feature pandas. Prettier children are more likely to be adopted, and baby-faced defendants get lighter sentences."
Not much we can do about looks — although criminal defense lawyers try, by having scruffy clients shave and dress up before appearing in court.
There's also some research suggesting that wealth may impede empathy. One study by psychologists at the University of California at Berkeley finds that drivers of luxury cars are more likely to cut off other motorists and ignore pedestrians at a crosswalk. Likewise, heart rates of wealthier research subjects are less affected when they watch a video of children with cancer.
Granted, skepticism is reasonable any time (mostly liberal) academics reach conclusions that portray the wealthy in a poor light. But these experiments also find a measure of backing in the real world. For example, among Democratic politicians, personal wealth is a predictor of supporting legislation that would increase inequality, according to a journal article last year by Michael W. Kraus and Bennett Callaghan.
Likewise, the wealthiest 20 percent of Americans give significantly less to charity as a fraction of income (1.4 percent) than the poorest 20 percent do (3.5 percent), according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
That may be partly because affluence insulates us from need, so that disadvantage becomes theoretical and remote rather than a person in front of us. Wealthy people who live in economically diverse areas are more generous than those who live in exclusively wealthy areas.
Wealth may also turn us inward. Some experiments manipulated research subjects to think of money — such as by having them gaze at a pile of Monopoly money and imagine great wealth — and found that when a person then "accidentally" spilled pencils nearby, those thinking of great wealth were less helpful than those imagining tight budgets and picked up fewer pencils from the floor.
So how do we increase empathy?
Dacher Keltner, who runs the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California at Berkeley, says that having people think about suffering activates the vagus nerve, which is linked to compassion. He also cites evidence that uplifting stories about sacrifice boost empathy, as do various kinds of contemplation — prayer, meditation, yoga.
Keltner says that going out into nature also appears to encourage greater compassion. Feelings of awe, such as those generated by incredible images from space, seem to do the same thing, he says.
Professor Pinker, in his superb book "The Better Angels of Our Nature," explores whether the spread of affordable fiction and journalism beginning in the 18th century expanded empathy by making it easier for people to imagine themselves in the shoes of others. Researchers have found that reading literary fiction by the likes of Don DeLillo or Alice Munro — but not beach fiction or nonfiction — can promote empathy.
I used to be cynical about student service projects, partly because they seemed so often to be about dressing up a college application, and trips so often involve countries with great beaches. (Everyone wants to help Costa Rica!) Then there was The Washington Post's report about the Mexican church that was painted six times over the course of a summer by successive waves of visitors.
Yet I've come to believe that service trips do open eyes and remind students of their good fortune. In short, they build empathy.
So let's escape the insulation of our comfort zones. Let's encourage student service projects and travel to distant countries and to needy areas nearby. Whatever the impact on others, volunteering may at least help the volunteer. Let's teach Dickens and DeLillo in schools, along with literature that humanizes minority groups and builds understanding.
Above all, let's remember that compassion and rationality are not effete markers of weakness, but signs of civilization.
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{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-}

module Network.Slack.Types
       (
         SlackError,
         parseStrippedPrefix,
         Token,
         Slack(..),
         SlackState(..),
         SlackResponse(..),
         SlackResponseName(..),
         ArgName,
         ArgValue,
         CommandName,
         CommandArgs,
         request,
         request',
         User(..),
         users
       )
       where

import Network.Slack.Prelude

import Data.Char (toLower)
import Data.List (stripPrefix)
import qualified Data.Map as M

import Data.Aeson (genericParseJSON)
import Data.Aeson.Types(Options(..), defaultOptions)

import           Network.HTTP.Conduit (simpleHttp)

import           Control.Monad.IO.Class (MonadIO)
import           Control.Monad.State (MonadState, StateT)
import           Control.Monad.Trans.Either (EitherT)
import Control.Applicative(Applicative(..))

type SlackError = String

-- |A Slack Web API token
type Token = String

-- | A Slack User
data User = User {
  userId :: String,
  userName :: String
  } deriving (Show, Eq, Generic)

instance FromJSON User where
  parseJSON = parseStrippedPrefix "user"

instance SlackResponseName [User] where
  slackResponseName _ = "members"

-- |Gets the list of users associated with the Slack team
users :: Slack [User]
users = _users <$> get

-- |Internal state for slack commands
data SlackState = SlackState
                  {
                    _token :: Token,  -- ^ Slack API token
                    _users :: [User]  -- ^ The users in this team. This is maintained as state to be able to reference user IDs to users
                  }
                  deriving (Show)

-- |The Slack monad. It executes commands with the context of possible failure (malformed requests, Slack is down, etc...), and some internal state
newtype Slack a = Slack {runSlackInternal :: EitherT SlackError (StateT SlackState IO) a}
                  deriving (Functor, Applicative, Monad, MonadIO, MonadState SlackState)

-- |Parses a record from a JSON object by stripping the given prefix off of each field
parseStrippedPrefix prefix = genericParseJSON (defaultOptions {fieldLabelModifier = uncamel})
  where
    --  Removes a prefix from a string, and lowercases the first letter of the resulting string
    -- This is to turn things like userId into id
    uncamel :: String -> String
    uncamel str = lowercaseFirst . maybe str id . stripPrefix prefix $ str
    lowercaseFirst [] = []
    lowercaseFirst (x:xs) = toLower x : xs

type ArgName = String
type ArgValue = String
type CommandName = String
type CommandArgs = M.Map ArgName ArgValue

-- | Represents the response the Slack API returns
data SlackResponse a = SlackResponse { response :: Either SlackError a }
                       deriving (Show)

-- | Maps response types to the name of the key in the Slack API
-- For example, the "users.list" command returns the list of users in a key labeled "members"
class SlackResponseName a where
  slackResponseName :: a -> Text

instance (FromJSON a, SlackResponseName a) => FromJSON (SlackResponse a) where
  parseJSON (Object v) = do
    ok <- v .: "ok"
    if ok
      -- If success, get the name of the key to parse, and return the parsed object
      then SlackResponse . Right <$> v .: slackResponseName (undefined :: a)
      -- Else get the error message
      else SlackResponse . Left <$> v .: "error"

  parseJSON _ = fail "Expected an Object."

type URL = String

-- |Constructs an API request URL given the API token, command names, and command args
buildURL :: CommandName -> CommandArgs -> Slack URL
buildURL command args = do
  -- Retrieve the token from the internal state
  tokenArg <- _token <$> get
  let
    -- Insert the token into the args
    queryArgs = M.insert "token" tokenArg args
    -- Build the GET query string
    queryString :: String
    queryString = M.foldMapWithKey (printf "%s=%s&") queryArgs

    url = printf "https://slack.com/api/%s?%s" command queryString
  return url

-- |Takes a API command name and the args and executes the request
request :: (SlackResponseName a, FromJSON a) => CommandName -> CommandArgs -> Slack a
request command args = do
  -- Construct the proper API url
  url <- buildURL command args
  -- Retrieve the raw JSON Data
  raw <- liftIO (simpleHttp url)
  -- Parse it into a SlackResponse object
  resp <- Slack . hoistEither . eitherDecode $ raw
  -- Merge the Either inside the SlackResponse with the EitherT in the Slack monad stack
  Slack . hoistEither . response $ resp

-- |Same as request with no command arguments
request' :: (SlackResponseName a, FromJSON a) => CommandName -> Slack a
request' command = request command M.empty

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Q: PowerShell remove dot in regex I have the following one-liner in powershell:
cat raw.txt | select-string -Pattern "\A[s]\w{1,12}\.\b" -AllMatches | % { $_.Matches } | % { $_.Value }

Returns:
saltri.
swoptimusprime.
swdecepticons.

The question is how to remove the dots "." from my lines of hostnames.
Thanks in advance

A: PetSerAl, in a comment on the question, provided the crucial pointer: use a positive lookahead assertion ((?=...)) to match an additional part of the input, without including that part in the captured match.
If we apply this to your solution and simplify it, we get:
Get-Content raw.txt | % { if ($_ -match '^s\w{1,12}(?=\.\b)') { $matches[0] } }

The sub-expression \.\b - a literal . followed by a (non-capturing) transition to a word character, \b - is matched, but not captured; that is, $matches[0], the element of the special $matches variable that contains the matched part of the string, does not include the .
However, since we're using -match and accessing the special $matches variable afterward, we may simplify matters with a capture group ((...)) in the regex, whose captured substring we can access by index 1, since it is the first (and only) capture group in the regex:
Get-Content raw.txt | % { if ($_ -match '^(s\w{1,12})\.\b') { $matches[1] } }

Notes on your solution attempt (aside from including the . in the match):

*

*You're using Get-Content without switch -Raw, which means that the input lines are sent individually through the pipeline:

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*Therefore, there's no reason to use \A instead of the more familiar start-of-string/line anchor ^, because these two only differ with multi-line input.

*Because you're anchoring the match at the start of the line, the -AllMatches option is pointless, because by definition there can be at most 1 match per line.

*As you can see, a single % (ForEach-Object) block with -match is sufficient in this case and simplifies matters; it both returns less information not needed in this case and performs better than Select-String.

A: As I dont know how your Text looks like, grouping the hostname should be sufficent (shorter attempt via -match):
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Posted November 28, 2018 by puntrmvmt	Boxing
Jeff Horn vs Anthony Mundine fight: Mundine breaks down reflecting on bond with Tallis family
Published by Ben Waterworth, 28th November 2018 on foxsports.com.au
Boxing champion Anthony Mundine has provided the Australian public with a rare glimpse into his sensitive side — an aspect he hopes to show more of after his boxing career.
Ahead of his 'River City Rumble fight' against former WBO welterweight champion Jeff Horn in Brisbane this Fridat, Mundine opened up to respected boxing and rugby league journalist Paul Kent about his controversial boxing and NRL careers.
Mundine said he regretted several statements he'd made publicly over his career, but claimed his unashamed self-promotion was to help him reach or maintain high standards.
But towards the end of the hour-long program, the mood turned as Kent pressed Mundine on some of his graceful actions out of the public eye.
Kent recounted a story of when league great Gorden Tallis' sister was battling breast cancer, Mundine frequently flew up to visit her before she passed away.
Asked by Kent where that kind attitude derives from, Mundine immediately broke down into tears as he reflected on Jannita Tallis and his relationship with the family.
"Man, you make me emotional," Mundine told Fox Sports' Anthony Mundine: The Man's Last Stand.
"I've known the Tallis family since I was 17 … really quite close to them. His mum, sisters, brother Wally.
"Jannita, she worked at the Brisbane Broncos … and we just had a good relationship. We joked with each other, just be cool — she was a cool girl.
"We've been close for many years. My mum and Gordy's mum are real tight."
Mundine and Tallis played together were on both the Dragons and Broncos rosters together during their respective NRL careers.
"I've got a lot of time for him. I love brother Gordy and his family," he said.
"I'm a real cat. That's what you're going to get. If I gravitate to you, you're good people. That gravitation has been there since I was a youngster."
Mundine said he hoped to show Australia more of his sensitive side in the future, while also promising to continue to stand up for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander rights.
"I just want the best, I just want to bring people together and make the world a better place," he said.
"If I can make the world a better pace and lifting up somebody's life, because I will continue to fight injustice and oppression — I'm firm on that and always will be.
"I'm a gentle dude. I'm not the young cat I used to be when I was very confrontive (sic) and, some would say, arrogant — I'm not like that.
"I want people to know the real me, the real 'Choc', my heart.
"Just be real. Keep it real. Let people see sides of me that they haven't seen in the past."
Mundine said he hadn't thought too much about what life looks like beyond boxing, although he said he'd like to stay involved in the sport or help out rugby league in some capacity.
For now, all his attention is on Friday's fight against Horn. And despite the 13-year age differential between two fighters, Mundine said he had the stamina to outlast his opponent.
"I'll be throwing punches in bunches. I want to be skilful, I want to dominate," he said.
"He's the one that's going to be huffing and puffing after eight or nine (rounds). He's the one that's going to be looking for the breaks."
During the hour-long interview, Mundine was also asked about his controversial comments one month after the terrorist attacks on US soil in September 2001.
At the time, Mundine claimed the US "brought it upon themselves" — a statement that would bring widespread condemnation and severely hinder his chances of getting into the American boxing market.
"I said it raw and uncut. I would rephrase it … It was made out like I was for the killings. I'm not for no killings," he said.
"I don't care what you are, or who your are. In Islam, killing one man is like killing the whole of humanity. Why can't we live in peace and harmony?"
Mundine also explained why he dislikes the Australian national anthem so much, labelling it "a white supremacist song".
"Aboriginals weren't even considered humans (when the song was written). The theme song for the White Australia policy is Advance Australia Fair," he said,
"We ain't young, we ain't free. Some of us are. Some of us aren't. You've got to see it from the other side of the fence."
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The Gerber format has been the industry's workhorse for longer than most of us have been around—when relatively flat, double-sided boards ruled the earth. As such, Gerber is tuned to this flat-board world. Separate sources, including fab drawings, spreadsheets, and PDFs are used to introduce the Z-direction for multi-layer PCB design. Valor's ODB++ is a good bit broader in scope, but it's proprietary. I think that most everyone in our industry would agree that a comprehensive, vendor-neutral industry standard for fabricating a PCB is a good idea. Having said that, it's not quite that simple ….
My own interest in IPC-2581 is for the purpose of managing high-speed signal integrity on high layer-count PCBs. While in the process of launching one of the newer EDA software companies, Z-zero, my team and I had to make decisions on our own data format, as well as the external formats we would support out of the blocks. In doing so, we evaluated the common, standard formats for conveying PCB design intent to fabricators, as it related to stackups (the purpose of our software).
At Z-zero, we put our heads together—researching Gerber, ODB++, and IPC-2581 for their support of stackup features, dielectric materials, and electrical properties, as well as copper roughness. A format that didn't support these parameters would be of no use in high-speed PCB stackup design. In our research, we concluded that we favored the flexibility of an XML format rather than flat ASCII. All of the above narrowed things down to ODB++ and IPC-2581, and we decided to lean heavily in the 2581 format in designing our Z-planner stackup database in our first (2017) release. We've since added an import/export for ODB++, but our base format aligns closely with 2581.
Specific to stackup formats, it seems like the Wild West out there. I typically see Excel stackups, PDFs, and JPEGs … I'm waiting to see a stackup on a lunch napkin. Besides wishing they were in more-accessible formats, there isn't much that can be done with the image-based formats – and there are as many Excel stackup formats as there are fabricators. Add in the stackups used by the various SI tools on the market, and it's almost complete anarchy. This segment of the PCB design world is ripe for IPC-2581, in fact. It has every parameter we need, and it's well documented.
Figure: With a database that conforms closely to IPC-2581's XML format, Z-planner software includes exports to IPC-2581, ODB++, Excel, and Mentor's HyperLynx. You can request a free evaluation version .
I've heard it said that as much of 80 percent of boards fabricated today still rely on Gerber data – a format that has no knowledge that there's a Z-direction in a PCB, dielectrics, or copper roughness. In the multi-layer, high-speed world that we live in, that honestly baffles me. Obviously, you can build a board using Gerber – and you can convey stackup details in the fabrication drawing. I get it. But if you've moved beyond the flat, double-sided boards Gerber was designed for, you might want to consider moving to a format that handles everything you can throw into a PCB.
No one's saying that change is easy, but to my thinking, the heavy lifting has already been done.
If you're in the Bay area, and/or planning to attend PCB West in September, I'll be giving an all-day workshop on PCB stackup design and material selection on Tuesday, September 11, 2018. I'll be covering IPC-2581, as it relates to stackups, in the afternoon. (Part of the paid training at PCB West. You can also consider attending the free IPC-2581 and Industry 4.0 presentation at the event in Santa Clara on Sept 12.


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Windies Stand-in Skipper Downplaying Team's Inexperience in Bangladesh Tour
Posted by Alrick Swaby | 13 Jan, 2021
Kraigg Brathwaite, who will lead the West Indies test team in Bangladesh, in Jason Holder's absence, is down playing the inexperience of his squad as they prepare to take on Bangladesh in two Tests.
The first match is set for Chattogram, from February 3-7.
The Windies will also face the Tigers in three One Day Internationals.
Brathwaite was names captained after regular skipper Jason Holder and several of the senior players declined the tour citing health and safety reasons.
However, the 28-year-old Barbadian, admits that as captain and opening batsman the team will be looking to him to set the tone with bat.
Braithwaite made 55 in four innings on the recent tour of New Zealand and he says he'll be using a simple formula to improve on that performance.
Kraigg Brathwaite, captain of the West Indies.
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Superintendent Lyndon David, Commander of the Nevis Division of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force, making a presentation at the July 06, 2020, Nevis COVID-19 Task Force briefing at the Emergency Operations Centre at Long Point
NIA CHARLESTOWN NEVIS (JULY 09, 2020) — Superintendent Lyndon David, Commander of the Nevis Division of the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force (RSCNPF) is warning persons against hosting parties and other social events in which many persons gather, citing it is a breach of the Statutory Rules and Orders no. 27 of the 2020 Emergency Powers COVID-19 Regulations.
Superintendent David was at the time making a presentation at the July 06, 2020, Nevis COVID-19 Task Force briefing at the Emergency Operations Centre at Long Point.
"We have realized that there are a number of persons who are organizing events which will require a large gathering of people. We are saying to you these activities will not be permitted; and there are some persons who are advertising [events] and have not consulted with police, and we are saying these activities will not be allowed to continue because we run the risk of spreading the COVID-19," he said.
He suggested that businesses wishing to have light musical entertainment, could use a small sound system.
Under the Statutory Rules and Orders no. 27 of the 2020 Emergency Powers COVID-19 Regulations, no person shall host, attend or visit a private party, other types of entertainment or any other type of social event.
Business operators breaching the regulations could be fined $5,000 and/or serve a term in jail not exceeding six months if convicted. They would also have to forfeit any goods or money collected in respect of which the offence has been committed.
As it relates to the hosting of private parties, persons who commit this offence can be prosecuted and suffer the same consequences as businesses.
During the briefing, the superintendent took the opportunity to remind individuals of the restrictions under the Emergency Powers COVID-19 Regulations, which pertains to visiting persons who are quarantined at the government facility.
"We have persons occupying the quarantine site. We're saying to loved ones, remember it is an offence to visit these facilities. So we are saying to you, you can communicate with your loved ones via the cellphone, or if you want to use Skype or Zoom you can do so but to physically go there you will be breaching the regulations, and you will be summonsed or arrested," he said.
The senior police officer encouraged persons to comply with the regulations since the quarantine was for a short period.
"I do believe that once all goes well, maybe by early next week you might see them, so we are saying to you, just cooperate and comply and let us have a smooth process," he advised.
Superintendent David also appealed to passenger bus drivers to adhere to the COVID-19 regulations by wearing their masks, ensuring passengers do so as well, and having hand sanitizer available when persons enter the bus.
The Statutory Rules and Orders no. 27 of the 2020 of the Emergency Powers COVID-19 Regulations is in force for the period June 27 to July 25, 2020.
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